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--Collegian Photo by Jim Dolt
FINALS ARE NEAR—Sandia Sehwalti, freshman 3n arts and
letters from Che‘ster, and Andrea Cantor, freshman in elementary
education from Philadelphia, help ‘tack bluebooks in preparation
for finals this week
'Past' Set as Theme
Of Culture Institute
"The Past—Foundation of the Futtue - v.lll oe ;he theme
of the 1960 Institute on Pennsylvania Life and Culture
held June 22 to 24 at the University.
The institute is held "to encourage people to undErs-lar.n
more fully their heritage as Pennsylvanians and to snmula..e
Coen to Head
Tri-Service
! It is aimed toward historians,
Honor Societyhigh school and college teachers,
.historical society staffs and mem
?karst Coen Jr., junior ib• ' ers, librarians, museum person
net and net and interested laymen.
engineering science from Ruff- The first day of the institute
dale, was elected captain of will be devoted to meetings of
the Pennsylvania Federation of
Scabbat d and Blade, tri-serv-, Historical Societies. Most of the
115 member societies will be
ice military honorary society. ,
• , represented.
Coen. a cadet midshipman in, Concurrent discussion groups
NROTC, was elected Sunday dur—will meet June 23 and 24. Several
ing the May meeting of the com- of the topics include gathering,
parry and will be commander for preserving and using research
the 1960-61 school year. collections, teaching state and
Army cadet Warren L. Metzger,local history, techniques of his-
Jr, junior in arts and letters fromltorical and genealogical research
Shaker Heights, Ohio, was elect-land informing the public about
ed Ist Lieutenant and the 2nd historical organizations.
'Lieutenant post is being filled by Others are operation of histori-
Edward T. White Jr., AFROTC. cal museums, preparing and edit
junior in engineering from Sink- ing historical publications, his-,
ing Springs, toric housekeeping, studies inJ
Harold Greenberg, senior in arts preservation and restoration and•'
and letters from Philadelphia, was organizing and conducting junior, l
elected Ist Sergeant in the corn- historian clubs.
pa n g. ' Dr. Roy F. Nichols. vice pro-
In other business, Lt. Theodore vost and dean of the graduate
Kiicher. instructor in NROTC, was school of arts and sciences at
initiated as an associate member, the University of Pennsylvania,
lie commented to the tri-service will speak at the annual ban
gioup that the cadre of the Uni- quet June 22.
versity is dept riding on groups Guest speaker at a buffet din
such as this to hold the cadets ner June 23 will be Dr. Clement
together and of sent them on min- M. Silvestro, director of th e
taffy obligations and the neces- Ameiican Association for State
city of the ROTC program. !and Local History.
Co-sponsoring groups of the in-
University Gets $l5OO stitute are the Pennsylvania His-
For Driver Education toucal and Museum Commission,
the Pennsylvania Historical As-
The University hs received a somtion. the Pennsylvania Fed
grant of $l5OO to promote driver eration of Historical Societies, the
education courses. Pennsylvania Council for the
The giant given by Allstate:Social Studies and the Social Sci-
Foundation. marks the sixth con-,ence Research Center of the lint
-111111;11ton of the program. vet.ity.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Ferguson Announces
For Signs and More
Signs, signs and more signs.
Reed Ferguson, director of University relations, announced yesterday that an entire
project calling for an increased number of signs on campus, was recently approved.
Already 12 new, glass-paneled blue and white signs have been erected at various
intersections on campus. Further plans include the installation of two huge billboard-type
maps at either end of the campus
Study Made and furnishing every building
with metal letters for identifica
tlon. similar to the letters on
Boucke Building.
t
•
On Daily " I don't know when the map
signs will 'reLome a reality." Fer
guson said. "because we don't
have the money yet," He ex-
Newspapers plained that the tentative signs
would measure 10 by 16 feet and
would contain a map and a legend
About three out of four daily large enough for visitors to read
newspapers in Pennsylvania " at a glance
O ne will be placed at the
reported with fairness and ob- main entrance and one near the
jectivity both the Democratic cloverleaf w o l f i e n ca t m the
u interchange
and Republican campaigns in plated. "I know that they won't
the 1958 state elections. a uni- be built this summer," he added.
