THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN VOL. 19—No. 6 Ben G. Graham Is Commencement Speaker Thursday Dr. Ben George Graham, super intendent of public schools in Pitts- urgh,- , will ,lt f eaker . at the summer session . ,k. ri mencement which will be 'held cir the mall in front of the New .:tibrary at 7 p.m. Thursday. In .4aße of rain the graduation •exer ': !,,Le eiSes will be conducted in Schwab Auditorium. A native Pennsylvanian, Dr. Graham was educated in this State and has served his entire educational career here. He re ceived his bachelor's degree at Westminster College and his ad vance degree at the University of Pittsburgh. He started his teach ing profession in Lawrence Coun ty, later serving at Canonsburg and Washington and Jefferson Academy. After a brief' spell as 'principal at Mclceesr.lft and Greensburg - high — schools, he taught at Pitts burgh for several years before ac cepting the position - of superin tendent of schools at New Castle which he held from 1919 to 1926. Next he served as assistant super intendent of schools at Pittsburgh and later became superintendent. He was president of the American Association of School Administra --tors in 1940. In addition to the address given by Dr. Graham, a full program will help commemorate the 18th summer session commencement held by the 'College. President Ralph D. Hetzel will preside and confer degrees upon the 297 can didates an increase of 62 over last . year, • '-‘ . , Of 'the - nuMber to graduate, 112 will receive their baehelor_clegyees, while master and doctor degrees will be given to the remaining CO. Thirty-one will receive thbir bach elor of arts degrees and 81 bachelor of science. Twenty four graduate students will receive their doctor of philosophy degrees, one doctor of education, 28 master .of arts, 94 master of education and 38 master of science. Sumther Session Announcements Today 9 p.m. Summer session subscrip tion dance. Admission, 35 cents per person and presentation of matric ulation card. Recreation Hall. 8:30 p.m. Concert by the Band, Orchestra and Chorus School. Guest conductor, Pierre Henrotte. Guests soloist, Russell Miller. Tomorrow ~,,- 2:30 p.m. Columbia Round Arch , ery Tournament. Open to men and i' women. Holmes Field. *= 7:30 p.m. Fun night. Recreation . all. - Swiday 30 p.m. Concert by the Band, giatytra, and Chorus School. Ceu• - • Mall. 230 p.m. Vesper Service. Ad . ~„,, ss by Dr. A. M. Bahn, Evangel . rleftWemorial Church, Buffalo, N. Schwab Auditorium. % Monday 7:00 p.m. Assembly and, student . sing. Schwab Auditorium. Tuesday 7:00 p.m. lota Lambda • Sigma meeting. A. G. It. House. 7:30 p.m. prograrff of one-act plays by classes in dramatic pro duction Little Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Talent night. Schwab Auditorium. Wednesday 3:30 p.m. Meeting of WEGS. Garden tour. 257 Ridge Avenue. (,Continued on Page Three) Missing Student Found; Hitch-hiked To California What threatened to become another unsolved Penn State mys tery turned into a boyhood prank when word reached the Summer Collegian several days ago that Thomas P. Meehan, Jr. '43 had been found. Meehan had been reported missing since June 29 when he left his home in Jenkinstown sup posedly to enter summer session here. Instead of taking a bus to State College, however, he hitch hiked to California, in the mean time throwing the police into a nation-wide hunt. the principal Meehan remained silent till last Saturday when he wrote his parents that he was on the Pacific Coast and was working. James Vetoes Priestley Bill HARRISBURG, July 31—Gov. Arthur H. James vetoed today a bill which would allow the De partment of Property and Supplies to acquire . as a gift from the Pennsylvania State College the Northumberland county home of Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen. . James said the bill called for appropriation of $l,OOO for main tenance and development of the property, asserted that the item is unbudgeted and that the condition of state revenue does not warrant the taking over at this time of ad ditionalhistorical sites to be-inain tained by the commonwealth. The property was to have , ;:been managed jointly by the depart mentHpf Property—and—Supplies and- the .Pennsylvania HistoriCal Commission, The,bill have authorized theofritniSsion to ac .cAA books, papers afitroper relics gifts or loansjor exhibition on the premises. Niliany4ion Band For TomorroW Evening To Play Tomorrow Night The tourth and final Fun Night of the summer sesion will be held The fourth in the series of Fri- in Recreation Hall from 7 p. m. day night summer session dances till midnight tomorrow with a rec will be held from 9 p. m. til mid- ord crowd