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12,753 Registration Total Ranks
4th Largest in College's History
A total of 12,753 students have registered at the College for the fall semester, marking the fourth
largest enrollment in the College's history, according to official enrollment figures released by
C. 0. Williams, dean of admissions and registrar.
The figure exceeds the third largest registration of a year ago, when 11,539 students enrolled
on campus for the fall semester with 1276 attending classes at Mont Alto and centers, making the
Prom Queen
Applications
Due Oct. 26
No applications for the Junior
Prom queen title have been re
ceived at the Student Union desk
•in Old Main, Patricia Ellis, coro
nation chairman, announced yes
terday.
Miss Ellis said that she was
disappointed at the lack of re
sponse to the contest.
Entries must be submitted at
the Student Union desk by Oct.
26. Any campus organization or
group of individuals may sponsor
contestants who must be juniors
at the College.
Photographs 5 by 7 or 8 by
10 inches are preferred, with the
name and address of the entrant
arid the sponsor's nanie on the
back of each photograph. Snap
shots will not be accepted, Miss
Ellis said.
Five finalists for the contest
will be selected by a committee
of 15 outstanding juniors. The
selections committee will be chos
en this week by Frank J. Simes,
den of men; Pearl 0. Weston,
dean of women; Richard Lemyre,
All-College president; and Joseph
Barnett, junior class president.
Contestants will be interview
ed Oct. 28. The five finalists will
be introduced at the Junior Week
Talent Review Nov. 4 in the Tem
porary' Union Building. Voting by
Juniors will take place beginning
Nov. 2 at the Student Union desk.
Barnett will crown the queen
at the Junior Prom Nov. 6 in
Recreation Hall. Alec Beliasov,
co-chairman of the talent review,
will be master of ceremonies.
The queen will receive an en
graved trophy and gifts from The
Candy Cane, the Blair Shop; Si
mon's shoe store, and Schlow's
women's store. She will also re:
oeive a bracelet engraved with
h er- name and title.
Young GOPs
Name Officials
For Campaign
Ten campaign officials were ap
pointed_ for the November state,
county, and borough campaign by
the Young Republican Club at a
meeting Thursday night at the
State College Hotel.
Campaign officials are Joeph
Galati, campaign manager; Carl
Saperstein, campaign promoter;
Olivea Florig, secretary; Robert
Kurtz, research director; and
-precinct directors Charles Kurtz,
north; David Eber, south; Emma
lyn Schwing, east; Robert Dennis,
west; Stanley Juras, east-central,
and William Gore, west-central.
The Young Republican State
College campaign headquarters
will be set up at 222 West Beaver
avenue, according to Benjamin
Sinclair, club president.
Sinclair also said district team
members for the campaign will
be announced later.
The club is backing Republican
candidates Leon D. Skinner, as
sistant professor of English comp
osition, for burgess; E. L. Willard,
for district attorney, and Calvin
Wright and Harold Irvin for state
judge.
Lion Steering Group -
Wilt Meet Tomorrow
The steering committee of the
Lion Party will meet at 2 p.m.
tomorrow in 202 Willard, Benja
min Sinclair, clique chairman, has
announced.
Members of last year's commit
tee and former Lion Party candi
dates are automatically members
of the steering . committee, Sin
clair said.
Freshman and sophomore clique
officer nom' .. ??s have b - !en a:kefl
Ly Sinclair to ai.l4id the meeting.
total 12,815.
The largest enrollment in the
history of the College took place
in 1949 when 14,732 students reg
istered on campus and at centers.
Students registered on campus
this fall number 11,529, while a
total of 1224 students are enrolled
in classes at Mont Alto and cen
ters. These statistics include 1337
graduate students on campus. Two
hundred twenty-two special stu
dents have enrolled this fall, with
11 registered off campus.
The total enrollment includes
8513 men and 3016 women on the
campus, making a ratio of 2.82
men to every woman. The ratio
off campus is 4.25 men to each
woman, with 233 women and 991
men enrolled at centers.
Two hundred thirty-seven worn
en and 1100 men are registered
as graduate students and 144
women and 89 men as special
students.
The largest class enrollment, in
cluding on campus and at centers,
is •in the freshmen class, with
3006 men and 1060 women, total
ing 4066 first and second semes
ter students.
