Meet. The President— "I'll Try My Hardest' "I want to thank all the people who voted for me and helped me win this election. I'll try my hardest to do a good job and not let any cf them down." • . . That was Stan Speaker's comment when he learned the news that ;.he had just been elected All-College president. Speaker is a rather i sby;.quiet fellow, but after talking to him for a few minutes you can tell that he is capable of handling responsibility. He is self-assured and ready to fight for what he believes is right.. Coining from Sharon Hill, Pa., Speaker attended Sharon Hill , - .High School where he wag active sports. ' He was a member .of the football, basketball, and base bfill teams. In addition, he was editor of the class yearbook and treasurer of. his class twice, At- the College he was a mem ber .Of: the basketball squad 'until he was nominated by the Key party as a candidate for All-Col iege. president. Campaigning took up . so -much of his time that he had ta drop off the squad+ and devote himself entirely to trying to win the - election. Now that he has won, Speaker proinises "to do his best to carry out his 'party's platform. Work has already been started, he says, to have . -.l.ights installed around the Lion shrine in order to protect it against 'mutilation. -In , addition, he will try to have the Armory open several days a week. , as a place , where students can4n.for recreation. The .new - All-4C - ollege ,president thinkg ,;`bhat the - students don't knoW.Ainough about .campUs poll tics,,and that a.progiam should-be inaugUrated telling in-coining freShMen of their school govern ment .and getting , them interested .o,s.o:'Opens.ooeo draining Series .first of :three .GSo..train =Mg _meetings will be- held in 110 -At One 'EConomics -at p. -m.- Wed ;nesilay.• All freshman and-upper ., classwomen Who are interested :.'beCprningmembers are Invited:- tris.:Ellzabeth W. Dye -will. be ,sfieakei. at this Meeting: Attendance at all three of these will be required, for admission as , regular member , dmphasized '',,Nancy( Norton, president. Christinas formal to be held Recreation Hall, which new -: - FOOnbers e will be able to attend, is being.' planned. The next meeting "for :old members has been set for -some iime in December. )?I*/o,:f . i't'scir'r Tel 4 .. StitY pf-..Wailjme*. 'Washington By BENNETT - FAIRORTH • Since Pearl Harbor, all roads 14ave led to Washington, D..C., the "madhouse of . the nation. While Congressmen debated- ov *.er proposed laws and the Gener- V Staff mapped battle strategy, the Administration set up agen cies to tangle with the problems of war—and. Dr. Walter Coutu, newly-appointed associate profes sor of sociology, was chosen to head .the research section of the • Division of Social Protection, created to safeguard• servicemen factory workers. against ven ereal t disease. State and local police, and. ho tel, restaurant, and taxi-cab as sociations cooperated with . Dr. Coutu's - diVision, 'and houses of prostitution in 662 communities were .shut down. • Scientists . and doctors working with •the •Government furthered the work of this agency. Victims ot,syithilis and gonorrhea are be fng'eured with penicillin ; and sul fa.'drugs , at Government rapid :treatment. medical. centers. ',The By DOROTHY RUTKIN ASTP To Sponsor War Stamp Stomp ASTP units on campus will sponsor their second "War Stamp Stomp" in the Armory from 8 p. m. to midnight Saturday. Admis— sion will be a 25 cent war stamp which can be purchased at .the door. This dance will be the first step in any contemplated plan to sell war stamps and bonds on cam pus, according to. Capt 'Benedict Hausdorf, adviser to the commit-. tee. It will alsci be the last dance organized - by the - ASTP for those cadets who will be graduated ear ly, in December. • At intermission the stamps col lected as . admission will be awar ded to persons holding numbers which will be drawn from tickets issued at entrance. Each winner will receive $18.75 in war stamps, the equivalent of a $25 war bond. Two •hundred and twenty dol lars was added to the total - amount of war bonds sold in this area during .the Fifth War Bond Drive as a result of entrances. paid to the first "War Stahl') Stomp." The cominittee in - charge hopes that an .even larger...amount 'of 4.. 4 1/Ws Yirill:Pe.:AQ/dAllitt!ln.q. 