Hurr y? Til t Tart-thin'. Tattrgiatt Carnival Hurry! Capers FOR THAT OLD PENN STATE SPIRIT- THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949 Spring Week Carnival Comes to Town Dunway Promotes Spring Week Idea Perhaps it was more than fitting that Froth officially opened the All-College Spring Week. For it was the "fella" in the jester suit that began formulating a scheme for Spring Week last spring. James Dunaway, Froth promotion manager and chairman of the Spring Week committee, worked on the idea through this year and appeared before large campus organizations such as All-College Cabinet and IFC in a successful attempt to get the green-light on Spring Week. The work that participating students have done for this new "big week" is now a realization, for two days of the week have passed, and today the carnival is in town! Tomorrow Lois Kenyon will be crowned Miss Spring Queen at the IFC-Panhel Ball. During the intermission of the dance, fea turing "the Sentimental Gentleman," TD, two fraternities and two sororities will vie for trophies awarded for the IFC-Panhel Sing. "Breakfast in Bedlam," planned by the Two, Two, Two Work shop, will go over the airwaves via WMAJ from the TUB at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Bebop and jazz are on the afternoon "menu" of events when Amy Taylor and Gene Sprague take to the drums and trumpets to lead a free concert in Schwab Auditorium at 2 p.m. Traditional houseparties are the order of the evening on Saturday. Along with the fraternity parties the Association of pendent Men will also hold houseparty at the Universi Club, from 9 p.m. on. Since Tuesday, when Frotl appeared in his yellow, red ai blue, Spring Week activities co: tinued with the Faculty Talei Show and the intramural wre: tling finals. Those who have worked wi Dunaway on the activities k Spring Week were Georg Bearer and Abram Bosler, co chairmen of the carnival, Philip Barker, Robert Bossier, Robert Chase, Judith Dantsker, Paula Furry, Sarah Gilleland, James MacCallum, Sally Robertson, Roger Rowland and Jack Senior. il 0 imart Carnival Heard thar was big doin's in the village this week. Some of them students at the College are givin' a big carnival with sideshows and all. Bein' an old, carnival man, myself, I hoisted up me sus penders, hung me bean kettle on the tree and de cided to make a jaunt into the big town. Besides, I figgered I might be able to win some thing—chawin' tobacco or maybe one of them Tri- Delta goils. I read all about their booth in the Dilly Collejun—one of them college papers that blows through the woods every once in awhile. Well, I hitched myself a ride just in time to get in the big parade. Felt like that guy in the fairy tail—the pide piper—with all them Windcrest kids following me. First thing I did was look around for a riskay sideshow just like we usta have in the old days, but all I could find was the A E Phi's Gertie's Garter show. I must be losing my touch. Couldn't get the hoop on a single leg. Me, Hoiman, the barker! Boy, was I boined at the Pi K A's. I heard they was havin a kissin' booth but when I got there, there wasn't any wimmen. Sure can't see kissing one of them fratternairy boys. Wish I could uv got a crack at that Terry Ruhl man. Hear he's some kind of wheel up there on campus, and the Sigma Chi boys were auctioning him off as a slave for a whole day. Wouldn't that have been the cats—having a white-collar wheel cookin my beans fer me. Who sez bums can't live in style? Oh well, I didn't get Ruhlman but at least I threw a pie at a Delta Chi. Hey, I'm a poet— Hoiman the poet. Almost got a date with one of those coeds Red Roth writes about but I think 1 boined her up when I asked her if she knew Mr. Ferris. Mr. Ferris is a big wheel down at the carnival. Maybe I didn't win anything and maybe I didn't get a date for Tommy Dorsey with a coed, but those Collejuns make up for everything. It says, "Hoiman Elected President" in big, black letters. That'll impress the hometown. Dunaway Vietvo 2loin j By Holman SOUTH ALLEN STREET, STATE COLLEGE, PA `Week' Swings into High With Gala Carnival Opening Today Heralded by the blare of trumpets and the marching of feet of Windcrest children the long awaited Spring Week moves into high gear with the opening of the'Carnival on South Allen street at 2 p.m. today. The Carnival opening ceremony will take place at the corner of South Allen street and College avenue, when one of the little girls from Windcrest cuts the ribbons extending across the entrance. The 'Young lady who is to cut the ribbon will be chosen by the Windcrest Wives organization. An added feature will be the appearance tonight of the College Blue Band at , •", the Allen street carnival grounds. The band will be on hand from Bto 8:30 p.m. 4,4)•,,,• After the spirited music of the Blue Band, the Tru-Blue Sextet will provide a coat i • ' ~.fi bination of Dixieland and Jazz for the remainder of the evening. . • .% ' ,O ,4. The original idea for the Carnival came as a result of a survey conducted last November by a committee made up of several IFC members and a member of 1 ~.. : t r . Pan-Hel. A questionnaire comprising 14 suggestions was distributed among the ' . ' N • ' . I. \ k l / 4 ; , • . , to see included in the proposed week-long celebration. The overwhelming majority indicated that they favored the idea of a carnival. Froth, originally backing the idea in conjunction with its 40th anniversary, presented plans to IFC. In December, George Chapman, president of IFC, proposed the week to All-College Cabinet, and complete charge of the Spring Week and the Carnival was assumed by that group. Cabinet decided to award the proceeds of the Carnival to the College World Student Service Fund drive. Since then WSSF has earmarked a portion of the funds raised from the carnival for, use in the Philippines, mainly for the purchase of textbooks. A committee headed by George Bearer and Abram Bosler was chosen by All-College Cabinet to plan and take charge of the Carnival. The com mittee sent letters to various campus organiza tions asking them to enter booths. entry blanks began to pour into Student Union and in a week's time over 50 organizations had submitted plans for booths. The plans called for a wide variety of entertainment. There were pie, baseball, and sponge throwing contests, gambling games as wen as planned programs such ps tal ent shows, revues and side shows of the freakish nature. Interclass finance commit tee next voted to give full sup port to the Carnival. The com mittee, through All-College Cab inet, will present to the organi zation sponsoring the booth collecting the largest receipts a $l9O Magnavox radio-phonograph con sole. In addition to the radio as first prize, there will be a second prize of $25 worth of records and a third prize of $l5 worth of records, all from the Music Room. It is hoped by all connected with the Carnival that it will become an annual event, and rank with all other well-established College traditions. Carnival Grounds Co .4 (.4 e ~E 14,trA(4,e_ .-)., r N, < 46 T 6 BEAVere AkE4/04. The above map shows the heart of the Carnival district with each organisation's booth indicated. Seven of the booths are spon sored by campus independent and activity groups while the rest are the entries of the fraternities and sororities. Bosler Ai- 0 4 X A Of K 4-Z SPE Dv aA,6, n - /A. ~rzi Ail 0 .04 e Axo x 0 A OA ACA. 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Alpha Fire Company loaned its strings of over head lights, while West Penn Power is donating the necessary electric it y. The huge banner stretched across Allen street represents the artistry of Mary Conrath and Pat Pfeiffer. Even the kids of Winderest are doing their bit, opening the Carnival with a parade. One lucky girl, selected by the Winderest Wives, will signal the fun's beginning by cutting the ceremonial tape. Her bouquet will be donated by Bill Mc- Mullen. Musiemakers Tru-Blu Sextet and the Blue Bawd will heighten the Carnival spirit. Probably the most essential links in the chain of success have been forged by the imaginative and hard-working booth sponsors. Without the booths, there would be no Carnival. 2 TO 10 P. M Gear
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