THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953 Pei-et : Elected 'Head Of Flonai' COuhtil • Dr. Lawrence J. Perez, professor of civil engineering, was elected president of Honor Society Council Monday, and Robert. Euwema, sixth semester physics Major, was elected treasurer. They will hold office for the 1953-55 term. Council recently solved the problem of an earlier release of class standing lists by the Registrar, Mrs. Agnes McElwee, retiring presi 7 dent reported. Grades from now on will be released by March 21 Grades are needed by scholarship organizations so honors may be awarded at an, :earlier date. The late release of grades has been a problem for the. past 30 years, Mrs. McElwee said A student committee of coun cil members has been working on a project to further scholarship at the College. Emphasis is on the adviser system, Mrs. McElwee said. The work of the committee was done by Thomas- Schmalz reid, agriculture; Robert Euwema, chemistry and physics; Doris Ann COok, education; Gale Grimm, home economics; Douglas Schoerke, liberal arts; Charles Smeltzer, mineral industries; Gif ford Albright, engineering; Rob ert Kenyon, physical education; arid Donna Carlson, all-school. 'Committee work was reviewed in reports from Albright, Nancy Gemmill, and Schoerke. Albright's discussi6n covered the philoso phies of many deans concerning scholarship. The advisory pro gram, recognition of work, honor awards, and' development of an intellectual atmosphere were sug gestions. Miss Gemmill gave details of the advisory program. She dis cussed questions on the efficiency of the program and found it lack ing in uniformity. Schoerke said that an all-school plan for ad visors can not be initiated be .cause of various idiosyncracies of the schools. Free Speech (Continued from page four) ought to endure, and whether•we do not want a government which will stand for the things we be lieve in. We have got to take. .risks., Of course, it is not perfe'ctly - Safe to allow teachers to be free. There ought to be this balancing of youth against truth . . . And even. if an occasional teacher d o e - s speak very radically, that does not mean . . . students will be lieve what he says. ... We cannot lead sterilized lives . . . Democracy is not a . water-tight compartment. It is a great adventure, and 'in order to prepare people for that ad venture we have to teach them to think for themselves on the problems they will have to face when they grow up. It is not simply teaching them the:ideals of the day—we must train them to make the ideals of tomorrow. Yemm, Lederman Elected by Owens Cwens, sophomore women's ac tivities honorary, Monday night elected officers for next yea r. They are Jean Yemm, president; Ann Lederman, vice president; Roberta .Sankey, secretary; an d Fara McKnight, treasurer. Officers we r e installed last night at a banquet in the Maple Room of Home Economics -Build ing. The group will hold a bake sale from 8:30 a.m. until noon Satur day at 'the Hartman Electrical Co. eligg l ementi Course-Rittman Mr. and Mrs. Karl G. Rittman of Trenton, N.J. announce the en gagement of their daughter Joan to James M. Course Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Course, of Makefield Manor, Yardley, Pa. Miss Rittman is a sophomore at Trenton State Teachers Col lege. Mr. Course is an eighth semes ter civil engineering major at the College. Akers-Bratt Mr. and Mr's. Elmer Clark Bratt of Bethlehem announce the en gagement of their daughter Mar garet Ann, to Wayne Milton Akers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McKinley Akers of Cyr st a 1 Spring. Miss Bratt is an eighth semes ter science major and a ;member of Beta Sigma Omicron. . Mr.. Akers ,is an, eighth semester animal husbandry major at the College. The wedding will take place in September. Vaughan-Deemy Mr. and Mrs. John R. Deemy of Troy announce the engagement of their daughter Mary to Midship man James Vaughan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Vaughan, also of Troy. Miss Deemy is an eighth se mest e r• elementary education major and a member of Alpha Chi Omega. Midshipman Vaughan is a sec ond classman at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. Poly Sci Club to Meet' "John Q. Public—Foreign Rela tions'= will be discussed at 7:30 tonight in McElwain lounge by the Political Science Club. