The Coe Cosmos from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • Page 1

Coe Centennial 1851-1951 Cosmos All-School Dance Saturday fol LX11, No. COE COLLEGE, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Thursday, October 11, 1951 lentennial lomecoming 'lans Boil Plans are being formulated Coe's 1951 Centennial celebration, Icording to Hans Andresen and fMari Gates, co-chairmen student council homecom- iing committee. Each organization is being en-' couraged to enter a float in the! Friday afternoon parade, Andresen Former Fascist Commentator, Lisa Sergio, to Talk Tuesday HOMECOMING SCHEDULE October 23. Student Council chapel. Homecoming queen election.

October 26. 10:05 a.m. Chapel program. Address by Whitney Martin, '22, sports editor of the Associated Press. 2 p.m.

Parade, with floats from campus organizations. 7:30. Pep meeting on football field. October 27. 9 a.m.

Club breakfast. Montrose hotel; 9:30. Freshman football game with Grinnell; 12 noon. Captain's luncheon; 2 p.m. Homecoming football game with Grinnell; 4:30.

After-game mixer in the Grill at Greene hall; 6 p.m. Organization dinners; 8:30. Dance in gymnasium. Faculty reception for all alumni in Bryant room. October 28.

4 coming vespers. p.m. Home- Set for Saturday An all-school costume dance sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, will be held Saturday night from 8:30 to 12:00, in the Women's fieldhouse. Announcement of the dance, entitled "On An Island With You," ended queries as to why the members of the fraternity had been growing beards for the past several weeks, for it was revealed that a prize will be given for the beard judged "best" in addition to a prize for the best costume at the dance. Music will be furnished by the in what the fraternity calls "an atmosphere of south sea island relaxation," complete with i native costumes and marine attire.

Tickets, priced at 74c may be obtained from any of the bewhiskered Lambda Chis or purchased at the door. Many Coe seniors, as well as graduates, will remember the last dance of this type, held in the fall 1948. Choir Selected, Rehersals Begin The A Cappella choir has begun rehearsals for their fall programs, Keith Broman, choir director, announced this week. The Homecoming vespers program will open the vocal season on Oct. 28, and the choir will appear before the Cedar Rapids Rotary club in November.

Choir members will sing for the honors convoca- tion and next month will start re- said. Cash prizes will be awarded hearsals for the annual Christmas the float judged most beautiful and the one most novel. The floats will be taken to the center of the cam- pus following the parade for dis-i play. The homecoming coinnuiiee is i planning an "old fashioned" pep rally for the Friday preceding the game. Bob Ray, Coe graduate, will be the master of ceremonies and a skit will be presented by representatives of all campus or-1 ganizations.

Libby Hoover andi Ted Dahlfors are co-chairmen of the pep rally committee. Pairs of social organizations will. decorate each major building the campus, and first and second place prizes will be awarded for the best decorations. Groups and their building as-' signments are Tau Kappa Epsilon and Chi Omega, Hickok hall; i Kappa Tau and Delta Delta Delta. Science hall: Delta Phi Epsilon and Kappa Delta, library; Esquire and Alpha Xi Delta, Little Theater; Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Gamma Delta, Old Main, program.

Members of the soprano section are: Barbara Anderson, Barbara Barger, Jeneane Bartels, Carolyn Bissell, Evelyn Blaha, Ann Brooks, Thief Takes $47 From Coe Safes A safe-cracker broke open a safe in the Coe business office early Tuesday and escaped with S47. According to Investigating Of- ricer John Hanna, the combination knob on the safe was knocked off with one blow and $40 taken. An attempt to open a money chest inside the main safe was apparently unsuccessful. Entry to the building was made by removing a screen from a service department window in the basement and using a small bar to pry open the window. Seven dollars was taken from an open safe in the service department.

The safe contained stamps and cash from daily stamp sales. A glass door to the cashier's office upstairs had been smashed and the door unlocked from the inside. Detective Hanna said the job was apparently the work of an experienced safe-cracker. The loss was fully covered by insurance, according to Pres. Howell H.

Brooks. Cash received at the business office is banked each day and a moderate amount of cash is kept on hand, Pres. Brooks said. The college night watchman said he checked the building at midnight and found everything in order. The breakin was discovered at 6:55 a.m.

