Friday, October 28, 1960
Behrend's nurse, confidante,
book dealer, check-out girl in
cafeteria, heroine of the hypo,
and just plain lady.
THANK YOU:
• Mrs. Hertell, Mr. and Mrs.
Lerch, and Mr. Gallagher and his
date for chaperoning the dance in
Erie Hall -Saturday night.
To the Faculty Wives and Wo
men’s Association for donating a
sewing machine to the Dorm girls
for their use in the future.
Sports is essential along one’s career road. It is not only of physical
benefit, but it provides for a person’s social ease and mental agility as
well. A trim, well-proportioned body is standard in a society which
judges by appearances, but let us remember, too, that a good build’s
greatest function is not its attractiveness as much as its health. The
same thing applies to the mind which can be innately intelligent but
has to acquire agility of expression. On the field of play, a person is
responsible to his teammates and works for the common goal against
an opponent equal or greater in ability than his team so that in the
end, after the preliminary training and the further education obtained
from actual “combat”, he realizes that all that was really needed was
good coordination and lots of “guts”. A type of coordination, he per
ceives, that enabled him to decide quickly when his opponents were
closing in on him and the further coordination to skillfully execute his
decision. The benefits had come unconsciously but confidently. Besides
the physical and mental advantages gained in the craft of sportsman
ship, he also learns to get along with different types of characters and
temperaments and, because athletic endeavor is the surest way to point
out one’s weaknesses, he improves his social performance as well as
being able to view and evaluate the performance and integrity of his
fellow men. Sports, therefore, provides for him not only health mental
and physical stimulation as an athlete, but also provides him, no matter
what his IQ, with a deeper understanding of basic psychology and
sociology. It is an inevitable process that every man comes to under
stand exists in getting to know his fellow men
They say one way to really know a man
Is with him play a game of chance.
Through football games or drinking bouts you can
Confirm or drop what first you thought.
Your wits and mind decide as guide
And with the games of chance already played,
You’ll side and confide ... or ride and chide.
Nurse Lißliman:
Campus Charm
A friendly, helpful personality
known to us all at Behrend is our
nurse, Mrs. Ella Lilliman. Per
forming the dual role of managing
the campus bookstore and adminis
tering medicine or advice, she is
quite a busy person.
Mrs. Lilliman, having once
worked as a public health nurse in
Erie, has somewhat recently, since
the death of her husband, begun to
practice again, and is pleasantly
anticipating her fourth year at
Behrend. “I wouldn’t want to leave
here for the world,” she said, “be
cause the students are all so
sweet.”
Because of her cheerfulness and
because she is always willing to
help students or listen to a prob
lem now and then, one can usually
find a small group of Behrendites
visiting her, either in the bookstore
or dispensary. Mrs. Lilliman, or
“Nufsie” as she is sometimes
called, is always cheering someone
up with her delightful sense of
humor.
When asked about her hobbies,
Mrs. Lilliman remarked that she
especially enjoys playing cards or
going to a good movie in the
evening.
Her numerous activities, both
personal and professional, reflect
her reason for enjoying life so
much. Mrs. Lilliman states, “I just
love working around people, espe
cially Behrend Campus students.”
Career Road
THE NITTANY CUB
In the spring of 1956, Sicilian Prince Giuseppe di Lampedusa diffi
dently handed an unsigned manuscript of The Leopard to a friend, who
put it away and forgot it. Lampedusa later sent another copy of the
story, which he had contemplated writing for a quarter-century, to a
publisher’s reader who pronounced it unpublishable. Five days after
this news, in July 1957, the cancer-ridden, 61-year-old prince died.
Months later the manuscript was unearthed and sent to Gian Feltri
nelli, Doctor Zhivago’s publisher, who recognized its power. The
Leopard promptly outsold Dr. Zhivago, and European critics hailed
The Leopard as the finest novel to come out of postwar Italy.
It is the story of Lampedusa’s own great-grandfather, Giulio, set
at the time of Garibaldi’s landing in Sicily (1860), and the plot of
The Leopard is as bare and sun-seared as the Sicilian hillsides. The
hero—known in the novel as Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina—simply
lives out the death of his class, the feudal landed gentry. While heredi
tary estates slip through his fingers, Don Fabrizio is still so much the
autocrat of his own dinner table as to curl silver spoons into hoops
with his powerful fist during gusts of paternal rage. His sons are sulky
and his daughters mute and brittle. His pious, hysterical wife chills
the prince’s ardors by making the sign of the cross in bed. The lusty
prince comforts himself with a peasant mistress in Palermo. He is a
magnificent man, with penchants for hunting and astronomy, and is
too intelligent to resist the inevitable, but too- attached to the past to
join the present, which he prefers to flee by symbolically contemplating
his beloved stars.
But the Garibaldini, unlike the stars, will not keep their distance.
When his dashing nephew Tancredi joins the revolutionary redshirts,
Don Fabrizio is forced to applaud the boy’s dry, foxy reasoning: “If we
want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” And so,
Tancredi chooses the new way of life and woos an ambitious and lovely
daughter of the rising middle class. The cold calculation and hot sen
suality of their courtship, as it rages through the century-old rooms
of Don Fabrizio’s baroque summer palace, is one of the great set pieces
of the novel. It is also tart social satire of the sort Faulkner might
write. j
But, unlike Tancredi, the prince is too proud, too much the unbend
ing leopard on his own family crest, to be able to lick his wounds by
joining those who inflict them.
With a beautifully combined sense of poignancy and irony, and
deep psychological insight, Lampedusa brilliantly portrays the actions
and mediations of the prince in a series of episodes that inexorably
lead to death and the total disintegration of a way of life. But Lampe
dusa’s subtlest effect is to write prose that seems to be aged in marble
and encrusted with antiquity; like the statue or a ruin, the book com
bines a moment of time past and make it timeless.
(NOTE: This book is part of my personal collection and can be
taken out by contacting the Librarian.)
THE NITTANY CUB
Established October 26, 1948, as the official publication for the
student body of Pennsylvania State University, Behrend Campus,
Erie, Pennsylvania.
Published by the Lake Erie Printing Co., 1115 Powell Ave.,
Erie, Pennsylvania.-
Co-Editors
Associate .Editor.
Reporters:
.Gene Nutter
Joe Bennett, Don Detisch, Jo-Anne Kisiel,
Don Kooken, Anita McCallister, Dick Merriman,
Harry Milne, Pat Narducci, John Reeder, Marilyn
Sponsler, Art Winschel
Book Review
By Gene Natter
THE LEOPARD
. .Diane Janowski, Mary; Lloyd