~ I ffemt i&atr A (EnUrgiatt. I =■ I Volume 33—No. 29 Clarke Gets Open College Trustee Post Former State Athlete Fills Vacancy Left By J. L. Hamill Alumnus Has Served Six Terms on Council Hugh McCormick Clarke, first vice president of the Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, today was ap pointed a member of the board of trustees by J. Franklin Shields, Phila delphia, president of the board. Clarke will serve the remainder of the term of James L.,Hamill, Colum bus, 0., who died last April 25. He becomes one of the nine alumni trus tees, and his term will expire in June, 1938. ' The new trustee has been employed by the Armstrong organization since his graduation in 1913. He served as captain with the 311th Field Artil lery, 79th Division, -during the World War. Played Varsity Football During his undergraduate days, Clarke played varsity football and varsity baseball. He was manager of the track team in 1913. He was elect ed to Parmi Nous, campus honorary society, and was a member of- Kappa Sigma fraternity. As an alunmus, Clarke has been a member of the Alumni Council for five’ terms and a member of the ex ecutive board of the Council for three terms, member of the committee on the revision of the by-laws, member of the special alumni committee on athletics, and president of the Lan caster County Alumni Club. Local Students Join To Raise Funds For Spanish - While Penn State students prepare to hold a mass meeting the Thursday following return from Christmas va cation to raise funds for trie Spanish people, similar moves to aid Spain have been initiated in other American universities and in England. Students of Cambridge University, have raised §2,200 for Spanish relief. A large group of students from several British univer sities have formed ambulance detach ments. ;At Cornell University, a proposal that the R.O.T.C. students who had kept their uniforms after two years of compulsory training send, these uniforms to Spain, was met with un animous approval. Women at Smith and Vassal* have formed groups which are knitting socks and sweaters for the Spanish people. In Pittsburgh, students and faculty' members at Pitt, Carnegie Tech, and Duquesne supported an all city mass meeting in Carnegie music hall last December 9. Muss meetings have been held in Toronto, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Boston, and Buf falo. PSCA Sponsors Xmas Trips To Study Slums The P.S.C.A. has arranged trips in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harris burg, during the Christmas holidays to observe social conditions as they actually exist in the more unfortunate areas of our modern cities. Persons interested in this opportunity to see the “other side of life’' may sign up at the Christian Association office, 393 Old Main, before noon tomorrow. The Philadelphia group will meet at the detention house, 22iul and Arch streets, at 9 o’clock in the morning. Those in Pittsburgh will meet at the Irene Kauffman Settlement, 1235 Cen tre avenue, at 9 o’clock.’ The Harris burg trip is as yet not complete. Fui*- ther details may be had at the C.A. office. • » Dean Warnock Answers Vacation Party Queries In response to many inquiries, Dean Arthur R. Warnock said to day that parties would be permit ted in fraternity chapter houses •during the Christmas vacation if chaperoned. But, he said, under the Interfra ternity Council .code approved by the various fraternities, a penalty is provided for the presence of un chaperdned .women in fraternities during vacation periods. * From Mat to Air HOWARD JOHNSTON ’35 Ex-Wrestling Star Makes His First Solo Flight That competitive instinct prompted Howard Johnston ’35 to learn to fly. •Johnston, Penn State wrestling captain two years ago who won both the Eastern and National intercolle giate 165-pound championships, made his. first solo flight this week in per fect style. Until recently Johnston’s interest centered on the mat, and in his course of study, dairy husbandry. But the aerial success of his brother, Edward L. Johnston ’3l, who is now doing commercial flying, started his activity in the air. Pupils of Lutz Both the Johnstons learned to fly from Sherm Lutz, director of the State College airport. Howai*d, or “Red,” as he is known to Penn State wrestling fans, is one of sixty.stu dents who are flying under Lutz’s di rection. Lutz considers Johnston one of his most apt pupils. Along with Ellen Roberts ’37 who" recently'' took ; Her first solo flight, Johnston will now continue to fly until he gets his fifty hours in the air and a commercial license. Two New Heads Named by Board Wagner To Assist Stoddard In