wEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949
Professor
Porcelain
Dr. R. Adams Dutcher is internationally known for his work in
agricultural and biological chemistry, but few people know of the
extensive porcelain collection he has gathered from all parts of
the world.
It all started, says Dr. Dutcher, who is professor of agricultural
and biological chemistry at the Pennsylvania State College, when
he went to Germany in 1934 as
an Oberlaender Fellow of the
Carl Schurz Foundation.
Visiting many of the museums
and antique shops, Dr. Dutcher
became interested in porcelain
figurines and bought several
pieces. He has continued to buy
pieces since that time and now
has a collection of 35 figurines,
ranging in original price from
$2 to several hundred dollars. All
are now worth many times the
original cost.
Exciting Purchase
Dr. Dutcher's most exciting
purchase was made in a little an
ti9ue shop in New York. As the
wife of the shopkeeper wrapped
the figurine, the owner returned
from an auction and tried to re
buy the figurine at four times
the price Dr. Dutcher had paid.
"This figurine will bring $750,"
he explained. "Dresden has just
been bombed and possibly the
mould for the piece has been
lost."
Dr. Dutcher kept the Kaendler
figurines. It was titled "Man Tak
ing Snuff."
Originated in China
Porcelain ware, Dr. Dutcher
explains, originated in China.
The early craftsmen kept the
process a secret and sold their
wares to European nobility at
fancy prices. About 1719, August
the Strong, elector of Saxony,
ordered an alchemist, Boettger,
to discover a method for making
gold. Instead, he discovered the
secret Chinese process for mak
ing porcelain ware and opened a
factory in Dresden.
Today the original Dresden
china is highly prized for both
artistic beauty and historical im
portance. Kaendler's productions
are considered collector's itE.ms.
Dr. Dutcher rates his Kaendler
figurine the most fortunate pur
chase of his modest collection.
Bible Felowship
Continues Program
The Penn State Bible Fellow
ship, an organization of students
and faculty members which meets
weekly during the regular fall
and spring terms, is continuing
its program of Bible study and
discussion through the Main Sum
mer Session. Paul Sebastian,
senior in engineering, is summer
president.
Meetings are conducted in 200
Carnegie, 7:30 p. m. on Thurs
day's. Opening with a song, the
rest of the program includes a
discussion and a social period
with refreshments.
Nevin Schuler, graduate stu
dent in education, will lead this
week's discussion, based on the
first chapter of the Book of
Philippians. A cordial invitation
to attend is extended to all in
terested persons.
The organization, a chapter of
the Inter-Varsity Christian Fel
lowship, will conduct its third an
nual summer conference at
Roosevelt State Park, July 23 and
24. Guest speaker will be Jack
Miller, Philadelphia scientist and
astronomer.
Another activity of the group
is the monthly church service
which is conducts for the inmates
of Rockview State Penitentiary.
near Bellefonte. The July service
is scheduled for this coming Sun
day, according to Sebastian.
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THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Gathers
Figurines
AAUP Defends
Teachers' Right
To Join Reds
WASHINGTON, July 12—M---
The American Association of Uni
versity Professors (AAUP) up
held yesterday the right of teach
ers to belong to the Communist
party.
It did so in the face of a Na
tional Education Association
recommendation last week that
Communists be barred from the
teaching profession.
"So long •as the Communist
party is a legal political party,
affiliation with it should not be
regarded as a justifiable reason
for exclusion from the academic
profession," the professors' state
ment said. This reaffirmed stands
taken in 1947 and 1948.
At the same time the AAUP
—stirring echoes of Henry Wal
lace's try for the presidency last
year—condemned an Evansville,
Ind., Methodist College for firing
a faculty member who headed a
local Wallace committee.
Annual Report
The AAUP committee on aca
demic freedom and tenure, in its
annual report published today,
said five other teachers, in un
specified colleges, reported they
were dismissed because of their
support of Wallace.
The committee took no stand
regarding these five, however,
because they were serving pro
bationary periods and had not yet
achieved full status.
Furthermore, it said, the evi
dence they offered against the
colleges was oral, hearsay or cir
cumstantial. It did not identify
them.
Seven Schools
Seven schools remain on the
AAUP list. The list censures the
administrative officers and gov
erning board only, BM informs
the public that "unsatisfactory
conditions of academic freedom
and tenure" prevaid. There is no
reflection on the faculties or the
schools generally.
The censured administrations
still on the AAUP list, and the
date of censuring:
West Chester, Pa., State Teach
ers College, December, 1939;
Adelphi College, Garden City,
N. Y., December, 1941; University
of Kansas City, Mo., December,
1941; State Teachers College
(now Middle Tennessee State
College) Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
May, 1943; Winthrop College,
Rock Hill, S. C., May, 1943; Uni
versity of Missouri, Columbia
and Rolla, Mo., June, 1946; Uni
versity of Texas, Austin, June,
1946.
