TUESDAY, MAY 21,1946 No Job Stumps the Experts IA Grounds and , Buildings Being responsible for the construction work at Wind er*, for having coeds' waste baskets emptied,, for 12 campus patrolmen checking buildings all night long, for telephone Switchboards and electricity and steam lines and a hundred oilier things is more than enough for any man. • But when one of the build that's almost too much. , "Troubles, troubles" stream constantly into the office of George W. Efbert, who has been "superintendent of Grounds and Buildings; the largest single de- , :apartment of the College since 1929. - Thee most interesting yet ir ritating trouble his - office ever faced was when the Dairy Build , ing_ started to settle! • Se!tling Begins • • On the fourth of July, 1932, • -about midnight, a janitor on day the building heard a deep' rumble. Investigators found a crack in the ceiling of the third , . floor, bricics pulled apart - in the , lower. This was -the only evidence at ':tbat:time that some of the earth' underlying. the -campus isn't 'too. solid. - Since then, cavities under the- earth's surface were found Eledtrical Engineering,. „•.lyfain Engineering and the west stend•on Beaver Field were built. And-one day a - bush at the foot 15. f. the water tower dropped out 'of ;.view. Beeing the Dairy Building be- gill - to settle was the first trouble rovith underground cavities, and .by far, the worst. "It certainly ,made .stop and • think!" said 11 1 5dr t.- Complicafed-Work, - ;;20' . hours . 11 , 'day 'far :a full •%‘• t'e'ar. ; inert :worked. • . cqntinuously. ?burying 120 tons 'of steel. and concrete under the building it ,secure. Caissons, some 80 :feet .deep, which is . lower, than * College ...avenue_ 'at Shortlidge road; were -dropped and filled doxibreitc . bdore. the-job -was' *: - ':,finishacE 'Exactly what caused the 'Underground cavities, rio• one luiows, though the geologists have half a: dozen theories. The Office of Grounds- and of - tlie biggest of-. -fleps'at the College. It ,has' to ha.• suberyision :come - pow .-,,,e',4..pilant•-and-‘titilitie.s;- buildings .:?nd ',maintenance' , division; which aniqng a. - long list of the. work`_' of, all plurrkliers steamfitters, janitors, repairmen; campus Sfiident'A'SME To Honor 0:0 . t.0tt;, - ; • Allen .-- ;At.:Bd.Rquel: 7 , ;,;1-larold A. Everett, head of the 174,neehanical. .engipeering depart-' .'. l l . ,nent,, and Charles L. Allen, as aociate professor of .the mechari ical,lengineering department, will Nte 4 : ll l6 l /ored.at a kanquet held by ',student branch . of the ',if-. the tate College.. Hotel, June ii:.Bl 3 +.4ll.rnen.are.retiring from the i'.2 4 : l (4 ) .`artment• . .:.:Louis- H. Bell wilt • speak on "The Serious - . Business.- of the :Tunnies." All members-including Vie student branch, are invited to ,4tend• • ickets priced at $1.40 may be ,purchased from: Merle L. Cox, rhea= H. nary, George R. Strohm, Joseph Kolniek, and-80-belt -belt T. Wurzib'aeher, aeronautical engineers; Kenneth Lynn, Bert, Schneider, Donald Clark, Robert ',Egger, Peggy Lindley, Sanford Bennett, Joseph Agosta and Ray Bland,• mechanical engineers; and Russell M. Smiley, Henry ' Ben ,nett, Felix Roth and Thomas grawford, induitrfal engineers. ASCE 'Enrolls Reen As . Astociate Member' Calvin Gilbert Reen, professor of engineering in charge of super- Arising design and organization of extension courses, .has been en trolled as an Associate Member !: the American Sodiety of Civil 'Engineers, it was announced re • ,icently by Colonel William N. ACarey, Secretary and Executive Officer of the Society, at. its Na .tronal - Headquarters. :The - American Society of Civil pgineers, with a membership of inore , :then 21,000, is the oldest; :national "'engineering organization • *.in the :United Fi'Fil-eQ Pr 4 has---af i'• • ccct!on.l ii4tircilehout7the•zcountpyi, ngs on campus starts to settle, maintenance, which involves care of the: 240 acres of College farm land and