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Outstanding Seniors
This is the second ill a new series of ariicles concerning
prominent senior men and women who have distinguished them
selves in one or more fields of endeavor at the College.
Sam Vaughan, “Foolish gentleman”—to quote that satirizer of
Collegian’s typographical errors, Froth. But, eventhough Sam admits
that his nine-month old son Jeffrey can out-wit him, he is a far cry,
even one of Jeff’s, from being foolish. i
For Sam is a two-telephone, two - desk man. When he tires of
occupying the editor’s chair in the cartoons-too-risque-to-be-printed-
Ifice, he can always take steps
i, uncluttered Inkling office.
and-old-cover decoratted Froth o:
(about 5Vz) to the still bare, chaste
In a few years, Sam hopes that
Inkling, too, will have a supply of
old covers with which to adorn
its walls. But, he believes, as
many have recently heard, that a
literary magazine needs some out
side support to assure its con
tinuance. Of course, he added, it
has to be really good, lest it fal)
by the wayside with memories of.
Portfolio and Critique. Editor
Vaughan considers Inkling the
last chance for a literary maga
zine on campus, and, he believes
there is a place at Penn State for
this publication. He is working to
give it that chance.
If life begins at 40. Froth, with
its 41 years, might also be con
strued to be a baby in campus
journalism. And, a lusty kid she
has proved to be with her near
-5,000 circulation. Editor Vaughan,
nonchalantly exhibits, upon re
quest, a' letter from Reader's Di
gest, acknowledging the use of
one of its jokes, which appeared
on page 19 of its March issue.
“A shoulder strap is a device for
keeping an attraction from be
coming a sensation.”
Small Jokes Popular
With a patient smile, Sam ex
plained, “We lifted it ourselves
from a filler column. Half the
people read that stuff first. Some
times it is disillusioning to hear
these two-line jokes discussed
more than the original stories,
which really require some effort
and ability.”
Besides publications (“I even
folded newspapers one night on
Collegian") and hat societies, Sam
has dabbled in Players’ produc
tions. Once, in 1945, as an incipi
ent Dexter in “Kiss and Tell,” he
lost out in the final tryout to an
Naval ROTC student, who could
make his voice crack,, and later,
after a sojourn in the service, he
worked on the publicity side.
That sojourn of 23 months was
spent in the Marine Corps with
the public information section.
His military career was highlight
ed by a stint in the Pacific, making
propaganda movies.
Wife Best Critic
A civilian again and back at
the College, Sam popped that
popular question to Jo Lo Biondo,
a high school sweetheart. Sam
proudly asserts that his wife is
his best critic and a dam good
mother, too, to baby Jeffrey. In
deed, Jeffrey is following in Dad’s
footsteps or typewriter keys. A
precocious child, he had his first
column printed in Froth at the
age of three months. However,
Father Vaughan says he put up
quite a howl along with his family
and fans, when he was left out
by thematic restrictions in the
Review of College Humor issue
and in the Esqueer parody issue.
By this time in the interview,
Sam was unconsciously smiling.
“You know,” he said, “I’m con
tinually surprised to find out that
all those trite things'parents say
about their kids are true. In fact,
this column might well be titled,
‘Outstanding Babies on Campus’;
because Jeff is really- better
known than I.”
Graduate Co-Author
Of Horticulture Text
A. M. Musser, a former student
at the College, is the co-author of
a new text for courses in general
horticulture.
He has collaborated with J. B.
Edmond, professor of horticulture
at Virginia Polytechnic institute,
in the writing of “Fundamentals
of Horticulture.” The book covers
plant growth and development,
principal horticultural practices,
and principal horticultural crops.
Musser is now Professor of
Horticulture at Clemson Agri
cultural college.
Sam Vaughan
By JANET ROS»N
Two Big Jobs
Foreign Travel
Trips Offered
The Student Travel Overseas
program is sponsoring a series of
complete study and travel pro
grams to Hawaii, Japan, Mexico,
and Europe.
A program exclusively for
women has been planned by
S.T.O.F. to Hawaii. The tour will
cost $495 and start June 17 and
continue to July 29.
The trip to Europe includes mo
tor tours in 1951 cars at the cost
of $1145. In case you want to
“rough it,” bicycle tours are be
ing offered at $930. A man and a
woman will accompany each
group.
An opportunity to see Mexico
and also earn college credits is
being offered at the cost of $3OO
by S.T.O.P. Courses will be con
ducted in the culture, art ahd<
history of Mexico.
For $1295, students can see Ja
pan on the steamer President
Cleveland. Recognized university
credit will be allowed by San
Francisco State college for par
participants on this program.
