Final Dances Open With Frankie Masters Band
Frankie Masters and his orchestra with Phyllis Myles perform the first night of the final dances in Millhiser Gymnasium from nine to one. The Swingmasters quartet provide rhythm. A tea concert by Woody Hermann’s band follows Tuesday in the gym from 6:00 to 6:30 P.M.
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Frankie Masters
Phyllis Myles
Radio Songstress
Swingmasters
Millhiser
Woody Herman
Exerices
Herman
Miss Myles
Masters
Lou Herst
Billy Pritchard
Woody Kessler
Zumbi
Roosevelt House
Essex House
New York
Edgewater Beach Hotel
Chicago
St. Francis
San Francisco
Luna Park
Steel Pier
Atlantic City
Cedar Point Ballroom
Cedar Point
Ohio
Skee” Goode
Inter-Fraternity
Westhampton Seals A A for Seven Co-ords
The Westhampton Athletic Association highest honor was awarded in chapel to four seniors and three juniors for school spirit sportsmanship and athletics. Recipients: Alice Gray Simpson Gene Woodfin Lucy McDonough Anne Shafer Althea Johnston Florine Nuckols Shirley Huxter.
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Westhampton
The
Athletic Association
Chapel
Alice Gray Simpson
Falmouth
Gene Woodfin
Lucy McDonough
Anne Shafer
Richmond
Althea Johnston
Harrisonburg
Florine Nuckols
Shirley Huxter
Frances Badenoch
Mary Grace Scherer
Marian Wiley
Men Glee Club to Present Campus Sing on Wednesday Night
The Richmond College Glee Club performs at the Greek Theatre Wednesday at 8:00 featuring This Is My Country Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny John Peel Brother Sing On Lech Lomond and other songs. The next night they visit Randolph-Macon College for Ballad for Americans When Johnny Comes Marching Home and a joint program with the Randolph-Macon Glee Club.
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Ole Virginny
John Peel
Lech Lomond
Glee Club
Lynchburg
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph-Macon Glee Club
Johnny
Randolph-Macon
Smith Memorial Hall
Alton Howell
Presser Hall
College editors named for Collegian and Messenger
Mooney Tucker and Kolukian are named editors for Collegian with Friddell and Herrink set for leadership roles at Richmond and Westhampton Colleges. MacKenzie to edit Messenger. Friddell profiled as future editor in chief and state press figure. honors earned by Herrink Tucker and Kolukian noted.
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Guy “Scoop” Friddell
Helen Herrink
Richmond
Westhampton College
Collegian
Charles H. Wheeler
Board of Publications
Wriddell
Miss Herrink
Messenger
Allister “Mac” MacKenzie
Richmond College
Ernest Mooney
Rose Koltukian
Anne Byrd Tucker
Pi Delta Epsilon
Tau Kappa Alpha
Friddell
Omicron Delta Kappa
Fridde
Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association
Joe Nettles
McDanel Returns to Stage for Our Town at Richmond
Dr R C McDanel to lead Thornton Wilder's Our Town on May 30 in the Greek Theatre marking his first Richmond dramatics appearance since 1916. The 1916 Playhouse debut faced stage and curtain challenges with scarce funds and a budget curtain built by a local saltmaker.
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McDanel
Players Our Town
R. C. McDanel
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
Richmond
Playhouse
Dr. Mac
Bernard Shaw
Richmond College seeks editors and business manager
The University of Richmond announces May 18 as the deadline for applications for editor and business manager of the Spider Handbook. Max Katz, president of Student Government, urged interested students to apply by mail to the Richmond College Senate.
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Richmond College Senate
University of Richmond
Max Katz
Progressives Lose Grip as Class Officer Elections Near
Students face largely unopposed races across class offices with the Progressive Party dissolved after failing to win any Student Government seats. Senior nominees Bill Bareford and Joe Fortunato lead a slate with seven uncontested posts, while Pat Fenlon seeks the junior class presidency. Sophomore and freshman races show multiple nominees, but the overall slate reflects reduced party influence and upcoming polls set for May 14 in the Playhouse.
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Progressive Party
Bill Bareford
Joe Fortunato
Johnny Schools
Jimmy Barnett
Willard Burton
Billy Graham
Stanley Watts
Cooperative Party
Pat Fenlon
George Gasser
Warren Walthall
Buddy Poteat
Pierce Bis
Jimmy Hatcher
Max Katz
Harmony and drills fill Richmond shelter drills
Students crowded the basement corridors of the Administration Building as drums of drill and socializing filled the first daylight blackout drill. Eight men and women gathered in pockets for pennies and songs while Dr. R. McDanel and Dr. Mitchell observed, voices and chatter drowning out the distant, unheard nuclear alarm.
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Richmond
Westhampton
R. C. McDanel
Mitchell
Joint Recital By Westhampton Glee Club And Dance Group
Westhampton's Glee Club and Dance Group join for a two part recital at the Playhouse tonight at 8 15. Tickets 85 cents fund future fine arts costumes. Glee Club performs light classical selections and two a cappella pieces before dance class numbers and a Schubert Peasant Wedding. The program closes with Massenet Our Lady's Juggler featuring Dennie Browne Jean Bowers and solo dances by Pam Carpenter and Frances Calisch.
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Westhampton
F. Flaxington Harker
Pearl Curran
Ernest Charles
Orlando Gibbons
William Blake
Marlise Bok
Franz Schubert
Ann Burcher
Ann Fisher
Evie Lawson
Lillian Jung
Emmy Fountain
Anne Green
Deedee Howe
Jean Shepard
Mary Alderson
Jules Massenet
Dennie Browne
Jean Bowers
Pam Carpenter
Frances Calisch
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Final
A. A
Paramount
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Strand
Stanley Theatre
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Washington
State Theatre
Hartford
Hippodrome
Baltimore
Richmond College Glee Club
Mooney
Tucker
Kolukian
Warriner Lands
Neck
Handy
Martha Scott
John Gleason
Bill Decker
Dick Fisher
Joe Laluna
Thad Crump
Jack Wilbourne
Milton Miller
Howard Moore
Dave Greenberg
Senate
Dick Hague
Wilton Young
Courtney Carter
Roscoe Wright
Albert Russinoff
Buddy Bricker
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