|SI (&\w (ttrilwjum |§L Published Semi-Weekly By The Collegian Staff TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER- 13, 1945 PENNSYLVANIA PRICE FHT ASTP Sponsors Semi - Formal Army Band To Play For 'Farewell Dance i The ASTP All-College semi formal dance to foe held at Re creation Hall from 8:30 p.m. to midnight Saturday will foe the Army’s farewell to the College. The unit is expected to leave the College near the end of the fall semester. . Corsages will be presented to the first 20 coeds arriving at the dance. No one will be admitted without tickets, which may be ob tained at Student Union free of charge any time this week. Money in the company fund, which is used for the recreation of the ASTP unit, will cover all expens es so that there will be no neces sity for charging, admission. 'Pvts. Ort Hicks and Jack Jes sel will lead the ASTP orchestra, starting and ending the dance with their theme “Mood Indigo.” ; Members of the orehestra in clude Pvts. Ort Hides, piano; Jack Jessel, drums; Thomas Gay, Carl Wagner and Will Haines, trum pets; Sol Blatt, James Fowe, Don ald Morthlava, Ronald S'hakely and Robert Hermann, saxophones; Norbert Schalk, guitar; David Wagner, bass-. The A'STP came to the College in May, 1943. Since that time over 300. men in the unit have ■been sent to join the 95th Divis ion. Selected groups .were sent to Oak Ridge, Tenn., to perform se cxet.-Work ; on' the atomic'bomb, -In October, 1943, ' the College unit reached, its maximum strength of 1050 men. Symphony Group Includes 62 College Symphony- ; Orchestra, comprised. of 62 members; met last night iri Carnegie Hair for the semester’s. , first . rehearsal. . All students listed below are asked by. Hummel .Fishburn, head ,of the music-department; to see their ad visors and schedule Music 77.67 1' credit —today. .... l. LThere are 31. violinists: .-Matiin' Alpeijh,.- F. T. Andretvs,:'Myrtle. Bock, Allan Buechner, K. H. Van D’Eldon, J. :C. Dillard, : Mildred •Dromgoid, / Walter Falkenberg; Jean Farley, Marian': Fister, Jo seph Geiger; Jack Goodoviteh,- Kenneth Gould,’ James: Kalbifus', Barbara. Kriney, George Kryger, Patricia Manson,' Robert. Mar tobana. : Marjorie McDonald, Sybil Per kjri, Ethel. Roberts, Leonard Sea lisp, Jean Schlosser, Ray Schlos ser, Betty Slayman, Marlene Smith, Robert Sturgeon, Gene vieve Taras, Adele Thompson, Herman Weed, and Anne Wisdom. Violists are: George (Barber, Joan Bissey, Christine Diehl, Joan Huber, and Josephine Ro tili. In the ’cello section: Lois Aup, Jean Butler, Margaret Potts, Er nest Rotili, and Herman Slay man. Stringed bass players include: Robert. Burge,- Martin Caldwell, Webster Christman, Marie Halin. Virgil Neilly, Lois Sheaffer, and Marie Thompson. Woodwind players are: Lucille Cox and Edith Muray, flute; Ed na Murray and Esther Thompson, oboe; Robert Skipper and Aptio nettc D’Orasio, clarinet;. and'Ann Berkhimer, bassoon. Brass section consists of trumpet William Laughlin, Jam es Morrow, Creslon Ottemiller, Eugene Sprague; horn. Susan Bissey, Dorothy Cornell, Paul Grove, Marjorie Rex, and Charles Willing; and trombone, Robert Bechtul, fHarold Cook, Linden Fi'-her, and Glenn Orndorf. ’ Percussionists include: Carl fVJtervehn. J'X'lc ; Shatter. Lois Turner, and Frances Woodring. College To Celebrate World Student Day With. Campusßally In 1938 when the Nazi marched into Czechoslovakia, the Czech university students laid down their . books, exchanging them for guns. The Nazi blitzkreig had come too fast for the Czech army to mobilize, so the students fought as well as they could from schools and universities all over the country. On November 17, the Nazi retaliated by a massacre of students at the Charles University in Prague, killing 156 students and sending over 12,000 to concen tration camps inside German^. On November 17, 1942, the first celebration of International Stu dents was held in commemoration of the massacre at Prague. Inter national Student’s Conferences were held at London until Czecho slovakia was liberated. The move ment caught on in the United States and has spread to almost all American colleges and univer sities. This year, International Stu dent’s, Day will be celebrated at the College. A rally sponsored by all the major organizations on (Continued on page three) College Gives Scholarships . The . Consolidated Vultoe Air craft Corporation of San Diego, Calif;,,has. -juit donated funds; to. The". College; to' offer two' scholar ships and one fellowship. The scholarships will be open to highly recommended engineer ing students who have completed their junior year in civil, electri cal, mechanical, or aeronautical engineering and pursuing courses related- to aeronautical engineer ing. . Those appointed will be sent to one of the Corporation’s divi sions for indoctrination, and. ex perience. for . a .period of • three months to a year. . These, men .will be paid at, a' reasonable.rate, at-present $l5O. to. $l6O basepay, for- 40. hours. and-, overtime compensation. At the end of the indoctrination program they will return to. school-to com plete' their