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President Sanford Elected Chancellor by Regents Board
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VOLUME XL.
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, APRIL 12, 1088.
NUMBER 2i».
Georgia Head
Assumes New
Position July 1
Telegrams, Messages Congrau-
late Executive; Board Com
mended for Selection
Dr. S. V. Sanford, president of The
University of Georgia, was unani
mously chosen chancellor of the Uni
versity System of Georgia Wednes
day by a board of regents which in
cluded three members whom he had
taught while a professor at the Uni
versity.
Dr. Sanford will succeed Philip
Weltner, another of his former pu
pils at Georgia, who has tendered his
resignation, effective July 1. A suc
cessor to Dr. Sanford as president of
the University will not be named
until the next meeting of the board
of regents, scheduled for May 8.
Telegrams and messages of con
gratulations continued to pour in on
the new chancellor Thursday and to
day. Resolutions have been passed
by both students and faculty of his
institution, commending the board on
its selection, at the same time ex
pressing regret that Dr. Sanford will
be taken away from the University
by his new duties.
"I appreciate the honor of having
been chosen to head the University
System of Georgia, and especially so
since the vote among both old and
new members of the board of re
gents was unanimous,” Chancellor-
elect Sanford declared in an exclusive
statement to The Red and Black
Thursday. *
“I regret that Philip Weltner, a
dynamic force in the cause of higher
education in Georgia, felt that he
must resign. His work has been
monumental, and it is my highest
hope that I will have the vision and
courage to carry forward the work
he has already begun.
"The University system is day by
day growing to be a more closely
woven network, and it shall be my
purpose to strive to encourage such
cooperative growth toward a new
standard of higher education in the
State of Georgia.”
Dr. Sanford will take over his new
office July 1, meanwhile associating
himself with Chancellor Weltner to
become acquainted with the duties
of his new office.
Campus sentiment Thursday over
Dr. Sanford’s election to his new
position was one of delight shadowed
by regret that the new chancellor
will be compelled to leave the scene
of his life’s work, The University of
Georgia, to assume control of the
University system.
Pounder of the Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism several years
after his arrival at the University
as an instructor in English in 1903,
Dr. Sanford was made dean of ad
ministration in 1927 and president
of the University in 1932.
In addition to working continu
ously for education. Chancellor-elect
Sanford has shown a deep interest
in athletics at the University, head
ing the athletic association for many
years. He was founder and for
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Calendar of Week Events
Friday
Friday: 4 p. m. Baseball game:
Georgia vs. Clemson. San
ford field.
Friday: 7:30 p. m. Pelican
Club Dinner dance.
Friday: 9 p. m. First Little
Commencement dance.
Woodruff hall.
Friday: 12:30 a. m. Midnight
suppers at fraternity
houses.
Saturday
Saturday: 11:30 a. m. Break
fast parties: Chi Psi and
Phi Delta Thetas.
Saturday: 2 p. m. Track: Geor
gia vs. Furman.
Saturday: 4 p. m. Baseball:
Georgia vs. Clemson. San
ford field.
Saturday: 5 p.m. Tea Dance:
Woodruff hall.
Saturday: 9 p. m. Third Lit
tle Commencement dance.
Woodruff hall.
Religious Welfare
Conference Meets
For 1935 Session
Dr. Monroe E. Dodd Speaks
Tuesday; Classes Will Be
Suspended During Address
Final preparations have been com
pleted for the eleventh annual Re
ligious Welfare conference to be held
Tuesday in Woodruff hall. Dr. Mon
roe E. Dodd, president of the South
ern Baptist convention, is the prin
cipal speaker.
Dr. Dodd will speak at 11:45 on
"Christianity’s Supreme Challenge"
and in the evening at 8 o’clock will
deliver his address, the same he gave
before an international convention
of students in Berlin, Germany, sev
eral years ago, "Spiritual Recovery
Through the Students of the World.”
Both will be given in Woodruff hall.
11:20 and 12:20 classes will be sus
pended during the speech. Free bus
transportation will be furnished for
girls on the Coordinate college cam-
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Dance Tonight Will Inaugurate
Week-end of Social Activities;
Isham Jones and Band to Play
Will Ijead Grand March Tonight
H
Pan-Hellenic President Staf
ford Will Lead Grand March
With Marguerite Goodman
at 11; Decorations Modern
MARGUERITE GOODMAN
Piano Contributions
Sought by X’ Club
Under the auspices of the "X"
club, an attempt is being made to
have a grand piano permanently
placed in Woodruff hall for Univer
sity social affairs. Contributions for
this purpose have been offered by
the military and the administrative
departments and all organizations
likely to give dances and entertain-
mentf/in Woodruff hall will be urged
to contribute.
