PAGE TWELVE
Plan for Free Hospitalization
Will be Effective This Semester
Health Fee Raised
From $5 to $lO Yearly
A revolutionary student health
plan calling for a week’s free hos
pitalization and elimination of
service charges will go into effect
this year under the direction of
Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, director of
the Health Service and College
Physician.
For the first year the hospital
ization will be on a trial basis. To
finance the plan the semester
health fee will be raised from
$2.50 to $5.
In order to accomodate the 25
per cent increase in infirmary pa
tients estimated by Dr. Ritenour,
p doctor and three nurses will be
added to the present staff of five
doctors and nine nurses. The new
staff members have not been
selected but will be chosen before
the start of Freshman Week on
September 1.1.
k The increase in the size of the
nursing staff has necessitated the
Establishment of a nurses’ home,
oil the campus, the Packard farm
op Shortlidge Road.
. The hospitalization plan was
first introduced by the Student
Health Board in May, 1939, and
Was presented to the Board of
Trustees in June of that year. At
that time the board failed to ap
prove the plan and returned it to
President Ralph D. Hetzel for fur
ther consideration.
President Hetzel and the Stu
dent Health Board eliminated sec
tions calling for the College to
employ a staff surgeon and to per
pnit staff • physicians to answer
calls from students in town. After
getting the okay of Dr. Ritenour,
• the plan was again sent to the
,Board of Trustees which approved
4t on January 26 of this year.
..r Student applications for free
hospitalization must be approved
by the Health Service even
: though hospitalization is recom
mended by an outside physician.
Stays of longer than seven days
in the infirmary will be charged
for at the regular rate of $2.50 a
day.
: Giving reasons for the expected
increase in infirmary patients, Dr.
Charles D. Dietterich, assistant
College Physician, said yesterday.
’•'Formerly, many students felt
.‘tliat they could not afford to pay
$2.50 a day for hospitalization and
Gulflex Lubrication
Washing
Gulf Cards Honored
Eckert's
Gulf Station
One Stop Service
f 15S.BurrowesSt.
Goodrich Exide
Tires Batteries
JOHNSTON’S MOTOR BUS LINE, INC.
THROUGH BUSSES
STATE COLLEGE AND WILLIAMSPORT
Lv. Slate College 8:00 A.M. 2:05 P.M. 7:00 P.M.
Ar. Bellefontel 8:30 A.M. 2:35 P.M. 7:30 P.M.
tr. Lock Haven 9:30 A.M. 3:45 P.M. 8:30 P.M.
r. Williamsport 10:30 A. M. 4:45 P. M. 9:35 P. M.
Lv. Williamsport 8:30 A.M. 3:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M.
Ar. Lock Haven 9:40 A.M. 4:05 P.M. ,8:05 P.M.
Ar. Bellefonte 10:40 A.M. 5:10 P.M. 9:15 P.M.
Ar. State College 11:10 A.M. 5:40 P.M. 9:45 P.M.
LOCAL BUSSES—STATE COLLEGE and BELLEFONTE
From State College—8:00 A. M*. 12:10 P. M., 2:05 P. M., 5:10
P. M.. 7:00 P. M.. 10:00 P. M.
From Bellefonte—7:ls A. M.. 10:40 A. M„ 1:10 P. M., 3:00 P. M..
5:15 P. M.. 9:15 P. M. „ .
I f ; i.H’C/IIW Vri r Mi--. 111
College Physician
Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, direc
tor of the College Health Service,
has forwarded the plan by which
students will have free hospitaliz
ation for the first time this year.
(See column one.) He also has
plans for a celebration of the
Health Service’s 25'th anniversary
which falls this year.
consequently stayed home. Now
they won’t have that excuse.
“Others,” he added, “preferred
to stay at home and place them
selves in the care of a town phy
sician. Under the new plan it will
be possible for them to stay in the
infirmary and still have a town
doctor at approximately the. same
total cost as before.” .■ •
Average Student Visits
Health Service 11 Times
A health study of the. Class of
1939 has shown that fewer than
one-half of one per cent of the
class went through College with
out requiring treatment at the Col
lege dispensary or infirmary.
Students who did require treat
ment, said Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour,
director of the health service,
made an average of 11 trips each
to the health center during their
four years. The records showed
that the 1831 students who at one
time or another belong to the Class
of 1939 missed a total of 21,781
class hours on account of illness.
Road lo Bellefonte
May Be Ready ocl. 1
Two crews of workmen are
pushing work on the -new high
way between State College and
Bellefonte in the hope that opera
tions can be completed by Octo
ber 1.
One gang is working from State
College toward Lemont and the
other from Rockview penitentiary
toward Lemont.
Until the work is complete,
State College residents driving to
the county seat at Bellefonte must
use one of two detours. The first
route passes through Boalsburg,
Old Fort, Centre Hall and Pleas
ant Gap. The other follows Route
322 out North Atherton street to
Buffalo Run and takes the road to
Bellefonte from there.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Recent Death of Thomas
Creates Trustee Vacancy
The death of John Ira Thom
as, state secretary of mines, has
created a vacancy on the 32-
man College Board of Trustees
which will continue until a new
secretary is-appointed by Gov.
Arthur H. James.
Secretary Thomas died on
July 18 and was buried July 22.
The secretary of mines was
made and ex-officio members of
the Board of Trustees by last
session of the Pennsylvania
General Assembly.
