FRIDAY, ,TUTLY 20, 1945 Smith Announces Hike, Cabin Party Forty students will leave from the rear of Old Main at 2:30 o'- clock tomorrow afternoon to hike to Watts Lodge. This announce ment was made by James T. Smith, qcecutive secretary of the Penn State Christian Association which is sponsoring the cabin party.. In addition to the hike to the cabin, PSCA has planned a pic nic dinner, a square dance, and a moonlight hike to the top of Tus sey 'Midge. The return trip is scheduled for 9 a. in. Sunday. All blankets will be transported •by car, according to Mr. Smith. Cabin directors are Priscilla Cobb and Robert Dunlap. Also on this week's PSCA cal endar is a Freshman Men's Coun cil meeting. Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men will address council members on "Politics and the Penn ,State Student" in 304 Old Main at 7 p. m. Monday. Following Dean Warnock's talk, Council members will elect their summer semester officers. Allan Grossman, Waiter Pascoe, and Bud Thomas are competing for the office of president. Jerry tßehrman, James Herzog, and James •McDougall have been nom inated for, the combined posts of vice-president and program chair man. Robert Davis and Donald Miller are candidates for the se cretary-treasurer's post. Only nominee for worship committee chairman is Conrad Neuf. Social chairman competitors are Alvin - Cohen, John Miller, and Gene Minic.h, while George Vadasz is the only nominee for publicity chairman. On the ballot for the membership chairman's job are Vaughn Lang and Frank Richard son. Nicholas Daniluck and Wil ber Kraybill are the nominees for service chairman. Only first semester freshmen will be per rnitted to cast ballots. College Exempts Six From Freshman English Six newly - enrolled freshmen, including an ex-serviceman, have been exempted from s English composition I, the basic English course ordinarily required of all freshmen at the College. Exemptions are made on the basis of scores achieved in the English placement test. ' The ex-serviceman is Virgil E. Neilly, of Warren, a veteran of Africa, Italy, Sicily, and Sciuthern France, who is enrolled under the GI Bill of Rights. .Others exempted include Mary R. - Austry, IVlargaret L. Burg, Sherrie F. Fogg, Arthur M. Haimes, and Helen E. Reed. 'Common Sense' Sponsors Liberalism Discussions The first open meeting this se mester of Common Sense, the new liberal movement, will be •held in 10 Sparks at 6:4'5 p.m: Wednes day. For the opening program, three speakers will present their. views in a forum on the topic, "Liberal ism . . . As I Have Seen It." The speakers will be Pvt. Rob ert SieVes, an ASTP student from Germany; Tufin lolster,. student from Argentina; and A. E. Weth erford, Negro graduate student in health edUeation. library Will Display Children's Book Fair To interest both regular and suumer session students in the many new children's books that have been published recently, a book fair is 'being arranged by lVliss 'Mabel Everett. Elevator service will be conducted to the top floor of the Library where the exhibit will be held August 1, 2 and 3. Stage settings of scenes and original illustrations from the books will highlight the exhibit. There will also be a collection of books about Pennsylvania Dutch life and customs. Trainees Number 594 Military and naval trainees at the College currently number 594. The*. are 3&l ASTP trainees and 213' Navy V-12 trainees. Calendar TODAY Payment of fees, Armory, 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 5 p. m. Sabbath Eve Service, Hillel Foundation, 8:30 p. m. TOMORROW' WRA Square Dance, White Hall parking lot, 9 to 12 p. m.. SUNDAY Chapel, Dr. E. B. Brossard, United States Tariff Commission, Schwab Auditorium, 11 a. rn. MONDAY IWA meeting, 401 Old Main, 7 p. m. Engineer meeting, Armory, 7 p. m. Collegian Advertising Candi dates,lB Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m. TUESDAY X-G-I meeting, 405 Old Main, 7:30 p. m. Penn State Club meeting, 320 Old Main, 7 p. m. First Semester Collegian Candi-: dates, 8 Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m. Second Semester Collegian Can didates, reporters, sports assist ants, 8 Carnegie Hall, 7:30 p..m. W CO D 4 Ag Student Council meeting, 109 Agriculture, 7:30 :p. m.. Summer sessions - home eco nomics picnic, Nursery School Playyard, 4 p. m. Transfet 4 meeting, Southeast lounge, Atherton, 6:30 p. m. THURSDAY IMA meeting, 401 Old Main, 7 P. In. Free concert, Louise Meiszner, pianist, Schwab Auditorium, 8 p. Art Department Stages Prothmann Exhibition An exhibition at art color prints and color slides will take place at the College Art Gallery, 303 Main Engineering, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, announced Prof. J. B. Helme, of the art depart ment. Dr. Konrad Prothmann will show the exhibition oil teaching aids and material of particular in terest to people interested in art and art education. Dr. Prothmann, whose previous y9arly exhibits at the College were curtailed by the war, will show numerous new color prints-- which . have been published in the last two years and printed in the United States. Kodacrome slides will also be shown at the exhibition. x-G-I's Tour Campus; Discuss Brennan's Report At the last meeting of the X-G-I Club, Mr. 