PAGE FOUR WSGA Grants Late Permits To Frosh For Big Weekend f Senate of WSGA, at its meeting ' in. White Hall, Tuesday night, vo ; ted to grant freshman women a 2 o’clock and a 1 o’clock for the weekend of February 8. Senate al so approved the nominations for president of the new town dorm itory, Alpha Sigma Phi. A letter from the Mifflin Coun ty authorities thanking the stu • dents on campus for their generous contributions in the recent Christ mas drive was then red. Following the Freshman Coun cil report and the treasurer’s re port, ft was voted to buy senate keys for all members of Senate, 'on a fifty-fifty basis, WSGA pay ing for half and the member Standing the rost. The Big-Little Sister tea has been scheduled for Atherton Hall lounges, February 17. The com mittee chairman will be appointed, one from each of the freshmen do’ mitories. These coeds will be outstanding freshmen women cho sen by their hostesses. An Old Main open-house was dis-ussed, followed by remarks by Mrts Charlotte E. Ray, dean of women. The Dean of Women’s of fice is making plans for a tea for graduating senior women to be held soon. AAUW . . . will hold a meeting in 121 Sparks at 8 o’clock tonight. Miss Mary Denham, of the Public Charities of Pennsylvania, will address the group on "Children Today—Citizens Tomorrow”, Fol lowing the there will be a panel discussion. TARGET... JANUARY 31st That’s the date every Army man should fix in his sights.' It’s the LAST DAY you can reenlist in the new peacetime Regular Army and retain your present gradet You can Iteep your grade and pay if you reenlist within 20 day* after discharge and by January 31. Reenlist now at your; nearest U. S. Army Recruiting Station. U, S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION POST OFFICE BLDG. STATE COLLEGE This space sponsored in the interests of national defense and as a public service by HARTMAN ELECTRIC Coed Scripts Coeds in Atherton Hall will revive the dormitory’s tradition of Saturday afternoon teas tomorrow. The initial tea will be held in the northwest lounge of Atherton from 3 to 5 p. m. for all coeds living in the dormitory. The affair will be nformal and tables will be set up for those who wish to play bridge. Those coeds living on fourth floor of the northwest unit comprise the committee in charge, which is headed by Mitzie Shade and Martha Ball. Northeast lounge of Atherton Hall was the scene of another tea Sunday when IWA entertained the wives of ex-servicemen at the Col lege from 3 to 4:30 p. m. Following the tea, coeds showed the wives about the dormitory and exchanged notes on “pots ’n’ pans.” Guests numbered 150. The hostesses received a return invitation to a swim and bowling party in White Hall tonight. Sorority Shorts ' In the sorority news this week is Alpha Epsilon Phi who will en tertain members of Phi Epsilon Pi Sunday. Sorority members were hostesses last Sunday when they entertained Pi Lambda Phi . . . Alpha Omicron Pi recently installed the following officers: Pa tricia Trester, president; Mary Eldrid Anderson, vice-president; Esther Pebley, recording secretary; Mitzie Shade, corresponding secretary; Mary Louise Lamade, treasurer; Jane Schlosser, rushing chairman; Josephine Lowrie, doorkeeper; Jane Wolbarst, historian; Isabelle My ers, scholarship officer; Martha Kremers, study plan officer; Barbara Engstrom, social chairman. AOPi’s were guests of Delta Sigma Phi at a spaghetti dinner Tuesday night ... , Alpha Xi Delta members entertained Tau Kappa Epsilon members at an informal party in Grange playroom Saturday afternoon . . . Chi Omega held a candlelight banquet at the Niittany Lion Inn Sunday night. Guests of honor included new initiates Helen Weber, Janie Staus, Helen Lewis, and Miss Alice Thompson, Chi O alumna arid field representative for American Red Cross. Miss Thompson, who i-ecently returned from Manila, will report for reassignment to Korea in the near future ... Ex-Editor Makes Good Helen Hatton, former editor of The Collegian will go to Univer sity of Pennsylvania Medical School in the fall. Miss Hatton was graduated in October and was a member of Mortar Board, senior wom en’s honorary, and listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Uni versities. CO.. THE COLLEGIAN By PAT TURK Girls’ Phys Ed Progresses From Bloomers To Dresses Coeds, can you picture your selves going to gym classes in the Armory attired in the 1891-1917 gym costume of heavy, blue, wool, serge blooiriers, middy blouses, black stockings, and white tennis shoes 'to do calis thenics and. various rhythrnic contortions? That is what the smart coed wore when the first women’s physical activities pro gram was started at the College in 1892. Quite a decided change has taken place since then. First, black lightweight bloomers took the place of the heavy ones until 1924 when a two piece blue shorts suit, white blouse, and white gym shoes became the cos tume. Eight years later that was doffed and now the coeds may be seen dashing around White Hall in the most modern gym attire of light blue cotton tennis ' dresses, white ankle socks, and white gym shoes, or in brief leotards