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VOL. 56. No. 120
1 Pos i
For En
Seventy-one posit
Encampment next fa
versity Cabinet.
About 120 person
will be held Sept. 5 tc
number, 90 will be si
Celebrati • ns
Planned or
Pan-Am Day
• The University will observe
Pan-American Day today with a
brief ceremony on the Old Main
lawn beginning at 11:45 a.m.
The program, sponsored by the
Sena t e Committee on% Inter
national Understanding and ar
ranged by Company B of the Fifth
Regiment, National Pershing
Rifles Society, is an annual event.
Dr. Kenneth R. Erfft, associate
comptroller of the University, will ,
deliver a message written by Dr.
Milton S. Eisenhower, president
of the University. Dr. Eisenhower
will deliver an address to the Pan-
American Union this afternoon in
Washington, D.C., for President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Bartol Coordinator
Coordinator for the University
program is Henry J. Bartol,
sophomore in physics from Brook
lyn, N.Y. •
Members of both the Army and
Air Force Reserve Officers-Train
ing Corps bands will participate
in the program, along with an
honor guard of the Scabbard and
Blade sabre team.
At the conclusion of the ad
dress. members of the Pershing
Rifles will raise flags of the 21
Pan-American Union member
nations.
Members From 9 Colleges
The Committee on International
Understanding is composed of one
representative of each. college at
the University. The appointments
are made by Dr. Eisenhower.
' The 21 Pan-American nations
are Argentina, Bolivia; Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cu
ba, Dominican Republic, Ecqua
dor, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hai
ti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United
States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
24 Selected
For Honorary
Twenty 7 four seniors and recent
graduates have been elected to
membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
The new 'members are: Louis
Adler, Lester Alston, Jane Berg
doll, Grace Bonnert, Alice Gard
ner, Shirley Gills, Nancy Grau
mann, Carl Held, Joan Herbst,
Joseph Hodorawis.
Nancy Kishlar, Sherry Kofman,
Andrew Korim, Gertrude Lutz,
Lucille Pinto, David Rockmore,
Eleanor Rose, Warren Saunders,
Thomas Scott, Judith Sedor, Mil
dred Sosh, Marjorie Taylor, Eli
zabeth Tipton, and James Valone.
The new members will be ini
tiated at the chapter's annual
spring initiation banquet May 15.
Housing Sdrvey Menabers
Will Meet Tuesday
Housing survey representatives
of the University Christian Asso
ciation, Hillel, Alpha Phi Omega,
national service fraternity, and
•the various student religious
groups will meet at 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday in 410 Old Main.
A discussion will be held on
the progress of the housing sur
vey to determine how many resi
dents are willing to rent rooms
to foreign students and American
Negroes.
Ei tt it g :-
cr
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ions Named
ampment
ons chosen .to attend the Fifth Student
1 were read Thursday before All-Uni-
• will attend the annual meeting, which
I I Sept. 8 at the Mont Alto Center. Of this
udents and 30 will be faculty, adminis-
tration, and townspeople.
Donald Reidenbaugh, chairman
of the encampment committee,
said 77.77 per cent of the students
were chosen by position.
Eight workshops will discuss
the topics being compiled by the
committee from the results of the
poll sent to past participants.
Chairmen to Do Research
Chairmen for these workshops
will be appointed before May 1.
They will be responsible for con
ducting a complete and detailed
research into the . problems han
dled by their group, Reidenbaugh
said.
Interviews for students not in
vited by position will begin about
April 22 and will continue until
the end of the semester.
As listed by the committee, the
positions are All-University pres
ident, vice president, and secre
tary-treasurer; the four class
presidents; the nine college coun
cil presidents.
Governing Bodies Represented
Cabinet parliamentarian, the
presidents of Women's Recreation
Association, Women's Student
Government Association, Panhel
lenic council, and the Association
of Independent Men.
Editor of The Daily Collegian,
president of the Athletic Associa
tion, president of the Council of
Dramatics and Forensics,,the
chairmen of Tribunal, Womn's
Judicial, Traffic Court, Orienta
tion Week, Customs Board.
Publication Editors
The editors of LaVie, Froth,
and Student. Handbook, WDFM
director, the presidents of Town
Independent Men, West Dorm
Council, Nittany Council, and
Pollock Council.
