TODAY'S WEATHER:
CLOUDY AND COOL
WITH SHOWERS
VOL. 51 No. 148
Scholastic Leaders
SHOWN ABOVE—Mrs Betty Sellers, class valedictorian, and
James Haughwout, salutatorian, right, are pondering while class
president John Erickson is explaining the problem.
Sellers, Haughw;out
Win Senior Awards
Mrs. Betty Sellers and James Haughwout have been named
valedictorian and salutatorian of, the classvof '5l as the outstanding
scholastic students in their class. Announcement of the selection
was made yesterday by. John Erickson, senior class president, who
selected the students in conjunction , with Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head
of the Speech department.
Mrs. Sellers and Haughwout will be honored at the annual
Class Night program to be held
June 10 in Recreation Hall, along
with Homer Barr and Barbara
Sprenkle, chosen- the most out
standingg man and woman in the
senior class, and'other class honor
winners
Barr And Sprenkle
Barr and Miss Sprenkle will be
honored as Spoon man and Bow
Girl. They were selected by a
postcard poll of the class.
Mrs. Sellers is an English lit
erature major in the School of
Liberal Arts. She has previously
won the junior and senior Evan
Pugh medals for scholarship.
Haughwout is an agronomy
major in the School of Agricul
ture and a veteran of the second
world war. He has served as a
member of the Agriculture Stu
dent Council and is a member s df
Phi Kappa Phi, scholastic honor
ary, and Gamma Sigma Delta,
agriculture honorary.
Haughwout was winner of both
the junior and senior Evan Pugh
Medals.
Other Winners
Women to be honored at Class
Night ceremonies besides Mrs.
Sellers and Miss Sprenkle, are
Gay Brunner, Slipper Girl; Mary
Ellen Grube, Fan Girl; Audrey
Brua, Mirror Girl; Rose Eifert,
Class Donor, and Janet Rosen,
Crass Poet.
Men, in addition to Haughwout
and Barr,' are Robert Davis, Bar
rel Man; Owen Dougherty, Cane
Man; Harold Leinbach, Pipe Ora
tor, and Emerson Jones, Class
Donor.
Gold charms will be presented
to all winners. Seniors voting for
the award winners were asked to
select the men and women in the
class of '5l whom they felt made
the most sincere contributions to
Penn State this year.
According to tradition, Miss
Brua and Leinbach, as Mirror and
Pipe Orators, will speak to the
class at the program as represen
tatives of the honored ,men and
women.
Erickson will formally present
funds for the campus radio sta
tion and the Donald Mclntire
scholarship, this year's class gifts,
to President Eisenhower, who will
accept for the College.
Walter Miller, chairman of the
Paul Smith Memorial committee,
will present the award to the
outstanding senior athlete. Pa
tricia Roseberry will present the
Alpha Lambda Delta award to
the senior woman member of the
honorary with the highest scho
lastic average.
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Memorial Day .
Wreath Placing
Services Set
Several brief ceremonies, in
cluding the placing of wreaths by
President Milton S. Eisenhower,
will mark Memorial Day at the
College tomorrow.
A wreath will be placed at 8:30
a.m. in Old Main on the plaque
inscribed with names of alumni
of the College who died in World
War I.
Following this ceremony,
wreaths will be placed on the
grave of Dr. George Atherton,
seventh president of the College,
and at the plaque in Recreation
Hall in honor of J. D. Debout and
L. L. Lamb, two Penn State ath
letes killed in World War I.
Then three volleys will be fired
and taps played by four men from
the Army, Navy, and Air Force
ROTC units on campus. The
ROTC students will also raise the
flag in front of Old Main from
half staff to full staff at 12 noon.
Major Felipe Vias, assistant
professor of military science and
tactics, is in charge of the cere
monies.
Robert Amole and George Jeff
ries are co-chairmen of the Mem
orial Day committee. The mem
bers of the committee are Allen
Gibson, Lolita Robinson, and Al
lan Sredenschek.
Parmi Nous Elects
James Wharton was elected
president of Parmi Nous for the
coming year at their meeting last
night.
