Sx Ua~?~~a 4 t1AJ~bPL~X A!SX , &tf t TEA MIC TTTA X1T'VA T IN - E. .l.6 LI 1x11{,11 1. Vli.ld 1Jt111.!'1 i7 Al-llnmvx, MAY 1, Inn I - .I INFORMATION SERVICE-Director Arthur L. Brandon (right) confers with Barry J. Holloway (left). Center is Annette Rich, Information Service reporter. ATHLETIC PUBLICITY-Les Etter, chief of the Publicity Depart- ment of the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics, looks over a stack of baseball pictures. His office sends pictures and news releases to newspapers, magazines and wire services all over the nation. COMPLETED STORY-Mrs. Mary Birney (left) and Rosamond Haas read copies of a story just run off the mimeograph machine. DEAR ALUMNUS-T. Hawley Tapping, general secretary of the Alumni Association, dictates the answer to an alumni letter. READY TO GO-Information Service Editor Cleland B. Wyllie cheeks a story (above) and sends it on to be mimeographed (below) by Mary Catherine Lindbergh, secretary (below). Alumntit'. . In America, alumni organiza- tions are inevitable, according to T. Hawley Tapping. As general secretary of the Uni- versity's Alumni Association, he's in a position to know. Contrary to a widespread no- tion,'the Association is not gov- erned by the University adminis- tration or the Board of Regents, but by a board of directors elected by alumni the world over. Tapping describes his 13-man staff as a "mechanical expression of alumni interest in their alma mater." Understatement This, however, somewhat under- states the myriad activities that go on in Tapping's office. These come under three general headings: publishing "The Mich- igan Alumnus," keeping in close touch with the 250 University alumni clubs and arranging class reunions at commencement time. Tapping, a veteran newspaper- man, edits the "Alumnus," which goes 26 times a year to 11,500 alumni subscribers. Writing and research is done by Tapping and two staff reporters, Hal Wilson and Miss Suzanne Vogt. The alumniaclubs, with a com- bined membership of more than 9,000, are a worldwide network; keepingain personal contact with them is a big job in itself. Roadwork Field Secretary Waldo Abbot, Jr., spends a good third of his time on the road. Tapping him- self, as well as Miss Alice Russell, who keeps in touch with the strictly alumnae clubs, and Rob- ert O. Morgan, in charge of class reunions, are off visiting the var- ious clubs a good quarter of the time. University faculty members also help out on keeping alumni up to date on University doings: for example, President Ruthven' western tour early this semester. Fall Homecoming is the big day for alumni at most colleges, but here in Ann Arbor the big class reunions come at Commencement time in June. Each class holds its get-togethers every five years, and the job of organizing them is up to Robert o. Morgan, Tapping's assistant. The activities of the alumni of- fice, however, go a good deal be- ;ocs for~ a Spi~ GRAND LEDGE, Mich., April 30-(AP)-Elon Moyer, 24, of Grand Ledge was hospitalized in a serious condition today after a whirl in a cement mixer, Moyer climed inside the sement mixer to clean it and a helper ac- cidently threw the switch. He was whirled around several times be- fore being thrown out. Ii. ii Ws Services Blanket yond the official duties already described. Every Letter Answered There's an office rule that "no letter ever goes unanswered"-and about 60 letters roll in every day on every subject remotely con- nected with alumni. "Alumni interest is one of theI big reasons that the University has always had a strong student body," Tapping says. He works closely with alumni interested in getting promising students tol come to Michigan. On the other hand, he helps soften the blow for alumni proteges. who can't meet the entrance requirements. Other jobs taken on by the alumni office include last year's promotion and sale of the record album of Michigan songs and this year's hundreds of showings of the Rose Bowl films, in conjunc- tion with the Athletic Associa- tion. As Tapping sees it, his jobI takes in "anything and everything which will increase alumni inter- est in the University." Athletics. Sending football programs to kids that write in for them is just one of Les Etter's many jobs. An ex-varsity athlete at Minne- sota, Etter runs the Publicity De- partment of the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics. His office covers varsity sports like a stadium-blanket-Etter does the leg work himself-and sends out news releases and pictures to more than 600 state and na- tional publications. Unique Press Conferences He also runs the pressbox each football Saturday and organizes press conferences for the follow- ing