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VOL.. 38—No. 124
Plesser, Richards
Vie For AA Prexy
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In Runoffs Today
Battle' for president and secre
tary-treasurer of the Athletic As
sociation starts anew this morn
ing, after yesterday’s results
eliminated three candidates for
the two offices.
Bernard A. Plesser and Willialrh
T. Richards, both juniors, will vie
for the president’s post, since Al
len B. Crabtree was eliminated.
Herschel D. Baltimore and Leon
ard O.- Frescoln are the remain
ing - contestants 'for secretary
treasurer.
Voting this year was lighter
than last year when 913 men.stuT
dents voted. Only 671 men'turn
ed out at the polls yesterday.
Two'highest candidates for each
office remain in the running, and
will be on an even basis at open
ing of the Old Main polls at 9:30
this morning. Those who voted
yesterday may also vote again to
day. Any male student is eligible
to vote upon presentation of ma
triculation card or AA book be
tween opening time and 5 p ; m.
Students approved a proposal
to change the committee which
elects cheerleaders. The new
committee will consist of the gym
coach,- bandmaster, AA president,
president of the student body and
head cheerleader. Balloting .for
the change were 172 persons
•against'.2o'_opposed.‘
Election summaries are listed
below.
PRESIDENT
Allen B. Crabtree
Bernard A. Plesser ..
William T. Richards .
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Herschel D. Baltimore 306
Jesse J. Cohen 155
Leonard O. Frescoln 165
Robert J. Koch 45
Medical Treatments
Show Decided Decrease
The total number of dispensary
calls and infirmary patients has
shown a decided drop for the
•month of March. In the dispen
sary, ‘5,215. cases were 'treated as
compared to 5,373 for the same
month last year, while the infirm
ary reported a decrease from 765
to. 563 paitients.
In spite of the apparent better
health of the student body, the
total number of excuses issued for
March, 1942, exceeded the num
ber .for March, 1941, by 300. An
increase in the number of vaccin
ations was caused by the inocula
tion of advanced' ROTC students
against disease.
Everybody Gets Money's Wort!/
In Viewing Saroyan's People
“Written, produced, _ directed
and financed by William Saro
yan.” That is what you would
have seen on the program for the
play, “The Beautiful People,” had
you witnessed its performance in
New York’s Lyceum Theatre one
year ago.
Now selected by the Penn State
Players’ for their next presenta
tion, and directed by Frank S.
Neusbaum, the play will be given
over Mothers’ Day weekend.
“Saroyan has shown repeatedly
an insight into human person
alities that h'as made his plays
unusual c<nd inspiring,” is the way
one critic summed up his review
STARS , AND STRlPES—Presi
dent Ralph D. Hetzel participated
in the Army Day celebration in
front of Old Main yesterday when
21 American flags were formally
distributed to .campus buildings.
Members of the ROTC depart
ment and the ROTC band aided
at the colorful event.
Senate Releases
Student Awards
Announcement of scholarship
awards and fellowships for the
coming year were made at,the re
cent College Senate meeting, when
the annual ..Evan Pugh and John
W. White scholarship awards were
released..,. .
Highest ~ honor, "the- •
White Medal and Prize, was re
ceived by'John S. Kookogey ’42.
This honor gives Kookogey a gold
medal and $75 prize for outstand
ing scholarship. -
The John W. White Fellowships
were awarded to. William E. Har
kins and Elliot Volkin, both- sen
iors, to , enable them to continue
with graduate work at this or any
other College. Mary Betty Ander
son ’42 was selected as alternate in
case neither of the other recipients
could accept the graduate fellow
ships.
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Seniors receiving Evan Pugh
medals for outstanding scholar
ship are William G. Barger, Rob
ert G. Geier, William P. Hindman,
Jr., Edward A. Hachik, and John
D. Morgan. Juniors who also re
ceived 'Evan Pugh medals are
Harry D. Cohn, William W-. Coon
er, Archibald M. Hyson, William
S. Ivans, Jr., Joanne M. Palmer,
Jack Paulhamus ’ and Frank P.
Smeal.
Heler\ Cigoi ’43 was selected for
the John W. White Spanish Schol
arship, while Alberto Roque ’43,
Cuban student, received a. scholar
ship for suecess in his English
studies. All these .awards will be
presented at the Mother’s' Day
Chapel service on Sunday, April
19.
of the playwright’s latest offering.
