PAGE TWO University AAU Increases Academic The University’s steadily growing academic prestige reached a high peak this year when the University became a member of the Association of American Uni- versities. In accepting the association’s invitation for membership, the University became the /.'coiid in-dilution in the state recognized by the high academic group, The Uni- V"' 11 , of Penn vNama ii the It was the first lime since 1343 that new members were invited to the association. Three other schools. Tulane and Purdue Universities and lowa State College of Agricul ture and Mechanic Arts, were al-,o invited. t.'.i,, a ‘ II I N‘ ir u n on d,et s. o' AAI. • uii ia n. ;;; iol- ci mi.’ ci u.' ln o '( vim': IN invii.'ition tu thi U;i '.ci it\, Ur Cornells Hit ". a t 1h o w!■ >O, o.Miia.iH'd "The association is composed of institutions on the North American continent, the qual ity of whose graduate work in certain fields is high and, in addition, whose claims for in clusion are strong either be cause of general high standing of their or because of the high standing of one or more of their professional schools." Tin- .oi'ia!um. founded in had 14 member? at its start P,ciause of its strict re c|im errents. it crow to only 37 memhets m 30 years with the lav throe being added m HUS) Besides the four new mem bers. the association is com posed of Brown University, California Institute of Tech nology, University of Califor nia, University of Chicago, Clark University, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, JJmrvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, New York University, Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt. Washington Uni versity at St. Louis, Mo„ Mc- Gill University, Stanford. The UmveiMties of Illinois, Indiana. Kansas. Michigan, Mis.mill. Minnesota, Nebiaska, Ninth ('aiolma, Pennsylvania, Ibiehester. Texas. Toronto, Vir ginia. Washington and Wiscon sin, Slide Universitv of lowa, Noith’.ve-tern. Catholic Uni v-isitv nf America and Ohio Slate Umveisdy. Public to 'Pour Hospital Today An open house will lie held at, the Kitenour Health Center finiu 10 am to noon today Visitois will be able to >ee the imnilived t.iedities made nv iilabio with the opening of the ea-. 1 and v. ml wing.-, of the builtling last sear Tills is the fn .1 ume the wings have been oi”’ii to tlie general public. 12,800 University Grads Belong To 90-Year-Old Alum Association Alme'-t (SO years a<;o- J'.ilv ‘IK. 1 ;vro -a «>nan 'v.'oup of IVrn Suif* t;i;ulualos in.'t jo fouiul tho Alumni Axnvnd"n!. now composed of [moot ifSO'l paid animal ni**n''vi Tl-( \ 1 >ii n i A."Oci,ttion spoil 01 ami helps m the oi g.m o’o" ijl alumni district club-. l'li. H‘ a a* now about 70 clubs -..“ittorod across‘tho na tion ; nd m Puerto Rico. It also keep- a runout mailing list tln'o'p;lt which all alumni re ceive the Penn Stater, a quar terly newspaper. Ruipe Riley is executive sec retan of the Alinnm Associa tion. Members of the association receive a subscription to ihe Penn Stale Alumni News, pub lished seven times a year They also receive a Football Letter mailed after eaeh game. Tha Alumni News contains featuia <i., .Delation Blue Band to Make Musical TV Survey “Popular TV Programs” Will be the. theme of the Penn State Blue Band as it makes its initial appearance on Beaver Field this year at today’s Homecoming game against Marquette. Blue Band Director James W. Dunlop said the 96- member band will march onto the field at halftime and peifoim a musical salute to the visiting Marquette, whose band will not appear for the game Following this. Blue Band will begin its musical survey of television by marching into the formation of an isolation booth and playing the theme of "The $64,000 Question." The bund will then form the letter Z. the mark of "Zoiro,” whose theme ntu-tc they will then piesont. ‘Gunsmoke’’ is the next pro gram. which will be symbo lized b\ a huge blue and white Colt -to fo'.nmtinn v ith musical bacl.ei ,-,u nd From the gun, the Blue Band will swing inio the letters MR. stones, articles written by fac ulty mctnbeis and news of classmates and the University RIDGE RILEY .Alumni Secretary THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Membership Prestige —Collegian photo by Marty Scherr BLUE BAND MEMBERS Twelve minutes of TV By JIM MORAN C, representing "The Perry Como Show" with the theme song of the crooner. An automobile, presumably a Chevrolet, will then material ize and the theme music of "The Chevy Show" will ac company it as it moves down the field. Upon reaching the end of the field, the automobile will re\eise itself and ptoceed back npfield to the theme mu sic of "Highway Patrol ” As a