VOL. XII. No. 5'
First Semester
Dean's List and
Honor Students
Mr. Goss has released the first
semester grade averages and the
Dean's List and Honor Roll ....
The following "brain trusts" have
attained a scholastic average of 3.00
for the first semester:
Nancy Baran, Grace Bendalin,
Betty Harlor, Veronica Petak, James
Prete, Jean Sutliff, Hubert Zilkoski.
These students have attained a
2.50 average to merit inclusion on the
Dean's List:
John Laubach, Jean Lovrinic, Keen
Buss, Joan Lee, Ellis Kocher, William
Koehler, John McNally, Lewis Garris
on, John Oleksa, John Prehanty,
Francis Kapes, George Miller, Walter
Stone, Frank Thomson, Michael San-
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WELCOME MILTON
HENRY PAVLICK
"It pays to wait" seems to be the
key to success for our widowed moth
er, Penn State: It seems that after
suffering the pangs of widowhood,
she has decided to tie the knot again.
This time the bridegroom is Milton
Eisenhower. The name Eisenhower
brings to mind Milton's brother,
"Ike," a general of wartime fame,
now retired as head of Columbia
University. Milton is known for his
ability to make friends with students
by chatting informally on the campus
with them, and his famous "open
door policy" where students are free
to consult him at any time.
Public speaking seems to have a
great demand for Milton; this is only
natural for he is one of _it's top organ
izers. He likes to paint with water
colors and oils when time allows. At
home he enjoys playing Bach and
Beethoven on the electric organ. A
very rabid sport fan, he injured a leg
when he became excited during a bas
ketball game last year at Kansas.
While attending Kansas State he
was city editor of the Abiline Daily
News, then became managing ed
itor of the Collegiate, the campus
newspaper, and founded a student
humor magazine, Brown Bull. Public
speaking earned him the extempora
neous speech an•d oratorical contests
award in Missouri. After graduation
he was assistant journalism professor
while he continued his studies.
He served as Associate Director of
the Office of War Information until
1943 when he became president of
Kansas State. The students at Kansas
State were soon captured by his ami
able charm as he seemed to mingle
with them on the campus or be seen
enjoying a milk shake with them in
some obscure spot. His personality is
hard to , describe—people may be. in-
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a3tetott
HAZLETON CENTER, HIGHACRES, R. D. 1, HAZLETON, PA.
ROTC
This semester the Collegian will
pursue a policy of featuring one of
the departments or programs in
cluded in the curriculum or under the
jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania State
College in Hazleton. We will present
the past achievements and proposed
projects of these departments along
with some of the human interest high
lights of each. In this issue we will
feature the military side of the cur
riculum—the compulsory elementary
R.O.T.C. courses.
The Scope
The Reserve Officers' Training
Course is indeed a compulsory course
for all Freshman and Sophomore
male students who qualify physically.
Many people are under the impres
sion that the work covered in class
pertains only to military life and mil
itary •courses. This is a common falla
cy as the veteran Rotocee student will
gladily testify. The R.O.T.C. manual
includes many things that are equally
applicable to the life of a civilian as
y(mi DA E cac
We print herewith the Official Col
lege Calendar to inform our readers
of the exact dates of, a few important
occasions:
April 4 Tuesday .... Spring re
cess begins 4:30 p.m.
April 11—Tuesday.... Spring re
cess ends 8:30 a.m.
May 30 Tuesday . . . . Memorial
Day recess.
June 1--Thursday .... Second se
mester classeS end 4:30 p.m.
June 2 Frilay .. Final exams
begin 8:30.
June 10 Saturday .... End of
second semester 4:30 p.m.
Collegian
LARRY LIDZ
to the life of a soldier. First aid, map
reading, and life-saving are in the
make-up of a first-class citizen as
well as a first-class fighting man. Ob
jection has been and always will be
raised to the drill work; however, we
must keep in mind that the prime ob
ject of drilling is the development of
discipline and leadership. Who can
deny the importance of those quali
ties to anyone? The military training
is, therefore, to be regarded not only
as a military preparedness measure of
the government but as a material ad
dition to the educational resources of
the college. Approximately 1,000 hon
or graduates of R.O.T.C. units will be
offered Regular Army commissions
annually.
Here at Highacres we have two
separate branches of the service.
There is an Air R.O.T.C. Unit in
structed by Technical Sergeant Flar
tey, and an Army Unit with Master
Sergeant Gordon in command.
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Quotations
"He that increaseth knowledge in
creaseth sorrow."—Ecclesiastes I. 18
(We all are rather happy)
"Know thyself"—Socrates
(How do you do ?)
"The only good is knowledge, and
the only evil is ignorance."
—Diogenes
(Study your Chem like a good
fttle boy!)
Elections Will Be Held
The balloting for selection of
candidates to fill several offices
vacated last semester is being held
Tuesday, March 7, and Wednes
day, March 8.
The actual voting will take place
in English composition and litera
ture classes. Any student who is
not enrolled in either composition
or literature classes can obtain a
ballot in the Hall of "Old Main."
"A Tale of 2 Cities"
HUC ENTERTAINS
POTTSVI LLE ROOTERS
Immediately after the Hazleton-
Pottsville basketball game Monday,
February 22, an informal party and
dance was held in the lounge and
snack bar here at Highacres. Details
of the game, won by HUC, appear on
the sports page.
The details of the "Welcome Potts
ville" party include bus transporta
tion which was furnished out to the
campus from the A. D. Thomas
School gym. A "midnight snack" at
ten o'clock was prepared by one of
the kitchen staff she won't allow
her name to be used—but the barbe
cue wasn't bad. Dancing to the music
of Miss Garbrick's "juke box" was en
joyed and much conversation, intel
lectual and otherwise, was exchanged.
The Pottsville and Hazleton Under
graduate centers have staged recipro
cal "welcomes" following basketball
games for the past several years.
These welcomes are unique to us in
that they are our only contact with
a brother institution. The enjoyment
and broadening of 'contacts which this
affair afforded would seem to indi
cate that more inter-school affairs
would be in order.
YORK ROOTERS
WOW HAZLETON
An impressive display of solidarity
and team spirit greeted those few
Hazleton rooters who were on hand
to witness the York-HUC battle on
Saturday night, February 25.
When a team travels approximately
150 miles to play a game in a confer
ence which they have already won,
and its rooters far outnumber the
home-town fans—that's enthusiasm.
The fired York students organized
a band and marched noisily around
the gym floor. The band uniforms
were a bit unorthodox shorts, long
underwear, brogues, tuxedos, swords,
ad infinitum .... but the total effect
was very comical. Scores of student
and adult rooters kept things moving
all through the bitterly contested
game.
The margin of victory of York's
basketeers wasn't large. How large
might it have been if there were an
equal number of Hazleton rooters to
balance the cheers?
And thereby hangs the tale.
ON LEGS AND CONTESTS
The Collegian has received an
anonymous note suggesting that it
sponsor a school-wide contest to de
termine which of our co-eds has the
most beauti f u 1 legs. Strangely
enough or perhaps not so strangely
the handwriting seems to be a wom
an's. A committee has been appointed
to study the proposal. Any volun
teers?
We hope that we are not going too
far "out on a limb" with this matter.
MARCH 7, 1950