WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1949
College To Initiate State-Wide
Intercollegiate Reading Festival
Herodotus established a "first" in oral reading when he pub
lished his famous history by reading it aloud to an appreciative
audience in Athens.
When the College plays host to the Pennsylvania Intercol
legiate Reading Festival May 4 and 5, another "first" will have
been established.
First in State
ThiS festival will be the first
in the state, and has been initiated
by the speech department of the
College.
Realizing the need for organiz
ing a festival to include all the
colleges within this state, 75 let
ters of invitation were sent to
these colleges.
Rather than confine this festi
val to . poetry reading, such as is
clone in the Eastern Intercolleg
iate Poetry Reading Festival, the
program is planned to include
prose and drama also.
Colleges Participating
Among the number of colleges
intending to participate in the
festival are Allegheny College,
Carnegie Institute of Technology,
Duquesne University, University
of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
College for Women, Washington
and Jefferson College, St. Vin
cent's College, the University of
Pittsburgh, and the Pennsylvania
state teachers colleges.
Five students from each col
lege will read a prose narrative;
poetry; a group of lyrics; Shake
spearean sonnets; and drama.
This program is arranged, not
as a contest, for teachers and stu
dents who have a deep interest
in the reading of literature to
share their interests and talents.
Mrs. Harriett D. Nesbitt, assist
ant professor of public speaking,
is chairman of the festival. Wil
liam Hamilton, assistant profes
sor of speech, is on the festival
committee.
Dorms Publish
Weekly Paper
The Lionews, official weekly
publication of some 900 independ
ent men in the Nittany-Pollock
area, released its second edition
Friday.
Joseph Kunetz, Beaverbrook,
Pa., a graduate Bio-Chem stu
dent residing in Nittany Dorm
40, was named winner of the re
cent contest to name the paper.
His prize-winning Lionews earn
ed a $5 award.
Other names suggested were
Outpost, Pollany News, Poll-Nit
and Little Roar.
The aim of Lionews is to keep
the independent man conscious of
the work of area councils and
various committees, according to
Joseph Hunter, managing editor.
Hunter is a junior journalism
major and was former editor of
the Swarthmore Cub Reporter at
Swarthmore Center, 1947-48. As
sociate editors are John Brennan,
William Dunn, Harry Endres,
Norman Fryman, Edward Gazda
and Richard Pioli.
At the present time the paper
is being printed in the basement
of Old Main and operates under
its own staff of reporters.
Through the efforts of James
Kline, AIM recreation director,
the Lionews, now a four-page
mimeographed edition, is receiv
ing a special off-set press within
a few weeks which will increase
the size of the tabloid's news
matter.
Printing operations will then
be switched to the TUB.
Phi Mu
Phi Mu held a slumber party
in honor of the pledges.
Helen Bender, Loraine Dreis
bach, Patricia Imhof, and Shirley
Montgomery wer e formally
pledged.
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Navy Station
Joins Network
N4CAN, the College's Volunteer
Naval Reserve radio station last
night began a regular schedule of
weekly broadcasts. The station,
located in 300 Engineering E, will
become a part of a 50 station net
work of organized and volunteer
naval companies, operating with
Station NDQ, the headquarters
station in Philadelphia.
Transmission is by Morse Code,
buts soon as necessary parts are
obtained, N4CAN will begin voice
broadcasting, said Lt. Francis
Yonker, who is in charge of the
station.
The use of code requires the
services of skilled operators and
anyone with wartime service ex
perience is welcome to join the
existing complement of radio
operators.
Station N4CAN operates on 250
watts, the same power as WMAJ,
but has a greater range since it
works on high frequency naval
bands. The Navy radio station is
the second on campus, the other
being the electrical engineering
station, W3YA.
Lt. Yonker emphasized the im
portance of the new station as a
center of communication for the
area during a disaster or war.
In the future, emergency mes
sages may be sent anywhere in
the United States free of charge
by use of a radio-telephone sys
tem. An additional service of the
station is the availability to
licensed amateurs for practice.
Phi Kappa Sigma
Phi Kappa Sigma and Gamma
Phi Beta held their Heaven-on-
Earth dance at the Phi Kappa
Sigma house recently.
News Briefs
NAACP
NAACP Memberships will be
accepted at a booth at the Tub
through tomorrow, and at the
Corner Room for the rest of the
week. The organization will meet
in Sparks at 7:15 p.m. today.
Eta Kappa Nu
Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engi
neering honor association, recent
ly presented William Markley,
sophomore • electrical engineer,
with its annual Sophomore
Award.
Recent initiates of the honor
association are Robert Cassel
berry, Sheldon Detwiler, Edward
England, George Himes, Eugene
Kashmar, Anthony Kropfl, Alfred
Lopez, William Markley, Ralph
Meier, Paul Nippes.
