PAGE TWO Colleges 'Blue Band Started 52 Years Ago By ’ halftime, last Saturday fans were sweltering under the sun’s hot rays. But the Penn State Blue Band marched onto the field as jauntily as if it were regular jfootball weather. Rooters for got their arguments about unpredictable Penn State weather,to watch the 96 man band do its stuff. It was just 52 yearsvago this fall that the seeds of a Penn State 78 Teachers, 3 Districts On Strike POTTSVILLE, Pa., Oct. 3 (AP) —Seventy-eight teachers were on strike for- back salaries today in three Pennsylvania school districts but a threatened fourth walkout was called off for the present. Teachers at nearby Cass Town ship tonight agreed to continue working after the district officials said they were securing a $21,000 bank loan—good for two months’ salaries. Meanwhile, Gov. John S.'Fine’s budget office in Harrisburg said there is enough state. money to assure payment of $55,000,000 in months. school grants in the next two Cass Township teachers were out Sept. 4-6 until they received $25,000 for nine-weeks back pay. Also away from their class rooms were 41 teachers from the Becarria-Coalport-Irvona joint district in Clearfield County; 28 at McAdoo Borough and nine at Kline Township, both in Schuyl kill County. Some $25,000,000 is due 2208 fourth-class school districts this month. An additional $30,000,000 isto be paid next month to 300 first, second, and third- class dis tricts. These are semi-annual grants. However grants to State-aided hospitals, colleges, and other in stitutions „ are being held up as non-preferred appropriations. They will have to await their money until a two-year $653,000,- * 000 appropriation bill is finally passed by the legislature. . / Band to Use 'Hail! Oh Hail!' The Blue Band will be ready to play “Hail! Oh Hail!” some time this month, James- Dunlop, band director, said yesterday. Dunlop said the music for Ray Fortunato’s song, which has gained increasing popularity since it was introduced by the Glee Club last year, is now, being ar ranged for the band. “Hail! Oh Hail!” must go through a lengthy processing period before it will be ready for the_ band, Dunlop said. He ex plained that the song would have to be arranged first and then copied 24 times. He said' the music would have to be photostated and 96 copies made for band members. The Blue Band will not be present when Penn State’s foot ball team plays Villanova at Al lentown Saturday, Dunlop said. Pfc. George Graduates From German School Pfc. Richard George, 22, re cently graduated from the Euro pean Command Finance School at Friedberg, Germany, with a “superior’.’ achievement rating. •George was a junior at the College at the time of his induc tion into the Army last October. He attended schools in Altoona and entered Penn State in June, 1947. George is now stationed in Frankfurt with the Fourth In fantry Division as administrative assistant in the division finance section. Radio Guild Elections . Officers will be elected at the Penn State Radio Guild meeting at 7 tonight in 304 Sparks. Ronald We>}il, president, asks guild can'" ' '- 3 and active mem bers to attend. By PAT NUTTER band took root. In those days, male students took four years of military tactics and Old Main was a barracks dormitory. ‘One day during inspection, the Com mandant of Cadets discovered a bugle hanging on the wall of Geogre H. Deike’s room. Played, for Captain Deike; who had been a regi mental bugler during the Span ish-American War, pilayed his bugle for the Captain.. It must have been quite a performance, because it resulted in the. boy being appointed chief musician and added to the non-commis sioned battalion staff. Authoriza tion was given to organize a bugle corps. The corps got under way that fall with six members. It played right up to the final dress parade on Commencement day. Now that Penn Staters had hhd a taste of music they didn’t want it to stop. However, there was. no funds available to buy instru ments for the band. Donated $lOO .• General James A. Beaver, president of the Board of Trus tees, and Dr. Atherton, president of the College, each donated $5O to start a brass band fund. How ever, more money was needed. Finally, General Beaver wrote to Andrew Carnegie telling him of the plight and asking’ for $lOO. The i;amous philanthropist replied with a check for $BOO. The cadet band got under way with 23 members. From then on, the College has had a band. Today’s Blue -Band boasts “96 members marching in eight ranks, twelve deep. All are selec ted after individual try-outs. No members are carried over from one year to another. There ' are 55 new men in the band this year. The .fast-steeping band re hearses every day., Monday eve i .ings are spent studying the music and working out the for mation on a blackboard. Each band member has a number and he follows his number on the blackboard presentation, thus be coming familiar with his part in the movements.' Each afternoon Tuesday through Friday .from 5 p.m. to 6, the band