Pep Rally Will Start Semester's Last Big Weekend
With a "Beat - Pitt" rally firing
the opening gun, the.last big week
end of the Fall semester, centered
around the joint Senior Ball-Junior
Prom in Rec Hall will get under
way tonight.
Members of the committee have
estimated that a crowd. of .approxi
mately 1200 couples will attend the
dance which starts at 9 p. m.
accordance with All-College Cab
inet's curfew ruling.
Tonight's part of the weekend
program includes the rally and
first night production of the Thes
pian show, "Kurfew Kapers,"•both
starting at 7 o'clock, and the joint
dance, beginning al 9.
Tomorrow's features will be the
Pitt football game beginning at 2
p. m., second presentation of the
Thespian show at 7, and numerous
house dances later in the evening.
The dance, high spot of tonight's
activities, will feature the music
of Charlie Spivak and his orches
tra. Well known all over the coun
try, the band has recently had
added to it the entire brass section
of Glenn Miller's orchestra, now
disorganized since its leader. en
•tered the armed forces.
Spivak, called "the man Who
plays the sweetest trumbet in the
world," is the instrumental star of
the outfit while the vocalists are
the famous Stardusters and Garry
Stevens.
, Decorations will be in a military
theme and will be made up of
American flags and flags of numer
ous colleges. Tickets are on sale
today at the Athletic Association
office.
Defense stamps which will serve
in place of corsages may
,be pur
chased at Student UniOn anytime
today.
The stamps may be placed in the
back of programs. White ribbons
bearing the names Senior Ball and
Junior Prom will be given to each
purchaser of four twenty-five cent
stamps.
The pep rally will begin at the
Lion. Shrine, proceeding"froin there
to ',MX:clan Feitilitf Plat' .: Wlierd
members of the Lion team: will be
introduced.
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LONDON via - Morocco Radio--
In a clash between British and
Axis troops near Tunisia, the Ger
mans lost eight tanks, and the 'Brit
ish suffered the losi of eight anti
tank guns. Admiral Darlan stated
that the Germans forced the issue.
The RAF raided an •airdrome
near. Tunis, destroying several
planes on the ground, and further
- action developed into the destruc
tion •of five Axis torpedo planes
over • the Mediterranean. Italian
airplanes atticked an Allied con
voy. but were driven off by RAF
fighters. The Italians fled at the
appearance of the RAF planes.
HEADQUARTERS, British Field
Army r- A communique from the
British Field General reported the
landing of German paratroops near
Bengazi, and that all the troops
were captured.
CAIRO A communique from
Cairo reported that the British Bth
Army had 7 cut off German troops
near. Bengazi. The British troops
forced their way to the coastal
road, cutting the German troops
f E entirely from the German main
body.
MOSCOW The Russians re
pulsed eight new attacks by the
Germans against Stalingrad ,today,
and also several by German panzer
divisions.
WASHINGTON—The. Navy De
partment announced .a new sea
battle between the United States
and Japanese fleets in the South
Pacific. The Japs suffered the loss
of five warships sunk, and three
damaged. It was also reported that
another Jan cruiser and destroyer
had been damaged.
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OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
VOL. 40—No. 14
Campus Pa
The Winnahs! Still Smiling After Three Rounds
JACK R. GREY
All-College President
CLIFFORD M. ST. CLAIR
Junior Class President
Thespians' 'Kurfew Kapers' Opens
Junior-Senior Ball Festivities
Sparking Junior-Senior Ball
weekend festivities, "Kurfew Ka
pers" or "For Whom The Bell
Tolls," annual ThesPian musical
comedy, will be presented in
Schwab Auditorum at 7 o'clock
tonight.
Written by Kathryn Popp, Ed
ward R. Clauss, and Dorothy Bos
ley, the show will provide enter
tainment with novel dance num
bers, humorous 'skits and gags by
"The Three Stooges" and dance
routines by chorus.
Original songs have been com
posed by students for the show.
"Boogie Woogie Harlem" by Mart
in Cohen, "Wherever You Are"
by Robert V. Klein, and "Stub
born" by Jane Abramson are
among the numbers to be played
rand sung in the show.
The dance line; under the di
rection of Kevert Mellot, will be
led by four veterans of last se
mester's revue, Mildred Johnson,
Doris Disney, Miriam Zartman,
Betty J. Lyman. A special - dance,
an imitation of three drunks, will
feature Miss ,T - hnson, Miss Dis
ney, and Mellot.
Music for the backgrounds and
for the songs has been .arranged
recently by Victor V. Dimeo, who
will also direct the 12-piece or
chestra for the performance.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1942, STATE COLLEGE, PA
rty S
ROBERT M. FALOON
Senior' Class President
BUD JAMES
Sophomore Class- President
Vodais will be sung by William
Christoffers, who is featured in
William Cissel's production num
ber "A Pretty Girl 'ls Like A
Melody" and by Jane Abramson;
who will sing one of her own
compositions.
. Tomorrow night's performance
will take place at p. m. Tickets
for either night may be obtained
at Student Union or at the door.
