WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1955 Elections Scheduled For Coed Dorms Elections of women’s dormitory unit officers will be held in each unit after 10 p m., Monday evening, according to Margaret Forster, Women’s Student Government Association vice president / and speaker of.WSGA House of Representatives. Nominations have been made in Simmons, McElwain, Ather , ton, Grange, Women’s Building, and McAllister dormitories The president of each unit w Art Gallery Being Painted For Exhibit Workmen have begun painting the Mineral Industries Art Gal lery in preparation for the “Penn sylvania Painters” exhibit to be held from Oct. 8 to Nov. 6. The gallery walls will be done in an off-shade gray tone. The Mineral industries art col lection, which usually hangs in the gallery, has been put in stor age until the end of the Centen nial exhibit. The cabinets in the middle of the room which hold the mineral art collection are be ing framed to provide dividers qnd extra hanging space. On the- front walls outside the gallery a photographic replica of the famous “Staircase Group” by Charles Willson Peale will be displayed. The original, a large 7% foot painting, is- now being shown in Europe, The paintings will be the first major loan exhibition brought to the University find will have as a theme the history of painting in Pennsylvania. The 48 paintings, all_ by non-living Pennsylvania artists, are valued -at more than a quarter of a million dollars. The Centennial art committee of the University is sponsoring the exhibit under the chairman ship of Dr. Harold E. Dickson, professor of fine arts. Coed Debaters Meet Tonight An introductory meeting for freshman women interested in joining the Women’s Debate Team_will be held at 7 tonight in 2 Sparks, according to Marcia Ripper, team manager. Upperclass women interested in joining the team will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 2 Sparks Tryouts for freshman ■ women will be held at 7 p.m.- Oct. 5 in 2 Sparks. Tryouts for upperclass women will be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in 2 Sparks. The Men’s Debate Team will meet at 7 tonight in 318 Sparks, according to Jonathan Plaut, team manager. The meeting is open to members only. Chess Club to Meet Tonight The Chess Club will meet from 7 to 10 tonight in 3 Soarks, ac cording to Robert Dijaiffe, club secretary. Co-Cdils Sigma Pi has pledged John Abele, Samuel Alfonsi, Robert Brandt, Alan Benton, Ramond Metz, R a y m o n d Mazurkiewicz, Bruce Beattie, Norman Wolf, Gor don Brown, Walter Krauser, Wil liam Maeder, John Reed,. Joseph Schmitt, James Stratton,' How ard Tinsman, Joel Wadsworth, Robert Wilson, John Whittle, and Robert Yeager. New officers of Sigma Pi are Robert Simmons, president; Da vid Steltz, vice president; Donald Byerly, secretary; Gary Lind strom, treasurer; Harold Walz, corresponding secretary; and Brooke Moyer, herald. Thomas Falkie has been elected President Of Thela Delta Chi. ther officers are Richard Kuhn, vice president; Fredrick Smith, house manager and pledge mas ter; Robert Williams; assistant caterer; and Rodney Felix, his torian. Per Torgersen, Robert Book man, and Robert Banes has been pledged by Phi Gamma Delta. New pledges of Sigma Chi are Paul Hoyt, Robert Barrett, Sam Rogers, and Wilson Wright. Acacia has pledged Bruce Kurtz and Don Tinsman. ill act as that unit’s representative on WSGA House ,of Representa tives. The vice president will serve as alternate representative. The offices of secretary and treasurer were combined in some units upon the approval of the unit. Nominees in unit one of Sim mons are: Louise Juele, Marilyn Fischer, Norma Mayer, president: Eliza beth Morrill, Barbara Kabakjian, vice president; and Dorothy O’- Conner, Norma Karch, secretary treasurer. Unit two of Simmons has nom inated Nancy Marshall, Louise Needham, president; Judith Solo mon, Donna Cowder, Barbara Dietrich, Marian Ludwig, vice president; and Judith Cornwall, Jane Heath, Adela Moldovan, Jus tine Mamazza, secretary-treasur er. Unit Three