COMPLETE CAMPUS
COVERAGE
Vol. 29. No. 57
RYAN ELECTED SENIOR PRESIDENT
CLASSES ADVANCE
AT MOVE-UP DAY
V RITES TOMORROW
Ncwly-Elecled Group Officers
Will Speak at Exercises'
On Front Campus
SENIOR WEEK TO OPEN
. WITH CHAPEL SERVICE
Innovation Includes Planting of
Ivy, Closed Dance, Class
Meeting, Songfest
All classes will advance one year in
College standing at the annual Move
up Day exercises to be held in front
of Old Main at. 4 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon. Final arrangements have
been completed by the committee
headed by Harry M. Wilson ’33.
At that time, President Ralph D.
Hctzel will- address the student body.
Newly-elected class officers will be in-,
stalled-and will make short speeches.
At the same time, Parmi Nous and
Skull- and Bones, campus hat societies,
will lap upperclassmen. . .
Senior Week To Open Sunday
• - Senior Week, an innovation at Penn
State, will open with the regular Sun
day chapel service, at which Rev.
William E. Kroll ’l7 will speak on
“In Favor of the Idealist.” .AH sen
iors arc asked to attend the service,
as seats will be reserved for them.
They will form at the left rear door
of Schwab auditorium and will march
into the service in a body.
Monday night, the ceremony of the
planting of the ivy will be revived in
front of Old Main. This is one of-the
oldest traditions'at Penn-State/, being
run continuously until 1898. . It was
then abandoned, to be revived again
in 1926 and continued until 1930.
To Hold Senior Songfest
Another innovation, a senior song
fest, will- be held on the front steps
of Old Main at, 7 o’clock Tuesday
night. r The singing will be under the
direction of Prof. Hummel Fishburn,
acting head of the music, department.
The varsity, quartette wiirgive sev
eral selections featuring familiar'col
lege songs.
Wednesday night, the senior class
will hold its last meeting in the Chem
istry amphitheatre at 8 o’clock. At
that time, they will- act on the disposi
tion of the balance remaining in the
class, treasury. Spoon man, barrel
man, and cane man will also be.chos
en.
. The activities will come to a close
Thursday night with a dance open to
seniors only. Two campus bands will
furnish music for the function, which
wilt be held'either in Recreation hall
or the Armory, according 'to tentative
plans.
ANNUAL MAY DAY
DANCERS CHOSEN
Barnard ’3l, Thompson ’34 Select
18 From Sophomore Class;
19 Freshmen Named
Dancers to take part in the annual
Mlay Day exercises have been named
by Margaret E. Barnard ’34 and Bet
ty B. Thompson ’34, co-chairmen of
the May- Day committee. Eighteen
dancers were chosen from the sopho
more class while nineteen were listed
from the freshman class.
Dancers selected from the sopho
more class arc Elizabeth K. Barton,
.Aldona J. Bulota, Edith R. Cottom,
Muriel .E. Davis, Mary C. Ellistoh,
Marion L. Foreman, Dorothy A; Fur
iani, Katherine M. Gorman, and Hel
en J. Hinebauch. Other sophomores
include Eulalie M. Holmes, Myra E.
KnousV, Emily V. Koczansky; Jane M.
O’Connel, Dorothy Perkins, Marjorie
J. Showers, May Schneider, Enid A.
Stage, and.E: Marion Tomlinson.
Freshman May Pole dancers named
are Grace A. Bierstein, Mary Louise
D’Olicr, M. Hilda Ebert, Jane W.
Fcrnsler, Susannah J. Hoffcr, Mar
garet J. ICalar, Helen L. Kupsky, Vir
ginia W. Lewis, and Olive D. Morris.
The list concludes with Rae C. Phil
lips, Jean Poffenberger, Nancy. Poli
shuk, Dorothea E. Ruth, Eleanor M.
‘Ryan, M. Joan Suchors, Catherine L.
