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VOLUME LX
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDA A’, FEBRUARY 11, 105,1
Number 10
Fire Damages
Chapel Painting
Early Saturday
Dodd Relates Possibility
Of Art Work Restoration;
Blaze Reported by Nurse
Lamar Dodd, art department
head, said yesterday that the ex
tent of damage to the surface of
the chapel painting which was
damaged by fire early Saturday
has not been determined, but in
his opinion the painting can be re
stored.
Approximately 2x3 feet of the
left side of the canvas was serious
ly damaged by the fire which occur
red under that spot.
The fire was discovered and re
ported about 3:30 a.m. by Miss
Aleene Geer, a night nurse at-Gilbert
Memorial Infirmary. Dodd and B. C.
Kinney, plant operations head, point
ed out that the alertness of Miss
Geer and the Athens Fire Department
saved the chapel and painting from
destruction.
Kinney estimated damages, other
than to the painting, at approximate
ly $10,000. The chapel stage, cell
ing, organ and two pianos were dam
aged.
He said that the cause of the fire
has not yet been determined.
The painting, which Is of the in
terior of St. Peter’s Cathedral in
Rome, is approximately 23 feet In
length and 18 feet in height.
It was presented to the Univer
sity by Daniel Pratt, Prattville, Ala.,
in 1887, as a tribute to Chancellor
Lipscomb. It was painted by George
Cook.
The chapel was constructed in
1832.
The painting was removed from
the chapel after the fire and is now
at Athens Lumber Company.
DALE MESSICK
dreator of Brenda Starr
RALPH McGILL
Constitution Editor
Annual Press Institute
To Convene on Feb. 23
The 27th annual Georgia Press Institute will open officially Feb.
23 with an after-dinner talk by Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution
editor.
Cugat Agrees To Play
At Annual G-DayBall
Actual Signing of Contract Depends
On Rearranging Orchestra Schedule
By Bill Morris
Xavier Cugat, his orchestra and singing star Abbie Lane have ten
tatively agreed to play for the G-Da.v dance March 5, IFC presi
dent Frank Seiler, Savannah, said yesterday.
The dinner will be in Snelling Hall
and is to be sponsored by the Athens
Rotary Club in celebration of the
50th anniversary of Rotary Interna
tional.
Several other speeches will be giv-
Editor’s Note: Publication of
The Red and Black was delayed
this week by the death and funeral
of H. D. Hilliard, pressman for
McGregor Printing Department,
who has been instrumental in
printing this publication for many
years. We ask our readers to bear
with us in these difficulties.
All-Night Meeting Scheduled
By Demosthenian Lit Society
Demosthenian Literary Society will hold an all night meeting be
ginning Wednesday, 7 p.m., to observe its 154th birthday, President
Gene Methvin, Vienna, announced Wednesday.
‘‘AH men students and faculty
members are welcome to come and
stay as long as they wish,” he said.
Highlights of the program will be
speeches by Society alumni, Abit
Nix, Athens attorney and candidate
for governor against Eugene Tal-
McTierman Takes
Own Life with Gun
Jeffrey McTierman, 24, Alexandria,
Va.. a statistics major in the Busi
ness School, died at 5:05 p.m. Wed
nesday in his room on Grady Avenue
of a self-inflicted shotgun wound.
No apparent motive for the death
was discovered, and persons who
were with him shortly before his
death noticed nothing unusual about
the student’s manner.
Dean Tate reported that the senior
had finished competently his job in
the statistics office Wednesday af
ternoon, and had gone home. His
landlady found his body shortly af
ter she heard the shot.
His mother, Mrs. Lloyd G. Rob
erts, lives with his step-father in
Alexandria, Va.
He came to the University after
taking some courses at the Columbus
Center when be was stationed at
Fort Benning. His school work was
good, and he was one of the finalists
in the Rhodes Scholarship competi
tion.
