PAGE TWO Steidle Presented In Recognition by By DOT BENNETT Dr. Edward Steidle, dean of the School of Mineral Industries, re cently received a sterling silver vase from the Mineral Industries Student Council "in recognition ,of his fine leadership." The award has brought to light the growth of the MI school under Dean Steidle's direction. The School of Mineral Indus tries today is rated one of the best in the world. It is the only one which includes resident instruc tion, experiment stations, and ex tension service. 'However, it hasn't always been that way. When Dean Steidle came here in 1928 the scho which was then known as the School of Mines and Metallurgy, was housed in a: frame building with a tar paper roof, located where the power plant now stands. Served at Carnegie Tech. . There was little equipment and no research. Available curricula were mining, metallurgy, cera mics. and geology. Extension services were confined to coal mining. Dean Steidle, who, after grad uation from. the College in 1911, had become head of the Mining department at Carnegie Tech, first changed the name to the School of Mineral Industries and drew plans for a new building, the present Mineral Industries building. With the co-operation of the state, which Dean Steidle feels is "the greatest industrial common wealth in the world," he began to expand the school. Grants Exceed $500,000 The Mineral Industries and Mineral Science buildings, the coal combustion laboratory and the geological summer c amp came into being. The staff ex panded from 15 to 200, and the number of students from 140 to 600. In 1928 there were no grad uate students. Now there are 144. The School now receives out side grants totaling over $500,000 a year for research and graduate work. The extension service in cludes 12 supervisors and 200 part-time teachers, with 4000 stu dents a year. The number of stu dents in other schools who take mineral industries courses has in creased from 200 to over 3000. Other improvements include an instrument shop, library, art gal lery, and the museum. With this expansion the school has grown from one of compara tively little importance to one which is copied by other colleges and universities. Tribunal Hears Nine Violations Tribunal heard nine traffic vio lation cases, including one of a repeated violator, and meted out four fines, three suspended fines, and two warnings. The repeated violator who has received six parking violations was fined $7 and the case was turned over to the Dean of Men's office with the recommendation that if the student drives on cam pus ' again that he be expelled from school. The violator had been warned on a previous appearance before Tribunal that if the violations Continued, the case would go to the Dean's office. Since then he has had three violations. There were three $1 fines for students parking , in restricted areas. Two of the suspended $1 fines were for overnight parking. David Mutchler, Tribunal chair man, warned students that park ing overnight on Shortlidge, Cur tain, and Burrower roads was' il legal and that all cars parked there would receive ticket s. Mutchler also said that legal over night parking was available in the West Dorm area behind the fraternity houses, in the Ho r t Woods area, in the Jordan plots area, and in the Grange Hall area. - - Two students were warned by Tribunal. One student drove his car onto the grass in front of Simmons Hall, and the other parked behind Old Main in order to !to to the dispensary because of THE' DAILY COLLEMIT STATE Mri,LEGE!. PENNSYLTAFIA DEAN Edward Steidle examines the sterling silver vase presented him by the Mineral Industries Student Council "in recognition of his fine leadership." 200 Students to Take Part In 'Radio Day' Tomorrow "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is station WMAD . .." will open Radio Day at 4 p.m. tomorrow. The seven-hour broad cast under the direction of D. R. Mackey, assistant professor of speech, will include news, drama, soap opera, and recorded music. From 4 to 11 p.m. over 200 students will be shuttled in and out of 304 Sparks—actors, directors, announcers, producers, and en gineers. Pete Farrell, station manager, will be hustling the producers, producers will be hustling the directors, directors will be hust ling the actors and the special effects men, who will in turn be checking their equipment, and the engineers will be whirling their dials. Long Preparation Shows will be set up ahead of time and switched in and out of the studios during the 30-second station break. Students have spent many hours preparing the programs for the air. The program roster had to be. decided, scripts had to be written, casts were chosen and a minimum of three rehearsals scheduled for each of the dramatic shows. Music had to be chosen and sound effects produced. Engineers, working