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Mock Congress
Begins Today
The 18th annual Pennsylvania Debaters Convention and Mock
Congress will open at the College today when delegates from 12
schools arrive for registration.
the men’s debate squad, sponsor of the convention,
delegates in a broadcast at 9:30 tonight over WMAJ.
Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head of
the Speech department, will de
liver the welcoming address at
9 a.m. tomorrow at the committee
room of the State College Hotel;
Delegates from Allegheny,
Westminster, Slippery Rock, and
the College women’s team will
meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow to dis
cuss legislature on fair employ
ment practices.„
Representatives from Lehigh,
Mt. Mercy, St. Vincent’s and the
College men’s team will form a
second group to debate student
submitted bills on discrimination
in employment. All joint commit
tee meetings will be held in 10
Sparks. They will be organized
like general assemblies of Con
gress and are open to the public.
The general assembly will con
sider bills on national defense at
9 a.m. Saturday.
At the annual banquet at 6 p.m.
tomorrow a “Miss Gavel Girl of
1953” will be chosen from three
women delegates. Selection will
be on the basis of personal charm
and contributions td the conven
tion. 1
Members of
will address the
11 Students
Attend State
Music Festival
Eleven members of the Penn
State Symphony Orchestra are
attending the fourth annual Col
legiate Orchestra Festival for
Pennsylvania today through Sat
urday at Mansfield State Teach
ers College. Representatives from
the principal college orchestras
throughout Pennsylvania are par
ticipating in the festival.
Guest conductor of the festival
orchestra, which is composed of
musicians from the attending col
leges, is Fritz, Mahler, conductor
of the Erie Philharmonic Orches
tra.
Highlight of the meeting will
be the American premiere of the
“Valdres March” by Johannes
Hanssen, which will be performed
for the first time in this country
by "the festival orchestra.
Those from the College attend
ing the festival are Barbara Bist
line, Richard Brady, Jane Davis,'
Joan Else, Richard Gray, Fred Or
kiseski, Richard Potter, Donald
Rentschler, Luella Valmont, Bar
bara Thomas, and Genevieve
Taras.
Theodore K. Karhan, conductor
for the Penn State Symphony
Orchestra and ‘assistant professor
of music and music education, is
accompanying the group.
266 Inoculated
By Air ROTC
Two hundred sixty-six air sci
ence students completed the first
series of inoculations Tuesday in
preparation for their four-week
training period in June and July
to be held at 62 bases throughout
the United States.
This first series of inoculations
included a small pox vaccination
and the first tof two tetanus
shots. Subsequent shots, to be giv
en at one-week intervals, will in
clude three typhoid inoculations
and one final tetanus shot. The
series will be completed approxi
mately April 14.
The exact location of summer
camp for individual air science
members has not yet been de
termined.
Read WHS Participate
In Fellowship Screening
The National Research Council
has invited Dr. Harold J. Read,
professor of physical metallurgy,
to serve as a member of the
screening panels which will eval
uate the qualifications of candi
dates for fellowships to be granted
by the National Science Founda
tion.
This panel will screen applicants
who are seeking predoctoral fel
lowships in chemistry. The panel
is meeting today in Washington,.
D.C.
Student in Collision
Cars operated by Shelden Pen
men, fifth semester physical edu
cation major, and Otis Pheasant,
a State College resident, collided
Tuesday night at S. Allen street
and E. Foster avenue.
Total damage was estimated at
$7O. No injuries were reported.
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Official delegates from the Col
lege women’s team include Guyla
Woodward, Susan Holtzinger, Pa
tricia Marstellar, Jane Montgov
ery, Audrey Austin, and Barbara
Tokarsky.
Voting delegates from the Col
lege men’s team are Phillip Green
burg, Burton Treister, James Dun
lap, Ernest Schrongerger, Donald
Pripstein, and Lewis Martini.
Presiding over the convention
are Thomas Farrell, first vice
president and manager of men’s
debate; Joseph F. O’Brien, profes
sor of public speaking and men’s
debate coach; and William Mc-
Cartney, convention president
from Allegheny College.
Cornell to Host
Riding Team
The Penn State riding team
will leaye tomorrow morning for
Cornell where it will compete
against eight other schools in a
meet Saturday.
Members will be accompanied
by Capt. G. A. Gagarin, assistant
professor of physical education.,
. The team, which has been prac
ticing . all. semester, is composed
of William Brodnaxi Edward
Campbell, Patricia Gilbert, Edna
Grabiak, Ruth King, Jean Lath
laen, Gail Smith, and Nancy Wild.
The College is also v sending five
horses.
The events, of the meet will be
in a modified Olympic pattern.
This includes jumping, horseman
ship and hacking classes.
French, Spanish Mixer
A film on Maillol, a French
sculptor, will be shown, to the
French Club at 6:30 tonight in
228 Sparks. After the film, the
French and Spanish clubs, will
hold a mixer at Alpha Zeta.
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Eng Council
Lays Plans
For Smoker
Plans for a smoker for students
in the Engineering school were
made at an informal faculty
council mixer of the: Engineering
Student' Council Tuesday night
at Triangle fraternity.
The smoker is scheduled to. be
held one . week before the En
gineering Open House to familiar
ize students with the open house
program.
A competition in open house
posters was announced for archi
tecture students. The winning
poster will be duplicated on the
cover of the Penn State Engineer
published for the open house.
The Aeronautical Engineering
department has planned three ex
hibits for the open house program,
it was reported. Each of the other
departments is slated to present
exhibits, with industrial engineer
ing planning six.