Wagner, Arabel {5. Walter, Elizabeth
C. Walter, and Selena A. Wunder
lich.
Arrangements liave been completed
to serve dinner in McAllister hall din
ing commons at 6:15 o’clock rather
than the usual time in order to facili
tate matters.
P?tm (CnUpgi
To Head Junior, Sophomore Classes
JOHN M. STOCKER '35
COLLEGE TO DANCE
AT PROM TONIGHT
Junior Function Will Feature
Ben Bernie With ‘All His
Lads’ of Radio Fame
Concluding the major formal dances
of the current College year, the class
of '34 will play host to the other
three classes at the Junior Prom fea
turing the music of Ben Bernie, “Old
Maestro” of popular orchestra fame,
in Recreation hall- from 9 until 2
o’clock tonight.
Ben. Bernie with "all his lads” is
closely associated with the • College
Inn of the Hotel Sherman in
his' ~lh bmc”f location, : wheVe"he' broad-';
casts regularly over a ‘ nation-wide
radio network.. He is noted for his
informal chatter which he inter
sperses with dry, subtly clever humor.
In a recent national poll he was voted
the most popular orchestra lender orr
the air. -
Announce Chaperons
'Chaperons at the affair will be Dean
and Mrs. • Arthur . R. Warnock and
Dean of Women Charlotte E. Ray,
while patrons include Mr. and Mrs:
Harney W. Stover,' Mr. and Mrs.
Chester D. Dahle, MT. and Mrs. T. J.
Boring, and Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Harper, Herman C. Brandt '34, Prom
chairman, announced yesterday.
As part of the program a medley of
numbers taken from theme songs in
the Thespian show “Old King Cole”,
and specially arranged by Frank F.
(Duke) Morris ’3l, will be played as
a feature of the prom, according to
Brandt
Final arrangements for the affair
will be made today when the decora
tion scheme is completed in Recrea
tion hall. Every effort will be made
to place booths as advantageously as
possible as previously, planned in an
effort to do away with those flanking
the entrance-way, Brandt stated.
MEMBERS OF PLAYERS
TO HOLD DINNER DANCE
Dramatists Will Wear Costumes of
Characters ‘Done’ on Stage
Members of .the Penn State Players
will Hold a buffet-dinner dance at Cen
tre Hills Country club at 9 o’clock
Wednesday night.
To add dramatic atmosphere to the
affair, .the members of the organiza
tion will wear costumes of characters
that they have‘“done" on the stage.
The Varsity Ten orchestra will furnish
music for dancing.
Arrangements for the dance are un
der the direction of a general com
mittee, with Benjamin L. Wise ’33 as
chairman. Other members’of the com
mittee are Reba M. Michener ’33,
Clayton R. Page ’34, and Paul K.
Hirsch ’35.
COLLEGE INFIRMARY ADMITS
5 PATIENTS; DISCHARGES 2
Five patients were admitted to the
College infirmary since Monday, while
two were discharged. Melvin Smith
’B5 was released Monday and Wilson
0. Hill *35, who was admitted Monday
for bursitis was discharged Wednes
day.
Bernice Miller ’36 was admitted on
Monday suffering with la . grippe,-
Thomas D. Faust ’34, for observation
for scarlet fever, William O’Brien ’36,
for asthma, were admitted Tuesday,
while Mark- K. Miller ,'35 was ad
mitted Wednesday for U» grippe.
J. BRIGGS PRUITT ’36
SUMMER'SESSION
TEACHERS LISTED
72 Visiting Professors Included
On Faculty—Xl Newcomers
Named in Bulletin -
Seventy-two. visiting teachers from
other institutions will hold positions
on the summer session faculty of the
Pennsylvania State College, according
to a bulletin issued recently. Eleven
of these were not listed in the cata
logue last year.
