PALM TWO
12 Schools To Send
Visitors To Festival
Twelve Pennsylvania colleges and universities will be repre
sented at the third Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival to
be held tomorrow and Friday at the College as part of the Com
bined Arts Festival.
The Reading Festival, inaugurated two years ago by faculty
members of the Speech department, affords students and teachers
the opportunity to hear interpretations of the best literary works in
the fields of poetry, short stories,
and drama. Approximately four
students from each of the Penn
sylvania schools represented, to
gether with their faculty spon
sors and guests, will attend the
informal banquet which will be
held at the Nittany Lion Inn
tomorow evening as part of the
two-day festivities.
Committee Heads Named
Mrs. Harriett D. Negbitt and
William W. Hamilton, assistant
professors in the Speech depart
ment, head the faculty committee
in charge of all arrangements for
the festival
Mrs. Edgar Lee Masters, widow
of one of America's most re
knowned poets, and former head
of the Department of English at
Ogontz Junior College, will be
guest speaker at the banquet.
After completing her undergrad
uate work at the University of
Chicago, Mrs. Masters received
her master's degree at Columbia
University where she distinguish
ed herself in the field of Ameri
can colonial and revolutionary
literature. Her special subject
was Philip Freneau, poet of the
American revolution.
Ogontz Faculty Member
At present Mrs. Masters is a
member of the English composi
tion faculty at the Ogontz Center,
but she has also done professional
acting and public speaking, both
on her own right and in connec
tion with her husband's writing.
Oliver To Greet
Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head of the
Speech department, will welcome
the delegates at 1:30 p.m .tomor
row. The sessions and Penn State
students taking part in them are:
the long poem, 1:45 p.m. tomor
row, James Beaver; prose, 8 p.m.
tomorrow, Phyllis Brenckman;
group of short poems, 9:30 a.m.
.Friday, Regina Friedman; and
drama, 1:30 p.m. Friday, Ruth
Johnson.
All sessions will be held in 304
Old Main and are open to the
public.
Dorms Double
Blood Quota
The Nittany-Pollock area dou
bled its quota in the bloodmobile
drive, John Laubach, president of
the Nittany Council, announced
at the weekly meeting of the
council last Monday night.
The quota, 30 pints for the
whole area, was reached easily as
Nittany Dorms alone contributed
33 pints while Pollock Dorms
gave another 30.
The council also decided to take
action on why a local food-selling
service has been charging 18 cents
for a pint of milk instead of the
usual 17 cents, which is charged
to fraternities. Laubach said that
he could see "no reason for the
discrimination between the fra
ternities and the Nittany area:
Milk at 18 cents a pint is too high
anyway."
The council also passed a mo
tion to the effect that men in the
Nittany area be awarded $7.50 for
those classified as best athletes
and best scholars. The same
Senior Gift Ballot
To vole for the senior class gift, list the numbers of your
order of preference beside the items below. Clip this ballot
and place it in the voting box in the lobby of Old Main. No
one may vote without showing a matriculation card.
1. Campus radio station
2. College ambulance
3. Gate at junction of Pollock road and Route 322
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4. Grand piano for Schwab Auditorium
5. Gridiron statue
6. Scholarship fund
7. Student press
VriA'ISATLY etffxratAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Harriet Nesbitt
Rachkowski Ist
'Star' Winner
Ray Rachkowski, senior - at the
College, and Ross Lytle, senior in
State College High School, won
first and second prizes respec
tively in the first Warner Broth
ers star discovery contest held
Monday night in the Cathaurn
Theater.
Rachkowski, 1950 All-College
talent show winner, recited "Ca
sey Hits the Ball" to take first
place, winning a radio. Lytle
played "Tennessee Waltz" and
"Beautiful Brown Eyes" on the
guitar. He won a player and $lO
worth of records.
Other entrants in the contest in
cluded Hal Harman, clarinetist,
Bellefonte High School; Ruth
Bowman, singer, a secretary in
extension at the College; Eudell
Korman, pianist, an d Edwin
Grove, comedian, both of State
College High School. Carlton Ay
ers was emcee.
The contest will continue in the
local theater at 8:30 p.m. each
Monday for the next four weeks.
The• winners will then meet in
the State College eliminations.
Elimination winners will enter
the semi-finals in Gmensburg,
and winners there will enter the
finals in Pittsburgh.
First place winner at Pitts
burgh will get a six-month con
tract with Warner Brothers stu
dio, and the second place winner
will be given an RCA Victor re
cording contract.
