Central Florida Future, Vol. 01 No. 17, March 7, 1969

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Shown above are the three sides of the FTU ring
designed by the Williams Company. All three sides
have been accepted by the Student Ring Committee.
Bids of companies wishing to produce the ring were
submitted to the ring committee March 5. After a
final decision is made on the company it will take six
weeks to put the design into the dye and three weeks
from the date of order to receive the rings. The ring
will be available in 12 different colors (the 12
birthstones) and white gold, yellow gold and green
gold. The girls have the choice of a dinner ring, which
is dressier and easier to wear.
We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
for the. .
Doctor Sarakatsannis
To Solo in Pops Concert
Dr. Leonidas Sarakatsannis,
FTU's pianist-composer, will be
guest soloist with the Florida
Symphony Orchestra College Night
at the Pops Concert, in the
Municipal Auditorium, Saturday,
March  29  at  8:30 p.m.  He will
perform the Gershwin Piano
Concerto in F with the orchestra.
Dr. Sarakatsannis heads the music
department at Florida Tech and
joined the faculty in July, 1968. He
was formerly chairman of the piano
department  at  the   University  of
Feiffer To Join FuTUre
The weekly cartoon satire of
Jules Feiffer begins this week in the
FuTUre. Feiffer is known for
captions, satire, and humor. He is
an internationally syndicated
cartoonist of Publishers-Hall
Syndicate. He is the author of
several plays and revues and a
novel. Seven collections of his
cartoons have appeared in book
form.
From 1949 to 1951 Feiffer drew
a Sunday cartoon page feature
called "Clifford", which ran in six
Fideles Second
FTU Sorority
On February 27, 1969, Fideles
sorority was granted a charter.
Fideles is French for loyalty and a
symbol for the underlying theme of
the sorority.
This recognition followed several
weeks of organization by the twelve
charter members. The charter
members are: Jan Lorraine,
provisional president; Helen
Commander, provisional vice
president; Maurita Norris,
provisional secretary; Susan Hardin,
treasurer; Mimi Poley, program
chairman; Caralyn Chamberlin,
Cheryl Wilmoth, Karen Wilmoth,
Mary Silliman, Judy Moore,
Georgianne Mollison, and Kaye
Cockins, sponsored by Mrs. Lee
Johnson.
Although primarily a social
organization, Fideles have
undertaken such service projects as
supporting Taus at the Cerebal
Palsy Basketball Marathon, and
manning the FTU booth at the
Central Florida Fair.
Fideles plan Rush Week for the
first week of the Spring Quarter,
March 24 - March 28. The week will
include a series of casual on and off
campus get-togethers to enable the
Fideles to meet prospective pledges.
newspapers. He later had cartoons
run in the Village Voice, a
Greenwich Village weekly paper.
In 1958 Feiffer's cartoons were
published in a book, "Sick, Sick,
Sick," subtitled "A Guide to
Non-Confident Living." He then
had published "Passionella", his
second best-selling collection. In
this book appeared Munro, a
four-year-old boy drafted, by
mistake, into the army. In 1961 an
animated version of Munro was
awarded the Oscar of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
as the best short-subject cartoon of
the year.
Other volumes of his collected
cartoons are "The Explainers",
"Boy Girl, Boy Girl", "Hold Me",
"Feiffer's Album", and "The
Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard
Mergendeiler."
Publishers-Hall Syndicate
distributes a weekly Feiffer cartoon
to some hundred American
newspapers. His cartoons are also
found in papers in Paris,
Stockholm, Tokyo and South
Africa
Blood Bank
Reserve Heeded
Anyone interested in having a
blood bank reserve for faculty, staff
and students should sign up at the
Student Health Center. Twelve
pints must be on reserve before any
can be drawn upon. There must be
a minimum of 35 donors before the
mobile unit will come to the Tech
campus.
There are forms available for
parental permission for interested
students between the ages of 18
and 21. Anyone in this age bracket
that is married may donate blood
without their parents permission.
No one under 18 is permitted to
donate blood.
Tau, Has Beens
Lead Basketball
Florida from 1959-1963. During his
tenure at the University of Florida,
he was a frequent performer
throughout the state.
Some of his major appearances in
Florida include three performances
as guest soloist with orchestra at
Daytona Beach and two
appearances at the Delius Festival
in Jacksonville, Florida.
His piano compositions "Twelve
Excersions for the Young Pianist"
received the Florida Composers'
League Composition Award in
1962.
Professor Sarakatsannis has
appeared many times with
symphony orchestras throughout
the United States including two
performances with the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra. Besides his
positions in Florida, he has served
on the faculty at the University of
Cincinnati and as head of the Piano
Department at Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville Campus.
