GSA Approves 3 New Projects
The General State Authority
approved Wednesday three
new construction projects in
cluding additions to Recrea
tion Hall and the Electrical
Engineering Building and a
new arts and humanities
building.
The total estimated cost of the
projects is $7,642,000. Work will
tot be begun until next spring.
Walter Wiegand, director of the
Physical Plant, explained that
architectural designs still must be
approved and bids let before con
struction can begin.
- Castro
Fights Back
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VOL. 2. No. 8
Construction Begins
On New Ed Building
Ground has been broken for the new education building
to be constructed by the General State Authority along
Curtin Rd. .on the southeast corner of Beaver Field.
The building, newest of the GSA projects for which
contracts• have been let, is scheduled for completion in
Traditional Sing
Set For Monday
A 30-year-old tradition at the
University will be continued Mon
day night when the first Student
Sing of the summer will be held
in Schwab Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Frank Gullo, associate profes
sor of music, will direct the sing
ing. Dr. Hummel Fishburn, head
of the department of music and
music education, and Elmer G.
Wareham, instructor in music,
will accompany on the piano.
Musical feaures are also sched
uled in the program so the sing
ing audience can catch its breath.
The sing will be held every
Monday night through Aug. 1.
Get-Acquainted Dance
Will Be Held Tonight
A student-faculty-staff Get Ac
quainted Dance is scheduled from
9 to 12 tonight in the Hetzel Union
ballroom. Music will be provided
by Duke Morris and the Melody
Men.
There will be no admission
charged but students must pre
sent matriculation cards.
Review
Performances Save
`Gazebo' at Mateer
Collegian Reviewer
It seems hard to believe anything could save the play
being presented at the Matee
this week, but fine performan
The play is Alec Coppe
"The Gazebo," and deals wit
who actually commits a murder
in order to save his wife from be
ing blackmailed.
The characters bungle their
way through the ridiculous mo
tions of planning and executing
the murder and getting rid of
the body.
The script is filled with trite
lines and cliches and is supported
by as many comedy "gimmicks"
as Coppel could jam in. Naturally
everything turns out nicely;
crime for once does pay and the
couple lives happily .
ever after.
* *
Most of the burden for the her
culean task of saving the produc
tion falls on the shoulders of
Ronald Bishop as the bungling
Three sites for the new $3,-
710.000 arts and humanities
building are now under con
sideration, Wiegand said.
The new addition to the south
wing of Recreation Hall will cost
an estimated $2,862,000 and the
addition to the engineering build
ing, $1,070,000.
Wiegand said the addition to
Recreation Hall will include addi
tional gymnasium floor space with
basketball courts, locker rooms,
classrooms and offices to provide
facilities for the rapidly expand
ing required physical education
program.
While detailed plans for the ad
dition to the Electrical Engineer-
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May of 1962.
The ground will be broken
within the next few days for the
horticultural facilities which will
be built east of Tyson by the GSA.
The addition to the Home Eco
nomics Building has been com
pleted and turned ..over, to the
University. The movable equip
ment for the building, now on or
der, will be installed as it is de
livered.
Interior work is now under
way on Hammond which is
nearing completion. Roof alter
ations to engineering units A,
B and C are progressing- and
work on these three units should
be completed in September.
Work should be finished in
units D and E by January.
Structural steel has been set up
for the Special Education Build
ing now under construction along
Park Ave. This building is ex
pected to be completed in Febru
ary.
Other GSA projects, which have
been approved, include construc
tion of facilities for nuclear studies
and research and the extension
and revision of utilities. Archi
tects for these projects will be
named soon.
- The Pollock Circle Residence
Halls, which will provide hous
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By JAY RAKE
Playhouse at Standing Stone
es do it.
's ludicrous mystery-comedy,
a television mystery writer
writer-killer. Bishop answers the
challenge with gusto and instead
of flopping, the production be
comes an enoyable evening of
farce.
He cavorts about the stage in
ridiculous outfits, bungling ev
erything he does and literally
getting away with murder. The
most important thing about his
performance is the freshness
with which he handles the hack
neyed lines of the script. Some
of what he does isn't even in the
script.
Bishop once again shows his
comedy drinking talents and as
he did in "Visit to a Small Plan-
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ing Building have not been com
pleted, present programming calls
for the addition to be built east
of the existing unit. It will prob
ably be joined to the present build
ing at the north wing.
Classrooms and classroom-lab
oratories, offices and other facili
ties will be provided in the new
unit.
Detailed plans for the de
velopment of the arts and hu
manities facilities are under
study. This project will provide
classrooms, offices, and other
facilities for work in theatre
arts, music, communications and
other programs in the College
of The Liberal Arts.
These three new projects were
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 8, 1960
Kennedy Rated On Top
In Convention Line-Up
LOS ANGELES (VP) Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts yesterday was still the
man to beat for the Democratic presidential nomination, but campaign camps of the chal
lengers claimed they have staved off a first-ballot Kennedy sweep
Pulling the fuse out of a
liminary battling roaring aro
Quartet to Give
Recital Tonight
The Claremont String Quartet,
serving as a quartet-in-residence
prior to its participation in the
Vancouver Music Festival and a
world tour, will present its first
lecture-recital at 8 o'clock tonight
in the Hetzel Union assembly
room. .
The quartet will play con
temporary compositions, analyz
ing the form, style, and intricacies
of the music.
