PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY BY THE COLLEGIAN STAFF
] VQLr42^No.
ohly Penn State Vets Gan Be
Admitted For Next Semester
Gamma Sigs
ioin National
.‘rf Gamma Sigma Phi, first to high
light the fraternity world for 1946,
: has been granted a charter by Zeta
V, Beta Tau. The Senate Committee
' ort Student Welfare .has approved
' the charter and the new national
;...chapter will he known as Alpha
r. Psi.
I:-i A lo'carfraternity at the College
■ since 1939, Gamma Sigma Phi has
y, its own chapter home at 227 E
V Nittany avenue
Members of a committee of Zeta
Beta Tau including officers and
. • members of nearby chapters will
' pledge the following students to
iV morrow-'
. Marvin Breslow, Marvin Demp,
;v Louis Glanztoerg, Jack Kushner,
Kushner, Arnold Perloff,
S Frank Rose, Marvin Sattler, Alan
j .Shu'lman, and Stanley Wirtschaf
ter. . \
C;Thg-installation-, of the chapter
/ will follow at an date, after-
P tha. completion of a training, pro
gram. A number of recent alumni
of Gamma Sigma . Phi will) be in
itiated into 'Zeta Beta Tau at the
!$ 'fime of. installation. The following
: .i? ; pledges of Gamma Sigma, Phi, and.;
fviil he pledges'ojttfe
v.; Richard Aron s o n, Robert
xc Brooks, Arthur Kantor, Robert
and Mark Zimmerman.
'V ' Zeta Beta Tau, founded in 1898,
;• has been a senior member of the
;; National Interfratemity Confer
ence since 1912. It has chapters at:
i C.C.N.Y., -N.Y.U., Columbia, Penn
sylv'ania, Cornell, Western . Re
-. serve, Tulane, Ohio State, Syra
f. cuse, LS.U., Illinois, Michigan,
■McGill, Virginia, Alabama, Mis
souri, Chicago, Vanderbilt, U.S.C.,
Washington & Lee, California, Ne
;; 'braska, Washington (Se,attle),
Washington (St. Louis), Arizona,
S-r North Carolina, U.C.-L.A., Frank
s' lin & Marshall, Duke, Miami
LV ; (OJiio), Tennessee, British Colum
£;toia, and Kentucky. '
| Club Sponsors
IDisc Dance
An~informal vie dance sponsored
-vby the Saturday Night Club will
/. tie held in Rec Hall from 9 to 12
k o’clock tomorrow, .making the
k third in a series/ of semi-monthly
:'i dances.
:V As usual, "the dance will be a
? “stag, hag, or drag” affair. Music
' from big name bands will be pro
vided fresh off the platter; but the
Club plans to feature some campus
• band in the near future, Ray Con
ger, sponsor of the Saturday
Nighters, says.
. Table games Will be provided for
. those who do not care to dance all
; evening.' Admission is 30 cents,
and the tickets will be sold at the
door.
. Frank Campagna will be general
for the dance. Ruth
■Black, Norman Gordon, and Kay
Setter make up the dance com
mittee, headed by Angelo Conte.
Ticket committee: Curt Gaylord,
chairman'; Elizabeth Fleming,
" Dorothy Jaun,'and Carlton Wood.
; , The dance is Ibeing held in) Re
creation Hall this time rather
than white, hall due to the re-
La Vie : " ’
... candidates will meet, in 1
- Armory at 5 p.m. Monday.
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1946—‘STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Mortar Board
Sets Up Fund
A Charlotte E. Ray Scholarship
honoring the dean of women is
being originated under the spon
sorship of the College chapter of
Mortar Board.
, : Mortar Board has,set a prirriary :
goal'-'of. $3.000: J-biitviplans toj con
tihue' collecti’ohs over a perfect of
years. Only the interest on \the
fund will toe used. No scholar
ship will exceed $lOO for a com
plete school year.
At the request of Mortar Board,
Miss Ray suggested that the,
scholarship winner should be:
!l. A woman whose college ed
ucation has depended largely
upon her own effort.
2. A woman, •who has attained
a fair scholastic record in addi
tion to showing interest in bel
ter college activities.
3. A woman who has come to
the attention of faculty and stu
dents .toy her_ promise, of future
usefulness.
