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Institute Offers Advice
For Local Governments
Br ED DUfcBS
If the officials of Hometown, Pa., had a problem concerning practically any area of
local government, they could contact the Institute of Local Government.
The Institute would do research on the problem and forward the information to the
officials.
This is one of the many :
by the Institute of Local Govi
Thirteen Men
Are Initiated
By Lions Paw
Thirteen men have been initiat
ed by Lion’s Paw, senior men’s
society, James W. Coogan, presi
dent of the Lion's Paw Alumni
Association, Inc., has announced.
New initiates are Earl Seely,
All-University president; Robert
Sturdevant, All-University vice
president; Vernon Sones, orienta
tion week chairman; Robert Bul
lock, Interfraternity Council pres
ident; John Russell, IPC vice pres
ident; Bruce Lieske, president of
the Association of Independent
Men; Sanford Lichtenstein, busi
ness manager of Froth.
Norman Miller, managing edi
tor of The Daily Collegian; Doug
las Moorhead, Athletic Associa
tion president; Fred Seipt, Agri
culture Council president; Peter
Keifer, Encampment _ Committee
Chairman; Roger Beidler, Daily
Collegian assistant sports editor
and Elections Committee chair
man; and Hugh Cline,' former
president of the sophomore class.
Contracts Pending
For Construction
Of Home Ec Houses
Contracts for three new home
management houses are being ne
gotiated, Walter Wiegand, director
of the physical plant, lias reported.
The resident-type units will be
located southeast of East View
Terrace on College avenue. They
will replace the four houses now
used as home management living
quarters.
Construction bids were opened
several weeks ago, but were
higher than expected, and con
tracts negotiations are still going
on, Wiegand said.
One of the new units will be a
duplex ranch-type building, and
the other two will be two-story
houses. All three will be brick.
Psych Association
To Meet Thursday
The Pennsylvania Psychological
Association will meet at the Uni
versity Thursday through Satur
day, Dr. William U. Stjyder, pro
fessor of psychology, and presi
dent of the association, has an
nounced.
The department of psychology
has arranged open house pro
grams for the psychological clin-
Jttcs, laboratories, and other facil
ities, and a demonstration of the
use of television as a media for
teaching.
Dr. Herbert Hyman, of the de
partment of sociology at Colum
bia University, will address the
association at 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
He will speak on “The Social
Psychology of Political Behav
ior.”
services to the Commonwealths local governments conducted
’ernment, which was approved by the Board of Trustees on
June 6, 1936.
First in UA
The Institute is the first organ
ization of its kind in the United
States.
Today the Commonwealth still
leads aU other states by being the
only one to have three such or
ganizations. Besides the Univer
sity, others are located at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and the
University of Pittsburgh.
The purpose of the institution,
as approved by the Board of Trus
tees, is “to provide facilities for
the training of students for service
in local government; to meet more
fully the demands for additional
thinning of municipal officers and
employees in methods of practi
cal administration; and for the
gradual development of research
In problems of local government."
Train, Students
In order to train students, the
Institute has been offering a
course of study leading to a ca
reer in public service since 1937.
The course is offered in coopera
tion with the department of po
litical science.
Many booklets, magazines, pam
phlets,. and newsletters are pub
lished by the organization. The
most popular of these is a news
letter, Horizons, which is distribu
ted to over 8000 local government
officers.
Some of the many problems put
to the Institute from local govern
ments deal with parking meters,
off-street parking, assessments,
municipal reporting, and fire pro
tection. Besides research the In
stitute also sponsors and co-spon
sors many conferences and
schools to aid city and borough
governments.
Largest Research Project
One of the largest research pro
jects conducted by the Institute
was in 1938. The Institute, along
with approximately 100 members
of the faculty, prepared a 453-page
report for Williamsport. The re
port was titled “The Master City
Plan.”
To foster better public report
ing as a prime means of inform
ing citizens on the problems and
administration of their govern
ment, the Institute sponsors an
annual Municipal Report contest,
the first of its type in Pennsyl
vania. Awards are given to the
local governments issuing best
municipal reports.
The organization is headed by
Dr. Harold P. Alderfer, executive
secretary, and Dr. Charles F. Lee-
Decker Jr., assistant executive
secretary. Both are also profes
sors of political science.
Handbook Candidates
Candidates for the business and
advertising staff of the Student
Handbook will meet at 7 tonight
in 208 Willard.
Editorial staff candidates will
meet at 7:30 tonight in 208 Wil
lard. The meetings are open to
the public.
Collegian Candidates
Daily Collegian business
staff candidates will meet at 8
tonight in 217 Willard. Pro
motions will be announced.
THf DAILY COLLEGIAN
Thirty Men
Tapped by
Parmi Nous
Parmi Nous, senior men’s hat
society, tapped 30 new members
yesterday morning, William Wis
mer, president, announced. '
Tappees are Robert Hoffman,
Douglas Moorhead, Calvin Barr,
Ronald Griffith, James Ginsberg,
Charles Christiansen, Sol Cohn,
Donald Calvert, William Seng,
Dean Mullen, Frederick Romig.
Roy Williams, Sanford Lichten
stein, Roger Vogelsinger, Ronald
Walker, Phillip Wein, Edwin
Grove, Donald Ziegler, Francis
Taylor, Charles Springman, Shel
don Brown.
