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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!