HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN jFROTC CASETS TO TAKE PHYSICAL EXAMS Tuesday s March 4, four cadet officers of the AFROICV Robert Parsons, Robert Edmunds, John Bodnar, and Albert Antolich, will take a physical examination at the main campus a, This examination will determine whether or not the men will be able to take the advanced AFROTC course# This course le-.ds up to a commission as a 2nd Ideutenan in the U. S. Air Forse# Each of the men taking the physical has ai- . ready passed an eight-hour written ex amination' which was given here at High a;:.re£ in December# *#* # * % HISTORY MADE EASY iort”s Nittany Lines McKees is a'short biography of some of the tten. to the history of the world* ELI WHITNEY - Best remembered for his in vention of Cotton Gin, a new drink. three times dryer than a dry martini# Eli Whit ray was also a musician in his own right and was the composer of several musical numbers, the most famous of which is ‘After the Boll#" NERO - A Roman big shot who played a "hot" fiddle. He had so many enemies that he kept the chief apothecary busy mixing up new kinds of poisons# Auth orities believe there is some truth in the fact that Nero is the author of the play "Arcenic and Old Lace#" When things got a little dull in Rome, Nero gave his subjects the hot foot by setting fire to the Circus Maximus, a forerunner of Barnum and Bailey# WILLIAM PEN - An English Quaker who received a land grant in America. and tr aveled to this Country to claim it. However he got lost in Penn*s Woods and had a hard time getting on the right tract# Penn was also the inventor of pen and pencil sets# If you will check caref ully, you will find that the early Am erican spelling for Pennsylvania is "Pericilvania", proving beyond, a doubt that pencils were first used in this MARCO POLO - A famous equestrian and sportsman who thought up a new game played on horseback# Also remembered for the kind of shirt he wore while playing the game# Because of the grea • demand for this article, Marco set up a haberdashery* However he went bank rupt and lost his shirt* The origins- Polo Shirt is now .preserved for pos terity in the Smithsonian Institution.;) FRANCISCO VILLA - A Mexican ionary general who invented the sies He was a well-known gourmand who could eat more enchilladas than anyone in Mexico City# His residence was color fully called "Tortilla Flat"# Because of his obesity, the general was often referred to as "Pauncho Villa"# SPORTR ’.HALITES Bernie Goydish Bowling Team Standings Fudge Factors North Siders Dynamos Who Wits Pin Topplers Pin Split l era King Pins South Siders Oscillators Titians Leading Averages Toth- 166 Gulliver-165 Yuresko- 165 BewareUi All you men bowlers, we have a new contender in cur league oalled "The Titians" which is oomp./sed oft Annie McLaughlin Sandy Rimm JoAnn Edwards Babs Katchmarik (a real eldtimer) Basketball Ihe Tarheels scored an easy 54-38 victory over Duke# Tern paced the Tarheels and Meiss performed well for the losers# FEB* 28, 1958 # * # Wins Losses 1> T— -6 0 6 0 3 ? 3 3 3 3
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