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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
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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.
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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
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