expected to climax a night • in Recreation Hall tonight successful summer season. with the Nittany Lions furnishing Country and square dancing the music. will continue to hold the. spotlight This young band aggregation is during the evening's program composed entirely of local talent while social dancing to victrola and has been making a big hit at music will conclude the enter fraternity dances on the campus tainment as usual. for the past two years. The usual variety of games will Admission, as usual, will be 35 be played and all participants are cents per person, with matricul- requested to wear rubber soled tion cards required. Refreshments shoes. Admission is free to stu will be available. dents and faculty members. Henrotte Rates Music School Best If Pierre Henrotte is right, within a few years the summer Band, Orchestra and Chorus School will be one of the country's finest musical training centers 'for high school boys and girls. In an interview last week, Mr. Henrotte, for 15 years conductor and concertmeister of the Metro politian Opera House in New York City, said there is "no other school like this in the East." He compared it with the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., which has won nation-wide rec ognition. He predicted that the school will "grow tremendously." It should double in size next year, he. said, and at the end of two or three years should have as many students as Interlochen, wEich has an: attendance of approximately 600. - Mr. Henrotte was enthusiastic in his praise of the 110 high school boys and girls at .the Band, Or-. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941 Defense Program Here Gives Stale Largest Faculty Increased production in Penn sylvania's industries and the re sulting need for trained workers has brought into being what is probably the largest faculty of its kind in the world. According to extension officials, the College has employed 400 in structors this summer to teach special engineering subjects to more than 3200 high school gradu ates. From almost every section of the Country the engineering experts have been drawn to teach classes in 98 cities and towns in Penn sylvania where tuition-free courses have been set up. Largest unit of the instruction staff is in physics where 112 are employed to handle 152 sections. The physics staff includes the heads of 11 college physics depart ments. 'According to Dr. Marsh W. White, physics supervisor for the engineering defense training pro gram, "this group easily forms the largest physics depaytment in the world." A similar claim is made by John W: Breneman, in charge of the 98 mechanics instructors. In mathe matics, 104 instructors are used, in drafting 74, and in chemistry 69. This summer program is being offered under the sponsorship of the United States Office of Educa tion as Dart of a.nation-wide effort to offset theOortage of technically 'trained. Meiiiti defense industries. Penn State is training 20;000 men and women in the largest program of its kind in the country. Final Fun Night Slated chestra and Chorus School, say ing, "I never went . to another camp or school where I had so much wonderful material. We had only eight rehearsals for the orchestra concert yet they played a difficult program extremely well." He said that Penn State is "an ideal place" for a summer msic school and called the location "a picture by itself." "There is not a thing here that hasn't surprised me," Mr. Hen rotte added. "Food, lodging annd all the other little details have been marvelous. In fact, there is almost too much luxury." Dr. George Sallade Howard, di rector of the Band, Orchestra and Chorus School, said that Georges Barrere, recognized as the world's greatest flutist, agreed. with Mr. Henrotte's opinion of the school. He explained that Mr. Barrere, who left last Saturday, thought both the band, and the orchestra Warneke Given Contract For Lion Shrine Project 1945 Class As Large Sculptor Starts Work As Ever, Says Registrar On Huge Plaster Model The freshman class in Septem- The proposed Lion Shrine pro ber will fill its usual quota, Regis- ject, gift of the class of 1940, hair trar William S. Hoffman announ- ing been approved by the archi ced yesterday in answer to the tectural committee of the Board many questions concerning next semester's enrollment. of Trustees, a commission has been The College is refusing admis- granted to Heinz Warneke to carve sion to as many applicants as in the shrine, Adrian 0. Morse, as past years, according to Mr. Hoff- sistant to the president in charge man, and nearly all the members of resident instruction, announced of the class of 1945 have been yesterday. selected. The noted animal' sculptor