FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11), 1944 State College Is Center of the World On Map Prepared By Geography Profs State College is the center ofThe angles of the many parts the world -- on 'a flat map recent- lof the map are ..listed :around lit prepared by •two thembeil of the circumference of the original the geography' division of • the 32 by- 40 inch' map. 11y 'drawing Mineral Industries School. • a line from State College to a def.= Professors Hugh E; Spittal and Raymond E. Mtrphy• dtew this. map so that boro inhabitants and college students could see' at - . 8 glance • how far other.- localities are from . State college. On•this map State College is a tiny dot in the center, with the rest Of the, world situated arairnd it. Famous cities can be found on rings that circle the map at 1000 . - mile intervals. A plane 'leaving State' College would fly 4100 Miles to 'bombe Berlin and 6600 miles to demolish Tokyo. ' The Chinese armies in Chung king are battling only 7600 MileS away. The Golden Gate city, faer ing the . Pacific Ocean, is 2400 miles away. Any spot on the earth can be picked out in its re lationship to State College, EXCLUSIVE AGENCY ARROW SHIRTS Charles Shop COLLEGE FOOD MARKET .for • CHOICE MEATS and GROCERIES FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES • Conveniently Located at 202 W. College Avenue FREE :DELIVERY . , NAL 4955:. , ,! • inite point- and then • through. an angle, anyone can find out from what angles he'must proceed froin State • College to reach hid destini ution.. , ' : • The middle poition of the map is drawn to the sane scale as - ono side of the globe.._ In reproducing the rest of the map, the other. 81ciff of . the globe . has been unfastened, as it were, and flattened out, thereby .distorting continents on' the outer- portion of the map. Australia and Anarctica are long, thin bodies of land. Professor Spittal conceived the plan for this map, in' the Summer of 1943. He 'spent nights comput ing the distances of all other. cit ies from State College. "But it's fun to .see a Map grow," the geo graphy professor explained. Photostatic copies- have beer. 38 New Members Join Chapel Choir Among the 96 members who comprise the Chapel Choir this semester are 38 students who are singing with the group for the, first time. Newly added first sopranos are; Marie Bowen, Jane Miller, Mary Perkins, Shirley Roberts, Gert rude, Rotheran, and Gloria Trov 7 1011. Joan Bissey, .Dorothy Cor nell, /Mary Jane Doerner, and Margaret McCall are sui3pleinent ing the second sopranos'. • Helping to fill in the first alto section are Martha Chubb, Viv ienne Judy, Lillian McClement, and • Marian -Rewbridge. -.Mary Jane Louis, • Helen 'Raiber, Eliza beth ReynoldS, Pearl Robinson. and Lois Schaeffer- have earned places with. the second altos. • • Supplying some of the first tenor notes will be J. Altemara, Donald Browne, Arthur . Brum field, Bernard Byers, ..Charles Heaps, Bernard Levitan, and Herman • Slayman.. New • second tenors are: Charles Boller, Philip Dewey, Carl. Lawrence, and Frank Pepeto.. ' William Kennedy, Roy Lowrie, Thomas Pullen, Colvin Wallace, and Robert . Zeiger are • singing first bass while Karl •Beegle, Paul Kert • wich, - and Robert Manning are in the second basS section. • Waiters' Positions Open Men interested in, earning their meals should report to College Placement Service, 204 Old Main, immediately. There are still a few openings in organized dining com mons. Students who previously regis tered with Placement • Service are urged by George H. P. Leetch, di rector, to bring a copy of their schedules to the office as soon as possible. Programs • of those stud ents already referred .to prospects should ! be reported immediately. reproduced from the original map which has been filed in the geo graphy office.' All distances are =curate to 'within 10 or 15 miles, which is as closely as any map can be read, • • • Only, several , attempts , have been -made to calculate the ' dist , tinge of the rest of the world in comparison to one. place in the world. Several already prepared are based on. New . York and Washington, Baltimore Rabbi To Address Chapel Dr. Morris .S.Lazaron, rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congrega tion, and Li. Col. Guy - G. Mills will. speak iii Chapel Sunday, in a service_ requested by ,the Third SerVice Command to Commemo rate the sacrifices in life and cas ualties caused by the war. Rabbi Lazaron's subject will be "Reli gion. in the - Post-War World." Churches throughout the dis. : trict at the request of the Third Service . Command will hold ser vices especially directed , to .the families of men who have lost their. lives or been wounded in ac_ tion. Copies of Col. , Mills' state ment will be read at other, local Churches. Rabbi Lazaron received his B: A. and M. at the University of Cincinnatti.'"He was ordained at the. Hebrew Union College,. Cin cinnatti,- in 1914. Rutgers UniVer sity conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters in 1936. • He has been" active in interfaith affairs and is a member of the Executive Board of "the - National Conference of Jews and Christi ans. 