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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.