Pandora Announces Deadline
en by prominent persons during the
four-day convention. The speakers
will be sponsored by newspapers and
other journalistic organizations in
Georgia.
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, medical
consultant emeritus, Mayo Clinic,
will speak Feb. 25. He iB an out
standing author, columnist, speaker
and practitioner.
Mac Hyman, Cordele, will also
address the Institute Feb. 26. Hy
man is the author of “No Time for
Sergeants” which is currently on the
best seller list and a selection of
the Book of the Month Club.
Dale Messick (Mrs. Oscar Strom)
creator of the “Brenda Starr” comic
strip will discuss cartoons Feb. It
and will give a chalk illustration
along with her talk. ,
Others to speak at the Institute
The famous Latin American band,
which is now playing in Miami, Is
making special arrangements with a
previously planned Atlanta engage
ment to make the appearance here.
There is a stipulation in the con
tract, which as yet has not been sign
ed, stating they will play three
songB of the choice of the sponsoring
organizations to every one of Cugat’s
choice.
The dance, which will last from
8 p.m. to 12 midnight, will be semi-
formal and tickets will go on sale at
John Jarrell’s and Gunn’s.
The Parris Island Marine Band and
Drum and Bugle Corps are scheduled
to lead a parade uptown Saturday
morning before the annual G-Day
game. Both University ROTC units
have agreed to participate in the pa
rade, Dr. Joe Williams, assistant to
the president, has announced. The
Drum and Bugle Corps will march
again during the half of the ball
game.
The band 1b flying into Athens for
the night only and will leave the
Board of Regents
To Consider Split
Of University, AD
Possible separation of the Atlanta
Division and the University will be
considered by the Board of Regents
at its April meeting.
Chancellor Harmon W. Caldwell
is presently making a comprehen-
. . „. .. „ . sive study at the Division and has
are Judge Walter B. Jones, Alabama , . . . , .. n ..
“ , , T been asked to report to the Board
Bar Association president, and Lin-1
coin White, United States state de-1 Rt * h<9 A P[ U "jeeting.
“ “ „ -, Caldwell, while not stating what
partment, Washington, D. C.
morning after the dance to begin a
three-week playing engagatoiArtt at
the Latin Quarter in Chicago.
Banquet Slated
On Georgia Day
University Woman’s Club
To Sponsor Annual Affair
The annual Georgia Day Din
ner, celebrating the founding of
the youngest, of the 13 original
colonies, will be held at 7 o’clock
tonight at the Athens Country
Club.
Dr. Claud B. Green, Clemson Col
lege English professor and a Univer
sity graduate, will be guest speaker
at the dinner. He will be introduced
by a former teacher and friend, Dr.
Edwin M. Everett, English depart
ment head.
Since leaving the University, Dr.
Green has studied at Yale, Duke,
and University of North Carolina.
The dinner, sponsored by the Uni
versity Woman's Club, is being held
for faculty members and their wives.
Mrs. Robert G. McPherson, publicity
chairman, said that over 200 persons
are expected to attend.
Greetings will be extended by Pres.
O. C. Aderhold. Orville R. Sbetney,
assistant music professor, and his
wife will sing.
made in 1932: C. O. "Fat” Baker,
candidate in 1950, and John Love,
recent Law School graduate and now
member of the General Assembly.
Numerous debates are scheduled
on both current and historic topics.
The later hours from 3:30 to 7 a.m.
will be dedicated to secret cere
monies in the Society. President
Methvin refused to comment on the
nature, but warned, “Let those with
weak hearts and dull Intellects stay
away."'
A resolution concerning veterans
of future wars will be considered.
Jefferson Davis’ and Robert Toombs'
farewell addresses to the Senate in
1860 will be delivered as prelude
to a debate on the 1860 topic "Re
solved: That a State Has the Right
to Secede.”
Debate subjects include Eisen
hower’s reduction of the army, a free
Formosa government ‘ under UN
sponsorship, Georgia’s county unit
system, and the question of whether
women have souls.
