PAGE TWO WRA Program Offers Coeds Recreation, Skill in Sports (Editor's Note—This is the third in a, .series cif articles concerning the organization of prominent campus groups to be published in conjunc tion with the new All-College Cabinet move to , foster more school spirit.) Women's Recreation Association °Tiers socialized recreation and a chance to develop skill in var ious sports and activities to all coeds at the College. Every wom 'an student is automatically a -Inentber of WIRA, and is privil iged• to join in any of its ac 'tivities. The scope of the WIRA pro gram is divided into four parts. ,It sponsors interclass and intra mural contests in hockey, basket ball, baseVall, swimming, tennis, :golf, bowling, badminton, volley archery. and table tennis. The individual p'anticipation ;program encourages coeds to par ;:ticipate in activities of their own volition. The projects program covers many interests, including 'm annual Christmas p'arty for rural school children, Saturday play nights, frosh sports rallies; and an annual formal dance; In 'addition, it brings national offic ials to campus to rate students in different sports. NEU sponsors 12 clubs: arch cry, badminton, bawling, bridge, dance, fencing, golf, outing, rid ing, rifle, swimming, and tennis. Each has its own organization and is represented on the - club ac. tivities board. rThe . purpose of the clubs is 'to provide recreational opportunity for junior and senior girls and to teach. athletic prowess to ocieds. Any woman may be an active inlember of not more than two clubs, though she may participate in open events of all other clubs and intraraurals. in addition to regular instruc tion in each Of the clubs, the rifle, swimming, and archery clubs participate in telegraphic aneets and intercollegiate tourna nents. The executive board of WRA consists of a ,president, vice 'president, secretary-treasurer, in tramural chairman, assistant in itramural chairman, club activi ties ehalprdan, publicity chair man, a senior counselor, staff ad- Captain Sends Library Salvaged German Books • Several boxes of German books on German art are being sent to Willard P. Lewis, librarian, for use by the College, according to a- letter sent to Mr. Lewis by Capt. J.ehn E. Dotterer, son - of Prof. Ray H. Dotterer, head of the depart ment of philosophy. In his letter to Mr. Lewis, Cap tain Dotterer explained that he salvaged the books from a junk pile and found them in good con dition. The . captain stated that the army is trying to preserve librar ies in Germany, but that there •is no repository for small collec tions of private books. Penn State Club Dance Danctng . and refre:shments will be offered at the Anchokage,. 238 W. College -avenue, at 7:30 p. m. next Priday, by the Penn State Club. All members and prospective members are invited to attend. II your TYPEWRITER NEEDS SERVICE dial 2492 or take it to 633 W. College visor, and one sophomore and two freshman representatives. T h e organization's constitution Was recently revised to provide for the larger executive board in the hope that more coeds will become interested in activities offered by WRA. The board appoints the club ac tivities chairman and publicity chairman; all other officers •are elected.' Other duties of the board are to select coeds' entitled to honorary awards and to Sanction all intramural and club activities. WißA's constitution p r ovides that the president shall be a inemfber of the senior class who has served one year on. the exec utive board, the vice-president and intramural chairman shall he members. of the junior class, and the assistant intramural chairman and secretary-treasur er shall be members of the soph omore class. The losing candidate for the presidencY is senior Coun selor. Alfl candidates for nomination to any WRA executive board of fice must have an all-college average off at least 1.5. Candi dates for offices other than those on the executive board must have an average of at least 1.3. Officers of the executive board this semester are: Betty Pike, president; Marilyn Globisch, vice president; Alice cooper, club • ac tivities chairman and. acting sec retary; Lucy Seifing, .publicity chairman: •' " ' Rebecca Walker, treasurer and intramural chairman; Doris Hand:; werk and Jane Schlosser, sOph omore representatives; Mildred A. Lucey, staff advisor. 'Press Agent' Alumnus Spreads Data on College Meeting somebody who "has heard about''' . Penn State is no novelty to students and alumni. But meeting a stranger who had never been to the campus but could draw a map of it was:a 'novel experience Ito Alan• Pot tasch, a member of this year's boxing team. Alan was riding on a train in the mid-West when a sailor en= gaged him in 'conversation, told him 'he knew all about the campus, and to prove • it drew a map showing College avenue, Al len street, the engineering units, Old Main, Ag Hill and other high spots. The sailor finally cleared up the mystery: He!s stationed at Navy Pier Chicago where Jim Stavley '44 is a radio technician. "That 'boy Jim," Said the, sailor, "is a regular one-man chamber. of commerce." I • • don't forget to remeniber - . , •, MOTHER'S DAY - . Sunday, May . 