Chairman of the AIM Judicial
Board, Lion Party clique chair
man, Campus Party clique chair
man, chairman of the Inteffrat
ernity Council Board of Control,
director of Central . Promotion
Agency, the presidents of Hat So
ciety Council and University
Christian Association.
Committee Chairman Included
Encampment Committee chair
man, business manager, recrea
tional director, secretariat, assis
tant secretariat, and evaluation
chairman; chairman of Book Ex
change; student members of Sen
ate Subcommittees of Academic
Honesty, University Student Re
lations, and Student Organiza
tions and Controls.
Managing editor, business man
ager, and city editor of Collegian;
chairman of Student Town Rela-
(Continued on page eight)
Eisenhower Announces
Gruenther's Retirement
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 13 (?P)
U.S. I Gen. Alfred M. Gruen
'ther's retirement by the year's
end as supreme commander of
Allied forces in Europe was
announced today by President
'Dwight D. Eisenhower.
To succeed Gruenther —w h o
asked to be relieved—Eisenhower
chose American Gen. Lauris Nor
stad, a brilliant strategist and the
first Air Force officer ever picked
for the top North Atlantic Treaty
Organization military post.
Nomination of Norstad,. 49, now
air deputy to Gruenther, was rat
ified promptly in Paris by the
NATO Council.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said at Eisen
hower's Augusta vacation head-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 14. 1956
IFC Sing Finalists
Include TKE, KAT
Defending champions Tau Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Alpha Theta are among the eight
finalists who will compete in the finals of the Interfraternity Council-Panhellenic sing at
7 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium.
The eight finalists were selected after last night's preliminaries in 110 Electrical En
gineering.
Other than these two, all the others are newcomers to
finalists with the Tekes are Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Mu Delta, a
Work Sessions Set
For Greeks Today
Fraternities and sororities will hold Greek Week Projects
Day at 12:30 today by cleaning up and painting 25 area
churches, playgrounds, and schools.
More than 1000 fraternity and sorority members are ex
pected to pitch in with the annual affair in which the Greeks
are following their theme, "Greeks in Brotherhood." Spring
renovation will include painting]
cleaning and rubbish cleanup.
As in the past the weather will:
not hamper the Greeks with the`
projects going on as scheduled,
`rain, or shine."
' The projects are:
Matternville school, cleanup and
paint—Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Al
pha Chi Sigma, Gamma Phi Beta;
Centre County Home, cleanup—
Sigma Pi, Chi Phi, Zeta Tau Al
pha; Lemont playground, clean
up—Zeta Beta Tau, Beaver House,
Alpha Epsilon Phi; Woodycrest
playground, cleanup and paint—
Delta Sigma Lambda, Alpha Sig
ma Phi, Alpha Omicron Pi; East
. erly Parkway school, playground
equipment—Phi Mu Delta, Phi
I Mu
E.U.B. Church, cleanup—Alpha
Chi Rho, Delta Delta Delta; Cen
tre County Library, 'cleanup—
Phi Kappa, Sigma Delta Tau;
Westview playground, cleanup—
Phi Gamma Delta, Theta Chi,
Delta Gamma; College Heights
playground, cleanup—Phi Sigma
Kappa, Alpha Xi Delta; Pana
rama Village, stone fence at play
ground—Theta Xi, Alpha Zeta,
Delta Zeta; Catholic Cemetery,
cleanup—Theta Kappa Phi.
Four fate additions to the list
have been made to the project.
These are: Community Field ten
nis courts and baseball field,
cleanup—Beta Sigma Rho, Delta
Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Delta
Theta Sigma; Houserville Church;
cleanup—Phi Kappa Tau, Alpha
Rho Chi; Boal Museum, cleanup
—Sigma -Nu; and Our Lady of
Victory Church, cleanup—Theta
Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Upsilon.
quarters the 57-year-old Gruen
ther—a close personal friend of
the President —is retiring from
the Army and as commander-in
chief in Europe "because of per
sonal reasons." He did not elabo
rate.
In Paris, Gruenthexi told a press
conference he had no • personal
plans, no other arrangement for
employment in mind and "no ul
terior motive" behind his resigna
tion. He said he was stepping cut
to make way for younger men and
new ideas.
Three years, he said, is about
the maximum for a supreme Al
lied commander in order to main
tain the viability of the alliance
and to give opportunity to young
er officers.
