HAZLETON (0) COLLEGIAN VOL. IX—No. 8 SHIRLEY VAN NAUKER ELECTED MAY QUEE ARE NEW QUARTERS IN OFFING FOR H.U.C.? CLUB COLLEGIAN RECORDS SMASH HIT IN OPENING ,LARGE CROWD TURNS OUT FOR OPENING NIGHT The COLLEGIAN staff injected a novel note into school entertainment with the first annual one day opening of CLUB COLLEGIAN. The evening affair was planned as a novelty par ty with a night club theme. A gay festive mood prevailed throughout the evening highlighted by the music of Pete Cortese and his "Vargity Combo". The scribes se cured many unusual entertainment .features, and according to general opinion, the event was one of the most successful of the current season. Decorations were in keeping with the nite-spot setting, and the Eagles Club house, where the affair was held, was alive with student revelry. Various Committees Assured Evening's Success The problems of entertainment, re freshments, and decorations were handled very successfully by the COLLEGIAN committees. The fol lowing is a list of the various com mittees and their members: Refresh ments: Chairman Bernard Dvor sack; Associates Marguerite Ron dish, Grace Mcßride, Rena Olivia, Pat Kringe and Gladys Lorah. En tertainment: Chairman—Guy O'Haz za; Associates—Leon Baden, Donald Smith, Clarence Sipple, Edward Wiz da, Dan Wargo, Domenic Lockwood. Entertainment Program Smash Hit The COLLEGIAN extends plaudits to the following, who actively partic ipated in the entertainment and helped to make the program highly successful: Miss Pearl Garbrick, Mrs. , Hazleton, Mr. Rudman, Leon Baden, Guy WHazza, "Duke" Sipple, Ann McHugh, Howard Frable, John Thomas, Domenic Lockwood, Ruth Von Bergen, Ray Saul, Dick , Barager, Nancy North and Aaron Marsh. The Singing Waiters Quartet con sisted of 'Neil Polumbo, Dick Barager, J. Cortese and J. Hutnyan. Art Club Planning Trip To Philadelphia The HUC Art Club under the direc tion of Mr. Arthur Carpenter is plan ning a field trip to Philadelphia some time in May. The purpose of the trip is to visit the Art Museum and the Academy of Fine Arts. Other Places of Interest To Be Included The club also plans to visit other points of interest in and around tPhila. All students interested in the dub are requested to attend the meetings which are held every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at the Broad St. Building. The ballots for the May Queen election were counted by Mrs. AmOs A. Goss, advisor to the girls' sorority; Sydney Rudman, activi ties advisor; and Francis Fatsie, co-editor of The Collegian. "PROGRESS IS THE LAW OF LIFE" HAZLETON UNDERGRADUATE CENTER, HAZLETON. PA MARRIAGE CLINIC TO START NEXT WEEK The Hazleton Undergraduate Cen ter's Marriage Clinic, in charge of Dr. Mcllvaine and Mr. Ralph N. Krecker, will hold its first meeting at 12 noon, April 21st. Thus far, forty-five stil dents have signed up for the lecture course which will take place once or twice a week. Course Patterned After Campus Set-Up. Following the procedure at the campus, the no-credit course is only for students who are over 20 years of age; however, the course is avail able to married students of any age. Persons who have signed up for the Marriage Clinic are requested to at tend all the lectures. Among some of the timely topics for discussion are, "Finding a Mate", "The Courtship and Engagement Periods", and many others. Those students who are not eligible for the lectures may have an opportu nity to attend next 'semester, at which time the age restrictions may be lowered. OPEN LETTER To The People Of Greater Hazleton We address this letter to you because we have faith in you ; that faith is a justified one. We have seen the miner and clerk rub elbows with the bank president and the merchant, and with your collective shoulders to the wheel you have raised over a half million dollars for the development of new industries. We feel it is time to call your attention to the deplorable con ditions that exist in the one institution of higher learning in this community. The buildings occupied are inadequate ; one of them has been condemned for many years. Class room space is so lim ited that many applications for the Fall semester of this year may have to be refused. Promises have been made that conditions here would be al leviated. If the class rooms were as empty as those promises, no problem would exist. We wish to inform the people of this community of the ad vantages of the Undergraduate Center, actual and potential. Some of these benefits to the community are as follows : 1. Inexpensive education for students from the Greater Haz leton Community. 2. Expenditures of $310,000.00 annually as a result of the Center's location in town. 3. Possibility of night courses for all who desire them. (Courses such as English, Economics, etc.) 4. The training of personnel for industries that might locate here. The above list could be extended to great length, but even so brief a list should convince the most cynical. We feel you, the public, should receive the answers to several questions. 1. What became of the Committe who promised action on new quarters for the Center? 2. What became of the "Minute Men" who suggested positive action on this topic? 