Among the newcomers scheduled
for the summer session "are Vaughn
Si Blanchard, director-of health and
iihysicnheducatiori,' Detroit; Mich.,Vj.
Franck Dennis,-director of vocational
education, Wilkes-Barre, and William
W. Eddy, who is an associate profes
sor of romance languages of the Uni
versity' of California.
Other Teachers Listed
Additional visiting teachers will in
clude Paul W. Gates, assistant history
professor, -of Bucknell University,
Henry Harap< associate professor of.
education,- Western Reserve Univer
sity, Katherine G. James, demonstra
tion teacher, New Haven State Nor
mal School, and Eugene M. Lebert
who is 'an ■ assistant professor of
French at the New York University.
•Marion K. McKay, University of
Pittsburgh , economics professor,
Frieda K. Merry, child guidance clinic,
l Dayton, Ohio, and Margaret Reid,
| educational assistant to the public
! health service of the American Red
Cross, Washington, D. C., are listed
with Lee Tonwsend, New York paint
er, etcher, and illustrator concluding
tho list.
The regular six weeks’ summer ses
sion classes will begin Wednesday,
July' 5, with registration scheduled
for July 3. Concluding on Friday,
August 11,. the summer session com
mencement exercises will be held on
August 10. In addition to the regular
session-two weeks special sessions
will also be held. ;
RIVERS EXHIBIT OPENS ‘
FOR INSPECTION TODAY
Display Features Reproductions of
Frescoes by Mexican Artist
Reproductions of frescoes taken
from the wails of Mexican buildings
done in colors by Diego Rivers are on
display in the exhibition gallery,
Room 304, Main Engineering build
ing, today .and tomorrow.
The series of nineteen frescoes by
the distinguished Mexican artist re
semble the works of Giotto with pow
erful draftsmanship and spiritual
quality as their outstanding features.
The reproductions, made in Germany,
have lost none of the color for which
tho originals are famous.
When the Rivers were i*e
ccntiy unveiled in the DetroitrMuseum
of Art, • considerable criticism whs
made of them by viewers who claimed
that the work was of a sacriligcous
nature. Recognized critics of art did
not lake this • attitude and warmly
supported the exhibition of‘Rivers..
LIBRARY WILL OPEN EARLIER
In order to facilitate the return'of
overnight books before first hour, the
College library,'*will officially open at
7:60. o’clock every morning except
Sunday, Willard P. Lewis, librarian,
aujwunecd yesterday.
STATE COLLEGE, PA.,' JFRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1933
SCHOLARSHIP DAY
PLANS FOR NEXT
SATURDAY LISTED
10 Upperclassmen Will Receive
Evan Pugh,' Honor Society
Awards, Fellowships
SCHOLASTIC
TO RECOGNIZE LEADERS
Kappa Gamma Psi .Will Present
Concerts at Opening of
Annual Ceremony
Featuring an address by President
Ralph D. Hetzel in conjunction with
the presentation of awards for schol
astic attainment and the announce
ment of elections to campus academic
honorarios,* the yearly Scholarship
Day exercises will be<.observed May
13, according to Prof. William S. Dye
jr., chairman of the scholarship com
mittee.
The first awards for the recently
established Evan'Pugh Scholarships
will- be made at the exercises. Five
seniors and five juniors will receive
this award. The #onor Society Coun
cil will present gold medals to each;
senior Evan Pugh scholar, while sil
ver medals will be presented to the
junior scholars by the' council.
To Award Medals
Three presentations of individual
awards will be made at the scholar
ship ceremony. The John W. White
medal will be awarded to the senior
student ranking highest in all-around
attainment, while the-j Sparks Mem
orial medal will be presented to the
two students who have achieved the
highest-.grad e-point*.
either one of the past'two semesters.
In addition, three John W. White
fellowship awards will be. presented
as part of the program. Among the
campus honoravies .to announce new
ly-elected members during the exer
cises will lie Phi Eta Sigma and Al
pha Lumbda Delta, national freshman
scholastic honorary societies.
