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. . WAlt. Pledges Have Wiener Roast

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Soutb..-krn College a.asociation publlahed montb of the year except Joe,· July and

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As long as we're dreaming, let's dream up something new and different for the old Alma Mater.: Say-a spring Magmolia Festival for instance. A post-war dream per~ but maybe not such a bad idea after all Thirty daylt'batb September; Pasadena hath the R6se Bowl; so why shouldn't Southeastern have a Magnolia Festival? Thanks to Mr. Rob­bins, Vl{e certainly have the where-withal, or hadn't you notic­ed the lustrous white Magnolia blooms which reign in all

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their glory Qver our campus at this time of year?. . ....... L.,.- ·January 17• at tbe When -Y.ou' think of "Magnolia Festival" can't you just

m.1,I'IU"',tl QilJalhol- under ~the act ot March s, 1897. see the wohderful possibijities to make that idea a gala =-[iiAJtiiiifivlm~~r.-:7.~-::::-;:~~u;;~;;J&;;b-;;··;;-.;~~ celebration on our campus?· Ca!Yt you just see people com­u . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . Editor aDd &•nee. Mgr. ing from miles at:ound ·to see the crowning 0f our Magnolia

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b 29 students will receive degrees at

cPJnDil.et~!~mt exercises, and will ~oon be .leav­week they will be receiving traditional

best•wj.shes.\ It would seem nice to be an eventful year as 1945 and·· .to receive

l!l'&.~ltlcm gift. It tsn't every cl~- that goes through four years of W¥, and h!as to endure the I Calami tome• with War at the same time that its members are s~ggling through their studies. But then it i$n't every class at receives such encouraging news as that ne~s of he ~ t of a mighty military machine and the

., daWnin~ of~ new W.y qf opportunity, peace, and progress. And it isn't eve11 Class that goes out into a world still

not uee ,fto~ war, and with the huge task of seeking to end the devastati1>n andl horror of an Asiatic W8!· Tomorrow will be a solemniday ~-the lives of 29 graduating seniors-one on which t . y wQ.1 both receive best wishe~}ro111 their friends, and ~0 in@lerit this momentous task. we send our congratulatiops to_~· along with their other friends, and we ~end bur eonfidence in the belief -that they will be strong -eJ).ough fpr t as:~a:d have faith in themselve$ and ir! that supreme pow r w will guide them where they must go. . I I '!. L.£.M.

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f?rchids l 0' Leaden . · .. : . Another hool !Year is ended. In this year Southeastern

has been som what hampered 'by low enrollment, ~ort­ages, and rna~ sor:rows that come with a war. But South­eastern has merg~ with an unbeaten spirit, land morale higher than i was ~ year ago. . •

In order {or ~organization to go through such a d~ vastating conflict ci em.erse so triumphantly, i it is neces; sary.' for that lorg tion to have good leaders. This neces-sary: leadersblp w ~orded by Southeastern's 1 handpicked student counqil, w have v.roved to i.ls !through the work they have dome, t we m~e wise choices. ·

Withouhry -sounding, flowery phases, we simply wan't the co cil to w that we appreciate the things they have done fo all us this y~ar--,the revival of many of Southeastern's old toms, such as tile Friendship, Fire, the recreation hours, u the stUdent book exc~ange-and for a new activity that e hope will beeome one of these cus­toms, the all-school f dancer This danc:e was the crown­ing glory to put soci li e back on a. firm basis and to add the needed dignity our school pride.

The spnplest andl most sincere wp.y to say what we · are thinking, is, ''Thanks to your help, the year has been a suc­cess. We 1Jd ~ake h right choices."-L.E.M. . .

cause? ·-Suggested ~ditlon to SSC's col­

lege courses: a boot camp for Serious~t now, what do you think of the idea, "Mag­

nolia Festivcil ?" It might not equal the M'ardi' Gras, but we can dteam, ~·t we?-P. G. and J. A. M.

dents who are failing in work. can ,Yqu guess whoee gestion it was?

