KING WINTER PAYS BELATED VISIT
Volume I—No. 7 *
BEHREND CAMPUS BEAUTY QUEEN IS CHOSEN
The six Behrend lovelies who reached the local finals in the 20 th Century-Fox nation wide beauty contest to select “Miss Col
lege Freshman of 1949.” They are from left to right: Betty Lou Volk, McKeesport, Pa., Marilyn Garden, Clairton, Pa., Rose Lar
sen, the winner from Erie, Pa., Judj* Norton, Lorain, Ohio, Allene Benton, Erie, Pa., Carol McKrell, Pittsburgh, Pa.
SNOW! I !
Followers of the flashing pines
and flying, snow have much cause
for rejoicing these past few days
since old man weather finally
came across last Sunday and Mon
day 'with upwards of 6 inches of
snow. Behrend skiiers lost little
time in taking advantage of the
long awaited downfall as’ ski-suits
emerged from moth balls and
dusty hiekorys were hurriedly
polished. Loud "huzzas” echoed
down the ski run and even attract
ed the attention of the Erie Dis
patch Herald, which recorded the
festivities with a series of fine pic
tures in the Tuesday edition.
Weather-wise Erieites however,
are holding their breath, for next
week or even sooner may bring
blooming daffodils and flying
golf balls.
Gottlund Speaker
For Church Banquet
On Feb. 16, at The Father and
Son’s Banquet, held in the Church
Of The Covenant in Erie, Mr.
Platon Gottlund, instructor of
mathematics at the Behrend
.Center, was scheduled to address
the group concerning skiing at
Behrend. But because the weather
has not been favorable for skiing,
he told the purpose and function
of the Center. In his address, Mr.
Gottlund explained that at the
present time the Center was set
up to accomodate Penn State
Freshmen, with an enrollment of
approximately one hundred and
fifty students. The purpose of
the Center is to prepare the stu
dents for a higher degree 'of pro
ficiency. yet not on a professional
level, t<o offer graduate work for
which there is a need, and to aid
local groups in forums and work
shops. The aim of the Center is
■to be of general service to Erie
and its surrounding communities.
7<feNITTANy CUB
Price Five Cents
W. S. Smith, State
Professor, Lectures
Behrend Students
On February 15, at 4:45 in the
Recreation Hall, a talk was given
by Dr. William. M. Smith, Associ
ate Professor of Family Relations
of Penn State. The subject of the
lecture was “Are You Prepared for
Marriage?”
Dr. Smith was introduced to the
student body by Georganne Fisher,
acting chairman of the Girls
Forum Group, who gave us a brief
resume of his background. She
stated that Dr. Smith, who does
mostly research work in this field,
graduated from Cornell Univer
sity where he wrote a thesis on
“Problems of Young Married
Couples.” At Penn State, Dr.
Smith teaches a “shot gun” course
in the evening which has 90 stu
dents enrolled and carries one
credit. Ha also teaches a three
credit course in family relations
with 150 enrolled.
The. lecture proved most in
teresting and no doubt gave us
all a few pointers on marriage
such as the good and bad side of
“old shoes.” Dr. Smith talked for
approximately one hour, after
which time the students were per
mitted to ask questions. Some of
the students were of the opinion
that this was the most interesting
part of the leoture.-
This lecture was the first of
many discussions the Girls Forum
Group has planned. As you know
this group is under the direction
of Mrs. Gottlund, wife of the math
instructor; Mrs. Ferguson, wife
of our administrative head; and
Miss Picker, German and English
Teacher. This group consists
mostly of girls living in the dormi
tory who are interested in social
work. The girls have planned a
visit to 'thte Erie Infants Home on
March 5 to get some idea of the
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1949
Horean’s Speech
Clinic Instituted
'At Behrend
The new Speech and Hearing
Clinic of the Behrend Center is
under the direction of Mr. Will
iam -Horean, our last semester
speech instructor. It is a Behrend
Center organization and operates
under the Speech and Hearing
Clinic of the Pennsylvania State
College, just as all other center
departments operate. Right now
•the clinic is working in collabora
tion with the State Vocational
Rehabilitation Bureau.
