WEDNESDAY. MAY 2 Center Develop Syste With From the publish,' to independent cent, wealth Campuses is this path since the It was under Eva I Gambli In HUBt 'Legalize "Gambling" will be 1, the Hetzel Union Ball Las Vegas Night to be next fall by the Town I Men with the cooperat' onides Plans for the event i elude cage dice tables, fortune will els, a rou lette table, dice tables, black jack and poker tables, and horse race betting. Each "gamble " will re ceive $2500 in play money as he enters the "casino." Members of TIM will act as dealers with Leonides members assisting. Phillip Haines, president of TIM, requested Leonides support for the project at the Leonides council meeting Monday night. The council endorsed the plan and named Loretta Syzdek, junior in arts and letters from Mahoney City, Leonides Las Vegas Night chairman. A handbook explaining the pur pose, activities and organization of Leonides will be sent to all in coming freshmen and transfer stu dents this summer. Carol Frank, president of Leonides explained that such a handbook was distri buted several years ago, but tie practice was discontinued. The booklets will be sent with the Women's Recreation Association handbooks during the first week in August. Programs to explain Leonides will also be included in orientation meetings. Miss Frank announced the win-• ner of the Leonides scholarshipl for Fall 1959. Diana DeAngelis, freshman in pre-medicine from Arlington, Va., was presented with the scholarship at the AIM-Leoni des banquet May 13. The scholar ship is awarded each semester on the basis of leadership, scholar ship and contribution to the Uni— versity. At the close of the meeting Carol Dominick, president of the Panhellenic council, and Harald Sandstrom, president of AIM, spoke to the Leonides council on the work and organization of their organizations. They expressed the hope that the groups would con tinue to cooperate in their activi ties during the coming year. "Miss Indiana U" Title Is Awarded to Negro BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (EP) A dazed but happy Negro coed is the new Miss Indiana University." Nancy Streeta, a 19-year-old sophomore from South Bend, Ind., Is believed the first of her race ever to win a beauty test on the IU campus compete for the "Mis• title as part of this America contest. •MUR Jewel **MOYER, , 1959 Began Bulletins By JEFF POLLACK ng and distribution of research bulletins -rs and then to a system of Common I: long pa 860's. Pugh, f h. The University has been on rst president of the University, that bulletins were sent to people taking off-campus classes. Exten sion activities also date from that time. • Be Correspondence courses date from as far back as 1892 and min ing classes were held before 1900. In 1910 the first evening classes were held off campus. They were held in Williamsport under the supervision of the School of En gineering. Allentown came on the scene two years later offering two and three-year evening pro grams. The courses were of a technical school nature. The Allentown school has continued growing and today it is one of th e commonwealth campuses offering two-year associate de grees. galized in oom at a sponsored Sdependent ion of Le- Five more branch schools were; established in the next 14 years. Wilkes-Barre in 1916; Scranton, 1923; Reading, 1924; Williams port,l 1925; and Erie, 1926. The year 1927 saw the Class Center Division established. The class centers did not offer full curricula, only separate courses. The Altoona branch school was established in 1929, the same year the Williamsport school was dis continued. In 1934 sophomore courses were added making it possible for students to attend the centers for two years. The same year Hazleton, Pottsville and Union town opened centers. Bradford and Warren closed Their freshman centers, opened In 1933, and The Board of Trus- tees created the office of Assis tant to the President in Charge of Extension during the same year. In 1935 the Sayre-Towatvia centers moved to Dußois and iu 1939, the Altoona Center opened. The Uniontown Center was dis continued in 1940. An evening technical institute was started in York in 1946 and (Continued on page eight) Letter-- (Continued from page four) to see their husband happy. Many a wife provides the support for her husband to continue his education, while others, like mine, take care of their marvelous children, and none of them let us of know of their hardship. They write the checks to pay the bills, thus relieving us of a major responsibility, It ee p our ap pearance as close to a single male student's as possible. Our clothes are neat and at tractive,. while hers show signs of wear. Seldom is anything new added t 6 her wardrobe be cause of the restricted budget. How about the 93 recipes for hamburger she has dreamed up to provide a variety with a single meat. Husbands, join me in pay ing a little tribute to our wives. —Norbert J. Scanlan, 'S9 *Letter cut ueen con- She will Indiana" ear's Miss Your PENN STATE Class Ring The Symbol of Achievement and Prestige Is now on 'display At State College's Leading Jewelers et MUR* or MOYER** do Have Them Show You How H'ERFF-JONES, The Standard by Which AU Others Are Judged, Has Preserved the Penn State Tradition In Precious Metal and Guaranteed Quality. Stop In Today; Shop and Compare. (At either of these conveniently•located stores.) 