+' AGE FM It
Barbara Troxell g 37 To Sing
in Metropolitan Auditions
' Was Musk Assistant,
Soloist For College
Having competed with the sev-
Prof. Franklin C. Banner, head
ci al hundreds of applicants who
of the journalism department,
• ;Ire considered each year, Barbara
M. Troxell '37 will sing on the
spoke last night at the Pennsylva-
Asso
,Metropolitan Opera Auditions of nia Newspaper Publishers'
,d.he Air program over station WJZ ciation convention at Harrisburg.
nt 6:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Banner's report, given at the an
nual dinner of the PNPA advisory
Appearing with one other con- committee to the department of
• tr:stant on this week's schedule, journalism, concerned activities of
Miss Troxell will be one of those the department during the past
'considered for the group of final- year.
•.;:lts to sing later on in the season.
Stuart A. Mahuran, assistant
•Yfinal winners in the program's
professor of journalism, addressed
.contest will be offered contracts
a group ofpublishers of Pennsyl
with the opera company. '
vania weekly newspapers. His
. The former coed will sing the topic was "Problems Facing
aria, "Non Mi Dir," from Mozart's Weekly Publishers in Wartime."
opera "Don Giovanni," and "Sea The convention will continue to-
Moods" by Tyson. She will be day. Other faculty members at
;heard in a duet from "Simon Boc- tending are Braton R. Gardner,
.canegra" by Verdi with the bass Otto W. Prochazka, and Helen
, I..aritone who will appear with her. camp.
• Teaching now on the faculty of
;tile New School of MusiC in Phila.-
delphia and giving private voice
instruction in New York City, Miss
Troxell is a dramatic soprano.
Miss Troxell acted as graduate
zu;sistant in the music department
'for two years upon her graduation.
She was then accepted as a schol
.arship student at the Curtis Insti
tute of Music, Philadelphia.. She
.was graduated from there in 1942.
She holds her Master of Education
degree.
Soloist for the College Choir
while in College. Miss Troxell was
rrominent in the Sunday after
)loon concerts presented at that
4:ne by the music department.
f;he belonged to the Louise Homer
Club, local women's music honor
my.
Active in the College Glee Club
nd Thespians, Miss Troxell was
.1 member of Pi Lambda Theta,
»ational senior women's honorary.
Mortar Board Sells Stamps
Members of 'Mortar Board, na
tional senior women's honor so
ciety, will sell defense stamps- at
the annual WSGA dance in Rec
/3:all, Saturday, January. 30. The
dance, to continue from 9 p. m.
to midnight, will be titled "V
-pale Special." Admission will be
one 25 cent defense stamp per
couple, and music will be provided
by Sonny Roye and his Collegians.
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Banner Makes Report
At PNPA Convention
Gallyaf Reports
Captain Bruce S. Gilliard, pro
fessor of military science and tac
tics, has received orders and will
report for duty at Camp Croft,
South Carolina, on February 1.
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in good condition. 'Call French
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Cvvens-Mortar Board
Combine For Dance
, A combined 'committee repre
senting • Mortar ,Board; ,national
women's honor society, and Cwens,
national sophomore women's hon
orary, will meet in . the WRA
Lounge at 1 p. m. tomorrow, to
begin plans for the Cwen-Mortar
Board Dance, March 12.
Mortar Board members include
H. Ann Carruthers, Nancy E. Gos
ser, and Margaret K. Rameley,
announced Dorothy L. Jones, act
ing president. Cwens are Florinne
E. Olson, Marjorie H. Schultz, and
Miriam L. Zartman, according to
Mary Grace Longenecker, presi
dent.
The dance was announced as a
combined affair by All-College
Cabinet and Student Union Board
yesterday.
Penn Stale Ranks
Fifth In NIC Rating
According to statistics recently
issued by the committee on Public
Relations of the National Inter
fraternity Conference, Penn State
is tied with Michigan for fifth
place in the number of active
chapters of NIC member frater
nities. Cornell leads with 47. Then
'follow Mint,is with 45, California
and Ohio State, 37 each, and Mich
igan and Penn State, 36 each.
These are national social fraterni
ties.
The percentage of male under
graduates belonging to these fra
ternities is as follows: Cornell
49%; Penn State 32%; Michigan
20%.y California 16%, Ohio State
15%, and Illinois 14%.
3t.compl9-22
When the Summer semester
'ended and the school teachers, who
used to come to dinner late, left,
dormitory eaters figured that din
ing common troubles were over.
That's where they were wrong.
And it isn't just the Frosh about
:Whom we're going to 'complain;
Supervisors of the commons and
head waiters, who •are experienc
ed in 'arranging the seating and
eating facilities, follow .a scale- of
averages which aids in settling
how many people to prepare for.
Because 'certain - weeknights and
several weekend meals are gener
ally sparcely attended, a propor
tionate number of tables are ne
cessarily closed. •
• • Although this has always • been
the. coeds' gripe,. trouble has never
been so noticeable before. In those
days, :coeds...went in two's
three's to empty ' seats at nearby
tables with just a little pouting
and disappointment in sight. Now,
the temperarhental beings try
"stand-up" strikes or else refuse
to eat. • •
• Persons coming in late will have
to be .resigned' to the fact that,
since .tables are closed, "first come
—first served." If it means that
the sorority or dorm group
will have to be - separated 'for a
half hour,: womeh should start
learning. to take 'it.
