HAZLETofiikIEGIAN Vol. I—No. 2 Four Hew Students Register At Center With the opening of the second semester, the Center welcomed four new students, one girl and three boys. The girl, Miss Betty Reese of Auden ried, is a Freshman who spent her, first semester at Cedarcrest College near Allentown. A graduate of the; Class of ’37, Hazleton Senior High' School, Miss Reese is now taking a Liberal Arts course. Leon Stepanik, a Sophomore, is a graduate of the St. John Kanty Prep aratory School. He attended Penn State College at the Campus last year and the first semester of this year. He is enrolled at present in the Liberal Arts School. Mr. Stepanik is a resi dent of McAdoo. John Timko of Eckley, a student in the School of Education, is a graduate of Foster Township High School (you know! the school that gave our basket ball team a very unexpected trouncing two weeks ago.) He also attended the East Stroudsburg State Teachers’ Col lege. Chester has sent us another of her favorite sons. This semester we have with us Anthony Filippone. an alum nus of Chester High. Anthony is a freshman in the School of Commerce and Finance. He is rooming with another Chesterite, Fred MacDowell. We hope that our four new students will enjoy their stay at the Center as much as we enjoy having them with us. Attend Debate Conference At Penn State Campus Gertrude Hecht, Fmer Flounders, Anthony Piccola, and Walter Organist —four charter members of the Hazle ton Center debating team—a few weeks ago made a trip with their coaches. Mr. Herpel and Mr. Janssen, to the Penn State Caimpus and par ticipated in a freshmen conference on the current collegiate debate question concerning the granting of compulso ry arbitration to the National Labor Relations Board. The Center debaters attended con ference committee sessions on Friday night and a general conference meet ing on Saturday morning. At one of the committee sessions, “Shotz” Pie cola, cage wizard, was one of three which drew up the committee report for the general conference. The conference arrived at three con clusions :(1) the present labor situa tion is serious; (2) compulsory arbi tration is necessary; and (3) the NLRB should be given this compulso ry arbitration power. In other words, Hazleton To Play Host To Three Center Quintets Annual Inter-Center Tournament. Will Take Place at Hazle Tc Three Center Squads Wi] As a climax to the 1937-38 cage season, the Hazleton Penn State ■Center will play host to the other three State Centers on March 11 and 12 in the annual Inter-Center basket ball tournament. This is the first year that the big event will not take place on the State College campus; and Hazleton has the honor of being selected as the scene of the conflicts. The games will be played at the row Hazle Township gym. Friday night, March 11, the Hazleton Center and Pottsville will draw opponents from the two western Centers, Union town and Dußois. The winners of these two games will battle for the Center crown Saturday night. There will also be a game between the two losers. For the first time, the western teams are rated equal chances with the eastern teams. According to statistics, the Hazleton Center has a good chance of gaining the champion ship. McGeehan’s cagers have already squelched Pottsville. On a western trip recently the Pottsville team lost its two games to the western Centers. Uniontown, a team of all six-footers (Let’s hope they’re not all Reings), handed them a 48-42 defeat; Dußois won by a closer score, 31-30, in an extra period contest. From this we can readily conclude that Hazleton has as good a chance as any of the other Centeers. After the fireworks are over Sat urday night, the Hazleton team will entertain the visiting teams at the Center building. The cup will be pre sented to the winners and the boys will discuss their wins and losses in the smoky atmosphere of a smoker. To this affair only players are invited, because there are about forty visiting warriors to be accommodated. Committees selected by President John Barnes for this affair are: Entertainment Pershing Jones, Earl Seybert, Walter Organist. Welcoming—Charles McGeehan and members of the basketball team. 