.:-.- i '0 4v ': Hear Work- On Paw 4 Shop Talks i'4 -; u ki ~ ° Unt mr r V ' _,...;„,,,, Tjattrgia tt ROC Schechole - .... __....._ - - KLY BY STUDENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE VOLUME 27-NUMBER 6 Southernaires Quartet Here For Final Series Concert The last concert in the 1949 Summer Artists Series will be pre sented by the Southernaires Quartet in Schwab Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Southernaires have a repertoire of songs reaching the hun dreds, and their programs are said to be full of variety. This vocal ensemble, ranked among the greatest since their organization in 1929, presents songs from the clas sics, Old English folk songs, and the more popular melodies of the modern composers as well as Negro spirituals and folk songs. Ray Yeates The Southernaires first tenor, Ray Yeates, has appeared in the Theatre Union production of "Stevedore," and played the part of the "Crabman" in the original production of Gershwin's, "Porgy and Bess," and appeared with Paul Robeson in "John Henry," William Franklin William Franklin, the baritone of the group, has starred on Broadway as "Porgy" in "Porgy and Bess" and was the first Negro to be chosen by a major operatic company in America to sing the role of Amonasro in "Aida." After touring the country for two sea sons in the title role of "Porgy and Bess," Mr. Franklin. appear ed as soloist in concerts such as the Gershwin Memorial Concert and with the Philharmonic Sym phony Orchestra. William Edmonson .William Edmonson, bass, did his first public singing at the age of seven as a boy soprano at All Saints' Cathedral in Spokane. His adult professional career began with the Garnet Concert Company and the Lafayette Players, a dra matic stock company. Later he played the lead in three Negro motion pictures; "The Million aire," "Thirty Years Later," and "The Midnight Ace!' He also ap peared in the Theatre Guild pro (Continued on page six) 11 Graduate With Honors Eleven students will graduate with honors at the annual sum mer commencement exercises on August 6, James Milholland, act ing president of the College, said today. Five of the group will receive degrees in education. They are Jack Bonney, Wattsburg; Cather ine Elizabeth McAllister, Altoona; Beatrice Jean Tucker, State Col lege; Harold Clayton Wisor, Woodland; and Frederick Henry Ziegler, Scranton. The School of Engineering is represented on the honors list by three students, including George Arthur Etzweiler, Lewistown: Merle R. Rauscher, Liberty, Tioga Co unty; and Jerome Davis Van Hrakle, Thomasville. Two students, Franklin G. Brosius of Frackville and Mrs. Beatric e A. Cleveland of State College, will be graduated with honors from the School of the Liberal Arts, and Arthur J. Wein stein of Philadelphia in the Salad of I:heinistry and Ph.** PUBLISHED WE Underwriters Take Course Ninety life underwriters are on the College campus this week learning to improve their skills in selling and servicing life in surance. They are attending the second Penn State Institute of Lafe In surance Marketing, which is spon sored by the Pennsylvania State and the Extension Services at the Association of Life Underwriters, College. The Institute is attempting to improve the agent's effectiveness by increasing self-confidence and to increase personel income by stressing the writing of quality business. Success of last year's institute is indicated by tabulations whic'h show that the average number of written applications per week in creased 84 percent for each man enrolled in the basic course and 63 percent for thos in the ad vanced course. 28 Attend Ed Laboratory Tw en ty- eight Pennsylvania school teachers have enrolled for the second session of the fourth annual Conservation Education Laboratory at the College. The first session also enrolled 28 teachers. The new session, which opened on Monday, will continue through August 6. The program includes field trips during the day and a study of visual aids and literature at the evening session. Subjects stud icd include minerals, topograghy, streams, forests, soil, wildlife, pond and stream life, fish hatch eries, and community planning. Experts on each subjects address the teachers. The Laboratory, which is con ducted by George J. Free, as sociate professor of education at Penn State, enables teachers to obtain first hand information on conservation. The teachers can then integrate this information in present-day teaching situations in the classrooms of the public schools. Reservations Women students who have not as yet seen Mrs. Cordelia Hibbs in the Dean of Women's office about a room reserva tion for Post-Session should do so inunedialely. Those who secured prelim inary reservations are also to check with Mrs. Hibbs. STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949 Art Exhibits To Feature Summer Work Interested students, faculty, and townspeople will have an oppor tunity to see examples of the paintings done during the Sum mer Sessions when two exhibits, one of oil and one of watercolor paintings, open next Tuesday. The class in oil painting is con ducted by Hobson Pittman, noted artist ant., teacher who is here for nis 17th summer. The class in water color is taught by Andrew W. Case, associate professor of fine arts, who has achieved national recognition for his paint rgs. The oil paintings cover a wide variety of subjects, from land scape to still life, figure painting, and abstraction. The work was done either on location in the immediate vicinity of State Col lege or in the studio at the N.Y.A. cabins on the College farms. While on location, the class visit ed Bellefonte, Lemont, and the Houtz Lumber Co.. and will paint it Boalsburg and Oak Hall next week. Paintings of familiar scenes from these areas will be found in the exhibit. Surprise Picture Another feature of the class which has proved popular is the annual "surprise picture." Each member of the class paints a pic ture entirely without criticism from the instructor. They are pre sented for criticism in regular criticism sessions of the class and very often some of the most ex citing and original work of the season is the result, according to Pittman. 