JOSEPH A: UEL:39 PEEL--MAN AMONG MEN Lit yea'. for the - fast time in the history of this Col lege, the Penn State Collegian established a new award to be presented each yew to that member of the graduating class who, during his four year here, had done most to fur therAhe honoi, the gluey and , the'prestige of this institution Tomoi Low night, Just before the Wisconsin boxing meet in Recieatiod Hall, the Collegian_will honor the most out standing senior of 1939: Joseph A Peel—gentleman, athlete and seholar 2 ---Penn State's own modern Horatio Alger char acter, who through sheer perseverance rose from the rank itncl-lile to the:highe4 honors a- student body could bestow upon him actically , unhihird 01 in his first two yehrs,,defeatecl fin the freshman clit's presidency, just another ordinary sophomore football; player, Joe Peel suddenly became the fightingest fighter; of them alland, with one great surge overcame all handicap." to become a star on the varsity foot ball team and 'become, too, the first non-fraternity man in a !patter century to be elected class President. T „. . - From that ,moment on, Peel remamed - the'`outstanding leader among the 7,000 students of Penn State. For, once in office,' he became a vihnling dervish, championing the cause of Peim'State's own Forgotten Man—the non-fraternity stu deid—Yet. at the same time,not forsaking the cause of the fraternity student, ' .That his job was well-done was proved last April when lie saw himself- te-elected to the presidency of his class, the first man ever to be solionoredan,tlie 80-year history 'of this institution. Re-elected- 7 -111-a bitter political campaign during which he panitained 1114 character as a.,gedleman fused 'to punch below thelieltjuSt because the 'referee might ,not be looking . ..` - ‘l2, '" " - • ,$- 'Such lias beeii the leyntite of. Peel's success--at all times a gentle Man; at all times, a determined fighter; and;.abotie all else, a gentleidaU and a fighter who has the courage of his ' conviction.," t , ' In ;J. - world turliulent with the' buffeting storms of eco nomic-and pOlitic'al teaction,'Alnerica needs more men less Willing: to criticize, mote willing to ,stretch out a, helping handtorthOse ilicapable of vision(; those incapable - of helping ' ' , Joe Peel is sueka Mau.'His past lies proven this. The fut - ure remains befine him. test is' yet to Come. If there have been troubles and,'pioblemi, there will undoubtedly be many'moie which r the future , - There may be many outstanding seniors here-yes. But /4osephtA. Peel towers head'arid shoulders above them all. Editorial Semi-lUtteekly , _ 1 r ~' .. 6. ~,.,A---: , ,\ , ..,... 4, 2: „ _ Patti #titlit >. '1 ~,;•••? 2 1:1 ' _ .. \ •/asb• , , 1 VOL. 35-NO 43 Z 658 New Structures May Not Be Utilized IS CI FEEL 13, CHOSEN' MOST OUTSTAN QING , SENIOR Allocations Insufficient For Upkeep $150,000 'lncrease Not Enough To Carry Full Program See also edzional "It's a Help„ But—" page 2 By JOHN A. TROANOVITCH Editor, Collegian Unless their is a sudden change of policy in Harris burg within the next two months, many of the build ings now nearing completion under the General gate Au thoiity will not be used at all for the next two years at feast. ' This was the only conclu sion which could be reached here today as the Council of Administration moved to re study its budget estimates in an effort to meet the Gover nor's reduced , allocation of ,$4,375,000 for general main tenance and $50,000 for the School of Mineral Industi:ies. While no comment could be 'Oh- A wned from administiation quai tem s, it was obvious to see that a budget whose Het c~ = to'hinly , $150,000 - liirtwo yearn ' would not,peimit the utilization of the new buildings to ally peat extent In fad, the money would hardly be enough to supply heat, electiicity, and jamtoiialservices for the structui CS, let alone equip them for classioom use And 11\ New Buildings Although the Goveinoi failed to issue an itemized list