May 2, 1963
Prof. Pollard Teaches Astronomy HIGHACRES STUDENTS ATTEND
In Hazleton Art League Building CAMPUS READING FESTIVAL
Professor Jesse Pollard,' In
structor of Physical Science at the
Hazleton Campus of Pennsylvania
State University, is presently
teaching a 6 week course in
Astronomy for beginners at the
Hazleton Art League Building, 225
East Broad Street, Hazleton.
The course began Wednesday,
April 24 and was open to both
members and non-members of the
Art League.
Members of the League were re
quired to pay a fee of $7.50. Non
members paid $lO.OO.
Information about the program
can be obtained at the Art League
Building or by phoning Mrs. How
ard Deis, 454-0184.
Students Join
Library Committee
On April 8, the library commit
tee held a meeting during which
the needs of the library here at
Highacres were carefully re
viewed. The Student Library
Committee which was newly
formed during the Winter term of
1963, was represented at the meet
ing by two of its members, Susan
Grow and Gregg Smith.
During the portion of the meet
ing at which the Student Library
Committee was in attendance, the
list of periodicals to which the li
brary subscribes, and which ap
pear on the magazine rack in the
library was carefully revised.
The requests made by the stu
dents will appear in the library at
the beginning of the next fall
term. They are: The Department
of State Bulletin, which will be
helpful to the student doing re
search work, Sports Illustrated for
the athletically minded, Harper’s
Bazaar, for the fashion-minded,
and Reader’s Digest.
Other periodicals which will be
subscribed to next year are:
American Mathematical Monthly,
HUC MEN SERVE AS M.C.'s
FOR H.S. READING FESTIVAL
Shown above are three Highacres students who served as masters of
ceremonies for the recent high school reading festival. Prom left: John
Rosenstock, president of Highacres Belles Lettres Society, who headed
the poetry group; Joseph Broyan, master of ceremonies for prose; and
Gregg Smith, in charge of drama.
On April 23, the Fourth Annual
Regional High School Reading
Festival was held. This event pro
vided local high school students
with a fine opportunity to express
their dramatic talents by inter-
pretative reading of poetry, prose,
or drama.
As the Spring Term continues
at the Hazleton Campus, the
Belles-Lettres Society is hard at
work in an effort to complete its
many projects. Among these proj
ects is the Highacres historical
pamphlet which, when finished,
Hazleton Campus Library Acquisitions
Thorndike, Robert L. Ten Thou
sand Careers. New York, Wiley,
1959.
Webster’s Third New International
Dictionary of the English Lan
guage, Unabridged. Springfield,
Mass., G. and C. Merriam Co.,
1961.
Klein, Felix. Famous Problems.
New York, Chelsea, 1955.
Hoelscher, Randolph P. Graphic
Aids in Engineering Computat
ing. New York, McGraw-Hill,
1952.
Engineering News Record, Theater
Arts, Art News ,Esquire, Survey
of Current Business, Math
Teacher, Biology Teacher, and the
Saturday Evening Post.
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
will tell of the past, present, and
future of our campus. Pictorial
aspects of the pamphlet will en
hance its total effect and photog
raphy is being done by Paul Lev
kulic under the direction of Mr.
Andrew Kafka.
Plans for the club to attend a
Broadway play later in the term
are now in the preliminary stages.
All members of the society are in
vited to attend and the trip should
prove to be very entertaining and
informative, especially for those
who have not previously seen such
a production.
Davis, Philip J. The Lore of Large
Numbers. New York, Random
House, 1961.
Aitken, Alexander C. Determi
nants and Matrices. 9th ed. New
York, Interscience Pub., 1956.
Croft, Terrell W. Americans’
Handbook, a reference book for
practical electrical workers. Bth
ed. New York, McGraw-Hill,
1961.
Reinfeld, Fred. Chess Strategy for
Offence and Defence. New York,
Barnes and Noble, 1961.
Paperbacks
Krutch, J. W. Experience and Art.
Goodman, T. The Writing of
Fiction.
Three students of the Hazleton
Campus attended and participated
in the annual Interpretive Reading
Festival at the Main Campus. The
Festival was sponsored by the
English Department and the Uni
versity Readers. It was held
April 25 and 26.
The students who attended from
the Hazleton Campus and who
were treated to an ail-expense paid
trip were: Naomi Johnson, Kay
Yencho, and Gregg Smith. The
participants were coached by Prof.
Andrew Kafka.
Naomi Johnson gave her inter
pretation of Eliza from George
Bernard Shaw’s modern version of
Pygmalion. Kay Yencho presented
the poem Mamie. Gregg Smith of
fered two poems entitled Miniver
Cheevy and Richard Cory.
In addition to participating in
the Reading Festival, the three
were treated to a banquet at which
they received certificates for their
meritorious participation in the
Festival, and attended a party at
the home of Dr. Oliver of the
Speech Department at Penn State.
Participants at the Festival in
cluded students from all the com
monwealth Campuses of Penn
State, the Main Campus, the State
Colleges, Seton Hill, Marywood,
Geneva College, Morehead College
of Kentucky, and others.
Keystone Society
Plans Invitation
The Parnassus chapter of the
Keystone Society has recently is
sued invitations to 19 freshmen
and sophomores to join the soci
ety. They will pay a $5.00 initi
ation fee which covers the cost of
the hat and key.
The qualifications necessary to
join the Keystone Society are as
follows: the completion of one full
term at the University, an aca
demic average of 2.5 or better, no
record of disciplinary action, ac
tivity in student affairs, participa
tion in at least one chartered stu
dent activity, and a position in the
top 15% of the student body.
Those qualifying for this honor
are: Gregg Smith, Kathy Botchik,
Janet Mihal, Betsy Moore, Skip
Baigis, Phil Jeffries, Kathy
Kumke, Mary Jean Turse, Esther
Nemeth, Gene Dorneman, Richard
Grovich, Larry Wydock, Carole
Yurkovic, Annetta Long, Wayne
Michael, Donna Foster, Jerry
Boyle, John Cerasaro, and Mary
Temke.
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