Track, Lacrosse
New Beaver Field
Tomorrow
21 .
VpiL.
Youthful Editors .
Hold Convention
More than 400 , Pennsylvania ,
high school editors and advisers
3,vip. hear 20 professional news
papermen, high school editors
and scholastic newspaper advis
ers discuss high school newspa
per problems in the 16th Annual
High SChool Press Convention at
the College, tomorrow.
First since start or the war,
the convention i•s sponsored joint
ly by Sigma Delta Chi, national:
professional journalistic frater
nity, -Theta Sigma Phi, national
journalistic sorority, and Alpha
Delta Sigma, national advertising
Iraternity. •
Spet:kers Head Program
Leading the speakers will be
Stanley W. Calkins, president of
the Pennsylvania Newspaper
Publishers Association and pub
lisher cif the Uniontown Herald
and The Standard, to keynote an
all,day program with a "Wel-
COnne' from the Pennsylvania
PublisherS.'i
Other.speakers include Don
aOse, - Piladelphia . Evening Bul
letin columnist,' and . George
Scbtt, College alumnus from the
Associated Press' Washington
Bureau.
Registration of delegates in the
Daily Collegian office, Carnegie
Hall, at 10' a.m. will be followed
by' . general assembly in 121
Sparks at 11 a.in., with Lambert
Joseph, Indiana High School,
President of the Pennsylvania
.SchoOl __Press . .Association,, as
chairman..
''''Before adjourning at 11:50' -a.
assembly will hear, Mr.
Calkins; A.. O. Morse, assistant
An the president of the College.
:'.'dis.Cuss "Why Colleges Are Re
fusing, You Admission;" Mr.
Scott speaks :on "Journalism as
Career;" and brief speeches •OE
:welcome from Jeanette - 'Bosch,
Theta• Sigma Phi president; Stan
ley Ziff, Sigma Delta Chi head,
:and Carl Colombo; newly-elect
• 'o:President of • Alpha Delta sigT!
DiieUusiOn- GrOups '
i":i.The :1.1450 -.a.m.: to' 1 -p.m. dis
eugsion groups. led by Charles A.
Faris, ; Altoona , Senior • • High
School, include "Does My
High' 'School Newspaper Repre . -
'Seirt'-a Title Cross Section of the.
School?",. by Miss Evelyn Love,
P,'" , andergrift,- High school; - - general.
;discussions on adviser"and edi
,.tOrial .prcblems,. 'and a seminar
'Conducted 'by Miss Isabelle 'lldr
:,,::(Continned on page eight) •
Nippy, Spitz Player, Causes
Do g Days at 'Kiss and Tell'
The 'calendar says it is spring but to Margaret Witt, dir
ector of
,"Kisa.and Tell," these are 'clog days.' It is March
lianks who is causing all the trouble.
Marchbanks comes in at the beginning of the second
act He must be petted and mauled around. He must'be good
,natured. He must look like the Archer's family pooch. .
-• A little blond. cocker- spaniel first tried out for the part.
Penny was cute but he also had stage fright. He quivered and
shook and•squ'atted anal wouldn't budge. •
, Corliss (Meg Marcy) tried to lead him across the stage.
It 'Was like pulling a muff on .
thence. Even I have to run up to
the end or a leash. the stage and peer around the cur
' 'The next Marchbanks was a tain to see what is going on,"
snowy white .Spitz. His first act
folded. After being released
Was . -to jump up on a' folding seat; This phenomenon can be ex
if.
plained, not in terms of an eccen
.7 :
Makchbanks held his left hind paw trinity but by the fact that the
he' put his pavi down and Theater stage from wall to
Little
,toltis — side and looked mournful.
v- 1, all is five feet shorter than the
Then
Schwab stage within the scenery.
started- to play.
- Calmness in a crisis, he was "It is a bit awkward." Peggy
:Cast: Nippy .Keim, as. he is called,
• 4 1s the, dog of Mr. and Mrs. James
:Kelm of High street.. . -
"Visitors to rehearsals at the
`Little: Theater must get a jolt,"
said.. Peggy, as Director Witt is
the cast, "They hear
coming ,from dark corners
;aomplpiely out, of 'view of 'the au-
416, Want Nylons?
Cowslip Sue Again
See Page 3
Harvey Fishing Class
Pose's For Life
Cameraman
Seldom can a photographer
representing the nation's • leading
picture magazine, stroll around a
college campus for two days
without being detected, but it
happened here this week. And
what's more, Allen Grant, Life
photographer, found girls at the
College "very interesting and
most cooperative."
Of course, he met only even
while on campus to do a picture .
story of George Harvey's fishing
class—but all of them, he in
sisted, were "really wonderful."
Spends Two Days on Campus
Grant .spent two 7d6 7 s on .the
campus, and completed his pic
ture assignment in one day,
working from 10 o'clock Wed
nesday morning until 10 o'clock
Wednesday night with only one
hbur . "breaks'.' . for lunch and
dinner.