Total enrollment in the soph
omore class is 2954, of that 2201
men and 753 women. Registered
in the junior class are 1583 men
and 612 women, making the total
2195, which exceeds the total en
rollment of 2068 .studentS in the
senior class, in which 1525 men
and 543 women are registered.
Of the nine schools on campus,
the largest enrollment of 2164
students is in the School of En=
gineering. Of this number, only
39 are women. The second largest
student enrollment is in the Ag
riculture school, where registra
tion reached 1258. Third and
fourth are the Liberal Arts and
Education schools, with 1820 and
1202 students enrolled respec
tively.
Ogontz center has an enroll
ment of 385 students, making it
the• largest of the six centers. Fol
lowing in order of the most stu
dents enrolled are Altoona, Hazle
ton, Pottsville, Behrend, and
Dußois. Ninety-nine students are
registered at Mont Alto.
cc Hall
The new • wing of Recreation
Hall is over 90 per cent complete
and officials of the School of Phy
sical Education and Athletics
have' hopes of moving into the
new addition by the start of next
semester.
The wing, which is now in its
25th month of construction, needs
only plumbing, plastering, and
painting before it will be ready
for final checks by General State
Authority inspectors.
The addition joins Rec Hall on
the south side. The two-story
brick building is 221 feet by 123
feet.
Locker space, long a problem
facing physical education offi
cials, will be more than doubled
when the wing is opened. The
old-style 1, n , f. ,, b:c lockers will be
cii !ctrl -1 ,-.11:7c1 n-v full-size lock
ers will be installed,,
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Fraternities
Begin Work
On Displays
Pre-homecoming preparations
will get underway this weekend
as fraternities begin work On their
lawn displays which each house
prepares as part of their welcom
ing program for returning"almuni.
The theme of the lawn displays
this year will be "Greeks .in the
Community." The winning frater
nity will be awarded 'a trophy and
15 points toward the outstanding
fraternity award. Displays will be
judged on the basis of originality,
craftsmanship, and adherence to
the theme. Judging will take place
Friday night.
According to the lawn display
regulations announced by Thomas
Schott, president of the Interfra
ternity Council, no more than $25
may be spent on each display.
They must be kept intact until 6
p.m. Saturday. Any infraction of
the rules will automatically dis
qualify a display.
Second place winner in the , con
test will receive 12 points toward
the outstanding fraternity award
and the third place winner will
receive ten points. Three fraterni
ties will receive honorable men
tion awards of eight points.
Alpha Zeta won the lawn dis
play contest last year and retired
the Alumni Association Trophy
which formerly rotated among the
winners of the contest.
WSGA House Officers
Marie Wagner, fifth semester
home economics major, was elect
ed vice president; and Janet Ste
venson, fifth semester education
major, secretary of WSGA House
of Representatives Thursday
night.
Wing Nears Finish
A completely modern training
room_ will be placed on the
ground-level floor. A staff locker
room, two visiting team dressing
rooms for indoor sports,.a locker
room for officials, and an athletic
stock room will also be on the
ground floor.
The expanded locker room for
physical education students and
showers will take up the bulk of
the floor space on the ground
floor.
On the first floor will be of
fices for the dean, assistant dean,
and " athletic coaches. The entire
Athletic Association, now housed
in Old Main, will also be moved
to the new wing and advance sale
athletic tickets will be sold there.
Six handball courts will be lo
cated on , the first floor. The four
small courts now in Rec Hall
will be taken out and the area
Shannon to Speak
At Chapel Service
The Reverend Jones B. Shannon, rector of St. Andrew's Episco
pal Church, State College, will speak At Chapel on "The Second
Possibility" at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium.
A graduate of Culver' Military Academy, the Reverend Shannon
received his A.B. from the University of Michigan and his B.D.
from Virginia Theological Semin
ary.
He was president of Shannon
and Co., an investment firm in
Detroit, for 13 years before re
signing this position in 1949 to
enter the Episcopal ministry. In
1952, he came to State College as
rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal
and Episcopalian chaplain to stu
dents at Penn State.
Dr. Charles C. Noble, Dean, of
Hendricks Memorial Chap e , l,
Syracuse University, was origin
ally scheduled to address the
service, but was taken ill at the
last minute and was forced to
cancel his appearance.
