TODAY'S WEATHER:
FAIR AND MILDER
VOL. 51 —No. 124
First Honors Day
Set For Next Week
Penn State’s first Honors Day ceremonies will be held next
Wednesday in Schwab auditorium. .
Dr. George D. Stoddard will be keynote speaker at the cere
monies. He will speak on “The Lump of Learning Fallacy.”
Dr. Stoddard is one of five alumni to be honored during the
services, which will also see the presentation of several scholastic
awards and installation of new
student officers, '
. The Honors day is,an innova
tion. It is ; designed to bring to
gether, in oneprogram, a number
of major awards which would or
dinarily be made separately.
The Distinguished Alumnus
awards-are also new. They will
provide a method of honoring
Penn State graduates who, be
cause the school grants no honor
ary degrees, would otherwise go
unrecognized.
Classes Dismissed
The ceremonies will begin at
10:45 a.m. Ten o’clock classes will
be dismissed at . 10:30, and 11
o’clock classes will be cancelled.
Besides Dr. Stoddard, alumni
to be honored include Charles E.
Denney, Bayard D. Kunkle, Clar
ence G. Stoll, and Ray I. Throck
morton.
The ceremonies will begin with
an organ prelude by George E.
Ceiga. Chaplain James T. Smith
will give the invocation.
Scholastic Awards
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will greet the assembly, and the
scholastic awards will be made by
Dr. Robert L. Weber. These
awards include the John W. White
medal and fellowship, the Evan
Pugh medals, and the President
Sparks medals. . -
All-College- President Robert
Davis will speak, and Tribunal
Chairman Neil See will swear in
the new All-College president.
President Eisenhower will then
present the Distinguished Alum
nus awards, and Dr. Stoddard will
speak.
The program will close with the
singing of the Alma Mater.
Eisenhower To Go
To Loyalty Meeting
President Milton S. Eisenhower and other leading college
presidents in Pennsylvania have been invited to closed hearings
Monday on the faculty loyalty oath bill now pending in the state
House of Representatives.
The action came as two Republican representatives revealed
that the oath bill might be laid aside in favor of strong legislation
intended to curbing Communism
in Pennsylvania.
Senator Albert R. Pechan (R-
Armstrong), sponsor of the origi
nal-bill, said the meeting will be
held to let educators and leaders
of veteran’s groups present their
views on the measure. It has al
ready passed the state Senate.
College presidents attending, in
addition to President Eisenhower,
will be Harold E. Stassen, Univer
sity of Pennsylvania; Rufus Fitz
gerald, University of Pittsburgh;
and Robert Johnson, Temple uni
versity. Veteran’s group represen
tatives will be Joseph McCracken,
state American Legion comman
der, and Louis'Feldman, state Vet
erans of Foreign Wars commander
and president of the Pennsylvania
Joint Veterans council.
The new legislation being dis
cussed in Harrisburg might in
corporate some features of the
bill now under discussion. That
measure would compel all state
employees, including teachers at
state-supported schools, to swear
they belong to no “subversive or
ganizations.”
Trained Dogs
Featured (n
Livestock Show
Carroll Shaffner, new sheep
superintendent at the College,
will demonstrate the keen train
ing of two imported sheepdogs
in a new feature at the Little In
ternational Livestock show this
Saturday.
“Hoy” and “Nell,” the dogs
Shaffner will show, have been
featured at the International
Livestoqk show at Chicago. They
have also appeared at Fort
Worth, Texas, and other promi
nent livestock events, Dorlin
Hay, special events chairman,
said yesterday.
In this event, Shaffner will
have the trained dogs round up,
separate, and place four sheep
in the livestock pavilion. No
spoken words will be used in
getting the dogs to move the
sheep, Hay added. AH instruc
tions will be made by hand sig
nals, with the dogs responding
by moving the sheep through
specified stakes in particular
pens, or bringing the sheep to a
given spot and holding them
ttiese. "
©lp* ffjpl I*NH STATE
Chem Prof
To Lecture
I n Osmond
Leo H. Sommer, assistant pro
fessor of chemistry, will talk to
day on “Organosilicon Chemistry:
Recent Advances” at 4:10 o’clock
in 119 Osmond laboratory.