'adds that' trioie Whe 'attend the • dance need not themselves to the purchase of only one. stamp.. The dance.is open to the gen eral public. Music will be sup plied by - the juke box. It .4 infor Panhel Ifol,ds Annual Tea For freshmen, Transfers • Panhellenic Council will spon sor ' a tea in the east lounge of Atherton Hall from 2 to 4 p. m. Saturday fir women interested in joining a sorokity. Each sorority. chapter on cam ptis will• send three 'delegates, with the exception of. Kappa. Kappa Gamma and Sigma .Delta Tau, who have, been penalized for . violating the Panhellenic• Constitutien last year. Sorori - ty , delegates will •not be permitted to wear their pins at the tea. rate :of venereal diseases in the Army . and Navy-- has hit the low est figure in history: •. - . . The, wide open spaces of State College delight Dr. •Coutu after the packed : buses, and . jammed streets .in Washington for his wife and himself. The professor waited hours in line -to eat, to buy a newspaper, to have his hair cut. From 1935-36, Dr. Coutu work, ed with another Government program, the Division of Social Research of the W. P. A. Six mil lion persons, the number eligible for W. P. A., were questioned .in all 3070 counties throughout the nation as to their occupations and skills. On the basis of these findings, the Administration blue-printed projects for each community so that skilled workers in each com munity could use their abilities to the utmost rather, than have teachers rake leaves and Ipumb ers dig ditches. While teaching at the Univer sity of .Georgia -from 1936441, 13017. Ir. (Continued ••oropage eight) • .1!P Toilrgiatt l'~li7~, to, ;+:1 ii4vsa moo weieresav 0101:130 ;WisiMPIEES. - 10A% oireis) gi om on DMMI Key Party Sweeps Election Cutler's Consumption Of Collegian Cancelled Managing editor of Collegian, B. J. Cutler, missed a meal of lino type by the skin of his teeth when the newly formed Nittany Party carried. three of their 12 potential offices during elections yesterday. Had the Nittany Party success fully taken seven of the elective offices Mr. Cutler would have had to eat all eight pages of the col lege newspaper in front of Old Main at high noon, with the entire student body as witness. The bet - dates back to the en trance of the Nittany Party into politics this past summer when the Collegian managing editor vowed that he would eat the front page of his paper if the Nittany Party tarried all the freshmen offices. They failed to do so and Mr. Cutler ate food instead of printers ink that week. He was to devour the entire paper this elec tion if the Nittany Party carried the majority of elective offices. Prior to the election returns the Collegian managing editor had re quested some salt, • pepper and ketchup if should lose the bet, •_so.tliat lie,niiglitconsume.the Frosh Star In 'Our Town' .Two freshinen . : who starred in high school dramatic performances will play-the leading roles in "Our ToWn," a three-act production,. to be presented by the Penn State Player's in Schwab Auditorium on December 8. arid 9. - Director Lawrence E. Tucker has announced that.. Portman Pag et and. Claire Cohen, Harrisburg first-year students, will portray the parts of George Gibbs and . Emily Webb in the play; •While .attending William Penn High School in. 1943, Paget and Cohen- took part in two .plays to gether, "Ephrata". and "Out of the Frying Pan." Paget entered the Army as soon as he was graduat ed in June of last year. Since that time he has been honorably dis charged. Miss Cohen finished high school six months ago and now is a . freshman tat the College. "Our Town" is a romantic play which centers around the love af . fair of George Gibbs . and Emily Webb, members. of the two most prominent families •in GroVer's Corners, N. H. George's father is a doctor in town, while little Em ily's dad - is the editor and publish er ,of the only newspaper in Grov er's Corners. The play is a Pulitzer Prize winner and has been .lauded by dramatic critics throughout the country. One of the features of the production. is that pantomine and imaginary props are used, in the performance. No scenery is used at any time in the play. The role of the stage manager will be played by Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh, head of the dramatics department. Professor Cloetingh's participation in "Our Town" will marls. his first showing on the Col lege stage in a number of years. He will serve as narrator and a character in the. play. This is the second time that "Our Town" will be presented at the .College. 