Other officers elected were Jay
McMahon, vice-president; and
Marvin Krasnansky, secretarr .
treasurer.
BX Open Until Friday
For Purchase Receipts
The, book exchange in the
TUB will be open until Fri
day for receipts on purchases
made during the spring semes
ter, Frank Kelly, BX boar d
spokesman, , said yesterday.
The exchange will be open
from 9 .to 11:45 a.m. and 1 to
5 p.m. today through Friday.
A 20 per cent refund will be
given on all purchases.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1951
Grades Will Fix
W Assignments
Rach kowski,
Klug Win
Star Contest
Ra y Rachkowski, comedian,
and Robert Klug, pianist, both
students at the College, placed
first and second respectively in
the local finals of the star dis
covery contest held last night at
the Cathaum Theater.
Rachkowski received a com
bination radio-phonograph an d
$lO worth of records. Kliig re
ceived a phonograph and $lO
worth of records. Both will travel
to th e regional semi-finals in
Greensburg.
The tw o contestants placing
highest in Greensburg will go on
to Pittsburgh for th e regional
finals. The two participants plac
ing first and second at Pittsburgh
will receive six-months' con
tracts with Warner Brothers. The
one who placed third will record
two sides for RCA Victor.
Rachkowski presented - mono=
logue parody of the recent Sen
ate crime investigation. Klug
played "Impromptu" and "Rush
Hour in Hongkong."
Contestants were judged by
audience applause and the opin
ions of three judges, Frank Gullo
of the music department, Edward
Abrgnson of the sociology de
partment, and Wilbur Hoy, local
druggist.
Other participants, all first or
second place winners in the pre
vious weekly contests, were the
Four Flats and a Sharp, vocal
quartet consisting of Polly Potter,
Bill Detweiler, David Margolf,
Red Baker, and Dick Wrentmore;
Pat Leis, singer; Jack "Killer"
Malloy, humorous singer; Ed
Rolf, baritone; Tom Lewis, tenor;
Ross Lytle, guitarist; and Walter
Marthouse, vocalist.
MORTAR BOARD ELECTS
New officers of Mortar Board,
senior women's honorary, • are
Nancy McClain, president; Greta
Weaver, vice-president; Jeannine
Bell, secretary; Lois Pulver, treas
urer; Robin Brunner, historian;
and Carolyn Barrett, editor.
Lois Pulver Wins
Frizzeli Contest
Lois Pulver last night won this year's John -Henry Frizzell Ex
tempore Speaking Contest, the oldest contest on campus.
Miss Pulver, one of six finalists, is manager of the women's
debate team, and a junior majoring in sociology.
Marian Ungar, a freshman in liberal arts, was runner-up.
Miss Pulver used an Omar
Khayyam quotation, "The moving
finger writes, and having writ,
moves on" as the subject of her
speech. She said that the youth
of today must accept the world
as it is and move -onward, in
stead of "crying over spilt milk"
and blaming adults for present
N;orld conditions
Miss Ungar's speech, "What Are
We To Do?" dealt with the pre
sent increase in sex crimes. She
quoted Pearl 0. Weston, dean of
women, as saying that there is
not a semester when at least one
girl is neither chased nor moles
ted by an unknown campus
prowler at the College.
Other finalists and their topics
were Ethel Brown, "Who Says
It's So?"; Yvonne Carter, "And
Quote—"; Janet Horger, "Look
To This aly"; and Sylvia Silver,
Scholastic achievement based on All-College average up
to this semester will determine what students will be living
in the West Dorms next fall, it was decided by the'committee
yesterday.
The step system will be used; present seventh, sixth, and
fifth semester students who had previously , stated their de-
Kondourajian
Named Hetzel
Award Winner
Harry Kondourajian was
named winner of the second
Ralph D. Hetzel Memorial Award
recently.
This award is given to the sen
ior whose achievements scholas
tically and in the other activities
of college life give the highest
promise of that kind of useful
citizenship in national life ex
pounded by Dr. Hetzel, President
of the College until his death in,
1947.
