POinE STX News Briefs New Catalogs College catalogs for 1948-49 are available to students iu 109 Old Main. Froth Mixer Froth will hold its annual mixer at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at 7 o'clock tonight. All staff members and candidate's are invited. LA Mixer The Liberal Arts student-fac ulty mixer will be held in the Northwest lounge of Atherton Hall at 7 o'clock tonight. Jr. Greeters Club Sam Moore and John Wills, members of the Jr. Greeters Club, were recently named representa tives to the Home Economics Cab inet. Richard M. Bower, assistant professor of Hotel Administration, was recently named new adviser to the Jr. Greeters Club. Alpha Chi Omega The Phi Gamma Delta's were recently entertained with a soft ball game by the Alpha Chi Omega's. Beta Sigma Rho Samuel Firestone was elected chancellor of Beta Sigma Rho Monday. Other officers elected are Stanley Jacobs, vice-chan cellor; Murray Weinberger, audi tor; Brett Kranich, warden; Wil lard Klein, vice-warder, and Fred Silverman, recorder. Phi Kappa Sigma Delta Gamma and Phi Kappa Sigma will hold a joint pledge dance at the• Phi Kappa Sig house from 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday. Pau] Grove and his orchestra will play for the affair. Parents and friends will be guests. Record Number Apply For Student Teaching A record-breaking total of 170 applications for student teaching next semester hav,e been filed, Dr. Willis E. Pratt, head of the education department, said today. The norm is 40 or 50 a semes ter. The number of students doing practice teaching during the entire year 1947-48 was 170. Twenty of the students plan ning practice teaching will be accommodated in State College elementary schools. The other 150, aspiring secondary school teachers, will he sent to Wil liamsport. Johnstown. Harrisburg and York. WHO IS THE MYSTERY CITIZEN? You Might Know and Win! TUNE IN THE MINE HOUR EVERY FRIDAY 7:00 P.M. WMAJ Presenting the WEEK'S SPECIAL ALL WOOL SPORT COATS Reg. $27.50 Now 17.95 ALSO FULL CUT BASQUE SHIRTS By Wrights Reg. $l.OO Now 69c YOUNG MEN'S SHOP 127 S . Allen Street THE DAILY COLLECHAN STATE cottrar. PENNSYLVANIA Library Display Features Poetry by College Writers Students Visit Farquhar Plant Twenty-one Agricultural Engi neering students, accompanied by Ralph E. Patterson, Agricul tural Engineering instructor, at tended an inspection trip 'to the A. B. Farquhar Company, manu facturers of "Iron Age" farm equipment, at York, Thursday. The trip included a crimplete tour of the plant from engineer ing and design through the ex perimental, manufacturing, pro duction assembly, storage, and shipping departments, along with a discussion and demonstration of the company's farm machinery, conveyors, and presses. A lunch was served at noon for the stu dents, employers and employees. Home Ec Honorary installs Officers, Honors Sophomores Virginia Wilson was installed as president of Omicron Nu, Home Economics honorary, at a recent meeting followed by a breakfast honoring outstanding sopho mores. Other officers are Shirley Bah!), vice - president, Gertrude (lustufmon, sec r eta ry, Nancy Curry, treasurer, and Beatrice Silverstone, editor. A breakfast honoring sopho mores with higher than a two average followed the installation. The meeting was concluded with a talk from Mary Alice Giger, student at the College, who recently studied at Merril Palmer College in Detroit. Works of the College poets compose an exhibit now on dis play on the second floor of the Library. The exhibit is sponsored by the Belles Lettres Club to bring recognition to Penn State poets on their own campus. and stimulat e an interest in writing. Theodore Roethke, until recent ly assistant professor of English literature at the College, is pre sented by his tw(4 volumes of poetry, "Open Rouse" and "The Lost Son and Other Poems." Joseph L. Grucci, professor at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of "Lovers of Earth" and "This Autumn Surely," which are collections of his poems. The former is dedicated to W. L. Werner, professor of American literature at the College, the other to • Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee, professor emeritus of American Literature at th e College. Gerhard Friedrich. instructor in English literature, is the author of seven poems included in the exhibit. Born in Germany, Friedrich writes poetry with equal facility in both English and German and his works hav e been published in per iodicals throughout the country. Others represented in the ex hibit are Professor Werner, Rob ert Wistrand, a former student and editor of "Froth" whose work has appeared in "Poetry" and "The New Republic," Dr. Mason Long, professor of English liter ature; Dorothy BElicourt, another former student; Philip A. Shelley, profesor of German, and Eleanor L. Fehnel, of Northamp ton, a senior at the College. The now famous "`Tobacco is a Dirty Weed," which first appear ed in "Froth" in November, 1915, as well as several newspaper clippings concerning it, also is on display. The ditty has been in eluded in Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" and has been widely reprinted. The author of the poem is Q. E. Hemminger, a graduate of the College in 1917. Stage and Screen Actress Appears in Artist Series Mary Hutchinson, distinguished monologuist and stage and screen actress, will be the first actress to appear In a series of six programs in Schwab Auditorium during the summer sessions. The first and last of the series, to be presented during the in tercession and the post session respectively, will be free to the public. Reserved seat tickets for the remaining four programs, scheduled for - the main session will coat 12.40 a seat and tickets may • be obtained at the Summit Sessions office as soon as the in teraeasion begins. Dramatic Portraits Miss Hutchinson in a perform ance Thursday, June 17, I#lll pre sent "Dramatic Portraits," a ser ies of monlogue sketches depict ing the lives of some of