Give Clothing to the Needy Overseas rd ' _ VOL. 42—No I:ife Of Czech inisfer Speaks in Adopted Land iMrs. Jan Papanek, American born wife of the Minister from Czechoslovakia will speak before tit% special convocation of college women in 121 Sparks at 7 p. m. 'Tuesday. Madame - Papanek has beeri.concerned with the political, economic, and social status of ivonien in Czechoslovakia and the fblk .music of that country, and she been discussing these issues on her'speaking tour. ;:j'A graduate of Northwestern OniVersity, Madarhe Papanek has been - c.'engaged in social service 'Work at Howell Neighborhood kiotiae, Chicago. She has lived in andapest,. Washington, and Pra gue and is now residing in New Nark. Papanek's lecture• is I,,:)eirig sponsored b y WSGA, with sßiAth Bollinger and Florence Por ter:handling arrangements for the Arieeting. Publicity for the con- _vocation is 'in charge of Junior Service Board and Mortar ,Board will , usher for the lecture. VASGA will take Madame Papa fiek to dinner and Owens will en 'certain at a reception in Women's lyuilding Lounge at the close of an ° attempt to revive-.school ',sPirit. among coeds songs and "cheers will pupplement the lecture, ,i,dl Cynthia Johnson and Ricky )..Grossman leading the cheeers. jg?,-DunlaPr-WSGA-president '4l4iroduce the speaker. . • limpus Organizations , s; ?range Fiesta Program • for Pan-American Day V 1- ,Campus organizations are co oberating in arranging . plans for ?.te third annual .Pan-Ameriean fp.ak - Fiesta-to be held April 14. 7 The chief aim of the Fiesta pro -4 `ram is to promote closer relation fslip,and good will between North and - . South . Americdn. students • on campus.,; the program for the il*yc!nirg will be an' informal vie 'dance in::the'Armory 'from 9 - p.m. dmidniglit sponsored-by Indepen-' ent. Women's Association and In ;4tiepenclent Men's Association. Dec atAtkins will center about a South k'AineriCan theme and exhibition dancing will be featured by Latin tAinerican students. P.4ickets are 35 cents a person ;-. 7!'"Arid, : :6o cents a couple. . committees for the dance in- Harriet Strauber and Rob (iett,Yurkanin, social; Ephraim cat- OVX-• .and Betty Keim, publicity; Zankel and Salvatore I:Hcicci, entertainment and refresh itinenta; and Imby Erik, decora- Afons The • Fiesta program will be 5; opened by a flag ceremony with r''N-12 units 'participating on Old ;,Main 'Terrace at 7:15 p.m. Guy 4.•, ! Wocids, associate professor of mu - • , " will lead songs and the lut- :Y:'tional anthem. All 7 College President Karl Erd rman, will Speak at a reception for f audents in the Hugh Beaver - Ropm, Old Main, following the . . An attempt .is being ;; made b y the committee to secure Eoguest speaker -for the affair. 1 - 4; .-: South American movies will be in the Little Theatre at ,8:15 f ,::p;m. They are "Argentina Prunes" describing the social situation of `the country and "Gratias Amigos" portraying :•war .effort -eontribn tions, i jt; ..ceo.chairmen of the :Fiesta are Z 4 : - Betty Ann Condroti. and . Dolores PiaTtilcii;i , , ttea' onA t xtage , seven) - 1.161\ , t• AAA: • ' Tatirgiatt FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1945-STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA 'Brother Rat' Scores With All-Star Cast At Bat Players' forthcoming production of "Brother Rat" touches home— with enough pitching, batting, and circling the bases in the Little Theatre nightly to make Joe Be denk's men of muscle take a rear .grandstand seat. It's , baseball time at V. M. I. and the Players' cast has been going through a strenuous workout at the hands of Coach Tucker. The Bing Edwards (Portman Paget), Dan Crawford (John Sadden) com bination are in the lead. for even money, with Manager Newsreel Scott (Robert ,Ernst) and all of V. M. I. putting their faith and chips on the two for. the Southern Con ference championship. Dan is in the .400 batting league and holding his own, with rivalry running high between Bing Ed wards and Harley Harrington (Joe Vispi) who are both after the ath letic award to be presented to V. M. I.'s most outstanding graduat ing athlete. -_The headaches are left to Mrs. Brooks (Marion Wilder) who has been done the honor of choosing the brawniest cadet for the laurel wreath. Nothing ersatz will do for a Players' production, Director Tucker, Mrs. Scott, and the cos tume managers have arranged for a shipment of V. M. I. baseball uniforms to be sent up from -Lex ington -in time "for- the production . Tribunal Tries, Convicts 1 Freshmen Ouf of 20 Newly . re-appointed Tribunal C'h'air min Guy Newton and his 'associates set an all-semester rec ord for leniency Wednesday night When 'they convicted 2 out of 20 repbrted.',freshma . n custom viola tors. The unlucy'pair, E. - W. Sprague and Oscar liberner; drew stiff sentences of wearing unique corn tbinatinns of huge cigars, ..poetic signs„ dunce art.'s, water buckets, and turned-around