Highacres 0 Collegian Volume 30 No. 2 Reading Festival Presented Left to Right—Bob Yuhas, Janies Scarcella, Paulette Vetter, Jerry Kapes, Molly Boyer, and Don ald Gerard. The Hazleton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University presented its sixth annual Read ing Festival on March 12, in the SUB Lounge. The event, which began at 7:00 p. m., was sponsored by the Belles-Lettres Society un der the supervision of Mr. Andrew Kafka, faculty advisor, and Mr. James Scarcella, club president. Mr. Scarcella gave the address of welcome, and Mr. Donald Ger ard, a member of the Belles- Lettres Society, was the Master of Ceremonies. Judges for the event were as follows: Miss Helen Dissenbach, a faculty member of the West Hazleton High School; HOUSING FOR COMMENCEMENT The Penn State Department of Housing has announced that they will be able to provide overnight housing for students only on June 13, the evening before com mencement. They are unable to provide housing for relatives of gradu ating students, because of the present calendar of classes for students already occupying the rooms. Another unfortunate fact is that virtually all commercial ac commodations in the vicinity have been booked for June 13. The only alternative would be to leave very early June 14, or to obtain accommodations some where between here and the cam pus. HAZLETON CAMPUS, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Eugene Gallagher, head teacher of the Butler Township School; Mr. John Hooper, a mem ber of the Hazleton High School faculty; Mrs. John Lon go, vice president of the Hazleton Campus Ladies Auxiliary; Professor Tom Price, English Department faculty member of the Hazleton Campus; and Miss Gladys Schwartz, facul ty member of the Hazleton High School. The four winners were Mr. Jerome Kapes, reading a selection from “Gunga Din” by Rudyard Kipling; Miss Paulette Vetter, reading a short story entitled “Spelling Bee” by Laureiie Chinn; New Circle K Initiated at Kansas The 500th Circle K club, located on the campus of Washburn Uni versity, Topeka, Kansas, was chartered in special ceremonies at the Jayhawk Hotel, Topeka, Sat urday evening, February 1, ac cording to Richard Jameson, President of the Circle K Club here at Highacres. John H. de Boisblane, a fresh man at Louisiana State Univer sity School of Law, and President of Circle K International, spoke briefly. He described the charter ing as the “attainment of a sig nificant milestone in the career of Circle K International which, though only 10 years old, has al ready become the largest campus service organization in North America.” Miss Margaret Boyer, reading an excerpt from “Macbeth” by Wil liam Shakespeare; Mr. Robert Yuhas, reading the poem “I Like Americans” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The four winners will be able to participate in the Univer sity Park Reading Festival next month. The other contestants received certificates of participation. They are as follows: Miss Janet Astleford, Mr. Martin Mehall, Mr. Bruce Phillips, Mr. John Eidle man, Mr. James Donahue, and Mr. Joseph Broyan. Refreshments were served fol lowing the Festival in the HUB Cafeteria. The charter was presented by Dr. Homer L. Johnson, Pittsburg, Immediate Past Governor of the Kansas Kiwanis District. Jim Voigts of Washburn Uni versity, President of the 500th club, received the charter on be half of his fellow members and his college. Principal speaker at the charter night ceremony was Dr. Harold E. Sponberg, President of Washburn University. In acknowledging the new club’s presence on the cam pus, Dr. Sponberg said, “Circle K fulfills not only a definite need on the college campus, but in its ded ication to the Kiwanis principles of service enhances the realization of citizenship responsibilities and improves the moral climate of the entire community.” Although the Washburn club is number 500 on Circle K’s rolls, (Continued on Page Four) March* 18, 1964 Lodge Wins In Mock Primary Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Am bassador to South Viet Nam, won the mock New Hampshire Repub lican Primary Election at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State University. Lodge, a write-in candidate, re ceived 29 votes or 35% of the total cast. This outcome proved to be a striking correlation with the ac tual results of the New Hamp shire Primary. As everyone knows, the marginal vote for Am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge was 35.4% in that election. However, there was a signif icant difference in the percentage of votes for the remaining can didates. Second high was Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, whose name appeared on the ballot. He received 25 votes, representing 28% of the total votes. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, a write-in candidate, was third with 14 votes, 17% of the total votes; and Sen. Barry Goldwater was fourth with 10 votes or 12% of the total. Gold water’s name was on the ballot. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith was fifth with 7 votes, Gov. William. Scranton sixth with 4 as a write in candidate, Harold E. Stassen seventh with 3 votes, George Romney eighth with 2, and Nor man LePage ninth with 1. Eighty-three votes were cast, and the names of the declared candidates appeared on the cam pus ballot in the exact order as in New Hampshire. The election was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Council on Governments. Advisors are David Oden and Atty. Pasco Schiavo. Transfer Students For Spring Term Transfer students to University Park for the Spring Term are aa follows: Kathleen Botchick, Robert Dob rynio, Robert Frey, William Hey man, Patricia Holshue, Donna Kennedy, Kenneth Launikonis,. Paul Levkulic, Walter Pilger, No reen Reytar, Harry Seal, Kather ine Yencho, Barbara Zeleznock. Ronald Delese is also transfer ring to the Wyomissing Campus.
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