Record Class To Summer A (Eollpgian PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE VOL. 26—NO. 7 AUGUST, 1948—STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA 2200 To Register Both Post Sessions Enrollees To Complete Forms in Rec Hall Registration of an estimaated 2200 students for post sessions will take place in Recreation Hall from 8 a.m. until 12 noon Monday, and the first classes will meet at 1:30 p.m. the same day. The same form will be used for the three weeks and the six weeks session, John E. Miller, Jr., assistant director of Summer Ses sions, said yesterday. The chief difference in procedure from registration for the Main Session is that on Monday, faculty advisers will be in Rec Hall instead of Central Library Advance registrants should pre sent their acceptance cards at the advance registrations desk in Rec Hall, to obtain registration forms. These forms must be com pleted in pencil, in “Section 6” of Rec Hall Students not registered in ad vance will receive the necessary forms at the information desk. These students will need their schedules approved by faculty members as follows: undergrad uates, signature of adviser or dean; graduates, signature of ad viser and Frank D. Kern, dean of the graduate school; unclassi fied students, signature of M. R. Trabue, Director of Summer Sessions. All students will take their completed forms to the Registrar in “Section 7." Veterans studying under the GI Bill of Rights then will go to the Armory, for regis tration with ’ the Veterans Ad ministration. (Continued on p aae six) Harvey Plans Entertainment George Harvey, assistant pro fessor of physical education, has been named, recreation director for Post Session. He succeeds Earle Edwards, who was director during Main Summer Session. Recreation 'plans for the Post Session call for the continuation of all activities as in the Main Session, with a few additional changes. Dances will be h p V a« usual on Friday night at the TUB and Saturday’s Fun Nile at Recrea tion hall will be continued. A softball league is planner as well as golf, tennis and badmin ton tournaments. Hikes and pic nics will be arranged with eauip ment and n id to group s provided,. Fishing and casting instruction will he given to those who have :> i'c-nse. Equipment will be furnished. Persons or groups desiring to enter tournaments, arrange hikes or picnics, or obtain information about recreational matters may call Mr Harvey at extension 86J. LATE AP NEWS—Courtesy WMAJ Truman Excess Profits Tax Reaches Floor of House Today WASHINGTON—President Truman’s excess profits tax measure will reach the floor of the House of Representatives today. The Pres ident sent the bill to Congress yesterday and Democratic Represen tative John Dingell of Michigan said he would introduce it. Repub licans predict its defeat. The excess profits tax proposed would work much like the one in effect during the war. Senate Filibuster Drags On WASHINGTON—The Senate filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill dragged through the day. Democratic Senator Lister Hill of Ala bama read the history of the Constitution Senator Robert Taft says that he thinks it will be absolutely impossible to break the filibuster. The Ohio Republican says the only solution is a change in the Senate rules, and that probably cannot be done until the regular session in January. /Moscow Meetting Yields Optimism BERLlN—Unofficial sources are showing their first signs of optimism in weeks. They indicate they have reason to believe that last night’s meeting in Moscow will result in a new four-power con ference and the breaking of the Berlin blockade. NSA Convenes First Congress National Student Association’s first National Student Congress will be held at the University of Wisconsin from August 23 to 28. The major work on the program will be done in a series of work shops, six of which will be de voted to national student affair? and four to international student affairs. Panel sessions will pro vide the opportunity for dele gates to consider the major areas of NSA policy. Joel Bachman, Harry Brown. Lee Burns, Jane Fouracre, Rich ard Morgan and Allan Ostar will represent the local NSA chapter at the Congress. Student government will be one of the major topics to be considered in the national activi ties workshops. Delegates will study the structure, function? and activities of student admin istrative and legislative bodies giving special attention to such specific problems as election pro cedures. representation plans, re lationship to other members of the university community and participation in university policy making bodies. Two workshops will scrutinize student education problems, par ticularly financial aid, academia orobVms. discrimination, faculty 's t u d en t relationships, gradin'* systems, examinations and aca *t*>mic honors. Summer Collegian With this issue. Summer Col legian concludes “its weekly publication for 1948. The Daily Collegian will Drint two or three issues during Sophomore Orientation Week, September 19 to 24, and resume regular five-times - a - week publication September 25. Mail subscription rates are $2.50 a semester and $4.25 a school year. SEVEN CENTS Monday Confers Degrees , James Milholland Simmons Hall To Open in Fall Progress of the new women’s dormitories has reached the point where the 534 spaces in Simmons Hall have been assigned for occu pancy in September, the dean of women’s office announces. Simmons' Hall is the south unit of the new construction. McEl wain Hall, the other unit, is ex pected to be ready for occupancy in February, 1949. McElwain Hall will provide 480 spaces, which will make a total of 1017 spaces 'p the new dorms. Transfer of 270 women from Tri-Dorms to the new units will ’till leave 747 spaces available for new women registrants, according to the dean of women’s office. Room Installations Workmen are now installing floor covering and built-in cab inets, closets and drawers in the rooms in Simmons Hall. There are both single and dou ble rooms, with similar appoint ments. Woodwork is in a light oak color. Each room has closet, drawer and wardrobe space built in along one side. The size of the wardrobe built in each room varies with the in tended number of occupants. It is closed off with room-high, sliding panel doors. Each room has a tier of five built-in drawers for each occu pant. There is a towel rack in the alcove adjacent to the wardrobe. This is close to the door leading into the