Today's Forecast: Sunny and Warmer VOL. 1, No. 1 FFA, FHA Arrive; 2700 Participate In Annual Meeting By NANCY KLING Approximately 2700 high school members of the Future Farmers of Anierica and Future Homemakers of America are on campus today to hold their annual meetings. The Future Farmers of America, numbering more than 1600, represent 80 high schools in Pennsylvania. Their activi ties will begin t o day with lunch and will close with a luncheon 5000 opies Of Collegian Distributed Five thousand copies of The Summer Collegian, a weekly newspaper, will be distributed throughout the campus an d downtown beginning with today's initial issue. The Summer Collegian will be published 13 times—every Thurs day for 12 weeks after today's orientation issue. The newspaper is student-operated an d is a counterpart of The Daily Col legian, published every Tuesday through Saturday during the reg ular academic year. This is the first year that Col legian Inc., publishers of the Daily Collegian, have undertaken the official publishing of a sum mer paper. In the past years, a summer Collegian has been pub lished by students as a private enterprise and using the Collegian name. The weekly paper will be edited by William Jaffe, senior in jour nalism from Philipsburg. Josephine Chesworth Rider, senior in advertising from Pitts burgh and Harriet Leaver, senior in education from Easton will serve as co-business managers. Students interested in working on the editorial or business staff of The Summer Collegian will meet at 5 p.m. today in the Col legian City Room. Candidates need not have had previous ex perience. The Summer Collegian will be available at the Hetzel Union desk, Waring Hall lounge, The Summer Collegian office, Corner Room, State College Hotel, New College Diner, Penn State, Diner, Nittany Lion Inn, Spudnut Shop, and at residence halls now being occupied by students or institute members. .- $116,000 in Student Loans Available For the first time in many years the Un-iv rsity has the problem of g tting rid of money. The Feder 1 government l i has given t e University $116,000 for stud nt loans which must be spent b June 30. The student loans were received as a result of the National De fense Education! Act. According to the Act, the 'school will add one-ninth to the sum of the al lotment, bringing the total funds available to around $128,000. Any full-time student, includ ing graduate s udents, with a 2.0 or better All-University average, is eli•ible for consid P tv 0, : 5.,! 4 : ... 4 1 p. timmtr f• :i. - 5.. - .:6 - ' la on Thursday. The College of Agriculture has arranged contests for the boys which will include livestock and dairy judging, farm mechanics and public speaking contests. The entire group will meet in Schwab Auditorium today to hear the FFA band under the direction of James W. Dunlop and the state FHA chorus per form under the direction of Frank Guile, Tomorrow and Thursday morn ings the FFA members will par ticipate in educational demon strations arranged by the College of Agriculture. Tonight the FFA will hold a joint meeting with the Future Homemakers of Amer ica at 7 p.m. in Recreation Hall. There will be entertainment by the state band and chorus and the two groups will participate in squarp dancing and singing. The Future Homemakers of America began their 14th annual meeting yesterday with over 1100 girls arriving on campus. The girls represent chapters through out the state. Their convention was divided into 25 groups and discussion on the theme for this year, which is "Communications— Your Key to a Better FHA," was held. These groups met in Schwab Auditorium. Election of state and regional officers was held yesterday. The winners will be announced and installation will be held tomorrow morning. A fashion show was held last night in Schwab Auditorium by the representatives from Towan-I da. A girls' sextet from the, Green Park Chapter also enter tained at the meeting. This afternoon there will be group meetings from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and at 3 p.m. recognition for state homemakers degrees will be held. The state chorus, made up of 75 girls selected from local state chapters, will perform. The meeting is under the di rection of Mrs. Cleo S. Reinwald, ( coordinator of homemaking edu cation and state FHA advisor, and Dr. Grace M. Henderson, dean of the College of Home Eco nomics. County homemaking advisors and members of the staff of the College of Home Economics will assist in the meeting. oration in the loan program. Students may borrow a maxi mum of $lOOO for each fiscal year according to their schol arship, financial need, and the availability of funds. The in terest rate is 3 per cent a year starting one year aft e r the borrower ceases to be a full time student. Students planning to enter the fields of teaching or science, mathematics, en g i neering and foreign languages will be given special consideration when ap plying for loans. Certification by the Educational Administration to the effect that the borrower has been a full-time teacher in a public elementary or secondary school entitles the borrower to only pay back half the loan. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 9. 