of intended expenditui es, he recommended only $150,000 over the $4,275,000 all-around total piovided for the 1937-39 biennium under the Eatle adminisliation With 11 new buildings to maintain, this is Avhol ly inadequate In its original iequest, the Col lege asked $585,939.70 lot movable equ prima for the new buildings. This vats deueused to $351,900 in the second request, which the Col lege pointed out, mould leave "it considerable 'nimbi!' of the labor atm les„classi owns and officec. . unequipped and unused until fur ther provision is made foi equip ment and for the'necessaiy peisonnel, supplies, etc" "ThP,, reduced estimate," the College added, "will 'nevi& a\ much mote limited and gradual approach to the capacity progiam provided by the new physical fa cilities:" Thus, even it the additional $150,000 would be used solely for equipment, ft would permit only a veiy limited use of the build ings' GSA Strife Unhealthy Moreover, developments in the light lot control of the General State Authoitty during- the pipit week have cast some doubt upon the chances of the College to le (Continued On Page'Four)',' Bids For Builaing,Fixturesi P9sfpOned,Until March 21 Special to the Collegial& HARRISBURG, Maich 2L-Opening of bids for the installation of fixed , equipment in Hie new buildings at the Pennsylvania State College has been - postponed from March 10 to—March 21, Col:Augus tine S Janeway,' executive director of_the General State Authority. announced here today t „ , Six contracts, totalling an esti- mated $476,130, , will provide for equipment 'bre the Electrical En gineering Buildin g , $lO,OOO Cliennstri and Physics, $161,000; Agricutulral Science, $132,000. • Shop Equipment for the Poul-' try, Education, Electrical' eering,_ and. Cliennstry and, Phys ics Buildigs ' $27,841; / Electrical 'Equipment for Elee tries]. Engineering, Mineral Indus this, Agricultural Engineering, $40,000. Free'Teds For Blood Type Records Are.Sel; To Be Given Four Days, An)one wishing lo Iwo lila blood classified free may do so at Room 210 Agriculture build: hip at the following limos neil, week Monday, 7 'to 9 p m ToostlaY, I to 4 p to , \Values. da), 7 to 9 p m , and Thurbdu 1 to 1 p m The pm pose of the tests is to build up amend° records of El it% blood alluble hi State Colleg t fur tiunbfuslons , $685 Profit Realized At-:' Senior Ban Figure One-Third Le 4 Than Last Year An estimdted pi°fit of $686: less than ono-thud of last year'; net income, was i ealized at Semot Ball last Friday night, according to a tentative report ieleased yes. teiday by Neil M Fleming, glad- , nate manage? of athletics A total of 673 paid admissiomi (542 less couples than attended the affair last yea' ), booth rentals and checking aggiegated a gloss income of $3,01726, appioximatei ly s2,loo.less than lust yeui's to tal. Expenditines were conservu: tively estimated at $2,33101 Sixty-two_ complimentaiy- tick ets, three less than last year, were issued As usual, biggest expense iten WIII,IIIUSIL 'Duke Ellling,tost-IJeerif, ed $l,OOO, $5OO les4 than the amount paid lust yea, to Tommy Dorsey Admissions (tax included), 0,1 at $3 85—52,612 75, booth Kental, 44 at ss—s22o, checking, 738 at $ 25—5.184 50. Expenditures Music-51000, decorations $350; tax on admissions-5257 25, checking-5184 50; coinpensations —sloo, doormen, ticket, sellerTetc —s37 50, ticket pi inting and. in vitations-533 41, Song Title con test winner—ss 00, telephone and telegraph—s2sss, incidentals— sl2 25, programs (estimated)— $127 50, college label (estimated) _4lOO, catei ing (estimuted)— $55 , miscellaneous (estimated)— $44.20 Two WPA Painting's To Hang In Home Ec Two huge oil paintings, ad judged excellent by J Buine Heinle of the fine ai is depart-, hays been obtained for the Home Economics building The paintings, work of two at lists on the fedeial art project division of the WPA, are purl of the iedetorating pioject being carried on by the Home Economics Club AI. I. Group To Hear Speaker Blame B Wescott, or the Gulf Research Cot potation, Pittsburgh, will speak on "Metals In' the Pro duction or Petroleum",berore the , Minerals Industry Society at-7.30 pin Tuesday in Room 119, MM.