under the direction of Carl Thomas, and without funds for special equip ment, rounded up materials and made their own equipment with amazing ingenuity. Extra record players and earphones were do nated by students. WMAD Members of the Journalism 91 class, taught by R. M. Pockrass, wrote the commercials as a class exercise. Drama 420 students, un der the direction of Richard An dersen, volunteered to present a dramatic script. Members of the Speech 425 class did likewise, and students of the radio 'Speech 300 classes volunteered their services. Publicity director Je nnif Knauer produced posters on the theme of a railroad crossing sign. The Staff as a whole met to decide upon a studio name,' call letters, power output, frequency, network affiliate, and street names to be used in the commer cials. The fifteen towns and cities in the United States named Madi son provided a likely station location, and streets and call let ters were named accordingly. From the jumble emerged station WMAD, with a power output of 250 watts, operating on a fre quency of 1490 kilocycles, affili ated with the National Broad casting Co., with a studio in Sparks Building. Play Tryouts Today Final tryouts for "Peg o' My Heart," thesis production direct ed by graduate dramatics student Carl Wagner, will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Old Main Little 'Theatre. Silver Vase MI Council By NANCY LUETZEL Council Names New Group Th e possibility of getting a drinking fountain an d outdoor lights for the Pollock recreation al area will be investigated by a committee appointed by the Pol-, lock Council last night. The bluebook files have been moved to Dorm 37, Room 8, not Dorm 39, as reported in Colle gian yesterday. The files are available to students. The exams were sorted and placed in folders. The council will donate $50.60 to the Gentzel fire victims. A plan for organized fire drills was submitted by the College safety committee to the council for recommendations. A letter. from Russell Clark, director of housing, stated the laundry facilities at the PU B cannot .be expanded at the pre sent time. Campus' Leaders' Biographies Reveal Varied Summer Jobs By TAMMIE BLOOM Piano tuner, Fuller Brush sales men, merchant seamen, radio disc jockeys, lifeguards . . . studentg at the College have at one time or another filled these positions. According to the newly released Who's in the News at Penn State, almost every occupation imagin able has been undertaken as a part time or summer 'job by the young men and women whose biographies appear there. David Swanson, a physics ma jor, once worked as a sheep herder. Back in Indiana County, William Nichol is known as a po tato spray operator. Arnold Bloom and Francis Bria each played the part of the Fuller Brush man at some time in the past. • Butz Was Bodyguard "Experiments on honey in a bee laboratory" tells the story of Peggy Crooks' past employment record. Among his other jobs, Melvin Bock was a music sales man and piano tuner in Clear field. `Who's In News' Ready Copies of Who's in the News at Penn State are now being distributed at the Student Un ion desk in Old Main. Students whose biographies have been included ' in the b ook, and presidents at social 'fraterni ties and sororities may pick up their copies now. PSCA to Hold Modern Youth Talks Tonight Prof. Edward Abramson of the Sociology department and the Rev. Luther Harshbarger, execu tive secretary of the Penn State Christian Association, will discuss the Time magazine article, "The Younger Generation." at the PSCA round table tonight. The article appeared in Time magazine the first week in No vember, *analyzing the present college generation and pointing out its good and bad points. The article's seven divisions were sub-headed "They (the younger generation) Are Grave and Fatalistic," "They Are Con ventional and Gregarious," "The Girls Want a Career—and Mar riage," "Their Morals Are Con fused," "They Expect Disappoint ment," "They Want a Faith," and "They Will Serve." Using these as an outline and the article as a reference, the two men will discuss the problems now facing the younger genera , tion and try to answer the ques tions students ask. The meeting is open to the public. Council Amends Constitution The Engineering Student Coun cil at a meeting last night voted 31 to 0, 31 to 0, and 29 to 1 with one abstention, to amend three sections to its constitution. The amended sections no w read: The Council should recoin mend the runner-up of the Gen eral Cotmcil election to the de partment head to fill the vacancy in the general membership with final'selection approved by the council. Respective organizations shall select special council members, and in event of suspension, their replacements should be approved by the council. Members may be removed by two-thirds vote of members