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Summer News
Summary
Dies Suddenly
DR. FRANK C. merman
College Loses .
Renowned Dean
Penn State received a heartfelt
blow June 24 when Dean Frank
C. Whitmore of the School of
Chemistry and Physics died sud
denly of heart failure and was
buried two days later •in the Cen
tre County Memorial Park ceme
tery.
More than 500 faculty members,
students and other associates at
tended services in Schwab Audi
torium conducted by Chaplain
Emeritus John Frizzell for the
world-renowned chemist.
Long recognized as a leader in
the field of chemistry, Dean Whit
more in 1945 was awarded the
Willard Gibbs Medal, the highest
chemistry honor in the nation.
Last year he was one of 29 Amer
ican scientists named to the Na
tional Academy of Sciences and
in 1938 he served as president of
the American Chemical Society.
His book "Organic Chemistry"
was the first distinctly advanced
text in English on the subject of
intra - molecular rearrangements
and related reactions.
Dean Whitmore was a native of
North Attleboro, Mass., and com
pleted his undergraduate and
graduate studies at Harvard. He
taught at Williams, Rice Institute
and the University of Minnesota
and headed the chemistry depart
ment at Northwestern before
coming to Penn State in 1929.
From Soph Issue
The School of Chemistry and
Physics wishes to welcome to
our campus its members who
have completed their first col
legiate year in absentia. 'You
will find that the new atomic
age, which has complicated
many of our human activities,
has enriched your chosen fields
in opportunities for peaceful
advances. I hopd, perhaps self
ishly, that you will all be suc
essful in the completion of
"our college careers in the next
ew years
—George L. Haller.
Penn State Graduate
Fred Waring
THE. DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEUt, "-NNSYLVANIA
Reprintid iron
,i4umnirr .Tilltirgtatt The Summar
Coroner lists
Bloom 'Suicide'
Raymond R. Bloom, assistant
,rofessor of industrial engineer
ing at the College nd conitmin
der of Nitta* , Post 245 , Americah
Legion of State Colege, took his
life on Labor Day. Deatti was
causeti by a self-inflicted .22 cali
ber rifle bullet Wound reported
Charles Sheckler. Centre Coupty
coroner.
Bloom's body was found 75 feet
from his car near the game pre
serve at Waddle by State Pollee,
His family could think of no mo
tive for his suicide except that
"he had been terribly tired"
working on a new home.
Bloom joined the faculty at the
College in 1936 as an instructor in
industrial engineering and was
promoted to pcsis 4 r.nt nrofessor
in 194?
He was gr4daati.-a tram the
Williamson Trade School in 1914
and completed the teaching train
ing course at that institution in
1917. He received his bachelor of
science degree from the College
in 1936 and his master of arience
in 1942.
Bloom wab a mei/lour ui the
Presbyterian Church, Atnerican,
Illinois and Pennsylvania VOLT.-
tonal Associations, Masons and
14 other civic, fraternal educa
tional and honorary organisa
tions. He served in the Navy dup.
ing the past war.
Surviving are his widow,. and
two children, Alma G. and RAY
mond R., Jr.
Haber's Body
The body of Dr. Vernon
Haber, associate professor of zu.
logy at the College, was found
on August 11 by Harry L. O'CPP
nell, a student at the College.
culminating a 69 day nation-wide
search for the professor. Char
les Sheckler, Centre County
coroner. declared death a suicide
by hanging.
O'Connell and his orother-m
-law were berry picking In a
thickly wooded area about four
miles from campus, 500 feet from
the Boogersburg road, when they
discovered a man's shoe which
led them to find thc' bndv of
Haber.
Haber had been the cause of an
extensive nationwide search since
June 3, and a reward of $5OO was
offered by his wife and brothers
to any person giving information
to his whereabouts.
Haber came to the College in
1924 as assistant professor of zoo
logy and entomology, and in 1928
became associate professor of zoo
logy His widow. who survives
him, nisi , •0001-+ 7oology at the
Colleg
He receiveu iiis Dachelor of
science from Ohio State Univer
sity in 1914. his master of science
in 1916 and his doctor of philos
ophy from Cornell in 1924
Haber belonged to 12 scientific.
fraternal and honorary societies.
among them the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science. Phi Kappa Phi, scholas
tic honorary. and Delta CM.
social fraternity.
Alumni Group
Appoints Riley
Ridge Riley will succeed Ed -
ward K. Hibshman as executive
secretary and treasurer of the
Penp State Alumni Association
President Ralph Dorn Hetzel an
nounced recently. His appoint
ment becom es effective oC
tober 1,
He was elected at a meeting
of the executive b9ard of the
Alumni ,Association on August 2
and his Appointment was ap
proved at the last meeting of the
executive cenunittee of the board
of trustees.
A graduate in the class of 1932,
Riley has been affiliated with the
association since 1943 when he re
signed from the department of
public information to become as
eistent lecretary of the Alumni
ASsociat on and to edit its three
pUblicat4one, "The Alumni New s "
"The Penn Stater," and the "Wootz
ball Letter."
Like Hibshman, whto entered
the service of the College immedT
lately after graduation, Riley
stayed on in 1932 to fill the post
of manager of student union and
graduate manager of student
publications.
In 1934, he joined the staff of
the department of public inform
ation, where he was in charge of
sports publicity and was elevated
to the position of assistant direc
tor In 1940.