Eta 'Kappa Nu To Meet
Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engin
eering honorary fraterntiy, will
hold an open meeting tomorrow
at 7:30 p.m. in 110 Electrical En
gineering:
A description of electrical en
gineering electvies will be dis
cussed by that department's fac
ulty.
amount is to be awarded to those
who &so have the highest grade
point average and who are in the
most extra-curricular activities.
Sigma Delta Chi Gives
Journalism Awards
. Franklin Banner, head of the
Journalism department, yester
day announced th e winners of
five Sigma Delta Chi journalism
awards ar e John Dalbor, Ruth
Scheduled to rece i v e the
awards are John Dalber, Ruth
Johnson, Henry Kaska, June
Reinmiller, and Herbert Stein.
Sigma Delta 'Chi, men's na
tional professional journalism
fraternity, makes the awards to
journalism students graduating in
the upper five pei cent of their
class.
Brown Back Home
After World Travel
Cecil Brown, a native Pennsylvanian will return to his home
state to speak to the Community Forum audience tomorrow night,
after years of wide travel through Europe and the Far and Middle
East.
Brown, distinguished Mutual Broadcasting System commentator,
was born in New Brighton and educated at Western Reserve and
Ohio State Universities. He be
gan his newspaper career in 1929
as a reporter for the Youngstown
Ohio Vindicator.
He first left the United States
in the early '3o's when he sailed
as a seaman to South America,
West Africa, and the Black Sea
ports of Russia to do a series of
articles for the Vindicator.
He got a job with the United
Press in Los Angles as a result
of his articles on Russia, but after
several years he returned East
to work for the Pittsburgh Press,
the Newark Ledger and the New
IYork ,American.
Coaly Society
Climbs Attic
Forty-four charter members of
the Coaly Society climbed to the
attic of the veterinary hospital
to sign a roster before the skele
ton of a mule Monday night.
Coaly, the mule, is the legen
dary foundation of the new so
ciety. Coaly helped haul the first
stones to build the Farmer's
High School back in 1857.
After working for the College''
until 1890, Coaly died. His skele
ton was mounted and on display
in the Old Main Museum until
1930.
After that Coaly was put in
the attic of the veterinary hospi
tal. Now, his name is coming into
the limelight once again in this
new honorary ag society.
Dr. R. B. Dickerson, dean of
resident instruction, formally in
itiated the members.
Wallie Butz was elected presi
dent; James Gallagher, vice
president; Lester Burdette, sec
rectary; John Kalafus, treasurer;
Timoleon Rodriguez, sergeant-at
arms; and Robert Roulston, his
torian.
The society also approved the
key and identification pin. A
committee was appointed to de
sign a shingle.
Shahit Cites
Art Importance
"The greatest contribution of
art to our scientific and industrial
age is its directing influence,"
Ben Shahn, realistic painter, said
Monday night when he spoke at
the College in the second presen
tation of the Combined Arts Fes
tival series.
S h ah n, who has done many
paintings for the Columbia
Broadcasting Co., spoke on "How
Art Can Contribute to the Scien
tific and Industrial Age." He dis
cussed the relationship of art in
its use to industry, its interpre
tation of the scientific age, and
how art exists as a compliment
to the scientific age.
Shahn encouraged t h e setting
up of a United States Ministry of
Arts. He said, "It would not only
provide for a wide distribution of
art but it would also encourage
all of the fine arts in our own
country as well as abroad."
"Even though art is controver
sial and there are still truths to
be evolved, the artist need not
limit his thinking to what is
around him," Shahn stated. He al
so expressed the firm belief that
art must overcome mass produc
tion, the obstacle which threatens
it today more than anything else.
In closing, Shahn said that art
is a creator of values which makes
its greatest contribution to the
individual himself.
Following his talk, there was a
short period of audience partici
pation at which time questions
were asked of Shahn. A state
ment made by the artist at that
time was that the modern artist
must not only consider line,
color, and form in painting, but
he must add two more items—
food and shelter, in order to get
along in our complex material
age.
Per Cent. Vote
School Elections
17
In
Six schools polled a 17 per cent average vote in the first day of
elections for student council representatives yesterday. .
The vote total, which was 831 out of a possible 4862, exceeded
the first day's vote of last year by 216 votes.
Last year only 15 per cent voted on the opening day, and 30
per cent voted all together.
The Home Ec School, which had the best percentage in last
year's elections, tied for
lead with a 31 per cent vote as
145 out of 473 cast ballots.
The Mineral Industries School
also had a 31 per cent vote with
99 out of 320 voting. •
The Engineering and Chem-
Phys Schools were next in line.
The Engineering School had a 16
per cent vote with 168 out of 1036
voting. Ninety-seven of the 610
in the Chem-Phys School voted.