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Watts Lodge Debt_ Paid by Friends A debt of $lBOO on Watts Lodge, Christian Association cabin in Shingleton Gap, has been paid by friends in memory of the late Dr. Ralph L. Watts, dean of the School of Agriculture and direc tor of the Agricultural Experi ment Station from 1912 to 1939. Dr. Harry S. Brunner, professor of agricultural education and chairman . of the Watts-Groff plant exchange house fund, ex plained that contributions were originally intended to establish a home where G. W. "Daddy" Groff, former director of 'Penn State in China' at Lingnan Uni versity, and Mrs. Groff could live and work. The objective was changed, however, and money was used to finish paying the debt on the lodge. Theta Sig to H.old Tea For Pui3lisiters' Wives Theta Sigma Phi will sponsor a .tea from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fri day for the wives of newspaper men and publishers attending the Pennsylvania Newspaper Pu b lishers Association • convention this weekend. Committee heads are Irene Tay lor, refreshments; Jean Pfeffer, flowers; Margaret Trollier, decor ations; Elizabeth Harlor and Rita Armenis, name tags for' guests; and Grace Davis, ceanup. College Oichestra To Present Concert The College Symphony Orches tra will present its annual spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. The group will play composi tions by Leoncavallo, Bizet, Grieg, Kodaly, Coates and Rimsky-Kor sakov. Theodore K. Karhan, associate professor of music, will conduct for the concert. The New Above the waist the new -"t ter-Lt4lt is high utterly feminine but natural and unexaggerated. Gentle, the vray Fonnfit's Gay-Life Bras coax your curves into line - give you the most bewitching "Under-Look N for sheer bia bare-top dresses Fit smoothly, securely, cups, 32 to 38. C.lt l x) Strapless from rray of lovely sty Gayli.tfe; Bra on figure, $4.00 In nylon taffeta and nylon lace. Below Formfit's Gay-Life Strapless in spun nylon batiste cfnd embroidered nylon chifon. -$3.00 EfitP . • Right—Longline Gay-Life Strap:ess by Forrafit in riy lon taffeta and nylon lace. Ava ... $5.95 i.:-.:11414& `Other Gay-Life Strapless Styles from $3.00 Look Your Best at the Senior Ball . Stop at . . 148 S'. Allen Beecher House . Is 'Horne, Sweet Home' There may not be an embroidered sampler on the wall but the house is still Home, Sweet Home for the eight women who live there. It's Beecher House, one of three home management houses in which College - home economics majors stay for an eight-week practi cum. Beecher House, located across from the tennis courts and next door to Irwin Hall, has 11 residents now, all but one of whom are women. The man in the house is Charles James Beecher, six months old, on whom the home . ec majors practice the art of diap ering. The house adviser, an in structor in the School of Home Economics, and her daughter fill the rest of the three-storied home. ngrossed in Housework A tour of Beecher House is both educational and entertain ing. "We've got a very congenial bunch of kids," Rachael With erow, eighth semester home ec major, said, mixing • pablum for Chuckie Jim's breakfast. "Being here is like living in a little world apart from • the rest of campus." The women said they get so engrossed in housework they don't want to le a v e to attend classes. Work is divided into See the Mysterious Traveler OR SEX as Seen from a Loose Caboose GAMMA PH I's and Tekes naturally, at the Carnival "Outir-Look" calls.for the NEW FORM FIT "UNDER-LOOK" D.ank's -_- &: Co. By HELEN LOUISE LUYBEN eight jobs: cook, assistant cook, nurse, assistant nurse, hostess, housekeeper, laundress and buy er. Each job last for a period of six days. Baby Demands Attention Everyone's up bright and early for breakfast. Women must be at every meal except one during the week. The day's meals are 1946. • prepared on 90 cents per person and it's the buyers job to keep the accounts straight. There has been no tragic burn ing of pot roast or beans, Miss Witherow said. "Each cook's cook ing is different. We're getting to taste Pennsylvania Dutch food and other new dishes," she said. 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