PA.GE FOUB.
College Installs Benches
To Aid Weary Students
Over Worked , studen;ts and visitors weary from too much sight
seeing wilt (Have mlore plates to rest their bones next. Spring as the
remillt 3.0 new benches now being installed as a gift. tor the class of
IR& te
Me got develloped :from ci(virplinint of an elderly visitor to the
eampue, 'who liked th e place so tinfoil that he remained to take a course
Those Player Shows
Don't Just
Happen
If you think a Player's siltow
just happens, stop over at Schwab
,some night.
Last night When we walked into
Ole Thespian room Where Fran
Gass and her costume crew were
Working the first thing we noticed
Were larg e donut-shaped muslin
cushions. Mrs. Scott, faculty de
signer of todiumes, explained that
ihese are bustles to filare skirts.
Sh e continued that the codtttme
design, is from the 1660 period but
"treated• in a rniedern way rather
Chan in reproduction of the au
thor's original idea.
"The set and costumes were de
:4gned in delicate filambouyant
rococo to bring out the author's
ridicule of the hypocondriac."
Every now and then ther e Was
an interrupiion as one of the =St
took a break from the Little The
ater stage tor a fitting. Lois Harts
wick walked in, with her York
shire terrier, Judy, while w e were
there.
Leaving the ThiesPlan room, w e
met, Dual' Sipes, student designer
of scenery, costumes, furniture
and properties. He commented,
The show is something bolder
than Penn State Players have .
tried before."
A yellow quilted sateen sofa
Caught our eye while we talked , to
Ernest Bentner, furniture crew
head. The sofa and a snake-like
table,
both Made from scratch, are
to b e decorated wiith rococo out
from tin awns by Gordon Fiske's
• scenery Construction crew.
In the property cage, there were
gold papier-mache mortars and
pesitils, song Sheets comiplete to
'notes and bars, and a pink add
wihate striped mock syringe. Riusty
Weingarten e - xplairts, "You may
never see the props closely. - but
they must be as nearly aUthenitk
as ptosstible."
Alter climbing three flights to
the Player's loft to watch Ann
Otunawayls paint crew we found
the flats finished and locked up.
'eaving Sehlvtab we realized
how. much goes on behind the
:icenes to make the Show a success.
'Skiers Heel Colgate
The ski team swings into ac
tion with its first regular meet
against Colgate University -at
Hamilton, N. Y., Saturday, Neil
Fleming, graduate manager of
athletics, announced today.
in Vie Summer of 1943. In a letter
to President 'Hazel, he lamented
the absence of places 'to sit and
enjoy the scenery.
A member of the donating class,
who is president of a large Pitts_
buret steel company, offered to
conStrolcit the benches if the class
paid for their erection. The 'total
of 50 benches will 'replac e the old
green park jobs spent most
at their time in fraternity row.
A desirable view and lack of in
terference with future building
developments were considered in
the sites chosen for the benches,
according to George W. Ebert,
superintendent of Grounds and
Buildings.
Where, Oh Where Have
The thrisfmas
Trees Gone?
Christmas is now as dead es
last year's snows, with nary a
trace off the gay trimmings and
tinsel that adorned every corner
of the campus. Did goblins carry
away the 37 Christmas trees, , and
the four truckloads of greens pro
vided by Grounds and Buildings?
"I can account for a few of
them," said Walter W. Trainer,
supervisor of maintenance for
grounds and buildings. "Many Of
the sorority houses offered their
trees and decorations to poor ram
ilies, or to churches. The trees
that were thrown outside for col
lection (b eif or e vacation blew
around in the wind a hit, but we
finally gathered them up,"
"The larger trees, like the ones
in Old Main, were collected Sat
urday and taken out Three Mile
Road, past Farm No. 7, to the col
lege dump. There they were
tossed into the incinerator and
burned."
And what hiappened to all the
mistletoe that hung, unnoticed
and unneeded, in all the lounges?
None was collected, for it had
just disappeared. Guess it went
where the Christmas spirit goes.
Stresses the Job
Of Young farmers
•
Chauncey P. L a ng, assistant
state 4-IH Club leader of the Col
lege, will speak at the New Jer
sey State Meeting of Older Rural
Youth at Trenton, N. J., January
21, on "Opportunities and Re
sponsibilities of Older Rural
Youth in the American Way of
Life."