rehearses oh its own drill field on the golf course. Here, on Tuesday, they walk through the formations without music, smoothing off the rough edges. The rest- of the afternoons are spent practicing both the music and the formations. Band Rehearsal Tonight at TUB An All-College dance- band, sponsored by the Dean of Men’s office working through the resi dent counselors, will meet for its first ..rehearsal at 6 tonight in the TUB., • \ - . Anyone . who 'was unable, to come to the auditions last Mon day and Tuesday nights may audition tonight, according to John Huber, Nittarly-Pollock res ident counselor in charge of the band. The band will be composed'of five saxophones, three trumpets, three trombones, and four, rhy them instruments. Vacancies still exist, Huber said. Several music arrangers have been secured, for the band.- Its purpose will be “to create a good musical unit capable of putting on (concerts in Schwab Auditorium or the TUB.” Darrell Rishel, a resident coun selor in the West Dorm area, is also working with the band. The band will rehearse fro'tn 6 to 8 every Thursday night. Twenty students in the School of Liberal Arts completed the sprlm semester with, perfect 3 .averages. , \ THE DAILY 'COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE.-PENNSYLVANIA 96 Members Fees Payable .Today College fees will be payable today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the basement of Willard Hall. Nominations For WSGA, WRA Close Today is the last day for women to nominate themselves for'WSGA and WRA elections. Application blanks are avail able. in the Dean of Women’s of fice, 105/Old Main. Offices open are for two WRA freshman rep resentatives, one WRA • sopho more : representative, WSGA freshman senator, and WSGA treasurer. Elections will take place Oct. 16 and 18. ' > By 2 p.m. yesterday, very few women had registered* according to Joanne Williams,- WSGA elec tions chairman. Miss '“Williams said that many women who want to sign up for WSGA committee work are filling out application blanks by mistake. Those inter ested in committee work should sigh up with Miss Brewer in the Dean of Women’s office. Applicants for the'position of WSGA treasurer must be second pr third semester students and those for WRA sophomore repre sentative must be sophomores. Candidates for both positions must have at least a 1.5 All-Col lege average and no major Judi cial record. Applicants for WSGA freshman senator and W3RA freshman representative must be first semester freshmen, and if elected must have at least a 1.5 All-College average at the .end of their first'semester. Interviews for each; candidate with, the application boards will be arranged by appointment. They will be either tonight or Saturday. • After, the interviews, all elig ible nominees will be put on. the primary slate. Pictures of the candidates' will be posted in the women’s dormitories, and the candidates will be introduced at house meetings next week. IFC Selects Lawn Display Theme, Judges The IFC selected "Freedom’s Keystone” as its Homecoming theme last night. , The members voted ‘Governor John S. Fine, Dr. Milton S. Eisen hower, and Rip Engle as jtfdges of lawn displays. -Ken Tomlihson is chairman of the judges com mittee; • ■ ■ A committee was appointed by IFC President Stanley Wengert to work with dorm counselors to give, freshpen better information on fraternities. All _ fraternities were asked to turn in names for an orchestra for the IFC Ball. Donald Carlson, 1 chairman of th e, Greek-Week banquet com mittee announced that the ban quet will be, held at 6:30p.m. November- 3 in the Nittany Lion Inn. The speaker at the banquet will be Frank H. Meyers of Kap pa Alpha oast' presi-„ dent of the National IFC Confer ence. Other speakers will be an nounced later, Bryson Craine is the chairman of the speakers com mittee. « Cosmopolitan Club Will Meet Sunday The Cosmopolitan - Club /will meet 2 p.m. Sunday at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Kern, 140 W. Fairmount avenue. The club has served as a get acquainted organization for for eign-bom students for a number of years and is composed of inter ested American and foreign' stu dents, according to Dr. Kern. Postcards have been sent to prospective members. The meet ing, is open to anyone. ' Parking Prohibited ,/ The Borough Council announc ed last night that parking is pro hibited on .the newly-p av ed alleys in downtown State College. Gilbert Attends Olympic Plan Fe Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athleti lege, attended the United States Olympic commit! ,fs official representative from the Olympic boxing com»utte&||la£t Monday at the New Yor]c Athletic Club. •" Plaits for United States participation in the 1952 raising campaigns* and the setting of the time,and place’ for'|tfe;final * national tryouts v of teams were discussed at tKe f meet ing. ;■ Final national tryopts for the boxing team will be held June 16-18 at Kansas City, 1 ' Mo., the Olympic boxing- committee an nounced. Harold Gilbert Thespians List 'Bottoms Up' Dance Chorus Members of the dance cho’rus for the ; forthcoming Thespian musical comedy revue, “Bottoms Up,” were named yesterday by dance directors Jeanne "Wiener and Mike Claysmith." Women .named'.to the -chorus are Phyllis Auerbach, Patricia Bowles, Shirley Bush, Eugenie Deger, Diane Delp, Nancy Harris, Patricia Kendall, 'Doris Leven thal, Ruth Lyne, Joanne McNally, and Marilyn Stewart. . 