PACTIT', rW 2 Mounties Guard Forestry Building Standing impassively, in per manently-posed positions as stuff ed animals are wont to do, are two huge bears on guard in the Forestry building. They were shot by Newton E. Hess, a State College big game hunter, and were originally mus eum specimens of his own. How ever, after his death, the bears were presented to the College by - his sons, John and Samuel. These fugitives from a, taxi dermist are Kodiaks, named for their habitat—Kodiak Island, Al 7 aska. The largest bears in ex istence, they subsist on a daily diet of fish. The two Kodiaks on display in the Forestry building, though stuffed and immobile, evoke squeals of terror from visiting moppets of the College nursery. And, co-eds, too. FFA To Give Gold Awards Forty-nine seniors in Agricul tural Education will be presented the gold charm of the Collegiate degree in the Future Farmers of America at the annual FFA ban quet to be held tomorrow night at 6:30 in: the Methodist church. The awards will be made by Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the School of Agriculture. The group will begin practice teaching March 28. Outstanding vocational agricul ture instructors from high schools where the seniors will be teach ing will attend the banquet. A conference of the teachers and seniors will be held on Saturday. Principal speaker at the ban quet will be H. C. Fetterolf, chief of Agricultural Education in Penn sylvania. He has been state super visor of Agricultural Education for over 35 years, and has served as an educational consultant for the American Military government in Germany and Korea. A half-hour before the dinner will be spent as a get-acquainted session for the teachers and the students, George Alleman, FFA committee head, said. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. Walter Butz, chapter chairman, will be toastmaster. Group sing ing and special selections by the FFA chorus will be in charge of Floyd Rough. Ripley To Speak To Poultry Club H. D. Ripley, manager of the Swift & Company branch at Chambersburg, will speak before the Penn State Poultry club at its meeting tonight in 204 Horticul ture. A business meeting will be held at 7 o'clock, and. Ripley will speak at 8 o'clock. He will discuss the qualities the Swift company looks for in a graduate, and will sug gest courses for undergraduates, according to Charles ZeLlner, club president. All students and faculty are in vited to attend the meeting, Zen ner said. Mr. Ripley will spend Thursday afternoon and Friday morning on campus interviewing poultry ma jors. 112th Aircraft Squadron Publishes 'Pip Sheet' "The Pip Sheet," a two-page mimeographed sheet, is published every two weeks by members of State College's 112th Aircraft Con trol and Warning squadron. The paper is distributed to the 200 men in the squadron, and also to members of Lewistown's squad ron. It is edited by members of State College's squadron, and present staff members are S/Sgt. George Vose, and Pvts. Robert Schooley and Paul Poorman. The name is taken from the name "pip" given to marks on a radar screen. Mourant At Conference Dr.' J. A. Mourant, head of the Department of Philosophy, is at tending the Southern conference on the "Philosophy of Religion" which is being held at the Uni versity of Virginia. Dr. Mourant left for Charlottes ville yesterday and will remain at the university until the conference concludes on Sunday. Journalists Get Travel Offers A "Foreign Assignment" pro gram for students of journalism, working journalists, and all those interested in evaluating the con temporary Scene in Europe is being sponsored by Travel & Study, inc., an organization for study abroad, in New York City, for the third successive year.. Students will observe current political, economic, and social conditions in England, France, Switzerland, Western Germany, and Scandinavia. They will be received by the local press as sociations in several of the larger cities in Europe where they will visit , editorial rooms and attend regular press conferences. Lec tures and seminars will be held for the students. The "Foreign. Assignment"' pro gram has been approved by the American Council on Education for Journalism and by the Am erican Association of Accredited Schools and Departments of Jour nalism. Further information may be ob tained from Travel -& Study, inc., 110 East 57th street, New York 22, N.Y. Orator Contest To Be Planned Instruction and material for those students interested in rep-, resenting Penn State at the first district contest of the ninth an nual Tournament of Orators to be held in April will be discussed at a meeting to be held this after noon at 5 o'clock in 312 Sparks. The subject of this year's con test sponsored by the New York Journal American is George Wash ington. Up to $lOOO in bonds, a Longine watch, and a free trip to California are the awards for the winner. Tryouts for Penn State will be held April 1. Anyone unable to attendioday's preliminary meeting is asked to report his name to Miss Emery in the speech office at 300 Sparks, and