n e„ ' NEXT ISSUE APRIL 18 , . • si 6 u -;:k4_. , ki,, T ir ol ~,, VOL. 37—No. 120 Pershing Rifle ()Veen To Visit Mon, Alto Unit Gertnide L. Hellmers '4l, new . ly -elected „Pershing Rifle Queen and sponsor, will leave at noon tbday for Mont Alto, where she will review the subsidiary unit of the Pershing Rifle company, it was announced yesterday. The Mont Alto platoon, 51 strong, was organized and .-in stalled last year.. • Miss Hellmers, the first uni formed Pershing Rifles' sponsor, will march in the May graduation parade and also at one infantry and one engineer parade: 'Other duties of the newly ap pointed queen will be to act as hoStess when the Cornell drill unit visits here the second week ih May, and to be official hostess and correspondent for the Persh ing Rifles. Miss Hellmers has been pre .sented with a cup and a shingle from National Pershing Rifles. She will receive an honorary ROTC commission when she graduates in June. The queen's uniform is of white whip-cord with blue trimmings and is cut on military lines. Miss Hellmers was elected by officers of the society last Mon day and inspected the entire com pany at that time. :Old Klan Winter Haia...GoneYet I Don't put that heavy coat, in the mothballs yet. Old Man Win ter, is expected •to make at least one more visit before retiring to the North Pole. .At least that's what Dr. Hel mut Landsberg, professor of geo physics and College weatherman, thinks. Dr. Landsberg pointed out that although weather can not be 'forecast as a whole, he expects more cold days because spring has been retarded. - ".`March was five degrees below the normal average temperature for that month and conditions probably will be carried over into April. One year State Col lege had a frost as late as May 30," he explained. Although December and Jan uary had normal temperatures, February and March were colder than usual, causing Penn State students to shiver in tempera tures • that were two degrees colder than average winter tem peratures, Dr. Landsberg said. 9ntacting weather observers in" this state and surrounding areas early in the morning by radio, the meteorological depart ment draws weather maps and 'forecasts conditions here by an alyzing pressure belts. Phi Mu Alpha Will Hold Smoker At 8 Tonight Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music :society, will hold a smoker for prospective pledges at the Delta Signia Phi house at 8 o'clock to iaght,• H.' Lindsey Arison '4l, president of the society, announc ed 'yesterday. : ,- - GUest,speaker will be Dr. Ray rnond Burrows of Columbia tni yersity.. Dr. Burrows and Arison will address the group. Marvin At Convention Prof. Donald M. Marvin of the economics department attended a Conference at the American Ac ademy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia. First Lady Of The Pershing Rifles , • • ',•,4 , •.:. i.t7,,•41:" • • ••"- ;' • ■ MEE 04 - --•• Gertrude L. Hellmers '4l, above Pershing, Rifle Queen and sponsor will review the Mont Alto unit of Pershing Rifle Society today. CAMPUS NEWS BRIEFS Fire 'Victims Grateful Employees of the Allencrest who suffered losses when fire swept the building last Tuesday have publicly thanked the many people who donated clothes and other necessities to them. • Inspection Trips Two, hundred seniors enrolled in mechanical, industrial, elec trical, civil, and sanitary engin eering, and architecture are tak ing one week inspection trips in New York, New Jersey, Mary land. Virginia. and a number of cities in Pennsylvania. Following separate itineraries, depending on their particular fields of study. the student parties are in specting a wide variety of fac tories and construction projects, including the new Pennsylvania Turnpike, steel and hydroeleCtric plants; the Empire State Build ing, flood control dams, radio stations, and industrial labora tories. New Painting Hung Further decoration of the Old Main second floor lounge has been made with the hanging of "Spring Morning" painted by Hobson Pittman, Philadelphia artist. The oil painting is loaned by the•Walkef Galleries of New York and joins other art work in the College collection. -Pitt man has been a member of the Summer Session faculty since 1934. Four portraits and seven oil paintings are now on display in the lounge but are subject to change as new • works are ac quired. "Saturday Crowd - by Lee Townsend is another recent ad dition to the exhibit. OP THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE MONDAY MORNING; APRIL 7, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA Committees of 10 classes grad uated in years ending in one or six are actively at work- prepar ing for their regular five-year re unions to be held this year on Saturday, June 7, it was announ ced yesterday by the Alumni office. All classes will hold re union dinners on Saturday eve ning. while the Class of 1891, 50 years out of College, will hold a special dinner Friday night with members of the College Board of Trustees. The annual examination given by the State Department of Mines for . second and first grade mine foremen, assistant mine foremen. and fire bosses will be held on the campus tomorrow and Wednesday. Inspectors Will iam G. Knapper of District 8 and Richard E. George of District 18 will examine over a hundred men from these two soft coal districts. The I_lniersity of Pittsburgh has selected Profs. Richard W. Grant and Hummel Fishburn and Dr. George S. Howard of the Penn State music faculty to ad judicate at its 14th annual state contests in New Castle, April 18 and 19. Opportunities