Carl Noel Jr., William Ott,
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Parade Jumps Gun
On Spring Week
Glamor Show
Led by a police escort, a five
section parade rolled through
State College Monday night to
herald the coming of Spring Week
—but the affair was slightly less
regal than the usual ballyhoo for
such an occasion.
A band played stirring music,
but the entire group of musicians
squeezed into the back of a gen
eral delivery truck. The proces
sion of would-be Spring Queens,
each borne in a convertible, was
very orderly, but the "queens"
were impersonated by males and
deception was at a minimum.
To climax the procession, each
car was labeled with the name of
of its aspirant to regal honors, and
the "Gert Stackwell-Iraq S.T.C."
and "Till Blubberbottom-Eerie,"
aptly fit the "beautiful ladies"
who waved coyly at the curious
audience.
Delta Sigma Pi
Initiates 45
Delta Sigma Pi, national com
merce and finance fraternity,
initigted 45 men recently in the
largt class taken into the fra
ternity since the campus chapter
reactivated in 1947. •
New members of Delta Sigma
Pi are Boyd Allen, Paul Andel,
Clifford Anderson, Roger Bartels,
George Betts, Fred Betz, John T.
Burton, Clyde Caldwell, Jack
Craine, Franklin Cree, Herman
Dornick, Lane Dorsett, Donald
Eggers, Jack Falk, Edwin Finley,
John Gerhis.
Lowell Hammer, Charles Han
ner, Donald Heiny, Andrew Hous
ton, Hugh Kane, John King, Ed
ward Kleitz, Walter Lander,
Anthony Lombardo, Merle Long,
Donald Mattern, Richard Mc-
Conaghy, Ronald Meek, David
Mellenburg.
John Naylon, John Ogro, Fred
erick Phillips, John Pilla, Russell
Powell, Chester Reed, Robert
Scott, William Seitzer, George
Shelly, Richard Shultz, Stanley
Skinner, Albert Stewart, Blair
Tressler, and John Williams.
Michael Peshock, Junior Ritten
house, Donald Shaffer, Leo Sim
beck, Roy Starner, Richard
Strand, John Swigart, Frank
Terkoski, David Weindorf and
Wilfred Yohe.
Club '5l
Dr. John A. De Novo, history
instructor, will give the second
in a series of topics on Russian-
American relations at the joint
meeting of the PSCA commission
groups and Club '5l in 304 Old
Main at 7:30 p.m. today.
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity, recently pledg
ed Herbert Axford, John Bacon,
William Bonner, Walter Cadman,
James Case, Paul Dowling, Harold
Katz, Robert Smith and Malcolm
Yaple.
IFC Ball Tickets on Sale
At Student Union Friday
Tickets for the IFC-Panhel Ball at Rec Hall Friday, priced at
$4 per couple, will go on sale at Student Union desk Friday, Jack
Fast, dance co-chairman, said yesterday.
Tommy Dorsey, affectionately known to thousands of dancers
throughout the nation as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing,"
will bring his trombone and orchestra to Recreation Hall for the
College Group
In Model UN
Dr. L. Larry Leonard and four
of his students will represent the
College at the model United Na
tions General Assembly at Rut
gers University, today through
Friday.
Edward Armsby, William Bet
ler Jr., Michael Deckman, and
Robert Leeper are the student
members of the "delegation from
Yugoslavia," that nation being the
one the College is to represent at
the conference. Each of the other
schools from the Middle Atlantic
region will likewise participate
as the delegation from one of the
member nations of the U. N.
The model General Assembly
convenes tonight with an address
by Harold Stassen, president of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Gridmen—
Continued from page four
the third and fourth teams, show
ed up well in Saturday's scrim
mage.
Another scrimmage is sched
uled for this Saturday afternoon,
with practice periods listed for
every evening from 4:30 until
6:30.
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gala affair.
The dance will be the highlight
of Spring Week, planned to be
the greatest weekend in the his
tory of the College. Dancing will
be from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with
coeds receiving two o'clock per
missions.
Dorsey will bring to Penn State
a 16-piece band plus Stuart
Foster and the four Clark Sisters,
known as the "Sentimentalists."
Denny Dennis, sensational
British vocalist wil also appear
with the maestro. Singing with
Dorsey, Dennis has become one
of the most popular new singing
stars in the American entertain
ment world.
Gesell To Trace
Child Behavior
Dr. Arnold Gesell, founder of
the child development clinic at
Yale University, will speak on
"Human Infancy and the Auto
genesis of Behavior" in 110 EE at
8 p.m. today.
Dr. Gesell's lecture is sponsor
ed by Sigma Xi, graduate science
honorary. Illustrated by slides and
motion pictures, the lecture will
trace the development of the basic
patterns of human behavior, be
ginning with simple hand and
eye motions in utere.
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