FRIDi.f, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944 Settlor Pictures Late; laVie Calls for Prompt Reply from Students .Pictures of graduating seniors lor LaVie are being handed in too slowly, announced Fred Dietz, La- Vie editor, recently. Cancelled or forgotten appoint ments are the main causes of this delay and returns have amounted .only to about 40 per cent. Students who so desire may submit previ ously taken photographs. All oth ers are urged to budget their time so as to keep these appointments for pictures. Further details made known were that all campus organiza tions, fraternities, and hat societies which will have new staffs next semester should wait until then to have their group pictures taken. Others may have pictures taken this semester. Only one picture will be taken for each group. All organizations are encouraged to turn in their photographs as soon as possible. There will be LaVie meetings for'senior and junior board mem bers ih 315 Old Main at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs day. Psychology Honorary Raises Requirements Psi Chi, honorary society in .psychology, announces the rais- ■ ing of its entrance qualifications -for undergraduate members. At a meeting held Tuesday, the group officially altered its re quirements from a 1.5 all college average, a 2 average in psychol ogy, and 12 psychology credits, to a 2 all-college average, a 2 in psychology, and 12 psychology .credits, thereby meeting the stan dards of the Honor Society Coun cil. Psi Chi will apply for en trance into the Council in the fall.-. . Highlighting the last meeting was the showing of “Psychiatry in Action,” a new British sound film, showing the workings of a British hospital for civilian and military war neuroses, . Coeds Learn to Study Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman women’s scholastic honorary, will sponsor a “How to Study Hour” for' all ’ freshmen coeds in. Wom en’s Building and Mac Hall at 9:15/p.m. Thursday. The purpose of the second lec ture this semester is to help stu dents who have received below grades. Members of. Alpha Lamb da Delta will ’ also tutor any in terested freshman. m gßwar In a farm yard,, in Normandy Americans map out their next move With a soldfer on the. lookout for Nazi snipers. These men are fight- Jhg-steadily forward toward th'e lib eration, of, Europe and victory. Back ’em lip with War Bonds! College Graduate Instituted System Of Correspondence Courses For G.l.'s By BENNETT FAIRORTH Your brother or sweetheart sta tioned in Alaska, New Guinea, Australia, or Texas can now pro fit with his spare time because of Lt. Col. William R. Young, graduate and former professor of Penn State. As first education officer of the Army’s morale branch, Col. Young proposed that the Army set up a bureau of correspondence cour ses to busy the leisure hours of the Yanks scattered, all over the world. After much study and planning, a correspondence branch was incorporated into the Army and called the Armed Forces' In stitute. Central headquarters were es tablished in Madison, Wisconsin. Col. Young personally trained the detachment of men who were to handle the clerical work. Con-, tracts were drawn up with 82 colleges and universities, of which Penn State is one. The colleges were to list only correspondenbe courses they had presented before the war and for which they would grant degree credit. The government was to finance half the cost of the fees and text book, and the serviceman to pay the remaining expenses. Sixty four courses were offered by the institute itself, ranging from air conditioning and English grammar to American history and plumb-, ing. Courses consisted of any where from 6 to 23 lessons, sent out at evenly-distributed inter vals. Additional courses were self-taught, and involved only a textbook and final examination. While supervising the Wiscon-' sin station, Col. Young was. swamped with requests from Am erican soldiers in distant combat regions. The clerical force an-, swered all overseas correspond ence, but learned, that the book lets didn’t reach the men for twq and-a-half months. By that tim'e, : the soldier’s interest in the course-’ had slackened or he had been moved to another locality. To in-, vestigate the possibilities of op ening a branch in the Pacific area, Col. Young was ordered to Aus tralia. Touring Australia, Col. Young fourid that the only reading mat ter available would frequently be several month-old slick magazines arid’an odd assortment of books. Frosh Coetts Sponsor Tea for Big Sisters Freshmen coeds will entertain their big sisters at a tea on , the lawn outside Women’s Building from 4 p:m. to 5 p.m. September to: In case of rain, the tea will be held in the reception hall of Wo men’s Building. All freshmen .co eds are urged to ask their big sisters to attend. Chairmen appointed for the tea are: Ann Dunaway, general chairman; Lynn Clark; invitations add publicity; Grace McMillien, refreshments; Mary Jane Rudy, cleah-iip'; Selma Sabel, hostesses; Phyllis Schmelzle, decorations; and Gay Swartz, music. . ’ Correction Last week’s letter to the editor was not written by Bill Johnson. It was composed by someone who placed Johnson’s name at the end of the letter and sent it in, thereby displaying a questionable trait of character. Kappa DOelta recently pledged Jean Farley, Alberta Finch, Elsie Frantz, and Barbara Stocker. Signal Corps Photo PEHN STATE CLASS RINGS L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY LOCATED IN THE ATHLETIC STORE - IMIBIZEI THE COLLEGIAN When questioned, soldiers said they favored some sort of studies to keep busy when off duty or when the weather was bad. An Australian Technical College in Sydney, agreed to devote part of its organization to the Armed Forces Institute. Branches have since been or ganized in India, Egypt, Alaska, Hawaii, and England. Col. Young has hopped from one country to the next, checking the setup of the offices and the Servicemen’s attitudes and reactions toward the RABBI BENJAMIN KAHN Rabbi Kalin Ends 4 fears Service As Hllfe! Director After' four years of service at the Hillel Foundation, Rabbi Ben jamin Kahn will leave State Col lege the second week in Septem ber for McGill University, • Mon treal, Canada. The appointment came from the National Hillel Office which has lately received numerous