ALUMNI NEWS
By GEORGE DEMSHOCK
DOMINIC LOCKWOOD, former
student of HUC, prominent in many
school affairs while attending here,
is a member of the debating team at
the Penn State Campus. Mr. Lock
wood, in his Junior year, is majoring
in Political Science.
CATHERINE CONAHAN is now
matriculating at Misericordia Col
lege, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Miss
Conahan, during her four semester
stay here at the HUC was May
Queen in last year's "May Queen
Program."
CHESTER SHIPPERLY, student
of four semesters at HUC, is major
ing in Civil Engineering at the Penn
State Campus. Last summer Mr.
Shipperly was one of those who at
the Penn State Campus put their
theories of Civil Engineering into
practical work by planning and lay
ing out an entire town.
DORIS GOLDSWORTHY at the
Penn State Campus is following up
the socialogical studies she had while
at HUC, by majoring in Social Work.
Active at the Penn State Campus
in the Center and Common Sense
Clubs is JANE SMITH, former stu
dent of four semesters at HUC. Miss
Smith was a member of the student
council and an attendant in the May
Queen Program while at the Center.
Her major is English Literature;
among her likes are dating, knitting
and food.
JANE PERNA, in her junior year
at the Penn State Campus, is major
ing in Modern Languages, with Cen
ter and Rifle Clubs as extra-curricu
lar activities. Miss Perna studied
four semesters at the HUC.
ELINOR JUNAS is working for
her Teacher's Certificate at Concor
dia Teachers College, River Forest,
Illinois. Miss Junas, who was en
rolled in HUC in 1944-1945 for two
semesters when the student body
numbered only 55, will spend the
Christmas holidays at home in Hazle
ton.
JOYCE McLAUGHLIN, a student
of four semesters at HUC, is enrolled
in the School of Education at the
Penn State Campus. Miss McLaugh
lin's major is Mathematics.
A Commerce and Finance major,
JEAN MACZKOV, shows extra-cur
ricular interest at the Penn State
Campus by being active in the Cen
ter, Newman, Modern Dance, and
Bridge Clubs. While at HUC for
four semesters, Miss Maczkov was a
member of the Glee Club, Omega
Chi Tau Sorority and was in the
Hemlock Chain of last year's May
Queen program.
NANCY NORTH, one of last
year's very capable assistant librari
ans at HUC, is majoring in Sociolo
gy at the Penn State Campus. Miss
North's extra-curricular activities in
clude the Center, Modern Dance, and
Newman Clubs.
MARGARET DENION, who had
a four semester stay at HUG, has
Math as her major, at the Penn
State Campus. Miss Denion, while
here at HUC, was a member of
the Student Council for three semes
ters, Secretary of the Girls Club for
two semesters, and was Scroll Bearer
in the last May Queen Program. Her
present activities include the Center,
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
The Japanese
Observe New Years
In a Strange Way
By KEN VAYDA
The New Years holiday is the
foremost holiday in . Japan. It is,
strangely, called the Festival of the
Plum. Blossom because the Japanese
New Year occurred, originally, in the
spring when the first blossoms, usual
ly that of the plum, appeared. When
the Japs accepted the Gregorian
Calendar the New Year came in the
wintertime, however, they have con
tinued celebrating the arrival of
spring prematurely.
This holiday is also the birthday
celebration of every Japanese :per
son. When a child is born it is con
sidered to be one year old already
and the next birthday comes with the
New Year.
The festival is three days in length
but it is often celebrated three days
before and even three days after
ward. It is filled with Oriental gaiety
and splendor: flowers, lanterns and
flags are strewn everywhere; neigh
bors are invited to eat and then pray
to the household gods of family al
tars; street parades and dances are
initiated at the local temple (Shinto)
every night during the holiday peri
od and continue there most of the
night. The costumes and make-up of
the individuals are outstanding. The
girls are bedecked in colorful kimo
nos and obis, and the boys are in
richly embroidered kimonos of solid
black.
The height of gaiety at this festiv
al, and all others as well, is usually
determined by the amount of sake
(rice wine) consumed.
Newman, Modern Dance, and Outing
Clubs.
CLAIR MURPHY, who studied
for four semesters at HUC, is now
matriculating at Penn State Campus.
Miss Murphy's major is Industrial
Psychology.
IRENE KOCHERA, majoring in
education at the Penn State Campus,
had quite an eventful stay at HUC
during her four semesters. She was,
during that time, President of the
Omega Chi Tau Sorority, a member
of the Student Council four semes
ters, Math Club Secretary, a member
of the French Club and was an at
tendant in the' May Queen Program
last year. At present Miss Kochera
holds membership in the Center,
Bridge, and Newman Clubs, and
won second honor for "Harvest
Queen" of the Campus.
PAUL SHAWLER, three semester
student of HUC, is majoring in
Industrial Psychology at the Penn
State Campus.
ROSE MARY FELLIN, Medical
Technology major at the Penn State
Campus, is very active in the Center,
Newman, Swimming, and Rod and
Coccus Clubs. Miss Fellin spent four
semesters at HUC.
