The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 17, 1952, Image 2

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Student Clinic
Set for Weekend
A student government clinic will be held at the College this
weekend, opening with registration at 4 p.m. tomorrow and closing
with a plenary session at 4 p.m. Sunday.
After registration from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, the delegates will
meet at an informal gathering.
On Saturday, registration will be from 8 a.m. until the first
Eisenhower
To Receive
Alger Prize
President Milton S. Eisenhow
er is one of seven men chosen to
receive 1952 Horatio Alger
awards, given annually to men
who have “risen from humble be
ginnings to the most outstanding
achievements and service.”
Others named for the 1952
awards were Ralph Bunche, UN
delegate and Nobel Peace Prize
winner; James J. Kerrigan, presi
dent of Merck & Co.; Charles Ket
tering, General Motors research
Co.; the Rev. Norman Y. Peale,
minister and writer; and W. A.
Roberts, president of the Allis-
Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
. The President had been named
to receive the award last year, but
he was unable to attend the cere
mony. In order to get the award,
the recipient must be present in
New York City for the presenta
tion. This year’s awards will be
given on Tuesday.
President Eisenhower was cited
for working his way through
school as a farm boy.
The citations are given by a
committee of the American
Schools and Colleges Association,
a non-profit organization which
dedicates itself to fostering and
enhancing the American tradition
of success through diligence, in
dustry, ability; and service.
Groups Plan
Pan-American
Observances
An open meeting of the Spanish
Club at 7 tonight in the main
lounge of Simmons will continue
the College’s celebration of Pan-
American Day. It was observed
nationally Monday.
The activities began with two
lectures given last week by stu
dents from South American coun
tries and the showing of movies
yesterday in Sparks.
In other lectures of the seminar,
Enrique Monge will discuss Peru
at ■ 9 a.m. in 105 Me
chanical Engineering and will
speak on “Tourism in Latin
America” at 7 p.m. Tuesday in
304 Old Main.
Pedro Achenbach, of Uruguay,
will talk about his native land at
9 a.m. Tuesday in 105 Mechanical
Engineering.
The public is invited to attend
all lectures, William H. Gray,
faculty advisor of the Pan-Ameri
can Week committee, said.
A fiesta at which Latin Ameri
can dances will be taught will
begin at 9 p.m. tomorrow at Phi
Kappa. Marjorie Kahn, Martha
Petrus and Marco Tio are in
charge of the affair.
THE PAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE; COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
plenary session at 9:30 a.m. Thip
session will include welcomes,
conference explanations and in
troductions.
The first working session will
be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 pan.
Saturday. Participating students
will be divided into two groups:
Section 1 (schools under 2500 en
rollment) and Section II (schools
over 2500 enrollment). Topics will
be freshman orientation, publi
cizing and promoting student gov
ernment, school spirit, and apathy.
.Lunch will be followed by the
second working session at 2 p.m.
Subjects will be honor systems,
faculty rating, administration
student government-faculty rela
tions, student government as a
voice of the students, and national
student association and student
government.
Dinner at 5 p.m. will be fol
lowed by a meeting of officers
at 7:30 p.m. A clinic at 8:30 p.m.
will feature display explanations,
and discussions.
At 2 p.m. Sunday the third
working session will begin, with
discussions on representation, dis
cipline, publications, and finance.
The closing plenary session at
3:30 p.m. will be followed by ad
journment.
College Movie
On Traffic Safety
Wins Praise
“Borrowed Power,” a motion
picture produced, by the motion
picture and recording studio of
the College, has been judged the
second best, non-theatrical film
on traffic safety made in 1951 in
the United States.
Frank S. Neusbaum, adminis
trative head of the studio, pro
duced the picture and was co
author of the script. Director and
co-author was Henry L. Miller,
while camera work and editing
was done by Delmer P. Dunvall.
Sound recording was done by
Paul H Seitzinger, and Gerald G.
Hutchison assisted in the produc
tion.
The award was made recently
in New York, N.Y.,~ by the na
tional committee on films for
safety.
The film' was produced for the
A m e r ican Automobile Associa
tion’s Foundation for Traffic
Safety, Washington, D.C., ‘ and
deals with the story of a young
man who is courteous in most
of his daily relations with people
but . becomes careless and dis
courteous as soon as he gets be
hind the wheel of a car.
YMCA Secretary Will
At Chapel, Discussion
Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, executive
secretary, national student coun
cil of the Young Men’s Christian
Association, will speak on “Re
ligion with a Backbone” at 10:55
a.m. Sunday in Chapel.
Dr. Espy will also be guest
speaker at an informal discussion
at 3 p.m. Sunday in the main
lounge of Simmons Hall.
A native of Portland, Ore., Dr.
Espy was graduated from the
University of Redlands, Cal., and
received his B.D. from Union
Theologoli.cal Seminary, New
York City. He was awarded an
exchange fellowship to Germany
by the Institute of International
Education and spent three years
in post-graduate study at the Uni
versities of Munich, Tubingen,
and Heidelberg.
Dr. Espy has spent much of his
time traveling in Europe in be
half of the World Student Chris
tian Federation and International
Student Service.
Dr. Espy was youth secretary of
two of the ecumenical Christian
inal Concert Artist
WILLIAM PRIMROSE, violist, masters a difficult passage in
one of his recital numbers before a capacity audience in Schwab
Auditorium last night during the last Community Concert of the
season.
Non-Commercial TV
Conference to Open
The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to reserve
242 television channels to education is expected to bring new mean
ing to the conference on educational television which opens at'the
College Sunday night.
President Milton S. Eisenhower, chairman of the American
Espy to Speak
To 77fh Annual
PSCA Dinner
Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, execu
tive secretary, national student
council of the YMCA, will be
guest speaker at the 77th annual
Penn .State Christian Association
dinner.