for non-performance of duties and an automatic suspension should oc cur if there are more than two seat absences during the school year. A course rating committee was named by Chuck Falzon, council president, Fred Pope, chairman; Fred Schoenagel; John Walsh; James Shirey; Robert Makofski; Willman Jackson; and Wayne Brubaker. Impressive service records are not unusual, but Wally Butz, who was a staff sergeant in the Mili tary Police, was special body guard and chauffeur to a major general. Virginia Opoczenski was a city census taker, and Maxine Cor nell's record shows that she was a public opinion interviewer. Lab Technician Marvin Crompton, once an umpire for t h e Little League baseball world series, and Robert Fitzgerald, who managed an ice cream factory were both con cerned with the interests of the younger generation. Ralph Cash has filled a lab technician post at more than one hospital, and also at Walter Reed Medical Research Center. Dietetics at t h e Norristown State Mental Hospital was Emma Jean Way's past employment. Joan Yerger was a nature coun selor, and Robert Kenyon lists lifeguard experience at several swimming- pools. Jane Mason was a bath, house attendant at a WEDISDAY, JAMJMCir Symphony Concert Set For Sunday The annual concert of the Col lege Symphony Orchestra will take place at 3 p.m: Sunday in Schwab auditorium. More than 65 students will play in the orchestra when it 'presents its ,program of four numbers. The .first selection will be the Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Nicolai), followed -by "Siegfried Idyll" (Wagner), Micaela's Aria from "Carmen" (Bizet), and Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven). First violinists of the orchestra are John Alt, Carol Barbour, Joan Else, Theodore Godschall, Theodore Halkedis, Violet Hal ler, Arthur Hussey, Dorothy Muth, Bar bara Thomas, Carol Umbreit, and Yvonne Voigt. Second violinists are Jean ,Bachman, Joseph Geiger, Stanley Green, • Rebecca Jackson, Gertrude Kittlberger, Charles Manwiller, Marie Mcilviraith, Edgar Shel ly, Sally Sherman, Sally Shipiro, arid Eleanore Weber. Violists are Lenore Babione, George Bar ber, Ralph Eilberg, Richard Fralick, Wanda Gresch, James Harttz, Jean Mastin, and Grace Papke. Mary Albers, Phyllis Atherton, Adele Gillespie, Albert Kalson, Margaret Schultz, Rosemary Scott, John . Swartz, Dwight Tothero,. Luella Valmont, and Rodrick Wiseman will play cellos. Flutists are Mary Pielemeier, 'Anna Belle Russell, and Richard Stinson. Robert Moyer, Frances O'Connel, and Donald Rentschler will play oboes. Clarinetists are Ruth Beatty and John Holl. Anne Hughes and Elva Zimmerman will play bassoons. Grace Hope Jeffries, Bennie Oliver, James Paterson, and Robert Swisshelm will play French horns. Joseph Rosenthal, will play the piano. Jane Davis, Blair Gingrich, David Klein berg, Lloyd Lupfer, Charlaine Schwab, and Alexander Zerban will play basses. David Faust, Robert Jones, and Fred Orkiseski will play. trumpets. Tromboni• ests are James Bortolotto, Richard Brady. and David Fishburn. Richard . Gray, Richard Harris, ' and Susan Holtzinger will - play percussion in struments. Officers of the orchestra are Jo h 111 Swartz, president; Anna Belle Russell, secretary treasurer ; David Fishburn, man ager; Charlaine Schwab, librarian. Ed Rating Unit Names Head Terese Moslak was appointed chairman of the faculty rating system committee at an Educa tion Student Council meeting last night. The committee, which includes Donna Estabrook -and Harry Shank, will consult this week with Dean M. R. Trabue and education professors ab o u t the possibilities of education students rating their teachers and courses. The council heard a report on the Snow Flake Combo, educa tion social, which was held in December. About 250 students and 20 faculty members attended the mixer. It was brought up that there had been requests for another social in the future. swimming pool. Eugene 'Kolber spun the rec ords on a Philadelphia disc jock ey show, while Marilyn Franklin was 'a guide for the H. J. Heinz Company in Pittsburgh. Lila Barnes was a bank clerk; Ruth Diehl was a clerk in the Department of Revenue in Har risburg. Among his past experiences, Jack Broughler once served as journeyman for the AFL painters and decorators union. What Else? Peter Whelan, has little real competition as possessor of the most varied and unusual em ployment record . . . particularly for an English composition ma jor. Whelan held jobs as a liquor salesman, unemployed merchant seaman, package wrapper in an abbrtive pottery business, an d wholesale, reptile distributor. Those occupations were, repre sentative of only slightly over 400, students whose biographies appeared in Who's in the News. What could be found in the rest of the college population?
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