116 paintings will be hung in Continued on page six Dairy Profs Add Laurels Penn State became the only college in the nation to have two faculty members named as out standing scientist of the year in dairy manufacturing within two years. This unusual situation re suited when Prof. Francis J. Doan was named winner of the 13th annual Borden Awatd at the recent (June, 1949) convention or the American Dairy Science As sociation at St. Paul, Minnesota. A gold medal, symbolizing the ' highest award in dairy manufac turing circles, was presented to Prof. Doan. The medal was ac companied by a check for Sl,OOO. A similar award was made to Dr. Chester Dahle, also of the Penn State faculty, in 1947. Judges deciding the unusual citation combed a list of 82 tech nical and scientific papers grow ing out of Prof. Doan's quarter century of research and teaching at Penn State. He is a pioneer and recognized authoritj in the field of homogenized milk, and his studies on the digestibility of soft curd milk are v,rid.iiy recog nized by medical auttririties. Continued /rout page eight UN Secretary Refuses To Fire Suspected Czech Employees LAKE SUCCESS—Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has refused to fire 24 Czechoslovak UN employees, although the Communist-run Czechoslovakian government has asked him to do so. Lie is said to have answered that the 24 were hired under UN rules and would remain as long as they performed their duties. The correspondence became known a few days after a Senate sub * committee declared Lie and the UN Secretariat are Communist dominated. Protest Atom Sharings GRAND JUNCTION, Colo —A group of 120 independent uranium mining businesses has protested any move to share Ainerie:i's atom secrets. The Uranium-Vana dium Cooperative says that it his telegraphed the protest to Presi dent Trestara. Outstanding Speakers Address Educators The twenty-seventh annual superintendents and prkidipala con ference, conducted by the School of Education, has brought several nationally prominent speakers to the campus in connection with Its program which began yesterday afternoon and continues through Thursday. The theme of the conference Workshop Sets Panel, 2 Talks A panel discussion on present day problems of education and two speakers on other timely topics comprise the lecture pro gram of the Pennsylvania Work shop for the coming week, accord ing ,to Miss Mary Jane Wyland, coordinator. C. Herman Grose, superintend ent of schools in Erie, will act as moderator for a discussion en titled "Current Problems Con fronting the Teaching Profession," to take place in 3 Carnegie Hall, at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Other members of the panel are Dr. C. 0. Williams, college examiner, Miss Mabel Stude baker, past president of the Na- Continued on page seven Nation's Youth To Spread Atomic Knowledge Blakeslee Shocked by all that they have heard about atomic energy, the adults of our country have closed their minds to the subject, Howard W. Blakeslee, Associated Press science editor, said last night. Blakeslee spoke at the 27th annual Superintendents and Prin cipals Conference here. He told the 500 Pennsylvania educators that the youth of the nation are the nucleus who are going to spread the understanding of atomic en ergy. Dr Morgan To Lead sth Home Ec Forum Dr. Winona L. Morgan, profes sor of child development and fam ily relationships at the College, will be discussion leader for the fifth of the series of Home Eco nomics Forum to be held in 14 Home Economics building at 4:30 p. m. today. As a part of the program, which will be open to the public, two films will be shown. They are: "Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children," and "The Feeling of Hostility." Movie Tonight "Howards of Virginia," a Hollywood film staring Cary Grant, will be shown tonight at 9 p.m. in the out-door ampi theatre at the Pugh Si. en trance to the campus. The film is the next-to-last in a series planned by the Intramural De partment, with the final movie scheduled for Monday at 9 p.m. In case of rain. tonight's showing will be moved to Schwab Auditorium. Anti-Poll Tax WASHINGTON—After au angry debate yesterday, the 11 o u e passed an anti-pull tax bill, 273 to 116. The bill would outlaw any tax assessment for voting on fed eral officeholders. It was up - I posed by repre,,entatives Stall southern states, Sollle of w have poll taxes. The bill wi!l to the Senate where opponents of the measure expect it tu be pigeonhoieci. PRICE FIVE CENTS s "Next Steps in the Improvement of our Schools." The various as pects of this question will be topics for lectures by the speak ers to be followed by panel dis cussions in which people promin ent in each field will take part. The conference opened with a lecture on "How Shall We Meet Our School Building Needs," by Lawrence B. Perkins of the archi tectural firm of Perkins and Will in Chicago which specializes in designing school buildings. Howard Blakeslee, science edi tor of the Associated Press, ad dressed the group last night on "The Values of the Atomic Age in Education." A report of kis lecture is printed below. First Lecture The first lecture today wig be given by Mr. Abel A. Hanson of Teachers College, Columbia Uni versity. While speaking under the topic "The Schoolman's View a School Improvement," he intends to stress the importance of the Continued on page seven ".1 doubt that much progress in atomic work will be made until you, the teachers, have had an opportunity to ground these young people in this new branch of science. Until you can grad uate them in good numbers, the older people are likely to stumble and do wrong and foolish things," Blakeslee said. Uninformed Group Probable "Until then it is unlikely there will be an adequate group of Americans able to respond to the repeated appeals of David Lit lienthal, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commis sion, in his speeches asking people to decide what should be done ism this difficult situation." "The prospects are that atomic power never will be as cheap as water power," Blakeslee contin ued. "There is a good chance that it will be as cheap as Ameri ca's low-cost coal." Economic Revolution Blakeslee also explained that if atomic power drops to that cost, a world revolution might be expected since this low-cost power would bring the greatest economic changes in the workt's history, which in turn would Pe sult in vast social changes. • "The principles of atomic ergy which wilt bring tb4.. changes already are in the ato.. literature," Blakeslee maims . "They have not been assembled by economists to any extent. They are mostly unknown to ederca tors. But they are very soon go ing to be a part of education." PSCA Holds Pody At Watt's Lodge The Penn State Christilran /as , . ,sociation is sponsoring a mbar Iparty at Watt's Lodge on NW Tussey Saturday and Sunday. Those wishing to go sign up at 304 Old Main or sti( olla extension 194 before Friday noun. The group will leave from kid Lick entrance to Old Merin at p.m. Saturday and wilt return Sunday afternoon. An interesting (recreational DC 49‘&1191111L
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