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,„•-• JEAN RICHARDS . (left), who has been chosen valedictorian
of the Class of 1952, and Louise Black, who was chosen saluta
torian, will speak at the commencement exercises on June 9. Both
are members of Phi Kappa Phi, scholastic honorary.
Richards, Black Are
Graduation Speakers
• Jean Richards, senior in elementary - education, has been chosen
valedictorian of the Class. of 1952, and Louise Black, Liberal Arts
mathematics major, was chosen salutatorian, David Olmsted, class
president, announced yesterday.
Both coeds will speak at the commencement exercises on June 9
af which Hanson W. Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times,
will be the guest speaker.
[ Recipient of Evan W. Pugh
awards for the last two years,
Miss Richards has a 2.93 All-Col
lege average, plays the flute in
the Blue Band, and is past presi
dent of Alpha Lambda Delta,
freshman women's scholastic hon
orary.
Miss Richards is a member of
the Education Student Council;
Association for Childhood Educa
tion International, elementary
education society; Phi Kappa Phi,
scholastic honorary; Pi , Gamma
Mu, social science honorary; Pi
Lambda Theta, education women's
honorary; and Westminster Foun
dation.
Miss Richards plans to teach
next year in her home town of
Dußois.
Salutatorian Miss Black re
ceived the John W. White award
for scholarship on Honors
Day and has a 2.90 All-College
average. She is a member of
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and
Phi Kappa Phi, scholastic honor
ary, and was tapped for Phi Beta,
Kappa; liberal education in arts
and science honorary.
Phys Ed
Voting Ends
At Noon
Balloting for members of next
semester's Physical Education
Student Council will end at noon
today.
The voting booths, the men's
located in Recreation /Hall and
the women's in White Hall, will
be open from 10 a.m. to-noon.
The positions to be voted for
are all officers of the council, the
alumni representative, and the
class representatives.
William Mihalich, council pres
ident,. said 'that the first-day re
turns were "fair." The senior vote
for alumni representative, Mihal
ich said; was exceptionally light.
All students of the Physical Ed
ucation school are eligible to vote
for :the council officers. Seniors
are eligible to _vote for their
alumni representative, while jun
iors, sophomores, and freshmen
may vote for respective clast rep
resentaives.
Nominees for council president
are Margaret Lamaster and Kurt
Klaus; vice president, Ann Bark
er and• Huber Kline; secretary,
Margaret Powell, Joan O'Connor,
and Patricia Colgan; and, treasur
er, Nancy White and Sally Durfee.
Named for alumni representa
tive are Donald Cook and Marilyn
Williams.
Running for senior representa
tive are Barbara Benck, Betty
Gleim, John Goshorn, and Robert
Kreidler. Junior representative
nominations are Anne E win g,
Alice Colbert, Don B ell; an d
Theodore Mortensen, while nom
inations -for sophomore represen
tative are Nedalyn. Charmbury,
Eleanor Gwynn, and George Sipe.
Two-Students to Give
Talks on Aeronautics
Two students will give talks at
a meeting of the Institute of Aero
nautical Sciences at 7:30 tonight
in 208' Willard.
James Scherer will talk on jet
transports, and Samuel - Porter
will discuss design prOblems in
the gas-turbine combustion cham
ber., , •
TODAY'S
WEATHER:
CLOUDY
AND••
WARMER
MEM
EIMM=E
LaVie Available
For, 2 Schools
Education and Home Econ
omic seniors - may pick up - their
copies of the' 1952 LaVie today
and tomorrow at the Student
Union desk in Old Main. At
the same time they may vote
for the senior class gift and '52
men • and women honor stu
dents.
Chemistry and Physics, Phy,
sical Education, and Mineral
Industries seniors may get their
yearboojKs and vote Friday and
SaturdaY.
'Hatters' Parade
Slated for Today
Spring Carnival Map on Page 4
With Miss Penn State and the AlI-College He-Man announced,
it is now the mad-hatters' 'turn to win acclaim.
Finalists in the Mad-Hat contest will show their head-gear at
7:30 tonight on the patio of Old Main. Preliminaries will be held at
12:30 p.m. along Pollock road.
A dogpatch drag will be• held following the Mad-Hat finals.
The committee has asked that
students wear dungarees and old
clothes to the affair. Music will
be provided by Jim Erbe's - or
chestra:
Hats will be judged in three
categories: (1) biggest and most
colorful, (2) . unique. and modern,
and .(3) hats depicting the_spring
theme. Trophies in the . 'form of
victory : . figures will be awarded
to the winners in each of the
three classes.' Second place .win
ners' in each -class will be given
Tift " 4,
atig uurgtatt
VOL. 52, No. 143 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1952 FIVE CENTS
McCall Is He-Man;
Five Win Awards
Win Costume Parade Honors
PHI KAPPA and Theta Phi Alpha's gold painted human
statues (above) won the most original idea award in last night's
Spring Week Costume Parade They were one of four groups
awarded parade prizes.
FMA to Make
Foods Survey
The Fraternity Management Association, acting committee set
up by- Interfraternity Council, will take a foods survey among, the
fraternities, William Hafley, acting chairman of the committee, said
yesterday.
