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THE COLLEGIAN
"For a Better Penn State"
Este))Bisbee, 1940. Successor to the Venn State Collegian,
eatttblished 1904, and Free Lance, established 1887.
• Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
Emil A. Kubek Betty Federman
Advertising Manager 04100
Manugmg Editor .
Evelyn Wasson B. J. Cutler
Editorial Board:
Women's Editor _ Helen V. Hatton
Feature Editor Nancy Carastro
Sports Editor Victor Dantlov
Editorial Assistants—Ruth 'Constad, Gertrude Lawatsch.
Estelle Simon, Peggie Weaver, Fay Young.
Reporters—Wocatette Bell. Gloria, Nerenberg, Dorothy Rutkin.
Pat Turk.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor
Copy Editor
Friday, February 2, 1945
Need. For Army Nurses
As the tempo of war increases, the steady
stream of wounded coming back from the
fighting fronts grows proportionately
greater. The American soldier deserves the
best possible medical and nursing care avail
able—lAA it appears that he's hot getting it.
Last April the Army requirement for
nurses was set at 50,000-Actual strength in
nurses was then 40,000. Since that time the
Army has tried to raise the additional 10,-
000. Active recruiting has been carried on,
but the net gain in eight months has been
only 2,000.
The present shortage of Army nurses
is reflected in undue strain on the existing
force. More than a thousand nurses are
now hospitalized—many of whom were vic
tims of overwork. The shortage i also in
dicated by the fact that 11 Army , hospital
units have been sent overseas without their
complement of nurses. At Army hospitals
in the United States there is only one nurse
to 26 beds, instead of the recommended one
to 15 beds.
It is tragic that the gallant women who
have volunteered for service as nurses
should be so overworked. It is also tragic
that the nation's wounded heroes aren't re
ceiving the. medical' attention they deserve.
"How can I help ?" you ask. "The Army
wants registered nurses and I don't know
a thing about nursing."
Dr. Thomas
. Parray, surgeon general of
the public health service, answers the ques
tion by saying 'Enlist in the U. S. Cadet
Nurse Corps."
The Cadet Nurse Corps was .created in
June 1943 "to provide for the training of
nurses for the armed forces, government
and civilian hospitals, health agencies, and
war industries . . . To furnish to students
. . . without charge for tuition, fees or other
expenses, courses of study and training, un
iform, insignia, and maintenance in accord
ance with the regulations of the surgeon
. genral."
UpOn completion of a two year course in
,nursing you are eligible to join the Army
Nurse Corps. If you enter the Army you
will receive pay, allowances, and living ex
penses equal to those of other officers of
equivalent rank in the Army. Base Salaries
range from $l,BOO to $4,000 a year, plus 10
percent for overseas duty.
To become a Cadet Nurse you must be be
.tween 17 and 35 years of age, in good
health, and you must have a degree from an
:accredited high school and satisfactory
',grades. It is also important that you are in
:terested in people, like science, have a sense
!of humor, are neat, possess an orderly mind,
and are quick to grasp what you see, read,
and hear. •
The story of the Army nurse in this war
is one of devotion, of heroism and sacrifice,
of compassion, and of cheerfulness. More
than this, it is the story of glorious achieve-
Ment beyond the limits of the most sangui
nine expectation.
4i• Won't-you ,do-your.
'Houseparties are sweeping the
campus theSe weeks. Last week it
was the combined Phi Kappa Sig-
Pi Kappa Phi shindig . . .
Tonight the Sigma Chi's and
Chi Phi's are throwing a party out
at the Chi Phi house . . . Some of
the Sigma Chi's and their Sweet
hearts will be Dave Hendershaw
with Shirley Vestel, -an import
from Pittsburgh . . . Herbert
Wright and Ethel McLaughlin, al
so an import .. . Roge Nowell and
Jean Malick . Mr. and Mrs.
Malcolm Stull . .
Estelle Simon
Helen Hatton
Two by Two
Chi Phi's attending will be Jinx
Ealkenburg and Jo Anne Garland
. . Walt Robinson and, Helen
Deveneau . . . "Turk" Turchetti
and Theta Phi Alpha Pat Tomp
kins . . . Paul Pioth and Kappa
Delt Dorothy Jaun . . . Bob Whit
all and Eleanor Phillips. . . .
Tomorrow night Sigma Phi Al
pha is holding a dinner-dance at
the house . . . Maniac bets over
half the SPA's dates will be from
the little girls' dorm next door
at 320 Pugh . . . Harry Bassler is
taking Bettye Rank, DG pledge . .
Emil Kubek and Lea Allen, alpha
chi pledge . . . Dominick Acciarri
and Doris Mawhinney, Zeta
pledge . . . Vic Danilov and Dee
Kikta, Kappa pledge . . . Pudgy
Shutt and Carolyn Matheny, a
Tri Sig transfer . . . Raymond
Maule and Alice Marlarkey, Theta
Phi pledge . . . Chester Van Gor
der and Marge Miller . . Bob
Worthington and Claire Morrison
. . . Harold Frith and DG pledge
Becky Burke . . . Richard Sand
ers and Marian Hempt .
Here and . There
Delta gam pledge Anne Sie
brecht wears the PiKA pin of
Alan Bantz . . . Delta Chi Bob
Bacon has handed over his jew
elry of Theta Jean Ford . . .
Bob Gleichert, alpha chi sig
prexy, has given his pin to Mar
gie McCormick, also a DG pledge.
Eleanor Bermak,. SDT alum, has
gone and become engaged to Lt.