the maintenance of ath letic fields; the Campus Patrol, and a Safety and First Aid divi sion. Construction of 'all new buildings is also directed through Grounds and Buildings. Gradtuttes Assist Three of the men on Mr. Ebert' staff are graduates of the College. His, immediate assistant, Cbarles A. Lamm, is a' Penn State grad uate. Robert Y. Sigworth, super-. visor .of the power plant and utilities, is another, also Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of campus maintenance. Building mainten ance is • directed by Fred S. Han son, a graduate engineer of part mouth. The : office at 319 Old Main; the home of- Grounds and Buildings (which is responsible for iaB ibuildirws and over MO , acres,. handles as much business and has more troubles..on hand than any other cross-section of the College, And the_results of its labors are miraculous. Not only is. the Dairy Building still titanding, but the College campus, is one of the most beautiful in the country:.., 2500 Veterans Attend CO.1104?; .four. Centers ..More than: 251).0 veterans are enrilled at &he calege and. the tour undergraduate :centers of the College- it: .:was revealed today.; The. 1891 eandidates , for bathe-- 11r .degrees IVIIO are attending _classes are 91 the:following stand-, :rigs: seinester;'4lls;" . 7,th; 136;' 6th, 215; 54h, 200; 4th, -31.6; • 3rd, 290; 2nd, , 572; and Ist, 40. There also are 138 graduate stu.-- - dents. and: 23 -special students at-. tendind . classes on the emulous, bring •to .2052 .the,number—OV•vet erans enrolled at the College._ The, registered at undergraduate. centers are: Dui B0;8) 92;, Altoona,' /183; . 1 1 - lazlton, 86S; and Schuylkill, 88. • . --• ' - - • Linwood3Culler ) . . . of the English Department, has a short -articles in this. week's (May 4) - Saturday Evening Post entitled "the • Great Souvenir Hunt." Ih relates how the soldiers in the Aleutian Islands turned amateur authropologists-s and ar chaeologists• horrified pro fessicinal scientists protested • and had Military authoritiei put a stop to_ • the boys'- digging. THE, COLLEGIAN Library Collection Adds Souvenirs Of Past Prexies Gifts, relating to the admini strations of Presidents Edwin E. Sparks and George W. Atherton, have been contributed to the Li brary and added to the Penn State Collection. Among the contributions do nated by Mrs. Ethel Sparks re lating to the time of .her hus= band's administration are a scrapbook depicting his public career through newspaper clip pings, specimens from the manu scripts of his first two books, newspaper clippings of reviews of his books, manuscripts of ad dresses• written by him, and let ters of appreciation bddressed to him at'the time of his retirement as president including 'a framed copy of An Appreciation from the raculty signed by A. H. Es penshade, Secretary of the Gen eral Faculty, September 5. 1920. Others are ten self-examina tion questions designed for every boy•and girl entering - college' pic tures-of-Dr. and Mrs. Spark ' s, in cluding a portrait made shortly •after-thein_marriage; a' caricature of him drawn by a-Public Ledger artist,. February 8, 1916; a sketch of his own making, laughing at his "highfaluten name" as "prexy" of the College; outlines and. quizzes of his graduate courses' at the- University of directed by Mrs. Sparks, Mrs: C. E. Govier, daughter of President Atherton, recently gave rare pictures of places, and per sons prominent duiing her fath er's administration, portraits of Dr. and Mrs. Atherton, a da guerreotype of Mrs. Atherton as a girl, and a 'manuscript in Mrs. Atherfon's handwriting of a pa pgr,..read 'by her when she.served as first preSident of the State College Woman's Club. • Dr:: J; : k Sauer: Receives • P-00.1.viat'.17.