drama's best-known woman . character., The actress changes from charac ter to character swiftly without any waits for costume change. By means of a portable stage dressing room to which she re tires• to change costumes, she continues her lines without in terruption. A concert by the American Male Chorus a group of 32 war veterans, will open the main session series Tuesday, July 6. Organized after the war to main tain the morale of occupation troops, the group presented its first public concert in Manilla February 22, 1948. The New York Times has said that, they sing with "skill and beauty of tone." - Modern Dane. PL 16 Vets Attend Summer Sessions Public Law 16 veterans are ex pected to attend summer sessions, barring certain exceptions, the Veterans Administration recently pointed out. The Veteran's Manual states that "a veteran once inducted into training under Public Law 16 will be expected to pursue his trainingprogram to completion without interruption insofar as it shall be possible for him to do so. Whenever possible. continuous training shall be provided for all trainees, including training dur ing the summer." In the event that appropriate courses ar e not offered during any summer session, P.L. 16 trainees should secure a state ment to that effect from their ad viser. If physical conditions should cbuse the interruption of a vet eran's training, a recommenda tion from his physician -or the Veteran's Administration physic ian should be obtained. Faculty News Dr. Helen R. Leßaron. profes sor and assistant director of home economics, is participating this week in the meetings of the As sociation for Childhood Educa tion in St. Louis, Mo. She is lead ing a study class in discovering methods of improving food, shel ter, and clothing. I:=M:3 R. E. Burgess, of the National Physical Labs, Teddington, Mid dlesex, England, visited the de nartment of electrical engineer ing recently. Burgess, with the British Commonwealth Scientific Office, is engaged in scientific liaison work.' He was interested in the Watson Laboratories' radic wave propagation projects being conducted at the College. I:=:=3 Dr. Paul H. Schweitzer, pro fessor of engineering research, I author of an article on "Mus: Diesel Engines Smoke?" which appeared in recent issues of Die sel Review, a magazine published in Buenos Aires. Dr. George L. Zundel, associate professor of agricultural exten sion, has been invited to present a paper to the 2nd annual South American Botanical Society sci entific gathering at Tucuman University, Tucuman, Argentina in early October. ==l Members of the Ellzabethville Rotary Club recently visited the Speech and Hearing Clinic at the College. The club became inter ested in the work of the clinic after they observed improve ments in a young man from Eliz abethville who was sent to the clinic as a project of the club. Hummel Fishburn, professor and head of the department of music, has been elected to the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the Music Edu cators National Conference. The election was made at the recent meetings held in Detroit, Mich., at which more than 6000 members attended. The seven man executive committee con ducts the business of the organ ization between annual meetings. C:=:=::1 Dr. Clifford R. Adoms, associ ate professor of psychology, ap pears in the March of Time release that is scheduled for the State Theatre on Saturday. In the pic ture, Dr. Adams is one of the ex WEDNESDAY. MAY 12. 1941 Jan Veen and Adele Hooper, well-known exponents of modern dance, will present "A Program of Theatre Dance" Thursday, July 15. Mr. Veen received his early training from leading central European dancers and teachers and gained recognition as an art ist before going to Shanghai where he opened his first school, Later he presented his first modern dance recital in New York City and established a school in that city. Miss Hooper trained at the Jan Veen studio before becoming partner to Mr. Veen. Margaret Daum, lyric soprano star of the radio show, "Ameri can Album of Familiar Music." will appear Thursday, July 22, in a program of selected songs. Mies Daum has played the title roles in two operas written exclusively for radio by Gian Carlo Menotti, "Old Maid and the Thief" and "Amelia Goes to the Ball." She was also featured in the first tele. vised operetta presented In this 7ountry, "Pirates of Penzance." Vorsatlie Pianist Henry L. Scott, often credited by Music critics as being the "world's most versatile concert pianist", will conclude the main 4ession series with a recital of .lassies, swing and concert humor Thursday, July 29. Originator of 'oncert humor, Scott has made several movi f , shorts and has Ilayed for radio. His interprets vions of Chopin and Liszt are fa mous. Warren Lee Terry will appear 'n the last of the series Thursday, August 19. Mr. Terry has a repu tation as an actor reconteur and singer. His program, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Song and Story" is collection of anecdotes, music and humor. nerts who comments on marriage and divorce. CM:M3 Dr. Winona L. Morgan, Dr. William M. Smith. Jr., and Esther A. Atkinson represented the de. oartment of home economics at the conference on Family Life which was held last week in Washington, D. C. 1::=M:1 Harold W. Loman, purchasing agent at the College, was re elected treasurer of the National Association of Educational Buy ers at the annual convention held in Columbus, 0.. last week. Three papers were presented by members of the department of physics at the meetings of the Acoustical Society of America held in Washington, D. C., re. cently. They were: "A Small High Fre quency Microphone" by Dr. Isa. dors Rudnick and Herbert C. Rothenberg; "Acoustical Absorp. tion in Sand and Soil" by , Wesley L. Nyberg end Dr. Rudnick; and "Preliminary Report on Absorp. tion in Air from 10 to 100 kc. Measured by Pulse Techniques" by Rothenberg and Dr. Walt*, H. Pielomeisr.
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