Sorority Rushing Code Students Meet To Create Campus Unit Of Red Cross Ten students were elected to the Executive Committee of the campus unit of the 'State College chapter of the Red Cross which has just been formally organized 61- the College. .Those "elected were Ann Berk himer, Ruth . Bollinger, Donald Coplin, Mary Margaret. Dunlap, Jane, Dye, Jean Ford, Ruth Hill, MicNael Lynch, Richard Mauthe and William Morton. From this group a chairman, two vice chair men, a ' treasurer and a secretary will be chosen by the group. Mern'hers •of the local State Col lege chapter of the Red Cross will act as advisors. . The newly elected executive committee will take over the du ties of the organizing committee which consisted of Gertrude Ro sen and Edward Zemprelli, co chairmen, and Florence Porter, secretary, Nan Bowman and Rich ard Mauthe. This organization may be join ed at.: any time by any student who is interested in aiding the war effort as much as is possible in State • College and in doing community service work after the war. The suggested program of training will include such projects as Contributing to blood banks, training 'in first aid, disaster re lief, water safety, accident pre- N-ention, _canteen, corps;.,nutlitlon„ motor :corps, fund raising arid staff assistance corps. In the permanent organization meeting held.in the HoMe.Econo mics, building Monday evening, Bose Lammel, director 'of the College units of the eastern area, spoke to an. open gathering of Players Offer 'Twelfth Night' for 25th Year of Production at College • .The Penn State Players wilLpre sent. their first production of •the new year when Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth• Night" is por trayed. at Schwab Auditorium, February 9 and 10. •The :play will mark the organi zatibn's 25th year of operation at the, College. : Prof. Frank Neus bauni will direct the production. Technical supervisor is Grace 0. Clayton, while Dorothy B. Scott is in charge of designing. The cast for "Twelfth Night" -Was announced this week by Pro - fessor Netisbaum. Principals•in the play are Joseph Mayers, Orsino; Jane Staus, Olivia; Marian Wilder, Viola; Portman Paget, MalVolio; Richard . Frontman, Sir Toby Belch; Sydney Frieaman, Maria; A/S Robert 'Stabley, Sebastian; Mickey Bamer, Feste; Morris Gevanther, Antonio; Gerry Gil man, sea 'captain; Joseph Vispi, Valentine; William Morton, Curio; and Morris Borteck, priest. Other members .of the cast wffl 'be released next week. The stage crew will also be named at that Wickenden to Speak On 'Creative Religion' : Dr. Arthur C. Wickenden, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 'win speak at Chapel Sunday on the topic, "Creative Religion." Wickenden graduated from tho , University of Chicago where he , also received his B.D. in 1921 and Ph.D. in 1931. • He held . the post of Secretary of the Student Y.M.C.A. at Miami '•'.'' , ,•-'il.lithriorsiti , .• .Dr. Mickertdan was •• 41,59 minister Ot , Baptist ehurehes l e V ii!-,i.atl.OWatetla,: ipii:,. 'mid ' . Maseh , F:.l, : rt - it:' , Cit3,r; , *WO;',.,.i. , ,i . ~•-• ~.' s ; ~. ', ~.,- ,i; 117;!:';' , '‘ . 4.lsppel mus ff4prPgr,a# l :tikYPß .qti,, c ,......t.. t • ." .t. i ~, ,,t . f i dro t V., - % ?•`. .1-$9 O I offe ed Ay, .7 iv. ,l . , ~ .. t , 1 • - Ti Tatirgiatt ram FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1945-STATE COLLEGE, trENNA interested students on the back ground of the college units all ov er the nation and the work done by several of these. units. There are 122 such units in the coun try and eight in Pennsylvania. "The program as presented on this college campus is an out growth of the National Red Cross' desire to Organize college units -throughout the United States to give students a chance to become acquainted ; with and aware of community social 'and economic problems. "Through actual projects on campus the training program will show the ways and values of par ticipating as volunteers in their local community service activi ties in wartime and peacetime." Such is the purpose as outlined by the committee and as expressed by Joan Huber, a member of the student organizing committee, in her talk on "Penn State's part in the Red Cross." Other speakers at the meeting were Miss Harriet Allen, Dean Charlotte Ray, . - Dr. Francis Tschan, Dean Arthur- Warnock and Mrs. Elizabeth Watts. The members of the advisory committee are as follows: Miss Harriet Allen, chairman, Miss Edith Melville, secretary, Dr. Laura Drummond, Prof.