TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1047
Women Transfers To Wear
‘Soph Customs’, Says WSGA
Cancer Drive
Gains $1,184
A check for $1,084.33, repre
senting the complete returns of
the College campus drive in the
recent campaign for funds of the
Centre County Cancer Society,
was received by Eugene Lee,
county treasurer, Bill McMullen,
State College area chairman of
the drive, has reported. .
Under the direction of Dr. Ar
thur F. Davis of the School, of
Physical Education, the campus
drive was conducted by the Perm
State Health Education Society
and Phi Epsilon Kappa, with Miss
Constance Miceli serving as gen
eral chairman.
Childhood Experiences Slant
Adult Nutritional Behavior
Judges Visit
Flower Plots
For Field Day
Test gardens at the College,
where thousands of annuals are
growing in colorful profusion,
will be inspected by Specialists,
seedsmen, and judges August 19,
Flower Field Day, Darle I.
Wilde, professor of horticulture,
said today.
Specimens under test for
possible All-America honors
will be evaluated, along with
new varieties to be introduced to
trade in the future. Scores of
new vegetable varieties, some
promising hybrids, will be stud
ied by similar judges.
Open to the public at all times,
the gardens' are located on the
east side of the U.. S. Pasteur
Laboratory on East Pollack Road.
Attendants are on hand daily to
guide visitors and answer
queries. Plants are all labeled.
The flower plots at the College
are especially beautiful during
present 1 weeks, and will reach
their peak within the next few
days, Wilde said. Flower, and
vegetable plots are all part of
the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Experiment Station at the Col
lege.
The largest flower group rep
resented in the gardens is the
260 varieties of hybrid tea rose 3,
whch comprises one of the larg
est comparative plantings in the
eastern United States.
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THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN— STATE OOLUSCMC, PCMNSYLVAMXA
All spohomore women trans
ferring from undergraduate cen
ters to the College this Fall will
be required to wear sophomore
cuustoms the first week of
school, said Suzzane Romig,
president of Women’s Student
Government Association.
"Soph customs” will consist of
blue and white hair bows, four
inches, wide and three quarters
of a yard long, and name cards,
three by four inches.
Sophomore women will be re
quired to wear the ribbons and
name cards from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday of
sophomore week.
The purpose of Sophomore
Week is to help new women on
campus get acquainted with up
perclassmen and to help them
acquire Penn State’s' “hello
spirit,” Miss Romig added.
Stating that childhood experi
ences were, to a large extent, the
determiners .of nutritional be
havior, Dr. Herbert T. Kelly,
chairman on nutrition of .the
Medical Society of the state of
Pennsylvania, warned nutrition
workers that ignorance is one of
the main obstacles to changing
food habits.
Dr. Kelly spoke before a meet
ing of the Nutrition Workshop,
sponsored by the American Na
tional Red Cross, Eastern area, -,t
the College.
The first impressions the infant
gains of the physical and emo
tional world are gained from his
early feeding experiences, Dr.
Kelly said. The way in which he
is handled at this time may. pro
foundly affect the development of
his personality and . future atti
tudes toward food. The emo
tionally secure mother . with a
gentle, affectionate and self-con
fident attitude develops in her
baby a sense of security and en
hances his .opportunities for opti
mal growth and well-being, Dr.
Kelly declared.
“Education is one of our most
potent weapons," Dr. Kelly said,
in solving the problem of nutri
tion deficiency. “Modem knowl
edge of infant feeding may well
decrease the amount of rickets,
tuberculosis, infant diarrhea and
other diseases which often follow
directly or indirectly upon poor
feeding.”
In general, Dr. Kelly said, food
habits are determined by geogra
phy, economics, eating fashions,
food fads, and food likes and dis
likes. . Children learn food likes
and dislikes, he stated,- through
imitation, by objection to poor
preparation and appearances, and
in . some instances, by bodily-of
fending chemical substances.
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Men Disapprove Style Trend
As Coeds' Skirts Lengthen
By Jean Alderfer
Wihl'.e nearly 100 per cent otf the
College men groan their disap
proval, coeds’ skirts have been
dipping inches below their knees
in past months.
Women students who oame to
Summer Sessions from ■ small
towns where the new fashion
hadn’t “caught on” ■ spent several
classes with coeds .in calf-length
dresses and busily let down their
own hems.
A selected poll, showed that
while 47 per cent of the women on
campus were ardent “long-hem
mers,” the 51 per cent who don’t
like longer shirts admitted they
like herns a “little” longer.
Men interviewed at random dis
like the new fashion.
Long-Legged Ideal
“What’s going to happen to our
ideal of the long-legged American
girls?” said one. “Their legs look
chopped off with long skirts.”
Women who voted for the long
er skirts, which means three or
four inches below the knee, say
that they are more flattering (es
pecially to taller girls), more fem
inine, and besides, they “want a
change.”
The coeds who voted against
lengthening hems almost unani
Incl. Ed. Dames
Attend Party
Wives of industrial education
graduate students will attend a
“get-acquainted”' party at the
Alpha. Gamma Rho house, 2:30
p.m. Thursday, said Mrs. Fred
L. Hoffman, president.
All wives of men in the in
dustrial education department
are eligible for membership in.
the group, Mrs. Hoffman added.
A campus tour July 31 and a
dinner dance August 7 are on
the main Summer Session ros
ter. Committee in charge of
Thursday’s meeting* is Mrs. Ells
worth. Russell, Mrs. Jessie Win
nimore, and Mrs. Everett Wins
low.
Penn State Dames
List Hort Picnic
All graduate students and their
families are invited to attend the
picnic sponsored by the Pehn
State Dames in Hort Woods, 5:30
p.m.' tomorrow, said Mrs. Chris
Groneman, Dames president.
Tickets may be. obtained from
Mr. Robert M. Knobel, at the
Summer Sessions office, . 103
Burrowes. today. In case of rain,
the picnic will be held in the
Grange dormitory.
mously said they like longer
dresses more as they get used to
seeing them. Asked if they were
letting down hems from last year’,,
dresses, most of them said they
were.
Buyers ki women's dress shops
downtown confirm what fashion
magazines s how —Fall dresses at
least 14 inches from the floor,
inches longer than last year.
Some Men Like Them
“Lots of men who come in shop
ping with their wives like longer
skirts," said one sa-esglrl. A buyer
for another shop, a man, thinks
the longer skirts are smart with
heels, but that sandaled coeds with
ootton skirts flouncing to their
calves look “horrible.”
Is the trend here to stay? Fifty
three per cent of the women think
tiie fashion might: last several
years. Almost unanimously they
think skirts will be the new length
for several seasons.
“And I thought women dressed
to please men," said one disgrun
tled veteran.
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Forum Lists
Hatcher Talk
A series o£ home economics
forums on “Homes, Families, and
Home Economics’’ are being held
in 110 Home Economics at 4*39
p.m. each Wednesday.
“Family Life in Chile” will be
discussed by Dr. Hazel Hatcher,
professor of home economics edu
cation at the College, in tomor
row's program.
Lenore Brundige, fashions edi
tor of the Pittsburgh Press, will
speak on “Fashions for Fall’* July
28. "Family Spending Patterns”
by Frederica Carleton, associate
professor of home economics at
Syracuse University, is scheduled
for July 30.
Dr. Winona L. Morgan, associ
ate professor of home economics
at the College, will lecture on
"Responsibility of the Family for
Democratic Living” August 6.
A June 1947 graduate, Miss
Jean Nelson of Meadville has
been named secretary to the dean
of women.