Page Four
Small Comment; Big Stuff
Dr. Elizabeth Smith reports her pleasure with Behrend students
during the recent visit of educators from England, Scotland, and
New Zealand to the Behrend Campus. Our campus being the only
college campus these educators will be visiting in the United States,
Dr. Smith was pleased to see numerous students studying in various
rooms in the Otto F. Behrend Science Building during the evening
hours when the teachers visited our campus. Highlights of their trip
to Erie included informal trips around our campus guided by several
students who offered their services and Dr. Smith's famous "guided
tour of Erie."
How about a name for the old library building? Referring to it
as tho "old library" is somewhat unwieldy and "stOdent lounge" does
not suffice, due to the presence of other lounges on campus. For lack
of a better name. how about "the Rumpus Room"? All right, what do
YOU think we should call it?
Many Behrend faculty members and students were embarrassed
with the 25-minute late arrival of the dorm girls to the recent ballet
presented by the Erie Civic Ballet Company. Their later arrival caused
noise and confusion when it became necessary for ushers to set up
additional chairs to accomodate them. However. they redeemed them
selves later by serving as gracious hostesses following the ballet,
serving coffee and doughnuts.
Paul Brown, president of the "Chang-kai-shek" fan club and the
original "Birdman from Alcatraz," chats with emcee Bill Storer
prior to his act, a spoof of Red China's first astronaut, during
the Variety Show. Following his act, Paul took up a collection for
a "Lucky Lindy" memorial.
THE NITTANY CUB
6 Attend
Home Ec.
Weekend
Pat Coggeshall, Kathy Brins
field, Jean Wilson, Mary Jean
Ferguson, Lynda Saubel, and San
dy Zierdt, Behrend's Home Ec.
majors, attended the fourteenth
annual Home Economics Spring
Weekend at State College, May 3
and 4.
Accompanied by Mrs. Falken
hagen, the group's advisor, the
girls stayed at Lynda Saubel's
girls stayed
in State College. The girls
report that their two-day stay was
completely filled by attending lec
tures, inspecting the Home Ec.
facilities, touring the campus, vis
iting the dorms, and seeing old
friends.
The various lectures centered
around the theme, "Research
Serves Families." A banquet at
the Nittany Lion Inn and a lunch
eon at the "HUB" highlighted the
weekend.
The girls have returned with a
better idea of what they will be
doing when they attend State next
year.
FORMER
BEHREND
STUDENTS
SELECTED
Three former Behrend Campus
students—Juyne Knaupp, Frances
Modzelewski, and Richard Wohl
gemuth—have been selected as
members of the University Read
ers on the main campus.
New members of this group are
chosen after tryouts before mem
bers of the group from the previous
year.
The number of members aver
ages twenty-five. They participate
in a weekly workshop where mem
bers present readings and discuss
interpretation techniques.
Their activities are many: week
ly readings before the State Col
lege Junior High School English
classes, weekly radio programs,
reading performances before many
campus and State College organi
zations, and sponsors of the In
tercollegiate Reading Festival.
On April 26, Juyne Kaupp rep
resented Penn State University at
the Eastern Poetry Reading Fes
tival at Hofstan College, Hemp
stead, N.Y. This festival, is an in
vitational affair with invitations
being extended to outstanding
colleges in the East.
Juyne will present these same
readings during the Art Festival
held this spring at Penn State.
Miss Modzelewski will be a mem
ber of the cast of a play present
ed at the same time.
FRAT FLOATS
WELL GUARDED
STATE COLLEGE Friday,
April 26 dawned bright and cheery.
At - University Park the campus had
begun to take on the appearance
of a war games site. Students were
decked out in arms (pledge pad
dles) and there were numerous pa
trols around the fraternity houses
and some of the dorms. Why? Sat
urday was the day for the Spring
Week Float Parade and every other
The 2nd Battle of Lake Erie
On this the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Battle of
Lake Erie, it seems appropriate to your reporter to give a
brief rundown on that earth-shaking event which ultimately
lead to the lynching of the President of the United States,
the Prime Minister of Canada and other notables.