Mimeographed forms will be sent today to each house giving
information about the new FMA buying plan and asking for an
approximation of the food con
sumed by the fraternity every
month. The forms will ask for
information about the brands,
form, and grade of the food now
being used in the houses.
Results of the poll will be used
as a basis for ordering food when
the plan goes into action next
fall.
Under the proposed plan, fra
ternities will join the association
and purchase food on a large
scale. Food will be ordered from
dealers offering quality goods for
the most reasonable prices.
Through this large-scale buying,
member fraternities will make
substantial savings on the food
expenses, Hafley said. Because
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Penn State cigarette lighters.
A parade of all mad-hatters will
be held for the preliminary judg;
ing. Paraders will form on_Pol
lock road at McElwain Hall i and
will march to the Mall. Registra
tion of all paraders will be held
as the parade passes Schwab
Auditorium. Ten points toward
Spring Week prizes, will be given
to each marcher's organization, if
, _
(Continued on pa gee two)
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Photo by Austin
Stanley Elected
New President
Of Ag Council
Richard Stanley wa s elected
president of the Agriculture Stu
dent Council at a meeting held
last night. Other new officers are
Joseph Arnold, vice president;
Nancy Bigley, secretary; and Jim
Boodley, treasurer.
Nominations fo r the officers
were suggested from an election
committee and were also open
from the floor. Other nominees
for president' were Arthur Stone
and William Griffith, both nomi
nated by the elections committee.
Joseph Arnold • won the vice
presidency over Edgar Fehnel.
Kermit Krauss and Wesley Haer
were the losing nominees for sec
retary. There was no majority in
the vote for treasurer, so the
nominee hay. 4 0 41 the lowest votes
was eliminated: Boodley won this
position over Theodore Dußois,
Clark Sell, Fehnel, and Krauss.
David Stabler, present' presi
dent of the Ag Council, presided
over the meeting after the elec
tion. He announced that the in
stallation of officers would take
place on May 27.
Griffith stated plans made for
the coming Ag Open House. Areas
wer e assigned to the Ag Hill
clubs, and a meeting place for
the guides was selected.
Groups May Buy LaVie
Fraternities, sororities, c 1 u b s,
and other organizations may now
purchase copieS of the 1952 La-
Vie at the Student Union desk,
George Donovan, Student Union
director, announced ye s terday.
The price is $l2 per copy.
8000 Brave
Cold to See
Festivities
By BILL JOST
• Four costume parade entries,
the Spring Mills High S chool
Baird, and John McCall won hon
ors in last night's Spring Week
costume parade and He-Man con
test as 8000 participants and spec
tators braved the cold to continue
Spring Week activities.
Triangle fraternity and Phi Mu
sorority were judged the best cos
tumed group in the parade. Their
South Sea Islanders advertised
their carnival booth which will be
a South Sea show. The group was
dressed as natives, including a
king and his sarong-dressed har
em.
Beta Theta Pi, and Alpha Chi
Omega, won the best comic group
title with their Dogpatch theme.
The group included Daisy Mae,
Li'l Abner, Mammy and Pappy,
and a squealing pig, Salome. The
Dogpatchers sang "Where Can
Li'l Abner Be?" as they passed
the judges stand.
Gold Statues Win
The bakers of Delta Chi and
Gamma Phi Beta were judged the
most talented group. The lead
baker mixed dough while the
others carried pans of dough,
sacks of flour, and implements
needed to bake a cake.
The gold-gilted statues of Phi
Kappa and Theta Phi Alpha were
unanimously elected the most
original idea in the parade.
All prize winning groups will
receive 150 points toward Spring
Week prizes, the committee an
nounced last night. They said that
no prize division deserved more
points than the others.
Nancy Queer Crowns McCall
Spring Mills High School Band
was awarded the first place tro
phy as the best band in the par
ade. Lewistown High School band
was second. The Spring Carnival
string band did not march be
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Skull and Bones
Taps 41 Men
Eleven seniors and thirty jun
iors were tapped by Skull and
Bones, senior men's hat society,
at 7:30 a.m. yesterday, according
to Clair George, president.
Seniors named were Barr As
plundh, John Baron, Wesley Bla
ha, Ralph Clark, Leonard Fried
man, Arnold Gasche, Ralph
Griffith, Robert Ley'burn, Phil
Lurie, Charles Naginey, and Ken
dall Tomlinson.
Juniors named were Gifford
Albright, Joseph Arnold, John
Donnal, Willard Dye, Thomas
Hahn, William Hirsch,, Robert
James, Franklin Kelly, Laird Kin
naird, Kurt Klaus, Leonard Krie
ger, John Laubach, Joseph Lem
yre, Lowell Lewis, Albert Lucidi,
Andrew McNeillie, Sam Nowell,
William O'Malley, Arthur Ros
feld, Richard Rostmeyer, Walter
Sachs, Douglas Schoerke, William
Shomberg, Richard Smith, Ronald
Thorpe, John Walsh, Lincoln War
rell, Robert Watson, Boyd Wolff,
and Howard Wright..
Parmi Nous to Meet
To Discuss Elections
The Parmi Nous meeting
originally scheduled for last
night will be held at 7 tonight
in 209 Willard, James Whar
ton, president, announced.
Wharton said the meeting
will concern tapping members
for 1952-53 and the election of
officers.