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Show May 29, 1951 SIGNPOST Page 3 GN 190 STUDENTS ARE FETED IN AWARD ASSEMBLY Approximately 190 Weber College students received public recognition for their past year's participation in campus activities, at the annual awards assembly held Friday, May 18. School sweaters were awarded to the following sophomores: Don Ripplinger, Darlene Powell, June Clifton, Kay Shupe, Glen Taylor, Rex Gardner, Carolyn Torgeson, Anne Rasmussen, Bettie Lyman, Pat Andrews, Ralph Jeppson, IlaMae Hansen, Renee Glover, and Vira Beth Robson. Gold block "W" pins marked the"" achievements of the following stu dents: Freshmen Fred Ball, Cor-ene Martin, LaMoine Garsides, Pearl Atwood, Hugh Jacobs, Beth Macfarlane, Rebecca Wells, Ken Nelson, Rey Arnold, Marilyn Jones, Donna Sneddon, Leon Ray, Phyllis Randall, Dick Richards; sophomores Eldon McLatchie, Marilyn Oakey, Marilyn Sessions, Dick Slater, Joan Wheelwright, Norman Burton, Pat Olsen, Robert Beish-line, Phil Evans, Annette Bott, Floyd Kunzler, Sophia Kapos, Mar-lent Barnett, Gloria Jorgeson, Don Dinsdale. Meritorious certificates were also awarded to 22 freshmen and 15 sophomores. Gardiner Outstanding Athlete Outstanding all-around athlete Dale Gardiner was presented with the annual Standard - Examiner award. Iota Tau Kappa took top honors for the W. A. A. traveling trophy, with only one point separ- ij atmg tne secona piace wmuer, Dianaeda. noenix men s . ciud gained the men's intramural cup, having almost twice as many points as Sigma, second place winner. L. D. Gets Scholarship Trophy For having the highest scholarship average on the campus, La Dianaeda was awarded a traveling trophy. A new trophy was presented this year because last year this club earned permanent poses-sion of the award for winning it three times in succession. Many scholarships were awarded to outstanding freshmen and sophomore students. Exception service awards went to Don Ripplinger and Darlene Powell, student body president and vice president, respectively. President H. A. Dixon made the presentation. This assembly was under the direction of the awards committee, headed by Dello G. Dayton. Theater Workshop Ends Active Year Theatre Workshop is bringing to a close a very active year by presenting Shakespear's "AMidsummer-Night's Dream" under the direction of Mr. Carl White. The play is scheduled to go off 25 and 26 of May. It is reported the play will be put on at noon of Friday the 25th for the student body. Students participating in the play are: Anne Rasmussen, Marilyn Lamborn, Rebecca Wells, Robenia Parker, Keith MacLain, Larry Bingham, Jarvis Anderson, Norm Burton, Ronald Peterson, and Keith Claiper. Alumni Breakfast Will Be held June 1 At Hotel Ben Lomond All alumni and graduates of Weber College are invited to attend the annual Alumni Breakfast which is to be held at the Hotel Ben Lomond, June 1, at 7:30 a.m. Chairman of the breakfast, Smith Jacobs, announced that an attempt is being made to dispose of unnecessary formality and that guests will be seated as nearly as possible in the groups with which they attended Weber College. Other members of the breakfast committee are: Lydia Tanner, Rosclla Larkin. Ruth Wahlquist, Jeanctte Hatch, Beverly Felt Olson. Jim Foulger, Ferrin Larkin. E. Carl Green, and La Mar Buckner. D Photoplay Offers Drama Scholarship A national search for dramatic talent among young women high school graduates under 25 years of age, the winner to study for two years , at the famous Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts, was announced today by Photoplay Magazine. The winner will receive, in addition to the scholarship, room, board, books, student fees, an allowance for spending money and transportation from her home to the college. The college grants those students who have had two or more years of college prior to entering the Playhouse, a B.A. degree in Dramatic Arts. Three semi-finalists of this con test will visit the Pasadena Playhouse this September, as the guests of Photoplay, for the selection of the scholarship student from audi tions held before the following board of judges: Ethel Barrymore, actress; Greg ory Peck, actor; Joseph Mankiew-icz, writer-director; Stanley Kramer, producer; Thomas Browne Hen ry, Dean of the Playhouse; Lyle Rooks, Hollywood editor, ' Photo play. The contest consists ot a series of four screenings. During August, six hundred young women, selected on the basis of questionnaires and letters, voice recordings and pic tures, will appear before one of the 64 local auditions boards throughout the country. Serving on these boards will be representa tives from the local radio and tele vision stations, newspapers, colleges, and The National Thespian Society (an organization devoted to the advancement of dramatic art in the secondary schools). After the selection of the winner at Pasadena, the two runners-up will appear on radio or television programs and will be interviewed by the casting directors of three major studios. The hundred top running contestants will be brought to the attention of major radio and television networks, producers directors, little theatre groups stock companies and modelling agencies. Complete details and rules for entering this contest will be found in both the June and July Photoplay.Dance and Reception Will Be Held After Commencement Immediately