ritfar TWo Students Make Holiday Plans All over campus students are busy making plans for the holidays. Tomorrow the great exodus from the College will begin when stu dents start going home for Christmas. Students in education and technical courses will leave Saturday at noon. Everyone will be headed back to old friends, home cooking, Faculty Asked To File Report Of Illegal Cuts Faculty members have been requested by the Council of Ad ministration to report the ntun ber of absences in their classes 24 hours before the Christmas recess begins and 24 hours after the recess ends. The reports will be used to gain a more accurate picture of actual class attendance before and after vacations, the registrar's office re ported. Special cards for this purpose were distributed for the instructor to indicate the number of ex cused and unexcused absences for each class which meets between 1:10 p.m. Friday and 1:10 p.m. Jan. 8. A similar survey was conducted before and after the spring vaca tion last semester. These surveys are the result of recommendations made by the special Senate com mittee on vacation absences. No definite policy has been established concerning, cuts before and after scheduled vacations, but the College Senate has adopted several recommendations made by the committee. Included in the recommenda tions was the following state ment: "The faculty of each school should consider the feasibility of adopting a school-wide policy of giving quizzes in the last class meeting in each course' which occurs within the 24-hour period before a vacation." The committee stated that stu dent government should assume responsibility for securing stu dent attendance at classes. "It is not a question of protect ing each student against himself but rather of preventing the dis integration of the classes to the point where several class periods in each semester would be sub stantially lost," the committee stated. Retired Health Director Dies After Illness 'Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, direc tor of the College Health Service from 1917 until his retirement in 1946, died Tuesday at the age of 73 in Clearwater, Fla. He had been ill for one week. Ritenour, the second director of the Health Service, had also served as physician for Penn State athletic teams for 29 -•ears. Born Sept. 1, 1897, in Union town, he was graduated with a B.S. degree from the College in 1901. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1906 from the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Medical School. He served his internship at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, and had a general practice in Uniontown bef or e coming to the College. Dr. Ritenour had built the staff of the Health Service from him self and one dorimtory nurse to a group of five physicians, 11 nurses, and 11 other employees when he retired. Highlight of his term was' the opening in 1929 of the present College Infirmary. ( ~- -, - -,..e.:‹-,_.- -. , - i 7 PORTAGE it CLEANERS I•tsk Tshes You a • - 4 - t I,Y 1 - M erry Christmas and a :. 4* l %.i 'f Happy New Year y, . 7,i 118 S. Pugh St. and a whirl of holiday parties. Even the 133 foreign students on campus have big plans for the holidays. Where and how to spend Christmas poses no problem for them, although some of them are thousands of miles away from home for the first time. Only a few lucky ones—from Canada and Mexico—will be able to realize the universal hope: home for Christmas. Others, less fortunate, will spend the holiday season with friends. Some fami lies, like Frank Pohanka's, will wait out the holidays on campus. Pohanka, a graduate student in horticulture from Bruenn, Czech oslovakia, his wife Martha, from Ludwigsburg, Germany, and their daughters, Danielle, two, andl Janet-Madeleine, ten months, live in a trailer in Windcrest. Don't Have Chimney "Both. Frank's people and mine are in Europe, so we'll be a little homesick," Mrs. Pohanka said, "but we'll have as normal a Christmas as we can." "Of course, the tree WILL crowd us just a little," she said smilingly, "and we've told Danielle that Santa Claus will have to knock at our door since trailers don't have chimneys." Because he'd just as soon stay in State College, David English, graduate assistant in organic chemistry from Montreal, isn't going home for Christmas. - "I was never one to go running home for Christmas," English said, "and this year my wife and I are staying right here so I can study for examinations." South African Student Mahmud Shurkry, graduate stu dent in industrial education and a native of Iraq, is taking a par ticular interest in Christmas this year. Christmas at home in Bagh dad meant limited celebrations among the English-speaking peo ple. And Emile Raats, graduate student of fuel technology, from the Union of South Africa, who has never seen a white Christmas, still may not experience one. He's spending the day at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. "December 25 is the middle of summer in Pretoria, and it's al ways so blazing hot we've had to eliminate hearty Christmas din ners," he said. A religious conference 'in Colo rado will be the site of the first American Christmas for Harald Lichtendahl, special student in physical education from Duisburg, Germany. "I am at home in the United States," he said, "but I'm still not sure what December 25 will be like here. Germany has a good Christmas. I hope America does." Only Vietnamese Chang Bin Oh, sophomore in chemical engineering, will also travel to Colorado to attend a religious conference over the holi (Continued on page eight) It's A Fact that exactly one week from today we'll all be home opening those presents we all love to receive—en joying that "once a year" Christmas spirit. It's a fact too that at this exact time Vic wishes to extend his heartiest hopes that you'll' have a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year. He hopes too that you'll all keep the Christmas spirit with you throughout the year, treating everyone you meet , as if he we're your brother. 