Sommer’s speech is one of a
series of chemistry lectures given
each afternoon at the same time
in Osmond. '
Dr. W. Conrad Fernelius, heapl
of the Department of Chemistry
announced the schedule for the
remainder of the semester. He
said that anyone desiring to con
sult with any of the visiting
lecturers during their stay on
campus can contact Miss Jones in
105 Pond laboratory, phone 2013.
C. A. Kraus, from Brown uni
versity, will speak on three sep
arate subjects. On April 30, “The
Properties of Electrolyte Solu
tions in Benzene,” May 1, “The
Conductance of Very Dilute,
Aqueous 1-1 Salt Solutions,” and
May 2, “The Conductance of Long
Chain Salts in Water and Mix
tures of Water and Non-aqueous
Solvents.”
P. M. Doty, from Harvard uni
versity, is scheduled for May 9-11.
His topic is to be announced.
May 14-16 J. C. Bailar, from the
University of Lllinois, will lec
ture. On May. 14 his subject will
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Dairy Show Contest
Milk drinkers and ice cream
eaters will get prizes for drink
ing or eating at the dairy judg
ing show next week.
Applications, which may be ob
tained from Bettylou Hutton in
106 Dairy building, must be filed
<bjr Friday.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1951
Nominations
To Councils
Still Open
Nominations for student coun
cil members for all schools will
continue until this Friday, and
final elections will be May 1 and
2.
The College has been trying to
get the various schools of the Col
lege to nominate and elect offi
cers and members pf their student
councils on the same dates.
The Home Economics School
has already had elections of offi
cers. Betty Anders was elected
president. Nominations for coun
cil members must be turned into
the dean’s office in the Home Ec
building.
The Education council is also
open for nominations for council
members, but its officers have
also been elected previously.
Ralph Egolf is the new president
of the Education council. Nomina
tions may be turned in to 105
Burrowes.
. Edward Shanken, newly elected
president of the LA council, said
yesterday that nominations for
council members can be left at
132 Sparks. Requirements for
nomination are enrollment in the
school and a 1.5 all-College aver
age.
The Mineral Industries school
held elections for their officers
last night, and will hold nomina
tions for council representatives
until Friday.
Nominations' can be obtained
from the MI school’s bulletin
boards. Nominees must have a
1 all-College average 'and be en
rolled in the school at least one
semester previous.
Engineering School '
The • Engineering school will
elect all their officers and council
members on the May 1 and 2
dates. Nominations can be turned
into the department heads. Nomi
nees need a-1 all-College average.
The Chem-Phys School will
hold elections for its student
council officers tonight. The coun
cil representatives will be self
nominated by, signing bulletin
board lists in Osmond and Pond
labs.
Nominees for the Phys Ed
School council were made yester
day in White hall.
Collegian Business
Staff Promotes 4
Four persons have been pro
moted to the sophomore board of
the' business staff of the Daily
Collegian, business manager
Owen Landon announced yester
day.
Those promoted are Louise Mor
gans, Virginia Hamilton, Barbara
Hammond, and Betty Lou Lentz.
Painters Of Lion Shrine
Reveal identity To Police
Capt. Philip Mark, of the campus patrol, told the Collegian yes
terday by telephone that the recent painting of the Lion shrine had
“been cleared up satisfactorily.”
Thursday.
themselves known to him and
told him that they would stand all
costs in cleaning the statue. He
would not release their names, but
did say “they were not Penn State
students.” The word “Ohio” had
been painted in the Lion shrine
base in black letters.
Uses Benzine
Charles Reeder, of the physi
cal plant, was cleaning the shrine
yesterday for his sixth time.
Reeder said that he was using
benzine and a wire brush to re
move the red-brown coloring on
the limestone statue. He had pre
viously used clorox, acid, and
other materials to remove the
paint.
