PAGE TWO Group Will Air et Dorm Plan A proposed plan to set aside two men's dormitories to house Korean veterans, one in Pollock and one in the Nittany area, will be considered and discussed at a meeting Monday of the Dean of Men's advisory committee. The proposal arose from complaints of veterans who have ex pressed the desire to "segregate" themselves in separate dormitories Who's in News' Will Contain 418 Sketches The 1952-53 publication of "Who's in the News at Penn State" will contain names and short bi ographies of 418 students who are outstanding in scholarship, lead ership, and activities. Approximately 450 students re ceived applications for the book let, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, men 's professional journalistic fraternity, and Theta Sigma Phi, women's professional journalism fraternity. Biographies for "Who's in the News" are now being printed, and the booklet will be ready for dis tribution in January, Charles Hen derson, editor, said yesterday. Copies will be given to students listed in the book, fraternities, sororities, departments and ad ministrative officials of the Col lege, and colleges, universities, and leading newspapers in the state. A limited number of copies will be sold to students and fac ulty. Henderson said 275 men and 143 women will be listed in this year's publication. The total last year, was 412, he said. Selections are made by a committee com posed of the All-College president, editor of the Da i l'y Collegian, "Who's in the News" editor and associate editor, and the eight student council presidents. Two to Attend Joint Meeting Two members of the economic entomology staff will serve in official capacities at the joint meeting of the American Associ ation of Economic Entomologists and the Entomological Society of America Monday to Wednesday in Philadelphia. Dr. Stuart W. Frost, professor of economic entomology, is treas urer of the Entomological Society. Dr. Henry Menusan, Jr., associate professor of entomology exten sion, is secretary of the associ ation's extension section. Dr. Hubert W. Frings, associate professor of entomology, will pre sent two technical reports on the use of sound during the society's meeting on physiology. Research Center Awarded Grant A grant-in-aid has been award ed to the Social Science Research Center, Dr. Samuel W. Blizzard, administrative director of th e Center, has announced. The grant, given by the Per manent Science Fund administer ed by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will be used to investigate the social and eco nomic significance of the newly constructed steel plants at Mor risville. Dr. Nathan Belfer, assist ant professor of economics, is in charge of the project. 'Splinterville' Show Set for Tuesday "Splinterville Review." a talent show for men of the Nittany-Pol lock area, will be held at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday in the TUB. The Barons, social organization of the Nittany-Pollock area, is sponsoring the show which will include a tap-dance routine, magic act, clarinet solos, and imperson ations. A dress rehearsal for all mem bers of the review will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the TUB. Grad Party Tonight A party for graduate students will be held at 8 tonight in the TUB. Tickets may be obtained in 119 Sparks. to get away from the "noise of high school kids," reports to the dean of men's office said. A number of freshman vet erans living in the area wish to leave, the office reported, but under College regulations, fresh men must live in College dormi tories for their entire freshman year. Exceptions to thiS rule are cases of the student living in town with relatives, commuting daily from home to the College, marriage, or cases of proven ex treme hardship. The report added that not all the veterans in • the area were protesting, but a sufficient num ber did to make an investigation necessary. The investigation, in survey form, will poll approxi-1 mately 150 veterans living in the ' areas. Mathew Halchin, counselor in Pollock, was appointed to work with the dean of men's office in the conduction of the poll. At a scheduled meeting Thursday, only a small number of veterans attended, making any accurate poll impossible, Halchin said. Dor mitory counselors will be request ed to get information about vet eran opinion on living in sepa- • rate dormitories and when they Simes to Meet would be willing to move. This • information will be submitted to • the advisory committee meeting With Greeks Monday. According to one veteran living Fraternity presidents and Inter in the area, men taking the poll fraternity Council officers have were asking if the veterans would been asked to attend a meeting consider moving at once into a t 8 : 30 p.m. Monday in 418 Old separate dorms. No allowances for Main by Dean of Men Frank J. future moves were made, he said. Simes. When asked about the