clothes. Closing the meetein.g on an om inous note, Chairman Newton.re quested continued ...co-operation from cipperclass.inen in. :.appre hending • violators. All names should be - turned in •to Studen't T.Tnlio.n with 'the nature 'and date of the offense . together with the name End semester of the turnee, he said. Collegian Office Hours The Collegian office in Car negie Hall will be open to so cept news stories, classified ad veiltisements, and subscriptions Monday through Friday, 1 to 2 p. m. Modern Art Loss Serious, Says Helme By LYNETTE LUNDQUIST "Once the armies on the western front get past the Brandenburg Gate they can smash Berlin and not ruin anything of great historic art value- except maybe a few paintings," says J. Burn Helme, head of the fine arts department. "What I am worried about are the fine examples of modern ar chitecture. on the outskirts. Berlin is not an old city but it is the home of . the best. in modern architec lure," he said. . The soldiers on the" western front will see examples of loss . . . if .they. have-time to , look. On the road frcim Paris to Berlin are•his, tonic 'cities with buildings much treasured in _the art world. "Cologne? Newspapers • have playetkup the safety,. of. the catlie Published Weekly By The Daily Collegian Staff GSO To Feature Musical Savants Al Formal Dance "Starlight Formal," an All-Col_ lege dance, will be presented in Recreation Hall, 9 to 12 D. m., April 14 by OSO. Under a starlit canopy, Elrose L. Allison's "The Musical Sav ants" of Selinsgrove college and Holly Wands, vocalist, will pro vide music. Allison, a professor of music at Selinsgrove, conducts an orchestra and a choral group there. Intermission will feature Paul Pioth, master of ceremonies, and three entertainers. Guy Woc.:3, assistant professor of music at the College, will play "Rhapsody in Blue" and.boogie-woogie sel ections. A surprise song will be sung by Ruth Hill who will also sing "Without a !Song" and "Begin the Beguine." Nadia Lulka and Kath ryn Tyriw will dance a Russian number known as the Kolymeka. Booths will be available to all organizations and grobps for $2. Reservations may be made with Rosemary Ghantous, 127 Ather ton Hall. The dance is semi-for mal. .Admission has been. set at $1.20 per couple and '6O cents. for a stag.. GSO members will be ad mitted unon presentation of their cards and• their dates for the. stag -" , lllfary ' Haines, ,QSa. --president, _releaSed names of chairmen yes terday. They are Lois Burkey, hostesses; Rosemary Ghantous, publicity; Harriet Kirschner, dec orations; Doris Stowe, refresh ments; and Marion Williamson, entertainment. Also on the planning committee are representatives from the V-12, the ASTP and the X-GI Club, A/S James Jones and A/S - Robert Bulmer, Pvt. Stanley Lasoski and Pvt. Richard Walker, and Paul Pioth and Robert Whitehall. Margaret !Rose was recently el elected, recording secretary of the Girl's Service Organization. • Thefa Alpha Phi. Admifs Five Drama Students Five students, recently elected to Theta Alpha Phi, national dra matics honorary, will be initiated at the QA Cabin April 15. Active members of the honor ary have . selected Patricia Mc- Chire as the outstanding graduate of February '45. Her name will therefore be engraved upon the plaque in the dramatics office, E, J. Phillips was awarded a scho larship as an outstanding drama student. dral but in the photographs I can not find what is infinitely more valuable. I cannot find the little 13th century churches which used to dot the city," Helme continued. "These represented the finest in German churches, built at the peak of German art by inspired craftsmen, and outrank, in an art ist's mind, the cathedral which is essentially an 18th century copy of old Gothic. Only the choir is old and it is intact. "We are glad. the cathedial at Aachen • still stands. • The newer parts were hit but the octagonal chapel built by Charlemagne is undamaged." The Americans found when- they arrived in Bohn, the home of Bee .thoven.. had been . destroyed. • In• Heidelberg ',the. famous ruined car.- Semester's OMOH Features Five-Hour Entertainment Dancing, movies, ping-pong, for tune telling, and a lecture will highlight the activities of the Old Main Open House, from 7:15 o'clock to 12 midnight tomorrow. PSCA, in cooperation with other student organizations, is sponsor ing the affair. All proceeds will go to the World Student Service Fund, announce Barbara Smith and Harold Grif fith, co-chairmen. This fund pro vides direct relief for students and professors who are victims of war. Interest spots in Old Main, such as the President's suite, the deans' offices, the Penn State Club room, and the tower, which will be open for the evening. Ping-pong,_ for tune telling, and a fish pond will also be offered. Harold E. Dickson, professor of tine arts, will•lecture on the Land Gleichert Installs Erdman As All-College Chairman; Prexy