To Honor Faculty Men
The local chapter of Phi Eta Sigma
will present gold medals to the two
members of the faculty who have done
the most outstanding research work
in social science and natural science
during the current academic year.
"Present plans for the program in
clude a musical program by the or
chestra of Kappa Gamma Psi, na
tional honorary musical- fraternity.
The orchestrawill present several
concert arrangements at the opening
of the program and between award
presentations.
GERMAN TRIP CALLED OFF
Because of the present political sit
uation in Germany, plans for* the pro
posed trip to the University of Mu
nich by a group of .Penn Slate stu
dents this summer have been tem
porarily abandoned, Harold W. Wei
gel, of the Romance languages depart
ment, has announced. Full credit
would have been given to the students
for the work completed at the Univer
sity.
Who’s Dancing
Tonight
Junior Prom at Recreation Hall
(Subscription)
lien licmie
Tomorrow Night
Acacia
(Closed)
Pom Statesmen
Beta Kappa .
(Invitation)
Ernie Rudmll
Beta Theta Pi
(Closed)
Hill Dot torf
Delta Tau Delta
Campus Owls
Delta Theta Sigma
(Closed)
Cnli/ornra Cadets
Phi JCappa Sigma
(Closed)
Memphis Stowpent
Phi Lambda Theta
(Closed)
Fred Gcif/ ,
Phi Mu Delta
(Invitation)
Dine and White
Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Pi
At Sigma Phi .Epsilon .
(Closed) :
Joe Vanned
Sigma Phi Signiu
(Closed)
I'let/d Milh anti llis Miinjhtntlcr3
Will Lead Seniors |
JOHN T. RYAN ’34
THESPIANS TO END
SEASON TOMORROW
Will Give ‘Old Kins’ Cole’ for
Second Time This Year, in
Schwab Auditorium
With their second presentation of
“Old King Cole,” musical- comedy, the
Penn State Thespians will close their
annual season before a Junior Prom
audience in Schwab auditorium to
morrow night at 7 o’clock.
H. Grace Baer 'B4, and Ralph B.
Vance ’34, will again enact the juv
enile'lead roles, while M. Dorothy
Johnston ’33, Edwin S. Maimed ’3‘J,
.and-Wnimnuß. Edwards ’3soviJl play,
the comedy roles.
Show To Include Specialties
Mahlon L. Heist ’3B, Richard C.
Schlaaclc 'B4, Margaret S. Giffin 'B5,
and Helen E. Taylor ’B5 complete the
cast of principals. The show will
feature two dancing specialties, a trio,
and a tup team.
All original scenery and costumes
will be used in the show. The “Trav
elers” curtain, designed and painted
by David 11. Porterfield ’24, will ,be
displayed as the motif around which
the show is built.
“As Time Hurries On,” sung by
Baer and Vance, “Won’t You Be My
Valentine,” featured by Johnston and
Maimed, “Give a Guy a Kiss,” sung
by Edwards, “It’s All Ballyhoo,” ami
“I Wonder Where He Can. Be?” are
some of the musical numbers of the
performance'.
WOMEN DEBATERS
WILL ORATE HERE
Scheduled to Engage West Virginia
Oil ‘War Debt Cancellation* in
Home Economics Unit
E. Losta Reese ’B4 and Anna L.
Mikseh 'B3 will argue the affirmative
side of the question, “Resolved: That
All Intergovernmental War Debts
Should Be Cancelled,” when they meet
the women’s team from the Univer
sity of West Virginia in the Home
Economics auditorium at three o’clock
tomorrow afternoon.
The undefeated negative team will
complete the women’s debating sea
son when* Margaret E.- Barnard ’B4
and Elsie M. Douthett ’B5 uphold the
negative side of the war debt ques
tion at West Virginia next Saturday.