The "X” club will have its regu
lar election of officers April 18.
Chi Omegas Ousted by Fire
From Milledge Avenue Home
DeNEAN STAFFORD
Georgia Debaters
Meet Bates Team
Saturday Evening
University to Close Inter-col
legiate Season With Two
Contests Next Week
Feature Supplement
Appears This Issue
Containing photographs of fra
ternity men’s dates, a Little Com
mencement rotogravure supplement
is being published with The Red and
Black this week.
Nearly 60 pictures of local and
out-of-town women guests of Geor
gia fraternity men are contained in
the edition. The supplement is being
published in connection with the
Pan-Hellenic Spring dances, which
begin tonight and continue through
Saturday night.
Isham Jones Wields Axe, Then Baton;
Leads Mules, Then 18-Piece Orchestra
Two University debaters, Ed Sell,
Athens, and Lane Timmons, Atlan
ta, will encounter a varsity debating
team from BatOH college, Lewiston,
Maine, in Phi Kappa hall Saturday
night at 8 o’clock. During the next
week the final series of University
debates will be staged with Emory
land Tulane, it was announced Wed
nesday from the office of George G.
I Connelly, associate professor of Eng
lish.
j The Georgia speakers will pro-
o e r a pose a p* an for *tate medicine in
r lames Destroy nool oi so- upho i dlnff the affirmative side of
Hnme Dnrino B’40 the Question, Resllved: That the
ronty House uuring Sevcral Htateg Bhould Provlde for
Period Wednesday Its Citizens, at Nominal Cost, Gen-
eral Medical Care and the Use of
Hospitals and Clinics.
By Maurice Remardlk R^d M Perry and K Oordon
Chi O sisters finally broke downJ Jones BateH co n e ge debaters, are
Wednesday morning during the 8:40 debaters with four yearn debating
From wielding a pick axe to wield
ing a baton; from leading a couple
of mules in a mine, to leading an
18-plece orchestra in the nation's
outstanding hotels and over a nat
ional radio network—that’s the
Horatio Alger success story of Isham
Jones who, with his 18-piece orches
tra, will provide music for this year’s
Little Commencement dances.
Isham Jones was born in a small
mining community, Coaltown, Ohio.
Hik father, a mine boss, was a lover
of music, and it was under his tute
lage that Jones first became interest
ed in music.
When Jones and his family moved
to Saginaw, Mich., he took over the
job of leading a small ensemble in
church concerts. He was successful
in this job until he happened to
make a rather amusing mistake.
Everything went well until one
Sunday he made the fatal error of
striking up the currently popular
“Alexander's Ragtime Band.” The
Biartled church elders lost little time
in striking him from their Sabbath
program.
Jones served in a training camp
during the war. After his discharge,
he organized his own band. At first
it was a rather tough struggle, he
says. His bookings were in and
aroun Chicago, but nothing out
standing.
Then he signed with the College
Inn, one of Chicago's more notable
hot spots. After this came engage
ments at the Ambassador, Atlantic
City; the Hollywood restaurant, and
the Hotel Commodore, New York
city. Since bis Atlantic City engage
ment at the Ambassador in 1932,
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period and staged that house warm
ing they’ve been promising for Just
years and years. And the party took
off the roof of their exclusive Mil-
ledge avenue manse.
Fire broke out during the first
morning period Wednesday as a few
of the girls, being of the leisured
class that have no 8:40 (just a
bunch of daughters of bloated bond
holders) period, were engaged in
performing their morning ablutions
(this word was looked up especially
for this occasion).
Sisters who were present in the
house at the time were: Aileen Park
er, Waycross; Katherine Atkinson,
Savannah; Jean McFadgen, Albany,
and Frances Martin, Carlton.
Smell of smoke attracted the girls’
attention, but being intent on taking
their morning showers (or have they
only tubs at the mansion?), they
thought that the butler had left the
furnace door open. Harold Hunter,
chancing to pass by, noticed the blaz
ing roof. He dashed to the PIKA
house ,and between gasps, breathed
out his story.
