FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1945 Virginia Officer Wanders North To State College By A/S JACK REID There is one southern accent on the V-12 faculty and it is the proud possession of Lt. Edward Fenton Lawler who hails from the state of Virginia. Lieutenant Lawler was grad uated in business administration from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1938. He went to work for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad where he was employed in May, 1942, when he entered the Navy. The lieutenant received / his commission and reported to Northwestern for indoctrination training. In July, 1942, he went, as an ensign, on inshore patrol in the fifth naval district. Cruiser Operations In April of the next year Lieu tenant Lawler was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chester _lying on the east coast. On board the Chester he proceeded to the Pa cific via Trinidad and the Pana ma Canal. Then began the long grind Of Pacific battles for the cruiser. First they went to the Gilberts to support the invasion there. Then they steamed to the Mar shells to give strength to opera ions in that area. Next they form ed part of the escort of the car rier raid on. the Jiap held Palaus. Their succeeding operation was in- the Aleutians. From here the Chester went to the Marianas. Finally the lieutenant was at the invasion of the Philippines and later Iwo Jima. In these later en gagements Kamikaze planes were encountered but no attacks were ever pressed home on the Ches ter. Close Call In these support operations the Chester took part . in more than With The AST The problem of finding a suit able study. hall for the use of the entire unit during their vacant class hours has 'at last shown signs of being solved. Last term the men were allowed to use any of the various libraries on campus for studying during their free Periods. However. with the devel opment of marching to all classes it became necessary to have a central study hall. The main library was tried but because of a lack of cooperation on the part of a few, the entire unit was assigned to 3 Carnegie Hall for study with monitors and all. This plan was in effect for one day when the college authorities generously set aside one half of the periodical room of the main library to serve as- a study hall. This proved to , be a•much better location as the conditions there are more_conducive to study. AST Band Through the efforts of Jack "Josh"' Jessel and Orton Hicks the unit is now the possessor of a corn ing dance band. Jessel and Hicks, old time friends from civilian days, have been making up bands for about the last five years. Their current child has, at the present, nine pieces and will have its first local .debut this weekend at the Lock Haven USO dance. The following week the band is scheduled to perform for Dry Dock, featuring a Jazz trio: dums, piano and clarinet. The rest of the unit has been canvassed in an ef fort to bring forth talent of the first order for the September 29 Dry Dock. Not that the men are bashful, but it just seems that the barracks "cards" won't admit their talents and cooperate on a program. Here and There The "current" boys of the unit are the Jones boys from barracks 7, AC and DC Jones. Last Sunday, approximately two weeks before the unit goes into OD's an EE 5 was seen with a combat jacket and OD's on Col lege avenue. How does he do it? Who was the cute little lass who was teaching Private Lem mon to jitterbug at the Dry Dock rligriet 1.1 . 1.4.10 , 1 I 4 ; . thirty bomblardments of Japanese held territory. At Tarawa the cruiser had a close shave when, after shelling the island for •a while without hostiile reply, she lost steering control and began to circle, cutting closer to shore with each revolution. As the ship headed in the Japs opened fire with eight inch guns which up until then had been silent. They regained steering control in time to avoid damage or the lieutenant wouldn't be here to tell about it. The only sub contact occurred when the Chester was starting out on a sortie from a small atoll in the Carolines. . A submarine was sighted 400 yards off the beam of the cruiser. But before this Jap could fire any torpedoes he was rammed and sunk by an escorting destroyer. In March, 1945, the lieutenant was detached to training duty in damag e • control, firefighting, and AA gunnery in preparation for assignment as an NROTC instruc tor. He was ordered