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Christmas Parties Planned
For Needy Vicinity Children
By Campus and Sbcial Group
Christmas parties for children
of needy families from State Col
lege and vicinity are being plan
ned by campus and social organi
zations which are working with
Agnes'McElwee, coodinator of the
project.
Other groups are giving food
baskets to families.
Sigma Pi entertained 17 chil
dren from four to ten years old
last night. Each child was asked
what he wanted for Christmas
and the fraternity attempted to
get the present for him.
Tomorrow Acacia will entertain
20 children and Alpha Sigma Phi
and Kappa Kappa Gamma will
hold a party for 15 children whose
ages run from four to 12.
The Women's Recreation Asso
ciation will have a party for 76
second and third graders froth
three- rural schools Friday after
noon.
On Saturday Beta Theta Pi and
Alpha Omicron Pi will entertain
30 five to eight-year-old children.
Twenty-five children from six to
eight will be entertained by Chi
Omega and Delta Tau Delta.
Thirteen eight to ten-year,olders
will see Santa Claus at the Sigma
Chi house.
Philotes is helping a mother and
three children, while Alpha Gam
ma Delta and Theta Chi are pro
viding a Christmas celebration
for a needy family. Two floors of
Thompson Hall are each donating
food and clothing for needy
families.
TV Producers
Not Educating
Public -- Carter
Teaching people to turn off
their sets will help improve the
standard_ of television programs,
Dr. Elton S. Carter, assistant pro
fessor of speech, said at the Hillel
Town Meeting Sunday.
People with the cleverest ad
vertising and the most money are
controlling the industry, Carter
asserted, adding that the adver
tisers give people what they want
and not what they need.
Th e public feels television,
along with radio and movies,
should entertain and amuse rather
than educate, Dr. Clarence R. Car
penter, professor of psychology,
said. Social development lagging
behind technical progress fits the
pattern of western culture, Car
penter added.
Dr. George L. Haller, dean of
the School of Chemistry and Phy
sics, explained that a television
picture is composed of 425 sep
erate lines. One television station
requires six times the band width
of all of the radio stations now
broadcasting, he said. . .
The Federal Communications
Commission froze all the building
of new stations in order to re
allocate the 12 channels alloted
for commercial purposes. As the
freeze was about to be lifted, the
problem of color television arose,
Haller said. The FCC chose a color
system which ,could not be used
on present black and white sets.
The ban, is being continued today
because of the Korean emergency.
Education School
To Hold 'Combo'
Snow Flake Combo, - a social
for education faculty and stu
dents, will be held at 7 p.m.
Thursday at the TUB. Freshman
women attending the social will
receive 10 o'clock permissions.
Patricia Marsteller and Joseph
Bird will provide entertainment
at the mixer. Another feature of
the evening will be the introduc
tion of some education professors.
Sponsors of the Snow Flake
Combo are the Education Student
Council, Future Teachers of Am
erica, and Kappa Phi Kappa,
men's education honorary.
Cheerleaders to Meet
Thomas Hannah, head cheer
leader, has asked all cheerleaders
to meet at 7:15 tonight in the
lobby of. ma Main.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE bIJLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Official Penn State Ring
Fencing Club
Will Organize
Under Meyer
The first meeting to organize
the Penn State Fencing Club will
take place at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow
in the third floor of the Water
Tower near Beaver Field. -
The club is under the sponsor
ship of Dr. H. A. Meyer, profes
sor of forestry, who coached last
year's fencing team.
Instructions in the three types
of fencing, foil, epee, and saber,
will be given by Dr. Meyer' and
members of last year's team. The
club is open to any student re
gardless of his experience and
knowledge of the sport, according
to Peter Raidy, a member of last
year's team.
Showers, lockers, and fencing
equipment will be provided by
the club, Raidy said. The members
are asked to bring their own gym
clothes.
The first meeting of the club
is.to be primarily a business meet
ing, and no• fencing instructions
will be given.
