FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1945 'Quiz Kid' Sailor Remembers Debut Ben Rasmussen. now in his fourth term as a member of the. V-12 unit, likes to remember the night of December 3, 1991, when he appeared as one of the guest contestants , on Joe Kelly's Quiz Kid program. Ben and one girl were chosen from among several hundred con testants to represent the 4-H Clubs of America. • Appearing with the guest con testants that night Were Richard Williams, and Ruth Dusken, two of America's outstanding child prodigies who have been baffling child psychologists for the last five years. "I filled out a questionnaire concerning my hobbies and books I have read. From that informa tion Quizmaster Kelley chose the questions. I was able to answer all his questions, but I do believe it a publicity stunt, said Ras mussen." Ben graduated from Newark, 111., Community High School in May 1944 and entered the Navy in July 1944 and was assigned im mediately to Penn State. Oldesi Ex-GI Believes life Begins AI 40 Life may begin at 40, says James E. "Pat" Todd, World War II veteran, but at 44 he thinks he's the oldest ex-GI yet to enter college. . a long time since Todd was graduated from the Bowersock School, near Punxsutawney, but he's confident the two-year agri cultural course at the College will present no insurmountable obsta cles. • _Todd, who served with an anti aircraft unit in New Guinea, is the oldest of approximately 200 vet erans currently enrolled under the educatio,nal provisions of the GI His legs still bear dark, ugly scars as the aftermath of "jungle rot", but he believes they are strong enough to carry him through two years of intensive agricultural' training, after which he plans to return to •the family farm in Perry Township, Jeffer son county. In addition to his• classroom work, Todd has a part-time job caring for the pigeons which are being used at Penn State in an Army Signal Corps research pro ject. Congress Card Catalog , AvahLie in Book Form The card catalog of the Library of Congress is now available in boOk form to all faculty members and students in 102 A Library. The set will comprise approxi mately 160 volumes when comple ted and is a photographed repro duction of the printed cards issued by the L'brary of Congress from August, 1898, to July 311, 1942. To date 128 volumes have been received covering the letters A- Rowla. A card supplement brings the catalog up to date. • "The catalog includes many cards prepared by other libraries 'representing books not in the Li brary of Congress," declared Eve lyn Hensel, assistant librarian. "On the other hand the Library of Congress contains some thousands of books for which cards have not yet been printed, so that the cat alog is something less and some more than a complete inventory of printed books in the Library of Congress," she went on to say. "It must be pointed out that this is an author catalog only," em phasized Miss Hensel. Staff Football Books Staff personnel season books for the College's four home football games go on sale at the AA tick et office, 107 Old Main, at 8 a.m. Monday. Single admission single books will cost $7.20, and those for married couples will be $8.40. Sgt. Johnny Potsklan, Penn State .war hero, hopes to be back in harness for the 1946 football season. The Hiller flier is still hos pitalized by a shoulder wound he suffered in Germany. Potsklan, a stand-out at end in 1941, was wounded, then impris oned, when his crew bailed out over the Siegfried line. He esti mated he walked many hundre4 of miles as he .was moved from one prison camp to another in the moVths preceding liberation. • Do Fraternities Offer More Than Physical :enefits? By MERVIN WILF When most people think of fra ternities a picture flashes through their minds of a' palatial house, luxurious furniture, and boys liv ing there to soak up the benefits of such accorhodations. But are , .I , o;frec . ••• , , JAMES HUGO there other advantages to fratern ities besides the physical ones? Three Present Views In an effort to present to the reader a fair picture of these. so- called "intangible assets" derived from fraternity life, three stu dents were asked to present and discuss their views on this highly debateable subject. James Hi. 1.10 speaks as a fra ternity man and past-president of Interfraternity Council who wit nessed fraternities in operation in pre-Pearl Harbor days, during the length of the war, and in the preS ent. Michael Lynch, present All- College President and past head of the Independent Student Coun cil and Independent Men's Asso ciation, discusses sentiments from the standpoint of an independent student looking in on fraternities. Jack Freundlich, a veteran of 31 missicons over Germany as a B-]7 pilot, talks as a fraternity man who left the College during the fraternity hey-day and has returned this semester. According to Hugo, the whole question merely listing the sub surface merits of fraternities is almost an impossibility because of the very nature of these merits. "lt is to me like trying to enum erate the reasons why a person loves his mother. If