to the Col lege in June of this year. Lieutenant Lawl.er was mar ried only recently, after his re turn to the States. He has' accum ulated a total of 52 points which he intends to put to good use just as quickly as possible. Wanted: All Addresses Students who did not know their addresses at registration are requested to report them to the receptionist in the Registrar's of fice. Students who have had a change of address should also re port the change since requests for addresses are frequently received. last week? Buses for the Lock Haven USO dance will leave Barracks 12 at 19:15 tomorrow night. Rocket designer. J. C. Lohman Barracks 28, is going places with his minature gasoline scompres sion job. Capt. Max B. Young, company commander, will leave next Mon day for the Baltimore Regional Hospital at . Fort Meade, Md., where he is to report for physical reclassification. Lt. 'Hollos B. Far num, who has been on leave in Vermont, will take over Captain Young's duties during his ab sence. `Gus", Barracks '7, a recent papa, has been seen passing out cigars. Both mother and son are doing fine. • Among the cadre: Corporal Savage is vacationing in Virginia, testing corn juice, while Corporal Guy is on sick leave furlough. Immunization Shots . Yes that's right. All military personnel are to receive influenza vaccine shots during the months of October and November. All army personnel at.. State College will receive theirs during the early part of October. Who has 'em? Sergeant Kelley lost his campaign riobons:,Euro pean Theatre, Good Conduct, American Defense, Purple Heart and the One and Only Mt. Nit tany. Only Four More Sundays Left in the Summer Semester! Student Department 9:30 a.m. Westminster Fellowship 6:20 p. m. Panel Discussion by mem bers of "Fairmount House, East," sharing their own ex periences in an inter-racial, inter-faith, international fel lowship project. Thursday Morning Matins 7:00 Friday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. A bit of fellowship with friends and a cup of tea before a log fire. You will find a cord ial welcome The Fireside Room. , your religious experience ." Intel" enough to propagate? MI . WMI;WrIU Driver-Teachers Group Confers_ Demand for competent instruc tors of motor vehicle fleet super visor training programs has led 33 representatives of universities, sponsoring agencies, firms, and state police to the College this week to participate in the first an nual short course for instructors and course directors. The program, a. five-day course, is sponsored jointly by the Insti tute of Public Safety and the Cen ter for Safety Education of New York University, and will prepare these'men for conducting courses at their own universities in the coming year. Amos E. Neyhart, administrative head of the Institute of Public Safety, and Milton D. Kramer, as sistant director of the Center for Safety Education at New York University, will lecture to the group. During the last half of the week, practice training sessions and outside skill tests will give those attending the meetings a chance to participate in the work. Norman Damon, vice-president of the Automotive Safety Founda tion, Washington, D. C., and Julien Harvey, managing director of the National Conservation Bureau, New York, will be the speakers at the graduation dinner which 'will be held on Friday night. The University of Washington, Oregon State,' University of Wis consin, Georgia Tech, West Vir ginia Institute of Technology, Uni versity of Oklahoma, Ohio State, North Carolina State, and• Purdue University are represented at the conference. They are among the 24 universities and colleges which have already signified their inten tion to offer the course for motor vehicle fleet supervisor training in 1946, patterned on Penn State's master course which has been of fered since 1938. In 1944 there were seven such courses, while in 1945 the number increased to 18. Army, Navy To Continue Using Fraternity Houses Army and Navy students will continue to use 11 fraternity houses at the College as barracks next semester, according to S. K. Hostetter, assistant to the presi dent in charge of business and fi nance. Three fraternity houses, Alpha Kappa Pi, Alpha Tau Omega, and Phi Kappa Tau, will be returned by the Army on September 343. The Army will continue to use the following houses: Alpha Gam ma Rho, Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Sigma Phi, and Phi Kappa Psi. In addition to the five campus houses—Alpha Zeta, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Chi, and Sigma Nu—already in use by the Navy, the Kappa Sigma house will be occupied by Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps students. 