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"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
VOLUME 49-NUMBER 38
Kenworthy To Head Student
Warnock Retires Post,
To Get Emeritus Rank
Arthur Ray Warnock, who came to the College as the first dean
of men in 1919, will retire with emeritus rank on August 31, James
Milholland, acting president of the College, announced yesterday.
His retirement comes exactly 30 years to the day after his ap
pointment in the post-World War I era when deans of men on
college campuses were something new. While at Penn State, he has
watched the campus enrollment
grow from 2400 to nearly 10,000.
BA at Illinois
A native of Mason City,
Dean Warnock received his bach
elor of arts degree at the Univer
sity of Illinois, and then, while
serving as an instructor in Eng_
lish, attended the University of
Illinois Law School. He was ad
mitted to the Illinois bar in 1910
and from 1910 to 1919 served 'as
assistant dean of men at the Uni
versity of Illinois.
In addition to serving as dean
of men at the College, Dean
Warnock has participated in
many campus and community or
ganizations and activities. He
played a part in the organization
of the State College Rotary Club,
the Centre Hills Country Club,
the Community Development
Commission, and the Faculty
Luncheon Club. He served for
three years as a director of the
State College Commerce Club.
Writes Half-Colyum
Dean Warnock also is known to
many Central Pennsylvanians
through his "Daily Half-Colyum"
which he has been writing for 24
years. It appears daily in the
Centre Daily Times. Since No
vember 1, 1946, he has had a
weekly 15-minute radio program
titled "Centre County Chatter."
In his capacity as chairman of
the Freshman Week committee at
the College, Dean Warnock dur
ing the past 23 years has wel
comed thousands of new students
to the campus.
Dean Warnock, during World
War 11, served as chairman of the
American Unity Committee of the
State Council of Defense. From
1945 to 1948, he served as a mem
ber of the Executive Committee
of the National Interfraternity
Council. Since 1948, he has been
serving as educational adviser to
the council,
Beta Theta Pi
A member of Beta Theta Pi fra
ternity, Dean Warnock has served,
for 10 years as national scholar
ship commissioner of the frater
nity.
Dean Warnock also is a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa, national
scholastic honor society, and of
Phi Delta Phi, national profes
sional legal fraternity.
1 Day to Carnival
Five, four, three, two and now
the long awaited—one day to
Carnival has arrived. Growing
gradually and steadily, the Car
nival has been enlarged to in
clude well over 50 booths and to
give to its visitors a wide variety
of entertainment.
The Carnival committee has an
nounced that hot dogs and coke
will be sold at the Carnival area
and that a 50 foot banner across
Allen street in the middle of the
block will identify the Carnival
to all. Camera bugs are reminded
that the Carnival will be fair
grounds for pictures which can
be entered in the Froth contest
for the best pictures of Spring
Week events.
The Magnavox radio console, to
be awarded to the booth collect
ing the most tickets is on display
at the Music Room.
The Daily Collegian proving
that names make the news will
have a special booth of its own.
At this booth aspiring campus
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1949
Dean Warnock
Spring Week Officially Opens
Spring Week, the first week-long celebration of its kind since pre-war days here at the College,
officially started yesterday with the sale of the 40th anniversary issue of Froth, the announcement
of Lois Kenyon as Spring Queen and the Faculty Talent Show in Schwab Auditorium last night.
The Talent Show, sponsored by the school student councils, has become an annual event and was
arranged this year to coincide with the Spring Week festivities.
Tonight the intramural wrestling finals will be held in Rec. Hall at 7:30 p.m. with admission
free. There will be 12 regulation matches to decide the intramural championships. Eight will be
Dramatics Prof
To Read Plays
Robert Reifsnyder, assistant
professor of dramatics, will pee
sent the fifth and final reading of
the Wednesday Afternoon series
at 4:15 p.m. today.
Reifsneider will discuss three
plays by Tenessee Williams. They
are "Glass Menageria," which
played for more than 600 per
formances on Broadway in 1946-
47; "Summer and Smoke", which
played in New York last year;
and the play that took the Pulit
zer prize and Critics Award,"
"A Streetcar Named Desire,"
which opened on Broadway on
December 3, 1947 and is still play
ing.
"wheels" can prove to the folks
back home that they really make
the campus click by sending them
a copy of the Collegian with their
names in headlines. Fame and
glory will be available to all, for
a small fee, at the Daily Collegian
booth.
"Bowl a Bucket" at the Alpha
Sigma Phi entry in the Carnival.
The Alpha Sigma Phi's will have
a bowling lane with a target
"pin" type of peg. When the peg
is hit, a bucket of water will be
spilled on another poor unfor
tunate pledge. At least the pledges
will be happy when this is all
over.
So at last the long awaited day
is almost ready to descend upon
the peace and tranquility of State
College. And as millions of kids
have been saying for years and
years, "Hurray the Carnival's
come to town" and by tomorrow
it will have indeecii
Gauger, Miller
Emerge Victors
In Coed Voting
Miller Defeats Smith
By One Vote Margin
Approximately 550 out of a
possible 1300 coeds voted in the
WSGA-WRA final elections yes
terday to elect Shirley Gauger
WSGA president and Virginia
Miller president of WRA. Miss
Miller defeated Nancy Smith by
a one-vote margin.
Ella Lou i s e Williams was
chosen WSGA vice-president,
while Ruth Lehman was selected
senior senator; Barbara Sprenkle,
junior senator; and Anna Keller,
town senator.
