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Leonid
Gets
Room
ew
Plan
By 80881 .
• Independent
placed by expan
suites have won
first preference
vacant rooms.
EVINE
omen .dis
• ing sorority
the right to
f unassigned
Follo - wing a vis* to Robert G.
Bernreuter, vice president in
charge of studen affairs, and
Otto E. Mueller, h-ad of the De
partment of Housing, Carol Frank,
president of Leonides, yesterday
announced:
Independent women, feeling a
responsibility to move due to an
increase in sorority-designated
spaces, will be given first prefer
ence within their class of vacant
rooms not being reassigned.
This new agreement means
that the room , preference seni
ority system will not be dis
turbed in any way since sopho
more or junior women being dis
placed would have first prefer
ence only in their individual
classes and not over the entire
independent woman group.
The agreement will become ef
fective starting, in. the school year
19130-61. This is because the lob
of assigning rooms for the coming
school year is already well under
way and it is almost impossible to
do anything now, Miss Frank
said,
"We realize that this is a minor
point only affecting a few girls,"
she said, "but if the- case comes
up, without this plan fhere could
be a - lot of ill will , involved. We
hope to eliminate possibilities of
this." - _ -
Miss Frank said Leonides is
Still in full support of the new
sorority housing plan which
provides for the:possibility of
suite expansion from year to
year.
The new agreement is a slightly
modified 'version 'of a clause
originally contained in the soror
ity plan. - It was subsequently, cut
from the plan when it was pre
sented to lVfueller last month. Miss
Frank, with the approval of-Le
onides Council, then met with
Bernreuter and Mueller and work
ed out the newly-accepted clause.
Three Wandering Betas
Come Back From Cuba
Three members of Beta Theta
P 1 fraternity, who telephoned
here Tuesday for $5O -to get out
of. Cuba where they spent their
Easter vacation, returned to cam
pus early last night.
The trio, Tfobert Kaul, Alvin
Clemens and Erich Fitchner, told
fraternity brother Herman We
her that they had a "little prob
lem" and needed the money right
away. Weber wired it to them
on Wednesday morning.
Bridges to Speak in Lecture Series
Sen. Styles Bridges, (R-N.11.)
will be the third speaker - in
the University Lecture Series,
according to Dr Kent Forster,
lecture commit e chairman.
Bridges; form:r governor of
New Hampshire :nd candidate for
the Republican p esidential nom
ination in 1940, is scheduled to
speak April 30 i , Schwab - Audi
torium.
- A senator since 1937, he was
Senate Republican leader in• 1952
and president protempore in 1953.
Bridges served as chairman of the
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 4. 1959
Dean Weston to Retire
—Collegian Photo by Steve Johnson
HOBSON PITTMAN gestures over a point while comparing the
works of Picasso and Chardin in a lecture last night. Pittman is
visiting campus for the opening of an exhibition of his own work
in the HUB gallery.
Parties Will Hold
Final Nominations
Final nominations -of candidates for the spring elections
will be the main order of business at meetings of Campus
and University parties'tomorrow night.
Both pArties will nominate candidates for All-University
president, vice president and secretary-treasurer, senior and
junior class presidents and the
newly established assembly.
In this election, seats in the
assembly will be open to six sen
iors, four juniors arid three soph
lomores. The filling of freshman
seats and the remainder of the
assembly will be done in the elec
tions next fall.
Campus party will meet at
7 p.m. in 10 Sparks and Univer-1
laity party at 7 p.m. in 121 Sparks.
Frank Pearson, University
par t y chairman, and Charles
Steele, Campus party chairman,
said they were confident The
student government reorganize- 1
lion plan would pass and they
would not be electing people to
non-existent offices.
Students will be voting for the
proposed plan at the same time
they are voting for the students
who will put it into effect.
Campus party campaign mana
ger Gerry Whitney said he knew
of a number of people who were
interested in the new government
!but had too many activities this
spring to run in the elections.
However these people plan to
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Weather Changes
Seen for Weekend
The weekend will be rainy. and
colder, with frequent weather
changes occurring during the next
few days:
These changes will cause after
noon showers today, tomorrow
and possibly Monday. No warm
weather is expected_ for the next
thiee days.
' Today's fore Cast is for consid
erable cloudiness and cool temii
eratures, with rain predicted for
the afternoon. The high will be
50 degrees and the low will be
I in the upper 30's. Tomorrow will
be cloudy and warmer.
Republican policy committee in
1955 and '56.
The 61-year-old senator began
his career as the secretary of
the New Hampshire state farm
bureau federation in 1924 and
'25. He served on the state's
public'service commission from
1930-35 and as governor of the
state from 1935-37.
Bridges received his bachelor
of arts degree from the University
of Maine in 1918 and his master
qJ arts from Dartmouth College
in 1935.