room. (Continued on page eight ) Variety of Acting Marks 'Ladies By John Bonnell The plot of “Ladies in Retirement” does not '■all for blood-curdling screams and some of the other trappings of melodrama, but it does demand a variety of acting skills, and the cast in Monday oight’s performance was more than equal to the occasion. June Williams, as Ellen Creed, was the master of her role. Ellen was an old maid who had “sold her soul to the devil” with the murder of her em olover. Leonora Fisker plaved bv Carolyn Cox. r ith this guilt tormenting her. Ellen had to bear un under the added burden of pacifving two of the weirdest sisters this reviewer has seen on stage or off. One of these slightly unbalanced women, Louisa Creed, portrayed by Jean Kriner, brought the greatest outward reaction from the small audi ence. Naturally so, because she had such com pelling habits as staring out of the window with a telescope and reporting what she saw in a voice that bordered on the hysterical. No Tingling Spines While the other rare sister’s activities were less noisy than Louisa’s, Ann Balmer gave in this role Graduate President Milhofland To Confer Degrees Three hundred and twenty-one students, the largest class ever to graduate during Summer Sessions, will receive degrees at the 25th annual Summer Sessions Commencement Exercises to be held in Schwab Auditorium at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Kenneth G. Bartlett, dean of University College, Syracuse Uni versity, and head of the adult education division at Syracuse, will be the speaker. He is a graduate of Albion College and received his master’s degree at Syracuse, where he has also served as director of the radio center and professor of radio education. James Milholland, acting president of the College, will confer the degrees. One hundred seventy-three of the graduates will receive bachelors degrees and 148 will be awarded advanced degrees. Among the advanced degrees are 9 doctorates, and 138 masters degrees. There are 88 women graduates and 233 men graduates. One hun dred eighty-eight of the graduates are veterans. John Henry Frizzell, chaplain emeritus, will give the invocation while George E. Ceiga, assistant professor of music, will be the organist. President Milholland will also award a commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve to Francis J. Greytok, Jr., while Charles W. Calhoun will receive a commission as an ensign m the U. S. Navy and William F. Trisler will receive a commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps. Students who will be graduated with honors are George W. Glenn and John C. Harper 11, of the School of Agriculture; John L. O’Brian, of the School of Education ; Joseph Januszkiewicz and Charles R. Tuckey, of the School of Engineering; and Claire F. Parks, of the School of Physical Education and Athletics. Summer Art Students Present Two Exhibits Two art exhibits, one of oil paintings and the other of water colors, were opened at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning. The paintings are the works of Summer Session students. Both exhibits are open :rom 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thurrsday. Oil Paintings The 125 oil paintings done by 90 students of Hobson Pittman are on exhibition in the Mineral Industries gallery. Pittman, who teaches at the College during the Main Summer Session and is director of art at the Friends Central Country Day School, Overbrook, will pre sent his annual gallery talk at 8 p.m. Wednesday. All types of oil paintings are included in the exhibit this year. They range from the realistic to the abstract and as in past years, all paintings exhibited are for sale. Following a four-year practice, the paintings were judged by both a professional and a lay jury. The professional jury con sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Phillips, director and assistant director, respectively of the Phil lips Memorial Gallery in Wash ington, D.C. Members of the lav jury were Mrs. Ruth Boucke, Dr. Harry P. Hammond, dean of the School of Engineering and Mrs. Guy Stearns. Pittman, instructor of the class each sumer for the past 16 years, stated that each student com pletes between 8 and 12 paintings during the six-week period. a convincing performance as Emily, a woman who had a penchant for gathering seaweed and an ex treme distrust of Catholicism. This play by Edward Perov and Reginald Den ham was not the sort of thine which sends its audience out into the night with tingling snines and nervous glances at every lingering shadow. There was one scene however, which momen tarily made one forget his uncomfortable Schwab Auditorium seat and carried him into the nlot of what might well be called “Old-Maid-Land.” This occurs when the maid dons the favorite wig of the murdered ladv and olnvs the tune she had been playing the m«ht F'len strangled her. Eerie Liqhting The effectiveness of this scene was. of course, due in no small measure to the eerie lighting. Ruthye Cohen, as Lucy the maid, was charming and coy. She and Albert, a black-sheep nephew of the Creeds, usually about two steps ahead of the police, lent the drama a pleasant portion of love and. in their spare time, managed to solve the murder. Joseph Bird handled the far-from-easv part of Albert with considerable skill Martha Lewia seemed quite natural as the nun, Sister Theresa. Water Coleys An exhibit of more than 50 paintings by 30 students of water color under Andrew W. Case, as sociate professor of fine arts, is displayed in 303 Main Engineer ing. Many of the water colors de pict local scenes, although some of the students painted settings from other areas of the State. Some of the pictures will be for sale. A committee has judged the paintings and awarded first and second prizes and honorable mention to advanced students and a first prize and honorable mention for paintings by ele mentary students. For the second vear. the Charles F. Rchlow purchase prize will be awarded. A painting chosen h" the committee will he niirh.'"?' l and donated to the Rtnte College schools. Member* of the iurterine com mittee ere TV Tfnrold p n!«Vcon. TT ele n p nn’hrp’t'i. A. W'll'em Trailer TTreeeis p Hvslor). .Tv,, enri Milton p Oshovne. all of the Uv-. n v+r-tOrtl of pr''Vi if erfpre. Prof. Case, who has been teaching art at the College for 22 vears said that in the past. Sum mer Sessions enrollment consist ed mostlv of women.
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