FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943
Martin Stresses Need for including
History in Air Cadets° Schedules
"American fighting "men need the inspiration and encourage
ment that only a study of,their own country's history can give them,"•
Dr. Asa E. Martin, head of the history department observed recently
in praising military authorities for the inclusion of history in the
Army's college training program.
• Dr. Martin said a poll of 500 student-soldiers now on the campus
dor intensive schooling under the Army's Specialized . Training Pro-
Alumnus Disappears
During Army Landing
Second Lieutenant Alpheus B.
Clark, Penn State alumnus, has
been missing since a cabin cruiser
capsized during a night landing
operation June 30 between Nan
tucket and Martha's Vineyard. The
Army has abandoned search for
the bodies of Clark, Second Lieu
tenant Walter D. Alquist, and
Technical Sergeant Edward Kra
mer.
Lt. Clark was graduated from
the forestry • department in 1941.
He was a member of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity arrd the Penn
State Forestry Society. Clark was
also a member of the Penn State
track and cross country squads.
Trustee Was Gridder
P. L. "Pete" Mauthe, Youngs
town, 0 :5 industrial executive and
a member of the board bf trustees
at the I'ennsylvania State College,
was onto of Penn: State's better
football players in his undergradu- .
ate days,
Yes • •
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FlOrian is the middle name of
Leo Houck, famed middleweight
fighter who has been coaching the
boxing teams at Penn State for
the last 21 years.
gram, showed that while 91 per
cent completed an American his
tory course in high School, a de
cidedly smaller percentage took'
a. college course in United States
history.
Dr. Martin learned that approx
imately 200 of the 500 basic engi
neers had finished college' or were
students at the time of their in
duction. Only 17 per cent of these
200 had completed American his
tory courses.
He pointed out' that 9 per cent
had finished high school without
taking a single American history
course.
"An appreciation of our heri
tage is just as important in the
Army as it. is in civilian life."
The student-soldiers participa
ting in the poll came from 38 dif
ferent states and the District of
Columbia and, according to Dr.
Martin, 105 institutions of higher
learning are .represented in the
group with previous college train
ing. About one-fifth of the entire
group claimed New York as their
home state, with sizeable groups
coming from Illinois, Ohio,. and
Pennsylvania.
Vocational Ed Experts
Plan for Post-War Days
Milady shouldn't be surprised
after the war when a man mani
cures her nails, applies a mud
pack, or demonstrates how to pre
pare her meals and decorate her
home.
The turnabout will , result be
cause many women will remain in
industry after 'the war is over,
John McCarthy, New Jersey state
director of vocational education,
told education specialists who met
at the . College.
This means, he said, that men
must be trained., for, jobs which
formerly belonged traditionally to
women—homemaking and beauty
shop work, for example.
ToWard that new day, vocational
education experts advocated home
economics courses for men as well
as for women.
Farmers'' report that spinach is
now plentiful. That may help to
end this wave of juvenile delin
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THE COLLEGIAN
Lettermen Bolster
Niltany Udders
Penn State's 1943 football out
look brightened today with the re
turn of five lettermen, and the en
rollment of at least five freshmen
who distinguished • themselves in
high school. football.
Two of the Lions' 1942 perform
ers returned via the Navy V-12
program and, both players—Red
Moore, tackle, ,and Bobby Wil
liami, passer—were virtually cer
tain of starting assignments if
their heavy' 'academic schedule
permits participation in sports.
The other • varsity performers
who will.be back are Johnny Jaf
furs, guard; • Aldo Cenci, blocking
back, and Sparky Brown, ball
carrier. But, like their former
teammates in . the NaVy, these
three Arthy acquisitions will not
know for several months whether
they will be permitted to finish the
semester or whether they will be
called to service in September.