_ His bid for the 1940 Republican
presidential nomination lasted
until the fourth ballot. His bid
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
the same year for the vice presi
dential nomination also failed.
Bridges is presently a mem
ber of the Hoover Commission
on government organization.
No topic has been announced
yet for his talk.
Forster also said the committee
is trying to make arrangements
I to have Sen. Hubert Humphrey
(D-Minn.), who has been men
tioned as a presidential candidate
in 1960, for sometime in May.
However, Forster said, no defi
nite arrangements have been
made yet. He said the committee
has also been in contact with oth
er speakers'for next year but that
nothing definite has been made.
17 Years of Service
To Terminate July 1
Dean of Women Dr. Pearl 0. Weston will retire July 1
after 17 years of service to the University.
Her immediate plans call for a trip around the world,
much of it via the air. But the tour also provides for trans
portation via camel, elephant
other less conventional methods
of travel.
All this for a woman who be
gan her teaching career in 1912.
The Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees meeting
on campus last night honored
her for years of service with the
tile of Dean of Women Emer
ita. Miss Weston came to the
University as assistant to the
dean of women in 1942 and
upon the retirement of Char
lotte E. Ray in 1946, she was
named dean of women.
As part of her trip around the
world, she will fly to Japan via
Hawaii, then to Hong Kong, In-
dia, , Egypt,
Rome, Paris and London. She
will return home in September.'
"I've always been a good trav
eler," Miss Weston said in reveal
ing that a trip to South America
might be in her plans for next
winter.
Dean Weston will make her
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IFC Will Elect
Officers Monday
The Interfraternity Council will elect its officers for the
1959-60 school year at 7 p.m. Monday in 110 Electrical Engi
neering.
Final nominations for president, vice president and
secretary-treasurer were held March 23 and candidates were
given until Monday to campaign.'
Nominated for president were
Gary Gentzler, Lambda Chi Al
pha, and Edward Kormos, Sigma
Pi. Nominated for vice president
were Ronald Resh, Phi Mu Delta,
and Arnold Machles, Sigma Alpha
Mu.
Four juniors were nominated I
for the secretary-treasurer's '
post: Boger Dreeben, Phi Sigma
Delta: James Wolfinger, Sigma 1
Phi Epsilon; Gilbert Sergeant,
Phi Kappa Tin: and Laurence
Buck, Phi Gamma Delta.
Edward Hintz, IFC president,
said there will be no drop-downs
in the elections.
Nominations and election of
senior board members or the
Interfraternity Council Purchas
ing Association will also be held.
IFCPA is an incorporated.
non-profit buying organisation •
for fraternities. According to a
brochure released by the IFCPA
att
By BILL JAFFE
sand cart, river boat and by
Coeds Again
Eligible For
Beauty Title
The fourth annual Miss Centre
County Pageant will be held at
the Bellefonte Junior High Audi
torium on May 15.
University women who wish to
be contestants may contact Dan
Clemson Jr., chairman of the En
tries Committee, at ADams 7-4959
or ELgin 5-4096.
The contest is sponsored by the
Bellefonte Area JayCees and is
'an official Miss America elimina
tion. The winner will be entered
in the Miss Pennsylvania contest.
A majority of the contestants
entered in previous years have
been University students.
This year the contest will be
held on May 15 so that it will be
a week away from final examina
tions. The judges for this year's
contest will come from outside
Centre County.
Miss Centre County will re
ceive a $2OO scholarship from the
JayCees, a tiara and trophy, an
expense paid trip to the Miss
Pennsylvania Contest and a gown
to wear in the contest.
The first runner-up will receive
a trophy and a $5O U.S. Savings
Bond. The second runner-up will
get a tronhy and a $25 U.S. Sav
ings Bond. •
Last year's Miss Centre County
is Jean Bixby, junior in
,arts and
letters from State College. First
runner-up was Lois Piercy, senior
in education from Springfield, and
second runner-up was Marlynn
Turki. junior in physical educa
tion from Canonsburg.
business office the purpose of
IFCPA is to coordinate the buy
ing power of fraternities to re
duce operation costs and to pro
vide quality products through
volume purchasing for fraterni
ties.
IFCPA is managed by an office
manager under the direction of a
13 person board of directors. This
board is composed of six adults
and seven students. Five student
positions will be open for nomin
ations Monday, according to Mrs.
Ruth Arnold, business manager of
IFCPA.
Students now on the board are
Robert Ginns, president; James
Reeves, secretary; Robert Ritchey,
vice president; Gerold Carlson and
Ronald King.
Mrs. Arnold has announced her
resignation as manager of IFCPA.,
Mrs. Mary Peterson, former assist
ant manager of Brockerhof Ho
tel, will replace her.
A Dedicated
Dean
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