University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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BACKSTAGE PRODUCTION WAS ESSENTIAL FOR CYRANO. Rehearsals began for the University Theatre ' s pro- duction of Cyrano. Ken Caifee and Jeanne Hager- man had the leads. John Coppinger directed . . . Rev- erend Bryan Green, noted religious speaker, talked to a packed Recreation Lounge on What is a Christian Marriage . . . The Diamondback carried a full page of pictures showing the destruction at another boulevard- blocking riot. Worst in school ' s history, said Mr. Eppley, Dean of Men . . . One out of every two stud- ents in Arts and Science received dean ' s slips. Some 1, ' ' 200 students were .sent notices . . . Terps won the twenty-second annual Southern ( onfcrence cross-coun- try championships. Bob Palmer and Tyson Creamer led the harriers . . . First Job Placement forum held for seniors, topic was How to get a Job . . . The Univer- sity Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Frank Sykora, gave its first concert of the year in the Central Auditorium. Five-hundred persons heard the orchestra render Beethoven ' s Symphony No. 1 . . . Don Mortimer retired from Varsity Band after four years of toting and playing the bass horn. My eligibility has run out, said Don. Mr. Sykora has promised to re- tire my uniform to the Band Hall of Fame. He has to. There isn ' t another boy in the band the uniform will fit! . . . W ' orkers began pouring concrete on the forms of the new stadium . . . Students began pouring nickels into the new juke box in the Rec Hall . . . Tryouts were held for Clef and Key ' s first musical of the year, Sweet- hearts . . . Miss MoUce Coppel wrote a column in the Diamondback concerning that scalp adornment known as the beret. It attracted considerable attention; even the Baltimore Sun reprinted part of the column. But, the number of berets on campus showed no considerable increase. Outside of the French Department, that is . . . The campus mourned the loss of one of its finest teachers. Dr. Oliver Edwin Baker, professor of Geogra- phy at the University since 1942. Dr. John A. Morri.son, head of the Geography Department said, . . . he gave himself unsparingly to his students. He was not a ro- bust man physically, but he had an indomitable will. NEW DORMS TWO AND THREE FRAME MAGGIE B. EXAM TIME BROUGHT RENEWAL OF OLD GRIPES. 29

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BILL HERSON CROWNED AOPi JACKIE HAMMETT ROSSBOROUGH QUEEN AT CHRISTMAS DANCE. Rossborougti gives Queen list new whirl As celebrity Herson crowns Jackie Hammett Tlicrc were no ciirsagcs at llie U(i.s.sl)()r )i|i;li ( ' liil) ' .s Cliristitias (laiK-r. Tliis was not caused hy jxior salcs- matishi]) on the part of the local florist — the money for the flowers was (ionaled instead to the Hill Herson Doll House ( ' a!n|)aif;ii. ' i o make u| for the lack of flowers, the Rossborough Club had decked the Armory with trees, pine branches, holly, ribbons and ballot)ns. And then, there was the selection of the (|ui ' en, a real Maryland flower. V Herson chose Miss Jackie Hanunett, .Vlpha Oniicroii I ' i, as Hossboroufih Queen for ' .)W. Wv selected Miss Hammett ' s |)ieture from photograjjlis submitti ' d in a campus-wii le con t est . Carl Hamiltons orchestra sup))lied the music and John Stevens pro ided the vocals for the two-hundred couples in the , rmorv. CROWD RELAXES AND LISTENS AS ORCHESTRA PLAYS AT ANNUAL ROSSBOROUGH CHRISTIVIAS DANCE.

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FRATERNITY MEN AND MARYLAND STUDENTS INSPECT BIG HOLE WHERE STADIUM WILL SHORTLY REIGN. Dances, romances and future plans usher In the New Year for Maryland students Thill will iiri)Vi ' him until lie could go no farther. His j)a.ssing away this inorning leaves a gap in the Dcparl- nienl which is iin|)ossil)le to fill . . . Tlic I ' liiversity ' s Men ' s dice Ciiih ])artici|)ate(l in Washington ' s first aiiTinal (ilcc ( luh jatnliorec tx ' forc a crowd of i.OOO in Constitution Hall . . . Cyrano Do Bergorac opened in I lie rniversity ' i ' heatre. Ken Calfee again received rave notices for his ] erforniancc . . . Kappa .Mpha F ' ra- lernity treated thirty-live under-privileged children lo a party at the Kappa Alplia liouse . . . l,on Eisenhauer began a series of articles on Negro Education in the Free State in the Dldiiiondhack . . . ' I ' lie .Vduiinistrative Hoard, licadcd hy Dr. Thomas B. Synions, ruled that .lunc coHuneuc( inent would he held in College Park . . . MARYLAND CROWDS ADJOURNED TO JACKSONVILLE FOR NEW YEAR ' S SEASON AT GATOR BOWL. .: ? :. ; ' ' t i