FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1945
Prof. Gerhardt Predicts
Gradual Housing Changes
There will be no housing mir
acles in the immediate postwar
period, according to Royal M.
Gerhardt, who believes changes
in building styles will be evolu
tionary rather than revolutionary.
Gerhardt, who is profesor of
architectural engineering and as
sistant dean of the School of En
gineering, is convinced, moreover,
that there will be resistance to de
partures from conventional type
houses.
"Architects," he argued, "will
be slow to make radical changes
in house designs and materials,
and contractors will hesitate to
bid on revolutionary designs until
they know more about untried
materials and the labor costs of
installation."
Dealers in building materials,
he added, will be reluctant to
stock new materials and gadgets,
and banks and loan associations
will be conservative about lend
ing money on 'untested novelties
in residential properties.
"Home owners," he opines, "don't
need to worry about their houses
becoming outmoded not for
awhile, at least."
Blue LaVie Cards Due
All seniors who haye blue
La Vie cards should turn them
in to Student Union as soon as
possible.
Favorite State Fight Songs
Composed by Musical Alums
. "Every college has a legend
passed on from yeat to year,"
wrote James A, Leyden, 'l4, of the
stately Nittany Lion. Joseph Saun
ders, 'l5, and Fred Lewis Pattee,
professor emeritus of American
literature, have also had a hand in
writing Penn State songs. _
Leyden, a Beta Theta Pi, found
time,for Druids, Parmi Nous, track
team, Thespians, Choir, 'Glee Club,
Quartet, YMCA Cabinet, class sec
retaryship, and Mechanical Engi
neering Society while .he was a
mechanical engineering student at
the College. These are some of the
reasons why the 1914 "LaVie" de
scribed Leyden's trend as being
"deviated towards the aesthetic
and the athletic channels, rather
than towards the sea of studious
ness." This composer of the "Nit
tany Lion" and "Victory" songs
used to sing to the tune of his
mandolin in the old track house
where he lived.
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'Presents 'Nittany Lion'
One Friday in the early 20's,
Leyden, in town for an Alumni
Weekend, presented a lyric and
melody to Bandmaster Thompson.
Thompson played the melody on
his trumpet, liked it, and gave it
to Hummel Fishburn to provide
the harmony. That night saw the
birth of "The Nittany Lion" when
Jimmy Leyden sang his song at a
pre-football mass meeting.
• While an undergraduate, Ley
den wrote the "Victory Song."
just sat down one day and picked
it out on the piano or his pet man
dolin.
Today,,Leyden is Ne w York
Sales Manager for Hampden
Glazed Paper Company and lives
in Pleasantville, N. Y. The com
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Olive Drab to Navy
By A/S Jack Reid
If you had fought through the
First World War in the olive drab
of the Army, could you have pic
tured yourself twenty-five years
later fighting another war in the
blue of the Navy? Probably not,
but Lt. Comdr. Trusdell Wisner,
skipper of the College V-12 unit,
has, done just that.
Back in 1915 Commander Wis
ner was a private first class in
the First Field Artillery of the
New York National Gua r d.
Throughout 1916 his unit served
on- the Mexican border. Then in
the early part of the next year his
enlistment ran out.,
When war came in April of 1917
the commander reenlisted in the
First Battalion Signal Corps of his
old regiment. Later this designa
tion was changed to 102nd Field
Signal Corps, 27t7h Division.
For one year his unit served in
Northern France and Belgium.
During this period 'Commander
Wisner (then first class sergeant,
a rank no longer in effect) fought
through four major battles. At the
end of this time he was commis
sioned, second lieutenant in the
Signal Corps, 27th Division.
tive service.
Between wars the commander
worked for the Chrysler Corpora
tion. At the outbreak of the Sec
ond World War he was merchan
poser is a member of the Univer
sity Glee Club, a social and music
organization of college men which
backs college glee club contests
and donates musical instruments
where it sees fit. This Penn State
grad directs the Hambone Quartet
which specializes in old college
songs.
Three of Leyden's children are
. graduates of the College: Don, !41,
was an engineering student and
played in Blue Band; Jim Jr., '42,
was a music education student,
played in Blue Band, sang in the
Glee Club and Quartet, and com
posed for Thespians; Harriet, '45,
was a home economics student and
member of Kappa 'Kappa Gamma.
Norman Leyden, oldest son • of
Jimmy Leyden, graduated in mu
sic from Yale and is now com
poser and arranger for the Army.
'Fight On State'
Joseph Saunders, better known
as "Oof," wrote the challenging
"Fight on State." Saunders, Beta
Sigma Rho, hailed from Atlantic
City and was famous as the orig
inator of the statement that the
popularity of Atlantic City is due
to the nearness of the ocean. This
1915 chemistry graduate was spok
en of as a "vaudevillian of the
deepest style."
Today Saunders is living in At
lantic City where he has an auto
mobile agency. Music is his hobby
and 'he has written several school
songs, the best, of which is "Fight
on State."
