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College to Host
Fuel Conclave
The spring meeting of the division of gas and fuel chemistry of
the American Chemical Society will be held at the College Monday
and Tuesday.
The conference, Dr. C. R. Kinney, professor of fuel technology
and chairman of the local arrangements for the affair, announced,
will bring together 125 division members and others from all
Greek Minister
To Give Talk
In Simmons
Dimitri Lambros, minister at
the Royal Greek Embassy in
Washington, D. C., will speak on
"Greco-American Relations" at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the Sim
mons Hall lounge. ''Lambros will
be sponsored by the Hellenic So
ciety and the International Rela
tions Club.
Lambros served as private sec
retary to the late Prime Minister
of Greece, Eleutherios Venizelos,
from 1928 to 1933. From 1935 to
1937 he was the Greek consul to
Bulgaria. In 1946 he became the
Greek charge d' affaires to Nor
way, and held this position until
1948. In 1949 and 1950, Lambros
served as a member of the Greek
delegation to the fourth and fifth
assembly cf the UN.
At present, he is mirkister-coun
selor to the Greek Embassy in
Washington, D. C., and has acted
as host to several groups of Pen
State students who have toured
Washington.
Joseph Stratos, public rela
tions chairman for the Hellenic
Society, and Donald Cutler, vice
president of the International
Relations Club, said • that the
talk is open to the public. No ad
mission will be charged.
'Dimes' Money
Given Cabinet
The $576.90 collected for the
March of Dimes during the Cam
pus Chest drive has been turned
over to the All-College treasury,
William Klisanin, drive chair
man, said yesterday.
Checks will be mailed t his
weekend to the other eight agen
cies included in the drive, Klis
anin said. Of the $11,890.67 re
ceived in the drive, $6073.82 will
go to the Penn State Christian
Association; $1676.06 will go to
the World Student Service Fund;
and $769.13 will go to the Scholar
ship Program.
The Heart Fund, Cancer Fund,
Salvation Army, and Women's
Student Government Association
Christmas Fund will receive
$576.90 each. The State College
Welfare Fund will receive $96.60.
Three per cent of the income,
$356.50, was used by the Chest
committee for working capital.
Klisanin said that the March
of Dimes funds turned over to the
All-College treasury would be
sent to the March of Dimes head
quarters as a donation from the
student body government organ
ization.
March of Dimes officials said in
February that they could not ac
cept Chest funds due to a national
ruling prohibiting acceptance of
money from joint fund raising
groups.
Band to Give
Concert at TUB
The All-College dance band
will present a concert at 3 . p.m.
Sunday at the TUB. The band,
tomorrow at the TUB. The band,
has been taken over by Sathuel
Moldovan.
Members of the band are John
Creigh, Harold Hess, Richard
Stevens, William Walker, an d
Duane Beals, saxophone; James
Longo, Fred Orkiseski, and Ho
ward Hallett, trumpet; and Jack
Miller, James Bortolotto, and
William Mitchell, trombone.
Other musicians are Alden
Shoup, piano; Edward Gruber,
drums; and George Georgieff,
bass. Patricia Leis will be vocal
ist.
Program selections include The
Man I Love, Star Dust, Early Au
tumn, and Sugar Beat. No ad
mission will be charged.
Tr 13M1 4 7 COLLEGIAN. smnr CovaGl9, .MINp:FLVANTA
parts of the nation.
At 1:30 p.m. Monday the group
will gather for its first session
in the Mineral Industries Art Gal
lery and will conduct a sympo
sium on the subject of "Chemi
cals From Coal." The discussion
will be presided over by Dr. John
F. Foster of Batelle Memorial In
stitute, Columbus, 0.
Edward Steidle, dean of tfie
School of Mineral Industries, will
give the official welcome to the
division at a dinner at the Nittany
Li6n Inn at 6:80 p.m. Following
the dinner the group will meet in
the art gallery to hear B. P.
Swarthout of the Gas Turbine
Division of General Electric Co.,
Schenectady, N.Y., speak on the
development of gas turbines and
their potential application in the
chemical industry.
The Tuesday morning session,
starting at g p.m., will be de
voted to selected papers. College
faculty members who will par
ticißate are Dr. Kinney and T. S.
Polansky, also of the fuel tech
nology department.
At 2 p.m. Eugene E. Ayers of
the Gulf Research and Develop
ment Corp., Pittsburgh, Will have
charge of a symposium on the
"Future of Fuels and Energy
Sources." The discussion will at
tempt to answer many of the
questions now confronting fuel
chemists.
