4- TUESDAY, APRIL 12,19199' TH MICHIGAN DAILY PAGS R _ TUESDAY, APR11, 12, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PA(3~ IWU a calve AW w i AR w Thornhill To Play for IFC Ball League Assembly Leader Praises Campus Activities DISPLAY ATTRACTION: Union To Sponsor Open House Taking a "Venetian Holiday," Claude Thornhill and his orches- tra will provide music for the 19- 55 Interfraternity Council Ball from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, April v 22 in the League Ballroom. Thornhill's spectacular musical career began at the age of four in Terre Haute, Indiana. By the time he was six, he had given his first recital and was acclaimed a child prodigy. With an eye to the fu- ture, he organized his first orches- tra, an eight piece affair to play at ice cream socials and oyster suppers. Continuing his musical studies, Thornhill enrolled in the Conserv- atory of Music in Cincinnati to study concert piano. Later, study- ing at the Curtis Institute of Mu- sic, his arranging came into prom- inence. Arranged for Orchestras Thornhill then joined Austin Wylie's Orchestra and began work on radio shows. He became ar- ranger for Hal Kemp and follow- ed this with arranging for Benny Goodman, Charlie Spivak, Bing Crosby and the late Glenn Miller. He formed his own band in Jan- uary, 1940 and began touring the country. In 1942, at the height of his ca- reer, Thornhill enlisted in the I FC Tickets Tickets for "Venetian Holi- day," the 1955 Interfraternity Council Ball, to be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday, April 22 in the League Ballroom may be purchased from presidents of the individual fraternities. navy. When the navy discovered his talents he was handed a ba- ton and told to take over the navy's musical aggregation, the Rangers. With Dennis Day, the Claude Thornhill All-Star Show was formed and toured the Pacific area, entertaining troups. Returning to civilian life to con- tinue his career, Thornhill was se- lected by "Look" magazine as the "The Band of the Year" in 1948. Recording for both RCA Victor and Columbia, recent Thornhill "eleases include two albums, "In- vitation to the Dance" and "George Gershwin Songs." Composed Theme Also available is "Snowfall," his theme, composed and arranged by Thornhill, which has become a modern classic. Having the advantage of being able to combine a classical back- ground with the current trend of popular music, Thornhill is noted for his performances at the piano. Other evidence of his fine train- ing is heard in his unusual use of a French horn in the brass sec- tion of the aggregation. Besides the six brass, the setup includes five reeds and three rhythms, pac- ed by the piano of the leader. Vocalist Featured Patti Ryan is the featured vo- calist. IFC Ball will be a return en- gagement on campus for Thorn- hill who played for the Homecom- ng Dance in 1953. By ELAINE EDMONDS Sparkling brown eyes and an in- fectious laugh are the trademarks of Mary Jo Park, first vice-presi- dent of Assembly and parlimentar- ian of the League. Commenting on her impression of University activities and or- ganizations after three years ex- perience, Miss Park said, "Acti- vities here are tops and student. governing bodies are very well or- ganized. Concerning student inter- est there's no such thing as an apathetic student. Everyone is in- terested in something." "Activities cease to fulfill their function when they cease to be- come activities and become a busi- ness," Miss Park added. Started As A Freshman Telling of her start in campus activities, she explained that as a freshman she was placed in Pres- cott House which previously was an all freshmen house. "Those who had been active in high school seemed to be the natural ones to take over and organize house gov- ernment. We were working by our- selves anid not competing with up- per class campus leaders and in that way we had full responsibil- ity." JG, as, Miss Park is known to Displays ranging from foreign sports cars to cameras and micro- scopes will be featured exhibits in the Union Open House to be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. A new custom-built car, sporting the largest engine on the road, the "Chrysler 300" will be on dis- play. The Ford "Thunderbird," will also be shown with a special side exhibition of the motor in plastic so that observers may see the en- gine working. To Display Sports Cars Sports cars on exhibition will be the Jaquar, the yolks-Wagon, a large sports car seating four pas- sengers; the Porsche, one of the e Ap least well-known of the sportsI cars, according and the M.G. to Union officialsI m --I II I i1c/'C~j, Camtpo4 l GOLF CLUB-There will be an organizational meeting of the Golf Club at 5 p.m. today at WAB. Those wishing to join must have had previous experience and their own set of clubs. * * * RUSHING NAMES--Sororities are asked to bring names of their rushing chairmen today to the Panhellenic Office. Camera displays, featuring a complete line of Argus cameras and photography equipment, will show the latest developments in cameras and developing techni- ques. A display of the latest devices and developments in microscopes and lenses will also be on exhibit by the American Optical Com- pany. To Exhibit Wood, Gluing The University wood technology department is setting up a display showing wood stress and strain. A glueing machine, featured at the National Association of Furni- ture Manufactures Convention will also be shown. MARY J0 PARK ..... Ii I1 SENIORS!' order Commencement