Letters
To Editor
Page 5,
VOL. 42—Not"
Research Council
Approves Grants
19 Professors Engage
in Scientific Study
Nineteen faculty members were
approved $4265 for grants;in-aid
of research by the Council on Re
search recently. This announce
ment was made today by Dean
Stevenson W. Fletcher, chairman
of the council.
For . X-ray and optical studies
of minerals, Thomas F. Bates, in
structor in - mineralogy, was given
$200; while Emmet A. Betts, re
search professor in elementary,
education, was granted $4OO for
studies of dyslexia characteristics
among elementary school chil
dren.
To discover the influence Of the
war on ,European schools, $2OO
was voted Carroll D. Champlin,
professor of education; $4OO worth
of aptitude tests for natural abil
ity to study successfully curric
ula in chemistry, physics, and
chemical engineering was pre
sented to Wheeler P. Davey, re
search professor in physics and
chemistry.
. Joseph fR. Hilgert, associate
professor of economics, receives
$2OO for studies on the budgetary
Control of distribution cost. A.
Witt Hutchison, associate professor
of chemistry, was given $2OO for
research on the manganese diox
ide---manganese ion reduction po
•
• The correlation of structure with
the boiling point will be studied
.with the' $1.50 granted Corliss R.
Kinney, professor of fuel tech- -
- ,nology. Simon Waroscs : associate
- 1 -13i•OfesSornif SOCioldti; thip-er
irrient with the types of reactions
in the acculturation of the second
generation with,a grant of $250. •
For studying the behavior of
materials subjected- to combined
tension and torsion, Joseph. Ma
rin, professor of engineering me
' chanicS; was given $2OO. David
AR: 'Mitchell, professor- of mining
engineering will experiment' with
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MotFisjo_sUpetvise
College Relations Office
Pres. Ralph ' Hetzel an
nounced today. the - establithment
persofinel .Relations
effiCe the *general super
+~sion of N.: P. -Leetch;.
the ,College_. Pladement
, 44ryice,,.With:Frank F. -Morris as
...tii,emortnel . .officen-in , charge of
eatrYing, - out the. program.
The purpose' ef-.the' office, Dr.
Hetzel , explained,- is to prcimOte
better .employe relations, for'non*-
Academic personnel -and to'assist
.schools and 'departments of' the
College with employment and
tersonnel problems. Now-academ
te,personnel includes' members of
the secretarial, clerical,' technical
labor, and common labor. 'forces.
A- personnel- , advisory commit
tee is being organized to study
Personnel practices and to rec
ommend procedures with regard
to non-academic personnel. Mem
bers of this committee include:
can R. Barnes, executive ac-
CPuntant; Clarence E. Bullinger,
Professor of industrial engineer
ing; Wilmer E. Kenworthy, exec
utive secretary in the President's
office; "Mr. Leetch.
Bruce V. Moore, head of the
department of education and psy
chology; Mr. MOrris; Hugh G.
Pyle, supervisor of informal in
struction, Central Extension; and
Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of
landscape construction and main
tenance.
The new office. is situated in
423 Old Main and can be reached
through the College switchboard,
extension 126.
Freshman Wass Meets
The , first semester freshman
class will meet in 121. Sparks
Building at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
it was announced today by
James MeNeancl, newly-elected
oresident.
.Mlr Tatirgiatt
FRIDAY. MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1945—STATE CcirJ;FGE, PENNA
Tribunal Schedules
Frosh Rope-Pull
For Tomorrow
The freshman bluebook has
been cancelled. In its place, a
rope-pull between the freshmen
and the upperclassmen will be
held on the lacrosse field at 1:30
o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
Customs will be removed only
if there is a hundred percent
turnout of the freshmen and if
they succeed in. beefing the up
perclassmen in the rope pull.
Tribunal persisted in their
cleanup campaign as they assign
ed to George Miller, a second of
fender, the task of shining the
plaques of the Willow tree, Mc-
Allister hall, and Old Main. Due
to the nature of :his offenses he
was also ordered to write a thous
and word theme about Old Main,
and to appear at the lacrosse field
to assist with the rope pull.
Cornell Kaluger, appearing for
the first time, forgot to wear his
customs as he hurried to a class.
After reviewing his case, Tribu
nal decided he should appear at
the lacrosse - field to help with the
.preparations for the rope pull.
Stanley Chadwin, president of
Hat Society Council• announced
that there will be a mandatory
meeting of all hat societies that
are active on campus this semes
ter. The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, August 28th in room
411 Old Main.
Hat Society Council . requests
that all hat •men attend the .rope
pulling contest tomorrow after
noon to officiate the contest. They
are also requested to wear their
hats. . . • .
Board To Approve
Ten Resignations
Ten resignations tendered by
College personnel will be formally
acted upon at. the next meeting
of the Board of Trustees it was
announced today. .
• Those whose cases.': will be
heard! include: '
Conrad B. Link, assistant pro
.
fessor ' of
. 11oriculture, •- effective
August • 31, to accept- a position
at the Brooklyn . Botanic Garden.