Arrangements for the meeting
are incharge of Dr. Karlan W.
Nelson, secretary of the division.
He is presently with Batelle Mem
orial Institute. Prior to that ap
pointment he was on the faculty
of the Fuel Technology depart
ment at the College.
Honor Society
Council to Meet
The Honor Society Council
will commemorate, its 30th anni
versary at a special meeting at
4:10i p.m. Tuesday in 102 Willard.
Dr. Francis J. Tschan, profes
sor emeritus of European history
and historian of the council, will
present a copy of the history of
the organization from its begin
ning May 9, 1922 until the pres
ent time.
Dr. Agnes R. McElwee, presi
dent of the council, will present
a scroll honoring Stevenson W.
Fletcher, dean emeritus of the
School of Agriculture. Dr. Marsh
W. White, chairman of the 'com
mittee on eligibility and admis
sions to the Association of Col
lege Honor Societies, will give a
talk, 'The Honor Societies and
the College."
In addition to these special ac
tivities, the members will con
duct a regular business meeting
to consider some constitutional
changes and eleCt new officers.
Prexy to Speak
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will be the commencement
speaker at the graduation exer
cises of the University of Maine
on June 15, the President's office
has announced.
Parade
Armed
The parade to be held May 17
by the three branches of the Re
served Officers Training Program
will mark the third annual cele
bration of Armed Forces Day to
be held in this country.
• Prior to 1950 Army Day and
Navy Day were celebrated sep
arately. Army Day was t ele
brated April 6 in New York and
in several other states by a' dis
play of flags and military pa
rades.
Navy Day was celebrated Oct.
27 and was sponsored by the
Navy League of the United
States. October was chosen since
this was the month in which the
2d Teaching
Conference
To Be Held
The second annual Student
Teaching Conference will , be held
today at the College, with more
than 350 cooperating teachers,
supervisois, and principals from
Pennsylvania schools expected to
attend.
Sponsored by the secondary
and elementary education divi
sions of the School of Education,
the conferente is held annually
to improve and better coordinate
the College's student teaching
program, and to dramatize more
effectively the objectives of stu
dent teaching. •
Dr. Marion R. Trabue, deati of
the School of Education, will ad
dress the .conference. A talk en
titled' "I Had a . Part" will be
given by Dr. Frank Butler, pro
fessor of education.
Mary, Jane Wyland, professor
and chairm'an of the division of
secondary education, will deliver
the conference keynote address.
Discussion groups will consider
six pertinent questions concern
ing student teaching at 11 a.m. in
the Sparks
At the conference luncheon in
the Nittany Lion Inn, Dr. Roy W.
Wiley, superintendent of public
schools, Johnstown, will speak.
Dr. Charles Long, head of the De
partment of Education, will give
the summary, remarks.
Work Begins
In lonosphere
Research Lab
Work in the lonosphere Re
search Labora'tory, established
recently with $13,000 awarded to
the College by the National
Science foundation, began Thurs
day, Dr. Arthur H. Waynick,
head of the Electrical Engineer
ing department has reported.
The laboratory, which will in
vestigate the physical character
istics of the, high upper atmos
phere in relation to possible solar
phenomena affecting atmospheric
regions, started its work with the
setting up of instruments and
mathematical work, Wayn i c k
said.
Funds 'for the laboratory were
received fr om four separate
sources, Dr. Waynick said, the
final appropriation being from
the National Science foundation.
The grant from the foundation
was one of five such grants allo
cated for physical sciences in the
United States.
The work from this project is
hoped to provide information on
the physical processes which re
sult in magnetic and ionospheric
storms that interfere with wire
and radio communications.
Dr. Waynick, professor of elec
trical engineering; Sir. John J.
Gibbons, associate professor of
physics; and Robert L. Schrag,
graduate student in electrical en
gineering, will conduct the work
in the laboratory.
Civil I Service ExaMs
Persons wishing to take the
Civil Service examinations for
ordinance material inspector and
for engineers at the GS-9 and
GS-11 levels should see J. A.
Dale, area representative of the
Civil Service Commission, at the
State College post office.
to Mark. 3d
Forces Day
American Navy was founded
(1775) by the Continental Con
gress.
Last year, spectators saw the
largest parade ever to be held in
State College. The Armed Forces
Day parade this year will not be
as large as last year's, however,
since 750 airmen who were sta
tioned ' here last year for Air
Force clerk-typist training will
not be marching this year.