He got his first unofficial touch
of alumni work in 1938 when he
issued, for association members,
chatty, informal "Football Let
ter," describing each Penn State
4atne play by play, chronicling
amorous incidents and sidelights,
Id giving rabid alumni fans the
_aside dope."
Riley takes over direction of
EDWARD K. HIBSHMAN
the Alumni Association in its 77th
1 1 year, traditionally, and its 87th,
officially. It was first organized
on the afternoon of July 28, 1870,
when a few alumni gathered in
the chemistry lecture room on
the first floor of Old Main and
elected A. A: Breneman 'B6
president.
He is the fifth secretary
treasurer sin" , - 1910, when an
H. R. (IRE) OMMERT
College Names Grad Manager
Nereid R. "Ike" Gilbert has
been .aPPointfi graduate manager
of athletics, e school' of educa
tion and at leties, succeeding
Neil M. Fleming, President
Ralph Dorn Hetzel announced
recently,
Fleming, who announced his
retirement effective September 1,
had beeh associated with Penn
State athletics since 1910 as stu
dent, player and administrator,
and Gilbert had served as his as- 1
81Stant in the graduate manager's
office for 21 of those 37 years.
In approving Gilbert's appoint
inent, the executive committee of
the board of trustees voted to re
lieve the graduate manager of
athletics of the duties of the
graduate manager of Associated
Student Activities. George Dono
van, Student Union manager, will
fill that post.
The two men have been closely
essociated in intercollegiate ath
letics for a quarter of a century,
since 11 her t had previously
served for four years as a student
manager and had filled the post
of varsity track manager the year
preceding his appointment as as
sistant.
Fleming and Gilbert were the
only two men ever to fill the as
sistant graduate manager's job,
since it was especially created to
bring Fleming into the athletic
fold in 1914, and then discontin
ued from 1918, when Fleming was
named graduate manager, until
Gilbert was added as Fleming's
assistant in 1926.
The new appointee is the sixth
Alumni Office was established
with a salaried officer. His pred
ecessors were E. P. Thomas (1910-
11), Raymond H. Smith (1911-18),
E. N. Sullivan (1918-29), and
Mr. Hibshman (1930-47).
Riley, who will be 40 on Sep
tember 28, is a native of Annap-
Temporan► Units
To House Faculty
Pouring of concrete for t-unda
tons of the 76 family units direct
ly east of Winderest began last
week. The units will be used to!
provide temporary homes for mar
ried faculty and staff members
wh..: are unable to find housing in
State College at the time of their
arrival.
E. J. IVlinalyi, k iroject eiigineei
of the Steel-Built Construction Co.
of Pittsburgh, which is erecting
the units, stated that one-hail of
the steel necessary to complete the
buildings has ueen delivered. The
rest is expected sh rtly. He said
that all 76 units should be under
roof by mid-October.
College officials have announced
that none of the units would be
available for occupancy bef , re
January 1, 1948. Rental rates and
the policy governing period of oc
cupancy have not been definitely
set, but it was emphasized that
the project is intended solely as a
'ton-gap measure.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMPia 20, 1
NEIL M. FLEMING
man to fill the graduate mariag
en's shoes. George H. Meelt, re
tired postmaster of Bellefonte,
Henry C. Moilveen and P. Edwin
Thomas each served for one-year
periods after the office was cre
ated in 1998, followed by Ray H.
Smith, who continued until his
appointment as the College
Comptroller in 1918. Fleming has
been graduate manager for the 29
years since.
During the 25 years that Flem
ing and Gilbert have been asso
ciated in the athletic office, Venn
State has forged steadily forward
and now maintains intercollegiate
schedules in 17 varsity sports. Me
two have held responsible posi
tions in Eastern athletic groups,
and have been key figlres e
promotion of the present-day n
tercollegiate athletic program.
Like Fleming, Gilbert has been
an avid follower of all sports, has
an unbroken record at football
games, and has missed few other
athletic events either at home or
away. One of Fleming's proudest
boasts is the fact that he had been
absent from only two of the 310
football games in which Penn
State had played since he °rime
to the campus as a student in 1910.
Gilbert, who'll be in command
of schedule-making effective im
mediately, at the present time is
secretary-treasurer and also vice
president of the Intercollegiate
Boxing Association of America.
He served as president of the In
tercollegiate Amateur Athletic
Association of America in 1942.
olis, Md. In college, he was editor
of the Collegian, belonged to
Lion's Paw, Skull and Bones,
Blue 'Key, Sphinx, and was a
member of two journalism hon
oraries, Sigma Delta Chi and Pi
Delta Epsiion. His social fratern
ity is Tneta Xi.
Chapel Stands as
Campus Tradition
Sunday Chapel has become
one of the many traditions at the
College. The program includes a
devotional service conducted by
the Acting Chaplain, James T.
Smith, choir music and addreSses
by preachers and laymen of all
creeds.
The se r v ices are held in
Schwab Auditorium, 11 a.m., and
are completely voluntary. The
choir of 100 mixed voices is under
the direction of Mrs. Willa W.
Taylor and Mr. George E. Ceiga,
organist.
The offering which is received
each week has, since 1911, been
devoted to furthering the work
known as Penn State-in-China, at
Ling n a n University, Canton,
China.
Dr. Robert R. Wicks. former
Dean of the University Chapel at
Princeton, will be the first guest
speaker. This service will be held
September 28.
More than 500 active research
projects are included in the Col
lege research program at the
present time.