Congratulations,
Band and Chorus
Concert Tonight ummrr r tan Grads
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VOLUME 27-NUMBER 7
400 Students Receive Degrees
Summer Sessions Band, Chorus
Present. Joint Concert Today
Under the direction of James W. Dunlop and Frank Gullo,
assistant professors of music, the Summer Sessions Band and Chorus
will present a joint concert in Schwab Auditorium at 8 p.m. today.
There is no admission charge and the public is invited.
Prof. Dunlop and the band will present the first part of the
program, opening with "T*3 Trumpeters," by Leidzen, and "Stra
della" Overture, by von Flotow.
A brass sextet composed of Rich
ard Criswell, baritone; Nelson
Gable, tuba; Sam Kurtz, trom
bone; Rob e r t Manning, horn;
Cecil Oyler, second trumpet; and
Harold Yeagley, first trumpet,
will continue with "Castillia," by
Holmes
Selections to be played by the
band also include "Carnival Day
in New Orleans," by Morrissey,
"League of Composers March,"
by Goldman, and "Bobby-Sox
Suite" (a. Sox on Parade, b.
Browsin"Round, c. Bobbie Boo
gie), by Walters. The first part of
the concert will conclude with
"New Moon," by Romberg, and
"Americans We," by Fillmore.
Following an intermission, the
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Home Arts Classes
Display Handwork
Work of students in home arts
classes will be displayed from
7 to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. tomorrow in 220, Home
Economics. The display wil be
open to the public.
Included in the work exhibited
will be items of metalcraft, in
cluding trays and boxes. Lamps,
trays and pieces of furniture made
from wood and arranged in sug
gested settings, also will be dis
played. In textile work, draperies,
table cloths and other items made
by the silk screen and the block
print processes, will be exhited.
The exhibit includes the work
of 40 student who were enrolled
in seven classes taugh by Amy L.
Gardner, professor of home art,
and Beth K. Wham ,instructor in
home art.
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New Transport Agency Speeds
Unification of Armed Forces
WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Johnson has taken
another step in unifying the armed forces. He has ordeied that all
ocean-going military transport should be turned over to' navy
agency starting October 1. The new agency is called the Military
Sea Transport Service and it wilt be under navy command. The
agency is similar to the Military Air Transport Service set up last
Year under the air force for all
the armed forces.
Rejects Soviet Note
WASHINGTON—T he United
States has formally rejected a
Soviet note of protest against
Italy's joining the Atlantic Pact.
Russia claimed this was against
the terms of the Italian armistice.
The Palled Wee has bees se-
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY STUDENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLE
Dunlop
2200 Students
To Register
With the first th r e e-w ee k
period of Post Session beginning
Monday afternoon, over 2200 stu
dents are expected to register in
Recreation Building from 8 a.
m. to noon that day.
The anticipated number is the
same as that which was predicted
last year. Roughly 300 of the
group will leave the campus after
the first three weeks, according
to John E. Miller, administrative
assistant to the director of Sum
mer Sessions.
Proceed To nee Hall
Students who have pre-regis
tered for the session will proceed
to the balcony in Recreation
Building to present notice of ac
ceptance. At Section 6, they will
fill out all forms in pencil, and
have them checked at Section
7.
At this point, veterans receiv
ing educational benefits will go
to the first floor of the Armory,
where they will complete all reg
istration matters at Section 7V.
Other Students
Other students will proceed to
Section 8 for assessment of fees.
The final step will be completed
at Section 9, where fees will
be paid, class admission cards
will be obtained, and statement
of account.
Students who have not pre
registered will report to faculty
advisers on the first floor, and
receive class cards upon approval
of the scheduling officer. Regular
registration procedure will be fol
lowed from that step.
jected by Britain and France
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WASHINGTON—An East-West
battle is shaping up over who
should be chairman of the GOP
National Committee, which meets
tomorrow. Representative Hugh
Scott of Pennsylvania is resign
ing. New Jersey committeeman,
Csestiatied as Per eifig
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 3, 1949
College Plans
New Air ROTC
Department
A department of air science and
tactics, with Lt. Col. John E.
