PAGE EIGHT Church Calendar Westminster Foundation A Fellowship Hymn Sing will highlight the weekend events of the Westminster Foundation this Sunday. The sing, to be held in the Fireside Room at 6:15 o’clock will be followed by reports from students who attended the Protes tant Youth Conference held in June at Camp Michaux. The Foundation also holds weekly Bible Study Sunday morn ings in the Fireside Room and special Matin services each Thurs day morning. The Matin service consists of fireside devotions at 7:30 followed by breakfast. The group met for a cabin party last weekend. Lutheran Student Association A Watermelon party will be held Friday at 8 p.m. for all Lu theran students attending the summer sessions. The party will be the first of a series of summer get-togethers to be held by the LSA. All those interested are urged to attend to help make plans for future meetings. Wesloy Methodist Church school services for stu dents are conducted weekly by the Wesley Foundation in the Up per Room at 9:30 Sunday morn ing. The youth group will orga nize for the summer the latter part of this week. Hillel Two movies will be shown at the Hillel Foundation at 8 o’clock tonight. Jerry Weiser. president Sportsmen Hold Conservation Camp The Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsman’s Clubs is holding a Junior Conservation School at the Civil Engineering Summer Camp in Stone Valley from July 4 to July 10 under the supervis ion of the School of Physical Ed ucation and Athletics, with Prof. Charles W. Stoddart in charge. Thirty-seven boy- between the ages of 14 and 18 are attending. There are classes and recreation for boys in various fields such as survival, forestry, fish propaga tion and management, game and firearms safety, and general con -ervation education. The camp staff includes besides Prof. Stoddart, George Harvey and Lawrence Perez, camp assist mts, and Charles Ridenour, the 'ead counselor The camp is sponsored by the South Central division of thie Federation, covering the counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cen tre, Fulton, and Huntingdon. FOR THE BEST in ... Records—Popular and Classical Sheet Music Hohner Harmonicas Radios and Radio Phonographs Musical Instruments and Accessories THE HARMONY SHOP 135 S. Frazier St. Phone 2130 SUMMER COLLEGIAN SUBSCRIBE NOW To The 1948 Penn State Summer Collegian. Four Regular Weekly Issues. Mailed Direct to You NAME STREET CITY— STATE ENCLOSE 28 CENTS SEND TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT, COLLEGIAN OFFICE, CAMPUS THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA of tfee Mid-Atlantic region of Hil lel will introduce the films en titled “House in the Desert” and “Birth of a Prophecy.” Dancing and refreshments will follow the program. Hillel Foundation at 133 West Beaver avenue, will be open every Saturday and Sunday during the summer session. Sleep - (Continued from page one) record after the user is asleep, and a sponge-rubber pillow con taining a whispering speaker. In past experiments Mr. Elliot has found that students taking the sleep teaching performed daily lessons with more ease and speed than those who did not take it. Beyond education possibilities, Max Sherover, inventor of the ap paratus used in sleep teaching, believes that the technique may also have value in curing mental illness. He is planning to distrib ute record players for under-the pillow use to’leading mental hos pitals. Mr. Elliot explains his new theory in the fact that learning seems to occur easily during sleep because the distracting influence of light and other senses is ab sent. Play Opens - (Continued from page one) and the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Three Plays Three plays are being produced this season, which began June 23 and will continue through Aug ust 2. After each performance re freshments are served in the theatre.. Town and Nine is sponsored by the State College Community Theatre Guild, a recently organ ized group which is leading the town in establishing State College as a summer dramatics center. Gene Wettstone, coach of the College’s NAAU championship gymnastics team and of the U. S. Olympic squad, is portrayed in the July issue of “Huddle,” a Pittsburgh-published sports mag azine now on sale at Graham’s. The article, entitled “Penn State’s Gym Gem,” was written by Tom Morgan, a Pittsburgher and sports editor of The Daily Collegian. Much of the material appeared previously in Morgan’s column, “Olympic Gym Chatter” Article Relates Chem. Growth The growth of chemistry at the College since the beginning of the institution was described in a re cent issue of the Journal of Chemical Education. The article, written by Dr. Grover C. Chandlee. is one of a series. “Chemical Education in American Institutions.” citing ten leading colleges and universities. Two factors. Dr. Chandlee savs, put chemistry in an impressive nosition at Penn State very early. One was the influence of Dr. Evan Pueh. the first president, a renowned chemist. ’T’he other was the College’s earlv recognition that students needed to be train ed in the science as well as in the classics. Graduate studv and research are compgratively recent. Dr. Chandlee explained, but 235 stu dents have earned the M.S. de gree and 250 the Ph.D. degree in th« past 25 years. In the last 50 years, approxi mately 50.000 students have taken two or more semesters in chem istry. The Petroleum Refining Lab oratory. which pursues funda mental research on notret-wm snrl its products, and the F.llen H. Richards Institute which carries on research in the relation of chemistrv to problems in the fields of foods, clothing, and shelter, are closelv associated with the Department. Florists Conference Paul R. Krone, associate pro fessor of floriculture at Michigan State College will address the Summer Florists Conference at the College, July 21. News Briefs Summer Sessions Band The Summer Sessions band will begin rehearsals tomorrow and every Monday St 7 p.m. and Thursday at 4 p.m. Students in terested may contact Mr. Dunlop in 109 Carnegie Hall. Post Session Registration Students who have not yet pre registered for Post Session may do so at any time from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the College Schedul ing Office. drama Class Four British plays will be given this month by members of Pro fessor Arthur C. Cloetingh’s Brit ish drama class. One play will be presented each Wednesday night in the Little Theatre. Admission is restricted to dramatics and lit erature majors. Alpha Delta Sigma The local chapter of .Alpha Delta Sigma has been awarded second place in a national adver tising campaign project conduct ed by the fraternity. Trustee Killed In Farm Mishap Mr. Furman H. Geiger, mem be of the College Board of Trus tees, was fatally injured when his tractor overturned in a field near his home in Kimberton, and died June 17. Born in Kimberton, Mr. Geiger was a farmer himself and active as a farm organizing official. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees at the College for 26 years and as a member of the State Legslature. In 1926. he was the Millions of College Students who Smoke Chesterfields WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948 Health — (Continued from page one) if he attends the workshop for the entire three week period. Each teacher and school nurse has been subsidized by $75 by the State Department of Health funds, the State Tuberculosis Socity, and State Auxiliary units. Teachers have been selected by county su oerintendents to attend the work shop. Fourteen counties are rep resented including Bedford, Berks, Blair, Center, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, McKean, Mif flin, Perry, and Schuylkill. Miss Dorothy V. Briant is plan ning an evening session to teach rural teachers plays ar.d games for children. There will also be a first aid section in charge of the College Health Service and a nu trition section under the direction of the department of home eco nomics. Professor William R. Gordon of the School of Agriculture is sup plying materials for plays and f'ames for teachers to take with them. Fo'low Un Planned Dr. Arthur F. Davis, director of the workshoD, stated that the pro gram of study in health would not end with the workshoo. There will be an extensive follow up pro gram planned to observe results. Doctor Davis also stated that it was an enthusiastic, inspired group of teachers who have come here. He said he believed that the monev Spent on the program would be doubly repaid bv the itnnrovement. in the health of chil dren in rural areas. elected to the House of Repre sentatives. Mr. Geiger became a Master Farmer in the Granger’s Associa tion in 1938, and was active in that organization until his death.
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