'Edward• K.- Hibshman led- the group in a tour of the campus. ,The tour extended into much Of Penn State's 3,000 acres of land. Commander Patrick Brennan gaye a. report to the club recom mending the 'club's affiliation to the National Veterans Collegiate Association. There was a limited discussion on the matter. The X-G-1 . Club will distribute a questionnaire to all ex-service men pertaining to their college and war activities. Men may pick up this questionnaire in front of the Corner Room from two to five p. m. tomorrow. We wish to Thank You for your support Michael Lynch Vaughn Stapleton Melina' Presents Piano Concert Louise Meizner, pianist, will give a concert in Schwab auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday. The .concert, sponsored by summer session, is open to the public. Born in St. Louis, Mo., Miss Meizner ,began playing ,the piano when sh'e was threeTand-a-half years old and gave her first re cital in St. Louis when she was five. Studying in Budapest she was chosen at the age of 13 to appear as soloist with the Budapest Phil harmonic Orchestra under Ernest Dohnanyi and with the. Budapest Concert Orchestra under Erich Kleiber. Miss Meizner's other major en gagements have been fulfilled in Paris, France,; Hillversum, Hol land; with the Kansas City Phil harmonic under Karl Krueger; with the Chicago Orchestra under the late Frederick Stock; with the Indianapolis Symphony under Fa- Men Sevitzki; and with the Chau tauqua Symphony under Franco Autori. The program for Miss Meizner's concert includes Variations from Beethoven;, Sonata K, No. 576, Mo zart; Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Chopin; Scherzo in B Minor, Cho pin; Pour le Piano, Prelude, Sara bande; Toccata, Debussy; and Sonata No. 3, Prokofieff. Student Exodus Forces Change The exodus of teen-age students from the classroom to wartime jobs may point the way to a "vastly improved" system of American education, according to Dr. C. C. Peters, professor of edu cation. . "The war," he believes, "has forced school s to do what they should. have done a long time ago —provide practical work exper ience in the midst.cif formal edu cation." Suggesting that special . classes be provided for the thousands of students destined to return to classrooms when war industries fold 'up, Dr. Peters proposes con version of the wartime system into a long-range program which would include supervised training in the work-a-day world. No compulsion should be ex erted to require student-workers to return to school, in his opinion. "Many of them" he says "won't go back because they weren't taught anything vital or interesting when they were there. . "Much of the present school training," he adds, "is ineffective because the students don't know why they're studying. Working a year or so in the midst of their ed ucation gives them a sense of re soonSibility and injects practical ity into classroom theory." Portfolio On Sale today At Armory, Corner. Room Portfolio will go on sale this morning at the Armory, Student Union, the Corner, and the book stores according to Eleanor Ben nett, editor. Feathred in .this issue will be an article on folklore by. Samuel Bayard, instructor of English composition, and short stories "So Good" by Jean Alderfer and "Fathers Don't . Bun Away" by Janet /legal. Also• included• will be several short items announced• Miss Bennett. • , • in the recent election. NIITTANY PARTY TEE COLLEGIAN Navy Scuttlebutt Debunked Since the core'of Captain Adams' speech was published in the, Col legian last week, some wild ru mors have been circulating con cerning the future NROTC pro gram-at Penn State. In answer to some of these rumors we, report the following: First of all, cruises for NROTC students are part of the peace time program. The naval NROTC program - will conform with . the civilian calendar next year— and thereafter. Should the College de cide to go back to the normal two semester plan, NROTC men will be given some type of special duty during the •long 'summer vacation as Navy Regulations prevent the granting of more than 30 days leave in a calendar year. Second, the Navy Ordnance Lab oratory is a distinct project and has