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COLLEGIAN STAFF
Editorial Board
John C. Barnes
Earl K. Seybert Ruth L. Bachman
Margaret T. Lucash Alice M. McGrory
Reportorial Board
Marie Somers Emer Flounders
Josephine T. Zogby Irene E. Sherrock
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EDITORS’ APOLOGIES
At last your patient wait has ended!
The second issue of the “Hazleton
Collegian” has come to light. We must
tell you why it didn’t come out sooner.
First of all, a newspaper can’t be
printed without any news. So we had
to wait for new things. By the way,
did we succeed or is this a good
ancient history paper ?
In the second place, we took it upon
ourselves to go out and gather ads in
order for you to get the paper free of
charge . . . And that’s one job we
didn’t relish. However, let it publicly
be known that Emer Flounders, our
business manager, has done more than
his share on the money end of this
issue. So did Earl Seybert, who col
lected the most ad money.
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Our Alumni members have been
busy for the last few weeks making
news for our paper. Martha Marusak,
’35, heads our list this month by her
outstanding work on the Penn State
debating team. Last year she was a
member of the varsity debate squad
and entered in eight inter-collegiate
debates. She is also out for the swim
ming team.
Michael Dembrosky, now working
for the Penna. Power & Light Com
pany, is married and has two children,
Jean Ann and Michael, Jr.
Another among our married friends
is Joe Bryzenda, who is now running
a butcher shop in McAdoo. He also
has one son, Joe, Jr. So you see our
Center can boast of ancestors already.
At Mt. St. Mary’s in Maryland, Jim
Kennedy has been doing very well. He
is president of Coal Crackers Club
and an officer in Knights of Columbus.
Joe Conahan, who completed a two
year course in a State Teachers Col
lege, is now teaching in Hazle Town
shin.
Our representative in Penn State’s
International Club has done it again.
He is chairman of the committee
which is going to Washington in April
to visit the State Department. Charlie
Gallagher’s the name and he's a
straight ticket candidate.
Tommy Pugliese has also come
through for the second time. He
coached the Frear Hall basketball
team to its first win of the season.
A jazz orchestra on the State Col
lege campus has a representative of
We i wish to bring to the Center
students’ attention a small yet im
portant fact. It has to deal with our
game room,. Students are a little care
less about the tidiness of the room.
They are poor shots in throwing waste
paper in the baskets, and consequently
the floor is littered with paper and
other refuse. -
Walter E. Organist
We are asking the students to take
pride in the appearance of their re
creation room and to be a little careful
in getting rid of their papers. And
you cigarette smokers, don’t let your
stubs go to waste, by depositing them
in the ash tray and not choking them.
Choke them and save them from com
plete extinction.
Chess and checker players are equal
ly as guilty of carelessness. We have
a cupboard for storing the games and
yet the chessmen and checkers are
scattered throughout the game room.
When you get through with the
frames, punish the loser by forcing
him to put them away.
What does the future hold for our
growing Center? Our fond dream is
that it may develop into a permanent
junior college or even a college.
Hazleton is in need of an institution
of the “higher learning” type. There
is an annual migration of hundreds of
young Hazletonian collegiates to the
neighboring compuses. And there is a
similar migration of funds. What
could do Hazleton more good than to
avert this migration ? Hazleton, we
know, is in need of some good invest
ments; and, to our way of thinking,
its best investment would be (as well
as is) the education of its future
leaders.
the Center, Carl Schmidt, who can
make a violin talk.
Raphael Sotack, whom we old-timers
remember for his deep bass, is now in
Europe studying for the priesthood.
Bill “Big Mary” Hanisek has chang
ed from pre-med to education. The
State College Ed School got a break —
maybe.
A 1 Spalone is now in Washington
looking for a government job, and
Peter Petruncio has joined the navy.
The alumni are attempting to or
ganize a Center club at the campus.
At last reports Mr. Pugh’s consent
was the only thing needed to put the
club into operation. Leaders in this
movement are the one and onlys,
Charlie iGallagher and Mike Cappa
rell.
John McCann is now at Villanova;
Henry Ziolkowsky is at the Hahneman
Medical School in Philadelphia and
John Corrigan is at the Georgetown
Medical School.
Paul Hayes has a position with the
W. T. Grant Store of Hazleton.
Fred “Knothole” Holderman is now
at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston.
At Syracuse, Selma Rosen made the
Dean’s List among other things. Look
at Mr. Eiche’s chest swell!
