THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1958
Yours Truly, Yurey
Junior and Russian Professor
Compare Dual Ways of Life
David Houghton; junior in meteorology from Media, has an unusual pen-pal—a 29-
year-old teacher of English in a Russian secondary school.
Houghton, who began his correspondence 14 months ago, says the letters—which are
“yours truly, Yurey"—have given him the chance “to learn much about Russian life,'
more than I can learn from bor
:• Oddly enough, Houghton says, 1
*1 don't learn as much from the
things Yurey tells me as I learn
from the questions he asks. That
is, I get the idea that because of
a lack of information, Yurey is
perplexed about many of. the
things he hears about America.
. “And sometimes his questions
are really “stumpers’,” Houghton
adds.
After reading some of Yu
rey's questions—he writes his
letters in English—it was easy
to see what Houghton meant.
Yurey wanted to know:
‘“Here in Russia one often sees
in newspapers an expression, ‘the
American way of life'. Often this
expression is criticized. I have a
vague notion of the phrase. What
does it mean? What is character
istic of “your way of life’?”
With the help of a short auto
biographical sketch and a few
passages from a sociology book.
Houghton tried to answer • this
question. He told Yurey of his
typical suburban town of Media,
the closeness of his family, his 5-
acre plot of land which he and
his father spend their time culti
vating, of his summer jobs and of
his schooling.
Then he fold Yurey some
facts about Americans in gen
eral: suburbs, cities, radio, tele
vision, CBS, Hollywood, jitter
bugging, rock 'n* roll, square
dancing and the installment
plan.
But Yurey was not satisfied
with this. As he said in his next
Club TIM Survey
Shows 65°fo Approval
About 65 per cent of Town Independent Men replying so
far to a survey on Club TIM would be willing to help pay
for the project.
About 75 per
plan, according to
HEc Receives
Faculty-Student
Dining Proposal
■ The Student-Faculty Board of
the College of Home Economics
heard a proposal Tuesday night
that would have faculty members
of the college eating in the dining
halls with students several times
a year/
- The board’s Committee on Stu
dent-Faculty relations made the
suggestion in order to bring about
closer student-faculty relations in
the college.
' Members of the committee said
that dining hall personnel would
.support the idea ft some provision
were made to pay for the meals.
The - committee also suggested
that a student-faculty- party be
held some time during the semes
ter; ' ’
No final action was taken on
either of the - proposals because
of the lack of quorum.
Associate Prof Edits
Croup of Monographs
• Dr. Alfred K. Blackadar, as
sociate professor .of meteorology,
is editor of a group of monographs
published by the American
Meteorological'Society. -
Entitled “Meteorological Re
search . Reviews,” the 283-page
volume summarizes research prog
ress from 1951 to 1955 in several
fields of meteorology."
'Fanner' Staff to Meet
The Penn State Farmer staff
will meet to plan the March issue
at 7:15 tonight in . 109 Annsby. <
By PAVE FINEMAN
First of Two Series
“Certainly my question about
‘the American way of life’ was a
perplexing one as it was vague
and too general to answer. Put
ting it to you I thought you in
America often heard that phrase,
meaning, in its narrow sense,
some fundamental peculiarities of
the law, customs, etc., which are
characteristic of your country.
"In most cases, I should ac
knowledge, I heard it spoken,
read and illustrated with nega-
cent of those replying are in favor of the
Charles Bartholomew, chairman of a TIM
council committee studying the
subject. Replies have been re-|
ceived from approximately half
of the 300 students to whom
questionnaires on the subject
were sent.
Final result of the poll will be
announced at next Wednesday
night’s TIM council meeting.
- Four questions were asked in
letters sent out to 300 hundred
town indies:
• Did they receive the letter?
• What do they think of the
idea? .
‘ *Do they have any questions
about, the plan?
• Would they be willing to pay
a nominal fee to support the
club?
The idea for Club TIM began
about two years ago, but it was
kicked around until this year.
The main purpose of Club TIM
would be to provide a place
where alumni and students can
meet. Trophies won by indepen
dent organizations would be
placed in the. building.
Current plans call for the first
floor to be a recreation and
lounge area, with the other floors
being converted into a. dormitory
to provide revenue. .
Bartholomew said Club TIM
would serve to bring together in
dies and let them meet each
other.
The biggest problem standing
in the way of Club TlM'right
now is finances. Of this, Barthol
omew said, “I just don’t know
how we are going to finance the
thing;’
Prof Given Diesel Post
Dr. A. W. Hussman, professor;
of research, has been,
appointed to the Diesel Engine!
Activity Committee of the So-]
ciety of Automotive Engineers. !
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYI VANIA
--ey 'y
. Unusual Pen-Pal
live examples such as 'race
segregation', Indian reserva
tions, etc. At the same time I
came across such peculiarities
of the A.WX. (Yurey abbre
viates a lot of phrases he.has
used before—this one means, of
course, 'American way of life') ■
as 'American accuracy', or
punctuality I can't rind the
exact word—'American humor'
and many more.
‘fn return, you have asked me
of the R.W.L. (Russian way of
life, of course). This notioh seems
to be a whole consisting of phases,
peculiar to any given country.
The political system, economic
structure, customs, education sys
tem, the clothes the people wear
and the food consumed.”
Yurey is married and has a j
daughter a year and a half old.