Administration; Trustees Grant Two Leaves President Ralph D-lletzel announ ced today that the executive commit tee of the Board of Trustees has ap proved leaves of absence for two fac ulty members-and named two new ad ministrative heads. . David B. Pugh will act as super visor of the undergraduate centers and director of arts and science ex tension. Dr. Charles C. Wagner, of the department of mathematics, will act as administrative assistant to Dean Charles W. Stodda'rt, of the School of Liberal Arts. Di*. Bruce V. Moore, of the School of Education, was granted a semes ter’s leave of absence to study meth ods of teaching psychology and ad ministering tests to employes. Dr. Paul K. Wuellcr, of the department of economics, will continue his serv ices with the Social Security Board until June 30. William T. James, Jr. will serve as a graduate assistant in dairy husbandry until June. ■S. U. Leaders Return From Texas Conclave George M. Hacker ’37, president of the Student Union, and George L. Donovan ’35, Student Union manager, returned. Wednesday from the Na tional Convention of American Stu dent Unions held at the University of Texas, Austin. The convention was in session from December 9 to 12. Hacker and Donovan traveled over 4,000 -miles by automobile to attend what they termed a meeting of “un usual interest and- unusual ideas.” They were impressed with the Stu dent Union activities at many west ern schools. At Wisconsin and North western in particular, they pointed out, many more dances ore held, many of them with big name bands. Many other schools have Student Union centers and buildings as large! as Old Main, they reported. One of j the pertinent topics discussed at the| meetings was the racial problem, j Many Southern schools complained of i the rigid censorship of their press. 1 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1936 Spanish Students To Discuss Their WarProblem Efforts to bring four Spanish stu- the “Queen Mary.” Wednesday night, dents to address the ali-Collcge mass they voiced a plea over the air to meeting to aid the Spanish civilians American students and American are under way, E. Townsend Swalrn people for aid to relieve the distress '37, chairman of the State College of the people of Spain. . The call was Spanish Relief Committee, has an- broadcast over station Last nounced. night the students : spoke before a The students are Louis . Simarro, mass meeting at the . .Hippodrome in his wife, Maria;' Eugenio Imaz, a New iork City. '?? former secretary of the Catholic , Smiarro, ins front-steeli, shot out newspaper, “Cruse 7 Rayo,” in Ma- by ■» bullet, stated that a great many drid, and Josephine Ramirez, a nine- «• fighting,were as young teen-year-ord nurso, who has served as hmisoif, and Imaz-said that 5,000 in a Madrid military hospital, Swain, members of the youth movement sail j which includes 60,000, i-had been killed The four, he said, left Madrid early bofol ' c the . ? lath ' iI J atUick. in November and arrived Monday on Universit.es, the students said, were closed, except special classes at Valencia, where , senior students were obtaining their- degrees. At the outbreak of the fighting in Madrid, children were receiving a carefully rationed diet, they said. The four youthful Spaniards, who will campaign for aid in this country, will embark on a speaking tour in America and Canada in behalf of the Spanish people. >.* “This delegation,” said Swalm, “fol lows up the plea to- the students of America sent out by the 'Spanish Stu dent Federation a' month ago, to which a growing response' has been! elicited from students 'in America.” | The President Writes.. Editor of the Collegian: Permit me to make grateful ac knowledgement through the columns of the Collegian of the many mes sages and tokens of good will which have come to Mrs. Hetzel and me from individual students and from student organizations on the tenth anniversary of our service here. These Rave given us joy and new courage. My greatest wish is that the unit ed efforts of faculty and students may result in creating and main taining at Penn State an environ ment in which bodies, minds,' and souls may grow. To this end I pledge my full devotion. Mrs. • Hetzel joins me in best wishes to all and in affectionate re gards. 