Donald Carter is ht his home in
Plea For Tidiness
INTO THE FUTURE
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
| BARBS AND
And now your columnist is going to
roll up his sleeves, pour a little acid
into his ink well, and cast an angry
eye at the general apathy of the stu
dents toward the grand program of
activities tendered to them. This high
hatesque attitude means, incidentally,
that most of the student corpus is un
wittingly missing an imporant five
credit course of their Center educa
tion.
Let’s drop the ping-pong racquet
for a moment. Today several of the
publicators roamed about town ex
tracting ads from hard-headed, albeit
amiable, business men. And in doing
this, they formed contacts which are
definitely important, which may open
otherwise closed doors of opportunity.
Probably there was added a little
grain of experience in human nature,
in business, in discovering themselves.
This means a healthy step forward.
The old balderdash? Think it over.
Now will you eat your spinach ?
Debating had but one fresh injec
tion from the freshman class. The
Cosmopolitan Club is dwindling in de
mensions, although not in spirit, and
the Publication Club is grinding slow
ly along while the Dramatic Club is
walking a fence. But the grounds
committee has become a legendary
name, the Building Committee can
only be spoken of in the singular, and
the Game Room Committee at present
is enjoying an afternoon siesta, ex
cept lively Novotnie, the champion
organizer of the Center.
And so let’s make Center activity
hum on all speeds ahead during the
new semester. And if anyone brings
up the moss-backed argument of ac
tivities interfering with study he’ll be
tucked into one of Procrustes’ iron
beds. There will also be a mysterious
case of arson connected with the ping
pong table.
Congratulations!
Congratulations are certainly in or
der to the Center’s studying corps for
its wholesale migration from the
game room to the library at the be
ginning of the second semester. This
shows that the students have reached
the first milestone toward education.
They are becoming sincere and earn
est in their efforts to learn something
and pass their courses.
How long this study-mania will
last, we don’t know. But while it
dees, the Hazleton Penn State Center
will remain a scholar’s Paradise as
well as a high ranking scholastic in
stitution. Keep it up, you fellows
(and girls, too), you’re doing noble!
Audenried recuperating from an ap
pendicitis operation.
Now that we’ve shown you alumni
what your comrades are doing, we
hope you read what those who have
taken the Center torch from you are
about in their own little college com
munity in Hazleton.
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BOUQUETS |
A child prodigy was recently un
covered in Chester, a mere lad of 180
pounds and 10 years who swept
through six years of schooling in as
many months. Report has it that the
Chester lads up here were writing
home to see if he could do trig.
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German 4 students were recently
puzzled by a ringing sound. The mys
tery was solved when Mr. Janssen
pulled out a large watch with a bell
attachment. Question: Was it there
to wake the class or to warn Mr.
Janssen that he was circumloeutin’ ?
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The candid camera: Mr. Eiche
teasing Earl about his resemblance to
“The Hurricane’s” sour-faced Govern
[ or . . . Mr. Herpel leaping erect with
a lap-full of steaming coffee . . . Mr.
Kieft filling the air with sugar cubes
. . . Tony “Shots” Piccola dressed in
white, dishing out groceries at the
Giant . . . Steve Zayach learning the
“Big Apple” while precariously bal
ancing a slab of cake . . . Several
freshmen, puzzled as to including or
excluding minus grades in calculating
their average . . . Larry Tarleton,
leading a night life at the “Hazle” . . .
Marie Scimers, reserving “The New
Morality” at the Public Library . . .
Mr. Janssen fortifying himself with
a stack of edibles for the ordeal of
German II . . . Mr. Goas driving one
over the net with plenty of topspin
. . . Franklin in a crowded booth com
plaining of his being a southpaw . . .
Bill Savitz forsaking math for a copy
of “Life” . . . “Nipper” Gallagher, in
sulted because his name wasn’t men
tioned in the last issue . . . Emer
Flounders, suitcase in hand, dashing
at the last minute up to the Center to
register . . . Ross Blyler dutifully
swearing to abstain from the tempta
tions of ping-pong . . . Charlie Mc-
Geehan committing imayhemmorhage
over a calculus integration, and our
Sec.-Treasurer “all three” scholaress
cracking those books.
NEW SCHEDULE TROUBLES
If any stranger happened to be
present in the game room on one
Tuesday afternoon, he would think
himself in the midst of a revolution.
And it was only the public presenta
tion of our new second semester sche
dule. Next to doing one of Mr. Goas’
history quizes, we believe the
hardest thing on this globe is the
drawing up of a good schedule. No
matter how hard the faculty tries, it
can’t please all the students, can it
Gerald ? But as one brilliant student
(bow, Ruth) remarked: “What’s the
difference, we still have eighteen
hours no matter which way the
schedule reads?” Yeah, what is the
difference.
FEBRUARY, 1938