Record '5O Class To Graduate Double Exercises Slated for Monday The spotlight will shift from alumni of the College to graduating seniors as a record graduating class begins its Commencement activities tomorow. The Baccalaureate Service, with Dr. J. Hillman Hollis ter, of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., as speaker, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Recreation Hall. There will be no proces sional and the services will be open to the public. At 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, sen iors will hold their Class Day Exercises in Recreation Hall. Rob ert C. Gerhard will deliver the valedictory and Olen Kraus the salutatory address . . A number of awards will be presented to mem bers of the graduating class. Commencement exercises will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Monday in Recreation Hall. Because of limited seating ca pacity, only persons holding tick ets, issued by members of the graduating class, can be admitted to tile building. Group Numbers 2270 Degrees will be conferred on nearly 2270 students at the double commencement exercises,,.accord ing to James Milholland, acting president of the College. Graduates at the morning ex ercises will hear Dr. 0. C. Car michael, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, while Dr. Erwin D. Canham, editor, The Christian Science Monitor, will address the afternoon group. Among the graduates will be ,155 students who will receive ad vanced degrees, 21•" of them doc torates. There also are more than 1250 veterans in the class, ten of the veterans , being women. Eighty-three of the veterans will receive advanced• degrees. The 1950 graduating class, which includes nearly 800 who received degrees on February 7, totals more than 3000 and is the largest , class in the- history of the College: At 10:80 a.m., degrees will be -awarded to students enrolled in the Schools of the Liberal Arts, Education, Hci,me Economics, and , Physical Education and Athletics, and to advanced students with majors in those schools. At 2:30 p.m., students . in the Schools of Agriculture, Chemis try and Physics, Engineering; arid Mineral Industries, • includ in g graduate students majoring in these schools, will receive de grees. Ffeserve Commissi- During 'the day, rest.: • missions will be award._ six Men by the Army, four by the Navy, and 46 by the Air Force. • The list of candidates for de grees includes 350 women and 1920 men. Graduates according to degrees and schools are as fol lows: Bachelor of Arts, Education ' (Continued on page two) Okra Kritisi. Salutatorlizi.cht .150 Graduating Seniors! Are you of the Mid-Century class? Don't forget to drop in at the Alumni Office in Old Main, either before or after you graduate Monday, to pick up your membership in the Al umni Association. It'll only cost you $2 from now through Monday, $3 after that. The Alumni Association of= fers countless benefits to over 40,000 alumni. You can't af ford to pass up this chance for membership. Carnegie Head, Editor Speak At Exercises Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael, presi dent of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach ing, and Irwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, will be the speakers for the double Commencement program scheduled for Monday in Recre ation HalL The morning session, at which Dr. Carmichael will speak, will begin at 10:30. His topic has not been disclosed. Canham, whose topic has also not been announced, will speak at the afternoon ses sion, scheduled to begin at 2:30. Before becoming • president of the Carnegie Fouhdation in 1946, Dr. Carmichael was chancelor ,of Vanderbilt University. During World War I he was a member of the Hoover. Relief Commission to Belgium, and he , was an ad visor to the War Production Board in World War 11. He is a member of President Truman's Commission on Higher Educa tion. Associated with the Christian Science Monitor since 1926,. Can ham has covered the League of Nations, the London Naval Con ference, and was head of the Monitor's Washington Bureau be fore being named general news editor in 199. He has been editor since 1945 -and was vice-president of the American Society of News paper Editors in 1949. Rip Engle is the 14th head coach in 64 years of intercollegi ate football at• Penn State. 4 Batty (ii,,,i,•::, .