It seems that the Canadians. who lost the First Battle
of Lake Erie, had been trying to forget about the whole
thing. They succeeded for 150 years until a small group of
civic minded citizens in Erie, Pa., hit upon the idea of re
turning the bell of the Queen Charlotte (British-Canadian
flagship captured by Perry) to Canada as a gesture of good
will and of inviting the Royal Canadian Navy to send ships
to participate in the Perry victory celebration. In the words
of a Mountie friend of mine; "This is like returning the
embalmed head of a captured American flyer to General
MacArthur at a Japanese celebration of the Bataan Death
March."
On the day of the celebration, however, a Canadian
destroyer, strangely named the Burning Capitol, berthed at
the Erie Public Dock. At the end of the celebration, Cong
ressman Weaver, after two hours of a "few short words"
presented the bell to Leftenant-Commander R. Stuart
Wellington-Hornblower, who then rose to speak. His reply
to Dr. Weaver was: "God save the Queen?" upon which his
executive officer, one Mr. Bush, mumbling about waiting
150 years exclaimed: "Fire at will!"
The first salvo was obviously aimed directly at Perry's
Niagara, moored in dry dock a block away. Pieces of burn
ing wood were observed falling as far south as Waterford,
Pa. The next broadside neatly executed the Sesquicentennial
committee cowering beneath their beards. At this point the
Burning Capitol proceeded to systematically level Erie har
bor.
Mayor Williamson, somewhat excited put a call through
to the White House, pleading for air cover over the beaches.
But the President answered: "Now I should like to say this
about that. I do not think that at this time it is uh in the
best interests to uh intervene in the affairs of our neigh
bors; however. I uh shall direct the State Department to
press with great vigah uh through the proper diplomatic
channels . . . "
As the Burning Capitol steamed past the ruins of the
Coast Guard Station, the survivors noted that there were
three flags displayed on her stern: a union-jack, a red ensign
and a strange looking banner upon which was inscribed the
words: "Canada expects every man to do his duty." The
crew was singing: "Rule Canada, Canada rules the waves . "
CONGRESS RETALIATES;
WEAVER ANSWERS BUFF!
Ed. note: This is obviously the same article that appeared
in the last issue of the CUB. Since that time, however, Mr.
Paul A. Brown, author of the article, has receieved the fol
lowing letter from Mr. James D. Weaver, Pennsylvania's re
presentative to the Congress of the United States Congress
man Weaver's official statement on the matter reads as
follows:
Dear Mr. Brown:
Thank you for your letter concerning the plans for the
Perry Sesquicentennial celebration.
Your point about Canadian participation and our re
lationship with Canadians has been of prime concern to me
and to the members of the Sesquicentennial Celebration
Committee.
The Committee has been in close touch with the Depart
ment of State, and every effort is being exerted to see that
none of the problems you mentioned will arise during the
course of the celebration.
You will be interested to know that the response from
Canadian officials has been enthusiastic. I have been work
inT, closely with the Committee and can assure you that
the plans for Canadian participation are being developed
with utmost caution.
I appreciate your writing and I am taking the liberty
of sending a copy of your letter to Mr. Sumner H. Nichols,
General Chairman, Perry Sesquicentennial, Inc., 723 State
Street, Erie, Pennsylvania.
Best regards.
student could be a potential enemy.
Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity, re
membering the two dawn displays
they built for Homecoming that
were destroyed by nocturnal van
dals, had one of the most elaborate
security setups.
It was during the night that
most of the enemy sent out their
guerrilla-type patrols, so Friday
night became a watch-and-wait
game. The fraternities guarded
their entries with meticulous care,
letting nothing animal, much less
human, come in a two-mile radius
of their art works. Pledges were
armed with fire extinguishers and
Thursday, April 18, 1963
Sincerely yours,
James D. Weaver A.I.C.
I paddles and sentries were posted
at all strategic points.
The independents working on
floats there had two choices; they
could lock their floats up in the
armory at Wagner, or they could
take them back to their dorm
areas for the night.
Lyons and Hoyt Halls chose an
other alternative. They persuaded
a farmer in Pine Grove Mills to
let them park their float there
overnight. "He was the twentieth
farmer we talked to," Lou Slawet
ski, Lyons chairman said. Several
of the men from Lyons spent the
night in the barn.