Danny Coel . . . Nancy • Byers,
alum, is also engaged., with a
ring 'n all, to Lt. Burd McGinnis,
LT SMCR ; formerly V-12er here
. . . Chuck Taylor ATO alum, and
Jean Lininger, ChiO alum, were
married in State College recently
. . . Barbara Mennies, pelta gam
alum, was married to Air Cadet
Andrew Ralogh in HaStings, Ne
braska recently . . .
Mary Jane Brine, better known
ES "Taffy" when she was in
school, was married recently to
Ens. Edward Pappert . . .
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By NANCY CARASTRO
Gail Nicely is nicely engaged
to Glenn Nicely . . . No. relation.
The hazards and discomfort of
travel today didn't bother Zetas
Ginny Dommermuth and Pug
Garver, who went to see their re
spective brothers, home after ov
erseas service . . . Ginny saw
Ned, a Navy man, and Pug saw
Paul, a Coast Guardsman . .
Phi Mu Fern Dillon went to NeW
York to see her fiance . David
Keck . . . SDT Bernice Alpert
saw Pvt. Stan Wolf, also in N.
Y. . . . AOPi Beejay Fischler went
to West. Point to see her fiance
Cadet Stanley Mattox . SDT
Sidele Buckwalter is going to .see
Pvt. Art Epstein, just returned
from overseas with lots .of souv
enirs and a Purple Heart . . .
Doin' the Town
Chi() Bab Smith's man Jack in
the Merchant Marine was up to
see her . . . Alpha chi alum Peggy
Campbell came avisiting with
fiance Ens. Harold Bucher, _former
SPE . . . Lt. Al Weil came to see
SDT Betty Berman . . Sgt.
George Dunn of the Marines trek
ked up to see fiancee Ruth Cly
mer, phi mu . . . Cpl. Duke Sil
vestrini has 'teen here Seeing
Gamma Phi Marge Triebqld . . .
Pvt. Julian Pichel, Alpha' Sigma
Phi, commuted from •Massa
chusetts to see SDT Cece Hen
schel . . . He was formerly sta
tioned here in ASTP . . .•
Ted Frazel came doWn from a
Navy station in Connecticut to see
Ruth Lambert . Mary Long
and Allie Herr Young, gamma
phi alums, were back . . .
•
Alums Come Back
ChiO alums Ruthie Ernst, Mary
Thompson, and Amy Caporaletti
were up . . . Mary has received a
Sparkler from Ens. Bob Aikens,
delta chi alum . . Zeta alum
Dora Culver visited with the sis
ters over the weekend . . Lee
Learner and Sy Rosenberg, for
mer editor . and managing editor
respectively of this here noos
paper are coming up to see their
little friends and to be on hand
for 9 the Collegian banquet, always
a jolly affair to be on hand for
Elaine Smyers Fugate and her
husband P/M Doc. Fugate
headed this way for the weekend
. . . She's a former ChiO and he's
an SPE . . . Ens. Art Miller, Phi
delt alum, will also return to the
old haunts . . . Gamma phi Dottie
'Shigley's fiance, Ray Farwell, is
coming to' visit . . .
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Once. during the life of every man with spirit
an opportunity appears allowing him to prove..his
courage and resourcefulness. My opportunity came
this week when the Three Little Pigs Life Insur
ance Company, Inc., asked me to check the report
that the College Health Service threatens its fi
nancial future.
The best way to determine a physician's com
petence, I reasoned, is to slip him a puzzler and
see how he reacts to it. Accordingly, I tucked my
head under my arm and entered the lair of the
Health Service in the catacombs under Old Main,
"Hello," I said with an Ingratiating smile.
When the receptionist stopped screaming she sum
nomed a doctor. He watched me juggle my head
on the palm of my hand for a minute and then
stuffed a thermometer in my mouth.
"Hmm," he said. "Young man, you have a
severe sore throat and a high fever. • I shall have
to send you to the infirmary." I had a suspicion
at this point, but I had to make sure. I put mr
head back on, took it off again, and .flipped it
from hand to hand. He didn't bat an eye.
Walking downtown toward my room through
a blinding snow storm to get my pajamas, I
thought that were I truly suffering from a sore.
throat instead of a mere prefabricated head,' I
might get sick. . •
• •
In the infirmary things were different. :J.
tugged the head off and grinned at the nurse.
"You're cute," she said. Then we •argued awhile
about who should remove my trousers and tuck
me into bed. I won.
There Were a bunch of congenial fellows in my
room. The conversation sparkled. Soon the
nurse came in and gave me green pills. The boy
with diptheria got green pills. The chap with the
broken neck 161 green•pills. The man with,, St.
Vitus Dance was lucky and got nose-drops.
Suddenly a physician marched in carrying a .45
caliber Colt. He slipped the safety catch and
leveled the gun at me. The nurse screamed and.
seized his arm. "No, doctor," she cried, "this is
the student with the sore throat."
- "Oh, I thought he was the horse with the broken
leg in Number 17," he said as she gentlY lead him
away.
At'about this time I noticed that the body at the
other end of the room had stopped breathing and.
turned black•.in the face. When I fold the friendly
nurse, she went over and put a thermometer in its
mouth. "I can't discharge him, honey; he's run
ning a fever," she told me.
I am still in the place because my temperature
won't go down. The nurse gives me a kiss on the
cheek and a shot of wood alcohol before the ther
mometer. ' I don't care if I never leave. I got the
Penn State Infirmary Blues and can't be bothered:
—CASSIUS
-MANIAC
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1945