Give Clothing to the Needy Overseas VOL. 42.--No. kir Treble Singers Present 'Opus ir Woods Directs Group Of 114 in 15 Numbers Sponsored by the music de partment,. the Penn State Treble Singers will present "Opus I," in Schwab Auditorium at 8:30 o'- clock tonight. • - Led by Director Guy Woods, assistant professor of music, the 114 coeds will sing 15 numlbers ;arranged in four-pant harmony. -Ruth .1-lorrocks will accompany the group. . "A Song cxf Victory," by Laura iKetterer, the group's opening number, will feature Katherine Hatmeister as soprano soloist. -Ann Reese will solo in Andre chenier's French love poem, "Apart." Yeomans' "Time on My Hands," I.C6untz's "The Star," Campbell- Tipton's "Spirit Flower," and the old English aire "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" will be sung by a sextet. Members of this . group are: Joan Baker and Aim Reese, sopranos; Jean Diehl and Antionette D'Orazio, second sopranos; and Betty Graeber and Dolores Portnoy, altos. Professor Woods has arranged "Lazy Bones," by Hoagy Car michael, "Body and - Soul," by Johnny Green, "I'm Con[fessin'," by Dougherty and Reynolds, and 'Exactly Like You," by McHugh. Thege numbers will be sung by a ,swing trio, Carolyn Detz, Jeanne 'ElSenberg, .and Sally Freedly. fieerns Taylor's "Valse Ariette," the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria," and "When Day Is Done," by Dr. Robert Katcher, will be sung by ithe entire chorus. The group will ;present - the negro spirituals 'Joshua Fit de Battle of Jer icho" and "Were You There?" The all-coed .chorus will sing Longfellow's poem "Stars of the Summer Night" set to music by Noble Cain in his "Nocturne," and Carl Sandburg's "Fog" with Music by Louise Fhebe Stone. Three folk tunes, "Willie Take .Your Drum," a Burgundian Car ol, "I Wonder When I Shall Be married," a Kentucky Mountain song, and "Grandma Grunts," a (Continued on page seven) College Adopts Postwar Readmission Procedure .The Administration Council of the College bas s adopted an amendment to the procedure in reinstating students ' who have been dropped from College be cause of poor scholarship. Illecx.Nrnmended by the . Commit tee on Postwar Problems, this new policy of liberal reinstate ment will be adopted immediately after the war. Readmission of students will be up to the deans of the individual schools, the Col lege examiner, or the registrar, depending upon the circum stances. President Ralph D. Hetzel has appointed 14 stall members to study what- the Postwar Prob lems' Committee calls "the inter national relations of the College." • William H. Gray, professor of Latin American history, will head this investigating • co m mittee. • Serving under him are: Nicholas 'M. Brentin, instructor of . Spanish; Wallace R. Brewster, associate professor •• of , political science; Henry S. Brunner, professor of . i/gricultural..engineering; Arnold ..I- Currier, associate professor of chemistry; Paul R. . Dougherty, Professorof Spanish; and H. Mau • ?.ee.-Davis,• assistant -professor of i• metallurgy. • • •-• " • -I,:Royal M. • Gerhardt, • professor • k Tottrgiatt FRIDAY, MORNING, MAY 4, 1945-STATE COLLEGE !PENNSYLVANIA CHARLES KULLMAN fd: " Opera Stars Offer Concert Approximately 300 tickets re main for the final College Artists' Course program and will be sold at the Athletic Association ticket office, Old Main, Monday. Price will be $3, including tax. The concert will be presented in Schwab Auditorium, May 12 by Charles Kullman, tenor from the Metropolitan Opera Associa tion, and Nan Merriman, National Broadcasting Company radio star. Ku.llman, a graduate of Yale ('where he originally intended to study medicine) and the . Julliard School of Music, studied at the American Consersiatory,- in ..F : on, France7"He - was-for merly a member of the music faculty of Smith College, leaving there to join Vladimir Rosing's American Opera Company, where he, made his initial appearance in the roles of Faust, Don Jose, and Pinkerton. After singing in Berlin, Vienna. Salzburg, London, and other Eu ropean cities he returned to America for his Metropolitan de but in:"Faust." He has since made many appearances at the Met ropolitan and has sung for eight seasons with the San Francisco Opera Company. He has also appeared on a number of radio programs and has made numerous operatic and semi classical recordings. cf. architectural engineering; Wit ham Jeffrey, instructor of indus trial engineering and physical ed ucation; Frank D. Kern, dean of the Graduate School; Miss Edith J. Melville, assistant to the dean of women; George E. Simpson, head of the department of sociol ogy; Mrs, Mary W. Streyffeler, assistant professor of • home eco nomics, education, and visual ed ucation; and Palmer C. Weaver, professor of education. Col. Edward Taliferro Named ASTP Commandant Col. Edward H. Taliaferro Jr. has been named new commandant' of the Army Specialized Training Unit at the College. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Col. Taliaferro did grad uate work at Cornell and was awarded a civil engineering de gree from VW.: He served with the AEF in .France duriiig World War I. first as• a company and then as a • battalion commander of the 17th Engineers. Col. Taliaferro was 'transferred from Indiantown Gap, where the .was commanding officer from Sep tember, 1944 until February, .1945. Published Weekly By The Daily Collegian Staff College Plans V-E Day Services Convocation to Mark Campus Celebration Convocation services will be held in front of Old Main or in Recreation Hall to mark the ,proc !r•mation of V-E Day, according to President Ralph D. Hetzel. In a statement explaining the plan, Dr. Hetzel pointed out that the military department had re ceived instructions from the War Department prescribing a icere rnony for the occasion. All stu dents and townspeople will be invited to attend. The time and place o.f the con vocation will be determined by the hour of the day and the weather' conditions when the dec laration is made .known to the public. If the proclamation comes be tween 6 p.m. and 8. am. the ceremony will (be staged at 11 a. If the unconditional surrender proclamation comes ibetween 8 a. in. and . 6 p.m. the ceremony will be• at 8 p.m. IS at 11 a.m. in good weather, it twill be in front of Old Main. IS the weather is inclement it will be in Recreation Hall. If at 8 p.m. it will be in Recreation Hall regardless of the weather conditions. An announcement about 11 o- clock classes will be made should the ceremony take place then. 'Anchors Aweigh' Honors Town Folk "Anchors Aweigh", the Navy V -12 formal dance will be held in the Armory from 8 to 12 o'clock tomorrow night. The dance is dedicated to all citizens of State College who, as the dedication reads "have done much collec tively and as individials to make our duty here a pleasant one." •Music will b e provided by Bud Wills and his Campus Owls. Guests of honor at the dance will, be representatives of the Col lege and of various organizations of the town. They are: and Mrs. E. L. Keller, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert G. Reed, Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Roseberry, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schlow, Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Spannuth, and Mr: H. L. Stuart, representing Borough Council. Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Hummel Fishburn, Mr. and Mrs. Neil M. Fleming, Mr. ,and Mrs. Harold. R. Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gullo, Dr. and Mrs. Carl P. Schott, and Dr.- and Mrs. Charles C. Wagner, repre senting the College. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Armstrong, American Legion; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Brown, Centre Hills Country Club; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Y. Ed wards, Elks Club; Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Griffith, Kiwanis Club; Mr. and Mrs. George Laleek, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. McLanahan, Commerce Club; and Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Snyder, Rotary Club. A/S James C. Sheehan is gen eral chairman of the dance. His committees will be headed by A/S Robert W. Bulmer, refreshments; A/S Jack C. Espich and A/S J. Pobert Riley, decorations; „A/S John P. Jones, tickets and pro grams; A/S James M. Kenney, checking; and A/S Karel E. Yed licka, entertainment. AU graduating seniors who have • not . received. notice i:of photographer's. appointments are asked to contact Charlotte Taylor, editor of La Vie, at Kappa Alpha Theta. Cabinet Revision Plans For All-College Officers The All-College offices of president and secretary-treasurer are provided for in the revised Cabinet constitution which had its first reading Tuesday night. The All-College president and secretary will be elected each se mester by the entire student body if the plan is accepted by Cabinet on May 15 when a vote will be taken following the third reading of the constitution. The duties of the president will be to serve as chairman of the Alumnus Trades College Ring For Food Bacon and bread were so ap pealing to Lt. James M. Lloyd '43, that he gave his class ring for them. Lieutenant Lloyd was taken pri soner in the Saar Basin last Thanksgiving. Upon his release