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Volume 33—No. 65
800 WILL RECEIVE DEGREES AT COMMENCEMENT
Press Conference Opens Toda
Players, Thespians Top
Houseparty Festivities
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Hollywood Farce 'Boy
.Meets Girl' Plays
Saturday Night
Plenty of boys will meet plenty of
girls houseparty week-iind and they
will have loads of fun, but they will
not have Robert Law (Edward T.
Binns '3B) and J. Carlyle Benson
(Herbert S. Yanofsky '4O) to fix
things up for them.
These two wisecrackers and "need
lers" of one C. F. (Mr. Friday, the
producer—Harry ',39,...100 .
call themselves 'scenarioWiltera in
the Pcnn State Players' Saturday,
June 5, presentation of "Boy Meets
Girl," provide the play with its fast
moving fun.
The girl, Susie (lola D. Murray
'39), is a "beautiful but dumb" wait
ress who, - because. she has a baby,
gives the great team of Law and Ben
son an idea for a new sure-fire plot
for the handsome cowboy idol, Larry
Toms (Randolph M. Graham '4O).
Authors Law and Benson see the
money-making potentialities of the
baby, Happy, and before he is horn
the two have placed hint under con
tract through an agreement with his
blonde mother, Susie. (whose dreams
of success arc all tied. up with acquir
ing a high school education). -
But at the first opportunity, Ro- 1
setti iaham Luckenbill '35),
manager or Larry Toms, grabs 'up th 6
contract of Happy, and talks Larry
into making love, to Susie, in order to
marry her• and gain full control of
the successful • bithy star:
Susie, in the meantime, has fallen
in love with Rodney Bevan (Richard!
F. Collins '37), an English extra, who
she has met by chance. But she al-I
most falls for the conniving 'cowboy,
except that Law 'anti Benson, who
have been cheated out of the baby's
contract, du a little cheating of their
own . (as only these two would be able
to do).
And after boy meets girl, boy loses
girt—boy gets girl (a plot which Law
and Benson would never use in their
best. Hollywood scripts—but of course,
find out that you can't get away
from).
As' George Abbott, who produced
this Broadway success, says: "It is
the real thing. It is the best play
that has yet. appeared about Holly
wood."
You meet, all the characters of a
great producing office, and others—
Green and Slade (Morton D. W0h1 . '39
and Stanton R. Rubin, MO), song wri
ters; the producer's secretary, Miss
Crews (Hilda L. Ranson '37); studio
officer (William C. Westberg '37);
film cutter (Robert W. Cowden '39);
chauffeur (C. Allan Tapman '39);
and nurses (Doi•othy A. Clarke '3B
and Jane C. Eames '4O).
As Walter Whit:hell wrote: "The
meanest grouch in town will melt be
fore Boy, Meets Girl"—so it will prob
ably cause many a bellyache and sore
jaw from its laugh-provoking lines,
when it is presented in Schwab audi
torium June 5 at 7:30 o'clock.
Philotes Holds Picnic
Philotes will hold a picnic at Fair
mount park tomorrow afternoon from
4 to 7 o'clock. Edna G. Albert '3B is
chairman of the affair. Girls wish
ing to sign up for the picnic should at
tend the Philotes meeting in its room
in Old Main Friday' at t o'clock.
`Pardon My Glove' Id
Final Showing On
Friday Night
When the curtains falls next Friday
night on "Pardon My Glove" it will
he the final showing of one of the best
musicals ever staged in SchWab audi-
Thompson and Ulerich's production
received one-half column of praise
from E. M. s: of the Reading Times
when the Thespians played at the Or
pheum theater in Reading on May 13.
The Times' critic is ,one who harbors
the theory that college shows are all
right for collegians but .a wash-out
for the hoi-polloi. However, after see
ing "Pardon My Glove," the writer
took the opportunity to say that "if
all college shows are like the Thes
pians,' they're oke."
E. M. S. apparently could not quite
grasp the fact that a college produc
tion could be so long and yet lack dull
moments to break the swift tempo and
gay mood as occurs in this Thespian
show. Said the critic, "Of songs—
singable, catchy songs—there was a
plethora Xexcess). Of dancing there
was more than a generous share, and
pretty first rate stuff it was. Of quips
and cracks and funny busines, there'
was a prodigality" (profuse liberal
ity).