you asked a person exactly why, he probably would think awhile and ,say, "I just can't tell you.' it is the same way with fraternities. You know that there are non - material things a fraternity gives to -its members, but when you go to list them, the task is difficult." Hugo Lists Intangible Merits The former IFC president states that these intangible advantages, as difficult as they are to illustrate, are the most important ones. Tak ing as an example the value of developing the trait of leader THE COLLEGIAN ship, he points out that every member of a fraternity is a poten tial president of the house if he ki.A will avail himself to the job. Fra ternities also encourage their men to go out for many extra-curricu lar activities embracing politics, student publications, and athle tics, depending on the aptitude of the man. Their success in this field is evidenced by the high po sitions fraternity men hold in. Og these activities_ and by the nun-. Mg ber of men climbing the ladder of IN success. "Surely the fact that some fra ternities were able to keep up a semblance of organization when they no longer occupied their houses means something. This proves that the physical aspect of fraternity life is not all important. In my estimation, it is the least important factor. Spirit of Keeping Together Cited "The spirit of keeping together, of continuing the principles of fraternalism, and trying to mold . character 'of men kept fraternities going duririg the trying •war years. Another motivating force was the desire of the men at the College to give to their brothers returning from service something to come home to. To' prove his point that a per- . son will do something for his fra ternity without a thought or per sonal benefit, Hugo cited the ac tions of Charles Alcorn. Alcorn was the only, member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity 'on campus laSt fall.. He decided to ractivate the chap ter and single-handed, he worked hard and rushed to do it. He put his personal convenience . secon dary to the welfare of the organi zation; he succeeded. "There Must be something to. the spirit of fraternalism," con cluded Hugo, "if a person will do such things." Lynch Gives His Ideas In his opening comments on the intangible assets of fraternities; Michael Lynch brings out the fact that these advantages are not ex clusively peculiar to fraternities. He points out that if an individ ual wants to maintain a fratern alistic feeling towards other people, he doesn't have to be in a fraternity to do it. However, Greek letter organizations do fos ter and encourage this feeling. "One thinrf '' I admire about fra ternities is their ability to .get things done. When an issue comes up on campus and fraternities de cide to back it, they follow it through and give it their full sup port. Independent students try to do the same; they have the or ganizations to accomplish as much as fraternities, but they don't co operate as fraternity men do. Fraternities Foster Campus Activities. '• ."Fraternities also give college activities needed leadership. I think that being in a fraternity,. the pride in and. the desire to aid the fraternity inspires men to de vote time to campus activities. It gives them an added something to work for; this added something is the . real motivating force for many. 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This is made possible by an . electronic flight trainer perfected by Bell Telephone Laboratories' scientists for the Navy. At remote controls the instructor follows the "flight," sets up various dangerous conditions, coor dinates the crew's reactions. Tubes glow, switches click much as they do in a telephone exchange, to duplicate such flight perils as icing, fouled fuel lines, "conked" motors. It is the science behind the telephone that here performs an other new service to the Nation. BELL. TELEPHONE SYSTEM "Service to the Nation in Peace and War" PAGE THREE Relic Reminds Dean. Of War Experiences A souvenir of the Iwo cemlx , ,ign, sent by a former .sta-• dent to Dean Edward Steidle 44. Mineral Industries, recalls to air , clean his own service in V1(.11.10 War I. • First. Lt. William Bellano, US'MCR, '36, sent Dean Steidle. t Jap demolition set, which the dean discovered is an exact copy, of the ones used when he wag commanding officer of the Fast Battalion, First Gas Regiment, in France. Like Bellano's, 11he dean's outfiit destroyed elan bombs and mines. In this war, Dean Steidle says, the Americans are using the same type of equip ment greatly improved, but the Jap set is exactly like our World War I models. The demolition set is the second souvenir received by Dean Sicktie from the Pacific war. Previously he received two Japanese .50 m.m. knee-mortar shells from Cavt. John Morgan '42 on Palau. Lion's Paw !Initiates 5 Patrick Brennan, Stanley Chad-- win, Judd Healy, Michael Lynch, and Jack Seavy have been in itiated into Lion's Paw, senior men's honorary, this semester. Other members of Lion's Paw on campus include James Hugo and Van Lundy.
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