Monday, December 19, 1960
Behrend's Zem Zem
Party Well Received
Last Tuesday evening our repre
sentatives to the Inter-Collegiate
Red Cross Council and other volun
teer students from Behrend put on
a Christmas Program for the
thirty-eight children at the Zem
Zem Crippled Children’s Hospital.
The well-received presentation con
sisted of an alternating, half-hour
show for each of the two wards
and entrance-and-exit Christmas
caroling.
In the first ward, Barbara Sha
pokas talked and sang to a hand
puppet operated by Gene Nutter.
She introduced the puppet as Little
Candy Cane and taught him how to
sing “Up on the Roof Top” and
then they both taught the song to
the children. The program was con
cluded with word games and
visiting.
In the second ward, Mike Mulli
gan, Nancy Heyl, Bob Johnson and
Joyce Suray performed skits based
on well-known fairy tales, begin
ning with Goldilocks and the Three
Bears, and asked the children to
name the story and, perhaps, sug
gest another that they could re
-enact. The show continued with
Mike pantomiming the record,
Tubby the Tuba, and ended with
games and visiting.
Upon finishing, each half-hour
show moved to the other ward and
presented their program to the new
audience. The whole event was
happily climaxed with the presen
tation of Christmas gifts to each
of the twenty-six boys and twelve
girls at the hospital and with sing
ing of Christmas carols. ‘
Career Road is also the struggle to achieve mental and emotional
stability. We do this by realizing the balance of life through the people
we meet and the changeable attitudes we possess. When we are young,
we fight the prudes, the gossips and the dictatorial conventionals while
trying to live and express ourselves. But we fail to realize two things.
First, that, while we are young, these three types of people, misguided
or well-meaning as they may be, indirectly provide us with a balance
that checks our prolific accumulation of ideas and progressive inter
course, dreams and progressive applications. Second, that, nine times
out of ten, we will become one of these types, thus imperceptibly
achieving what is considered normality.
Normal, too, is our leaving this recognition to the thinkers; think
ers being a group of people who are intellectually independent of other
people’s opinions. They will not change the world for us, but they will
let us know that we are everyone and everyone relates to us, that we
are everything and everything relates to us. They will let us know that
in this world there are really only two types of men: those who do
and those who do not, and that for either man there is a lesson in
materialistic life which states, “For even when you win you lose.”
Taking these maxims for granted, we can go ahead to form a way of
life that will accelerate the dilatory dawn of our understanding. Even
tually, we will perceive these simple realities and will be able to sit
back and accept, smile a little to ourselves, and enjoy life.
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This was the scene in Erie Hall on Friday evening, December 9, as
couples danced to the music of Neil Charles’ orchestra at Behrend’s
annual Sno-Ball. In the background can be seen the giant snowman
who dominated the festive affair.
Career Road
THE NITTANY CUB
Campus Calendar
Chapel Choir Candlelight Service
Basketball McKeesport Away
Christmas Holiday Begins at Noon
Christmas Holiday Ends at Noon
Basketball Johnstown Home
Artist Series Robert Shaw Chorale
8 PJM., Rec. Hall
Basketball Edinboro Freshmen Home
Basketball Ashtabula Home
Free Day to Prepare for Finals
Fall Semester Exams begin at 8 A.M.
Fall Semester Exams end at 9:50 P.M.
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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. Diane Janowski, Mary Lloyd
Associate Editor Gene Nutter
Reporters: Joe Bennett, Don Detisch, Jo-Anne Kisiel,
Don Kooken, Anita McCallister, Dick Merriman,
Harry Milne, Pat Narducci, John Reeder, Marilyn
Sponsler, Art Winschel
If You Ask
My Opinion
With the Yuletide season upon
us, Behrend Campus expressed a
wide variety of opinions regarding
what.it really thinks about Christ
mas.
Bob Pierce—lt’s a commercialized
holiday.
Connie Gibson—l think it’s here to
stay.
The Behrend Pine—Christmas is
the time of year when I light up.
Phil Erpino—l like it. My mother
is going to buy me a house on
Lake Pleasant Road so I can
study better.
Don Tammaro—lt’s too commer
cialized.
Gene Nutter—Christmas is some
thing you feel.
Bob Hagle—People don’t think
enough about the religious
aspect.
John Reeder—lt’s better than
Easter.
Turnbull Hall—lt’s when I have to
.listen to that maudlin loud
speaker on top of Miss Library
Building.
Kathy Dayton—lt’s a spiritual re
newal.
Don Kooken—We should have it
more often.
Santa Claus—The time of year all
my letters get lost in the Post
Office.
Nick Lane—l’m in favor of it.
Art Coombes—People forget about
the real meaning of Christmas.
Dick Dewey—lt’s nice. My father
makes a lot of money in his
store.
The Behrend Chapel—Time, again,
for all those students to come
here and perform their pagan
like ritual.