Further information on the
S.T.O.P. programs can be obtain
ed from the Student Travel Over
seas Program, 2123 Addison
street, Berkeley 4, California,
ticipants on this program.
The council on Student Travel,
composed of 50 major education
al and religious organizations, has
announced a student rate of $230
for round-trip transportation to
Europe this summer. Special ori
entation courses .in languages and
European culture, included in the
fare, will be given by the Coun
cil staff on each trip. Groups and
individuals interested should
write to Robert L. Tesdell, Direc
tor, Council on Student Travel,
53 Broadway, New York City.
Illness Hampers Seccermen On Trip
The heavy traveling schedule
and “free” hours filled to capaci
ty, were the chief causes of sick
ness which struck the itinerant
Penn State soccer team during its
recent good-will playing tour in
Iran.
Some of the players said that
because of the sightseeing tours
and constant traveling from city
to city, meals were delayed un
til 8:30 or 9 o’clock at night. The
irregular meal-times and _ the
change in food from American
style felled seven men after the
team played its second game of
the three game tour.
Jack Charlton, one of fifteen
players included in the group
travaUog umlk Bis&ft
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Sam Vaughan
By BUD FENTON
T op Dancer,
Troupe Set
For Schwab
Pearl Primus, acclaimed by
critics as the foremost Negro
dancer today, will bring her
group to-Schwab auditorium Sat
urday, April 21.
Tickets for the dance recital
went on sale at Student Union
Monday. All seats are reserved
and are priced at $1.20.
Miss Primus studied African
cultures under a Julius Rosen
wald foundation grant for more
than a year. She added to her
already large dance repertoire as
she traveled through Nigeria,
Gold Coast, Liberia, French West
Africa, Belgiam Congo, French
Equatorial Africa, and Angola.
Program a Blend
As a result of her travels, the
program she and her group ■of
six women and two men have as
sembled is a blend of Harlemes
que, African, and her native Brit
ish West Indies dance patterns.
Accompanied only by drums,
Miss Primus has so successfully
interpreted all these forms that
she has received rave notices
wherever she has appeared. She
has been featured in several na
tional magazines and has been
honored with the Page One
award of' the American News
paper guild. Miss Primus' has
also been decorated by the presi
dent of Liberia with the Star of
Africa, an award previously given
only to ambassadors.
Miss Primus began dancing at
the Cafe Society Downtown in
1943, and a year later she made
her solo debut. She has made
nationwide concert tours, has
done dance research in the South,
starred as • feature dancer in
“Show Boat,” starred in her own
Broadway review, and co-starred
in the Chicago opera presenta
tion of “Emperor Jones.”
Which Are You-
A Yin Or Ya ?
Are you a yin or a yang type?
These names, originated centuries
ago by the Chinese, portray types
of personalities as sensed in life
forces, according to Beth K.
Wham, of the division of home
art.
A yin person likes fragile, deli
cate fabrics, fine lines, and light
gay colors. The yang person is
drawn toward heavier fabrics and
sturdy utensils with an emphasis
on strength, weight, and depth of
color.
“Home furnishings, like cloth
ing, should be chosen to express
the owner’s personality,” the
home art teacher said. “In even
so simple a thing as a place mat
for the table, your choice is de
termined by your personality,”
Mrg. Wham added.
The yin type will instinctively
choose a light-weight mat of fine
linen thread with a delicate de
sign of drawn work suggesting
the use of fine crystal and china.
A yang person will choose a mat
of heavy cotton yam, a study in
texture. He associates it with
heavy pottery and wooden
candleholders.
Mrs. Wham said however that
most people are intermediate in
feeling.' They lean toward com
binations of the fragile and
sturdy. .
partinent. auspices, said that
meals often lasted two and a
half hours. As many as four
courses were served in a meal.
Iranian Food Disliked
As might be expected, not all
the Iranian dishes were well re
ceived. Most of the team remem
ber a native beverage which was
composed of sour milk and min
eral water, called “digali.”
Kurt Klaus, one of the boys
who suffered during the trip with
dysentery, said that “the boys
would have liked to keep on
with "the trip but there was too
much to do.” All free time was
quickly taken care of by zealous
Iranians who wished the Amer
icans to see the country and en
joy themselves.
'John. Bull' Creates
Production Problems
Among the many problems which had to be solved in trans
ferring “John Bull’s Other Island” to art arena stage production was
that of close-range props. .
For in the script of the George Bernard Shaw satire, are such
unusual props as a salmon, a goose, and, believe it or not, a talk
ing cricket. '
The Players’ production will -begin a six week-end run at
Center Stage Friday night.
