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OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE :ritbi'vor::"..3l:j6".,
VOL. 39—No. 56
28 Associates
Named To Staff
In LaVie Elections
Twenty-eight students were
named to •the Junior board of the
1943 La Vie at elections held last
night in the yearbook office, an
nounced Martin H. Duff '43, edi
'tor.. The staff will serve until No
vember when the new editor and
Senior board will be chosen.
All busily.engaged in getting out
the "accelerated" yearbook; the
staff has worked very hard this
Summer, according to Duff.
Important announcement by
Duff states that all Seniors gradu
ating at the end of the month
should leave their mailing ad
dresses at the AA office, 102 Old
Main. The La Vies will be mailed
to them C.O.D. when they come
out in December. •
Students chosen are: William R.
Pomerantz, Gerald B. Maxwell
Stein, Robert W. Lewis, Harold E.,
Epstein, Carl Colombo, Theodore
Green, Alan I. Brunstein, Wilson
Oberdorrer, Frances Angle, Mar
ion Dougherty, Mildred Greenes,
Doris Stevenson, Jenoise Wherry.
Sally Piollet, Rosene Stauffer,
Mary Jo Powell, Priscilla McClel
an, Ursula Frost, Beverly Miller,
Mary Galt, Marion Robinowitz,
Nancy Hamill, Nancy Shipman,
Elaine Cox, Nancy Berkebile,
Helen Neubert, Lucille Barton, and
Harry Coleman.
The newly-selected board will
: meet today at 4 p. m. in 315 Old
. • - •
Army Promotes Weske
to Rank Of Major
Captain Jack H. Weske, recently
transferred to Washington D. C.
after thirteen years of service as a
member - of the ROTC faculty at
the college, was, promoted to
,the
rank of major, it was announced
by the War Department yesterday.
IVlajOr Weske is now an admin
istrative and security officer in
the office :of the Assistant Chief of
• Groiitid''Forces, Army War Col
lege. •
Major Weske, who entered the
Army as a private at Fort
Ill.,• organized the Scabbard
and Blade and Pershing Rifles
groups while a member of the
ROTC Department here.
Couples To Contend
For Costume Prizes
At IWA 'Prairie Prom'
.Cowboys and prairies will take
the spotlight at IWA's first All-
College Dance, "Prairie Prom," as
George P. Washko's Campus Owls
swing out in Recreation Hall from
9 p. m. to midnight tomorrow.
With the band dressed in typical
ranch clothes, Hazel E. Gassmann
'43, IWA president, urges that
dancers follow suit. A prize will
be awarded to the couple most ap
propriately dressed to fit the
prairie theme.
Although the dance is sponsored
by coeds, men as well as women
are urged by Miss Gassmann to in
vite dates. Tickets may ,be pur
chased at Student Union or at the
dance for $l.lO.
The Penn State Dating Bureau,
sponsored by the Penn State Club
and IWA, will accept applications
until tomorrow noon, according to
Marjorie A. Magargel '44. •
"Men who were unable to get
to the Penn State Club room in
Old Main yesterday may, because
•of the dance, get in touch with me
(Continued on Page Four)
AA Names Purdy
Manager Of Golf
Douglas W. Purdy '44 was nam
ed manager of the golf team for
next season, it was announced by
Bernard •A. Plesser '43, AA presi
dent,
,after ah athletic association
'meeting yeaterdaYl4ftOno6n.
Chosen first managers were
John 'Fritz' Lloyd '45; Herbert
Hirshfield '45, and 'Fred Beirsdor
fer '45, ,while J. Leonard Ecker
'45, was made freshman manager
for next year. William P. Doug
las '45 and Bruce E. Ross '45 were
elected to serve as alternates.
Jay M. Gross and Richard A.
Hastings, both juniors , are associ
ate managers.
According to Plesser, varsity
awards went to Co-captains Rich
ard A. Stephens '44, and A. Wil
liam Swan '44, C. Edward Fair
child '44, Richard A. Hastings '44,
James A. McCormick 45, Charles
Maclay '43, and William D.
Smiley '43. Dennis Kearney '43,
and Paul R. Knight, Jr. '43 were
presented awards for duties as as
sociate.,managers, and Harold B.
Federman '44,
.was awarded for
freshman manager work.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, STATE COLLEGE, PA
Last Open House
Features Dance
Band, Ping Pong
Vic Dimeo's Solid Seven 'will
give an hour program of dance
music in the lobby at the final Old
Main Open House of the Summer
semester, starting at 7 tonight.
In addition to the band, an All-
College Ping Pong tournament will
highlight the season's finale, Ger
ald B. Maxell Stein '44, OMOH
chairman, said last night in re
leasing complete details of the pro
gram.
Faculty members - as well as stu
dents are invited to spend. "A
Night in New York." Based on
this theme, the entire Open House
will try to create a cosmopolitan
atmosphere by giving names -of
New York hot spots, theaters and
sports centers to the fourth floor
game room, the Little Theater, Old
Main Tower and other places.
Defense stamps, presented by
George Donovan, Student Union
manager, will be awarded winners
of the Ping- Pong tournament. All
matches, except the finals, will 'be
played in "Madison Square Gar
den" on the fourth floor.
• In order to accomodate a larger
gallery, the finals will be held in
the first floor lounge.