Nominees Simmons unit three nominat ed Debra Diehm, president; Gail Rolle, Beatrice Miller, Eileen Croft, vice president; and Roberta Brown, Harriet Steinman, Diane Davis, secretary-treasurer. Unit four of Simmons has nom inated Elizabeth Caton, Jeanne Maxwell, Jean Kunkle, Doris Ep stein, president; Ruth Wagner, Barbara Noble, Margaret Hall, vice president; and Jeanne Ca pozzi, Helene Cohen, secretary treasurer. Nominees of McEl.wain unit one are: Catherine Knight, president; Sue Liebe, Shirley Gills, vice president; and Joan Reitz,. Dar lene Dinting secretary-treasurer. Unit Two McEiwain Unit two of McElwain has nom inated Martha Michener arid Mar garet Boyd, president: Taffy Jones, Claire Ganim, Jane Wil liams, vice president; Gretchen Vogeler,, Patricia Fleck, Carolyn Wetterau, Janet McKinley, sec retary-treasurer. - McElwain unit three nominat ed Ann Forster, Meredith Miller, Constance Anderson, president; Barbara Frederick, Marjorie Blank, Wilmetta' Ramsey, vice president; and Grace DiMartino, Nancy Norling, secretary-treasur er. Nominees of unit four are Mar ilyn Seltzer, Christine Forte, Bar bara Shafer, Sheila Nearing, pres ident; Deanna Soltis, Jean Mc- Mahon, Judith Hance, vice presi dent; Elizabeth Manifold, Doro thy Demay, Dolores Komi s k i, Mary Ann Spranca, secretary treasurer. McAllister Nominates Ten McAllister Hall has nominated: Marilyn Michaels, Joan Davies, Valerie Meals, “Patricia Connor, president; Joyce Neal, Florence Bahsteter, Erda Hicks, vice pres ident; and Cherry Cooper, Jane Kennedy, Lilly Johnson, secre tary-treasurer. The northeast unit of Atherton has named: Marilyn Roberts, Su sanne Smith, Gil Hurley, Sandra Blum, Sally Rosenfield, presi dent; Barbara Peck, Nancy John ston, Diane Fagan, Lois Bergquist, Helene Abrams, vice president; and Val Corbelt, Joan Auerbach, Gall Wood, Joanne Yergey, Karen Bixler, secretary-treasurer. The southeast unit nominated (Continued on page eight) Unique Language Study Offered By TED SERRILL Every two years, approximate ly 15 students schedule perhaps the most unsual course offered at the University the study of PennsylvaaniSch Deitsh, Instructed by Dr. Albert F. Buf fington, professor of German, Pennsylvania German, common ly known as Pennsylvania* Dutch, is now in its ninth year of instruc tion. As far as is known, the Uni versity is the only institution in the country to offer the non-pre requisite course, Dr. Buffington said. Muhlenberg College listed the subject for one semester but dropped it. German Culture Taught A second course in the life and culture of the Pennsylvania Ger- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Take Ten' Gist Listed By Fryman Castings for the original Thes pian . musical comedy review, “Take Ten,” to be presented at Schwab Auditorium Homecom ing Weekend, Oct. 13, 14 and 15 have been announced by Louis Fryman, general director of the show. The show will portray the ten decades of the University’s exis tence, beginning with the con gressional committee which met to establish it. Written by Michael Rosenfeld, Phillip Wein, and Louis Fryman, the show will be completely pro duced and directed by students. Assisting Fryman, Mary Tassia Will handle dancing and Rosen feld will direct his musical num bers. Edwin Grove, Elizabeth Ives, Charles Sciotto, Ernest Swiggert, and Wein will direct dialogue. Choreography will be done by Miss Tassia. Judith Hartman is production assistant. Speaking parts will be played by Sciotto, Grove, Wein, Jack Williams, Elaine Cimmet, Albert Ely, Sally Rolson, Michael Mc- Kay, John Starkey, Dominic Lan dro, Gloria Litz, Marilyn Harris, Robert Little, Alan Freidberg, Marvin Jackson, Edward Hen nick, Robert Bishop, Andrew Zaharataka, James Jimmerro, Pa tricia Schoonmaker, Stanley Ja cobs, and Patricia Sherman. The singing and acting chorus is made up of Larry McCabe, John Schofield, Arthur Cohen, William Tyson, Thomas Hollen der, James Carrol, Thomas Zim merman, James Ellis, Robert Pic cone, Leroy Lynch, and William Wymer. Also, Lynn Kinnier, Joan Heil man, Nancy