make arrangements to meet with Dr. fine Fife, assistant pro fessor of speech, who has charge of the contest. Language Dept. Offers French Jazz Records The Romance Language depart ment's radio program "The Music of the Nations" will offer authen tic records of "le, jazz hot" tonight at 8:30 over WMAJ. The records are from a collec tion of Ernest J. Barry, instruc tor in the Romance Language department, and will feature the famous French jazz clarinetist Claude Luter. Luter interprets New Orleans style jazz in a Parisian manner. Test Results Available Reslilts of. the educational and vocational guidance tests,' administered by the Student Advisory service during spring orientation week, are ready, for distribution. Students interested in having these results should' make an appointment at the Psycholo gical Clinic annex, in the base ment at the rear of the Wo men's building. State Club Clears '530 From Show The Penn State club received a net profit of $530.90 from the re cent all-College talent show. The report was presented at the regular meeting of the club Tuesday night. • Plans for next, week's initiation ceremony were discussed and a special committee appointed , to arrange details. The committee is composed of Robert Fraser, Joseph Bower, and Wayne Ho man. The initiation ceremony will be conducted at a special meet ing next Tuesday in 405 Old Main at 7 p.m. Moylan Mills reported on the scheduled theatre party. He an nounced that the club will attend the final performance of "Gentle People" at Center Stage, Friday* night, Mrch 16. Only those mem bers who sign the list now- post ed in the club room will be able to attend, he said. Lewis HoOVer, social chairman, discussed with the members the type of social activities they would be interested 'in holding. Peter Lansbury, N e al Lehman, and John Mounts were appointed to the social committee. Vice-president Mills reported that keys and pins have been re ceived. They will be sold through the Student Union desk in, Old Main. - Team To Map Cadet Program A U.S. Air Force Selection team wilrbe in 109 Willard next week to provide all juniors and seniors at the College with information concerning the Aviation Cadet program, Major G. F. Brodie, who is arranging the visit, said yester day. Brodie said the team will be equipped to process any student who qualifies for the program. He said there are three courses of training that a student can qualify ,for. They are aviation cadet pilot training, navigator training, and the Air Force Offi cer candidate school for adminis trative-and technical positions. Political Economy Group, Organized The Political Economy club at the College was officially organ ized Monday night by the passage of its charter. Officers elected at the meeting were Marlin Remick, ' chairinan; Marlin Brenner, vice chairman; Rudolph Ciecarella, executive secretary; Fred Keefer, corres ponding secretary;-Dori Spielberg, recording secretary; and David Fitzcharles, treasurer. Dr. Peter Senn was elected faculty advisor to the group. The next regular meeting of the club will be held early next month, Remick said. To Symbolize Poetry Professor Helen Adolph of the German department will speak to the Philosophy club on "The Maiden" as a symbol in poetry tonight at 8 o'clock in 203 Willard hall This is the club's second meet ing of the year. The meeting is open to the public. Newman Group To Meet Dr. H. D. Rix, assistant profes sor of physics at the College, will be in charge of this week's lecture discussion of the Reformation sponsored by the Newman club. It will meet in 106 Osmond at 't o'clock tonight. SYLVAI I ;IIA Eng - ...c0**11 . Finals, Plan, , Motions to back NSA's absentee voting petition and cabinet's proposal to abolish eighth-semester final exams were Passed unani mously by the Engineering student council Tuesday night. After suggestipns by Council President Ray Miller that , the 'coim cil support both issues, and even go so, far as. to send a letter to Harrisburg in connection with the voting bill, the council members displayed, unanimous agreement. Committee Reports The committee on formation of a student concessions association reported that it was still working with the administration in an ef fort to get the plan into operation. The committee indicated that the scope of the plan had been nar rowed down considerably from its original form the acceptanCe into council of , a representative from Sigma Ep silon, new sanitary . engineering fraternity, also met With unani mous approval. Sigma Epsilon was explained by its president, :.Ed ward Calder, as a semiJhonorary, semi-professional organization. It received its charter from the Col lege in January. Set Poster Prizes Council also voted to set aside $lO from its fund as prize money for the architect's poster contest to be held during engineering opn house on May 12. There will be a $5-first prize, $3-second prize, and $2-third prize. A committee to get pencil sharp eners placed throughout the build ings of the school was reorganized. Council members cited the need for sharpeners in the