Raidy said that promotion of
competition will be fostered by
meets throughout the year with
other Eastern clubs. He said the
main purpose of the club is to
keep up interest in fericing al
though the team was disbanded
this year when the college lower
ed its sports budget.
Council Plans
Rating • System
A student-faculty rating sys
tem is being developed by the
liberal arts student council, it was
reported at the LA council meet
ing last night.
" Philip Greenberg, who gave the
committee report on the student
faculty rating problem, proposed
a plan whereby students could
list a brief comment on all their
professors and then be made
known to both students and fac
ulty. John Baron is ' , heading-this
committee.
LA Angles, newsletter of the
Liberal Arts school, will be dis
tributed immediately after Christ
mas vacation, the council decided. ,
William Slepin, editor of the
newsletter, said all ;the material
is ready to go to press.
Other committee reports on
International Understanding and
night bluebooks were given. The
student-faculty mixer was dis
cussed and tentative dates set in
March. •
Suggestions to investigate the
question of lower division certifi
cate's and study halls were made,
and committees appointed.
This is the offi
cial Penn State
class ring ap
'pioved,: by the
permanent Ting
committee of All-
College Cabinet.
Balfour, Dieges
and Clust, and
Herf-Jones ar e
the only firms
whose rings have
been approired
by the commit
tee.
Teiting Service
Offers Students
Two Fellowships
Information an d application
blanks are available for the two
fellowships being offered by the
Educational Testing Service for
1952-53.
The fellowships are for research
in psychometrics leading to \ the
Ph.D. degree at Princeton Uni
versity. and are open to men who
are acceptable to the University's
Graduate School.
To obtain the $2375 a year fel
lowships, the students must be
competent in mathematics and
psychology. Those receiving the
fellowships, will be engaged in
part-time research in the general
area of psychological measure
ment at the offices of the Educa
tional Testing Service, and will
also have a regular program of
graduate studies.
Students desiring information
and application blanks should
write to Director of Psychometric
Fellowship Program. Educational
Testing' Service, 20 Nassau Street,
Princeton, N.J. The final date for
completing applications is Jan. 18,
1952.
Ag Prof to Retire;
Served 36
Ralph .U. Blasingame, professor
of agriculture and head of the
Department of Agricultural'Engi
neering, will retire Dec. 31.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
said Blasingame would retire with
emeritus rank after 36 years of
service. President Eisenhower ap
pointed Arthur W. Clyde, profes
sor of ,agricultural engineering,
acting head of the department,
effective Jan. 1.
Clyde joined the faculty at the
College. in 1931. Blasingame has
served at the College since 1913,
with the exception of two years.
He was named to his present post
in 1931.
A dinner was held. Saturday
at the Nittany Lion Inn to. honor
Blasingame. A bronze plaqUe hon
oring his contributions to agri
culturAl engineering and industry
was presented Blasingame by C.
G. Burress, past president of the
American Society , of Agricultural
Engineers. 'The plaque will be
placed in the Agricultural Engi
neering Building. • ,
A large portrait of Blasingarne
was presented by Professor John
E. Nicholas. The portrait will
hang next to the plaque.
Other gifts, were presented to
Blasingame on behalf, of the agri
culture staff and former Members.
, The retirements of two county
agricultural extension representa-
8 _to Cotnpete
For Title
Of 'Frothy'
Eight students will compete in
the finals for "Frothy," the Penn
State Froth jester, at 7 p.m. to
morrow 'in 110 Electrical Engi
neering Building.
Those students who have , been
chiisen to compete are Alan Pom
eroy, Joseph Erwin, Kenneth- Mc-
Guire, Theopilos Balabanis, John
Truxel, all first semester fresh
men, and Ralph Breidenthal, War
ren Hommas, =David Heckel, third
Semester students.
Chosen from information per
taining to past tumbling, drama
tic, and cheerleading experience
supplied on application blanks,
they will be judged tomorrow on
their ability •in these fields/ and
their ingenuity.
