$lOOO Goal •* March of Dimes One Dime Two Smiles OFFICIALLY STARTING the campus "March of Dimes" cam , paign, President Ralph D. Hetzel contributes the first dime toward the $lOOO goal set by Collegian. Accepting the first link in the :"mile of-dimes" is Lt. 'Edward H. Blackburn Jr., campus chairman. 'Plumb Bob Ball' To Feature Campus Owls In Rec Hall Bob Ball;’' ah informal dance by the campus American Society of Civil Engineers, will feature the Campus Owls in Recreation Hall, 9:30 to midnight, Satur day. Tickets, at $1.50 per couple, will be on sale at Student Union Friday and Saturday, or at the door. They will also be sold by Ronald Hartman, Barracks 22, or Donald Schuller, Sigma Phi- Alpha. • For non-engineering , stud ents, the ASCE explains that a'plumb bob is a little weight of 'lead or other heavy material at : taohed to a line and used by buil ifd'ers,:-'etc., to indicate a vertical direction A«“::Hartman,. president of the so ciety, is also general chairman of ' the dance. He will be assisted by :• jMargaret Bitner, invitations; John D. ' DeLorig, decorations; : Walter booths; Salvatore Roc yjpi,'; checking; Marvin Kudroff, and Donald Schuller, . ' Q ?-Faculty guests for the dance are: a Dr, and Mrs. Ralph D. Hetzel, -;-Miss Charlotte- E. Ray, Dean and ■ Mrs. Arthur R. Warnock, Dean -‘ and Mrs. Carl P. Schott, Dean and Mrs. Harry P. Hammond, Prof, and Mrs. Royal M. Gerhardt, Prof. Raymond O’Donnell, Capt. arid Mrs. William T. McGary, Comdr. X-G-l s Elect New Officers X-G-I Club recently elected Eugene Fuimer, vice president; Thomas Lander, treasurer; John Schwartz, secretary; Herndon Page, corresponding secretary; Robert MacGregor, chaplain; Thomas Turnbull, historian. The offices of president and executive committee will not be open for elections until next se mester. At present, Wesley Turek head's the _ club and William Deutsch, Paul Gift, and: Mervin Wilf are on the executive com mittee. This evening’s meeting, held at 8 o’clock in 121 Sparks, will fea ture nominations for X-G-d Club. Key Awards given to outstanding first semester and all-club mem ber. Names for the awards will be submitted from the floor to be acted on by the executive com mittee, The winners will be an nounced at the February 5 meet ing of the Club. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY BY and Mrs. C. M. Holcombe, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. M. P. O’Connell. Prof. Lawrence Perez, and Dr. Gerald Rohrich, advisers to the ASCE, and their wives will also be guests. Sigma Delta Chi Initiates Eight Sigrria Delta Chi, national hon orary journalism fraternity, ini tiated eight men aT the home of Prof. Franklin' Banner, head of the department of journalism, Sunday. New members are: Jackson Reid, NROTC, Thomas Kelley, Herman Friedman, Jerome Fa cher, Edward Hobart, (Robert Adamson, Barren Pitenger, and Albert Green.- After the formal initiation, a dinner was held in the State Col lege Hotel for the new actives. Guest speaker was Walter Lister,- managing editor of the Philadel phia Record. Mr. Lister spoke on. opportunities for jobs for college journalism graduates. He thought that for the next 18 months jobs would be rather scarce. How ever, he expects prospects for jobs to improve at the end of this per iod. Guests at the dinner were Louis H. Bell, director of Public Infor mation; Donald W. Davis, associ ate professor of journalism; Fred eric M. Marbut, associate profes sor of journalism; Eugene Reilly, editor of the Centre Daily Times. Registrar . . . William S. Hoffman an nounces that over. 480 former Penn State students who have been discharged from the Armed Services have already been accep ted for the spring semester be ginning March 8. Students have been accepted according •to the greatest number of semesters completed at the Cullege. Selec tions are now being made from the second semester groups. Dry Dock Opens In Parish House Players Feature 19th Century Motif In Friday's Show When the curtain goes up on “The Curse oC Gold” in Schwab Auditorium Friday and Saturday nights, the audience will be view ing Prof. Henning Nelms’ second attempt at playwriting. •Professor Nelms’ first complete original show was also a melo drama. This play, entitled “Only an Orphan