3. Why is the Center relegated to a position of lower impor tance than other projects, however worthy, such as the retention of the State Police Barracks ? • We suggest.a meeting of the Mayor, the head of the C. of C., prominent local citizens, students of the Center, and veterans of the community whereby such questions may be answered. MAY DAY QUEEN Pictured above is Miss Shirley Van Nauker, this year's monarch of May. Thispopular sophomore stu dent has the unqualified congratu lations of the entire student body. Attending Public Speaking Conference Miss Theresa Scarnecchia is attend ing the 35th Annual . Eastern Public Conference at the Hotel New Yorker, N.Y. The conference which is being held April 18-19, covers various fields of dramatics, radio and speech instruc tion. West Hazleton May Be New Site Of Hazleton Undergraduate Center Commencement Friday, June 6th Dr. Hazel Ramsay, chairman of the newly appointed commencement com mittee, announced to the COLLE GIAN the fact that plans are being formulated for the first commence ment exercise in the history of the Hazleton Undergraduate Center. Al• though the plan is in its infancy, the date has been set for the morning of June 6th. Commencement exercises for junior colleges, as well as four year col leges, have become an established tradition throughout the country; and HUC is taking a definite step on the road of progress with its inception here. Discussion among students indi cates that the establishment of tradi tion has been lacking here at the Center, and a commencement exercise will put , HUIC on a true college foot ing. A college commencement is entire ly different from the one students ex perienced when graduating from high ,school. The impressive ceremony is one that lingers in fond memories for many decades. The entire student body and guests will be present at the exercises. In conjunction with the commencement many awards will be presented to de serving students. The athletic awards, scholarship awards and individual scholastic awards will be presented. Efforts are being made to secure a prominent and interesting speaker, and a suitable auditorium for the ex ercises. These and many other prob lems incident to college graduation exercises are being worked upon. The inauguration of this new phase of ac tivity to HUC is a large undertaking, and will require the complete coopera tion of all students and faculty. Further plans will be announced to the students as they develop; it is hoped that the complete details will be available for the next issue of the COLLEGIAN. English Instructor To Undertake Dictionary Project Wallace E. McMullen, instructor of English at HUC, has announced that he is collecting material for a .pro posed dictionary of local terms and colloquialisms peculiar to this area. This includes mining terms and slang and also any foreign terms in current use. Students who are interested in participating in this project, or who are familiar with the local colloquial isms, are requested to contact Mr. Mc- Mullen for further details. As an example, the material will be arranged in the following manner: JOB'S TURKEY An imaginary turkey having the qualities of pa tience and poverty in allusion to the qualities of Jdb. Used as a type of comparison (1824). Example: "He is as poor as Job's Turkey". APRIL 18, 1947 STORY ON BACK PAGE Reports reaching the COLLEGIAN indicate that plans are already under way to expand the facilities of the Center and provide new and more ad equate housing for that institution in the near future. In an interview giv en to the head of a student committee seeking a definite answer to what plans civic leaders had in this respect, Chamber of Commerce President Vic , Diehm revealed that such plans arc underway and that the students who sought a meeting of their committee with city officials should delay this proposed meeting for a period of two weeks. Mr. Diehm indicated that the answer might be forthcoming before the lapse of that time. The student representative was informed that there is a civic minded citizen so in terested that he proposed the possi bility of erecting a building and serv ing as the Center's landlord. Meanwhile the school was alive with rumors that the Center's new lo cation would be in West Hazleton. One interested student, who declined to be quoted, ventured information which he claims to be reliable, that the authorities await only the approv al of the state legislators to close the deal for the West Hazleton site. No official confirmation of these reports could be secured, and impending ac• tion was shrouded in secrecy. Departing from the approved join nalistic policy of making news storit objective and devoid of editorial con meat, the 'COLLEGIAN wishes to re mind civic leaders that the eyes o" the community are upon them. TIM publication, as is evidenced by editori als appearing in this very issue, has advocated action on this question fo:' some time and watches with great in Merest, the most recent developments.. GERMAN CLUB NEW YORK BOUND At one of the regular German Chit' meetings held this past week it ww; tentatively decided to make a visit t,) New York City. Miss Helen Dossen bach, club moderator and instructo of German at HUC, will accompan; the group on visits to old German res taurants, a German language film am a to4r of the German quarter in the metropolis. All members of the Ger man Club are requested to plan fo the trip so that it will be a 'successfu event. Reading of Antigone To Be Presented At Grebey Auditorium On Monday, April 21, all students of English Literature are to attend the reading of the play Antigone at the , Grebey Auditorium. Mrs. Marion V. Brown, dramatics instructor at H.H.S., will give the reading. Although this reading is primaril for English literature classes, all stu dents and faculty are invited to at tend. All Students should arrange summer session and fall se mester (1947)' schedules in the office during the week of April 21 to 25, between the hours of 2 an 5.
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