Successor to the_Free lance, ' 0 .; Established 1887 . 41, .. f ~7• . .'r,,, 4. t 41, ' ilit Ellatig ...„...y........ n y , Ttittrigtzln ~.....: , iri VOL. 37—No. 142 Alumni Drive Hits 431 Mark; 500 Predicted _ William B. Bartholomew '4l, general chairman of the alumni Membership drive, announced last night that 431 students have joined the Alumni Association and predicted that late returns will pull undergraduate mem berships above the 500 mark. According to Bartholomew, canvassers signed 201 upperclass men and 230 upperclass women. Sixty seniors were included. They will automatically become paid-up members after their graduation on June 9. Edward K. Hibshman, execu tive secretary of the Alumni As sociation, said, "The campaign not only increased our member ship but also for the first time fully explained the Alumni As sociation to the student body. The cumulative effect of such cam paigns each year cannot be over estimated." Mr. Hibshman pointed out that more degrees have been awarded by the College in the last 10 years than in the entire preceding 75 years and prophesied that the new plan will result in a greatly strengthened membership. A new life membership plan adopted at the same time as the student membership drive has already yielded 56 new life mem berships, though no campaign has been conducted. This plan is based on graduated charges of $4O, $3O, and $2O depending on the number of years since the person's graduation. Ela kappa Na Initiates Eight. New Members New initiates of Eta Kappa Nu, national electrical engineering honor society are William A. Bailey, Roy S. Boyce, August P. Colaico, Alfonse R. Civitate, John B. Gaenzle, Charles H. Lund, Bernard P. McDonnell, arid Will iam H. Raser. Officers for the coming year are Bernard J. Krings '42, presid ent Charles H. Lund '42, vice president; Walter N. Shambach '42, corresponding seer e tar y; William H. Baser '42, bridge cor respondent; Alfonse R. Civitate '42, record secretary; and Earl B. Stavely, Jr. '42, treasurer. Newman Club Meets The newly formed Newman club will hold its first annual Community Breakfast in the Corner Room at 10 a.m.• tomor row. Bishop R. T. Guilfoyle of Altoona will be the main speaker. Stutter, Lisp, Or Talk Baby-Talk? The Speech Clinic Should Help You The mecca of Penn State stut ters, lispers, and infantile per severators (baby-talkers) is the Speech Clinic on the third floor of Sparks Building. Speech experts say that a per son can't make any real progress in speech correction until he "hears himself as others hear him." For this purpose the clinic has a Soundmiror, which elec trically records a person's voice •by the rearrangement of mole cules on a metal- tape. The re cording can be played back to the patient hundreds. of times, but as soon as the Soundmiror is spoken into, the molecules are once rearranged on the same tape and a new recording is impressed. In one of the laboratories is SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA Students To Probe Staged Collision A hit-run driver will crash head-on into another car on a State College street on Monday, according to a "prediction" today by Thomas S. Shaw, of the Ac cident Investigation Unit, Phila delphia Police Department. He should know. He is going to stage the collision in connec tion with a course on accident in vestigation procedure, a part of the fifth annual Traffic Officers Training School, being conducted at the College by the Institute of Local Government, in cooper ation with the Institute of Public Safety of the College's extension services. Immediately after the accid ent, Mr. Shaw will 'turn nearly two score student-traffic officers loose to discover the identity of the hit-run driver from the,frag ments of evidence that •are left at the scene of the crash. Farewell Dinner Honors Klassen "When I leave, I'm going to miss greatly the many delightful associations I have had at'Penn State, particularly my relations with the students," Peter B. Klas sen, instructor of sociology, said last night at the farewell dinner given in his honor by 47 of his faculty friends at the Hotel State College. At the conclusion of this term Mr. and Mrs. Klassen will leave for Chicago, where the popular instructor will do research work under Dr. W. F. Osborne at the University of Chicago. In recognition of his work and his teaching during his two-year residence here, Prof. Arthur H. Reede of the economics depart ment presented a leather brief case to-114. Klassen on behalf of the group, in which various schools were represented. Prof. M. Nelson McGeary of the political science department briefly ci.escribed Mr. Klassen's achieverhents, particularly his work in connection with crimin ology and population. Mrs. J. Paul Selsam lauded the work Mrs. Klassen has done in forming a Girl Scout group prim arily, for underprivileged girls in and about State College. Bank Article Published Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner of the Department of Economics, has had an article, "Judgement Notes of Banking Institutions," pub lished in the May issue of the American Law School Review. 