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Band Finances
All-College Cabinet's recent refusal to allo
cate $144 to the Blue Band to send ten or twelve
members to the Intercollegiate State Band Fes
tival points up a few pertinent things about the
Blue Band's status and history at the College.
We think they throw much light on a genuine
need for overhauling the, Band's financial
sources.
The Band celebrated its 50th anniversary
this year, and its sources of operating income
in this half-century seem as multiple as its
years spent injecting spirit into campus life
and boosting its famous fleet-footed pace to
the 180-per-minute neighborhood.
Organized as a six-piece drum and bugle
corps in 1901, the predecessor to the present
Blue Band was born through dint of Mr. George
H. Deike, class of 'O3 and now an active College
trustee and benefactor of the Blue Band. This
first Cadet Band begun by Deike in 'Ol was
made possible through financial contributions
from Andrew Carnegie, steel manufacturer and
philanthropist. (Carnegie also gave money for
other things at the College, among them the
present Carnegie Hall).
THROUGH THE YEARS as the band's size
multiplied, its finances have remained depend
ent on gifts from graduates, and upon aid from
such diverse sources as the department of mili
tary science and tactics, school of physical edu
cation and athletics, department of music, the
Athletic Association, and—last but by no means
picayunish undergraduate students at the
College.
AS AN EXAMPLE of the last-named source,
in 1941 and '47 the Band asked the student body
through All-College Cabinet for money to buy
new uniforms. In elections those years, the
students complied by voting to. allow increased
assessments as part of regular College fees.
Right now the Blue Band is still reliant on
an occasional gift to help endure the slings
and arrows of trying to operate without a
clear-cut year-to-year budget. A recent wind
fall along the gift line was the presentation
early this year of six matched sousaphones by
Mr. Deike. We understand that it would have
taken several years under the present music
department budget to pay for the equivalent
of Mr. Deike's generous gift—amounting tc
about $4.000:
Besides gifts, the Blue Band receives a year'
$3,000 from student funds, appropriated by Al
College Cabinet, to pay for one trip to an aw;
football fray. Another yearly football trip
the band is paid for by Athletic Associatic
fun& administered by Harold "Ike" Gilbert
graduate manager of athletics.
This $3,000 student appropriation for the
Band amounts to virtually a quarter of the
Cabinet budget. It was this prime fact above
any other that prompted All-College Cabinet
to turn thumbs •down on the $144 festival
request. Cabinet believed that Blue Band—
although 'a worthy all-College activity--al
ready bites a big chunk out of all-College
student funds when it eats a quarter of the
pie, Cabinet thought that's enough.
THIS ACTION should—if nothing else—serve
to show the inadequacy and perplexing corn
plication of Blue Band's multi-stringed finances.
What Blue Band—an established College func
tion—needs is a College budget.
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Safety. Valve ...
Refuse Your Support
TO THE EDITOR: Sweater girl contest: Are we, the students cm
?enn State, going to support such vulgarity? Can't we realize what
:ind of publicity we are giving to Penn State? In a recent Collegian,
rofessor Banner is quoted as say
ig, `;The whole world is looking
American universities. Young
Zen and women everywhere are
ager to come here to learn."
Is this what we have to offer
them?
This contest cannot stand if
the students refuse to support it.
College Alma Mater
Not until the spring of 1901, did Penn State have an authorized
College song. In that year, the "Alma Mater" was written by Dr.
Fred L. Pattee, professor of English Language and Literature, and
officially accepted.
Penn State ROTC
In September, 1917, the War Deltment created the first unit
of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the College. The unit was
composed of 175 members of the junior class.
nervous."
I ask that you de refuse to sup
port it. Show your disapproval
by writing to the Collegian.• After
all, it is our. paper. Why permit
it to carry on activities we are
ashamed of? I, too, am disappoint
ed in Collegian.
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Gazette . . . .
Wednesday, February 15
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WRA BOWLING, Advanced, White Hall, 7
p.m.
WRA DANCE Club, White Hall, Dance Room,
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ments can be obtained in 112 Old Main.
Bethlehem Steel Corp. is interested in receiv
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lE, CE, ChE, Metal, and Cer. Applications must
be returned to Placement Service by Monday,
Feb. 20.
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ceiving preliminary applications from June
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ested in summer employment, in Chem, ChE,
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