FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1955
Edgerton
Attitudes
The Soviet peoples are very much like us, and our common humanity is one great
source of hope that we really can learn to live together in peace and justice and freedom,
Dr. William B- Edgerton, assistant professor of Russian, said in the first of the series of
Liberal Arts Lectures last night.
Dr. Edgerton, describing his recent tour of the Soviet Union, said that during his trip
he kept his ears and eyes open in an effort to gain an understanding of the Russian way of
Concert Cami
Concert Group
To Begin Fall
Member Drive
Members of the Community
Concert Association may renew
their memberships for the 1955-
56 season starting Monday, Ice
land Rhodes, campaign chair
man, has announced.
New memberships may be pur
chased from the volunteer work
ers from Oct. 3 until the mem
bership reaches the quota of 1230,
the seating capacity of Schwab
Auditorium where the concerts
are held, or until noon Oct. 8,
Rhodes said. The membership
price is $6.
"Kick-off" Meeting
A “kick-off” meeting for all
volunteer workers will be held
Oct. 3 in dining rooms “B” and
“C” of the Hetzel Union Building.
Volunteer solicitors will receive
their campaign materials and the
campaign will be outlined by'
Rhodes; David H. McKinley,
chairman of the Association; and
Mrs. Georgia McDonald, repre
senting the New York office of
the Community Concert Associa
tion, at the meeting.
No Sale of Single Tickets
After the solicitation campaign,
the program will be arranged by
a local board of directors, based
on the budget made available by
the sale of memberships. Tickets
for individual concerts will not
be sold during the season.
The concert series brought
Tossy Spivakovsky, viol in i s t;
Carol Smith, contralto; the Pitts
burgh Symphony Orchestra; Vit
ya Vronsky and Victor Babin,
piano-duo and Theodor Uppman,
baritone; to the caiqpus last year.
Party to Organize
Freshmen Sunday
Lion party will hold a.meeting
for freshmen and new students at
7:30 p.m. Sunday in 121 Sparks.
Interested freshmen will be
organized into committees, Tho
mas Dye, clique chairman, has
announced.
Freshmen interested in being
candidates for either clique or
class positions, including fresh
man class president, will be
taught the procedure of obtaining
party nominations.
Dye said he will contact fresh
men who signed the student gov
ernment lists in their dormitories
and will request them to attend
the meeting.
Engagements
Lear-Greenwald
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Greenwald
of Trenton, N.J.,' announce the en
gagement of their daughter Joan
to Mr. Samuel Lear, son of Mr.
and Mrs. David Lear of Scranton.
Miss Greenwald is a junior in
elementary education .and a mem
ber of Alpha Epsilon Phi.
Mr. Lear is a senior in arts and
letters and a member of Alpha
Epsilon Pi.
A summer wedding is planned.
Horn-Sykes
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sykes of
SpribgfiOld announce the engage
ment of their daughter Sally to
Mr. Stuart Horn, son of Mr; and
Mrs. Frank Horn, of Westfield,
N.J.
Miss Sykes is a senior in ele
mentary education.
Mr. Horn is a senior in chemical
engineering. He is a member of
Androcles, - junior men’s hat so
ciety, and Alpha Phi Omega, na
tional service fraternity.
Describes
of Soviet
life. He said he felt it was not
possible to deal with the reality
of a country in simple black and
white. “So I took color film with
me,” he said.
The lecture was given through
a series of colored slides which
Dr. Edgerton had taken on his
trip.
The tremendous thirst for cul
ture found wherever he went was
one aspect of Soviet life which
imprssed Dr. Edgerton greatly.
'Black Market' Books
He showed a number of slides
of a literary “black market”
where books were sold and bought
at very high prices because they
were so in demand. While near
the book stands, ' Dr. Edgerton
said, he saw a man staring up
into the air muttering, “I need
the second volume of Maupas
sant; I need the second volume of
Maupassant.”
Slides were also shown of a
tremendous crowd gathered out
side an art gallery attempting to
get in to see the Dresden Art
Collection.
These scenes exemplified the
desire for literature- and all types
of culture that goes up and down
Soviet society.
In showing scenes of the old
and new Moscow University
campuses, Dr. Edgerton said that
the Russians were very proud of
their 700 institutions of higher
learning. He also spoke of a
young Russian scholar who was
his informal guide on a tour
through the old Moscow Univer
sity and with whom he had a
frank discussion on intellectual
liberty.
Lecture in Leningrad
When in Leningrad, Dr. Edger
ton took a picture of Peace
street, one of the main streets
in the city. This illustrated, he
felt, the emphasis placed on peace
throughout Russia. Some peace
movements, he said, probably
had political overtones, yet he
felt that the desire for peace was
great.
, The majority of the slides that
Dr. Edgerton offered were aver
age Russian street scenes'. Scenes
which he felt would give the aud
ience a better feeling of intimacy
with the people and way of life
he had seen and studied this .sum
mer.
The large crowd which turned
out for the lecture was moved
from 121 Sparks to Schwab Audi
torium due to lack of seating ca
pacity.
Dr. Edgerton will conduct an
other lecture concerning Russian
educational and intellectual atti
tudes at a later date.
APhiO Meets Monday
Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity, will meet at
7:30 p.m. Monday in 109 Hetzel
Union. '
WESTMINSTER
FOUNDATION
COMING-OUT
SATURDAY EVE,
at Westminster Foundation
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Life,
Peoples
Chapel Choir
Twenty-Seven
New Members
Added to Choir
Twenty-seven new members
have been named to the Chapel
Choir, according to Mrs. Willa W.
