PAGE TWO W. H. WILSON; alumnus and member of the' Poultry Club, packs chicks for Mexico. The chicks are being donated by Wilson. who works for the Hubbard Farms near Lancaster. 'Chicks To Mexico' Via Poultry Club They're layin' eggs now down in Mexico, where eggs were almost as scarce as hens' teeth. In Mexico there has been a shortage of eggs and chickens for many years. In fact, in Mexico an egg is really a rare item. We consume eggs by the thousands daily, whereas in Mexico an egg is saved for 'a special occas Dean Of Men Finds Adviser Charges Void A spokesman for the office of the dean of men said yesterday that there was "no foundation" to a charge that advisers in the West Dorm area had meddled in student government affairs. The spokesman said that the conclusion was reached after a careful investigation. The inves tigation was prompted by an edi torial in• the May 17 issue of Col legian. The editorial charged "there is good reason to believe the plot (to have the West Dorm Council secede from the Association of Men) is supported and was even initiated by a group of resident advisers in the ..rea," The spokesman said it was known that an adviser in the West Dorms had spoken to sev eral student leaders about the possibility of secession earlier in the year. That adviser is no longer on the staff, he said: 5 ere3nhouses E: Spa Built Ora Ag Hiiii Five new greenhouees will be built in the near luittre 1: rind Pknt Incluatriec, Bu:lcling. Two of these will be devoted to commercial floriculture re search work. Th , ?. one concrete block building new being con structed i fur floriculture vi-ork. The other three i will be for agronomy, soil:, pihult pathology. and bot . :ny research. be 30 feet Ch 1 . 11! 1 by 753 fcet. Also on Ag iiia ore flower 2nr dens which atty:.::c.ing world attention. 0) ent:ic6 11;:vc been received Lein fo;:eir, , n coun tries, and each. will get a plot in the test iloworid:ins for this year's Nearly 50 new vorieti;2s oil roses have been acldcd to the College rose gardens. Fitly varieties which woo car will appear in the gai'dens for the se and of the two-year test period. THE DAISY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA on. In Mexico the average person eats only 25 eggs a year, and in the U. S. the average persoi con sumes about 383 a year. There is a group on campus which has been trying to allevi ate this condition. This organi zation is the Penn State Poultry Club. Two years ago the Poultry Club began a project titled, "Chicks to Mexico. By means of various money-making activities and donations, the club gathered enough money to acquire 3400 baby chicks and express them via air mail south of the border to our Mexican neighbors. In three years of work, about 3400 baby chicks have been ship ped to Mexico, 1500 the first year, 900 the second year, and 1000 this year. . Now, nearly 10,000 chickens are thriving on three score farms scattered from Mexico City ;to Oaxaca. Mexico. Chicks Sent To Zook The chicks are sent to Lester Zook, an agriculture missionary and former Penn State graduate. Zook and Claude Kellog, a Methodist ag missionary, receive the shipments and distribute the chicks to poor peons of Mexico. Did the club stop here? NP. It sent S3QO cash to Mexico for the care and improvement of the poultry industry in Mexico. With this money two incubators were purch:)sed, something Mexico had not had. Just to express the chicks this year cost $75. The club earned this money by killing and de livel-ing 7.00 capons at Christmas Th2nksgiving„ selling turkey "Margo" sandwiches, turkey fea th2r corsages, and holding a Ti.ough there are only 25 in the ?cult2y Club, the club is very a:Aive. Prof. P. H. Margolf. fa culty advisor for the. club and in vcnior of the turkey sandwich :ormula, has te:n prominent in the activities cnl has received a 17-jc - .7e1 Bulova watch from the 'eoys last week for his work. Chicks rtnized By Alumni The ohielts are raised by alum ni, who were formerly members of the Poultry Club, and many have berm donated for .the pro zet. Business Leaders' 7:crk"c Canceled The picnic planned by the Future Business Leaders of America for Sunday has been ^ancolcd, according to Nicholas Mellon, president. Senior Invitations Available At SU Senior invitations and an nouncements are no w avail able at Student Union. Seniors must present receipts in order to obtain them. WI) Council Approves 5 Amendments Five amendments to the West Dorm Council constitution were approved this week by election districts in the area, according to Thomas Durek, West Dorm Coun cil president. Four of the amendments were approved by 14 of the 16 districts and the fifth was approved by 13. Eleven districts must approve an amendment before it goes into ef fect. The amendments, going into effect next year, will: 1. Include council officers in the voting membership of the council. 