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  • MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN PAGE FIVE r Marine Reserves J Marine Major Donald W. Sherman visited Western Carolina Teachers College, Mondy, March 31, and Tuesday, April 1 in the interest of Marine officer procurement thru the recently reactivated platoon leaders' program. Marine Platoon Leaders Classes are open to freshmen as well as sophomores and juniors. Students selected for the program are enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve (Inactive). As reservists, they are subject to call to active duty only during a state of National Emergency, unless they request such assignment. Although a state of National Emergency now exists, only those who volunteer are being called to active duty. Members attend either one or two, six week periods of summer military training at Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, located on the Potomac River, thirty miles south of Washington, D. C. Students enlisted when freshmen or sophomores attend two summer training periods prior to graduation while juniors attend only the advanced summer training period. No military training is required during the academic year of enrollment For the first summer training period, students are Marine corporals and are salaried at $90 per month. During the second period, they are sergeants and receive pay at the rate of $100 per month. All platoon leaders are quartered, subsisted, clothed, and furnished medical attention and transportation from their homes to the place of training and return. After successful completion of the required periods of military training and after graduation from college with a baccalaureate degree, Platoon Leaders are appointed to the commissioned rank of Second Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. A limited number of graduates may be commissioned in the regular Marine Corps. Requirements for Platoon Leaders Classes state that students must be male citizens of the United States, not under seventeen years of age and not more than twenty-five years of age on July 1 of the calendar year in which they graduate from college. They must not be married and must remain unmarried until completion of the senior course of military training. In addition, they must not be a member of any military organization. Juniors must be honorably discharged veterans of one of the Armed Services of the United States or reserve components thereof. Students must be physically qualified in all respects for appointment to commissioned rank. ed in this program may obtain information and application forms from Miss Judy Owings in Dean Bird's office. Winning Team Of Girl's Basketball Tourney The BOMBERETTES won the girls' intramural basketball tournament held last quarter. Vada Lyda was captain and Thelma Joyce Finch, manager. EXTERMINATING TTPS Moths consider the felt in pianos a very tasty dish. You can keep them out by placing a piece of gum camphor inside the piano case. This is especially helpful when you close up the house for any length of time. Lumps of camphor in trunks or drawers will also discourage mice. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Miss Laura McAdams Leaves W.C.T.C. To Finish Ph. D. At Ky. Miss Laura Jean McAdams, associate professor of modern languages here, left Cullowhee on March 28 to complete her residence on her Ph. D. at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. She will remain there through August, and will do part-time teaching while she is working on her doctoral dissertation. In September Miss McAdams will go to Alabama State Teachers college, Florence, Ark., where she will be head of the modern language department. From June 1, 1943 to July 10, 1944, Miss McAdams was senior research analyst in military intelligence, Office of the Chief of Staff, War department, in Washington. She assisted a colonel on foreign material until the close of her particular post. Miss McAdams has attended a large number of colleges and universities, including Erskine College, Due West, S. C, her first college, and where she graduated with an A. B., "Summa cum laude," was an honor graduate and valedictorian, and won Nabor's Scholar ship Medal and a Wylie four-yeai scholarship, the University of South Carolina, University of Georgia, Duke University, the University of Paris—as a Carnegie fellow—,the University of Heidleberg, and the University of Tennessee. She did ipecial study in Spanish with Dr. Roberto Brens Mesen, Costa Rican statesman, poet, philosopher, educator, and former ambassador to Washington. Dr. Meson is now professor emeritus of Northwestern University and lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. In addition to Western Carolina Teachers college, Miss McAdams has taught modern languages at Davis and Elkins college, Elkins, W. Va., and Andrew college, Cuth- bert, Ga. In the summer of 1938 Miss McAdams was director of creative art, Off-the-Street-Club for boys and the Bethlehem community center, Chicago. She has developed two hobbies, painting and poetry, to professional levels, and has done a good deal of research and writing for publication, especially on symbolism and symbolists, mysticism and mystics. She has done illustrations for a number of articles and books, among them Anatole France's Petnguin Island and some of her own orgiinal sonnets. Carringer Will Give Recital Miss Tyree Speaks To The Faculty On 'Faculty Counseling' Miss Mabel Tyree, principal speaker in the faculty meeting held in Moore parlor, March 6th, spoke on "Faculty Counseling." Miss Tyree, instructor in the English department is a member of the guidance personnel committee. In her talk she discussed in particular, five main points of view. The first point was the faculty counselor, recommendations for their own counseling program, how to counsel students, functions and nature of an interview and how to interview. Dr. C. D. Killian chairman of the guidance personnel committee was in charge of the meeting. Nearly all members of the faculty were present. At the preceding meeting, Mrs. Buchanan discussed the relation of the library with the instructional program. Dean Bird will discuss the methods of improving the instructional program of the college at the next faculty meeting. Walter Carringer, tenor, first place winner in the state-wide music contest held recently at Elon college, will be presented in a song recital, sponsored by the music department of WCTC, on April 17th., at 8:00 p. m. in Hoey auditorium. Mary Jo Beimer will be the accompanist. Mr. Carringer's program will be a varied one, covering the period of musical composition for voice from the time of Handel to the present. His choice of numbers for this program vary greatly, ranging from selections by Handel, Mozart and Grieg, to present-day modern writers, including, also, a western Carolina 'folk-song' written by a local composer. The songs used in the state contest will also be included on the program. Immediately after he sang at Elon, Mr. Carringer was invited by Mrs. Hassell, state president of the North Carolina Federated Music clubs, to sing at the annual convention of the Music clubs to be held at Gastonia on May 7th. He has also been asked to give programs at Weaverville and other nearby towns, which he plans to do in the near future. Dr. H. T. Hunter Gives Birthday Dinner Party Dr. H. T. Hunter, president of W. C. T. C. celebrated his sixty- fourth birthday by giving an informal party at his home for a group of male faculty members of the school staff. The guests were Clarence Chris- man, W. E. Bird, John S. Seymour, Steadman Mitchell, Fred Freise, Florian Lindberg, L. R. Taff, E. V. Deans, Jr., Tom Young, Joe Crum, and Paul Murphy. The Rev. R. T. Houts, pastor of the Cullowhee Methodist church, was invited, but, due to illness, could not attend. High spot of the evening was a dinner prepared by Mrs. Hunter and served by her, the president's daughter, Martha Lou, and Mrs. Tom Young. A wealthy woman tipped a Bermuda taxi driver $1,600. There's one cabbie who can't complain he never has enough change. BELK'S DEPARTMENT STORE "Home Of Better Valuea" PHONE 278 SYLVA, N. C. COMPLIMENTS OF Ecusta Paper Corporation "World's Largest Manufacturer Of Cigarette Paper" PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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