Bee, 1927-05-13

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 7 university of buffalo may 13 1927 no 29 to honor faculty members and graduates with dinner many will pursue studies for higher degrees elsewhere dr wallace wetesheim will be speaker of the evening the first annual scholarship dinner in honor of the people who are leaving the university to pursue studies for higher degrees will be held friday evening may 13 the speaker of the evening will be dr wallace netesheim gold urn smith professor of english history at cornell university several distin guished guests of honor will be present among whom are adalbert moot vice chancellor of the university of the state of new york peter j cusick s t president of ciuiisius college dr henry a lappln professor of english at d'youville college and dr earl daniels professor of english at the slate normal school some members of the faculty who are leaving to pursue work at graduate schools are assistant professor cooke assistant professor sine — university of pennsylvania r lindemann — harvard university miss lester — columbia university miss wagner — columbia university the graduate students receiving mas ters degrees from the university in iiu7 are carl w baish b s buffalo educa tion alice f correll b s buffalo ro mance languages johanna m dieckmann b a cor nell anatomy arthur j hesslnger b s buffalo education ksther b hines b a syracuse itumauce languages amelia m lamantia b s buffalo romance languages kenneth b mealpine b s buf falo chemistry edward d mallain jr b s buf falo english melvin c heinhard b s buffalo chomistry mildred w hulling b a d'you ville romance languages mazie e wagner b a buffalo l'svchology mary e watkins b s in ed buf falo education samuel yochelson b s buffalo psychology the members of the class of 1927 re ceiving fellowships or intending to i study at graduate schools are : irma l hayes syracuse biology joseph hoffman harvard romanic danguages henry n kozanowski m i t ] physics william misiek columbia assistant physics : donald r morey no car state col lege assistant physics rlohard t morris syracuse scholar , ships political science marie f neldenger columbia polit ( ic:il science laura o'day chicago geography ( robert d potter duke fellow physics manus ltoizen english i louise a schwabe u columbia i physios officers elected by blue masquers for coining year the blue masqueis at a recent meet ig elected the following officers president — marion suor vice president — estelle goldberg b nuding secretary — mae tabor f-'urrcsponding sec y john fraser treasurer — marvin cohen executive board evelyn sernoffsky iiicent boneflde ivy-day ceremony marked by oration ofwilliamg.cook seniors impressive in procession from foster hall following the fine old university cus tom of the planting of ivy the seniors in their caps anil gowns walked digni fied in procession from foster hall to science hall where the ceremony took place the ivy sprig was dedicated to the school by john dunn president of the class and was planted by hubert nngel class marshal the spade was then presented to karl mcgrath presi dent of the class of 28 after the ceremony dean park ad dressed the seniors traditions he said are customs kept alive by imitation the ivy tradition he considers one of the most important of the senior class because it is the only outward and vis ible sign of their affection for their alma slater a college continued the dean is more than a place of learning it is a place of memory the ivy oration given by william cook expressed in most beautiful lan guage the sentiments of the seniors mr cook described it as the afternoon of their brief college day with the setting sun bringing into new relief the old familiar scenes that day he said has linked them with the history of the past as nothing else could do the ivy he continued is a symbol of the seniors themselves as its roots are firmly im bedded in the campus soil so are they firmly fixed in the life of the college as it cannot be torn away from its walls without leaving behind some tendrils so they cannot go without leaving behind something of themselves commencement day to mark re-union of all alumni the alumnia association under the able direction of dr boynton presi dent and dr lemon secretary is prog ressing rapidly toward bigger and bet ter things big plans are being made for june bth commencement day after the ex ercises the alumnus will take thi grad uating class in their caps and gowns out to the campus where a buffet lunch eon will be served all graduates and alumni are urged to co-operate at two o'clock the classes will form in order of their graduation welcome into the ranks of alumnus the new mem bers and the entire body will march to rotary field a program is planned for this event dr capen will be the speaker all of those of the graduating class are urged to keep this event in mind the alumni want to make this an an nual affair its purpose is mainly to get the alumni together in one grand reunion ami t.i welcome the graduating class student activities committee to hold annual dinner saturday may 14 it 6:30 at the alumni club the student activities committee will hold its annual dinner the managers of the various activi ties for this year and next the old and new editors and the old and new s a c members together with the faculty members of the s a c are invited all friends of u b student activities are also invited dr robert p dobbic is chairman chancellor capen will be present to give a short talk election of new officers announced by cap and gown cap and gown me senior women's honorary society of the i'niversity has been accustomed to announce its elec tions at the annual movlng-up day ex ercises but through an oversight this was not clone last saturday may 7 therefore the i!)li7 group of the society wishes to announce in the bee that the following girls kstelle goldberg catherine hawkins annamarie sauer lander marion suor mae tabor and lucile whitney have been chosen to compose the group of 1928 elections were based on qualities of leadership as exemplified in personality activities and scholarship mabel gooding is the freshman girl to received the cap and gown ring award ed to the girl who has most nearly ful tilled these qualities of leadership during her first year in the university senior class banquet at touraine hotel the banquet of the senior class whs held thursday evening may 5 at 7 o'clock in the touraine hotel the seniors wore their newly-acquired gowns and fancy paper caps enlivened the scene hubert nagel acted as toastmastor john dunn president of the class gave a short address the class prophecy was given by laura o'day margaret grit tith presented the class history and gwendolyn doughton recited the class poem an enjoyable time was had by all thrice promised bride presented on moving-up day the annual moving-up day exercises of the university of buffalo were held saturday morning may 7 at bennett high school a play the thrice promised bride was presented by the blue masquers with the following east thrice promised bride huth glynn magistrate capen gamier ist matchmaker marian suor 2nd matchmaker estelle goldberg lird matchmaker keith noye beggar ilulph elliott advisor to magistrate irving schactel secretary evelyn levy sold ier ernest olsen merchant _ marvin cohen mother of