THERESA KILINSKI, after a two
semester stay at HUC, is now at the
Penn State Campus, majoring in
Bacteriology. "Terry" as she is
known to her friends, is a member of
the Bowling, Swimming, Newman,
and Rod and Coccus Clubs, in addi
tion to the Penn State Christian As
sociation.
LETTER
The elder man was not callous,
although you might gather it from
his speech. It was just that he had
been around a long, long time, and
he had seen much misery. It had
taught him to mask his emotion be
hind the detached air of a profession
al manner. His starched white jacket
and slacks were not needed to iden
tify him as a doctor.
The younger man was a replica of
the older. He was an intern and he .
imitated the mannering and bearing
of his senior in every detail. He was
not quite as seasoned to human suf
fering as was his master.
They sat in the ante room set off
the ward and discussed a patient.
The elder spoke, "Imagine that, a
letter to Santa Claus--what a sense
of humor". His disciple smiled. The
older doctor looked for a moment at
the letter and read aloud:
"Dear Santa,
I am writing you for my young
son who, thank God, is not too cynic
al to disbelieve you. Sometimes, par
ticularly in recent years, Santa, I
have doubted your existence; but,
just when I have decided that you
are a fraud, something happens to
convince me otherwise. There was
the time I saw the scrub lady spend
her last buck for a doll for the crip
pled kid next door—l really believed
in you that day; but all this is nei
ther here nor there. You are busy,
and I have a letter to write.
Santa, more than anything else I
want my little boy to grow up. I
want you to see that no damned fool
.figures out a new quicker way to kill
him. I want him to reach manhood
with two good arms and be able to
kick a football around with sturdy
legs. I don't want him to look back
and remember that he was a pretty
good athlete until a mortar shell
mangled one of his limbs. For the
love of God, Santa, this letter is not
a gag. I want my boy to grow up the
way I did until 0 Christ, what's
the use ?"
The doctor smiled but his hand
shook and his eyes were moist. "It's
that basket case—he must be losing
his grip he has no son. He has
never been married and—hell, may
be I'm losing my grip, too." He
turned his back and stalked down the
corridor.
Cadets On Review
Here they come! The throng
inches forward in tense expectancy.
Here on the majestic plains above the
Hudson, the Cadets of West Point
are preparing to demonstrate some
of the qualities which have proven
them to be the world's best soldiers.
The successful staging of a dress
parade requires utmost precision and
alertness. Nowhere has anyone per
formed more capably the art of pa
rading than the young men of the
U. S. Military Academy. Marching
erectly, rifles carried seemingly with
out effort, the Cadets swing past in
perfect unison.
Perfectly spaced files and hun
dreds of white-striped trouser legs,
blended as one, stride past the re
viewing officer. Now halted and given
the command, "order arms", the
Cadets bring their rifles to the
Center of Interest
By JUNE REINMILLER
Although the different undergrad
uate centers of Penn State are basic
ally alike, little items of interest
about their various activities which
distinguish one center from another
never seem to become known to the
student. It is evident that basketball
is the most widely discussed topics
among the centers. Ask any sopho
more about Dubois and he will prob
ably tell you that their team gave
RUC pretty stiff competition under
the hoop last year, but you'll be safe
to wager that he would be surprised
to learn that the DUCS are scheduled
to battle Pitt and the Indiana
this season. The truth is that stu
dents know far too little about their
fellow students at DUC, SUC, and
AUC.
Did you notice a cartoon recently
posted in the main corridor? This
was the product of a Schuylkill Col
lege cartoonist who sympathized with
the snap-quiz -harried student. Rather
than spending the night dancing with
his girl, poor Joe was making a vain
attempt to steer the difficulties of
knowledge his way at 3:00 A. M.
This was a fine job of portraying a
common gripe of all the centers; the
snap quiz. In this same issue was a
commendable editorial by Bill Weist.
The column was a critical summary
of the American people's decline of
principles they had long ago.
The editor's declarations that the
monetary system is now governing
the people's deeds and that Ameri
cans were now individualists rather
than Americans is timely in this
Christmas season.
On November 15th the Science
Club of Schuylkill visited the Frank
lin Institute in Philadelphia where
they were fortunate enough to see a
television demonstration of the Penn-
Army game.
Laurels to a group of Altoona stu
dents who, like some of us here at
HUC, have aided in Little Theater
productions in their city. Onions to
a few artists who obligingly wrote
letters to the editor of the Altoona
Collegian (incidentally, it's published
by their Student Council) and turned
both barrels at the newspaper. An
Altoonite has really approved of long
skirts; he claims it gives him more
time to study. An entirely different
opinion is expressed by another, that
it slows up the eye movement. So
you see students at the other centers
are very similar to us in more ways
than one.
ground with amazing precision. For
malities completed, and standing at
"parade rest", they are abruptly
snapped to rigid attention. Not even
a waver among the entire group is
discernable to those witnessing the
spectacle. Polished metal gleams
brilliantly in the sun's warmth. The
command "right shoulder arms" por
trays again the unswerving accuracy
and meticulous training of a Cadet.
Each rifle is snapped into position at
precisely the same moment. Wheeling
into formation, the nation's hope for
future world security, the trim Ca
dets of the U. S. Military Academy,
leave whence they came and it is
some few minutes before spectators
recover from their awed fixation.