Ancient campus envelopes to receive stamp of approval
They are humble, unsung heroes of
university business.
Silent and uncomplaining, they get
stuffed, scribbled on, tossed, lugged, tom
open-and ignored.
But now their moment of glory and
recognition has come.
No longer will inter-departmental
mail envelopes labor in ignominious
obscurity thanks to Faculty Council and
a casual suggestion over a lunch table.
As part of the college's 25th
anniversary celebration, the Council is
sponsoring a contest to find and honor
the oldest campus mail envelope, said
James R. Hudson, Council chairperson.
"Their history is interesting,"
Hudson said. "They circulate and travel
to University Park, to the
Baseball, hot dogs, apple
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Capital Times Staff
With the 1991 baseball season less
than three weeks away, it’s always nice
to write a story that can only be
appreciated by us die-hard fans who are
full of stastistics, baseball metaphors
and more statistics.
Baseball has taken a beating in the
last couple of years as many feel it has
turned into a game of greedy owners and
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have gone in and done this in October,
but we first had to get the nation behind
us."
A member of the on-campus
fraternity for veterans (XGI'S) known to
most as T.Z., said he is glad to see the
war end so quickly.
"The important thing is that we came
out winners," he said. "America is
backing them up now [[troops] but I
wonder how long the euphoria about
winning the war will last."
T.Z. said the sodiers in the current
crisis deserve a long-lived thank you by
the American public. If not, they will
begin to ask as many did in Vietnam,
"what did I do it for?"
TJZ. noted that among the sacrifices,
troops had to give up their jobs, pay
cuts and some even lost their jobs. He
added that many of the troops now face
financial problems and are forced to
move in with parents or relatives.
Woodworth agreed with T.Z. and said
that despite the fact that many will be
without jobs, there are those who were
not volunteers that are often forgotten.
"There are guys that are away from
their families for six months at a time,"
he said. " There are families that are on
food stamps not because they want to
be, but because they are forced to, due to
low military pay."
Woodworth said that many Vietnam
veterans have been living this way for
the past 10-20 years, and should not be
forgotten during the hometown
celebrations.
Commonwealth Campuses. A lot get
stuck in the back of a drawer."
Fifteen envelopes have been
nominated so far, Hudson said. And
judging from their faded exteriors and the
addresses to faculty and administrators
long gone, they are a competitive field.
But more entries are welcome from
faculty, staff and students, Hudson said.
The contest deadline is April 10.
Entries should be mailed (in an inter
departmental mail envelope) to Faculty
Council Contest, W-151, Olmsted.
"Be sure to include your name and
address," Hudson said.
The nominator of the most
venerable envelope wins $25 worth of
Penn State memorabilia, Hudson said.
Second prize wins "less memorabilia."
Third prize gets "even less
players who care very little about the
common fan sitting in the bleachers.
But aside from the scandals and hot-shot
players with exuberant contracts, this
spring came one man who attempted to
do what no other has done in the game.
James Alvin Palmer, #22, the 3-
time Cy Young Award winner and
winningest pitcher in the history of of
the Baltimore Orioles, attempted to
become the first player in the game to
mount a comeback after being enshrined
Joanna Klain, the Philadelphia
printmaker whose art is currently
on exhibit in the Gallery Lounge
will be giving a gallery talk on
Wed. March 20. Look for a
review of the exhibit in the April 5
edition of the Capital Times.
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memorabilia." (The prizes translate into
$25, $l5 and $lO gift certificates to the
campus book store, Hudson explained.)
To pick the winners, a selection
committee will scrutinize such evidence
as ancient names on the envelopes-they
have space for as many as 60— and
outdated office addresses, Hudson said.
The contest to honor oft-handled
envelopes was born in an off-handed
comment.
Hudson said he was earing lunch in
the Lion's Den, a well-worn inter
departmental envelope in his hand.
"I started reading the names, and I
said, 'Gosh, who remembers Micha
Dordevic?'" (Mihailo "Micha" Dordevic,
professor emeritus of humanities and
literature, came to campus in 1969 and
retired in 1985.)
pie and Jockey shorts
in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Palmer, at the ripe-old age of 45
(and in better shape than most), fell
short of his bid last week after suffering
a torn hamstring, forcing himself back
into the broadcast booth and more
"pitching" of JOCKEY underwear.
He made a brief appearance in a
grapefruit exibition game against the
Boston Red Sox, and fared pretty well
for a guy who hasn't pitched in an
official game in eight years.
Palmer, aside from losing some
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Associate Provost Ernest Dishner,
who was sitting at the table, suggested
holding a contest for the oldest envelope.
"He said it in jest,” Hudson recalled,
"but I thought it was a terrific morale
idea."
The selection committee is made
up of faculty and staff with enough years
of service to determine the antiquity of
envelopes, Hudson said.
Members of the committee and the
years they came to campus are: Robert J.
Brown, associate professor of finance
(1969); Nettie Garver, secretary (1972);
Christopher K. McKenna, associate
professor of management science (1971);
Carolyn A. Miller, associate librarian
(1969); and Stanley N. Miller, professor
of social science and education (1966).
noticeable zip on his fastball, still
resembled the high-kicking right hander
from the days of McNally, Cuellar,
Belanger, Blair, Powell, and the
Robinson boys.
Palmer's comeback was not about
money. It was a success story about a
guy who truly loves the game.
It is a game where little boys grow
up wanting to be like their baseball
heroes, and heroes long to be little boys
again.
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