THE MICHIGAN DAILY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1945
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WHERE ALL CREEDS MEET:
Student Religious Association
Holds Freshman Rendezvous
Bringing students together in an inter-denominational religious atmo-
sphere, the Student Religious Association at Lane Hall has a varied weekly
and annual program.
The Freshman Rendezvous usually held during orientation week, has
been the traditional means of acquainting freshmen with the Association.
When not holding the Freshman Rendezvous, the Association has held open
rehouse for freshmen during orientation
P 1week.
ro . rice Is Religious music seminars, seminars
on social and political problems, cof-
feehour and Saturday lunchhave be-
! e come a traditional part of the as-
sociation's weekly program.
To Save B ells The religious music seminar con-
sists of the presentation of excerpts
Percival Price, Pulitzer-prize win- from the world's foremost religious
music played on records. Analyses
ning University carilloneur, has been andscommentsnbytheddirector of
granted a six month's leave of absence this division are also a regular part
to travel to Europe to study and at- of the program. These programs are
tempt to save the stolen carillon not designed primarily for music ma-
bells of Europe from the scrap pile. jors but for students with a layman's
interest in music.
Ge ny, where dum edonth Hmo Coffee Hour, held each Friday, pro-
and quays are 5,000 bells stolen from vides opportunity for a purely social
occupied countries by the Nazis and afternoon following the week's work.
saved from the melting pots only by Students are invited here to familiar-
the war's end. ize themselves with the program of
Price, who is an authority on bells the SRA and to meet and know other
and is considered the foremost caril- students interested in the Associa-
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loneur in North America is certain
that many prized and irreplaceable
carillon bells are among the jumble
at the Hamburg docks.
Shortly before D-Day, Price, at the
request of the American Society for
the Preservation of Cultural Monu-
ments in Europe, furnished detailed
information regarding the size, num-
ber and location of European caril-
lons for Supreme Allied Headquarters.
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Male Glee Club
Gives Concerts,
Makes Tours
The Men's Glee Club, one of the
chief contributors to campus varietyl
programs and musical events, is plan-
ning an ambitious program for the
fall and spring terms, according to
Prof. Dave Mattern, director of the
group.
,Getting off to an early start, the
organization will lead entering fresh-
men in school songs during the orien-
tation period this fall. When try-
outs are completed, the club will be-
gin work for its campus concert pro-
grams.
May Tour Country
If transportation conditions per-
mit it, Prof. Mattern hopes to re-
sume -Glee Club concert trips during
the 1945-'46 season. In the past,
these trips have included perform-
ances at leading New York hotels, in
Chicago, cities in this state, Wash-
ington and Buffalo. They are spon-
sored by the Alumni Association.
Recently, the Glee Club prepared
several records of new songs by Fred
Lawton, who wrote the lyrics to
"Varsity," which they presented to
former Athletic Director Fielding
Yost. Other activities this past year
have included participation in the
'Kampus Kapers,' the 'Army-Navy
Revue,' 'Victory Varieties,' the cam-
pus Christmas program and com-
munity singing, which the club led
from the library steps.
Active in Broadcasts, Serenades
The club was also featured on a
Sunday morning University broad-
cast. Combining the musical with
the social, the group has serenaded
sororities, and then spent the eve-
nings following this as guests at sor-
ority socials.
Most Glee Club work involves par-
ticipation by the whole group. There
are also performances by soloists and
quartets, or by instrumentalists who
are members of the group.
Officers of the club for the 1945-'46
season are Ray Buntaine, president;
Phil Steding, vice-president; Jerome
Horwitz, secretary-treasurer; and
Richard Miller, librarian.
Campus Guilds
Will Welcome
New Students
16 Protestant Faiths
Have Organizations a
Student guilds and regular Sunday
worship services of Ann Arbor
churches, will have a special welcome
for all new students during the fall
term.
Approximately 30 religious groups
are established in Ann Arbor and
have'able leaders to help the new-
comer in his educational, spiritual
and social life.
Dr. Blakeman Is Counselor
The University counselor in reli-
gious education, Dr. Edward W.
Blakeman, is available for consulta-
tion daily in his Angell Hall office
for all students regardless of reli-
gious affiliation.
Guilds are maintained by a num-
ber of churches which offer varied
programs on Sunday evenings. Dis-
cussion groups, lectures by Univer-
sity professors, and outsanding visit-'
ors to the campus, classes in reli-
gion, as well as social events are
planned.
