PAGE TEN Blue Band University High on the list of Penn State traditions is a group of 96 men whose fame has gone far beyond the campus.. This is the Penn State Blue Band. No home football game would be complete without their intri cate formations and peppy music that add so much to both school Registration For Rushing Will Begin Registration for formal fall sorority rushing will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the, lobby of Atherton Hall. Prospective rushees will receive the Panhellenic rushing booklet when they register for rushing. Women students with third se mester standing or higher and at least a 1.0 All-University average are eligible to participate in rushr ing. Rushees will be charged a $1 registration fee. Open houses will be held from I to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in sorority suites and in several dormitory lounges. Rushees will be divided alphabetically into two groups and each group will visit half the sororities each afternoon. Sororities will issue invitations through the Panhellenic Post Office in Atherton Hall for coke dates to be held from 1 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday through Sept. 24. At Homes will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 26. Sororities will entertain at parties from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. and 8:30 to 9:45. p.m. Sept. 27 and 28. Coffee hours will take place from d:3O to 8 p.m. and 8:30 to 10 p.m. Sept. 30. Rushees may sign preferential cards from 10 to 11 p.m! Sept: 30 in Atherton Hall and from 8 to II a.m. Oct. 1. Ribboning will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 in sorority suites. According •to the Panhellenic rushing code, “No communication shall be - permitted between a sorority member and a rushee either directly or indirectly through a third party, except when members of three sororities are present within, the conver sational group.” MI College 1 Offers Courses New to FrosSi . Mineral Industries is a field rel atively new to high school students, for many of its courses such as geology or meteorology are not of fered in high schools. The redbrick Mineral Industries Building on Pollock road has be come a familiar sight to the 450 students who are enrolled in min eral industries. About 180 gradu ate students are now working to ward masters (or doctors) degrees in this field. The MI College offers the fol lowing curriculums for the degree of Bachelor of Science: geology and mineralogy, geophysics and geochemistry, meteorology, geo graphy, mineral economics, mining engineering, mineral preparation engineering, petroleum and natural gas engineering, fuel technology, metallurgy, and ceramics. Nearly every graduating MI sen ior has at least two or three offers for positions after graduation,. Many companies send representa tives to the University to interview seniors. The average starting sal ary for a MI graduate is $350 to $375 a month. Every curriculum in the college publishes a pamphlet describing its work. There are also three general pamphlets published by the col lege which give information about the MI field. These booklets may be obtained at the Mineral Indus tries building. Every MI student can find a group or society to interest him. Most of the curriculums have or ganized °t"dents may al so scr.k .'n Sigma Gam ma E ' honor society, Is Famed Tradition. spirit and team morale. Conducted by James W. Dun lop, associate professor of music education, these men spend long sessions working out new forma tions and practicing. It is hoped that the size of the band will be increased to 120 members, making an even more impressive display. Band Practices Daily A week in the life of a member of the band is one of hard work and .grueling practices, for the half-time shows must be perfect ly executed. During football sea son rehearsals are held daily on a practice field similar to Beaver Field. On Monday nights the men at tend a “skull session” in Car negie Hall. At this session they make a copy of a diagram of the routine they will follow Satur day. Each member copies the part of the people on each side of him as well as his own so he will know who is wrong if an error is made. They also receive their music at this session. On Tuesday the band walks through the routine and on Wed nesday the music is added. Thurs day and Friday the band adds the finishing touches to its- routine, and then has the final practice just before game time on Satur day. Dunlop Directs l Band Hummel Fishburn, professor of music and music education, is the “mastermind” behind the unique formations. He maps out each performance in different .stages of the formation. Dunlop works the musical accompani ment in with the drill and directs all rehearsals, plus the final per formance. Francis 'Taylor, drum ' major, is about the most important man in the band. He leads the men onto the field and gives the di rection signals for the start of each formation. The band is also the hub of the pre-game pep rallies. The band congregates in front of Carnegie Hall before each rally and leads the students to the place of the rally. : Its spirit provides the background for the cheers and songs of the cheerleaders and students. Another side of this organiza tion is the concert Blue Band, al so conducted by Dunlop.' This group presents several concerts on campus each year, then goes on a tour in a series of out-of town concerts. Primaries— (Continued -from page six) Francis E. Kelly, Boston attorney, were seeking Democratic nomin ation. A three-way race for the Demo cratic senatorial nomination to oppose Saltonstall was waged among Foster Furcolo, state treas urer and former U.S. House mem ber; John I. Fitzgerald, former president of the Boston City Council, and Joseph L. Murphy of Boston, a former state senator. Candidates for governor were chosen also in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont. House candidates only were picked in New York, Utah and Washington. Among House incumbents seek ing renomination in the nine states, 46 Republicans and 24 Democrats were unopposed. Welcome... for all your KNITTING NEEDS visit Margaret's Shop 129 S. FRAZIER STREET THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. rEr WRA program, 6:45. tonight, Schwab Auditorium Starlight Dance, 8:30 tonight, front of Old Main Residence Hall Consultation, 10 tonight, hall unit meeting rooms Panhellenic and Leonides pro gram, 