Stewart in charge, has been es
tablished here, James Milholland,
acting president, said Saturday.
Work in air science and tactics
sinc e 1946 had been of fer e d
through the department of mili
tary science and tactics. The
change, which became effective
July 1, is in keeping with the re
organization of the armed forces.
establishing the Air Force as a
unit separate from the Army.
Colonel Stewart explained to
day that the Air ROTC program
will include basic courses so that
students electing the air training
will take air courses beginning
their freshman year. Students
completing the basic courses may
apply for admission to advanced
c ourses. Quotas will determine
the number of students that will
be admitted to advanced training.
Upon completion of the four
years of work, including six
weeks of summer camp between
the junior and senior years, stu
dents will qualify for reserve
commissions as second lieutenants
in the Air Force. Those men de
signated as distinguished military
graduates will be eligible for re
gular commissions.
Offered at Centers
Colonel Stewart explained that
Air ROTC training would be of
fered this Fall at 10 centers and
State Teachers Colleges where
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Students Give
Fashion Show
"Midsummer.lnterlude," a fash
ion show by students in home
economics classes at the College,
will be presented tomorrow, in
117 Home Economics at 4:30 p.m.
Students in classes conducted
by Anormalee Way, visiting as
sistant professor of home econo
mics, will model dresses and suits
designed and made in tailoring
class.
A wardrobe of clothes from the
Cotton Textile Institute will be
shown. This wardrobe includes
both costumes made from com
mercial patterns and ensembles
from leading designers. New tex
tures in metallic yarns with cot
ton and new colors will be in
cluded.
The fashion world class is con
ducted by Bernice Chambers, of
New York University, who is on
the visiting faculty at the Col
lege for the summer.
Doan To Receive
Degree Despite
Glider Crash
A fractured cheek bone and a
black eye received in a glider
crash won't prevent David Doan
of 711 N. Holmes street from re
ceiving his master's degree in
science Saturday.
Doan is improving rapidly and
is expected to leave the hospital
today, according to his mother,
Mrs. F. J. Doan.
Doan, a graduate assistant in
mineralogy at the College, bought
the glider Saturday. He was
soaring at Elmira when his glider
hit a down draft and dropped 500
feet into a field.
A pilotless glider, launched by
a tow car, crashed shortly after
Doan's at nearby Harris Hill,
scene of many national soaring
meets. Troopers said Howard
Burr, the pilot, had leaped out
of the cockpit to get news of
Boma mishap.
Basic Courses
Largest Summer Group
In History To Graduate
An estimated total of 400 students will receive degrees at the
26th Summer Sessions Commencement in Recreation Building Sat•
urday morning, the largest summer group to be so honored in the
history of the College. Acting President James Milholland will pre-
sent the diplomas at the exercises which begin at 10:30 a.m.
After an organ prelude played by Prof. George E. Ceiga, chapel
Book Drive
Pi Gamma Mu, national so
cial science honorary, will
continue its drive for books
throughout Post Session, offi
cers of the society said today.
Text books are especially
desired by the organization,
which sends them to Villamor
College, Philippine Islands,
for use the r e by students.
Boxes for donations are placed
at various points on campus.
Board Accepts
4 Resignations
Dr. George L. I'Zundell, profes
sor of plant pathology will retire
on September 15, James Milhol
land, acting president of the Col
lege, said today.
Dr. Zundel, who is widely rec
ognized for his work on smut
fungi, has been teaching bontany
since 1909 and has been here since
1928. Prior to joining the staff,
he served at Utah State Agricul
tural College, Brigham Young
College, Washington State Col
lege, Connecticut Agricultural
Experiment Station, and with the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Resignations
The executive committee of the
Board of Trustees on Friday night
als o accepted three resignations-
They were: Samuel K. Hoff
man, professor of aeronautical en
gineering, effective June 30;
Charles W. Stickler, associate
professor of mining engineering,
effective July 31; and Dr. Ernest
A. Lechner, associate professor
of fisheries biology, effective
June 30.
