' SEMI-WEEKLY BY THE STAFF
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WRiV Sponsors
Semi-Formal Bali
'Sweefhearf Dance'
Features Campus Owls
. The. traditional girl asks - boy
“Sweetheart Dance” at White
Hall,, 9 o’clock to, midnight, Feb-,
ruary 16, is the annual dance
sponsored by the Women’s Re
creation Association. This is a
semi-formal affair and will carry,
out,the St. Valentine’s Day theme,
according to Phyllis James, chair
man of - the dance committee.
White Hall gymnasium will be
decorated with hearts to carry out
the! theme. The committee is
working, on, special lighting ef
fects for the dance. -
Dancing will ,be to the music of
Bud Wills and his Campus Owls.
•Special arrangements toy the band
and . quartette . will be [featured
during the evening.
. Tickets are on sale at Student
Union or may be purchased from
WRA Executive Board members
hi the dormitories. They will
also be on. sale ,at the . door on the
night of the dance. The price of
the tickets, is $1,20 per couple, tax
included.
Assisting Phyllis James are the
folio wing committees:
Decorations . Phyllis Reigle,
chairman, Pauline Globisch, Nan
James, and Virginia MclCluskey;
invitations— Jo Ann . iLigb and
IsabefcJLogan;
Walkei\. chairman, Nancy.'Bomig,'
and. Jeanne Thompson; Jjjoket®
and programs—(Lucille ' Martin,
chairman, Alice Hooper, and !Lila
•teaman.
Mortar Board
Pledges Seven
Mbitar Board,, senior
activities honorary, tapped s&veh;
coeds - Sunday.' After pledging
■ ceremonies ;in Old Main,, break
fast was served in the Atherton
Hall dining room. •
Those tapped were. Mary El
' di’id Anderson, Jean Barinott,
Woodene Bell, Sara Pollard, Joan
Schearrer, Barbara Smith and
Priscilla Wagner: •
. Guests: ;at'the breakfast includ
ed Miss Charlotte E. Ray, dean of
women, Miss Pearl Weston, as
sistant dean of women, Mrs. Jean
'Clhrk Bishop,.. Mrs. 'Donald' Davis,
Mrs. Lloyd Jones, and Mrs, Henry
■Yeagley..
i (Sixth *' • and seventh ..semester
coeds were tapped. Eligibility re
. qiiir ements are a >1.83 all-college
average,' an d service to the Col
lege in the form of'activities-and
leadership ability.
; Mdrtar.Board'is”a national so
ciety with 78 chapters.. It was’
'founded-in' 19i25' through the ef
forts of women’s organizations at
Cornell .University, Ohio State
■University, Swarthmore College,
and.the University of Michigan.
- Present members at the College
are' Mary Faloon, president; Ruth
Bollinger, vice president and act
ing treasurer replacing Annah'elle
.JanssOn, a student at Merrill
Palmer home economics school;
Marjorie Blackwood, secretary;
Patricia Turk, editor; Florence
Porter and Nancy Bartch.
Purple Quilt Broadcast
Features Marbut Talk
‘Living .I’ve' Liked,n will be
: discussed. by Frederick 8.. Mar
but, associate professor of jour
nalism, Jack Goetz, and Joseph
Bird, on ‘‘Purple Quill Presents”,
.radio program over WMIAJ aV 8
o’clock tomorrow.
; - Marbyrt will recount some of his
■ experiences as" a Washington cor
respondent. Bird-will describe an
encounter 'with a mother bear and
her, cubs, and Goetz, will give .his
' impressions''of the English people'.
TUESDAY MORNING,'- FEBRUARY 12, 1946—STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Queen
ELEANOR JEAN ROBERTS
1950 Couples
See Crowning
Eleanor Jeanne. (Roberts, Tau
Kappa Epsilon entry, was crown
ed Winter Fantasy queen before
1950 couples .attending the all
college dance in Recreation Hall
Friday night.
'Miss Roberts, a junior in the
School of Education, received ,-a
crown of carnations and. a. pre
sentation' bouquet from florist
Bill McMullen, six pairs of nylons
from'Schlow’s Quality Shop and a
jewelled pin from the dance com
mittee. Presentation of. the gifts
and the announcement of Winter
Fantasy queen • were made by
•..Vaughn,..Stapleton,-, .dance...-chairs,
man. •
' A . transfer student from Hood
College and now in her third
semester at the. College,, Miss Ro
berts was a finalist. for - the title
of. queen- last, year .wfeen;.-Vincent
played'<fqr the-
IFCrsponsoreq tShe!
was also selected by her class in
high school as queen of the Senior
Class - May dance.
■ Miss Roberts is also active. in
the College orchestra, . the PSCA,
and is a member-of Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority.'