Going one step farther than
most producers,' Saroyan not only
brought together personally the
several component parts that go
into play production, but adver
tised the fnct that those unable to
pay for their seats should call at
the box office and free tickets
would be given to them.
Sticking his neck out still more
was his announcement that any
member of the audience who felt
he hadn’t gotten his money’s
worth would be refunded the pur
chase price of the ticket. One
New York paper, commenting on
this, added, “Everyone got their
money’s worth, and more.”
OF THE PENNSYLV.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Roethke Featured
At Harvard Today
■ Selected by Harvard University
to read from his own poetry as
part of the annual Morris Gray
Series, Theodore Roethke, assist
ant professor of English composi
tion, will speak alt Cambridge,
Mass., this afternoon.
Roethke, the youngest poet to
read in Harvard’s famed- Poetry
Room in their Widener Library,
will select readings from his re
cently published “Open House,”
and original' poetry publish
ed in “Harper’s.” Robert Frost,
poet laureate of New England,
stated that “Open House” receiv
ed one of the best reviews ever
accorded a first book.
Roethke will join a distinguish
ed list of American poets who
’■have already been featured at
Harvatrd, but along with Paul
Engle of. th.e University of lowa,
he is the only professor who has
been selected.
' Louis ■ Untermeyer, poet and
anthologist, and author of “Burn
ing Bush”; Stephen Vincent Be
net, Pulitzer prize winner with
the blank verse epic, “John
Brown’s Body”; Marianne Moore,
poetess and author of “Observa
tions”; an cl Robinson Jeffers,
“poet of tragic terror,” are a few
of the literary lights who have
already read at Harvard.
Carl Sandburg, renovv,ned poet
dnd author of “Fog,” “Abraham
Lincoln, The "Prairie Years,” will
be the last speaker in tt}i ( s year’s
serlegT'S*^:
Established in 1929 by Morris
Gray, distinguished alumnus of
Harvard, the award left a
of $lO,OOO to be applied to the
giving of occasional talks, or lec
tures on. modern poetry at the
University. -
“It was .an outstanding honor
to be selected by the committee to
read my poetry at Harvard,” de
clared Roethke before he left,
“and one not usually accorded to
a man from Penn State.”
Some new poetry of Roethke’s
was recently published in “Harp
er’s,” and the “Virginia Quarter
ly Review.”
Survey Supports
Adviser System
A majority of Penn State’s stu
dents make specific use of the
adviser system for other reasons
than scheduling, it was revtealed
today in a recent survey made by
the Student-Faculty Relations
committee.
In answer to the question, “Do
you make specific use of the ad
visory system in your school?”
the following results were re
corded
Yes
No
No response 1
Students also showed that they
approved of the adviser system
when they answered the question,
“Do you consider the system satis
factory?” as follows:
No' response 7
Asked to express the most evi
dent needs for improvement of
the service, the students suggest
ed tliat advisers should show more
interest in their students, should
have fewer students under their
care, and should be more thor
oughly informed about scheduling
college courses and give students
greater latitude in choosing sub
jects.
:a state college
Trustees Reject Plan
For Class Mural Gift
Former Perm. Stater
Killed In. Philippines
Maj. George F. Fisher, former
Penn State student, was reported
killed in. action with the U. S.
forces in Bataan. During his
stay at Penn State Fisher was jun
ior Collegian editor.
A Commerce and Finance ma
jor, he graduated with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in the class of 1927.
As a reserve officer he wafs called
to. active duty and sent to the
Philippines where he served until
his death.
He is survived by .a wife and
three daughters and by his mother
in Plumville - .
6 Students Enter
Speaking Finals
Donald R. Taylor ’42, Mary I.
Greenberg ’42, Jeanne Kaiser ’43,
David A. Young ’42, Frank E. Zab
kar ’44, and John Richey ’43 will
vie for honors in the finals of the
All-College Speech Contest Sat
urday night as a result of the
eliminations and semi-finals held
last night.
MacArthur, the war situation,
.patriotism, and tolerance were
amdhg the general topics on which
the contestants spoke. Prof. Clay
ton D. Schug, chairman of the
committee in charge of the con
test, commended nil of the stu
dents for their fine efforts.