145 S. A T,T,FN ST. THE DATr._,Y COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Christmas Display WOODEN CAROLERS gather before a Christmas hymnal in front of Old Main in the prize-venning lawn display submitted by Charles Hall and John Webb, architecture majors. A $25 cash award was presented to the winners by All-College Cabinet which sponsored the contest along with Pi • Gamma Alpha. art honorary. Ambandos to Read 'Carol' at 7 Tonight "A Christmas Carol," by Charles A. Dickens, will be read at 7 tonight by James Ambandos, wr Picture and Recording Studio, 121 Sparks. Ambandos. 1948. graduate of the College, will read an hour's por tion of the famed Yule story— the same cutting used by Dickens when he read before public aud iences Th e writer-director entered Penn State in 1940, but his educa tion was interrupted in 1943 when he entered the service. Ambandos returned to the College in 1947 and was graduated with a B.A. in dramatics in 1948. During his undergraduate ca reer, Ambandos was a member of Players and Thespians, serving as president of the former organ ization in his senior year. Ambandos acted in many plays as an undergraduate and is best remembered for his portrayal of the G.I. Collucci in the play, "A Sound of Hunting." Following graduation, Anibandos operated the Town and Nine Theater' in State College for two summers. He is an authority on central stag ing and has helped give impetus to the growth of the arena theater through his directing and acting. Included in the films Ambandos has made for the College is "This Is Penn State." His most recent production is "The Keyston Idea," for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association. Ambandos last read the 'Carol' in 1947 when he was a student in an oral interpretation class. Robert T. Oliver, head of the De partment of Speech, will introduce Ambandos. The reading, sponsored by the Speech department, will be followed by the all ; College carol sing, which begins at 8:30 p.m. Vic's iter-director at the College Motion -t a free public performance in 'Civil Rights' Is Subject Of Poly Sci Meeting "Civil Rights—Absolute or Rela tive" will be discussed by the Poli tical Science Club at 7:30 tonight at 248 E. Prospect avenue, home of club adviser Neal Reimer, as sistant professor of political sci ence. A reading list on the topic, corn piled by Reimer, is available in the Political Science office, 119 Sparks. Customs Talks Delayed Discussion of freshman customs revision was postponed last night at the Freshman Customs and Regulations board meeting be cause of insufficient attendance. The board will not meet again until after the Christmas vacation. The first Continental Congress authorized the United States Ma rine Corps in 1775. miTTAPPAT , DEcr.WPAT 18, 1952 Chem-Phys Will Plan Open House The Chem-Phys Student Coun cil last night went through ele mentary planning stages for its annual spring open house tenta tively scheduled for the weekend of May 9. The purpose of the open house, according to council president Lincoln Warrell, is primarily to attract high school students as well as undergraduates of all schools to the exhibitions. A major open house committee meeting will be held 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at 103 Osmond to get the affair into a definite planning scope. Special committee chairman are: chemistry, Edward Storm, John Merges; physics, Gilbert Unangst, David Swanson; pre-med, Mari lyn Busby, George Wright; -sci ence fair, John Mallich, Howard Levin e; chemical engineering, William Preston," Gerald Lough ran; publicity, Janet Herd, James Dillon; tours, James Ritter, Harry Ross; booklet, Neil Yocum George Tice; secretary, Richard I!aass. . Ronald' Ferguson is .g ener al chairman of the open house com mittee. Under discussion at the com mittee meeting will be whether or not the open house should run for two days, including Sunday. In previous years, the open house had been held just Saturday after noons. The council last night alloted $lO to the Penn State Student Scholarship fund. Two committee chairmen were appointed by Warrell. Storm was named chairman of the faculty course evaluating committee and Yocum was appointed chairman If the blue book file committee. Moving Notice Due in January Upperclassmen who expect to move out of the Nittany or Pol lock Circle dormitories at the end of the fall semester must present a letter of this intention to the department of housing, Nittany Dorm 20, by Jan. 15, Dean of Men Frank J. Simes announced. He said freshmen are required to live in College dormitories dur ing their freshman year and may not be released from Nittany, Pol lock Circle, or West Dormitory assignments at the end of the first semester.
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