SATURDAY. MAY 7. 1955
Gallagher to Reign
Over May Court
By DODI JONES
Faith Gallagher, eighth semester arts and letters major, will be crowned May Queen
today by Patricia Ellis, former Women’s Student Government Association president, at cer
emonies beginning at 3:30 p.m. on the lawn in front of Old Main.
The event will begin with the arrival of two rollocking
of the heralds’ trumpets. ; .;
The procession of nifie former *May Queens, headed by
reation Association vice president,
and ten past WSGA presidents,
led by Margaret Forster, WSGA
vice president, will start from the
steps of Old Main.
They will be followed by the
hemlock chain, composed of 3ff
women, the 20 women of the hon
or arch, eight class attendants
dressed in pastel gowns, the
WSGA and WRA presidents, a
representative of the University
Christian Association, two flower
- •-'-’’man Maid of Hon
or, and; finally, the May Queen
h~.. *a..ai_earers.
Miss Gallagher will wear a
white, eyelet organdy gown with
a square neckline, wide straps,
and a full, unpleated skirt.
Attendants Named
Attending her will be Nancy
Scofield and Rosemary Short, sen
ior attendants; Cecelia Yarnall
and Mary Spangler, junior atten
dants; Sandra Stover and Anne
Cain, sophomore attendants; Avis
Dungleberger and Kleanore Wood
ward, freshman attendants; and
Freshman Maid of Honor Kath
erine Dickson.
Ceremonies will continue with
the presentation of the crown by
Patricia Ellis, and a replica of the
world, by Mildred McGowan,
WRA president. The. scepter will
be presented to the Queen by
Mary Kerr, representative of Uni
versity Christian Association.
Kappa Alpha Theta, sorority
winner of . the Interfraternity
Council-Panhellenic Council Sing,
will sing “The Holiday Song” and
“Green Cathedral.”
Members of the Schuhplattler
Group, organized in 1950, will
perform several folk dances.
TKE to 'Sing
After the folk dances, Tau
Kapa Epsilon, fraternity winner
of the IFC-Panhel Sing, will sing
two songs, “I Had a Dream, Dear”
and “Honey.”
Climaxing the festivities will
be the winding of the maypoles.
Thirty-six freshman and sopho
more women will join in the
dance, accompanied at the piano
by Jane Patton, sixth semester
music education major.
. The ceremony will close with
the traditional recessional.
Spectator seats for the celebra
tion are reserved for parents of
\students participating in the pro
gram.
In event of rain, ceremonies
will be held in Recreation Hall.
Dorms to Hold Open Houses
Open houses in the women’s
dormitories will be held from 1
to 3 p.m. today for parents and
visitors. Guides will be posted in
each living unit.
Teas for parents will also be
held in all women’s dormitories
from 1:30- to 3 p.m.' today, with
the exception of Simmons Hall,
which will hold its tea from 2 to
3:30 p.m. tomorrow.
A Centennial May Day Tea in
honor of past May Queens and
WSGA residents will be held fol
lowing the ceremony from 4 to
5 p.m. in the Reading Room of
the Hetzel Union Building. Ap
proximately 175 invitations have
been mailed to administration and
faculty members, outstanding rep
resentatives of campus groups, the
May Day court members and
their parents, the May Day com-
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mittee, and dormitory house
mothers and night hostesses.
First Queen to Attend
Mrs. Mildred Ride Dunlop,
Penn State’s first May Queen, will
be among the guests attending
the tea. Mrs. Dunlop reigned as
queen in 1914.
Former queens participating in
the event and. their reigning years
are: Mrs. Kathleen Thompson Ul
lery, 1921; Mrs. Mary Youngs Hu
ber, 1923; Mrs. Betty Glenn Kin
dred, 1925; Mrs. Claribell Nisley
Wescott, 1926; Mrs. Elizabeth Ha
zel Smith, 1928; lifrs. Margaret
Barnard Chalfont, 1934; Mrs. Jo
sephine Condrin Berkaw, 1941;
and Mrs. Jeanne Knox Hauser.
1947.
WSGA Presidents to Be Present
Past WSGA presidents will be
represented, by Miss Adelaide
Mitchell, 1920; Mrs. Dorothy
George Miller, 1925; Mrs. Helen
Boyle Fischer. 1929; Mrs. Helen
Buckwalter Hutchinson, 1931;
Mrs. Genivia Ziegler Driscoll,
1937; Mrs. Amy McClelland Mc-
Cormick, 1938: Mrs. Jane Romig
Wilson, 1940; Mrs. Jean Babcock
Hasek, 1J42; Mrs. Shirley Gauger
White, 1950; and Miss Nancy
White, 1954.
The weekend’s activities will
continue Sunday with special
breakfasts for parents. Leonides
will hold its breakfast from 9:30
to 10:30 a.m. in Atherton. Sorority
breakfasts will be held in their
respective suites.
Square Dance Tonight
A square dance, sponsored by
the Association of Independent
Men and Leonides, will be held
from 9 to midnight tonight on the
Hetzel Union terrace.
. The dance is open, and admis
sionis free. •
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SQUARE DANCE
on the
HUB Terrace
SATURDAY, MAY 7
Dancing 9-12
Aius/c by Ross Lytle
Admission Free j
Sponsored by AIM, LEONIDES, WEST DORM COUNCIL i
THE pAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
jesters, followed by the sound
Sara Cushman, Women’s Rec-
Frosh Coeds
May Sign Up
As listers'
The big sister plan to aid next
year’s town freshman women,
sponsored by Women’s Student
Government Association Senate,
has been opened to freshmen as
well as sophomore women.
Interested students may sign up
in the dean of women’s office, 105
Old Main, until May 14, Jane
Patton, WSGA town senator, has
announced.'