February 1, he gave a Russian soldier his class ring in exchange for food. To buy him a new ring, Hat So cieties Council will collect funds at a mass meeting in front of Old Main today at 1 o'clock. MI Staff Adds Prof Dr. Maxwell Gensamer. staff member at Carnegie Institute of Technology for the past 16 years, has been named professor of met allurgy and head of the depart ment of mineral technology, Dean Edward Steidle of the School. of Mineral Industries announced. The new department head, na tive of Bradford, holds three de grees from. Carnegie Tech: a bachelor of science (1924), a mas ter of science (193'1), and doc torate (1933). Dr. Gensamer, who holds a U. S. patent ;for the manufacture of non-aging steel, has served as galvanizing foreman; chemist in charge of laboratory, and acting chief metallurist in charge of all heat treatment and galvanizing for the Page Steel and Wire Com pany, Monessen. Hi s professional association with Carnegie Tech began in 1929 when he was a graduate student and research assistant in the met als research laboratory. He began teaching metallurgy in 1935 and, since 1913, has held the rank of full professor. Ruling by ODI Closes Commencement to Guests Because of a recent ruling by the Office of Defense Transportation, Commencement exercises for the June graduates will •be closed to parents and friends of the stu dents. The ruling states that the Col lege may not hold any functions which would draw more than 50 people from out of town to the campus 'because of overcrowded transportation facilities. In order to hold Commencement exercises of any kind, permission must be obtained from the ODT guarantee ing no violation. of this ruling. A closed Commencement pro gram was decided upon at a meet ing of the College Public Occa sions committee Tuesday rather than no exercises 'at all. The date and time of Com= menceinent will be 'decided by .graduating seniors and will be an nounced at a later date. Give Clothing to the Needy Overseas PRICE FIVE CENTS Cabinet and represent the stu dents in matters which concern all the semesters. The secretary treasurer will be Cabinet's secre tary and chairman of the Inter class Finance Board. Following Victor Danilov's mes sage from President R. D. Hetzel stating that Cabinet had no juris diction of WS'GA, a nominating committee was established for the selection of Judicial and Tribun al members. Danilov, who is chairman of the Constitution Revision Committee, pointed out that any cooperation between Cabinet and WSGA will have to be voluntary and not com pulsory under present conditions. The nominating committee will set up standards which all nomi nees to the judicial bodies must meet before being recommended to All-College Cabinet for final approval. The committee will consist of the presiding Judicial and Tribun al chairmen, a representative from the Senate, and - a member-at large from Cabinet: The- All-Col lege president will serve as chair man of -the committee. The deans of men and women will be ex officio members. Numerous minor changes were also made in the constitution. Discussion on the revisions began three weeks ago. However, be cause of various reasons the first reading was not officially made until this week. PRA To Sponsor Marriage Institute An All-College Courtship and Marriage Institute will be spon sored by the Penn State Christian Association May 13, 14, and 15. The purpose of the Institute is to provide discussion by profes sional leaders on problems arising in the minds of students concern ing courtship and marriage and to furnish information for those who are unable to schedule courses in human relations. Rev. J. Kesler Schultz, pastor' of the, college church at Dickinson College, Carlisle, will speak in Chapel at 1 1 1 a.m. May 13 to open the program. His topic will be "The Religious Aspects of Mar riage." Dr. Roy E. Dickerson, author, lecturer and marriage consultant from Cincinnati, 0., will be on campus all day May 14. will speak in psychology, home econom ics, and sociology classes during the morning discussing the rela tion of marriage to these subjects. During the afternoon the con sultant will hold 20-minute pri vate conferences for students seek ing personal counsel. Appoint ments should be made in the PSCA office immediately. Dr. Dickerson will address the entire student body in 10 Sparks at 8 p.m. May 14. . Dr. Clifford Adams, associate professor of education and psy chology at the College', will close the Institute when he will address the sociology 4. class at its regular meeting May 15 on the 'Psycho- Physical Factors in Marriage."
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