PAGE SIX Panhellenic Council Plans Semester's First Formal Dance As the first formal dance of the current semester, Pan-Hell enic Council will present its an nual benefit dance at the Nittany Lion Inn from 9 to 12 p.m. Sat urday, April 15, announced Mary Matry, chairman in charge. Each girl attending the dance will be required to donate as her admittance fee, a contribution which will go to a designated benefit organization, Miss Matry stated. The organization which will receive the donations has not, as yet, been selected. • Costs •of the dance will be met by assessments made to each so rority, it was revealed, with the purpose of replacing individual sorority formals cancelled on ac count of the wartime restrictions on social functions. The committee in charge of the dance, consists of Mary Matrey, Alpha Omicron Pi, chairman; Mary Lou Dunmire, Phi Mu, and Betsy Merkle, Kappa Alpha Theta. Music for the dance will be provided by the Campus Owls. Pan-Hellenic Council is start ing a drive for sorority projects for the Red Cross. Several groups 'ave already begun work. Plans are under way for a so rority bridge tournament as an other phase in the benefit work. The Council is also cooperating in the Old Main Open House en tertainment for April 1 by send ing repreSentatives. Adams Warns Against 'Gangplank Weddings' For Returned Veterans Returning servicemen were ad yised against "gangplank wed, dings" today by .Dr.• Clifford R. Adams, associate professor of education and psychology at the College, who said that happy mar riages are seldom the result of pity, family pressure, or emotional strain. ' "Engaged couples who have been separated because of the war should be positive they still love each other," Dr. Adams said. "A waiting period of three to six months is advisable for all couples, and a wait of six months to a year is imperative for those who knew each other only a few months before their engagement," he added. This waiting period, Dr. Adams said, will not only afford the man and woman opportunity to note changes in each other and be cer tain they are still in love, but also will provide a chance for them to make future plans and for the man to become adjusted econom ically. He warned against marriages which take place because of fam ily or group pressure, and said that one should never marry out of pity for someone who is phys ically handicapped. "In normal times," Dr. Adams pointed out, "engagements are broken for very trivial reasons, and certainly an insurmountable physical ha n i c a.p, personality maladjustment, or pronounced change in mental attitude would justify a change of plans. Termi nation of an engagement may temporarily hurt one person, but an unhappy marriage would affect both; as well as children and other relatives," he explained. Library Opportunities Mrs. Alice Brooks Mooney, a member of the American Library Association Board of Education, will be on campus Tuesday, March 21, to discuss opportunities in li brary work. Mrs. Mooney will be prepared to answer questions about requirements and opportu nities in the field. All interested students should arrange for inter views in 204 Old Main as soon as possible. Heads WSGA Patricia Diener, who returned this semester' to take over 'her office as president of WSGA. Miss Diener spent last semester at Merril-Pal mer Institute. Women Still Outnumber Men in Enrollment Women still outnumber the men in the freshman class at the Col lege, despite the fact that 100 of the . 175 newly-admitted yearlings are men. students. Under the accelerated training program now in effect at the Cot lege, new students are admitted every four months. Last Novem ber, approximately 500 of the 700 freshmen were women. This se •mester's first-year enrollment is a reversal •of that trend. Registrar William S. Hoffman, who announced the preliminary figures, said that approximately 125 of the new students ranked in the upper two fifths of their high school classes. Most of the others were ranked in the third fifth. THE COLLEGIAN WSGA Donates $2OOO for Future SU Building; Cares for Service Flag Patricia Diener, president of Women's Senate presided over the first meeting of the organization this semester. Miss Diener has been studying at Merril-Palmer Institute. Patricia Hallberg has been acting president in her ab sence. It was announced at Monday's meeting that W. S. G. A. has do nated $2,000 in war bonds to the college to be used for the construc tion of a student union building after the war. Dr. Weston stated that Senate will take care of keeping State's service flag up to date and stars will be added when they are need ed. Helen Martin, representing Jun ior Service Board, announced that any undergraduate women who have not yet done so, should register their activities at the Dean of Women's office as soon as pos sible. All undergraduates are ask ed to register even if they have no activities. Because of cafeteria style meals, dining hall announcements have been abolished. The bulletin boards at the entrance of the din ing hall are now being used for all WSGA announcements. Senate will hold its meetings in the Dean of Women's office at 7:00 every Wednesday beginning Monday. Coeds at the Hillcrest home economics home management house entertained at a party for their hostess, Miss Howery, Wed nesday evening. The Allies hold the key to real' peace and eventually will:do the whole world a good turn. Coeds to Register. • All undergraduate women are asked to register their ac tivities in the•Deari of Wornen's office as soon as possible. All coeds should register evert if they are not participating in any activities this semester. WOMEN IN SPORTS 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 With the badminton tournament nearing its close, Elizabeth Mc- Kinley reported the following up sets for this week's games: . Theta Phi Alpha won by default from Zeta Tau Alpha, Zeta Tau Alpha won over Alpha Chi Omega, Ath erton West lost to Kappa Alpha Theta. • Next week will see the sched uled games between the Sigma Delta Tau and Delta Gamma teams, and Alpha Epsilon Phi ver sus Theta Phi Alpha. • Interclas basketball winners have proven to be the Frosh, who won their game with the Junior- Senior team by the score of 24-8. Individual scorers for the Fresh men were Conroe, 12; L. Craig, 2; Kilmer, .4; Stevenson, 6. Other players were McNees, Black, Breggs, and Lauther. The Junior-Senior team. consist ed of Pike, 2; Parice, 6; New comer, Wolfram, Raines, and Mc- Gee. 11:=3=31 The All-College roller skating party planned by WRA will be held on Wednesday, March 22. Candidates for freshman repre sentative to, the WRA board will be elected this week. The follow ing girls have been nominated to • 4 4. In this staff officer's hands, the familiar telephone is a .' weapon.of war. It controls the striking power of our forces in the whole area. Over it flash orders that help our fight- 1 ing men to drive the enemy back. It . ' Today; Western Electric is .the nation's largest producer, of communications and . electronic equipment for war makingsmany kinds of telephone and radio apparatus for use on land, at sea, in the College graduates—men and women of varied abilities—are taking an important part in this work. Buy rfrar Bonds regularly—a& you can! tops 15 .04ANNIVERsi kr Western Electric IN 11ACSIAIDIMMOUSIMPLY iOit:THE lELL•SYSTEM: IN WAIt.: . :ARSENAL• or COMMUNICATIONS' IMMINENT.. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1944 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 fill the position: Doris Jenkins, Frances Green, Alice McNees, Jane Shlosser, and Perella Steven son. Alpha Lambda Delta Elects New Officers Alpha Lambda Delta recently elected the following officers for the coming semester: president, Marjorie Blackwood; vice-presi dent, Mitzie Archer; secretary, Betty Steele, and treasurer, Carol Engle. The new members in the society are Mitzie Archer, Marian John son, Sara Masurovsky, Dorothy South, Betty Steele, Mary Lotiise Lamade, ,and Marjorie Rubinow. Getman Club Meets "The Derivations and Mean ings of Some Personal and. PlOce Names" will be the topic treated by Professor Wurfl at the first meeting of the German Club, 304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m., lArednepddy. Professor Wurfl will attempt -to explain the meanings of stUdercts' last names. . There will also be group.sing ing of favorite German .songs arid refreshments will be serVecl:7'-- '
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