Summing. p the . shoT as a whole,
tho-writer-put Alle,:produe doh. at-least
"three songs, two comedians; mid a
sorority houseful of muds better than
most of its ilk."
To insure the same performance as
that which aroused the Times' critic,
J. Ewing "Sock" Kennedy will have
the same players in the same roles.
J. Lloyd Larkins '37 and John 0.
Chambers '39 will again invade the
campus as ex-cons. Lucille Z. Giles
'39 and Charles W. Tilden '37 again
have the juvenile leads, while William
Marlin '39 and Paul E. Dean '4O re
main as the comic dance team.
460 To Compete
In PIAA Meet
Trials Start At 10 Tomorrow;
Finals Will 13e Conducted
At 2 O'clock
I Approximately 460 high school stu
dents from eleven districts through
!out the state will compete in the third
annual P. I. A. A. track meet here
tomorrow. The trials will take place
from 10 to 12 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing, and the finals will be held start
ing at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Both Class A and Class B entrants
will compete in, the meet. This year
there will be no team championship.
Instead the performances of the hilli
vicluttls will he stressed.
Barney Ewell, winner of four events
in the meet during the past two years,
and runner-up in two others, will
face. an opponent with an equally
griod record.
Tcrpko, of Sayre high school, won
the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds and
the 220-yard dash in 21.4 seconds in
his district meet lust week. Ewell
turned in the same time for the 100-
yard.dash, and bettered Terplio's time
by a tenth of ti second in the longer
race.
NY A Job-Holders Asked
To Deposit Addresses
Students with N. Y. A. jobs who
expect to leave here'early next week
have been asked to deposit 'a self
addressed, stamped envelope at the
Bursar's office so that the final N.
Y. A. check of thw year may be for
warded to them without delay.
' Meanwhile, applications for sta"-
dent N. Y. A. jobs next year will be
available at the Registrar's office,
beginning today. Students are urg
ed not to return the applications to
the college until after August 10.
Collegian To Suspend
Publication Until Fall
With this issue, the Collegian
suspends publication until the an
nual mail issue early next Septem
ber. The first campus issue next
semester will appear Tuesday, Sep
tember 7.
The weekly summer Collegian
will start nublication with the. he
g,inning, of the surname session next
month. Woodrow W. Bierly '3B
and Jerome Weinstein '3B will be
the co-editors, while Alan L. Smith
'37 and John G. Sabena '3B will be
eo-business managers.
Board Approves
1937-38 Budget
Grants $25 Remuneration To Its
• ill - embers, Committee On
Interclass Finance
Student Scitrd approved $25 a year
remunerations to its members and
members of the Interclass Finance
Comnfittee at a meeting this week,
Jchn D. Kennon chairman of the
board, announced.
Effective next fall, the remunera
tions will be given to the members of
the two organizations because it was
thought they deserved consideration
for the work they perform, Kennon
said.
The three class presidents on Stu
ijent Board not :receive this re 7
mtinerntiOn;lie6aus'e . they receive slims
from' other student government sour
ces, he asserted.
Approve 1937-38 Budget
' This action amended the Interclass
Finance Committee's budget for 1037-
08 and is expected to be reapproved
by the Finance Committee. The re
mainder of the budget was approved
in full. The money for the remu
nerations was secured from $6OO that
was previously budgeted each year to
inter-class athletics. The fund will
be taken care of in the Athletic As
sociation budget, Neil M. Fleming,
graduate malinger of athletics, indi
cated.
At the same meeting, the Board ap
proved the admittance of David B.
Ludwig '3B and John S. Moeller '3B.
Ludwig is the student representative
to State College Council, and Moeller
is the Interfraternity Council presi
dent. Both arc admitted to Student
Board upon three-fourths confirma
tion. Ludwig was then elected secre
tary of the Board for the coming year.
Senior 'Announcements ;
Inv,itations Now Ready
Invilaticns and announcements awe
now available at the Student, Union
desk for graduation.
