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VOLUME 24—NUMBER 49
3 Vacancies on
Library Board
Circulation    Hits    Peak;
Christmas Plans
Underway
A. W. Bass, Jr., secretary of
the Swarthmore Public Library
Board of Directors, announced at
the quarterly Board meeting
Tuesday night in the Library that
three vacancies will exist on the
Board in January, due to the
expiration of the terms of Dr. J.
Alfred Calhoun president of the
Board, Mrs. Russell L. Snyder,
and Mr. Bass. The Board hopes
that residents of the Borough who
are interested in the Library will
file applications for election to the
Board. Blanks may be secured
from Librarian Bettina.liunter at
the desk in the Library. Application must be filled and filed with
the Librarian before midnight,
December 31.
Miss Hunter reported 181 new
reader registrations in September,
October, and December, 127 adult,
and 53 juveniles. In the same period 761 new books were added,
561 adult titles and 200 juvenile.
The three month circulation total
was 14,003 with the total from
January through November"running 15 per cent# ahead of ihe.
saijie periqd-in 195i.
The Board expressed its appreciation of the story hours by Mrs.
Benjamin Branch, graduate- li*
brarian aud former, children's librarian at Ta^npa, Pia;, giVeni eluding the November celebratibn of
children's Book Week. Miis Hwpt-
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SWARTHMORE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1952
$3.50 PER  YEAR
Airs. A. W. Bass, Jr.
Swarthmore resident who heads
local Christmas Seal Sale.
Mon. at Players Club
"Ramshackle Inn" by George
Batson, a rollickifag cojrtedywith
a mystery theme opens Monday
evening at the Players Club. ,
Under the direction of J. David
Narbeth, this unusual mystery
farce stars Alison Roberts as thg
spinster librarian who sinks her
life savings in an old New England
inn.and finds her life invaded by
a host of zany guests including-
.James S. Feight, M.' Katrina Ives
Martha Keighton, WiUiam E. Gibson, Lewis E. Godenough, Nancy
Bolich, Cornelia McKernan, John
A. Jefferson, Stuart L. Dance,
Walter Emmott, Jean McGlathery
Dance, George Jarden and Ned
Pyle.
H. C. Mabbott and William W.
McClarin are the stage managers
responsible for the interior of Ye
Olde Colonial Inn. Electricity is
handled by John Manning and
sound effects by Patty Campbell.
Estelle Jarden is prompter for the
show. Stage decorators under the
direction of Mrs. Dbhald Crosset
are "Mrs. William Bailey, Mrs.
Robert Clothier, Mrs. J. Roy
Snape, Mrs. Howard Jackson, Mrs.
Daniel,Harris apd Mrs. W. W>McClarin, Emma Pyle, Millicent King
and betty Bentley serve aa make
up artists.
Curtains rise at 8:20 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Mothers Christmas
Party December 11
Stories, Choral Selections
Will Highlight Club's
8 P.M. Meeting
Mrs. Peter E. Told of Park avenue,, will be the feature speaker at
the Mother's club Christmas party
to be held .Thursday evening, December 11, at 8 at the Swarihmpre
Woman's Club.
Mirs. Told, who will talk in-
fd'rmally'about^Christmas stories
to club. inembers,^ has, .tyefeft a
story ^teller-^n .Chat^qwai; for
Brownie and Girl' Scout Troops,
\Chiirch' Schoolr.•groups, nearby
schools and Book Clubs. She spoke
tHis'fall b&fore the Bryn Mawr,
Sforijjgflelji, *>iph^ Vsuad Aronimink Women's £lubs^
'. ^C]^iita^vf stories and <atqry
telling are,fun?" she said, and
'they hay^, become one of her
favorite hobbies! Amongthe tales
she will tell Thursday evening
SMltbfc "The Trapper's "Tale" iand
"Pegasus and the Star". Mrs.
Robert Hall is in charge of the
program, While Mrs. Paul Zecher,
program ^ chairman, will introduce
the speaker.
Another highlight of the Christmas program will be the presentation of musical selections by the
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Legion and Auxiliary
Plan Join* Meeting
The American Legion, Ains-
worth-Wernher Post No. 427, will
hold a joint meeting with-the
Ladies Atndtketr for the monthly
get-togethfcr on December 15.
John Stettner, assistant minister
of the Presbyterian Church, present a 30 minute film on the Revised Standard Version of the
Bible for the Legion's November
meeting.