"In a lecture-recital, the quartet
will play selected portions of each
movement and tear them apart
verbally, pointing out character
istics in the music and attempting
to show what the composer had
in mind," says Dr. Hummel Fish
burn, head of the department of
music and music education.
Tonight's performance will be
the first in a series of three week
ly lecture-recitals.
The quartet will also give a
series of four weekly concerts be
ginning Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the
ballroom of the Hetzel Union.
Bldg. They will play one con
temporary composition and two
from a standard repertoire.
Fire Damages Machines
A fire in the electrical system
caused damage estimated at over
$lOO to a front end loader and
backhoe on the Turf Plot resi
dence hall construction site yes
terday afternoon.
Dean Of Women To Travel, Speak
Dr. Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of
women, will head an American!
delegation to the International
Seminar on Vocational Guidance
for the Handicapped in Jerusa
lem, Israel, Aug. 22 to Sept. 1.
Dean Lipp along with two other,
delegates, Dr. Donald Super, vice'
president of the International As-I
sociation for Vocational Guidance,!
and Dr. Abraham Jacobs, presi
dent of the Division of Rehabili
tation Counseling, will represent,
the American Personnel and
Guidance Association.
Dean Lipp is chairman of the!
association's International Rela
tions Committee.
She will fly to Brussels on Aug.l
13 for a conference with the of
ficers of the international associ
ation before traveling to the sem-I
inar where she will present a 1
paper on the activities of the!
American association and negoti-
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among five authorized for the
University by the legislature last
December when the borrowing
capacity of the GSA was increased
from $480,000,000 to $620,000,000
and projects costing $9,823,500
were approved for the University. 000 has been allocated. . .
Included in this program were Sketch plans for the buildings
a
additions to the Reactor Research are expected to be completed next
Facility and a new building month and the final drawings and
to specifications are due. in January.
house two accelerators and related Work on the site is scheduled to
laboratories and offices, which begin in the spring.
will be constructed south of the The H. F. Lenz Co. of Johns
town will be the engineering firm
Research Reactor. for the power plant alterations
The addition of a boiler and and the extension of utility lines
other facilities to the power plant for which $909,500 has been set
and the extension of utilities at aside.
irst-round Kennedy blitz is the immediate goal in the pre
nd the Democratic National Convention which opens Mon-
day. Kennedy rivals said they
have made it by shoring up the
line of favorite sons.
One of the top lieutenants of
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson said cam-
Ipaign headquarters of . the Texas
senator has postive assurances
that Govs. Robert B. Meyner of
New Jersey, George Docking of
Kansas and 'Herschel C. Loveless
of lowa will stand fast as favor
ite sons on the first roll call. This
was the word from Robert G.
Baker, secretary to the Demo
cratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
Kennedy supporters were
counting on a major lift from
another favorite son, Gov. Ed
mund G. (Pat) Brown, and his
81-vote California delegation.
Backers of some of the other
contenders conceded this was like
ly perhaps before the conven
tion curtain rolls up.
Regardless of what Brown does,
they say, Kennedy has been cut
off from a first=ballot victory. And
their contention is that if they can
stop the Massachusetts senator on
the first ballot, they can stop him
--Period.
In spite of all the maneuver
ing, four days before the conven
tion kickoff there still had been
no major important development
that could nail down the party
nomination.
But the pre-convention pace
was stepping up, and tugging and
hauling over attempts to pound
together a civil rights platform
had some of the makings of a
traditional Democratic feud that
sometimes rips the party apart.
Dean Lipp
the physical plant were also in
cluded in the program.
The GSA appointed Lacey.
Atherton and David of Harris
burg as architects for the Nu
clear Study and Research Fa
cility project for which $1,272.-
The Big Two
At Encampment
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Visiting Profs
To Teach Art
Two visiting faculty members,
who will teach studio / art during
Mid-Session classes which' start
today, are Hobson Pittman and
Chen Chi.
Pittman, who has been teaching
at the University for the past 28
summers, will again teach oil
painting at all levels. He is rep
resented in most major museums
in this country and abroad, and
three years ago studied in Europe
on a grant from the Guggenheim
Foundation.
Pittman was recently awarded
the 1960 Brevoort-Eichcnmeyer
Prize in painting when the jury
of the 135th annual exhibition of
the National Academy of Design
in New York chose his "Interior
with Flowers" for the $5OO prize.
Chen will conduct •.lasses in
watercloor. He taught during the
Mid-Session last year. He is rep
resented in numerous collections,
and is a constant exhibitor in ma
jor galleries of this country.
Mid-Session Classes at the
University, which are sched
uled for Tuesdays, will be held
this week on Saturday, July 9.
The Saturday classes are
held this week to compensate
for the class sequence missed
on Tuesday, July 5, the date
of registration for the Mid-
Session.
Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of wom
en, will record an interview pro
gram for the Voice of America
within the next two weeks.
She will be interviewed on the
subject , of women's higher edu
cation with partciular reference to
what is being done at Penn State.
Dean Lipp was contacted re
cently by a staff member of radio
station WCAU in Philadelphia,
who said that the request for her
interview came from Voice of
America headquarters in Wash
, ing ton, D.C.
She will travel to Philadelphia
sometime in the next two weeks
to make the recording which will
be translated and broadcast in
several languages through Europe
and behind the Iron Curtain.
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