Circle K
Gets Charter
Circle K, a service organization at
FTU, became an officially
chartered member of Circle K
International at its charter banquet
February 27. The banquet was
conducted as a joint meeting of
East Orlando Kiwanis and Circle K,
and was presided over by Kiwanis
President Art Shultz and Mike
O'Mara, Circle K President.
Attending the affair were John
Rhodes, Governor of Circle K-Fla.
District, Hal Wainwright, Fla.
District Kiwanis Secretary, and Dr.
W. Rex Brown, Vice President of
Student Affairs.
The founding officers of Circle K
were honored preceding the
installation of the present officers.
Tom Kearney, Lt. Governor of
Circle K-Okeechobee Division and
founding president of FTU Circle K
Club, installed the following men
into office: Mike O'Mara, president;
Gary Hallman, vice president; Devo
Heller, secretary; Burt Kelly,
treasurer; Larry Dunnigan and Ron
Turner, junior board members; and
Fred Carter and Brian Skadowski,
freshman board members.
The Intramural Basketball League
at FTU is in full swing and it now
appears to be a two-team race in
both divisions. The strong teams in
the East are Tau Blue and the
Ogres, while the Western powers are
the Has Beens and Tau Gold.
Tau Blue cagers are currently
leading the Eastern division with
three victories and no defeats. The
Orges are close behind with only
one loss in three games, that loss
coming at the hands of Tau Blue,
53-50. In the West, the Has Beens
and Tau Gold are currently tied for
first place with 2-0 records. The
current league standings are:
O'Keefe Addresses
Sigma Delta Chi
Dr. M. Timothy O'Keefe,
assistant professor of
communications, Thursday, spoke
to the Orlando chapter of Sigma
Delta Chi, the professional
journalism society.
Dr. O'Keefe's topic was the mood
of the campus today. He is in
charge of journalism at FTU.
Dr. O'Keefe expressed hope that
a student chapter of SDX would
soon be formed on campus. SDX,
the largest and most important
journalism society in the country, is
made up of persons in all areas of
communication. This includes
people in radio, television and
public relations as well as
newspapers.
National members of SDX
include Walter Cronkite of CBS and
Robert White, the former managing
editor of the New York Herald
Tribune.
Dr. O'Keefe was president of the
student chapter of SDX at
Washington and Lee University in
Lexington, Virginia, the first
university in the world to offer
journalism education, and also
received the chapters citation as the
outstanding journalism student
during his senior year.
Next week's action will feature
PKE 2 versus Chi Alpha 1 Monday
followed by Sigma Y against Chi
Alpha 2. On Tuesday, the Ogres go
against the Tau Bandits and Sigma
Alpha will play Tau Gold.
AH games start at 4 and 5 p.m.
East
Won - Lost
Tau Blue
3-0
Ogres
2-1
Tau Bandits
1-1
PKE1
1-1
Sigma Y
0-1
Chi Alpha 2
0-3
West
Won - Lost
Has Beens
2-0
Tau Gold
2-0
Chi Alpha 1
2-0
Sigma Alpha
1-1
PKE 2
0-1
Jets
0-3
1970 Grants
Show Increase
Recently released estimates of
governmental aid to students for
fiscal year 1970, show a statistical
increase in appropriations. For all
eligible colleges and universities the
total appropriation for Educational
Opportunity Grants is estimated at
about $175,600,000, a
$51,000,000 increase over the 1969
figure. Contributions to National
Defense Loans are expected to drop
$45,000,000 to $155,000,000 for
the 1970 fiscal year while the
allotment for work study programs
is scheduled to rise $15,000,000 to
a $154,000,000 figure.
However, the minimum EOG has
been raised $200 as was the
maximum, the former now set at
$400 and the latter at $1,000. This
$200 minimum increase will use all
of the additinal funds for 1970 just
to help the students presently
receiving the aid. A similar
circumstance is attached to the
work-study increase; the minimum
Bonfire To Be Held Tonight
An election bonfire is being
planned by Village Center Student
Activities for 7:00 tonight. Student
Government election results will b
announced at the bonfire and all
students, faculty and staff are
encouraged to hear the acceptance
speeches and join in the festivities.
The FTU cheerleaders, who are
planning the event, will be on had
to add pep and spirit to the evening
and student entertainment will be
featured.    All    candidates   are
encouraged to make a clean sweep
of all campaign literature and add
these to the fire.
Anyone interested in donating
any scrap lumber is encouraged to
contact the Village Center. Hot
dogs with all the trimmings will be
served and all are encouraged to
bring blankets and guitars.
In the event of inclement weather
the event will be held in the Village
Center Patio.
Mike O'Mara (left) from FTU's Circle K receives the club's charter
from Art Shultz, President of the East Orlando Kiwanis Club.