Most PiKA’s have had previous ex
perience with fires, fo rtheir house
went up in a blaze last year between
the second and third quarters. As
fast as the fraternity men were able
to get there, firemen got there soon
er. In fact, so fast did the firemen
experience. They are speaking in
Athens during a three weeks trip
to 13 principal southern colleges.
Three years In the past four Bates
has won the Eastern Debate League
championship from such institutions
as Yale, Princeton, Brown, and the
University of Pennsylvania. Since
1921 they have participated in 60
international debates In eight foreign
countries.
University debaters will argue the
affirmative side of the query Re
solved: That R. O. T. C. Training
Should Be Made Compulsory in all
Land-Grant Colleges and Univer
sities,' In a varsity debate with Tu
lane university here April 17.
Sigma Upsilon Secretary
Addresses Local Chapter
Dr. Leslie Turner, national execu
tive secreta-y of Sigma Upsilon, ad
dressed the local chapter of the so
ciety, Senior Round table, Tuesday
night on "The Evils of Socialism in
Our Schools Today ”
Dr. Turner, who is from Rich
mond, Va., is making a tour of the
country inspecting the chapters of
the society.
A special meeting was called by
Hammond Dean, Monroe, president,
for Tuesday night, April 23, for the
arrive that it looked like they had election and installation of new of-
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When DeNean Stafford, Waycross,
president of the Pan-Hellenic coun
cil, and his date. Marguerite Good
man, Macon, lead the grand march
of the Georgia Little Commencement
dances tonight at 11 p. m. in Wood
ruff Hall, they will inaugurate a
woek-end of social activity made up
of three dances, at which Isham
Jones and his 18-piece orchestra will
play, eighteen house parties, eight
suppers, and two breakfast dances.
Modernistic settings will be fea
tured in the decoration scheme as
President Stafford and Miss Good
man take the floor at the head of the
Pan-Hellenic council members and
their dates. Indirect lighting will
play an Important part in the decora
tion scheme, Tom Fleming, Atlanta,
president of the landscape Archi
tecture club, under whose charge the
hall was decorated, said.
Officers’ Dates
Other officers of tho Pan-Hellenic
council and their dates are: Richard
Paulson, Athens, vlce-presidont, with
Celeste Smith, Atlanta, and lnslee
Johnson, Alma, with Amy Clecker,
Calhoun. Mombers of the council
and their dates will file behind the
three officers during the march.
Invitations have been extended to
faculty members and many are ex
pected to attend, Stafford said. About
1500 people are expected to attend.
No-Breaks Announced
Three no-breaks will be held at
each of the night dances. No inter
mission will take place on either
night, though there will be a ten
minute pause following the grand
march.
After serving in a training camp
during the war, Isham Jones organ
ized a hand. He spent considerable
time developing his orchestra by
taking hookings in and around Chi
cago. Success first came when he
was engaged at the College Inn, one
of Chicago’s brighter night spots.
Later he had engagements at the
Ambassador, Atlantic City; and more
recently, at the Hollywood restau
rant and the Hotel Commodore, New
York. Since the Atlantic City Am
bassador engagement in 1932, he
and his orchestra have been heard
regularly over the Columbia net
work.
Decorations of Green
Fraternity pins have been arrang
ed around the side of Woodruff hall,
above the dance floor. A false cell
ing, making a complete canopy, is
composed of green paper strips. The
color scheme of the decorations Is
pale green and Sahara sand. The
black steel pillars of the hall are
encased in the sand colored, corru
gated paper. The sides are construct
ed of green crepe strips, and hy dif
ferentiation In cutting, form a series
of modernistic arches.
Focal scheme of the whole ar
rangement is the orchestra pit. The
stage will be the largest ever to be
used in Woodruff hall, Fleming said.
Three tiers will be mounted to make
up the stage. The first platform Is
two feet high and projects 10 feet
out onto the dance floor. The other
two tiers are on the old stage and
are walled in to three sides to im
prove the carrying tone of the or
chestra.
No Tea Dance No-Ilreaks
The Friday night dance will last
from 9 to 1. Saturday night dance
from 9 until 12, and the tea dance
Saturday afternoon will start at 5
p. m. Friday night’s no-breaks will
be held at 10 p. m.. 12. and the last
at 12:30 a. m. The tea dance will
have no no-breaks. Saturday night’s
no-breaks will come at 10 p. m , 11
p. m., and 11:30 p. m.
Corsages will be worn by Pan-
Hellenic dates only, President Staf-
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