PAGE TWO Political Progress A step forward in campus politics has just been niade by the Key party. Under their reorganiza tion plan, four sub-clique chairmen were elected to represent the freshman. sophomore, junior, and ,senior semesters. This may be only a political ex pedient for the Key clique, but it also means a much needed reform in the method of nominating class officers. (Under this new set-up, only members of a par ticular semester will be able to vote for the men and women to represent that semester. Previous to this reorganization, every one in the clique, regardless of semester standing, voted for an entire slate of candidates. In otHer words, if a large number of sixth semester students atten ded the nominations’ meeting, they had more say as to who would be the second semester’s nomi nees than the second semester students themsel- ■ This new method also does away with another evil in politics; i. e., one large group of students . who turn out en toto to press the nomination of a particular man' who may not be the one most de sirous to students in his semester. Now, there cannot be such “packaging of votes” since only a smalt percentage of a large group will have the right to select a semester candidate. Not only does the Key clique’s system do away with flagrant faults now present in the selection of candidates, but it is more democratic in proce dure. With the voting broken down into smaller groups, it will not be possible for any one group to-dominate the semester, and thereby, the popu lar choice of the students of any one semester will be effected. This is a step forward, but why limit it to just one party? Collegian feels that other political cli ques should investigate this plan and incorporate the reforms made. —MMW Mural Fund Time is short. The students of Penn State do not have 20 or even ten years to wait for the comple tion of the mural in Old Main, thus setting forth the idea of the Land Grant college above the stair case in the center of. the campus. However, the fresco will last ten times that many years, and its i analogy many hundreds of times that figure. Henry Varnum Poor, its creator, is now in his sixties. Although the quality of his work improves with hi s ago, painting a fresco on as huge a space as Old Main walls calls for hard labor as well as for the greatest artistic skill and preparation. Therefore, it is imperative to finish the fresco as soon as funds are available. A letter written by Mr. Poor, in which he ex pressed his great desire to come to the College to finish the fresco painting, was read recently at a Cabinet meeting. Formerly, a committee was ap pointed by Cabinet to investigate the possibility of finishing the mural, but as yet no action has developed. The sum of mgtjey required for its completion would be small in comparison with the great value of the fresco. A total oE nineteen hundred and fifty couples danced at the first post-war big dance, helping to realize a profit of about $3500. Why not launch tlie post-war project of finishing the mural with this profit as a substantial starter? —P.T. THE COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Colleg ian. established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1877. Published every Tuesday and Friday morning dur ing the regular College year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscriptions by mail at $1 a semester. Editor-In-Chief Business Manager Woodene Bel! Mary Louise Bavey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Peggie Weaver Rosemary Ghantous EDITORIAL STAFF Gloria Nerenberg Patricia Turk Mervin Wilf George Sample News Editor .., Women’s Editor Feature Editor , Sports Editor .. junior Board Larry Foster, Kay Krell. Lynctte Lund quiat, Caroline Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne McCaul. ley, David Nalvcn, Jack Reid, Doris Stowe, Gwennetli Timmie, Jane Wolbnrst. Reporters Jean Alderfer, Kay Badollet, Frank Davie, Ar leen Greene, Elsie Hnrwitz, Marilyn Jacobson, Leo Kornfeld, Shirley Lyon, Elaine Mittelman, Kuy McCor mick, Nancy Sherr.if, Jerry Trumper. Lucy Scifing. ADVERTISING STAFF Senior Board Phyllis Deal Junior Board Rin Hiinzlick, Sally Holstrum, Dorothy Lei bovitz, John Neel, June Rosen, Selma Sabel. STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Copy Editors News Editor Advv -ing Manage." .. Barbara Ingraham Suzanne McCauley, June Wolbarst Elsie Hurwitz ....... Dottie Leibovitz Old Mania By BARBARA INGRAHAM Valentine Dance PiKA and Spoudekastor are having a semi-for ma 1 valentine dance tomorrow night. Among the Spoudekastor’s and their escorts are Jean Anne Thompson and PiKA James Stewart . : . Evelyn Shuster and NROTC Dean Hopper . . •• Marian Rewbridge and Ensign Tex Ifland . . . Carolyn Lerch and PiKA Warren Steubing . . . Gloria Mc- Curdy and Walter Braun. PiKA’s and their dates include Tom Lannen and Jane Shirey . . . Fred Cole and Molly Giese. Jack Richardson and Toni Hummel . . . Bob Ab ernathy aiid Jeanie Jordan ... Bob Heckel and Gladdy Lou Miller. As any fourth-rate Crystal gazer could have seen, the aftermath of Winter Fantasy weekend is pinnings and more pinnings. . . Syl A'lterman is wearing A 1 Amsterdam’s Phi Sigma Delt jewel ry . . .Pi Lamb Bob Goldstein pinned Sunny Coyne. Beta Sig Harry Fields and Luce Aaronson are pinned . . . SPE Tom Anderson gave his pin to Mickey Keuhner . . . ChiO Jan Adam is wearing Phi Kappa Sig Johnny Sadden’s pin . . . AEPhi Mary Davidson and Phi Ep Dave Raphael are pinned . . . ditto AEPhi Sophie Mogul and Phi Ep Roger Levin . . . SPE Bud Smith gave his pin "to Phi Mu Kitty Fix . . . Margaret Roman, of Nanti coke, has Jack Reeves’ Sigma Pi jewelry. Love Marches On If there had been space for anything but Winter Fantasy dates in