Driving Conditions Predicted as Good Driving conditions should .be good for students leaving the -area for Christmas vacation, according to the University meteorology department. Weather predictions say partly cloudy and much colder today with light snow flurries. The department said the roads in higher places might be icy. Maximum temperature for today is expected to be 25 degrees and the low'for tonight will be 8 degrees. . Vacation to Begin ■ Christmas recess will officially begin at 11:50 a.m. tomorrow and will end at 8 a.m. Jan. 4. Dormitories will be closed to students at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Lunch will be the last meal served in the dormitory dining halls be fore the. vacation. Hie dormitory Will re-open for student occupan cy at 1 p fa. Jan. 3. The first meal to be served in* the dining halls after vacation will he breakfast on Jan. 4. Temporary arrangements have been made for six men to remain on campus over the holidays. ... Offices, to Close Universiy offices will close at Sp.ir. Thursday. They will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Dec. 28 through Dec. 30. The r*-j mainder of the vacation they will be closed They will go back on schedule at 8 a.m. Jan. 3. Student Employment Service will follow the hours set for other University offices. Students re maining in State College who are interested in part-time-jobs dur ing the vacation may inquire at the employment office in 112 Old Main during the hours it is open. ■ Last Collegian Today Today’r. issue of the Daily Col legian will be the final one before the vacation, Norman Miller, act ing editor, has announced. Pub lication will be resumed Jan. 5. The Pattee Library has an (Continued on page eight) Two Student Accidents Occur Over Weekend Two students were involved In automobile accidents over the Weekend. Jerry Grossinger, senior in in dustrial engineering from Scran ton, was returning to campus Sun day night from a wedding in Wilkes-Barre when his car skid ded and went out of control on a downhill grade in Millheim. The car toppled over a few timed before coming to rest with its front directed back up. the grade. Grossinger was treated' at the University Hospital and . was released. The car was completely demolished. Lura Jane Leitzel; senior in home* economics from Richfield, was involved in a three-vehicle accident at 3:30 p.m. Friday on route 545 in Millbrook. She was not injured. A car operated by MisS Leitzel hit the rear of a truck which was stopped behind a car held up for traffic. The truck in turn was sent against the first car. Total damage was estimated at $250. Ike Gets NATO Report GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 19 (JP) Dwight D. Eisenhow er received a report from Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles today, described as optimistic, on the strength of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization. The secretary gave him an ac CLOUDY >O - J COOLEH MW TODAY'S WEATHER count of the recent NATO meet ing in Paris which he had already reported publicly as having left the European non-Communist na tions feeling “more than ever free —more than ever secure.” Dulles reported to Eisenhower from Washington in a telephone call. The two set up a conference at the White House Wednesday for a more detailed review when the President returns to spend the Christmas holidays. The President also spent an hour and 45 minutes talking with Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission who called at the Eisenhower home. Strauss flew back to Washington later. Murray Snyder described the Strauss visit as primarily social. ®lp>Batlg VOL. 56. No. 65 STATE COLLEGE. .PA,. TUESDAY MORNING. bECEMBER 20. 1955. FIVE CENTS Rockefeller Named For Com mencement Nelson A. Rockefeller, undersecretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, will be the commencement speaker at the Fall semester graduation exercises. University officials, in announcing Hock efeller as the commencement speaker, tenta tively set the graduation exercises for 2 p.m-, on Jail. 30-in Recreation Hall. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, saf for the exercises because there will be enough room for ever - Santa Sends Letters Via Faculty Member . By BECKY ZAHM . , : Santa Clads is sending his greetings from the. North Pole this year td over 1300 Centre CoUnty. children' via a ruddy cheeked, spectacled professor. . . , The professor, whp' has Insisted- on anonymity, ever .since he began his role .14 years ago, says it’s his way'of. saying ‘‘Merry Christmas” to the children. He feels that if .his identity became known—even his closest- colleagues have no idea of his role —there might be 're marks made in front of children, thus spoiling the entire spirit of Santa Claus for them. ' "I get -started." ha explains, "out in. Indiana. I was at the post office in December and saw a clerk about to throw away a batch of letters addressed to Santa Claus. "I asked the clerk.if he’d give the. letters to me to answer, and he was delighted. From then oh I wrote a personal answer to .each The professor continued his Christmas letter writing when he moved to Illinois and again when lte irovea to Pennsylvania. During his first season on the job in Centre County about a hundred letters were received, each getting a personal reply. The Centre Daily Times aided the project in supplying station ary and stamps and printing the names of the - children who wrote in the paper. The idea snowballed until last year over . 