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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.
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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.
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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,-
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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.