Caps and gowns can be secured .l)y
presentation of receipts at the Ath
letic Store on IVednesday, Thursday,
or Friday.
Ritenour Completes Twenty
Years Of Service at College
"Angel's ltetreat;" "Devil's Den;
lie DeVictor;" and memories galore; c
and starting again in 1917 with conth
slight glance al the 20-year record of
From a couple of shanties in 1917,
he has been instrumental in fostering
the College Health Service's growth
to thd modern infirmary and dispen-1
Nary.
When he took over the position here
in July, 1917, at the request of Pres
ident Sparks, to succeed the College's
first doctor, Warren Forsythe,• Dr.
Ritenour found the Health Service
housed in what is now, the English
Comp building.. Resides this frame
structure, the building used for isola
tins cases was located on the site of
the new water tower.
Old Health Service records show'
that the first "Pest House" cases were
six in 'lumber on January 15, 1915.
They were all cases of measles!
The first Infirmary (English Comp
building) Patient was one W. E. Deitz
with a ease of tonOitis February
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1937
120 Registei
For TwQ Day
Meeting Here
PNPA, Journalism Dept
Sponsor 3rd Annual
State Conijave
Noted Newspapermen
To Feature :Program
The third annual Pennsylvania
Press Conference which opens
this morning at 9:15 o'clock with
a general session in the assem
bly room of the Nittany Lion
Inn has already drawn an un
usually large advance registra
tion of over 120 from all papers
within 100 miles of State Col
lege and many thrbughout the
state, indicating that this one will be
, larger than either of .its predecessors.
Prominent speakers:at the confer
ence, under the joint_ sponsorship of
the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publish
ers' Association and the department
of journalism, will be Staley Walk
er, assistant managing editor of the
New York Herald-Tribune; Arthur
Knock, Washington correspondent of
the New York Times; Lyle Wilson,
thief of staff of the. United Press
Washington correspondents; Don
Bridge; - naVertising 7 dfiector - a - the
New York Times; and Earle Pearson,
general manager of the Advertising
Federation of America.
Schedule Announced
The conference will follow the first
general session on advertising and its
problems with a luncheon in the main
dining room of thC.lnn ;at 12:15 o'-
clock this afternoon, which in turn is
followed by a closed meeting of the
P. N. P. A. in the assembly room. To
night at 8 o'clock there will be musi
cale under the direction of Jack 11.
Platt 'l7 at the Inn followed by an
address by Florence Fisher Parry, au
thor of the column, "I Dare Say," in
the Pittsburgh Press.
Alumni Organize
At the banquet Prof. Franklin C.
Banner, of the department of journal
ism, will act in the capacity of toast•
master. Awards will be made to two
Pennsylvania newspaper men for
their long and meritorious service,
and Arthur Brock, Washington corre
spondent of the New York Times, will
make an address. Tommy Richard
son, well-known Irish humorist, will
follow with a talk entitled "Personali
ties." ;
The Penn State journalism gradu
ates are planning over the week-end
to organize into an Alumni Club with
the following purposes: to establish
a placement bureau here, to promote
social functions and get-togethers,
and to issue a regular news bulletin
describing activities of members. The
fleeting of the group will take place
in the Old ➢fain Sandwich Shop at
12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
"Track House;" "Pest house;" "01-
ending in 1901 as an undergraduate,
inuous service to his alma mater, is a
Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour.
15, 1915. Dr. nitencues first was
Adolph Al. Snyder, Ag 'lB.
It was not until the building pro
gram of 1929 that the new Hospital
and the Dispensary in Old Main were.
erected. This culminated 12 years
continual growth, but only in build
ings!
, Figures show that one doctor and
• two nurses were needed to handle
0771 dispensary calls in 1917—twenty
years later. Dispensary calls amount
to over 23,000, but there has been the
addition of only one physician.
Dr. Ritenour's 20th anniversary
plea is "not for new buildings but
for additional personnel—more doc
tors and more nurses. I inn ashamed
tb tell anyone who understands Health
Service requirements of the inade
rionte personnel here at Penn State."