Speaking on “America’s Hour
of Decision,” Young gained his
way "to the finals by stressing that
Americans were still sleeping des
pite the war.
Tolerance was emphasized in
Miss Greenberg’s speech, “What
ever It Might Be?” as the only
way for unity in this country.
Too many people mistake an
outstanding man for a great man,
Miss Kaiser stated in her speech
entitled, “How Judge A Man
Great?”
Advising college students to
prepare for problems which will
arise after the war, John Richey
qualified for the' finals by talking
on “The Hereafter.”
Much in the same vein was
Frank Zabkar’s talk, “A Call To
Youth.” He stated that every
one of us must contribute to the
nation’s war effort.
Don Taylor’s “Causes Make
Men” won him the right to the
finals as he pointed out that Lin
coln and Rev*ere were famous be
cause they stood by_ their beliefs.
The contest attracted 57 stu
dents. In the eliminations, also
held last night, only 11 entrants
gained the semi-finals. They were
Sara R. Lipser ’42, Michael Ku
liclc ’43, Laurence L. Anesko ’44,
Harold Epstein ‘44, Letrick Har
ris ’45, and those already men
tioned as the winners.
27fh Annual Livestock
Show Here April 18
Penn State’s twenty-seventh
annual Little International Live
stock Exposition, featuring live
stock exhibitions and judging,
will be held at the stock pavilion
Saturday, April 18.
Sponsored by the Block and
Bridle Club and managed by sen
iors in animal husbandry, the
show will include rating classes of
purebred beef cattle, horses,
sheep, and swine.
I Warm—Probable
I Thunder Showers
Weather
PRICE: THREE CENTS
Bureau Of Business
Research Organized
Pointing out the uncertainty in
regard to future class enrollments
and funds, the College Board of
Trustees “declined with regret” to
accept the proposal of the 1942,
1943 and 1944 classes for a joint
class memorial gift for the com
pletion of Henry Varnum Poor’s
mural in Old Main, President
Ralph D. Hetzel announced yes
terday.
The board also approved the
establishing of a Bureau of Bus
iness Research and took' action
relative to granting leaves of ab
sence to staff volunteers in the
U. S. armed forces.
The mural plan as advanced by
H. Leonard Krouse ’42. senior class
president, and approved by a vote
of the classes involved, last De
cember, would have appropriated
the three, class funds for the work.
“Inasmuch as funds for the class
gifts of the classes of 1943 and
1944 were not yet accumulated,
the board declined with regret the
proposal of the classes of 1942. 1943
and 1944 that their class gifts be
accepted as one fund for complet
ing the mural in Old Main,” the
report from the board stated. '
In view of the trustees action,
Krouse last night appointed a com
mittee to serve under him to con
sider suggestions for a new senior
class gift. The committee includes
Jean Babcock, Robert D. Baird,
Gerald F. Doherty, Thomas J. L.
Henson, Ross B. Lehman, Charles
F. Mattern, William O. Meyers,
and Jeanne C. Stiles, all seniors.
Coordinating the various investi
gations and research relative to
commerce and industry will be the
main duty of the Bureau of Busi
ness Research set up by the trus
tees. Dr. Carl W. Hasek, nead of
the department of economics, will
head the bureau established on the
recommendation of Dean Charles
W. Stoddart, of the School of Lib
eral Arts.
College staff volunteers to the
U. S. armed forces will receive the
same consideration as those called,
according to a new itnerpreta
tion by the board of the rule ap
plying to leaves of absence for
those in military service. The for
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Late News
JAPAN—The Indian city of
Mandalay is supposed to have
been nearly leveled by heavy
bombings last Saturday and Sun
day, Japanese sources reported to
day. It was estimated that there
were 3,000 dead and 5,000 wound
ed as a result of this action.
WASHINGTON War Pro
duction Board officials announced
yesterday that American canning
and packing companies would re
ceive all the sugar they need, pro
viding their products go directly
to the public. They also an
nounced that there will be no
more tin foil used in cigarette
packages.
NEW YORK—German bomb
ers swept the coasts of southeast
ern England yesterday. Little
damage resulted from this raid.
The RAF smashed many of the
seaports of Occupied France and
Germany, according to English
reports.
WASHINGTON The Su
preme Court ruled today that any
strikes aboard American ships in
home ports, from this time on, will
constitute mutiny, and will be
dealt with on that basis.