LET’S GO, Dedication Day, next Saturday, officially opens Behrend as a center of Pennsylvania State College. We, the first class, certainly enjoy more privileges and opportunities than any other college in the state. The recreation facilities and natural beauty of Mrs. Behrend s former country estate are unlimited. Although these facilities appear sufficient for the present time, there are long range plans to be put into effect when funds are avail able. These include numerous other buildings and athletic fields yet to be constructed whose design and location will be decided by col lege officials and architects. Being the first class, we bear the burden of responsibility. The habits we form, the precedents we set and our manner of handling school activities will initiate customs which will probably remain with the school after we have have left. The reaction thus far to most activities has been of the best type. The Student Council has been organized, a constitution drawn, plans made for numerous social activ ities and organizations and a sports program started. Our participa'- tion in these events will express our desire for more of them and our wish to grow with the school and to become the leading student body in Pennsylvania. - This yours and mine, to start a real institution off right. From here on out it is up to us. Know Yo If variety is the spice of life, Mr. Herman Belferman, instructor of languages at the Behrend Cent er, should be well qualified to con firm the fact. Tn announcing the appointment of Mr. Belferman to teach both Spanish and French at the new Erie college, Mr. T. Reed Ferguson, administrative head, revealed that the school had selected the lang uage instructor not only for his linguistic abilty but also for his versatility of experience in re lated fields. Along with his education abili ties Mr. Belferman, who received his A~B. degree from City College of New York, is also well-qualified to teach formal and informal dancing and dramatics, having directed these extra-curricular activities for his alma mater. Before reaching an instructor’s rank in the language field, he also studied voice for three years and plane in time to coordinate a con cert career of both popular and semi-classical music along with his other activities. A baritone by training, Mr. Bel ferman long has been a student of voice and. has been personally in terested in voice culture. The new Center instructor had plenty of chance to put his talents to work in a practical way while in the Special Service Division of the United States Army during 1944 and 1945. For some time he tutored servicemen for particular language tasks during the war. In addition he conducted a series of lectures and orientation talks, and later had charge of an Army newspaper in Africa. “One of my most satisfying ex periences took place in Africa, GANG... :r Faculty too,” smiled Mr. Belferman while being interviewed today, going on to relate that while doing radio news announcing for the 125th Army Air Forces Base Unit’s or ientation division, he had en joyed most the appreciation of the men when they received even the smallest tidbits of information from home. • The Center instructor supple mented his practical experience in languages the past two years by tutoring in New York’s College Employment Bureau, and by handling necessary translations for engineering concerns in that district. Genial Mr. Belferman also in timated to the reporter in closing that he ' hoped to give some of Erie’s handball experts a tussle in the near future, having compet ed successfully himself in recent years with various champions of the Manhattan area. THE NITTANY CUB Personality It was the night of the A-Capel la concert at Strong-Vincent High School. Tensely the audience wait ed for the opening words of “The Russian Cavalry Song.” Suddenly, the auditorium was filled with the thundering strains of this forceful song. The mixed voices sang as they had never sung before, build ing in force, then stopping abrupt ly, waiting for one, two, three, four voices to sound separately, then together. They waited. Three voices sounded in time but what had happened to the first one? Dunk Zimmerman hadn’t been wat ching the director and he just for got to sing. Dunk’s real name is Phillip but he was dubbed Dunk at the age of three, no one knows why. He was born in Erie on May 6, 1929. He graduated from Strong-Vin cent High School in 1947. Dunk is five feet nine inches tall and wei ghs one hundred fifty-five pounds. His hair and eyes are brown. Just like everyone else, Dunk has his own set of likes and dis likes. His favorite is horses. Blue is the color of his choice and A Tree In The Meadow,” the song. A meal of venison steak or spag hetti would be tempting to his pa late at anytime. Dunk likes foot ball both as a spectator and a part icipant. Among his dislikes are loose necked T-shirts and girls who smoke. In contrast to this, his fav orite characteristics in a girl are neatness and cleanliness. Dunk is majoring in Geology with the idea of changing to For restry. His favorite subject here at Behrend Center is English Comp osition. Some day he would like to be a good amature wild-life photo grapher. Dunk can be found in the stud ent lounge where all'the laughing is going on. He has a host of witty remarks but his standard one is to say to any complaint, “Obviously a thyroid condition, Doctor. 