Hindus Says
No More War
.. If another world, war should
occur and the atomic bomb should
.be used, . neither side would win
out;- warned Maurice; Hindus,
'Russian4b'om writer" and! news
paperman, when he spbke On
“Russia” in Schwab Auditorium,
Thursday.. ........
Mr. Hindus sincerely believes
that, there will hot be... another
.world war.;,that .the. United. States
and Russia will not resort to war
to settle their differences. He de
fends his .attitude in several ways,
pointing out that Russia has all
the natural resources she needs
and-has no reason for trying to
obtain more at, our expense by the
u^e, of, military might.
■ Russian militarists, as well as
American military leaders, real
ize that; a’- surprise atomic bomb
attack"’jjjjr/one, of these powers
cp'uld i'sUcc’ged'. in ■ destroying, the
six'"or" eigjnt largest cities of the
other and killing millions of those
people,. Hindus .stated. They also
know, he added, that a retalia
tion would follow in.which their
own large? cities would be de
stroyed and millipns of their own
• people, " . /"
. Clashes, between Russia on one
hand and the United States and
England-on the other; are due to
Russia’s desire to destroy what
she considers a feudal system
throughout, Europe, Mr. -Hindus
said* and not to her desire to eii
. danger. world. peace - or. force -her
forth'toF government Upon ’cither
peoples.
This abhorrence of the -feudal
system, this ; “Death to feudalism”
•policy taken- by Russia, is. the
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Coed Designs
College Flag
Cabinet Names Schmitt
As Winner of Contest
A $25 Victory Bond ’ will be
awarded to Mary Elizabeth
Schmitt, junior, for her design
for a College flag. This announce
ment was made by William Mag
inn, chairman of the flag selec
tion committee, at All-College
Cabinet meeting Thursday night.
Miss. Schmitt’s design is high
lighted- by a diagonal line across
the center, with a white Nittany
lion bn a blue background on one
side of the diagonal, and .the same
design in opposite colors on the
other sjde of the diagonal. The
flag would .be made reversible.
Selection of the flag drawing
was made on the basis of sym
bolism, simplicity, and adaptabil
ity. The committee which aided
Maginn in the decision includes
Prof. Andrew -W. Case, • Janet
Dildine, Registrar . William S.
Hoffman, Robert McGregor, Ger
aldine Reinhart, and Dean of Men
Arthur R. Wamock.
The drawing must be approved
•by the Board of Trustees 'before it
will be accepted as the official
College flag. Miss Schmitt is
making an enlarged design to
present to the Trustees.
Common Sense has volunteered
financial aid for the b’ook ex
change, according to Charles Hill.
Common. Sense was working on a
■book' exchange when Cabinet’s
plans were .announced.
IJvei 5 $0 Danee
At White Hall
- ;:jMore tha'njl3so',,. attended L,the
first .in a .series' of Saturday night
dances in White Hall sponsored
by the. School off 'Physical Edur
cation, Ray. M. Conger, assistant
professor of physical education
and director of the program, an
nounced- today. ' *
Satisfied with the turn-out,
Professor Conger. said that the
next dance of the series would
be held in White Hall from 9 p.
m. -until midnight, February 23.
While White Hall can handle
up entertainment-seekers,
Professor Conger said that he was
pleased with the turnout since so
many of the fraternities had open
house-parties and- many students
were attending the basketball
game in Recreation Hall.
Haidt, Davis Announce
Hawley Cancer Lecture
' A lecture on the prevention and
control of cancer will be spon
sored tomorrow by the men and
women’s physical education de
partments, according to a . joint
announcement .by Dr. Arthur F.
Davis, head of health instruction,
department of physical education,
and Miss Marie Haidt, head of the
women’s department of physical
education.
' The lectures, which' are coni-,
pulsory for ‘ freshman ' men and
women’s hygiene classes, are
open to the public. Dr. H. J. Haw
ley, chief of the division off Roent
genology, Geisinger Hospital,
Danville, will address the women
in 3 White .Hall at 4:15 o’clock
and the men "in. 10 Sparks at,. 7.
6.’clock. . ... ' ‘ ■
Dr. Hawley is one of the coun
try’s /outstanding men s in the can
cer field, having spent .25 -years
in cancer education work. ; -
Collegian,
. advertising and business
staff compulsory, meeting will be
held in 8 Gamegie Hall,. 7 p.m.
Thursday. No excuses--will be ac
cepted.
Campaign Ends
Polio
Of $lOOO Goal
Short
Players' Show Tops List of Contributors; *,
Three Campus Groups Win Subscriptions
Falling $6.11 short of the $lOOO goal, total contributions
to the “March of Dimes” campaign amounted to $993.99, an
nounced Lt. Edward H. Blackburn, Jr., campus chairman, as
the drive officially closed Friday.