The new clinic is located in
what used to be the back lounge
and operates on every Monday,
Tuesdav, Friday, and Saturday
for one half day. Enrolled in the
clinic are two clients of the State
Vocational Rehabilitation Bureau
■and one veteran under Public Law
Sixteen. The program consists of
one half hour of individual train
ing, one period of mental hygiene,
and one period of speech improv
ment, given in group form. Then
the trainees have one supervised
study hour where they practice
what they have learned. Several
of the conditions which are treat
ed at the clinic are: stuttering,
articulation, cleft palate, hearing
problems, and voice problems. The
treatment varies with the type of
case and the disability of the
client. There are three general
steps in the treatment. They are:
(1) finding the cause; (2) re
moving the cause; (3) treating
the defect. For example, take a
cleft palate case. The first step
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■work that is done there.
Here’s hoping all of their plans
are as successful as the talk pre
sented to the# student body of
Behrend Center by Dr. Smith.
By Georganne Fisher
Council Members
Elected; Yearbook
Is Voted Down
On Thursday, February 17, the
Student Council held, an election
of students of the various cur
ricula to the student council
Those selected from the different
fields were Bob Gourley, Mineral
Industries and Physical Education;
Bob Knoll, Engineering; and Chas.
Amend, Chemistry and Physics.
Wes Pfirman from engineering is
the newly elected treasurer.
After the election the council
held a short business meeting and
decided to start building the li
brary by sending, letters to Alumni
and asking for gifts.
They also decided that instead
of having a yearbook, because it
was now too late, to have the last
edition of the newspaper be rather
large and let that take the place
of one.
PENN STATE PHYSICAL
EDUCATION EXPERTS
VISIT CAMPUS
Mr. A. F. Davis, Head of Health
Education on the Pennsylvania
State Campus, and Mr. C. W.
Stoddard, Director of Extensions
for Physical Education, paid a
visit to the Behrend Center camp
us last week. Their primary rea
son for the visit was to interview
Mr. Abermoski about his graduate
course in Physical Education. The
two men attended an interesting
class on fly tying, conducted by Mr.
Shields, our Botany and Zoology
Instructor.
Overheard in the cafeteria dur
ing the lunch hour: Sturg: “Mr.
Thurbon, I want a word with you.”
Mr. Thurbon: “If it’s only a word
it will be the best thing that I
have ever heard out of you.”
Behrend Center—Pennsylvania State College
Judges Name
Rose Larsen
For Honor
Miss College Freshman has at
last come into her own:
Now comes a national beauty
and talent search to find the
“Miss America” of the nation’s
campuses!
As part of the world premier
program for its forthcoming Tech
nicolor comedy. “Mother Is A
Preshman,’_’ Twentieth Century-
Fox is offering $lOO in cash to the*
Pennsylvania State College fresh
man girl whose beauty and talent
qualify her for the title, “Miss
All-American College Freshman.”
Erie Behrend Center, a branch
of State College, has been appoint
ed by the school as one of the ex
tensions qualified to select a
freshman miss.
Rose Larsen reigns as the Fresh
man Beauty Queen of Behrend
Center. The vivacious blonde
Erieite was unanimously .named
from a group of six of Behrend’s
loveliest co-eds at a Sunday after
noon +ea held in the school li
brary. The six contestants; Mari
lyn Garden, Carol McKrell, Judy
Norton, Betty Lou Volk, and Alene
Benton, were selected by the spec
tators of the Behrend Center,
Bradford Center basketball game
last Saturday night, February 26,
in the Lawrence Park gymnasium.
Final judgement was made bs
Mrs. Thora McDannell Scboes
sell, outstanding Erie photogra
pher, L. Newell Tarrant, talented
director of the Erie Playhouse, and
Erich Bohn, well known hair sty
list.
Miss Larsen, an eduction Major,
named oil painting as her leading
hobby, along, with baton twirling
and swimming.
She will compete on the main
State College campus on March
sth for the honor of representing
the entire college in the national
contest.
The coed selected to represent
State College will, in other words,
have an opportunity to win the
grand prize of a one-week trip
to Hollywood during the summer
vacation recess if she is selected
as national champion.
In addition, if the local “Miss
Freshman” wins in the competition
with six other representatives of
State Centers, she will be named
“Queen” of the premiere showing
of “Mother Is A Freshman” at
the Chatam Theater in State
College, Pa., and on March 10 will
•be guest of honor at the festivi
ties to be held during the initial
showing of the film.
The national “Miss All-Ameri
can College Freshman” search
grew out of a poll taken by
Twentieth Century-Fox some
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