PAGE TWELVE Classified Column LOST—gold bracelet engraved “Lolly.” If found call 145 Ath erton. FOR RENT—Public address sys tem. Call 4679, ask for Frank. LOST —pair of rimless glasses in blue case. Call Jackie Coogan, 'Mac, 2nd North. LOST—brown wallet near Cor ner room. Finder please return to Student Union, I need it!! Re ward. LOST —red shell rimmed glasses in a red leather case down town March 11. Os 11 Connie, 2941. Thank You. ATTENTION! —A Collegian want ad works like a telegram; quickly carried your message to the right person in your own words. WILL — the person who took Army officer’s topcoat by mis take from 2nd floor Main Eng on first day of registration, con tact Steve at 2409. Coat marked with F 3323 inside collar. Will be glad to return yours. 1946 LICENSE PLATES—24 hr. service on Pennsylvania plates. Call 3470 and ask for Mr. Fino for information. IF YOUR typewriter needs ser vice just dial 2492 or bring machine to 633 W. College ave. FOR SALE Double breasted blue pin strip suit, size 37. Call Jim 3412. FOR SAFE—tuxedo in excellent condition, size 36. Reasonable (price. Phone 3486. LOST—black leather wallet with zipper Saturday on College avenue. Please return to 110 Grange. WAITRESSES—Iand waiters for banquets and special parties. Apply in person, at Nittany Lion Inn. Experience not necessary. WANTED —one ride to IPhila., leaving Friday or early Satur day. Please call Uois 210 Jordan. LOST—tan leather gloves some where between M. I. and H. E. Wednesday. Please call 4171, ask 'for Polly. WILL PERSON who found toy stuffed cat in Corner Room lobby please - call 58 Atherton? Reward. FOR HER EASTER GlFT—iGfeve icustom-ma-de perfuime in 'haud pa'inted bottles. Gall Jeanne Sickle, Grange. WOULD an X-Gl be interested in landscaping and gardening a plot of ground arouhd a newly built home. Call 2242. LOST—green Parker pen on on campus. Call B'ob 2677. WOULD the person who picked ■up the wrong trench coat in front of 202 N. Physics on Wed nesday March 13, about 4:00, please call Paul Mulhollem at 2567 or drop same at Student Union. ORDER NOW: $12.95 deluxe fluorescent Desk Lamps for $11.95. Base and .reflector of heavy guage steel. Dark leather, wrinkled finish. Wall lamps only $8.95. CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Collegian Junior and Senior Board meeting, 9 Carnegie Hall. 4:30 p. m. Elections Committee meeting, 410 Old Main, 6:30 p. m. Sabbath Eve Services. Hillcl Foundation, 7:30 p. m. TOMORROW Theta Sigma Phi meeting, The ta House, 2:30 p.m. Second Semester. Club Cabin Party, Watts Lodge. Leave from Old Main, 2 p. m. Lakonides Cabin Party, WRA Cabin. Purim Carnival, Hillel Found ation, 8:30 p. m. to 12 p. m. Saturday Night Club Dance, White Hall, everyone welcome, 9 p. m. to 12 p. m. SUNDAY Chapel, Dr. Hobart D. McKee han, “The Coming of Spring,” Schwab Auditorium, 11 a. m. Russian Club meeting, Hugh Beaver Room, Old Main, 7 p. m. MONDAY Orchestra Rehearsal, 117 Car negie Hall, 7 p. m. Community Forum Lecture, Nora Wain, “The German People in Defeat,” Schwab auditorium, 8:15 p. m. > PSu-A Second Semester Club neeting, 304 Old Main, 7 p. m. Block and Bridle Club meet ing, 206 Agriculture, 7 p. m. Chi PhT .. . initiated Tony Kerin, Robert Rose, George Vadasz, and Ted Williams at a recent meeting. (ji cj/fr Cbp)rijli; li>4j, l.CJtff 3» MfJO Tjn'-VJ Z'3. Dark and Bitter semester frosh. It wasn’t there. According to her I had never re gistered before, there was no one by my name around, I didn’t exist as far as they were concerned, and if I did I was probably high ly illegitimate. ! worried. Maybe my mother had never told me, maybe my best friends wouldn’t even tell, maybe . . no, not that. Once again I told her my name, tryirS to unlock the doors of ig norance with the magic syllables. “It’s Throckmorton Q. Penny whistle, ma’am.” “What’s the Q. stand for?” My parents had added that q., tor Quadrilateral, because, as a child, my head was a bit squarish and a trifle flat on top. Back to the file she darted, ripped vapidly through ih and came up with my transcript. The name was Pennywhistle Throck morton Quadrilateral, and it had been, filed under the class _of 1916, deceased, School