Announcements March 29-31 and April 11-16 1:00 to 5:00 P.M. Administraion Building her friends, has served as a repre- sentative on Assembly Dormitory Council, East Quad Council, Inter House Council and the Prescott House .council. One of the great satisfactions derived from her work in activi- ties is that of knowing and work- ing with people. Mary Jo com- pares working in activities to washing dishes. "It gives one the same type of satisfaction in see- ing things done as it does ip mak- ing dishes sparkle." Choose Michigan The taffy haired junior from Benzonia, Mich., says she chose to come here because she wanted a large school where she would re- ceive a good background in pre- legal studies and the University seemed to fill the bill. Mary Jo's formula for getting things done consists of writing in- numerable notes to herself. This method works fine as long as she doesn't lose the notes which hap- pens quite frequently. The vivacious coed admits to )ne secret ambition, that of be- coming the world's best tennis player. "It was quite a blow when I learned I never would be," she admits. An English major in the honors program, Miss Parks hopes to con- tinue with graduate work here and eventually teach on the col- lege level. Installation Night Ushers Officers Into New Posts Announcement of next year's officers will be made to coeds gathered at Installation Night at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, in Rackham Hall. New officers of Assembly, Pan- hellenic Association, Women's Ath- letic Association, and the League will be revealed. Three Ethel McCormick Schol- arships will be presented to wo- men for outstanding work in acti- vities, leadership and scholarship. Delta Delta Delta, Scroll and Mor- tarboard scholarships will also be given. Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman honorary, will present an award to the senior woman with the high- est academic average maintained through the four years of college. Lucy Landers, present League president, will speak at the event. After the installation ceremony, a reception will be held in the rm 1 ~COO Cainpu St h 1 (Auhor f '"Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.) I L SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: NO. 3 Once again the makers of Philip Morris, men who are dedicated to the betterment of American youth, have consented to let me use this space, normally intended for levity, to bring you a brief lesson in science. It is no new thing, this concern that the makers of Philip Morris feel for American youth. Youth was foremost in their minds when they fashioned their cigarette. They were aware that the palate of youth is keen and eager, awake to the subtlest nuances of flavor. And so they made a gentle and clement smoke, a suave blending of temperate vintage tobaccos, a summery amalgam of the most tranquil and emollient leaf that their buyers could find in all the world. And then they designed their cigarette in two sizes, king-size and regular, and wrapped them in the convenient Snap-Open pack, and priced them at a figure that youth could afford, and made them available at every tobacco counter in the land. That's what they did, the makers of Philip Morris, and I for one am glad. The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from the Greek words astro meaning "sore" and nomy meaning "back." Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early Greek astronomers, and no wonder! They used to spend every blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the sky, and if there's a better way to get a sore back, I'd like to hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area, where Greece is generally considered to be. Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from becom- ing very popular until Galileo, a disbarred flenser of Perth, fashioned a home made telescope in 1924 out of three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What schoolboy does not know that stirring story -how Galileo stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered the words heard round the world: "L'etat, c'est moi!" Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four gushers ' in a single afternoon; Hal Newhouser was signed by the Hanseatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington's entire army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his immortal Penrod and Sam. But after a while things calmed down, and astronomers began the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name he chose was Betelgeuse, after his wife Betelgeuse Sigafoos, prom queen at Michigan State College from 1919 to 1931. Not to be outdone, Formfig of Yerkes Observatory named a whole constellation after his wife, Big Dipper Formfig, the famed dirt track racer. This started the custom of astronomers naming constellations after their wives - Capricorn, Cygni, Orion, Ursa Major, Canis Major, and so forth. (The Major girls, Ursa and Canis, both married astronomers, though Canis subse- quently ran off with a drydock broker named Thwaite Daphnis.) After naming all the heavenly bodies, the astronomers had a good long rest. Then, refreshed and brown as berries, they undertook the gigantic project of charting the heavens. Space is so vast that it is measured in units called "light-years." These are different from ordinary years in that they weigh a good deal less. This, of course, is only relative, sincespace is curved, As Einstein laughingly said, "E=mc2." 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