1 tlU ifVUCUUlCU Carolyn Charipar, Carol France, JoAnn Henderson. Reynolds Hoyt, Myra Mojdara. Alice Nichols Kaye Paine, Ann Tickhor, Herma Wertz, Marilyn Wiblemo and Shirley Wratten. Altos are: Margaret Nadine Conner. Metropolitan Charlene Alyea, Kay Carsrud, opera sop rano, will open the 1951- To Appeal in Fiist Community Conceit More Parts Cast For Coming Play Additional parts have been cast for "The Skin of Our Teeth," which is to be presented in Coe's Little Theater Nov.

8, 9 and 10. Paul Goellner will portray the dinosaur; Carl Goellner, the mammoth: Ed. Kagiharn. the chair pusher and Jasper King, the bingo announcer. Changes include Rosemary Malay, who will portray Gladys; Jim Griffith and Joe Suchomel as conveeners: Janet.

Harper, who will play Hester, and Guy Fisher, the professor. Members of the stage crew are Al Mack, head: La Verne Eggleston; Jim Griffith; Walt Phelps: Don Bouchard; Wayne Mullen; Guy Fisher; Beverly Smith; Rosemary Malay; Mary Dewey and Diane Hunter. Janice Davis is in charge of properties with Jackie Fisher and Carolyn Bissell on the committee. The business committee is Mary Ann Newton, Rosemary Malay and Louise Summers. Abigail Newburger will head the costume committee, with Pat Collins, Carol DePressler and Ruth Usher serving on the committee, while Suzanne Wiele and Doris Kainer will be in charge of make-up.

Eunice Kregel, JoAnne Kubik, Charlotte Lazier, Luella Lazier, Margaret Mach, Patricia McMullen. Arline Paradies, Margaret Race. Joan Ramsay, Gloria Rasch, Janet Strang and Barbara Teeters. Carrying the tenor parts are: James Bruton. Mark Daehler, Max Daehler.

Gerald Gibbs, Dick Hardesty, Robert Humphreys, Ted Joe Palumbo, Raitt, James Ernest Scott, Ed Willm- ner, John Mahan. Bill Potterton, Bill ing, Larry Wuestenberg. Members of the baritone and bass sections are: Bruce Caldwell, Ted Dahlfors, Leo Delbridge, Don Elf strom, Merle Harris, Jasper King, Duane Melchert, Fred Paradies, David Rosenberg, Darwin Shapiro, Dan Sinner and Bill Taylor. 52 Community Concert series Dec. 12, Choir Director Keith Broman, has announced.

Others scheduled for the series include: Aldo Ciccolini, pianist. Jan. 16; Ricardo Odnoposoff, violinist, March 17: and the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Antal Dorati, April 17. Miss Conner, Ciccolini and Od- noposoff will be presented in the Paramount theater, and the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra will play in the Memorial colsieum. Student memberships may be obtained in Marshall hall from Mr.

Broman or from any music student through Oct. 15. Dues are $3 for the series. By Fred Carrier The "golden voice of Rome," Lisa Sergio, former chief radio commentator for Mussolini and the Fascist party in Italy, will speak at chapel Tuesday at 10 a.m. in St.

Paul's Methodist church and in the Little Theatre at 8:15 p.m. Miss Sergio was forced to flee Italy when she tampered with official radio scripts in order to let the world know the truth about Fascism. She is now an American citizen and a resident of New York. Once in the United States, she began to broadcast the true facts about the Fascist regime and during the war years her penetrating analyses of world affairs won her an ever-increasing radio audience. Inspired by Marconi It was Guglielmo Marconi, the father of radio, who first persuaded Miss Sergio to become a news commentator for Mussolini.

She was given the highly important assignment of news broadcaster in English on Rome's short wave radio and it was through these broadcasts that her voice became well known in England and the Chapel Honors Coe Scholars; Hodgson Talks Recognition of a i six at achievement was given to freshmen by Dean Jamrich Tuesday chapel service. Among those honored were the twin sons, Max and Mark, of Coe's Prof. Max Daehler. Also included were Elma Kehrli, Manchester; Alice Nichols, Muscatine; Anna Sorenson, Harper high school, Chicago; and Janet Strang, Roosevelt high school, Cedar Rapids. The students were selected on the basis of their high school records and college entrance examination results.

