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Thieme
Judicial
Town Council President Edward Thieme was named chairman
of the newly approved Judicial Board of Review at the Association
of Independent Men Board of Governors' meeting Wednesday night.
Eight other members, two from each of the four councils—
Town, West Dorm, Nittany and Pollock—were also named by
Navy, AF
Advance 4
Graduates
Four Penn St at e graduates,
three in the Air Force and one in
the Navy, are continuing their
advancement in the armed serv
ices.
Second Lieutenant Donald P.
Reynolds, '5l, will be graduated
this week from Bryan Air Force
Base Jet Flying School, Texas.
He was a member of the track
and swimming teams at the Col
lege and a member of Phi Delta
Theta. His home is in Mt. Leba
non.
Ensign Francis R. Douglass,
graduate from Middletown, re
cently received his gold wings at
the Naval Air Station in Pensa
cola, Fla. He completed flight
training designating him as a na
val aviator.
First Lietuenant Horace Mann,
a member of the Air Force Re
serves, is currently serving his
annual two weeks of active duty
at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn,
N.Y. Lt. Mann is assigned to the
8709th Pilot Training Wing and
serves' 'in the headquarters sec
tion.
Under the reserve training pro
gram, members of the reserves
receive training one weekend a
month and are on active duty two
weeks per year.
Second Lieutenant Francis S.
Houck, '52, has been assigned to
the maintenance and sup ply
squadron at Reese Air Force Base,
Texas.
While at Penn State Houck was
a member of Kappa Delta Rho, the
American Red Cross, and the Ar
nold Air Society. He received his
commission in September.
Events Slated
Over Vacation
While students are enjoying
their Christmas vacations, several
activities will be going on at the
College.
Tomorrow an Agricultural Fac
ulty Seminar will hear Dr. J. L.
Matthews of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture speak on "Evalu
ating the Effectiveness of Exten
sion Teaching." A conference on
problems in pen stabling will meet
here Tuesday.
Offices will close 5 p.m. Tues
day and open at 8 a.m. Dec. 29th.
Offices will again be closed New
Year's Day.
When chemistry students return
Jan. 6 they 'will hear a lecture by
Dr. Marshall Gates of the Uni
versity of Rochester.
31 Students Withdraw
Thirty-one students have with
drawn from the College, accord
ing to the Dec. 19 Faculty Bul
letin. Reasons given for withdraw
ing were personal. 19; military
service, two; scholastic, four;
transferring, three; illness, one;
and financial, two.
Aid Applications
Due Januray 9
. Applications for scholarships
are due Jan. 9 in 202 Burrowes,
office of the chairman of the
Senate committee on scholar
ships, Kinsley R. Smith, chair
man, has announced.
Forms are available in the
offices of the dean of men, dean
of women, and Scholarship In
formation Center, 110 Old
Main.
Smith said students should
take the forms home over va
cation to discuss with their par
ents and to get the required
signatures. Interviews for ap
plicants will be held at the end
of January.
Heads
Board
AIM President William Shifflett.
The men named are Robert
Smoot and Richard Rigling of
West Dorm Council, Francis Mears
and James Armstrong of Town
Council, George Elder and Robert
Carver of Nittany Council, and
John Ball and Joseph F. Fred
erick Jr. of Pollock Council.
No Action by Nittany
The board received its last nec
essary council approval Dec. 10.
The board, created by an amend
ment to the AIM constitution, was
approved by Pollock, West Dorm,
and Town Councils. In order for
the board to be established the
amendment had to be ratified by
three of the four councils.
The only , council that did not
act on the amendment is Nittany
Council. Robert Harding, vice
president of Nittany Council, said
at the Board of Governors' meet
ing that his council met Monday
night but did not have a quorum.
He said that the council was of
the opinion- that its vote did not
matter since the necessary three
fourths of the councils had ap
proved the amendment.
Approved by Board
The board will review disci
plinary cases against independent
men and groups. Action taken by
the board will be in the form of
recommendations to the Dean of
Men's office.
In accordance with provisions
in the amendment, the chairman
of the judicial board was appoint
ed by the executive committee
of the AIM Board of Governors
and was approved by the Board of
Governors. The chairman of the
judicial board appointed the mem
bers of the board from suggestions
submitted by council presidents.
Open or Closed Hearings
The amendment also provides
that the chairman will preside
over the meetings and will vote
only in case of a tie. When un
able to attend a meeting, he may
appoint a judicial board member
to assume his duties.
The board may establish its own
procedure except that any hear
ing must be open or closed ac
cording to the desires of the stu
dent concerned.