noise, The purpose of the meeting is to he said that there definitely wa -, :ew carefully the existing regu a problem. A few veterans livin_ ',ions relating to social affairs in the areas did litle to quiet the and to eliminate misunderstand noise, and in some cases took part. I ing regarding their interpreta tion, Simes explains in his letter calling the meeting. Presidents who cannot attend the meeting have been asked to arrange for a substitute to repre sent their fraternity. Engineering Clubs To Hear Speakers Three guest engineers will speak at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers meet ing 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 219 Elec trical Engineering. They are W. M. Hutchison and F. D. Brown of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and S. V. Smith • of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company. The design of igni tron rectifier locomotive appara tus and the performance of these locomotives will be discussed. Jaycees Choose Schiessler As Outstanding Young Man By LIX NEWELL Proof that all chemists are not aloof, ivory-tower men can be found in the State College Jaycee selection of Robert W. Schiessler, associate professor of chemistry, as their annual Outstanding Young Man. Activity in the community com bined with winning the American Chemical Society $lOOO award in Petroleum Chemistry for 1953 led to the Jaycee's choice of 34-year old Schiessler for the award. Dr. Schiessler, native of Hones dale, received the ACS award for his work as director of Research Project 42 which is trying to pro vide the know-how to make bet ter lubrication oils. Project 42 was initiated in 1940 by the late dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics, Frank C. Whitmore. Gets Ph.D. .Penn State almost didn't have Dr. Schiessler to direct this pro ject or to teach some 550 fresh man students, for after receiving his B.S. degree at the College, he went to McGill University in Montreal for his M.S. He had ac ceptances for a fellowship from Illinois, Harvard, and Princeton when he received a letter from Dean Whitmore offering him a chance to work on• Project 42 he had worked with Whitmore as an undergraduate—and got his Ph.D. degree at the same time. `lYai~~i:~lf~'~~i~~~1~3i~~:i~~`f11~:{IMi~li~iil~IC~I~ ~'~`a►l►ti`~4~►'~:`~~i:' Dormitories to Close At 5 p.m. Dec. 20 College dormitories will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 20 for the Christ mas holiday and reopen at noon Jan. 5. Students who will stay at the College over the vaca tion must report to the depart ment of housing, 110 Old Main, for living and food arrange ments. German Music To Highlight Yule Program Traditional German music and a reading of the Christmas story in German will be featured at the 23d annual German Christmas program to be presented 8 p.m. Tuesday in Schwab Auditorium. George J. Wurfl, pr of essor emeritus of German, will preside and read an account of the Nativ ity in German. The program will feature a talk by Dr John J. Wei sert, Jr., assistant professor of German. Music will include two vocal solos, "Bruenatiges Verlangen" (Ahle) and "Di Mist die Ruh" (Schubert), by Carolyn Morris; and a piano solo, "Piano Sonata in C Major" (Mozart), by Marcia Scholten. The audience will sing tradi tional German - carols, and two or gan selections will be offered by George E. Ceiga, assistant profes sor of music. MIT Doctor to Give Chem Talks Next Week Dr. John C. Sheehan, of Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the organic chemistry lectures next week. Dr. Sheehan will speak at 5:10 p.m. Monday in 119 Osmond; at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday in 119 Osmond; and at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday in 117 Osmond. Accepting the offer, Schiessler became supervisor of the project in 1942 and director in 1947. "I'm especially proud," he said, "of the 17 Ph.D. and 12 M.S. degrees that have been awarded to Project 42 workers." In his capacity as High School Dr. Robert W. Schiessler Jaycee's Outstanding Man Eight to Participate In Debates at Pitt Eight debaters from the men's and women's squads left campus yesterday to participate in the annual Modified Cross-Examination Tournament today at the University of Pittsburgh. • Thirty-five college teams from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will compete in the debates. The tournament is an opponent evaluation contest in which there are no official judges. Each speaker is allotted eight minutes to deliver a constructive speech. • At the end of the period he is cross-examined by his opponent and rated. Numerical scores over 70 are rated "good," over 80 "ex cellent," and over 90 "superior." Last year all members of the men's team and one woman de bater earned "excellent." No "su perior" rating was scored. Affirmative Debaters Debating affirmatiVelY for the women's team will be experienced