VAe NITTANT CUB
Established October 26, 1948, as the official publication for the
student body of Pennsylvania State College, Behrend Center,
Erie, Pennsylvania.
Published bi-weekly by the Breeze Publishing Co., North East, Pa.
MILES HARVEY
Acting
Editor
JOAN BAUDINO DON BLAIR MARILYN GARDEN
Penny O’Neil, Bob Betts, Dunk Zimmerman, Nancy Weston,
Cynthia Loesel, Nan Bierman, Dorothy Holmstrom, Meida Mos-.
kowitz, Marjorie Fleming, Sally Dickson, Ruth Gross, Tom
Tucker, Gibb Brownlie, Bill Klaban, Gene Sunberg, Judy
Thomas, Jeannine Barnhart, Nancy Merrick, Nona Ottawav, and
Jody Roberson.
It is -with deep sincerity and fullest sympathetic concurrence that
The Nitbany Cub reprints the following Advisory Board letter of
tribute to the memory of J. Elmer Reed, orginator of the idea of a
Penn State Center in Erie:
Mr. Robert C. Reed
1942 E. Shorie Drive
Erie, Pa.
Dear Mr. Reed
On. motion duly made and seconded, it is unanimously
RESOLVED, .that with a profound sense of the loss which they
have sustained, the Advisory Board of 'the Pennsylvania State
College, Beihrend Center, offers its highest tribute to the memory
of J. Elmer Reed, one of its members.
The Board recognizes the important part he took and ithe
invaluable aid he gave in the establishment of Behrend Center
through his initial inspiration, and by his ever-present desire
to promote the interests of the community in which he lived.
With sincere sorrow, the Board causes this expression of
his cualities and its deep regret at his death to be entered on
the records and .directs that a copy be sent to 'Mr. Reed’s fa
mily with assurance of deep sympathy.'
Sincerely yours,
R. C. Henzi, Secretary
Center Chatter
By Sal Dickson
Since we have all been away for
so long, it’s about tame we all
heard 'the latest dint.
Tom Pearce thought he reached
the “Arch of Triumph” but Rose
Larsen -told him “Sorry, Wrong
Number.” We thought he had the
“Luck of the Irish”.
Wes Pfirman still looks forward
to Saturday nights cause he knows
he has “A Date With Judy”.
Rumor has it that Joan Baudino
and Don Blair are “Angels With
Dirty Paces” but they claim its
just “An Innocent Affair”.
It looks like J. P. Painter just
didn’t have the “Velvet Touch”
when a few. of the dorm girls got
sickly
Lately Ray Reed .has been
“Good News” to Dody Fisher and
they seem "to be having “The Time
of Their Lives”.
Bob Gallagher and Carole Me-
Krell are stall experiencing the
“Thrill of a Romance”.
Bill Klabam sure looked like
“The Paleface” when a “Lady in
the Dark” just happened to over
hear he and Don Blair discussing
■things.
Bill Richards is telling everyone
that he is still having good luck
with “My Favorite Brunette” and
he sighs “All This and Heaven
Too”
Frances Ftaeeod is held “Spell-
Associate Editors
★
REPORTERS
A TRIBUTE
Advisory Board
bound” when people talk about
“JOHNNY Belinda”.
Harvey’s ship may have been in
Erie but by now it is “Gone with
the Wind.”
When Benny finished taking his
history test he was looking for
“The Razors Edge.”
“Red” Linder and Nan Bierman
enjoyed their trip to New York
on a “Luxury Liner.”
Jim Mullard, A 1 Leibau and
Jim s car are getting to be known
as the “Three Musketeers” around I
campus.
John Pagonis is still telling a
certain brunette “I’ve Always Lov
ed You.”
If the fellows in Chem lab don’t
lay off that acid we are going to
have to “Kiss The Boys Goodbye.”
(Thanks, Rita)
Dick Dunn has us all confused,
he seems to be leading a “Double
Life.”