All-America Griddei
Joe Bedenk, who's now doub
ling as football and baseball
coach, won all-American grid
honors at Penn State in 1923.
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STATE COLLEGE LAUNDERETTE
Effickint and Courteous Sorvico
Artists' Series
Presents La Meri
LaMeri and her ensemble will
be the third program to be pre
sented in the summer session's
Artist's Series when she and her
group assemble at Schwab Au
ditorium. 8:30 p.m. next Wednes
day.
A highly talented and versa
tile dancer, LaMeri was born in
Louisville, Kentucky, and named
after her father, Russell Meri
wether Hughes. Most of her
childhood was spent in San An
tonio, Texas, on the advent of
her parents' decision to leave
Louisville. Proximity to the Mex
ican border is doubtless respon
sible for her interest in exotic
peoples.
On LaMeri's first trip to New
York she took the name Meri
Russell Hughes to escape the im
plied masculinity of her chris
tened name. Broadway agencies
promptly shortened this to Meri
Hughes; and an engagement in
Mexico City where the Spanish
tongue found "Hughes" difficult
to pronounce created the name
"LaMerl."
Construction
Continued from page one
a prime requirement for work
progress."
However the State program,
now concerned mainly with in
terior finishing, can continue at
full speed despite bad weather.
H. 0. Meynor, director of con
struction for the Commonwealth,
stated that work on Willard Hall
was 90 per cent completed, on
Mineral Sciences 93 percent com
pleted, on Plant Industries 88
per cent completed, and the
power plant 98 per cent finished.
Meynor said that the entire
State project would be completed
sometime between September 1
and September 15.
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Name Changing
Pride, Worker at Lingnan,
Remains In Spite of War
Richard E. Pride, who is conducting the Penn State-in-China
work at Lingnan University, Canton, China, hopes to be able to
stay at Lingnan and continue his work in spite of the civil war.
In a letter written last month, Pride, who is on the agricultural
faculty at Lingnan, says: "There have been no reports of physical
danger to foreigners who remained in the North and the attitude
officially expressed is one of
welcome. Some people have left
Canton but no one has left Ling
nan and at present there are no
plans to leave. If we find we can
not work later on, perhaps that
is the time to think about leav
ing," Pride continued,
"There is, of course, now no
question about a change of gov
ernment —other than when,"
Pride wrote.
Native of Mills
Pride, a native of Mills, Pot
ter County, and a graduate of
Howard Subject
Of Ag Survey
Howard and vicinity will be
the subject of a community sur
vey to be taken during July and
August, Dr. M. E. John, head of
the department of agricultural
economics and rural sociology at
the Pennsylvania State College,
said yesterday.
Dr. John explained that Ho
ward was chosen for this study
of rural group life and commun
ity organization because it is con
sidered a representative commun
ity of Central Pennsylvania.
A similar survey was made in
Howard 12 years ago and the new
survey is designed to reveal
changes that have taken place
since that time. Dr. John com
mented that the earlier survey
aroused considerable local inter
est and met with excellent co
operation from the residents of
the Howard community.
The survey will be taken by a
small staff of trained field work
ers under the supervision of Jay
Artis, research assistant in rural
sociology. It is estimated that the
interviews which will cover every
household in the area, will be
completed in about six to eight
weeks.
Special Message to Summer Teachers
DON'T MISS IT
THE EUTAW HOUSE
historic [nn at Potters Mills is still making
history serving fine food.
• STEAKS . . . . cut as ordered any sine
• SEAFOOD ... fresh from the ocean
• DINNERS ... a variety
SERVING SUNDAY, 12:30 t• 7 P.M.
Refreshments and Beverages Served
Reservations Encouraged and Appreciated
For reservations Dial Centre Hall 48-R-3
IF YOUR ORGANIZATION OR GROUP IS
PLANNING A BANQUET . . .
be sure to make reservations to have it at the Eutaw
House. We have several dining rooms to accommodate
large and small groups.
Located at the Intersection of Rout e s 322 aad 53
POTTERS MILLS
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the College, went to Lingnan two
years ago to continue the work
in horticulture that was started
in 1911 by C. Weidman "Daddy"
Groff, also a Penn State grad
uate. Groff was director of the
agricultural college there since
its founding until he was forced
to leave China at the outbreak
of the war. Since that time he
has been developing a plant ex
change service between China
and the United States at Laurel,
Fla.
Pride is married to the former
Martha Wylie, daughter of a Chi
nese missionary, and they have
a daughter, Miriam, one year of
age.
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you bring your cleaning or quick pressing
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Open delay from 8-6. B ring year
clothing in today for free repairs I
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