'rive years Ago it was well xeeeiv.ed by tile :faculty and students. " " Published Weekly by The Daily Collegian Staff Speaker Wins Prexy Post; Ramsey Elected Secretary Key party again won a majority of the campus political offices as Stan Speaker defeated his Nittany and Lion oppon ents for the post of All-College President. Miriam Ramsey, Lion, secured the secretary-treasurer's position for eighth semster. For seventh semester, Key candidates Bill Kelly and Peggy Susanin defeated Edward Zemprelli and Helen Schmi dle. Lion party had no candidates entered for this semester. `Get Li'l' Abner,' Honoraries Advise "Get .your Li'l Abner for the Spinsters' Skip December 9," Mor tar .Board . and Cwens advise co eds. Li'l Abner cartoons display ed on the campus and in town will characterize the traditional dance to be held in White Hall. As a special feature the two honoraries will present the Cam pits:Owls in their first appearan ce on campus this semester. Bud Wills and his band will simulate. Dog Patch inhabitants in keeping li=itli.:the post i. theme.;,:a . fort.y Board and CwenS. Betty Platt will appear. With the band as vocalist and • Johnny Setar will present clarinet solos. Tickets ,may be bought at stu dent tinion and, will go on sale in dormitories; as well-as being sold by membere of Mortar'B9ard and Cwens. All nroceeds are appropriated to the scholarship - fund from - which $5O scholarshipS will be awarded by Mortar Board and Cwens to the coed chosen with regard to active and personal contribUtions to the . College, showing coopera tion and attributes of a good Penn State student. South American Journalist Pays Visit To Campus If the College kept a guest book, one more South American visitor would be included in the section titled "unofficial ambassa dors of good will." Most recent of the visitors from the Southern continent is Robert Levy, foreign correspondent for "Las Ultimas Noticas"• (The Last Word), leading newspaper ilzkf Santiago, Chile. Commissiooned by his paper to prepare a series of articles on the war • and relationships -between North and, South America, Levy decided to combine business with pleasure• to pay a visit to Penn State.•~•~l 'He is interested, he said, in ob serving • the workings of a large Ainerican educational institution. In a visit to a South American history class, he spoke to stud ents on "Chile and the Monroe Doctrine." The pleasure is in the nature of a. family reunion. His brother-in law, Americo Albala, has been a student at the College for the past two years. He secured his master's degree in fuel technology and is now working for his doc torate. Since his arrival in the States on November 2, Levy has spent moat of his time in New York City where he visited newspaper By NANCY CARASTRO Mike Lynch wcn for Nittany as sixth semester president. His sec retary-treasurer will be Mary "Pete" Faloon, Key party. Fifth semester winners were Judd Healy, Lion, and Jean Bosch; Key. Key running mates Jinx Falken burg and Jo Saverwein are fourth semester president and secretary treasurer respectively. Heaviest voting was in third se mester where Don Coplin and Mary Lou Waygood carried Nit tany party to victory. Dave Binns and Alice 'Mendenhall won for-Key in• second semester. Approximately 1325 student vot ers turned out to cast their ballots, indicating a renewed interest in campus polities.. TWo out of the three . .parties, • Key and Nittany, - Were: - .Penalized • for violation of the Elections Code.. Nittany was docked 12 votes, one for each candidate entered, and Key penalized 14 -votes, one for each of its candidates. Reasons for • the penalties were freshman campaigning and putting campaign posters in Old Main. Eighth Semester President: Herman Weed fNittany) Charles. Hall (Lion) Stanley Speaker (Key) Secretary-Treasurer: Betsy McGee (Nittany) Miriam Ramsey (Lion) Welling Graul (Key) (Continued on page eight) and press association offices, a government housing project, and exchanged interviews with Gene vieve Tabouis, editor of a French paper. .One of the most interesting things he has done in this country, Levy said, was to spend the night of the election mingling with crowds on Times Square until 3 a. m. the following morning. "The civic spirit displayed.. by the American people is truly won derful," he said. "I am amazed at the tolerance displayed by the nation despite opinion differenc es over the election." (Continued on page eight) Thanksgiving Service Set for Schwab Today To celebrate Thanksgiving Day, Interfaith Council will sponsor an All-College service in Schwab-Au ditorium at 12:45 o'clock this aft ernoon. Rev. John N. Peabody, pastor of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, will deliver the message and lead the meditation. . Jean Huver, organist, will. play the prelude. Alan Hahn will lead, the responsive reading, and Mary Margaret Dunlap will read the scripture. Ruth Hill will sing "The Lord's 'Prayer" by Mallott
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