for modern dance classes^. WRA Formed Women’s physical education ac tivities were in the background until 1903 when-for the first time in the college history theif classes were printed in the catalogue. Mrs. Blanche P. Miller ■ took charge of the first gym classes carried on in the Armory and struggled to keep the spark of interest alive. She achieved this success when in .1907 the first De partment of Physical Education was organized and women were included iiK.it. Interest grew and finally the women emerged in a group called the Women’s Athletic Association in 1918 under Miss Marjorie Sime. The next year Miss M. Elizabeth Bates took over as the first full-time instructor in the department. The WAiA. held its name until 1938 when it was de cided to change it to the Women’s Recreation Association. It was thought that “Athletic" implied a masculine type of play activities and also WRA wanted to expand, its _ program to include more varied types of activity of a re- I creational nature, g | While Hall Built Miss Marie Haidt. who was ap pointed instructor in 1 1924 and is now the head of the deDartment, continued to call the College’s at tention to the need for better fa •cilities for the women students. After persistent appeals she suc ceeded and promoted the build ing of White Hall. . White Hall' is yanked .as one of the'best' planned' buildings ’in Former Prop Girls Will Sponsor Tea 1 The former “Hamilton-Prop” . girls who have returned to the College will hold a tea for 41 of their professors in the Northeast loung of Atherton Hall from 2:30 to 5 p. m. Sunday, Mrs. Royal Gerhard and Miss Hazel Fall will pour. 'The tea will be the first meet ing of the former Hamilton Stan dard Propeller students since they have returned to the College. The girls were on campus under the ESMWT program for a year and a half. About 125 girls attended the College under this program. The last group were graduated in December, .1944. Seventeen have returned, but not all as studgpts. Four are married, nine are doing work to ward a degree, and four more are back working for the College. The girls all worked for Hamilton for at least a year. Mrs. William Gilland, the for mer Jay Jones, is living in the trailer camp while her husband goes to college. The rest are: Mary Ann Bishop, Mrs. John Britton (nee Lois Miller,) Mrs. David Clark (nee Shirley Gold smith), Marguerite Grymko, Lois Hartz, Unice Ingram, Lois Irwin; Irene Jedrziewski, Annabel John son, Mary Virginia Keck, Marion Labardee, Jeanne Laudin, Alice Mann, Florence Roberts, Mrs George Rowe (nee Laura Corby! and Laurel Wagner Cwens . . . will meet, in the WSGA room at White Hall at 8:30 p. m. Monday night; Prof. William Henninger, of the College music department, will play records and ■give his interpretations of them for the coeds. the country and has better in door facilities than most men’s recreation building do. The pro gram offered, ranks with the best in the country and is considered among the most inclusive and most .progressive programs in' re spect to regular physical educa tion required programs and women’s recreational programs. L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY LOCATED IN THE ATHLETIC STORE - PENN STATE CLASS RINGS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940 f \AJomen SpoA& WR A intramural basketball tournament has. been hitting full stride with 16 teams of the ori ginal 26 left to vie for top honors. The scores of last week s games follow: Cody Manor won over Ather ton, 31-22; Atherton came back to defeat the Town team, 33-21; Mac Hall topped Alpha Xi Delta, 55-47; and the Transfers downed the AOPi’s, 31-21. AChiO defeated the ZTA’s, 34- 24; Frazier Hall stopped Miles street dorm, 26-7, and the Kap pas, 20-7; Miles street Dotm won over SDT, 31-21; and Rickards defaulted to Chi Omega. Cody Manor swamped Nittany Co-op, 55-9, and the Thetas eked out a 22-20 victory over the DU girls. In the second game of the phy sical education faculty and phy sical education majors basketball series, the majors downed the faculty, 40-30, to maintain a 2-0 lead. Lakonides ... is sponsoring a party for the physical education coeds and faculty in White Hall from 7:30 to 9 tonight. DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING DURHAM, N. C. The next class will be admitted September 26, 1946. Only one class is enrolled each year. Academic requirements are: 16 selected units of High School and at least one year of College, in cluding College Chemistry, and College Biology or College Zool ogy. Tuition cost is $lOO per year for 3 years. This covers the cost of instruction and! maintenance. Duke University School of Nurs ing offers the B.S. in Nursing upon; completion of the 3-year nursing course.and 60 semester of acceptable College 1 credits." r ‘ V’ l ‘ : Because of the many applica tions to the School, it is important that those -who desire admission submit their credentials promptly. Application forms and catalogue can be obtained from: The Dean, ’ Duke University School of Nurs ing,'Duke Hospital, Durham, North Carolina. . .
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