',Professor Pattee presented the
words now used in the (Alma
Mater. The former literature pro
fesSor is living in Florida and lec
turing at Rollins College.
THE COLLEGIAN
dising manager of the service di
to the College. Here in June of
1944 he assumed the duties of
LL Comdr. Trusdell Wisner
commanding officer. Since then
the ship• of the unit has steered
vision.
The day after Pearl Harbor he
applied for a commission in the
Dr. Knudson Discusses
'Vitamin DV At Meeting
Dr. Alfred Knudson will speak
on "Vitamin D" at the 131st meet
ing of the Central Pennsylvania
Section of the American Chemical
Society in 119 New Physics, 7:30
p. m. Tuesday.
The speech will include •discus
sion of the most recent discoveries
about the chemistry of• vitamin D,
the amount of ultra-violet irradia
tion needed to form a unit of the
vitamin, and investigations of the
fate of vitamin D in the animal
body.
Dr. Knudson is associated with
Union University as professor of
biochemistry, head of the depart
ment of biochemistry, and associ
ate dean of the Albany Medical
College. His, principle researches,
carried out . at Albany Medical
college, Harvard university, and
Cambridge University, have been
on rickets, the metabolism'.: of
chloesterol, effects on animals of
exposure to high frequency :radi-;
tion, formation of vitamin D by'
irradiation with different light
sources, and the fate of vitamin D
in the tissues of animals.
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Navy. By February he was a
lieutenant, going through recruit
ing school at Norfolk. There he
was selected for college recruit
ing. After training was completed,
he was ordered to Washington
where he worked on promotion
for the V-1 and V-7 programs.
I•n April 1942, the commander
was appointed assistant recruiting
inspector in the Ninth Naval Dis
trict. Here he had charge of the
development of college procure
ment. As part of hiS duties he ad
dressed group meetings at various
colleges and served on the naval
selection board.
May of 1943 found Commander
Wisner at Ohio-Wesleyan Univer
sity, organizing a V-12 unit. Ten
months later he was promoted to
his present rank and transferred
a steady and successful course
under his command.
With the coming establishment
of a Naval ROTC unit at the Col
lege, Commander Wisner expects
to be relieved by an officer of
the regular Navy. And, although
he is eligible for point release, the
commander has applied for reten
tion in the service and overseas
duty.
Commander Wisner has ex
pressed a desire to some day make
his permanent home in State
College.
Pr r otessor Measures
V-J Day Noise Power
How much noise did State Col
lege stir up the night th e Jap
anese surrendered?
Plenty, you'll say.
But a scientist who measured
the level of the downtown noise
as it carried to the quiet environs
of E. Foster avenue and Pine
street three-quarters of a mile
away, puts it another way.
"The noise level," says Walter
H. Pielemeirer, professor of phys
ics, "was about 70 decibels."
That's ten times as loud as
ordinary indoor conversation,
which is about 60 decibels, ac
cording to Professor .Pielemeirer.
"That meant," he said, "that to
carry on a conversation above the
noise it required about ten times
the V-J noise power, or 80 dec
ibels."
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PAGE THREE
Art Awards Presented
For Student Paintings
Several awards were presented,
through the courtesy of Keeler';;
Book store, in the two summer
session art shows in water color
and oil painting which were held
at the College recently.
Marilyn V. Schutte won a book
prize in the water color course
conducted by Prof. Andrew W.
Case. First honorable mention
went to Mary E. Crist, and Louisa
Crawford received second hon
orable mention.
A special award was presented
to Helen Hildebrand for the high
quality of her work over a num
ber of summers in the oil paint
ing exhibition of students under
the direction of Hobson Pittman.
In addition, mentions were given
to the following: first mention, a
book prize, to M. Josephine Paul;
second mention, also a book, to
Arthur S. Carpenter; third men
tion to Mrs. Edna Woodcock; and
fourth mention to Palma Wake
field.
Professors Eleanor Willis anki
James B. Helme were the jury
of awards for the water color
show. For the oil painting ex
hibition Professor Helme and Dr.
Harold E. Dickson served (.s
jury of award.
Dr. Dutcher To Study
Food Problems In Europe
Dr. R. Adams Dutcher, head oE
the department of agricultural
and biological chemistry at the
College, left Sunday for Washing
ton, D. C., to report for ove.r.t . seaLi
duty with the Technical Indus
trial Intelligence Committee oe.
the Foreign Economic Administra
tion and the Office of the Quar-.
termaster General of the U. S.
Army.
Dr. Dutcher will investigate
food problems in Northwestern
Europe and expects to return to
his duties at the College in l'o-•
vember. During his absence, Dr.
M. W. Lisse will serve as actin
head of the department.
Certifitates for LD's
Lower division certificates Sot
fifth semester students in educa
tion and. phychology may now Ix
procured in 106 Burrowes build
ing, it was announced today.