Names Committees Karl Erdman, new eighth se mester president, was installed as chairman of All-College Cabinet by Robert Gleichert, Elections committee chairman, at the Cab inet meeting Tuesday night. Immediately following the in stallation Erdman reappointed Evelyn Wasson as Cabinet secre tary. The senior president then nahned several committees to con sider unfiniShed business from the . P.revions-Cabinet..., Guy Newton was reelected chairman of Tribunal after a pro longed discussion which lasted half an hour. Seven other men students were unanimously chos en as members - of Tribunal. They are Patrick Brennan, Frank Brawn, Edward Carson, Martin Cohn, Judd Healy, Michael Lynch, and Glenn Smith. . New Elections committee_ chair man is Helen - H'atton. Also on - the committee are Charles Appleman, Gertrude Faddis, Jean Gilbert, Richard ..Griffiths, Elizabet h Hutchinson, and Harold Tarpley. A committee- was named to re vise the . existing All-College Cabinet Constitution. Victor Dan ilov was appointed ch'airtman 'by Erdman. ..Also on the committee are Charles Alcorn, Michael. Lynch, Betty Shenk, and Evelyn Waes.on. Jeannie Weaver heads the Penn State School .Spirit committee. Her aides are Ruth Constlad and Hal Rahn, third semester presi dent. William Morton, chairman of ithe Swing Inn project, stated that the •Armory would be open to night to all students. Next Cabinet meeting will be in 104 Old. Main at 8 p.m. Tues day. tle was in its pre-war condition until German patriot guns hit it in an attempt to fight the occupation forces. "And the cathedral at Stras bourg is covered with such deli cate sculpture that the resounding of gunfire might shake the decora tions down," he said. "We don't as yet know .about that or the cathe dral at Ulm which was built in 1377. "Then too there are cities our armies have not yet reached. There is Nuremburg with its clock and a medieval walled town. There is Dresden with its • world-famous porcelain works, .a city which has already been.bombed.We can only hope.that will he saved," Give Clothing to the Needy Overseas PRICE FIVE CENTS Grant fresco in the Little Theatre at 8:15 o'clock. Slides and a movie will accompany his talk. In conjunction with the semes terly Open House, a vic dance and dry dock will be staged in the Armory by GSO and IWA. X-GI Club, Cwens, and Mortar Board are arranging a talent show for intermission, with prizes of $3, $2, and $l. "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, will be shown in 121 Sparks at 8 o'clock, and again at 10 o'clock. Organizations cooperating and their representatives are Cwens, Barbara Smith; GSO, Mary Haines; Interfraternity Council, Charles Hurd; Independent Wom en's Association, Mildred Gross; Junior Service Board, 'Betty Hos terman; Philotes, Martha Irwin; Women's Student Government As sociation, Phyllis James; X-G-I Club, Ted Harmatz; and 'WRA, Doris Handwerk. Other organizations assisting which have not sent representa tives include Mortar Board, Inde pendent. Men's Association, Penn State Club, and Panhellenic Coun cil. ASTP Personnel Mark Army Day wifh Brief Program at Old Main All officers and men of the 'Army - BPecializer, Training" Pro. , gram at the College will partici pate in a brieif ceremony in cele bration of Army Day in front of Old Main at 5:20 o'clock today. The War Department, in . desig nating today as Army Day, has requested all military units to celebrate in a manner that will not interfere with their training. The review at the College will last approximately 20 minutes. Civilians and Navy personnel tare invited to attend the cere mony. Lt. Col. Guy G. Mills, corn.- mandant of the AST P unit at the College, says of the. celebration, "It is indeed fitting that we pause a m'oment to celebrate .the birth day of our army, and recall .the fact that this. army is scattered over all the world in the success ful struggle to .maintain the insti- Itutions of free men." Health Service Treats More Men Than Women More men than women sought medical care at the College during the winter season, according to Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, director of the Health Service. Dr. Ritenour pointed out that women were responsible for only 398 bed days at the Infirmary, while men (military and naval trainees included) accounted for 867 bed days. The study extended from October to January, inclu sive. At the dispensary, 5485 men sought medical attention over this period as compared to 4468 wom en. Civilian men students repre sented three-fifths of the former total. Newman Club Elects Newman Club recently elected the following new of icers: Ray mond Hensler, president; Leonard Scalise, vice-president; Patricia' Sheffer, recording secretary; Bea trice Shaw, corresponding secre •tary; and Vincent Quinlin, treas urer. Initiation will take place at the .Phi Kappa house. April
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