senior year. ■ The 'stu dent drill pay- the' regular -tuition and incidental' fees in accordance' with the College regulations. ~r.:- -. The fellowship will-be open to highly-recommended graduates of engineering, •. metallurgy, 1 chem-t istry, physics, or-mathematics who; wall- be nominated toy the College. The . successful candidate will work one year with the Corpora tion, thereby fitting him more' profitably for " graduate study and research. Graduates from a. given school will not necessarily, under take the graduate, work at their alma mater. • Conditions- for application and other details will be announced in the near future: Players Apply Polish To Poor Coward Script By MARTIN LENNIG Guest Critic A Noel Coward drawing room farce requires polish and finessp in the extreme to be effective. A Coward script has laughs but cannot stand alone without good production. Mere voicing of dia logue is not sufficient to hold an audience. In the case of “Blithe Sprit” which was pre sented for the second time by the Penn State Players last Friday and Saturday evenings, the plot was not only improbably ridicu lous, but what there was of it was stretched thin. The production of lust weekend may best.’ bo commented on by going pack to its source and say- Nittany, Key, Vie At Elections 30 Fratern IFC Prexy Announces Record Rushing Season Nearing prewar peaks, 30 fra ternities have pledged a total of 322 men this semester at the close of the formal rushing season, Frank Schneider, IFC president, announced todav. During the summer semester 18 active fraternities reported 136 pledges. Pledges for the individual fra ternities are as follows: ALPHA CHI SIGMA Henry M. Albright Jr., Charles A. Bax ter, Paul Crider, William E. Eich elberger, Robert H. Hufnagle, James A. Kauffman, William E. Laughlin, Fred Nicholas, Glenn W. Oyler, Jake Sweigart, William H. Walter, Caryll R. Whipple. ALPHA GAMMA RHO— Newton Comly, James E. Garrahan. ALPHA PHI DELTA— Anthony E. Biancardi, William J. Celani, Robert S. Civa, Joseph Coppa, Or lando Q. Di Maria-, Edward M. Ghezzi, Paul J. Mazzli, William D. Manfredo, Victor J. Muto, Vincent F. Rocco, James A. Salvero, James L. Scarazzo Jr., Edward E. .Tarul li. ALPHA TAU OMEGA— Richard Bobbins, William Hubbard, Ray mond Jackson, Roy C. Layman, Raymond Kelly, Ralph Schumack, Robert Williams. ... BETA. .SIGMA ..RHO— Ralph D. Cohen; Richard Hoffman, Aaron Jortner;. Jeromo M. Raubfogell, Earl Schaffer, Floyd Selbst, Mark B. Spitz, Joseph Wein, Jack Wolfe, Bernard S. Woolf. . CHI PHl— Robert B. Franks house,-Kenneth Mattern, Richard J. Mauthe, Ted L. Noyes, Robert E. Rose, Robei-t Russell, J. E. St. Clair, George Vadaz. DELTA CHl— Edward J. Hahn, John Hughes Jr., Robert S. Og den-, Alan Uhl, Charles D. Willis. -. (Continued on page seven) AA Office To Distribute Artist Course Priorities Priority numbers • for. the pur chase of Artists’ Course tickets ■ will be distributed by the Athletic Association office, first floor; Old ■Main, tomorrow and. Thursday. ■Students will be'given priority numbers at 4 o’clock tomorrow and may buy tickets Thursday. Facid : ty members and townspepple may call' for/ priority at 4 p.m. Thursday and may buy tick ets Friday. ~ The priority slip wall designate at what time the prospective pur chaser may calf for his ticket and alsa his place in the ticket line. One priority -will entitle a pur chaser to as many as as six seats provided that students buy only student seats and faculty and townspeople buy seats only for themselves. ing: “Hail to thee, ‘Blithe Spir it’ !” From the moment- the curtain parted until the final soliloquy so excellently delivered by Joseph Vispi amid crashing china, fly ing pillows and falling pictures The Players gave an exceptionally well rendered, fast moving pro duction. The set was unusually well, made up. The lighting which called for quite a bit of tricky handling was executed without a noticeable flaw. The “special ef fects” such as table tapping and vase- smashing were mystifyingly well done. Scenes and Setting The scene of the play is set in (Continued on page seven) ities Pledge 322 Col. T. V. Smith . . . who will open the College Community Forum Lecture ser ies in Schwab Auditorium at 8 o’clock tomorrow night. He will speak on “Discipline For A De mocracy.”. • In answer to a petition circu | lated by students last semester, j.ColpnelrSmitb yvill include in his lecture material" on the " current controversy concerning an inter gration of the formal Liberal Arts program. He has served as director of education for the American Military Govedhment in Italy and is now. assisting in the reorientation training of Ger man prisoners. AST To Return 5 Fraternities . Five fraternity houses - will be vacated by the ASTP unit and turned back, to their-, owners ef-. fective. December 10, according to Samuel K. Hostetter, assistant to the president an charge of busi ness arid finance. - Fraternities effected., are Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Sigma -Phi,- Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Sigma Phi, and Phi Kappi