While the 17-year-olds in the
freshman class are expected to
produce at least a half dozen var
sity performers, the only plebes
who earned outstanding mention
in schoolboy fodtball are Charley
Stapel, back; Mike Slobodnjak,
center; Al Olszewski, end; Marchi
Marino, tackle, arid George Slater,
tackle.
A host of former college play
ers who arrived via the Navy,
among them nearly a dozen boys
from George Washington Univer
sity, several backs from the Uni
versity of Dayton, and a sprinkling
of squad members from Pitt, 'Du
qbesne, and Western Reserve,
ha - Ve yet to prove their mettle.
Practice sessions probably will be
gin in mid-August..
Veteran Battery Returns
To. Bolster Nittany Nine
Mike litrardrop„ varsity hurler,
and Ed Holler, reserve backstop,
assure Penn State of at least a
starting battery when it opens its
summer • baseball '• s'chedule , within
a few weeks against Colgate.
With these- exceptions, however,
talent is surprisingly lacking, al
though .coach Joe Bedenk • feels
that the Navy V-12 program and
incoming freshmen will produce
enough. material to field: a learn. •
5: The Lions: will play a seven
game schedule, beginning • with a
double bill against Colgate July 16
'arid • 17, followed by another home
game July 24 against Bucknell.
Other opponents will be: Navy
Pre-Flight, Sampson, N. Y., July
30; Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y., July 31;
and Colgate, Hamilton, N. Y., Au
gust 6 and 7.
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Lees ..New Com lade!
Of Army Air Force Cadets
Stationed at the CoPege
Capt. Thomas E. Leet has been
appointed commanding officer of
the detachment of Army Air
Force College Training candidates
at the College, it was announced
today. •
Leet, who was Adjutant of the
Pennsylvania Military College
from 1929 to 1934, was transfer
red from his post at the - Army
Air Field in Molden, Mo., where
he had been commandant of ca
dets.
His long military career began
in 1913 when he first enrolled as
a student at P. M. C. During his
undergraduate days, Leet starred
on the football team.
For more than 15 years after
his graduation, Leet was on the
administrative staff of P. M. C.
Ten of those years were spent as
line coach of the football squad.
In 1929 he was named 'Captain
of the Guard at the military col
lege.
•
laroda Urges Men
To Join Penn Slate Club
Persons interested in becoming
members and working with the
Penn State Club, independent
men's organization, should contact
Ray A. Zaroda, president, or visit
the club room, 321 Old Main, Ed
mund Koval, publicity chairman,
stated yesterday.
Koval also revealed plans of the
four independent organizations,
Independent Women's Association,
Independent Men's Association,
Penn State Club, and Philotes, to
sponsor a dance welcoming fresh
men and service men. Tentative
plans were made , at a meeting
Wednesday. The dance, opening
independent activities of the se
mester, will be held in Rec Hall at
a date to be announced later.
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Coach Joe Bedenk has only two
pitchers and a catcher with which.
to open the season, but he fee lN
confident nevertheless that he will
be able to field a representative
team for Penn State's seven-game
baseball schedule this summer.
The Lions open their summer
time season against Colgate next
Friday and in the meantime it is
the veteran coach's job to find
nine men who will uphold Pena
State's diamond reputiition against
such formidable opposition as
Colgate, Bucknell, the Navy Pre-
Flight team from Sampson, N. Y.,
and Cornell.
His only players from last
Spring still in their civilian
clothes are Mike Wardrop, pitch
er, who will not be called to the
service until September, Ed Holt.
er, catcher, and Matt McKinney,
128-pound hurler. Bedenk's other
performers will have to be found
in the Navy V-12 group and the
new freshman class.
The schedule follows: Colgate,
home, July 16 and 17; Bucknell,
home, July 24; Navy Pre-Flight,
Sampson, N. Y., July 30; Cornell,
Ithaca, N. Y., July 31; and Col
gate, Hamilton, N. Y., August 6
and 7.
If anything is looking up in
Japan it must be the people—for
more American planes.
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