Support Cwens' Tag Day VOL. 50 - NO. 134 Author of Alma Mater, Dr. Pattee, Dies at 87 Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee, author of the lyrics for the Penn State "Alma Mater," died Saturday at his Winter Park, Fla., home. Dr. Pattee, a leading authority on American literature and professor emeritus of American literature at the College, was one of the first to recognize that this country had a litera- ture of its own and to classify it as American literature. He was 87 years old. Thespian Founder A co-founder of the Penn State Thespians, Dr. Pattee was also a charter member of the Literary Club, •and for a time served as chaplain of the College. He also played an important part in ex panding the college library which, when he arrived on campus, con tained only one novel. Dr. Pattee joined the faculty• at the College in 1894 as a professor of English and rhetoric. He was appointed professor of American literature in 1918 and was prob ably the first professor in the country to hold such a title. He retired from the faculty with emeritus rank in 1928. Dr. Pattee, a Dartmouth gradu ate, published two collections of verse. The first, "The Wine of May," was published in 1893, and the second, 'Beyond the Sunset," appeared in 1934. His early novels were "Mary Garvin," about his native New Hampshire; "The House of the Black Ring," with a Central Pennsylvania setting; and a college novel, "The Breaking Point." His autobiography, "My World As In My Time," only re-. cently completed, has not yet been published. Taught in South • After leaving Penn State, Dr. Pattee, who had been a visiting professor, at the University of Illinois in 1923-24, moved to Flori da. He accepted a. position as profesSor of American literature at Rollins College, and during the summer months taught -at the Bread Loaf Summer School of English, Middlebury, Vt. During the summer of 1926 he taught at Columbia University. Late AP News• Courtesy WMAJ Truman Warns Of War Danger WASHINGTON President Truman warned that the course of free nations is threatened all over the world in a rear-plat form speech at Galesburg, Illin ois yesterday. He said decisions the United States must make in the months ahead will determine whether there will be a third World War. Coart Upholds Oath WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the non- Communist oath provisionpriael Taft-Hartley law whiclqtebuires union officials to sweitheyfte! ,not Communists. LegalityofAhe' provision had been attaCked l in' 'appeals by the CIO Steelvierlieri and the American Commuiiita-3 tions Association. Aid For Indo-China WASHINGTON Secretary of State Acheson annouced yester day that the United States will send economic aid to French Indo China. Acheson did not, say how much aid this country will send, but French officials are said to be well satisfied with the results of yesterday's discussions., • Reds Want Elections the Russians the Russians have notified the West ern Allies that they will go along with free elections for the entire city of Berlin, they have laid down conditions extremely . favorable to the Eastern communists. Today's Weather: Tilt El atig o a ti tntatt JP Continued cloudy and warmer - 4;0 7 "TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" College's Loss Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee Students Help Fire Fighters The scorching , experience . of fighting a raging Centre County forest fire attracted five forestry students, and a dairy husbandry student to boot, late Sunday night. Joseph Arnold, William Cum mings, Eugene Decker, John Kurey, Joseph Murphy and Wal ter Scopel spent eight - hours— from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. yes terday—feverishing digging a fire line in the face of a roaring blaze that has engulfed large sectors of forestland in the Orviston—Re novo—Howard area of Centre and Clinton Counties. Arnold explained how his dairy husbandry roommate, Murphy, and the others hit the. forest-fire trail: "We could see lots of smoke from our dorms Sunday evening and decided. to ,go and take a look. On our way we encountered some firemen going to fight the fire about ten miles south, of Renovo, and we hooked up with them." Crowning To Climax Coronation Review The crowning of a coed from the College as Misd Penn State will climax the "Coronation Review," a special shove/ slated for Schwab Auditorium the night of Wednesday, May 17 to officially open