WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER
Universi
Despite
In spite of many a.
never had an official s
Three times since t
to obtain one have fail:.
The closest the Un
All-College Cabinet held
designing contest.
A 'simple flag of blue an
with the Nittany Lion a ,
was chosen as the best
members of the art facul
In June 1946, the fla
mittee sent the sketch t.
dent Ralph Dorn Hetzel,
was Secretary of the B.
Trustees.
The Board decided
neded more thought and r
the drawing to Cabinet.
A second attempt was 1
the Cabinet in Decemb:'
They returned the sketch'
ing the students desire I
flag and re-endorsing thei
The board refused to ac
design.
With hope of an All College
flag gone the Cabinetrred to
have the flag accepted as an ath
letic one. Wilmer E. Kerrorthy,
administrative assistant to the
President, replied for PFesident
Hetzel that the matter nleed not
go before the Board of Trustees
and the idea could be carried
out. "
The understanding was that the
flag could only be displayed at
New Beaver Field, the Recrea
tion Building and athletic events.
An attempt to obtain a flag
also was made in 1931 when
David Weidner, '3l, chairman of
the flag committee, announced
that members of the Department
of Architecture would be encour
aged to submit designs for a popu
lar vote by the student body.
The plans were subject to the
approval of the officials of the
Department of Architecture and
alt" ough instructors in the de
partment seemed willing to sup
port the project, and several de
signs were suggested, the plan
died.
Charles W. Stoddart, then Dean
A 5,16,4 OF THE ,* . AGE MVO!
13. 1957
`fir Lacks Official Flag
50 Years of Searching
By JEFF POLLACK
empts to get one, the University—unlike most large schools—has
I 00l flag.
e turn of the century—in 1907, 1931 and 1946—attempts by students
versity has come to having an official flag was in 1946 when the
: flag-
of the School of the Liberal Arts,
suggested a begonia bush be used
to symbolize the spirit of cordial
ity.pretrailing at the College.
Other suggestions included com
binations of the Keystone emblem,
Mt. Nittany, the initials "P.S."
and the Nittany Lion. The Uni
versity Seal held great popularity
among the students but was dis
regarded because it would appear
"muddy" when reproduced in
miniature.
white
rosy it
y the
corn
: Presi
ho also
and of
e idea
• turned
In 1907 the Lemon, a publica-
ade by
r 1946.
affirm
or the
design.
ept the
Medical Club
To Type Blood
The Rod and Coccus Club will.
hold its annual blood typing proj-:
ect from 7 to 9 tonight in 205 Pat- 1
terson.
Barbara. Underwood, secretary,'
said in past years as many as 200
students have come to have their
blood typed, "Most of the partici
pants were couples," she said.
The price of blood typing is
25 cents and the price of determin- ,
ing the Rh factor is 25 cents. I
The proceeds from the project
go to the Rod and Coccus textbook
scholarship fund. The $25 scholar
ship is given once a year to one
member of the sophomore, junior
and senior classes.
This year's winners are Phoebe
Trumbauer, senior in medical
technology from Lansdale; Ruth
Ott, junior in medical technology
from Westfield, N.J., and Doro
thea Harms, sophomore in medi
cal technology from• Reading.
AgIRMER,THERES THAT NEW CAW/I-PROOF BOX/
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE P
By PAT O'NEILL
Attention autograph collectors:
You no longer have to travel to distant places to collect
signatures of famous names. Just take a look around you.
Most students are unaware of the many famous names
in history, politics, entertainment and literature that are
found in class rolls at the University.
Don't be surprised if you find
yourself sitting next to Adam, may come across such famous au
,Achilles, Alexander, Solomon, Da.' thors as Roberts, Faulkner, o'.
'yid or Burke. Weill. Whitman, Holmes and Pyle.
Silting next to Bacon or Ral- , The student directories are on
eigh might. be a help in English
sale in the basement of Willard,
literature, and history students
at the Book Exchange and at
might be comforted by the fact State College bookstores for 50
that Churchill, Drake, Newton cents.
and Franklin attend the Univer
sity. ;Seventeen ROTC Men
And of course the campus,
wouldn't be complrte without Attend Army Convention
Penn. - Seventeen Rese r v e Officers
Washington, Jackson, Monroe, Training Corps cadets have re
;Johnson, Wilson. Adams and Her
Engagements
re
;
Johnson,
are just a few of the famous
:political names that appear in the, 7il j eT
,student directory. turned from_ the ‘ tt t hird attrualfcoit
ioAn o f t he
inWashinlagtoonn. o f th e
Schneider-Levine I Names from the entertainment • The men viewed exhibits of
;new atomic equipment and wea-
field are well represented. These
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schneideri i nc l u d e pons and attended a reception in
of Washington, N.J., have an the names of f amous pons
of the Army Secretary Wil
flounced the engagement of their actors and actresses such as
daughter Janet to Howard L Le-' Reynolds, Fisher, Cooper, Craw- .bur M. Brucker and Chief-of-
Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor.
vine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ford, Taylor . Hayward, Grant.
Levine of Spring Valley, N.Y. , nutter. Powell and Kerr.
Miss Schneider is a senior in' The University has its share ofi
secondary education. She is firstiMonroes and Mansfields too. 1
vice president of Sigma Delta Tau, A Gable would complete the!
sorority. (picture , but our Gable spells hiss
Lf !name Gabel. I
tion of the. time, campaigned for
a flag. In its second article on
the flag, the question was asked,
"Do you think Penn State is big
enough and great enough to have
a splendid college banner . . .7"
Among the slogans that ap
peared in this issue was, "Penn
State's Banner of White and Blue
—'Twill Soon be Unfurled."
EVidence pointed to a campaign
for an All-College flag. The 'out
, come however, was that the Cadet
:Corps received a new flag.
...,evine was graduated from the ,
University in 1956 in pre-medi-1
cine. He was a member of Phi.
Sigma Delta fraternity. He was!
also a member of Androcles, jun-;
for men's hat society; Chemistry- ,
Physics Student Council; and Phi ;
Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic:
honorary society.
At present, he is a sophomore
at the State of New York College'
of Medicine at Syracuse, N.Y.
Outing Club to Meet
The ski division of the Outing
Club will hold a meeting at 7 to-'
night in 241 Recreation Hall for'
persons interested in a ski trip,
•at Christmas.
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In the student directory you
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