The Pennsylvania
State University
Delaware County
Campus
Vol. I, No. 1
November, 1968
EDITORS NAIED
10 FILL POTS
ON LION'S EYE
Ten students have been se-
lected as temporary editors on the
staff of THE LION’S EYE. The
students were selected by Mr. Bis-
contini through interviews and
submission of written material.
Permanent editors for each sec- |:
tion, as well as an editor-in-chief
and a business manager, will be
selected by the staff members
themselves when the newspaper
becomes a chartered organization.
It is now functioning as a com-
mittee of the SGA.
The staff members
LION’S EYE are:
News: Joan Scanlon, editor;
John Capice, Joe DeCostanza,
Naomi Gifford, Beth Pfeffer,
Nancy Nipon, Joanne Freedman,
Phyllis Taylor, and Eileen Moran.
Editorial: Nancy Stoicovich,
Maria Infante, Dave Berger, edi-
tors; Joe Bacanskas, Earl Smith,
Paula Levin, Linda Ryncavage,
‘and Dom Iacono.
Photography: George Lewis and
Sol Cooperson, editors; Bill
Smith, Jim West, Barbara Rozy-
cki, Edgar Hollingsworth, Jac-
queline Wiggins, Sharon Miles,
and Barry McLaughlin.
Sports: Vaughn Morrison and
Tim Rumsey, editors; Harry
Triolo, Barry Reddish, Gerald
~ Hansel, and Don McCormick.
Arts and Entertainment:
Yvonne Butler, editor; Carolyn
Hayward, Fred Schray, Irene
Hancox, Mike Weintraub, and
John Powell.
Features and Layout: Sandra
Morgan, editor; Chris Watson,
Nora Anderson, Ginny Roberts,
Frank Gorbey, Sally Petrosky,
Trena Hamlet and Maureen Fine
ley.
JOB DIRECTORY WILL
BE IN LIBRARY
The Delaware County Campus
is in the process of compiling a
directory which contains the
names of business firms needing
part-time employees.
The types of jobs available will
be listed along with the necessary
information for contacting spe-
cific employers.
The directory will be placed in
the library for student use and
will not be charged out.
Students interested in summer
or part-time work in specific areas
might make suggestions to the
administration that these areas be
included in the directory.
ENGINEERING GRANT
The campus received its first
grant in the sum of $3,000 from
United Engineers and Construec-
tion Company of Philadelphia.
The grant was for the develop-
ment and support of a mechanical
engineering technology program
at the campus. Plans for use of
the money are now being formu-
lated by the engineering faculty.
of THE
THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG: Architect's sketch for the
first building of the new Delaware County Campus in Middletown Township. Architect
is Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson of Philadelphia.
President Walker Attends Groundbreaking
ANNE KARNATZ
NAMED ASSISTANT
10 DEAN LINDER
Mrs. Anne Karmatz, a former
teacher at Collingdale High
School, has been named assistant
to the dean of student affairs.
Mrs. Anne Karmatz
Before accepting the new posi-
tion, Mrs. Karmatz had been an
administrative assistant to the
director of the Delaware County
Campus.
As assistant to Dean Linder,
Mrs. Karmatz will be responsible
for coordinating extracurricular
student activities and for work-
ing closely with women students
on problems of an academic
nature.
The Penn State Family Day was
highlighted by President Walker's
appearance at the groundbreaking
ceremonies for the new campus
site in Middletown Township.
President Walker joined other :
University = officials and well-
known county figures in throwing
the first spades of dirt, signaling
the beginning of the new con-
struction project. The actual
work on construction of the first
building was scheduled to begin
several days after the ground-
breaking.
Joining President Walker in
wishing the new campus well
were Judge Louis A. Bloom, presi-
dent of the campus advisory
board; Frank Snear, chairman of
the county commissioners; John
D. Vairo, director of the campus;
Arthur I. Martindale, chairman of
the faculty, and Vincent Simoni,
president of the Student Govern:
ment Association.
About 200 people attended the
ceremony.