As part of tomorrow's service,
Chapel Choir, under the direction
of Mrs. Willa Q. Taylor, will sing
as introit "I Have A Wondrous
Joy" (Spobau) and an anthem "If
Ye Love Me Keep My Command
ments" (Tarns).
George E. Ceiga, Chapel organ
ist, will play as prelude "Gottes
Sohn ist kommen, ' -as offeratory
"Adagio," and as postlude "Pas
torale" all by J.S. Bach.
3 Ag Awards
Are Available
Three memorial scholarships,
ranging in value from $25 to $5O,
are now available to agriculture
students, Dr. Russell B. Dicker
son, vice dean of the School of
Agriculture, has announced.
One scholarship will go to a
junior man or woman, one to a
senior man or woman, and an
other to any student in a four
year agriculture course. Recipi
ents,.will be selected on the basis
of financial need, scholarship, and
character.
These, scholarships will be pre
sented Nov. 14. The committee of
academic standards would like to
have all applications as soon as
possible, Dickerson said.
Applications are available in
112 'Agriculture.
will be utilized by Coach Charlie
Sp eidel - for wrestling.
A complete projection room
/11 he installed on the first floor.
The room will be used to show
movies of athletic contests to
coaches and team members.
A research laboratory, a semi
nar room, and a classroom will
also be . located on the first floor.
Six bowling alleys, which were
to be installed in the basement,
have not been built. The alleys
were included in original plans
and the space' in, the basement is
still there, but if they are to be
completed, the College will have
to do it without the GSA aid.
The win.g is the first step of a
long-range construction p 1 a n
hoped - for by officials -of the
school. Distant plans call for ad=
dition of new wings on both the
north and west sides.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.
Chest Drive
Committees
Are Chosen
The executive committee and
solicitations chairmen for the
1953-54 Campus Chest drive have
been announced by Richard
Gibbs, chairman.
Interfraternity Council repre
sentatives will solicit fraternities.
Floor presidents will solicit in
men's dormitorieS and Alpha Phi
Omega, national service frater
nity, will solicit town men.
Panhellenic representatives will
solicit in the sororities. Floor
presidents and Leonides will sdli
cit independent women and Penn
State Christian Association will
solicit town women.
Each student council will so
licit the faculty in it's school.
Members of the executive com
mittee are Myron_Enelow, solici
tations chairman; Juliana Fees,
secretary; John Flanagan, special
events chairman; John Brunner.
tabulations chairman; and Allan
Rosenthal, prqmotions chairman.
Advisers are Luther Harshbar
ger, College chaplin; Bernard
Taylor, executive director of the
Penn State Foundation; and
George Donovan, director of ' the
student union.
Solicitations chairmen and the
areas in which they will cam
paign are Harry Shank, fraterni
ties; Ellsworth Smith, men's
dormitories; Richard Schuler,
town men; Alma Gratz, sororities;
Hilda Hogeland, independent wo
men; Barbara Simonds, town wo
men; 'Dr. Russell 8., Dickerson,
vice dean of the School of Agri
culture, and Kirk Garber, fa
ulty.
Employment
Guide Books
Are Received
College Placement officials said
they recently received company
information books for about 500
different companies and services.
The purpose of these books is
to help students who are prepar
ing for graduation but are unsure
of their course in regard to em
ployment; however, they are also
of value to a student interested
in obtaining a job.
This summer the College Place
ment Service revised the bro
chures and placed them in stan
dard binders. The books contain
information provided by organi
zations which regularly employ
Penn State graduates. They are
designed to give students gen
eral information about companies
with which they might obtain
jobs.
Students may lobk at the books
by inquiring at the College Place
ment Service, 112 Old Main, dr at
the office of their department or
school.
Blue Key Sets Deadline
For Application Entries
Monday is the deadline for sub
mitting applications to Blue Key,
junior men's hat • society, John
Speer? president, has announced.
Fifth semester men having a
1.0 or better All-College average
are eligible for membership. Let
ters of application may be ad
dressed to Speer and handed in
at the Student Union desk in Old
Main. They must include the ac
plicant's name, college address,
curriculum, All-College average,
a list - of activities and any first
managerships.
French dub Officers .
New officers of "Le Cercle
Francais," French club, are Eu
genia Larber, president; Jean
Sheitson, .vice president; Anita
Jackson, secretary, and Jane Yah
res, treasurer.