WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1944
Costa Rican Co-Ed Eats
Ice Cream, Cake For Week
By FAY YOUNG
, "For a week I lived on ice cream
'and cake because I could not read,
'write, or speak enough English to
'-understand menus or waitresses,"
odette Hector said, laughing as
'she, thought• of her arrival at Mi
ami, Florida, six months ago from
Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa
Miss Hector spent two months
iri New York City before coming
!to State College. Her black eyes
;:tWinkled as she emphatically said
-Sunday afternoon, "I did not like
the city nor the • winter weather,
,e.sPecially. when I went Out.With
ont gloves; and I. fell on the ice
'foUrtimes the first day!"
• :Miss Hector is a dairy manufac
ture. student at the .College: Her
! classes include ice cream making,
Jesting milk, dairy cattle, judging
dairy products, and speech.:
all very new and interest
ing to . me, but I am studying dairy
'Manufacturing," she explained,
"because it is the chief industry
• of our country.' When I return to
.Costa Rica, I want to help to mod
ernize the industry as well as to
introduce' eduaational courses of
- ails type in the schools and uni-
Versifies."
- Miss Hector was. asked how she
•.like.d the coeds and servicemen
_here
.at State. "Fine'," was her an
swer. "The girls have .so much-per
sonality and everyone tries to help
me. I think the servicemen are
very nice boys, especially the
Navy."
•
"Custonis are very strange
here," MisS Hector continued. "In
Costa- Rica the gentleman always
gives the lady a-seat on- the street
- car. Here he pushes and shoves to
' get there first." •
! Miss Hector prepared for col
:lege work at' the Colegis Superior
de. Senbritas and' Esduela Manuel
,Oragorr in. San Jose,' the 'capital
city of Costa Rica.
pilring. the, course of. her inter
view, she told about scholol cus
toms' in Costa :Rica. Compulsory
' attendance' is required of everyone
in:grammar school for six years
and in college (high school) for five
year& Students. graduate - from' the
latter with a' bachelor of .science
degree and then'Continue studying
at' the university. The government
controls the entire educational'
program, which is much more dif
ficult than such programs in the
United States "becalse" Students;
Air Forceßand
(Continued, from, page , pae)
. rector of instrumental music at'
.Mansfield. State Teachers- . College
before accepting the associate pro
tessorship at the College in 1940.
Captain Howard supervised
. summer hand and orchestra con
ferences for high cshopl musicians
•
on the campus in 1940-41-42. Last
year he was guest conductor at
the All-State Band meet in which
approximately 300 high school pu
,Pils participated:
In the summer of 1942 he was
granted a leave of absence to en
ter the music branch of the spe
cial services. A few months ago
Captain Howard transferred from
the regular Army to accept the
Air Corps position.
gay , ith Jack fre.olFirpig!ig . ,4'§::?,'Sakal I
carry as many as fifteen subjects
in one year, according to Miss
•
Hector. •
All of the girls dress alike, wear
ing blue pleated skirts and white
and blue striped 'blouses. Jewelry
and makeup are forbidden during
school hOtirs. So are "dates" while
the girls are in uniform.
"I like it much better here!" ei
clainied Miss Hector. "In Costa
Rica we must take a chaperone
with us on every date until we are
engaged. It is very silly. •
"At first the American soldiers
stationed on
,the island could not
understand this custom, but now
they take the chaperone and like
it."
OUr five-foot-four Latin Amer
ican friend elaborated upon some
peculiar customs of .social life in
Costa Rica: "Your music is so dif
ferent here," she said. "At:home
(Continued. on page 'six)
lemprelli To Head
Debate Sessions
Ed ward P. Zeniprelli, Penn
State, was elected president of the
Pennsylvania State Debaters' Con
vention Saturday at the final ses
sion of the annual conclave. Other
officers elected were John J. Mc-
Clellan, Moravian College, first
vice - president, and. David L.
Shank, University of Pennsyl
vania, second vice-president.
Attending the convention were
75 undergraduates from ;16 col
leges throughout the state. For the
first time in the history of the
convention, the women delegates
got a fighting chance to out-talk
the:men, with
. 44 women outnum
bering. the 31 men. •
A bill taking action on the past
war ',foreign- policy Of the United
States•was passed by. the •conVen
tion and copies sent to the United
States senators from Pennsylvania,
the representative to_ Congress
from this district; the liouse.Mili
tary Affairs Committee; the Penn
sylVania State Legislature, • the
Associated' Press, and the United
Press.. • • •
Alpha Lambda Delta Dance
'Sfxty-fiVe dollars net proceeds
from the Alpha Lambda Delta
dance Saturday will be turned
over to the Red Cross, Marjorie
Blackwood, president, announced.
She thanked Mr. Gilbert L. Cross
ley, assistant professor of elec
trical engineering, and Mr.
George W. Ebert, superintendent
of grounds and building, for their
cooperation and help.
A Wyoming. man, bitten by a
snake, went GO miles for a doc
tor. He probably knew what was
good for•snake bites, but couldn't
get any. .
THE COLLEGIAN
Goodyear, Celanese
Interview Seniors
IntervieWs will be held in 204
Old Main at any time this week
for all senior students interested
in meeting representatives of • the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany and the Celanese Corpora
tion
Miss. Mary Koss, representing
Goodyear, will e on campus next
Wednesday, .and is mainly
terested •in interviewing women
With majors in Secretarial Science,
mathernaticsi accolinting and busi
ness administration.
Dr. Earl S. - IVlcColley of the
Celanese Corporation of America•
Will be'on . campuS Thursday, April
13, to interview senior men and
women June graduates in .cheinig
fry, commercial, chemistry, chem
ical engineering, and physics.
