FADE FOUR
THE COLLEGIAN
"For A Bettor P•nn State"
Established 1940. Successor . to. the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, establlshed:lBB7. •
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Saturday Morning, July 3, 1943
Hats Off ...
Time was when a compact, peacefully active
College tipped its hat in. September of each year
to the green dink-wearers of that generation.
At the beginning of a wartime accelerated se
mester, those hats are tipped again. They are
doffed to students who are enrolling here immedi
ately after or, in many case% previotis to gradua
tion from high schools. Newcomers will accelerate
to accomplish an educational goal as a preliminary
to service for a country at war and in post-war
days.
But this year, too, those hal s go off to more than
those traditional patches of green. This summer,
a patriotic and energetic College salutes those
wearing the hats of the United States Army, Navy,
and Marine Corps.
They are tipped this time to a group of enthu
siastic men and women trainees who represent
three of the country's large wartime industries.
And they are waved to welcome again Summer
Session students who are
. annual visitors at the
College.
This extensive wartime program, one of the
many fitting into schools throughout the nation,
indicates one administration's effort to strive for a
strong, productive home front. The transforming
of fraternities into barracks plus the overtime ef
forts of faculty and students to' accommodate and
inform prove a willingness to cooperate and to
acconiplish a victory that will lest.
Things are usually handed to incoming frosh
and transfers in special meetings, schedules, and, a
full freshman week, but a wartime program does
not permit such arrangements.
Frosh, service men, and newcomers to our cam
pus, :then, must find those things individually. And
Penn State hats are off to them as an aid to their
discovery of the 'College's hidden spirit.
Our Fight, Too . . .
About two years ago Walter T. Chase '44 became
one of the vanguard of thousands of Penn State
students who shelved their college careers to enter
our nation's armed forces—to offer their jives in
defense of America and its ideals.
Last month his offer was accepted; Lt. Walter
T. Chase,
,United States Army Air Corps, died of
injuries sustained in the crash of his Army fighter
plane. •
Chase was not the first Penn Stater to have sac
rificed his life in the current struggle, but his
death does have special significance. For Walt
was a member of the Class of '44, and as such
might now be entering his last semester in shel
tered Nittany Valley—griping a bit about losing
his campus fraternity house, playing Graham's pin
ball machine in his spare moments, and probably
juggling his schedule to avoid Saturday classes.
Instead, faced with the choice that must con
front every young American in wartime, he gave
up his planned course of existence for active mili
tary service—and paid with his life.
For those of us who faced that crisis by taking
some action permitting us to remain in college, the
pathway is clear. We are Americans; America is
at total war. If we are to deserve the name
"American," it can be only on the sincere and
studied conviction that the job we have chosen is
the one in which we can be doing the greatest
good for our country. And, in doing that job, we
must lend our whole selves with the enthusiasm,
effort, and unbending determination of America's
best soldiers.
If we are to fulfill our role as warring Amer : -
icans—the ONLY role open today—our every ac
tivity during the coming semester must be weigh
ed by its value to the war effort. Neither weasel
words nor complicated rationalization can make
any other settlement right.
Walt Chase took one path and fought the fight
until death along the path he chose. We who re
main at Penn State have no right to make our col
lege-semester anything but a part of the same vast
effort in which he gave his life.
Peggy Good
__ Serene Rooenberg
_ Kitty ,Vogel
_ ..Louie H. Bell
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1943
The CAMPUSEFR
808 KIMMEL
A senior standing in front of Old Main staring at
the changes in the old place set the keynote for
this semester; •He looked a little dazed, with
something of that bewildered state of mind show
ing on his face that is usually connected with
freshmen . . . and for good reason, too . . . Penn
State is far different now in July than it was in
May.
Maybe the Air Corps accustomed us a little to
the marching and songs on the streets in town and
on campus, but' the Army Engineers have added
much to that, including some pretty cute ditties
that are slightly naughty. Some of their songs are
for barracks only, and when someone in the ranks
starts one of those, the squad leader shouts threats
of "gigging" for the whole gang . . . they have a
good one for •the Nayy, too. ,
Some of the faces in uniform are familiar ones,
since the Advanced ROTC boys have been given
an opportunity for another semester here, which
also augers well for the coming football season.
Navy Reserves arrived this week, also, in civilian
clothes, but with the martial air and group forma
tions.
