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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.
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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?