'The Rabbi'S firSt congrega tion was in Wheeling, West Vir ginia. - In 1915 he was called to his present charge -• in BaltimOre. The choir, - directed - by Mrs. Willa Taylor,• will sing "Peace, Gentle Peace" by Eiger., 2 State Men in Pacific Chosen for West Point .Only four servicemen, in the Asiatic-Pacific theatre of war were recently seleCted as candidates" for •West'Pointand two hail from the College. After serving in. the . South Pa-, cific, Pvt. Robert Sigafoss and, P.vt. Paul Baer of the ,7th ' Air. Force, both in the class .of . 1946, were Sent to- • Cordell in , the United Stated MilitarY. Academy .Prepara 7 , tory Unit,. to brush up on their .studies—for competitiVe exams to West Point. . . Only two other , collegths; Am.-. tierst 'and Lafayette,. are offering these refresher courses. Candi dates are chosen by Congressional appointments, by acts of Congress, by the Army of tiagi United. States; or by the President. • PSCA Schedules Hike For Freshman Coeds Several PSCA activities have been, planned for the coming week, according to James T. Smith, sec retary. . . . An overnight hike to Ralph Watts Lodge this weekend is to be held for freshman women. The group will leave from the back of Old Main Saturday afternoon and return Sunday morning. Since the cabin will accommodate only . 40, coeds interested are asked to sign up at the PSCA office. Tickets are 50 cents.' . .I.Jpperclass campus leaders will conduct a: panel at the first Fresh man Forum: meeting in 304 Old Main, 7 o'clock women eyening, AlAfieshtnaii are..kgedte. 'attend' the 'meeting, when 'the questions ; turned in byt. the .Unit leeders will be. discusk.d. Portfolio. Announces Date of Publication For Frosh Issue The "Frosh Isiue" of Portfolio, College literary magazine, will be put on sale Nck;ember 17, Ruth Constad, editor of the publication, announced today. The magazine originally was to be released this Morning. PVt: 'James Frpmo, who is now in Italy, paints a vivid picture of battlefront conditions in "Amer •ican Soldiers in • Italy." Another service contribution is Lt. (jg) Julius Marymore's poem entitled 'Conquered Beachheads." Three stories concern the Col lege. They are' Estelle Simon's "0 Teinpores, 0 Mores," B. J. Cutler's "For Frosh Only," and Victor tkanilov's • "Gridder of the Golden Era." Temple Game Weekend Temple University's Booster and Student Body invite Penn State students to the Penn State-Temple football game tomorrow, according to a letter received from the Tem ple University :organization. A dance on Friday evening is in cluded in the weekend's events. In addition, all fraternities and soror ities will have ,open house. Navy dive bombers—about to strike! In each rear-cock pit rides a radio gunner trusted protector of his pilot and 'plane. His skill with radio and detection devices permits his pilot to concentrate on flying the plane and blasting the objective. His marksmanship makes enemy planes scarcer, brings V-Day nearer. Until that day comes, Western Electric's major job willbe making huge quantities of radio and detection devices. As our forces strike farther and farther into the vast areas of the Pacific, these electronic weapons become more important than ever. At Western Electric, many college graduates—both men and ‘vomen are helping to put these weapons in our lighters' hands. Buy all the War Bonds you can —and keep them! 1 51 " -- ANNIVERS gRr • 41 . r.. Electric . I ~if es ern ,tom Hari IN,PIACE...SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR THE BELL SYSTEM. ' • • IN WAR...ARSENAL OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. PAGE THREE ISM To Present Autumn Formal Highlighting the fall season will be the first ISC semi-fot : mal at Rec Hall November 18. which will have as its theme, "Au turn." Bud Wills' orchestra erom- Johnstown will furnish the Mu sic, and Helen. Swetz and Harry Phillips .will handle the v0ca.1.4. Campus organizations and fra ternities can obtain booths . by calling Ike Weller 3921. Boothlt will cost $2. Admission price 'will be $1.50 per couple, tax included. Tickets will be sold at Student Union by members of ISC and at the door. Helen Miller is chairman of the dance commitee, while Robert Barefoot and Salvitore Rocci are - co-chairmen with her. Ed Frost is in.charge of programs and invita tions, and - Harry Menge, tickets. Decorations committee is head ed by Helen Miller. She will be assisted by . Nadia Lulka, Audrey Peters, Janet Rosengrant, :and Ruth Zehner. Rose Schulman ia in charge of publicity. Other members of the committee in clude Birdie Deimel, Betty Lucht emeyer, •and Robert Yurkanin. IWA and Philotes will operate the coke bar. Tribunal has granted permiss ion to freshmen men to date for this occasion.
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