THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940
College
Work Carried On
For Past 2 Years
Tests for the U. S. Navy that
will affect not only the efficiency
of Uncle Sam’s sailors but also in
some measure the design of our
new warships have ,:been .under*
way .at the College for nearly two
years,, it was revealed recently.
The tests seek to determine the
best materials and constructions
for insulating the Navy’s'“floating
fortresses”—fortresses that must
withstand violent temperatures
ranging from the Arctic Circle to
the tropics.
Because of weight limitations
and interfering steel members in
warship design, the proper insul
ation for living and .working, quar
ters and for food,storage-compart
ments has presented many diffi
culties. A complicating factor is
the vital need in. strategic, stations
of the ship for conditioned air
that will insure ; maximum mental
alertness and efficiency, no mat
ter what the outside, temperature.
“The problem has been,”
Prof. F. George Hechler, director
of the engineering , experiment
station, “to determine .the amount
of heat transmission for various
ship sections, such as decks and
bunkheads, without insulation and
with insulation of various kinds
applied in different ways and in
several thicknesses.”
To do this, it was necessary to
install in the heat transmission
laboratories a number of full-size
test panels of as much as 1200
pounds weight each, representing
typical decks and bulkheads of
destroyers and battleships. These
were built at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard.
Special equipment of the guard
ed hot-box type was developed in
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Conducts Secret Tests On U. S. Battleship Insulation
Tests Battleships
Prof. F. George Hechler, direc
tor of the engineering-experiment
station, is supervising heat trans
fer tests for Navy warships which
have secretly been -in progress for
nearly two years. (For details,
see column one.)
12 Honoraries
Open To Women
Twelve women’s honorary so
cieties maintain chapters on the
campus and are open-to all stu
dents.
Those which offer membership
to coeds for achievements during
their freshman year are Alpha.
La-mbda Delta, scholarship;-
Cw.ejaSi 'activities and scholarship;
Ellen T. Richards Club, home eco
nomics; and Louise Homer Club,
music.
Among the 12 honoraries is Al
pha Lambda Delta, which requires
a. 2.5 average earned either the
-first or second semester of the
freshman year.
Cwens,' sophomore women’s
honorary, choses its members for
scholarship (minimum average
1:5), • leadership, and activities.
Members are easily recognized by
their red and grey jackets.
Delta Alpha Delta, women’s
speech honorary, select members
from those proficient in debating
.at the end of the sophomore year.
Home economics freshmen are
eligible for the Ellen H. Richards
Club and physical education ma
jors may strive for a 1.8 average
and Lakonides.
Musicians are chosen to the
Louise Homer <slub upon comple
tion of the freshman year. Theta
Sigma Phi honors junior journal
ists.
The highest honor a senior
woman can achieve is election to
Mortar Board, for service, schol
arship, and leadership. White
jacketed members work with
WSGA and the dean of women as
well as on their own projects.
Other senior honoraries are lota
Sigma Pi, chemistry; Omicron Nu,
home economics; and Pi Lambda
Theta, education.
Lamar library, University of
Texas, is the 13 th largest college
library in the U.S., with more than
620,000 volumes.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Dad's Day Slated
For October 5
Plans for Dad’s Day, which will
be held pn Saturday, October 5,
were made at a meeting of the
Directors of the Penn State Par
ents Association at the Nittany
Lion Inn, Sunday. '
Fathers of students will be in
vited to witness .the Bucknell-
State football game and to attend
the annual business , meeting of the
Association.
Few students- are aware of the
work of the Penn State Parents
Association, composed of fathers
and mothers of students enrolled
in' the College. Organized on
Fathers’ Day, May 20, 1922, the
purpose of the Association is to
study the,problems of students at
.Penn - State from the parent’s
viewpoint.
Some of the problems which in
terest the Association are aca
demic facilities and standards, so
cial opportunities, guidance and
counseloring possibilities, housing
facilities, faculty selection and
salaries, and appropriations from
the state legislature.
Of a dormant, rather than an
active nature, the" Association ex
ists as a means of giving student
problems an opportunity for ex
pression among a more mature
and influential group.
One of the moving forces which
resulted in the erection of Frances
Atherton Hall, the Parents Asso
ciation is ever on the alert to find
and remedy undesirable student
conditions.
Dues are nominal, $1 per parent
per year, and are used to defray
expenses of “The Nittany .Fire
sides,” a semi-annual publication.
Any remainder goes into the Stu
dent Loan Fund of the Associa
tion.
Besides planning a program for
Dad’s Day, the Association also
.distributes information about
Mothers Day activities.
Cabinet
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Other business to come up at
the meeting, Laich said, will in
clude a report by Jack W. Brand
’4l, Athletic Association president,
on the possibility •of having Ath
letic Associations elections at the
same time as the All-College and
class elections. .Brand was ap
pointed a committee-of-one to in
vestigate this possibility last
spring.
Laich stated that appointments
of a new Tribunal secretary and
a new Drydock night qlub man
ager will come before Cabinet for
approval. Both new appointments
have been occasioned by the
transfer of Edgar V. Hall ’4l to
New York University.
Laich also announced that Peter
G. Fetzko ’4l has been named
president and Cabinet representa
tive of the Education School Coun
cil.
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FBI Agent Warns
Of Un-American Ideas
WASHINGTON, D. C.—
Wholly un-American doctrines
“have gotten into .our education
al institutions . and students are
listening to influences which are
trying to make .us a nation di
vided against itself,” says Lee
R. Pennington, FBI administra
tive assistant.
American youth, he told a
luncheon meeting, are falling
prey to “preachers of ideologies
foreign to our way of thinking
. . . we have found that these
un-American teachings have
not alone crept .into our schols,
but into our pulpits and, in
many instances, the press.”
Kansas is one of the richest
fields for meteorites, Dr. .H. : H.
Ninninger, Denver University as
tronomer, says.
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PAGE ELEVEN
Dr. Frederick P. Weaver,
Retired, Dies At 57
Funeral services for Dr. Fred
erick P. Weaver, 57, emeritus pro
fessor of agricultural economics,
were held at the State College
Presbyterian Church at 10 a. m.
Monday.
Dr. Weaver died of a complica
tion of illnesses at his home on
407 South Barnard street last
Thursday night.
After 28 years on the faculty,
he retired frpm active duty on
February 28, 1938, because.of *
health. His service at the College
was unique in that during his en
tire-four undergraduate >; ears
acted also as an assistant in the
department of agricultural chem
istry.
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