When originally produced on
ordinary proscenium' stages, this
problem was not so acute, since
the audience sat so far from the
action that it could easily be
fooled. But in an arena produc
tion everything must be as life
like as possible, since the players
perform in the center of the
audience.
For the salmon and duck, (both
supposedly edible when seen in
the play) Players have rigged up
elaborate. imitations of the real
things from papier mache, paste,
and other materials.
But the problem of the talking
cricket was a different one. It is
not necessary for it to be seen,
but it must be heard. So the
sound crew was presented with
the difficulty of imitating the
sound of a cricket. And not just
an ordinary cricket, but one
which would chirp, or speak, on
cue.
Churches Send
Complaints
On Gambling
The State College Council of
Churches sent letters of com
plaint on violations of the gamb
ling laws to Centre county and
borough police officers, it was
learned yesterday.
The move was made following
sermons in six borough churches
Sunday in which ministers
warned against the evils of all
gambling ,in the community and
nation.
Slot machines known. to have
been in operation • are being re
moved, reports indicated.
The letters were endorsed by
the ministerium and were signed
by Rev. Andrew E. Newcomer
Jr., president; H. N. Cope, council
president; and V. D. Bissey, sec
retary.
Letters went to Judge Ivan
Walker and District Attorney E.
L. Willard in Bellefonte, and
Burgess E. K. Hibshman and Po
lice Chief John R. Juba in State
College.
The letters "said:
“The following action was au
thorized at a meeting of the
State College Council of Churches
on April 5, 1951.
“The State College Council. of
Churches hereby files a letter of
complaint, concerning the fla
grant violations of gambling laws
in the borough of State College
and adjacent townships.”
Coeds To yie
in Pig Derby
A special feature of this year’s
Little International Livestock
show, to be held April 28, 'will
be a coed pig derby, Dorlin Hay,
chairman of the special events
committee, said yesterday.
Only six coeds will participate
in this year’s derby because of
the limited equipment available.
They will represent various wom
en’s organizations on campus,
Hay added.
Each participant will drive a
young pig from one end of the
livestock pavilion to the other,
and back. Each pig will have a
light belt harness, and the coed
will control him with a leash
and light whip. The winning coed
will receive a $5 award.
A special float for the six con
testants will be paraded through
the borough the evening before
the show.
Another feature of the show,
as announced by Hay, will be a
meat contest in which 12 choice
and prime cuts of meat will be
given avyay on the day of the
expositipn.
annoyed Klaus who said that he
“felt funny” having crowds fol
low the players wherever they
Went. Often small boys would
sidle up to the Penn Staters just
to try and touch them.
Slow Buses
Most of the traveling within
Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, the
cities the Nittanies played in,
was done in. old buses which
proved slow.
i Usually the team bus was fol
lowed by fleets of bicycling
youngsters. The saddest incident
of the entire trip occurred .on,one
of these bus trips.
An Iranian youth was killed
when his bicycle fell under a
parsing bus while he was riding
after the Penn State team. The
accident put a damper on the
WEDNESDAY, APRIL li; 1951
By LEE STERN
The problem has temporarily
been solved by having one of the
crew members pass his fingers
over the teeth of a special kind
of comb set near a microphone.
The resultant noise resembles
that of a cricket. The experiment
ing for a better medium, how
ever, still goes on.
Warren Smith is director of
the show.
Tickets are on sale at the Stu
dent Union desk in Old Main.
Price is 90 cents for Fridays and
$1.25 for Saturdays. Refreshments
are served after Saturday per
formances.
Barbara Sprenkie
Wins New Award
Barbara Sprenkle
Barbara G. Sprenkle, senior in
the School of Home Economics at
the College, has been awarded
the first annual Edith Pitt Chace
award.
The award was established last
month by alumni of the school to
honor Miss Chace, who served
from 1918 until 1937 as director
of home economics at the Col
lege.
Miss Sprenkle, who is president
of the Women’s Student Govern
ment association, will receive the
$25 award at the annual dinner
of the Home Economics Alumni
association at the Hotel State
College, Friday night. The din
ner is a part of the annual Spring
Week-end.
Vegetable Trial Results
Attract Much Interest
Results of extensive vegetable
variety trials conducted at the
College each year have attracted
much interest frmo commercial
growers, Dr. F. F. Liningef, di
rector of the experiment station,
announced recently.
A total of 356 different strains
or varieties are listed in the Col
lege’s progress report 42 which
may be obtained from county
agents' or the experimental sta
tion.