FRIDAY, JULY 30, •1943 gosh :Coeds Vote For Ford, Steele As WSGA Senator Senate Plans Elections, Servicemen Open House • Jean Ford and Bette Steel will compete for WSGA the freshman senator post in final elections in first floor lounge, Old Main, from 9' to 5 o'clock today.. Preliminary balloting. Wednesday resulted in the elimination of two of the or iginal candidates. Dorothy Funk liouser and Jane Wolbarst com peted with Miss Ford 'and Miss, Steel hi the primaries. ' Regular WSGA elections date Will.' be set" later, according to Ruth M. Storer, WSGA presi dent, who urged all upperclass women to give serious thought to possible nominees for WSGA po sitions. An open house for servicemen has been scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, .August B,.by WSGA Senate. All sorority I - louses, cot tages, home management houses, ani, dormitories including Jordan and Watts Hall with the Curtiss- Wright and Hamilton Standard Propeller women will be open for entertainment. All coeds and special ,students residing in these units will act as hosteses for their respective units. Details of the open house will be worked out by a committee of woman student leaders, and will be set forth and explained in WS GA House of Representatives meeting, Miss Storer stated. WSGA Senate will meet in the WSGA Room, White ~ Hall, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, August 4. Hamilton Students Plan Bridge Party To honor the Curtiss-Wright women, the Hamilton Propeller students will entertain at bridge on the tri-dorm lawn fro - Th. 3 to 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Ping pong, recorded music, and refresh inen't.: have been planned in addi tion te. bridge, according to JaniCe Brennan, general chairman. Committees assisting Miss Bren nan . include hospitality, Mary chairman, Georgianna Barbar.,:"Houlihan, June Quinn, Mary . :l:ealian; tables, Betty Lou Hornidk . '",int Lois Margery Miller, co-chairmen; refreshments, - Elizabeth Eshleman, chairman; Erma Barrett , Mary Kay Connell, 'Jean Grant; :' , Eleanor Jones, Flor ence Roberts:. Entertainment, Patricia Lufkin, chairman, G 1 a-d y s Bergmark, Nancy Loll, Alice Mann, Kathryn Taggart; clean-up, Irene Jedrziew ski,, chairman, Jane Andrew,'Helen Christianson, Viola Conley, Lynn Destiche, Helen Ihns, Josephine Martin, and Malvind Murphy. Honorary Initiates, Plans Matrix Dinner Theta Sigma Phi,' women's jour nalism honorary, plans to hold in itiation at the Kappa Alpha. Theta house at 1:30 p. m.,. Saturday, August 7. nitiatates will be June Bailey ) Natalie Davison, E. Ann Fisher, - Alice Fox, Renee Isaacs, and Sara Kouri. Coeds who were recently pledg ed are. Lenore Freedman, Margaret Good, Serene Rosenberg, Kathryn Roberts, and Beatrice Russ. Plans are being made for the annual Matrix Dinner, given by Theta Sigma Phi for outstanding coeds. Last year Mrs. Esther Van Wagner Tufty, Washington corre spondent, was speaker at the din ner, held at the Nittany Lion Inn. Calendar Deadline Set Persons wishing to put an nouncements in the College Cal endar should phone the Collegian office Monday or Tuesday after- Grace Sammons Receives Pan-Hellenic Scholarship for Coed Leaders The installment ceremony for Pan-Hellenic new officers was held in the Atherton Hall south west lounge July 27. Installed were president, 4 plartha James, Delta Gamma; vice-president, Helen Martin, Kappa Kappa Gamma; secretary, Patricia Hol berg, Alpha Chi Omega; and tz•easurer, Mary Long, Gamma Phi Beta. Pan-Hellenic Council's schol arship, formerly held by Martha Chubb, was awarded Grace Sam mons by Sorority President Bea trice White, Phi Mu. Refreshments were served to council members and advisors af ter the ceremony. Scholarship Applications Available for Students Dr. Carl P. Marquardt, chair man of the committee on academic standards, has announced, for the benefit of student:, who consider them:elves eligible for • certain scholarships granted by the Col lege, that application blanks are now available. These questionnaires will, at a later date, be considered by the committee when it chooses recip ients of what are probably the only remaining scholarships, the memorial grants of the Class of 1922. The blanks are available at the College examiner's office, 108 Old Main. Thcse,memorial scholarships are granted to "students in the upper three classes, who have a satisfac tory scholastic record and are of good moral character and reputa tion; preference will be given to students who are actively partici pating in the field of cultural pur suits such as debating; dramatics, literature, music, and pursuits similar thereto." Extension Services • Change To War Basis Designed to meet expanding state-wide needs of _Central Ex tension's wartime program of en gineering, science, and manage ment war training, a reorganiza tion of district offices has been an nounced by Stanley H. Campbell, supervisor, district representatives division. • Nineteen district offices, each headed by a district -representa tive, have ,replaced the system of six major districts, subdivided into smaller districts. Under the new