PAGE TWO Debaters' Convention To Begin The 16th annual Penn State debaters convention will begin to night with interviews of representatives from the 21 competing col leges over 'station WMAJ. The program will be aired from 9 to 9:30 o'clock. Marlin Brenner, convention manager, said the program would feature round-robin in terviews on college colors, songs, symbols, statistics, and distinctions. Registration for the convention will take place between 9 apd 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in 313 Sparks. Room assignments will be made at this time. The convention will continue through Saturday when it will be cli maxed by the election of officers for next year's convention. Convention Officers • Three Penn State students are convention officers. They are Clair George, vice-president; Ed ward Shanken, secretary; and E d win Lefkowith, hospitality chairman. Other College students taking part 'in the convention are Ar nold Aikens, Joyce Buchanan. Yvonne Carter, Joan Dobson, Bernard Friedman, John Harris, Jay Headly, Sanford Hertz, Con stance Matlavage, Barbara Men apace, Lois Pulver, and Lionel Wernick. Brenner said the convention will be a model congress styled after the natgbnal and state leg islatures. He said the committee system will be used and partici pating colleges will be assigned to committees. A college's success, at the con vention, Brenner said, is judged by 'the bills accepted by the en tire convention body and dele gates elected to officerships. Gavel Girl He said a "Gavel Girl" will. be chosen at Friday night's banquet. Morkides To Close Career In Players Nick Morkides, one of the mainstays of the Penn' State players, for the past three years, will make his last appearance in a Players' production when "The Gentle People" is performed for the last time Saturday night at Center stage. But his work in dramatics will go on. Right now Morkides is one of the dialogue directors of the forthcoming Thespian show, "Anything Goes," and is directing a minstrel show for the Lions club of Pine Grove Mills. Morkides, a B-29 tail g.tinner for two-and-one-half years before coming to college, arrived at Penn State three years ago. Since then he has appeared in such contrasting Players' roles as . the servant "Peter," in "Romeo and Juliet;" the sad comedian, "Har ry," in "The Time of Your Life;" the "Reverend Dr. Lloyd" in "Life With Father;" and his present one as the kindly old Greek, "Philip," in "The Gentle People." In "Wingback" He has appeared in the Thes pian shows, "Bring Back My Wingback," "Poor Mr. Varnum," "Welcome Willy," and "Girl Crazy." While in his freshman year at the Swarthmore center, he directed the first play to be produced there. Morkides picks three roles as his favorites: "Peter" in "Romeo and Juliet" because of "the thi 7 o.l of doing Shakespeare;" "Harry" in "The Time of Your Life" be cause "it combined dancing ,and acting, the two things I like best to do;" and "Phillip" in "The Gentle People," because "it's a really meaty character role." "I'm really a character actor, but once, just once, I'd like to do a youthful romantic lead," he said in an interview yesterday. Son Of Clergyman The son of a Greek Catholic clergyman, he seemed a natural to play the dialect role of the old Greek in "The Gentle People." When he first got the part. Mor kides decided to study the speech of his father and some Greek friends. But he was greatly disappointed when he found that "they just didn't sound like Greeks." So the dialect he is using now is a corn prom'se between what he learned f r o m observation and. "what a On WMAJ She will be the girl attending the convention who has the best com bination of charni, intelligence, and oratorical ability, Brenner said. College's attending the conven tion will be Slippery Rock state teachers, Dickinson, Lehigh, Pitts burgh men, Pittsburgh women, Allegheny, Carnegie Tech, Du quese, Gettysburg, St. Francis, Seton Hill, Mount Mercy, Al bright, St. Vincent's, Washington and Jefferson, Westminster, Gen eva, Juniata, Temple, Penn State men, and Penn State women. Schedule Planned Highlights of the convention program follow: tomorrow at 10 o'clock in 10 Sparks, opening ses sion of convention as a whole; at 11 o'clock in 10 Sparks, 121 Sparks, and 100 Carnegie hall, opening committee sessions; at 2 o'clock in 10 3 Agriculture, 100 Horticulture, 315 Willard hall, 16 Sparks, 418 Old Main, committee meetings. Also, at 5:30 o'clock in ,State College hotel banquet room, con vention dinner; at 8:15 o'clock in 10 'Sparks, assembly of all dele gates. Saturday at 9 p.m. in 10 Sparks, assembly of all delegates; at noon in 10 