Girls To Welcome Spring With May Day Celebration
Jimmy Dorsey and Chuck Foster are booked for the Spring Finals with Dorsey to headline Friday and Foster on Saturday. Contract delays delayed signing, but Longacre confirms final arrangements soon. The Spring Finals run May 30 and 31 with concerts and dances.
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Jimmy Dorsey
Chuck Foster
George Longacre
Longacre
Dorsey
Foster
Paramount Theater
New York
Fabulous Dorseys
Tommy
Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Amapola
Green Eyes
Maria Elena
G.M
Bob Carroll
Glenn Miller
Army Air Force Band
Charlie Barnet
Gordon Jenkins
David Rose
RCA Victor
Dee Parker
Karl Kiffe
Pennsylvania
Collegian
Veterans fail to contact VA on future training plans
About 100 veterans have not reached the VA Office in the basement of the Biology Building to state their intentions regarding future training, prompting an urgent follow up.
Crump Announces New Richmond College Voting Rules
Richmond College student elections will use multiple voting sites under new rules announced by Student Government President Thad Crump. The changes, drafted by the Senate, take effect Tuesday as students head to polls to choose class officers. Crump also said several nominees were withdrawn or disqualified for failing to maintain a C average, including Aubrey Rosser and Dick Hensley for president and secretary of the Sophomore Class, Julius Fanney for Junior Class secretary, and others for various offices.
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Richmond College
Thad Crump
Senate
Crump
Aubrey Rosser
Dick Hensley
Julius Fanney
Roy Shelton
Wally McGraw
Bill Chappell
William E. Long
Spike Garland
Polling Places Planned For Student Government Vote
Three polling sites are planned with one per class. Sealed ballot boxes will be used under Senate supervision per the SGA Constitution. An Honor Council member will assist at each location. Polls open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
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Playhouse
Senate
Student Government Association
Fenlon Resigns as Spider Coach at Richmond
John Fenlon, head football coach of the Spider program since 1942, resigned to become Fredericksburg city recreation director and James Monroe High School head coach. He expressed regret at leaving UR and said he can better serve youth in Fredericksburg after a four year Navy service and a strong season with the Spiders.
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University of Richmond
John Fenlon
Fredericksburg
James Monroe High School
Fenlon
Richmond
George Washington University
Glenn Thistlethwaite
Navy
Spiders
Richmond College Students Lead Virginia College Congress
Thad Cramp of Richmond College was elected president of the Student Congress of Virginia Colleges and Universities at Hampden Sydney College. Pete Singleton of the Collegian was named president of the reorganized Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association. Charles Fellows of Virginia Tech became secretary treasurer of both bodies as meetings opened April 26.
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Thad Cramp
Richmond College Student Government Association
Student Congress of Virginia Colleges and Universities
Pete Singleton
The
Collegian
Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association
Hampden-Sydney College
Charles W. Fellows
Virginia Tech
Student Congress
Crump
Robert Bluford
Hampden-Sydney
Congress
Westhampton Delegates Attend Southern Intercollegiate Conference
Westhampton College sent retiring President Marion Huske and new President Anne Bowie Clark to the Southern Intercollegiate Association of Student Governments conference at Sophie Newcomb College Tulane University New Orleans April 17 19. Delegates discussed postwar college challenges and world participation while enjoying New Orleans social events and a banquet at Arnaud's Restaurant featuring author Harnett Kane.
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Westhampton
Marion Huske
Anne Bowie Clark
Southern Intercollegiate Association of Student Governments
Sophie Newcomb
Tulane University
New Orleans
Ann Clark
Arnaud
Harnett Kane
Louisiana
Physics Club Attends American Physical Society Meeting
Officers and members of Sigma Pi Sigma accompanied by Drs. R. B. Loving and C. L. Albright will attend the American Physical Society convention in Washington on May 18. The Chi Chapter plans a May 16 banquet and will hear reports from delegates. The Richmond chapter has grown this year with 22 new initiates.
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Sigma Pi Sigma
Physics Society
R. B. Loving
C. L. Albright
American Physical Society
Washington
Chi
Richmond
SAC Election Tuesday
The election of officers for the next semester will be held at the next regular meeting of the Student Activities Council in Room S of the Administration Building next Tuesday May 6 at 1 00 p m.
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Student Activities Council
Pageant to Crown May Queen in Westhampton Celebration
Westhampton hosts a Fairy Tale themed May Day events with Marion Huske named Queen of the May. Festivities start with Green booths and end with the Make-Believe Ball as Westhampton College students don court of honor names Elizabeth Brown and others.
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Marion Huske
Westhampton
Lavinia Watson
Richmond Newspapers
Westhampton College
Elizabeth Brown
Helen Chandler
Jane Gopenhaver
Alice Landi
Alice Mason
Betty Tinsley
Make-Believe Ball Opens May Day Festivities
The Sophomore Class hosts a May Day ball in Keller Hall on Saturday May 8 with Townsmen providing music from 9 p.m. to midnight. The event features a The Twelve Dancing Princesses theme with decorations and tickets priced 1.65 per couple or 1.00 for a stag.
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Keller Hall
May Day Parade Schedule At Westhampton College
The text lists faculty and student coordinators for the May Day events at Westhampton College. It details roles from general chairman Betsy Slate to separate duties in staging, costumes, publicity, and music. The program outlines Booths on the Green at 4 pm, Crowning of the May Queen, May Pole Dance, Lantern Parade, The Dancing Princesses, and the Queen’s Ball with dormitory curfew extension to 1 am for dorm students.
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Betsy Slate
Frances Coles
Alice Lands
Marylou Massie
Dorothy Hughes
Lena Thornton
Janie Copenhaver
LaVinia Watson
Flowers
Jean Waldrop
Shirley Davis
Helen Porter
Betty Gustafson
Helen Conant
Marion Collier
Peggy Hawthorne
Dorothy Foster
Martha Edwards
Mildred Daffron
Toni Reid
Mary Sue Quaid
Ollie Menefee
Isabel Ammerman
Elsie Minter
Ruth Schimmel
Dean Mauder
Woodfin
Jean Wright
Isabel Harris
Betty
Grigg
Marion Hamilton
Caroline ‘Lutz
Pauline Turnbull
Jean B. Campbell
Gene Woodfin
Hilton Rusty
EB. B. Rawls
Barbara Davis
Ywca For Charity
Jean Moody
Tomorrrow
Keller Hall
Westhampton College
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Carroll Alley
Jack Greene
Edgar Gammon
State Board of Education
Virginia
Gammon
Flo Grey
SAC
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