STUDENTS CASTING BALLQTSr—Some of ihe' droves of
students who cast their ballots yesterday in the election for
officers of the freshman and sophomore classes. The election
brought out the heaviest student voting in years.
Freshmen Elect
State Candidates
Whitely, Yerger 7 Barr
Are First Frosh Officers
Slim, dark-eyed Marian “Chubi” Whitely, nominee, of the State
Party, yesterday became president of the'first freshman class bn cam
pus in several years.
She led a slate of State Party candidates who swept all three
class offices in the balloting yesterday.
With 53 per cent of the eligible freshman women voting, the
State party piled up an impress
ive lead over the Lion party, for
which. Jo Hutchon headed the
ticket.
The official tabulation:
Freshman President
Jo Hutchon (L)
Marian Whitely (S)
Vice-President
Gerry Brown (L)
Joan Yerger (5)...
Secrelary-Treasurere
Peggy Hepler (L). ~..129
Lucy Barr (S) 166
Joan Yerger, victorious candi
date for the vice-president posi
tion, led the ticket with a total
of 177 votes, as against 118 for
her Lion clique opponent, Gerry
Brown.
Miss 'Whitely, who'received the
lowest number of votes among
the State candidates for freshman
offices, had 165 ballots, while her
opponent, Belle Hop Queen, Jo
Hutchon, received a total of 121
votes.
Highest. scorer among the Lion
party candidates was Peggy Hep
ler, who was running for' the post
of class secretary-treasurer. She
received 129 votes, but that was
not enough to overcome the 166
ballots cast for the successful
bidder, Lucy Barr.
In all, 295 ballots were cast in
Today . . .
The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR the victorious Staler
Party candidates, who captured
all freshman .and sophomore
class offices in yesterday's stu
dent voting.
In part, the State sweep
marked a political reversal on
campus, following last Spring's
complete Lion Party sweep in
all-College, senior class and
junior class. elections.
The Lion roars, and sees this
as a portent of a cracker jack
Lion-State battle for class and
all-College posts in next semes-'
ten elections race.
—Photo by Sam Yaaghn
the freshman class elections. The
turnout of freshman women was
well above the average turnout of
30 per cent' at All-College and
class elections in the past few
years.
Percentagewise, fewer fresh
man voted than sophomores, but
there was no incentive—such as"
dance tickets—to bring them out
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Marian Whilely (S)
Frosh' President
Freshman, Sophomore Class Winners
Soph Secretary-Treasure*
Shown congratulating Joseph Arnold are dorm 4 residents and friends when the news was
flashed last night that Arnold was elected sophomore class president in yesterday's balloting.
Shaking Arnold's hand is Andrew Grasiy. Centered around them, left to right, are Michael
Geronimo, John Kylander, Glenn Van Winkle, Richard Weisberg, Murray Goldman, Melvin Glass
and Harold Wollin.
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VOL. 50 NO. 39 STATE COLLEGE, PA.,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1949
AP NEWS—Courtesy WMAJ
State Secretary
Returns to U.S.
WASHINGTON—Secretary of
State Dean Acheson is back in
Washington after his flying trip
abroad.- He told newsmen that he
intends .to give his personal at
tention to the case of Angus Ward,
the American consul, general in
Mukden who has been jailed by
the Chinese Communists.
Flier Missing
' CANTON —Chinese horsemen
are searching for an American
flier who crash landed some
where in the wild mountainous
country near the Indo-Chinese
bbrder of Yunnan province.' The
flier, Norman Jones, was flying a
C-47 for the Chennault Civil Air
Transport Company when engine
trouble. developed.
Marsh Fails
NEW YORK —Comic artist Nor
man Marsh almost completed his
trans-continental' flight from Los
Angeles to New York. But near
the end he was forced down at
Dunkirk, N.Y. after encountering
rough weather. Said the 48-year
old flier, “It was better to quit
than to kill myself.”
Athletic Fund
Donations Duo
Dorm and Inter-fraternity
Council representatives who still
have. scholargram blanks or stu
dent contributions toward an ath
letic fund should turn both in by
tomorrow at the Student Union
desk, Old Main.
Robert Keller, sub-chairman of
the drive-for one-dollar athletic
contributions, pointed out that
students may still contribute to
ward the athletic fund at Student
Union.
“FOR A BETTER PENN STATE”
State Sweeps
Soph Elections
Slate of Arnold, Baron,
Shoemaker Cops Posts
A resurgent State party swept all offices in the sophomore and
freshman class elections yesterday, with Joseph Arnold, a mild,
quiet-talking forestry student, becoming the new president of the
sophomore class.
It was one of the heaviest turnouts of voters that campus politics
has seen in many years, with sophomores spurred to the: polls by the
prohibition that they would not
receive tickets to their class dance
unless they voted.
The 'official. sophomore tabula
tion
Sophomore President
Charles Wysocki (L) 729
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Sally Shoemaker (S)
Soph Vice-President
By L. D. Gladfelter
Joseph Arnold (S)
Vice-President
Jack Haines (L) 635
Sara Ellen' Shoemaker (S).. 836
Secretary-Treasurer
Lois Pulver (L).
John Baron (S/
The victory definitely put the
State party back in the running
for the important all-College and
class elections, scheduled this
Spring. Last Spring, the Lion
party had come into power for
the first time by sweeping all
posts for all-College Cabinet and
class offices, and another Lion
victory might have spelled finis
for the Staters.
An abortive attempt by an in
dependent candidate to have, his
name written in on the sopho
more ballot for vice-president
provided a hectic time for the
all-College elections committee
in charge of the balloting during
most of the day.
The attempt was put forth by-
Peter Sarantopoulos, an inde
pendent physical education ma
jor, who placed a campaign sign
in the lobby of Old Main yester
day and handed out stickers bear
ing his name, to be placed on the
ballot, throughout the day.
His action drew a sharp repri
mand from William Shade, chair
man of the elections committee,
who said Sarantopoulos was vio
lating rules of the College, and
the-elections code.
A total of 2,097 sophomores cast
ballots, a percentage of 56.7 of the
3,133 students eligible. Many stu
dents, according to conversation
at tjie polling place on the bal
cony of the Old Main lobby, voted
merely to obtain tickets for the
Soph Hop. Cabinet ruled Thurs
day that tickets would be given
only to sophomores who voted.
Arnold, who had 1,066 votes
compared to 729 for the Lion party
candidate, Charles Wysocki, re
ceived the highest percentage of
votes in the sophomore race.
' Sara Ellen Shoemaker, Stater
running for vice-president, re
ceived 836 votes, the lowest for
her party, but Jack Haines, her
Lion opponent, got only 635, also
the lowest for his party.
It was evident from these tabu
lations that Sarantopoulos’ cam
paign had cut deeply into the bal
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