SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1956
Spring
Year's
Spring Week, a release from the burden of studies and bluebooks, is an event eagerly
anticipated by students every year. It marks the climax of one year of University activi
ties and the highlight of the Spring semester calendar.
Spring Week at the University had its seventh birthday last year. It began in 1949 as
the brainstorm of Froth, campus humor magazine, which proposed to have a festival similar
to the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Since then, the affair has grown into a week-long Mardi
Gras in which more than 3000 students participate yearly.
Spring Week is run on a point system. The various student groups which participate
vie for trophies and prizes in each of the Spring Week events. The group with the most
points is awarded the Spring Week
trophy at the end of the week.
Last year's Spring Week included
five major events, and was held
from April 30 to May 3.
- Opened Ny Talent Show
The opening event was a student
faculty talent show held in Rec
reation Hall. The evening affair
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was climaxed by the crowning of
Miss Pc i State, Joan Ziegle . She
was crowned by Milton S. isen
sity, who was assisted by amela :
bower, president of the niver-
Ulrich, Miss Pennsylvania o 1956.
Deans of the colleges, Dr. isen
bower, and Miss Ulrich wee jud
ges for the
.ceremony.
The Spring Week Carniv, the
week's major event, was held at
the southeast corner of the golf
course. Some 39 groups set up
sideshows on the midway to com
pete with each other to get the
most tickets. The theme for the
1956 Carnival was "Song and Show
Titles." Approximately $4OOO was
collected from carnival proceeds
which was donated to the Student
Scholarship Fund.
3 Categories Provided
Booths were divided into three
categories—true presen tat io n,
parody, and original with 12 or
13 booths in each category. Con
cession stands, rides, and souvenir
stands helped to add to the general
carnival merriment.
The Mad Hatters Parade and
He-Man contest were held on May
2 The two events were originally
,scheduled to take place at Beaver
Field, but due to rain they were
held in Schwab Auditorium.
Forty-one contestants in
all marched in the parade which
showed wierd creations ranging
from whales and other deep sea
characters to volcanoes setting a
top '.udents' heads
Half of the He-Man contest was
held in Schwab and the other half
in Recreation Hall. The contest
ants merely paraded in Schwab
and carried on with more difficult
competit:_n such as the bench
press, the 220 yard dash, and the
running broad jump in Rec Hall.
The final event of Spring Week
Plant Industries,
Home Ec Houses
Receive Names
Names for the Plant Industries
Building and for four new home
management houses at the Uni
versity have been approved by
the Board of Trustees.
The Plant Industries Building,
which provides facilities for the
departments of horticulture and
agronomy, has been designated
Tyson Hall, honoring the late
Chester J. TysOn, a trustee of the
University from 1912 until his
death in 1938.
The names of the Home Man
agement Houses, which are locat
ed at E. College avenue and En-
trance road at the eastern end of
the main campus, honor Florence
Benedict, who in 1909 became the
first woman to receive a degree
in home economics at Penn State; I
Amy G. Gardner, who was named
to the faculty in 1940 and at the'
time of her death in 1950 wasl
profeSsor and chairman of the
division of home art; Catherine
Beecher, an outstanding pioneer
in home economics education; and
Myra Dock, an outstanding mem
ber of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs who had an in
fluential part in the establishment
of home economics at the Univer
sity.
.The names of Beecher House,
situated east of Irvin Hall, and
Benedict House, situated east of
the Pattee Library, will be discon
tinued as the College of Home
Economics discontinues the use of
these_ buildings as home manage
ment houses.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Week Tops
Activities
was the student-faculty basketball
game, marking the first time such
an event was ever included in
Spring Week. It provided many a
laugh to see campus leaders and
University professors trying to
make baskets on top of a don
key's back. Two games were play
ed—one between the CLDWN (Cam
pus Leaders Who Do Nothing) and
the faculty, and another battled
between fraternity house presi
dents.
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New German Society
Initiates 25 Members
The Delta Nu chapter of Delta
Phi Alpha, German honorary
fraternity, has been installed at
the University with 25 charter
members.
The fraternity was founded in
1929 at Wofford College, Spar
tansburg, N. C. It now has 75 ac
tive chapters. '
we took a page out of
Life magazine recently publicized a fine New York shop employing a
coed as fashion coordinator for their campus fashions. We took a page
out of 'Life,' and Miss Marilyn Seltzer, a senior at Penn State is shown
helping Charles choose the new fall campus wear now featured in the
Charles Shop.
-listen to Life! Find wonderful new fashions for coeds with a real flair
for wearing what's new and right.
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men's judiciary body, or to the
Freshman Regulations Board
where coeds are concerned. The
decisions of these two judiciary
bodies is subject to review by the
Senate discipline subcommittee.
Students over 21 must appear
personally before the Freshman
Customs Board for exemption
from customs. No immunities may
be granted to frosh by upper
classmen or women. Veterans will
be exempted regardless of age.
Falsification to avoid customs
will be considered a violation of
the freshman code.
Upperclassmen may not
"haze" freshmen. Hazing is de-
Journ Society In
Six graduate students and five
undergraduates in the School of
Journalism have been initiated
into the newly organized Univer
sity chapter of Kappa Tau Al
pra, national scholastic honorary
fraternity.
New graduate members are
John C. Behrens,'Barry C. Fain,
Robert •B. Schoellkopf, Emily
Berke, Alfred A. Nerino, and Bar
bara Kober.
Undergraduate members are
Kim B. Rotzall, who has been
fined as any activity not spe
cifically prescribed by the
Board. Men's and women's hat
societies will not enforce cus
toms but will act as "friends"
of the freshmen and protect
them from hazing.
In the past, customs regulations
and dress customs have been
changed many times. This year's
program is much like the one
used in the past two years. In
1952 men wore green dinks, and
women wore green hair bows.
In 1953, women wore dinks for
the first time. Frosh men were
required to wear green dinks and
black bow ties on their shirts,
with collars buttoned.
tiates Eleven
elected president of the chapter;
Margaret Pearce, Joan Creitz, Lil
lian Junas, and Barbara A. Nich
olls.
Kappa Tau Alpha was organ
ized for the recognition and en
couragement of scholarship, good
character, and professional con
duct among students of journal
ism. Chapters of the fraternity
now exist •in 32 leading schools
and departments of journalism
throughout the couro,nr.
LIFE
NOW. OPEN
EVERY
WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON
AND
MONDAY
NIGHT
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