13th Telegraph. Floqvers \V\ 00IP,ING FL® AL GARDENS 7 Phone 212&-Bellefonte :---L.Ptione2o4sSetiitesCOfieje THE COLLEGIAN Placement 5 Firms Interview Representatives from five c panies wil interview seventh eighth semester students wit the next two weeks.. /Iri.alrti meats for interviews should made as soon as possible in. Old Main. Monday—Representatives fry Westinghouse Electric -Mai factoring Company' will' talk seventh and eighth . semester dents in mechanical; aeronaoti electrical, industrial, andchernit engineering, and metalbrgy - commerce and finance., Tuesfty—SEA- - rothistfies, -11 represenrtaives H. A. Myers • will interview senior -Mechanical; in dustrial, aeronautical 'engineering, metallu:rgY, and phsics students. Wednesday C.. W. Iltipokins,' chief engineer of Landislo6mhine 'Company, will - speak with •Si:nlois in industrial 'and mechanical en= ginering, and metallurgy. Thursday —lllePresentatives of 'North American Aviation,. Inc. will interview interested senior engineeking.siddents. ;.' Friday- ehirlei S. _Cie'Oland, Personnel ; Department, ;,Eclipse= Pioneer •Division, Bendix Aviation Corporation, will interview June and October graduates in' Engi nering. - April 23 Sylvania • Electric Products representative is inter ested in. talking to electrical, me chanical, and - chernical engineer ing and • physics, thetnistry, and mathematics senior students. (niOkstait* -- - MlisWi-Oitteet Richard Croiliks,`.. concert and . opera star Scheduled tn.atdear:in' Schwab Auditorium May: 12, .a special Artists' .Coprse:7.proo:.an has cancelled all engagetnents . be:• cause of was armotineed" today by C. E. Marquadt,..Artists'. Course chairman: • • . .In Crooks' • place , the., Artists' Course has engaged Nan MerinYan, concert 'singer, heard three times weekly on NBC's - "Serenaoe America," . and" Charles Xullman,. Meropolitan Opera .. . Co., tenor; They will present, a. joint, program in Scwab Auditorium at 8 p.m., May 12, the night Crooks, was scheduled to appear. Miss Merriman was born in Pittsburgh, but -moved to -Los An-' geles when 'she was 16 and studied under Mme. Alexia Hessian. Her first important appearance was when she sang the solo part in.the Hollywood. Bowl Easter sunrise service in 1940. Kullman, a native -of New Haven, Conn., planned to .study medicine and entered Yale -as a pre-med student. After his gradu-' ation, however, he studied at the AtliHard School and the-American Clonservatory in Fontainebleau,: France. Students Supervise Play • The-Lernont playground project, sponscired by PSCA, will provide student supervision for 250 chil dren Wiwi -utilize .the 'playground. The ground will be open every Saturday afternoon, and at least 10 Students, are needed each week for_ the supervision. Anyone inter ested in •group leadership, socio • logy, . physical education and re creation whb would be willing to 'serve as - a:supervisor - should con= tact.the co-chairmen, Dorothy Col yer Clalie , Harrison.. . _ 1 , .. . .. . . . •-• - - '. - • • • .. - - ~....., ~ '• .',.. • : - -. ' - '. - -- -.::::--,.-.., .. . - We.hairt ...a.coiiiilite sele ction , 'Of Books .'„,' ..• 2'; ' On Gardeniov-,whetker - it- be a large -- - . '...-: fartrfor -a-tiny Victory Garden. , . . _ . . . .. , . . . NOW Oh - - ~. DISPLAY . 1 >(..... . . .• . . . -„,...,....-....-, FRIIMY, APRIL 13, 1945 Chapel Forbush Speaks "God's Laboratory" is the topic. on which Dr. Bliss Forbush, head-' master of Friends' School"' arid' chairman of the Friends' General Conference, Baltimore, will ad dreSs the College'Chapel congrega.-" tion Sunday. -Among his 'collection of writ ings, Dr. Forbush lists "Wit 4 .... Cymbals and Harp," "Toward Un•",.. der.standing„ Jesus," "A Guide Book to „the Old Testanient, " ;, "A Study, - of the view Teetameht?!. Dr. Forbush has "served as• as!*: cutive secietary. and - chaitznai, the Baltirriore yearly Meetifig',liir Friends at -the Friends' "General{ Ponferenc* - e f e headmaster'. at thd taitinioro - ••School, he wwas tructS;:tr. .and later i setitik • headinaster thdre. For 'the past:2Q, years, - he; has' ierit . ed . 'ia diret;t:dir - , Camp ._iceewicifil; the Young? Friends' canip in Anti Arundel, Canity, Pre is alsathe keg*: for IVIor-gin State Cbllege: ' • Pi tatithda Phi hiliakts• Pi Lattbda: Phi initiated neww_ int - others - at their house sat, urday night. The newbroil : if - Ai are 1/lalehliti; Goldstein; Arthur Kimmegieldi : Martin: Rothboum, and Lawkezree - - Torn. . . Neil. , pledges are Ernest McVey Goodling, Witharn Rogers Deutsqt„ 4. Suitt Stetler, and. Joseph K. Leeth. . , Thefraternity was inactive , since .1943 .-and •resumed activity this s'emeater., •
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