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.