'Game arrangements—Earl Seybert and Lewis Smith. the conference endorsed the affirma tive side of the question. The four Center debaters learned plenty about the technique of debating and a little about the labor situation. They wish to publicly thank ’the Cen ter alumni, John Yenchko, Charlie Gallagher, Carl Schmidt, Anthony Lio ! and Robert Koch, for their entertain ment and lodgings. Penn State Undergraduate Center Formerly Held at Penn Campus, ownship Gym, March 11-12; II Be Week-End Visitors. THE TOURNAMENT CUP At present the possession of the Tournament Cun is in the hands of the Pottsville Center. Since the Potters have been defeated by all teams—twice by our Center —the future of the Cup is very uncertain. It might follow Greeley’s advice and “go West,” for the western Centers are bringing strong aggre gations to Hazleton. Our strong Center quintet, how ever, will attempt to dissuade its going westward by winning the Cup. So you see, ownership of the Cup is a toss-up; but we hope we get it. Improve Their Averages In Stale College Studies Four former Hazletcn Center stu dents were listed by the Pennsylvania State College Extension News as being among the 45 of the 83 transfer Center students at the Campus who improved their scholastic averages. The high ranking Center alumni are: Edward Somers, School of Min eral Industries, 2.66; Martha J. Miller, School of Education, 2.53; H. J. Ryn kiewlcz, School of Chemistry, 2.36; and Martha M. Marusak, School of Liberal Arts, 2.05. Students in the Liberal Arts School showed the greatest improvement. Seventeen out of twenty transfer stu dents boasted their averages; in the School of Agriculture nine out of twelve raised their grades. COMPLETE PLANS FOR TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY Plans for a trip to New York City the last week-end of March have been completed by Mary Ann McClintock and Irene E. Sherrock. The students who will make the trip will attend the Metropolitan Opera and some play which will be selected later. For those interested in the expenses of the journey, here are some figures: train fare, $4.30; opera, $1.00; thea tre, $1.10; hotel, $1.50; meals, $2.50. The train is scheduled to leave at 5:16 a. m. Saturday and will leave New York at 6:45 p. m. Sunday. The Penn State library (not our but the one on the campus) contains ap proximately 177,955 books, according to Librarian Willard P. Lewis. LIBRARY BOOKS To Send Delegates To Council Confab The Hazleton Center student council will send four delegates to Pottsville on April 1 to attend the second annual Inter - Center Council Conference. They will participate in a discussion of the problems which confront the councils from the four State Centers. Last year the first conference was held at Dußois where the delegates exchanged views on their govern ments. At Pottsville a closer tie-up of communication between the Cen ters will be set up. The Pottsville Center is planning a varied program of conferences and entertainment. Our legislators will have a good time as well as gain a broader perspective on the machinery of government. The only trouble council now has is to elect the delegates; but every member wants to vote for himself! Center Gets Money Grant And Furniture, Radio Gift The Hazleton Center is getting some benefits from the little yet inspiring , glow of philanthropy still alive in this 1 hectic age in the form of gifts and money grants. All the students will remember Robert Ball, who attended the Center the first semester until his collegiate career was cut short by an auto acci dent. Bob is now recovering and vaca tioning in Florida. In gratitude for the Center’s solicitude over Boh, Mr. L. G. Ball of Philadelphia had presented the Center with sixty-two dollars, the first out-of-town gift received by the Cen ter. Now; the Center students are ben efiting from Mr. Ball’s generosity in the form of books. A set of “Encyclo pedia of Social Sciences” has already been purchased. Many informative books for advanced students of mathematics, chemistry, and English owe their existence in the Center li brary to Mr. Ball’s $62 gift. On presenting the gift, Mr. Ball en thusiastically expressed his approval of the work in the Center and compli mented Mr. Eiche and the faculty upon the Center progress. Those comfortable easy chairs which you’re sitting in are concrete proof of the Landau Bros. Store gen erosity. The store presented to the Center six chairs and two divans. On top of this, the combination radio and victrola, which will soon blare forth in the game room, is a gift from the same store. So remember Landau Bros, when you’re listening to Kay Kaiser. (This is absolutely no adver tising.) Mr. Ernest E, Watkins of Kingston, father of Robert Watkins, recently presented the Center with a set of “Gibbon’s Roman Empire” in five volumes. FEBRUARY, 1938
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