Stapleton, Falkenberg Compete (Eli? (Mlnuatt VOL. 43—No. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1946—STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Red Cross Launches Drive; Sponsors Informal Dance The quota for the 1946 Red Cross campaign now under way on campus is $l2OO, announced Carol Dieckmann and Jinx Falkenburg, co-chairmen of the Red Cross Fund Drive. Rose mary Genetti will be donations chairman, replacing - Anne Berkheimer. Publicity chairman is Nancy Musser, while Stan ley Ziff heads the organization committee. Rita Grossman is College Enrolls 5349 Students Enrollment for the 'Spring se mester at the College stood at 5349 Wednesday, (Registrar William S. Hoffman announced, ais -additional late registrants continued to en roll. Of the above .figure, 32(74 of ‘the students were men and 2076 were women. Last semester 23*73 of tire 5112 students' wiho registered were women. With an. enrollment of more than 700 students at the four undergraduate .centers of the Col lege, the total enrollment) exceeds the -6000. mark. ' Approximately 2000 veterans are Included in the student body bn the calmipus this semester, it was explained, and. more than 800 d": them are ex-Gl’s -who are re turning this semester after having leift the College to serve in the armed forces. Undergraduates registered! num bered 4722; graduate students 303; special students TO; and stu dents enrolled in two-year courses in agriculture total 50. There are 196 NROT.C trainees enrolled at the College. , The 'current semester, which is the final itenm under 'the College’s .accelerated' program, wifi end on June '29. Commencement exer cises wfil ibe held on June 27. Future Journalist? Gullible Sub-Moron? Collegian Needs You! ' If you can answer the follow ing questions correctly you are suitable material for the Col legian candidate .meeting, Colle gian office, Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m., Tuesday. This meeting is open to any student interested in writ ing for Collegian. . 1. Can you write your own name or did two of your friends have to witness your “X” as you registered for the Spring Semes ter? 2. Do you read the Sunday comics to yourself or does a fra ternity brother read them to you? 3. Are you interested in work ing for nothing, 60 hours a week, or do you prefer drawing $2O a week unemployment compensa tion? 4. Do you think you could learn to hate the Penn State Engineer and Portfolio? ' Give yourself two points for every answer in the affirmative. If you scored between 0-8 report to the Collegian office Tuesday hight at 7. Phi Sigma lota Initiates Undergraduate Students At the February meeting of Phi Sigma lota, national Romance lan guage, honorary, held at the home of Mrs. P. X. Rice, the following undergraduates were initiated into active membership: Ethel Davis (8 A.L.), Laura Schlichter (8 A.L.), Charlotte. Scibetta (7 A.L.), Vir ginid Tennyson (8 Ed.), and Brig itte Uhlig (OA.L.). ■ ' ' PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY BY THE COLLEGIAN STAFF collections chairman for the unit, which has announced that the deadline is March 20. The College unit is sponsor ing an informal dance at Recrea tion Hall . Saturday, March 30. proceeds from which will go to the Red Cross-Dick Berge and his orchestra will provide the music, with tickets selling at $1.25 per couple. James McLoughlin is chairman of the dance committee, with Kay Rider and Burton Ty singer as committee members. Last year’s campaign was the first one of its kind' on the Penn State campus. Usually conducted by town units, the caimp'aign was successfully managed by the stu dents with a total of $2,600 col lected. This surpassed the quota which was set at .'