petition's signed by the Jewish students of McGill requesting'a Hillel organi zation at the university. Rabbi Kahn is being sent to organize the foundation. Born in Boston, the Rabbi at tended Harvard University and after his graduation did graduate work at Columbia,, University. He was ordained in 1938 and received bis Rabbinical degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. . Before he came to State College in 1940, Rabbi Kahn served the congregation in Chi cago at the Anshe Emit synagogue. Hillel was already organized in State College when Rabbi Kahn arrived. Since he has headed the foundation there have been insti tuted such developments as the Town Meeting program in which a faculty member is invited to speak at each session, a lecture series, movie forums, and a more democratic governing board. McGill University, according to Hillel’s head, has a student body as large as Penn State’s, and a campus which* although in a town, is comparable to the campus of this College in size. The buildings and the campus in general are reminiscent of an English commu nity. ' Replacing Rabbi Kahn next week will be Rabbi Victor Epstein, who besides taking the position of director of Hillel at State College will also be counsellor of Hillel at Bucknell University. Institute program. In jungle and arctic zones only when tents or quarters have been wired with electricity do the men find ample lighting for study. Servicemen study from about 15 minutes per day to 16 hours per week in their tents or in or derly rooms. Officers have en couraged their men to complete their courses and register for oth ers. Col. Young asked many men why they had applied for the courses. The three most common reasons were: to prepare for col lege, to better, themselves in ci vilian life, to brush up on stud ies. Registration statistics indi cate that bookeeping outdist ances all other courses in popu larity with algebra trailing some what behind. Yank, the Army magazine, has advertised the Institute as Fox hole University. Notices were posted on bulletin boards in all theatres of war, to inform the servicemen that correspondence courses were being offered. In the United States high schools have cooperated by tacking up large folders, so that, students could tell their older brothers about the In stitute, so that boys ready to en ter the service could request the courses after completing basic training. One rather extreme in Australia illustrates the help that the Institute has rendered. Col. Young met,one GI who had quit school after the fifth grade. ,He could not properly read, write, or speak. After studying the Eng lish grammar course, the soldier boasted that he could write an understandable - letter, but above all “could pronounce the words declarative, conjunctive, and ad jective.” The father of the Institute was graduated from State College as a mechanical engineer in 1918. Dur ing World War I he served in the Field Artillery and was released from service after the armistice as a second lieutenant. From 1930 to 1941 Col. Young was supervis or of' the correspondence exten sion courses of- the College. The officer is a member of Alf>ha’ Sig ma Phi. For his contribution toward winning the war, Col. William R. Young has been, awarded the Leg ion of Merit. .- Begin News Summaries Weekly news summaries in Ath erton Hall continued last night with Genevieve Weder speaking; She is the first coed speaker at these'news forums. Dr. George G. Simpson, head of the sociology department, initiated the series. Next’ week Dr,. Stuart A. Mahuran, professor of journal ism, will discuss the news. The group meets in Atherton lounge from 6:30 to 7' p.m. Thursday nights. Eighteen members of Delta Gamma will be the guests of Al pha. Chi Sigma tonight. The fraternity has planned a buffet luncheon and dancing. Ach, It Gif S’ A New Play! A Comedy of the Pennsylvania Dutch SEPTEMBER 29-30 ' ;'a players production PAGE THREE Cetaia Team Visits Campus For Firs! lime I In Series of Debates For the first time in the series between them, Columbia Univer sity and Penn State'will debate at the College. The debate is in 121 Sparks, 8 p.m. Wednesday. Columbia will take the affirma tive on permanent compulsory military training while Penn State will take the negative. Allen Kahn and Ottis L. Castle berry, members of the men’s var sity debate squad, will represent the College. This debate, the only home intercollegiate forensic event, will be in the Oregon or cross-examination style. John H. Frizzell, head of the. de partment of speech, will preside. Edward Zemprelli will be the an nouncer. Four members of the debate learn will broadcast over station WBNX in New York City from 5:30 to 6 p.m. tonight. Dean Urges Curb i Of Holiday Trips Refraining from travel this end will definitely aid the gov ernment’s war effort. This opinion voiced today by Charlotte E. Ray, dean of women, was enlarged upon with her re minder oi what former College students are doing for America all over the world. Supplementing Dean Ray’s ad vice is the notice from Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, that only actual service with the armed forces or business directly connected with the prosecution of the war justifies travel at this time. “Railroads of the country,” said Col. Johnson, “taken all to gether, have now reached the lim it of their capacity to carry .pas sengers. Trains have been carry ing more passengers than they did even in 1943.” ' “We folks at Penn. State havp a special reason for responding as patriots,” stated Dean Ray, “the fact that we are enjoying the usual happy lives of Ameri cans while we have entrusted our safety arid future to boys who are risking everything with the armed forces. We can’t afford to -con weekend will definitely aid the in the future, brit rather we must put ourselves into it now, by sav ing and keeping off the road.” Surgical Dressings At Surgical Dressings this week, 805 dressings were made by 30 coeds. The best work this semester has been dene by Alpha Epsilon;Phi, with Delta Gamma a close second. This week Alpha Epsilon Phi was represented by 16, and Del ta Gamma by nine. Sigma Delta Tau entertained Feme Knaster at an engagement party. Wednesday night. Miss Knaster recently announced her engagement to Capt. Harold 'Hay son.
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