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THE COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
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Friday, May 25, 1945
Counselors Organize
College fraternity advisers have been reorgan
ized into the Association of Fraternity Counse
lors and have adopted a new constitution.
The aims of the AFC are to further best in
terests of social fraternities on campus, coun
sel and guide undergraduate chapters, and act
in matters pertaining to over all fraternity sup
ervision as they effect student welfare, according
to the new constitution.
Prior to the reorganization, the counselors
could act in an advisory capacity only and any
suggestions had to be carried out through Inter
fraternity Council. Many times IFC was too busy
with its own problems, or wasn't in agreement
with the Counselors' suggestions, Ex-president
Jesse Doolittle said, so nothing was done about
them.
Under the present set up, each fraternity is
represented by one faculty member or towns
man who must be approved by the active chap.:
ter, alumni association of the fraternity, and the
College administration. This will eliminate the
previous membership confusion when. anyone
could attend meetings, vote, and hold office.
The AFC now has authority to act, according to
President Arthur F. Davis. Because it has a seat
on the Student Welfare Committee, it can rec
ommend action to the Senate Committee and put
into practice its - suggestions rather than serve in
the advisory capacity only.
Deans Say Farewell
The retirement of Dean Charles W. Stothlart
and Dean Stevenson W. Fletcher means much
more to the College than the loss of two men..lt
means more specifically the loss of two leaders.
They have served Penn State during its per
iod of development and expansion. These two
men have been a progressing and guiding spirit
abetting the growth of the College and through
their service have contributed considerably to its
recognition as an outstanding institution of high
er learning.
The loss, too, is a personal one. The names of
Stoddart and Fletcher have become passwords
in their respective schools. The understanding
and sympathetic guidance they've shown to the
student body as a whole has endeared them to
graduates and will make their names synono
mous with the Penn State tradition.
A Day of Prayer
Memorial Day will be different from just any
other day of classes this year, thanks to the ef
forts of All-College Cabinet.
Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Catron, chief of staff,
Third Service Command, will be on hand for the
occasion which will be called appropriately
enough "Memorial Day for the Allied Nations."
Eleven o'clock
,clases on Wednesday will be
excused so that the student body will be able to
attend en masse. All the military personnel will
be present to review before the ceremony.
here then is a chance for everyone to pay his
respect to those who died for our Country. In
times like these what less could we do for those
who have done so much?
Business Manager
Evelyn Wasson
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Managing Editor
Nancy Carastro
Helen Hatton
Ruth Cons tad
Gertrude Lawatsch
Peggie Weaver
P•ay Young
• Gloria Iferenbem--
Woodene Bell
Barbara Ingraham
Leo Kornfeh
Rosemary Ghantaut
Stan Bernheim and Bill Morton, energetic junior class prexies,
called a last meeting last Wednesday in order to plan the traditional
picnic. When the attendance was taken results showed 75 members
o•f the class numbering over 500 were present. Will the junior picnic
turn out the same as the senior class picnic did last October? Where
is the upperclassmen's college spirit?
Now that the annual Panhel Sing is over, sorority girls can, pull
in, their chests and pins again.
Since the sing was for entertain
ment only this spring, any rifts
occu!ring through competition
have readily been bridged.
The Navy and head waiters in
Atherton dining commons have
doned their "whites" which is. a
sure sign of spring!
You think you saw a coed lug
ging a body under arm? You
really weren't having halucina
tions or seeing mirages. Some of
the home ec students have been
carrying completely-dressed-min
us-head-and-limbs dress forms
from their rooms to class and
back again! But Gitti — Uhlig and
Marian Doty in Mac Hall weren't
satisfied with dress forms. They
made George, complete-with
head-arms-and-legs MAN!
No Penn State hasn't gone
poetic. It's just that Dr. Long has
his English literature 24 class
writing limericks. One specimen
of amateur verse is
Louis Bell
I once asked a saint named Lou
Coeds are !fast taking posses
sion of the remaining fraternity
hardware....AoPi Jo Lowrie is
wearing (Lambda chi Jim Buck
ler's jewelry.... Alpha z delt Lois
Turner is pinned to delta chi Paul
Smith.... (Ed. note: Paul was
initiated, pinned Lois, and left for
the Navy on the same day)....
Betty Heath, ACPi pledge, wears
Jeff Athaway's Pi kappa phi pin
....He's in the Navy now.... E
dith Eckhaiis and Cpl. Lee Hamer
ling are engaged.... Alpha chi sig
Dick Mraz has given Anne Mulve
hill a sparkler....
