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Navy V-12 News
The debunking of scuttlebutt
last week seems to have set more
wild rumors afloat. In answer to
these. rumors we have the follow
ing information released by Com
mander Wisner himself. The corn
plement of the unit next semester
will be about 300 men, and to
?handle this number the officer staff
],ere will be increased probably to
,tight or ten men. Since NROTC
units are customarily commanded
captains USN rather than re
serve. officers, we can expect a
flew skipper sometime this fall, a
- professor of naval science and tac
tics.
Ordnance and Planning
In keeping with these changes
is the fact that a new ROTC -build
ing is being planned, a building
combining the army and navy
units and more strictly integrating
- the military -training facilities on
campus. Meanwhile the sailors will
A.e using the Armory at least part
time next fall. Ordnance has been
ordered, varying in size from colt
automatics to ewe-inch dual pur
pose guns. The navy boys really
have something to look forward to.
From the Bridge
Lt. Jones, who has spent the
That ten days at the Philadelphia
gg'aval Hospital, is under observe
tfon for possible stomach ulcers.
. . . Ina far happier vein we hear
that Lieutenant Lawler took the
fatal step last Saturday and is now
Married to "the prettiest girl in
the world," as he phrases it. A!fter
a - weekend honeymoon his Phila
delphia bride and he are making
their home here in State College.
Visitors
. Visiting over the weekend were
Les Szepesi, Red Welch, and Max
lJannum. . . . Les, now a second
class yeoman, is heading for Shoe
maker, California, where he will
11 - Tabu:ll3ly be assigned to a ship.
. Red, now a fire'controlman
second class, hopefully anticipates
advanced fire-control school. . .
Max is off for pre-flight at 10hapel
Hill where he, Archie Craft, Willie
Powell, Dana Belser, and Ben
,A:delstein will swell the Cloud
.usters' football squad and at the
same time advance toward their
DIN Charles E. Mark
ro Lecture Today
;Dr. Charles E. Martz, a mem
!) ler of the Junior Town Meeting
League, will lecture in 201 .Zool
ogy at 11 a.m. today. His sub
ject has not been announced.
Dr. Martz is on leave of ab
sence from the Western Reserve
University, where he is head of
the - history department, in order
to senre on the Junior Town Meet
ing League in Columbus:O. He is
the editor of "Our Times," a
weekly newspaper for senior high
school, is the president , of the
ColuMbia Touch Club, and is ,chair
man of the Columbus Foreign
Policy Association.
A Phi Beta Kappa and a Sigma
Xi member, Dr. Martz received
Iris B.A. and M.A. from Yale Uni
versity and did his graduate work
at Yale, Harvard, and the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. From 1919
to 19212 he was head of the history
department of Westchester State
Teachers College. In 1922 he took
his 'present position with Western
Reserve University.
10 Students Win Places
On Ag School Dean's Lis!
Twenty students in the School
of Agriculture made an average
of • 2.5 or better during the spring
semester announced Dean Stev
enson W. Fletcher. They are:
• Seniors: Charles Lundmark
Elystone, Shirley Pearl Boscov,
IVlarcella H. B. Chervenak, Julius
Pabricant, Nancy Claire Geisse,
Maurice Ernst Lehman, Lois Ba
hler MOCool and Solomon Segal.
Juniors: Isabel Laura Myers
and William Thomas Wiest.
Sophomores: Mary Eldrid An
derson, Carolyn Yvonne Graham,
3). (Elizabeth Nix and Mary Louise
Waygood.
Freshmen: Mary Jane Gately,
Catherine Craig Raup, Vernon
Telford Smith, Sara Estella Ste
vens and Bertha Frany Wood
ring.
" Two-year agriculture: Freder
ick W. Ernst.
14en Get 24,502 Degrees
Of the 30, 586 degrees awarded
by the College since 11855, 24)502
'have gone to male 'students. Un
til the present war men grad
uates traditionally outnumbered
Air Corps commissions.
Spotlight Trainee
Veteran of the Week is Johnny
Livingston of Barracks 39, a for
mer civilian college student who
finished his third semester at Penn
State before he left for the Navy.
Johnny has served more than 29
months now, 20 of them as a sec
ond class boatswain's mate aboard
a minesweeper in the Pacific. His
ship was the first Allied craft in
the Marshall-Islands, entering the
Kwajalein Atoll at Roi-lNamur. At
the Eniwetok Atoll invasion John
ny found that the small ships run
their share of danger, too. As the
sweeper entered the . lagoon there,
a mine exploded, tarrying off all
the minesweeping gear and rough
ing up the crew pretty badly. Now
after taking a refresher course at
Princeton, Johnny, a Pittsburgh
'boy, is back on 'campus, this time
with a different end in view.