after the graduation exercise, or approximately at 10:00 p.m. in the College Ballroom, the Sophomore reception will be held. The reception will feature Dave Minnoch's Orchestra as the dance attraction, and a reception line will be formed to receive the graduates and their parents. Receiving will be: President and Mrs. Dixon, Dr. and Mrs. Clark, student body officers Don Ripplinger and Darlene Powell, and president of the sophomore class Pat Andrews. Graduates and their parents are especially urged to attend the reception, however everyone is invited. There will be no charge for admission. Rotary Presents New Campus Gates "Ogden Rotary Club has assisted Weber college in many ways regarding the new campus," according to President H. A. Dixon. This civic organization has just presented a $25,000.00 gate to the new campus. Last Monday at noon, dedication ceremonies were held. Following that 200 people had lunch at the new campus. President Dixon further stated that we of Weber college owe this club a great vote of thanks. Plans for the four classrooms on the new campus have been approved by the State Board of Education. Ordered specifications to let them to bid are being taken care of by the architects. This will take about two months. Actual bids will be accepted sometime in August. The contract for boilers, machinery and all scarce equipment for the heating plant has also been issued at a cost of about $18,000.00 less than the architect's estimate. During the past week various boys clubs have spent considerable hours working on the track run. Last year students donated 2600 hours work on the new campus project. A. M. S. ELECTION TODAY! Final elections will be conducted all day today for A. M. S. officers for next year. The primaries were close, but final candidates for president are Key Arnold and Dick Van Wagoner. Vice president candidates are Bob Rasmussen and Blaine Taylor; for secretary are LeGrande Fletcher and Dell Foutz. Photo-Literary Record of Year On Sale This Week ACORN-SCRIBULUS, the combination yearbook and literary magazine, will be put on sale today, May 28th, according to Grant Schow, business manager. Featured at the sales will be the Spring quarter deluxe edition, although the previous two issues will also be available. The sale will continue throughout test week. The Spring quarter issue, under the supervision of Mrs. Helen Kelly, adviser, will feature class and faculty photographs and coverage of student activities, as well as stories, poems, and essays by members of the student body. Mrs. Kelly urged students who have not bought the Fall and Winter issues to get them this week, since they will not be available later. "The three issues, when bound together, will make an attractive record of the school year," Mrs. Kelly said. Student and faculty staff members who have produced this quarter's magazine are Ha Mae Hansen, Dorothy Johnson, Janice Her-rod, and Joan Wheelwright, department editors, and faculty advisor's Fred Rabe and Farrell Col-lett.Attention All Worm Drowners Fishing licenses are now available for the 1951 season, which starts from Saturday, June 16, thru October 7. This year a special "visable license" must be worn by all fishermen. This tag has a special plastic cover and will cost one dollar. The regular fishing license will be three more dollars, and a combination fishing and hunting license with the fishing tag will cost six dollars. The Uintah Mountain area will be open to fishing from July 1, through October 7. In the Raft River area an early closing will cut the season in that area from June 16 to August 15. In some parts of Utah, the season for Bass, perch, catfish, sunfish, crappie, and bullheads is already open. Other areas are closed to all fishing. Fishermen in doubt about and special provisions concerning their 'ole' fishin' hole should obtain the 1951 fishing proclamation from Your Golden Years GUIDANCE CENTER RELEASES INFORMATION TO H.S. GRADS Your next four years will probably decide for your entire life your financial, social and vocational status. What you do and how you do it will influence perhaps the sixty years you have left. Many voices will call you one way and another. Many ideas will come and go, some of them leaving you confused. You may or may not know what vocation to enter. Medium paying jobs will attract you. Friends, travel plans, military and marriage factors will enter the picture to confuse you. Four V.C. Faculty Members Receive Doctors Degrees Over twenty per cent of the Weber College faculty will possess the doctor's degree before the end of summer vacation, according to President H. Aldous Dixon. In making this announcement the President revealed that four present members of the faculty will have the degree bestowed during commencement proceedings in June and August. The percentage of Weber teacher's who have doctorates is now equal to, and in some cases, in excess of the percentage boasted by many senior institutions, the President said. Weber instructors who will receive the much-cherished degree are Dello Dayton, history instruc tor; Jennings Olsen, philosophy teacher; Reed Swenson, director of athletics; and Merle Allen, instructor in education and psychology. The University of Utah will present the degrees to Merle Allen and Reed Swenson at its June Commencement. Swenson's thesis has attracted considerable attention