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Hobbs House Skit Takes First Place at Annual Fortnite
Newberry,
Kleinstueck
Gain Honors
By ELAINE EDMONDS
Hobbs House placed first last
night in the annual Fortnite pro-
duction with their skit °'A Bunch of
Bananas and a Bottle of Gin," for
the second time in a row.
The title of the performance, di-
rected by Marilyn Draper, was
taken from a song composed by
Ogden Nash for Ernest Heming-
way and his wife after their plane
crash in Africa.
Last year Hobbs House won with
a sketch of models of famed artists
called "Painters and Famous
Paintings."
Helen Newberry with their pro-
duction of "Ann Arbor Blues" di-
rected by Wanda Perelli received
r second prize.
Slicker-Clad Chorus
This skit depicting the blues of
college life featured a yellow
slicker-clad chorus, dancing tear
drops, blue books and clocks. The
performance closed with a take-off
by the chorus on the Michigan
Marching Band's rendition of the
"St. Louis Blues."
With their sketch "Ach Du Lie-
ber Kleinstueck" directed by Sue
Dorfman and Babette Steinhardt,
Kleinstueck House received third
prize.
This presentation took place in a
German "rathskellar." A chorus
dressed in grey walking shorts,
white shirts and red suspenders
with mugs in hand added to the at-
mosphere. The production featured
satirical songs sung to German
tunes on such aspects of dorm life
as food and hours.
Skits of Scales
The theme chosen for the 21st an-
nual Fortnite production was "Skits
of the Scales."
The annual presentation spon-
sored by Assembly Dormitory
Council offers independent houses
an opportunity to display their in-
genuity in writing and producing
skits by competing for top awards.
This year's Fortnite opened with
a welcome extended to the audi-
ence by Hazel Frank, president of
Assembly Board. Miss Frank then
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"A BUNCH OF BANANAS"-The leading characters of Hobbs
House's skit "A Bunch of Bananas and a Bottle of Gin" pose with
the first place cup which they captured in last night's Fortnite
production. Hobbs House also won first prize in last year's Fort-
night.
-Daily-Dean Morton
"ANN ARBOR BLUES" - The slicker clad chorus of Helen New-
berry's skit, "Ann Arbor Blues," which received second place in
Fortnite is shown here going through one of its routines. This
production which depicted the blues of college life featured danc-
ing teardrops.
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introduced the members of the As-
sembly Board to the audience of in-
dependent women.
Emcees in Bermudas
Claudia Smith, Fortnite central
committee chairman, started the
show off by introducing the four
Bermuda short clad emcees to the
audience. The emcees all from Hel-
en Newberry were Laura Webber,
Carolyn Wysocki, Nora Granito and
Rima Nickell.
The emcees kept the show roll-
ing smoothly with their antics, fun-
Sale of Tickets
For. Show Trips
Will Close Today
Today marks the end of ticket
sales for the Union-sponsored show
trips to see "The Seven Year
Itch" on Monday and "A Mid-
summer Night's Dream" on Thurs-
day, Dec. 9.
Starring Eddie Bracken in his
original Broadway role, "The Sev-
en Year Itch"' production is a com-
edy of mild domestic infidelity.
Orchestra seats and bus transpor-
tation to the Cass Theatre in De-
troit are included in the price of
$3.25.
The Old Vic Company's produc-
tion of Shakespeare's comedy fea-
tures ballerina Moira Shearer as
the tiny queen, Titania. The "Mid-
summer Night's Dream" trip will
cost $5.25.
ny songs and amusing introduc-
tions.
Following the series of skits Miss
Frank gave pins to the presidents
of the various league houses and
dormitories which house independ-
ent women. Thirty-four presidents
were honored.
Scholarship Cup
Next on the program was the
presentation of the scholarship
cups by Assistant Dean of Women,
Elsie R. Fuller, to the houses with
the highest academic averages.
Independent living units are di-
vided into four groups.
Adelia Cheever with an, average
of 2.74 won top honors in group one.
With an average of 2.71 Betsy
Barbour topped the other houses
in group two.
In group three Stockwell placed
first with an average of 2.6.
Martha Cook with a campus high
average of 3.01 retained its stand-
ing in group four.
Six independent women who
achieved an A average during the
year from September 1953 through
June 1954 were also honored at the
skit night. These were Danna Cha-
pin, Mary Lou Marshall, Sandra
Silver, Mary Stevens, Marjorie
Wright and Miss Smith.
