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I - Presmiation Of 'Nillany
:Years O Planning, Hard
By ROBERT E. K INTER
The rie'icat'on of the Lion
Shr:ne th's afternoon will climax
more that- two years of planning,
controversy, and hard work.
Originally suggested early in
the 1939-40 term by the class of
NIO, its donors, the idea was sub
jected immediately to criticism.
When it was finally accepted by
the class after several polls and
actual voting in conjunction with
Spring elections in 1940. it was
ecided that the site chosen for
it• was not a good one.
This controversy arose from
the idea among some members of
the student body and faculty that
the Lion should be placed in a
more conspicuous spot than the
one chosen, near Rec Hall and the
water \ tower.
( .I qcusgion lasted until last
Fall when the original site was
noorovn by the ac:ministration,
.nd the architects were hired to
lay out the design for the land
scape.
Between the beginning of this
difficulty and the final decision
was a long period of waiting and,
what appeared to students, in
activity while the class represen
tatives made arrangements to
have the actual work done.• •
Then, early in the . Spring .of
1941, the • planners • surprised
students with the bolt-from-the
-lAue announcement that Heinz
Warneke, famous animal sculptor
had been contracted to do the
carving. •
Warneke apneared on campus
at the time the announcement
NVE.S made with models •of the
shrine he was to carve. The
models met with the immediate
rpproval of the committee in
charge, and it was planned that
'work should start as soon as pos
sible.
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Campus Buildings
Lion Climaxes Two
Open For Weekend
Work, Controversy
Guests' Inspection
Another period of waiting en
sued interrupted slightly by Many of the more interesting
Warneke's personal delivery to campus buildings will remain
the campus of a full size model open today and tomorrow for in
of the Nittany Lion he was to spection by visiting alumni and
produce. The model was placed dads, according to arrangements
in Old Main where it remained made by All-College Cabinet.
until he came back in the Spring Central Library, - Atherton Hall,
of '42 to begin work. Home Economics, White Hall,
Then for four' monttS, with. Mineral Industries, Electrical.
Leaver-like enthusiasm, Joseph E'ngineering, and most -of the
Garatti, a well-known sculptor in buildings on Ag Hill will be open
his own right, did the "roughing for visitors between the hours
out" work in preparation for • of. 1:30 to 4:30 p. m.
Warneke's finishing job. His part Woodrow E. Hoch '43, chair
of the work finished ahead of man of the Cabinet committee
schedule, Garatti quietly left the' making plans for the weekend,
campus, receiving very little also announced that all Cabinet
credit from students for having .members are wearing tags identi
done anything. lying them as official guides for
His job was to cut the . huge the out of town visitors. They
square block of white Indiana have been asked to take up posts
limestone down to within a half- on campus to answer all ques
ilich of the final size of the Lion. tons and direct• the guests,
He worked fast and quietly and. Hoch's committee also arranged
according to Warneke, did a for the printing of the large
wonderul job. weekend program posters which
Students know the rest of the are being displayed in downtown
story with Warneke's masterful windows as well as the illustrated
handiwork as he adjusted the program to be distributed at this
Lion's trim lines to different afternoon's Lion Shrine dedica
types of light and 'different •light 'Hon.
angles.
He has been gone from the Penn Stale Women
campus for several weeks and
will be unable to take part in the Present. Service Flag
dedication services 'today.
Open House Committee
A meeting of the Old Main by Mary D. Moyer '45, will form
Open House committee has been background music and will climax
ct.lled for Tuesday, October 27 in in the playing of the National An-
Room 304 Old Main at 4 o'clock. them at the close of the ceremony,
by Charles W. Thompson, acting Miss Brunner' revealed.
general chairman. The Open Obtaining the Service Flag has
House, which will be held on No- been the Summer project of
vember 7; will have an "Autumn WSGA House of Representatives,
Theme." Miss Brunner revealed.
Keep in touch with "The Team." Restricted, travel maket
impossible to see the games :for: yourself.
Dads: Watch the Collegian for the latest news- on how the
war, affects your son or daughter.
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send one subscription to some Penn
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
(Continued from page one)
College president, will say a few
words.
Patriotic piano hymns played
We. The Engineers—
Civil Engineers Become
War's 'Troubleshooters'
"Eritrea reporting".
"hello from Venezuela"
"roses are blooming here in 'lce
land" . * Novelly formations
A steady stream of sixth infor
mation is pouring into the civil for Halftime Period
engineering department's ' office
each day,. as Penn State's gradu- Penn State's Blue Band, among
ate' CE's check in front their posts
the "fastest-steppers" in the Eastft
around the world. •
will have a novel formationfot
Their letters are the result of ,
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the department's special efforts the • Alumni-Dad's Day gan4 ,
to maintain contact with ,its against Colgate today.
graduates, and come specifically • Prof. Hummel Fishburn, head_
in answer to a news letter sent
of the department of music, is'
by the department's staff to the director of the 80-piece band:
800 civil engineering graduates.
Marching at the caclence of . 152,
since 1920. • ' - steps per minute, the group cross..
Although no compilation has es the football field, from goal to
yet been made of the location of goal, in four-fifths of a mintitel•
Penn State's civil engineering "Praise • the Lord - and 'Pass the
graduates, according to F. T. Ammunition" is one of the new
Mavis, department heat',, the let- numbers the band will play ati to.'•
ters so far indicate that they are clay's fray.
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serving in. five separrte roles in • "Since the championship':druirl . -
the current world scrap. and bugle corps bands will occti•:- .
Transportation engineer's. those py
.half of the period between
civil engineers striking squarely halves, we'd be crowded
. for 'time
at the war's vital supply - lines to fOrm letters for Colgate and
problem, are handling su c h weekend . visitors," PrOfessor
chores as building pipelines from wishburn said . "So we decided •
the central Venezuelan jungle to or. a new set of formations.- more
the coast,
,and planning airports suitect•to the times," he added.. ! ..
in Alaska.'• • . .
Andther novelty selection . of.,
Graduates specializing .in engi
neering
the Blue •Band is the. "Vic tick .
neering for construction, , accord-
ing to Mavis, are handling the ....
Ao. 1" 'a
'combination short.: - jazt 7
yell' . composed.;,by Victor Dimep
management end of what is cur
'43. former band -President' who.
rently America's- biggest business;
will enter the: armed - services
structural engineers engineers are helping - .
soon.,
build • - ' • -• •.
build anything from a- . bridge or - -
dam to an . airplanewherever . . , • - .. „ •,. - "'
bridges, dams; and airplanes are mink sanitary,,: enOneers: . . ,
are
being built. traveling :along
. •%Aith - tha
Penn State hydraulic engineers Army, safeguarding the water
are tackling .such problems -as supply, sewage 4 system, and' wake
flood control end tho C esigning disposal - of. _advanced military
of water nowier plants: while units. • •
with his colleges
touch
!his weekend we
State man in , the
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1942
Blue Band Prepares