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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. .
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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.