' The Education School was next
with a 14 per cent vote. Ruth
Eddy, Education elections chair
man, said that students would be
urged to vote in their classes.
The Liberal Arts School had
the -highest number of votes, 212,
but also the lowest percentage of
eligible voters. Only 13 per cent
of the 1629 eligible voters voted.
Last year the percentage for the
LA School was 18 per cent.
Free Lance Writer
In 1937 he went to Europe as
a free lance writer and six months
later took a job with the Inter
national News Service assigned
to Rome. It was here that he
wrote his notable story on the
death of Pope Pius XI in 1939.
The following year he switched to
radio where he has remained
since.
During the war he found him
self in Yugoslavia in time to cover
the Nazi attack on that country,
and later became a prisoner of
the Germans. After an assign
ment in Cairo he went to the Far
East. He was abroad the British
warship Repulse which, with the
Prince of Wales, was torpedoed
and sunk in the South China Sea.
A few hours later he reported his
story from Singapore by radio.
Won Many Awards
He put his wide experience to
use last year when he traveled
through western Europe and the
Far East, recording the reactions
of the people to current inter
national issues.
His radio commentaries have
earned him the George Foster
Peabody, Overseas Press Club,
Sigma Delta Chi and National
Headliners Club awards. Brown
told of his experiences in the
wartime best-seller, "Suez to
Singapore," and has contributed
to Colliers, Reader's Digest and
other magazines.
Tickets will be sold at the Stu
dent Union desk for $1 today and
tomorrow until 8 p.m. The Eric
Johnston ticket from the season
book will be honored.
May 16 The Day
For Mad Hatters
Wednesday of Spring Week has
been designated by the Spring
Week committee for the cavort
ing of outlandish headdresses on
"Mad Hatter's Day."
Samuel Vaughan, chairman of
the prograM, said that letters
have been sent to five leading
hat designers asking them to sub
mit entries in the contest.
Actually all students wearing
novel or humorous hats will be
eligible for prizes. Vaughan said
that the cash awards had not
been set as yet, but that he ex
pected them to be higher than
last year.
Hat wearers must pass in front
of Old Main during judging
hours. Persons wearing outstand
ing hats will be given tags, en
titling them to return for the
final, judging and prize awarding ;
expected to be sometime in the
afternoon.
• Judges for the contest have not
been chosen as yet. ,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951
Four Return
From Conclave
Penn State's four representa
tives to the Association of Col
lege Student Unions convention
at Michigan State College have
returned from the week long con
clave.
Those attending were George
Donovan, Student Union man
ager; William Reed, assistant
manager; Robert Davis, president
of the Student Union board; and
Robert Fast, president of the Stu
dent Union building committee.
Discussed Draft Effects
Representatives from the' 48
states and Canada met to discuss
various problems which confront
any student union organization.
Special attention was paid to
problems dealing with the, effects
of the draft on next year's en
rollment and of the situation cre
ated by the presence of military
personnel on the campus.
Special workshops and panel
discussions were held for both
student and advisor representa
tives. Donovan took charge of a
workshop session which dealt
with campus problems in gen
eral. Reed acted as the summar
izer ,for this group.
Michigan SU Building
Sessions of the convention were
held in the new multi-million dol
lar addition to the Michigan State
student union building. The build
ing which houses a tremendous
dance hall, 16 bowling alleys, a
soda bar, meetng rooms, and stu
dent organization offices was de
scribed by Donovan as the most
expensive and elaborate student
uniin building that he has ever
seen.
Next year's convention will be
held at Oklahoma A and M, dele
gates decided.
Kraus To Lecture
For Chem Series
Dr. Charles A. Kraus, profes
sor of chemistry and director of
chemical research •at Brown uni
versity, will speak on "The Con
ductance of Long Chain Salts in
Water Mixtures of Water and
Non-Aqueous Solvents" -at 4:10
p.m. today in 119 Osmond Labor
atory.
The lecture is one of three giv
en by Kraus this week in the
chemistry 570 special topics in
modern chemistry series.
In addition to his present posi
tion at Brown, Kraus during the
last '5O years has been instructor
and lecturer in various universi
ites and consulting chemist for
several organizations.
The lecturer's fields of inter
est lie in electrically conducting
sytems, critical phenomenon, liq
uid ammonia, electrolytic and
non-aqueous solutions, metals,
and their solutions, metalo-organ
ic compounds, free radicals, phase
rule, gaseous equilibria, conduc
tion in glass, vacuum seals, elec
trical apparatus, gases and chem
ical processes.