' PAGE FOUR Colver Summons Swim Teams, WRA Plans Square Dance With "Wheel of Fortune" Fun Night, sponsored by WRA Swim ming Club, scheduled for White Nall pool at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow, flora E. Colver '44, club president, is extending entry time until to night. Teams of from four to six coeds made up of sorority women, inde pendent women, or both may reg ister on the bulletin board in White Hall locker room. Teams and members should be listed, Miss Colver stressed. Events selected for competition will be determined by spinning the wheel of fortune. Included in the 80 possible events which might be chosen are racing back stroke 25 yards, tandem crawl length of pool, support floating victim while treading water, execute a back somersault in depth of 8 feet, do a back bend off the board, and imitate a panicky person in water. Miss Colver points out that events will range according to swimming ability. Committee in charge of the af fair include Miss Colver, general chairman; Margaret Stahinecker '45, properties; Mildred L. Cook erly '44, Ellen Esther Sherk '44, and Marie E. Weiss '44, posters and publicity. . Final plans for WRA's All-Col lege Square Dance and Weiner Roast have been completed, an nounced Adele J. Levin '44, WR'A activities chairman and head of the dance program. The affair will take place in the parking field op posite White Hall at 8 p. m. Fri day, August 21. Mr. Chauncey P. Lang, associ ate professor of agricultural exten sion, will call the dances which will include Virginia Reel, Hinky :Dinky Parlez-vous, Take a Little Peek, Head Ladies Cross Over, etc. Social dancing will be mixed in with the square dancing, Miss Lev in said. • To add to the rustic atmosphere, students are asked to wear old clothes, chiefly, jeans, plaid shirts, and straw hats. However, any in formal dress will be•suitable, Miss Levin added. IWA Social Draws 100 Independents Approximately 100 non-sorority women attended the informal re ception held by IWA in Women's Building lounge yesterday, accord ing to Barbara E. Whitbred '43, general chairman. Entertainment included back.; ground piano music by Jean E. Hershberger '43, and Christine R. Grant '43 gave a reading, "Have You Met Miss Boo?" by Margaret Lee Runbeck. Martha J. Tobias '43 sang, accompanied by L. Jeanne Kaiser '43. Guests of honor included Dean of Women Charlotte E. Ray, 'Miss Nina M. !Bentley, Miss Ruth H. Zang, and Dr. Pearl Weston, assist ants to the dean of women; Dormi tory Hostesses Miss Mary Eastop, Mrs. Grace M. Hall, Mrs. Neva M. Morris, Miss A. Kathryn Pontzer, Mrs. Gail B. Pope, and Mrs. Anna B. Searle. "Prairie Prdm," an All-College dance sponsored by IWA, will be held in Recreation Hall from 9 p. to midnight Friday. Hazel E. Gassman '43, IWA president, stresses that men ask women to the dante. "Even if the dance is sponsored 'by a woman's organization," Miss Gassman said. "coeds are not to do the asking." George Washko's Campus Owls will play for the dance. Tickets are now on sale for $l.lO, Aleda Snow '43, general chairman, has 'announced. Sigma Alpha Epsilon will enter tain Kappa Alpha Theta at dinner Wednesday. IWA Council will meet in sec ond floor lounge of Old Main at 8:30 tonight. Penn State Coeds To Enlist—Several Penn State coeds have al ready sent for enlistment applications to the Womens Army Auxiliary Carps. With headquarters at Fort Des Moines, lowa, the WAACs are training women to release men for lighting. Enrollment is expected to reach 25,000 in the near future. Women Don Uniforms, Sing `We're In The Army Now' By SALLY L. HIRSHBERG '44 Graduating this month? If so, how would you like to get into step with the thousands of women who have appropriately adopted as their theme song—" We're in the army now." If you are 21 or over and are able to pass the rigid physical and psychological examinations, you will be eligible for induction into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. According to regular Army law, induction is for the duration —violators being subject to court martial. WOMEN START WAACS Headed by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, attractive Texan who made good with the War Depart thent, the WAACS were created entirely by the persistence of suc cessful career women who won the support anud admiration of men high in the ranks of politics and officials of the United States Army. The WAAC bill was introduced into Congress t by Representative Edith Nourse 'Rogers of Massachu setts. Gaining the enitre support of the War Department and back ed by Secretary of War Stimson and ,Chief of Staff Marshall, the bill won by a maority in the House of Representatives. OFFICERS AND SALARIES Mrs. Hobby, who directs WAACS from Washington, has the rank of a major (with the possibility of be ing ranked a colonel later on.) Her salary is 3,000 dollars annually, plus maintenance. When Mrs. Hobby, a newspaper woman her self, accepted the position, she took with her a distinguished. newspaper and magazine . writer, Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, as director of public relations. Assistant Directors, correspond ing to the rank o 1 captain, will be appointed for each of the nine corps areas at a salary of 2,400 dol lars annually, plus maintenance. Officers first, second, and third class, and "Non-Coms" will also be appointed, salaries and ranks corresponding to regular army of ficers. Other officers will be ap pointed from outstanding women in the ranks. WAAC privates are- in the twenty- one- dollars- per- month classification, but now that sal aries of men of the same rank have been raised to 50 dollars, 'Mrs. Rogers will soon introduce legislation in behalf of the women. WAAC UNIFORMS Chosen from hundreds of sketches and samples, the WAAC Summer uniform is Army khaki in color—as preferred by the War Department. The garb'consists of a straight skirt, fitted jacket, man- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN tailored shirt and tie, low-heeled, sturdy shoes, and a Foreign Leg -ion-looking cap. Except for rank insignia, all un iforms will be identical. Accord ing to a report by Christine Sad ler, of Mademoiselle, there might be a "pastel faction" in the quar termaster's