FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1944
Eugene Von Arx
Wins Senior $lOO
1922 (lass Prize
keah Dolan, Henry Menge
Receive Junior Awards
Eugene Von Arx, has been
awarded the senior $lOO 1922 Class
Memorial Schelarship. Jtin i o r
awards of sloo:were won by Leah
•Mary Dolan and , fienry, Menge.
Mary t. Forrest copped the $lOO
sophomore prize and Betty . Gloria
Coplan $5O.
Edwin Dorfman was the'recipi- . -
ett of a $lOO John W. White schol
aphip. Bruce F. Chandler and
Mary Jane Mickey received the
jnnior and sophomore awards.
;' : Senior lonise Carnegie scholar
apps of $75 went to 'Barbara San
dmen and Walter R. Berg. The
jtinior awards, also of V 75, were
wpn by Garnet LeVan and Bev
erley togg. Marilyn L. .Globisch,
Marion •J., Schein, ;and Helen C.
Miller were awarded, sophomore
prizes for the same amount. •
.C. E. Marquardt, chairman of
file Committee on Academic Stan
dards, announced these awards.
The scholarship 'winners were se
lected on the basis of- grades and
need by_ the Committee on A.ca
demic Standards, and approved by
President Ralph D. Hetzel and the
_College Senate.
Various medals to be awarded
at the commencement exercises
`were also announced by the Com
"mittee on Academic Standards.
Robert E. Lowrie will receive the
Evan Pugh Medal for Senior
'Scholars. The Evan Pugh Junior
"Scholar Awards go to Gunther
'Cohn; • George P. Arnold, and
- Genevieve Wedler. •
The John W. White Medals will
be given to Alma Kehler and to
Emma Elizabeth Pielmeier, class
'of February '44. Joseph Bonn,
June '43, John Germain. Jr., Oct -
.ber '43, and Jenny Louise Flight,
•February .44, will be the recipi
.ents of the President Sparks'
,Medals.
Sorority
Shorts
:Alpha epsilon Phi
Alpha Epsilon Phi will hold a
:picnic in Hort Woods' Saturday
-afternoon
_for the graduating
•rnembers. The following coeds
-will be legying: Ruth, Goodkind,
•Edith Bernstein; Lemma Rob
bin, and: Margot Diamond. _
Chi Omega.
After their regular meeting
:11 . 1'onclay night the Chi Omegas
,gage a farewell. party for the 12
:Vacillating seniors. They are:
.Amy Caporaletti, Louise Cum
mings, Carol Emerick, Caroline
:Peyton,- Claire Jackson, Marie
Rokos, Markin Miller, Harriette
i.enker, Rita ROkosz, Mary
Thompson, Ruth' Ernst, •anti Mar--
.
iorie Schultz.
Delta Gamma
. Undergraduate members •of
DDelta Gamma 'entertained the
.senior members at a party Mon
.clay night. The seniors presented
A farewell gift to the Delta Gam
ma house.
Theta Phi Alpha
Theta Phi Alpha will honor the
the
patronesses at a tea at
, the house from 3 until 5 Sunday
afternoon. Mrs. Joseph F. O'Brien,
.first national vice-president, and
- Mrs. P. Haley, a charter mern
vr,
WRA-WSGA Sponsor
Final Fling Dance
The Final Fling Dance will be
the last one this semester with the
music of the Statesmen 14,.a new
ly organized student band, playing
as a background M. White Hall
from 9 to 12 June 17. Tawny Hill,
Thespian songstress, will do the
vocals.
"We're charging only 7§ cents.
We don't expect to make aily
profit because the dance is part
the WRA co-recreation program
on campus," stated Elilabeth %Alf&
Kinley, president of WRA. The
dance is informal. WSGA is assist
ing in the plans.
:Ogden:Has ip!
(Continued from page one)
her books have been . adapted to
the stage and her "Show Boat,"
gave America the 'melody "Old
Man River."
Miss Ferner is enthusiastic over
her appearance op the Book apd
Author Wer Bend Cavalcade. , `!lt
gives authors a . chance to come
down from their Ivory Towers
apd meet their readers," she ex
plains.
Soldier of Fortune . 1
Capt. - Edgar Wynn, final me
ber of the author
,cavalcade, is a
dare-devil flyer. He took the 10,-
000 foot delayed parachute jump
at the Cleveland Air Races, later
joined, the RAF ferry, command.
After ferrying planes for Pan-
American and TWA in the early
years of the war, he accepted a
commission in the Army.
His book just off the presses,
"Bombers Across," was (written
three' times in longhand before
reaching the degree of success he
had planned. 'The Took is the
story of 'the trans-Atlantic Ferry
Command, opened with an intro
duction by Lowell Thomas.
