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Variables Stop Muchachos Twice
58-54, 70-63
In the final two games played In the Highacres Intramural League,
the red-hot Variables turned in two fine performances in tripping the
faltering Muchachos, 58-54, and 70-63.
Scheidy, Marsicano, and Corcoran with 17, 15, and 10 points
respectively, paced the Variables in the 58-54 triumph. This was a nip
and tuck battle most of the way, with the game being decided in the
final few minutes. The Variables controlled the backboards, and this
proved to be the margin of victory.
High for the Muchachos in this game were Laytar with 19 and Bafile
with 17 Of the Muchachos’ 54 points.
In the second game of the series without the services of Marsicano,
the Variables once again turned the trick with a 70-63 victory. Sharp
shooting by Gosdick with 19 points highlighted the Variables’ attack.
Scheidy chipped in with 17 counters, and Harry Defina followed him
up with 11 points. Once again it was a question of controlling the
backboards, and the Variables did a magnificent job of it.
■ Jerry Laytar played a fine game in a losing cause. He came up with
21 paints to top all scorers. Big Jim Szczecina ripped the chords for
16, and Tom Bafile added 15 to lead ithe Muchacho scoring.
The league has since undergone revision with players being more
evenly distributed among the teams. Inter-campus play has also been
initiated, and students are asked to support your team with attendance
at the games.
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CHRISTMAS extensive list of the whereabouts
Scattered here and there about and activities of former students,
the United States are numerous Such data are available upon
towns and cities whose name request. Also, to help keep this
reflects the Christmas idea in one file up-to-date, please send us any
way or another. personal or professional
Best known, of course, are the information.
lZuL°l S r nta ClaU % Itfu na; Here is representative
et lehem, Conn., Bethlehem, information of the Class of 1960:
Penna.; and Christmas, Florida, j ose ph Rodzewich and Richard
whose post offices each year Thompson are working in New
handle floods of mail from senders Mexico . John Reccone, Jack Gog
wishing to brighten their al> and Eona]d Mattavi are
packages with Yuletide employed at the Bell Telephone
postmarks. Laboratories in New Jersey; John
Indiana s Santa Claus is the Drosdak is with Western Electric:
offiy town with exclusive rights to Geo rge Hardish is at DoPr . o i ivor;
its Yuletide postmark although John Bellas and Eric H agstrand
there is a Santa, Idaho. The are employed in Berwick at the
privilege of the exclusive Santa American Car and Foundry; John
Claus postmark is reserved to the Benner is at the Pennsylvania
Indiana post office by congres- Power and Light in Hazleton,
sional act. There is .only one •&, . T ... * n
Christmas, the one in Florida, El » me Lotito, Ann Stish, Dave
although Maine boasts a | e ™ to ’ Johnny Tarone Nancy
Christmas Cove. Bradney, Bob Perugmi, Catherine
„. _ , , Casper, Richard Curcio, Joseph
n «,i u SIX ® eth eh , ems , Greybush, Mary Lou Zukovich,
Bethlehem, Conn., has plenty of Joseph Fulton, Dennis Miller, Bob
competition, however, as there are Fetterman, and Mike Slavich have
six other Bethlehems m Indiana, transferred to University Park,
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Georgia, , while Alex Lilje has transferred
Maryland, and New Hampshire. to Keyst one Junior College, and
_ There are two Noels, one in Nick Vinciquerre is at Blooms-
Virginia and the other m burg. Edwina Roland and Joan
Missouri.. Yencho are studying at St.
Looking elsewhere about the Joseph’s Hospital in Hazleton,
country one can find numberless Season’s greetings from the
towns and cities with names following (sent while forwarding
which call up Biblical or holiday their anlmal alumni dues ). Dor
associations. There is an Advent, othy Melley Norman Polochney,
West Virginia, for the Nativity. Henry Guilianij Eamon Saul, Jo _
Kentucky has a Mary, and Oregon seph B Conahan, Fred Traxelli,
and Utah a Joseph each. John W. Stefan, Lillian M. Junas,
A Wiseman Thaddeus Jaworski, Allen Naugle,
' One Wiseman is found in
Arkansas and another in Alaska,
and it’s reasonable to assume that
another may be found in Wise
mantown, Kentucky. In the spirit
of the season West Virginia
contributes Goodwill; Missouri
boasts of Peace Valley.