'Men dancers are. Bob Bowers, Dick Dunn, Norman Gardner, Seymour Goldstein, Alex Gregal, Dan Grove, Don Herbein, Warren Hommes, John Kelly, Dave Lew is, Lynn McCaffrey, Moylan Mills, Charles Naginey, Ben ‘Shields, and Don Stahl. ’Grant Price has been an nounced as music co-ordinator for the show. Don Smith will lead the brchestfa.' Sets will be designated by Car rol Chapman. Production director' Rgy For tunate has announced the addi tion of Mary Brown to the cast. ECAC to Meet In New York . Carl P. Schott, Dean of the School' of Physical Education, will represent the College at a special meeting tomorrow, of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Con ference /at its headquarters in New York City. Representatives from Syracuse, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, and Princeton will also 'be on hand to dischss the future status of college sports and th'e abuses and attacks made on intercollegiate athletics. ./ . The conference is a preliminary meeting to form recommendations for new rule revisions by the ECAC. ' ! In August the NCAA .met in Chicago to draft 12 . revision proposals brought „to the atten tion of - member '• colleges. In cluded were the elimination. of spring practice and modification of the unlimited substitution rule in football. An athletics advisory board at the .College introduced the, two revisions.. Dean Schott presented them to the NCAA last summer. Schott’presented the same re port to the executive council of the ECAC. They appointed the five-college committee, to ’study the recommendations and re port, on them at tomorrow’s meet ing. , ’ ' v ■ THURSDAY,-OS' Must Raise $850,000 Penh,State, along with Illinois is being considered as . a site for the final gym tryouts, which will be held April 20. National Ama teur Athletic Union men arid wo men championships will ateo be determined at these tryouts;. ' Approximately $850,000 must be procured to send the-various United States’ teams to the Olym pics. Since no one organization backs the sending, of teams to the Olympics, - money must -be raised through contributions. AH colleges in the country, as well as the sponsors, of bowl games, are co-operating with/the United States Olympic committee in a fund raising campaign. Pan-American Reports '■ At Penn State t on Alumni Day, Oct. 20, contributions will be sol icited in the alumni and other guest sections. No direct solicita tions will be made from the stu dent body. General'- and financial reports on United States participation in the Pan-American games held last winter were given along with from the various games committee chairmen. The 1952 winter sports are scheduled from Feb.' 14-25 in Os lo. Norway. Summer events will take place from July 19-Aug. 3* in Helsinki, Finland. apo to Hold : Mixer Monday In Old Main Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will hold a mixer for upperclassmen who are interested in joining the organiza tion at 7:45 p.ni. Monday in 304 Old Main. , The purpose of the' organiza tion, 'established at the College prior to World War-11, is to serve the. school,* community, and the country,' Trank Kelly,, publicity director said. Students who wish to join the fraternity must have ha'd affilia tion with the Boy Sqouts at some time and must, have an earnest interest in serving their fellow men. They must have an All-Col lege, iaverage, of 1.0 or better. Freshmen are not eligible for membership. ; • / Some of the services. rendered by Alpha Phi ;Omega last year included, maintenance of an. In formation booth during • Orienta tion Week, assisting: in the Mardi Gras, taking part in the campus keep-off-the-grass campaign, and cleaning the Osmond parking lot after the Spring Carnival. The fraternity has also aided in com munity Boy- Scouting.- A business meeting for old members will be held at 7 p.m. in 304, Old Main, preceding the mixer. > Bacteriology Society Elects Stone President < Dr. Robert W. Stone, Bacter iology department head at the College, was elected president of the Allegheny Branch, Society of American- 'Bacteriologists, at its annual meeting Saturday at the University of West Virginia, Mor gantown, W. Vfl. Joseph Rakosky and Richard Costlow, graduate assistants in the department, presented .papers at the meeting. Rakosky. collab orated with Dr. J. V: Beck and Costlow-with. Dr. John Garey on theit papers'.. : 'j Dr. Stone was program chair man fpr the meeting. Members of his istaff- attending -were,-Dr, John Garey, Dr. Frank Conej and Dr-Carroll Heist.-' . ; rv,'
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