7 Sincerely yours, —“PREXY” December 15, 1936 Group To Review’ Security Rulings Advisors To Explain Fraternity Plan Giving Requirements Of Security Acts - The* effect of the new federal and state Social 'Security laws upon local social fraternities and employees will be explained and discussed by a com mittee of the Association of Fratern ity Counselors at 7:30 o'clock Tues day, January 5, in room 110 Home Economics building. This committee, composed of Rob ert Y. TJdwards, Prof. Francis J. Tschan, of flic department of history, Prcf. L. Edward Dills, of the School of Agriculture, and F. G. Hcnszy, will also submit for general discus sion a fraternity plan which will ful fill the requirements of the Social Se curity Acts. Plan to Be Presented The above will be presented before a general meeting of the Association of Fraternity Counselors. The asso ciation does not limit its membership to designated fraternity advisors. It has no dues and welcomes into the association any fraternity alumnii* interested in the welfare of the local social fraternities. Since the making of routine gov ernment reports will fall largely upon the undergraduate fraternity officers, the active president, secretary, and treasurer of each of the social fra ternities are invited and urged to at tend this meeting. Craigheads Broadcast John and Frank Craighead ’39 gave a nation-wide broadcast over WEAF yesterday. The twins, vtfho were inter viewed by Dr. Warren B. Mack, pro lessor of vegetable gardening, dis cussed their hobby of photographing birds. English Department Member Called Promising Young Poet A poet praised by experts has come to the Penn State campus. Theodore Roethke, member of-the English composition department, is listed among the younger poets com ing into prominence. Mr. Roethke’s poetry has been published in the lead ing literary magazines, where, to quote John A*., Homes, editor of the Boston Tramcript, “he is hailed as the most masculine of the new lyric poets, being able to lead his short poems with amazing epithets and re creating the power of the word, which is the mark of the genuine poet.” Theodore Roethke is a member of the League of American Writers, a cultural organization of about two hundred writers, poets, journalists, and dramatists. His verse is praised by Louis "Untcrmeyer in The Amer ican Mercury as being “not only a promise, but a present performance. WSGA Approves Drive for Funds Prof. Pundt Explains Methods, Aims of Spanish Aid Group To Senate : Council Formal approval of, the drive for funds, food, clothing, and medical supplies to be made after the Christ mas vacation by the State College Spanish Relief Committee and the ad dition ct their name; to the sponsor ing committee was given by the Wom en's Student Government Association at its weekly meeting last Tuesday afternoon. . •. 1 This decisipn, was, by the Senate group following' a short ex planation of the amis .>nml methods of the relief group by Prof. Alfred G. Pundt, of the department of his tory, who is treasurer of the relief committee. Students Back Drive Inclusion of the Women’s student government group on the sponsoring committee brings official student sup port of the forthcoming drive- to full strength. The men’s student govern ment, Interfraternity Council, and the Ag Student Council have been be hind tlie committee since its inception. Fourth and final meeting before va cation of the State College Spanish Relief Committee was held last night in the Hugh Beaver room with twenty persons present. Plans were complet ed for a mass meeting to be held the first Thursday after the vacation to start off the drive. A committee was appointed to secure outside speakers and another, headed by Harry .W. Seamans, was placed in charge of collection. Who ’s Dancing TONIGHT Phi Sigma. Theta Bill Bottorf (Closed) Lambda Chi Alpha Howard Gale (Invitation) Phi Kappa .Tau Red Withcrson (Invitation) Delta Tau Delta Newell Townsend (Closed) The poeFs name should be noted, it is worth watching.” This is the first year that Mr. Roe thke has been on the campus. lie studied for his M.A. at the Univer sity of Michigan and Harvard, and for four years conducted a course in advanced composition in an original and experimental way at Lafayette College in Easton. Among the magazines which have published Mr. Roethke’s poetry arc The Harp, The Nation, The New lie public, Saturday Review of Literal hire, Scribner's . Mnyuzine, and .The Seicancc He view. In the June 20 is sue of The Nation, his picture ap peared among the five recognized younger poets. One of his poems will appear in the next issue of The •At lantic Monthly, and The New Repub lic and The Commonweal will print more of his poetry in the'nehr future. O’Dowd To Head Phys. Ed. School Governing Body Neiv Group To Foster Good Relationship With Faculty DeMarino, Hanley, Fry Head Lower Classes To foster student-faculty relation ships and to provide a social medium for its students, the School of Physical Education and