PAGE FOUR Belles-Lettres Club Plans Active Semester The Highacres Belles-Lettres Society, dedicated to the appreci ation of good literature and the encouraging of the creative spirit in writing has been meeting every Monday during the fifth period in room 104 of the Memorial Hall. The Society has a number of activities planned so far. It will sponsor the annual Highacres Reading Festival to be held in the SUB during the evening of Friday, March 24. All students are invited to participate. For the winners, the prizes will be a trip to Main Campus to participate in the University Park state-wide Read ing Festival. Sign up in the Library. The Society also will sponsor the High School Reading Festival for high schools in this area to be held in April in the SUB. "If" For Girls If you can hear the whispering about And never yield to deal in whispers, If you can bravely smile when loved ones doubt you And never doubt in turn what loved ones do; If you can keep a sweet and gentle In spite of fame or fortune, rank or And though you win your goal or only near it Can win with poise or lose with equal If you can lock your heart on confidences Islor ever needlessly in turn confide; If you can put behind you all pretenses Of mock humility or foolish pride; If you can keep the simple, homely virtue Of walking right with God then have no fear That anything in all the world can hurt you— And which is more —you'll be a Woman, dear. (Suggested by Kipling's "If") A Universal Message A listing of the “seven deadly sins” of modern society, as published in the magazine “Social Welfare” for Malayan youth in Singapore, shows that never-end ing efforts are needed to overcome the tendency to take the easy way out. 1. Politics without principle. 2. Pleasure without conscience. 3. Knowledge without work. 4. Wealth without work. 5. Business without morality. 6. Science without humanity. 7. Worship without sacrifice. HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN Hazleton Elks Offer a Scholarship A $2OO scholarship is open to a beginning freshman or sophomore. This is being offered through the generosity of the Hazleton Elks Lodge. Applicants’ grades and need will be considered in granting this scholarship. Pick up an application in the front office if you are interested. PRESENTING OUR FRONT-OFFICE SECRETARIES MISS RUTH DONAR AND MRS. VIVIAN ENAMA For those who appreciate the help given to them by Ruth and Vivian, our college’s office staff, but never got to know them personally, and for those who are simply curious about the two secretaries working in the Office, this section of the newspaper is made for you, because now you will learn of their backgrounds and opinions. Vivian (pictured on the right), who works at the desk in the far corner, was raised in Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, where she started her education ultimately leading to West Hazleton High School and the McCann School of Business. Besides being a secretary, she is married and has a nine-year-old son who is a student in the fourth grade at Sugarloaf Township School. Ruth hails from Nuremberg, Pennsylvania where she attended Black Creek Township High School, and after graduating, matriculated at McCann’s School of Business. Ruth, like Vivian, is a member of the National Secretaries Association. We all want to convey our thanks and best wishes. Recommend 4-Year Status For Highacres The Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce has proposed that some of the Commonwealth cam puses, like Hazleton Campus, at present two-year colleges, be ex panded into fully-accredited four year institutions as an economic educational aid to depressed areas in the Commonwealth. Little more than a quarter of a century ago, the Pennsylvania State University began the estab lishment of what are now Com monwealth campuses in the An thracite regions of Pennsylvania. They were, and are two-year colleges affording the nucleus of a variety of curricula leading to baccalaureate and associate de grees, and have afforded countless thousands of young men and women the beginnings of higher education who ordinarily would not be able to avail themselves of such opportunities if they could not live at home. The foundations of curriculum, physical plant, and tradition would provide a relatively easy transi tion into expanded four-year col leges of fine reputations. These expanded institutions would pro vide relatively inexpensive college educations by reducing to a minimum the single largest ex pense of a college education namely, room and board. It cannot be overemphasized that one of the aspects of a community which is seriously considered by potential industry is the educational facilities afforded and the attendant cultural activ ities that generally go with an institution of higher learning. The Radio Corporation of America came to Wilkes-Barre partly be cause Wilkes College was able to afford them some curricula that would allow higher education for their personnel. MARCH 3, 1961 COMING EVENT On April 7, 1961, at St. Joseph’s Hall in Hazleton, the Hazleton Women’s Club for their welfare projects will sponsor the appear ance of Arthur Miller better known as Oaky Miller conducting a record hop and having several outstanding artists with him for entertainment. Oaky conducts this type of hop every Friday and Saturday night in Atlantic City and is becoming quite popular as a top entertainer. He is a senior at Temple Univer sity, a three-letter man in track, football, cross country, all the while putting in his comedy and impersonation act for charity and pleasure. He completed three years at the University of Alabama, taking a pre-medical course like his older brother, now a resident in surgery. He played a minor part in 20th Century’s Lost and Lonely. His hops and Club acts, his writing and producing received recognition in the October 25 edition of Sunday’s The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine. This rare treat for the youth of Hazleton has been planned by The Women’s Club to bring to Hazle ton a young man of exceptional talent, an inspiration of a college boy in his senior year with a real contribution to clean living and success in his field. Watch for further publicity before April 7. University Park Singers Coming to Highacres Penn State Singers, a 20-voice student group from the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University, will present a concert at the Hazleton Campus of the University on Sunday, March 26, at 7:30 p. m. in the new Student Union Building. The public is invited to hear this unusual group which was organ ized three years ago by its present director, Raymond Brown, associ ate professor of music, to present music in the manner of the “Collegium Musicum,” which were university or club groups inter ested in music and organized in the 18th century in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden. Many American universities have modeled singing groups after the Collegium Musicum but have broadened their repertoires over those of their European predecessors. The Singers will present Eliza bethan madrigals, motets, canta tas, and some contemporary music in their program. Juliet B. Howells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Howells, 6 Orchard St., Nanticoke, is one of the singers. A VERSE FROM RICHIE SCHATZ, HOW ON THE MAIN CAMPUS The spring of the year brings renewed life to the world; The forests dress up with their brilliance unfurled. But my love for Spring is quite different, I fear, For it is then I know that Summer’s quite near!
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers