. -M" _;: -OM mp _ PAGE EIGHT-SECTION FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, _ _ 4. Cash Prizes Offered Students By Hopwoods, Mimes, And JGP Glee Club Holds Informal Session R Director, To Lead Year's Work Beauty Vistas abbi J. M. Cohen, New Hillel Are Features I 1A- b -11 T L IrraArbir"T7/ Several opportunities to gain cash for their work are offered student writers at the University. Most lucrative and most famous of the writing awarus are the Jule and Avery Hopwood awards for cre- ative writing. Approximately $10,- 000 is given annually to students showing ability in the following fields: essay, poetry, fiction and drama. Annual Cash Award In addition, $100 awards are of- fered annually for the best scripts submitted to the Mimes' Union Op- era and the Junior Girls Play. Pre- sentation of a student's play by one of these groups enables him to seek further rewards under the provisions of a contest sponsored annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. The Hopwood contests are divided into four types of awards-the freshman, summer, minor and major contests. Prizes of $50, $30 and $20 are offered to outstanding freshman writers in each of three divisions-- fiction, essay and poetry. The minor awards, open to undergraduates, are *limited to $250. Seniors and grad- uate students compete for major awards that sometimes run as high as $2,500, at the discretion of the judges in each of the three fields. Eligibility Fixed To be eligible for the competition a student must be taking 12 hours of regular work in the University and must have no Erade below "C." Also, least one course in composition in the English department of the engineer- ing or literary college, or in the jour- nalism department of the literary school. The contest was established by the will of Avery Hopwood, '05, in 1931, :o foster student creative writing and to encourage in particular "the new and radical." Mr. Hopwood was a uccessful writer of light comedy dramas for the stage. The contest :as inaugurated in 1931, the fresh- man contest in 1932. Lcading Writers Judge Judges for the contest are selected 'om among the nation's leading writers in the different fields. In the last eight years the judges have in- 1luded Agnes Repplier, Louis Unter- meyer, Stephen Vincent Benet, Franklin P. Adams, Max Eastman, and Henry Seidel Canby. The contest has become famous ;hroughout the country. Thirteen winning Hopwood manuscripts have 'een published since 1931, latest of which was Iola Goodspeed's novel, 'Loon Totem," published by Har- court. Brace and Company. Of last spring's winners, "Homeward to America," a book of poetry by John Ciardi, has been published by Henry Holt and Company. The Union Opera and Junior Girls Play yearly seek musicomedy dramas the student must be enrolled in at for their productions. Remember that the Opera is an all-male show. A new director will preside at Hil- lel's orientation activities this week, as the Foundation begins its 14th year on the Michigan campus. He is Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen, who comes to Ann Arbor after com- pleting six years a,; c:rector of Los Angeles Jewish Centers. The new director received his A.B. degree at the University of California in Los Angeles, and graduated also from the Stephen Wise Seminary in New York City. Program Is Planned The new director, and Assistant to the Director Irving Zeiger, '41, have planned an orientation program de- signed to make the Class of '44 feel more at home in its new surround- ings, and to acquaint the newcomers with the Foundation and its wide scope of facilities and activities. Hillel, Jewish students' organiza- tion, will hold day-and-night open house during every day of Orienta- tion Week. Hosts and hostesses will always be on hand to greet the fresh- men, Zeiger explained. He urged freshmen to visit the Foundation building, East University and Oak- land avenues, as soon as 'possible after arriving in Ann Arbor. Party Is Sponsored The Foundation will also sponsor a Freshman Party beginning at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the Michigan Wol- verine. Dancing, refreshments and a floor show will be the "order of 1 the night." . Zeiger emphasized that freshmen II " iI r re'tU'iU visitors to the Foundation this week would be welcome to the use of the Relatively well mown to every building's many facilities, includinguRelavelybwellkownto every; radio-phonographs (with a large upper classman but likely to escape collection of popular, symphonic and the attention of entering freshmer synagogal recordings), library, game is the Arboretum, garden spot of room and lounges. Ann Arbor and the University. Rabbi Cohen succeeds Dr. Isaac Visitors to Ann Arbor have called Rabinowitz as director of the local t orto An or he caled Foundation. Dr. Rabinowitz has the Arboretum one of the most beau-. been promoted to a position in which tiful spots of its kind in the middle he will aid in organizing a new Hillel west, and students are equally ap chapter, at Brooklyn College. He preciative of its charm. From May, will work with Dr. Abram L. Sachar, through October its 96 acres of roll- national director of the Hillel Foun- ing ground are ideal for long, As in previous years, the Founda- thoughtful walks, and during the dation. winter skiing and tobogganing en- tion will sponsor services on the thusiasts hold forth there. Jewish "high holidays": Rosh Hash- Foliage in the Arboretum is now onah (New Year), Oct. 2. 3 and 4; at its best, although most of the and Yom Kippur (Day of Atone- flowers are gone. Relatively damp ment), Oct. 11, 12 and 13. weather during the summer ensured Plans To Be Announced heavy crops of leaves on the many Detailed plans for these services maple and oak trees, and within the will be announced later. next few weeks frost should turn Zeiger announced that Hillel's them to brilliant colors. regular yearly activities would begin Greatest fame of the Arboretu, immediately after Orientation Week. however, is due to University stu- Shortly after University classes be- dents who have made its 96 acres gin, he explained, the first issue of their favorite locale for starry-eyed the Hillel News will appear, the Hillel hand-in-hand walks during lazy, Players' dramatic group will call for lovelorn hours. tryouts and Hillel classes will begin. Plans are already under way for a fine list of speakers for Hillel's SHOP AT -302 S. State St. annual forum series, he added, and these will be announced soon. Final- ly, Zeiger urged all Jewish students ,to support Hillel's Annual Member- Varsity Glee Club members gather around the piano for an in- formal songfest in preparation for one of the club's numerous tradi- tional campus functions. 150 Freshmen Attend Rendezvous One freshmen group that will en- from the ranks of entering freshmen ter Orientation Week having some were also instructed in the customs, perspective of University life are traditions and facilities of the Uni versity. those who attended the three-day Talks and open discussions were session of the Freshman Rendezvous. held on such topics as "Religion and Sponsored by the Student Relig- Social Problems" and "Problems ious Association, the Rendezvous wat Freshmen Face". The various aspects held at the University Fresh Air of University athletics, religious or- Camp on Patterson Lake for the pur- ganizations, and publications were pose of answering questions vital to treated by camp counselors and freshmen. 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