A light orange color remains on
Education Council
The shrine was doused with paint shortly after midnight
Mark said that those responsible for the painting had made
Graduate To Star
In Performance
Of Verdi's Music
Barbara Troxell, a 1936 Penn State graduate, will join
with the Chapel choir and three other singing artists to pre
sent Verdi’s “Manzoni Requiem” tonight.
Doors to Schwab auditor:
The concert, open to the pu
, ■
li'"'
:
Margaret Tobias
> Barbara Troxell
Cheerleading Tryouts
Scheduled Tomorrow
Tryouts for next year's
cheerleading squad will be
held tomorrow at 7 p.m. in
front of Old Main.
In case of rain candidates
will meet in Rec hall. .
All sophomore men and
sophomore and junior women
are eligible to tryout.
Rudy Valentino, head cheer
leader, will be in charge of the
tryouts.
the cleaned portions of the Lion,
and Reeder said that it “is on to
stay.” The stone is too soft for
sand-blasting.
House Paint Used
The paint that covers the statue
was originally believed to be
maple stain, but a chemical ana
lysis proved it was house paint.
The oil in the paint had seeped
into the stone. Reeder said the
shrine would be clean “in a couple
of days.”
“I wish they would use black
enamel the next time they paint
the shrine,” Reeder said. “It won’t
be so hard to get off.”
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ium will open at 7:30 o’clock,
ablic, will begin at 8 o’clock.
A collection will be taken.
Miss Troxell, who sang with
the choir as an undergraduate,
has returned to the campus for
each of the four annual concerts
sponsored by the choir.
Also appearing on the program
aside from Miss Troxell, who is a
soprano, will be Margaret Tobias,
contralto; William McGrath, ten
or and Chester Watson, bass-bari
tone. George Ceiga will accom
pany the group at the organ.
Willa Taylor directs the choir.
Chester Watson, guest bass
baritone, joined the Chapel choir
in 1948 and 1950 in the presenta
tion of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.’*
Early this year Watson played the
part of “Mr. Kofner” in the Ca
nadian premiere of “The Consul,”
by the Montreal Opera guild. He
had played the role with the orig
inal cast of the production which
early played for nine months on
Broadway.
At the present time, Watson is
bass soloist at the Mable Collegi
ate church in New York.
Margaret Tobias, contralto, the
second female guest soloist to
sing with the choir, studied music
at the Ober 1 i n conservatory.
While there, she toured as a solo
ist with the noted Olaf Christian
sen’s A Capella' choir, and was
soloist in two of Cleveland’s
churches.
Has Two Degrees
Miss Tobias has two degrees
and a wide repertoire including
such seldom heard /oratorios as
the “Saint-Saens Christmas Ora
torio,” and Bruckner’s “Mass in F
Minor.’ Miss Tobias has toured
with Elie Siegmeister’s American
Ballad Singers, and has recorded
with them two best-selling al
bums of folk songs.
William McGrath, guest tenor,
has appeared about 30 times with
the Buffalo Philharmonic orches
tra. In 1946, McGrath accepted a
fellowship with the Julliard
Graduate school and two years
later appeared on the Metropoli
tan opera Auditions of the Air.
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Graduating
Seniors To
Choose Gift
Seniors will vote for their class
gift next week, Otto Grupp, sen
ior class gift committee chairman,
said yesterday.
The committee of Grupp, Wil
liam Barr, Jo Ann Esterly, and
Joseph Lenchner selected the
seven best suggestions which will
be put on the ballot.
Double post cards with the
seven suggestions will be sent to
those who graduated in January.
Seniors who will graduate in June
and in the summer may vote next
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
in Old Main on ballots which will
appear in the Collegian. The sen
iors will be asked to number their
first choice one, second two,
third three, and so forth.
The gift suggestions include a
student press, a campus radio sta
tion, gridiron statue, grand piano
for Schwab auditorium, a gate at
the junction of route 322 and Pol
lock road, ambulance and a schol
arship fund.
The gift committee hopes that
the seniors will select the gift so
that it will be a gift which will
represent the whole senior dans.
Grupp said.