Womeh...shOuld begin to realize
that they have the easiest of the
jObs:' 'waiters race
. ab6ut serving;
cooks and the kitchen staff pre-.
pare all-the food; the head waiter
-arranges • for the seating of the
Fotir .Coeds:Make .Choir
The following coeds have been
added. to the Chapel Choir: Helen
M. Casamo '45, Helen G. M,eColgin
'45, Ann A. 'Chaste* '46, and
AI • she
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"The Palm Beach Story"
INTITTEN - 17—
"Two Fisted Justice"
CATHAUM—
"Casablanca"
_./late Worrtert
vu,
First Come, First Served;
Stragglers Take Orders
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WOMEN IN SPORTS
By LEE LEARNER
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As if it weren't enough that Tonight's White Hall playnight
WRA sponsors athletic tourna- is being sponsored by WRA.bad
ments and clubs and White Hall minton club, under the leadership
play nights in an effort to get of Nancy Ferris. As usual, all gym
coeds all-out for sports, a special- facilities will be available, and re
ly'• organized exercise program is freshments will be served.
being planned to put over the idea
of physical fitness.
A fifteen minute 'exercise period, week for White Hall pool • have
led by specially trained students, been changed, due to, conflicts with
will be held every evening during extra-curricular swimming activi
noisy hours in frosh dorms, and ties. New plunge hours, which will
directly after 10 p. m. in Grange 'stand for the rest of the semester
and Atherton', according to Adele are:
J. Levin, '43,.WRA. president who Monday-7:30.9:00 p. in.
is now contacting dorm hostesses Tuesday-4:00-5:00 p. m.
to make final arrangements for Wednesday-9:15-9:00 p. m.
the project. • ' Thursday-7:30 p. in. swimming
cl
Coeds' unjustified complaints
Friday -4:00-5:00
—4:00-5:00 p. m. (until •
against going to White Hall activi
ties have always been that the Feb.ls): • 7:30-9:00 p. tn.
p. in.
programs were too 'unorganized Saturda y-7:30-9:00
4. * *
and that it was too much trouble
to go over to the gym. - Plunge hour on Friday from 4.t0
5 p. m. will be eliminated after
Now that a completely organiz- February 15, because at that hour
ed program is being brought di- the pool is .scheduled for the use
rectly to their front door s *omen of women taking the Curtis
will have a chance to show just Wright course.
how sihcere they ane lin their The advanced aquatics class will
claims that they'd really like to meet at the pool on Mondays from
have a chance to put in a few min- 4 to 5 ID. m. and Tuesdays 7 to 9_
utes of honest exercise every day. p. m. The course may be dropped
Since they have gone to the for this semester, however, because
trouble to initiate this pft-discuss- •only 12 women have signed ,up for
ed plan, WRA should settle for it, and if it is to be given, 15.stu
nothing less than 95 per cent at- dents must be enrolled, explained
tendence every night, but if coeds Miss Helen' Swenson, swimming
respond as they. usually have to instructor, in charge of•the course,
athletic programs, 45 per cent an- Anyone interested in enrolling
swering to the roll call would be should see Miss Sweri§on at the
a good record. pool office.
host;. and all coeds have to do is
sit and eat.
Punctuality, politeness, and pride
should prompt persnickity per
sons to eat what is prepared, when
it's -prepared,-and where it's pre
pared.
I=l=2l
Old Man Rumor is on the wild
again. This time, if he's right,
there ought to be a lot of disgust
registered.
They say that. he told someone Monday morning, of the sixty4lve
who right. away reported it •to his new 'bluejackets; sixty have' corri-•
neighbor who said that he told it pleted a four-mOnth course st An
'to the•other fellow and he said that "napolis, and font.' have repOrted
STUDENTS ARE BUYING CAN- .
from -:
sea duty. .„ .. ~
NED GOODS AND SENDING IT • The ensigns • hail. _from .twenty
HOME. • ' five states and from forty-eight ~
. . Let's hope .that, as usual, he's. all colleges A for Mer .- Penn ''Stas:
wet: Let's hope that - College stu- loOtbalr player;
,Walter A.• Sating',
'dents realize the diSasterous ef- ''4l; is in' this. group'. The men will:,`
fects of a project which .to State .remain here for a sixteen-week
College, would have the same ef- .
instruetion period,
feCt as a crowd of people hoard ,
ing
Delta Gamma •members were
dinner guests of Tau Kappa Epsi- DON'T. FORGET:PENN STATE'S
lon Thursday night. . VICTORY. RAFFLE!
- • The _ . •-•
First National Bank
Of
State. College
Member oi -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1943.
CM=
Plunge hours announced last
Wife Ot Former Dem
Dies In New York
Word came yesterday • to the of
fice of Dean of Men 'Arthur:R.
Warnock that Mrs. R. L. Sackett,
wife of former Dean of Engineer
ing Sackett ; died in New • York;
where they were living. She had
been' ill for several years. • ;•
• Dean Sackett • was Dean of .. En
gineering from 1915 to 1937 - and
is now , Dean Emeritus. 7 •• • •
New Ensigns Start
Engineering Training
The ninth_&ew of ensigns st?rt
ed cldsS'es - in Diesel engineering.
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