SATURDAY, DECEMB
Mitchell
Was 'Tli
By JERRIE MARKOS
What happens to a boy who, with a few friends, causes
Board of Trustees to allow dancing at college functions?
Getting the board to lift their ban against dancing was j
the life of a man destined to lead.
In the first LaVie, printed 70
its editors—H. Waldon Mitchell.
Few men can list as many “firsts”
as “Mitch.” Besides being a char
ter member of Beta Theta Pi and
Theta Nu Epsilon, he was one of
the founders of the Free Lance,
predecessor to The Daily Col
legian
As a senior he was a member
of The Seven Sleepers, a group
in direct opposition to the never
popular Association of Early
Risers. His ardor for things extra
cuincular is shown by his dedi
cation to The Mutual Admiration
Society.
An extract from the consti
tution of this character-molding
organization reads:
“The number of membeis of
this Society shall be limited to
two. No vacancy shall be declared
until one of the two shall have
permanently left the college, then
a member may be elected to fill
the vacancy upon the unanimous
vote of the remainder.”
The 11)59 version of “Mitch”
might be branded “Joe College,”
a joiner, a rah-rah college man—
but the love of his school and the
unselfish service and devotion he
has shown it lasted long after
the days of the Junior Hop and
The Mutual Admiration Society.
In 1902 Mitchell became a
member of the Board of Trus
tees, and in 1914 was the first
alumnus to hold the office of
president of the board. Mitchell
led again at the 25ih reunion
of his class. He was the only
Penn Stater to present the com
mencement address,
A lifetime resident of Pitts
burgh, in 1919 he was appointed
judge of Orphan’s Court. By 1929
his duties as judge forced him to
resign the presidency of the Board
of Trustees, a position he held for
25 years.
Mitchell’s reflections on Penn
State and the 1917 La Vie which
was dedicated to him, are now a
part of the Penn State Collec
tion in the Pattee Library.
Officially, "Milch" was no
longer connected to Penn Slate,
but the tradition went on in
his daughters, Adaline and Lois
and continued even to his grand
daughter, Anne Cameron Forn
crook, of the class of 1949.
Judge H. Waldon Mitchell spent
the last weekend of his life on
campus during 1943 Homecoming
celebration when he attended the
Penn State-Colgate football game.
Zippe Gets Fellowship
Kurt Zippe, graduate student
in mechanical engineering from
Clayton, Del., has been awarded
a fellowship from the United Air
craft Corporation, Hamilton
Standard Division, for the current
academic year.
For CLASSIFIEDS Call
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BERMUDA
lollege Week
1960
ill lie tllß GREATESTI
• As always, the “ Mixer" ~ College
Day at the Beach.
• And the All-Day Cruise to an an
cienfc fort with calypso, luncheon,
gombey dancers and native bands.
and for the first time
• intercollegiate jazz
SESSIONS, with competition be
tween jazz comboß of leading men’*
colleges.
• COLLEGE WEEK HEVUE
amateur college talent (YOU?),
directed by a professional.
• Barbecue Luncheon and Game.
Afternoon.
• for Fishing,
ALL WITHOUT CHARGE,
BERMUDA
Trade Development Board
4SO fifth Av#., New York JO, N. Y.
:R 12, 1959
I, 'Joe College 7 of the 1890's,
ne Firstest with the Mostest 7
H. WALDON MITCHELL, one of the most active men ever to
attend the University, went on to become one of its better-known
alumni, ‘'Mitch” was one of the founders of the Free Lance,
predecessor to The Daily Collegian.
Hat Men, Women
To Give Serenade
Hat men and women will sere- A band composed of NROTC
nade the campus tomorrow with midshipmen has given permission
Christmas caroles. to perform during three home
Members of Chimes, junior basketball games, according to
women’s hat society, along with Glenn N. Thiel, professor of physi-
Blue Key and Androcles, ]unior|cal education.
men's hat societies, will start theirj The 35-piece band will be di
carohng at 8 p.m. at the West r ected by Kenneth Hall, junior m
Halls. They will sing at all thejlabor management relations from
dormitories on campus. :Springdale.
The hat societies will also sere- This gioup, plus a jazz combo,
nade students in the infirmary. wl |] entertain at the home game
After caroling they will hold against Syracuse on Tuesday;
a Christmas party in the ChijWest Virginia, January 9; and
Omega suite. [Pitt, January 23.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
such a stir
ust one of t
Midshipmen Band
To Play at Games
Touring Jazzman
Prefers Teaching
Art Hodes and his Dixieland, go—'’'their vanity overcomes their
band will give the first jazz 3l^ 15 ’.' . „
1 , J i The tazz concert was originally
[concert of the academic year scheduled for R.-crealmn Hall but
;at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab " as movect to Schwab Auditor
f . mm because of a slow ticket dis
|Auditorium. Unbutton, aocoiding to Mrs. Nma
All student tickets and non- P‘ own ' chairman of the commit
student tickets have been dis- ee '„„
tributed or sold. This is the 10th 1 Schwab will be large enough
Artists Series program of 1959-60.) the audience.
beJ The Artist* Senes committee
Inc-Mmif^nf nSm V\ .\ omt ‘ has icqueated that students do
ni-inr.°lo- S .i te “v \ ln 'i not savi: seals for the late comets.
rnnlmtr 5 3t j he . Pal lcFoi ' cst The next Artists Series program
C j and fouling wnh wi „ be thl . Chicago Opera Ballet
bnt 6 v£ f a .f-a f j r * , each ~ With Melissa H lyden and will be
! *} he cant dig living glven in Febiuarv
jout of a suitcase any moie, he ;
•es the
it it mov
many fi
asts in
b3l Hodes and his band play Chem Pr ° f Continues
Dixieland jazz as opposed to Research Under Grant
New Orleans jazz, blues, mod- Under a 3-year grant of $13,500
ern_ or progressive jazz. In an from the National Science Foun
lha* des ., Y roie for elation. Dr. Maurice Shamms. as-
The_ Second Line, he stated s j s tant professor of chemistry, is
that jazz is changing—it is get- continuing lesearch he has been
ting louder and noisier. He 'conducting for some years on the
finds the best audience is the chemical structure of organic
one that will listen intently and compounds of plant origin,
softly keep time to the beat. Shamma is extracting plants
Hodes also said in his article found in Pennsylvania or obtained
that jazz is changing because of from abroad to "find what com
tetevision. The musicians are pounds they contain. He is look
aware of being watched closely ing especially foi alkaloids, and
and often they become self-con- trying to determine the structure
setous and do not let themselves of any such base found
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