A 26-year-old New , Yorker who
has been a professional • photog
rapher only four. -years, Grant
said he was not considered a
staff man but worked for Life .
almost continuously via
. an ag
ency operating under the name
of "Graphic Arts."
He explained 'that there are
only 20 to 30 photographers on
Life staff, but that there are 20
• (Continued on page eight)
7:th Spmpstert
Plan-Dancei...-
Seventh semester students will
hold their semester '.activity at
the-Phi Kappa Psi house on Lo
cust Lane from 9 to 12 p.m. to-
Morrow. It will be a' Vic dance
and refreshments will be served.
James Sheehan, president, urges
all to attend the affair. He an
. ,
nounced that. many were sent past
cards noti:Ving them of the dance.
While his list is incomplete, he
and his committee...have been try=
ing to contact as many seventh
semester students as possible. ,He
also • stated that only seventh se
mester• students and their dates
were invited..
Sheehan 'appointed .the
.follaw
ing to . handle the 'entertainment
for the affair: Philip }Lampe,
chairman; Mary Louise Lamade,
Catherine . Stahl, and Patricia
Treaster.
"We are having a great time
working out the end of the last
act," said Peggy. "There are just
tco many people running in and
mit for the size of the space-where
they crin run. Then having Ray_
mond (John Serff) seceting a
(Contin tied on. page eight)
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY BY THE COLLEGIAN STAFF
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1946.-STATE COLLEGE, PENuN. A
Mortar Board Holds Carnival
Pollards to
Committee Names Coeds
To Serve in 'Coronation
May Day will be a sister act this
year, as Sally Pollard is crowned
May Queen, and her sister Jayne
serves .as Maid of Honor.
'This announcement .was made
last night by Ann Berkhimer,
chairman of .May Day, at a mass
meeting for all coeds. Sally and
Jayne were selected this week at
elections spgnsored by WSGA.
The coronation ceremonies are
Scheduled for 4:30 p.m. next Sat
urday.
The Queen's attendants will be.
Betty Rank and Barbara Smith,
seniors; • Shirley •Kruman and
Joyce Parker, juniors; Madelyn
'McCall' and Virginia McCluskey,'
Sophomores; and Nancy Romig
- and Mona Smuylan, freshmen.
To round out the QUeen's court,'
Cynthia Dean and Marjorie Gam
by will act as heralds, and Ann
Garman and Aletha Potteiger
jesters.
Twenty outstanding coeds were
named by the committee in charge
to form the Honor Arch. They are
Mary Bid rid Anderson, Anna At
kins, Nancy Bartch, Jean Darinott,
Woodene Bell,' Ann Berkhi•mer,
Ruth Bollinger, Marjorie Black
wood, Jeannette Bosch, Mary
Forrest, June First, Rita Gross-
Man, Jeanne Hirt, Jan Jannsori,
Joan Schearer; Doris Stowe, Doris
Stack; - Jeannie Weaver, Rebecca
Walker, and Priscilla Wagner.
Senior women will form the -Hem
lock Chain.
Traditionally, the coronation of
the May Queen highlights Moth
er's Day weekend. Prior to the
crowning ceremonies, each wom
en's dormitory has scheduled a
Mother's Day •tea, from 2:30 to 4
p.m• •
Music Groups
Plan Concerts
A series o 1 five concerts will
be presented by mtisical organi
zations or the College during the
remainder of . the sernester, the
music department announced to
day. •
The seventy-piece College Sym
phony Orchestra will present :a
program in Schwab Auditorium
May 12 as a part of the Mother's
Day IVeekend activities. Featured
at the concert will be Paul Teare,
a senior in music education, play
ing the Concerto in
A Minor.
• Prof. Frank Gullo will conduct.
the. reorganized Penn State Glee
Club •in• their first public appear
ance since May 49, 1942. On May
26 the annual Panhellenic Sing
will be held.
The Blue Band will give an out
door 'concert in front of Old Main
June 2, and the series will close
with a concert by the Treble Sing
ers June 7, under the direction
of Prof. Guy Woods.
ROTC Candidates To Get.
$5OO in 2 School Years
Under 'the reactivated Army
ROTC, candidates in the course
receive approximately $5OO in the
two academic years of their
training, the College military de
partment announced today.
In addition to a commission,
officers' uniform and 14 credits
toward graduation, the candidate
getS $2O per month throughout
his first .year. Camp 'pay is the
rate of a seventh grade enlisted
man, $5O or $75 plus travel pay
of sc . per miles to and from camp.
Reign at May Day
Mortar Board Prexy
Marjorie Blackwood
Honorary Taps
16 Engineers
•. Tau Beta Pi, national engin
eering honorary, initiated 16 men
students last night in the Penn
State Club Room. The local chap
ter, Beta .of Pennsylvania, is
celebrating the thirty-`fourth an
niversary of . its establishment at
the - College today.
