PAGE TWO A 'Penny' Gained HARRY HAENIGSEN, creator of the teenage scatterbrain, finishes a drawing of his character here yesterday before judging the finalists in the Miss Penn State contest. Haenigsen, who fash ions the daily cartoon strip after his own daughter,' has been drawing Penny since 1943. Creator of 'Penny' Judges 'Miss State' The creator of pretty, red-haired, pug-nosed "Penny" ought to be a good judge of beautiful women. At least that's what the coronation committee• thought when they asked Harry Haenigsen to help pick this year's Miss Penn State. This judging isn't something new for the handsome, tanned, cartoonist, whose "Penny" is a favorite with teenagers in the. United States, Canada, Australia, South America, and the Philippines. Daughter Inspired 'Penny' In an interview yesterday, Mr. Haenigsen declined to comment on what he looked for in a beauty queen, wondering if Penn State, tqo, required brains with its beau ty. "Even the Miss America con testants have to read and write now," he grinned. Haenigsen patterns "Penny" af ter his daughter, who, when "Penny" started nine years ago, was right in the midst of being a teenager. But now that the daugh ter is a married woman with a baby son, her father resorts to watching the neighborhood kids in New Hope. Comics Have Changed Haenigsen doesn't touch cm controversial subjects in his comic strips as do several other car toonists. "If you want to be broad ly syndicted and keep - your for eign 'audience, you have to avoid any political or racial subleties," he says. "My comic strip is the old-fashioned kind." Haenigsen agrees that comic strips have changed a lot in the last 33 years. "In the old days a man would take the last joke he'd heard and draw it into a comic strip. Today they all tell lan ad venture story," he said, his blue eyes twinkling. Haenigsen had the choice of go ing to Rutgers on a scholarship to study electrical engineering, or becoming a cartoonist. His choice sent him to study art at the Art Students League in New York and to work for the New York Evening World. Along about 1940, Haenigsen says, the teenager came into his own, and he was asked to create "Penny." Since her beginning in 1943, "Penny" has branched out to start a whole line of teenage clothes, a cookbook with• recipes especially for teenagers, and now even a television program. Engineers to Vote For Senior Gift Voting for the senior class gift and 1952 men and women honor students will continue today when Engineering sen iors pick up their copies of the '52 LaVie at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Education and Home Eco nomics seniors may get their copies of the yearbook and vote tomorrow and Thursday. Chemistry and Physics, Physi cal Education, and Mineral In dustries seniors may pick up their LaVies and :vote Friday and Saturday. By HELEN LUYBEN Senior Grades Are Due June 4 Grades for graduating seniors and advanced degree candidates to graduate June 9 are due in the recorder's, office at 9 a.m., June 4. Students who lack grade points for graduation have been direct ed to explain to their instructors the importance of sending grades to the recorder's office at this time. Grades for all other students are due in the recorder's office 48 hours after the final examina tion. ' Prexy to Address PTA President Milton S.. Eisenhower will speak to the State College Parent-Teachers Association at 8 p.m. Thursday in the State Col lege High School auditorium. His subject will be "Education For World Citizenship." Vacuum Invented , Dr. Edwin W. Muller, recently appointed professor of physics, is the inventor of a small microscope which has provided a view of the tiniest speck of matter yet seen by man. The matter seen by Dr. Muller was a 57-atom molecule of a sub stance called phthalocyanine. The molecule, when magnified a mil lion times, has been found to have a four-leaf clover structure. This tiny molecule is about 50 times lighter than the smallest molecule so far observed with the electron microscope, which has been the best instrument until now for magnifying the infini tesimal. Muller's microscope is a small, easily-built one that uses no lens. It consists principally of a cone shaped vacuum tube which has at one end of the tube a fine tungsten wire. The wire's tip is coated with the substance to be studied. An electrical field causes the tungsten wire to give off elec trons. • These electrons find their way through and around the mole cules of the substance under study, then go on to hit the other end of the tube. This end, like a television screen, is coated with zinc sulphate. It converts the • • • " • • 23 Selected For PhißK Membership Twenty-three graduates an 4. seniors of the College will be in itiated into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's leading scholastic honor ary, May 22 at the Nittany Lion Inn. Election to Phi Beta Kappa, the highest academic honor an under graduate can attain, requires the maintenance of a top scholastic average in college. Phi Beta Kap pa is the oldest Greek letter so ciety in the United States. Those who graduated in August 1951 who will be initiated are Margery Gordon, arts and letters; Dorothy Grosky, arts and letters; Donald Kline, physics; Edwin Lef kowith, arts and letters; Ernest Skipper, psychology; Dori Spiel berg, arts and letters; and Carol Thompson. arts and letters: Grad uates of January 1952 being in itiated are Gayle Baker, educa tion; and Lois Pulver, arts and letters. Seniors to be initiated include Robert Alderdice, arts and letters; Jane Baldus, arts and letters; Malvin Bank, arts and letters; Jean Black, arts and letters; Lil lian Cassover, arts and letters; Ralph Clark, arts and letters; Eleanor Dickson, arts and letters. Margaret Feather, arts and let ters; Joseph Geiger, pre-medical; Walter Lewis, arts and letters; Robert Pebly, arts and letters; Derle Riordan, pre-medical; Fred Royer, psychology; and Janet Rusiackas, zoology and entomol ogy. Dorm Priority Rules Released Priority lists for sophomores and upperclassmen who want to transfer from Pollock Circle to Nittany Dorms or from • either Pollock or Nittany to the West Dormitories will be established Under 'the following regulations released yesterday by the Depart ment of Housing: 1. Those seeking transfer to the West Dormitories will be required to have a minimum All-College average of 1.0. 