Whether Protestant, Catholic or
Jew. the new student will be sure
to find a religious group with which
he has something in common.
16 Student Groups
Among the 16 groups on campus
are: the Westminster Guild at the
First Presbyterian Church, the Roger
Williams Guild at the First Baptist
Church, Wesleyan Foundation at the
First Methodist ChurchhGamma Del-
ta (Lutheran Student Chapel) at the
New Lutheran Chapel and student
center, the Lutheran Student Asso-
ciation, the Congregational-Disciples
Guild, and Canterbury Club at St.
Andrews Episcopal Church.
Inter-Guild, an organization which
represents the above groups, leads in
making plans for greater coopera-
tion among the Protestant churches.
Catholic students will find a spe-
cial chapel for them, St. Mary's near
campus, while Jewish students will
be welcomed at the Hillel Founda-
tion, on Hill and Haven Streets.
illel Serves
Jewish Faith
Performing a social, cultural and
religious function for Jewish stu-
dents, the 18-year-old B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation chapter at Michi-
gan is also a place to study, to learn,
and to exchange ideas.
Under the leadership of Rabbi Je-
hudah M. Cohen, a secretary, a stu-
dent council of 25 members and a
staff of student directors, the Foun-
dation provides, for students and.
servicemen, personal counsel, dan-
ces, record concerts, religious ser-
vices on Friday nights and on major
religious holidays, picnics and the
opportunity to meet and make new
friends.
Dramatics, Photography
Students can find an outlet for
literary or photographic talents by
working on the Hillel'News or in theI
fully equipped Hillel darkroom. The
Hillel Players is a student theattical
group which provides entertainment
for social functions here and at B'nai
B'rith lodges throughout the state.
Last year there were classes in
Yiddish, Hebrew and Contemporary
Jewish History. The 1945 Worship
conducted an informative series on
Anti-Semitism featuring specialists
in several fields.
Phonograph Record Colection
The Foundation has a large phono-
graph record collection. Students
are welcome to take advantage of the
well-stocked neon-lighted LouisWeiss
Memorial Library. The library, con-
taining over 1,600 volumes dealing
with Jewish subjects and including
many recent best-sellers, is open
from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. EWT '(7a.m.
to 9 p. m. CWT). The Foundation
also regularly rereives more than a
score of nationally distributed mag-
azines and newspapers.
VL" Physical Services
To Be Consolidated
Consolidation of the physical equip-
ment and functions of the University
Buildings and Grounds Department,
Plant Extension and Storehouse into
a single unit to be known as the
Plant Department has been announc-
ed by Robert P. Briggs, University
vice-president.
Walter Roth, before the reorganiza-
tion assistant superintendent of the
buildings and grounds department,
was named head of the Plant De-
partment.
The new department is divided into
four subdivisions: Plant Operation
and Maintenance; Plant Extension;
Storehouse; and Office Section.
How does the average college stu-
dent today compare, as far as health1
is concerned, with the student of a
quarter-century ago?
Generally speaking, he's taller,
weighs more, has better teeth, is int
far better health and has better pos-
ture. But at the same time he is
more likely to wear glasses, fractures
a bone, or suffer from acute appen-
dicitis, pneumonia or diabetes.
This is the picture presented by
doctors at the University of Michi-
gan Health Service in a statistical
study covering University students
from 1919 to 1942.
Today's young men and women
now in attendance at the University
of Michigan come from smaller fam-
ilies. In 1919 they each had an aver-
age of 2.2 brothers and sisters; today
the figure has fallen to 1.7. Goiter is
on the decrease, as is nervousness
and tuberculosis.
In 1919 the average male student
weighed 134 pounds and was 5 feet,
5.4 inches tall. Now he weighs 148
stripped and is 5 feet, 9.2 inches tall.'
The average girl increased her weight
by 5 pounds to 123, and her height .7
inch to 5 feet, 4.1 inches.
Men's eyes are poorer, the coed's
better. In 1928, 62 percent of the men
and only 20 percent of the coeds had1
Awards Gwen
For Writing
Hopwood's $551,070
Used as Prize Money
"Getting Gertie's Garter," "Little
Miss Bluebeard," and "Up in Mabel's
Room," these and other farces writ-
ten by Avery Hopwood helped gain
would be writers at Michigan a finan-
cial start.