Chalk, Joanne Woh leber, Sally Williams, Eleanor Woodward, Claire Rossi, Alice Eberle, Mary Ann Raup, and Carole Schmitzer. Dancers are Bernard Baymil ler, Eugene Griffin, Jack Melder, Phoebe English, Norman Smith, Dale Hummer, Susan Kunkle, Phyllis Rubenstein, Janice Bahm, Dorothy Dramble,' Elizabeth. El liot, Mary Phillips, Catherine Vandenberg, and Audrey Gilbert. UCA to Present Technicolor Film In HUB Tonight A technicolr film, “In.the Face of Jeopardy,”-will be presented by the University Christian As sociation Forum at 7 tonight in the Hetzel Union auditorium. The movie, which was filmed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, depicts the conflict between the forces of Christianity and Com munism for possession of men’s minds. A panel, discussion will follow the movie. Mark Shaw, instructor in agricultural engineering, who spent five years in China with the American Friends Service Committee behind Communist lines, will be a panel member. The other two panelists will be the Rev. Hal Leiper, associate director of UCA, and his wife, Jane. They spent four years in Peking and were there during the revolution. They were also with Presbyterian missions in communist-controlled China for 18 months. The forum is open to students and faculty members. mans is also taught by Dr. Buff ington. Approximately 25 stu dents register for the course, which is offered once every two semesters. Spoken by some 200,000 native Pennsylvanians, the dialect is a branch of German used by settlers from Germany, not Holland. Non- Germans, on hearing the settlers call themselves "Deutsch,” thought they meant the English “Dutch.” Dr. Buffington joined the fac ulty in 1945 and began teaching the two subjects a year later. He has done intensive research in the grammar, pronunciation, and the spelling of the dialect. With Dr. Preston A. Barba, pro fessor emeritus of German at Muhlenberg College, Dr. Buffing Ninety-Eight For Concert Seventy-nine men and 19 women have been chosen for the Concert Blue Band, James W. Dunlop, associate professor of music education and director of the Band, has announced. The Concert Band has begun rehearsals for several con certs to be presented this year. The group will present a con cert in Schwab Auditorium on March 25 and one on the Pat tee Library' steps in May. The Band will also play for the Swiss Gym team meet in January and for the Olympic tryouts in April. Trips to other cities are also be ing planned, Dunlop said. The Concert Blue Band differs from the marching Blue Band in function and personnel. The marching Band plays for athletic events and concludes its season with the final football game. The Concert Band continues through out the year. Men arid women may be members of the Concert Band, but members of the march ing Band are men only. Each member must tryout lor each band every year. Members of the Concert Band are Flute—Patricia Collins, John Eastman, Kenneth Goodman, Vir ginia Mensch, Mary Lou Meyer, Joan Stern, Elizabeth Tipton, Thomas Williams, Patricia Hile, Sandra Reimer, Harry Brown, and David Richardson. E-flat clarinet—Samuel Moyer. B-flat clarinet Robert Betts, Verino Dandrea, Warren Davis, Arthur DeAngelis, Allan Holland, James Jacoby, James Jucker, I Thomas Mentzer, Aloysius Murc ko, Martin Schmookler, Raymond Schultz, Alan 'Stone, James Tor ok, James Valone, Frances Youel, Leslie Hoffman, Theodore Lop ushinsky, Lucille Smith, Donald Shiffler, James Nagle, Wayne Radcliffe, Francis Taylor, and Richard Rosica. Alto clarinet Elaine Klowes, and Thomas Monito. Bass clarinet—James Baker, Norma Gloor, Marjorie Mitchell, and Mary Owens. Oboe—Marian Beatty, Jeanne Maxwell, Mary Ann Wert, and Irma Patterson. Bassoon—Charles Biechler, Pat Kelly, Edward Spondike, and Na omi Patterson. Saxaphone—Warren Daugher ty, Robert Meahl, Hal Harmon, and Paul Stoerker. Cornet—Peter Fishburri, Fred erick Heath, Clair Krone, Ken neth Lesight, Charles Springman, Roger Staub, Larry Stetler, and Alan Wyahd. Trumpet—Eugene DeMark, Je re Fridy, Eugene Magill, and James