2. Precedence will be given to men who have' already accepted and confirmed dormitory assign ments for next fall. 3. Separate priority lists will be maintained for sophomores, up perclassmen, and entering fresh men, because the current ratio of three freshmen to each sophomore or upperclassman is to be main tained in all dormitory units. .There is no deadline for appli cations. Applications will be hon ored in the order they are re ceived. . Microscope by Muller electrons into visible light. The effect produced is a magni fied outline of the molecule on the screen. While the images in Mul ler's microscope • are not sharp enough to show individual atoms in the molecule, they bring much closer the prospect of actually seeing an atom. No Classes Thursday! Good day to take my clothes to . . . Suit Special BEALS CLEANERS 19c 129 S. • Pugh St. Below the Glennland Building Job Outlook 'Reporto4, Bright for Jane Gr;ii.e4, The job outlook for college graduates this year is exce,llenta*l will continue to be bright for the rest of 1952 and 1953; a.ceOitiik to the U.S. Department of Labor reports. The demand is greatest for engineers and persons %enrolled in natural sciences, the bulletins report. They are needed for civilian as well as military positions. Some of the positions which need men are those of mechanical engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathe maticians. Biological and agri cultural scientists, geologists, geo physicists, geographers, and mete orologists are also in . great de mand 100,000 Teachers Needed The need for teachers is increas ing, especially in the elementary grades. This is due to the 'sharply expanding enrollments and the losses of teachers to higher-paying fields. The greatest need for teach ers this fall will be in the .first five grades, the bulletins said. Demand for teachers this year is estimated at 100,000. Only one half that number is now enrolled to graduate in teaching curricu lums. The need is greatest in the rural areas, and generally in all teaching fields staffed primarily by men, due to the defense pro gram. - Civil Service offers jobs rang ing from home economist to a physicist, statician, or psycholo gist. Starting pay for persons with a bachelor's degree and no ex perience is' about $3500. Examin ations are now open -for positions in Washington and several other locations throughout the U.S. Job Demand to Continue For career-minded women who haye a knowledge of food and its preparation, the fields of dietetics, food and nutrition, and institu tion management offer a bright future. Not only is a woman as sured of a job, the bulletins said, but also of good pay and advance ment. The demand for these positions will exist for at least ten years. Positions are open in military and civilian hoSpitals, in schools, and in restaurants. Certain parts of the country are especially in need of pro fessional personnel. These are pri marily on the West Coast, in the South Atlantic region, an d in Texas. Players Name 8 Productions For, Next Year Eight plays to be presented next year by the Penn State Players have been named by Prof. A. C. Cloetingh, head of the Dramatics department. The four plays to be presented at Center Stage and their direc tors are "Importance of Being Earnest," Robert D. Reifsneider, assistant professor of dramatics; "Major Barbara," Walter H. Wal ters, _assistant professor of dra matics; "Children of Darkness," Kelly A. Yeaton, assistant profes sor of dramatics; and "Right You Are If You Think So," Walter •S. Smith, associate professor of dra matics. Four productions will be given by the Players at• Schwab Audi torium. The plays and their direc tors are -"Twentieth C en t u r y," Yeaton; ."Amphitryon," Smi t h: "Lute Song," Reifsneider; an d "Merry Wives of Windsor," Wal ters. BULOVA ... The gift of a Lifetime! MOYER WATCH SHOP 218 E. College Ave. State College TUESDAY, MAY. 13, ,1952 Trustees Grant 3 Retirements, Emeritus Rank ... Retirements for three faculty members and a dean emeritus aP - . pointment, approved at the week end meeting of the, Board of Trustees, were announced .yester'- 1 day by President Milton S. Eisen hower. The approved retirements were for Russell D. Casselberry, profes sor of zoology; Herman H., Apple dorn, professor of chemistry; and. Ruth E. Grah a m, professor •of clothing and textiles. Casselberry joined the faculty in 1918 and will retire as profes sor emeritus of zoology Augts 31; while Appledorn, who joined the faculty in 1921, will retire as pro fessor emeritus of chemistry.- Miss Graham, appointed to the faculty in 1922, will retire as professor emerita of clothing and textiles June 30. The appointment of Dr. Carl P. Schott as dean emeritus of the School of Physical Education and Athletics following his retirement June 30 .was approved by the board. His retirement had been approVed last December. • Lion Coat Sale To End Today Lion coats will go on final sala from 1 to 5 p.m. today, Robert Koons, chairman of the Lion coat committee; said yesterday. He added that sales this year have surpassed those of any previous year. The coats will be sold at the Student , Union desk in Old Main for $1.90 each to seniors only. They are available in both men's and. women's sizes. Decorated Lion coats will' be judged - at Spring Carnival. • The Dismal Swamp covers 500,- 000 acres of watery jungle in Vir ginia and North Carolina. ,pi. But fine, foods • at popular prices 1 and,a Genuine I, Hospitality that l ii ?! has made this 11 I. ) • t popular for 'years The - - -.';'A4 Iv , 1 LI l• 67 1 / 1 iii <CO; - -1 1!, I i Jp,fimisliq,:iii
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