throughout the junior college sports world, for it represents the first full length study concerning the organization, objectives, and purposes of junior college intercollegiate athletics. Mr. Allen's study was concerned with the type of introductory course offered students in certain major teacher training institutions of the United States. California schools will bestow the degrees to Dello Dayton and Jennings Olson, in June and August, respectively. Dayton, who uncovered an unknown letter of Abraham Lincoln's during his research, has completed his study on the history of the California Militia during 1850-1866. Olson has completed his dissertation on the Cathojic philosophy of education for the Department of Philosophy at UCLA. Another of Mr. Olson's studies concerning the religion of the future will be finished within the year. Globetrotters Gallup On Quickie Field Trip Weber's Geology department reports that a 1300 mile field trip should be taken only when more than three and a half days are available. The May 17-20 trip to Mesa Verde-Monument Valley is too much to take when it is necessary to wait until nocn the first day and then plan to return in time for seminary graduation the evening of the last day. In the course of the trip the group spent fourteen hours driving from Shjp-rock, New Mexico, to Hite Utah over the notorious Monument Valley "thoroughfare" type of road. June third, Geodiscipulus is planning to sail to Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake. Perhaps a trip to New York can still be taken, if enough people are able to go, and trips to Dinosaur Monument, Utah's Skyline Drive (atop the Colorado Pleateau) and many others are scheduled for the rest of the summer. The public is invited to travel on all of these trips, and any one interested should see Mr. Buss in W.C. 107. Geodiscipulus had its annual spring banquet Saturday, May 26. Plans were made for the coming season and State Geologist Hubert C. Lambert, president of Geodis cipulus, announced the plans for next year. any local sporting goods store or in the State Fish and Game Department office in the City and County Building. With all these problems right under our noses, we are too close to evaluate them or to fit them into their proper places. Things happen too fast, and decisions often are not carefully made. Prepare Yourself Why not consider this proposition: When in doubt, take one of the few sure routes to success a path that seldom fails to inspire and prepare. Get a job this summer, if you wish; but save your money and enroll in a college next September. You will never regret it. The stimulation of good books, fine instructors and active, ambitious friends who also wish to grow is a sure cure for pessimism, confusion and indecision. Plan to enroll and attend college. Let every other possibility wait. Whether you marry or plan on any profession or vocation, additional training will help you. prepare you and push you toward success. Don't Wait You may say, "I'll wait and do this other thing . . . then later I can always go to college." But your decision now only postpones your right path. Later you may not even be able to see things as clearly as now. Every idea or step you take may add confusion later. You may never get back "on the beam" again. Millions of people get lost vocationally and personally, never to measure up to half of what they could have achieved. They simply lack will power and direction. Get started right. Avoid confusion and indecision. Plan to get your preparation for a world already complicated. It will become more so. Learn to meet life's problems. Get a good foundation. Go to college. Repayment is Proportional Life and society in general will pay you back in proportion to what you "put out." If you put in time, energy and money into yourself and your preparation, society will also pay back in proportion. If you stop now, there is little to use to bargain with in asking for an income. You get back far more than you ever will put out. When you marry, start a home and a family, you will thank your stars that you have already had your preparation and have a good background for your job. You will also "thank Heaven" for not having postponed your training but rather for having had what you need to move on in your vocation. When you marry and start your home, it is too late then to think about these things in all too many instances. These are your golden years. Use them wisely. Get ahead now while you can. You will never regret your decision to go to college. And remember, there is a vocation for every one. rich or poor, academic minded or otherwise. No person lives who can not profit by further or specialized training in some field. Forget all past mistakes, losses, troubles and confusion. Plan big now. Plan to attend college. Even lack of money need not interfere. If you wish, telephone me or come to see me. I'll be glad to discuss your future with you. WILLIAM D. STRATFORD, Dean of Men. Attention Prospective Journalists Signpost offers fine practical training for any person interested in writing news, features or in learning the "ropes" in editorial work. A bi-weekly publication of the Associated Students of Wtber Col lege, Signpost has made a name for itself amDng the college papers of the nation. This is an opportunity to serve the school and to gain practical experience. |