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THE COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
cr,tablished 1001, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published every Friday morning during the regular Col
kt by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl
vania State Collge. Entered as second class matter July 5,
1031, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act
lit march 8, 1879.
Subscripttions by mail only at $1 a semester.
Editor-in-Chief
Helen Hatton
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
Fay E. Young Mary Louise Davey
EDITORIAL STAFF
News __________Dorothy Rutkin
Women's Editor _ Beagle Weaver
:isninr Board—Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerenberg, Audrey RY
buck, Patricia Turk.
) , I , litorial Assistants—Lynette Lundquist, Doris Stowe.
Sports Assistants—Leon Aaron. Leo Kornfeld, David Nal
yen, Elliot Shapiro.
)reporters—Kay Badollet, Arlene Greene • Bursars Ingraham,
Caroline Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne McCauley, Kay
McCormick, Nancy Sherritf, Gwyneth - Timmis, Ruth
Tisherman • Jane Wolbarst
Graduate Counselor
ADVERTISING STAFF
Junior Beard—Phyllis Deal, Rose Mary Ghantous, Helen Hime
STAFF THIS ISSUE
)lanagrinit Editor
Copy Editor
Views •Editor
Eports Editor _
What Is the WSSF?
What is the World Student Service Fund?
To destitute, war-desolated students, the World
Student Service Fund is the means of continuing
their education in face of hunger, war, disease,
and poverty.
'With the contributions of American students,
the WISSF is re-opening universities which were
destroyed by war in cities like Prague, Bdlgrade,
Cracow, and Brussels. Students in these universi-
ties are provided with food, medical attention,
books, and other study materials by the WSSF.
Indirectly, a Penn State student who contribut
es to the campus WISSF drive now in progress will
- lie aiding a more unfortunate fellow student in a
foreign land. One dollar collected here will pro
vide a -month's supply of soy-bean milk for a
Chinese student threatened with tuberculosis.
Five dollars will buy as many as six books;
eight dollars will enable a refugee student to leave
a camp and study in a university for one month.
$l,OOO (Penn-State'g goal) will operate a Chinese
ctudent center for one year, with facilities for
fbathing, recreation, reading, and self-help.
%War is hard on education; its very existence is
being threatened in many parts of the world. To
preserve and strengthen higher education, the
World Student Service Fund urges the coopera
tion and contributions of every student.
`Ring' Drive Ends Today
Early this month Collegian ran an announce
ment- concerning an All-College mass meeting
where students were to contribute to a fund with
which Hat Society Council was to purchase a
new class ring for Lt. James M. Lloyd '43. Lieu
tenant Lloyd had exchanged his class ring for
rood when he had been released from a prisoner
of war camp in Germany.
Because the mass meeting was a failure, mem
ihers of Skull and Bones placed boxes for student
contributions at Student Union, the Corner Room,
the various dormitories, town houses, and fra-
Iternity houses. Now word has been received that
the holder of the Purple Heart, who is on.leave
in his Norristown home, may visit the College.
In order to have the ring ready for presenta
tion by next week, when the lieutenant is sched
uled to arrive, the hat societies have set today
as the deadline for student contributions.
Your small contribution is nothing compared
to the many sacrifices made by Lieutenant Lloyd
at the front.
War Stamps for Corsages
Followers of Cassius' column will remember a
rather timid and whimsical suggestion that war
stamp corsages be given to coeds who attend the
Interfraternity Council formal.
This was a practice started at the College soon
after war was declared against the Axis powers.
(Wired with patriotism, ardent swains presented
their favorite girls with corsages made up of red
or green war stamps instead of the usual roses
or gardenias. The practice gradually dwindled off,
however, and the old habit of giving floral cor
rages was resumed. Not a war stamp corsage has
been seen on campus for the past several months.
'The war is now half-won. The government is
conducting its Seventh War Loan Drive to ob
tain 'funds that will bring victory in the Pacific
speedily and with as little loss of lives as possible.
IDOesn't it seem sensible that we should help the
drive and help to finish the fight by reviving. the.
short-lived custom of giving war stamp. corsages'
for coeds to wear to formal dances?
Business Manager
Elaine Miller
Louis Bell
_Patricia Turk
Fay E. Young
Elliot Shapira
David Nalven
Penn Statements
A new regime took over the• Collegian for the coming semester at
a quiet ceremony Saturday evening known as the Collegian Banquet.
An all-coed editorial and advertising senior board will head the staff
this summer, another "first" in the history of the "Daily Collegian."
Who says it's a man's world?
Now that summer has arrived and with it sunshine and showers,
Students have the old craving
for a trip to Whipples. Th e gas
oline situation seems to be ham
pering the old school spirit, but
it didn't get the better of the jun
ior class members who swam at
Glennland and Picnicked at Fair
mount Park.
It wasn't a track meet and it
wasn't a bathing beauty contest
that went past Carnegie Hall late
Monday afternoon. It was only
some fellow taking a swim in the
shower as he dashed home wear
ing nothing but a pair of shorts!
