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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.
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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
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