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.
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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.