FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943 Coed Saw Death In Shanghai; Father Was Prisoner Of Japs By BERNARD J. CUTLER --A Penn State coed who lived surrounded by the Japanese ter ror it. 'the international Settle ment in Shanghai for three years has just heard that her father, 'a. 4 .vittlkal prisoner of 'the Japanese since Dec. '7, 1941, arrived in NeW York on Ale International .exchan g e Ship , C-ripshohn on Virednesday.De.c. 8. Marjoiie Rummel, a freshman. enrolled in the School ot Chem istry, liVed with her family in Shanghai from •1'935 until Novem ber ot 1940. Her father, Sohn W. Rummel, a graduate of the-Penn sylvania. State College in- Chem tngineering in 1915, worked for the Shanghai Power Company "during this time. When the Japanese armies at tacked Shanghai in 1937 Marjorie and her family fled to the Phil ippines where. they lived for•four months. After the fighting was over they - returned to Shanghai, and encirclement by the Japan ese. For three years they lived in the International Settlement less than one-half block from Japan -6-e barbed wire. Marjorie vivid ly remembers. the time when she and her brother illegally entered the city proper and saw death and destruction on the once peaceful streets of Shanghai. In 1940, at the suggestion of the State Department,. Marjorie With her mother and brother left Shanghai . for the United States. Runimel remained at his Post -in Shanghai. On December 7, 1944:the Japanese seized coin= plete control of the Intenational Settlement. Between that date and her father'.l recent arrival I+7: . sv, York the .bnly communicaL . tion-Marjoria received from him was a ten-word Red Cross 'Post card. "He was not a prisoner of the Japanese, but his resignation from his job. would not be 'ac cepted," she said.. -The Rummel family will be re united fo the first 'time in three College Leads. Slate; Student Placement Greater: Than Ever Graduates of the College obtain ed more teaching positions in Pennsylvania in the last school year than those of any other col lege Registrar William S. Hoffman reported today.. Mork than 10 per cent of the 5,43). teaching certificates issued in the State went to Penn State grad uates, according to Roffirian, who base , ?. his report on' statistics re leased by the office. of the superin tendent of public instruction. A total or 558 graduates, 334 Men 'and .224 women, were granted provisional ; c . 6.11e g,e .dertificateS.. These certificates are issued by the State' When a *person first obtains a teaching position. Penn State, the report indicated, provided every one of the 55. agri, Cultural. teachers certified by the State, and 92 of the-416 newly em ployed home economics teachers. Other fields in which the College was heavily represented were in dustrial arts, English, vocational education, health, '.and Spanish. 1 Outlines Personnel Need Dean W. I. Newstetter of the School of Applied Sciences, Uni versity of Pittsburgh, outlined the opportunities in the health and welfare services when he ad dressed College .students arid foe-. ulty in 121 Sparks Wednesday evening. There are serious shortages of professionally trained Red Cross and USO personnel, he asserted, thus providing opportunities for graduate work in these agencies. —Don't let Congress take the vote away from the Servicemen : . . See editorial, "The Fight Is Y0ur5.",..... . . • - . . years this Christmas when Mar jorie goes home for her vaca tion. She ekpects this to be the happiest Christmas in her entire life. The girl who received her ed ucation at the Shanghai-American School and ate 100 year old-eggs a delicacy says that both the school here at l'enti Stnte and the food: at the Anchorage where she eats is "simply. swell.". - When Asked if she had anything to say about the Japanese, IVtar jorte tersely related, • "Nothing printable at this point", - Women's Dean Ai rilndes large Coed Enrollment To Long-lime Trend An ever-increasing number of coeqz. are entering fields of study in v..nich they will be better able to meet the demands of the post- - war world, Dean of Women Char lotte E. Ray said today in predict ing a bright future for coeducation at the College. "P,:ople are under the mistaken impression," Miss Ray said, "that the large coed enrollMent this year is .a product of the war. On the contary," she added, "it is the cul mination of a long-time trend and was foreseen even before the:war brought it into public promi nence." Dean Ray, asserting that pres ent.dPy women* are fully aware-of their responsibilities, explained that the most pronoUnced develop meht of the wartime period has been the shift .of women students to technical curricula. She said large numbers of women are now engaged in the study. of chemistry, med.cal r' technology, pre-medical •courses; .and' physical education becau4e "they feel they . will be nee:ied• in' these fields after the war," Steidle Releases Names Of MI Honor Sfudenfs bean 'Edward Steidle of the School . of Mineral Industries has released the names of the:follOw ing students who attained an aver age 'of 2.5 or better for the summer semester 1943: Seniors: Linn F. Adams, earth sciences; Charles A. Bruch 'metal lurgy; Marvin Dayno, metallurgy; Frank Garofalo, metallurgy; Darl D. G.llespie, petroleum and nat ural ga:s; John N. Hoffman, mining; David J. Kachik,' mining; Edward J. Kleckner, n ning.