Paeons of praise to the Penn
State Players who produced an
other top nerformance of the se
mester when they staged the
'fillasty Heart" last weekend. Not
only did the actors do well but
the technical crew turned out an
unusually good job of lighting,
setting, etc,
So women students held elec
tions for governmental and rec
reation board nositions Monday!
(No wonder there is a lack of spirit
Old Mania
ailany's the coed with stars in
her eyes these days because of
the boyfriend arriving from ov
erseas....AEPhi Phyllis Schweit
zer traveled to Ft. Dix to see her
fiance Tech Sgt. Ted Sandler....
Pvt. Milt Feldman is expected at
any time to pop in on SDT Shir
ley Levine.... Milt was a prisoner
at war in Germany....P.fc. Jim
my Etters has been visiting ChiO
Sammy Sampson .... Zeta • Ann
Emery went home to see Seaman
1/c Chuck Mauer....
Doris Stowe will be seeing her
man, Air Corps Lt. Johnny Mc-
Cracken, soon . Johnny has
also been a prisoner of war .
Theta Mary Ann Higgins has
announced her marriage to Ens.
Ralph Lyford....Midge Dren is
engaged to Bob Edelman, pi lamb
alum....KD Sally Reish has be
come the fiancee of Staff S'gt.
Joseph Hoover.... Doris Burgart
and Theta Chi Frank Chippak
are engaged....ASTP Pvt. Dick
Benefield has pinned Eleanor Vin
son with his SPE jewelry., ..
Theta Joan Huber and Alpha chi
sig Tony Retina are pinned....
Lambda chi Jim Shindel has
handed over his jewelry to Jane
Zimmerman, Tri-Dorm coed . . .
Lt. Tom Krall came up to see
his fiance Zeta Kay Miller....
Tech. Sgt. Frank Gillespie vis
ited Zeta Phil Long.... Ens. Dick
Rathmell of the Merchant Ma
.... Pfc. Jimmy Schwartz jour-
Faculty Limelight
Interesting sidelight at the Collegian banquet Saturday night
was President Hetzel's talk on his experiences as a high school,
collegiate, and professional journalist.... For the "Country Gentle
men's" overseas issue, "Prexy" has written a letter to Pennsylvan-
ians, describing the present condi
Dean H. P. Hammond will di
of Engineering" a t Monday's
Lunch Club. G. E. Simpson, head
of the sociology department, has
been elected chairman of the new
steering committee.
J. 0. Keller, assistant to the
president in charge of extension,
and H. G. Pyle, supervisor of in
formal instruction, have written
the section on Adult Education for
the 1944 edition of American
Yeatibook....Joseph R. Hilgert,
associate professor of economics,
will have an article ptiblished in
the Harvard News Review soon.
Miss Rose Cologne, 'Commun
ity Adult Education specialist for
the extension services, will teach
for three weeks each at Women's
College, Tallahassee, Florida,
and Columbia University this
summer....H. Barrett Pennell,
Philadelphia architect, and Rob
ert W. Schmertz, associate pro
fessor, of architecture at Carnegie
Tech, are• new... instructors for
"Building. .or Buying a Home"
THE COLLEGIAN
FAY YOUNG
behind the voting when so few
coeds knew about the elections.
A little more publicity on the
part of WSGA and WTRA may
have made the elections more
successful and the officers elec
ted a truer representation of the
women students.
And we wonder how the prin
ter and proofreaders could misin
terpret a sailor for a saint in last
week's limerick! •
Nominations, slates, elections
loom in the minds of the campus
politicians as clique chairmen are
busily rounding up their hench
man in an all-out drive for a
winning candidates for the sum
mer \ ballots. Three parties have
never survived for more than a
semester or two at a time on
campus before one drops out of
the race. After placing in the e
frosh elections, will the Radical
party accept the challenge and
present a complete slate next
semester?
By NANCY CARASTRO
neyed here to see. SDT Irene Klein
Rhea Silverstone, AEPhi,
went to Philly to see her fiance
Lt. :Murray Friklman, former of
lamb ....Ens. Bcfb Loffert, Navy
Air Corps, saw Alpha Z Betty
Ness. ...PIC. Steve Gretzkowski
was up visiting Zeta Mary Haines
....SDT Mae Lenchner saw her
man Sgt. Larry Schultz last week
....Capt. Walt Klinikowski, AAF,
up at the Theta Phi Alpha
house, is visiting his sister Jean
and the rest of the little TPA's.
Edna Dent went to Emporium
to visit A/S Snuffy Walker, for
merly here in V-112 . . . Pvt. Ken
Taylor visited 'Perky Webster last
weekend . . . A/S Bud Zimmer
man, phi sig, visited AEPhi Helene
Beerman recently . . . Seaman
something -or - other Thumper
Barkeley, farmer alpha ichi sig, was
up seeing AOPI Weasy Umber
ger . . .