Miss Mary. V. Brown, research•
. assistant. in. the Bureau of `•Busi
ness Research, t effective Septem
ber. 15; to • accept a position with.
Dun and Bradstreet,'„lno. -
Mist Edith •Melville,, assistant
to the% dean' of .• "to • accept,
a position .as: .private .secretary
with "the :firm- 'of,. Kidder • Peabody
and Company, Philadelphia.
Gardner Lindsay, a . member of
the staff in the department' of
education and psychology, to ac
cept a position with the depart
ment of psychology at Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, 0.
Dr. Donald C. Fuller, assistant
professor of business education,
to accept .a position as professor
of business education at Georgia
State College for Women, Mill
edgeville, "Ga.
David H. Foster, instructor in
physical education, and now
serving as a camp counselor in
Vermont.
Dr. Everard M. Williams, in
structor in electrical engineering,
on leave of absence since Jan
uary 1943 to serve as a civilian
employee in charge of a division
of the electronic work at Wright
Field, Dayton, 0.
Miss Harriet Harris, circula
tion department assistant in the
Library, to become assistant li
brarian at Elmhurst College Li
brary, .Elmhurst,
Miss Lela B. Marsh, cataloger
in the Library, to become a cata
loger in the Army Medical Li
brary, Washington, D. C.
Paul D. Wright, instructor in
industrial engineering, to accept
a position as director of the fed
eral apprentice training program.
. and .also head of the vocational
education pro.ararn, in the Mid
land school district..
Published Weekly By The Daily Collegian Staff
Engineers Sponsor Ball,
Navy ROTC To Get Vote
Cabinet Grants Ballot;
Plans Swing Inn Opening
• Navy ROTC personnel will be
given the right to participate in
the College's student government.
This decision was passed unani
mously by All-College Cabinet
Tuesday night.
Working out the mechanics of
registration will •be Jack Daven
port, chairman of the Naval Be•
lations Committee, and Dick Grif
fith, Elections Committee chair ;
man.
Although Lt. Comdr. Trusdell
Wisner has expressed his complete
approval of the Navy participation
in politics, he has also made quite
clear that under no circumstances
will the Navy pay the 'TS cent fee
required of all students for stu
dent government. Sailors who
want to take advantage of their
privilege to vote or run for office
must then pay the 75 cents them
selves in order to be eligible.
For more than an hour Cabinet
discussed and heard the report
the Swing Inn Committee as sub
mitted by Chairman June First.
Miss First explained why Swing
Inn has not as yet been reopened
by stating that as yet the College
officials have refused to cooperate
in procuring a suitable place to
hold Swing Inn. She added that
the fast floor lounge of Old Main
had been offered but ventured the
opinion that this would not be
large....encsghtok, , house ,the: •stu
'dents who-would, atlend.'.Anothet ,7
problem regarding the first' floor
Jounge, according to' Miss First,
would be the difficulty in procur
ing help to get ready for the dance
and to, clean the• lounge before the:
following morning.
In view of these-facts, Cabinet
passed a motion that the Commit - -
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U 235 In Ml Museum
Can Destroy Campus,
But It Won't—Curator
There's enough Uranium •in the
Mineral Industries'lmilding de
2itroY the. :entire campus,- declared
Clair W. professor of
'geology and• curator of theZilineral
industries 'museum:
' The mineral Uraninite. -and - re- -
lated 'minerals ,containing . .- the
metal Uranium' 235 are: on , display
in'the lobby of the !Mineral Indus-.•
tries - 'building.' Pennsylvania • is
represented 'by a' specimen 'of Car
notite from Mauch Chunk, where
a very- small amount: of the min
eral occiirs..But this doesn't mean
you ought to move off campus bag
and baggage. -Professor Robin.son
emphasizes that it is only when
man spends balions of dollars in
research that U 2315 can be made to
perform mischief.
Maps showing the producing
areas of Uranium 235, the activat
ing substance of the atomic bomb,
form part of the exhibit. Certain
unproductive occurrences of these
minerals also form a part of the
map display.
Uranium and Rad:um were for
merly supplied to the entire world
from the 'Belgian Congo, which
yielded 60 per cent, and the Great
Bear Lake region of northern Can
ada, which produced 40 per cent.
The area Joachimsthal, Czecho
slovakia, which was the source of
the mineral from which (Madame
Curie discovered Radium, is also
on display in the form of Pitch
blende.
Emphasizing the importance of
the atomic bomb in modern war
fare, as well as in Modern peace,
the Curator stated, "These Uran
ium minerals have lain in the
crust of the earth for over a .bl
- years and have caused no ap
preciable damage."
• Be pointed out that a specimen
of Carnotite from Colorado repre
sents the chief Radium and Uran
ium 'producing area of the United
States.
