Keep Pluggin' MEE VOL," [ -N'o. 50 Dance, Show Top Weekend Clique Names Class Officers Class clique officers were elect ed by the Nittany-Independemt political party at its meeting Tuesday niht. Albert Green was Chosen by ballot as clique chairman for the senior class, with Charles Arnold as vice-chairman.. Barbara Wil son . was elected recording secre tary and Jane Healy was elected' corresponding secretary for the senior clique. In the junior Class clique Robert Day was elected chairman, with Edward LaCorribe as vice-chair mlan. The two secretaries are Sally . Ann Rowe and Gayle Gerhardt. Dick' Serge was named chair man. for the sophomore cliass; Eugene Fulmer will serve as Vice chairmain. Elected as secretaries were Patricia Kinkead and Jane Nitt any- Independent clique chairman Evan Brown conducted • a business Meeting . early in the evening, after which the . three Class groups adjourned to separ ate rooms for their elections. The elections were supervised •by Ro bert Foote, Neil .DeVries, and Charles IMI. Hat Societies Select Thirty • Parini Nous • and Skull and Bones, upperclassmen's• honor aries, tapped the following men at the Lion Shrine at 6:30 this morning; Parmi Nous: P 1.9.: u 1 Bender, Lloyd Black, Ray Bitting, Fred France, John Hamilton, Charles Hurd, George Paul Jones, Wayne LaPou, Robert McGregor, Orient Martella, John Nolan,. John Pfirman, Charles Pfleegor, Ro bert Rutkowski, Robert Stabley, Dino Taccalozzi, Kenneth Yount, and Charles -Zink. -Skull and Bones: Harold Ben jamin, Michael Blatz, William Brooks, Lawrence Foster, Jack Green, Peter Johnson, Gordon Miller, Timothy Petroff, Warren Stucbing, Charles Willing, Wil liam Winner, , and Leigh Woeh ling. Three Students To Join Adverstising Honorary Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising honorary will initiate . three student members and one professional mernlber at its first postwar banquet at the State College Hotel, 6 p.m. Sunday. Students who will be initiated are Harry Kohn, Albert Green, and William Rittenhouse; Eugene J. Reilly, as.sociate publisher of the-'Centre Daily Times, will be made a professional member. GueSt speaker :for the banquet will be Brig. General Charles C. Curtis, advertising director of the Allentdwn da 11 • Alpha Delta Sigma pfficers are Carl Colombo, president; Curtis Stone, vice president; Gor don Smith, secretary; and Elisha Cloud, treasurer. William Conant . . . of the firm Oonant, Obis san & Co., Now York city, indus trial management consultant - will weak in 10 Sparks at 4:30 p. m. Monday. Has tonic is the "Artt of Bleciness Maniagement." Mr. Con ant' will soeak udder the augrAces ole Dabs Sigma Pi. All students are-invited to attend. Oi p lr Tatirgiatt FIRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1946---STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Sage' Shrdlu Offers Final Exam Hints With finials less than two weeks away, Etaoin Shrdlu, renowned sage, dropped into the Collegian office the other day to see vvlhat could he done in the way of a little inspiration. After a quick glance at the listless, glazed expressions on the Coed reporters sitting around the r&n, he reached for a Sheet of copy paper, scribbled down some words, and with a wry smile let the room. (Editor's note: We found phil osopher Shrdlu's advice to Penn Staters •in the waste basket, and have reproduced them in the ears of our paper.) Phi Beta Kappa Elects / Seniors Seven seniors have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society, it was announced today. Those e:e'cted, who will grad uate on June 27, are. Sylvan Blu menfeld, arts and 'letters; jean :A. Gedeon, education; Arline Gerb er, arts and letters; Marian Van Syckel Leigh, chemistry; Marjor ie McDonald, science; Eleanor Shaheen, pre-medical; and Helen Wagner Verner, psychology. Initiation of the new members will take place at a tea in Wom an's building lounge at 4:10 p. m. Monday. • Mortar Board Taps 8 Coeds With ceremonies Tuesday morning in front of Old Main, Mortar Board, senior women's honorary, tapped the following girls.: Joan and Nancy Harring ton, Jane Healy, Jean Nelson, Doris Stowe, Batibara Struck, Janet Taylor, and Mary Lou Waygood. • Installation ceremonies will be held at the Dean of Women's of fice, Old Main, 10: 15 Sunday morning. Leadership, scholarship, and service are the three require ments for eligibility to Mortar Board. The girls must be leaders in their activities, maintain an alI-college average of 1.83, , and .be a sixth or seventh semester stu dent at the time of tapping. Pre-Med Society Holds Swimming Party Sunday Pre-iMed society members will hold a swimming party at Green wood Furnace Sunday afternoon. Spyros E .