will While the freshman enrollment begin work immediately on the will remain constant, no predic- full size plaster model, showing Lions could be made by the College the Nittany lion in a crouching Registrar as to the upper classes. position. The location of the Lion Nothing definite will be known of Shrine will be in front of the their makeup until registration. Water Tower, between Recreation Not more than twenty coeds over Hall and New Beaver Field ticket last year's total will be admitted, office. however, regardless of the drop in the male enrollment. Tonight's Concert To Climax Season Climaxing this summer series of popular concerts, the symphony orchestra of the Band, Orcheitra, and Chorus School will present the final concert of the summer session in Schwab Auditorium at 8:30 o'clock tonight. As in the first symphonic con cert, Pierre Henrotte will once agrtirt--..,errefeliondu tor. it epilreettpen The Metropolitan. Opera House concermeister has been rehears ing the orchestra and giving pri vate' lessons during his three week During S. C. Work stay on the College campus. -In addition to the specially pre- Resurfacing a whole, heavily pared program, Russell Miller, traveled street without at any student at the Julliard Institute of time completely stopping traffic Music in New York City, will play sounds like quite a job, but that's a violin solo of Lalo's Symphonic just what is being done by work _ _ Rhapsody. men under Contractor J. L. Wil- Tonight's program will include son of State College on the state Espana Rhapsody by Chabrier, highway department's resurfacing the Andante from Tschaikowsky's of College avenue in State CoI- Fifth Symphony, and Prof. Hum- lege. mel Fishburn's Valse Basque. The job -of keeping traffic mov- ing while the new surface is be ing applied is being accomplished Faculty "Fun" Night Mon by the work being carried on just A faculty Fun Night will on one side of the street at one • held in Recreation Hall at 8:30 time and also by certain workmen p p. m. Monday, immediately after putting in overtime on clean-up operations so that night traffic the regular Monday evening sing. All faculty members, summer and will not be impeded. With 15 workers digging and regular session, and their fami concreting in groups all up and lies are invited. down the street, part of which has already received its first course of amie - site, the work is progressing on schedule, Mr. Wilson reported. Mr. Wilson expects the job to be completed by early in September. Even exceptionally rainy weather, if it should come, would not hold back the work materially, he said. were "very superior to last year's organizations." Mr. Henrotte will end his three week stay on the campus tomor row. In addition to conducting the orchestra, he held a one-week lecture course and gave advanced lessons on the violin. Collaborating with Dr. Howard in the school are Prof. Richard W. Grant, head of the Institute of Music Education, who directs the chorus, and Prof. Hummel Fish burn, who supervises the orches tra. Dr. Howard has direct charge of the band. The program of the high school students includes daily rehearsals; small ensembles, private vocal, and instrumental lessons; field maneuvering; dance band playing; and classes in drum majoring, flag swinging, and conducting. The school also serves as a lab oratory for music teachers who. study the organization and devel opment of a symphonic band, symphony orchestra, and chorus. PRICE-TEN CENTS Upon completion of the plaster model in September, Warneke will bring it here to plan the exact spot and to determine the height of the foundation. The actual carving of the Indiana limestone, chosen to coincide with surrounding arc'eli tecture, will be .done by the sculp tor here on the campus, in full view of the students, .as was done with the Poor mural in Old Main. The shrine will assume propor tions three times life-size and be mounted on a small base. The sculptor will be financed by the original $5,000 fund appropriated by the class of 1940. Haven Enters Semi-finals Of Coed Tennis Tourney; . Seven Remain In Bowling In the only tennis match on. record, Effie Haven defeated Ruth Denlinger, 6-2, 6-4, to enter the semi-final round of the wo men's double elimination tennis tournament. No other second round results have been posted. Mary Browne was the first competitor to enter the semi-final. bracket in the women's bowling tournament, while six others are in the quarter-finals and will bat tle it out for the remaining three places. They are June Steinfurth, Anna Mae Graham, Ruth Ege, Marian Bradley, Helen Krafcli yshyn, and Shirley Null. ' ;
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