Carolina Alumni Review

New Day Established

The fir t Student-Faculty Day, cele-
brated on the campus, Februarv 20 was
highly successful. The day wa' made :1n
official University holiday and numerous
~epar tm ent s and campus en terprises join ed
In the spi(it of the occa ion by displaying
exhibits of their work and objectives in
educational expositions in Gr:1ham Memo-
rial, the University Libr:1ry, and at other
pla ces o n th e ca mp us.
In the words of President Graham, who
set the tone for the day at the convoca'
tio n o f st uden ts and fa~u l ty in Memori al
Hall in the morning, "We hal'e J Uni-
"crsity Day, a Commencement Day, an
Alumni Day, but until now we have not
had a Student-Faculty Da:'. And that's
what the whole thing (the University) is
abo ut."
Virgii Weathers, Pre ident of the Stu-
dent Body, spoke at the convocation for
the students, and Kemp D. Battle '09,
>poke for the alumni. Preceding the
speakers there was a concert by the Uni-
I'ersity Symphon y Orchestra.
Faculty members were guests at lunch
of \'arious fraternities and individuals at
the students' regular eating places. Open
house was held bv the fraternities all
':fternoon. The (,nal game of winter
football practice was held in Kenan Sta-
diulll in the :1fternoon, :1nd :1t night there
W:1S a packed audience in Memorial Hall
to hear and sec a fine program of kits and
11U1'elties put on by students and faculty.
The feature of the whole occasion,
ho'\.ve,'er, was the exhibit~, Graham
Mcmorial's banquet hall was literally
packed with display by various dep:trt-
1l1ents and enterprises. Every University
d~pa rtl1l e nt held open house all day and
?,splays of work and departmental object-
II'es were situated at variou pbces on the
ca mpus.
T h e Library had its coll ect ion s on d is-
play; inspection parties were led through
the pipe organ loft of the Hill Hall of
M u sic ; hi sto ri ca l data on all Uni ve rsity
buildings were displayed; the Chemistry
Department at its "at home" served syn-
thetic lemonade, and graduate students in
their individual laboratories were busy all
day deillonstrating the making of various
c ~l:mi ca l product for the edification of
VIS ItOrs.
The Alumni Office, with small fbgs
on a huge map of North Carolina at
ea,ch county scat, showed the distribution
o[ alumni in the state; also there wa' an
<.:.~hibit of the series of cOI'er pages of
111£ REVIEW ol'er the past sel'eral years.
The whole effect of the exhibits gave
students and faculty alike a new insight
into the proportions of the work which
the University is doing. It is proposed
that next year Student-Faculty Day
should be moved to the fall quarter, about
October 12, and that alumni be invited to
attend,

•
1Jead Di ami 1)Iti
Charles Rawls, A'heville, and Albert
Ellis, New Bern, have been named Presi-
dents for the Spring Quarter of the Di
Senate and the Phi Assembly, respectively.
•
II nother Orgallization

A new ca mpu s organ iza tion made its
appearance last month. Its name is the
Carolina Political Union, which will seek
to stimulate among students and faculty
an inqui siti ve ne s in gove rnm en t. R obert
Smithwick, of Core Point, retiring Presi-
dent of the Phi Assembly, was named
Chairman, and Francis Fairley, of Mon-
roe, Seoretary-Treasurer. Prof. E. J.
Woodhouse, Professor of Government, is
the sponsoring faculty member of the
group, The union's plan of organization
contemplates procedure similar to that of
such organizations at Oxford in England
and at Yale in this country.

•
Reports 011 II nti-W ar

Robert Phillips Russell, of Asheville,
who attended the International Student
Conference against War and Fascism in
Brussels by means of funds contributed by
individu;lh and organizations at the Uni-
,'e rsity and in hi s hom e town o f As hevi ll e,
l1as been making talks before Irarious stu-

dcnt groups at Chapel Hill in report of
hi ;; tri p abro:1d durin g th e Chri st ll1 :1 s h oli-
d:1y SC:1S01l .
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Tapped

Anglis Fergerson Davis, of Waxhaw,
and Thomas Daniel Gordy, of High
Point, j uni ors in th e U ni ve rsit y Sc hoo l of
Engineering, were tapped last month at
the semi-annual ceremony of T au Beta Pi,
national honorary engineering fraternity.

•
Marshals and L eaders
Comm ence ment mars hals and leaders
for the Jun ior-Senior set of spring dances
have been elected.

Commencement marshals named arc:
Ben Willis, Winston-Salem, chief; Hugh
Pr im ro se, Ri chmond, Va.; J ames Ke el,
Rocky Mount; Jack Clare, Florence,
S. C.; Frank Willingham, Winston-Salem;
H enr~' Valk, Winston-Salem; Hubert
Rand, Garner, and Charles hey, Con-
cord .
Leaders elected for the cbnces arc:
Juniors- Ernest Eutsler, Goldsboro,
chief; Harry Montgomery, Tarrentum,
Pa.; Johnny Bost, Raleigh; Cl:tude Ran-
kin, Fa \'e tt ev ill e; Bob P age Charlotte '
Charl es 'Ed ward s, Green Sboro'; and F rank
Rogers, Rome, Ga.
Seniors-Jack Pool, Raleigh, chief;
M:dcolIII Bell, Savannah, G:1.; Frank
,-\bernethy, Greensboro; Colin Stokes,
Winston-Salem; Scott Blanton, Ch:trlotte;
John Hogg:1rd, Wilmington; and Luther
Cromartie, Garland.

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T ooth D 1'am,a

And now the Carolina Playmakers are
waging J campaign for better teeth. In
cooperation with the Division of Oral
Hygiene of the North Carolina State
Board of Health, the Playmakers have
prod uced Ci1'c1IJ 01' 8mt, a puppet play,
which in a single week, was shown to
9,000 school children. Dr. Ernest A.
Branch, representing the Board of Health,
and Prof. F, H, Ko h, of the Playmakers,
sar the play will be carried into every
schoolhouse in the State.

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Senato?' Nye

United States Senator Gerald P. Nye
addressed a large audience of students,
faeulty and townspeople in Memorial
Hall, February 24, on the subject of JI1-
tern at ional arm ame nts and muniti ons.

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