C.C. Reader
Gross Greets Alumni
By Joan H. Klein
Alumni of Penn State University
met May 13 at the Sheraton Harris
burg Inn, West Shore. Dinner was
followed by comments by Dr. Theodore
Gross and entertainment by
Re-Creation.
The affair was a joint meeting of the
Penn State Alumni Club of Greater
Harrisburg, the Penn State Alumnae
Club and the Penn State. Capitol
Alumni Society. Faculty and staff
were also invited.
Gross reminded alumni that to help
Capitol Campus is to leave a legacy to
our community. "Capitol Campus
serves its communi+ - University Park,
and the CommonwL, h," he said.
Re-Creation, a versatile group of
eight students from University Park,
entertained with songs beginning with
those of the '4os through today's
upbeat numbers. Hugh Brooks, In
structor in Recreation and Parks at
State College, directs the group.
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Tom Fleischer, president of Penn
State Alumni Club, chaired the meet
ing. Three new directors were named:
Joseph Strite, Terry Reasoner, and
Stephen DeFrank.
Gross, calling the Alumni Associa
tion "a major force in our region,"
addressed the group of approximately
150 people on his vision of Penn
State-Capitol Campus as an alternative
to University Park.
Lady and the Tramp
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By Shirley Stevens drawing clear boundary lines between
Many Capitol Campus students, as the , upper class and the lower class.
well as faculty and staff members, are Some class-conscious , parents might
also parents. In light of these parents' take offense at the facile distinction the
need to evaluate children's movies, picture makes between "haves" and
such films will be reviewed from time "have nots." The "have nots" are
to time. depicted homeless pound-bound ca-
"Lady and The' Tramp" is an ani
mated color feature about a pedigreed
female cocker spaniel and a male
tramp. The movie has a fast-moving
plot dotted with many other dog
breeds or "characters" which keep
children interested.
Loyalty, thoughtfulness and friend
ship are some of the qualities manifest
ed by canines. Love, fear of strange
places and people, rejection and sympa
thy are some of the emotions set forth.
The family is portrayed in a positive
light as the source of security and love.
As the title would imply, social class
7t, feature of this film.
"And item number G 555 i 5...." That familiar gentleman working as a guest
auctioneer at WITF's annual fund-raising spectacular was indeed Provost Gross.
Co-hosting with Dr. Gross is WITF vice president Bob .Hostetter. Other Penn
State Capitol personalities who assisted at this year' auction include Mark
Dorfman who served as an auctioneer and Yvonne Milspaw who co-hosted the
Sunday art auction.
Entertainment
Capitol Campus, he said, has the
special attributes of a university and,
as such, can offer more than either a
community college or a small liberal
arts college.
"We are the representative of the
university in this sensitive area of the
capital," Gross said.
He noted there are academic
bridges that link Capitol Campus and
University Park and "an improved
Capitol Campus is an improved Penn
State."
nines who lack the connections of the
collared set. There are, of course, many
classes between these two extremes to
which viewers are not exposed.
The impression is that one is born
into one of two fixed classes, and that
respectability is really possible only in
the upper stratum. Sex roles are also
rather stereotyped according to the
standard divisions of labor.
Nevertheless, the movie has careful
character development, and humans
and canines on the whole are warm and
friendly creatures. A better-than
average rainy weather pasttime for
three to eight year olds.
Thursday, May 29, 1980
Tim Eyerman, seated left, and East Coast Offering appeared in concert May
13 at Capitol Campus. The five-member group, whose home base is Washington,
D.C., performed jazz and jazz-rock in this, their final concert in a 3 1 / 2 -week tour of
Penn State campuses.
An international art exhibit is pre- searched and written by Dr. Yvonne J.
sently on display in the Gallery Milspaw, of the complex manufacture
Lounge. of this cloth accompanies the display.
Faculty, staff and student Jitsuro A ceremonial mask from Zambia, a
Yamamoto contributed to the exhibit wedding neckpiece from Kenya and
with arts and crafts from around the African butterfly prints are several of
globe. the items included.
Dr. and Mrs. Roy Allison loaned American Indian arts and crafts are
items they collected during their stay also in evidence. An American Indian
in Korea. Favorites of theirs are the rug and lithographs, loaned by Charles
chima chogori, woman's dress, and the Townley, are examples.
paja chogori, man's attire. More than 100 items from diverse
From Nigeria are several examples cultures are displayed. The exhibit will
of Adire cloth. An explanation, re- continue through June 6.
SGA and President's Council Presents
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Student Cen
Time: TBA
i Admission •1.0
donation
A public book sale will take place Faculty have been invited to screen
between• May 31 and June 4 in the the books for possible additions to the
Multi-Purpose Building. Heindel Library. The screening is
The books were the stock of several scheduled between May 27 and May 29.
bookstores which went out of business Books not designated for the library
in the late '6os. Most of them were
will be available for purchase by
stored, since their purchase, in a
faculty for their private collections at
warehouse in Middletown.
that time.
The library committee and the
provost's staff have considered the The price of those which remain,
costs, in time and money, of storing, available to the public, will be priced at
searching and cataloging the material. $l.OO per book on the first day of the
All agreed on a faculty screening and sale. The cost will be lowered on each
public sale process. succeeding day.
Fine Foreign Arts
June
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photo by Joan H. Klein