Ressler. „ H° rn Shirley Fry, Gordon Halter, Charles Harner, Morris Neyer, William Mills, Ronald Moss, William Moyer, Carson Rothrock, Richard Thier, John Shaffer, Thaddeus Merriman, and David Goldstein. . Baritone—Thomas Ulrich, Ow en Miller, John Croft, Clyde Scott, and Andrew Stefancik. Trombone —David Andre, George Black, Richard Brown, Robert Dombeck, Donald Fought, Jack Hocutt and William Wilson. Bass—Edward Kornowski, Stanley Michalski, Stephen Senft, Thomas Smouse, and David James. Percussion—R ich a r d Biery, Ross Fishburn, Richard Gramley, and John Raymond. Tympani—Joseph Stefan. Riding Club Executives Executives or the Riding Club will meet at 7 tonight in 217 Wil lard. ton collaborated in writing a text on Pennsylvania German gram mar. First Full Treatment The textbook, titled “A Penn sylvania German Grammar,” is the first scholarly and exhaustive treatment of the language ever written. Dr Buffington feels there is a distinct need for such courses be cause of the large proportion of Pennsylvania Germans in the state. Attention should be paid to such a culture and the Uni versity is proud to offer the sub jects, he claimed. The courses are of special in terest to agriculture students, he said, because after graduation they will settle in some sections (Continued on page eight) Chosen. Band HUB to Be Site Of Army Game Send-Off Rally A send-off pep rally for the Penn State-Army game at West Point Saturday will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the rear of the Hetzel Union Building. Delphi, sophomore men’s hat society, and Cwens. sophomore women’s hat society, will be in charge of the rally. The event will be conducted from the balcony of the HUB, with the students standing on Holmes Fiel:'. [ This will be the first pep rally of the year since the one sched uled last week for the Boston University contest was rained out. Two hat groups have been as signed to each pep rally, accord ing to Hat Society Council offi cials. Delphi members will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow night at Beta Sig ma Rho in order to leave for the rally as a group. Delphi members will divide into small groups when they arrive on campus to publicize the rally among students living in dormitories. 3 Assistants hips Granted to Journ Graduate Students Three graudate students have been granted assistantships in the School of Journalism according to Dr. James W. Markham, head of the news department and grad uate program. The recipients are Barry C. Fein, Mrs. Emily Berke, and MjsS Barbara Kober. Fein was graduated from the University in 1953 and spen'. 2 years as public information offi cer with the United States Army. Fein is a former feature editor of The Daily Collegian. Mrs. Berke graduated from the University in 1940 and has worked as feature writer on the Wells boro Gazette, the Elmira (N.Y > Star-Gazette, and the Corning (N.Y.) Evening Leader. A graduate of Grove City Col lege, Miss Kober was employed by the Pittsburgh Past Gazette and the. North Pittsburgh Times. Engagements Lugasch-Toiv Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Toiv of Scranton announce the engage ment of their daughter Phyllis to Mr. Myron Lugasch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lugasch of New ark, N.J. Miss Toiv is a junior in social psychology. Mr. Lugasch, a graduate of Uo sala College, has received his M S. degree from the University and is now working toward his doctor ate. No date has been set for the wedding. Levin-Parsky Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parsky of Philipsburg announce the engage ment of their daughter Charlotte to Mr. Bernard Levin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Levin of Phila delphia. Miss Parsky is a senior in ele mentary education. Mr. Levine is a junior in elec trical engineering. He served three years with the United States Army. Queen Entries Deadline Deadline for entries in the Homecoming Queen Contest is 5 p.m. Monday at the Hetsel Union desk. 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