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...Barbara Brown, 16, has been a pretty big wheel at Alabama's Shades Valley High School-honor student, homecoming queen, vice president of the student body and member of a sorority. A senior this year, Barbara came to the conclusion that sororities and fraternities were doing Shades Valley no good. Most of her schoolmates live in the well-to-do suburbs of Birmingham, but nonetheless the student body seemed split by snobbery. Barbara and some of her friends complained to Principal Frank A. Peake...
With the principal's blessing, Barbara launched an earnest campaign through high-income Shades Valley. In the parent-teacher associations of four elementary schools, she found receptive audiences. After listening to her testimony, parents of children who will soon enter Shades Valley High voted 512 to 96 to abolish the Greek-letter groups...
...Barbara Brown, who is already getting cool looks from some of her former friends because of her outspoken campaign, is still sure that the situation is far from exaggerated. Last week the county school board was still studying the whole matter. Said County Superintendent I. F. Simmons: "If these organizations come, into the schools to the extent that other children are humiliated, I see that we have almost unlimited jurisdiction to see that the organizations are removed...
Dorothea Schmidt '56, Barbara Knauff '54, F. James O'Neil '53, and Marshal R. Pihl '55 lead this year's cast. They are aided by Elizabeth Kalkhurst '56, Nancy Fisher '54, Barbara Williams '55, and Elizabeth Ann Eilers '54. Other male members of the cast include Timothy F. Nichols '54, Clifford A. Bean 2B, Michael K. Victor '55, and Martin H. Myers...
Despite advertising posters showing a lion leaping from a screen, and Barbara Britton extending entreating arms to passers-by, the action in Bwana Devil, the first full length three dimensional motion picture, stays safely within the screen. Not that the picture is a fraud, it has the same three dimensional effect as does a steriopticon viewer...