*2,000, and for the drive the college unit of the Red Cross received a national citation. Section leaders have been ap pointed to contact all students on c'ampus. Leaders of the men stu dents, headed by Jinx Falkenburg are William Brooks, Eugene Bob by, Suzanne Caveny, John Evans. Carol Dieckmann heads 'the fol lowing section leaders for wom en: Polly Boyd, Jeanne Bosch, Frances Glass, Nan James, Ina Rosen, and Patricia Trester. All campus organizations, fra ternities, and sororities will be contacted and lists of their con tributions will be published in Collegian at the conclusion of the drive. Deadline for sorority and fraternity contributions is Tues day, March 19. The proceeds of this drive will go to the National Red Cross, and Will aid in reconstruction in foreign countries, raising the mo rale of our occupation, forces in Japan and Germany, and helping disabled veterans to recuperate in Army hospitals. Chairman of the entire Red Cross College Unit is Anne Berk heimer vice-chairmen, Jeanne Hint and Mike R’oserberger; sec retary, Carol Dieckmann; finance chairman, Phyllis Reigel. Nora Wain To Speak Nora Wain, adthor of t.he best seller, “Reaching for the Stars,” will describe the German people in defeat at the season’s third Community Forum lecture in Nora Wain Waller Falkenberg Comedians Star At Tun Night' “Pleasant Moments” with Pfleegor and Mitchell, populai comedy team, will be the high light of the intermission at “Fun NighH,” to be- sponsored by .the Saturday Night Club in White Hall 9 to 12 p. m. Saturday. Pop ular records will furnish the mu le, and there will be ping pong, Chinese checkers and card games in the .game room. Soft drinks will be sold and smoking will be permitted in 105. Admission for the dance will be 30 cents, tax included. Saturday Night Club is headed by Raymond Conger, assistant professor of physical education. This group plans to hold dances on each Saturday night through out the semester. The dances will be sponsored by a different women’s organization each week. Florence Porter, Marge Black wood, Woodene Bell, Priscilla Wagner, Joan Nelson, Jean Edel man, and Mary Lou Waygood were appointed by Cabinet to open White Hall for the students. -Forestry Prof Returns From Latin America Dr. PI. Arthur Meyer has re turned to his'duties as professor of forestry, after a leave of absence since October, 1943. Pie completed two missions in Venezuela and Costa Rica for the Foreign Economic Administration on cinchona procurement and pro duction. Schwab Auditorium at 8:15 p.m. Monday. Miss Wain will be entertained by the local chapter and alumnae of her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, during. her visit here. She administered the Kappa Kap pa Gamma Nora Wain Relief Fund during her recent tour of Europe as a correspondent. Born in Grampian, near Clear field, the speaker is a graduate of Swarthmore College and has a brother who attended Penn State. She is the wife of George Edward Osland-Hill, former British con sular official. In “Reaching for The Stars,” which was written in Germany from 1937 to 1940, she described the effect of Nazism on the na tion’s domestic life. The only three existing manuscripts of the book were seized in the mail by the Nazis and the entire' book had to be rewritten from notes after the author returned tft Jingla.ndV;' During the war Miss Wain op- Elections Committee Delays Voting Until March 26-27 Vaughan Stapleton Trustees Start Plans for S U The initial signs of action on the part of the Board of Trustees con cerning the proposed Student Un ion building came recently when a committee composed of live members of the Board of Trustees and four representatives from the Alumni Association was formed. The committee was appointed by the Trustees for the purpose of planning and promoting a fund raising campaign for the construc tion of certain buildings not de signed to accomodate the academ ic program. It was suggested that this group include such buildings as a Chap el, a Student Union building and a field house. The committeemen are: G. 11. Deike, chairman; E. C. Weichel, H. J. Lamade, J. L. Krall, and G. M. Arisman, representing the Board of Trustees; B. C. Jones, R. G. Lowe, W. K. Ulerich, and E. K. Hitoshmian, members of the Alum ni Association. The Student Union Building project has been promoted dur ing the past semester by both the All-College Cabinet and the Col legian. WSGA showed their in terest in the program by donat ing the proceeds of their dance, March 9, to the Student Union Campaign. Summer Intersession . . . will be held from June 10 to 29 at the Grier School at Bir mingham, three miles east of Ty rone. Registration for this ses sion only will be limited and must be made in advance. At Forum ened her home in Buckingham shire, England, to small refugees from the blitz and later