VOL. 53, No. 101
Alumni Fund Drive
Begin Today
The first annual Penn State Alumni fund, set up by the College to
solicit funds for non-state supportedjprojects, officially gets underway
today with Fund literature being mailed to more than 40,000 alumni.
20 Quartets
To Try Out
For Contest
Twenty costumed quartets will
compete: in tryouts for the all-
College barbershop quartet con
test sponsored by the sophomore
■class at 7 tonight and tomorrow
night at the TUB.
■ Four men’s and four women’s
quartets will be selected from
those competing- to try out for the
finals at 7:30 p.m. in Schwab,
March 18. Bronze trophies will be
awarded to the first three winners.
. The judges for Tuesday night
are Frank Gullo, George E. Ceiga
and Herbert W. Beattie, all as
sistant professors of music.
Judging Wednesday night are
Elmer Wareham Jr. and William
G. Noyes, instructors of music,
and Hummel Fishburn, head of
the music department.
Organizations competing are
Phi 'Sigma Sigma, Theta .Phi Al
pha, the Mello-Aires and Alpha
Tau Omega at 7 p.m. Tuesday. At
8:15 Phi Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi
Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Zeta Beta
Tau, and Triangle will try out.
Wednesday at 7 p.m. the Rollo
Quartet, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Tri-Delt and Pi Kappa Alpha are
competing. At 8:00 Wednesday Phi
Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta, the
Collegians, and . Tau Phi Delta
are trying out.
Dance Planned
By WD Council
. A sweater dance will' be held
from 9 to 12 p.m. in the West
Dorm lounge, George Foresyth,
West Dorm Council social chair
man, announced last night. Dress
for the affair • will be informal,
and everyone has been asked to
wear sweaters. Music will be on
record.
The council, is also planning a
St. Patrick’s Day exchange din
ner between Tri-Dorms, McKee,
and Thompson next Tuesday.
Following the dinner, a record
dance will be held from 5:30 to 8
p.m_ in the West Dorm ■ lounge.
Men who wish to eat with a cer
tain girl should report the girl’s
meal, ticket number to their floor,
president, Lew Goslin, food com
mittee chairman, said.
Last night’s regularly scheduled
meeting of the council was. can
celed because a quorum was not
present to conduct business. The
next meeting is set for Monday.
Dickson to Complete
Lecture-Reading Series
Dr. Harold E. • Dickson, profes
sor of fine arts, will present the
last of a series of lecture-readings
sponsored by the division of fine
arts at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow, in
the Mineral Industries Art Gal
lery. 1
For his subject, Dr. Dickson has
chosen John Marin, who is now 82
years old and regarded by. many
as the most distinguished. living
American painter. He will read
from the .letters of Marin to. Al
fred Stieglitz. ~ .
The purpose of this first mail
ing is to introduce the Fund to
alumni who may not have heard
of it through alumni publications.
March 31 funds wiE start being
sohcited in the form of personal
letters mailed by more than 2000
class agents.
The CoEege. has estabhshed the
Alumni Fund as a means of get
ting alumni aid for sorely needed
projects that state and federal
grants can not sponsor.
Some of the projects that the
CoEege hopes to get under this
arrangement are: furnishings for
the Student Union Budding, stu
dent scholarships, fellowships, the
building of an aE-faith chapel,
and a museum for campus art ob
jects.
The Fund has been organized
under aE nine schools, with each
school soliciting its own graduates
through class agents. The first
Alumni Fund will continue during
spring and end with class reunion
in June.
More than 2000 class agents and
chairmen have expressed wiEing
ness to help make the Fund a suc
cess. Alumni . have contributed
$25,000 to the Fund in unsolicited
contributions.
Bernard Taylor, director of the
Alumni Fund, sees a bright future
for the Fund at Penn State. In
1951 a similar Fund at Yale re
sulted in more than $1,000,000 be
ing contributed by alumni.
Spectators See
New Lion Suit
At Army Meet
A step ahead of the spring fash
ion parade, the Nittany Lion dis
played his new finery Saturday
night at the Penn State-Army
wrestling match in Recreation
Hall.
Bearing a sign,. “It’s here—the
new 1953 model” and “Thank yo’
all kindly,” he pranced down the
center of the floor pausing to pay
his respects to Coach Charlie
Speidel. Throughout the evening
he rolled his eyes—and they do
roll—at the gals and stopped to
greet the Army team.
