PAGE FOUR Here’s Your Opportunity To Join .. Jf You Want To Sever Relations With Alma Mater, Don’t Read This — But Here’s The Real Nittany Story Pictured on these pages are Penn State alumni, men recognized in one way or another by the public beyond the confines of the Nittany Valley. • Behind every one of these pictures is a Penn State student, running for an 8 o’clock with his.eye on a sheepskin at graduation. Behind every one of these pictures is a Penn State student cheering at a football' game, applauding at an Artists’ Course, dancing under draped girders at Rec Hall, drinking coffee at the Corner Room before the midnight restaurant cut-few, climbing the tower of Qld Main with his mother, writing furiously in an empty bluebook. Behind every one of these pictures is a Penn State student vitally and seriously living what he will call the “good old days.” Behind every one of these pictures is the student body of the Pennsyl vania State College today, this minute reading this newspaper. Before every one of the students in this College is a war world, a world turned topsy-turvy, uncei*- tain £nd befuddled. Before every student in this College is a life to be molded with Penn State tools according to a Penn State plan laid out by a Penn State vision. Pledged to the furtherance of Penn State values for every graduate of this College is the Alumni Association whose activities are shown in this supplement. Bringing quick memories of College days, a renewal of years spent with in earshot of Old Main’s chimes, the Alumni Associa tion ' stretches across the state, across the continent, throughout the world to make Penn State a reality for its members Carry Penn State with you wherever you roam. Do it through the Alumni Associa tion. witnessed the steady growth of the College in the past few years of his administration and along with it the increasing influence of the Alumni Association on both grad uates and undergraduates. Remembered After Graduation 1 • 7 Alter four years, studies, football games, social activities, and everything else that is part of Penn ‘ State are brought to a conclusion by commencement exercises. After this plunge into later life is taken, grads wistfully long for ties to link them to the College. The Alumni Association helps them to re- «8. capture part of campus life with homecomings and reunions. Football is, of course, the major attract tion in the fall. Incidentally, Penn State football is . getting better and bpt.ter and. the competition - ■tougher. ' ITS ADVANTAGES Penn State In So. America Through the Association you will develop a continuing relation with the College which- will hold some of your happiest memories. Through membership you will be able to'make valuable contacts with Penn Statei*s in any town you may enter. The copies of the Alumni News, the Football Letter, Alum ni Homecoming, the class reunions will all help keep Penn State with you- Your alumni contacts may mean job and business oppor tunities. In a city with a Penn State Club you will never be with out friends. Each'club has an organized social program to which you will be welcomed. Wherever you may go, the Alumni News and the regular letters from the Association will always keep Penn State with you. Through the Association you can continue your present College acquaintances and gain the acquaintances of the older alumni. Whenever you want to return to the College, the Associa tion will gladly make such arrangements as securing sports tickets for you. If you are sincerely interested in helping the College and students after you graduate, the Alumni Association is . .. • . g southernmost South America,—and the best possible medium to help you do this. . fartfler the Alumni Association casts Penn State men in the sam!e Sign Up With Your District Solicitor Or At The Alumni Office In Old Main THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Penn State In Washington Lt.-Col. Harold N. Gilbert ’l9, in the Adjutant Gerieral’s department, is shown above receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. He is the only Pennsylvsinian to hold the Dis tinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished 'Service Medal together , with the Purple Heart award. mold, dedicates them to the same ideals! C. Lanks '23 stopping high in the Andes in Colombia while making the first auto tour through South America. IT OFFERS MUCH Five-year membership in the Alumni Association effec tive on graduation. The A,lumni News from the time you sign up next week until five years after you graduate. Eligibility to serve, .on. the Alumni Council and the Ath letic Advisory Board and the privilege of voting for both bodies. Eligibility to elect College trustees beginning three years after graduation. (Nine of 32 are elected by the alumni.) The Football News Letter issued after each game. Access to all Alumni Association records on all Penn State alumni. Privilege of using the Association’s ma terials and services to make contacts with Penn Staters. Privilege of using the Alumni Office as a headquarters on all return visits to the camp.us. Representation on the executive board of the Alumni Association through the All-College president, and on the "Alumni Council through the All-College president, senior class president and junior class president- TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942 450 Life Memberships Received By Association Since February, 1941 Following thie inauguration of the new membership system on February 1, 1941, the Alumni As sociation has signed up about 450 life members.. Special rates wont into effect after the Alumni Coun cil decided to start an intensive drive to organize thousands of Penn State graduates. The rates: $4O from 1 to 19 years after graduation. $3O from 20 to 39 years out. $2O from. 40 to 49 years out. 50 years out, honorary. A joint membership, 25 per cent above the cost- for the' husband, is offered if both husband and wife are alumni. The $8 paid by undergraduates will be. considered applicable to-., ward a life membership, and the rest may be paid in installments at any time. Regular annual mem berships in the Association do not enjoy this privilege. : Pictured above is Herbert
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