Customs Violations
Draw Sentences
From. Judge Healey
Judge Judd Healy and the sev
en associate justices of Tribunal
handed down the following de
crees to the ten most erring
freshmen of the week.
Jules Steinberg•will continue to
wear a sandwich sign and water
the willow tree on the mall, be-
cause he failed to button to it and
showed a lack of knowledge of the
campus. •
C. C. Truver and Dick D'Ard
enne will rise bright and early on
Sunday morning to clean the de
bris and aftermath of Saturday
evening from the malls and sen
ior walk. F. E. Selbst, a second of
fender, will clean the first floor
lounge of Old Main, after he was
found guilty of dating,
K. G. Budinger - who appeared
before Tribunal without a frosh
bible, was sentenced to carry his
bible in a large suitcase and carry
a, sandwich sign advertising the
new Players show. Jim Veign
who forgot his customs on Satur
day night will also help with the
advance publicity for the new
show.
Because he was found guilty
of shirking custom, Herald Fah
ringer will carry about campus, a
ibOard painted to resemble a match.
VI. Liebmann, who 'appeared
before Thbunal last week, was
found guilty again and received
an extended sentence for another
week.
After a short quiz on the Col
lege songs and campus traditions
it was decided that A. Gugoff
should carry a sandwich sign with
the message, "I'm a Brain Child,"
as a final ironic touch.
Alex , Osinrak failed to prove
that he had a knowledge of the
campus buildings and traditions
and as a consequence he will hand
out copies of the constitution to
freshmen as he wears a sign
reminding all frosh to read the
student constitution.
The following were acquitted:
J. E. Fair, E. F. Askew, W. D.
Rice, and William Zelenka. Frank
Evans was exempted from cus
toms after proving that he went
through customs at Lehigh.
All freshmen men will meet on
the steps of Old Main at 1 p.
m. on Monday. It is important
that everyone be there.
Violators must report to the
Main Gate daily at 1 p. m. Mon
day through Thursday.
'THE COT
Book Review
'flunky-Johnny'
Dr. "Eddie" J. Nichols' new
novel, "flunky Johnny," is a fast
moving, tough story of a young
Slovak-American in love. Dr.
(Nichols is a professor of English
Composition at the College.
Johnny, the main character, is a
product of the mill town of Gary,
plus four years at the University
of Chicago. He lives in two
Worlds; never quite able to escape
from the ways •of 'Hunkydom to
the world of books • and coeds.
Shall he rest' content with his Slo
vak girl-friend,' Mary Korba, or
can he rise to equality with the
tart coolness of coed Jean How
land? •
Three things bother Johnny and
constitute the plot of the novel.
'He's crazy about girls. He has an
inferiority complex about "white"
persons whom he meets at. the uni
versity. And he's just a little con
cerned about a job after graduat
ing into the depression of 1030.
Along with this case of adoles
cent:jitters, the reader encounters
an even more interesting variety
of secondary characters. Johnny's
father,. still completely enveloped
in the language and ways of his
homeland; sister Emma beset by
husband-trouble and family inter
ference; and brother Mike, a ris
ing gangster—these provide the
meat of the (book. There are
glimpses of gangster life around
Chicago, a few superficial campus
scenes, and good bits of baseball
games and dances in Gary,.
If there are any "gentle readers"
left after 20 years of Ernest Hem
ingway, it may be• necessary to
warn them that these characters
are not such as you'd like to enter
tain in your parlor. Dr. Nichols
writes of • the region of Farrell's
"Studs Lonegan" in the style of
John O'Hara.
Much of the 246 pages consists
of conversation faithfully and
frankly handled. Many brief de
scriptive touches get a smile of
recognition' from 'the reader—the
way people sit sideways in big
chairs with their legs over the
chair's arms, the kick of an auto
when the starter catches, the way
people handle cigarettes and
liquor.
Technically this novel is a great
improvement oyer the author's
first tale, "Danger! Look Out."
That one "had an oil refinery as
its hero" and enjoyed'only a lim
ited sale since oil refineries, how
ever well-built, still seem to lack
sex appeal. The current novel,
though less ambitious, is less clut
tered with technical descriptions.
Dr. Nichols' literary career be
gan with an article on a poem of
Lowell in "American Magazine"
back in 1932. Then came several
articles on jazz in magazines and
a sketch of 'Bix Beiderbecke in a
book on jazzmen. His doctoral dis
sertation in the department of
English literature was a historical
dictionary of baseball terms, com
piled with the assistance of such
prominent sports figures as Bill
Brandt and Honus Wagner. I
With this novel Dr. Nichols
sheds completely the dullness and
didacticism of scholarship. His
baseball lore and his knowledge of
jazz appear usefully but • unobtru
sively. [He makes his debut as a
competent novelist whose charac
ters achieve a natural and memor-
able existence.