To Be Honored
William E. Lindenmuth '3B, man
,,er-elect of the varsity football
am, will be feted at a test
mania' dinner to be given by the
Penh State Alumni club of Schuyl
kill county at Ilutel Ferguson,
Shenandoah, en Thursday, June 10.
Lindenmuth is the first Schuylkill
county resident to receive such an
honor.
College Adopts
New Fee System
Parents Must File Applications
• For Deferred Payments
By September 1
A new system of deferred fee pay-
Meets will go - into effect 'next-Septum=
bee; it was announced yesterday.
Under the new system, applications
for deferment of fees will have to be
filed with the Bursa• by the student's
parent or guardian before September
1.
In line with the new registration
procedure, the deferred fee payments
will be made in three installments.
At least one-third of the estimated
amount will have to be paid within
two weeks after registration, with
the balance to le paid in two further
installments 'on October 15 and No-
vember 15.
No special forms will be provided
by the Ccllege next semester, but ap
plications will be made on standard
x 11 sheets. Deferments granted
to present students will be predicated
on the colleg.e record of the appli
cant's established credit responsibility.
Student Board Elects
2 Additional Members
At the last meeting of the Student
Beard, David B. Luiit'ig, Jr., 38 and
John P. Mueller '3B were elected to
that burly. Ludwig is borough coun
cil representative and Moeller is pres
ident of the Interfraternity Council.
Ludwig was also ChOSen secretary of
the Board.
Neil Fleming, graduate manager
Of athletics, explained the budget of
the Interclass Finance committee to
the Board. Dean Arthur P. Warnock
spoke to the group on its duties as n
governing body.
The appointment of a student con
trol board was deferred to the fall.
This body acts on complaints brought
before it by the Campus Patrol re
guiding
automobile violations on the
campus.
Memorial Day Recess
Starts At 5 O'Clock
Memorial Day recess will begin
this afternoon at 5 o'clock and end
at 8 o'clock Monday morning, when
final examination week will official
ly get under way.
Due to the presence on the cam
pus of many high school students
for the P. I. A. A. 'championships,
the following offices in Old Main
will be open until noon tomorrow:
Registrar, Dean of Men, Dean of
Women, Student Union, and Alumni.
att.
Dr. Poteate To Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon
On June 6 At 11 O'clock
Seniors Will Gather At Assembling Places At
10:30, Monday Morning, June 7; Will
Then March To Rec Hall
NEW PROGRAM TO MARK GRADUATION
Exactly 800 seniors will gather at their respective assembling
places at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning, June 7, from where they
will proceed in the academic procession to Recreation hall to re
ceive their degrees in the College's 77th annual commencement
exercises.
The Baccalaureate sermon will be given by Dr. Edwin McNeill
Poteate, Jr., of Raleigh, N. C., when'
the service is held at 11 o'clock Sun
day morning, June 6. The service
will be held as' a chapel service in
Recreation ball. There will be no
academic procession for this occasion.
Cenevra C. Ziegler 'B7 and John W.
Angstadt 'B7 will give the valedicto-1
rian and salutatorian addresses, re
spectively, at the annual Class Day
exercises to be held this year on Sun
day, June G. At this time the tradi
tional class honor men and women will
be announced, and the class gift will
be presented.
The School of the Liberal Arts
graduates 240, the largest number of
students. The number being gradu
ated from the other Schools arc as
follows:' School of Education, .154;
School of Agriculture, 145; School of
Engineering, 118; SchoOl of Chemis
try and Physics, 75; School of Phys.
lea! Education and-Athletics, 37; and
School of Mineral Industries, 31.
There are 304 candidates for the
Bachelor of Arts degree and 496 can
didates for the Bachelor of Science
degree,
A new program has been arranged
for this year's June commencement.
Formerly, the Glass Day exercises
were held on the morning of gradua
tion. This year, these exercises have
been shifted forward to Sunday eve
ning, and have been combined with
the Blue Band concert. The coin-I
mencement exercises hare been moved
up to Monday morning, which allows
students to leave for their homes in
the early afternoon.
