PAGE SLX Men in Service (Continued, from page Jive) was for a time an exchange stu dent to Lingnan University in Canton, China. Bob Thomas is in a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., recovering from a blood clot on one eye. . . . Lt. Dean is now at the New Orleans office of Naval Procurement where he says "It's hotter than all hell." He helped many former students who are now with the Navy to get their applications. . . . According to a recent announcement, 59 WACs have landed with the Fifth Army in North Africa. Their com manding officer is Lt. Cora M. Fos ter '27. Now at OCS at Fort Sill, Bud Savard, who is in the Field Artil lery, writes that during his stay at Fort Bragg most of his fellow sol diers were from Princeton. Now, at Fort Sill most of the 'boys are from Yale, and he's the only Penn Stater there as far as he knows. Hitler's Guest In April his parents received word that Li. Robert B. Walker was missing in action over the European area. However, in June they started getting letters from him from a German prison camp about 90 miles southeast of,Berlin. He ,"describes the place as being situated in a large pine forest. There are 2,500 Air Force officers at the camp, including Americans, British, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, Poles, Czechs, Belgians, Dutch, and Norwegians. The prisoners live in new huts, well constructed, with four to twelve men in each. They have athletic fields, and the prisoners keep the huts and grounds clean s grow vegetables and flowers, and do their own laundry. They eat in their huts, where they have wood stoves, and they prepare their own meals on wood stoves in the kit chen. Once a week they get a hot shower, while there is an abun dance of cold water all the time. Edward W. Yorke Jr. '34 was elevated in rank recently to lieu tenant-commander and has been sent as an assistant naval attache for air at the American embassy in Moscow. He entered the service in February, 1942, with a lieuten ant (jg) commission, and was in Washington before being trans ferred to the Russian capital. The' ilver Star for gallantry was awarded Li. John M. Semanchyk ex-'4O in August at the base of Mt. Etna, Sicily. A member of the First Infantry Division, he took part in the invasions of North Africa and Sicily and participated in every major engagement in Tunisia and Sicily. In March he received the Purple Heart for military merit in El Guettar. FDR said he wished Hitler could have been at the Quebec confer ence in spirit—where he wouldn't have had a ghost of a chance. Here Is Stationery For You! Peroonatized Stationery Your own name or initial's ' on both envelope and paper NITTANY PRINTING and PUBLISHING COMPANY 119 S. Frazier Street Dial 4868 Skit For Thespian Show Rewritten As Complete Play "This Ain't the Army," which started out as a skit in Thespians' " Once Over Lightly," has been ex panded into a complete three-act play. Cast, as announced by Marty Skapik, production manager, in chides Stanley Goldberg, advanced ROTC; Raymond Boyle, and Stooges Jack Hunter, Frank Mc- Kain, and Ed Kaiser. The Stooges are also working on a new routine for the show, which theysve titled "G. I. Blues." Mim Zartman's chorus has 'been rehearsing for several weeks. The 24-piece orchestra, under the di rection of Jimmy Burden, is just beginning to get coordination. The group is composed of recruits from Phi Mu Alpha, music honorary; the Campus Owls, and Burden's I own band. Several mix-ups in an- Inouncements or meetings got the glee club off to a bad start, 'but Frank Gullo has issued a final try out call for all those interested to meet in 200 Carnegie at 8:30 p.m. Monday. Prices for the show have been set at 50 cents for Friday, Sep- I tember 24, and 75 cents for Sat urday, September 25, with a 50- cent top for servicemen at both shows. Since servicemen will be able to see the show on Saturday only, Skapik has asked - that regu lar students make an effort to at tend the Friday evening perform ance. Tickets will go on sale at Student Union on Tuesday. 