finish Jo the 12-minute performance, tho Blue Band will form the head of a mouse ahd present a vocal and in strumental rendition of "The Mickey Mouse Club" theme music. Membetsh.p in the associa tion helps support the Uni \ etd'y's two big alumni week ends, ihe Alumni Institute held each June and Homecom ing Weekend. The assoc latioh sponsored and helped m the organization and opeiation of the Alumni Fund which was begun m 1.153 under Milton Eisenhower, then president of the University. The fund has raised almost $1,060,000 in its first six years. The money is used for vital Umvor.uty projects. In 1954. the Alumni Memor ial Scholarship Program was set up with the help of the Fund. This program is coordi nated by the Alumni Associa tion. This was the first exten sive program of aid to incom ing freshmen offered at the University. Life membership in the Al umni Association is $75 paid in full or $l3 as first of five annual payments for Install ment Life membership. fop of tho mal! Three Cheers For the Alums Those banner-waving, raccoon-coat-wearing alums are back. Three cheers. The student sees an alum as a free-spending free loader. He storms into the fraternity house as if he owned the place and lakes over as if he built it. There is nothing that aggravates the student as much as having a cigar-smok ing alum tell the boys “the way he used to do it in ti]_e old days —when Paternity lite was really living “ Then too, the student sus piciously eyes the alum as someone who may change his present mode of living—like suggesting that the house cut expenses down by eliminating Saturday night steak dinners. The administration sees an alum as a potential hundred dollars 'for the Stone Valley project. The Alumni Associa tion has designed life member ships, husband and wife mem berships and installments plan memberships concisely tailored for any excuses, or circum stances The alum sees himself as the epitome of success in the busi ness world, a benevolent friend of his alma mater and just a little better than the guy who beat him out for fraternity president back in '37. A fraternity house holds a cross section of alums and their purposes in returning. First there is the ’OB grad uate who hasn’t in iss e d a Homecoming since ’O9. He would rather lose his job than miss Homecoming. And have a pledge or brother forget his name and the house has lost a good source of income. We must also recognize the alum who comes back with one recollection of his undergrad uate days in mind: the parties. He hasn't bothered to get a ticket for today's game because he won't make it. Next comes the alum who has gotten a little sentimental about his college years since he hasn’t kept in contact with his brothers or the house for several decades. He will fol low the brothers around this weekend asking questions about people the actives have never heard of. He expects the weekend to catch him up on the mtei vening years Then there's the duty-bound alum who feels he must re turn for the sake of returning. He generally put a damper on the weekend. Finally there is the gloater. He wants to make sure none of the brothers m his class has made more of himself after graduation than he has. y ; ‘ -I f SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1958 by Jynn ward —— Alum Even Is TODAY 8 a.m.—Al u in n i registration, Hcl7.el Union Building lobby 9 30 to ll.3oam—Home eco nomics alumni coffee hour, Home Economics living cen- ter 10 a.m—Freshman football: Penn State vs. West Va. Soccer Penn State vs. Syra cuse Beaver Field, Admission $1 10 a m. to noon—-Open house at Rilenour Health Center Journalism alumni coffee hour, 9 Carnegie Phvs Ed alumni coffee hour, 239 Recreation Building Exhibit 'Re'member When,” Green Room, Schwab 11 a m.—Dedication of bust o! Dr. Edwin Erie Sparks, pre- sented by Class of 1911, Sparks lobby 11:30 a.m. Alumni luncheon, HUB ballroom 1 '3O p m.—V ars 11 y Football: Penn State vs. Marquette, Beaver Field 4:30 to Bpm.—lndependent alumni reception, HUB lounge 8 p m.—Alumni cider party, HUB lounge: open all even ing 8 p.m —Thespians show “En tertainment U.5.A.,” Schwab Players • show “The Druid Circle," Center Stage 9 30 to midnight Homecom ing Dance, HUB ballroom] $2 a couple Facultv Art Exhibit Opens Tomorrow The annual exhibition ol works of art by faculty mem bers will open with a recep tion from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Hetzel Union gallery. Eighteen faculty members from the departments of ait, architecture, theater arts and ait education are lepiesented in the exhibition which will continue through Nov. 7. —Drewln* bj Nancjr Winfield
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