Sparks, assembly of all dele gates for election of next year's officers. By LEE STERN Nick Morkides El Circulo Espanol To Meet Tonight El Circulo Espanol will meet tonight at 7 o'clock in the main lounge of Hamilton hall. A Span ish quiz program conducted by Helen Keller will highlight the meeting. Isabel Melendez, advisor for the club, will discuss a play to be presented fo r Pan - American week. All interested students were invited to attend. Greek dialect is supposed to sound like." Besides being a member of Players and Thespians, Morkides is active in Theta Alpha Phi, na tional dramatics honorary, an d last year he was a permanent member of the acting staff of Five O'Clock Theatre: - Although he is a business ma jor, Morkides would like to enter some phase of theatre work after his graduation in June. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Ag Council OK's 'Cooly' Constitution Agriculture student council unanimously approved the con stitution of a new honorary so ciety on Ag hill at its meeting Tuesday night. The constitution must be acted upon by College Senate before it goes into effect. The honorary, which will be named the Coaly society, will honor undergraduate agriculture students for their part in extra curricular agricultural activities. Coaly society was decided up on for the honorary's name be cause of a legend of a mule named Coaly which ,h aul e d stones for ;the .building of 'the original Farmer's high school, forerunner of the College. A point system will be em ployed by the society for selec tion of its members, Charles Zen ner, chairman of the committee presenting the constitution, said. He said the point values would not be revealed. . Limit On Initiates Initiates in the society cannot exceed three percent of the School of Agriculture's enroll ment, and in any one year can-• not exceed 40. James Worth explained the new student activities cards to the council. He said secretaries of individual clubs will be responsi ble for filling out activities, and the council will then: transcribe the activities onto permanent cards. An amendment was made to the council constitution allowing those who have been members of the council for• one-half ,of one semester to hold office. The con stitution previously required a full semester membership on council. Butz Named Chairman Wallace Butz was appointed student committee chairman to work with a faculty committee and Prof. P. H. Margolf on planS for an Ag hill party to• be held next fall. Council members were asked to consider names of fac ulty members in the school to recommend to All-College cab inet for honors by its awards committee. The council supported plans to hold a joint open house with oth er schools at the College May 12. Carroll Howes, council president, ,turned his office over to Robert Fast, council vice-president, for the remainder of the semester. Howes will be student teaching. MI Dean's List - Is Announced - Thirty-five students of. the School of _Mineral Industries have been named to the dean's list for the fall semester by Dr. Edward Steidle, dean of the school. ' Fifteen seniors, 12 juniors, four sophomores, and four freshmen have been named to the list. Two of the 35 students, John Kraft and John Harrison, had 3 aver ages. Seniors , honored are: Robert Aiken, 2.64; Harry Bauer, 2.73; William Bonner, 2.66; Mark Har-, nish, 2.64; Homer Harris, 2.72; Richard Higgs, 2.78; Eduardo Hi nojosa, 2.53; John Kraft, 3.00; William Rice, 2.58; John Schilling, 2.57; William Sittig, 2.61; Robert Thomson, 2.57; Issac Van der go wn, 2.66; James Wasson, 2.50; and James Williams, 2.72. Juniors are: Robert Chilcote, 2.85; William Englert, 2.64; Ralph Fries, 2.77; Don Harrison, 2.66; John Harrison, 3.00; William Horn, 2.82; Frank Johnson, 2.50; Joseph Kelly, 2.52;. Albert Ludik, 2.64; George Rippel, 2.52; William Stockdale, 2.50; and Robert Was sall, 2.52. Sophomores are: William Cle ment, 2.87 ; • Richard Hallgreen, 2.91; Peter 'Thomas, 2.70; and Wil liam Young, 2.61. - , Fresmen are: Williams Collins, 2.64; Arthur Hussey, 2.57; Walter Jaworek, 2.54; and William Kil mer, 2.70. Air Force Trainees To Arrive Monday Penn State's first military trainees, 50 Air Force enlisted . men, will arrive on campus Monday. An officer cadre for the group will be here tomorrow. James Gemmel, associate professor of economics and business, will be in charge of the training program, which will turn out clerk-typists for the Air Force. Gemmel said yesterday ,that the trainees, who will, arrive in groups Of 50 for the next 15 weeks, will be housed at the Nit tany dormitories. Some women trainees may be included in the later