The Lion’s new outfit arrived
about a month ago. The $5OO suit
was-designed by. Chenko Studio,
New York costumers.
In order, to produce a true Nit
tany Lion, Chenko read in the
New York Library about moun
tain lions and visited the lions’
cages at a New York zoo.
Contributions amounting to
$599.25. were collected for the suit
this fall in a fund drive initiated
by Alex Gregal, who portrays the
Lion.
Jean Christoff
'Mentally Ilf'
Jean Christoff, brother of the
cloth belt strangulation victim,
June, is mentally ill and in need
of psychiatric treatment, a’ doc
tor’s examination' disclosed Sat
urday.
He is. suffering from schizo
phrenia—disintegration of person
ality, Dr. S. Ben Meyers of Johns
town, examining physician, said.
Christoff was submitted to men
tal examination on the request
of Cambria County District At
torney-Fred; J; Fees, because, he
said, lie-detector tests on Chris
toff were “inconclusive and in
complete.”
Christoff disappeared shortly
before the. body of his. sister was
found in her home near Frugality
in northern Cambria County. She
had a cloth belt from.one of her
dressesknotted, tightly, around
her neck.. As yet, no official ver
dict on whether or not the death
was suicide has been released by
police.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1953
Malenkov
At Stalin
MOSCOW, March 9 (^P) —Prime Minister Malenkov placed Joseph Stalin’s body in the
Lenin tomb today and declared the main task of Stalin’s successors is to preserve peace.
There was no hint of any change in policy toward Korea, however.
The new prime minister delivered the main funeral oration at Red Square services
for the fallen leader. Expressing hope that peace may come to pass, he declared such
peace must be “supported and confirmed by facts.”
Dulles Sees
New Chance
For Peace
Other world news' on page three
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
March 9 (IP) —Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles said today the
removal of the “malignant power
of Stalin” has given the world a
better , chance for peace.
Answering questions at his first
conference here since becoming
secretary of state, Dulles said
Stalin’s desire to be a world-wide
despot,put a damper on peace as
pirations of peoples and nations.
He said he did not. believe any
successor to Stalin can be so ef
fective a damper.
Dulles also said the U.S. gov
ernment does not at present plan
any new tactics or strategy in the
cold war.
The secretary announced he
hopes to make a fact-finding tour
of. Middle East and South Asian
countries in May. He said the U.S.
has no plans to ask the UN to
undertake any new action in Ko
rea at this time; he hopes other
UN members will continue to be
aware of the need for general and
equitable. participations in the
Korean War; -relations between
Moscow and Peiping would be de
termined by those countries with
there being little the U.S. could
do to influence them.
Dulles later told ranking dele
gates of all Latin American coun
tries at a private luncheon that
he hopes to visit Latin America as
soon as possible. He also assured
the Latin American representa
tives that President Eisenhower
intends to maintain close and
friendly relations with their coun
tries.
Pep Rally to Honor
3 Teams Tomorrow
A pep rally honoring the wrestling, boxing, and gymnastic
squads will be held at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow in front of Recreation Hall.
The joint rally is being sponsored by - Androeles, junior men’s hat
society.
Alan McChesney, head cheerleader, will direct the cheering
activities. Master of ceremonies and those who will supply the
music for- the rally will be an
nounced today .
The three squads will leave at
the end of the week for inter
collegiate competitions. The wrest
lers will leave Thursday morning
for Princeton to compete in the
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling
Association meet. The boxers will
also leave Thursday for Syracuse
to participate in the Eastern box
ing championship competition. :
The gym squad, which won the
Eastern championship last Satur
day afternoon by defeating Army
at Rec Hall, will leave Friday for
West Point. Each man. will try
his. skill in competing for the East
ern individual titles.
; Tags for the pep rally will
be distributed at the Student Un
ion desk in Old Main, the Ath
letic Store, Metzgers, and an the
main lounge of West Dorms.
Printed, slogans, boosting the three
squads, will be on the tags.
Dean's Group to Meet '
The Dean of Men’s advisory
committee will, meet at 7:39 to
night in the Dean of Men’s office,
109 Old Main.
What these words meant In
terms of deeds the world did not
yet know. But it seemed possible
the new government might under
take a series of actions soon to
dramatize its policies and to show,
how firmly it grips the wheel of
authority.
Noticeably, not a' word was
said in any of the three funeral
orations about “Anglo-American
aggressors” or “w a r mongers.”
