University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Parke Perine, President: George Knighton, Vice-Presidentg Beverly France, Acting Secre- taryg Kathryn Alston, Treasurerg Gifford Nouland, Tom O'Donnell, Eleanor Pearce, Alec Rogers, Mae jane Singer, Roberta Sloman, john Sedwick, jean Wilson, Barbara Baker, Sally Schwartz, WilliamTammany, Iill Myers, james Berry, Edith Branin, ArtButler, Elbert Chance, Turner Edge, Bruce Laird, Robert Waples, jane Good, William Hearn, Ted Marshall, Alice I. Matthews, Ioan McCain, joy Murray, Adele Nurock, Robert I. Mclfarlin, Virginia Wells, Richard Harold, C. Robert Kase, Faculty Directory Herman Middleton, Technical Director. E-52 PLAYERS The E-52 Players is an organization composed of students representing all schools of the University. Many who proudly wear a gold E-52 pin have earned their membership through hard work back- stage with make-up, costumes, publicity, lighting, sound, scene construction, business and ushering. The main function of the group, which operates in cooperation with the Dramatic Arts and Speech Department, is to promote and encourage dramat- ics at the University. They uphold this ambition by offering several Lab Theatre Productions, a Chil- drens Theatre Program and Tour and three major productions each season. The Theatre Calendar also includes plays by the University Drama Group, The Delaware Dramatic Conference and the Delaware Play Festival. Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams closed the 1949-1950 season of the Players. The play which was the 47th major production of the organization 'was directed by Mr. Thomas B. Pegg. Seen in the leading roles were Audrey Legge, john Sedwick and Parke Perine. Margaret Guenveur, a former member of the Players, was a guest actress. The nineteenth season of E-52 work opened in October with the Maxwell Anderson play, High Tor. This production combined serious thought with comedy and featured john Sedwick, Nancy Schnabel, Parke Perine, Elbert Chance and jean Wilson. Mr. Pegg directed the performance and Mr. Herman Middleton, a new member of the De- partment of Dramatic Arts and Speech, was techni- cal director. Following this production the Labora- tory Theatre, which is dedicated to the trying out of new plays, new actors and new staging tech- niques presented Day Before Yesterday and Bride Ship. These plays were directed respec- tively by Mae jane Singer and Adele Nurock and were under the faculty direction of Dr. C. Robert Kase. F or their second major production of the sea- son, the Players presented june and the Paycock by the lrish playwright, Sean O'Casey. The cast, directed by Dr. Kase, consisted of Mae jane Singer as Iuno, Robert McFarlin as her paycock of a husband, Thomas Waters, Ieannette Taylor, john Sedwick and Gunvor Thuresson. One of the high points during the past year was the eleventh Delaware Dramatic Conference which was held on November 17. Four hundred thirty-six delegates from twenty-five school, col- lege, and community theatres were represented. Emphasis was on drama in the school and a spe- cial theatre clinic was held to discuss individual problems in dramatics of those attending the conference. Mitchell Hall, home of the Players, has under- gone several improvements in the past year. A new Box Office in the Lobby, the Sound Booth and Lighting Booth on each side of the Projection Booth at the rear of the balcony are smaller ones while the new Ventilating system and the Izenour Switch- board are on a larger scale. The Mitchell Hall switchboard is the fourth of its kind in the country and will greatly increase the value of the theatre training of the University. Plans are already being made for the 1951-1952 dramatic season. Included in these are new hous- ing for the lighting instruments which are now sus- pended from pipes at the front of the balcony, and more emphasis on the importance of the Labora- tory Theatre plays.

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Z 'N ALPH Fifty-three years ago on the campus of Ohio State University the honorary agricultural frater- nity of Alpha Zeta was founded by Charles W. Burkett and Iohn F. Cunningham. Since that time there have been 45 additional charters granted to agricultural colleges in 44 states ot the Union. On Ianuary 29, l949, the School ot Agriculture at the University of Delaware was granted the 46th charter ot the national organization oi Alpha Zeta. There are over 16,000 alumni members ot Alpha Zeta with a student membership of over l200 in the 46 chapters. The Delaware chapter at the present time consists ot 24 student members, 17 alumni members, and one associate member. A ZETA The requirements for membership are that a student must be enrolled in a tour-year course of instruction in technical agriculture, and he must have completed one and one-half years of the four-year course. The average of his grades must place him in the upper two-titths of his class, and he must receive the unanimous election of the student members and the faculty advisory commit- tee of the chapter. The student must also possess characterisitcs of scholarship, leadership and sound character which make him ot promise as a servant of agriculture. , . . Chancellor . . . Censor Scribe Treasurer Chronicler Lester Lichtenberger . . . Fred Kelleher ........ . . Earl Holston ...... ...... George Bradley . . . . Wesley Webb . . . . .

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