1300 letters were received. In order to cope with the tre mendous volume of mail, a form letter is now reproduced in the professor’s handwriting on special green stationary topped with Santa’s picture. The name of the child to whom the letter is being sent and a personal postscript are added. Letters arrive addressed to "Santa," or "Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus." frequently at the North Pole. Post office officials route them to the newspaper office where "Santa" picks them up twice a day. He has the answers in the mail by the next morn ing. Requests for toys seem to run in trends, the professor finds. In war times there is a noticeable rise in requests for toy guns and tanks while this year cowboy (Continued on 'page eight) with some AEC matters coming up. It was Snyder, too, who reported on the Dulles telephone call. All the speculation on whether the President will run again con tinued without any comment from the President and his staff. His doctors reported Saturday the 65-year-old Eisenhower was making excellent progress along the road to recovery from the heart attack he suffered in Den ver Sept. 24. But they are unanimously agreed that he should wait until mid-February at the earliest to decide whether he feels his health will permit him to try for a sec ond term. They have prescribed a trip to a warmer Southern climate for a continuance of his convalescence. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Local Parish Gives Kitchen To Delta Sigs Delta Sigma Phi fraternity has been granted permission to use the kitchen facilities of St. An drews Episcopal Parish House, Ir vin C. Boerlin, faculty adviser to the fraterhlty. aanttouhded' yester*- day. The Parish House is located at 300 S. Frazier street. Starting the. first of the year, the members will eat as a group and employ their own cook, Mrs. Edna Boone, every day except Sunday, Boerlin said. Permission to use the Parish House kitchen solved the last big problem for members of the house that was burned by fire Dec. 11. Church officials have also giv en the fraternity permission to use a large social room in the Parish House. Boerlin said the iraternity may decide _to hold rushing affairs in the social room. Boerlin also said that, starting at noon today, persons wishing to call fraternity members housed in Spruce Cottage on campus, should call ADams 8-9574. At present 21 members of the 44 man house are living in the cottage. The remaining men are (Continued on page eight) Coed Starts Law Suit For $l4OO Scholarship A University coed has started a law suit against a Demo cratic Club on a charge that the club did not award her a full first prize of $l4OO in a contest she won. Geraldine Ritter, sophomore in. arts and letters from Bethlehem, initiated the suit against the Edgeboro Pembroke Democratic Club. The club sponsored a Miss Lehigh Valley contest, which Miss Ritter won. The advertised first prize sup posedly was a -$l4OO scholarship to any school the winner chose. Miss Ritter allegedly received on ly a $4OO senatorial scholarship to come to the University. The civil suit charges the club with misrepresentation in having advertised the $l4OO first place scho.arslup. The plaintiff is seek ing the full value of the promised scholarship. • A full senatorial scholarship, such as the one Miss Ritter has now, can be used towards only the fees at a university the awar dee attends. The incidental fees at the University amount to $5O a semester, or $4OO for four years. The maximum amount a sena- CoUegtatt td no tickets will be distributed one. About 500 students are ex pected to graduate. The- 47-year-old Rockefeller is the son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Rockefeller has served iri his present, capacity since 1953. Among the'numerous positions he has held, in the •.government was that, of assistant secretary of state. • ‘ • i He. holds various, honorary der •grees’in law and hasbeen cited for his work ip the field'of hu-. Plan relations. A graauate -Of Dartmouth Col lege,-he started his career in 1931 by serving as • clerk in. the New York then London, and finally Paris branches'of the Chase Na tional Bank. . In 1940 he. was appointed co ordinator of Inter-American Af fairs and in 1944 he started a one year term as assistant secretary of state. He founded the American In ternational Association for Eco nomic and Social Development and served as its president from 1946 td 1953. From 1950 to 1951, he was chairman of the International De velopment Advisory Board, and in- 1952 he became chairman of the President’s Advisory Commit tee on Governmental Organiza tion. He has been president and pre sently is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Cloudy Weather, Flurries Forecast Today’s weather will be partly cloudy and colder with light snow flurries, according to students in the department of meteorology. The temperature is expected to reach a high of 25 degrees with a low of eight. The forecast for tomorrow is continued cold with generally fair weather. The maximum temperature yes terday was 25 degrees. The low was 22. The snowfall totaled .70 of an inch. torial scholarship can cover at the University is $4OO for these inci dental fees. M.'ss Ritter said yesterday the Democratic club has offered to settle the suit outside of court. The lawyers are now in the pro cess of debating the outcome, she said Miss Ritter said if she were offered a full $l4OO scholarship at another university she would accept it. She said she is thinking about transferring to the University of Pennsylvania to take the five year course which would give her a baehelcr of science degree and lead to a registered nurse’s posi tion.
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