THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1048
Choir To Present
Oratorio, 'Elijah'
The Chapel Choir, under the
direction of Mrs. Willa Taylor,
will present for special musical
entertainment this spring, a con
cert of Mendelssohn's famous
oratorio, "Elijah."
The concert will take place in
Schwab Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.,
May 19. There will be no admis
sion charge, but a silver offer
ing will be taken.
This is the first time the Chapel
Choir has undertaken a work of
this type. The "Elijah" is a dra
matic biblical story set to music
with no stage action. It is writ
ten about Elijah, the great desert
prophet, and his experiences in
bringing the Israelites back to
God.
Three professional soloists have
been engaged to sing with. the
Choir. They are Martha Albert,
contralto, and a graduate of the
College; Barbara Troxell, so
prano, also a graduate of the
College; and Chester Watson,
baritone. Boyd Bell, tenor, of
State College will also be one of
the guest soloists.
Ed School Plans
Vocational Series
A series of weekly lectures
concerning problems in indus
trial education has been arranged
for the main summer sessions by
the School of Education, S. Lewis
Land, director of vocational
teacher education, said today.
Lectures are scheduled for 10
Sparks at 7 p.m. Tuesdays during
the last four weeks of the ses
sion.
First Lecture, July
J. C. Wright, member of the
Commission in Charge of Voca
tional Education and former As
sistant Commissioner, U.S. Office
of Education, will speak on "The
U. S. Commission on the Educa
tional Adjustment of Youth" at
the first lecture, July 6.
"More Effective State and
Local Supervision of Programs
of Industrial Education" will be
the topic of A. B. Wrigley, state
supervisor of industrial educa
tion, Trenton, N. 1., July 13.
New York Lecture Third
The third in the series, July
20, is a discussion of "The Place
of Educational and Vocational
Guidance in Pupil Personnel
Services" by Garrett Nyweide,
director of The Vocational Edu
cation and Extension Board of
Rockland County, N. Y. C.
The last lecture, July 29, to
be held in connection with the
Superintendents and Principals'
Conference, will deal with "Meet
ing the Needs of the 'Sixty Per
Cent Group.' " John A. McCar
thy, state director of vocational
education, Trenton, N. J., is
speaker.
Autograph Hunter
Mixes Blondes;
Face Red
Jerry Gottleib, a member of Pi
Lambda Pi fraternity, pushed hie
way through the crowd at Rec
Hall during the recent PanHel-
IFC Ball.
Jerry was elbowing his way to
the bandstand to get Francey
Lane's autograph on her photo
graph.
After trampling over a few im
ports and their disgusted dates
Jerry finally succeeded in reach
ing the bandstand. He handed the
picture to the blond vocalist.
"Miss Lane," he asked, "may I
have your autograph on this pic
ture of yours?"
The curvacious vocalist quickly
replied, "You may have my auto
graph on that picture but I'm not
Miss Lane."
Jerry, whose face matched his
red tie closely, slowly crawled
back to his date, "Well, I tried.
How was I to know it wasn't
her."
You do not need to strain meat
drippings put intogravy. The bits
of meat step up the flavor and
°Mt DAM, COWMAN. STAI COLIMOIL IMINMSYLVAATA
Penn State in Review
First Depression, Then War
DR. RALPH D. HETZEL served longer as president of the
'Penn
sylvania State College than any other president except Dr. Ather
ton. In his 21 years of office the college experienced
8 years of depression, 4 years of war, and 2 years
of turbulent postwar adjustments. Through all
this change and confusion ) the Preildent moved
steadily, with caution and tolerance, toward a big
ger Penn State.
At first American colleges did not suffer much
from the depression, whose length no one foresaw.
But by 1982 it was obvious that proiperity was
not around any corner. Enrollment dropped sit
Penn State, as at other colleges. Funds endowed
Ds. Ei rrUL for student scholarships failed to yield full inter
est. The legislature and the governor, intent on all possible econ
omy, cut the college's appropriations.
The result was a general reduc
tion of the college's work—research
discontinued, teachers dropped.
salaries of those remaining reduced.
No new buildings were erected in
1933 and 1934. In all colleges morale
was low.
Federal Aid Helpful
But federal aid came to the res
cue. By the school year 1934-35,
Penn State's enrollment had climbed
to new heights. W.P.A. projects
and National Youth Administration
grants were the magic formulas
that replenished the colleges. Cam
pus building was resumed with a
grant of 95,500,000 of Public Works
Administration-Oeneral State Au
thority funds. Slowly the college
climbed out of the depression and
crossed the 7000-Mark in enroll
ment in 1940;
Then war came. The peacetime
draft of 21-year olds in 1940 did
not affect college enrollment much,
but the declaration of war in 1941
and the drafting of 18-year olds in
1942 reduced all colleges to skele
ton size. Fortunately the govern
ment decided to train some of its
millions of recruits in the almost
empty colleges.
So the Penn State campus blos
somed with uniforms. The Navy's
V-5 and V-12 men attended classes
in blue during the winter and broke
out in dazzling White each spring.
The A.S.T.P. troops busied them
selves in engineering laboratories.
A small select group of gold-braid
ed naval officers worked with diesel
engines. And month by month came
new units of the Army Air Corps,
singing "Alouette" and "Here we
go. into the wild blue yonder."