Monday. Sportswriters from the wire services and big-city dailies drop in an hour before practice time and talk with the coach about day-before-yester- day's game and next Saturday's prospects. Coach Crisler originated these conferences; Etter says they're unique in intercollegiate athletics. v Bernie Oosterbaan hasn't yet in- dicated whether he'll continue then. Etter handled the special press arrangements for the Rose Bowl game-sending out daily features and statistics on pre-game prac- tice, getting a special railroad car for Coast-bound sportswriters and arranging for daily press confer- ences with Crisler. Football Info His staff (himself and one sec- retary, Mrs. Jean Townsley) pub- lishes all the football programs, ticket information bulletins and the annual "Gridiron Guide." It's his job also to keep records of every varsity sport. They go into the fact-crammed booklet, "Michigan's all-time Athletic Rec- ord," which is brought up to date and published every five years. All told, Etter works pretty hard at fulfilling what he calls the main function of the Athletic Publicity department: "Making Information on Michigan athletes as accessible to everybody as pos- sible." Universty. The Information Service, offi- cial news bureau of the Univer- sity, is run "pretty much like a small daily newspaper," according to Dr. Arthur L. Brandon, direc- tor. The office in Angell Hall's base- ment turns out news stories on every University doing from solar- research to enrollment figures. Information Service editor Cle- land B. Wyllie and three reporters -Alice Beeman, Rosamond Haas and Annette Rich-dig up the facts and write the stories which are then dispatched to most of the newspapers in the state and to the most important national newspapers and magazines. Stories "On Order" In addition, the office will do a story "on order" for any state publication that asks for it. "This amounts to every paper in the state having a staff in Ann Ar- bor," Dr. Brandon says. He contacts writers and editors of the big national magazines whenever a story pops up here that he thinks they'd be interest- ed in. If a writer is sent here to cover a story, the Information Service sees to it that he's made to feel at home and introduced to the people he's come to interview. ("Life" Magazine's feature on last fall's homecoming was strict- ly a "Life" idea, by the way). Plenty of Pictures Fred Moncrieff is staff photog- rapher; his pictures go out to most of the newspapers in Mich a igan. Dr. Brandon's and his staff also counsel University officials and faculty members on public rela- tions matters, attend campus con- ferences, entertain guests of the University and publish promo- tional booklets. Although the Information Serv- ice is essential for public relations, it doesn't go in for flamboyant press-agentry. "Our functions," Dr. Brandon says, "is to dig up and write fac- tual stories based on the sound educational program of a great university." Campus I CARTOONIST PEPS UP CLASSES: TripleRolFilledby Teaching Fellow 4 ie tubepage university NwM SrvIO . e STORIES by ART ITI(WE Phi OTOS by STAN LIPSEY Mall Monster Swims in Green A bit of the Mediterranean day afternoon and by evening the seems to have been imported into dyer had done his work. Ann Arbor-the monster of the The green tinged water will be Mall is now swimming in green with the campus for at least two, waters. weeks and possibly a month, The dull metal fountain-statue plumbing foreman C. C. Walker next to the League looks immeas- said yesterday. He guessed that urably brighter since some un- the perpetrator was an ex-G.I. known person, evidently interest- who had some dye left over from ed in the color scheme of the the war, or a chemistry student. campus, poured green dye into the The green color will fade as the waters. Whoever the color- con- water evaporates and is replaced scious humanitarian was, he wast- by new water, Walker said. Three ed no time. times last year the same thing The statue was opened and the happened, he added. "Once, the fountains began to operate Tues- water was dyed red," he said. ALL OVER THE WORL D 4 \ By NAOMI STERN Perhaps, as his friends claim, nothing is known about his child- hood except that he fell down a great deal, but William J. Hamp- ton, teacher, cartoonist and ama- teur movie producer, has been spending his recent years "getting up" One of the youngest of the English department's teaching fel- lows, 25-year-old Hampton keeps his classes lively simply by follow- ing his pet theory-if students are interested, they'll learn. "They can't help it, he grins, and cites students in his practice teaching class last year, who filmed Act II Scene IV