On Monday, Lang spoke at the
quarterly staff .conference of the
Extension Service of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture in Wash
ington, D. C., on the subject of
"Older Rural Youth Program in
Pennsylvania."
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Art Expert
To Lecture
On Folk Art
Donald A. Shelley, curator of
paintings and sculpture at the
New York Historical Society and
specialist. in Pennsylvania Ger
man folk art, will present the
first lecture of the Lucretia V. T.
Simmons series in Room 121,
Sparks Building, at 4:15 o'clock
Monday afternoon. ,
The series was started at the
College this year in memory of
Dr. Simmons, teacher of German
for 36 years and head of the de
partment of German .from 1916 to
1939.
Shelley's lecture, titled "Penn
sylvania Geman Folk Art," will
be illustrated with lantern Slides
of outstanding specimens of these
early arts and crafts and will deal
with the history and development
of typical forms and designs.
A member of both the Pennsyl
vania German Society and the
Pennsylvania G e ran an Folklore
Society, Shelley has been carry
ing on specialized research in the
field of
for
German
folk art for 10 years, contentrat
ing upon the art of Fractur Writ
ifig and its relation to the Various
oth e r Pennsylvania decorative
arts and crafts. In connection
with this study, he has traveled
widely over eastern ,Pennsylva
nia, as well as Europe, in search
of fine individual specimens and
private • collections of Fractur.
Shelley, a brother of Dr. Philip
A. Shelley, head of the depart
ment of German at the College,
is l a native of York and is of Penn
sylvania German ancestry. He
was a former student of Dr. Sian
mons, having received a bachelor
of arts degree in arts and letters
from the College in 1932.
Continuing his studies at Har
vard University in the Fogg Art
Museum, where he specialized in
the history of art, he received his
master of arts degree in 1983. He
then continued his work in the
Institute of Fine Arts
he
New
York University where he is cora
pleting requirements for his doc
tor's degree in American Art and
is writing his thesis on Pennsyl
vania German Fractur Writing.
Shelley's museum training be
han in 19315 with his appointment
as one cif the first Rockefeller
Foundation Internes assigned to
the Brooklyn Museum. Later he
served two years as director of
an experimental Children's Mu-
seum in Queens, New York.
In 1938, the American Associa
tion of Museums in Washington,
D. C., 'sent him to Rhineland to
study the European background
Of our Pennsylvania German Arts
and to visit the many modern
Folk Art Museums in Southwest
Germany and in France contain
ing exhibits of those arts , and
crafts which are so closely 're
lated to, and so often confused
with, our own early Pennsylvania
German products,
The New Beaver football
is Mowed weekly and marked tor
eadh sdheduled event.
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Brotherhood and madhinist and
dislrick representative after that.
He has organized farm coopera
tives, and sat on two national
labor boards, The National Labor .
Board and the National Labor Re
lations Board.
Mr. Golden is a member of the
ptillicy committee of the War Man
agement Board. Although his flor
mral education was not extensive,
he has various educational capaci
ties. H e was founder and president
of the Philadelphia Labor College,
Field Manager for Brookwbod
College, . Katonah, N. Y., and
Trustee of Antioch College.
Co-author of the hook, "Dynam
ics of Industrial Management,"
Mr. Golden is a memlber of the
policy committee of the Trade-
Labor Management committee at
Yale.
Mr. Batt, representing manage
ment, received his MA from Fur
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due in 1901 and his Doctor's in
1933, after study at Drexel and
Stevens Institute of Tedhnology.
He was a membe r of the Inter
national Committee of Scientific
Management, and chairman of the
Board of American . Management,
An. honorary . member of the
American. Society..af. Mechanical
Engineers, Mr—Batt was once
vtice4ohairman of .the Wa r Produc
tion Baard. He was also member
to the National Planning Associa
tion and Was a deputy member of
the Combined Production and Re
sources Board of the United
State's, Great Britain, and Canada,
There are 120 stage seat tickets
still availlabi e at Sttalent Union.
arid 'at the box office of SChwab
Auditorium, Jo Hays, ticket man-.
alter. for. the. Forum, •reports. The
tickets . are on sale .at 7 5 cents
•
each.
The New Beaver grandisltandis
quire sweeping before •eaeh Ma
jor event and Whetting of rubhdish
ete r each event.