2. Allow council officers to re tain their district offices. 3. Allow executive committee members and student government advisers remaining in the area to take charge of the new coun cil until election of officers. 4. Have the council president notify the resident adviser in a district having an office vacancy and instruct him to conduct a new election. 5. Not require the council sec retary to keep minutes of execu tive committee meetings. The amendments were read last week to the council. for the third time and referred to the election districts for approval. No Definite Action Durek said the executive com mittee would take no definite ac tion on the problem of reorgani zation of the council due to plan ned admission of 700 women in the area next year. He said how ever, the committee _would con tinue to study the problem. The 50 cent West Dorm assess ment fee and the use of the West Dorm lounge are problems that will have to be solved, Durek added. He suggested a joint com mittee between the council and women in the area might be a method to solve area probleMs. WSGA will govern women in the area next year. Ag Visiting Days Feature Livestock, Grassland Farming The first of four sets of visiting days planned by the School of Agriculture, which will feature grassland farming, livestock, and mechanization of chores, began yesterday and will continue to jay. The dates for the other visiting _lays are June 19-20, July 10-11, and August 9-10. ' Groups visiting the campus to lay may visit 22 points of in terest on campus and take several planned tours. The points of interest are the animal nutrition calorimeter, the College creamery, bee laboratory and apiary, agricultural engineer ing laboratories and shops, dairy 'urns and herds, pasture and for tge ranarch and plots, 'd airy '.)recding research centers, or :bards, the. Jordan plots, and the "chool of Heine Economics. Msmbers of the Dairy Science - .2.1ub are spcnsoring ice cream ,ands and guides are available '.o conduct tours and to point out 'laces of interest. Waring Workshop To Starr In June Tho. Fred Waring Choral Work shop, a new instructional ven ture in choral singing; will be gin this summer at Penn State from June 25 to 29. Formerly held at Shawnee-On- Delaware, the Waring Workshop is being presented• this year on a national basis to make the War ing techniques available to thou sands of musical directors who have been unable to make the cross-country trip. AIM Proposes Plan To Explain Functions The Board of Governors of the Association of Independent Men Tuesday night passed a resolution to send a letter explaining the functions of AIM to each new male student coming on campus if financially possible. The vote was 13-7. In other action, AIM approved unanimously a motion directing John Laubach, board chairman, to take to All-College Cabinet • a proposal to establish a fund for a record-lending library in Pat tee Library. The' board passed the proposal introduced by John Clarke after he explained that one of the main shortcomings of the library was on the cul tural level, He said that it might be a worthy project for the $17,000 excess now held by cabinet. Ray Evert, board treasurer, presented his final financial re port of the year along with the tentative budget for next year. The report follows: Receipts, $2603.23 Expenditures, ''52454.93' Balance, $148.30 Receipts: Assessments. $2314.56 Independent, $131.92 All-College Dance, $127.12 Federal Tax, $29.63 Total, $2603.23. . . Expenditures: Office Supplies, $153,44 Keys. $121.80 Social, $1250.26 Awards, $16.25 Federal Tax, $29.63 Miscellaneous, $508.39 Independent, $375.16 • Total, $2454.93 - Proposed Budget for next year: Independent, $3OO ' ' Awards, $45 Office Supplies, $7O • Keys, $B4 Banquet, $125 NISA Regional, 540 NISA National, $l6O . AIM-IFC Project, $50•• - Social: 3 houseparties at $160—5450 Miscellaneous, $4O Total, $1354.00. TO MANAGE DEBATERS Clair