Philip Beard, William Rohm,
Peter Kiefer, John Russell, Verhon
Sones, Fred Seipt, William Moy
er, William Childs, Roger Beidler.
Patrick Kennedy was tapped as
a member of the present group.
New members represent four
groups of student activities—ath
letics, publications, student gov
ernment, and drama, music and
forensics. A limited quota of men
are selected from each group. The
point system is not used.
The formal initiation of Parmi
Nous will take place May 16.
' Week 4 Booklets
To Go on Sale
Spring Week souvenir booklets
will be on sale beginning at noon
every day this week across from
the Hetzel Union desk, at the Cor
ner Room, and on the Mall, ac
cording to Richard Favro, busi
ness manager of the Spring Week
committee. It will be on sale at
the carnival also.
The main part of the booklet
will include articles on each
Spring Week event and maps of
the. parade route and carnival
midway.
The booklet, written by Spring
Week committee chairmen, will
sell for 10 cents and proceeds will
go to the Scholarship Fund.
PROFESSIONAL
WRESTLING
T.V. STARS
FRIDAY MAY 13
AT THE
CENTER
THEATRE
LEWISTOWN, PA.
A GREAT CARD
Art NEILSON and
Reggie LISOWSKI
Pat O'CONNOR and
Roy MeCLARITY
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Jack VAN9KY
George DRAKE
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Leon CAVALIER
▼s
Sandor FOZO
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Reserved Seats now on sale
at Center Theatre and Rub
in’s Sports Shop and Heod
ing’s Drug Store in Lewis
town.
Mall Orders Promptly
Attended
Admission - $l.OO, 11.50. $2.25
Center Theatre
FrMay f May 13th
PENNtfftVANIA
STATE COLLEGE
Centennial...
Early Productions
Lacked Coed Touch
The feminine touch was conspicuously absent from the
University’s early dramatic productions.
The situation developed when Thespians, first acting
group, was organized on campus in 1898. There were only
two coeds in the upper classes, neither of whom was interested
in the theater. '
Thespians thereupon cast men
in the feminine roles and per-
Cetuated the practice by both
arring women from member
ship and from appearing in its
performances. While women in
sinuated themselves into almost
every facet of University life as
time passed, the Thespian mem
bership ban stood firm until the
spring of 1953.
Indeed, it took World War 1
before any woman was allowed
to trod the boards in a Thespian
production. In 1918, with men
scarce because of the war, four
co-eds were given roles in a pro
duction called “It Pays to Ad
vertise."
Another eight years passed
before a fifth lady got a part.
Martha Jane Qobrecht’s skill on
the marimba, then a new instru
ment to Americans, won her that
honor. (She is now Mrs. H. L.
Darr of Altoona.)
Two years later, coeds were
accepted for an all-girl chorus
in a production of “H. M. S.
Pinafore," and since then, they
have regularly appeared in the
productions.
Initiative for the organization
of Thespians came largely' from
a stage-struck student, the late
John C. Heed, who had taken
part in amateur dramatics be
fore coming to the University in
1895. He was backed by another
student, the late J. H. M. An
drews, who for years was a
member of the University’s
Board of Trustees.
The two received the support
of two faculty members, Dr.
Fred Lewis Pattee and Dr. John
H. Leete, and the Thespian so
ciety was on its way.
The purpose of Thespians, Dr.
Pattee wrote, was to present “as
distinctive a representation of
some of the old classics as stu
dents possibly could be made to
do." So early performances, un
like later musical comedies and
revues, were such famous
dramas as “The Rivals,” “The
School for Scandal,” and ‘/She
Stoops to Conquer.” ■
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Banner Announces
Journ Scholarship
Student Winners
Winners of three scholarships
established at the University to
encourage interest in newspaper
work as a profession were an
nounced yesterday by Franklin
Banner, head of the department of
journalism.
Patricia Evans, of Lancaster, re
ceived the George E. Graff Me
morial Scholarship, with Peggy
Ozan, of Heading, and Joyce Be
drava, of Butler, as alternates.
Louis Prato, of Indiana, is the
recipient of the &>seph F. Biddle
scholarship. Alternates are Stew
art Ettinger ,of Upper Darby,.and
Nancy Hankins, of Latrobe.
The Howard J. Lamade schol
arship was awarded to James L.
McHugh Jr., of Pittsburgh, with
Robert Franklin, of Elkins Park,
and Barbara Barnum, of WilklnS
burg, as alternates.
All of the scholarships are
granted annually.
“The Rivals," the first show,
was presented twice in the cam
pus chapel with scenery bor
rowed from Garman’s Opera
House at Beliefonte and cos
tumes rented in Philadelphia.
When the cast returned the
scenery, they gave a perform
ance in Bellefonte.
Beginning in 1908, Thespians
started presenting musicals, and
down through the years, male
choruses demonstrated such cur
rently .popular dances as the
bunny wiggle, hula hula, gorilla
hug and Japanese glide.
After 1921, students wrote
many of the shows in addition
to producing them. Today, they
give two shows on campus year
ly. The first is an original pro
duction presented in the fall for
Homecoming Week, and the sec
ond, a Broadway musical given
in the spring during Interfral
- Ball weekend.
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