— . JuniOrs: , Charles E. Blakeslee, fuel i - echnolc:igy; Hugh R. Larson, metAllurgy;• Robert • E: Lowrie, metallurgy. . Soi3' hom' Ore: John B. Kebblish; raining. 'Freshman: Robert L. Folk, earth sciences. - Freshman Mass Meeting Freshman men and women will ,meet in Schwab Auditor ium Tuesday, December 14, at 7:15 p.m. Attendance is requir 7 ed Howard Milliken, Tribunal chairman, stated. THE COLLEGth Victory Tree" Beats Yuletide Ornaments Made in Japan "Victory Christmas trees" are the latest invention this year, ac cording to the home economics de partment at the College. .All that is necessary to brighten up the Christmas holiday are some old . .newspapers,.bare tree branches, paste, paint, and plenty of patience and ingenuity. • Thl home- economics department has released the following sugges tions on how to beat wartime re strictions• with the use of hand made. decorations. • . - The original "Victory Christmas trees" Are made by tying together several bare tree branches, paint ing• .thetn white, and then trim rnirir.! with these handmade deco rations. The most effective decorations are gotten by covering real fruits and model toys with three layers of half-inch-wide strips of news paper that have .been dipped in a creamy solution of paste and water,' and then letting them dry overright. The next steps are cutting the coverings from the bases, pasting them together again, and then painting . the finished product in contrasting colors. For a note of novelty, according to • the home economics depart ment, painted newspaper' stars and arigel.s folded into three-dimen sionaL decorations. and shiny pieces Of oilcloth cut in the shape of sto;:'.rings or gift boxes will embel lish the tree or branch._ . Army Air Corps ExOm 3 '. Final Army Air ,Corps mental exam before the Christmas re-, cess will be given in 401 Old Main at 9 : a.rrL December 17. Xpplications,mai be secured at 243 SParks froth FAWS'llebert E.- Galbraith. ..Galbraith _also asks . that ..a.1.1 students who receive. word of final acceptance from the. Navy V-12 report to his office and notify him. C — HRISIII - 11S As gi A' OM M r INOOM • • • 'WASMY:OKEST4M , L-ts.':M'i'AMl - 10.43a;74. WS6A Mine Regulations For Coeds Dating At fraternities All coeds who are dating at one of the thirteen approved fraternity houses on Friday or Saturday nights must sign at their respec tive dormitories, according to a plan put into effect by WSGA and the Intetfraternity Council, which are cooperating in enforcing the IFC dating 'code. The name of the fraternity to which the coed is go ing must be entered next to the coe:i's•name in the sign -out book. If Si coed unexpectedly goes to a fraternity house in the course of an evening, she is 'to enter the name of the house when she signs in at 1 o'clock. The list turned in' by the clortn. 4 tories will be checked with a gmest list that. the fraternities are required to send to the Dean of Men's office. The approved fraternity houses are Alpha CM Sigma, Alpha Phi Delta, Alpha Tau Omega, Beaver House, Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Chi, Penn Haven Unit, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Phi Alpha,"and Triangle. Contest Will Decide "World War 11 Song" Ra 3, mond Paige and • his NBC "Salute to • .Youth" .orchestra are spOnsoring a . war . sprg cbriteat in high schools and colleges-through out the United States and Canada in coeperatiori with the "Magazine Digest." JUdges of the best "World. War U Song" will,be Arnold Eidus, Helen Jepson, James Mialton, Ray mond Paige, and Frank Sinatra. The winners will receive $250, a trip to New York for an appear ance on the "Salute to Youth" pro gram; -nationwide publicity, and promotion of the winning song, all -rights royalties, and money result ing from its publication. Pat O'Brien and Ruth Warrick as seen in "The Iron Major," the story of Frank Cavanaugh, Now Playing at the • State Theatre te:04."Z3.45..4:«4M1tW..1; tf l w l Your •Roommate Has Earned It . ;= Your Friends Deserve If Costume Jewelry . . . .6 For originality and, coinpli ments gold, silver and jew eled Gloves . . . 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