Students will be able to attend
the Rally in Schwab by purchas : -
ing a .war bond during the drive
from June 9_19, according to an
announcement by Mrs.. D. R. L.
Robison, chairman of the Wom
en's County War Finance . Com
mittee. • . . .
Bond booths- will open, Monday
• morning,at various poinis.through
out the town. With each war bond
-purchased, ..the buyer will , receive
•an admission card for the Rally,
<Mrs. Robison •added. •
Following the . Rally and the
talks - by the authors, winners of
the four door prizes will meet•the
'Writers, - and receive autographed
copies of their latest .books.
Slacks on the job and knee pants
on thebea,ch—that's the longs anti
shorts of it for women. .
FRATERNITY
L. 0. BALFOUR
LOCATED' * * rip AT
The
FIRST NATIONAL. BANK
of
STATE COLLEGE
Member of
Federal Deposit Iniuranee Corporation
.
THE COLLEGIAN
Mrs. Virgipia 'Thompson
Thompson Resigns
As PSCA Secretary
Mrs., Virginia D. Thompson has
resigned
. as associate secretary of
the Penn State Christian Associa
tion,•James T. Smith, PSCA - gen
'eral secretary, announced. today.
Ilpr . r.es:lgnation will become effec
tive at the end of the present se
mester. _ • • -
After a - year of service on the
campus,. Mrs. Thompson intends
to return to her home hi Ohio.,
June 23. Her plans after that are
indefinite.
- Mrs. Thompson came to the Col.
lege from Syracuse University in
June, •19i3: When• Miss Agnes
Highsmith - left to accept a.position
at Duke 'University in the autumn,
.Mrs. Thompson was appointed to
replaCe her:
The departing secretary has had
wide experience in the personnel
field. She holds a graduate degree
in personnel work. at Syracuse.
Junior Service Board
Tolip for Second Time
Junior Service Board will. hold
its second tapping_ breakfast of
,this semester in Athgrtcin dining
!room, 8:30 Sunday morning.
r Charlotte E. Ray, dean of
women; Dr. Pearl 0. Weston, as
.sistant to the dean; and Gertrude
G. Rosen, newly elepted president
:of WSGA, will be the guest ppeak
eks.
• Prior. to 'the breakfast, active
members will go from dormitory
to dormitory waking those second
semester sophomores who are to
'be tapped. Requirements - far Mein
b-ership on the board are a 1.2 All-
College average, participation in
extra - curricular activities, and
student leadership. - -
IJEVIELRY
1 COMPANY ~ ,-
LE= STORE
lowa University Bestows
Engineer Degree On Prof
Frank W. Edwards, assistant
professor of civil engineering at
the College, has been awarded
the professional degree of civil
engineer by the University of
lowa in recognition of his pro
fessional experience and paper on
the hydraulic design of the Con
ches Dam in New Mexico.
Tests of a model dam which
were the basis of the study, were
conducted by Edwards in the U.
S. Waterways Experiment Station
at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
EdWards came to State College
lest September from North Car
olina,
.where he' had been senior
engineer in charge of planning
all army cantonments and air
fields in the U., S. Engineer Dis
trict of Wilmington. For that
work he was awarded the Army
Service Forces' commendation for
meritorious civilian service. For
three years he was chief of hy
draulic design hnd research for
the Third Locks project of the
Panama Canal and he hag had
other professional experience in
hydro-electric poWer• flood con
trol, • navigation and, irrigation
work in. the United States.
He is a member of the Ameri
can Society of Civil' • Engineers
and is co-author of a paper on
surges in . The Panama. Canal
which is currently under discus
sion in the proceedings of the
Society.
PRA Elects Officers
--PSCA officers elected for the
fall and spring semesters last Fri
day 'are Betty Ann Condron, presi
dent; Mary Margaret Dimlap, vice
president; Patricia. Enright, re
cording secretary; Lois McCool,
corresponding secretary; Richard,
Mauthe, - treasurer.
v„,!,i,t4: - .g.,A4 1 ,71/Cnes
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Constad. Breskin, Dawer
To Manage Portfolio
For Summer Semester
Ruth Constad was recently
elected editor and business 'man
ager of the Portfolio staff. Jean
Breskin was elected circulation
manager and Annette Dawer was
named advertising manager.
Members of the editorial staff
are Victor Danilov, Emil Kubek,
and Jacqueline Socol.
The business staff consists of
Sylvia Berger; Lila Blank, Ginger
Braverman, Lorraine Davidson,
Pearl Dower, Ruth Erlichman,
Dora Fisher, Brena Freed, Vera
Gorden, Esther Greenes, and Flor
ence Linker.
The July issue of Portfolio will
be on sale at Student Union on
Friday, June 30, when students
will return to register for the sum
mer semester.
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