Theta Jeanie Hirt was crowned
Rose Queen of Pi Kappa Phi at
their •formal dance Friday nite
....Stan Bernheirn was her es
cort.... Also present were. Chuck
Hurd and Bunny Hartley....
Johnny Brooke and DG Skit Daub'
...Jack McCarthy and Kappa
Tolltmy Watson ....Chuck Alcorn
and Theta Vee Martin....Lotsa
others....
AOPi Weasy Umberger saw
Thumper Barkley last week....
Phi Mu Joan Baker saw Ens. Wil
liam Randolph.... Ens. Monty
Livermore, Navy flier, visited
Theta Phil Baer. ...Lt. Walt
Bachman saw Carolyn LeWorthy
....Cpl. Bob Gardner, phi gam,
was in town seeing Kappa Dottie
Callahan. ...And A/S Bob Ar
nold, phi sigma kappa, visited
Faculty Limelight
Newly-elected members of the Faculty Lunch Club Steering
Committee which will' take over the group's activities June 1 have
been announced by L. A. Peacock, retiring chairman. They are C.
E. E'ullinger, Miss Elizabeth Farrow, H. R. Riley, G. E. Simpson,
and Mrs. Mary W. Streyffeler. Dr. Peacock will remain on the
committee as an ex-officio in ember.
The program for Monday's Tneeting will consist of a discussion
on the work of the technical
branch libraries.... speakers will
be Miss Anna E. Malone, repre
senting the agriculture library..
..Elaymond Dickison, chemistry
and physics ....Miss Liberata
Emmerich, mineral industries....
Mrs. Margaret Coulter, engineer
ing.
In the latest issue of News
Flashes from Czechoslovakia, a
lielease nublished by the Czecho
slovak National Council of Amer
ica, Prof. J. Paul Selsam, profes
sor of European history, wrote an
article on "German Intrigues
Among the Czechoslovaks Over a
Thousand Years Ag0."....Dr. C.
R. Austin, nrofessor of metallur
gy, has accepted a position as as
sistant to the president of the
Mechanite Metal Corporation,
New Rochelle, N. Y. Dr. Austin
has been a member of the College
'staff since 1934.
THE COLLEGIAN
Penn Statements
FAY YOUNG
Old Mania
By NANCY
By WOODENE BELL
'Bout the worst battle he had
been through,
He stood scratching his head
'Til finally he said,
"T'was the battle For 3 in
psych 2."
Surprise of the ASTP formal
dance Saturday nights was the
revelation of the true personage
of Sherry Denison, one of the
contestants for queen of the ball.
It was none other than an ASTI"
himself, the practical joker of the
Penn State unit in a formal gown
and a wig!
Johnny Meier, former captain
of the Lion, track team, has enter
ed the annual meet of the Colle
giate Track and Field Club in
Philadelphia Memorial Day rep
resenting the New York A. C. He
will compete in the 440-yard run
and the half-mile and at present
holds the Middle Atlantic AAU
outdoor championship for the
quarter-mile. Another Penn Stat
er makes good!
CARASTRO
Kappa Lois Cleaver .... AOPi
Nancy Norton went to Philly to
see Midn. George Nichols....
Lt. Mitzi Bergstein,, sig,
has been in town.... Lt. Charlie
Ridenour....Phi gam Ed Seel, an
Ensign in the Merchant Marine,
is in town on a 30-day leave after
months at ,3ea....He's auditing
courses he had when he left for
service, in the middle of a semes
ter....
Rosemary Hipps was crowned
Queen of the AST Drum Formal
Sattidy....And a very nice af
fair it was....By the way, if any
one will take the time to look at
last week's Collegian, scrutinize
the picture of Sherry Denison, one
of the Queen contestants.... She's
a man' The tall, gorgeous, red
head was exposed as a fraud to
the dancers during an intermis
sion.... And the groans from the
gullible ones who had voted for
her—uh--him .... Very clever,
these AST's....
Alpha chi's pledge dance will
be at the nhi kappa sig house....
There will by Anne Schlough and
A/S Dana Belser....Pris Wagner
and Teke Van pindy....Heleki
Jay and A/S Vern Condron....
Jean Moyer and Midn. Mike Mil
ligan, traveling up from Penn..
„Elaine Simpson and A/S Jim
Jones. ...Janet Mallenaeur and
SPE Bob TayIor....MANIAC.
Dean Edward Steidle, of the
School of Mineral Industries will
speak at the Phi Kappa Phi din
ner tonight.... Dr. Clifford R.