took in child refugees from Norway and Czechoslovakia. She disbursed the funds of the Kappa Kappa Gam ma fund, set up in 1940, and is now contributing the entire pro ceeds of her 90 current lectures to the fund. Many of the German people about whom Miss Wain wrote “Reaching For The Stars” will ap pear again in her forthcoming book, the manuscript of which she has brought from Europe. . Single admission tickets will be on sale at the auditorium before the lecture for 50 cents, and series tickets may be purchased at Stud ent Union,- for $1.75. The remain ing numbers are lectures by Dr. Charles S. Johnson and Frank Lloyd .Wright, and an industrial 'debate: ‘ yr. Miss;. Wain's talk' will be broad cast over station WMAJ. Vaughan Stapleton and Walter “Jinx” Falkenberg will head the Nittany-Independent and Key party slates in the All-Col lege elections to be held in Old Main lounge on March 26-27, Charles Appleman, chairman of Election Committee, announced today that Cabinet has approved the suggestion that voting days be moved back a week to March 26-27. This change was made because of the revision in the semester schedule and in order to allow the cliques an extra week for campaigning. Running mate for Stapleton will be Becky Walker, Nittany nominee for All-College secre tary, and opposing her will be June First, Key party’s choice for secretary. Candidates for the eighth se mester presidency are Bob Burge, Nittany-Independent and Joe Steel, Key; Marilyn Globisch, Nittany-Independent and Jean Bosch, Key, will vie for the sec retary post. Seventh semester bids for pres ident are John Nolan, Nittany- Independent and James Sheehan, Key; Nan Charles, Nittany-Inde pendent and Pat Trester, Key, are the secretarial candidates. . s - *c * Running in the sixth semester for the presidency are Bill Brooks, Nittany-Independent and Charles Willing, Key. Vying for secretary are Doris Handwerk, Key and Barbara Wilson, Nit tany-Independent. Bill Christmas, Nittany-Inde pendent and Bob McGregor, Key are opponents for the presidency in fifth semester. Nonnie Cooper, Nittany-Independent and Janet Mallenaur, Key are running for the secretary position. Competing for the fourth se mester presidential honors are Bill Wagner, Nittany-Independ ent and Tom Lannen, Key. Gerry Maley, Nittany-Independent and Suzy Romig, Key will vie for secretary. Third semester nominees for president are Ted Lefevre, Nit tany-Independent, and Bill Schreyer, Key. Running mates for the secretarial post are Alice Miller, Nittany-Independent and Mary Magas, Key. Opposing candidates for second semester presidency are Charles Hill, Nittany-Independent and Pete Nastase, Key. Secretarial candidates are Ruth Himmler, Nittany-Independent and Flor ence Elderton, Key. In a recent meeting of the Nit tany-Independent clique, A 1 Green, Phi Epsilon Pi, was named clique chairman for the spring semester. Assisting him as clique vice-chairman is Dick Sarge, In dependent. The four members of the policy committee are: Jeanne Schrumpf, Chi Omega; Mary Kane, Inde pendent; Dick Lose, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; and Gene Fulmer, Inde pendent. ' The Election Committee, in ap proving a number of changes, has decreed that the amount spent for publicity purposes may be raised from $25 to $5O. An other drastic change that marks a return to pre-war political cam paigns is the permission to use public address systems for one day in their campaigns. The Com mittee also stated that it shall be a violation of the election code for ia clique to publish a list tof activities in which the candidate is not a participant. Members of the Election Com mittee are Charles Appleman, Woodene Bell, Jack Brannigan, James Chaiken, Rosemary Ghan tous, Charles Hurd, Herb Mendt, Clyde Metzger, James Paine, Jul ia Pateewka, Bob Spinnenweber, and Ruth Wilson. Russian Club . . . will hold a “Get-Acquaint ed" meeting in Hugh Beaver room, Old MSin, 7 p.m., Sunday. Dr. Carl W. Hasek will speak to the group on the topic, “The Ori gin of the Slavic Peoples." Skull and Bones . . . invites ex-servicemen who were formerly members of the or ganization to attend a meeting in the State College Hotel ban quet room at 5:30 tomorrow after noon.
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