PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn Slate" Established 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian, Established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1837. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-dass matter July 5, 1934 at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy # 43 ' s^SP !tc ' Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Managing Editor This Issue Women's Editor This Issue _ Nows Editor This Issue Graduate Counselor Saturday, May 9, 1942 Times Have Changed Eight months ago in the early.part of Septem ber, Penn State was deeply concerned with the infantile paralysis epidemic. Drastic measures were being planned to cope with the spread of the dread disease and the‘College postponed the opening of classes one week in order to safeguard the students. At the time, many students wondered how the lost time would be made up, and how the Col lege would overcome the difficulties of a late start. In addition, fears were expressed that the first football game with Colgate might have to be postponed if the threat of an epidemic did not subside. Little did Penn State students realize that all these seemingly important events would soon be considered as only trivial matters. Student gov ernment was busy with its usual run of legisla tion, and mixed drinking was the daily topic of interest. On the home political front, campus bosses were battling over the problem of combining Soph Hop and Fall Houseparty, while another group of student leaders were tearing apart and rebuilding the All-College constitution. Every thing pointed toward another typical College year. Then it happened. On a quiet December Sun day, Penn State and the rest of the world were shaken by the attaick on Pearl Harbor. Over night, the whole scene changed; overnight, the College rose to meet the crisis, and both Admin istrative officers and student leaders were called upon to make hurried decisions that had never occurred in their imagination previous to that time. Calling the first All-College convocation in more than four years, Hetzel briefly outlined the part that the College and the students could play in order that the nation might wage a successful way against the Axis. Immediately, the Administration began plans to accelerate the study program. Vacations were cancelled; courses were concentrated as well as shortened; and it was finally decided that Penn State would adopt the third semester. Following the policy of many metropolitan areas, State College organized defense councils, which were to launch plans to assist civilians in the time of emergency. To better prepare them selves for special duties, hundreds of students enrolled for special training offered by College defense courses. With little hesitation, students combined social activities with defense measures by diverting the profits of Victory Ball and Senior Ball into de fense channels. Thespians, who have had a tra dition based on nonsense and college humor, •turned to entertaining dr my men in neighboring camps and induction centers. All in all, there was a mass turnover in the short span of several months —and it is only the beginning. History Repeats Paced by the amazing records established by the Winter sports teams, Penn State is dropping the curtain on the most successful year in its athletic history. Only once before did the Blue and White attempt to approach this record, and strangely enough, that was directly preceding World War No. 1. It is not necessary to review the successes of a great football team that started a highly doubt ful campaign with a wealth of inexperience'. The Nittany basketball team established two all-time .Penn State records and placed third in the Na tional tourney—only after the coach had predict ed that'the boys would be lucky to win half of their games during the season. In gymnastics and wrestling, Penn State pieced among the top teams of the nation; and to top off a highly successful year, Barney Ewell was hon ored as the outstanding athlete on the merit of having contributed more to Penn State's athletic prestige than any other student has tor the past few yearn. Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 4372 liiclmrcl B. McNnul Mao* Janet Wintei Fred F.. Clove; LouU *H. Bel! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN aiiiiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiimiiiiiitiiiiimnmiimiimumiiiniiuiiv <K Q old Ataniu.. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii This column is being written for our two faith ful. readers who are leaving tomorrow. We hope the visiting Alumni find our jokes funny* enough. The local guys and gals are now home recuper ating from blue books and haven’t done much pinning or socializing this week. But we still managed to garner a few things here and there. So-o-o-o-o-o, here goes! Pinnings Anil Stuff Puthie Kummel now sports a Phi- Kappa Tau pin next to her Gamma Phi jewelry via Freddy McAdam . . . and B. J. Yost has an Alpha Chi Rho pin. Sooky Duerst is now the proud posses sor of Satch Simpson’s Lambda Chi Alpha pin. And two new pinnings made over Junior Prom weekend were Eleanor Stoner-Bob Wetzel (fiji> and Mary McCurdy-Johnny Jaflurs (Acacia). A high school, romance which blossomed into the real thing came about last week when Phi Sigma Kappa’s Phil Moore announced his engage ment to his home town love, a Wilson College senior. Incidentially . . . Maniac apologizes to frosh Margie Wad ton for pinning her to some TKA by the name of Zilchman. Further investigation re veals that she possesses a PiKA pin which form erly belonged ,to George Tilghman. Our most humble apologies, Margie. And furthermore, who is this guy Zilchman over at the TKA house . . . and where in the hell is the TKA house? Operator 691/2, tdke notice. Load Nuptials Dottie Magor deserves a prize or something for keeping a secret. After a year-and-a-half of secret wedded bliss, she announced to her Alpha Chi sisters last week her marriage to NcVal En sign Dave Kempner. Imagine, keeping a thing like that quiet for 18 months. That’s pluck! On Wednesday night Bob Ball, AGR, middle aisled it with Dottie Geltz at the local Presby terian Church. Ah, Spring! Poem