In other action the . Board of
Governors set up a committee to
look into the possibilities •of es
tablishing a plaque for an out
standing independent man. The
committee also will consider the
possibilities_ of designing a pin
for independents. C a'm mit te e
members are Michael Popowniak,
chairman, and Harding, Andrew
Jaros, and Burton Hoover.
Christmas
Celebrate
With C,hristmas less than a week away, the usual alco..tment of
cards is beginning to arrive—via the merry mailman=—in homes all
over the world.
But this year marks a special one for the sending of Christmas
cards. It's been just 100 years since the first American Christmas
card, a commercial greeting from a proprietor of a variety store to
his customers, was dropped in a
mailbox.
Today cards are used not only
to promote good will between
businessmen and customers, but
also to send the all-time favorite
greeting, "A Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year," to family,
friends, long-lost cousins, neglect
ed acquaintances, "pet" school
teachers, the family doctor, and
even baby sitters. '
Santa Claus Tops
The festive Christmas season,
however, is not much of a holiday
for the postmen who must deliver
Christmas mailings t hat total
something like 1,500,000,000 each
year—an average of 40 cards per
family. Postage alone amounts to
$50,000,000.
Card shoppers can find a wide
variety of greetings in just about
every store in town. Designs in
clude everything from the most
popular one of all, Santa Claus,
to delux reproductions of famous
paintings. Cards emphasizing the
religious nature of Christmas will
be more numerous this year. The
nation's church leaders are urg-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
'Tis the Season Now, By Golly!
Christmas might be a:"holi
.DAY for the banks and depart
ment stores, but it's . a hoIiSEA
SON on a college campus. Along
about 1:30 a.m. three weeks be
fore Christmas, the first male
carolers ring out with voices
sweeter than a boys' choir. And
the campus snowballs straight
toward Dec. 25, gaining enough
momentum along the way to
turn into one big carol- sing
and ChristmasLshopping-rush.
No one, not even the student
with a last minute economics
bluebook, has the slightest inter
est. in the net national product
of anything save the imagina
tion. In the storehouse of the
brain one finds not savings and
investment formulas—but mince
• meat, plum pudding, holly, ivy,
a chubby Santa Claus with
eight tiny reindeer, and. drifts of
white snow.
Two solid weeks of yuletide
. caroling, Christmas shop p i n g.
card mailing, fraternity parties
for orphan .children. Christmas
dinners, and formals swirl by.
Gradually, a wide-eyed excite-
Secrets, Surprises
In College's Films
Have you ever heard the mating-call of a Mongolian warbler,
or observed an amoeba carrying on the fundamental life processes,
or experienced the thrill of 'watching Paderewski play the Moon
ight Sonata? Do you know the secret of keeping a husband happy?
These subjects are just a sampling of the topics covered by films
in the College's audio-visual aids
library, located in the basement
of the Pattee Library. More than
3000 films worth $185,000 com
prise the film library, largest in
the state.
"Classroom education is one of
the film's prime purposes," says
Thurston M. Reeves, assistant su
pervisor of audio-visual aids. The
films are also loaned to students
for educational and entertainment
purposes.
Heaviest users of-the films for
classroom instruction ar e the
Schools of Education, Liberal Arts,
Dry Cleaners to Close
The Student Dry Cleaning
Agency will close at 7:30 to
night and reopen at 7530 a.m.
Jan. 7. Students des'ring their
clothes before vacation must
pick them up before 7:30 to
night. Clothes may be left at
the agency to be cleaned dur
ing vacation.
Dickson to Head
New Curriculum
The new curriculum in applied
arts will be directed by Dr. Har
old E. Dickson. now in charge of
the division of fine arts df the De
partment of Architecture. . .
The curriculum, to be adminis
tered in the Department of Archi
ture, was approved Dec. 5 by the
Board of Trustees and will be
come effective for freshmen next
fall. .
There is a school house fire
every six hours in the United
States.
Cards
Birthday
ing the use - bf cards that bring
the real meaning of the season.
Cards will cost anywhere from
a few cents to over a. dollar each
—and in addition to paper cards
there are plastic cards, cards that
jingle, cards that unfold into dis
plays, and cards that can be• hung
as ornaments on the Christmas
tree.
But what• will be the fate of all
these works of art? After they
have been glanced at—the glance
directed toward the sender's sig
nature—and left on display •for
curious, and maybe even envious,
holiday visitors to admire, they'll
be tossed in the waste basket and
forgotten. Next year there will
be another pile to take their place.