- Royal Gerhardt and Prof. Roy Anthony. foiliol Sorotily: Rushing Conlinues Throughout Week Formal sorority rushing of fresh men and transfers began Monday when tushees and sorority women were permitted to visit 'each other between 8 a.m. to 5:30' p.m. This period of open rushing will extend through the week of January 15 to 18 inclusive. Rushing will not be permitted between 5:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. the following morning, and will be limited to the vicinity of State College. • In addition:church and chapel dates, luncheon, dinner, or movie dates will not be permitted. No dates may be made for the second week during the first week. Only alumnae living in State. College may be used in rushing and they will be expected to abide by the same rules as do the sor orities. No national office of any sorority may send a person to aid in rushing. Each sorority will schedule two rushing parties during the time of January 15 to 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. On Monday, January '15,, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Omicron Pi, Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, and Zeta Tan Alpha will entertain. (Continued on•puge eight) Student Cabinet Sponsors Relaxation at Armory Through cooperation with the College, Student Cabinet will spon sor relaxation for Penn State stu dents each Friday night in the Armory beginning next week. Plans include a similar program as was followed last semester, when students danced to recorded music, played cards, and had re freshments. Main idea of Cabinet's proposal to the student body is the furnishing of recreation for un eventful Friday nights. Various organizations on campus will, be asked .to participate in :organizing special entertainment. HCAllinet• asks: the help of the stu :,atn•i,:bodY in snaking tl , e project ,entbUSelastle . • taiadei . 4 • t G t • 4 Published Weekly by The Daily Collegian Staff Shep Fields And His Band To Play For V-12's All-College Winter Ball Birthday Gift of Sax Starts Fields' Career •Shep Fields, who will bring his New Music band to Recreation Hall for V-12 Winter Ball, began his musical career in Brooklyn at 14, when his father gave him a saxophone for his birthday. He made up his mind to play it even if he had to form his own orchestra for a frame-work, and that's how Shep Fields' jazz or chestra came into being. His eight. piece • band gradually ac quired some of the finish that experience gives, .and he began to make a name for himself in the night clubs of New York City. It was in a Miami nightclub, how ever, that he first introduced his "rippling rhythm,"—a straw in a bowl of • water, an accordion, and some violins. The novel orchestra caught on fast after that and Fields traveled from East to West to play engage ments in such places as the - Wal r dorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Palmer House. in Chicago, Mead owbrook Country .Club in St. Louis, and the St. Francis Hotel in San. Francisco. In 1936 he made his .coast-to-coast radio• ' but; and has .since - played, on three -rrtijor rietwarks': - • 'He abandoned his rippling rhythm •to create his new music of today, a band composed of reeds and rhythm instruments. The new style bridges the gap between the extremes of sweet and swing, yet it is not a hybrid. It is music in an original. manner and instrumentation that is dif ferent from any. other. Such ,theatrical magazines as Downbeat, Metronome, Billboard and Variety have commented fav orably on Fields experiment in music. Billboard said: "It's well-rounded, always musically interesting outfit that has all the power, drive and lift of regulation crews, 'without relying on scream ing brass to make it rock. Fields (Continued on 'page - six) Campus Heads Discuss Plans Plans for a meeting of heads of campus organizations with the Student Post-War Planning Com_ mittee of the Liberal Arts School were announced today by Ruth Constad, chairman of th 9. commit tee. The meeting will be held in the southwest lounge of Atherton Hall, 4:15 . p.m. Tuesday. The object of the discuSsion is to talk over the proposals drawn tip by the committee for revision of the Liberal Arts School after the war. It is expected, in turn, that these student leaders will bring . the suggestions back to their groups for consideration, in order to determine the trend of student thought in postwar Liberal Arts education. Cabinet appointed the commit tee in the summer semester of '44 after a faculty committee studying the problem had been at work some time. The appointment of a student committee was made by Cabinet because it was belidVed that any proposals put through at faculty suggestion would directly affect the students.' The committee was formed to give the students a chance to slate their proposals. independent of the work being done by the faculty .members: • • 'Member* of the committee in ,vltu;le Martin CohO, Phyllis de- OETtli.l4 LawatSch, Shir-, V!ohliiiatO SHEP FIELDS Blood Donors Go To Tyrone As the first project•of the newly organized Red Cross Campus Unit, 194 students registered at Student Union to donate blood for plasma for the armed forces at Tyrone, January 23, ,24, and 25. . Buses will . leave the corner of College. AvenueTand 'dates, ° the blood donoring committee an nounced. The students who signed up are requested to check at Student Union to find the day they are 'scheduled to go to Tyrone, either the 15 or 16. These are the only days' on which this • information may be gotten. Preliminary checkups will be given at the College Dispensary from 3 to 5 p.m. the day previous to going to Tyrone. This •checkup will consist of temperature and blood pressure determinations which may show a student tmfit to. give blood. A trip to Tyrone may be saved, leaving the space for the transportation of others. It has been found that some who - registered need to sign an enrollthent card while others have still to turn .in a Minor Relda3e Notice signed by their parents. These Minor Release Notices may be obtained at Student Union. The committee .urges that theSe mat ters be, Settled as soon as possible. Men Debaters Challenge Penn, West Point The Men's. Debate team will travel to Philadelphia and West Point to challenge the teams . of the University of Pennsylvania and West Point January 19 and 20. Martin D. Cohn and Edward P. Zemprelli will take the affirma tive for the College in the fol lowing question: Resolved: That the federal gav el nment should enact legislation requiring the compulsory arbi tration of all labor when volun tary means have failed, consti tutionally conceded. The following weekend a team will travel to Annapolis and Hay erford to debate the negative side of the same question. Kern to Head Societies Dr. Frank D. Kern, dean of the Graduate School at the College, has been named to offices in two national professional organiza tions. Dr. Kern has been chosen vice-president of the American . Association for the Advancement of .Science, chairman. of the' sec tion "on botany;, :and .president of lh " 1 / 3 : 13 1 / F 61 ; ica. • .) . Phys Ed Shindig PRICE FIVE CENI-$ Semi-Formal To Honor Nittany Lion Coaches Shep Fields and his New Musie will play for students attending the V_l2 Unit's. All-College semi formal Winter Ball in Recreationi Hall from 8:30 until midnight Jans nary 20. • The dance, although having no special theme, will honor the Nit* tany Lion coaches. • Intermission time will feature the crowning of an All-College queen, to be chosen from among five semi-finalists by those at the dance. The V-12 Glee Club, di rected by Prof. Frank Gullo. will be on hand to 'sing. The five coeds chosen and theit sponsors are: Lois Cleaver, Bar. racks 9; Shirley Fierman, Alpha Epsilon Phi and Phi Sigma Delta; Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Barracks 26; Shirley Painter, Kappa Kappa Gamma; and Patricia Tompkins, Theta Phi Alpha. Admission price is $3:60 includd ins tax. Early in his career as a ban 4. leader. Shep Fields introduced the famous rippling rhythm, but aban.. doned it at the height of its popu larity to experiment with "new music." Billed as "the only band of its kind in tile. world, the pe* Fields combination consists of nine saxophones, and woodwinds witti• the usual rhythm section, plant?, drums, guitar, and bass. Trumpets and trombones have been com pletely eliminated. The New• Music band featureS Meredith Blake as vocalist, Gene. Martin, and Tommy Lucas The five candidates for queea were chosen from approximatel4 30 entries by the nine chairrnexi of the dance committee. They are A/S Andy Anderson, general chairman; A/S Jim Jones and A/S Willis Rorke, tickets; A/S Leslie Jacobs,. programs; A/S Al. Koorey, decorations; A/S Dave Doan, re freshments; A/S Dave Wagner, entertainment; A/S Fred Vogel, publicity; and A/S Ralph Cronie leigh, checking. Bdotlis for fraternities and bat.• racks will be available for $5 by, (Continued on page eight) Ramsey. Named All-College Prexy For the first time in the history of the College a coed has beeni appointed. as acting president of All-College Cabinet. Miriam Ram sey, eighth semester secretary treasurer, 'is taking the place of Stanley Speaker, former All-CoL lege Cabinet head, who is now in the Naval Air Corps. ' Miss Ramsey, a member of the Alpha' Chi Omega sorority, is at present also serving on the LaVie senior board and on the commit tee working for the opening of the Armory as a student social cen ter. While an underclassman, Miss) Ramsey was a member of the WSGA House of Representatives) and served on the Lion Clique publicity committee. Alice Mendelhall, second semes ter secretary-treasurer, is replad ing David Binns as president of that class. Binns was drafted fot service just before the Christmas vacation. • Fee Deferment Blanks , Application blanks for the de ferment of spring semester fees may ,be, obtained at the Bursar's office. Applications may be Oiled Nvithput fie until February 1. Fees Eire 'to'lie Paid Itifaivh '2,3. Page 6 11
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