Hopwood, a 1905 graduate, was a
millionaire playwright at the time of
his death in 1928, when he willed his
alma mater $551,069.78 from which
prizes are awarded in the annual
Hopwood writing contests.
Begun in 1931, the awards to date
total $90,000, prizes being awarded in
each of four classifications, drama,
essay, poetry and fiction.
Awards for Hopwood winners range
from $50.00 to over $1,000. Michigan
is the only university in the world
which offers its students such large
prizes in the field of writing.
When the contests were begun,
they were for upperclassmen only.
The following winter, however, a spe-
cial Freshman Hopwood Contest was
begun, and in 1938 the annual sum-
mer Hopwoods came into being.
One of the 1931 winners was Betty
Smith, who entered a play entitled
"Francie Nolan." Miss Smith's recent
best seller, "A Tree Grows in Brook-
lyn," had as its heroine one Francie
Nolan.
Many Hopwood prize winners have
had their'winning works published by
major publishing houses. "The Bro-
ken Pitcher" by Naomi Gilpatrick,
"Years Before the Flood" by Mari-
anne Roane, "Family Tree" by Flor-
ence Maple, "A Sweep of Dusk" by
William Kehoe, and "Valley of the
.Sky" by Hobart Skidmore are some
of the better known published Hop-
wood award winning books.
20/20 vision or better. Now the men
have fallen to 55 percent while the
coeds doubled to 40 percent.
The percentage of men having
"good" teeth has jumped from 43
to 69 percent. Women have gone
from 76 to 81 percent.
In 1919, 30 percent of the Univer-
sity of Michigan students reported
that they had had their tonsils out
"well." Today the figure is 67 per-
cent.
From 1933 to 1940 men reported
their serious headaches were doub-
ling. In the same period coed's
serious headaches fell nearly half.
More men are reporting that they
worry more, women are worrying less.
By the same standard, men are find-
ing studies more difficult while the
women find them easier.
Posture today is far superior to
that in 1922. The percentage of men
having what is termed "A plus, A
minus stature" has increased from
7 to 32 percent. Coeds have bettered
their posture by more than 700 per-
cent, jumping from 3 percent in
1922 to 24 percent now.
From 1931 to the present, coeds
judged to have an "athletic consti-
tution" have increased from 30 to 60
percent, while men have fallen from
43 to 37 percent.
.And what kind of a he-man has
the University of Michigan devel-
oped? In all those years, chest-
thumping men students have in-
creased their chest expansion by a
measly one-tenth cf an inch, now
being able to stretch out to 32.4
inches.
GENERALLY HEALTHIER:
Student Health Survey Report
Released; Improvement Noted
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Duty Overseas
E xperienced by
Marine Students
Although they rarely talk much
about what they have done, the ma-
jority of the Marines stationed at the
University pave seen overseas service
From Guadalcanal and rainy Bou-
gainville to Iwo Jima and Okinawa,
from elmost every branch of the
Corps, they have come to receive
a college background prior to receiv-
ing commission:. They are men like
Ernest V. Helland of Carlson's Raid-
ers, who spent one month on patrol
behind Jap lines, raiding; and living
off Japanese supplies: Frederic L.
Banta, of the 2nd Division, combat
intelligence, 3rd battalion, 6th Ma-
rines, whose section of 12 men and
an officer found copies of the plans
of all the installations in the Mar-
shall Islands and Harry M. Ri i-
ardson. Second Separate Engineer
Battalion who worked on airfields on
Guam and Iwo Jima while under fire.
Rieaardson tells of the time he
and five other men went outto i2-
connoiter an air strip on Iwo Jima
and somne Jap snipers started shoot-
ing at them. As they ducked, two
Marines stuck they heads out er a
foxhole and said, "Get up and walk
around. Let them shoot at you so
we can locate them."
Recommended by the commanding
officer of their respective units on
the basis of their physical standing,
background of certain subjects in
high school, and possession of of-
ficer-like qualities, the Marine train-
ees are sent here for a limited time
to get as much academic training
as possible so as to enable them to
become better all around officers.
If you remember to send GREETING CARDS for all
important occasions. We suggest that you select your
CHRISTMAS CARDS now for those overseas. Perhaps
your pals at home are due for a birthday. Don't let the
distance separate you, come in and buy that card today.
ALL EQUIPMENT for the amateur photogra-
pher as well as developing films, enlarg4nments,
and photo finishing are to be found here.
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dining at the ALLENEL a real pleasure. Enjoy
our genial hospitality on all important occa-
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