Walter W. Trainer, head of the
versity research study indi- dlvislon cf landscape planning
cated. said that the 12 glass-paneled
already erected al e designed
This means that three-fourths osPe - c:a:::‘' for the use of conven
of Pennsylvania's voters and - ions special meetings and con
newspaper readers., regardless cf fc - - 77 " 7 € 5
Th..: - 2,e- panels are available on
their party affiliation. could re
ly on their newspapers to ort.„en.. e-ct- F!6.e. every sign so that di
g fair account of their favori;
candidates. said Dr jarr.E. , ?L:a 1:f- class - and tell the loca
t.rne and other pertinent in
.M.ark.hant. head cf crac't.:
s y jc i t „ :. „„ 1 71 ON -0 1 he meeting_
- These will eliminate the
Jctirnal
terr.perary eigns that are placed
on sticks, and have arrows
n drawn in the direction of the
"`pe: rneetinc4. - Trainer said. He ex
plainer: that all Information
, 1"1 'cam purred in the sicms will be han
!-E through the Conference
Canter.
-
zne Two more signs will be erected
suPPo: I, ("f a cLrkidea - -4.- 'e:l t' en the construction at Short
be related.o r'dte and Curtin Rds. is completed,
that candidate or party In the and oneis to be held in reserve
nev.s column and that newspa- for when the new cloverleaf is
per cor.tent concentrated over- finished.
whelmingly on the 'v. - o major of- We have been talking about
noes of governor and senator. permanent signs to replace the
~;~:~-
:, t .. .e:lic:. Gil
Further analysis revealed that stick-and-poster eyesores fo r
front page attention, amounted to about five years " Trainer said.
17 per cent of the total vo:ume "and these small. glass-paneled
and that "personalities and poli- ones are our- own idea."
tical braggadocio were the domi-' Identifications of the buildings
nant propaganda themes in the by the use of metal letters will be
campaign as reflected by tne postponed until more money is
press " available. Trainer said. Letters
will be like the ones used on the
Pi Lambda Phi Buys new residence halls and the Hetzel
t7nion Building.
; ZBT Fraternity House Ferguson. when asked about
! Pi Lambda Phi fraternity has the student rebuttal to the signs,
purchased the property now oc- said: "Students don't realize that
i 'cupied by the Zeta Beta Tau fra- more than 100,000 visitors come
aernity at 227 E. Nittany Ave. to the campus every year (not in-
I The lease on the Pi Lambda eluding football fans, etc.). Natu
!Phi fraternity house expires on rally. students will oppose some
;Sept. 1. They will assume owner-Ithing new but the signs are es
'ship of their new property nn lsential to our campus visitors. An
'June 6, and will move into the effort is being made to paint them
,new house in Septeniber. and plant around them.'
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Plans
Signs
Ordnance Lab
Loses Match
To Chess Club
The University's Chess Club
defeated the team of the Ord
t
nance Research- Laboratory,
4-1, in a return match held
last week.
The Laboratory team had pre
viously defeated the Chess Club's
"B" team.
, The club also ended its semes
ter-long round-robin tournament
with Dr. Orrin Frink, professor
of mathematics, as the winner
with a 9-1 record and two draws.
' The spring improvement tro
phy was won by Terry Blanken
ship, freshman in arts and let
ters from Springdale, with a
'll/2-1 /2.
The chess team finished its
first semester of intercollegiate
competition with an unbeaten
record.
The team won games with An
napolis Naval Academy, Carnegie
Institute of Technology, the City
College of New York, Princeton
University, the University of
Pennsylvania, and West Point
Military Academy. They drew
matches with Columbia Univer
sity and the University of Pitts
burgh.