7 -Afr MUSIC Jpg!! MEMOS By Marjorie Fleming Outstanding among musical events of the past week was the appearance at Strong Vincent au ditorium of the First -Piano Quar tet. This unique group of pianists presented by the Villa Maria Col lege Cultural Society, ranks high among internationally famous ra dio,, recording, and concert artists. Among the selections played by the Messrs. Padwa, Mittler, Garner and Edson were: Mozart’s “Rondo”; “La Campanella” and the “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” by Liszt; Debussy’s immortal “Clair De- Lune”; and “Malaguena” by Lec uona. Soon to come before the Erie public is Thomas L. Thomas, A merican baritone. Mr. Thomas, star of several radio programs, and a Victor recording artist, will also be sponsored by Villa Maria Col lege. . _ In the popular vein were Car men Cavallero and Gene Krupa with their orchestra at the Erie Armory. Band Meets A preliminary meeting of the band proved satisfactory in bring ing together a number of student instrumentalists nearly sufficient for a dance band. It still lacks a pianist (popular style) and a bass player. However, further aspir ants are indeed, welcome. As soon as it is well-rehearsed, the band plans to play for all student func tions. j the Week ■ ■'e. DUNK FIRESIDE CHATS Sitting here with a smoke and a coke, singeing our' toes, we snoopers have gathered the latest gossip. Plash!! Keep your hopes up, girls—there’s one of us that Dick Finey thinks is “all-right”!! What strange attraction does the kitchen hold for Judy Thomas? 2f Dewey doesn’t get elected, it certainly won’t be Bill Richards fault We see Dodi Fisher nth that Pearce-ing look in her eyes Was it noticed that Gib Brown lie, Bobby Waugh, and George Hamilton ambled down the drive way last Thursday just about 45 minutes late for History class. Nice timing boys, but Bob, please get that oar fixed Jody Rober son is another person having car trouble: let’s get that “kitty”, built up so the gals can have an other ride to gym class Jim Mullard and A 1 Liebau are going to get chubby one of these days from eating all of those Jack Frost Donuts. Every night on the way home from school, the boys stop for an appetizer before their din ner Reinalda Vickey, one of the students from Erie, has served in the Navy Nurse Corps for 5 years and was discharged with the rank of Lt. Comdr., U.S.N.R. Our hats off to her .Has everybody seen (don’t know how you could miss it) Dick Collman’s old • Lincoln. Its name is “Abe” Speaking of cars (we were, weren’t we?) That blue Cadillac that Jeanne Shalk ham drives, certainly looks strange among all of those ‘32 jalopies!! .We see C.Y. has another suck er—nothing personal John, we mean a lollipop .Imagine, Miss Ficker thought that the men(?) had put popcorn in her bed the other night Better hit the sack a little earlier, Lloyd, you don’t get 3’s in Miss Davis’s English Comp, class for sleeping .Why is it that Dunk Zimmerman picked his first day of Chem. Lab. to wear his first good pair of pants to school .No Dunk, Mr. Balmer just isn’t your type! .Nona Otta way certainly gets - results when she hitch-hikes. She even has the charm to lure the person 5 miles out of his way to take her right to the gate of the school Quotation of the Week: Yesss ssssssssssss-for correct pronun ciation see Bill Klaban......Couple of the Week: We have unanimous ly elected Frances Finesod and Marvin Marcus the slap-happy couple of the week, and we do mean SLAP Question of the Week: Who’s - “Nature Boy”? Prediction of the Week: We pre dict, that Wes and Judy will patch things up before the paper goes to press , BITS DF BOOKS By Nan Bierman The White -Cliffs Alice Duer Miller “The White - Cliffs” is a poem beautifully told of an American girl and an English man who mar ry at the outbreak of the first World War. The problems they en counter are the main theme of the story. Mrs. Miller- tells us of the feeling between England and A merica at this time. This book ex presses both the American and English views to each other. Good Night, Sweet Prince Gene Fowler Gene Fowler has written a deep-- ly moving story, of his great friend John Barrymore. The great profile’s -wit and sincere ability to live his part will make him an im mortal person in the American the atre. It is true that talent such as his is not always used to the great est advantage but Barrymore gave pleasure to millions, which was his greatest satisfaction. Fowler has given his great friend . a tribute long to be equaled in “Good Night, Sweet Prince,” Prince of Foxes Samuel Shellbarger When your columnist began “Prince of Foxes” she was overjoy ed at the prospect of : . another of Shellbarger’s adventures. After, reading “Captain from Castile” I expected great things, but was dis appointed. If you have not read Mr. Sbellbarger’s first novel you will thoroughly enjoy his second. “Prince of Foxes” is definitely a pleasant way to idle away spare time. The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Mauham In the “Razor’s Edge” Mr. Mau gham attempts to brirfg forth his idea that evefy man must find his own peace of mind. Since the au thor believes his. views are the only ones that count, he is the outstand ng character in his book. If you en joy sitting down and analyzing the book that you are reading then by all means read the “Razor’s Edge.” Mr. Maugham enjoys being the most important man of the hour, surrounding himself by lesser in dividuals. PAINTER’S POINTERS Miss Janice H. Painter, register ed nurse for Erie Behrend Center made some valuable suggestions to various members of the student body as to the importance of study habits yesterday in the student lounge. “Some of the students,” said Miss Painter, “have -found the rapid sw itch from high school or prep school to college a big jump in re lation to the amount of study time and study habits necessary.” She continued by pointing out the fact that in the fields of col legiate and university education, study habits are most important and should, be cultivated early. “For example,” mentioned Miss Pa inter, “if people, individual stud ents, would learn to concentrate more time on those studies which give them the most difficulity rather than merely alloting more time to their favorite subjects or those upon which they hope in the future to center their interests they would find the results to a great degree much more satisfy ing.” “That’s all, there just ain’t no more” The Behrend Super Snoopers
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