}Lalikie , , party chair man, said that members and guests should provide their own lunch baskets. Soft drinks ice cream' and transportation will be arranged for by the society. Buses will leave from the Cor ner Room at 1 p. m. S unday costs. will be 75 cents per person, payable of the bus. Refunds . . . for 'chemistry breakage tic kets miay be Obtained at. the Bur sar's office starting Monday, an nounced Bursar Russell E. Clark. [ROTC refunds may be elailrned Arne 26 and 27. Refunds for dor mitory key deposits will be re turned beginning June • .41 g .11 .11. 'King of Swing' Skippers Thespians Present 'No Ti Kerns Calls Early Curtain To Accomodafe Dancers When the house lights' in Schwafb .auditorium dim tonight and the curtain parts, students and townspeopqe will be seeing the first Thespian show in over two years. "No Time For Trouble" is the title, and the time is 7 p.m. Seats are unreserved and tickets are on sale at. Student Union as well as the box-office. The prices indlud ing tax are 75 cents for tonight's show and $1 for tomorrow night. The early curtain time will en able students to attend both the show and the dance at Recreation Hall. -Only the capacity of the auditorium will be sold. How ever, Mike Kerns, productiOn manager, added that in case any seats are unoecuipied at curtain time, additional tickets will be sold at the door. Maestros Attend Show 'Thespian officials indicated fast night that 'Benny Goodman, maes tro of the Interfraternity Baal, has accepted an invitation to be pres ent at tonight's production. Fred Waring has also been intuited to. attend. Waring is a former Then- plarCand haS attstidta" Most • of • the group's shows. The band leader is expected to feature "No Time For Trouble" songs on his 111 a.m. NBC broadcast, foll Owing past tradition. The plot of the show centers around the return to the campus of a group of veterans (both maid and female). Leads are handled by Hay Fortunate and Taiwnie newly married couple who want to live "Alone in a Trailer;" Virge Neely, "A Yokel from Shinbone;" Marty Baum , "Brdken Joe;" Betsy Heagy, who says , that she's just a "Fuddy Duddy;" and Portman . Paget as TiVir. Coubreath." (Continued on page seven) Groups Back Famine Drive FOur more sororities and one fraternity have pledged their sup port in the College Emergency Famline Drive. Phi Sigma Delta fraternity will support a 'Child for one year. Al pha Ornricon Pi and Kappa Delta sororities together has pledged the support of one European dhild. Alpha Chi Omega will donate $26 to the drive and Theta Phi Alpha $ 5 . A total of $4,787.715 has been sent to six agencies by the State College Commlittee. This amount is .approxiMately two-thirds of the quota of $7;580, 'according to Rus sell E. Clark, chairman of the drive. The College funds have not yet been turned in. Organizations whlich hiav).e "adopted" children will be issued forms on which they May state the age and sex of the child they I prefer and the country they de sire. The "adopted" children or their guardians will correspond directly with the on,ganiliations, and photographS of the children will be obtained if possible. Veterans . . . who entered school for• the Fall semester and have not received their subsistence checks should report to the Veterans Ad ministration at once. Those plan ning not to return for the Sum mer sessions should check with the office. Otherwise, the con tinuance of their subsistence will be in danger. "King of Swing" BENNY GOODMAN Ceramics Group To Hear Steidle ,Dean Edwatd ateMit of 1 / 4 ",-,e- Schdol of Mineral Industries will speak at the. Pennsylvania Cer amics Association (banquet at the Nittany 'Lion Inn at 6:30 tonight. Other speakers at the banquet, which is being held in conjunc tion with the ceramics confer ence' on campus this weekend, are Ralph W. Gery,, president of the organization, Charles, E. Al wine, J. Edward Hansen, and Robert Twells. Edwin H.. Fritz will be toastmaster. The