Also, last year the entire Air
Force branch of ROTC partici
pated in the •parade, and this year
only band members and ad
vanced students will march.
Hoffriioiiii.''Cives Talk
At Hillel -Foutidcitio.4.
In seeking workers for two summer service projects, Daniel
N. Hoffman, field representative of the American Jewish Society,
spoke last night at the Hillel Foundation as Part, of his three-week,
3000-mile tour of New England and Mid-Atlantic college caMpuses.
The projects are open to men and women of all • races and
creeds. Conferences with Hoffman for today may • be arranged
through Rabbi Benjamin Kahn,
Hillel Foundation director.
Twenty volunteersTh're needed
to build a dining hall at an inter
racial camp for underpriviledged
children in WincheSter,•N_;l4:;•and
12 are needed to b u 1:4410-
grounds for a trailer comlnUrcitY
of more than 100 Negro, lyjilte,
and ;'Mexican flood victims 'ln
Kansas City, Kan.
35 Hour Week •
Both projects will
,begiri.Jiilf 1
and end Aug. 19. Food eiid,,,libits
ing will be provided for yz•the
camper, who must pay trans`Pcir
tation costs, to and from the pro
ject.
Work Camp Leader
Daniel N. Hoffman
Doles Receives
Pivot's Pattee
Poetry Award
Pivot has selected Alice Doles,
sixth semester student in arts
and letters, as recipient of the
first annual Fred Lewis Pattee
Poetry Award.
This $25 award is •given to the
student Writing the best poem or
group of poems for Piyot. Miss
Dole's _group of poem's will ap
pear in the spring issue.,
Miss Doles' contributions in
clude "Silent Generation," "Per
spective,". "Candle F 1 a m e,"
"Change," and "Empathy."
The three award judgeS Were.
Prof. A. Pauline Locklin, Prof.
W. L. Werner, and Professor J. L.
Grucci, adviser to the publica
tion. The co-chairmen of the Pat
tee memorial committee a r,e
Prof. Julia G. Brill and Profes
sor Werner. The two co-chair
men, Prof. T. J. Gates, Prof.
Brice Harris, and Professor Gruc
ci are donors of the award.-
Five Bacteriologists
Attend Annual Meeting
Five members of • the Depart
ment of Bacteriology are attend
ing .the annual Society of Ameri
can Bacteriologists meeting in
Boston this week.
Those attending th e meeting
are Prof. J. Frank Cone, Assoc.
Prof. Carroll E. Heist, Prof. James
J. Reid, Prof. Robert W. StOne,
and Asst. Prof. L. N. Zimmerman.
Dr. Reid presided at the session
on agricultural bacteriology, and
Dr. Stone is prograrii chairman
of the general bacteriology divi
sion.
SAtMDAY,- MAY 3, 1952
Men will do heavy eciniteuction
jobs while women will. 'do
things as painting and shingling
during the 85-hour work:lf o k.
After hours, the callipers-4111
talk with representativesVfabor,
management, social welfare _ag6h
cies, and •religious organizgions;
go on field trips; and pargcißate
in camp activities..
One of the founders of the
American Jewish Society, Which
is sponsoring the projects, is Hoff
man's father, Isidore. •
Anti-Defamation League
Hoffman was graduated from
Columbia University in 1948, re
ceived a M.A. degree from Haver
ford College, and did % graduate
work at the New York School of
Social Work. At Columbia he was
political analyst for the Columbia
Spectator, and for two yawls was
sports editor., of the college radio
station.
Working • 15' months. with the
Florida district of the Anti-De
famation League of B'nai B'rith,
Hoffman was in Miami during the
Anti-Semitic outbursts Which
lasted from last April to Decem
ber. - t.
Griffith Wins
A►g. Scholarship
William Griffith, a junior in
dairy, husbandry,. has been
named winner of the ' , ItD,JC.A
scholarship in the School' of Agri
culture. The scholarship , is
awarded for "leadership and the
adyancement of agricultural in
formation through radio," accord
ing to Russell B. Dickerson, di
rector of resident instruction.
The cash award of $lOO, estab
lished by the Pittsburgh radio
station, is also given' at Ohio Uni
versity and West Virginia Uni
versity., •One of the three re
cipients of the award will be
chosen to work all summer with
Homer Martz, a Penn State grad-.
uate and- now KDKA's- radii)
farm dii•ector.
Griffith is the campus Grange
representative in the .Agriculture
student council and was formerly
editor- of the Ag Hill Breeze.
weekly publication of the School
of Agriculture.