E. Marion Tomlinson ’35 and Jeanne
S. Kleckner ’B5, of the women’s nega
tive team, returned last week from
an Easter debate trip on which they
won two debates and participated in
two no-decision contests.
After a no-decision debate with the
women’s affirmative team at Ohio
Wesleyan, the Penn State team de
feated the men’s team from the Uni
versity of Heidelberg by an audience
decision
I. K. COUNCIL WILL CONDUCT
ELECTION WEDNESDAY NIGH T
•Election of officers for next year
in the* Interfraternity Council will he
held Wednesday night,- according to
Herbert E. Longenecker ’BB, president.
Nominations for the offices rest with
tho executive committee, of the Coun-
A president, secretary-treasurer,
and two senior members on the execu
tive committee-will by elected.
Stocker, Pruitt Win
1935, 1936 Contests
Moore, Mikelonis, Bertolette Named Treasurers
As Brubaker, Brown, Bohren Gain
Positions of Secretary
John T. Ryan, Campus, was elected senior class president for
next year when he polled 338 votes, defeating Norris B. McFar
lane, Locust Lane, with 295 tallies, who became vice-president.
John M.'Stocker, Campus, won the 1935 class presidency when
he received 302 votes to. defeat Vernon D. Platt, Locust Lane, with
274, and Willard D. Moyer, Independent, with 174; while J. Briggs
Pruitt, Campus, secured 361 votes as compared with 344 cast for
■Harold B. Stevens, Locust Lane,
to gain leadership of the sopho
more class for next yea]-.
NEW NATATORIUM
TO OPEN TONIGHT
Junior Prom-Goers May Attend
Formal Inauguration of
Large Indoor Pool
With accommodations for 530 stu
dents, the new indoor swimming-pool
on the corner of Beaver avenue and j
Pugh street will open at 7 o’clock to-j
night, - according to the manager ofj
the pool. The natatorium will be
open for inspection from 1 to G o’clock
this afternoon.
Consistent with the pool schedule
of mixed swimming on Fridays, the
plant will be open after the Junior
Prom has been concluded, the backers
have announced. Beginning at t>
o’clock in the morning, mixed swim
.hiing will also'he held-on' Sundays,
Mondays, • Wednesdays, and Satur
days. • j
To Offer Swimming Courses
The pool will be open to "women |
only on Tuesdays from 9 o’clock in
the morning until 0 o’clock at night
and on Thursdays from 6 until 11
o’clock at night. Men will use the
pool Tuesdays from G to 11 o'clock:
at. night and on Thursdays from 9j
o’clock in the morning until G o’clock
at night. •• •
Individual tutoring in swimming,
will be offered to patr.ons at special i
periods.. Courses in. life-saving will
also be offered by an authorized in
structor. Larger than any other in-'
door swimming pool in the State, the
plant has a capacity of 150,000 gal
lons of water and is equipped with
twenty under-water lights and seven
sun lamps. ....
To care adequately for the eight
hour changes in the water, four fil
ters, in accordance with the State san
itation code, have* been installed as
part of the equipment. Bacteriological
tests of the water will be made each
week.
PROFESSORS TO ATTEND
HISTORIANS* .CONCLAVE
Dunaway, Martin Will Aid Program
Of Newly-Formed Association
Dr. Wayland F. Dunaway and Dr.
Asa E. Martin, of the department of
history, will attend the opening meet
ings of the newly-formed Pennsyl
vania Historical association to be held
at Lehigh University this afternoon
and tomorrow.
The association was formed here
last September by members of the
faculties of Pennsylvania colleges and
universities. Permanent organization
of tho association will be effected at
the meeting this \veek-end, and a con
stitution will be adopted.'
Dr. Dunaway is a member of the
committee on constitutions and has
also been named to the committee on
publications, which will make arrange
ments for an official association
paper. Dr. Martin is serving on the
committee on arrangements and the
committee on nominations.