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
Richard C. Steidle, Joseph Smith,
Methody Serkot, Lt. Frank Rom
anelli (Westover Air Force Base,
Mass.), John Drosdak, Joseph
Coury, Joseph Ondo, Edward Loz
osky, Bernard Stone, and Robert
R. Pekala (Harlingen Air Force
Base, Texas).
McCoy Says Four-Term Plan
Will Not Hinder Athletics
Ernest B. McCoy, director of athletics, fully anticipates that Penn
State will make the transition from the two-semester to the four-term
academic year in 1961 without seriously affecting its intercollegiate
athletic program.
“There will be scheduling problems, of course,” he said, “but there
is no good reason why, with a little ingenuity, we will not be able to
overcome anything that I can now foresee."
In 1961, for example, the Nittany Lions will launch their football
campaign against Navy at home two weeks before the opening of fall
classes.
“There’ll be no students on campus,” McCoy noted, “but we
anticipate no difficulty in contriving a plan whereby they can gain
admission to the stadium if they want to see the game.”
Pre-season football practice will not be affected since September will
be the one month in the year when undergraduate classes are not in
operation. The four academic terms, under which an undergraduate may
qualify for a degree in three calendar years, will be spread over the
other eleven months of the year.
An athlete wOuld give up a year’s eligibility if he were to attend
four terms for three consecutive years, but McCoy doubts that many
will follow this pattern.
Winter schedules in basketball, wrestling and gymnastics are
currently under study since this in one period of the year when sports
will encompass two successive terms, but McCoy explained that this
happened even under the two-semester system and should present no
insurmountable obstacles under the four-term plan.
Highacres Auxiliary
Sees Play and Hears
Two Talks By Faculty
A play by Highacres students
and talks by faculty personnel
were the program features of the
recent meeting of the Women’s
Auxiliary of the Hazleton Campus
of the Pennsylvania State
University.
The play, “The Moralist,” writ
ten by a former Highacres
student, was introduced by James
Marcolina, president of the Belles-
Lettres Society, which presented
the play; Sally Switaj, Robert
Krutsick, Paul Miller, and George
Wanko were the cast members.
Thomas Kidd, manager of the
Student Union building, said that
the Pennsylvania State University
is a set of ideals; it aims to
graduate educated as well as
trained citizens, who are capable
of independent judgment, able to
serve the spiritual ends of human
effort as well as material needs of
society.
The PSU mqtto was cited,
“Enter to learn; go forth to
serve.”
The second talk was by Pro
fessor Andrew Kafka of the
Highacres faculty, who compli
mented and commended the auxil
iary women for their part in the
betterment of the Hazleton cam
pus. Speakers were introduced by
Mrs. Elizabeth Bodenstein of the
Hazleton campus faculty.
During the business meeting,
over which Mrs. Arthur Kosten
bauder presided, reports were
given on projects of the auxiliary
for the beautification of the
school. They included the pur
chase of a red maple tree, a
fountain, a bench, silverware, and
curtains.
It was announced that the
annual meeting with the election
of officers will be held the first
Monday in May: This will be the
closing session ef the auxiliary.
DECEMBER 19, 1960
GRAPPLERS WIN
FIRST TWO MEETS
By DAVE LEONARD
The defending Eastern champs
from the foot of Mt. Nittany
easily won their first two
wrestling matches over Army and
West Virginia. Led by Denny
Slattery, a brilliant sophomore
from Williamsport, the Lions won
the first four matches of the
evening, before dropping a deci
sion in the 167 lb. class. The
Black Knights never got started
and had to forfeit the heavy
weight match. The final score
was this: Penn State 21, Army 10.
In the second meet, . the
grunters and groaners had little
trouble in polishing off the
Mountaineers of West Virginia,
31-4. Slattery led off with a
second period win, and everyone
of the remaining State victories
were scored by falls. The only
two blemishes on the Lion record
in this match were draws in the
147 and 167 lb. classes.
The prospect for a winning
season for the Lion basketball
season this year is very slight.
Although they have Dumars who
is certainly All-American . ma
terial, the team lacks depth and
height. Penn State has always
been noted for its great wrestling
and gymnastics teams, but one
hardly hears anything about a
good basketball team. The main
reason for this is that the athletic
department is very lax in giving
basketball scholarships. If this is
remedied, we could have some
championship teams.
Refreshments were served by a
committee headed by Mrs, Morris
Lefkowitz and Mrs. Elizabeth
Bodenstein, chairman; Mrs. Doro
thy Bresnock, Mrs. R. Emerson
Buckley, Mrs. Hilda Taylor,
Misses Betty Har 1 o r and
Margaret Belezza.