The plan specifies that upper
class women on campus will act
as big sisters to the town fresh
man women. The purpose of the
program is to provide general
counseling for the town students
and to aid them with problems
relating to campus life.
Upperclass women acting as big
sisters will spend an average of
two hours a week with their town
sister.
Several town women will also
be available to help with prob
lems relating specifically to the
town student.
Miss Patton explained that this
syster.. will help freshman wom
en from State College become ac
quainted with campus life and
aid in adjusting to college.
The program will go into effect
when the upperclass women re
turn to campus in the fall.
Dormitory leas, 1:30 to 3:30
p.m. today, women’s dormitory
lounges, except .Simmons.
May Day creemonies, 3:30
p.m._ today. Old Main lawn.
"Philadelphia Story/' 8 tonight,
Schwab Auditorium.
Center Stage, “Taming of the
Shrew,” 8 tonight, Temporary
Union Building.
Concert Recital, by Joseph
Rosenthal, 8:30 tonight, Hillel
Foundation.
Modern Dance Concert, 8 to
night, White Hall.
Square dance, 9 to midnight,
tonight, Hetzel Union terrace.
Leonides Mother's Day break
fast, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. tomor
row, Atherton lounge.
Chapel Service, 10:55 a.m. to
morrow, Schwab Auditorium.
Simmons Hall tea, 2:30 to
3:30 p.m. tomorrow, Simmons
lounge.
Glee Club Concert, 3 p.m. to
morrow, Schwab Auditorium.
Social (jazett*
Religion
Hillel Open
To Be Held
Hillel Foundation will celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with am
Open House from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today.
Joseph Rosenthal will present a piano recital with the music of
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Prokofiev at 8:30 to*
night in the Hillel auditorium.
Pastor Ruths, Lutheran Student Association student pastor, will
speak on “Where Do I Go From
Here?” at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at
the student center.
Harold K. Schilling, dean of the
Groduate School, will. speak on
“Christians Look at Science” at
6:20 p.m. tomorrow at Westmin
ster Foundation.
The Student Fellowship of St.
John’s Evangelical United Breth
ren Church will hear Mrs. E-Tu
Zen Sun, history lecturer, talk
on Confucianism, following a din
ner meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The Rev. Albert S. Asendorf
will talk on the “Call to Leader
ship” following installation of of
ficers at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at
the United Student Fellowship of
the Faith Evangelical and Re
formed Church.
R. Wallace Brewster, head of
the political science department,
will lead a discussion on “The
Gap in the UN Between Its Power
and Its Responsibilities” at the
Young Friends' cookout supper at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
Fuschillo. Cars will leave from be
hind Old Main at 6 p.m. tomorrow.
Basil Papahronis, graduate in
chemical engineering, will speak
to the Canterbury Club on “The
Greek Orthodox Church” follow
ing a supper at the Parish House
at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. Club plans
for next fall will be made at the
home of R. E. Armington, assis
tant professor of electrical engi
neering, at 7:30 p.m.
Newman Club will hold open
house at 8 tonight at the student
center.
The Roger Williams Fellowship
will hear a talk by the Rev. Ro
bert Eads following a supper at
5:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Fire
side room of the United Baptist
Church.
Breakfast Planned
For Mother's Day
Leonides will sponsor a
Mother’s Day breakfast from 9:30
to 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Ather
ton lounge.
The informal breakfast will be
served buffet style. Tables will
be decorated with bouquets of
spring flowers. Fruit juice, Da
nish pastry, sweet rolls, and cof
fee will be served by Judith
Pendleton, Leonides president,
and Norma Talarico, Leonides
vice president.
The breakfast is open to all in
dependent women and their par
ents. Mothers will be guests of
honor.
Edith G. Zinn, assistant to the
dean of women and adviser to
Leonides, will attend.
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To Celebrate . . .
Mother’s Day
Get All Flavors
of
Ice Cream and Cheese
to Take Home
from the
University Creamery
House
Today
Yale Dean
To Speak
At Chapel
The Rev. Dr. Liston Pope, dean
of the Divinity School of Yale
University, will speak at the
Mother’s Day Chapel service at
10:55 a.m. tomorrow in Schwab
Auditorium.
His subject will be “The Begin*
ning of Knowledge.”
A native of North Carolina; Dr.
Pope was graduated from Duke
University and received his Ph.D.
degree from Yale University.
Ordained a Congregational
clergyman in 1935, he served as
associate pastor of Wesley Me
morial Church, High Point, N.C.,
for three years and as pastor of
the Humphrey Street Congrega
tional Church in New Haven,
Conn., for three years.
Dr. Pope, who also serves as
Gilbert L. Stark, professor of So
cial Ethics and associate fellow of
Saybrook College in Yale Uni
versity, is a trustee of the Phelps-
Stokes Fund, and in 1949 visited
Africa as a Rosenwald Fellow and
Phelps-Stokes visitor.
Dr. Pope is a member of ■ the
Editorial Board of “Christianity
and Crisis," vice president of the
American Association of Theolog
ical Schools, and a member of the
executive and central committees
of the World Council of Church
es and the board of trustees of
Vassar College.
The author of two books, “Mill
hands and Preachers,” and “La
bor’s Relation to Church and
Community,” Dr. Pope has also
contributed to theological journ
als and popular magazines.
The Chapel Choir will sing as
the anthem, “I Will Not Leave
You Comfortless” (Byrd). George
E. Ceiga, organist, will play Pre
lude in D minor (Healey Willan)
and as the postlude, “Trumpet
Tune” (Purchell).
Modern Dance Concert
The Modern Dance Concert
Group will present the last per
formance of its annual spring con
cert at 8 tonight in White Hall.
Free tickets may be obtained
from the main office at White
Hall or from any member of the
Concert group.
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