plan, new offices have been established in Bethle hem, Dußois, Oil City, Greens burg, Uniontown, Carnegie, New Castle, and New Kensington. T is zird Is Seeing Clore The Penn State Engineer will soon he. on sale at Student Union The Corner Room Eleven Foreign-Born Women Attend College In Past Years During the past few years the College has had nearly a dozen foreign-born woman students at tending regular classes or study ing for advanced degrees. Six of these are Chinese; three are Eu ropean; and two came to the Un ited States from Latin America. Shuk Yee Chan who received her Ph.D. here in 1942 is now with the Boyce-Thompson Insti tute, Yonkers, New York. Miss Chan came here from Hong Kong and attended Lingnan University, Canton, China. The Lee twins, Pearl and Ruby, whose family has lived in Hong Kong since early in the war, were awarded their B. S. degrees in 1942, and are now doing grad uate study; Pearl at Massa chusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering, and Ruby at Cornell in agronomy. A graduate of Lingnan Univer sity, Mrs. Kit Wai is an ex change student now living in Grange Dormitory. Mrs. Wai is studying home economics. Yi Ying Ma took her M.A. de gree •in psychology at Smith Col lege, then came 'to Penn State for further study. Before-comple tion of her work, she left for her Hong Kong home, but was detain ed by the war on the west coast and is now studying at the Uni versity of California. Working in fir Bureau of Home Economics, Washington, D. C. is Woot Tsuen Wu who re ceived her Ph.D. here in 1940. Recently married to Shau _ Yan Leung, she came here from Hong Kong. Among the European students are Ruth Littman, Lotti Steinitz, and Tina Valen. Miss Littman, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was awarded her B.A. degree here in August, 1942, and' did graduate study at Byrn Mawr in sociology. Miss Steinitz, a German ref ugee, born in Berlin, took her B. S. degree here in 1938 and her Ph.D. in ,genetics at the Univer sity of California in 1942. Miss Steinitz is now doing industrial work in chemistry. Miss Valen, German-Russian refugee from in Toronto, Canada, received her naturalization papers while studying at the College for her B.S. degree, awarded in .1939 in landscape architecture. Latin-American woman stud- Masanerettes Initiate Macquerettes will initiate three pledges in the Thespian room at 8 p.m. Sunday. The new members are Mary Kay Hoppel, Priscilla Schautz, and Mickey White. Giaham's Yougers and Kaye's Korner And so will you when you see the natural color photograph wi the THE COLLEGIAN cover of the PENN STATE ENGINEER. ents. are from Mexico and from Puerto Rico. The Mexican student, Elsa Per ez Castaneda, of Cerralvo, N. L., is now with Phillips Petroleum Company, Oklahoma. Miss Perez Castaneda's B.S. degree in chem ical engineering, was awarded in 1943. Mrs. Carmen Chiesa de Perez, Rio Pedras, Puerto Rico, is teach ing Spanish and English in her native country. King Discusses 'Hope' Al Chapel The Reverend Mr. Herbert King, associate secretary, National Coun cil of. Student Christian Associa tions of New York City, will be the Sunday morning chapel speak er this week. For his topic he has selected "Hope." Mr. King, native of Atlanta, Ga., was graduated with honors from Morehouse College in 1927. From Union; Theological Seminary he re ceived his B.D. degree, and from Oberlin Graduate School of The ologv, degree of master of sacred theology. For several years, Mr. King was assistant director of voluntary re ligious activities of Hampton In stitute, Va. Since 1936, when he accep*ed the invitation of the Na tional Student Division of the YMCA to be associate secretary, he hay worked in the South as a field secretary among Negro and white. college students and in Negro and inter-racial confer ences He now gives most of his time as a traveling ,program sec retary available to student move ment arOups. NITTANY NOCTURNE Saturday, August Psychology Department Will Reveal Results Of Freshman Tests Scoring of a group of tests ad ministered to freshmen during Freshmen Week is being com pleted and results will be avail able to deans, advisors, and fresh men before September 1, when be low grades are due. Freshmen entering in July may obtain these test results and an interpretation of them by making an appointment in the Psycho- Educltional Clinic, Room 3, Bur rowes This guidance anirClinical serv ice is available to all students of the College. Many of the problems center around the choice of cur riculum and vocation, but often the students have related personal or family. adjustment needs, which are met by the clinic in its con fidential personal problem service. Appointments can be made at any t , me between 8 a.m. and 12 noon and 1:30 to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday. YOU HAVE THREE INVITATIONS FOR THIS SUNDAY- 9:30 A.M. Student Department Exploration of Chapter two St. Mark's Gospel 3:00 P.M. Music Hour and Open House 6:30 P. M. Westminster Fel lowship Panel Discussion: "Wartime Priorities For Students." 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