Phi Kappa Phi Initiates
46 Honor Members;
Ivans Presented Award
Thirty-eight senior students, six
graduate students, and two mem
bers of the faculty were inducted
into Phi Kappa Phi, honorary
scholastic fraternity, at the initia
tion banquet held in the Presby
terian Church last night. ; . William
S. Ivans, Jr. was presented the
annual Phi Kappa P•hi award of
$5O.
President Mason Long, profes
sor of English literature, intro
duced the guest speaker, Adrian
0. Morse, assistant to the presi
dent. Mr. Morse urged that changes
brought about. in education by the
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weeps All Offices
Grey, Faloon Win ;
Check-Off Passes
Campus Party's political juggernaut rolled to complete
victory for the second straight time yesterday, almost total
ly crushing their Independent and Victory Party opposition
in sweeping all 13 class offices and both All-College posts.
Collegian's check-off plan, whereby students will have the
cost of their Collegian Subscriptions added to their fees,
won the overwhelming approval of
i - the student body.
1 -
Jack R. Grey and Benjamin Lea
man took the All-College presi
dency and vice-presidency by a
466-vote margin, rolling up 1,668
votes to 1,202 for Independents
Donald A. Kulp and Dorothy K.
1668 Brunner. George W. Smith and
Robert Dennison of the Victory
1202 Party held down last place with
248 ballots.
Closest of the presidential races
was the Falcon-Davis battle for
senior class president. Robert M.
Falcon and Harry F. Kern won out
over Robert B. Davis and Robert
R. Dickey by .69. votes out of a
334 total of 737, marking the first time
in College political history that the
403 senior class and All-College presi
dent were chosen from the same
340 party.
391 The Campus '4s \ machine rolled
up its usual large victory margin
331 in giving two-to-one counts to Clif
-401 ford M. St. Clair and William P.
IDouglas, and better than 150-vote
329 advantages to Joan E. Piollet and
407 C. William Sick.
Freshmen led the three-day vote
parade, casting more than 1,200
ballots in choosing H. Foster James
" their sophomore class president
over Lawrence Joe by 771 votes to
635 461.
Election Results
ALL-COLLEGE
President and Vice-President
Jack R. Grey and
Benjamin Leaman (C)
Donald A. Kulp and
'Dorothy K. Brunner (I)
George W. Smith and
George Akinson (V) ..
SENIOR. CLASS
President and Vice-President:
Robert P. Davis and
Robert R. Dickey (I) ....
Robert M. Faloon and •
Hairy F. - Kern (C)
Secretary: •
.Eloise M. France (I) ....•
Anne Marie 'Serocca (C)
Treasurer:
Jack G. Burford (I) .
Carroll B. Blackw.ood (C)
Historian:
Winnie E. Spahr (I) ...
Eugenia D. Bundick (C)
JUNIOR CLASS
President and Vice-President
Clifford M. St. Clair and
William P. Douglas (C)
John Graf and
Kathryn Metzger (I)
Secretary: •
Joan E. Piollet (C)
Gunnel Bjalme (I) ...
Treasurer:
C. William Sick (C)
William Humphries (I)
SOPHOMORE CLASS
President and Vice:President
Larry Joe and •
_ L. Murray Burris,(l)
Bud James and
Art Miller (C) .
Secretary:
Betty Drouse (I) .
Jane Dye (C)
Treasurer:
Ray Behar (I) ...."
Jack Whitaker (C)
CHECK-OFF
C And F Honorary,
Initiates 11 Students
Eleven students Were formally
initiated into Alpha Gamma Chap
ter of Delta Sigma Pi, Commerce
and Finance Honorary, at the Al
pha Kappa Pi House, Wednesday,
November 11.
New members who .successfully
mastered the informal initiation
Tuesday evening are John Chur
ella '44. Walter Cochran '44, Glenn
Oakes '44, John Pittavine '44, Dale
Hamilton '45, William Knouse '45,
John McCormick '45, William
Humphries '45, David Ogsbury '45,
and Jack Whitlinger '45.
By LARRY CHERVENAK
News Editor
Widest victory margin among
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Chinese Pay $lOO
3" For Leather Shoes
By SERENE F. ROSENBERG '45
"If we \\taint a pair of. ,leather
shoes, they cost about $200."
Miss Kung Pu-Sheng, national
student secretary of China's
YWCA, was speaking .in a recent
interview of conditions in her na
tive country; -
"Now we have a meatless day
in China too," . she continued, "but
there it refers to the one day each
week, Wednesday, when we have
meat."
Miss Pu-Sheng, who is a gradu
ate of Yenching University, re
cently visited the campus and
spoke to students, relating facts
about a country actively engaged
in war.
"The war," she stated, when
questioned about Chinese college
students, "has done much to break
them down our ivory tower." Pri
or to the war, only those students
who did not have to thelp support
their families, were able to at
tend college. Consequently, in
spite of their 450,000,000 people;
a population three times as great
as that of the United States, China
had only 110 colleges. However,
with the aid of government schol
arships, the number of students
since the war has increased, and at
present there are 45,000 students.
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