'Popeye' A Step
Ahead of Science
“Popeye” of the comic strip may
have hit upon a more scientific
principle than he realized in
stuffing himself with spinach,
which contains vitamin A. Ex
periments with rats at the College
have thus far shown that foods
containing this vitamin are con
ducive to physical activity.
The experiments were conduct
ed by Dr. N. B. Guerrant, profes
sor of biological chemistry, who
declared that the effects produced
in rats may be the same in hu
mans. Common vitamin A foods
include spinach, butter, cod liver
oil, and carrots.
In some of the tests, the rats
were allowed to take voluntary
exercise in special types of rotat
ing cages, and in others the cages
were rotated a definite number of
times daily, a practice which forc
ed the rats to “go for walks.”
The animals' which were fed no
vitamin A were less inclined..to
exercise - voluntarily than those
which were allowed an adequate
amount of this food element in
their diet. The energetic rats
made smaller increases in body
weight and required less vitamin
A than the lazy rats, apparently
because their systems made better
use of the food eaten.
The animals which took forced
exercise were “put in training”
for several days by Dr. Guerrant
before the tests were started.
Some probably would have been
unable to travel the required 1,000
revolutions of the cage and would
have become exhausted if they
had not been “hardened” in much
the same manner as athletes or
others who perform hard physical
labor.
Psychology Reigns,
If,You Don't Mind,
Al Stale This Week
This is psychologists’ week at
Penn State. More than 1200 psy
chologists—members of four dif
ferent organizations—began arriv
ing on the campus Sunday to at
tend a series of conventions which
began Monday and will continue
through Saturday.
The American Psychological
Association’s meeting promises to
be the most heavily-attended.
Most of the psychologists plan to
attend it and also one or more of
the other conventions.
The three other psychological
conventions are being held by the
American Association for Applied
Psychology, the Psychometric So
ciety, and the Society for the Psy
chological Study of Social Issues.
A fifth convention, meeting in
conjunction with the psycholo
gists, is being held by the Ameri
can Speech Correction Associa
tion.
Fifteen faculty members, includ
ing Dean Marion R. Trabue of the
School of Education and ' Dr.
Bruce V. Moore, head - of the'de
partment of psychology, are mem
bers of the American Psychologi
cal Association. Dr. Moore was a
member of the executive commit
tee during the year 1939-40. Dean
Trabue is a member of the Board
of Affiliates of the American As
sociation for Applied Psychology.
•> • A ndw four-iihitkreerth r ouse : h'as
allovfed’ KutlfeW 3 UniVdrsity] to'ek-j
■paiftF its- wdrk : in fclaht' biology-.'' i.
v ror: .).?J i. 3 i.< )U tJ 3 j
Seamans Only PSCA Secretary Lett
From Last Year As Associates Leave
HARRY SEAMANS JACK PUTNEY
D. Ned Linegar and Miss Agnes
Highsmith have been named as
sociate secretaries of the Penn
State Christian Association to suc
ceed Jack Putney and Ruth B.
Mabee, both of whom resigned to
accept other positions. Harry Sea
mans, general secretary, remains.
Both Mr. Putney and Miss
Mabee had been with the PSCA
three years. Mr. Putney has ac
cepted the executive secretaryship
of the Intercollegiate Alumni As
sociation in the New York City
YMCA. Miss Mabee has become
industrial YWCA' secretary at
Jackson, Mich.
The new men’s associate secre
tary received his undergraduate
degree at Miami University, Ox
ford, 0., where he was a leader in
several student organizations. He
received an M.A. degree in socio
logy at the University of Cincin
nati and served as assistant secre
tary of the university “Y”. Since
Petroleum Laboratory
Enlarged For Research
Approximately 1,000 square feet
of new floor space has been added
to the petroleum refining labora
tory, where an extensive research
and testing program is carried on
by a staff of 30 technicians. Much
of the program is supported by
Pennsylvania oil producers.
The additional space, created
by converting the loft of the lab
oratory building into a second
floor, was made necessary to ac
commodate a growing amount of
heavy equipment.
WELCOME FROSH!
"All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy"
EIGHT TABLES
STONEY'S
RECREATION PARLOR
2nd FLOOR OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
WELCOME, STUDENTS AND PARENTS
Hotel Brockerhoff
“On the Diamond”
BELLEFONTE, PENNA.
■
9 New Modern Rooms
9 Dining Room Service
Air Conditioned Cocktail Lounge
Second Floor
Always Hake lI—THE, BROCKERHOFF
h i w’il * it.U'E '1 fit ! #•'
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940
that time he has studied for an
M.S. degree in psychology and
group work at the George Will
iams YMCA training college in
Chicago.
Miss Highsmith is a graduate of
Weslyan University, received an
M.A. in English literature from the
University of Georgia, and receiv
ed a B.D. degree in religion in
higher education from Yale Uni
versity. She was associate secre
tary at the University .of George
Student Christian Association for
three years. S
In other PSCA staff changes,
Mrs. Mildred Mcllvane and Mrs.
Grace Fortney have resigned as
office secretaries. They have been
replaced by Miss Edith Cairns ’39
and Anna Mary Gardner, a grad
uate of State College High School.
Welcome,
Frosh of '44
Student Table
and Floor Lamps
Electric Razors
All Kinds of Electrical
Supplies
W. H. Marshall
Glennland Building
RUTH MABEE