Later in the day, several hun-
dred people visited the Chester
campus where they had the oppor-
tunity to tour the present facility
and meet with faculty and staff
members.
The first building for the new
campus, scheduled for completion
by the Fall of 1970, will be a
three-story brick structure hous-
ing classrooms and administrative
offices, a library, auditorium and
science laboratories.
Additional buildings scheduled
for the site include a library,
gymnasium, student union build-
ing and more classroom buildings.
The building will accommodate
about 1,500 students.
The 50-acre tract of land was
given to the University by the
county commissioners last year.
PATTEE'S WEALTH
MINUTES AWAY
[1h TELECOPIER
New telefacsimile devices now
link the library at the Delaware
County Campus with Pattee Li-
brary at University Park, enab-
ling local students to receive
material quickly from the vast
resources at the .larger library.
The network is the first in the
country to be considered com-
pletely successful.
The Telecopier, recently in-
stalled here, can transmit or re-
ceive a standard size document at
the rate of one page every six
minutes. A page placed in a ma-
chine at one location is repro-
duced exactly at another location.
The message is transmitted over
telephone lines.
The Pattee Library and its
branches at University Park con-
tain more than one million vol-
umes. By using the telefacsimile
device, material néeded at a
Commonwealth campus is rapidly
made available to students at dis-
tant locations. The machines have
now been installed at 18 of the
20 Commonwealth Campuses.
Most of the transmitting origi-
nates at the University Park Li-
brary facilities since most of the
needed material is in the one-
million volume collection at Pat-
tee. It is possible, however, for
one Commonwealth Campus to
contact another.
The facilities are also available
to industry through the Pennsyl-
vania Technical Assistance pro- |
gram (PENNTAP),
at Pattee Library.
administered
LOW BIDDERS SET
10 BEGIN WORK
ON NEW GAMPUS
Two contractors from Delaware
County and two from Philadelphia
are the apparent low bidders on
construction projects for the new
campus of The Pennsylvania
State University’s Delaware
County Campus. Bids were re-
ceived October 3 by the University
and were opened October 10 at the
campus. :
The apparent low bidders and
the bids they submitted are The
Welsbach Corp., Philadelphia, gen-
aral contracting, $964,900; H.
Gold, Inc., Philadelphia, plumbing,
$189,576; Randeb, Inc., Springfield,
heating, $266,810; and Rite-Way
flectric, Media, electrical, $161,-
390.
Thirty firms submitted bids on
the various aspects of the con-
struction of the new campus. Har-
beson, Hough, Livingston and
Larson, a Philadelphia firm, is the
architect for the building.
Groundbreaking for the building
was held on Noveniber 17
campus administration officials
hope that construction will begin
shortly.
The three-story brick building
will include classrooms,
tories, general administrative of-
fices, an auditorium and a library.
It will be built on a 50-acre tract
at Middletown and Yearsley Mill
Roads, Middletown Township. The
land was deeded to Penn State by
the Delaware County commis-
sioners last year.
LION'S EYE IS LATE:
POLICIES ESTABLISHED
The first issue of THE LION’S
EYE is late so we'd best get the
apologies out of the way early.
The lateness is due to the fact
that the campus had no money
to support the journalistic ven-
ture. The appointment of Mr.
Biscontini as public information
officer at the campus, did not
come until mid-summer, much too
late to submit a request for funds.
Until his appointment, it was
doubtful that student journalists
would have an academic advisor
for a newspaper who was experi-
enced in such matters.
The second reason for the late-
ness is that practically none of
the student writers had any jour-
nalistic training. We're learning
as we go and we'll be calling our-
selves professionals in no time.
Editorial Policy Explained
Some of our contributors sport
sideburns, beards, sandals and
long hair; others wear well-
pressed shirts and Y.A.F. buttons.
We're a “liberal” newspaper in
the true sense of the world. We
want to hear (and print) every-
one’s thoughts and philosophies.
The only stipulations we make
are that the contributor’s contri-
butions are factual, in good taste
and professionally executed.
There are no censors on THE
LION’S EYE staff. We'll leave
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