Evening star., 1939-03-26
Foot|ights 10 Lure
Members Of 6. W.U.
Faculty Friday
Will Appear in
g Street FolIies'
Of Mortar Boord

Members of the George WASH
ington University faculty will de-
sert the lecture platform for the
footlights Friday evening, when
they will be presented by Mortar
Board, the senior women's honor
society, in an entertainment for the
benefit of the fund for the proposed
women's activities building.
THE Faculty in the G Street Fol-
lies" will be given in the university
gymnasium at 8:15 pm. The pro-
gram will include melodramatic
pantomime, mock radio broad
cast, an Information Please" skit
and other acts.
Prof. John F. Latimer of the de-
.partment of classical languages and
hteratures, is directing the presen-
tation. Members of the faculty who
will take part include Dean Mitchell
Dreese, Dean William Paul Briggs
and Dean Samuel N. Wrenn. Profs.
Robert F. Griggs. Hector G. Spauld-
ing, w. Hayes Yeager. Donnel B.
Young, Merle I. Protzman. DR.. Dan.
iel L. Borden. Profs. Harold F. Hard
ing, Edward c. Acheson. Lowell J.
Ragatz, Colin F. Mackall. Howard
M. Merryman, Frances Kirkpatrick,
Ross Taylor Raymond j. Seeger
Miss Helen Newman. Dewitt Ben
nett, Thelma Hunt Norris I. Gram
dali, Max Harrington. Ruth AtweIl,
John P. Foley. William R. Compton
DR.. Robert H. Harmon. Miss Eliza
beth Burtner, Prof. Charles r.
Naeser. DR.. Corinne Cooper, Miss
Priscilla Holcombe and Leon Brusi.
LOFT. also Mrs. Douglas Bement and
Mrs. William c. Mitchell.
Fraternity Representatives Chosen.
The university will be represented
by four students, Phoebe Jane Beall,
Muriel Merelman. Charles Corker
and John Southmayd. at the first
national student congress of Delta
Sigma Rho. honorary forensic fra
ternity, to be held in Washington
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Some 200 student delegates and
faculty advisers from chapters in
70 colleges and universities will at
tend the conference which will be
held at the Mayflower Hotel. Prof.
Harding of the department of pub
lie speaking. who is national treas
urer of Delta Sigma Rho. is in
charge of arrangements for the
congress
Delegates will debate the oues-
tlons OF neutrality. national de-
fense. labor legislation and monop-
oily legislation. On the final dav
they will pass resolutions regarding
these four public questions and their
findings will be transmitted to the
President and the Congress.
Senator Lee to Speak.
Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma a
member of Delta Sigma Rho. will
give the address at the opening
session. which will convene in the
Interior Department auditorium at
3 pm. Other members OF Delta
Sigma Rho now prominent in pub.
llc life are expected to attend
Members of the modern dance
group of the university will pre-
sent a demonstration recital on
Thursday at $50 pm. at the Wood
row Wilson High School auditorium,
under the direction of Miss Burtner
OF the department of physical edu-
cation for women.
One Of the leading student social
events OF the year. the interfra-
ternlty prom, will take place on Sat-
urday night at the Willard Hotel.
Features of the evening will be the
grand march. tapping ceremonies
conducted by Gate and Key Hon
orary Activities Fraterniay and the
presentation of various awards. A
new award to be presented for the
first time at this years prom is that
established by William j. Reinhart,
head coach. for "the outstanding
interfraternity man on the campus"