May 1, 1953
PARNASSUS. ACTIVE
Big things have, been happening this week as evidenced by the activities of
Parnassus, At its regular monthly meeting held last Friday, April 2LI, it was
decided that the list of new pledges for this semester will be announced the first
week of May,
The committee appointed to compile the activity points for this semester
- Miss Pearl Garbrick, Ilr, Frank Kostos, Bill Coll, Pat Tonsho- met on Tuesday,
April 28, when they revised the activities chart for the 12-week period.
Today Parnassus will hold a special meeting. At this time the new pledges
for this semester will be chosen. Only second, third, and fourth semester stu
dents who have the necessary activities points - 10 for second semester stu
dents, 15 for third semester students, 20 for fourth semester students - and
a minimum all-college average of 1,5 are eligible for membership.
The committee appointed at last Friday 5 s meeting to work on the eligibility
for the annual Parnassus awards for the most valuable sophomore and freshman
met on Wednesday, April 29, and will present their findings to Parnassus today.
Serving on this committee are Mr, Campbell, Mr, Steele, Marie Jacko, Joe Belovxch,
and Bill Coll,
OPERATION CADET LIFT
Did you happen to see a giant, soaring, silver thunder bird cruising over
Hazleton and vicinity last Saturday? If you did, that was one of the three
flights of AFROTC Cadets that took off from the Avoca airfield that day.
The group of forty cadets was divided into three smaller groups, and assign
ed different flight times. The first flight took off at about 11 A,M, carrying
15 cadets, The pilot was Captain Carper, who flew the plane locally for more
than two hours* giving each cadet a chance to operate the controls. Because of
the wind currents caused by the approaching rain, the first flight was rather
rough. The first flight landed at about 2 P,M, with over two cases of upset
stomachs. The next flight took off at 2j 30 and landed at ks3o, each cadet also
taking his turn flying the ship„ This flight had no cases of sickness or causes
to bail out» The last flight went smoothly for a little over an hour, until the
captain had to land back at Avoca because the gas gauge indicated "very low I*, 1 *,
The cadets who participated in the mass flight were John Alampi, Joe Andrews,
Roy Atherholt, Paul Bain, Joe Birt, Emil Butchko, Cyril Carroll, Eugene Charney,
William Coll, Andrew Diaz, Nick Dobrovolsky, Marv Edelstein, Mike Evancho, Matthew
Galatha, Eldon Kibler, Paul Kisatsky, George Kobreck, Thomas Kochie, John Lovrinic,
George Cal Pardee IV, Peter Pavuk, Tony Peccone (cpl«), Nick Pelick, Ray Schultz,
Thomas Scott, Ralph Sirota, Don Snover, Bob Stauffer, John Steckert, Larry Sydlo,
Robert Tracy, James Ustynoski, Robert Valaik, Donald Weldon, Joe Wersinger, Mike
Yankowski,
All flights were true successes• The most popular quip of the day was utter
ed by Bob Valaik as the plane flew over the G,A.R. Stadium in Wilkes-Barre. "Dig
that crazy pool-tablejn
It seems now that the girls are jealous of the boys getting rides. Maybe
next year AFROTC will be coed.
CASE OF MUMMIES
The IV Dynasty of Mummies held a meeting in S-101 last night with Mr, Preston
Peightal as the main speaker.
The meeting was called to order by Pharoah Nick Pelick; the minutes of the
last meeting were read by Mable Lewis, and a Treasury report was given by Frank
Smida,
Plans were made to have the next meeting in two weeks. Since this is to be
the last meeting of the term, the Mummies hope to have a good time and are cook
ing up a little party.
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
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