1959 Contractors to Bid On New Dorm Units Bids for the construction of residence halls which will house 1046 women students will be requested by University officials next week. The residence halls will be located at the north corner of the intersection of En trance Road and Curtin Road, across from the University flower gardens. The project, as approved by the Board of Trustees last weekend, w ill consist of —Collegian Photo by Wayne Schlegel WHAT'S DOWN THERE?" asks five curious Future Homemakers of America, The Bell Telephone worker explained the underground telephone system to the girls. Activities Planned For Inter-Session The recreational activities for inter-session will include events from outdoor movies to square dancing. On Wednesday, June 17, the Summer Artist Series will present a piano concert by Luboshutz and Nemenoff. The concert will he held in Schwab Auditorium and tickets will be available at the Hetzel Union desk, beginning Monday. Three outdoor movies will be. presented during the session. "Away All Boats" will be shown Thursday, "Istanbul," June 18 and "Gun for a Coward," June 25. The movies will be shown at 9 p.m. on the lawn south of the Hetzel Union Building. In case of rain, they will be shown in Schwab Auditorium. Admission is free. There will be swimming for men and women at Glennland Pool from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tuesday, Thurs day and Friday from 8 to 9:30 p.m.. men and women may swim. The student's promissory note will be paid in 10 equal annual installments which begin one year after his graduation or the end of college. The note can be paid in a shorter time if de sired. Students can apply for loans at the Dean of Men's office or to the Dean of Women. All ap plications must be received by June 15. The University has also re ceived eight fellowships to be awarded to graduate students working for doctorial degrees. These fellowships are to be awarded for a three-year-period provided that Congress continues to appropriate the funds. Candi dates for the awards will be se lected by the dean of the Grad uate SchooL rgiatt Admission is by matriculation card and swimmers must provide their own bathing suits. A softball league will be or ganized for those wishing to par ticipate. Teams interested in ,playing league softball should register before 4 p.m. Thursday at 202 Recreation Hall. Appropriation Bid Lags in Assembly -The University's appropriation request from the State legislature appears bogged down in committee hearings. The University requested nearly $44 million from the State for the next biennium but 9 Gov. David L. Lawrence cut the appropriation request to $34.2 million in his budget message. President Eric A. Walker testi-1 Pied before the Senate and the House Appropriations Commit-i tees in May and pleaded for mon-i ey with which to operate the University. The House committee turned down his request for additional money last week when it rec ommended the University be given $34.2 million as Lawrence requested. The Senate committee, chaired! by Sen. George Stevenson (R.-! Clinton) has yet to make it& recommendation to the Senate. Walker has repeatedly stated the University must have $44 mil lion for the next two years or "expansion will be completely eliminated." In his testimony be fore the committees,. Walker Meeting The Needs See Page 4 three identical buildings of eight floors, one of five floors, and a dining hall of two floors. The dining hall will also pro vide post office facilities and lounges and is planned fo ac commodate 1,596 students. The plans also provide for future expansion of the area with the construction of two additional eight-floor buildings which would house an additional 550 coeds. The buildings will be similar in design to those now under con struction on Pollack Circle and will be joined to the central din ing building by covered foyers. Bids have also been accepted for alterations of Engineering Buildings A, B, C, D, and E. The Engineering Buildings, located on West College Ave., will receive new roofs, windows, floors and halls. The fire escapes will be torn down and the doors leading to the fire escapes will bere placed by windows. The buildings will also re ceive new heating, ventilating, plumbing and electrical sys tems. A temporary structure will be built to accommodate students while thc buildings are under repair. Bids,are ex pected to be awarded within two or three weeks. Construction of tie men's resi dence halls on Park Avenue is on schedule and the June 30 com pletion date appears assured, ac cording to Walter H. Wiegand, director of physical plant plan ning and construction. Work is also proceeding on schedule on the seven units of the Pollack Circle Residence Halls. Summer Collegian Staffers to Meet Students interested in serv ing on the editorial staff of The Summer Collegian will meet at 5 p.m. today in the Collegian City Room, base ment of Carnegie building. Candidates need not have had previous experience and work will include preparation for the weekly paper. Photog raphers are also needed. stressed the need for more money for faculty salaries and said he was asking $8 million "to close the gap between where we are now and where we ought to be." According to Walker, the first thing to be dropped if addition al money is not appropriated would be plans for added re search. Then plans to admit an additional 5600 students would have to be dropped. Walker told the Senate com mittee that the original budget request had been made to allow the University to continue it ex pansion plans, admit more new students and raise faculty sal aries. The University will revert to its 1957-1959 biennium budget after July 1 if the new appropria tion is not granted by then. FIVE CENTS
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