Hoffma n accepted a position
with North American Aviation;
Stickler has joined Robinson and
Robinson, consulting engineers in
Charleston, W. Va.; and Dr. Lath
ner accepted a position with the
division of fishes, U. S. National
Museum, Washington, D. C.
Leave of Absence
The trustees also approved a
leave of absence for Lawrence C.
Madison, professor of animal hus
bandry extension, from October 1
to March 31, 1950. He will travel
through the south and southwest
and return through the corn belt,
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'Blithe 'Spirit,' Coward Comedy,
Ends Town and Nine Season
"Blithe Spirit," Noel Coward's equally blithe and sophisticated
comedy, opened a two-week stay at Centre Stage, E. Hamilton
avenue, Monday night. Produced as the final offering of the season
by Town and Nine Theatre. it is directed by James Ambandos.
The action taking place in the living room of the English home
of Charles and Ruth Condomine, the play begins with a seance in
the offing. Charles, it seems, is
an author planning a book cen
tering around a homicidal med
ium, and wants first-hand infor
mation about the dubious work
ings of the occult.
The medium at hand, the bicy
cle-riding Madame Arcati, suc
ceeds in cooperating all too well,
materializing the first Mrs. Con
domine, whom only Charles can
see and hear.
Charles is upset, and rightly
so. For Wife No. 1, Elvira, is no
mere temporary manifestation:
site intends staying around. And
PRICE FIVE CENTS
organist, the academic procession
will take place, the audience
standing. The invocation will
then be made by the Rev. John
N. Peabody, rector of St. An•
drew's Episcopal Church, State
College.
Eliot To Speak
An address by Major George
Fielding Eliot, "The World h
Your Frontier,' will be followed
by the presentation of degree'
and commissions. After those is
attendance sing "B 1u e an a
White," traditional College song
the benediction will be said ana
the recessional will take place
Eleven seniors will be grad•
uated with honors. They are Jack
Fonney, Wattsburg, Education'
ranklin G. Brosius, Frackville
Liberal Arts; Mrs. Beatrice A
Cleveland, State College, Liberal
Arts; George A. Etzweiler, Lewis.
town, Engineering; Catherine Z
McAllister, Altoona, Educatiom
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Cancel Poultry
Conference
Cancellation of the Pb
Products Conference, scheduled
at the College for August 30 and
31, was announced recently by
Prof. Paul H. Margolf, general
chairman.
Various factors contribinal in
dropping plans for the confer
ence, Prof. Margolf explained,
but one of the main reasons
was difficulty in obtaining guest
speakers of the calibre desired
for this program.
Even though no onaletence
will be held this year, plans al
ready have been begun for a
poultry products conference ca
the Penn State campus in lOW
This event will either be in the
late summer or early fan, mem
bers of the poultry staff an
nounced.
An unusually outstanding pro
gram, covering all kinds of poul
try products, had been ptanned
for this year, primarily for the
larger producers of the poultry
industry. Rather than lower the
standards of the conference when
national leaders could not. be ob
tained for the announced dates,
the entire program was called odf
this year, Prof. Margolf said.
Wife No. 2, Ruth, is understand
ably thrown by her husband's
wild and often shocking outbursts
aimed toward no visible being.
Finally, through sheer per
severance on Charles' part, Ruth
accedes the presence of her mar
ital predecessor. With the poor
man in the middle, the two wives
dispute ownership. As a result
of Elvira's tinkering with the
workings of the Condomine car
in the hope of making Charles a
fellow-ghost. Ruth meets with 10
natal ae;:ident. . and Elvira.
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