6:45p.m. tomorrow, Schwab. Auditorium Residence Hall Consultation, 10 p.m. tomorrow, hall unit meeting rooms Zinn Takes Former Job With Dean . Edith Zinn, who served' as as sistant to the dean of women in charge of new students in 1947, has returned to the position at the .University, replacing Patricia Thompson, Dean of Women Pearl O. Weston said Monday.. Miss Zinn, who served in the Dean of Women’s office from 1944 through 1946, entered the posi tion the second time August 1. A graduate of the University, Miss Zinn received her degree in art education here and a master’s degree in dean’s counseling from Syracuse University. Miss Thompson left the Uni versity in August to serve as dean of sophomore women in a high school near Akron, Ohio. Miss Thompson served as assist ant to the dean of women in charge of new students at the University, from ' 1951 through 1954. She is a graduate of Akron University and received a mas ter’s degree in dean’s counseling from Ohio State University. The position of assistant to the dean of women in charge of ac tivities and Panhellenic Council was vacated this fall when Mary E. Brewer, who filled the posi tion at the University from 1951 through 1954, accepted the posi tion of dean of women at Coe College in Cedar . Rapids, lowa. The college is coeducational with a student enrollment of 700. Miss Brewer is a graduate' of Milliken College, 111. and received a master’s degree in dean’s coun seling from the University of Columbia. Miss Brewer’s former position at the University has not yet been filled, Dean Weston said Monday. Censure— (Continued from page seven ) ruling. “I think it is impossible for any lawyer to serve as a prosecutor before a tribunal, and then be completely objective as a parti cipant in handing down its deci sion,” he said. There was no comment from McCarthy. Watkins, in the statement said “members of the committee will make all of the decisions and that they do not need to rely on coun sel in the making of those deci sions. “The committee has absolute confidence in the fairness of Mf. Chadwick, Mr. DeFuria and all other members of the legal staff. They will act under committee direction and will satisfy the com mittee requirements in the matter of the information required by the committee.” Social gazette iNSYLVANIA Stars Are Born Two Drama Groups Handle Productions “There’s no business like show business” is a familiar saying, for most of us are interested in the theater from ohe sidb of. the lights or another.' Newcomers to the campus will find many oppor tunities for dramatic activity at the University. Two organizations—Players and Thespians—offer a wide range of dramatic productions during the academic year. Experience may be gained, not only in acting, but on the technical side as well, through makeup, lighting, adver tising, costuming, construction, properties, and production crews Mixer Planned A get-acquainted . night will soon be held in Schwab Audi torium where new students may talk with senior managers, ex plore the auditorium’s facilities, and get full information concern ing membership in the organ izations. Anyone may audition for act ing parts by attending tryout periods. Calls for crew members are made well in advance of a show with the size of the crews varying with each production. The members of each crew are selected from volunteers by senior managers of each division. Players is governed by a repre sentative group of elected offi cers, senior managers and faculty advisers who make up the board of control. Officers are elected from candidates posted by a nom inating committee with additional nominations made from the floor. 'Mr. Roberts' . Major plays performed vary from standard stage productions to those done in an arena-type theater. This year’s offerings in clude Thomas Heggen’s “Mr. Rob erts,” John Van Druten’s “Bell, Book and Candle,” Emlyn Wil liams’ “The Corn Is Green,” Euri pedes’ “Medea,” Edwin Justice Mayer’s /‘Children of Darkness,” William Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” and Philip Barry’s “Philadelphia Story.” Besides these productions, the Dramatics department offers an extensive experimental program in which many plays written by students are performed. Original Review Musicals are produced by Thes pians, musical comedy group. Each year it presents a former Broadway show in the spring and an original student-written re view-in the fall. Last year’s pro ductions were “Bloomer Girl” and the original “Let’s Face It.” After doing major work on a Welcome to Dk o&e turning to State and... an Invitation fo the Freshmen fo become ac quainted with our shop... where you may find a wide assortment of lovely gifts. ®j tt Jlkir gsfyxtp 142 ALLEN STREET WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1954 Sophomore Man Heads Frosh Class Most freshmen are completely amazed early each fall when they read the' freshman class president has called a class meeting. Since when do we have a presi dent? Who elected him, and when,? they ask. Each year the man who was named president by the previous freshman class serves as fresh man president until the new class has a chance to elect its officers. This year James Musser, last year’s president, will hold this office for a few weeks. Freshmen and sophomores will elect their officers early in Oc tober and Musser, now a sopho more, and Hugh Cline, a junior, who was last year’s president, will retire. The candidates for these offices will be nominated by‘.the State and Lion party cliques after clique meetings. Students must register as a member of one of these cliques and must attend a certain number of- clique meet ings before they are eligible to vote for the nominees. All stu dents, regardless of clique affili ation, vote in the actual elections. Students interested in campus politics will be given an oppor tunity to sign up for party com mittees. They may consult dormi tory counselors or watch for notices in the Daily Collegian to see when the cliques will begin organizing. In addition to having the op portunity to run for class offices, students may also becotae officers of the party class cliques. In ad dition to having; clique officers, each of the party cliques also names officers to head the clique representing each class. three Thespian shows, students may become members of the or ganization. Tryouts are held' for cast and production personnel at which time anyone may try out.
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