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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1954
Page
6
In Oberlin's commencement weekend a charming campus scene unfolds with lanterns and warm recollections. The piece explores historic academic regalia from medieval birettas to mortarboards, recalls alumni reunions, campus spots, and the joy of students, families, and memories, ending with a Tennyson quote about embarking life.
Registration for the Jumbo Summer Reading Club at the public library surpassed 100 on Monday. Eleanor Owen, the librarian, notes the theme around circus life and lists the first-day registrants by grade from pre-kinder to 7th grade, including families with multiple entries.
June to the Oberlin area reports births and dismissals at Allen Hospital. From June 9 to June 15, several families welcomed new babies including sons to Sevoc Smith Witbeck Bryan Leistner and a daughter to Smith. Dismissals list numerous patients including Watkins Schemmel Knowles Murray Adkins Kominis and others.
Australian Army authorities at Waco Camp in Brisbane ban the sale of magazines that commercialize sex within the camp. Trainees may still buy such magazines outside the camp and bring them in.
Oberlin College speech professor Paul H. Boase, on leave for first semester 1954 55, will conduct research on the Methodist Circuit Rider. He will visit Ohio Wesleyan University Hayes Memorial Library in Fremont Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Columbus Duke University and the University of North Carolina before proceeding to Florida for further work.
Oberlin residents stage the Beggars Opera Thursday to Saturday, the group’s second production after Captain Applejack. The 18th century satire, first produced in 1728, features Polly Estelle Siddall and Captain MacHeath Gilbert Palmer in a crowd of local performers with Forbes Whiteside set design and Gigi Cascio directing choreography.
Oberlin based Allen Art Museum director Charles P. Parkhurst spoke at the Museum Directors annual meeting in San Francisco in June and again at the American Association of Museums in Santa Barbara on salary and rank for museum personnel. He also attended an executive board meeting of the Intermuseum Conservation Association where he serves as a member.
Oberlin report states Professor Harold W. Fildey of the Theological Seminary will move his wife Mrs. Fildey and daughters Anne and Jane to New York City for the summer. He will teach at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University while Mrs. Fildey studies at Teachers College. The Fildeys’ home on Shiperd Circle will be cared for by Prof. David and Mrs. Anderson of Cleveland. Fildey recently returned from a five day National Association of Theological Professors workshop at North Park College and Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Joseph Wood will direct the Oberlin Players production of Beggars Opera this week. He teaches composition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and arranged the music. Esther Siddall, a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, majored in voice.
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