The first scholarship will be
awarded to a student at the end
of her sophomore year. The
choice will be made by a commit
tee composed of one student
member of Mortar Board, one
town alumna of Mortar Board
and one faculty representative.
“The scholarship,” said Mary
Falcon, president of Mortar
Board, is being named for Miss
Ray in recognition of her service
and devotion to the College as
Dean of Women since 1923, and
a s a token of the esteem in which
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PSCA Campaign Leaders
Meet To Organize Drive
Pointing toward a, successful
finance drive, the Penn State
Christian Association will hold .’an
organization dinner for campaign
leaders at the State College Hotel
banquet hall- at 5:30 p.m. .on
Sunday. ;
Dr. Victor Beede; head of the
forestry department at the Cpl
lege, heads faculty solicitors. Mairy
Faloon and Vaughn Stapleton are
chairmen of the student campaign.
■Proceeds from the canvass will
finance all FSCA student activi
ties for the coming year, accord
ing to' James' T. Smith, general
secretary. Made possible by the
incoming, fund are all the Asso
ciation’s functional, social and rec
reational campus projects. . Out
standing among these are Old
Main Open House, entertainment
for foreign students,, Christmas
and. Eastgr. watahservices,, jj the
'sjMept recreattbn'i for
übderpriviTeged cnildifeh at Mill
brook, and conference work with
other college Christina Associa
tions) ;
Apply But College
Has Facilities for Only 800
1500 Vets
Only returning veterans who were students' at the College at the time they left for
military service can be admitted to the College at the opening of the second semester in
March 1946, President Ralph D. Hetzel announced today, and it is feared, he said, that not
all of these can be accommodated.
With every facility strained to the limit, the College can take care of only about 800 in
addition to those now enrolled, the president revealed. These will be selected out of more
NROTC Remains
Until Summer
A $10,000,000 appropriation
bill, recently .passed by Congress
and signed by President Truman,
will permit continuation of the,
NROTC until July 1, 1946, on ac
tive, duty basis.'
-Before the appropriation was
made,- the Navy Department an
nounced . curtailment of the
NROTC at the end of the present
semester:
By, July, Navy men now study-,
ing at, the College will have made
a.,choice” of one of the„.fpllpw.ing
-fHreeV'dbufses’ idf -'actibhy *'•
' (1)/ Continuation in the
NROTC, paying their own tuition
jjatf expenses.
(2) Enlistment under the Na
val Air Corps V-5 program.
(3) Transfer to the fleet on
active duty in an enlisted status.
Those who remain in college
will be placed on inactive duty
(Continued on page four)
Alefheia Goes
Phi Sig Sig
Phi Sigma Sigma, national sor
ority, initiates its Beta Eta chapi
ter, formerly Aletheia, a local
sorority, at the' Nittany. Lion Inn
tonight.
[Grand Archon Clarisse Marko
witz, Executive Secretary Esther
Matter, Bursar Joan Goldman,
and other national officers have
come down for . the program
which includes tonight’s initia
tion, formal installation tomorrow
afternoon,' and a formal banquet
tomorrow evening. There will be
an introductory tea Sunday af
ternoon.
Phi Sigma Sigma was first
established at Hunter College,
New York City, November 26,
1‘913. There are now thirty-one
chapters, on various campuses.
Aletheia was founded Decem
ber 19, -.1.944, by nineteen girls
who wanted to form a sorority to
make a fast bond for their friend
ship. Today there are twenty
eight members in this new chap
ter of Phi Sigma Sigma.
Officers of the group are June
Hendler, Archon; Harriet Sahel,
Vice-Archon; Marilyn Lunitz and
Ruth Frachtman, Tribunes; Anita
Isecovitz, Bursar; and Lorraine
Meltzer, Social Chairman. -
Members are Julia Arronson,
Rosiland Baldinger, Jewel Baron
off, Helen Bautman, Sally Bern
stein, Norma Brofsky, Edith Brai
love, 'Ruth (Frachtman, Faye
Grossman, Natalie Grusmark,
Mildred Glaser, Avis Goldberg,
Edna) • Guttman, 'Elsie Harwitz,
June Hendler,' 'Anita Iseqoy.itz,
Marilyn Lunitz, Lorraine Meltzer,
Deo Portnoy,. Harriet. Ssib.el. Janet
Schmidt; Rose Sherman; Frances
Sorin, and Blanche ValJ.