halls, and suggested that Dean Harry P. Hammond and the department heads be contacted on the matter. Sing Director To Be Chosen Fraternity and sorority repre sentatives will choose a director of the annual Interfraternity council-Panhellenic council sing at 7 o'clock tonight in 303 Willard, according to James Wharton and Lyn Levitt, sing co-chairmen. The sing is scheduled for April 1-3. The first two' nights will be eliminations. A winner will be chosen from the finalists the third night. Wharton said the representa tives will- also decide on sing positions for the participating groups, and review the rules. One rule has been change 3,, ac cording to Wharton. He said two fraternity winners will be chosen each night of eliminations. Pre viously only one fraternity win ner was chosen. Wharton said this means four fraternities will be in the finals with the two sorority finalists. Wharton said the required songs would be "Blue and White" and a fraternity or sorority song. Last year's winners were Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority. IRRA Meets Tonight The Industrial Relations Re search association will meet to= night at 7 o'clock in 314 Willard, John Dale, publicity officer, an nounced. There will be air installation of officers, and a business meeting. Store Holds Money Hunt The "Treasure Hunt" begins tonight at 6 o'clock at the Col lege Sportswear' store, oper ated this week by members of the Penn State Christian 'as sociation. One hundred dollars in silver coins will be "hidden" in various pieces of merchan dise throughout .t h e store, Miss Marjorie Allen,• associate secretary of the PSCA said. Customers will find a silver dollar among their purchases if they choosy the lucky mer chandise . •The first 25 customers this morning and tdmorroyv morn ing will% also receive flowers with their .purchases. Flowers were also given yesterday to the first 25 customers.' The PSCA will continue op erating the store until Satur day., Store hours are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. THURSDAY,• MARCH 8, 1851 Favors Petition Hot Society Discusses Fall Plans A fall meeting of all hat, so ciety men and women alumni was discussed at a meeting of Hat Society council Tuesday night. The ,council discussed the post sibility of holding the gathering on alumni homecoming weekend, and giving, the returning alumni the honor of greeting the foot ball team at the game, in place of undergraduate members. Com mittees will be appointed by the member hat societies to • investi gate the proposal. Lee Suggests Meeting JpAnn Lee, president of Cwens, suggest 64 that a meeting be held this spring 'of all hat society mem bers, on campus. The council also 'continued its review of freshman customs, and several suggestions were present ed for next fall's program. It was suggested that the coun cil differentiate between customs and College regulations. Last fall many of the freshmen women on campuS confused the customs program with official College regulations, according to Robert -Fast; council president. Discuss Printing Rules The council discussed the pos sibility that custom, regulations be printed, and include a supple ment explaining the' purpose be hind the customs program. • ' Fast suggested mailing a brief explanation of the customs pro gram to incoming freshmen, so they will - know what they have to do when they arrive on cam pus. The suggestions were drawn up at a meeting between William E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, Pearl 0. Weston, dean of women; H. K. Wilson, dean of men; Neal See,, president of tri bal,* and Robert Fast, presi dent of Hat Society council. Fast read a letter from William E. Kenworthy explaining that several complaints had been re ceived about hat men- wearing their hats indoors. The council suggested that in the future hat men remove their hats indoors. History Professor To Speak at PCW On European Aid - Professor A. G. Pundt, head of the Department of History at the College will speak on "Armaments and European Aid", at the Penn sylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning. The Progressive Society of the American. Friends committee is sponsoring the Pittsburgh meet ing. Several panel speakers will talk on some phase of the "Dilem ma of ' American Power." The speeches will start on Friday and last until Sunday. A discussion will fcillow each of the tallfs given by the panel participants. Pundt said that he would be ex pressing the Quaker viewpoint in in regard .to armament - aid. He said that he, favored a construc tive program ) of assistance rather than merely provision of arms. Musser To Give Talk H. B. Musser, professor of Ag ronomy, is speaking, on turf ex perimental work to the Midwest Turf foundation this week. Musser is reporting research findings with special grasses for airfields, highway berms and shoulders, and golf courses. Lead ers interested in grasses have as sembled from seven states at the meeting •at Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind.
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