Final event on the program was
the announcing of the winners of
the skits by the Judges, and the
presentation of the first place cup
to Hobbs House and the second
and third place plaques to Helen
Newberry and Kleinsteuck House,
respectively.
Judges for the annualskitfest
were Mrs. Harlan Hatcher; Jean
Brumfield, president of Panhel;
Lucy Landers, president of the
League; John Baity, president of
IFC; Tom Leopold, president of the
Union and Stan Levy, president of
IHC.
Mrs. Hatcher presented the
awards to thewinning houses.
Housemothers Perform
A highlight of the event was the
housemother's skit "Bermuda"
which received loud cheers and ap-
plause from the audience.
In this performance the house di-
rectors appeared dressed in dormi-
tory waitress uniforms. The scene
of the skit was the dining room of a
residence hall, where the house-
mothers were serving dinner to
women residences.
The appearance of four "coeds"
Dean Deborah Bacon, Dean Elsie
A. Fuller, Dean Elizabeth A. Les-
lie and Dean Gertrude E. Mulhol-
lan in the diningroom dressed in
Bermuda shorts and knee socks re-]
ceived a resounding ovation from1
the women in the audience.;
Natural Resources School
Invaded' by Three Womenj
By NANCY KNIGHTt
Odds are 54 to one that you'll
see a woman in the School of Nat-
ural Resources.
This ratio occurred when three
coeds, Judy Franklin, Norma Wun-
derlich and Shirley Shelton joined
the 162 men in the natural re-
sources school. This is the first
time so many women students have
been in the school at one time,
and they are three of approximate-
ly ten to attend during the last 25
years.
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LEAGUE COUNCIL-There will
be a League Council meeting at 4
p.m. today in the League.
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SOPH SCANDALS-The following
Soph Scandals committees will
meet today in the League: make-
up at 4 p.m.; tickets at 4 p.m. and
stage crew from 7 to 10 p.m.
* * *
WAA BOARD-The Ensian pic-
ture will be taken at the meeting
of the WAA Board to be held at 5
p.m. today in the WAB.
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BALLET CLUB-The Ballet Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in
Barbour Gym.
SPRING WEEKEND-Represen-
tatives of dorms, clubs, independ-
ent groups, and other housing units
on campus will meet to discuss
Spring Weekend skits at 7:30 p.m.
~today in the Union Ballroom.
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BADMINTON CLUB - The co-
recreational Badminton Club will
meet at 8 p.m. today in Barbour
Gym. Members are asked to bring
shuttlecocks.
PANHEL-Petitioning for Pan-
hellenic's Greek Week and Variety
Show chairmanships will end to-
day. Information for petitioning
may be obtained from the League
Library or Panhel delegates in
each house.
* * *
PLAY SCHOOL-The Play and
Dance School for boys and girls
held Saturday mornings at Bar-
bour Gymnasium will not meet
How did the students become in-
terested in natural resources? All
three agree that they "love the
outdoors" and became inspired to
go into this field at summer camps.
Miss Wunderlich attended an Au-!
dubon camp in Maine while Miss
Shelton went to an organizational
camp. Miss Franklin gained her
camping experience in Girl Scout
camps and archaelogical trips.
Just Tree-Watchers?
"The common idea about work
in natural resources is that you ei-
ther sit in a little tower and watch
the trees, or else cut down the
trees," Miss Shelton said. "Oppor-
tunities in the field are numerous,
however."
Enrolled in the Department of
Conservation, Miss Wunderlich's
ambition is to either teach conser-
vation or do research work. She
is concerned with the need for
preserving natural resources.
Another conservation major, Miss
Shelton plans to get a teacher's
certificate in biology. She wishes
to become a camp leader at a State
Park, or do investigation work for
the government.
Miss Franklin hopes to teach
conservation or maintain a field
job.
Puzzled Looks
At first the men in the school met
the coeds with puzzled looks, and,
inquiring about their futures, ask-
ed, "What are you going to do, sit
up in a little fire tower all by
yourself?"
Miss Shelton commented, "May-
be they even resented us a little
at first, but they are beginning to
feel differently now. They've found
we come in handy for decoration
committees for their dances.
At a recent Michigan State Col-
lege Banquet the women noticed
that when they arrived all the
mouths of the State fellows dropped
in awe.
After trying the
rest, come try
The Best
715 N. University
Group Wins
Recognition
For Grades
Panhel Awards Cup
To Alpha KappaAlpha
For Scholastic Abilify
At the Panhellenic Association
meeting yesterday in the League,
the cup for greatest scholastic im-
provement was awarded.
