PAGE TWO 5 Thespian Homecoming Queen Finalists Announced Lyn Myers Queen to At 'Take Five finalists, Valerie Fife, Joyce Koch, Ruth Kronenwetter, Marilyn Myers, and Bar bara Rinehart, were selected in the Thespian Centennial Homecoming Queen Contest last night, according to Diane Hallock and Arnold Hoffman, co-chairmen of the contest. . The finalists were chosen from among 83 entrants by five faculty members, who are also members of the Thespians Board of Control. The contest is sponsored by Thespians, musical-comedy group. Miss Fife, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, is sponsored by her own sorority. She is a junior in arts and letters from Mt. Lebanon, and a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, fresh man women’s scholastic honorary society, the Campus Chest committee, .and a candidate for the LaVie' staff. Her hobbies are sewing, read ing and knitting. Miss Koch is sponsored by Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, of which she is a member. She is a junior in elementary education from Rahway, N.J. Her hobbies are golf and swimming in the sports department, and knitting. A member of the Spring Week parade committee last year, Miss Koch is a member of the junior week committee and a LaVie staff candidate. Angel Flight Member Miss Kronenwetter, who is sponsored by Delta Chi fraternity, is a senior in physical education from Emporium. She is .president of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, vice commander of angel flight, and a member of the physical education student council. She was crowned queen of the Delta Chi pledge dance last year. Knit ting and sports, especially, swim ming, are her favorite hobbies. Miss Myers, sponsored by. Kap pa Kappa Gamma, is a senior in arts and letters from Schenec tady, N.Y. She likes dramatics, swimming and reading, and is an avid student in the history of Abraham Lincoln. Miss Myers is a member of the Young Republi cans club and the History-Forum. Miss Philadelphia Miss Rinehart, currently the holder of the title of Miss Phila delphia of 1956, is a sophomore in journalism from Eddystone. Sponsored by Delta Tau Delta fraternity, her interests are di vided between oil painting, dra matics, and singing. Miss Rine hart transferred from Ogontz center this year, where she par ticipated in tjie dramatics club, intramural sports, and also wrote for the “Center” magazine there. The queen will be crowned during the finale of “Take Ten,” original Thespian musical com edy, the night of October 13. Tickets for the show will go on sale Monday at the Hetzel Union desk and will cost $1 for the Thursday night production, and $1.25 for the Friday and Saturday night performances. Presented at Game The Homecoming Queen will also be presented during half time of the Navy-Penn State foot ball contest in homecoming week end Jazz Concert Will Feature Modern Quartet The Modern Jazz Quartet will present a concert under the spon sorship of the Jazz Club at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Schwab Audi torium. Tickets to the concert will be on Isale at the door for $l. Mem berships in the club may also be purchased at the door for $2. Pur chase of a membership saves buy ing a ticket to the concert, Frank Munz, publicity chairman of the club, said. The concert is free to members. Chris Connor, vocalist, will not appear with the Quartet as pre viously announced because the Quartet may not accompany her due to previous contractual ar rangements. The Modern Jazz Quartet won this year’s Down Beat Critics poll as the best small jazz combo, Munz said. The Jazz Club will present Stan Kenton Nov. 19 in Recrea tion Hall. T. D. Richards, faculty advisor of the club, played tapes of the Stan Kenton Concert at Cornell University at the club moeting last night. The club’s executive committee is negotiating with Dr. Marshall Stearn, jazz lecturer, on the pos sibility of his presenting a lecture on jazz. The committee is also negotiating with Count Basie, Stan Getz, George Lewis, and Sidney Bechet in hopes of get ting two of the groups to present concerts here next semester. Ballroom Class To Start Oct. 17 A beginners’ class in ballroom dancing will begin Oct. 17 in the ballroom of the Hetzel Union! Building. Those wishing to join the class may sign up starting today at the Hetzel Union desk. Only the first 200 who sign up will be accepted. The series of dance classes, sponsored by the Varsity “S” Club, will feature Dale Hummer, formerly associated with the Arthur Murray Dance Studios, as instructor. Classes will be held five nights a week Monday through Friday. The first series will end Dec. 9. Students signing up will receive seven lessons and will attend once a week on any of the five nights that class will be in ses sion. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Joyce Koch Be Crowned Ten' Opening^ t ' * 4 NOW "To Hell and Back" SUrrlnc AUDIE MURPHY —Future Begin.— 1:J», 3:14, 5:33, 7:41, »:5« Barbara Rinehart Sororities Begin Informal Rushing For Fall Semester Informal sorority rushing will continue for the remainder of the semester. Upperclasswomen ate eligible to rush if they have an All-University average of 2.0 or better under the new grading sys tem. Coeds planning to rush must register and fill out Panhellenic registration cards in the dean of women’s office. Informal rushing consists of a series of coke dates to which the rushee is invited by the sorority. These coke dates may be held be tween the hours of 1 and and from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on week days. During informal rushing bids may be sent out through the dean of women’s office. The.rushee is allowed one week to return , her answer to the dean’s office, dur ing which time a strict silence period is in effect between the rushee and the sorority issuing the bid. No bids may be issued until a week after informal rush ing -begins. Ruth Kronenwetter AIM to Discuss Car Ban Exemption The Association of Independent Men Board of Governors will discuss the possibility of freshman veterans being exempt from the car ban at a meeting at 7:30 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. The AIM projects committee, which has been studying the possibility of veteran exemption, will present its report, according to Bruce Lieske, AIM president. Lieske also said that several veterans are expected to attend the meeting to present their side of the picture. Nittany Council Monday night appointed another committee to Pollock 'Council 'last night went on record as approving any action the AIM Board of Governors may take toward al lowing freshman veterans to have cars on campus. The council felt that many veterans who own their own cars might be greatly inconven ienced by having to dispose of them. study the issue.- Council President George Mauler said the commit tee will appear before the AIM board tonight. All-University Cabinet voted last Thursday to ask University authorities to consider allowing freshman students with' valid parking reasons to .keep -their cars on campus. The final motion did not mention veterans specifi cally. This year marked the first time in the history , of the University that freshmen were not permitted to bring automobiles to campus or the borough. The Council of Administration last spring passed the ruling as a partial solution to the lack of parking facilities available at the University. The Council set the penalty of WEDNESDAY, October s. 1955 Valeria Fife suspension for violators of the ban. Under the ban, freshman stu dents may be authorized to keep their cars on campus if they claim exemption because of physical handicaps or daily commuting between campus and home. Women students, except the eighth semester seniors and those given temporary approval, are not permitted to have cars at the University. Temporary permis (Continued on page eight) "US VEGAS SHAKEDOWN" Dennis O'Keefe Doors HSEBSft ,«*« "Wonderful"—Time "MARTY" Ernest Borgnine Betsy Blair
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