10 • Y OCK Here's a chance to gel your man, Co e and find him if you can, at the SALNE H A WKINS DANCE Sat. 9-12 Old Main Sandwich Shop Navy V-12 News hands that the hit of the Navy entertainment in Dry Dock last weekend was the quartet from barracks 37.. The boys Slag Hale, McKim, M'cNabb, and Martin) brought down the house with their stirring tribute to Liieutenant "Okinawa." The Navy dance band composed of Dave Laudig, Blaine Grose, Al MacDonald, George Ventura, Norm Herman, and Ken Kauffman gave out with some mighty smooth music for only the fourth time they had played together. Compliments are also owing to the Stetlerettes, those demure young damsels with the hair on their chests, who so daintily step ped through their 'bumps and grinds' to the cheers of the crowd. A plug here for Jim Jones, too, would not be amiss for the smooth ness and dispatch with which he handled the essential duties of MC. Barracks 26 Over in the barracks 26 the same night there were big tran sactions. Karel Yedlicka's boys were running through what might be judged by an impartial obser ver the best house party of the semester. We refuse, of course, to be at all impartial. They caught the MC, Ed Soza, just as he was halfway into bed, but they brought him downstairs tanyway in his pajamas. He in troduced the acts as they wand ered out across the floor. At the mock-mast held to de cide the fate of trainee Storr Lieutenant Okinawa (Herm Jor genson) managed to get onto his favorite subject of bulkheads, frames, and longitudinals. Lieut enant Bones (Paul Trax) came in wearing a hat just a trifle over size. He was attended by Lieu tenants Gabong ("Sandy" San-% Berson), Lawless (Stuart Brownell) and Grab (Sid Dickstein). Lieu tenant Gabong wore his favorite pair of dark glasses, Lieutenant Lawless gave us the data about the Chester, and Lieutenant Grab casually anchored the Brooklyn in Hell's Gate channel. "Lefty" Reitz (Ed LaVoice) came out with a hundred pounds or so of ath letic equipment just to show how Rabbi Speaks At Hillel On 'Story Of Succah' "The Story of . the Succah" will be the subject of the sermon to be delivered by Rabbi Benjamin Kahn at the Succoth Eve services at the Hillel Foundation at 8:30 p.m. today. After services the congregation is invited to the Succah at the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house, Lo cust Lane and Fairmount avenue. Succoth services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Louis Pasteur's discovery that germs cause infection led to an understanding of the true rela tionship between cleanliness and health. /MI PAGE FIVII hard he worked. The real 'Lefty" almost fell out of his seat wheal the apparit:on staggered out. A combination beauty conti - tit and dance routine put on by Bob Humphrey, Ed Spillane, "Tart" Taylor, Paul. Pflueger,, Hartman, and Tom Young kflAs up the high entertainment levi. for a while. A quartet of Yedlicka, Brownvir, Williges, and Williams sang.a rc• peat of Bill Ma-Tale's "Okinawa" and the old standby "When Th4 2 y Begin to Clean the Latrine." Secret and Confidential There are lour fellows down at the naval hospital this week. Any one of them—Frank Nelson, .1.3. Breeding, Dave Dutcher, Chartio Lasada—would be glad to hear from you guys. So why not drop a card to the boys in care of lh hospital ... Dick Yaggie is at Uul Philadelphia receiving station . . . Bob Shaw, who was back rc. centay with an MD from the Navy intends to return to State for 1 .11(1 Fall term. From Dr. Wagner, who recei• ved it from "Skip" Nicholls, we obtained a partial list of the fet• lows from here who successfully went through midshipman school and . their present duty assign menlts. Those at line officce* school in Miami, Fla., are Jowelf, Passanantii, Jonuts, [Geld.; Berg, Rifkin, Joffe, Kuenzi, Gar rity, Vogel, DeVeas, Ernst. Nich olas is on the heavy cruiser Port land and .Jess Hartman is on thi,. battleship Wisconsin. 4-- - ;- - i ---,7 . \ _c . c. ril c--- - ---ifi-- - -= _„ I `.'--.,/ ' Aria i )t s 19bb I 0 C i li j, : :i '' '\ t . .... 414 Watch the-gleam in his cifs when your "best" beau sees - you-in this lovely two-pieco dress. 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