Foreign Students
Faculty members who wish to
entertain foreign students during
the Christmas holidays may make
arrangements with Mary .). an 6
Wyland, Penn State Christian As
sociation program coordinator, in
304 Old Main, ext. 541.
By HELEN LUYBEN,
Fate? Waste .Basket
1
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merit turns into the droopy-eyed
trance of an eight o'clock class.
Comes noon, Dec. 20, and the
campus drifts, individually.
home—exhausted.
But home means sleep and
that revived wide-eyed excite
ment which shines in tinsel and
red balls on Christmas trees.
Home for Christmas means
munching Mom's mince pie, or
plum pudding, ChriStmas cook
ies, nut, spice and fruit cakes:
It's caroling on Christmas Eve
around the fireplace or at a com
munity Christmas tree with the
old gang.
It's a midnight church service.
followed by six hours of sleep
before kid brother's hand shakes
you awake to "come down quick
Physical Education, and Engin
eering. Leader among the depart
ments is the Department of Psy
chology.
Even fraternities and sororities
apply to the film library during
rushing for movies on that hectic
routine: Also heavy in demand
are pictures depicting life in the
fraternities.
"Clubs like the Camera Club
or Psychology 'Club often book
films on their favorite subject,"
says Mrs. Augusta Hyslop, office
manager, discussing other ways
that students use the films.
Movies in Spanish, Portuguese
and French, to mention ony a
few, said Mrs. Hyslop, are booked
far ahead by the foreign language
clubs. According to her, the films
have proved valuable in giving
students experience in learning to
speak another language through,
hearing it spoken. • I
For mixers, parties, club meet
ings, and the like, football movies
and such films as "This , Is Penn
State" are high in popularity.
The film service at the College
was begun in 1942, when Presi
dent Hetzel established a visual
aids committee. In the beginning,
the films were circulated through
use of traveling projectionists.
"Eighty bookings are the life of
a film," Reeves said. "After that,
it's finished, for there• is nothing
you can do with a worn-out film."
The movies Penn State students
see in their classes are free, as are
the projection machine and the
operator. This is a service, how
ever, that is not extended to stu
dents.
The reason for this, as explained
by I. C. Boerlin, head- of the film
library, is, "Our only income is
from the College grants and .the
rental we get- from the films. So
we cannot give the students a free
hand to the movies, even though
we would like to."
Through its extension service,
the library rents movies, slides
and recordings to other colleges,
high schools and organizations
Jupiter to Be Observed
for three. days only Jupiter
may be observed January 15,
16, and 17 in Schwab Auditor
ium.
FRIDAY, DEC E MBER 19;•‘1052
.Anct.? see what Santa -C laus
bioUght.'
The gay hoIiSEASON doesn't
end with a last bite of turkey at
Christmas dinner, but goes ,on
and on, just like the cold turkey,
sandwiches, turkey hash, - a n
turkey soup, through days spent
exchanging Christmas presenti,
through snow and skating, taf
fy-pulls and home-popped pop
corn.
In between times, there might
even be an attempt to work at a
journ project or two. More than
likely the attempt, although en ,
thusiastic, will be interrupted by
music and chatter from a New,
Year's Eve party.
Then someone rips off a sneet
from the calendar and exposes
a diaper-clad Baby New Year---:.
1953. People gasp in surprisq--;
not at the baby's brief costume: -
but at the 1953 slapped across -
his chest.
There's time now to catch'
good night of sleep and a less
good, deep breath before: :that
post-Christmas rush to a. :one
o'clock class Jan. 6, and final.ex-.•
aminations, two scant •w e:e ks
away. ,
Seminar Group
Plans Summer
European Trip
. A summer seminar group,• open
to students and faculty, was ::an.-
nounced yesterday by Hugh G.
Pyle, supervisor of informal ;. in
struction, Central Extension.-The
group will spend July and August
in Europe.
The group, as part of the,Col
lege's Institute of International
Understanding, will 'spend three
weeks at a European university.
Contemporary problems -will - . be
under study by the group.
Plans call for a week's • visit
in Yugoslqvia and side trips to
Italy, ' France, Switzerland, and
England. •
College credits are available for
those in the seminar study.
William H. Gray, professor • of
history, will lead the group, which
will be limited in number. Com
plete information is available from
him or from the General Exten
sion Services.
throughout the East. For example,
the film library mails a requested
movie to a women's club in Pitts
burgh, with instructions to be re
turned after only one showing.
When- the movie is back again in
the library; it is ready for another
booking.
Of the.many unusual film titles
in the library, none is stranger
sounding than this one—" The Ef
fects of Various Drugs on the
Emotional Memetic Reaction of
the Hypothatoma and Cerebral
Cortex of the Cat."
Next time your club has a meet
ing, •why not show that film to
the members?