of Applied Stupidity. I seized the transci-ipt, and noted as I raced madly over to ■my advisor that 1 had flunked 17 oredits. But you can make that up easily in four or live years in L. A. Speed was essential; my ad viser was waiting. Into the build ing I tore, yanked at the office door—iand felt 3000 volts from the burglar alarm shoot through me. iHe wasmt there. The day be fore, his semi-conscious secretary said, he’d left for South Porcu pine, Ontario, carrying a razor, a ten volume set of Freud, and mumbling crazily about guilt complexes. I think maybe the old boy’s nuts. Pi Kappa Alpha . . . elected the following offi cers for the semester: John Mc- Call, president; Lee Preston, vice president; Keith Norman, secre tary; Warren Steubirg, treasurer; Don Baldwin, pledge master; Cole, house manager. lights a Week...all!\BC Stations ALWAYS MILDER j|s BETTER TASTING RIGHT COMBINATION F THE WORIP'BSST TOBACCOS THE COLLEGIAN Continued from page two LISTEN (g COOLER SMOKING Sacred Shovel Leads Life Of Ground-breaking ceremonies are always held outdoors. Except at Penn State! One of the most im portant ground-breaking events in Pennsylvania was held inside of a building—our Recreation Hall! The story involves a shovel in a showcase and $5,000,000. It be gins with the shovel. In the showcase in the lobby of, Rec Hall, beside loving cups and trophies, hangs a shovel. Particles o earth still cling to it. The shov el’s not a homely skeleton in our urn-filled closet. Physically, even though it is not as handsome as its curved case mates, it is a respectable-looking tool. It’s metal parts are glossy, resemble silver. (However, it isn’t silver but nickel-plate, according to George W. Ebert, superinten dent of‘Grounds and Buildings at the College.) Historically, it is the king among trophies. The shovel destined to lead a life of retirement in state had its humble beginnings at the Murta Appleton Company warehouse in Philadelphia. That was in the late 30’s. At that same time the adminis tration of the College was making plans to enlarge Penn State. The Library, Sparks, Mineral Indus tries, and other buildings were just blueprints. Plan after plan was sent hopefully to the capitol at Harrisburg. Action came more swiftly than anyone dreamed. The national government gave $63,000,000 to Pennsylvania for public works to relieve unemploy ment. Governor George H. Earle wanted immediate action. Penn State had drawings for 12 new ■buildings right on hand. The Gen eral State Authority vested, $5,- SALLY'S A 9M I i tflMh mi wp/seif FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1946 in Rec Hall Retirement 000,000 to the College for expan sion. “It all happened so quickly,” Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men, who well remembers the big event, reminisces. But there was time to plan a ground-breaking ceremony! Inside of a building! Joint exercises were held in Rec Hall to save the trouble of having 12 successive ones. Governor Earle, Senator Joseph F. Guffey, and Ralph D. Hetzel, president of the College, were invited as speak ers. The ground-breaking was held Saturday afternoon, February 26, 1938. Over 6,000 spectators gath ered in Recreation Hall. In front of the speakers’ platform a pit ap proximately 5 by 6 feet wide filled half full of soil had been placed. A file of students representing different departments of the Col lege walked solemnly to the pit, each carrying a box containing ground from the sites of the plan ned buildings, and emptied the contents of their boxes into it. Radio carried a description of the proceedings to friends of the Col lege everywhere. At the climax of the ceremony the spectators watched Dean War nock hand a shovel to Governor Earle. The Governor turned the shovel through the earth several times, then stepped back. The shovel’s life had begun and ended. But its brief moment of glory had officially opened a new era for the College. The shovel immediately became a precious symbol to Penn Staters. It was given a home among other prized possessions of the College in the building where it had per formed its only job.
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