THE NITTANY CUB
VOLUME XIV, No. 1
Behrend Enrollment Hits Record High
Mr. Irvin 11. Kochel, director of the Behrend Campus
It is a pleasure to welcome you as Freshmen to
The Pennsylvania State University and particularly to
the Behrend Campus. College can be a challenging and
a richly rewarding experience. If approached with the
proper attitudes and enthusiasm, I hope you will be
challenged; and, you, in turn, will challenge others in
the air of academic freedom which exists on this camp
us.
As a Penn State Freshman, you have an oppor
tunity to professionally prepare yourself for the future.
Make every effort to get the most out of every class
every day so that this preparation may be the best that
can be acquired.
All of us on the Behrend Campus wish you success
this year in your academic undertakings.
CAMPUS
CALENDAR
September
21—Friday—Women's Tea 3:30
p.m., Memorial Room
All-College Dance, 8:00 p.m.,
Erie Hall
24—Monday Fall 1962 Term
Classes Begin
October
6—Saturday—Homecoming
3.l—Thursday—S.G.A. Elections
13—Saturday Commonwealth
Campus League Tourna
ment, Erie Hall
21—Sunday—Dedication
F. Behrend Building
November
20—Tuesday Hanging of the
Greens Behrend Chapel.
Wintergreen Gorge
24—Saturday—Thanksgiving Ball,
Erie Hall
December
3—Monday Fall Term Classes
End
WELCOME
A picture of activity - is this group of last year's freshman girls
shown here preparing for their end-of-customs variety show.
BEJIREND CAMPUS—The Pennsylvania State University Friday, Sept. 21, 1962
More Than 300 Students
Swell Campus Roster
For the first time since th e
founding of the Behrend Campus
of the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity in 1948, this campus' enroll
ment has surpassed the 300 mark.
The total number of students ten
tatively calculated to attend Behr
end his year is 310, thus making
the campus enrollment equivalent
to approximately one seventy
fourth of the entire Penn State
student population.
Over the years, the enrollment
has fluctuated rather unusually,
from its original enlistment of 146
to its present record high. At one
time during this fourteen year
period, registrations even dropped
below 100. That was in 1951, when
an inventory of 64 students corn
prised the entire Behrend Campus.
Since its beginning, the campus'
enrollment figures have run as
follows:
1948-49--146
1949-50-164
1950-51-118
1951-52- 64
1952-53-120
1953-54-138
1954-55-223
1955-56-228
1956-57-211
1957-58-282
1958-59-294
1960-61-290
1961-62-275
1962-63-310
Except for a three-year period
from 1949 to 1952, the Engineer
ing curriculum has boasted the
highest number of entrants, with
either Arts and Letters or Edu
cation running a close second.
According to Mr. Benjamin A.
Lane, dean of student affairs,
Behrend's enrollment figures are
expected to reach 800 by 1972. A
University ruling prohibits the
number from going any higher
than this, he added.
Freshmen
This Is It!
By this time, you have all be
come reasonably acquainted with
the campus and are eager, no
doubt, to begin classes next week.
One of the few doubts possibly
remaining in your minds is that
of customs, or more simply, ini
tiation. In order to satisfy your
curiosity on that subject, we have
had this article printed. Here are
the customs` regulations for the
coming two weeks:
1. All freshmen must wear a
10" x 14" sign displaying his
or her name, curriculum, and
home town, and hung con
spicuously from about the
neck. These cards must be
constructed of a comparatively
stiff material, and the letter
ing on them must be exactly
2" in height.
2. Every freshman must wear a
dark blue dink.
3. Frosh women must wear green
ribbons in their hair, and
white socks.
4. Men must wear a different
color or style of shoe and sock
on each foot. For example: a
shoe and a sneaker and a white
sock and a black sock.
5. Men must doff dinks to all
persons not wearing a dink
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