PAGE TWO To Give Concert Tonight CONSTANCE KEENE Pianist will appear in Schwab Auditorium eene to Give Recital Tonight Constance Keene, young American pianist, will present the sec ond program in the Community Concert series at 8:30 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. Keene will include a as well as the works Miss Chasins, Marines Offer Reserve Plan To Students The United States Marine Corps is offering a program enabling any qualified college student to enter the USMC Reserve. Those accepted will automatically be deferred from the draft and will be permitted to complete their college work. Upon graduation from college a commission will be granted. There are three divisions of the program. One is for college fresh men, sophomores, and juniors who must attend two six-week train ing camps in Quantico, Va. Another plan is for seniors or graduates with a baccalaureate degree. This group would under go ten weeks of training at Quan tico. The final plan is for college women and is sub-divided like the program for men. The service obligations for thOse accepted are the same as for any newly commissioned reservist-6 two years active service and six years in the reserves. Those interested in the program should contact Major Bucher, 201 Engineering E from 4 until 5 p.m. any day except Thursday or Sun day. The word pumpkin comes from the old French pompion, meaning to be eaten when ripe. It's A Fact Professor J. S. Whitman's daughter, Minerva, was the first female to attend classes at Penn State. Enrollment has increased since 1865 when Minerva listened to Botany lectures to the grand total of 3150 women registered at the College in the fall of 1952. Things have changed at Vic's too. From now on Vic's will be open from 5 to 12 o'clock on Sundays. So for that Sunday supper, that 9 o'clock snack we all love so well, or that take-out for your roommate. Stop in at Vic's any night of the week and you'll get the best. 145 S. ALLEN ST. ViCIS composition by her husband, Abram of 18th century composers. Chasins' composition, "P ia n o Playtime," is his latest composi tion and is being played for the first time on Miss Keene's tour. Opening Selections The number captures impres sions of events and objects as ob served by the young sophisticate. Included are Waltz of the Rain bow, Banjo Boy, Holiday Bells, By the Brook, Dancing Bagpipes, Tricky Trumpet, and The Air plane. Miss Keene will open her pro gram with "Three Songs Without Words" by Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy, f 0110 wed by Beet hoven's "Thirty-two Variations in C Minor." Substitutes for Horowitz The program will continue with "Three Mazurkas" and "Scherzo in C sharp minor" by Frederic Chopin, and two compositions by Franz Liszt —"Da n c e of the Gnomes," and "Forest Murmers." She will close with "Caprice Es pagnol" by Moritz Moszkowski, the 19th century Polish pianist composer. Miss Keene first attracted at tention when she substituted at the last minute for Vladimir Hor owitz in Springfield, Mass. After this performance she received no tice in Newsweek magazine, the Associated Press and in feature articles in the metropolitan press. Receives Awards At the age of seven, Miss Keene won the gold medal award c the national Federation of Music Clubs and continued to win ,the medal for four successive years. During this period she also re caived the gold medal of the New (Continued on page eight) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA 117- adline e Listed Today is the deadline for January graduates in chem istry-physics and mineral in dustries to register for caps and gowns at the Athletic store, according to George Donovan, director of associated student activities. Home economics, liberal arts, and physical education grad uating seniors will sign up Monday and Tuesday. The deposit for cap and gown is $5. Hat size should be known when ordering. Invitations and announce ments may be ordered at the Student Union desk in Old Main according to the same 'schedule. These cost 10 cents each. Those seniors who will grad uate in military uniform should not sign up. (Ceramics Awards Offered The Ferro Corporation of Cleve-. land, Ohio, is offering $lOOO in cash awards to ceramics students for the best paper on porcelain enameling technology in their fourth annual student contest. The papers, for a first prize of $5OO, must be of 3000 words or less and may be on any phase of tech nology related to the porcelain enameling of metal. The compe tition is open to all students, both graduates and undergraduates, in ceranlics or ceramic engineering and must be the student's own work ,entirely. The deadline for the contest is March 23, but an entry blank must be filed before January 26. These entry blanks may be ob tained from the Ferro Corpora tion, Cleveland, Ohio, or in the ceramics department office. The prizes will be awarded at the 55th annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society, which will be held in New York City on April 24-28, 1953. Dr. G. H. Mclntyre, vice presi-1 dent and director of research for the Ferro Corporation, pioneers in the production of ceramics and porcelain enameling, stated that his company hopes these contests will promote student interest in the fast-growing fields of the cer amic industry. Additional information about the contest and the proper form of makeup for the paper are avail able at the ceramics department office. Root-Tilden Awards Application forms for the Root- Tilden