George was elected man ager of next year's men's debate team at a meeting Wednesday. The season will open with the annual international debate with British students. Traditional Awards Honor Eleven Seniors Graduating seniors voted recently for a Spoon Man, a Bow Girl, and nine other outstanding seniors to be honored at class night cere monies June 10. The awards have what appear to be amusing titles—spoon, bar rel, cane, and pipe for the men; bow, slipper, fan, and mirror for the women but they are College traditions begun in 1914. Class Day exercises were first held in 1874, but it was not until 40 years later that Spoon Man and his cohorts, Barrel and Cane, ap peared on the program. Based On Scholarship Accoriling to Neil M. Fleming, who served as a member of the committee which' originated the awards in 1914, they were to be' based on scholarship primarily, but also on the student's individ ual contributions to campus life. In the early days the Spoon usuall• went to the senior class president, since he was usually an outstanding leader, although he had to meet the scholastic re quirement. The Cane was based chiefly on popularity and outstanding lead ership qualificatiots. The Barrel symbolized the old cider scrap on campus, and was to be an award to an outstanding athlete, al though it was based on leader ship and scholarship also. Pipe Award As for Pipe Man and how he came to inherit his title, the 'Col legian of June 9, 1914, suggests that the origin came about prob ably when some campus joker de cided it was time to bury the hatchet. The tradition behind the pipe award is much older than that of the other three. It was custom ary for the outgoing senior class to smoke a pipe of peace with the incoming senior class. •As a part of the ceremony, when peace was made the two underclasses "bur ied the hatchet" and the sopho mores accepted the frosh as "true injuns." Symbolizes Friendship The Pipe Man award,. down Four Navy ROTC Men Get Awards Four, Naval ROTC men at a ceremony held in front of Old Main yesterday received medals for their outstanding leadership and scholarship qualities for the school year. Capt. J. L. Woodbury, USN, professor of naval science, pre sented the medals to the midship men. The second annual Reserve Of fic e r s Association Medal awarded by the Pennsylvania State College Chapter and the Centre County Chapter of the Re serve Officers Association was presented to midshipman Wil liam G. Mathers, John A. Hrivnak received the Navy League Plaque awarded by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Navy League of the United Stales. The Armed Forces Cominunica tion Association Medal presented to the outstanding Signal Corps cadet or midshipman in the cur riculum of electrical engineering who is in his junior year was awarded to Joseph 0. Replogle, USNR: Ensign Richard K. Pulling, USN, was presented with the Conunpndant of the Fourth Nav al District Award for his excel lence in navigation. By JIM GROMILLER through the years, has come to symbolize the friendship between the graduating and incoming sen ior classes, the graduates passing down the traditions of the Col lege to be guarded by the next year's seniors. This year, according to the number of votes received, the five outstanding graduating men will be dubbed Spoon Man, Barrel Man, Cane Man, Pipe Man, and Class Donor. Female Honors Eight years after the male awards were instituted at the College, • a suggestion was made to the Women's Student Govern ment Association that they hon or three girls corresponding to the honor men. A committee met to discuss the names to be given honor girls, and it chose the idea of selecting names of articles symbolic of girls which would not become obso lete. The committee choSe in the or der of significance Bow Girl, Fan Girl, Slipper Girl, Class Poet, and Class Donor. Gold pins representing each honor were given to the honor girls. A sixth symbolic title, Mirror Girl, has since been created. In recent years the awards have been based on service to the Col lege, personal honor, integrity, sincerity, versatility of activities, and scholarship. Thus these senior awards may have amusing titles but they, also form a school tradition, carrying with them an honor expressing anpreciation from the graduating class. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1951
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