'an extremely delicate recording machine that can make a contin uous recording from lectures in Rooms 10 . and 121 Sparks as well as from the speech classroom, the testing rooms, and the Clinic studio. Other apparatus include a phonetic typewriter, a model of the ear and throat, a Kimograph which records body reactions on a paper tape, and a small, gap ing skeleton imprisoned in a brown metal locker in the speech classroom. The Clinic offers its services to the, students of the College, to outside patients, and to schools throughout the state by means of a mobile unit which diagnoses and treats speech cases. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Players Initiate, Elect Officers Twenty-four active and 19 as sociate members received bids from the Penn State Players and were initiated yesterday. A for mal dinner and dance was held last evening for the group. Officers elected for next year were Jean Babcock '42, presi dent;Sivia Cohen '43, vice-presi dent; Joanne M. Palmer '43, secretary; and Donald L. Russell, treasurer. - New intiates are Mae Brown '4l, Albert •C. Chritsoph '43, Civia Cohen '43, Helene S. Dav ies '42 , . Eleanor T. Dill '4l, Jean C. Esh '43, Hazel E. Cassman '43, Elinor F. Herrman '42, Doris J. Lasher '4l, Joanne M. Palmer '43, Lois A. Reisinger '42, Dor othy I. Rhoads '42. Oliver H. Rose '4l, Donald L. Russell '43, Norman A. Shandle man '43, Dorothy H. Schulmann '4l, Mary J. Seanor '42, David Segal '42, Thomas G. Slutter '4l, Aleda Snow '43, Doris J. Snow '42, John R. Snyder '42, Gladys B. Tear '42, and Betty L. Zeigler '42. Associate members of the club are Marian J. Carbaugh '44, Wil liam H. Cissel '43, Barbara A. Davis '43, Milton Dolinger '44, Dorothy C. Ellis '43, Philip W. Eichholtz '43, John W. Fritz '4l, James K. Gore '44, Sara E. Harshbarger '43, Jean E. Hersh berger '43, Vera E. Hirschberg '42, Mary E. McCurdy '44, Betty M. Miller '43. Margaret K. Ramaley '44, Rob ert M. Shellenberger '44, Aimes L. Sobbott '42, Selma Solomon '43, Marjorie H. Stockett '42; James R. Ziegler '44. Students Must TWO In ROTC Uniforms Al Time Scheduled ROTC students must turn in their uniforms at the basement of Mac Hall this year according to schedule, Scheduling Officer R. V. Watkins has announced. The uniform deposits are ex pected to be ready at the bur sar's office by June 4 or 5. The military department will enforce the schedule because all uni forms must be ready to send to the cleaners on June 4. Monday, May 26 Section A—lnfantry, 8 to 10 a. m. Section B—lnfantry, 10 to 11:30 a. m. Section C—lnfantry, 1 to 2:30 p. m. Section B—En gineers, 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Tuesday, May 27 Sections A, C, and D—Engi neers, 7to 11 a. m. Section E -Engineers and Section E—lnfan try, 1 to 5 p. m. Wednesday, May 28 Section F—Engineers and Sec tion D—lnfantry, 7 to 11 a. in. Section F—lnfantry, 1 to 5 p. m. Thursday, May 29 Clean-up of students having examinations • during regular schedule, 8:30 to 11:30 a. in. Monday, June 3 Pershing Rifle and students participating in problem on Sat urday, May 31, 7 to 11:30 a. m. Senior Invitations Ready For Graduation Seniors may obtain commence ment invitations, announcements, and programs at Student Union today, tomorrow, and Monday, it was - announced yesterday by Richard M. Gissinger '4l and Frank R. Platt '4l, co-chairmen of the invitations committee. The committee will distribute the invitations from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. today and tomorrow, and from 8 a. in. to 5 p. tn. Monday. - Ad Contest Winners Announced Today Winners of the student adver tising contest sponsored by the Interstate Advertising Manager's Association will be announced and awarded cash prizes of $5O at a luncheon which the associ ation is holding at the Nittany Lion Inn today at noon. Donald W. Davis, associate professor of journalism, has an nounced that the advertising plans will be on exhibit for local merchants or any interested per sons in the Nittany Lion Inn from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. today. The Luncheon and announce ments of winners is part of a two-day confab which was held by the association yesterday and will continue until this after noon. Representatives are pres ent from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Beaux