Girl,” was originally produced in Houston, Tex., in the Spring of ’4O and has since had three long runs in neighborhood playhouses. Co'lecied from Old Melodramas “The Curse of Gold” is really a collection of the best scenes from over 100 popular melodramas of the last few decades. Among the titles listed in the bibliography fo r this play are “The Drunkard,” “Perils of the City,” and “The Thirst of Gold or the Sea of Ice and. the Flower of New Mexico.” From the latter, Professor Nelms gleaned the idea of the dulal title, “The Curse of Gold or the Broken Chain.” Shortly after he arrived at the College last semester, Prof. Ar thur 'Cloetingh, head of the dra matics department, asked Play wright Nelms to stage his “Only an Orphan Girl” in Schwab. Look ing over the records of past per formances,"^vof _• '-Players*.. Professor. Nelms decided that ” the ' College would better appreciate a produc tion on a larger, more'spectacular scale than “Only an Orphan Girl.” From. the interest and amuse ment which outsiders have shown while attending the early rehears als of “The Curse of Gold ” this show should fill .the call for an entertaining and spectacular show. More than 150 students are in the cast and on the behind the scenes crews working toward the success of the production. Crews Work’Hard The five complete changes of scenery in the four acts makes “The Curse of Gold” a huge un dertaking for the . construction, paint, and stage crews. Costumers and make-up artists not only have to decorate the speaking cast but must also make the ushers and re freshment salespeople look the part of 19th Century citizens. In addition to his two plays, Di rector Nelms has written “A Pri mer in Stage Craft,” which is be ing used a s a text in one of the drama courses, All his works were published by the Dramatists Play Service. At present he holds a con tract with this company calling fbr.a melodrama suitable for high school, production. Upperclass Honoraries Tap 24 Outstanding Men 'Pafrrii Nous and Skull and Bo nes, upperclassmen’s honoraries, tapped the following men at the Lion Shrine Friday night. Parmi Nous: Charles Appleman, Charles Arnold, Jack Branigan, Harold Griffith, Richard Griffiths, Davicl Lundy, Donald Rider, Mi chael Rosenberger, George Sam ple, Frank Schneider, James Sheehan NROTC. and Wesley Tu rek. Skull and Bones: Frank Brown, Robert Foote NROTC, Walter Funk, Lee Gaumer, Stephen Green, Bronco Kosanovich, Rich ard Light NROTC, Warren Nei ger, William Nugent NROTC, Jo seph Steel, Mervin WiK. and Stanley Ziff. Veterans . . . whose letters of eligibility are satisfactory may receive re funds of their $5 evaluation fees at the Bursar’s office. In addition, some $lO advance incidental fees are reafiy.at Bursar’s office. THE COLLEGIA*} STAFF Committee To Investigate Possibilities Of White Hall Dry Dock will be temporarily re-opened in the Episcopal Church, it was announced at the All-College Cabinet meeting Thursday night. The opening night has been set for next Saturday, according to Robert Foote, chairman of the committee in charge. The church was selected for Dry Dock because no 4500 Register For New Term Approximately 4500 students currently enrolled at the College plan to return for the Spring semester, it was learned today. | A compilation of pre-registra tion data shows that 2449 men and 2130 women students intend to register for the term beginning in March. Veterafis in the group cumber 1075. IMajor purpose of the pre-regis tration ruling, College officials explained, is to provide a basis for the impending survey of hous ing facilities in the community. The data obtained, according to Daniel A. DeMarino, assistant dean of men and men’s housing advisor, will foe classified by dor mitories, fraternities, rooming houses,' and, other places ,of stu dent • residence,'"'' arid ' checked: against the capacities of these fa cilities. Only war veterans who were formerly-, enrolled at the College can be admitted as new students for the Spring semester and their enrollment, DeMarino points out, will depend largely on their abil ity to find a place in which to live. Explaining the purpose of the survey, DeMarino added: “President Hetzel has fixed a definite objective. It is that when the