High    School    Christmas
Concert Dec. 17 Aids
Service Projects
Swarthmore High School's
chorus, glee club, and orchestra
will present their annual Christmas Concert to the community on
Wednesday night, December 17 in
the high school auditorium.
The musical organizations have
agreed to continue last year's innovation and lend their concert to
thfe school's United Charities
which will limit to this one evening its request for community
support   in   its   service   project
work.
A gift tree in the auditorium
will await contributions to sponsor the1 work already pledged to
the Kinderheim in Stade, Germany, the Haines House in Alaska,
and the Warbranch, Kentucky
School plus other projects still to
be announced.
Students in international, costumes will receive contributions in
the halls prior to the concert and
transfer them to the gift tree in
a dramatized form.
..The Christmas Concert is widely anticipated as a musical event
and the addition of world friendship theme emphasizes, for students as well as their supporters
in the community and vicinity, the
I Christmas Spirit in action.
Dinner Saturday Will
Honor Football Squad
Hoffman to M.C.; Former
Players to Be Guests
At H.S. Event
The annual Football Night dinner, honoring the Swarthmore
High School football squad, will
be held in the High School cafeteria tomorrow evening, December
6. It will be an occasion befiitting
the. 1952 team's fine record of
eight victories and a single defeat.
The Swarthmore Citizens Athletic
Committee, composed of fathers
of present and former Swarthmore - players, has made all the
arrangements as if has for years
past. Members of the committee
will assume the role of waiters
and serve the dinner, which is
largely prepared by mothers of the
players.
Henry Hofmann, who helped to
coach some of Swarthmore's well
remembered teams, will be master
of ceremonies. The guest list will
feature former Swarthmore High
players now on various college
football squads. Among those invited are:
Dick Burtis, Dana Swan, Tom
Simkin and Avery Blake, captain,
of Swarthmore College; Bill McHenry, recently elected captain ql
the Washington ' and Lee £eam;
Jack Smith, captain, and Paul
Tarr of* Dickinson; William
Crouthers, PMC; Barry Coleman,
Hampton Institute; Harold Johnston, P & M; Sob Bradford,
Sewahee; Fred Campbell, Duke;
Jim Carter, Bowdoin; and Jack
Thompson and Howard Arrison of
this year's Princeton freshman
squad. *   -
.The Junior Hlj^h squads will
come in for dessert at 7:30 alon£
with the cheerleaders and Student Band President Ronnie Gold.
Several musical selections will
follow-thie dinner, with singing led
by the Chorus President Dana
Swan. After the various guests are
introduced and several, special
awards made, Assistant Coach
Walter Hall, Jr., will present the
members of the Junior Varsity
Squad.
Then will come the big event of
the evening — the presentation of
Varsity letter winners by. Coach
Millard P. Robinson . and the
award of silver footballs to them.
Movies df various Swarthmore
games this season will be the closing feature.
Johri W. Nason
NEED USED PLAYING CARDS
The Entertainment Instruction
and Supply Committee of the Red
Cross is in need of used playing
.cards for the veterans' hospitals.
Those having, some used decks
they no longer need are asked to
take, them to Mrs. John L. Good,
512 Harvard avenue! Mrs. Good
will call for the cards if they cannot be delivered. Mrs. Good's
number is Swarthmore 6-0600.
PROPERTY OWNERS
TO MEET TUESDAY
The Swarthmore Property Owners' Association will" have its
Annual Meeting in McCahan Hall
of the Presbyterian Church School
Building on Wednesday evening,
December 10, at 8 o'clock. Foll6w-
ing the business meeting and election of Directors, Mrs. Dorothy
Rodgers, Secretary of the School
Board, will speak'on the Elementary School Problem.       5
AU the Borough property 'owners, who are not members of the
Association, are welcome to attend. There is ample parking in
the rear of tHe Church buUding.
Nason Resigns from
Swarthmore College
12  Years  Prexy Accepts
Presidency of Foreign
Policy Ass'n
The resignation of John W. Nason as president of Swarthmore
College to become president of
the Foreign Policy Association was
announced jointly yesterday by
the Swarthmore College Board of.