Taylor, professor of music edu
cation.
First sopranos are Carol Court
man, Nancy Heyman, Alice Van
Ormer, Patricia Hosley, and Mar
gery Williammee. The new sec
ond sopranos are Mary Jane
West, Wilma Harris, Elfreida
Bauers, Elinor Wessell, and Pa
tricia Shuman.
The new group of first altos are
Norma Gloor, Ruth Anne Helz,
Elaine Mohney, Gail Gilman, and
Karin DeJuhasz. Second altos
are Sarah Murdoch, Joanne Mont
gomery, and Dianne Lee.
Second tenors are John Croft,
Albert Donnestad, Thomas Hart,
Samuel Moyer, and Charles Ad
ams. The baritones are Fred Op
rendak, Donald Garber, and How
ard Rowlands, and' the new
second bass is Roger Seremula.
The former members of the
Choir who returned to the Uni
versity this fall held their second
annual “Choir Day” at the Civil
Engineering camp last Satur
day. The group spent the day re
hearsing the music for this semes
ter, and participating in folk
dances and competitive sports.
During the evening colored slides,
taken by the group during their
tour of Europe this past summer,
were shown.
Officers of the Choir are: Ver
non Sones, president; Francis
Taylor and Patricia Agnew, vice
presidents; Haryette Gerhart, sec
retary; George Buckhout, treas
urer; and Beau Barnes, historian.
Librarians for the group are Ger
ald Hodge, Frank Woods, Frank
Podleiszek, John Shaffer, and
James Baker.
Guerney to Speak
To Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil
Engineers will meet at 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday at the Civil Engineer
ing Summer Camp. Members are
asked to meet in the Mechanical
Engineering parking lot.
Miss Louise Guerney, assistant
to the director of Division of
Intermediate Registration will
speak on the topic, “There’s a ‘4’
in Your • Future.” Refreshments
will be served following the
meeting.
All those with cars are request
ed to provide transportation for
other members.
Presents
The
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Fun for All!
PARTY
SEPT.
Drama
Players
T onight
The Penn State Players will hold a mixer from 7 to 8:30
tonight in Schwab Auditorium. The purpose of the mixer is
to acquaint interested students with the workings of the dra
matic groups.
Carl Held, president of Players, and Ernest Swiggert,
president of Theta Alpha Phi,
national dramatics society, will
speak at the affair.
The program will also include
refreshments, a tour of Schwab
Auditorium, and signing up for
workshops. The tour will present
the various facilities that are in
the building for dramatic group
use. These include makeup rooms,
lighting setup, costumes depart
ment, and space for set construc
tion
Players is divided into two ex
ecutive groups, consisting of the
officers or board of control and
the senior managers of the var
ious working groups.
Membership Based on Points
Membership in Players is
awarded on the basis of points,
which are given for participa
tion in plays.
The first Players show this fall
will be an operetta, Mikado,” by
Gilbert and Sullivan, which is
being produced jointly by the
division of dramatics and the de
partment of music education.
Officers Listed
Players officers are Held, jun
ior in arts and letters from Ne
shanic. N.J., president; Josiah
Morrill,- senior in hotel adminis
tration from Moorestown, N.J.,
vice president;' Nancy Sheffler,
senior in education, correspond
ing secretary; Elizabeth Jones,
senior in arts and letters from
Norristown, recording secretary;
Gerald Denisof, junior in arts
and letters from Philadelphia,
treasurer; Elizabeth Ives, junior
in arts and letters from Scranton;
actors’ representative; and Joyce
Andruzak, junior in arts and
-letters from Sinking Springs, so
cial chairman.
Senior managers are Millis
Mershon, junior in arts and let
ters from Kennett Square, make
up; Caryl Newitt, senior in home
economics from Norristown,
lights; Elizabeth Morrill, junior
in labor management from
Moorestown, N.J., construction;
Roberta Knapp, junior in home
economics from Emmaus, cos
tumes; Ray Vanderbilt, graduate
in dramatics from Grand Rapids,
Mich., advertising; and Held and
Swiggert, speakers.
*s' Club Meets Sunday
The “S” Club will meet at 7
p.m. Sunday at Alpha Gamma
Rho. Dean Mullen, president, has
urged all lettermen to attend.
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Hold. Mixer
in Schwab
Cosmopolitans
Will Present
Color Slides
Dr. George F. Johnson, profes
sor of agricultural extension, will
present color slides of “Pennsyl
vania through the Seasons,” at
a meeting of the Cosmopolitan
Club at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in 214
Hetzel Union.
The slide presentation will be
the first of a series which will
cover foreign countries and parts
of the United States.
A varied program of activities
is planned for the coming year,
including panels, discussion
groups, cultural presentations, in
ternational sings, lectures, the
annual International Banquet, and
cabin retreats.
Club members are foreign stu
dents, faculty members, and
American students.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Nielson Appointed
Department Head
Dr. Ralph F. Nielson, associate
professor of petroleum and nat
ural gas engineering, has been
named acting head of that de
partment.
The appointment, approved at
a meeting of the Board of Trus
tees, was made *to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Dr.
John C. Calhoun, who has ac
cepted a position at the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of
Texas.
Dr. Nielson is a graduate of
the University of Nebraska,
where he also obtained his doc
tor of philosophy degree. His
master of science degree was con
ferred by the University of Cali
fornia.
Oil Fellowship Renewed
A $2500 fellowship is being
awarded in the department of
petroleum and natural gas en
gineering. The award is being
renewed for the 1955-50 academic
year by a Continental Oil Com
pany Fellowship.
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