thrice promised bride mae tabor the new members of s a c weir announced as follows women '■ representative alice dakin medicine jack schamel pharmacy robert page dentistry edward soucie law — frank osta arts — kobert harrington the new officers for student council are president scott brent vice president robert harrington dr thurber executive secretary of the university presented the awards for attiletics and activities he congratu lated the outgoing leaders of the activi ties on their success and declared that those who achieve successfully in col lege are likely to do so in their life out side of college he also called atten tion to the lack of songs in the univer sity and urged that all undergraduate with ability along the line of song writ ing bend their cffoits toward develop ing some good college songs the following girls received their b for athletics norma lanison 27 — 500 points evelyn levy 21 lino points hose morrison 28 — 700 points ethel paris 27—700 points marjory sullivan 27 — 700 points numerals were awarded to the fol lowing girls margaret buck i'u goo points ida cheplowitz 28 — 150 points dorothy dinsmore 27 — 400 points margaret holmes 29-000 points charlotte bains 28—550 points evelyn bernoffaky 28—500 points lucile wertheimer 28—500 points | annual joint charities drive goes over the top colleges respond splendidly over subscribe quota schools of pharmacy and law set new records at the closing dinner of the eleventh ' annual joint charities and community fund campaign the university team 1 was able to report that its adjudged ' quota of 5673 had been over-subscrib ed by 1363.30 with some additional sub • icriptlona still expected from the school 1 of medicine 1 the faculty students and members of i the staff of the university contributed practically all of the 0,030.35 reported : by our team 90 of the amount re ported by the evening session was ' gathered through a silver collection at 1 the lantern club play on may 6th on monday may i)th it seemed im , probable that certain divisions of the university could reach their quotas and the committee was very dubious over the possibility of reaching the univer sity quota the arts college quota was nearly 600 short with nearly all the large subscriptions reported in the emergency a number of the faculty added to their subscriptions and the students responded so heartily in a class to class canvas during monday and tuesday that late tuesday after noon it was found the college of arts and sciences had gone above its quota of 1787 to reach a total of 1031.05 the school of pharmacy was 100 per cent as to the number of subscriptions as every member of the faculty stu dents administration and janitorial staff subscribed to their quota of 400 bringing the total raised by this di vision to 512.50 the school of law made a new high record of 517.80 which was 108.05 in excess of their quota the evening session exceeded its quota by 102.50 and the school of dentistry met its full quota a total of 1474 subscriptions was made this year n total of 210 more than last year the joint charities and community fund organization has asked me to ex press its deep appreciation of the loy alty devotion and sacrifice of the fac ulty students and staff which made it possible for the university team to reach its goal the members of the university teams in all the divisions are very appecia tive of the ready and generous re sponses made to their appeals and your representative desires to express his gratitude to all who contributed and especially to the leaders and workers who so unsparingly gave of their time and efforts to secure the university quota in this great city-wide move ment there follows the numbers of sub scribers and total amounts subscribed by the different divisions up to the joint charities dinner tuesday even ing may 10 a report on subscriptions received after that time will be made later college of arts and sciences 562 sub scribers 1,931.05 school of medicine 268 subscribers 2,103 school of phar macy 243 subscribers 512.50 school of dentistry 118 subscribers 505 school of law 252 subscribers 517 evening session and townseud hall 31 subscribers 407 total 1,474 subscrib ers 0,1130.35 blackstone society hold final banquet at alumni club dr alden dean of law school is guest of honor blackstone legal society concluded its activities for the year by a banquet tuesday evening at the alumni club featured in spite of the rain and the approach of the exams by a large turn out mr barth the retiring president spoke shortly of the function for which the society was formed the way in which it filled the need felt and of its claim on the support of the students howard stessel as representing the graduates and as president of 1920 brought a message from the alumni to the present executive dr aldeu dean of the law school the guest of honor gave a warm appreciation of the part which the society played in the life of the student body in the extra-curricu lar activities which make the close con tacts and form the friendships which last through life formed for the pro motion of discussion of legal problems already a tradition is apparent of which its members can well be proud and by the present activity the organi zation is away to a good start next year the last regular meeting was held at luncheon at the y the same day when mr h w willis gave the third of his review lecture in negotiable instru ments followed by questions from his hearers this scries of talks has been invaluable for the men and by their appreciation they conveyed the debt they felt to the speaker next year it is hoped by a series of lectures mixed with discussions of current problems mock trials and debates to keep up the interest now awakened dr thurber's plea for memorial fund nets fine response dr thurber representing the senior memorial fund made an appeal to the graduating class of the school of phar macy they made a splendid showing in response to the support of the alum ni of the university of buffalo the graduating classes of the other schools will be approached in the near future this is the only means that the alum ni organization has of obtaining funds the students sign pledge cards the pay ments being made quarterly the money is for the purpose of maintaining the office of alumni secretary publishing the alumni magazine and making con tributions to the general funds of the university subscribe tu the senior memorial fund co-eds hold annual spring house-party the annual spring houseparty for the girls of the university will be held the week-end of june 3 4 5 at camp forty acres parnham-on-tho-lake registra tions may be made with martha besohel and margaret holmes preferably before may 18 the price of the weekend party which will last from friday afternoon to sunday afternoon is 3 53 this sum must be paid to martha beschel or margaret holmer before having for camp the houseparty will be the fourth enjoyed by a group f university girls considering that the event will follow examinations an unusually large num ber of registrations is anticipated bison head elects officers for 1927-28 the bison hi-uil ummrary society helil its annual elections for the year 1927-1928 the following men were elected president — louis farru vice president — charles x viegel secretary — earle j mcgrath treasurer — john mahoney