Initiates are Frederick An
drews, Jr., Robert Barefoot, Ro
bert E. Barnum, John DeLong,
Wilbur Ebersole, Alden Emery,
William Frankbouser, John H.
Householder, Winfield _Kilgore,
Walter Kish, Sheldon Kohn, Ro
bert A. Logan, Allison R. Palmer,
Felix Roth, Samuel E. Tyson and
Ernest 'L. Yost.
A semiformal dinner dance is
being held this evening in honor
of the anniversary and the new
initiates at the State College
Hotel. Thomas. D. Bowman, asso
ciate professor of English litera
ture will be the guest speaker.
NROTC Farewell Dance
'Features Campus Owls .
College Naval ROTC unit will
hold its farewell dance in the Nit
tarry Lion Inn tonight front 9 to 12
o'clock.
Guests 'of the unit will be ship's
company, officers and men, and
College uersonnel who have work
ed in close contact with the Naval
ROTC. Music for the dance, open
only to present and former mem
bers of the unit, will be supplied
by the Campus Owls.
Intermission entertainment will
be provided by the committee un
der Edward LaVoice. Serving un
der Henry Brenner, chairman Por
the entire dance, are: Burton Ty
sitnger, programs; Edward Soza
and 'Robert Stabley, refresh
ments; and Joseph •Eastleck, invi
tations. •
Junior Service Board
To Hostess at Dance
Members of Junior Service
Board will act as hostesses at the
weekly dance sponsored 'by the
Saturday Night Club at White
Hall from 0 to 12, p.m. tomorrow.
The dance will be a stag or
drag affair, as usual, with Tex
l3enehe, Tommy Dorsey, Benny
Goodman, Woody Herman and
many other bands "on the discs."
An entertainment will be pre
sented during• intermission.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
'Freaks, Nylons Appear
At 'Parking Lot Prom'
.Throw the hoop over the lady's
leg! See the freaks of the campus!
Have your fortune told!
These calls and Many imare
will issue from the "Parking Lot
Prom" tonight as all sororities
compete for 'business at Mortar
Board's combined carnival and
dance, set for the macadam park
ing lot liehind the Sigma Chi
house, from 8 to 41 p.m. In case
of rain, the Prom will be post
poned'until tomorrow night, same
time and same place, announced
Marjorie Blackwood, president of
Mortar Board, today.
Strip tickets for the dance,
priced at 10 tents ner ticket or
$l.OO per strip of ten, are. being
sold in front of the Corner Room
today. Three of these tickets may
be used for admission to the
dance, and others for entry at
the individual sorority booths.
Tickets will also be sold at the
gate.
411 proceeds from the dance
will be used for the Charlotte E.
Ray Scholarship Fund, Miss
Blackwood announced. Music will
be supplied by a juke box, and
cokes, doughnuts and pretzels
will be sold by the sponsors.
Caricatures and Raffle
Nancy and Joan . ..Harrington
will draw caricatures ot the Alpha
Chi Omega 'booth; while Ruthie
Rosenbaum will raffle off nylons
for the Alpha Epsilon Phi's.
Rustam. Roy will tell fortunes
at the Alpha Xi Delt booth, aided
by two "harem girls" supplied by
the sorority. Betty Ann Sheesley
Will sell ice cream cones for Beta
Sigma Omicron.
At the Kappa Alpha Theta
stall, Jane Spicher 'will be in
(Continued on page eight)
IFC Revives
Trophy Prize
The Inter-Fraternity Council
will award a scholarship trophy to
the, fraternity attaining the high
est average this semester. This
resumes the IFC's pre-war policy.
It was decided at a recent meet
ing of IFC, now that the fraterni
ties have resumed their normal
activities, to again make the
award, beginning with the pres
ent semester.
"Fraternity men have alwayls
shown their desire for this trophy
as it is a credit to the fraternity
that wins the award," stated Jack
Fore, chairman of the IFC Soho":
astic Committee.
To be eligible for competition
for the scholarship itroyhy, each
fraternity must turn a complete
list of the active undergraduate
members and pledges of the chap
ter in to Student Union or to Jack
Fore at the Tau Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity, not later than May 15.
Men's Athletic Honorary
Initiates 14 Pledges
Druids, sophomore honorary
society, recently returned to its
former status as an honorary ath
letic society. Pledges for this se
mester who were initiated Tues
day night include the following:
'Milton 'Becket, swimming: John
Benglian, boxing; Peter Berletic,
baseball, football; William Bou
sail, gymnastics: David Faloon,
wrestling; Donald Harris, track;
Charles Krug, track; William:
Levy, ice hockey; John Rusinko,
basketball; John Slusarczyk, box
ing; Albert Spinner, football,
track; Carl Stokes, swimming;
Wallace Tripplet 111, football; and)
James Wor, football.