- & Industiies Building .. A sixth , contract, estimated at $105,289, will provide equipment fur the Electrical Engineering, Forestry, Library, Mineral In dustries and Poultry Buildings. Typ'lcal of the fixed equipment to be_installed in the structures are: switchlniards, jacks, cabin ets, dimmer equipment, laboratory sinks, laboratory work benches, grinding stands, glass blowers tables, furnace tables, distilled water outfits,- carbon' dioxide fire fighting equipment. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939 Independents Join In Drive For Unity Poweied by the combined stten a 'concenttated diivc to organize into a socially and politically solid Immediate plans for the move, clique 'cadets earlici in the week, town's non-fratei mty male mull PM pose of the sui vey is to compile statistical data necessary foi definite operations William W Galbreath '39, speathead of the Indcpendent di ive, stated specifically that %bile all of the cliques would obably include the organization move in then political platfotms foi the foi theOlnlng 010(110115, the plank coveting the plan would ab solutely not be insetted as a vote getting device Speaking kui all of the Inde pendent cliques, Galbreath Naid, "We are suppotting, the eiganwa lion movement because we feel Thespians Plan Four Changes Revue, Low Price, Premiere Feature Spring Show; Kennedy To Direct "Wow, that's hot , " was the ex pi mown that burst from the lips of the. Schwab Auditcnium janitor, a veteran and skilled judge of many Thespian Shows, as the combined - choi us of ,"Stu ff and, Nonsenso" — went - to to - Vid during iehcaisal at 10 p m Wednesday As the Thespians' Spin; show to be pi melded Finlay and Sat urday night, Match 10 and 11, "Stuff and Nonsense" embodies foul new features. They are I—A depaituie from custom in that the Soling show will be a revue instead of the usual comedy 2—The scheduling of the show on a weekend other than a big dance weekend, something not berme attempted :;—A drastic downward tevision in puce to 50, a move that. the Thespians made ni oi del to appi Aimate the pi ice usu ally paid for two hours' entei tai Innen t 4—An opening ing,lit ptemtete on the steps of auditut lam with floodlights, amplify ing system, =stet of tele- Mines, guest speakers, and all the otliet tiappings The entire revue is undei the dueetien of J Ewing Kennedy Kremer Design Ist In National Contest Senior Is Only Penn Slate Winner In History For the feast time in the histuay of the College au architecture stu dent, Charles-D. Kremer '39 has been awaidcd u First Medal, the highest helical given, in a natunial Class A design contest sponsored by Beaux Alto, architectural so ciety Of spin °minutely 160 problems submittal by students hem all (wet the county, eight received medals Melissa Minnick '39 and Edward H Burgener ?38, students in the department of architecture, ieceived Second Medals. The de sign, problem was "An Agricul tural School " Presidents, Faculty . Meet With Pin-Hel Pan.Hellenlc Commit m 111 hold au Informal meeting with its ad visors; the dean of women and as. sibtantb, and sorority presidents in the southeast , lounge of Ather. ton Hall from 3 to 6 o'clock Sun day afternoon Vivian S Doty' '39, president, and Juanita Id Chambers '4O, vice president, 1%111 report 'on the con. Terence they attended in Wash ington, D C., last week The group will also discuss rushing problems and plans., gth of all thice independcni cliques ,Penn State's non-fiatecnity mei group was launched yesteiaily , formulated at a closed meeting o call for a thorough survey of the ation that by so doing we can aid un der-ptivileged non-fiateinity men and at the same time lid the,Col lege of a troublesome situation" Independent clique leadeis met with Dean