Athletics has formed a student government associa tion. Bi-m.onthly meetings with ad ministrative officials will be held. Joseph S. O'Dowd ’37 heads the association. Dan A. DeMarino ’3B is vice president; William S. Soose ’39, secretary; and Harold E. Fry MO, treasurer. The individual classes within the School also have their officers. O'- Dowd is president of the senior class, William M. Radclift is vice president, Doris R. Smith, secretary and treas urer, and Richard L. Hasslcr is rep resentative to the association. DeMarino Heads Juniors DeMarino heads the junior class. Edward A. Sheridan is vice president, Je?eph P. Adcssa, secretary, Howard S. Parsons, treasurer, and. Edward Mandel, representative. Dean H. Hanley is president of the sophomores. Harry S. Harrison acts as vice president, and John G. Sayers is secretary and treasurer. Victor E. Gentiiman is representative. The freshman class has Fry as president, John H. Wartluft as vice president, Mary P. Altwater, secre tary, and John P. Arntanini, treas urer. Soph Hop Deficit Reported as $54 Attendance of 497 Nets $1500; Dorsey’s Band, Decorator Largest Expenses A deficit of $54.76 for Soph Hop last Friday night was shown in the financial report released today by Neil M. Fleming, graduate manager of athletics. Total income ior the dance amount ed to $1,981!27, while the expendi tures were $2,036.03. Paid admissions to the hop were 479, which netted $l,- 437. Tax, booth rental, and cheek ing drew $244.02, $lBO, and $120.25, respectively. Band Paid $BOO Tommy Dorsey’s band was paid $BOO as the main item of expenditure. Decorations by the Silverstein Com pany of Wilkes-Barre cost $3OO. The programs cost $120.90, while $242.03 was paitf out in taxes. Other items such as catering, checking, advertising, compensations, flowers, telephoning, labor, invita tions, tickets, and piano tuning com plete the remainder of the expense list. Bill Bottorf Will Play At New Year’s Dance The ali-Coilege New Year dance will feature a “Snowball” theme and the music of Bill Bottorf with the Varsity Quartet specializing during the intermission. The dance is sched uled for Rec half Friday night, Janu ary 8, from 9 until 12 o’clock. The price is thirty-seven and one half cents per person or seventy-five cents per couple, tax included. Cha perones for the dance include Prof, and Mrs. Hummel Fishburn, Dr. and Mrs. Ehvood C. Davis', Dr. and Mrs. Clarence O. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Reede, and Mr. and Mrs. George L. Donovan. The Penn State jClub Christmas banquet held on Wednesday night was attended by seventy-five guests. Max Dercum spoke on “Winter Sports.” Dr. Ehvood C. Davis, of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, acted as toastmaster. To Enforce Customs Freshman customs will remain in force following the Christmas vaca tion, according to Joseph M. Bray ’37, president of the Tribunal. Bray stated that the Tribunal had decided not to follow the precedent set last year when all except clothing customs were withdrawn after the Christmas holiday*. He said that the frequency of custom violations this year had forced this move upon the Tribunal. Dean Whitmore Named President of American Chemical Group for ’3B Wins National Honor DEAN FRANK C. WHITMORE College Suggests Scholarship Help Four Fraternities Accept Plan ' To Provide Advisory Help By Past Members In order to meet the challenge of declining fraternity scholarship and ineffective faculty contact, the School cf Liberal Arts has developed a fva ternity resident advisory organization which has been approved by the ad ministration for the 1937-38 college - "At the present-four graduate resi dents arc the nucleus for next year’s program. These graduate students receive their room and board from the fraternity and are given tuition by the College. Group Establishes Aims The aims of this advisory organi zation are the development of student welfare, social poise and control, in tramural program, academic guid ance, and the correction of college and fraternity maladjustments. Period ical meetings of the advisors, Dean Charles D. Stoddart and Dr. Charles C. Wagner, are held. Next year all fraternities will be contacted and interviewed on the graduate advisory plan. Houses and advisers established this year include Howard G. Minich, Sigma Nu; Mark L. MeKitrick, Delta Tau Delta; Ernst G. Stern, Phi Sigma Delta; and Doyle M. Bortner, Sigma Chi. OsterJund To Attend Student Conference Frank A. Osterlund, president of the senior class, will represent the College at the National Student Fed eration of America convention in the Victoria Hotel, New York