Adams, - director of Penn State's
Marriage Clinic, has two articles
in nation-wide magazines this
month....ln the Ladies' Home
Journal, he lists the most liked
and disliked names for babies....
In the Woman's Harm , Compan
ion, his rer.ular feature on mar
riage counseling.
Dr. Francis Tschan, professor of
European history, has been prov
ing his abilities as an author as
well as a professor. He wrote the
music for a hymn sung in chapel
during the Red Cross drive, the
ode read at the V-E day convo
cation, and is the co-author of
five volumes on "Western Civil
ization" hot off the press. But just
to prove his versatility, he won
the Peter Paul Choclettos jingle
contest.
A Lean And Hungry Look
There are many advantages in situating a col
lege in a small town. Students can pursue their
studies (and their dates around the living room
table) with none of the distractions and tempta
tions of big-city life. Also the local merchants
can more easily swindle the college kids.
This is particularly simple in a town as small
and as far off the beaten track as State College.
Students wishing to purchase a specific article,
may find it in one, or at most, two stores. If the
latter case holds time, 'the shopper will find a
suspicious similarity in prices. This is known in
economic circles as collusion, or getting the dirty
end of the stick.
One of the nicer things as bountiful Dame Na
ture has bestowed upon her children is flowers.
They look good and they smell pretty. In fact
they are the only non-marriageable commodity
having these characteristics, I do not know pre
cisely when it happened, but about a million years
ago some wise chap handed a woman some flow
ers instead of whacking her over the head with a
club. The new approach worked so well that
there has been a lively traffic in posies ever since.
In recent times the giving of flowers has be
dome the thing to do on many occasions. When
a friend is ill we, overjoyed that he is flat on his
back and in no condition to borrow money, cele
brate by sending flowers. Flowers are in order
when someone we dislike dies. The thought of
the florist's charge assures a respectable amount
of tears at the funeral.
At College it is an accepted practice for a man
attending a formal or semi-formal, dance to pre-;
sent his date with a corsage of flowers. This is a
senseless custom. A pretty girl does not need
flowers. And the only way a corsage can help a
girl who is not attractive, is to be worn directly
over the face. I have, however, no quarrel with
corsages or the people who give them. With the
ones who sell corsages matters stand differently.
The flower merchants. Those stalwart practi
tioners of the art of Jesse James. Those goOd sa
maritans whose badge of service contains the
mottoes. "The public be damned!" and "Charge
all the traffic can bear!" They are good men. They
are pious men. They are kind to mothers. And
let me tell you why. .
On several days during the year almost every
one purchases flowers. Last Easter the customer
found an unusually high rate prevailing in town.
Mother's Day was celebrated by a similar price
jump. I shudder to think what the robber barons
of the rose gardens will do for the Intenfraternity
Ball.
I am putting myself squarely on the spot and
queering my chances to get Idate for the. IF Ball,
but I am not 4oing to buy flowers. It really is not
necessary, fellows. If, with your arms around
her, and the music of Lopez , in her ears, your date
is not beautiful, nothing will make her so.
It would be a sensible-thing if the Interfratern- .
ity Council eliminated flowers for the dance. , It
would be a better thing if it sold War Stamp cei.;
sages, instead. —CASSIUS
Front and Center•
Lt. Charlie Ridenour, former varsity wrest
ler, is spending part of his leave in town,. Charlie
is a radar instructor at Langley Field, Va.
Also visiting the campus last weekend was
Lt. Mickey Burnstein, 'former Nittany basket
ball manager. Mickey, now a marine, was
wounded the first day on Iwo Jima.
Lt. (jg) Joe Ganz, comrnander of an LOP, is,
on leave after participating in several Euro
pean • invasions.
Lt. Bernard Broshy, former varsity tackle,
has added two bronze stars to his Philippine
liberation ribbon for participation in landings on
Dinagat Island three days before the main assault
on the Philippines began.
Lt. C. R. Burge '44, bombardier on• a Fly
ing Fortress has been awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross. Lt. Burge is home after completing
30 missions.
Lt. Roger W. Maurer '4O *ears an Oak Leif,
Cluster. and a Bronze Star.
S/Sgt. Richard Grace '43 has been awarded ,
an OA Leaf Cluster and the Air Medal. •
Lt. (jg) Julie ilipstein, Hollywdod producer
and former Lion boxing champion, is now at
tached to the photograph division of the Navy,
Cdpt..,Carl EVI. Bachrach '42 has been cited
for his work in• charge of the convalescent train-.,'
ing program at the Westover Regional Statim
Hospital. —PEGGIE WEAVER,
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1945