-Risearcli...A.Waill lir. J. A. Sauer, head of the de partment-,of engineering mechan ics at -the College, is one Of 30- in flividuals :in awarded one. - of the - initial "Frederick Gardner Cottrell-Grants-In-Aidi of Postwar Research." The award is made by the Re search: Corporation, a privately endoWed non-profit corporation which has the purpose of sup porting.. arid stimulating, scientific and. technical research. Twenty eight institntions and - 30 uals were included on the initial lists a grants. The grant-to Dr. -Sauer was for his • proposed. project, "Influence of Range and Stress on the Fatigue Strength of (Materials Subjected to Axial and. Biaxial Stresses." In days when class.riValpy was great, Belletfonte was the-center•cA class sdcfal baimetion,s, .:; AAUP Sees to the Welfare Of College Professors One of the little known distinctions of the College is that it has the largest chapter of the American Association of University Professors in the country. The AAUP was brought to the College on December 14, 1921 when Prof. Elton D. Walter, then the head of the depart ment of civil engineering, and ten other professors met to in stall a chapter. here. The first membership of ten multiplied rapidly, until it reached the present maximum of 300 mem, bers, The American Association of University Professors is a univer sal organization open to all col lege professors. The aim of the association is to investigate the problems of the faculty and pro mote, or aid in anyway, their welfare. `Among the activities accom plished by tlae College chapter are the establishment of a retire ment pension for the faculty, and the establishment of hospitaliza tion and group life insurance for the faculty. At present, problems concerning tenure, promotion of salaries, and campus traffic and parking are being studied. Wincicrest Community Nans'tenter Opening Windcrest borough coun cii held a special meeting Thursday night . to plan. a program for the mass meeting which will open the nearly-completed community center. George W. Ebert, superinten dent of . grounds and buildings, will be the guest • speaker. He will speak on why, how, and where the College got the idea of the trailer community, and the administrative problems of run ning it.. ' An informal question-and-an swer period arid a musical pro gram will also be part of the mass meeting, date •of which has not yet been set. • • Pi Kappa Phi . . initiated the following members Sunday: John Antolik, Robert Aumann, Gerald Berry, William Dietrich, Lawrence Ger *wig, Harold Norris, Ray Plymyer; land William Quay. F7' A meeting is held every month by the executive committee, and a mass chapter meeting is held approximatelY six 'times a year. Every two years a dinner is giv en in honor of the retiring facul ty. One of these dinners ,will lie held on May, 28. Retired profess ors are offered a special, non active membership. Present officers of the AAUP are: Prof. Leland S. Rhodes, pre'sident; Prof. Corliss R. Kin ney, vice-president; Dr. Evan. Johnson, secretary; Mrs. Willa. Taylor, treasurer. Newman Club Sponsors Semi-formal Spring Dance The Spring Dance•sponsored by the Newman Club will be held •at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house , on Friday, May 31. The Navy Band will play for the semi-forma] af fair. Tickets may be obtained from Club members or at the Stu dent Union May 24 to 31. Officers for the Fall semester Were elected at a general business meeting Sunday. Those presiding will be: Christian Skoff, presi dent; Paul Masterson, first vide president; George Bearer, second. vice-president; Yolanda West, corresponding secretary; Margpr i et Stridinger, recording secretary; and Beatrice Glover, treasurer. Dr..Shibli Writes Booklet On Palestine Conflict Dr. ,Tabir Shibli, associate pro fessor of .mathematics at the Ccl.. lege, is author of a: booklet en titled, "Our Palestine: Conflict-- Or Cooperation•." .The booklet, dedicated to the "Arab Youth; Builder's of the. New Arab World," includes reprints from• articles ' written by Dr: Shibli for "The Catholic World," "The - Chistian Century," and "Christianity and Crisis."
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