The annual Alumni Day will be held
Saturday, June 5. The day's program
calls for an alumni golf tournament,
luncheon, parade, alumnae meeting,l
baseball game, class reunion dinners,'
and the Players' show, "Boy Meets
Girl." The election of Alumni trus-I
tees closei; on this date.
The assembling places at which the
candidates will gather, according to
their schools, for the academic pro
cession, are as follows:
School of the Liberal Arts—lri
front of the N. L. A. building.
School of Education—ln front of
the Education building.
School of Agriculture—ln front of
the Agricultural budding.
School of Chemistry and Physics--
On west side of Pond laboratory.
School of Engineering—ln front of
Main Engineering building.
School of Mineral Industries—ln
front of Mineral Industries building.,
School of Physical Education—ln 1
front of Recreation hall.
Graduate School—On north side of
Buclihout laboratory.
In case of rain all will assemble in
the upper corridor of Recreation hall.
New A. S. U. Petition
Delayed Until Autumn
The re-petition of the American
Student Union will not be considered
until the new Senate Committee. on
Student Welfare meets in the fall,
Dean Arthur R. Warnock has an
nounced. 'When the committee refus
ed to grant them recognition on the
campus, the Union rewrote its appli
cation.
The Committee will be unable to
hold another meeting this semester,
and it was decided to allow the new
body in the fall to act on the Amer
ican Student Union's re-petition.
The recognition of the Union was
not granted because of the "inconsist
ency with established College policy."
Another one of the reasons given was
that "it seeks to organize students
on 'immediate local and national is
suei,"
COMPLETE
CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Alumni Day Vote
To Pick Trustees
4 Nominees Vie For Membership
On Board; Program For
June 5 Released
Three of the foiir candidates for
the College board of trustees will be
elected at the meeting of the dele
gates at the Nittany Lion Inn neat
Friday previous to the class reunions
and special program of Alumni day,
June 5.
Those who arc up for re-election
are John T. Harris '97 of Harrisburg,
J. H. M. Aratrews '9O 'of Philadelphia:
and George If. Deike 'O3 of Pitts
burgh. Nominated as alternate Is
William J. Dorworth 'Ol of Phila
delphia.
Program Listed
The• program for Alumni day be
ins with the Alumni golf tourna
ment at 8:30 o'clock. Following this
are: the annual meeting of the Alum
ni Council in the Home Economics
building at 10 o'clock; the close of the
election of Alumni trustees at 11 o'-
clock; the Alumni luncheon in McAl
lister hall at 12:30 o'clock; and the
meeting of the board of trustees at
2 o'clock in the afternoon.
The remainder of the afternoon
and evening will be taken up with the
Alumni parade at 2:15 o'clock; the
Penn State-Syracuse University base
' ball game at 2:30 o'clock; the Alum
lute meeting in the Women's building
at 2:30 o'clock; the class reunion din
ners at S o'clock; and the dinner of
the non-reunion classes in the Sand
n•ich Shop at the same time; the
Players' present:Wien of "soy Meets
Cirl" in the Auditorium at 7:30 o'-
clock; and the fraternity dances at
0:30 o'clock.
$l5OO Fellowship
Won By Willgoos
Will Study In Europe Next Fall;
IS Architects Competed
For Drawing Prim
The $l5OO John Stewardson
Pellowship in Architecture for
travel and study was won Tuesday
by Robert. A. Willgoas a student
in the departiment of architectural
engineering.
Eliminating all rivals front schools
across the state, Willgons' drawing of
a Union Railroad Station came out
fa• ahead of the other 48 competitors.
Willgoos, the first Penn State• to win
the award, plans to sail for Europe
in the fall.
The competition for the 'prize W:l5
open to all persons who have studied
or practiced architecture in the state
for a period of at least a year pre
ceding the award. Candidates must
not be less than 22 and not over JO
years old.
Another State student, Joseph F.
Balk '3O was also chosen as final com
petitor, but was forced to resign be
cause the competition was given con
currently with the Paris Prize, valued
at 65000, for which he is also a final
competitor and for which he chose to
take his chance. lie was recently de
clared winner of the second place in
roametition for the f?ome prize.