of Macbeth. "Why, they can recite that .scene back- wards," Hampton claims. The six foot tall potential "prof" won't say much about his classes this semester though -- just "Oh, we talk and they write papers . .." Once on the subject of student produced, directed and acted films, Hampton can enthusiastically rat- tle on for an hour. He can't un- derstand why the potentialities of this medium are so thoroughly ig- nored in high schools. "It's a nat- ural-all you need is a home movie camera, a play-Shakespeare is Secondary to his teaching (in his estimation), Hampton's car- tooning talents are still top notch. One-time art editor of the Gar- goyle, he created Garg, the short, horned creature who has become the trademark of the magazine. ("Garg" is not a self-portrait, Hampton emphatically insists.) Recently, he has taken on a cartooning job for The Daily and though he claims to have lost some of his old draftsmanship, his work to date seems to have quite adequately reflected his quiet, but often biting wit. Hampton is "puzzled and disap- pointed" when readers don't un- derstand his cartoons, but admits that all of them have several lev- els of meaning. ("Even I don't al- ways see them all.") Currently, the 25 year-old vet- eran is painting a mural on the walls of the bathroom in his Wil- low Run home. "It depicts the de- velopment of the non-dramatic literature of the Renaissance," he explained simply, adding that there were goldfish on the shower walls for the benefit of his two year old son. Hampton's been living in Wil- low Village "too long" he says, son) make up for environmental disadvantages. He met his wife overseas when he was wounded at Cassino. She was his nurse, he explains and claims she married him out of a scientific impulse to see what would become of him. On the other hand, Willy insists he mar- ried her to get his medical care free. Undergraduate days, spent here at the University, are described by Hampton in three sentences: "At the end of my first semester I was on scholastic probation. At the end of my second semester I was off scholastic probation. At the end of my third semester I was requested to leave school and not to return without specific permis- sion. "However, because I received the latter request in North Africa (infantry) I couldn't take it seri- ously." He quietly admits that he has done much better since his re- turn. Friends claim Hampton has a boundless capacity for alcohol and coffee. He denies this with "I only drink beer." They also tell the story that "because he was in an Arab prison on his twenty-first birthday, he can't drink in Ann Arbor because his liquor card is in Arabic." Caii't Win1 LAS VEGAS, April 30-The rover boys of the roulette table learned it the hard way today: Albert Hibbs, 23, Chillicothe, Ohio., and Dr. Roy Walford, 23, San Diega, gave up the whirl at noon, pockets empty after 14 hours of lucklessly trying their "system" at a local club. The pair, Unversity of Chicago graduates, appeared shaken, in contrast to their winning moments which earlier included an $8,000 take in Reno. "We may try again," Walford ventured. Hibbs wasn't so sure. ideal - and the kids do the rest." but Willy (his wife) and Billy (his Legion Ladies' Lines Picked INDIANAPOLIS, April 30 ~ --who dodged the job last year- Seven harassed men who make up during a three-day session open- the American Legion's National ing at National headquarters here Emblem Committee completed to-. Monday. day their task of selecting new The only member of the emblem fr h L The onlynmembr ofi theemblem MOVIE-MARATHON-Waldo Abbot, Jr.., of the Alumni Asso- elation inspects a movie projector before setting out on a traxis- continental tour to show the Rose Bowl films to the University's 250 alumni clubs. Use... Read Daily Classified.'s . G a t t GOOD Listening on uniorms ior r t e egions ZOU'V±0j, women members.{ Cautious to the last, the unfort- unate males charged with the, task of choosing feminine uni- forms left themselves an out by picking not one, but two, versions of the Legion women's "new look." The fashion issue will go to the 50-odd men of the executive group committee brave enough to speak publicly on the subject was D. L. Haffner of Garrett, Ind., the chairman. "The average husband," said Haffner, "never undertakes to dic- tate to his wife what she shall wear. We are all average hus- bands. We hope the fair ladies will be pleased. i- EVERYBODY reads Daily Classifieds! oesn't make any difference where he is-a classified reader really wants PRINTING (Since 1899) inspect our clean, main floor daylight plant, with all new modern vresses. V) GET YOUR GREEK LETTERS S . , on --match covers I I!t I I N