scholarships at New York University for the 1953-54 term are available in 119 Sparks. The scholarships are designed to train and develop potential leaders in public affairs. FNU VZVAVVVCIVAZIVAV Z . VC? atIC'SVCCOZMICIVE4. I CZCZN I ZEIM...?..MVVIIVC,VgtetC t.lO 'or Caps, Gowns A SURE-TO-PLEASE GIFT! Make the Music Room your "One-Stop" headquarters for everything musical„ for everybody this Christmas . . . from records to radios . . . Thriftly Priced! . m 1 .i7'i~ 203 E 5 AVER AVE. Land Grant Murals Dream of 20 Years Like the old saying "Rome wasn't built in a day," the painting of the famous land grant murals in Old Main is a lengthy story— the' result of an art professor's dream that took 20 years to be ful filled, a class gift that was four years late, and the loyalty and interest of Penn State students themselves. A 15 minute sound film in showing- artist Henry Varnum Poor painting the murals, will be shown publicly for the first time to the Faculty Luncheon Club at noon Monday in the State College Hotel. These murals include the 15- foot-high painting of Abraham Lincoln and the surrounding mur als depicting aspects of Penn State. It is the only work of art .in an American college to have been financed twice by students. Back in the early 1930's a group of art professors, headed by Prof. H. E. Dickson, decided the Col lege needed some first-rate art. And what, they asked, would be more appropriate than murals, which were then the rage. As a site the professors chose Old Main, the center of campus. The professors soon found that transforming dreams into reality wasn't easy. Murals cost money, and the state made it quite clear it would grant no funds for "art." The years crept by with no re sult. No one was interested. It began to seem that the dream of a few art professors was destined to die without becoming a reality. Funds Sought Then came the first break. In 1936 Ridge Riley, executive alum ni secretary, was seeking a suit able project for his class of '32, which had not yet made its „gift. The idea of murals in Old Main attracted him. He and Dickson had a talk and agreed the mural pro ject could be adopted by the class of '32 as its gift. Riley mailed persOnal cards to class members explaining the murals and asking for contribu tions. In time the class responded I with, $4500 which, Dickson decid ed, was enough for the north wall. Henry Varnum Poor, an artist widely praised for his murals in some federal buildings in Wash ington, came to the attention of Dickson and his colleagues. Al though a short while previously Poor had been paid more than $4500 by the Government for a mural smaller than the north wall of Old Main, there was something, about the Penn State mural that interested him. Perhaps it was be cause the idea had been kept alive for ten years by a. group of art professors. Poor accepted the commission and started work. On June 8, 1940, Poor put , the finishing touches on the Lincoln mural while Dickson stood by, watching half • the dream being :lade a reality. But Dickson couldn't relax. He wondered if his dream would ever Peach completion. Although $lOOO had been raised for the mural through class gifts, the war came along and the money was put in- Stop in Today! rvlrrn By BILL SNYDER No State Funds War Stops Work TI!U DAY, DECEMBER 4 19 2 color, "Painting a True Fresco," to war bonds. During the next four years the whole project was forgotten in the light of more im portant things. Dickson had almost forgotten the project when, one day, in the fall of 1945, soon after the war's end, a girl entered his office and announced that the murals were going to be finished. Students Help Again Nowhere, says Dickson, is there a parallel for what followed. Once before students had raised the Money to complete the murals. Now a second time they went into action. Dickson's years of work were finished. From here on he merely .observed. The students called it "their project." Proceeds of $3BOO from the first big post-war dance went into the, project's fund. Through out that school year money was added from' bake sales, ,talent shows, and bazaars. The student council also contributed. By spring of 1946 the total was over $ll,OOO. Poor took up his brush again and by 1949 the mur -Is were complete. A dream begun nearly 20 years ago was fulfilled. Staters Featured If you look closely at the hod carrier at the right side of Lin coln, you will see the featUres of Professor Dickson. Poor painted him as a hod-carrier because, he said, Dickson carried most of the load in getting the murals. Scattered throughout the mur als are the features of many Penn State students and founding fath ers: The Lincoln mural commem orates the Morrel Land Grant Act of 1862 and represents the various interests of the state of Pennsyl vania. The actual painting of it took only six weeks. Fresco Process Shown The film showing Poor painting the. mural explains in a step-by step method how he and his as sistants—Anne, his daughter, and Willard Cummings progressed from preliminary sketches of the proposed murals to the actual painting of them. The College's motion picture and recording studio made the movie to show the execution of (Continued on 'page eight) , gr STmaoherakdvisaaves 1 , 1 Do As Your artier Does lere'Pash-Ratod lather! if.. . . • , ..,..;..... .. ....... „ 5...,.. , •~ itsititm tifiAt kw - LA-Mitt s ~,,,, ...,.., t . ... ~..§,,. • ...,. ~ ....,,, ......",,
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