John and C. Y. have had a lot
of experience watching the “Moon-
Lois, Lee, and Mary have named
the dorm “Holiday Inn.” •
Prediction of the Week: Every
one had a super time on their
“Christmas Holiday.”
Quotation of the Week: “Every
Girl Should Get Married.”
Couple of the week: Don Mal
lick and Frank Thompson.
Question of the Week: Who will
be our “June Bride”?
J. P. SPIERLING
Acting
Business Mgr .
THE NITTANY CUB
Platon Gottlund, physics and
mathematics instructor who will
handle the chores of instruction of
recreational skiing for Behrend
Center's students 0% their coming
winter layout, garnered his skiing
experience during a varied career.
Born at Tavastehus in central.
Finland in 1910. Mr. Gottlund
didn’t have to wait long before he
learned to ski. His parents present
ed him with his first skis at the
age of six, and from then until he
was twelve he skiied continually.
Axel W. Gottlund, Platon’s fath
er, was an excellent skier at the
time, having won several schol
astic skijoring titles, skijoring be
ing a winter sport in which 0
person on skis is drawn over
snow or ice, usually by a horse.
Following quickly in his fath
er’s footsteps, or rather in his ski
tracks, Platon soon had the art of
skiing under control almost as
second nature.
He, himself, won a few skijor
ing titles, but he says he often
wondered at first if he was ever
I going to learn the tricky art of
combining strength and balance
while guiding a galloping horse
with one hand at the end of 20-
Ifoot reins.
I “Making turns gave me my most
I trouble,” laughed Mr. Gottlund
I the other day. “More than once 1
J found myself ending up headfirst
I in a snow bank while learning.”
I After awhile, however, as a boy
he thought nothing of setting off
for his grandmother’s at Christ
mas time and skiing 37 miles in*a
I day, then resting overnight and
skiing 37 more miles, or 60 kilo
meters as he likes to put it.
“Oh yes,” he grinned before
this reporter could get the ques
tion out, “we'took a packed lufich
along or else we stopped at one
of the numerous hostels along
the way.”
Actually Mr. Gottlund did most
of his younger skiing in Russia
where his parents had moved
when his father joined the Rus
sian Army. There, however, he
said, skiing was done more as a
necessity than for pleasure. He
I and his brother often used to
spend most of a day on their skis
[while traveling about for work.
“A common sight in Siberia at
the time,” said the Behrend in
[ structor, “were the long slow
trains of people on sleds and skis,
being pulled by tractors.”
Although the Gottlunds lived
on a big ranch in the eastern part
of European Russia near the Ural
Mountains for -about eight years,
they had to clear out when the
Revolution started.
Platon’s father joined the White
Army as a colonel and commanded
a cavalry regiment all through
the winter of 1919 in an effort to
stem the onrush of the Bolshevist
Reds. The Whites had to give
ground, however, and the Gott
lund family soon found itself push-
ed all the way into China’s Man-
churia near Harbin.
“We had no thoughts of skiing
then,” said Mr. Gottlund. “Our
family just managed to escape to
Shanghai where we got a ship to
Italy, and then moved by land
through France, Germany, and
Denmark. And finally we caught
a steamer to Helsingfors, not too
far from our new home in lower
Finland.”
Shortly thereafter, with his 13th
birthday celebrated aboard a liner
in the Atlantic, Platon and his
family landed in New York. Soon
Know Yo
His skiing trips in America in
clude those to Yosemite National
Park, the easy Sky Top run in the
Pocono Mountains, thq “Big Brom
ley” resort in Vermont, and Cali
fornia’s Donner Summit prob
ably his toughest-where one finds
such famous ski runs as the “Sug
ar Bowl” and others.
During the war he flew to Paris
m a luxurious DC-4; and from
there he operated to Leipzig,
Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, and
even Belgrade.