(g u lt rv i an ...,,. VOL. 50 - NO. 151 Class Day Tomorrow To Feature Top Awards C:::3 Robert Gerhard, Valedictorian of '5O Trustees Weigh Union Recommendation The Joint Trustee-Alumni Committee on Student Union Building and Field House yesterday recommended to the Board of Trustees - that the proposed student assessment of $7.50-per-semester next year'be approved, and that officers of the College be authorized to award contracts for the construc tion of the SU building on central campus "at the earliest practical date." Samuel K. Hostetter, assistant to the president in charge of business and finance, made the announcement lagt night. At the same time, he said the committee approved plans presented by the College Student Union Commit tee which has been studying and planning the SU for years. The Board of Trustees will meet this afternoon to con sider the SU recommendation as well as other business. All-College Cabinet recently passed the student fee aimed at supplying a boost toward early construction of the SU, sought by students and others at the College for about 13 years. Two previous student requests for a SU fee, in '46 and '47, prompted no accept ance by the Board . of Trustees principally on the grounds that SU plans were not complete then. Field House Hostetter also revealed last night that the Joint Trustee- Alumni: Committee also "ap proved in principle" plans pre sented by a committee appointed by the College to make a study of a field house. The Field House Committee, headed by Harold "Ike" Gilbert, graduate managef of athletics, was asked to com plete its study 'and submit a re port and recommendation for a method of financing construc tion of this building, at a meeting of the Joint Trustee-Alumni Com mittee during Homecoming next fall. The proposed field house, sought by alumni and others since 1938, would be a marn- (Continued o, page two) 'FOR A BETTER PENN STATE' STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1950 Today '5O Class. Gift Goes Toward Student Press , The Mid-Century Class has voted to give its Class Gift toward a Student Press at the College, James Balog, senior class presi dent, revealed yesterday. He said the class chose the press by "an overwhelming decision" over the other two suggestions, purchase of a College ambulance and estab lishment of a Hall of Fame in the proposed Student Union building. Decision was made by balloting of both February and June grad uates. This makes the third straight graduating class that has put its gift toward a Student' Press. The classes of 1948 and 1949 already contributed a total of $12,750 to the fund, 'this year's gift of ap proximately $B5OO bringing the total to over $20,090. Balog declared, "I feel certain that the decision of the Class of '5O to put its gift entirely to the Student Press will be a great boost toward final achievement of that valuable asset to daily stu dent life at Penn State. I shall be proud to dedicate the class gift to the Press, at Sunday's. Class Day 'exercises in Recreation Hall." James Balog and Shirley Gauger will be honored at Class Day ..ceremonies with the titles of Spoon Man and Bow Girl, top spots in senior class balloting for outstand ing members, at Class Day Exercises at 7:30 p.m. tomor row in Recreation Hall. The public is invited, according to Joseph ,Reinheimer, class vice-president and Class Day chairman. Class Day this year will feature presentation of numerous awards to graduating seniors, . presenta tion of the class gift to the Col lege, and creation of a new award designated as Grindstone Man. According to scholarship, leadership and votes received in Senior Class balloting, the number-two spot of. Barrel Man. . will go to James Gehrdes. Ted Allen will be Cane Man. Pipe Orator will be Charles Beatty, who will speak on activities of the '5O Penn Stale class, while Robert Keller will be Class Donor. In that capacity he will present all the above-named traditional men's awards. Corresponding traditional wo men's awards, in addition to Miss Gauger as Bow Girl, will go 'to Dottie Werlinich as Slipper Girl, James Balog Virginia Miller, Fan Girl, Elisa beth Taylor as Class Poet and ' Anna Keller as Mirror Girl. Tra ditional woman's Class Day awards will be presented by Ruth Lehman, Class Donor. Miss Keller will also receive the National Alpha Lambda' book award, presented on the basis of scholarship. It will be presented by Peter Giesey, who will intro duce the Class Day festivities and will serve as general emcee. Balog will present , the gift of the Class of '5O to James Milhol land, acting president of the Col lege; while Allen will present 86 All-College Cabinet awards for Outstanding service to the College. (Continued on page two) • Grad Waits 26 Years for Hist Earl V. Singer, 49, of 41 Ken sington Ave., Dover N. J., will ac quire his bachelor of science de gree from the College on Monday, just 26 years after "graduation". Singer, a metallurgical engin eer, should have graduated with the class of 1924, but because of unexcused absences from chapel, his degree was not conferred. Now, with chapel attendance no longer a prerequisite for a de gree, Singer is eligible for his bachelor of science degree in met allurgy.
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