Pledges are Gertrude Cohen,
Ev Levine, and Rita Mittleman.
than 2000 who have already applied for admission, with addi
tional applications being received daily. Of the total applica
tions, more than 1500 are from veterans.
“In these circumstances,” said President Hetzel, “the
trustees and officers of the College feel that first
tion must be given to those who left the College in response
Osborne Heads
Ajehiteetee
Milton S. Osborne, newly ap
pointed professor of architecture
and head of the department of
architecture, has had extensive
tice, Dean ’Harry P. 'Hammond
said today.
The appointment of Osborne,
effective May 16, 1946, was ap
proved at the recent meeting of
the executive committee of the
Board of Trustees on Saturday.
Until his arrival, a committee,
composed of 'E. L. Whitaker, L. A.
Richardson, and Dr. H. E. Dickson
will continue ’ (to administer the
affairs of the department.
Since 1909, Professor Osborne
has .been director of the depart
ment of architecture and fine arts
at the University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada. He previously
served as assistant professor, as
sociate professor, and professor of
architecture and also as acting
dean of the school of architecture
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Professor Osborne also has serv
ed as city planner and consultant
for the Chicago Planning Com
mission and for the-Metropolitan
Plan of Greater Winnipeg. He has
been an architect for the Regional
Plan of New York and its envir
ons and has practiced architecture
with the office of John Russel
Pope, of New York; Clarence
Stein, of New York; and Otto
Darst, of Columbus, Ohio.
'ln 1922, Professor' Osborne re
ceived the degree of 'bachelor of
architecture from Ohio State Uni
versity. He received the degree of
master of science in architecture
from Columbia University in 1908.
'He is a fellow of the Royal
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Students Pay Deposit
Toward Fees Wednesday
All students, graduate, under
graduate, special, veterans, and
part time, are required to pay a
ten dollar deposit in Recreation
Hall from 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Wednesday, according to Regis
trar William S. Hoffman.
The fee will be used as evi
dence of a student’s intention to
return next semester and. will
help the College determine in ad
vance the number of students
which can be admitted. Students
will receive credit for the deposit
on their fees’ statement..- j. I
,' At Recreation, Hall/Jaspjl cants
•will filled a. housjngsjecofd.'form
and pay the deposit) at-windows
according to matriculation num
ber, similar to the payment of fee
procedure.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
to the nation’s call to arms.
We promised them opportu
nity to return to College and
we must keep faith.”
“Unfortunately, in order to
do this,” the president said,
“it will be -impossible to accept
civilian freshmen students for the
coming semester. This has made
necessary the cnacellation of some
;admissio_ns already . granted. The
‘xSShtg'e? ’ ,: d'eeplY''fegretif 'that these
limitations must • be set up, but
they are made necessary by con
ditions beyond its control.”
Seven Classifications
Admissions will be made on the
basis of seven classifications, but
available housing capacity will
probably be filled, it was an
nounced, by veterans who come
under these two highest priorities:
A. Veterans who left Penn
State for military service.
B. Disabled veterans under the
terms of Public Law 16 who are
Pennsylvania residents and admis
sible to Penn • State at a level
above that of first semester fresh
men.
The next three highest ratings
will be given to veterans who were
enrolled in college military train
ing programs, on condition that
they can be admitted at a level
above that of first semester fresh
men:
C. Veterans who are Pennsyl
vania residents, who were enrolled
at Penn State in the ASTP, V-12,
and AAF programs.
D. Veterans who are Pennsyl-.
vania residents, who were enrolled
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WSGA Christmas Drive
To Reach Goal of $550
Although all contributions have
not been received, WSGA will
reach its goal of $550 in its 17th
annual Christmas Drive, it was
announced today by Janet Taylor,
chairman of the drive. Dona
tions received to date total $520.
Contributions from major coed
organizations were larger than in
former years, the chairman stat
ed. The drive was conducted
through personal solicitation from
December 10 to December 20, and
checks have been mailed to the
four projects sponsored in the
drive.
Donations were apportioned
among the Mifflin County Chil
dren’s Aid Society, American
Women’s Hospitals, Mrs. Ralph
D. Hetzel’s Emergency Fund, and
United China Relief.
list of . contributions
ha's'nbt fyet beeir'cbmpiled, it wits
announced, but will be published
at a later date. Miss Pearl O.
Weston, assistant to the dean of
women, acted as advisor for the
drive.