There will be two showings of
the motion picture "Trans-Atlan
tic Merry-Go-Around,'' starring
Jack Benny and Mitzi Green, in
the Radio City Music Hall, Room
405'. The first shoWing is sched-:
uled for .8:15 p. m. and the second
"it11 . 0:20. 4 -'.r:'-', l :-; • . • ,
OMOH committeemen include
Muriel I. Taylor '45, WSGA, Rich
ard Kurtz '45, IMA, Adele J. Levin
'44, WRA, Charles W. Thompson
'43, PSC, Barbara E. Whitebread
'43, IWA, George Donovan, SU,
and deck A. Jordon '43, IFC.
MI Honorary Initiates
Eleven At Banquet
• -Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national
Earth Sciences fraternity initiated
11 students at a banquet recently.
Initiates pledged include Frank-
H. Beck '44, Ralph E. Edelman
'43, Darl D. Gillespie '44, Richard
L. Hoff '44, James H. keeler '43,
Jay H. Kelley '43, Edward J.
Kleckner '44, Alfred G. Metzger
'44, Paul E. Moore '44, Robert F.
Swope '44 and Joseph - J. Zelinski
'44.
Freshman Week Schedul
Includes 3 Mass Meeting
AN EDUCATION DID IT The
value of a Penn State education
was brought to the front recently
with the announcement that C.
Robert Longenecker, graduated
from the College m 1932, was mar
ried to Ruth Hussey, movie actress
in, a surprise ceremony in Pala,
C==l
Longenecker'32Weds
Actress Ruth Hussey
Although:he_graduated..frqm..tbe.
College before Soc. 4 was insti
tuted as a course, C. Robert Longe
necker '32 accomplished what
practically every Penn State man
would' like , to do when he recently
married Ruth Hussey, attractive
brunette movie actress, in a sur
prise ceremony at Pala, California.
Longenecker has been stationed
in Hollywood as a script writer
with. the Columbia Broadcasting
System for the past several
years.• While at Penn State he
majored in commerce and finance
and played on the football and
basketball teams during his jun
ior and senior years.
He was a member of Delta Upsi
lon and according to Thomas Mor
gan, an employee at DU, he was a
very studious man. Morgan stat
ed that he seldom dated except on
big weekends.
MEET ME IN THE
Traditional
haunt of students
during "sandwich
hours" and after
classes, the Sand
wich Shop in Old
Main basement will
be converted into a
dining room for the
majority of the 270
coeds who will be
housed in the men's
dormitories. The
others will eat in
Atherton and Mac-
Allister dining
rooms
To take the place
of the "Shop" a
plan to remodel the
first floor lounge in
Old Main into a re
freshment room is
being drawn up.
Priorities on con
struction materials
may interfere with
this proposal, how
ever.
Weather
PRICE THREE CENTS
Despite the accelerated program,
freshmen entering the College for
the Fall Semester will have a per
iod of orientation longer than the
Summer semester freshmen had.
Beginning September 7, Fresh
man week will extend to 1:10 p.
m., Thursday, September 10.
Scheduled for Monday.. night,
September 7, the first mass meet
ing for the new students will be
under the direction of All-College
Cabinet. Student government will
be explained, activities and their
leaders• introduced, and a general
over-all view of extra-curricular
activities will be presented.
Tuesday night's meeting will be
reserved for religious organiza
tions, to present their organiza
tions to the freshmen.
The third and last mass meeting,
Wednesday night, comes
. under
the heading of entertainment,
when various campus groups will
performs, and some idea of the
lighter side of College life will be
presented for the new class.
Dean Warnock said yesterday
that IFC was to be commended for
adding a section to the rushing
code forbidding rushers to enter
campus buildings in which fresh
man meetings are in progress.
Complaints were received in past
years of men climbing in windows
and creating disturbances.
Student Union dances are sched
uled ,in the Armory for Monday,
- WedrfesdaY, and •Thurs-,
day. Ray V. Watkins, scheduling
officer, said these mixers serve a
very valuable function in ac
quainting freshmen men and
women with each other.
Also on the program for the
freshmen are song and cheer
practices in Schwab Auditorium,
a series of school meetings with
the faculty, student c ounselors'
meetings, placement tests in Eng
lish composition and psychology
aptitude tests.
PSCA Will List
Available Rooms
To help find rooming facilities
for those evacuated from the dor
mitories, for incoming freshmen,
and for upperclassmen returning
to school in September, the PSCA
and the Student Housing Board
will cooperate in compiling room
lists that will be available before
the present semester ends, repre
sentatives of the two groups an
nounced yesterday. •
An annual service of the PSCA,
the scope of the lists will . be en
larged this year to aleviate the un
usual conditions that have come up
due to the increase of coed enroll
ment and the subsequent removal
of men from the tri-dorms.
`The lists will only indicate
availability and in no way show
desirability of the rooms," ex
plained Fred E. Clever '44, Student
Housing Board Chairman.
"An effort will be made," repre
sentatives from the two groups
explained, "to contact all of the
rooming houses in town to deter
mine exactly the number of rooms
that will be available September
7."
First Aid Cards Ready
Red Cross First Aid cards for
the students who took the first aid
course from Jack Hulme during
the period of January to March are
available at the Student Union
Desk.