The Institute is being co-sponsored
by the School of Journalism and the
Georgia Press Association.
‘Lillie Fugitive’ Plannetl
As Free Sunday Movie
“Little Fugitive” will be
shown in the Fine Arts Auditor
ium Sunday at 2:16 p.m. and
4:15 p.m. It is the fourth free
movie to be shown to University
Btudents this quarter.
The movie is centered around
the adventures of a small boy on
Coney Island.
Rickie Andrusco and Rickie
Brewster play the leading roles
in the movie.
At least two more free Sun
day movies will be shown in
Fine Arts this quarter.
his recommendations will be, point
ed out that two studies have' been
made by out-of-state educators since
1945. Both recommended separation.
“Either way,” said Caldwell, "the
Atlanta Division and the University
System as a whole will face a serious
financial problem.”
Thp Southern Association of Col
leges and Universities now requires
annual resources of $200 per stu
dent for accredited senior colleges.
The Division is allocated approxi
mately $120. Caldwell said that, un
til now, the Division has protected
its accreditation by being a part of
the University.
Recently the Southern Association
adopted a rule requiring the divi
sions of a university to live up to
the standards of the parent institu
tion, necessitating consideration of
the separation.
Army Dance Postponement
Announced Today by Pate
The Army ROTC dance has been
postponed to an indefinite date, Wal
lace F. Pate, regimental commander,
announced today.
The dance was originally plan
ned to be held Feb. 18 but was post
poned due to planning complications.
The Third Army Band which was
to provide music for the occasion
I will not play at the event as pre-
The Pandora staff requests that jviously announced,
organizations have all information Tentative plans are being worked
for the yearbook on file in the Pan- out and will be announced at the
dora office by Friday. March 18. earliest possible time, Pate said.
Ninety-five per cent of the 1966 In past years the dance has been !
Pandora will go to the printers by > held jointly with the Air Force I
Lambda Chi Alpha,
South Myers Join
APO Campus Sing
Lambda Chi Alpha and South My
ers Dormitory have joined the en
tries in Alpha Phi Omega’s Inter-
Campus Sing, which will be held
Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Fine Arts
Auditorium, Ronald Brown, chair
man of the Inter-Campus Sing com
mittee, has announced.
All dormitories, fraternities and
independent organizations, except or
ganized singing groups, are eligible
to enter the contest, Brown said. No
entry can have more than 30 per
cent of its members belonging to an
organized singing group.
Each group will sing two songs,
one of which may be a University
or organization song. Novelty songs
will not be accepted.
Other entries in the contest are
Geechee Club, Blue Key, Center My
ers, Reed Hall and Sigma Chi.
Admission to the sing for partici
pants and members of the audience
Is 26 cents.
March 1, Burke Hodgson,
manager, stated last night.
business
ROTC, but each of the military units I
will have separate dances this year. I
DR. Gl’Y R.WSOX, associate professor of Christian Ethics at South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, lamlsville, Kjr„ leads Religion-ln-
Life Week discussion among coeds in the lobby of Myers Hall. The
:<t>th Religion-in-Life program was conducted on campus tills week,
ending yesterday.—Staff Photo by Harry Stathos
‘Great Thinkera’ Program
To Feature Morrison Talk
Professor Paul G. Morrison, assist
ant professor of philosophy, Atlanta
Division, University of Georgia, will
speak Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8:15 p.m.
in the library auditorium on "A Se
mantic Approach to the Unity of the
Sciences.”
The talk will be one of the “Great
Thinkers” series.
Morrison, a native of Dallas,
Tex., is a graduate of Washington
and Lee University. He holds a Ph.D.
degree from the University of Chi
cago and has served as a consultant
for Ryerson Steel Service.
The lecture will be concerned with
the central problem of finding an
appropriate way to discover the unity
which underlies basic differences be
tween the sciences.