“I want to thank the entire student body for their willing
ness to share their money with those less fortunate the
sufferers' of infantile paralysis. Also, I might say that the
Collegian deserves a lot of credit for sponsoring the drive to
a successful) end,” commented Blackburn.
Although the deadline is past, returns from organizati
ons can fee included in the report or be filed with the. National
Foundation if turned into Student Union or the Collegian of
fice by Wednesday afternoon ,
Winners of-free one-yeai* subscriptions to the Collegian
are Beta Sigma Rho, fraternity high; Kappa Delta, sorority
high; IWA, independent organization high. Each-of these
Gage Portrait
Honors Dean
s S V s .•> 2
Jim*,. , ;
mm
CHARLES W. STODDART
.(A portrait of Dr. Charles Will-,
iam Stoddart, for 25 years dean
of the Schqol of Liberal Arts, was
hung last week iii the lobby of
Sparks. Tins portrait is intended
as a memorial to the dean’s long
and effective ■ contribution to the
building of the School of Liberal
Arts on this campus.
Last spring, when it was an
nounced that Dr. Stoddart would
retire July 1, 1945, a committee
canvassed the members of the
School’s staff to, determine a
means of recognition of his ser
vice.
The School decided to have a
portrait painted and present it to
the College. Voluntary subscrip
tions from the staff of the School
covered the entire cost of the por
trait: After due investigation,
George Gage, otf New York, was
engaged to come to the campus in
early October and paint the
trait.
The framed and finished pic
ture was delivered late in Novem
ber, land was presented to the
Board of Trustees at its recent
meeting. In accordance with .the
wish of Dean Emeritus Stoddart,
it.\yas hung, without,.formal cere
monies-of any. kind,in. its.present
location, to the left of the main
entrance of Sparks.
John (H. Frizzell, head of the
department of speech, served as
chairman of the committee which
made arrangements for the por
trait,, eijgaging the. ar.tist,.etc..Ser.-
'vingwith Professor Frizzell' on
the ..committee were Charles C.
Wagner,..acting dean of the School
oif Liberal Arts, and .Theodore J;
Gates, professor of English com
position. • ■ ' .
PRICE FIVE. CENTS
groups will be awarded five
subscriptions to be sent to
anyone they designate.
Only..individual to win a free
subscription by .■collecting $lO or
more was. Eugene Fulmer. Hds
prize goes to the Vailey Forge Gen
eral Hospital.
Playoa's Show
NROTC Unit ...
Bela Sigma Rho
Containers'from Town .
Women's Building
Phi Sigma .Delia
Phi Kappa Sigma .
Sigma Pi
Sigma Phi' Epsilon .
X-G-l Cliib. .
Rec Hall
Corner Room and Hotel .
Lambda . Chi Alpha
Kappa. De1ta............
. HiHel .Foundation. . ....... 1740
Alpha Epsilon ‘Phi . . .... . ' 15.92
Student' Union .-.......
Sigma -Delta Tau
Phi Sigma Kappa ...
Alpha Chi Sigma 12.00
Alpha Kappa Pi Dorm ... 10.8 S
Southeast Atherton Hall - .'10.20
Spoudekastor .10.00
Penn State .Christian As- _
sociation .
WSGA
(Continued on. page four It
Men's Debate Team Wins
Invitational Tournament
The men’s - .debate team won
first place" for the second.: straight
year in the annual Mt.. Mercy
invitational tournament at Pitts
burgh Saturday.
Taking six out of eight , debates,
the College team edged-out Alle
gheny College, which captured
five out of eight .debates, Seton
.Hill and -Waynesburg.. tied for
third, Geneva and Mt; Mercy not
placing.
(Peter Giesey, Carl -Harshbar
ger, Fred. Keeker, . and Martin
Lennig represented the College in
the team’s fifth straight Penn
sylvania tournament' victory.
'Chess Players Organize;
Elbcl Jariiaek Presitlenl
Chess lovers can now get to
gether for a Chess Club has been
formed. All those interested- in the
game or interested in learning how
to play are invited to attend the
meeting in 305 Old Main at "7:30
.p.m... tonight. ■
-'V Eugene •: Janiczek--- was -elected
president at-the first meeting and
Marjorie. Powers, . secretary. ’
Open Meeting
. . . . of the American. Society of
Mechanical ..will* toe
held in 110 Electrical. -Engineer
ing at .8 p; m. today.-Faculty ad-i
visors, of the . campus unit will
speak, and refreshments . -will be
served. All engineering -students
are invited to attend.
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1946
18.30
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15.83
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