the 1950 Spng Week. The "Coronation Review," under the ditection of ; Sid Manes, Thespian, performer, will have as its master of ceremonies, }link Glass, well known campus enter giner. Star,fing at 8 p.m., the ?:stii . W will. include musical num tigteand comedy routines in addi tiO to the crowning of Miss Penn State, which will be modeled ;affdr the crowning of Miss Amer ica every year at Atlantic City. There will also be a formal pag eant of roses. Open To Public The "Coronation Review'? will be admission free and will be open to the public. It will climax a caravan of decorated floats and cars, which will start at a point still undetermined at 7 p.m. and continue 'along Pollock road to Schwab Auditorium. The Spring Week committee urged every organization spon soring a booth hi the Carnival which will open the next day, to enter a decorated car in the cara van and take advantage of the ex cellent opportunity to advertise, Four Miss Penn State finalists have been selected by the Spring STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1950 Alumni Group Opposes Re-Election of Milholland Hat Council ' Names 35 Men To Androcles Twenty-two sophomores and 13 juniors have been tapped to be charter members of Androcles, newly-created junior men's hat society. The 35 were selected by the Hat Society Council from a list of 138 who applied for mem bership on the basis of activi ties in government, politics, dra matics, forensics, publications, sports and other fields. Selection of the 35 plotential charter members was based on a point system incorporated in the Androcles constitution by •tha Hat Council, founding group. Names of the Androcles tappees, announced yesterday by Thomas Morgan, Council president, fol low: Tappees Chosen Sophomores—Robert Amo 1 e, Joseph Arnold, John Baron, Paul Beighley, Milton Bernstein, Don= ald Carlson, Marvin Cetron, Da vid • Colton, Ralph Craine, Roger Dietz, Ray Evert, Leonard Fried man; Clair George,, George Gla zer, Marc Kimeman, Frank Lewis, Moylan Mills, Richard Mills, Paul Poorman, Walter Sachs, Peter Sarantopoulos, Ed ward Shanken; , • . • Juniors—George Dents•h dc k, Owen Dougherty, Victor Fritts, Robert Housew ort h, Donald Maclntire, Walter Miller, Robert Parsons, David Schmuckler, Mer rill Sporkin, Samuel Vaughan, Rodney Waters, Curtis Wessner, William Zakor. Insigne of the new group fea tures a capital "A" and a capi tal "L", taken from "Andrcsclea and:the Lion," a fable demonstra ting service of a slave to a lion. La Vie for Eng. Today - Seniors in the School of En gineering can secure . their copies of the 1950 La Vie at Student Union today Wand ,to morrow. Week committee from submitted photographs instead of three as originally announced. They will be judged in evening gowns at the end of the show in Schwab. The winner will •bg crowned Miss Penn State and be known as the queen of campus queens. Miss Penn State will reign over the entire Spring Week, including the Carnival, May 18, and Senior Ball, May 19. She will alSo receive gifts from various local merch ants ,and the other three coed finalists will act as her attendants throughout the week. The Glee Club Quartet, com posed of William Detweiler, Ed ward Raffensberger, Richard Goodling and George Jeffries, will entertain with several num bers. Morris Samuel and Carol Wineman will present a duet, and a .comedy routine will feature Ed ward Lefkowith , and Frank Lewis Gifts For Queen Independent Faction Seeks To Unseat 2 Other Trustees Opposition has developed to the re-election of James MilhoHand and two other incumbents to the Board of Trus tees of the College, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Press. The Trustees will count ballots June 10. Milholland, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and act ing preSident of the College since the death of Ralph Dorn Dance Group Will Present Spring Concert 'The Modern Dance Group of the College will present its an nual Spring concert as part of the Combined Arts Festival, to morrow, Thursday, and Saturday in White Hall. "Terpsichore's Hat Box" is the theme of the first group of dances and includes "Sombrero"; "Top, Hat"—a trio danced by Betty Jane Strom, Betsy Renton, 'and Jacitie Zivic; "Dude }Tar— a group number; "L l ocal Chap eaux"—a jocular trio danced by Barbara Curciger, Peg Mayberry, and Sonia Goldstein; and "Sou'- wester"—a duet danced by Eth el Brady and Betty Jane Strom. "Vibrato Divertimenti" follows and is being repeated from — last year's program by request. Poems done in dance. will be featured as the second half of the program. 