Dick Berge
Senate Commiffee
Acts On Credits
Extension students will receive
full credit towards bachelor's de
grees without spending their sen
ior year in residence at the Col
legeand veterans will „receive
TbDTC edits - via§: reveale - ditr•a
report of the Senate Committee
on Academic Standards for 1944-
, 45.
Chairman Charles E. Mar
quardt, college examiner, showed
that no. limit -will be put on num
bell- of credits that may be taken
in• any one of the catagories—ex
tension, correspondence, or exam
ination, as long as the total of
credits does not exceed 45 semes
ter.hours. Recommendations were
made by a special committee of
which •Dr. R. Adams' Dutcher is
chairman, and approved by the
Senate.• • • •
• The Senate also adopted the
plan whereby.. students having
completed fotir full semesters of
'resident, work at-the College may
complete the necessary credits for
a degree - •through - the - USAFI
while -in the` serviceat another
aceredited college; •or 'in exten
sion and .examination. -If a stu
'dent'S fourth semester . was in
'complete, his: work will be ..ac
terited if he was in -• attendance
10 - weeks or longer and receives
Credit from his dean. '
Further • action of the ' Senate
makes possible the transfer of
credits 'of other specialized train
inq programs such as the ASTP
and V-12. It was also , decided
that men having .90 or more days.
of active service be granted 10
credits which would normally be
earned in , ROTC and .physical
education 'in the freshman and
sophomore years.
(Under this plan ROTC and
physical education credits gained
in collegep rior to entering the
service will be subtracted from
the 10. Similarly, honorably dis
charged veterans who had earned
commissions will be eligible or
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Freshman Louis Lehm
Dies Of Hemorrhage
Louis Kurt Lehm, first semester
freshman, died at Centre County
Hospital, Bellefonte, Wednesday,
according to a statement by Dr.
Joseph P. illitenour, director of the
College Health Service.
Death was caused by a massive
gastric' hemorrhage. Lehm entered
the Infirmary ,August 10 and was
removed to the 'Bellefonte hosp'tal
August 15 where he was given
several blood transAisions.
Lehm's home was in Mars. He ,
was enrolled in the physical edu
cation curriculum.
Peace
Rumpus
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Students Will Select
Mr. A. P. At 'Log Rhythm'
All who attend the Penn State
Engineer's sem i - formal "Log
Rhythm" in Recreation Hall from
9 o'clock to midnight tomorrow
will have the opportunity of vot
ing for "Mr. Accelerated Pro
gram" today announced Dorothea
Fischer and John Zoszak, co
chairmen for the affair.
Finalists selected by coed ed
itors of campus publications to
compete for the title of "Mr. Ac
celerated Program" are James
Hugo, Van Lundy, and Donald
Miltenberger. The winner, whose
name will be announced during
intermission, will have his choice
of being publicized in a full page
of some future issue of the Engi
neer or of receiving a $5 meal
ticket good at a town restaurant
of his own choosing.
Supplying music for the affair
will be Dick Berge and his or
chestra. Tickets, $2 per couple,
can now be purchased at the En
gineer stand in front of the Cor
ner or from any member of the
Engineer staff. They will also be
sold at the door tomorrow night.
During intermission "Dr. I. Lie
Q." will conduct a "Cwazy Cwiz."
The quiz master has stated that
prizes suitable to the questions
asked will be presented to the
winners.
Unusually arranged- booths will
able- - withchnt
cost to all 'those who, attend-the
dance. Streamers will be hung
in Recreation Hall for the occas
sion,- according to the decoration
committee.
Program covers display a view
of the campus from the front
steps of the Library. Included in
each program are two pages of
"Sly Drools" and a page set aside
for the evening's memoirs of the
coed attending the dance.
Committee heads for .the affair
are: James McMaster, business;
Lawrence Scharfstein, programs;
Leßoy Harris, decorations; and
John Barnholdt an d Gladys
Raemsch, publicity.
Heizel To Give Diplomas
To 141 ASTP Graduates
Two hundred forty-two students
enrolled in the Army Specialized
Training Program will receive
graduation certificates in Schwab
Auditorium, 9 a.m., September 1.
One hundred forty-eight are com
pleting basic training, and 94 ad
vanced training.
President Dietzel will give the
'certificates to the basic candidates,
presented iby Dr. Donald S. Cryder,
vice-chairman of the committee on
basic ASP?, and to the advanced
students, presented by Harry P.
Hammond, dean of the Sdhool of
Engineering.
`upon completion of graduation
the remaining men will go on fur
lough, until the new term starts,
September 10.
WRA President Announces
Pep Rally, Square Dance
A square dance and football
rally will be sponsored by Wo
men's Recreation Association at
the White Hall parking lot, B:3G
to 12 D. in., September 1, announ
ced Alice Hooper, president of the
executive board.
Fred Hartswick and his Bald
Eagle Ramblers will supply the
music for the occasion, and mov
ing pictures of the football team
will be shown by Coach Bob Hig
gins.
, vo Toolkc A Holiday, Too
The August 17 issue of Col
legian was not published be
cause of the V-J Day bolirinvq.
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