Coeds elected Sally Folger to
serve as WRA vice-president;
Betty Lou Jones, intramural
chairman; and Regina Williams,
junior assistant intramural
chairman.
Joan Bergdoll, candidate for
WSGA president, will automatic
ally become WSGA secretary and
Nancy Smith will act as senior
adviser to WRA. Mary Conrath,
defeated for WSGA vice-presi
dent, will now serve as a junior
senator.
inter-fraternity matches and four
will be between independents. An
added feature of the matches will
be a special "grudge" match be
tween Harold "Fearless Fauntle
roy" Frazier and Bob "Missing
Link" Ritz.
Carnival Begins
The much hullaballooed Spring
Week Carnival will open tbmor
row on South Allen street at 2
p.m. and continue until 10 p.m. A
pre-carnival parade of Windcrest
children and the ROTC band will
start at the Pugh street entrance
to the campus at 1:50 p.m. and
proceed up College avenue to Al-
Spring Week Events
Wednesday
Intramural wrestling final s,
Rec Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday
Spring Carnival, South Allen
street, 2 to 10 p.m.
Friday
IFC-Panhel Ball, Rec Hall, 9
p.m. to 1 a.m., crowning of Spring
Queen and finals of IFC-Panhel
sing during intermission.
Saturday
Breakfast in Bedlam radio pro
gram from TUB, over WMAJ,
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Bebop jazz concert, Schwab
Auditorium, 2 p.m.
Houseparties, fraternities and
University Club for independ
ents.
Sunday
Men's Glee Club conc e r t,
Schwab Auditorium, 3 p.m.
len street where one of the child
ren will cut the ribbon stretched
across the street to officially open
the carnival.
Over 50 booths have bee n en
tered offering games of chance,
skill, strength and fun; as well
a variety of talent shows, side
shows, and revues. A central
booth will be used to collect all
money and issue tickets for use
at the organization's booths. All
coeds have been given special 11
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Coordinates Activities
Of Diverse Offices
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, executive secretary of the College, has
been named to the newly-created position of Assistant to the Presi
dent in Charge of Student Affairs. He also succeeds retiring Dean
Arthur R. Warnock as Dean of Men. Appointment to both positions
becomes effective September 1.
Creation of the dual position and Kenworthy's appointment
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Wilmer E. Kenworihy
Fred Waring Sa
With Glee Club as Guests
With the Penn State Glee Club as guests, Fred Waring and his
Pennsylvanians will salute Penn State on their coast-to-coast
)roadcast over the NBC network at 10 a.m. today.
The Glee Club, which departed on a five-day concert tour on
Monday morning, will attend the 30-minute program this morning
following a successful concert in New York last night. Immediately
following the program, the group
will leave for Allentown where
they are scheduled to present a
concert tonight.
Remembers College
Waring, a former student at the
College, and now a member of
the Board of Trustees, has on
numerous occasions remembered
the College on his national broad
casts.
In October, 1947, he brought
his orchestra to the campus and
three of his programs were
broadcast from Schwab Auditor
ium.
Fifty of the Glee Club mem
bers who are on tour opened their
itinerary at Scranton on Monday
night and appeared last night
in New York. After their Allen
town concert tonight, they will
go to Trenton on Thursday and
Philadelphia on Friday. The
group will return to the campus
on Saturday.
The Glee Club includes the
Varsity Quartette composed of
Charles Sullivan, Richard Good
ling, Paul Margoif, Maynard Hill,
and accompanist Peter Carpenter.
Thaddeus Komorol,vski, baritone,
and John E. Kelley, pianist, are
appearing as soloists. The group
is under the direction of Frank
Showers Likely for Sp
Showers are likely for the advance this time of year. Typical
Spring Carnival tomorrow, Char- Fpring weather wouldn't surprise
o, however, he added.
les L. Hosier, instructor in meteor-
anyne
With full appreciation for the
ology said yesterday. exactness of the science of meteor-
It is especially difficult, he add- ology, students nevertheless hope
ed. to predict weather two days in that the prediction is "all weiV
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Affairs
were authorized at the week-end
meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Board of Trustees to
coincide with the announcement
of Arthur R. Warnock's retire
ment as Dean of Men, with emeri
tus rank, effective August 31.
To Aid President
In addition to his functions as
Dean of Men, the new appointee
will assist the President in the ad
ministration of student affairs
other than instruction and busi
ness relations and will be re
sponsible to him for such offices
as Dean of Women, Counsellor of
Veterans, Counsellor of Foreign
Students, Placement Service,
Health Service, Associated Stu
dent Activities and Student Union
and Chaplain.
A native of Richmond, Ind.,
Kenworthy was graduated from
the Westtown School, Westtown,
Pa., and from Earlham College,
Richmond, Ind., in 1929 with a
bachelor's degree in the Liberal
Arts. He joined the late Presi
dent Hetzel's staff as executive
secretary to the President on May
1, 1937.
Commercial Agent
Before assuming this post, he
had been employed by the New
York Telephone Company as a
commercial agent in Brooklyn,
N. Y., by the advertising depart
ment of Conard-Pyle Co., West
Grove, Pa., as assistant secretary
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utes College
Fred Waring
Gullo, assistant professor of mu
sic at the College.
Station WMAJ has made spe
cial arrangements to broadcast
Waring's program tins morning.
ing Carnival