Coeds in Command
Co-eds were in a majority among
the campus civilians, running the
publications and the student gov
ernment. But soon contingents of
girls arrived to take short courses
in handling machines the Cur-
Years Ago.—
(Continued from page one)
matics student, is Ftage manager
for the show and Ted Breining,
house manager. Other crew mem
bers are listed below.
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ties Wright Cadettes, the flat:011ton
Propeller and the Tunes Aircraft
girls. They had no orllcial uniforms,
but they soon adopted overalls,
rolled halfway to the ithee, as their
Working costume.
Forty-two fraternity nausea Mere
turned over to service men. Teach
ers were transferred from peace
time specialties to wartime mathe
matics and physics. TWo semestets
were accelerated to three per year.
With vacations • apptoachingbro.
Beyond the campus more than 10,-
000 Penn State men and women
Were in military service. and sit least
360 gave their lives in the War.
The war reduced the collegeen
rollment from 7000 to 4000, but With
the coming of peace end the sign
ing of the "GI Bill of Rights" there
was a rush of veterans back to Alma
Mater to complete their education.
Today the college enrollment has
reached a peak-11,000 regular stu
dents. About. 800 married veterans
live in 350 trailers on the east cam
pus. About 900 single veterans live
nearby in 14 prefabricated dormi
tories. About 8000 other students
fill dormitories, fraternity houses,
and spare rooms in State College
and neighboring towns. Over .3000
freshmen are "assigned" in a
unique experiment in State Teach
ere Colleges, Mt. Alto Forettry
School, the college's four under
graduate centers, end a few private
colleges.
Research Important
•
Meanwhile, research has gone on
under difficulties. More than GOO
active research projects are now
under way, 200 of them in the
School of Agriculture. Notable ex
periments are being made in Mine
ral Indpstries and Engineering Ex
periment Stations, thp Ellen B.
Richards Institute (textiles and nu
trition), the petroleum refining lab
oratory, the Institute of Local Gov
ernment, the Bureau of Business Re
search, the psychological clinics, etc.
Herbert Graves. and Milton Moe
schlin.
Jo Marie Jackson, head, Mar
garet Breece, assistant head,
Pauline Brader„ Jean Bickerton,
Barbara Coopef, Paul , Gayer,
Shirley Robinson, Esther Schre
cengoat, and Donald Saunders.
Lights
Herbert Seaton„h,ead„Allen
Baker, assistant head„ Deane
Brown, Maria Scott, and Henry
Sasinski.
Make-up
Jane Staus, head, Charles Co
hen, Olivia Hrider, Francine
Fall, Dianne Scuderi, and Bud
Palmer.
Sound
Sydney Pulver„M elv I n
Schwartz, and Carl Tendler.
Costum.
LITZ IN A TRAILER
Extension work spread widely
through industrial classes both dur
ing the depreesion and the War.
Shop classes, undergraduate cen
ters, correspondence courses, insti
tutes and conferences on and off
campus—all add up to an expendi
ture of over $2,000,000 a year. Over
16,000 students are in formal, off
campus courses, and hundreds of
thousands are, reached annually In
informal MatiVities.
On October 3, IKZ, President
Hetwel, wbrking at home cin his
official correspondence while recu
perating from an operation. sud
denly died. He was as surely a
casualty of the Second World War
as President Pugh had been of the
Civil War and President Sparks of
World War I.
Under Dr. Hetzel the college had
weathered not only the war but also
the longest depression in our na
tional history. Under his leader
ship it has now reached its great
est size and its greatest usefulness
to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania and to the nation.
(w .d)
It was 85 years ago on
April 1, 1868—that the Penn
sylvania Legislature designat
ed Penn State the beneficiary
of the Morrill Act, and there
fore the Land Grant College of
the State. W. L. Werner, pro
fessor of American Literature,
herein charts the •highlights of
those years in a condensation
of Dr. Wayland P. Dunaway's
illuminating book, "History of
The Pennsylvania State Col
lege,' which was published a
year ago. This is the last in
a series of sia articles.
Woods that give the most heat
for their weight are: oak, hickory,
sweet birch, hard maple, rock
elm, locust and longleaf pine.
Dr. B. M. Shupack announces
the new location of his office
at 111 S. Allen St., Metzger
Building.
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Philosophy Dept.
List Changes
Effective in the fall 'meet*
of 1948 Philosophy 1, 2 or 3 win
be accepted as fulfilling the re
quirements in philosophy for un
dergraduate students, announced
John Mouraht, chairman of the
philosophy department.
Title and description of the
courses are
Philosophy 1. Introduction Ss
Logic (3) An analysis of the prog
ress of thought and an elemen
tary treatment of the principles
of correct systematic thinking th
gether with a formulation of the
guides to scientific reasoning.
Philosophy 2. IntrqdnetiOn to
the Divelopmact of Philosophical
Ideas (3) The chief probletna of
philosophy as formulated in the
writings of Plato and Aristotle.
The philosophical quest, knortl
edge vs. opinion, the nature of
good art, education, appearatee
and reality.
Philosophy 3. Introduction to
Ethics (3) The problem of choice
and man's moral development.
basic theories of the theories of
choice such as Greek ethics,
ethics of Western religion, hed
onism and a discusition of the
moral issues confronting the in
dividual and society in the light
of these theories.
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