no connection with V-12 or NROTC. Third, NRIOTC courses will be spaced as evenly as possi ble throughout each trainee's re maining semesters here. Fourth, all talk of men dropped from NROTC Okinawa Invasion Provides Experience For Ex-Penn Stater The Iwo Jima landing was rough enough, !but the invasion of Okinawa provided an unforget table experience for coast guards man Lt. (j. g. Sidney R. Geist, `42. Easter Sunday, 1945, was D- Day for the Okinawa operation, and LST 884, Lt. Geist's ship, was heading for the beaches. Out of the clouds dived four Japanese bombers aiming for the slow LST. The 884's anti-aircraft batteries knocked three raiders into the sea; the fourth scored a direct hit. Hell broke loose and the ship became a roaring inferno. The fire (became so bad that the crew was forced to abandon ship. After swimming in the China Sea for some hours, Lt. Geist and fifteen' other men reboarded the ship in an effort to extinguish the fire. After battling the flames for six hours, they succeeded, and . the ship was towed to a nearby island. The Japanese left them no re spite. That night the ship was once again attacked, this time by suicide swimmers. After a brief sldrmish, the Sons of Nippon were repulsed but not until one of the crew had been fatally wounded. Before returning to a rear area, the stout ship went through an additional ordeal of 54 air raids within a two week period. Now being repaired, it might be a while (before the 884 sails again, (but, as •Lt. Geist wrote, "I'm sure she will sometime." Lieutenant Geist majored in Arts and Letters and was a mem ber of Beta Sigma Rho fraternity. 900 Teachers Enroll Pennsylvania school teachers represent the bulk of the more than 900' men and women enroll ed at the College fon special courses this summer. Elementary reading instruction, United States and Pennsylvania history, and vis ual education are rated the most sought-after courses. Magazines—Candy 12 e S being automatically eligible for certain rates at sea is pure 'bunk , . Last, there will In no migration to Tri-Dorms this fall; the present barracks plus the Kappa Sig house, old Bks. 212, will house ail the trainees assigned here. ) Turnover and Advancement The navy rotation system was in fUll swing last week when Lieu.. tenant Kimlball went on tempor . dutyar dy at the Mublenburg V-12 Unit, athletic specialist Hartshorn left for the Bloomsburg State Teachers V-12 Unit, and pharmd cist's mate Bob Brown departed for Lido Beach awaiting further transfer to an advanced base.. . . Best wishes in the. same breath to Bdb Stewart and Johnny Sullivan, who have left for Annapolis with Pennsylvania appointments; the same too to P. D. 'Howard, who leaves next week for the same place with a Tennesse.e appoint-. ment. Barracks Parties While.no date has been set for the semester unit dance, each bar-. racks has put aside a night for its own affair, Bks. 37 on August 13, Bks. 36 and Bks. 13 on September 1, Bks. 26 on Septemlber 16. Bks. 9 will start things off with a dance August 4, using the Old Barbary Coast theme.• Among the sailors who were for-. merly in the unit here: Joe Lenzi is now in the Navy Scouts and Raiders in Florida, Ed Bauer is in Pre-Flight at Chapel Hill, anti Ronny Blair, Howdy Graham, and Mort Godshall are now ensigns. Ronny is on a PC boat, dowdy on a sub-chaser, arid Mort on a car rier escort. Sailor of the Week In the limelight this week 13 Dan (Hoppie) Hopkins, a three-- year veteran in the Navy: Hoppie was a first class yeoman in a navy unit attached to the third marine raiders when they landed on Bou gainville and occupied Guadal canal. While in the Solomons he lived through 3.00 air raids in six months. He tells of unloading an LST one afternoon when . mortar .fire from shore killed five of the ship's crew, the unloading going right on. Hop Pie says that his heart was really in his mouth one day when enemy mortars were sweeping a crescent of explosions across a hillside toward the fox hole where he lay. Luckily after a signal tower toppled, the firing stopped. Now at Penn State, Hop-- pie has been one of the. leading sluggers and a great shortstop on the ibaselball team. Keep it up, Hoppi e. Watkins Urges Students To File Notice For Roo, Room reservations for evening classes or any meetings must be mad e 24 hours in advance with the College Scheduling Offict. Ray Watkins, scheduling officer ; announced that under no circum stances may a room be opened for students or faculty without this 24-hour notice. Faculty members are warned; that if they use their own keys to open any room, all keys will be withdrawn from faculty member:l. :Ls \ -4 .t\W\ tA A ,C, , Tobacco PAGE THREE
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