Judges for the contest are Eu
gene Whettstone, head 'coach of
the gymnastic team; Ronald Bonn,
editor, of Froth; Thomas Hanna,
head cheerleader; -Alex Gregal,
Penn State's "Nittany Liori," and
Anne Hibbs, Froth's promotion
director.
In order to see how each con
testant performs with the Nittany
Lion, the Lion will be - - there in
hi s customary football outfit.
Each contestant will .be required
to work with the Lion so that his
ability can be determined., Frothy
appears with the Lion at athletic
events, and other All-College ac
tivities.
Results of the contest will be
announced in Thursday's Daily
Collegian,
Mass Exchange
Set for Sunday
Final arrangements for,. a mass
exchange Christmas dinner next
Sunday for men and women of the
West Dorm area were announced
last night as the West Dorm
Council completed its Christmas
social 'calendar,
The following . meal ticket as
signment will be in effect for the
noon meal Sunday:
Women with tickets from 1 to
162 inclusive, North dining hall.
Women with tickets from' 163
to 325 inclusive, Hamilton or
South dining hall.
All other Thompson Ilan wo
men will eat in, the East or
Thompson dining hall.'
Men with tickets from 701 to
919 and from 1401 to 1619 in
clusive will eat in the . East or
Thompson dining hall.
All other West dorm men will
eat in their regular dining halls.
Judging of the Christmas win—
dow contest will take : place at 2
p.m. Saturday.
Years
To Retire
Ra1i 3 1 , 47. Blasingame
tives were approved by the Board
of Trustees ,Friday = night. They
are Alvin C. Berger, who will iv
tire Dec. 31, and George C. Weber,
whose retirement became effective
Oct. 31.
Berger and Weber were grad
uated from the College in 1917•
and were appointed county agents
that year.
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Train Rates
Deadline Is
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the. deadline for,
signing...up for special' student.
train rate. Edward Shanken, chair
man -of the transportation corn-'
mittee, said yesterday.
Discounts of 28 percent will be
given on train tickets 'if 25 stu
dents-or more request train trans
portation to one area. Thirteen
students have requested transpon;
tatien to date, Shanken said. •
All trains leave from Lewis
town. Students would be required
to leave for their destination on
the special train but could return
on trains most convenient to them.
All students who want to make
use of this special train transpor
tation this Christmas vacation
should sign up' by. 5 p.m. tomor
row at the Student Union desk
in Old Main.
Students should , submit their
names - , phone. numberp,. destina
tions, and times they can leave;
to Shanken's box at the Student
Union desk in Old Main.
Council Passes
Safety. Plans
Nit t any Council last night
passed a three-point pedestrian
motorist - s a f e t y resolution and
ethriowered . Arthur Latta, public
welfare committee chairman, to
discuss the program with Walter
Weigand, director of the depart
ment: of physical plant.
Th e resolution recommended .
(1) that a 15 mile per hour speed
limit be enforced in the' area.
(2) that posts along the roadside.
be painted white: (3) that wooden
sidewalks be placed along the
edge of the grass.
A motion was passed which
would prohibit foot1;a11 games
between the dormitories, because
of broken windows an d other
damage already incurred. Dor
mitory advisers- were given the
power to enforce this rule.
William Cole, president of the
Barons, Nittany-Pollock social or
ganization, announced that the
group, was sponsoring a square
dance this Friday night in the
TUB for area men.
Brazilian Hiitoriah
To Give Lecture
Phi Sigma lota, Romance lan
guages honorary, and the Depart
ment of Romance Languages at
the College will sponsor a lecture
open to the public, to be delivered
by Dr. Alceu Amoroso Lima at
the Phi Kappa fraternity house
at 8 p.m. Thursday. .
Dr. Lima, director of. the de
partment of cultural relations of
the Pan 7 American Union, will
speak on the evolution, of literary
criticism in Brazil.
one of the leading literary
historians of Brazil. •His; lecture
will commemorate the centenary
of the birth of Silvio Romero,
Brazil's • greatest literary critic.
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