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question tbat hasn't been aolftiL But the cat was very much ID ~vidence at the formal dance.

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At ~e a~d ~embly last Thursday, Denton • Go8Sett was overheard to say that he thought he shoUld get an aW¥d for being the most ~ustrious boy in school. Herewith we wish to con­fer th~t hondr on-not· Denton­but1 W~oite Walters . .

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When Enurla Lee Collins sang at the ; Pi Kappa and Alpha Sig '"Gay Ninety Show'' May 3, one little girl described her breath­taking 1 loveli}less in one word. It was, "Gosh!!" ·(Was that one lit­tle girl the only 'one affected like that?) .

Seen1 at the Bond Carnival: Thelma Skinn,er keeping company for Calrroll Staton on the spot light platform at the Flora Dora Revue;, Bob ''Legs" Pratt pinch­kicking in the chorus line; Gwen Cloer killing time--or making it-;­with Perrin Flield soldiers, various and sundry; :Myra Jean Guthrie who kept telling her roommates that t.¥Y were cuttihg her chorus skirt too short.

If there is suddenly a rush on the part of the girls •for bottles of red tla.ir d~e, it is only because they have found out that Julius W. Kelly prefers red heads. Won­der why· he ~·t dy~ his hair red yet? Why !Jhouid he? Napo-leon didn'.t bavelred hair. ·

Warnings on the soft side to Betty Jean Thames about her new beau: rou~d better analyze him. Bets. . .

Cam~us Sc:en~s: George Short walking down the ball with a girl wHo wasn't Betty DeWitt; Char· lotte Jo!Jian taking a ]>eautiful spill in the ball of the Ad build­ing; ·Wendell Hubbard- running just for• the exercise; Jeanie Craig and that dashing Earl Allen dash­ing around together; Wilhoite Walters; Gertie Prentice talking to .Julius Kelly.

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Tlie trouble with Gladys G~ Mary Louise Whitfield's net of is she worries too much. Like, far charm at the all-school formal. instance, she . tlrmly believes tllat

the punch bowl" should alwaJB be Geneva Stroup seemed to en- the center of attraction ~tot a

joy the dance too, in set~ of her lal function. DoeSn't Gladys real­shy looks and her the 's-a-rlDg- ize that people are going to tJn4 on-~y-third-finger-~~- dlah at-f the punch bowl, regardless? .

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•The student council of South-' eutern entertained the student&,

tac:ulty members, and their guests with an s·choor formal dance In the co e Ubra.ry, Saturday evening, 5, from 8:30 until 12 o'clock. ·

Mia Dorotlly Hammond, Stu­dent council president, greeted :the guests at the. door and introc:luCed them to Miss Bettye Butta, wee­president. Others in the receiving Une were T. T. Montgomery, pres­Ident of Southeastern, and mem­bers of the student council.

A white picket fe'nce with a lat­t.fce archway entwined with ramb­ler roses formed the entr&Jrce to the dance floor. Spring cut flow­era were placed at intervals around the room.

The bannister of the stairway leading to the mezzanine where. re­treshments were served, was de­corated witll rambler roses. Miss Effie :Montgomery and Miss sally Leonard served white cake with mint Icing and frozen punch from a table covered with an ecru lace cloth and Cf!ntered with peach co,lored gladioli. The gladioli were flanked, with• white tapers.

A local orchestra, the 'Rhythm :Makers, Uhd~r the directlo;nl of Claud McNutt and Billy J'ack Al­ley, furntshed music for dancing.

Guests of the students and fac­ulty members were personnel ~om Camp :Maxey and the Naval .Kux­lllary Air Facility, Durant.

:Members of the arrangements committee were :Miss Bettye Bdtts, chairman, :Miss Betty Sims, Felmet Ray, and :Miss J'uadtna Brock.