Carol Watson accepted the cup
for Alpha Kappa Alpha, which has
improved its grades over last year
by .32, rising from twentieth to
seventh place. Second- and third
places go to Kappa Alpha Theta
and Delta Delta Delta with .12 and
.13 improvement, respectively.
Petitioning for Greek Week and
Variety show chairmanships will
end at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
It has been proposed to have
Dean Deborah Bacon, Panhel, and
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
screen salesmen before admittance
into sorority houses. This would
protect sororities against swind-
lers, and at the same time pro-
vide an opportunity for them to
view the products of honest sales-
men.
Music Sorority,
Sigma Alpha Iota
Names Pledges
Sigma Alpha Iota, National Pro-
fessional Music Sorority for wom-
en, has chosen 20 new pledges.
Membership in this group, whose
local chapter was founded in 1903,
is limited to coeds having a three
point average, or above.
Those invited to membership in-
clude Rebecca Badger, Virginia
Catanese, Eleanor Becker, Betty
Beebe, Doris Bengston, Patricia
Stenberg, Phyllis Stringham, Kath-
erine Norman and Jean Carlson.
Also pledging are Elizabeth
Fischer, .Janice Hatchett, Jeanne
Leland, Lois Stauffer, Nevenka
Vukmerovich, Mary Witham, Nan-
cy Witham, Mary Durden, Mar-
guerite Long and Elizabeth Les-
ter.
The group will meet today in the
League to honor Mary Catherine
Hutchins Coffey, winner of SAI's
National C o 11 e g e Achievement
Award for 1953-54.
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'Scandals' Decorations
Follow College Colors
Decorations for Soph Scandals,
to be held Dec. 3 and 4, will carry
out the themes of the two floor-
shows, according to Committee
Chairman Sharon Schantz and Ann
Reichart.
"Michigan Through The Ages"
provides the theme for the dec-
orations in the second floor halls
of the League. Each partition will
represent an age of college days,
starting with scenes from bicycle-
built-for-two and "flapper days" up
to "sloppy jo" and modern days.
Miniature models of Tappan Oak
trees will separate each scene. .
Ballroom decorations will consist
of abstract mobiles. Red Johnson
and his Orchestra will provide the
dance music.
College Colors
The various rooms on the floor
will represent different colleges
and universities.
The Michigan Room, where re-
freshments will be served, will be
fashioned to represent Michigan
State College. Chairs and tables
will be set up to look like the Grill
in the MSC Union.
"Collegiate" coeds, dressed in
Bermuda shorts and knee socks,
will serve soft drinks. In addition,
decorations will include a barn
with a Michigan State football
player milking a cow.
"Fight Fiercely, Harvard"
The crimson and white of Har-
vard will be featured in the dec-
orations of the Vandenberg Room,
where Earl Pearson and his Or-
chestra will play for Soph Scan-
dals guests. A Harvard man,
clothed in Bermuda shorts and
knee socks against a background
depicting Ivy League colleges and
Boston influence, are included in
the plans.
Scenes from the University of Mi-
ami in Florida, will supply an at-
mosphere of relaxation in the Kal-
amazoo Room, which will serve
as a card room. Palm trees, un-
derwater basket weaving, ocean
waves and tropical sun decorations
will illustrate this idea.
Soph Scandals stage committee
is responsible for tse stage set-up
and decorations in the Hussy
Room,, where -the entertainment
will be given.
Flappers To Be Hostesses
According to Kathy Luhn, hostess
chairman, there will be hostesses
each evening, dressed in flapper
costumes. They " will organize
bridge and canasta games and in-
troduce guests.
Tickets are priced at $1.80 per
couple and 90 cents per person. Ac-
cording to the central committee,
guests may come "stag or drag."
Members of the floorshow cast
are practicing their dance steps
and speaking parts for the two va-
riety shows. Costumes for the show
include old fashion bathing suits,
raccoon coats, sloppy jo sweaters
and authentic French costumes re-
cently imported from France.
Mary Lee Birmingham, general
chairman, requests all sophomore
women to pay their $1 dues to
Soph Scandals representatives in
their residences.
Pool Hours
During Thanksgiving week-
end the women's swimming pool
will close at 6:15 p.m. after
regular classes tomorrow and
will remain closed Thanksgiv-
ing Day. The pool will be open
from 3:45 to 5 p.m. and from
7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Friday, and
from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Satur-
day and Sunday.
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