Our Town to Be Presented at Cornell Little Theatre
An amateur premiere of Thornton Wilder s Pulitzer prize winner Our Town will be staged at Cornell Little Theatre on April 28 and 29. The production, previously successful on tour, relies on minimal set and lighting to convey universality in a small town 1904 to 1918, with Stage Manager guiding audiences. Crew heads include lights Margaret Roberts, costume Geraldine Bryant, publicity Drap Bishop, with off stage stage managers Jeanne Merrihew and John Duckwall.
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Thornton Wilder
Our Town
Cornell Litle Theatre
United States
Johnson
New York
University of Chicago
Margaret Roberts
Geraldine Bryant
R Bishop
Jeanne Merrihew
John Duckwall
Porter Water-Colors To Go On Exhibit
The Flick exhibition of Amana scenes in the Armstrong room closes Saturday for Elmer Porters water colors. Porter, former McKinley HS art instructor, later taught in Cleveland where he held a One Man Show. His Iowa Barns was featured in the All States Exhibit in New York. The room opens Thursday 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 each afternoon.
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Armstrong
Elmer
Spring Alumni Meetings Planned Across the Country
Young Cornell alums from the class of 1933 and later, living near Chicago, organized monthly gatherings after a Wabash YMCA meeting. March alumni events occurred in Portland Seattle Los Angeles and San Francisco with others in Lakeland and Des Moines. Cedar Rapids club set an April 17 meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel.
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Tull
WSUI
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Burgstahler in Ohio Delivers Holy Week Addresses
President Burgstahler spends the week in Columbus Ohio at Trinity Methodist Church giving Holy Week addresses to the congregation and visitors.
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Burgstahler
Columbus
Ohio
Trinity Methodist Church
Carpetbag Debaters Return From 3246 Mile Journey
The EcKendry, McNeal, Wiest group with Coach Littell conclude an 8246 mile spring trip starting at Ulver-Stockton College Canton Missouri. They debated on The Place of the Church in Modern Society and faced student audiences before touring Central College Fayette Missouri and the University of Louisiana Baton Rouge.
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ulver-Stockton College
Canton
Missouri
Wiest
C Ought McNeal
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Fayette
Cap
Baton Rouge
University of Louisiana
Cornell Forum Conference Sheds Light on World Issues
Under Jean Boecklen and C A sponsors a one day Institute of Human Relations on April 26 at Cornell. Four Des Moines speakers Willard Johnson Father Robert Walsh Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer and Rev Dr Stoddard Lane join Cornell students ministers and post high school Epworth Leagues in a three way forum on race prejudice anti semitism democracy and amity.
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C. C.A
Cooper
Dean King
Cornell Forum
Institute of Human Relations
Des Moines
Town Round Table
National Conference of Jews and Christians
Willard Johnson
Drake College
The
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Eugene Mannheimer
Stoddard Lane
Cornell
Epworth
Husk Will Be Issued Wednesday A Campus Yearly Issue
The third Husk of the year will be distributed on Wednesday on campus. The issue features Don Law son’s short story Comes Grass Comes Ollie and other prose pieces by Lucinda Baker Anya Plummer and Roy Teele. Poems by Elizabeth Schoening Ruth Mason Glenda Hodge and others accompany essays including Winifred Van Etten on childhood and a piece on Archibald MacLeish.
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Don Lawson
Ollie
Miss Martin
Lucinda Baker
van Etten
Plummer
Teele
Anya Plummer
Winifred van Etten
Cornell
Roy Teele
Archibald MacLeish
Husk
Elizabeth Schoening
Ruth Mason
Plen All-Woman As We Are Issue Editors
Cornell women publish the first all woman edition titled As We Are edited by J L Smith and staff. Feature class contributors include Ruth Crisman Mary Gail Hull Kathleen Wilson Suzanne Oates Bethany Lehrman and Marjan Stanek. The issue invites expression on social economic and political questions locally nationally and internationally.
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Cornell
J. L. Smith
Ruth Crisman
Mary Gail Hull
Kathleen Wilson
Suzanne Oates
Bethany Lehrman
Marjan Stanek
Plan to Tour Chicago Religious Centers May Weekend
The Department of Religion will run a first weekend in May excursion to Chicago visiting the Bahai Temple Hull House a Jewish synagogue a Catholic cathedral and the University of Chicago chapel. Open to all students with preference to department members. Reservations by Apr 10. expected cost about $12 per person.
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Hull House
Catholic
University of Chicago
Department of Religion
Chicago
King
Don Typer
George Williams College
McGaw
Munkres
Miss Hatch
Two Alumni Awarded Roberts Fellowship
Word was received yesterday that James Watson and Roy Teele both graduates of the college in 1938 were recipients of Lydia Roberts fellowships for study at Columbia University. Watson majored in history and political science and Teele majored in English.
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James Watson
Roy Teele
Lydia Roberts
Columbia University
Watson
Teele
Five Cornell Girls Escape Serious Injury in Mississippi Crash
During spring break trip from New Orleans five Cornell girls named Mary Dugan Laura Campbell Carol Boehmer Eleanor Vasnicka Pauline Kewin and Glee Beck suffered cuts and bruises when a logs truck swerved and struck a ditch hitting a telephone pole near Vicksburg Mississippi.
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New Orleans
Cornell
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Mary Dugan
Laura Campbell
Carol Boehmer
Eleanor Vasnicka
Pauline Kewin
Glee Beck
Toledo
Iowa
The Wind! Newcomer Zatha Pilson Emerges
Ray and Jim Daly discuss The Wind! with Iowa writer Zatha Pilson, living near Des Moines, as the only newcomer identified in this issue.
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Ray
Jim Daly
Zatha Pilson
Iowa
Des Moines
Youth Hostel to Open Here at May Festival Time
Mount Vernon prepares for May 11 opening of the local American Youth Hostels branch in the J. J. Jones house at 403 College Boulevard. The hostel serves groups from Iowa City Anamosa Cedar Rapids and connects with hostels in Illinois Wisconsin and the Ozark Mountains while detailing committee members and future trail plans.
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Mount Vernon
American Youth Hostels
Iowa City
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
J. J. Jones
College Boulevard
MacBride Park
Monticello
Cascade
Trappist Monastery
Dubuque
Illinois
Wisconsin
Ozark Mountains
Junior Prom Set for April 15
Charlie Moore and his Clinton orchestra will provide music for the annual junior prom on Friday evening April 15. The same group will perform at New York City's Waldorf Astoria this summer for a Iowa insurance convention. Committees for the dance will be announced later.
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Charlie Moore
Clinton
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York City
Iowa
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