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VOL. 53, No. 27
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The Military Ball has been declared eligible for classification
under student regulations governing late permissions along with the
Junior and Senior Proms and the Interfraternity Council Ball.
The ruling, delivered by the Senate Committee on Student Af
fairs, drops the freshman and sophomore class dances and adds the
Autumn Ball
To Feature
'Wonder'
A surprise feature of this year's
annual Autumn Ball will be the
"Tenth Wonder of the World."
Few hints of the attraction have
been given by William Shifflett,
decorations co-chairman.
The informal dance, is sched
uled to be held from 9 to 12 p.M.
tomorrow in - Recreation H a 11.
Sponsors of the ball are the As
sociation of Independent Men and
Leonides, independent women's
organization. Featured will be
Gerry Kehler's band and two
vocalists.
The "Tenth Wonder" attrac
tion, Shifflett said, is something
that has never been used before
at a College dance. It is the new
est thing, he said, on any campus.
A 21-inch loving cup will also
be presented during intermission I
time to the winner of the Penn
State-Texas Christian University
game. Presentation of the bronze
cup will inaugurate a new tra
dition between the rivals.
The autumn theme of the dance
will include a false crepe paper
ceiling, real trees, leaves and
colored_ spotlights.
Tickets are on sale at the Stu
dent Union desk in Old Main, and
may be obtained from elected
representatives in Leonides or
AIM. The price is $2.50 per couple.
Ed Students Will Elect
2 Freshmen to Council
Two seats in Education Student
Council will be filled by fresh
men in the elections Monday and
Tuesday.
Freshmen may obtain nomina
tion blanks at 10 5 Burrowes.
Forms must be returned tomor
row.
Candidates may be self-nom
inated, or may be nominated by
any student in the Education
school, Sarah Lessig, elections
chairman, said.
Community Concerts
To Start Monday
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir of London, which will open the Com
munity Concert series, at 8 p.m. Monday in Schwab Auditorium, in
cludes a repertoire of composers from the 16th century to the present
clay.
In the program the choir will sing the works of Thomas Weekes,
Heinrich Schutz, Ave Verum,
Wolfgang Mozart, Samuel Sebas
tian Wesley and John Sebastian
Bach.
The choir is composed of 30
choristers or "Children of Paul's"
and 18 men called the Vicars
Choral. .
The choir's history dates back
more than 800 years. As far back
as .the 14th century the ,choir is
mentioned as producing scriptural
plays.
In 1876 a school was founded
for the choristers. Until the school
was, founded, customs officers
"pressed" boys into the Royal
Choirs of St. Paul's. More than 20
boys now apply for each vacancy
in the choir. •
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Ball Eligible
Late Hours
Military Ball.
Late permissions are "overned
by Rule Z-2c of the Senate,Regu
lations for Undergraduate Stu
dents which says: Without spe
cial permission from the Commit
tee on Student Affairs, social
functions, except class and All-
College dances, shall not continue
later. than 12 o'clock midnight.
Consideration of the matter was
brought up by a petition from
Douglas Kosan, chairman of the
Military Ball committee, who re
quested late permissions for that
dance. The study was under the
direction of Richard Lemyre, All-
College president and student
member of the student affairs
committee.
• Lemyre said that in investigat
ing the dances to see which quali
fied for late permissions, data
considered included attendance
figures, if the dance features a
name band, the price of tickets,
the place held, and the people in
vited.
All of the four dances classified
have attendance records of equal
standing, all over 2000, while the
other ones have been drawing less
than 1000. These four- are also the
only ones hiring national- name
bands.
While the Military Ball limits
the number of tickets sold, Lem
yre said, anyone may- purchase a
ticket, and ROTC students come
from all schools of the College
and represent a large percentage
of the student body.
Thief Nets $lOO
From Fraternity
A fraternity was robbed of over
$lOO in a mid-morning burglary
Tuesday. The robbery occurred
in the major fraternity area of
the town.
0. Edward Pollock, assistant to
the dean of, men in charge of frat
ernity affairs, stated that many
fraternities invite robbery when
they continue to leave doors and
windows open during the night.
Special precautions should be
taken by individual fraternity
men during Homecoming Week
end, he said. There will be many
people wandering in and out of
the fraternities whose identity will
not be known by everyone.
I The choristers attend school 40
weeks of the year. Most leave
school at the age of 14 ,when they
enter universities and professions.
During their school year the
boys sing for 500 services and take
part in royal celebrations. In June
the choir was one of two selected
to sing with the Westminster Ab
bey Choir at the Coronation of
Queen Elizabeth 11.
The choir will tour in the Uni
ted States and Canada until Nov.
25. It is the first_ tour the choir
has made in this country.
The purpose of the trip is to
pay tribute to 28,000 American
servicemen who died in Britain'
during World War 11.
FOR A.BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1953
JOAN ZIEGLER, third semester elementary education major, sits
on her throne after she was proclaimed queen of 1953 Homecoming
activities. She was named queen last night at the first performance
of the Thespian show "Let's Face It." Flanking Miss Ziegler are
Ann Skapik and Alfred Klimcke, actors in the first skit.
Joan Ziegler
Hom.ecoming
Miss Joan Ziegler, third semester elementary education major
from Mt. Lebanon, was crowned 1953 Homecoming Queen, last night
at the first performance of the Thespian show "Let's Face It."