debaters Mary Jane Yandow, third-semester medical technology major, and Lois Lehman, fifth semester education major. New comers to the squad Barbara Rice, seventh-semester arts and letters major, and Jane Montgomery, fifth-semester journalism major, will uphold the negative. William W. Hamilton, debate coach and assistant professor of speech, will accompany the women's squad. Men's debate manager Jay Headly, eighth-semester arts and letters major, will participate in the tournament for the second straight year. His partner on the affirmative team will be Robert Murrer, seventh-semester arts and letters major. On the negative men's team are Charles Basch, seventh semester arts and letters major, and Ken neth White, fifth-semester arts and letters major. Experienced Debaters All the men are second year squad members e.3cept White, who joined the team this fall. Profes sor Joseph F. O'Brien of the Speech department will go with the team. While in Pittsburgh tonight the women's squad will meet a team from Mount Mercy College in a non-decision debate. Thomas Hop kins, head of the Speech depart ment at Mount Mercy and debate coach, was a graduate student at the College last year. At the tournament both' teams will debate the national inter collegiate topic, Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a compulsory fair employment practices law. Alderfer to Talk Dr. Russell B. Alderfer, profes sor of soil technology, will address the. Graduate Faculty Research Club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 112 Osmond on "Research in Physical Properties of Soils." Cheia,.stry Committee chairman of the Central Pennsylvania section of the ACS, Schiessler helped pre pare a booket distributed to high school principals, teachers, and interested students in the area. It tells the kind of work done by chemists and how one goes about becoming a chemist, he said. Likes To Hunt During his undergraduate days the professor, who sports a crew cut, became a member of Phi Lambda Upsilon, national chemis try honorary; Sigma Xi, national science honorary; Phi Eta Sigma, freshman men's honorary; and Al pha Chi Sigma, social and pro fessional chemistry fraternity. Following the adage of "all work and no play—," Dr. Schies sler takes time out to carry a gun when hunting season rolls around. "I went out for five consecutive seasons without getting a thing," he said. But then he added that he has a set of antlers for each of the past four years, the latest being a set of eight-pointers. Commenting on the Jaye e e award, R. G. Cunningham, head of the OYM nominating commit tee, said they are hopeful that the chemist will be named to both the state and national lists of out standing young men. Dr. Schiessler's wife, Betty, is also from Honesdale, Pa., and he has an eight-year-old daughter, Lynn. SATIMDAT, DECEMBEr. rs, 1964 Eisenhower Explains Expansion Expansion of the College is not the object of present and planned construction on the campus, Pres ident Milton S. Eisenhower said Thursday at a meeting of the fac ulty in Schwab Auditorium. Construction on the campus he said is designed to proiride ade quate facilities for programs now underway, he said. Building the Student Union Building and adding a wing to the Nittany Lion Inn will be done with funds already allocated for that purpose. He said that these funds could not be used for any other purpose and that these en terprises would be self-liquidat ing. The President said that some thought has been devoted to the possible construction . of a new student hospital, classroom build ing, and military science build ing. He also pointed out the need for new women's housin to han dle the 435 women now living in Thompson Hall. Pollock Circle dormitories can only be main tained for a few years and will have to be replaced,, he said. President Eisenhower said he felt the cost of a new military science building should be shared by the Federal Government. He said the College has the third largest Reserve Officer Training Corps nrogram in the country, but does not have adequate facilities for training purposes • Guild to Give Christmas Play Henry Van Dyke's "The Other Wise Man," a Christmas radio play sponsored by the Radio Guild and the Departments of Speech and Dramatics, will be broadcast over WMAJ at 9:30 p.m. Monday. The cast of the Richard Ander sen-John Price adaption includes Andersen, narrator; Rob e r t D. Reifsnyder, Artaban; Lyle Pelton, Abdus and First Countryman; Ben Shields, Rhodaspes; Craig, Sand ers, Tigranes and Second Country man; Ira Apple, Abgarus, Lael Meixsell, Workman; Mesrop Kes dekian, Jew and Rabbi; Constance Melvin, Woman; Charles Berry hill, Soldier; and Mary Honess, Girl. Words Fail You .. P i . -IC4I • - F when you try to express the • delicious flavor of a NITTANY DELL Cheeseburger. Try one today Nittany Dell (Across from Ath Hall)
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