City, from December 2S to January 1. Osterlund may be joined in New York by Johnson Brcnneman '37, ed itor of the Collegian, and George A. Hacker ’37, president of the Inlcrfra lernity Council. The theme of the student conven tion will be “Students in Democracy.” The group will discuss such problems as student government, student rights, student-faculty relation.?, honor sys tem, publications, fraternities, co-op eratives, militarism, NYA, and reli gion. Women Orators Plan 2 January Debates The women's debate team will meet Bates College and Bucknell Univer sity the first week in January, ac cording to Clayton H. Schug, wom en’s debate coach. The question is “Resolved that Congress be Empow ered to Fix Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours for Industry.” Ruth IT. 2ang '3B and Florence E. Long ’39 will take the negative side of the question against the women's learn of Bates College at Lewistown Iligfi School on January 5. Kathleen E. Gilbcdy '3B and Mar tha M. Mnrusak '39 will meet the Bucknell women’s team here January 0. The orthodox style will be used in both debates. PRICE FIVE CENTS Society Council Makes Choice From Four Nominees Will Serve in Capacity Of Pres.-Elect in 1937 Dean Frank C. Whitmore, of the School of Chemistry and Physics, has been elected president of the Amer ican Chemical Society for 1938, it was lcanied today. Selected as one of four nominees by the 19,000 members of the society, he was chosen for the position by the council for the group. He will serve as president-elect during'the coming year. Dr. Edward R. Weidlein, director of the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, will take office as president of the chemists January I. He served as president-elect during the past year. Dean Since 1929 Whitmore has been dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics here .since 1929. Recently he received the William H. Nicholas medal, given by the New York Section of the Amer ican Chemical Society for outstand ing research work in the chemistry field. Whitmore’s activity in the society began in 1917 when he was treasurer of the Southwest Texas Division of the organization. lie has been a di rector of sthe national society .since 1927. In 1932 Whitmore held the vice presidency of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. Attended Harvard He was educated at Harvard Uni versity, earning three degrees there. He-has taught.-at.-Williams College, Rice Institute, the University of Min nesota, and Northwestern University. Formerly his outstanding work was in the study of the organic properties of mercury, hut his work here has 1 been concentrated on the aliphatic se ries of organic chemistry. The honor of presidency of the American Chemical Society is regard ed hy many eheinists as a higher honor than that of receiving the No bel Prize in chemistry. Jake Krumrine Dies After 50 Years Of Service “Juke” Krumrine’s dead! For more than a half century, Ja cob Krumrine—just plain Jake to all the employees and friends—was a permanent fixture on the Penn State campus. For more than a half cen tury, first on the College farm, then in the College creumery, then as cam pus foreman in the department of grounds and buildings, Jake worked and supervised work on the campus. Throughout that entire half century, Jake watched a tiny agricultural school blossom and bloom into one of the leading colleges of the country. Today, however, the tall, slim form of Jake Krumrine is not seen on the campus. His warm smile is missing. He lies dead al the home of his sister, Mrs. Roy A. Field, of Aliquippa. Born on May 10, 1850, on the old Krumrine farm in College Heights, life on tne campus began for Jake al the age of seventeen. After nine years cf service, he moved to Bellefonte, then to Rocky Forge. But the love for “the little school in the neck of the woods” brought him back to Lhu job he held until his death early Wed nesday morning, a victim of pneu monia. Classes Give Heizel Chair on Anniversary Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, president of the College, was presented with a chair by the presidents of the four classes and W.S.G.A. Tuesday night in recognition of his ten years of service as chief executive of the Col lege. Gene C. Ziegler ’.'l7, president of W.S.G.A., represented thut organiza tion, while Frank A. Ostorlund ’37, class president, represented the sen ior class. Ross P. Shaffer, junior class president; Fe? W. Tibbott, sophomore class president; and Rich ard W. lOwalt, head of the freshman class, were the other representatives present.
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