Today is the last day to make
reservations for the dinner, which
will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday
in the basement of the Faith Re
formed Church. Tickets, priced
at $1.35, may be purchased at the
PSCA office, 304 Old Main, or
from PSCA cabinet members.
Irene Jeffress, retiring presi
dent of the organization, will in
troduce the newly-elected cabi
net members at the dinner. Grad
uating seniors will receive recog
nition for their work in the or
ganization and gifts.
John Baldwin, owner of Col
lege Sportswear Inc., will an
nounce the results of PSCA’s
recent project. PSCA took over
College Sportswear, Inc., for a
week, March .31 to April 6, to
raise money for its treasury. ■
David Lewis will act as master
of ceremonies for the dinner.
Chapel Speaker
R. H. Edwin Espy
movements which prepared- the
way for the World Council of
Churches, which now has its
Council on Education committee
chosen to guide the television pro
ject, expressed confidence that
the FCC’s action would “encour
age institutions of higHer learn
ing to move -more quickly and
more positively in their consid
eration of the potentialities of tel
evision as an educational device.”
State College was awarded
one educational TV station in the
FCC allotment, but a check by
the Associated Press revealed that
the only educational application
on file is one filed last year by
Miami.
The conference at the College,
first of its kind, will be formally
known as the Educational Tele
vision Programs Institute and will
bring to the campus more than a
dozen college and university pres
idents, plus an impressive array
of specialists in educational tele
vision.
President Arthur S. Adams of
the American Council on Educa-'
tion, who will open the four-day
conference, said the allocation
plan would give every. TV viewer
“a far greater range of programs
than wo,uld have been possible
under any other plan.” •
Daylight Saving Set
The College will operate on
Daylight Saving Time begin
ning April 27, when the bor
ough of State College changes
to the summer time.
Speak
Sunday
headquarters in Geneva. He was
also executive secretary of .the
first World Conference of Chris
tian Youth which met in Amster
dam in 1939.
Upon returning to the United
States, Dr. Espy traveled for a
year interpreting European con
ditions to students, churches, and
community organizations. He
helped organize the European
Student Relief Fund in American
colleges. ' T - ,
After being general secretary of
the Student Volunteer movement
for a time, Dr. Espy accepted his
present position. ..
In 1944 Dr. Espy was awarded'
an honorary D.D. degree by the
University of Redlands. In 1950
he received his Ph.D,-from Yale
University, wher,e he-was on leave
for special work in the field of
religion in higher education.
Dr. Espy has taught in the field
of religion in higher education at
Yale Divinity School -and at
Union Theological Seminary.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1952
Marshall
Elected New
PSCA Head
Allen Marshall, sixth-semest,er
forestry student, was elected pres
ident of the Penn State Christian
Association in elections held April
4 to 9.
'■ Since the PS C A constitution
requires that 50 per cent- of the
organization’s members must
vote before the ballots of an elec
tion can be counted, the elections
were extended an extra day. They
had been set for April 4 to 8.
Other officers chosen were Robb
Keener, vice president; Patricia
Jones, secretary, and Richard
Smith, treasurer.
-Committee chairmen selected
were David Howell, finance; La-
Vohne Althouse, program; Eliza
beth Byrem, public relations; La-
Verne Applegate, new students;
and Ruth Freed, membership.
Martha Heckman and Garry
Norris were elected to represent
students on the PSCA board of
directors.
The new cabinet Will be intro
duced at. the, annual PSCA din
ner Saturday'night in the-Faith
Reformed Church. They will take
office May 1.
Co-chairmen of committees,
two more students to be mem
bers of the board of directors, and
sub-committee chairmen will be
appointed by the new cabinet
early in May. ’ ,
NAAU Gym
Ticket Sales
Total 1652
Ticket sales for the combined
men’s and women’s. National
Amateur Athletic Union- and
Olympic gymnastic tryout tourna
ment scheduled for April 25-26
in Rec Hall have reached 1652,
W. R. Hosterman, Jr., assistant
graduate manager of athletics,
said yesterday. , ' •
More than one-half of this total
has been sold for Saturday, Hos
terman said, with 884 reserved
tickets and 295 unreserved seats
having been sold.
For 2ll ducats, have
been sold for. the afternoon ses
sion while 262 ducats have been
sold for the evening session, Hos
terman said..
Ticket applications have come
from as far north as Canada, as
far south as Louisiana, and as
far west as California.'
Tickets are still on sale at the
Athletic Association office, 107
Old Main. Prices are 30 cents
Friday afternoon and 90 cents
Friday night. All seats are un
reserved for these performances.
A combination ticket will be
in effect Saturday night- with one
ticket being good for. both ses
sions. Prices are $l.BO for un
reserved seats and $2.40 for re
served seats.
Oil Executive
Will Address
EandC Seniors
Paul W. Boynton, employment
supervisor for Socony-Vaciium
Oil Co., will speak to seniors in
Economics and Commerce at 3
p.m. today in 317 Willard Hall- '
Alpha Kappa Psi, Chi Theta,
and Delta Sigma Pi, professional
commerce fraternities, are spon
soring the talk, which is open to
the public.
Boynton, author, and public
speaker,- spends 50, per cent of his
time each year traveling between
colleges from coast to coast to
.interview students lor positions
; w;ith'. -Socony-Vacuufn. He esti
mates that he has interviewed at
least 75,000 persons since he joined
the company’s personnel depart
ment in 1924.
A native of Connecticut, Boyn
ton the author of many books,
including .“Six Ways to Get a
Job,’’...‘‘So ..You Want a,'Better
Job, “Recruiting for Industry,"
and “Selecting the New. Em
ployee."