W. L. WERNER
Professor of English Literature
Ddctorate .degrees have repre
sented about one-seventh of the
30,586 degrees awarded iby the
College since its founding in
1855.
Calendar
TODAY
Frosh Frolic, Armory, 7:30-10
p.m.
Summer .Session Lecture, Dr.
Charles E. Martz, Junior Town
;meeting of the. Air, 201 Zoology,
11 a.m.
TOMORROW
. Summer Session, "iliallzapop
pin" and "Fun Night," Recreation
Rail, 9 p.m.
Summer Skip, Armory, 8:20 to
12 p.m.
SUNDAY
Chapel, Dr. Flory, Professor of
nglish, Washington and «Jeffer-
Son, Schwab Auditorium, 1 , 1 a.m.
Summer Session Supper Hike,
Mountain Lodge.
At-Home Tea, Hillcrest House,
3 to 4:30 p.m.
Newman Club initiation, Phi
Kappa house, 2, p.m. •
Nittany Freshman rally, 405 Old
Main, 4:30 p.m.
MONDAY
IWIA meeting, 401 Old Main, 7
. • •
:Engineer meeting, Armory, 7
p.m.
Collegian Advertising Candi
dates, 8 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY
"China and Central American
Relations," Dora Ewa Kang, 121
Sparks, 8 p.m.
First Semester Collegian candi
dates, 8 Carnegie, 7 p.m.
Second Semester Collegian can
didates, reporters, sports assis
tants, 8 Carnegie, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Common Sense meeting, 10
Sparks, 6:45 p.m.
Newman Club Discussion Club,
Rectory, Lady of Victory Church,
7 p.m.
Red Cross meeting, 1.211 Sparks,
7:30 p.m.
Home Economics Lecture, Prof.
Ina Padgett, 110 Home Economics,
3:30 p.m. '
THURSDAY
IMIA meeting, 401 Old Main, 7
p.m.
ASTP's Play Trick
On Barracks Leader
The Barracks 4 leader is still
trying to find the AS'TE's who re
cently caused the "explosions" in
the barracks.
Practical jokers discovered in
the chemistry laboratory a com
pound called nitrogen tri-iodide
which is perfectly harmless when
slightly damn or wet. But when
the powder becomes dry, even a
touch as light is a feather will
cause it to explode. Imagine the
confusion it caused when it was
placed on the doors and floors
right before the barracks' leader
made his rounds.
Summer
Showin •
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• ARTISTS'
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CHRISTMAS
CAR S
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KEELER'S
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945
Chapel
Dr. Flory Speaks
"Earth As It Is In Heaven"
will be the subject of Dr. Claude
R. Flory's sermon at chapel ser
vices in Schwab Auditorium at
1i a. m. Sunday. Dr. Flory is a
member of the Department of En
glish Language and Literature at
Washington and Jefferson Coll
ege, Washington, Pa.
A native of Nokesville, Va., he
received his B. A. at Juniata
College, his M. A. and Ph.D. at the
University of Pennsylvania, and
has studied at Oxford University,
England.
In 1939 Dr. Flory visited many
European countries. He has been
professor of English Literature at
Washington and Jefferson College
since the fall of 1939. ,
Dr. Flory is a member of the
College English Association, the
Modern Language Association,
Tau Kappa Alpha, and the Ro
tary Club. He is the author of ,
"Economic Criticism in American
Fiction" and is a contributor to
professional bulletins and to the
Rotarian.
-
Veterans' Staff Plans
August Conferences
Three conferences for staff
members of the Veterans Admin
istration from. western Pennsyl
vania and five surrounding areas
will be held at the College during
August, it was announced today
by .Hugh G. Pyle, supervisor of
informal instruction at the Col
lege.
The meetings, designed to train
Veterans Administration person
nel in the methods and techniques
of counseling veterans, Will be
conducted by specialists from the
Administration in cooperation
with the College's department of
education and psychology.
Two of the conferences will be
11-day sessions and each will be
attended by approximately 50 vo
cational advisers, vocational ap
praisers, training officers, and vo
cational advisement supervisors.
These will be held from August 2
to 14 and August 16 to 28.
The third session will, be a two
day meeting, August 29 and 30,
and will be attended by approxi
mately 25 regional office man ;
agers.
Staff members will be present
from the following areas: 'western
Pennsylvania. Virginia, West Vir
ginia-, Maryland, Delaware, and
the District of Columbia. Ar
rangements are being made
through the College extension
services.