conference which is spon sored by the Pennsylvania Cer amics Association, the Structural Clay Products Manufacturers' Associ.Ftion of Pennsylvania, and the student branch of the Amer ican Ceramics Society, includes technical programs of the Cer amics Association this afternoon and tomorrow morning. Ralph W. Gery will be chair man of the session in the Mineral Industries . Art Gallery at 2 o'- clock today. It will cover human relations, industrial hygiene in ceramic plants, new develop ments in safety quipment of spe cial intere:t to ceramic plants, and increased production with music. Tomorrow, heat and its control, and temperature trends in the ceramic induStries will be discussed in the M.I. Art Gallery, at 9:30 a.m. The Structural Clay Products Manufacturers' Association will hold its June meeting in the M. I. Art Gallery at 10 o'clock today. The board of directors of the Pennsylvania Ceramics Associa tion will have a business meet ing and luncheon in the banquet room of the State College Hotel at noon today. This afternoon. at 3 o'clock these two organizatins will hold a ladies tea in the Nit tany Lion Inn lounge. Mrs. E. C. Henry will be the hostess. Theta Sigma Phi . . . women's national journ alism honorary, recently elected Lynette Sundquist president. Other officers for the coming year will be Katherine Badollet, vice presi dent; Janet Schmidt, secretary; Brigitte Uhlig„ treasurer and Ahylllis Hotick, archivi,qt. Russian' lub . . • Will hold an invontbnt meeting to elect officers for the Fall semester and to discussits future ealendiar in 417 Old Main at 7 p.m., Sunday. PRICE FIVE CENTS SS Penn State me for Trouble' IFC Tickets Go On Sale At AA Window Today The one and only "King of Swing," Benny Goodman returns to Recreation Hall tonight after a four-year lapse, to open the Interfraternity C3ounciil's weekend on the SS Penn State. Admission for the infonmal dance is $4 per 'couple, tax included. Tickets- go on sale today at the Athletic Association window in Old Main, and tickets will also be sold at Recreation Hall tonight. A souvenir dance book will be given with each ticket. Goodman appears at the IFC dance after an engageJmeat at Sunnybrook near Pottstown last night. Before this the "King of Swing" was at the 400 Club in, New York. Orchestra Reorganized In the past years the Benny Goodman orchestra has dhanged nnid since the end of the war has been reorganized with new feature artists. Mel Powell, rated one of the nation's outstanding pianists, and Lou McGarity, trombone player who has been in many night club combos, rejoined Good= men. They are the two members ot - th - e wlio"playetvnere."l - n 1'942. Other a'rtis'ts in the Goodman ondhestra are . singing star Art Lund, who has gained in all pop ulanity polls, while new - it addi tion to the Goodman band! is Louis Bellson, who played with the pre-war band' before going into the Army. Uses French Horn Doing what few dance orch estras have done, Benny Goodrnan uses the Frenoh horn, and Addi son Collins, who was with the old Glenn Miller Army Air Force band, joins the orchestra to PILIY the horn. !St;anley Ziff, lEC dance chair (Continued on page seven) 205 Register For Session Two hundred five students have registered for Inter-session courses at the College, Summer Sessions officials announced to day. Of this nurriber, 15 are at tending classes• on the campus and the remaining 190 are at the Grier School, Birmingham. Registration figures also re vealed that more men than wo men are enrolled, that MO of the students are graduate students, and that 55 veterans have reg istered. Inter-session began on Monday and will end June 2)9. The pro gram includeD 13 courses. 'Coeds Must Sign Up 'For Fall Room Changes Coeds, in the fifth, sixth, and) seventh semesters who want a (change of rooms in the Fall May sign up for a room at the Dean ott WoMen's office betore noon to morrow. Fourth seimester women who have reported a desire to &Lange rooms may sign up at the Dean of Women's Office, 8 a. m. to .5.:30 p. m., Monday and Tuesday. Those 'in the third semester may choose rooms in the Dean's °lice Wed nesday and Thursday. Advanced 'ROTC will hold an interview board in 2 Carnegie Hail 4:343 p.m. Menday for applicants who MR be Advanced ROTC in the Fall.
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