PM Tr TWP Co bined Arts Alsplay Opens The Combined Arts Exhibit, part of the Combined Arts festival planned by student representatives - from the various arts depart ments, opened yesterday on the second floor lounge of Old Main'. The display, planned and set up, by a student committee, fea tures a wide variety of art and design in water colors, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, etchings, en gravings, architecture, landscap ing, and oils. Open Houses Planned Displays illustrate the com bined efforts of art students, showing the relation of one type art with other arts. Program for the coming week includes open houses by the Art Education and Architecture de partments. The Art Education de partment will open its program at 2 p.m. today with a coffee hour sponsored by the Art Education Forum. -Exhibits will continue May 9 with paintings, sculpture, gra phics, ceramics, and - a puppet show on display at the Art Edu cation department in the Tem porary Classroom Building. Architecture Open House will be held today through May 9. Five O'Clock Theater Push-Up Skill Is Requirement For He-Man Mastery of the art of doing push-ups, as well as an Atlas-like build and sheer strength, is desir able in men competing for the title of All-College He-Man, ac cording to Joseph. Barnett, chair man of the contest. Approximately 30 entries in the He-Man preliminaries will remain after the first event, Barnett said. The preliminaries will touch off Spring Week activities at 5 p.m. May 11 on the large field east of Nittany Dormitories. A standing broadjiimp, 100-yard dash, shot put, and soccer kick judged on a point basis will de termine the eight finalists. In the finals, following the car nival parade May 12, contestants will. be entered under special titles of their choosing, with cos tumes to match. The All-College He-Man will be chosen for ap propriate dress, weight lifting, a specialty skill test, - and physical build in the bathing suit he must wear beneath his costume. He-Man entries are due at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Student Un ion desk in Old Main. WD to Elect New President Monday Night West Dorm Council will hold its spring presidential election at 7 p.m. Monday in the main lounge of McKee Hall. Independent men who intend to live in the West Dorm area next year are eligible for nomination. This is the first year that nom inations and the election have been held in the spring. The re vision is the result of a recent amendment to the council consti tution. The new amendment states: "West Dorm Council shall• elect a president for the following year within the week following the Association of Independent Men's spring elections." The amendment was officially approved in living units by the necessary two-thirds majority re quired for a constitutidnal amend ment. Nominations will be considered and seconded by the council. Nominees will be permitted to give a brief review of their quali fications before the president is elected by the 18-member council. Cutler to Head Physics Group Members of Sigma Pi Sigma, national physics honor society, recently elected Warren Cutler, graduate student in physics, pres ident for 1953-54. Other officers are Ernest Yost, vice president; Jean Bennett, sec retary; and Robert Read, treas urer. Dr. F. Raymond Smith, asso ciate professor of physics, was elected adviser. The chapter initiated Robert Newnham, Arthur Pavlovic, Ed ward Scicchitano, Howard Shields, Charles Rockman and Howard Weisberger Tuesday in Osmd Laboratory. A chapter banquet was held in the Cadillac Room at the Auto port following the ceremony. Dr. Henry L. Yeagley, associate pro fessor of physics, spoke on the "Physical Basis of Bird Naviga tion." FOR BEST RESULTS USE COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS FRATERNITY PAPERS • LETTERPRESS - OFFSET COMMERCIAL PRINTING Pugh & Beaver State College THE DAILY CO Cooperating with the Depart ment of Architecture in setting up exhibits - are Fine Arts, Land scape Architecture, Drama, and Dance. General exhibit director is Charles Hall, tenth semester architecture major. This is the first year students have been in charge of the festival. Previously a committee of faculty members planned the exhibits. An original script-in-hand pro duction will be given by the Five O'Clock Theater at 5 p.m: Tues day in the Little Theater, base ment of Old Main, and a modern dance recital will be given at 8 p.m. Wednesday in White Hall. AF 'lnaugurates Officer Program Two programs inaugurated by the Air Force Tor direct commis sions and a Marine. Corps officer candidate course are currently open to graduating seniors. Male seniors majoring in chem istry, physics, engineering, or mathematics may apply . for direct commission in the A r Force. Minimum active du t y require ment for -the progr a m is two years. Graduating students who have completed mathematics through integral calculus and one year of college physics may qualify for commission under the Air Force meterology training program. Un der this program applicants will go into active service, and be as signed to one of seven colleges and universities affiliated with the Air Force. Applications for the two pro grams may be obtained from the Commanding General, First Air Force, Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, attention of the di rector of Military Personnel Pro curement. - - The Marine Corps officer can didate course will convene July 9 for a ten-week training course leading to second lieutenant's commissions. Young GOPs Picnic The Penn State chapter of , the, Young Republican Club will hold a picnic at noon tomorrow at Whipple Dam, according to Ben jamin Sinclair, president. LEMAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Ntiis''PEolin State Fee Deadline Today The deadline 'for organiza tions to submit $1 checks for entries in the Miss Penn State contest is noon today, accord ing to Nancy D. White, Spring Week coronation chairman. Parade applications will be accepted until noon Monday, George Richards, parade direc tor, has announced. Both checks and applications may be handed in at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. Ugly Man Parade Set For Tuesday Costumed Caravan To Include Band A parade of ugly Man contest ants will be held at 7 . p.m. Tues day to start off