Alpha Psr Omega · Initiates . Five

WAA Members Go On Retreat

. . ' , ,., Spring initiation services were The Women's A~eti~ Associa-t held by Alpha Psi Omega. national tlon held its ann~ r etreat Friday . honorary fraternity for dramati --altd saturday, Ma~l ll and 12, at

atudents, Monday evening, April the Durant Co~UjY,r<?lub for the 30 -in the hGme of Miss Vlvian purpose of makint4 m arts for . the ~ comingy~. '

i Those who were initiated' ·tnto During the retrea , the members ·-i, the fraternity are Miu Jo , :Anne of W.A:A. held initiation services

llontgomery Miss sara sue Call, for the pledges, apR the new of­J'. c. Cur.ry, :Jr., Theodore Nichols, ficers were lru!Jtalle'dr The members and Carroll Staton. returned to late; Saturday

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Harvey V. Pearce, Oakland, California, has been to First Lieuten&iit _..Jii tile Uptt~ States Army1Ait'Co~ Lt. ~~e entered the servi~ In Oclober. 19i2, and received bla commtgton after completing tbe ~­Candidate School, ~ ~ Florida. He is preantllJI allllig'ned as assistant !Priol!ittea .ac1 Traffic officer at one of the lll[llaDd sta­tions of the Paclflc Dl'flllan, A1r Tran.Sport CQmmaud

It has been reported that Pfc. Carl Newberry -of Checotah, . has been injured in action.

Mrs. Ida Murphree of Durant was presented the.. Army Air For­ceS Medal, won by her son, s-sgt. Olipton H. Murphree, in a cere­mony at Perrin Field, Texas, Tues­day afternoon at a formal mili­tary retreat ceremony. Sgt. Mur­phree, tal~ gunner o~ a Liberatot: bomber, has been liSted as miss­~ in action in the Pacific since

-24 Liberator . raar-enstJae &ugust, 1943. Bomber oup in wbl• 8taft S.- • geant 14 ck T. JetfrV, of. WU- Joe V. Adair, a master sergeant burton, ts n n.-comudalloaed or- ap~ veteran of the army until he ficer of tile mbat t:.'fe~Ugen~ received his medical discharge re­Section, recently W8J Clted by tJae c'ntly, Wlll leave May 15 to enter commander of ~'be 2nd Air Dlvi- A!metican University, at Washing­sion, "tor disupgu.f.s!u14 and 'out- ton, D. C., where he will begin a standin~ p_erfo~ce -duty." I course to train him for a position

Lt. J. A. Vapg~ of Sherm&.Jl. as a natipna~ service of~cer. Texas, and Lt. (jg)' l're4 Ball Reuben 'E. Carter of ' Dallas, Gates of Dur t, held a South- Texas· . has arrived in Italy for eastern "session ' ~t a clelk in the furth~r assignment in the Med-New Guinea ar • few air mail Jterranean Theater of Operations day~ ago, acco · t.u a letter re- as ·an American Red Cross asstst-ceived by · ~s. Floyd Pe~ ~t field director. Until his Red Gates from h~r n, Lt. (:lg) Gaiee. Cross appomtment, Ckrter was· Lt. Vaughn ~s Navy ~ot: and wfth North American Aircraft, according to L . ~- the two- Dallas Texas. He received his striper still c . ·ea tbe V~ B. S. degree in 1935. . twinkle in hi.s e$..,_ :<.- '

.Firs~. Jack Goodman has re-Pfc. Mari"n _RushlDg, Jlo,, of ~ ceptly I turned h0~e from Italy

rant was shot~m the ldp by a Ger- .where e lias been 1n combat for man sniper on rU lt, acoo.rdJDB tbe ·past seven months. Lt. Good-to a letter re ed traa him by man .will report to Santa Jlonlca, his mother, Mrs. MarJ~ Ruall- C~ornia. for a month's rest in ing. He has been ev_aeuated to one of the air resort centers and ~ hospital near Pa.rb. ...S though for his next asstgruilent. the message did not 1tat1e, It W8ll bielieved his wound wiD .n prove John Scales, Jr., Rd. 1-c, is in serious. the Marshall Islands.