semester .opens in March, there will be no veterans without rooms and no rooms- without oc cupants. It will require the clos"- est kind of teamwork to achieve ttiat goal.” Deferments Due February Fee deferment applications for the spring semester must be filed at the. Office of the Bursar on or before February 5. Standard application forms are available now at the Bursar’s of fice. These are to be filled in and signed by the student’s parents. “The total amount deferred in any semester may not exceed 60 per cent of the fees over and a bove senatorial scholarships, or other exemptions,” stated Bursar Russell E. Clark. “For students who do not live in dormitories, the deferment may not exceed $5O; for women residing in coll ege dormitories, the . deferment may not exceed $150.” Deferments for the spring sem ester are due and payable by April 15 and May 15. That portion of the fees which is not deferred is payable March 29. When exceptional circumstanc es make it necessary for a parent to make late application for defer ment, a fee of $5 will be assessed to cover the expense involved in making the necessary adjust ments. All Men Students . . . who filled out the pink housing forms and have since moved or contemplated moving should register their new local addresses in the Dean of Men’s office. See Final Exam Schedule Page 4 campus buildings are avail able for recreation of both men and women students on Saturday nights. While the church is being used for this purpose, a commitee of coeds wilil investi gate further the . possibility of opening White Hall for Dry Dock. Mary Faloon is chairman of. this committee, assisted by Woodene Bell, Alice Hooper, Florence Por ter, and Priscilla Wagner. Also at Cabinet meeting, Tho mas Lannen reported that the Col lege Board of Trustees will dis cuss the building of a bulletin board when they convene Satur day. The bulletin board must be approved by the Trustees before it can be erected. Fourteen bunks in Navy bar racks are available for Winter Fantasy weekend, according to James Sheehan. Anyone who would like to reserve one of these bunks for a serviceman may con tact Sheehan, phone 3992' Frank Schneider reported . ’that there are no vacancies in fraternities.. Through the efforts of Cabinet, the .Boalsburg Auto Company has offered to run chartered busses to the Ski Lodge for 15 cents per person. This price includes both the 15 and 30 'passenger busses. Cabinet abandoned attempts to have campus mail deliveries on weekends following a report from the committee that the post office is not able to make extra deliver ies. Cabinet asks that no student ac tivity schedule meetings for Feb ruary 26, as this date lias been set for the mass religious meeting sponsored by PSCA. The group alsto voted to support the UUNTRRA campaign for used clothing. Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men, appealed to Cabinet to sup port Grounds and Buildings in their effort to keep students from walking across the grass where fences have been erected. Late winter and early spring, accord ing to Dean Warnock, is the im portant time to keep off the grass if we are to have green lawns in summer. College Officers Consider Use of Sfafe Schools The possibility of using any available facilities of Pennsylva nia’s fourteen State Teachers Colleges to aid the College in car ing for the great number of vet erans and other students pressing for ’admission, was considered at a meeting of the officers of these institutions at the College yester day. Dr. Francis B. Haas, superin tendent of the State Department of Public Instruction and chair man of the board of Presidents of the Teachers Colleges, arid Presi dent Ralph D. Hetzel of the Col lege were authorized to name a committee representing both groups which will give further study to the problem. Dr. Hetzel pointed out that there are now nearly 3000 appli cants for admission to the College in March, of which more than half are veterans, and that facili ties are available for only 800 of this number. While first prefer ence will go to veterans, Dr. Het zel said many veterans will be among those denied admission. ■He expects this situation to be ag gravated in September.
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