Members of the committee
which chose the award winner
were R. 0. Weber, chairman of
the senate committee on scholar
ships and awards; H. K. Wilson,
dean of men; Pearl 0. Weston,
dean of women; George Donovan,
director of Associated Student
Activities, and Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, director of student af
fairs. •
Kondourajian,_a pre-law major,
is a member of Phi Kappa Tau
fraternity and has held the of
fices of Skull and Bones presi
dent, All-College vice-president,
and junior class president. He has
also been a member of Blue Key,
and the debate team, and chair
man of the class ring committee
and the fraternity workshop.
Last year's winner of the Het
zel award was George Ohmler.
Zeilner Receives
Powers' Award
ICharles Zenner received the
William and Edward Powers'
•iward at the Poultry Club picnic
'ast Saturday.
The award of $25 is presented
annually to the outstanding poul
try senior. Zellner has been ac
tive in the Poultry Club, Ag Hill
Breeze, Penn State Farmer, and
Coaly Society. .
By BETTIE LOUX
"This Above All."
John Henry Frizzell, professor
emeritus of public speaking, pre
sehted th e Pennsylvania State
College prize of $5O to Miss Pul
ver, and the Forensic Council
prize of $25 to Miss Ungar. The
winners will also receive Frizzell
awards of merit.
According to Prof. Frizzell, this
is the first time in the history of
the contest that only women
reached the finals.
Each contestant spoke from
eight to te n minutes without
notes.
Robert T. Oliver, head of the
speech department, was chairman
of the contest.
The six finalists were selected
Thursday. night from among 30
students who entered the elimi
nations.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
sire to live in the area by sub
mitting council housing pledges
must have a 1.29 All-College av
erage.
Freshmen wh o enrolled in
February, 1951, will not be re
quired to live in the dormitor
ies in the fall unless They desire
to do so, the Collegian learned
yesterday.
They may pledge fraternities.
Present f our t h semester stu
dents must have an All-College
average of 1.6 and freshmen must
have a 2.00 average.
Through this system, there will
be approximately three seventh
semester. men in the West Dorms,
93 sixth semester men, 10 fifth
semester men, 80 fourth semester
men and 25 freshmen or special
students.
211 Total
The total according to this plan
is 211. The committee decided
not to fill completely the quota
of 225 because of the great flex
ibility of the step system.
The 1.29 average was decided
L.pon for seventh ; sixth and fifth
3emester students on the grounds
that the independent men's av
erage All-College grade for last
semester was 1.29.
The committee set as require
ments for West Dorm admission
the following items:
1. Housing pledges sent out by
the individual dorm councils.
2. Official housing pledges sent
out after the council pledges. To
morrow is the deadline for the
director of housing forms.
3. Semester seniority according
to All-College average beginning
with seventh semester students
and working down.
4. All-College average of 1.29
for top three semesters, 1.6 av
nage for fourth semester stu
dents, and a 2.00 average fo r
freshmen.
3:8 Ratio
There will be a three-to-eight
ratio of upperclassmen to fresh
men in the Nittany dormitory
area. The priority system will be
used in screening upperclass ap
plications.
Upperclassmen will select ei
ther a single room or a corner
room. Under this plan, upper
classmen will have 12 of the 44
vacancies in the area.
Russell Clark, housing director,
said corner and single rooms were
most desired by upperclassmen
in the area last year.
Pollock Circle will operate un
der the same system next year.
At the meeting were Paul Za
zoni representing Town Council;
Joseph Haines, Pollock Council;
john Laubach, Nittany Council;
Thomas Durek, West Dorm coun
-;i1; Clark, housing director: and
Frank Simes, chief resident ad
viser of the West Dorms.
Penn State Farmer
Names New Staff
The Pe n n . State Farmer ap
ncinted next year's staff last
The staff is:
David Stabler, editor: Herbert
Kulman, managing editor; Lowell
Lewis, feature editor; James
Cr'raef, advertising manager; Tho
mas Scott, business manager:
Robert Kaufman, circulating,
, nanager; Albert Zihrner, adver
tising layout editor; Boyd Wol '—
editorial layout editor.