campaigns for the three-day contest. Each contestant, outfitted in a costume similar to the one his picture was 'taken in, will ride along the parade route in a decor ated car. • A band composed of members of. Phi Mu Alpha, music honorary, will lead the parade. Starting at the corner of E. Prospect and Locust Lane, the parade will proceed down Locust Lane to E. College avenue. From there the group will turn right on Shortlidge road and then left on Pollock road. From Pollock road the group will move to Bur rowei road. From there they will turn right to the parking lot in front of Recreation Hall,. where the group will disband. Eight additional Ugly Man con testants entered the contest Thurs day night. The names of the contestants and their sponsoring organiza tions are Norman Alpert, Tri Vi; James Bloxham, Phi Kappa Tau; Richard Brugger, Alpha Sigma Phi; Robert Frame, first floor Thompson; David Pellnitz, Kappa Delta; Bruce Schroeder, Phi Delta Theta; Robert Sherman, Beta Sig ma Rho; and Ronald Thorpe, Del ta Upsilon. Students may enter the Ugly Man identification contest until Tuesday. Pictures of contestants are now on display down town in the Western Union office window. 4 Students Senior Ball Four students will have a chance to lead Sammy Kaye's band when 'he 'brings his famous radio-television feature, "So You Want to Lead a Band," to the Senior Ball, May 15. All students'are eligible to submit letters to the Student Union desk saying (in 25 words or less) why they like to dance to Sammy . • Kaye. The Senior Ball committee, headed by William O'Malley, will choose a number of the best let ters and submit them to judges for final selection. Judges will be announced later. Four winning contestants, two men and two women, will be an nounced at the dance. They will be offered the "Swing and sway" baton for one dance number and will be awarded prizes from lo cal merchants. Arrangements are being made to award an auto graphed baton to the best band leader, O'Malley said. Now in its ninth year, "So You NOW PRICE TODAY: Adults, all times-74c incl. tax IWO frogerats Comp Prof Doubles As -Ballgd-„,c9jje.dtir ' In the spring some men's fancies turn to thoughts of love but other men, like Samuel Bayard, ,associate professor of English composition, go off into the mountains in Search of folk ballads. Bayard, one of the foremost collectors of American ,folk music in the United States, has, in the past 25 years • deserted civilization often enough to gather a book full of fife tunes and drawers full of other unpublished folk ballads. Equipped with a 10-cent music tablet on which •he records the words and music sung to him by mountaineers, the professor sets out to visit the families living in the hills of Green County in west ern Pennsylvania. He goes by bus and mail hack, and when the grass gets too high, he walks. Native West Virginian What kind of people does he visit? "They're just the people who remember the folk songs," said 'Mr. Bayard. "Some are decor ous and some are rude; some are good solid citizens, and others so cial outcasts." Bayard told of - one old native West Virginian he visited—a grim little man whose talk was dismal. It seems the man's wife was crip pled with rheumatism and his neighbors were trying to steal his money and property from him. "All the fellow would sing was a string of comic songs. He said he could have remembered more songs for me if I'd only brought along. a little snort," Bayard said. "Those were prohibition days, you remember." , . Natives Heiitant to . Sing -Bayard, who teaches'' a course in American folk song in English, has made recordings of some of the natives singing the folk tunes. Natives are sometimes hesitant about singing .for him, but Bay ard said, just go in and explain what I want to do. I ask them to sing, and soon as they see I like the songs as well as they do, everything's fine. Folk tunes he has heard in west ern Pennsylvania are representa tive of all Anglo-American folk I music, Bayard said. The ballad is traditionally reserved, staid, sober and plain; the music is austere and undemonstrative. - - - The origin of the American folk song lies in the religious revival which occured in the United States in the period between 1800 (Continued on page eight) Want to Lead a Band" has been presented on three television channels_ and numerous radio net works. It was recently spotlighted on the "Samrny Kaye Show" over CBS-TV. Over 10,000 amateur conductors have already tried their prowess with Kaye's baton. After individ ual interviews, contestants will be given the baton. Musicians will follow every motion by the leader, and the winner will be judged by audience reaction. Assisting O'Malley on the Sen ior,Ball committee are Lucy Barr, Howard Wright, Lester Hallman, Edna Grabiak and Boyd Wolfe. (CATHAip4i, By HELEN LOUISE 'LUMEN to Lead Band • DOORS OPEN 12:30 PERM is#ll6oll t Ni WV( third Ihdt~d Arndt`:'` SATURDAY; MAY 2, 1953 Speech Contest Entrants to Vie In Semi-finals Semi-finals for the John Henry Frizzell extempore speaking. con test; sponsored annually by the Department of Speech, will be gin at 8 p.m. Monday in 312 Sparks. Entrants in the semi-final rounds will speak for five min utes, without notes, on topics chosen by themselves. Six win ners will compete in the final round, set for 7 p.m. Thursday in 121 Sparks. Finalists will speak from eight to ten minutes, without notes, on a topic other than the one used in the semi-finals. First and sec ond prizes will be awarded. First prize will consist of the John Henry Frizzell award of merit in extempore speaking and the Pennsylvania State College prize of $5O. The Forensic Coun cil prize of $25 and the Frizzell award is the second prize. The contest is named in honor of John Henry Frizzell, first head of •the Department of Speech. Frizzell now holds the rank of professor of speech emeritus and College chaplain emeritus. ••••• • • • • IN PERSON • ) • • s , j7I.%)VG AND - SAMMY KAYE AND HIS ORCHESTRA PLUS I That Radio-TV Favorite "SO YOU WANT AD A BAND" ••• • • TO L • • • 1 BE A CONTESTANT Write a letter of 25 words or less telling why you like to dance to Sammy Kaye PRIZES 11111111MIE Send letters to Student Union Senior Ball Friday, May 15 Semi-Formal Rec Hall 9 to 1 s4_ per couple tz' 4'4*
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