Miss Ziegler, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was sponsored
by Sigma Chi. She was chosen Monday night by secret vote of the
football squad. Other finalists *ere Juliana Fees, Louise Justin,
ICU Pep Rally
To Feature
McCoy Ta I k
Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the
School of Physical Education and
Athletics, will be guest of honor
at the Penn State-Texas Christian
game pep rally at 7:30 tonight in
front of Old Main.
The-rally is sponsored by Blue
Key, junior men's hat society, and
Cwens, spohomore women's hat
society.
The Blue Band, led by James
Dunlop, will form at the corner
of Prospect avenue and Locust
Lane at 7 p.m. and march through
town to Old Main.
Head Cheerleader Bruce Wag
ner and the cheering squad will
lead songs and cheers at the rally.
Emcees will be Fred Owlett, fifth
semester psychology major, and
Robert Piper, fifth semester in
dustrial engineering major.
Hatmen and women will rout
frosh' from the dorms at 7 p.m.
Parmi Nous and Skull an d
Bones, senior men's hat societies,
will meet at 1 p.m. tomorrow at
the entrance to Beaver Field to
guard senior and junior bleacher
sections against "invasion" by un
derclassmen. According to Hat So
ciety Council, underclassmen sat
in the sections reserved for upper
classmen at. the Syracuse game
last week.
The senior men's hat societies
and Mortar Board and Scrolls,
senior women's hat societies, will'
meet at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow on the
track around Beaver Field to form
the cordon before the game..
Ed LaVie Deadline
Education seniors have until
4 p.m. Tuesday to have pic
tures taken for LaVie at the
Penn State Photo Shop.
Coed Voting: Eye
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Named
Queen
Nancy Hagy and Jane Mason.
They will serve as members of
her court this weekend.
The five finalists were selected
from 94 entries by Ray Fortunato,
director of Thespians; Ridge Ril
ey, alumni secretary; Louis Bell,
director of public information,
and Frank Morriss, director of
personal services.
The queen was crowned during
the first scene of the show, "The
Team Picks a Queen." She was
escorted to her throne by Alfred
Klimcke and Ann Skepik, who
played the parts of the coach and
the head cheerleader. The origi
nal song, "They Know How to
Pick a Queen" was sung by the
Gleesingers after she was seated
on the throne.
Miss Ziegler and the other fi
nalists will be introTluced to the
alumni at the annual luncheon.
Thespian Production
Amuses Audience
A large Homecoming crowd was amused last night as Thespians
presented "Let's Face It" in Schwab Auditorium, but such tricks as
rope-climbing and confetti-throwing were not enough to remedy the
disorder and slowness of the show.
Perhaps instead of attempting to parody everything imaginable,
the-- Thespian dialogue and song
writers should concentrate their
attention on either serious scenes
or straight comic acts as these
seemed to be primarily among the
few worth seeing.
One of the best skits in the orig
inal revue ' was "Tonight I'll Not
Forget," a romantic song and
dance act with Roderick Perry
and Betty Love. As a newcomer
to Thespians, Perry performed
surprisingly well, his main attri
bute being his fine voice. His
singing, combined wit h the
rhythmic dance movements of
Miss Love, produced an act which
would be well-received in any ,
show.
University
Status Asked
By Trustees
Formal action to , change the
name of the College to The Penn
sylvania State University has
been ,started by attorneys for the
institution as the result of an
unanimously approved order of
the Board of Trustees.
In making the announcement,
Judge James Milholland, pres
ident of the Board, said, "Fre
quently during the past it has
been proposed that the name of,
the College be changed, but ac
tion- was always postponed for
reasons no longer operative. The
College has now reached a stage
in its development where the
change of name would foster
work of the institution in at least
three ways.
Three Advantag e s
"1. Penn State has long been
a university in terms of size, aca
demic standards and program,
organization, and function. Nor
mal recognition of that fact would
properly identify it for. all per
sons interested in or affected by
its services.
"2. The change of name would
permit more effective administra
tive organization of the institu
tion. .
"3. The change of name would
be an additional inducement to
top-flight scientists to join the
Penn State faculty when they
are needed."
In elaborating on these reasons,
a release from the Board pointed
out that by definition, a "college"
is an undergraduate institution
doing little or no research. A
"university" offers both under
graduate and graduate instruc
tion and maintains a well-de
veloped research program.
The Board, in explaining the
change, said that, although Penn
State was created by, a special
act of the Legislature, any change
in the corporate name or charter
is made only with the approval
of the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County.
This was done when the name
was changed from. the Farmers'
High School of Pennsylvania to
the Agricultural College of Penn
sylvania in 1862 and subsequently
when its present name was adopt
ed in 1874.
The procedure in volv e d is:
Since the proposed amendment
to the charter involves change of
corporate name, counsel for the
College first clears the proposed
name with the Secretary of the
Commonwealth. After that, the
College requests the secretary to
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By EDMUND REISS
Phil Wein lived up to his repu
tation as he delighted the audi
ence with his ventriloquism act.
Doing a comic set with his two
wooden roommates, Sylvester and
Elmer,. Wein effectively proved
himself to be the talented veteran
performer he is.
However, each of the other skits
was marked by dialogue which
tried so hard to be funny and to
satirize something, that all struc
tural unity was either forgotten
or disregarded.
There were a few instances
when individual performers stood
out. Pat Marstellar as "Cool Little
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