Arls Ball Has Comic Theme Comic strips will be the deco rative theme of the annual Beaux Arts Ball which will be held in the Armory today from 9 p. m. to midnight. The walls of the building will be decorated with comic strip "flats," student drawn facsimiles of famous comic strip characters on large-sized poster cards. Sponsored by Scarab, national honorary architectural fratern ity, the dance is Penn State's only costume affair. Deviating from the customary, strict costume rule, an - informal "come - as you please" regulation has been adopted. Prizes will be awarded for the most unusual, most elver and most original costumes. The Beaux Arts Queen, chosen by student votes from a group of 13 coed representatives of soror ities and dormitories, will be crowned at intermission. She will be attended by the 12 other representatives. Music by the Campus Owls will feature popular arrange ments of the latest hit tunes. Tickets for the ball can be pur chased at Student Union and at the door tonight at $1 per couple. Forms To Bb Given Opportunities for learning Civil Service test procedure will be given by Miss Honora M. Noyes, institutional economist, in Room 2, Sparks Building at 7 o'clock today, tomorrow and Sunday. Both students and Col lege clerical workers may make appointments. Cash prizes will be offered for the best scores. 111h111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News Flashes BEIRUT, Syria—Syrian offici als admitted last night that RAF bombers had damaged four of the 15 German planes "forced down" at Syrian air bases near Palmyra. This German force in Syria in dicates a possible pincer move ment on the Suez Canal. CAIRO A British military force announced the capture of Sollum, Libyan city on the Egyp tian border. This success means the delay of the other arm of the pincer movement, the German mechanized units in Libya. WASHINGTON—Congress had little criticism yesterday of Pres ident Roosevelt's talk on Thurs day concerning French capitula tion to German demands ::or Weather— Fair and Warm PRICE THREE CENTS Student, Faculty Marshals Chosen For Graduation Student and faculty marshals, appointed to arrange for diplo mas and details of commence- ment in each School, were an nounced yesterday by Clarence E. Bullinger, chief marshal of th College. Commencement exercises will be held on New Beaver Field at 10:30 a. m., June 9 and not as erroneously reported in The Daily Collegian yetserday. Candidates for all degrees will meet behind the East stands on New Beaver Baseball Field at 10 a. m. In case of rain there will be no aca demic procession for the cere monies in Rec Hall. On either site there will be no recessional. •The baccalaureate sermon will be given, as originally announced as a chapel service in Rec Hall at 11 a. m., June 8. At this cere mony, however, there will be no academic procession. Marshals for each School are Agriculture, Prof. Adam L. Beam and Morton E. Jenkins; Chemis try-Physics, Prof. David C. Dun can and Gerald B. Bready; Edu cation, Prof. Frank A. Butler and Mary J. Gillespie; Engineering, Prof. Leland S. Rhodes and Louis N. Grafinger; Liberal Arts, Prof. George L. Leffler and Norman Racusin. Mineral Industries marshals include Prof. Carl H. Samans and George A. Thompson, Jr.; Physi cal Education, Prof. Lloyd M. Jones and Lillian E. Berger; mil itary department, Thomas G. Tousey, Jr.; and the Graduate School, Prof. Donald S. Cryder and Ernest G. Stern. Blue And White, BRB Clubs Get IMA Awards The Blue and White Club was given a plaque for attaining the highest unit scholastic average and the BRB Club was given the IMA intramural bask et b all award at the new IMA Central Council's initial meeting of the year Wednesday night. James T. Fickes '43 was ap pointed chairman of a committee to cooperate with the Co-Recre ational Committee in sponsoring recreation nights in the Armory on Friday nights next year. Ray Mayesky was appointed to suc ceed John M. Byerly '4l on the Student Housing Board. Central. Council also decided to compile a log-book of all IMA graduates for the alumni file. French colonies. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt implied in his first press conference in two weeks, that Germany would find it auite a problem to blockade the Red Sea as she had threatened to stop United States aid to Brit ish forces in the Near East. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL National League New York 4, Chicago 2 Pittsburgh 3, Brooklyn 2 St. Louis 4, Boston 0 (Only games scheduled.) American League New York 6, Chicago 5 Cleveland 9, Boston 3 . Detroit 5, Philadelphia 4 St. Louis 6, Washington 5
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