Story Of The
'Victory' Song
If it hadn't been for Albert. A.
Hansen, 'l3, Penn State might not
today haVe one of its very best
songs,. "Victory." Albert Hansen
was Jimmy Leyden's 'l4 room
mate. They resided in one of the
Old . wooden rooms of the historic
frackhouse,.a building which once
housed the greatest of Penn
State's athletes. The house has
since been torn down to make
way for more modern buildings.
It all happened one spring morn
ing. - Leyden, who possessed a' fine
tenor voice, a sunny disposition,
and the knack for composing tunes
at a moment's notice, arose singing
a song about Penn State. It sound
ed good to Hansen who asked him
where he got it.
"Just made it up," was the an
swer, . .
Hansen made a bargain with his
talented roommate.
'"Write - it down and publish
it and give you two cents royalty
On every- copy sold," he said.
It was Published and several
editions were sold. It is pot re
corded- how much Leyden made,
certainly no fOrttine. It is" certain
though- that "he gave a - priceless
gem to Penn .State. For, years "Joe
College"- and . coeds have • been
singing its stirring bars. Each in
cbming class learns it with zest. It
just won't die'
. in: fact, who
wants it to? •
Theta-Phi-Alpha Initiates
, Theta Phi Alpha-sorority re
cently initiated the following girls:
Olinda Alfano, 'Kathleen Angilello,
Beatrice - Gloirer, Jeanne Jordan,
Virginia Luqky,.„MaTjorie liennes,
Marguerite Presel, and Antoinette
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... from Bloemfontein to Buffalo
In South Africa, as in the U. S. A., the greeting Have a "coke"
helps the American sailor to get aloiT. And it helps, too, in your
home when you have Coca-Cola in your icebox. Across the Seven
Seas, Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refresbes,—:the friendly
gesture of good.natured folks.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OP THE COCA•COLA COMPANY BY
COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY of ALTOONA
Trustees Approve Peery
As Head Of Aero Course
Appointment of Dr. David J.
Peery as head of the new curricu
lum in aeronautical engineering at
the - College was announced today
by Dr. Harry P. Hammond, dean
of the School of Engineering. His
appointment was approved at the
weekend meeting of the Board of
Trustees.
Dr. Peery, who came to the Col
lege in 1942 as an associate pro
fessor; holds a bachelor's degree
from Missouri School of Mines and
advanced degrees from the Uni
versity of Michigan. He formerly
taught at Missouri School of Mines,
Carnegie Institute of Technology,
and Washington University in St.
Louis.
In addition, Dr. Peery has
worked with the Missouri State
Highway Department in bridge
design, with Curtiss-Wright as a
project structures engineer, and
with McDonnell Aircraft Corpora
thin in St. Louis as assistant chief
of structure.
He is a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
the Institute of Aeronautical Sci
ences, Society for Promotion of
'Engineering Education, American
Association of University Profes
sors, and the American Society of
Civil Engineers. Dr. Peery also be-
frais To Retain
Military Assets
Dean of •Men Arthur R. .War
nock, commenting on the future
of College fraternities, today ex
pressed the belief that the 'suc
cessful postwar * chapter house
would be neither a country club
nor a military barracks, but pre
dicted it would retain the more
desirable features of the latter.
His comments were prompted
by. the announcement that Alpha
CM Sigma,, professional chemis
try fraternity and one of 43 Penn
State - fraternity houses occupied
by the' military a year ago, had
been reoccupied by civilain stu
dents. This is the first *house to
be reoccupied .since -the •reduction
of Air Corps and ASTP trainees
left 'many properties vacant.
"For years,." the dean said,
"some fraternity *. chapters,have
indicated by their recordsthat
their techniques ' were building,
young* citizens of - superior men
tal development , ;and :welr-diSci-
Plined personalities, but on the
'other hand there have been clidp
ters which 'would have to plead
guilty to charges
.that- they were
Have a "Coke"
longs to Sigma Xi, graduate scion
title honorary society; Tau Beta
Pi, national engineering honorary
society; and Phi Kappa Phi, na
tional scholastic honorary society.
Describing the new curriculum,
Dean Hammond said it has been
established to meet an educational
need in Pennsylvania and to be of
service to the aeronautical indus
try in the fields of aerodynamics,
aircraft structure, and aircraf t
materials. He predicts that air
transportation will develop into a
major postwar industry and says
that. aeronautics is the largest
single vocational interest of high
school boys today.
The curriculum is the first full
fledged aeronautical engineering
curriculum in Pennsylvania, ac.
cording to Dean Hammond, who
also said it will be one of 16 such
courses of study in the nation.
Staff aides of Dr. Peery will 'be
John W. Oehrli and David J. Gil.
dea, both assistant professors.
Two scholarships, each repre
senting $250, and a $750 fellowship
have already been established at
the College by Consolidated Vulteo
Aircraft Corporation of San Diego,
Calif. These are the first grants
ever given by this corporation to
any, college or university.
Co-Ops Exchange Dinnem
The first in a series of exchang,e
dinners conducted by the Nittany
and Allen Co-Ops was held Wed
nesday evening. Each week four
representatives from each co 7 op
have dinner with members of the!
other house in order to become
better acquainted with each other .
and with the activities of the co
ops.
Vance Kennedy, president of the
Allen Co-Op, is organizing A
mushba]l team for the men mid
is scheduling games with tithe - :
ideal teams for this spring.
softening factors in • youth train
"
ing. •
• He.listed economic budgeting of
time, purposeful study, disciplined
living, and attention to physical
fitness, as the more desirable fca ,
tures of the military barracks,
adding that "more natural and.
agreeable self-compliance . shonlcl
be substituted for regimentation.'•
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