SPARKS CUBS
By' Ron Raymond
"What' a game! What a finish!
Wonderful Ah, wonderful! Re
cently the Behrend Center Cubs
successfully opened their basket
ball schedule for this year with
an exciting 62-60 victory over a
strong McKeesport team. It was
a hard-fought and well-deserved
victory for the home team.
Taking advantage of weak pass
ing and opening night jitters, the
visitors managed to muster an
early first quarter lead. The Beh
rend five soon settled down, how
ever, and at the end of the first
half were ahead by a 29-21 score.
As the second half began, the
Cubs held their own, but the vis
itors were far from being finished.
When two fast breaks brought
them within one point of the
leaders, it took a pair of jump
shots by Wes Carter to tempor
arily quell the storm. Soon the
Pittsburghers were at it again,
and with thirty seconds remain
ing. a foul shot knotted the score
at 60-60. As the clock moved on,
the ball changed hands a number
of times while both sides franti
cally tried to tally. In the final
ten seconds a Wes Carter pass
set Mike Nagel up for his game
winning hook shot.
Although slightly lacking in
height, our Behrend boys held
their own under the boards and
gave their loyal supporters some
thing to cheer about. Actually, the
game was won at the foul line
where they made 24 foul shots to
the visitors 12.
Mike Nagel paved the way with
27 points and carried the bulk of
the rebounding. Bud Seiffert, with
11 points and Wes Carter with 10
also added to the cause. All in
all, however, it was a team vic
tory and an exhibition of fine
basketball. Certainly, the game
provided valuable experience
which will aid the Cubs in future
games.
With this optimistic viewpoint.
we are looking forward to an ex-
citing and successful basketball
season,
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the leaves of the holly tree were
always green and it was most
beautiful at a time of year when
other trees were barren, holly is
hateful to witches because of its
thorns and was therefore used on
doors and windows to keep evil
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yule log, originated in ancient
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We are all aware that it was
much to Dr. Smith’s horror when
she first discovered that the
Behrend Pine was not a pine at
all but a pretty spruce tree. In
order to justify this grave mis-
take, the editors have done a con
siderable amount of research to
find out why the spruce tree in
the circle is called a pine tree. But
after many, many weeks of ques-
tions with no satisfactory answers,
the editors just about decided to
give up the whole idea and allow
Dr. Smith to think that some
botanical fool merely walked
around campus and named every
tree he saw a pine tree. However,
one of the editors struck upon a
unique way to find the reason for
the misnaming of the tree. We
simply asked the tree and the
tree simply told us. Here, for the
first time, as told tby the Behrend
Pine to your feature editor, we
present for Dr. Smith, all botany
students and the whole campus,
“The Legend of the Behrend
Pine.”
“Once upon a winter starlight
at the annual Harpstring Coun
cil, the Christmas angels gathered
to discuss the choice of the
Christmas Tree of Honor. This
year was chosen as the Year of
the Pine; and, according to cus
tom, it was the privelege of the
youngest angel of the council to
select the Honored Pine. As fate
would have happen in this Year
of the Pine, the youngest angel
was indeed young. In fact, he was
so young that he hadn’t even com
pleted his angel college course
in “Earth Treeology.” Naturally,
a completed course on Earth Tree
ology was a necessary require
ment; tout in all the confusion
none of the older angels noticed
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"LEGEND OF THE BEHREND PINE"
Our youngest angel’s name, as
it should be, was Xlykmorzqa. *
Xlykmorzqa, himself, -was so ex
cited about going to earth to
choose the Christmas Pine that
he, too, forgot about the incom
plete course.
Therefore, in the Year of the
Pine, Xlykmorzqa rocketed from
his silver-blue cloud to earth.
After a second of scanning the
earth a number of sputnik times,
the youngest angel spied a beau
tiful evergreen tree in the north-
eastern part of Pennsiyvania.
Thinking that this evergreen was
a pine, Xlykmorzqa snatched the
tree and returned with it to the
Harpstring Council.
ostrich soup, the pine was not a
pine at all but a spruce tree! Toot
the angel horns! Conference—con
ference of the - Elders!! Xlyk
morzqa has mistaken a spruce
tree for a pine! Never, never in
the history of the Harpstring
Council had the angels mistaken
the Christmas Tree of Honor.
Well, naturally only one way
remained to clear the scandal. The
tree must 'be returned. And re-
gretful or not as it may seem, the
angel who returned the tree never
finished his college geography
course and could not distinguish
between east and west. Thus he
hastily dropped the spruce on the
opposite side of Fennsylvnia into
the Behrend circle. And with
these words, ‘Spruce tree, hence
forward thou shalt be known, as
pine,’ the angel vanished into the
winter starlight and left the
Behrend Pine majestic on the
cold Christmas Eve.”
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The Behrend Pine
Ed. Note—Xlykmorzqa, trans
lated into English means “Little
brother of the higher spirits to
McGregor XIOL.
Abstract Painting
Causes Comments
The current art display in the
library, in addition to adding to
the cultural atmosphere of the
campus, has been causing much
comment. Included in the display
are a work of Maud Miller’s,
“Areas of Waiting”, Carole Laza
rus’ “Abstract,” oil paintings by
Janet Warren, Sandra David, Al
Kuhns, and also an uninhibited
work by Prank Hursen entitled
“My Dog and Me.”
The winning photographs of the
recent photography contest were
Mr. Patterson’s “Night Light” and
“February Shadows.” Three tick
ets to the recent “Othello” pre
sentation at Villa Maria Auditori
um were awarded to the winners
of the Othello contest, Carole La-
Evelyn Bernhard and Sandy David.
A Christmas-tree trimming- party
was held in the library. Among
those present were Ron Raymond,
Fred Monoco, Fred Faulk, Frank
Hursen, Dave Lord, Clyde Beatty,
Evelyn Bernhard, Sandy David,
Carole Lazarus, and the hostess,
Miss Filer.
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