this column, last week, Maniac would have printed that Peggy Case and SPE Ber nie Klein were pinned. But since another week has gone by, all there is to say is that another .ro mance has gone pffft.. . also, Kappa Charlie Mar tin and Teke Bob Gridley are depinned. It can’t be said that the Tekes’ Pfleegor and Mitchell aren’t using up-to-date material when they put cn a skit. Saturday night they serenaded newly-pinned TKE president Frank Schneider and DG L-avonna Dewald with a parody on “Don’t Fence Me In.” And - the name of the song was “Don’t Take My Pin.” Ruth Lau is wearing the Lambda Chi Alpha jewelry of Oz Armstrong . . . T'ekd Bob Mechling pinned Betty Yeagle in' Pittsburgh Friday night. . . on the same night, his fraternity brother, Ed Felaski and Dottie Urban, Alpha Xi Delt, announ ced their engagement . . . ChiO Becky Walker is pinned to Phi Delt George Jones . . . ditto PiKA Bob Boron and Helen Marfely . . . also Kay Ryder, and Chi Phi Bert Trysinger. In the “back home for . keeps” department, there is news that Rube and Pete Falpon are to gether again. Rube arrived in State College Mon day night after being discharged from the army. Most people on campus now have probably for gotten how Rube was crowned the “most eligible bachelor on campus” with a skillet after his mar riage. But that’s one way to start collecting pots and pans for housekeeping. ' Beauty and the Bassoon Winter Fantasy Queen Eleanor Roberts, accord ing lo the latest scoop, comes from a musically in clined family. She began playing the bassoon in high school, and . has carried on her interest with the College orchestra. In high school she asked her musical director iE he needed anyone, and he said he could use a wife and a bassoon player. Elly now plays the bassoon.. ~ Cpl. David Pramer, formerly from Texas A&M, was up to see the girl who wear s .his, wings, Gladys Singer . . . Elliot Shapiro' was up from Camp Lee, Va. . . John Hopkins trekked up to see- Gamma Phi Beta Skeeter Nelson . . vEd Sußiyan visited his fiance, Gamma Phi Jackie Irvin. . . Sigma Nu Earl Riker was on campus to escort KD Rosie Ghantous to the dance . . . AOPi Fay Young came up from Easton to dance to Spivak’s music with AZ Ed Williams. Mung Roberts visited Theta Ginger Sykes . . . Lynn Taylor, Phi Delt, was up to see Theta Jo Sauerwein . . . ditto Jim Kocher to see Qamma Phi Beta Nancy Sherriff. Rae Schaefer, Alpha Sig at Drexel, visited NROTC Jack Reid . . .DG alum Claire Hamilton and Sigma Nu Bob Hall were back for the ball. Among the fellows-who trekked up to campus last weekend and the girls they visited are Arnold Petroff and Vivian Sorkin ... Sylvia Brenner and Sid Grabman . . . Fred Reingold and Reida Freedman ... Maurice Upton and Harriet ner . . . Seaman George Keller and Amber Wolf. —MANIAC THE COLLEGIAN Back In Mufti Big guns had been sounding for several days, each day closer and closer. When the American Seventh Army came through and liberat ed the iprisoner-of-war camps at Mooseburg, Germany, Lieut. Gayle Gerheart was among the prisoners who couldn’t be too glad to see A merican troops. But the story isn’t as simple as that. When the army came through Pfc. James Donahoe, another former Penn State student and high school-mate of Gayle’s, ran through the camp yelling the pilot’s name. He had heard frorv State College, the home town of both soldiers, that Gayle was missing in action. All through the miles that took him deeper and deeper in Germany he had hoped he would find Lieutenant Ger-- heart among the prisoners. And after more, than two years, the two friends were united in a camp in the heart of the Deutch land. Lieutenant Gerhart remembers' well the day of his capture by the Germans. He was in his position as pilot leading the flight against gun positions on a .bridge at Vipateno near the Brenner Pass. It was February 25, 1945, just two years to the day after he entered the Army Air Corps, his 54th mis sion over Germany from a base on the island of Corsica. The flak was scanter than it "You rang far m® I" "I have been working for you for years. “That telephone in your hand, I made. The long thin wires, the stout, cables .that carry y our voice at the speed of light. . . T provided them, too. "I ’ ve been busy... since 1882... manufacturing, telephones, switchboards, cable and other Bell System apparatus and equipment. I purchase supplies of all kinds for the Bell Telephone companies .'. . distribute all this material and equipment to them throughout the nation. 1 install central office switchboards. "Our nation’s telephone sendee is the finest and most economical in all the world. 1 help make ir possible. "Remember mi name . . . It'.. Yi orern l.lectric.” Western Electric SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOP THE BELL SYSTEM SALLY'S FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1946 had been in several weeks, but it was lucky too. When it ripped through the plane and knocked out an engine, the crew of the heavy bomber beat it to Switzer land and- the safety of neutral territory. But about a mile from the Swiss border they were forc ed to crash land and were im mediately, picked up by the' Ger mans.' From then on it was a suc cession of interrogation and tran sient centers, Frankfurt, Wetzler, Nurenberg, and finally Moose burg, a Prisoner-of-War camp.. The forced march from Nuren berg to Mooseburg was a case of survival-of-the-fittest. Food was scant and the only way to obtain enough food to live on was to beg from the Germans. They, were sympathetic Germans in ' that part of the country. They hadn’t been bombed often and they . were not as embittered against Amer ican soldiers as the Germans in (Continued on page four)
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