Of The Week: This little tidbit is dedicated to those privileg ed few who can still drive on their retreads: He had one hand upon the wheel Quite joyful was his ride; The other arm was wrapped around The coed by his side. Chief Juba yelled, “Hey, use both hands.” In a voice that boomed quite far; “I CEin’t,” the loving swain replied, “I have to steer the car.” JVhat's The Moniker? Shakespeare was wrong when he said a rose will smell as sweet if it’s called a cabbage, or words to the effect. An investigation of name traits by a Columbia psychologist shows that if your girl’s name is Bertha the average reaction will be “Oh heavens! She must be immense.” The name Mazie means talkative; Rita, brunette; Joan, good-looking; and Linda, sophisticated. Note the Hollywood influence. Joke ! ! The following is reprinted because we think it’s cute and it also fills space. At least, our two readers might like it: He: Come on. She: No! He: Why not? She: Just because. He: Don’t you love me anymore? She: It isn’t that. He: Please just this once. She: No! He: Aw, shucks, Maiw, all the boys are going barefotted. Advice To Future Coeds: Once upon a time there was a girl who went riding with her boyfriend. When they were way out in the country, the car stopped suddenly. The boy hopped out, and in ten minutes, sure enough, he had the darned car fixed, so that they could get back to the dorm before 11 o’clock. Moral: Don’t go riding with a mechanical en gineer. Well, this will be all until next semester when we hope to have loads and loads and loads of more dirt, which should be in abundance this Summer—judging from reports of previous sea- ‘Mr. And Mrs. North’ Shows For Repeat Perforiliaiice Continued from Page }., Col. 2 Continued from Page 1, Col. 1 presented by the Penn State Play ers. The dialogue was, at times, yawn-producing,' but interesting enough to hold an unrecepiive audience of 300. James ‘Arhb&n dos as Detective Mullins Was thfe star performer; though be held a secondary role. • Elinor -Herrmfcn’s Mrs. North was pleasant for one act, after that her constant chatter was any thing but. Let’s mention Don Taylor for a good last perform ance, and Doris Lavine and Leon Flobk for the least convincing. ’ ROTC Comtriissioris (Continued trom Page One) lotta Robert B. Moore, Frederick W. Mueller, Jr., John W. Pierce, Jacob N. Shearer, Lloyd H. Shenefelt, Jr., Joseph D. Spinelli, Ralph E. Strootman, Cleo M. Wildasin Gerald R. Wiser and Hiram W. Wolfe, 111. Graduating seniors comrpission ed as Second Lieutenants in the Corps of Engineers Reserve are Lester R. Albert, Robert G. Alex ander, William G. Barger, Roy A. Bay, John R. F. Bond, Roland D. Bowman, Robert P. Brooks, John D. Clarke, John P. Dubois. ■Robert G. Edgerton, Wendell G. Ekdahl, Robert C. Faylor, Joseph E. Foley, Jr., William W. Horst, Jr., Wilson B. Knight, Paul Lazar, Earl R. LeVier, Bernard P. Mc- Donnell, John H. McNary, Howard R. Ma’rdin, Philip Martsolf, John N. Moore. -s Jack E. Morgan, John D. Mor gan, Jr., Rudolph S. Mucha,. War ren W. Parke, John H. Quirk, Eu gene F. Scherr, Milton Schwartz, Charles J. Smith, Howard W. Smith, William C. Stephens, Louis Sylvester, Andrew • Tarapchak, Charles L. Van Inwagen, Richard F. Whitman, and Norman B. Wright, Jr. New commissioned officers in the Air Corps Reserve are Ralph Blassingame, Raymond F. Leffler, Charles F. Mattern, Robert F. Mattern, James W. Ritter, John E. Salamanchuk, William L. Sand ston, George K. Schubert, Ernest Soble, Richard- E. Walck, Roland G. C. Young, and William M. Zieg enfus. Second Lieutenants Arthur S. Beward, Harry R. L,unt, Carl L. Scheirer, Jr., John W. Walker, and Ernest C. Wright will enter the Chemical Warfare Service Re serve. The Quartermaster Corps Re serve will reecive Second Lieu tenants George K. Campbell, Ed ward F. Chureila, Reginald L. Hardwork, William M. Keil, Wil liam O. Meyers, Kenneth F. Moist, Charles C'. Seebold, Sherman M. Williamson and John B. Yeneral. Joseph Z.- Schmidt will be the only Second Lieutenant graduat ing to enter tire Signal Corps Re serve. . --MANIAC The First National Bank Of State College Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1942 At all times, across the foot lights, we felt the bond that exists in a good play. Its power and strength lay in its immediacy, in its- ability, to make itself at Once' plausible and pleasant. The char acters were- not 'prefabricated ma chines; •on the contrary, they thought and felt their way through the parts and finally achieved the complete transfor mation . from themselves. Somehow, whenever Miss Herr man and ■ R. Taylor are together upon the stage, we feel sort of content because they are so used to playing with each other that they’ve accomplished a sort of compromise. It is unfortunate that this play is the last that they will make together. However,-if you insist on prob ing a flaw, we thought that the humorous and tense moments might have been more clearly de fined. But that’s a minor quib ble to make about the superior performance that it was. CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Players’ show, . Mr. and Mrs. North,” Schwab Auditorium, 7:30 p. m. Tickets may be bought at door. Players’ • informal reception following show for seniors, rela tives, active and associate mem bers in foyer of Auditorium. MISCELLANEOUS Names of all officers of honor aries,. clubs, fraternities, and oth er organized college groups should be turned in to Stiident Union immediately in order to be in cluded in the/Student Union Di rectory. Students who have completed Defense courses should call for their certificates immediately at Student Union. Fordham University SCHOOL OF LAW NEW YORK CASE SYSTEM Three-Year Day Course Four-Year Evening Course CO-EDUCATIONAL Member Assn, of American Law Schools Completion of Two Years of Col lege Work with Good Grades Re-' quired for Entrance MORNING AND EVENING CLASSES FIRST YEAR CLASSES BEGIN On June 15th and Sept. 28th, 1942 and February Ist, 1943 With Summer work, Day Course may be completed in two calendar years and eve ning course in two years and eight months. - For further information address Registrar Fordham Law School 233 Broadway, New York
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