ChiO alums Malbel Parks, Laura
Jean Davis, and Louise Cum
mings were up ...Mabel is en
tering Temple Med •School this
summer.... Theta chi alum Paul
Galvanek came up . from ' Ken
tucky.... Zeta alum Midge Maris
was here.... AOPi alum Betty
Jane Drouse....
Cadet Nurses •Mue Bogardus and
Doris Park were visiting friends
here last week . . .
That's all from us, beautiful
BY WOODENE BELL
ions in the Keystone state.
.cuss "The Program of the School
courses in Reading and Pitts
burgh, respectively. The classes
are sponsored by Penn State ex
tension services.
Captain George S. Howard,
formerly associate professor of
music in arts and science exten
sion, has been highly praised by
British papers for his command
of the United States Army Air
Forces Band in England.
Two alumni of the College were
recently appointed to positions as
presidents of universities.
George D. Stoddart '2l, 'Commis
sioner of Education of New York
State for several years, was elect
ed president of the University of
Illinois by the University's Board
of Trustees.
The other appointment was
made by educators at Wayne Uni
versity in Detroit. David Henry
'26, became president of Wayne.
He served .as vice,president of
Wayne prior to his appointment.
A Lean And Hungry Look
This column, which is a plague spot in an
otherwise good newspaper, usually contains a
disoission of one campus event. This week there
are several deserving its attention. For lack of a
better method they are listed in order of stench.
Penn State has several drawbacks—tropical
rainstorms, termites and students. Now it has a
"Youth Movement." The latter has nothing to do
with the constipation of children.
Our "Youth Movement" apparently was
founded to "promote informal current event dis
cussions at meetings that will inform students
and stimulate them to action." This action, pre
sumably, will be to debate all night before send
ing a telegram of protest to a congressman who
cannot read.
If this group, the darling of local intellect.
uals, runs true to form, it will detest the econom
ic system which is sending its members to college
in comfort and security. The sponsors of the
"youth" organization, naturally, are a number of
balding professors.
Membership in Mortar Board is the highest
honor that can be bestowed upon a coed at , the
College. : One coed, who was not tapped by that
august body Sunday morning, has distinguished
herself in scholarship, activities, character, and
personality so as to stand head and shoulders
over the tappees.
She may be interested to know that'she was
not selected by 'Mortar Board because her soror
ity sisters over at the •AOPi house buttonholed
members of Mortar Board and convinced them
to black-ball her.
Article I, Section 3 of the new All-College
Constitution informs one that the Penn. State
Christian Association is now an ex-officio mem
ber of Cabinet. It was not many semesters ago
that every student leader of consequehce at the
College signed a letter opposing PSCA's attempt
to get on Cabinet. They stated that a group that
allocates the largest part of its budget 'to--pay
salaries to its directors could not be considered
a student organization.
This made sense to the members of that Cab
inet and ,FSgA was denied a position. Appar4
ently times have changed. This column would
be glad to print the complete, letter if enough
interest is shown.
The new President of the Women's Student
Government Association is M. M. Dunlap. Miss
Dunlap, as you remember, strongly defended the
WSGA nominating committee practice in 'cab:
Met this semester.
Indicative of how to make out at college
this story about the young lady. She was at, the
Mortar Board tapping breakfast Sunday, but an
other coed pushed in Dean Ray's chair. Without
turning around Miss Ray said, "Thank you;
M. M." --CASSIDS
Front. and Center
Lt. Ross B. Lehman, '42, former Collegian
editor, was visiting his old haunts last week-.
end. - Ross has been awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross, -the Air-Medal with two clusters,.
and the Purple Heart. A prisoner of_ the Ger-'-:
mans •for nine months, he returned to this coun-%
try on the exchange ship Gripsholm in February.
Lt. Clair L. Hess, '42, a paratrooper with
the 101st Airborne Division, has been twice
wounded but has survived three paratroop land—
ings on the European continent. He dropped
over Normandy and Holland, and Clair and,
twelve of his division were trapped at Bastogne
•during the German breakthrough.
The thirteen paratroopers withstood a six l.
hour attack and tolled 250 German casualties,
losing only two Americans. Clair was returned
to this country in February and has been tour
ing war plants.
Lt. George Pittinger, '43, was killed in Germany
in April while serving with an infantry division.
Lt. John R. McCracken '4l was killed. in Nor
thern France on November 10. He was with the
375% Field Artillery.
Lt. Clifford Lauder '42, previously wounded on
Adgust 1 in Franc e was - killed in November in
Germany.
Lt. Torn Egan '43 was killed in Manila on Feb-,
ruary 17. He was a paratrooper.
Pfc. William Haven '46 was missing in Luxem
bourg on December 20, and was reported by ithe
German Government Ito have died .in a prisOn
hospital on January 11.
ipfe. Dick Aikey '47 was wounded in Germa*
on February 3- and, died: the -following day.-.:
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1945
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