BLUE BLAZERS GO ON SALE
Blue blazers trimmed with white
piping may be obtained at the same
price as the white blazer now on sale,
according to GrantA. Colton ’3l,
chairman of the blazer committee.
BLUE BAND TO PLAY MAY 13
As a part of the Mothers Day ex
ercises- Muy 13, the Blue Band will
igive a eoncerl in front of Old Main
| at '2 o’clock.
ESTABLISHED
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Minor Class Officers Named
Minor class officers in the senior
class are Donald G. Brubaker, Locust
j Lane, who won the post of seeretavy
j with 340 votes, defeating Grant A.
Colton, Campus, who polled 293 votes.
Treasurer for next year in the senior
class will he Maxwell S. Moore, Cam
pus, who polled 353 votes to defeat
S. Jack Caraher, Locust Lane, with
277 votes.
| Secretary of the junior class will
Jbe Robert W. Brown, Locust Lane,
iwho won from John L. Miller, Cam
pus, and Howard K. Johnston, Inde
pendent, 278-to-277-to-198. The treas
urership will he in the hands of Al
bert P. Mikelonis, Campus, who won
from Howard C. Madsen, Locust
Lane, by a vote of 4f15-to-340.
In the sophomore minor class of
fices race, William D. Bertolettc, Lo
eysh .Lane, • received -374 votes to-dc
! feat N. Randolph Cressman, with
331, for the secretary’s post; while
Herbert E. Bohren, Locust Lane, re
ceived 370 votes to win the treasurer's
post from Raymond G. Sloan, Cam
pus, with 344 tallies.
’3l Cmmcilmcn Listed
Three senior representatives to Stu
dent Council from the School of Agri
culture next year will be Peter W.
Fletcher, Campus, Thomas A. Adams,
Locust Lane, and Janies C. Aitemus,
Campus, who polled SG, 54, and 51
votes, respectively. Other candidates
wore Norman E. Seibert, Locust Lane,
with 49 votes, Thomas A. Smith, Lo
cust Lane, with 47 tallies, and A.
Chester Richer, Campus, with 30
votes.
Engineering representatives in the
Council from the senior class will be
Charles C. Cooner j«\ who polled 119
votes, Naaman C. Troutman, who re
ceived 115, William J. Suchors, who
polled 108, and Daniel V. McCarthy,
with 102 tallies, all of the Campus
'clique. They defeated the Locust
Lane nominees, William J. Leek, with
99, Frederic Fox, with 87, Albert T.
Stohr, with 79, and Robert T. Gore,
with 64 votes. Polling 51 votes as
against 24, Edward A\ Gordos, Cam
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KROLL ’l7 TO TALK
IN CHAPEL SUNDAY
Will Address Audience on "In Favor
Of the Idealist”—Visited
Here Last Year
Speaking on “In Favor of the
Idealist,” Rev. William E. Kroll ’l7,
will address the chapel audience in
Schwab auditorium at 11 o’clock Sun
day morning. Rev. Kroll is pastor
of the Arlington Avenue Presbyterian
church, East Orange, N. J.
While at Penn State the speaker
was class historian, associate editor
of tlie COLLERtAN, associate editor of
the 191.7 La I’iV, a member of the Y.
jM. C. A. cabinet, and a Phi Delta
Theta. Following his graduation he
enlisted in the Infantry for the re
mainder of the World Wav.
After leaving the army the New
Jersey minister taught school for a
short time, and then accepted the po
sition as head.of the student Y. 31. C.
A. at Wesleyan University. Threu
years of graduate work at the Union
Theologicnl Seminary and Columbia
University followed, after which he
went to Holyoke. Mas's., as assistant
minister nt the Presbyterian church
there. •
After two years at Holyoke, Rev,
Ivroll traveled for the National Stu
dent Council of the V. 31. C. A. for
two reasons, before l*cginning his
pri-cnl tvJik in Ea. 4 Clause.