General student council elec
tions will be held April 28-29 with
election of the Engineering Stu
dent Council president scheduled
for April, 21.
'Those appointed to the com
mittee in charge of the smoker
include Charles Webb, Lowell
Minor, . George Yingling, J ack
Helm, John Hahn, and Donald
Blouch. Robert Osborne was ap
pointed in charge .of the open
house publicity.
Venus, Jupiter
May Be Seen
At Observatories
College observatories will be
open 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomor
row for the viewing of Venus
and Jupiter, weather permitting.
Members of Alpha Nu, asto
nomical society, will operate the
telescopes.
Passing the earth about every
year and a half, Venus is now
moving back toward the sun along
part of its orbit between the earth
and the sun; Dr. Carl A. Bauer,
assistant professor of players, said.
Because Ven u s’ illuminated
face is turned almost directly
away from the earth and the pres
ence of brilliant white clouds
hides the entire solid surface of
Venus, viewers' see only a thin
crescent and no surface features
of the planet, Dr. Bauer said.
Finance Prof to Give
First LA Career Talk
The first Liberal Arts career
talk, sponsored by the Liberal Arts
Student Council, ■ will be held at
7 tonight in 317 Willard.'. -
David H. McKinley, associate
of finance, 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.
Foresters Meet Tonight
William Bromley, executive sec
retary of . the American Pulpwood
Association, will speak to the For
estry Society at 7 tonight in , 3
White Hall.
AIM Board Passes
I n d epe nde n t Pin Plan
* The proposed Association of Independent Men’s pin was ap
proved at last night’s AIM Board of Governors meeting; Algo, pass
ed by the Board was the establishment of a plaque recognizing
outstanding independent seniors. . ■
The planned discussion of the present AIM elections commit
tee and suggestions to its alteration were postponed.’ William
Shifflett, president of : the Board,
said it was removed from tide
agenda to shorten the : meeting,
but would be brought up at the
next one. '
Six to Attend
Dance Festival
Six members of the New Bav
arian Schuhplattlers will take
part in the fifth annual folk fes
tival to be held Saturday even
ing at Syracuse University. The
theme of the festival, sponsored
by the Syracuse Outing Club, will
be “Spring Tours the World.”
The Schuhplattlers, a German
folk dance group, was started on
campus by Warren Homm a s,
sixth semester arts and letters
major. Wearing costumes pat
terned after traditional peasant
outfits, the group has performed
on campus and in the nearby area.
At. the festival, they will dance
“The Haushamer” and “The
Dance of Courtship.” ■
Those who will be taking part
are Samuel Bolan, Alberta Mills,
instructor in physical education,
Dorothy Ebert, Betty Byrem, Rob
ert James, and Hommas.’
Any other dance groups inter
ested in taking part in the festi
val may -contact James at' exten
sion 1169.
Borough Fines
Three Students
Three students were fined
Tuesday b Justice of the Peace
Guy G. Mills after they were ar
rested and Charged with stealing
the barricade around the Sidewalk
cave-in at Calder Alley and S.
Allen street. -
The three are Boyd R. Hedrick,
fourth semester industrial engi
neering major; Lawrence
Schmidt, second semester me
chanical engineering major; and
Edward Warren, fourth semester
electrical engineering major.
The trio evidently used a car,
according to police, and w e,r e
caught an hour, after the theft.
They told police they were .re
turning the trestle. -5
Hedrick, driver of the car-;; was
fined $25 and costs. Schmidt, and
Warren each paid $l5 plus , costs.
Rice to Address EE's
On Airport Lighting
Randall H. Rice of the Western
Electric Corporation wilLaddress
the fifth Electrical Engineering
Seminar at 4:10 p.m. today' in
■llO-Electrical Engineering:. **
Rice will speak-on airport light-:
ing. a subject in which he, has
specialized since he joined, the
company in 1948. The meeting Is
open to both students and faculty.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1953
A report on the recent North
eastern Regional Independent
Student Association Convention
was given, and the group agreed
to send delegates to the national
conclave. To handle this business,
the post of a liaison man between,
the local group and higher. _ offi
cials was created and President
Shifflett named Philip Austin,
town council representative, .'to
fill .it. :
The gold and black, triangular
shaped pin was approved as the
symbol for all independent men
at the College from a drawing
submitted by the L. G. Balfour
Go. It was not announced when
the pin would be available, but
the price was expected to' be
about $3.30 including tax.
Upon setting up the outstand
ing senior, independent recogni
tion plaque, the Board expanded
its present practice of selecting
an outstanding senior each spring.
Under the new plan, three sen
iors would . be; named on the
plaque each year, each for excel
lence in one of ; the following
fields: activities, athletics, and
scholarship.
The -plaque itself, which is in
tended for . display in the new
Student Union Building when it
is completed, is an 18 by ten inch
mahogany- panel. Mounted on
this are three rows of eight gold
plates and, at the top, is placed
a figure on ,a five inch disc en
closed in a wreath.
Robert Smoot and Thomas
Kidd reported on the regional
convention held Feb. 27, 28, and
March 1 at Cornell. They said the
setup at the College is undoubt
edly the strongest in the region.
The .Board decided to send a
delegation to the National Inde
pendent Student. Association Con
vention on April 22 through 25
at Purdue, but postponed setting
the-size until further information
< on the " expenses could be ob
tained. ■'"V-
. The Spring independent dance
was set for April 25 in the West
Dorm- lounge.
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