From that standpoint, and from
Malenkov’s repeated emphasis on
peace, the addresses were the most
conciliatory uttered here in a long
time! But Malenkov spoke ap
provingly of the stubborn battle
of the “heroic Korean people”
who he said are defending their
independence, and of the “coura
eous fight” of Vietminh.
With the, stately funeral march
of Chopin, Stalin was borne on a
gun carriage in his red-draped cof
fin from the Hall of Columns to
a bier below Lenin’s tomb.
In oppressive silence, except
for the stomping of thousands of
feet on the cobblestones in the 12-
degree cold, Malenkov, Interior
Minister. L. P. Beria and Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov, in that
order, pronounced eulogies. Molo
tov’s voice alone appeared to
break.
At a signal the comrades and
companions of Stalin descended
from the top of the tomb, lifted
the casket swiftly and carried it
through the iron doors.
A seven hundred fifty piece
band again played Chopin,
the chimes of Spassky Tower rang
out at noon, and then a mighty
30-gun salute boomed out over
Moscow and in all the principal
cities of the vast Soviet Union.
For five minutes the wheels of
industry stopped and, factory and
ships’ whistles blew, from War
saw to the frozen wastes of Kam
chatka Peninsula.
(Continued on page eight)
WD Applications
Available Tonight
Students who will be juniors
next .semester and who have a 1.5
or better All-College average may
apply for rooms in the West Dor
mitories for next year from 7 to 9
tonight in 108 Old Main. Sixty
applications will be accepted.
Upon payment of the $35 room
and key deposit, the student binds
himself to room in the dox-mitories
during the .next school year.
Two students who wish to be
roommates should apply togethei’,
Allen C. St. Clair, acting director
of housing, has announced.
Ed Block to Give Skit
The senior education block will
present a skit and lead a discus
sion entitled “Developing Moral
and Spiritual Values” at the meet
ing of the Association of Child
hood. Education International at
7 tonight in Atherton Hall, lounge.
Speaks
Funeral
LA Council
To Sponsor
Evaluation
Richard Kirschner, chairman of
the faculty-evaluation committee,
reported to the Liberal Arts Stu
dent Council last night that let
ters and a sample evaluation test
are ready to be sent to all the in
structors in the School of Liberal
Arts. - •
The instructors are asked to re
ply to the Council's letter by or
dering as many tests as he needs.
The use of the tests is up to the
descretion of the individual
teacher. The tests are made up of
a series of questions pertaining to
the student’s evaluation of the in
structor.
A Liberal Arts career talk,
sponsored by the Council, will be
held at 7 p.m. Thursday in 317
Willard. The speaker will be Da
vid H. McKinley, associate pro
fessor of finance, who will talk
on the subject “The Future of the
College Graduate in the Field of
Law and Finance.” The career
talks are open to the public.
Tentative plans for a joint mix
er of the School of Liberal 'Arts
and the School of Education were
reported by Walter Back, chair
man of the mixer committee.
Robert Sherman reported that
work is being done to compile
recommendations of the Council
for the reduction of dishonesty in
final examinations.
The LA Angles, Liberal Arts
Student Council publication
should be out around April 1.
A list of study rooms in Wil
lard- Hall and Sparks Building
have been posted on the ground
floor bulletin boards in both
buildings.
Nittany Council
To Support
Dorm Mixers
Nittany council voted to give
a maximum of $l5 to the Barons,
Nittany-Pollock social organiza
tion to help pay for refreshments
at a mixer to be held March 19
at one of the women’s dormitor
ies. If the mixer is successful,
Barons will ask for more money
to help in a series of planned mix
ers for the Nittany-Pollock men
and dormitory women. Sixty per
cent of the money will be given
by Nittany council and 40 per
cent by Pollock council.
Discussion on a proposal that
the council give $lOO for a tele
vision set to be installed in the
TUB was tabled until further in-?
formation could be gathered.
The AIM judicial board of re
view that was recently set up was
explained by President Robert
Harding. He said that forms had
been distributed to dormitory
presidents and could be used by
anyone to report someone .who
had violated a College law.
Harding also set up a commit
tee to investigate the disappear
ance of irons in the Pollock
Union building.
The foods committee reported
that they wanted volunteers for
tasters of the food in the dining
hall. Also it was announced that
students have been leaving their
food trays on tables rather than
putting them on the proper tray
stands.
FIVE CENTS