· Pvt. Newell Wright has arrived in New York, according to a tele­gtam received by his .wife, and ~ be home as . soon as he 1s re­leased from the port of debarka-: tion. Pvt . . Wright was in the_ med­ical corp in Germany for · seven ---""'!'----!-------= months.

J. W. Logan of Southeastern. dillcuss8d the D\llnbarton Oaks Pro~ at a regular monthly meeting of the Ohoyonoma Club, Thurs@y, April 26th.

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University Women entertained the hdnor graduates of Durant High SChool, Russell High School, and Southeastern, with a seated tea in the home of Mrs. Floy Perkinson Gate,, Thursday a.f.ternoon, May 3.·

Mi8s Pearl Latham ·met the guests at the door and inttoduced them to the officers ]of the A.A.U. W y who were in the receiving line: MiSs' Eliza.beth McKinney, presi­deDt; Miss Aggte Boyet, vice-pres­ident; Miss Marion Severance, treasurer; and Miss Joanne Siekel, secretaey. Others in the line were Mrs. G. T. Stubbs, Miss Effie Montgoptery, Miss Edith Hodgson, Miss 018- Harmon, and Mrs. W. L. Blain . . ' Mrs. Ro~rt · Stephany poured punch. Mrs. Stephany was assist­ed in the dining room by the otlier ho$tesses, Mrs. Raymond Lunn, Mrs. c. ;M. Shaw, Mrs. James Den­ison, Miss Lulu Miller, Miss Pearl Lat,ham. Miss Bonnie Blackwell, and~ Virginia Wheeler.

'l'.lle program for the tea was in c~ge of the art committee with Mrs. John MacDonald as chair­map. Mrs. W. L. Blain gave a tall on

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niture. · At the conclusion of the meet­

ing, offieers for next year were elected. They. are Miss Elizabeth McKinney, president; Miss Ethei Byrns, vice-president; _ . Miss Lela Gibbins, secretary; . and Miss Marion Severance, treasurer.

Honor guests we~;e Miss Joan Cantrell, Miss Elizabeth Beaty, Miss Helen Mitchell, Miss Eames­tlne ~ler, Mrs. Max Meadowa, Miss Barbara Jean· ~es. Miss

One~ McAlester; Mrs. I Marguerite Pho­ebe Goff, Dura,t; Mrs. Lindell Palmer GQugh, McAlester; llrB. Martha Cruthirda 1 Hall, Halley­ville; Mrs. CecU !French HamlltoD. Panama; Miss Bazle Ruth J'~ Eagletown; Miss Mary Marpret Lewis, Achllle; :Kiss Hazel Lee Lo~. Durant: IKisa Betty Ku­ine Logan, _Hitchita; Miss lDrmabel Mathiews, H~e; Mra. 1111· dred Guthrie MJBdows, Durant; Mrs. Celestine ~&we, Rlngllug; Miss Evelyn Jraf& RWisell, Parts; Mrs. Helen BledSoe Slaton, Huao: Miss Maripn Jt[artha Sta.rrle, · Krebs; Miss June Megan SulUVBD, Durant; Miss Josephine Wndcat, Sapqlpa; and~et 8. Rbea, Wardville. ,

Bachelor ot . : Miss Alpha Pauline Williams, Atoka.

BuMell h School The tentative list of RWI8ell

High School ll'aduates is as fol­lows: Miss Eli~~th Jane Beaty, Durant; Miss Mary Jean BogaB. Durant; Miss Jqan Cantrell, Val­liant: Miss Gwendolyn Belle Cloer, Lenoir, NQrth Carolina: lllss Charlotte Henderson, Durant: Miss Helen Fraqces Mitchell, Du­rant; Miss Ora''Miaye Tolbert, Me-. I

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