Attila, It Womack last. Tuesday night at. which time sig nificant in nitwits of the plan wore discussed Dien _Wainock explaindd that small units as a fiameNsock an• almost a necessity if the pion is to succeed Ile also pointed out that the competes An such a move ment should come hugely hum the students themselves Symphony Will Appear Sunday SO-Piece College Orchestra Plans First Program In Silt wab Auditorium A mogiain by the College Sym phony Otehestui andel, the diiec- Lion of Ptof Hummel Fibliburn in Schwab Auchtmium at 3 30 p niSunday will opentbe annual ~ iufd- serves sponsored by the clepait- Inca of lIILISIL The otchesLia will play the fol lowing numbers Pi elude to Act 111 of "Lob engi in" by Maw d Wagner, "Les Pt eludes" by FULIIL Lis/t, Three Dances horn "Henry VIII" by Edward Get in a n , Glocken and (It alsbcene from siful" ißichai d Wagner, Fotuth Alovement fi 0111 the "Schehetazade Suite" by Nicho las Rimsky-Koisakoff, and in closing, Rhumba flora the "Sec ond Symphony" by Eat I Mc- Donald The symphony oichestia, coin posed of 80 inembeis, is headed by Betintid Itossinan '39, piesi deq, Edvand Wood '4l,,coiamt ntetsLet , Angelo Vespa '39, pi mo no! of the seconds, Rohm!, Basel. 39, manage!, Robeit ‘Vheiley '4O, sect eta' y; and ,Robeil Fot ten bough '42, lib, at lan Additional conceits to be given in the seises and the dates of pi e sentation ate" Match 12—Louise Hemet Club and Phi Mu Alpha flateinity, a Joint unmet t by the %%omen's and inen's music hotiot iu :es, Match 19—Blue Band, and Match 211—A second appearance of the' College Symphony oiches- Ica, this time with soloists The conceit by the Blug Band will be the last public conceit, by the, group under Bandmastet Milted 0. Thompson; who tetties in June Women Plan For Voting; Candidates Announced E Junes. Josephine A Keeney, and Jane A Romig as candidate, tot piesident. the •Senate nominating committee has all nuinieed itt. Mute of WSGA ollicets, Play Queen, and Fieslimen Attendant Beatuce 111 Lotte. Maly 11 O'Connor. mid - Maly Ann Rhodes has e been uninitiated fit W R A in esident Fin thei nominations for all officers may be made at a mass meeting of all women students m the Auditoi min at 7 p.m Tuesday Pi ninny elections will, be held in the hist flout lounge of Old Main on Thursday, and final elections will be Wednesday, Match 15. Candidates fei May Queen ate Micelle C. Andel son, Al Jane Fisher, Cecile G Metz, and June C. Price. Other nonunations are as lot ions W S G A. vice-president, Janet N Hollzinget, Mace E Rentsch ler, and Shoot L Weaver, sopho moles, treasures, Betty M Mar tin, V Dorothy Radcliffe, and Sarah P. Searle, freshmen Senior senator, M. Isabel Jor- rgiatt MIRTHMAKER Guest speaker at Sigma Delta Chi's gridiron banquet at the Nettany Lion Inn next Tuesday night will be Thomas H "Tom my" Ricitrdson (above), 'out standing humorist and fter r:lnner speaker Still a leading figure in baseball, Richardson was once official Jester for Con nie Mack's baseball Athletics His affable presentation of wit ticism has met with widespread Board Oyes Okay To '42 Class Dance May_ Be f- eh!, March 25 Unsuccessful in obtaining Stu dent Ull3Oll Board approval of an all-College dance, the fresh man class, iepiesentecl by both political cliques, was panted per mission to hold a Freshman Dance by Student Boat d at a meeting Tuesday night Student Union Boat d likewise accepted the joint action lot such an Wait and tentatively slated the dance lot Reci cation Hall, Satui ditv, Match 25 A proviso that it is to be a subsci iption dance, 75 cents pm couple, with one member of the couple being a ft eshinan, was included ' The all-College dance plan, %ad vocated in the platform of the 1942 Campus pasty and approved by Student Board was ot 'guiltily rejected by Student Union Board for thee reasons I.