groups, however, and these would be housed in the women's dormitories he said. A 12-Week Course Council To Back Exam Elimination Pollock Circle council Tuesday night voted to support the senior class proposal to eliminate final examinations for eighth-semester seniors. The recommendation will be sent in the form of a letter to Marlin Brenner, chairman of the senior class committee which.in vestigated the final exam pro posal, now in the hands of a Col lege senate committee. The possibility of installing eight washing machines and four clothes dryers in the. PUB was discussed by Michael Hanek and James Mellish, representatives* of the Nittany council. Plans for the machines are still tentative, they reported. Dates for exchange dinners with women's dorms were an nounced by Henry Pitt of Barons, Nittany-Pollock social organiza tion. The 'dates are: April 8, Sini mons hall; April 15, McElwain hall; April 22, Atherton- hall; and April 2.9i;`MeElwain . Richard Mills, a member of the activities cards committee, told the council to inform dormitory 'students to check their cards, which are now in the dean of men's office. The cards should have a complete list of each 'stu- , dent's activities, Mills said. They will be transferred to the school councils after April 15, he added. Joseph . Errigo, chief dorm ad visor, requested that the council's food committee refer its recom mendations to. J. E. 'Uhler, Nittany dining hall supervisor. The, com mittee has been investigating the food situation in the area. Errigo also reported that sum= mer jobs are available to students who wish to work in a girl's camp. The council voted to permit West dorm residents to use area athletic facilities during the intra mural softball season. Superintendents And Educators' Conference Held Approximately 100 superinten dents, assistant superintendents, supervisors of special education, and supervisors of vocational agriculture around the state, at tended the annual conference pf the Pennsylvania Association of County Superintendents held at the Nittany Lion Inn which ended yesterday. Members of the faculty of the Education school here at the Col lege also attended. The conference began Monday afternoon with an opening address by Dean Marion Trabue of the , School of Education, with John Lumley, president of the associa tion presiding over the meeting. Dr. Charles M. Long of the school of Education delivered a talk on the topic "On the Firing Line." On Monday evening, Professor George Free showed films on con servation education. The conference concluded yes terday morning with a address by Dr. E. A._ Quackenbush of the department of public instruction en the subject "Impending. Legis lation," and the reports of the disussion groups. Modern Musk Speech Elmer "Skip" Wareham, in structor of music at the College, spoke on "Approach' to Modern Music" at a meeting sponsored by Leonides in Womens building Monday night. Wareham illustrated his talk by playing records indicating new trends in the musical field. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951 The ptograrn is a 12-week course, below college leveL At the peak, 600 trainees will be on 'campus at one time. Classroom space is now being scheduled in the Temporary buildings, Gemmel said, but the peak 'load may be too much for these facilities. He said the pos sibility of converting Pollock cir cle btilldings into classro. ms, dis cussed earlier, has been given up for the moment because of the construction expense. Because more space will be needed later, however, the plan may still be put into effect, he said. Faculty Is Being Organised A faculty is now being organ ized to teach the Air Force train ees. Gemmel said a total -of 35 teachers would be needed at top enrollment. Seven instructors will take the first 50 studehts ar riving Monday. The program is being offered at the request of Scott Air base, 111., where the trainees will go after completing the course. The offi cer cadre is being sent from Fort Warren, Wyo. President Milton S. Eisenhow er announced the training pro gram gat a faculty meeting in Schwab auditorium Tuesday. He said that the College would gain three ways from the contract— that it was Penn State's first op portunity tonndertake direct ser vice at the request of the mili tary; ,that if the school makes a good, record with the program, future programs may go up to college level; and that the con tract will protect the school's fi nancial situation. President Announces The President also announced the virtual closing of the off campus freshman program at state teachers colleges. 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