Managers and the Board of Directors of the Foreign Policy Association. Dr. Nason will remain at his
SWarthmore post in a part-time
capacity until June while learning
his new duties with the. FPA»
In announcing Dr. Nason's elecr
tion to the presidency o*. the Foreign Policy. Association, Eustace
Seligman,. chairman of the FPA
Board of Directors, stated, in New
York yesterday tnat the Associa^
tion's program for the development of community organizations
devoted to the. extensive education
in world affair* will be rapidly eje*
panded under the new president,
This will be possible under a substantial grant recently received
from the Ford Foundation's Fund
for Adult Education, which has
undertaken a nation-wide program of community World Affairs
Councils, forums and committees
similar to those already active
throughout the country.
Dr. Nason has been president of
Swarthmore* College since 1940
when he was picked from the
ranks of the College's philosophy
department to succeed Dr. Frank
Aydelotte, who had resigned to
head the Institute for Advanced
Studies at Princeton.
During his 12 years tenure Dr.
Nason piloted SwarthmOre through
the difficult years of World War II
and the continuing period of adjustment since that time. Under
him the College i successfully
launched a building and fund raising program, subjected the curriculum for freshmen and sophomores
to a thorough revision in line with
the now famous Harvard Report
on i Higher Education, and increased the endowment of the College from nine to 13 million dollars.
Since his inauguration Dr. Nason has been increasingly active
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Garden Dept. Presents
Mrs. Anne W. Wood
Women's Stated Meeting
At 2 P.M. Tuesday Will
Precede Program
The Woman's Club of Swarthmore will hold a stated meeting
and tea on December 9 at 2 p.m.
The garden department will present Mrs. Anne Wertsner Wood,
who will speak on "Make Your
Own Merry Christmas", and will
demonstrate the making of Christmas decorations. /
Mrs. Wood is the wife of Harry
Wood, superintendent of building
and grounds at Swarthmore College, who has recently been
awarded a silver medal by the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society for his work in horticulture.
Mrs. Wood is the author of a
book, now in its seventh printing
entitled "Make Your Own Merry
Christmas." She has travelled
widely in Europe and this country
and has lectured before many
clubs. The "Ladies Home Journal",
many other women's magazines,
newspapers, and garden magazines have published her articles.
She is often heard on radio programs. Mrs. Wood has long been
active in the work of the Penn- .
sylvania Horticultural Society.
At the tea following the meeting Mrs. Ross W. Marriott and
Florence J. Lucasse will pour.*
Alice E. Marriott and. Mrs. C. J.
Welz of the hospitality committee ,
will assist. Hostesses at the door
will be Mrs. Oscar Hart, Mrs.
Clifford Banta, Alice E. Marriott,
an£ Mrs. Walter S. Divekey. Mrs.
Albert. L. Hilles, Jr., is in charge '
bf stage decorations and Mrs. Rosa
W. Marriott will decoratethe tea
table.
'Child's Play' at Little
Theatre December 5,6
The Little Theater Club of
Swarthmore College will present
a new play entitled "Child's Play",
written by Florence Stevenson, tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15
in Clothier Memorial. This is the
first of the group's two annual
performances.
"Child's Play" is set in Salem,
Mass., in the year 1692. The action centers around a family
which becomes involved in the infamous witch trials through the
machinations of Faith Weir, a
domineering, mother who forces
her son, Johnathan, to enter the
ministry. He, however, meets and
falls in love with a Spanish Catholic, Oriana, and decides to give
up. the ministry to seek a fortune as a merchant. His mother
and Johnathan's cousin, Silence,
who loves him, and whom his
mother wishes him to marry, devise a scheme to rid themselves
of Oriana by having her accused
of witchcraft. The rest of the play,
involves the difficulties Faith and
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Civil Defense Meeting
■ A Civil Defense meeting of all
division chiefs and their deputies
will be held Tuesday, December
9 at 7:30 pjn. at the Borough Hall.
The meeting will concern a test
problem to be worked out for individual divisions.
The next test alert Jias been an-
ounced for a Sunday in January,
with all divisions functioning at
that time., Chiefs are asked to
make the;neces£arjr plans xor their
divisions tb report at the proper
time.
SEVENTH YEAR ALL
AMERICAN PLAYER
Alice Putnam Willetts of Lafayette avenue was selected as
left half back on the United States
Field Hockey Team at the four-
day National Intersectional Women's Field Hockey Tournament
held at Sweet Briar College, Sweet
Briar, Va., from*November 27 to
November 30.
TJhis is the seventh' time thai
Mrs.. Willetts has been on the All-
American team. ,
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