' For one thing Mr. Gottlund’s I
pupils can be sure their skiing in-1
structor has covered many kinds I
of trails so far in his life; he cer-1
cainly doesn’t seem to lack all I
around experience for his job. I
Ski Club to
Receive Bobsled
And Toboggan
Mr. Platon Gottlund, Behrend
ski coach, said today that Behrend
Center might be the proud recip
ients of two new toboggans and
oossibly a bobsled sometime this
week.
Mr. Sherman Fogg, Assistant
Professor of Physical Education at
Penn State, is making arrange
ments to have them sent here im
mediately. Let’s hope it’s a white
winter!
Belfennan Speaks
To French Club
The last meeting of the French
Club was held in room 101 of the
classroom building recently, and
Mr. Belferman, who was station
ed in Dakar and Casablanca dur
ing the war, told of his experi
ences in North Africa. He showed
pictures of some famous sites,
including the Sphinx and the
pyramids, and the natives.
Several members of the French
class are corresponding with
French people living in Canada.
This is not only to facilitate the
use of the language, but to ac
quaint the students with the per
sonality' and temperament of the
Frenchman as an individual.
r Faculty
PLATON GOTTLUND
after this they piled into a Model
T Ford and rumbled off to Cali
fornia where he finished his form
al education in the high schools
and colleges of that state.
Not until 1940, though, did Mr.
Gottlund renew his skiing interest.
Since then he has been skiing reg
ularly, with four years in the
United States Forces European
Theater as a major in the military
intelligence sandwiched in.
BITS OF BOOKS
By Judith Thomas
The Story of Philosphy by Dur=
; xnt is the book for you if you like
i to pick up something to read and
i .Tim to any page for a few minutes
of interesting reading. The book
contains vivid accounts of the lives
and accurate and persuasive pre
sentations of the opinions of the
great philosophers from Plato and
Socrates to James and Dewey. It
I,s monumental but it-is extremely
I readable. A surface knowledge of
she philosophies formulated from
I Plato’s time is almost necessary
1 soday to comprehend fully modem
literature. Durant presents philo-
I sophy in a simple, understandable
manner; yet the simplicity of ex
pression never subtracts from the
I basic substance of the philosophy,
lit is interesting to see how the
I great philosopher’s perspicacity of
I matters way above our comprehen-
I sion did very little to improve their
own character or give them happi
ness. Among the philosophers dis
cussed are Plato, Aristotle, Bacon,
I Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopen
aauer, Spenser, Nietzsche, Bert
rand Russel, Santayana, and John
Dewey.
Salute Given to
Behrend Center’s
“Betsy Ross’s”
I A tribute is in order for the two
I Mrs. Thurbons, wife and mother
of our own instructor, "for the
magnificent work they did on the
beautiful, colorful Behrend Cent
er banner, which is now display
|ed above the fireplace in the
Student Lounge. The big blue and
white banner has given the lounge
the finishing touch to make us
feel more at home and closer to
the main campus.
Behrend Center thanks you,
Mesdames Thurbons.
Registration Set
For February 4-5
t Registration for second semester
classes will be held on the fourth
(Friday) and fifth (Saturday) of
February. It will be held in the
library for the larger part of
these days.
f All students who are not resi
dents of Erie are free to go home
after their last exam on the 27th.
It will not be possible for anyone
to register in advance.
It is advisable that all students
be back by Friday, at least, to
make any corrections in schedule.
There will be a fee of S 5 for any
one who is late in registering.
You are the first class of
I Behrend Center. The customs you
establish will probably -become tlhe
traditions of the future classes.
Behrend Center is a part of the
I Pennsylvania State College, we
know, but surely a school so
beautiful deserves seme imdiv
uality. We of the Cub staff fed
that Behrend Center needs a song
|of its own, a tune for this and
coming classes to sing. This
should be written by a student.
Your contribution may be an
original number or it may be a
parody on another song. Come
on, Cemteiites! How about it? .