Corps. WAACS IN ACTION Met at the Des Moines station last week by a contingent of Army trucks, 250 young women took their first look at the Fort which was to be "home-sweet-home" for the next eight weeks. Following their arrival they went through a series of activities receiving serial numbers, physical examina tions; being assigned to companies and barracks, and fitted for uni forms. Complete induction requir ed three days. Because WAAC training is ex tremely varied and thorough, no experience is necessary. A WAAC may see service in Australia, Alas ka, or behind the scenes of a Unit ed States war office. First WAAC recruits, about 12,- 500 of them, will replace volun teers in air-raid warning service and filter information centers. In the Army itself, women will re place soldiers as typists, telephone operators, and workers in other forms of communications, clerks, laboratory technicians, librarians, dieticians, etc. Make-up is to be modest and al though there is no rule forbidding it, Army tradition is against offi cers socializing with privates. WAACS APPEAL TO COEDS There are already several Penn State coeds who have sent for en listment blanks. According to all national reports. there is no better way to serve one's country. Similar organizations in England have proved themselves invaluable: Detailed information concerning the WAACs may be obtained by consulting Army recruiting sta tions. Rides Wanted RW To Philadelphia. Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Call 2565. RW To Pittsburgh Friday after 3. Call Walt Price 2181. RW —To Philadelphia. Leave Friday afternoon. Call 2376. RW A ride to Philadelphia or vicinity for two fellows on Aug. 28. Leave anytime after 2 p. m. Call 4255 and ask for Pete. 3tch DH RW Johnsonbu,rg, Pa. Friday 4p. m. Phi Mu 4743. 2tpd 82 Students Decrease Cost of Learning By Living Co-operatively in Town Houses We she Women Nimble Fingers Needed For Defense With the Women's Army Auxil iary Corps issuing uniforms and defense jobs providing lucrative pay checks, college-trained wom en are likely to overlook possibil ities of serving their country in the old-fashioned ways. Soldiers still need handmade bandages despite the mechaniza tion and efficiency of modern warfare. Because 'the surgical factories can meet only one-tenth of the Army's demands, the Red Cross has agreed. to fill the remaining need. Contribution from the local chapter is a monthly quota of 9,000 or more squared dressings. • According to local leaders, more women workers are needed to Help fill this quota There is a direct correlation be- many campus organizations. In tween the Red Cross chapter's eluded in their activities are need for women to make bandages WSGA Judicial Committee, De ' , PSCA, and a recent campus meeting in bate, Choir, Lakonides, e-Med which coeds declared they would IWA, Cwens, 4-H Club, Pr RA be willing to do defense work if Society and Vi n t clubs. somebody would only tell them Social life inhe co-ops is not neglected. A special social corn. what. ittee plans holiday parties, plc -• m Women roll bandages at the Nit- nics, scavenger hunts, banquets, tany School House Tuesdays and skating parties. Before and through Fridays from 2:30 until after dinner, groups of co-op stu -5 p. m. and from 730 to 9 p. m. dents, men and women, may be They may work as many hours as frequently seen playing cards, they like but a minimum of one ping-pong, or dancing at the. two-hour period per week is re- houses. quired. The townswomen said that ‘,..- y bi learning 'to live and work a campus unit could be added if together, we get more out of Col enough coeds expressed interest. lege life than most students living Believing that coeds are sincere in their desire to aid the war effort and recognizing the lack of or ganization for any such work, we suggest that WSGA Senate or House of Representatives contact the Red CrosS to start a bandage rolling unit. There's nothing very exciting about donning a coverall, rem v ing nail polish and settling down for a two-hour session of dandage making. The uniforms are de glamorizing and pay checks are CLASSIFIED FECTION non-existent. Compensation exists only on the WANTED Someone to drive car idealistic level—the satisfaction owner to Benton Harbor, Mich. derived from doing well a neces- within next ten days. Call 4767. sary job. • How about if, coeds, are your ROOMS Five rooms• for rent fingers as nimble as your dancing , close to campus. Come see. No feet? noise except Saturdays. Board can. be- arranged. Kimmel . , 243 Phifotes, independent women's South Pugh, Phone 3332. 3tcomp organization, will meet in 302 Old LOST "Polaroid" Sun glasses Main at 7p. m. Monday to make in case on campus last weekend. plans for next semester. Phone 4153, ask for Glenn. ltpd Jre.dunen Men, ...4nl Women ATTEND THE ANNUAL SMOKER OF she , 2all e y Collegian WED. AUG. 12 7 P.M. DELTA. CHI • • DANCING • REFRESHMENTS • SHORT SPEECHES Candidates For Business and Editorial Staffs Are Invited TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1942 Busy Co-op Coeds Active On Campus 1"Co-operation gets things done," according to 82 members of the College Co-op Federation. This is the philosophy of the .19 coeds who room at the Nittany and Allen Street Co-ops in town and the 63 men who board at the houses. • Based primarily on the sharing of minimum expenses, the Co-op Society was initiated in the Fall of 1939. For $7.56 a week, coeds are housed and fed in the two dormi tories. In addition to the' weekly fee,'each coed is expected to spend five hours a week assisting with meal preparation, house-cleaning, or laundry. Only adult supervis ors in each house area cook and a house mother. In addition to time spent in working at the co-ops, classwork, and outside employment, co-op coeds find time to be active in in campus dorinitories or fraterni ties," says Doris E. Porter '44, Al len Stteet Co-op house president, and Harold V. Walton '43, treasur er of the local federation. Supervising most of the co-op activity is a board of directors consisting of officers of each house. Heading the board are Kenneth Eyler .'43, president, and Willard R. Zahn '43, vice-presi. dent.
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