400 Trainees Study Airplane Maintenance Ranging in ages from 18 to 45 and in education from high school graduates to Ph.D.'s, more than 400 students are taking vocation al education courses in airplane maintenance and repair at Har risburg. The industrial education department of the College, State Department of Public Instruction and State School of Aeronautics are sponsoring them. Dr. F. Theodore Struck, head of the industrial education de partment at the College, ex plained that the courses are in tensive, usually being completed in eight weeks. New classes are scheduled to begin Septembef'ls. Trainees are instructed in methods . of teaching aircraft sheet metal work, electrical connec tions, propeller servicing, engine repair, final assembly, inspection of parts, instrument repair, and packing and repairing of para chutes completes the courses. Students are paid while they learn and are obligated to gov ernment work for the duration. Millions of Americans are play ing a leading role in the war effort, which really means more than the one they get on pay day. THE COLLEGIAN Junior Psych-Ed Classes Coordinated Ed School Institutes Two - Curriculum Changes Progressive movements to ad vance teacher training courses has been instigated within the secondary • education curriculum of the School of Education as a result of several years of work by a faculty committee appointed to revise the teachef training program., Successfully inaugurated and tested last semester for first se- mester juniors, the plan., which combines educational tests and measurements, history of second ary education and psychology of adolescence, helped the commit tee to unify subject _matter in a similar manner for the required second-semestei- - junior courses. Therefore, the courses in edu cational psychology and teaching methods have been combined this semester. The plan was begun in con junction with a decision that there was a great over-lapping of subject matter and that the stud ent didn't have the valuable ex perience of participating in open class discussions and forums and didn't get a functional training fol. teaching. Contrary to the former lecture classes, the two new integrated courses present combinations of psychology, and principles and philosophy of education. Several outide projects includ ing observation of classes and other activities and individual analysis of the .attitudes and de velopment of certain students are included in the course. Motion pictures depicting char acteristics of the high school pu pil and school systems are shown in the classes, and class forums, dramatization of good and poor ill P _ resenting - Pennsylvania Cards I ....6.. . ri► by the College Book Store IN COMMEMORATION of our Fourth Anniversary, the College Book Store presents Pennsylvania Cards,--- original drawings depicting Pennsylvania Dutch scenes and traditional designs reproduced by us—to bring y_ou something entirely different in Greeting Cards. The Colle . ge Book Store 129 West Beaver Avenue ways of handling the adolescent are held. Public opinion polls of college freshmen and high school stud ents, also constitute some of the other activities in these classes. This integrated program for secondary education students has .been developed and put into operation by a specially appoint ed committee of the School of Education and Psychology work- ing with the cooperation of Dean Marion R. Trabue of the School of Education and Dr. Bruce V. Moore, head of the department of psychology. This secondary education cur riculum committee is composed of Professors Mary Jane Wyland, chairman; Frank A:_Butler, Ed ward B. Van Ormer, and James H. Moyer of the school of edu cation. CA Plans Cabin Party For Students, Servicemen All students and servicemen in terested in attending the All-Col lege cabin party scheduled for Sept. 18 at the CA lodge should sign up for the affair as •soon as possible in Room 304, Old Main, Ben Clouser, • chairman of the committee in charge, announced today. • Dr. Fred B. Harris, Chaplain of the Senate, Washington, D. — C., will be the guest of honor. The group will meet at the rear of Old Main'at 2:15 p.m. and leave together. Other members of the commit tee are: Charles Hoge, Jean Butz, Terrio Haskins, and Karl Humes. BUY WAR BONS AND STAMPS Each, 10 Cants F.P.IDAY, SFPTEAIBER 10, 1943 Six new student patrolmen are needed for work at student activities on campus, according to Capt. P. A. Mark, of the Campus Patrol. He urges all those interested to report at the patrol office, 320 Old Main, for interviews. 44,47 x. Aden- Elizabeth Arden's ARDENA CLEANSING CREAM for dry or normal skin, 1.00 to 3.00 ARDENA SKIN LOTION for refreshing, .85 to 3.75 . ARDENA FLUFFY CLEANSING CREAM for oily skin, 1.00 to 3.00 Prices plus taxi's MdANAHAWS- State College, Pa.
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