for summer em ployment of students of the Col lege in recreation and service camps. study groups, and youth hostels are being investigated by the PSCA, it was announced yi_ss terday by Arthur S. Lentz '43, (Continued on Page Four) Class Reunions. Convention Here Music Judges 12==1 Job Survey Starts rgian Summer School Courses Will Stress Defense Collegian Calls Time Out For Easter With the year's longest period of uninterrupted classes—nine weeks—coming to an end, Col legian today suspends publica tion until after the Easter holi days. The whole staff joins in wish ing its readers a happy Easter and a happy vacation. Collegian will be back to see you bright and early Friday morning, April 18. Bela Theta Pi Wins IF Sing Cup Beta Theta Pi fraternity won the Interfraternity sing trophy for the second consecutive year as 1,043 couples attended the In terfraternity Ball contest Friday night. The attendance, slightly less than last year's crowd of 1050 couples, realized a profit of ap proximately $7OO for the organ ization in what H. Edward Wag ner, president of IFC, termed "a very successful dance." Judges H. Lindsay Arison '4l, William S. Kirkpatrick '4l, and Andrew P. Szekely '43 selected Beta? Theta Pi 'as - 'the - *inners of the .'sing over Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Kappa Pi'at in termission. The Tau Kappa Epsilon fra ternity, chosen the best of four teams last Sunday in the Fred Waring contest, sang Waring's "The Hills of Old Penn State" at intermission. James A. Leyden '42, led 17 Beta Theta Pi's in their victory in the interfraternity sing con test. The winning group was composed of William F. Christ offers '43, Ronald F. Crawford '42, Arnold R. Daniels, Paul F. Gans '4l, William S. Finch '43, James L. Jackson '43, Robert B. Jeffry '42. Richard H. Jube '44, George H. Hemmingway '44, Thomas W. Kelly '42. Donald F. Leyden '4l, William J. Shannon '44. Roland W. Sutherland '44, Thomas J. Robinson '4l, Robert Z. Torrence '43, Harold E. Ven nell '42. and William S.- Whyel '43. . $5 Cut Fine Period Starts Noon Today The 48-hour cut fine period for Easter vacation will go into ef fect at noon today and will ex tend to noon, April 18, A. R. War nock, dean of ! men, announced yesterday. Written applications for ex emption from the $5 fine must be filed within one week after the Easter vacation, from noon, April 9 to noon, April 16. Nittany Co•Op Elects The Nittany Co-op has install ed the following officers: Thomas B. Hoover '42, president; Betty A. Mickey '42, vice president; Elinor M. Learn '44, secretary: Harold V. Walton '42. bursar; Sallie L. Witter '42. E. Boyd Thompson '42, and Jack L. Kier nan '43, membership committee: Franklin H. Beek 'l4 and Sheldon E. Frey '43. auditors. Weather— 1 1. Partly Cloudy fl And Warmer t2iimag&lllat.imd Main Session Begins June 30, Ends Aug. 8 Special national defense needs in the fields of school nurse training, political science and history,industrial and vocational education, and group recreation will be emphasized in the sum mer sessions opening June 10. Dates for the three summer terms have been announced by Marion R. Trabue, dea'n of the School of Education and director of summer sessions, as follows: inter-session, June 10 to 27: main session, June 30 to August 8: and. post-session, August 11 to 29. In political science, new courses covering the problems of the present war will be offered. These include courses on the work of the 77th Congress, pres ent party alignment and public opinion, Vie program of national defense, and American and Pan- American neutrality. Given unusual impetus this year by the demand for teachers to serve in the emergency pro grams of industrial training, the courses in industrial and voca tional education will include shop training in such fields as machine and tool work, sheet metal, weld ing and tempering, electrical construction and crafts. An advanbed course to treat specifically of national defense phases of vocational education will be taught by Dr. L. H. Den nis, executive secretary of the American Vocational Association; Jerry - IC-Hawke, .11: - S: Office -of Education; and Dr. B. H. Van Oot, state director of vocational education, Richmond,- Va. About an "acre of gold" is promised for visitors next sum mer by E. I. Wilde, professor of ornamental horticulture. He plans to plant an area of approxi mately that size to marigolds, and already has accumulated 263 samples of seeds. Convention Scheduled For the fourth .consecutive time, the College will be host to the American Fertilizer As sociation when it meets June 24. and 25, Charles F.. Noll, head of the agronomy department, an nounced yesterday. More than 75 executives of fertilizer com panies are expected to attend. milimilmininitinimiiimmuminunininnl' Late News Bulletins ATHENS The Greeks re ported the fall of only one forti fied post in the Struma \Talley in a day of heroic battle by com bined Greek and British forces against a superior German force LONDON Addis Ababa felt yesterday to Anzac troops fol lowing little resistance from re maining Italian forces. This vic tory was the climax to General Wavell's Ethiopian campaign. Meanwhile British forces were within eight miles of Massawa, Eritrian port. MILWAUKEE Allis Chal mers officials announced the set tlement of the strike following approval of union members at 9 o'clock yesterday. ROME—ltaly joined Germany in its attack on Yugoslavia yes terday. Italian planes assisted Nazi bombers in an "all-out" raid on Belgrade.
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