Gruenther added he is not re
tiring for reasons of health. Last
December he underwent what was
described at the time as minor
Tottr4itut
By MIKE MOYLE
Award Banquet
To Be Climax
Of Greek Week
The annual Greek Week fes
tivities will be climaxed Wednes
day night at the Interfraternity
Council-Panhellenic banquet in
the Hetzel Union building.
The speaker for the banquet
will be the Reverend W. A. Han
son, retired president of Gettys
burg College.
The banquet is scheduled to be
gin at 5:45 p.m.
Most of the awards from Greek
Week will be given at the ban
quet. The ' coveted Outstaiiding
Fraternity Award last year went
to Beta Theta Pi.
Other awards will be the Sigma
Chi scholarship for scholastic im
provement which was won last
year by Theta Chi; the outstand
ing sorority scholastic awa r d,
which was won by Beta Sigma
Omicron; the trophies for the In
terfraternity Council-Panhellenic
Council Sing; and the trophy for
the Greek Week Poster contest.
Also to be awarded at the ban
quet will be the Kent Forster
Scholarship for a foreign student.
The award was named in honor
of the past i.dviser to IFC.
surgery at Walter Reed Hospital
in" Washington. When he left the
hospital he was Eisenhower's
guest for a few days in Key West,
Fla., where the President was
convalescing from his heart at
tack.
Hagerty said Gruenther—like
Norstad, a brilliant planner and
strategist—will leave "toward the
end of this year." The press sec
retary added that Norstad prob
ably will take over at that time.
Eisenhower served in 1951-52 as
the first NATO supreme comman
der in Western Europe. Gruen
ther was his deputy.
In approving retirement of
Gruenther at his request and the
President's, the NATO Council
asked Eisenhower to nominate a
successor and he chose Norstad.
The Council is made up of perm
anent representatives of NATO
countries.
Panhel Revisions
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he finals this year. Fraternity
d Phi Gamma Delta. Sorority
finalists are Zeta Tau Alpha, Del
ta Delta Delta, and Gamma Phi
Beta.
The judges I,elected four final
ists from both nights of compe
tition. Two fraternities and two
sororities were picked from each
night.
The fraternities who were in
last year's finals but failed to
gain that position this year are
Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi, Delta Chi.
The sororities who were final
ists last year are Alpha Chi Ome
ga, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and
Delta Zeta.
6th Time in Finals
Tau Kappa Epsilon will enter
the finals for the sixth straight
year. They have won the title for
the past five years. The Tekes
are directed by Charles Spring
man.
Kappa Alpha Theta, directed by
Dixie Waring, has two straight
titles to their credit. The Thetas
also were finalists in 1951.
A permanent trophy is given to
the fraternity and sorority who
win three straight years in their
division.
Both Nights Crowded
An overflow crowd packed 110
Electrical Engineering on both
nights of preliminaries.
The judges for last night were
Barry S. Brinsmaid, assistant pro
fessor of music; Elmer C. -Ware
ham, instructor of music; Mrs,
Louise Roscoe. Episcopal Church
organist; Dr. Martin McFeatters,
State College dentist; and Rich
ard Thorne, instructor of music at
State College High School.
Judges for Thursday night's
preliminaries were Brinsmaid,
Wareham, Leland S. Rhodes, pro
fessor emeritus of civil engineer
ing; and Henry Loewen, super
visor of instrumental music for
the State College Area schools.
The system of giving a perma
nent trophy for three wins was
instituted last year. Second place
winners now receive permanent
(Continued on page eight)
Gift' Suggestion
Ends Thursday
Suggestion boxes for the senior
class gift will remain until Thurs
day at the main desk of Hamilton
Hall, the Hetzel Union desk;
Grange, McElwain and Simmons
dormitories.
Students who want to put sug
gestions in the boxes may do so
individually or in groups.
Any group that wishes, may
publicize its suggestion at any
campus location including the
Hetzel Union Building. However,
all posters or other advertising
must be taken away from the
HUB one week before voting on
the gift takes place.
Seniors may vote for the gift
when they pick up their LaVie's
in June.
Students May File
For Final Conflicts
Students who must file for
conflict final examinations may
do so at the scheduling office in
the basement of Willard.
Deadline for filing conflict ex
ams is April 21.
In order to file for a conflict,
a student must have three or more
finals scheduled on the same day.
Warm, Cloudy Weather Predicted
The forecast for today is scat
tered clouds with no rain, accord
ing to the students in the depart
ment of meteorology. Partly
cloudy with little change from to..
day is predicted for Sunday.
FIVE CENTS