—Politleii wei e involved in tlte issue as it was a pail of the C.11111)US platfot ta 2—An all-College dance could not cultivate class son it 3—An tsta' int congestion of duties lot the time requested Dunlap New PSCA Presulent Wallace H Dunlap '4O was elected PS CA plesident in elec tions held this sleek Othet officals named wale Mat tin V, Rockwell '4O, vice-pt esident, Betsey Millet '4O, ,ect etary, and lot edet la Lin- Inge' '4O, tieusutei dan, Maiy Fiances LenAd!, and Winified M. Watson, junim gen atoi, Josephine E. Copcm, Vein L. Kemp. and Pauline J Tous saint; sophomore senatoi, Ann M Bolton, Ilene M. Paul, and Fian ces H Talley, town senator, M Coidelia Beach, Edith A. Buisage, and Ruth K. histlet, sophomores nesliman Attendant to the May Queen, Betty M Martin, Jane E Millet, and Helen A Suanson W R A vice-president, L El ea= Bolger, Mattel E Engleke, and June B. Hoskins, sophomores, secretary, Matjone A. Helmick, Dorothy M. Pewee, and Nouns P. Stillwell, sophomores. PRICE FIVE CENTS Collegian To Give Trophy Tomorrow Award To Be Made Before Badgers Boxing Bout By HERBERT NIPSON Joseph A. Peel, senior class piesident and a three-year varsity football player, is the outstanding senior in this year's graduating class. So decided the Junior board of the Collegian when it chose him recipient of the Colleg ian trophy, annual awai d giv en to the senior who, in the opinion of the board, has done the most in his foul yeats of ,college to further the honor and the prestige of Penn State Peel, uho made Penn State his- - toiy alien he became the first Independent man to be elected semoi class pi esident last year and also the hist eve, to -succeed himself to office, was chosen aftei a thorough discussion of the ten leading seniors and his choice sat isfied every membei of the board Robert L Nilson, 'umbel of the junior ,bunid, will present the auatd truly , de..btecl his past four yews of life to Penn State, Peel has established a m old that is unique in this institu- The Award Who—Joseph A Peel What—Presentation of the Collegian Trophy— Outstanding Senior Award Where—Recreation Hall When—lmmediately preceding the Penn State-Wisconsin box. ing meet tomorrow night Wny—Honoring the graduating senior who has, in his four years of college, done the most to fur ther the honor and the prestige of Penn State. Non Ile played football and 1,111 fOl , class ineadent in his fifth man yea'. His sophomore year was one of compaitilioe inaction, containing nothing but work, study and football , In his ,Junior year, Peel again played football He enteied — lnde - - pendent politics, end was elected class pi esident He helped inaug unite u student book exchange Not satisfied with this, lie put in limns of lobor towaid an eiTuTil z, .zation of fiateinity and non-fi a tei 0 ty men, He thiew the suppoit of his patty behind the agitation foi changing the name of the Col lege He induced the cost of Jun ior Mums to a puce within reach of all Peel nos a successful - Julian class president He must. -hive been, foi his classmates put him into office for the following yea' As semi class piesident, - two other duties fell into his compet ent hands He automatically be came piesident of both Student, &nut? and Student Council- - Aguln lie played football, serf lug as captain in the Lehigh game A science majoi in the School of Education, lie was elected to Kap pa Phi kappa, national education honminy eternity He became member of Fllalb and Skull and Bones, holimaiv hat societies lle continued his campaigning foi better ielations between fia teinity and non-fraternity men He supported the move for a mid yew recess and continued the stu dent book exchange Today, as head of Student Board, he is lighting tot both the mid-yeas vacation and the ap pointment of three non-voting student members to College Sen ate _ - S. U. Dance Slated Tomorrow The Campus Owls will play for the all-college Student Union dance from 9 to 12 tomorrow night in the Asmoty. „ ,_ Wisconsin and Penn State box ers will be guests at the dance after their meet in Rec Hall.
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