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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