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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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".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
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