220 So. Allen St.—across fromthe post office. P., Jeweler, 218 B. College Ave.—a block and a half from "The Corner" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE,. PENNSYLVANIA Spring Concert To Be Given By Blue Band The Penn State Blue Band, un der the direction of. James W. Dunlop, will present its annual spring concert at 3 p.m, Sunday on the Pattee Library steps. Stanley Michalski, Jr., graduate in music education from Nanti coke, Will assist in directing the concert. Featured soloist on the program will be Louis Curry, junior in business administration fr o m Uniontown. He will play a tym pani solo entitled "Timpat" by Robert Leist. A dixieland group composed of hand members will join with the band for a number called "Dixie land Concerto" by John Warring ton. As an added feature in the con cert, the Women's Chorus will combine with the Blue Band for several numbers. Dr. W. Paul Campbell, director of the Wom en's Chorus, will direct the chorus and band in these numbers. Selections on the program vary from patriotic songs and marches to songs from hit Broadway shows. In case of rain, the concert will be held in Schwab Auditorium. Chess Team Takes 2nd In Tri-State Tourney The Penn State Chess Team, in its final match of the semester, took second place in last week end's Tri-State Inter collegiate Team Tournament in Pittsburgh. Entering the final round, the Intue and White Knights led, but were edged, 3-2, by the Univer sity of Pittsburgh's "A" team, holders of the state champion ship. Cohen Wins Award In Speaking Contest Sheila Cohen, sophomore in arts and letters from Pitts burgh, won first place in the John Henry Frizzell Speaking Contest Monday night. Mary Ann Canter, junior in business administration from Bethel Park, won second place. Miss Cohen's topic, "Progres siveness, Here We Come," advo cated a united world government with permanent peace as its ob jective. Miss Ganter's speech en titled, "Don't Kid Yourself," pointed out that people are pre judiced even if they don't realize it. First prize was $5O and the John Henry Frizzell Award of Merit; second prize was $25 and an award of merit. The contest is sponsored by the Department of Speech in honor of Frizzell who was for merly University chaplain and !head of the speech department. He retired as professor emeri tus in 1946. Frizzell presided as honorary chairman at the finals and pre sented the awards to the win ners. Others speaking in the finals and their topics were: Jacqueline Leavitt, "Clothes for Climbing"; Joan Kemp, "Christian Herter, Man of the Hour"; Marilyn West, "Apathetic Americans"; and Em ily Bradley, "No Strings At tached." THEY SPEND TILL IT •... ~.„_ Five and one-half billion dollars in tax money is a big enough amount to hurt every U.S. family that has to help pay it. Yet that much tax money has already been poured into unnecessary federal "public power" dams and plants. The lobbyists for federal "public power," the bureaucrats and the socialists keep pressing Con gress to spend tax money like this, even though there's no need for it. The independent electric companies are ready and able to provide all the electricity the nation needs. Can't this waste be stopped? Yes—if enough informed citizens will speak out publicly against it. Will you help blow the whistle? ,„.„a WEST PENN POWER #44014.0 ODK Chooses New Officers George McTurk, junior in jour nalism from Pittsburgh, was elect ed president of Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership and scholastic honorary, at a meeting Sur.day. Eight juniors were also initiated. The other newly elected officers are Martin Leshner, junior in psy chology from Philadelphia, vice president; Frank Eliot, junior in electrical engineering from Wash ington, D.C., secretary and Rich ard Hammond, junior in business administration from Wilmington, Delaware, treasurer. Those initiated were William Bowers, Howard Byers, Frank Eliot, Theodore Haller, Richard Hammond, Martin Leshner, Har ald Sandstrom and James Shu gert. PAGE FIVE
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