'lncluded are "Jabber woolry" by Lewis Carroll; "The Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman and danced by Lida Whitesel; "Ghoul Care" by p, alph Hodgson and danced by Barbara Cruciger; and "The People Will Live On" by Carl Sandburg and danced by Miss Briant, Micha line Claysrnith, Gladdy .Lou Mil ler, Phyllis Sones, and Joan Witherow. 'Drift Wood', 'Prejudice' "Drift, Wood", a solo by Gladdy Lou Miller; follows "Prejudice", a large group number. The final dance, depitts the conflicts and reactions among groups, who are dominated and overpowered. The Concert Group includes Joan Withrow as president; Bet sy Renton as secretary-treasurer, Phyllis Auerbach, Lois Blanck ensee, Pat Bowles, Ethel Brady, Michaline Claysmith, Barbara Cruciger, Nancy Fagan, Sonia Goldstein, Peg Mayberry, Glad dy Lou Miller, Phyllis Sones, Betty Jane Strom, Florence Tietz, Lida Whitesel, Joan Wiley and Jackie. Zivic. Tickets are complimentary and may be obtained at the office in White Hall, or from any mem ber of the Concert Group or club. Cwens To Renew Tag Day Custom Cwens, sophomore women's hat society, is reviving the Penn State tradition of Tag Day to morrow. 'The money that is collected will be used to aid in the support of a foster child in Europe. It will also go to help finance the annual Cwen scholarship, which is awarded to a sophomore wo man who has made unusual achievements in self support. Tags can, be paid for by any amount that is desired, from a penny on up. Members of Cwens will be posted at various spots in town and on campus, where they will distribute tags. - PRICE FIVE CENTS Hetzel in 1947, is seeking re election along with J. L. Mau the Fritsche. Seek Change The "independent" group is seeking to unseat the three claim ing "they did not support the se lection of the type of president for Penn State that was the event ual choice of the Board of Trus tees," according to the Press. The "independent" g r ou p advocates the election of David H. Stewart, superintendent of schools in Dor mont, Pa.; J. Kenneth Stern, presi dent of the American Institute for Cooperation; and John A. Wood, vice-president of the Wilbur-Suc hard Chocolate Co., Lititz, Pa. The charges against Milholland are being circulated in letters to alumni members throughout the country, the Press said. "We feel," the anti-Milholland group claims, "that Dr. Eisenhower should not be placed in an embarrassing posi tion of working with a Board of Trustees which has as its chair man a man who was an active candidate for the presidency." The letters were not mailed through regular alumni channels, campus alumni officials said. The letters are being signed by individual alumni who mail them, (Continued on page four) Noted Architect Speaks Tonight Henry-Russell Hitchcock, lec turer and historian of modern architecture in. America; will speak on "The One Room House and Its Background" tonight at 8 p.m. in 121 Sparks. The lecture, which is sponsor ed by the department of archi tecture and is one of the Com bined Arts Festival programs, will be open to the public. - Born in Boston, Mass., Pro fessor Hitchcock received his bachelor of arts and master of arts degree at Harvard 'Univer sity. He held a Guggenheim Fel lowship in 1945-46. He is an honorary correspond ing member of the Royal Insti tute of British Architects and is on the board of directors of the College Arts Association. Professor Hitchcock is present ly living in Northampton, Mass., where he is professor of art at Smith College. He has also taught at Vassar, Wesleyan University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Considered a specialist on the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Professor Hitchcock has written "In the Nature of Materials" in which he discusses Wright's work. Other books Hitchcock has writ ten are "The Architecture of H. H. Richardson," "Rhode 'lsland Architecture," "The Internation al Style (with Johnson)"; and "Painting Towards Architecture." Comedy To Be Given "Man Vs. Trailer," a one act farce by Helen Catt, will be pre sented at 5 o'clock this afternoon in the Little Theatre in the base ment of Old Main. The show, di rected by Mrs. Catt herself, seeks to show the comic side of living in a small campus trailer.
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