Rounding out the program was a discussion of the place of religion in college life by James B. Hodgson, profesor of religion and philosophy. "Religion is one of the permanent interests and concerns of mankind," professor Hodgson asserted, stressing that it is that permanence which makes a knowledge of religion very necessary in a liberal education. Prof. Hodgson declared that religion has grown much stronger in the past 25 years if church attendance is a good measuring stick -and that attendance is still increasing.

"Religious workers should be weu u'ameu ui uueicu cuis. out reverse is also true" (liberal arts students in religion), prof. Hodgson concluded. College Qualification Tests To Be Given Here on Two Dates Selective sen-ice college qualification tests will be given at Coe on Dec. 13 and April 24 by the educational testing service.

Application blanks are available now at the draft board office. For the first test they must be postmarked no later than Nov. 5 and applications for the second- date must be made before March 10. In order to take the test a student must: (1) Intend to request deferment as a student, (2) be satisfactorily pursuing a full tim ceollege course and (3) have taken no previous selective service col- i lege qualification test. Siamese Sfudenf Finds Coe By Bill Layton Nineteen year-old Molaiwan Mojdara, freshman student from Bangkok.

Siam. "just loves everything about Better known to her classmates as this energetic music major especially likes the friendliness of the students and faculty, since education is much more formal in her native land. "In Siamese schools, whenever an istructor enters or leaves the room, all students must stand," she explained. "Everything there is carried out in a very rigid fashion, but here it is almost the opposite-everyone is informal and at ease." The organization of Siamese education is also different from that of America. Youngsters go from kindergarten at age five to twelfth year of high school.

English is a required subject in all schools. Myra came directly from high school to Coe through the guidance of Vida Rumbaugh, 1947 Coe graduate, who was working as a missionary in Bangkok. The strict treatment of Siamese youth in education also applies in family and personal relationships, T. United States. Her subject at chapel will be "New Security for an Atomic Age," and in the evening she will give "A World's Eye View of Ourselves." She is currently on a cross-country lecture tour during which she will speak in many cities.

Born in Italy, she is the daughter of Baron Agostino Sergio and the former Margaret Fitzgerald of Baltimore, Md. When she was 22, she became editor of the literary weekly "The Italian Mail," later resigning to study archaeology. She has written an English guide-book to Pompeii which was used by the American army after the fall of Italy in World War TT. Gains French Award Because of her support of the cause of the Free French during the last war, she was awarded the distinction of being made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France. Last year she made an extensive trip through Israel.

As editor of "Widening Horizons," the magazine of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, she is thoroughly conversant with the progress of women throughout the world. In her view of the world news. Miss Sergio delves into the moral and economic issues behind it. She believes that guns can kill only men, not the ideas they have. "Ideas can only be altered or wiped out of existence by actions that realistically disprove their alleged merits," is how she puts it.

Hits Politicians As for politics, she says that it is actually the science of government and decries the fact that few individuals who go into politics view it that way. She blames much of the corruption in government to politicians taking their business as a game. "Those politicians everywhere in the world who have made an ugly stain on the whole idea of politics with their own bad record of dishonesty would not have had a chance to do so if more people had chosen politics as a profession and trained for it in time, viewing it as a science and not as a game." including dating. No one under 21 "That usually results in some "Myra" Mojdara is allowed to go on a date unelss I member of either family going accompanied by a chaperone. 1 A along," she commented.

"I some- See pace 4 Music Teachers Will Meet Here The Iowa Music Teachers' Convention will be held at Coe on Oct. 21 and 22, Prof. Paul S. Ray, president of the Iowa Music Teachers Association, announced. Included on the program, and open to the public, will be an organ recital by Alice Brown of Des Moines and Gordon Farndall of Central college, to be held at First Presbyterian church Sunday, Oct.

21 at 4 p.m.; an all-state orchestra concert, conducted by Prof. Joseph Kitchin, with guest soloists, Sunday, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. at the Little Theater; and a concert by the Chicago Symphony trio on Monday, Oct. 22, also at the Little Theater..