May 2, 1963 Prof. Pollard Teaches Astronomy HIGHACRES STUDENTS ATTEND In Hazleton Art League Building CAMPUS READING FESTIVAL Professor Jesse Pollard,' In structor of Physical Science at the Hazleton Campus of Pennsylvania State University, is presently teaching a 6 week course in Astronomy for beginners at the Hazleton Art League Building, 225 East Broad Street, Hazleton. The course began Wednesday, April 24 and was open to both members and non-members of the Art League. Members of the League were re quired to pay a fee of $7.50. Non members paid $lO.OO. Information about the program can be obtained at the Art League Building or by phoning Mrs. How ard Deis, 454-0184. Students Join Library Committee On April 8, the library commit tee held a meeting during which the needs of the library here at Highacres were carefully re viewed. The Student Library Committee which was newly formed during the Winter term of 1963, was represented at the meet ing by two of its members, Susan Grow and Gregg Smith. During the portion of the meet ing at which the Student Library Committee was in attendance, the list of periodicals to which the li brary subscribes, and which ap pear on the magazine rack in the library was carefully revised. The requests made by the stu dents will appear in the library at the beginning of the next fall term. They are: The Department of State Bulletin, which will be helpful to the student doing re search work, Sports Illustrated for the athletically minded, Harper’s Bazaar, for the fashion-minded, and Reader’s Digest. Other periodicals which will be subscribed to next year are: American Mathematical Monthly, HUC MEN SERVE AS M.C.'s FOR H.S. READING FESTIVAL Shown above are three Highacres students who served as masters of ceremonies for the recent high school reading festival. Prom left: John Rosenstock, president of Highacres Belles Lettres Society, who headed the poetry group; Joseph Broyan, master of ceremonies for prose; and Gregg Smith, in charge of drama. On April 23, the Fourth Annual Regional High School Reading Festival was held. This event pro vided local high school students with a fine opportunity to express their dramatic talents by inter- pretative reading of poetry, prose, or drama. As the Spring Term continues at the Hazleton Campus, the Belles-Lettres Society is hard at work in an effort to complete its many projects. Among these proj ects is the Highacres historical pamphlet which, when finished, Hazleton Campus Library Acquisitions Thorndike, Robert L. Ten Thou sand Careers. New York, Wiley, 1959. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Lan guage, Unabridged. Springfield, Mass., G. and C. Merriam Co., 1961. Klein, Felix. Famous Problems. New York, Chelsea, 1955. Hoelscher, Randolph P. Graphic Aids in Engineering Computat ing. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1952. Engineering News Record, Theater Arts, Art News ,Esquire, Survey of Current Business, Math Teacher, Biology Teacher, and the Saturday Evening Post. HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN will tell of the past, present, and future of our campus. Pictorial aspects of the pamphlet will en hance its total effect and photog raphy is being done by Paul Lev kulic under the direction of Mr. Andrew Kafka. Plans for the club to attend a Broadway play later in the term are now in the preliminary stages. All members of the society are in vited to attend and the trip should prove to be very entertaining and informative, especially for those who have not previously seen such a production. Davis, Philip J. The Lore of Large Numbers. New York, Random House, 1961. Aitken, Alexander C. Determi nants and Matrices. 9th ed. New York, Interscience Pub., 1956. Croft, Terrell W. Americans’ Handbook, a reference book for practical electrical workers. Bth ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961. Reinfeld, Fred. Chess Strategy for Offence and Defence. New York, Barnes and Noble, 1961. Paperbacks Krutch, J. W. Experience and Art. Goodman, T. The Writing of Fiction. Three students of the Hazleton Campus attended and participated in the annual Interpretive Reading Festival at the Main Campus. The Festival was sponsored by the English Department and the Uni versity Readers. It was held April 25 and 26. The students who attended from the Hazleton Campus and who were treated to an ail-expense paid trip were: Naomi Johnson, Kay Yencho, and Gregg Smith. The participants were coached by Prof. Andrew Kafka. Naomi Johnson gave her inter pretation of Eliza from George Bernard Shaw’s modern version of Pygmalion. Kay Yencho presented the poem Mamie. Gregg Smith of fered two poems entitled Miniver Cheevy and Richard Cory. In addition to participating in the Reading Festival, the three were treated to a banquet at which they received certificates for their meritorious participation in the Festival, and attended a party at the home of Dr. Oliver of the Speech Department at Penn State. Participants at the Festival in cluded students from all the com monwealth Campuses of Penn State, the Main Campus, the State Colleges, Seton Hill, Marywood, Geneva College, Morehead College of Kentucky, and others. Keystone Society Plans Invitation The Parnassus chapter of the Keystone Society has recently is sued invitations to 19 freshmen and sophomores to join the soci ety. They will pay a $5.00 initi ation fee which covers the cost of the hat and key. The qualifications necessary to join the Keystone Society are as follows: the completion of one full term at the University, an aca demic average of 2.5 or better, no record of disciplinary action, ac tivity in student affairs, participa tion in at least one chartered stu dent activity, and a position in the top 15% of the student body. Those qualifying for this honor are: Gregg Smith, Kathy Botchik, Janet Mihal, Betsy Moore, Skip Baigis, Phil Jeffries, Kathy Kumke, Mary Jean Turse, Esther Nemeth, Gene Dorneman, Richard Grovich, Larry Wydock, Carole Yurkovic, Annetta Long, Wayne Michael, Donna Foster, Jerry Boyle, John Cerasaro, and Mary Temke. Page Three
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