To our freshman readers, we want to say that
this is not the usual kind of column we turnout
. . . but to start now and try to keep pace with
the whereabouts of half the school and their latest
romances would take just a couple too many lines
for this department, so we'll start from scratch
next week, - and• we promise to report on any and
every little bit of dirt we can scrape up.
There aren't any politicians around to poke fun
at, except Carl Swope, and he's safe in the em
brace of the Marine Corps. But the, new officers
will be elected soon, as•per the code established to
carry on student government. There, too, we see
changes that remind us of the war. Time is short,
perhaps unfortunately so, for the vote-pullers to
swing their ward-heelers into line and go on an
ear-bending spree.
Now that school is underwqy in earnest,
.no
doubt the movie fare will improve, with the horse
operas once again relegated to the Nittany. And
we too feel a big improvement in our paper . . . at
least there is one kind of gripe that won't bother
us any more . . . and that is the voice(s) on the
telephone complaining that Collegian wasn't de
livered this morning. But then, the job of handling
those complaints furnished enough training in di
plomacy and tact for enough people to outfit half .
the State Department.
What's gonna be on the social front this summer
is still a good deal indefinite, but most of the fra
ternities have nuclei tucked away in downtown
apartments, and one or more even have houses,
after a fashion . . . could be they'll be dances and
parties . . . most of the military units stationed at
the College will be on display when the Fourth of
July parade goes by this evening . . as well as
the Civilian Defense Corps.
But now we quit until next week, when we
promise to revert to type and gabble with the
gossip. —CAMPY
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Stranger in town—and we
don't mean the boys in uniform
....With Army, Navy and Ma
rines swarming• around the place,
most of the eighth and ninth
semester brains feel •as bewild
ered as the kids in green, and we
do mean kids.
Romance, Inc.
Seems love is accelerated at
this point, with some of the coeds
now on the "Reserved" shelf....
Jane Ammerman, kappa, took the
vows with 2nd Lt. Art Thorn
man, deltachi, in Louisiana the
other week, ...Mim Rhein, theta,
May grad, went along and mid
dle-aisled it with 2nd Lt. Bill
Murphy, spe....Betty Rose -mar
ried her tke....Betty Christman
is now Mrs. ChuCk Bowman a§
of the other week.... Mary Jo
MacDougall, achio, wants it
known she's been Mrs. Dick
Schwab since April.... Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Slep (phipsi and
theta Janie Berkebile) spent their
honeymoon in State College for
the wedding of Ensign and Mrs.
Hank McCall (pika and theta Ir
ma Winter) the other weekend..
..Some of the boys went pros
pecting and gave diamonds....
Helen Sehmentz, kappa, and Jim
my Leyden, beta of the Air
Corps.... Hattie Van Riper and
Al Clark, phidelt, of the Army
.Sue Clouser has a sweetheart
pin from phigam Ed -MaKane,.:
and how about Claire Jackson?
...:On the more unpleasant side
Sidney Greenstreet and George 'Raft in an exciting' scene from Varner.
Bros'. "Background To Danger," a picture of intrigue, death and romance.
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CATHAUMt• THEATRE. BUILDING
....Rachel Dutcher, -achlo„ has
returned Dill Pickers sae -pin
(brother Ace -Parker-, ,is taking
over) ~ .. Pat Pearsall, kappa,
broke her engagement , to ato Bob
Sieger .... and Carolyn Kunkle
gave back Bill , McKee's ato hard
ware.... Ruthie Ernst, chio,
unpinned to the home town boy
and her heart now belongs to
the Air Corps.
Hut, 2,3, 4
Among the boys roaming
around in uniform are ChUck
Bond, now the Navy; Carl Swope,
Marines; Charlie Good, - Navy;
Rem Robinson, Navy; and Bill
Kistler, Navy, who's having a lit
tle difficulty taking care of his
interests over by the Old Stone
-Pile, since the- Navy now gets top
billing..... There are some more
.of the local yokels back a
but you'll.see 'em if you 100 k....
And now just a slight request....
Don't think •we 'don't like - to hear
your singing, boys, cause we do.
It sounds good. But how about
toning it down to a mere shout
about 7:15 a.m.? You make good
alarm clocks for those 7:30
classes, but remember the Lib
eral Artists don't indulge in such
early activities .... Swelling the
ranks of the 20. to 1 (for the.
coeds' .side) we've been hearing
about the rather unexpected
return of senior advanced ROTC.
boys
boys ....such..,as.4Jackie Grey, Bill
Briner, Jack Hunter, etc.
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