October 17, 1955 The new.man sitting at'Mr. Peightal’s desk this year, is our assistant administrative head, Mr. Ralph Noble* Mr* Noble arrived here in June, 1954 as a teacher going between Pottsville and Hazleton. Mr. Noble, hailing from Mifflintown, Pa., has been teaching for a little less than 5 years. In 1943, he graduated from high school and joined the Air Force. After his discharge in ’46, he went to Bucknell Univer sity and completed a four-year course in three years, by taking summer courses. In *49, he received* his B.S. degree in Commerce and Finance and went to work in the insurance business as a management trainee* Later, he decided to go;to Temple and West Chester for .courses'in Social Service. * After graduating from these places,.-Mr. Noble took up the task of teaching in public schools. At . the end of. a year-and a half in'the grades, and three years in high schools, he, accepted a position at Penn State on the main campus. That was in January, 1954, and he was assigned to teach ing in Pottsville and Hazleton.' He settled down on July lj 1955 when he received' the* jwb of' Assistant Administrative Heat here at High acres. Mir. Noble now resides in Conyngham with his wife and two children, Stephen, 5, and Nancy, 3 . „ He' can be found on the golf links when ever he can find time .an' 1 is active in church functions. Mr. Noble says the reason he likes Hazleton Center is because of the closeness of'the instructor and student. He said-that he found that this can be so because the students are easy to work with , : and very co-operative. Mr. ...Noble would like to have the students come to him whenever they feel he can help them in any way. HAZLETON. COLLEGIAN THAT MAN i i STUDENT COUNCIL "(con»t) During; this time, the' views of, ' Council members and students were heard. Mr. Peightal, as last year’s Director of. Athletics, also-dis cussed the basketball-question. He carefully analyzed the exact situ ation being careful to exclude pre judiced remarks from his report. When the twenty-five minutes were up, J ohn Marsicano moved to table in- ' definitely discussion of this motion' because the sport’s preference poll had not been concluded. This motion was unanimously approved. Having already approved an emergency Collegian request for money to buy paper, Student Council’began to approve tho reports of its committies. Chairman of the Social Committee, Theresa Bobowski, asked for and' received approval to hold the first dance on Friday October 28th. Before anything further could be done on this dance, a finance committee had to be appointed to prepare the budget. President Kowalski, selected Treasurer Raymond Bittner as chair m®n and he selected John.Marsicano and Theresa Bobowski as members. Since the meeting was rapidly drawing to a close, a'special'meeting-was called by President for Friday evening at >7:00 P.M* Upon a motion by Mr. Bittner Student Cornell recessed until Friday evening. FOOTBALL GAME, (con»t.) A.special committee was established by the Student Council to plan for this trip. On this committee are John Marsicano (chairman,), William Smith, Mary Tihansky,- John Kresge, and Francis Humenick. More inf ormatioi* .will be posted latay Page 2
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