In addition to his teaching in
the small settlement of Parak
hino. an industrial town about
125 miles from Leningrad, Yu
rey also attends the Moscow
Stale Pedagogical Institute of
Foreign Languages two weeks'
of the year. As a teacher, he
pays no tuition, and all of his
expenses—even train fare from
his home and back—sure paid
. by the stale.
Yurey writes on many other of
his impressions of Russia and
America and of his personal life,
sometimes enlightening, some
times humorous, as will be seen
in future installments of this
series.
Fifty-Six Named
To Dean's List
Fifty-six students in the Col
lege of Chemistry and Physics
have been named to the Deans
List for. the fall semester.
Stephen Brown, Donald Clag
ett, David Goldstein, Roger Ker
lin, Robert Lehmberg, John Ly
ons, Karl Rekas and John Stoner
completed the semester with 4.00
averages.
The other students and their
averages are:
Donald Douglas, 3.94; Fred
Klippel, 3.84; Robert Blanning,
3.81; David Neely, 3.81; Leona
Schreiner. 3.81; Richard Chryn,
3.80; Ira Wasserman, 3AO; John
Bready, 3.66; Edward Stoker,
3.66; Beverly Rimm, 3.64; Robert
Shutt, 3.60: Arthur Davenport.
3.52; Roger Granlund. 3.52; Paul
Meco, 3.52.
George Motsay, 3.94; Richard
Keenan. 3.82; Robert Chapman,
3.81; Guido Moeller, 3.81; Ross
Kremer, 3.78; George Fish, 3.52;
Joanne Walbert, 3.52.
Glenn Wilkes, 3.79; Ronald
Reinhard. 3.69: Stephen Schlicter.
3.66; Dorothy Smeal, 3.66; Samuel
Styer, 3.57; Stephen Feairheller,
3.55; Alan Renkis, 3.55; Henry
Gehrhardt, 3.54: George Miller,
3.52.
George Bergey, 3.94; Elizabeth
Dowiing.-3.93: James Dowd, 3.83;
Robert Larsen, 3.83; Robert Ho
ward, 3.81; William Hardham,
3.75; Robert Kocur, 3.69; William
Hartmann, 3.87; John Kardos,
3.67; Leslie Salomon; 3.67; Wil
liam Ward, 3.67; Glenn Johnson.
3.62; Paul Shoener, 3.62; Barent
Johnson, 3.60; Maxine Shall, 3.58;
Jesse Koontz. 3.55; George Ben
trem. 3.51; Thomas Beilina. 3.50.
RADIO
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• Portable Radios
• Phonographs /fCl\
•Batteries Av ' j
State College TV
232 S. Allen St.
Formal Coffee Hours
To Climax Rushing
The tenseness and excitement of rushing will come to a
climax tonight when rushees attend sorority coffee hours
and preferential lists are made out.
Rushees may pick up invitations for coffee hours from
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m, today. The invitations must be
answered within this time. Two, ~
may be accepted, one from 6:30 t omorrow . p orma j ma y
to 8 p.m. and one from 8:30 to be sent to rushees after that time.
10 p.m. Ribboning will take place at
Formal gowns or cocktail j 7 p m tomorrow in the sorority
dresses may be worn to the , sul t es
coffee hours. ’
Sororities must return coffee • • _ j ■ ■ .
hour invitations to the Panhel- I I rAifAU/CnfnC
lenic post office by 8 ajn. to- 1 1 *
day along with the number of a ■
women they plan to pledge. UDOII tO GfCtCIS
Coffee hour acceptances will be . , ■
available for sororities at 1:30 p.m. March lis the deadline on ap-
Cars may be used tonight in dnv- durations for U Graduate School
ing rushees to and from the tol.owships.
coffee hours. The fellowships provide $2OOO
Rushees will file preference taK , free for ' he academic year
cards from 10 pjn. until mid- , 3nd exemption from major fees,
night tonight in their hostess's A n V outstanding doctorate can
apartment. They may list in didate who has at least one year
order of preference all the ,°f graduate work may apply.
sororities they are willing to Awards will be given in any
pledge, whether or not they at- area, preferably those :n which
tended that coffee hour. other types of aid are less preva-
Sororities will list in order of l en t. such as the humanities and
preference all the girls they are social sciences. Applications and
willing to pledge, and the two information can be obtained in
lists will be matched. the Graduate School Office, 104
Rushees will be given one in- Willard,
vitation from the sorority of their
highest choice which included Grant to Support Work
them in its list of pledge invita- . ..
tions. »n New Drying Process
Sororities will receive an IBM Everett R. McLaughlin, asso
card for each woman' rushing, ciate professor of engineering re-
Cards for women which the search, plans to experiment with
sorority is not planning to bid ! approximately six dehumidifv
should be discarded. First list ing materials, such as silica gel.
cards should all be marked now being manufactured corn
number one. Second list cards mercially to determine their ef
should be marked number two, fectiveness in purifying as well as
three, four. etc., in order of .drying air.
preference. Cards must be re- | McLaughlin's work will be sup
turned to the dean of women's ported by a 1-ycar $l4OO grant
office at 8 aon. tomorrow. from the American Society of
Invitation lists will be available Heating and Air-Conditioning En
at the dean’s office at 4:30 p.m. gineers.
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