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VOL. 2. No. 22 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 26. 1960 FIVE CENT
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Walker Unable To Attend:McGrath
"Wont Alto Encam To Address
pment Convention
University President Eric A. Walker will not be able to
attend student encampment which convenes Sept. 7 at Mont
Alto.
Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, special assistant to the presi
dent for student affairs, who will replace Walker, who will be
attending a meeting of a national university organization of
Barn's'Aichemistr,
ilafeer's 'Seesaw'
Finish Season
Two shows opening at the
State College Community Theatre
at Boal Barn and closing at the
University's Mateer Playhouse at
Standing Stone will wind up
the !schedule of local summer
theatre this week and next.
Charms, fetishes, magic potions.
the Philosopher's Stone and wom
en are promised to superstitious
and avaricious Londoners by the
Alchemist and his captain in
Kelly Yeaton's adaption of Ben
Jonson's Alchemist at Boal Barn.
The play stars Bill Kotzwin
kle, whose role includes the
parts of a smart captain, a gray
servant, a grizzled hunchback
and a zombie-like "drudge."
Hy Schultz as the Alchemist,
who also poses as the high priest
and Patricia Wilson, the wench
who handles the parts of the
"Queen of Fairyland" and a
learned lady gone mad with
studies of the Scriptures all
part of the giant fraud.
Touches of comedy 'lnd tragedy
are both present in William Gib
son's "Two for the Seesaw" et
Mateer. Unlike the Alchemist it
has only two characters who play
one part a piece, and a telephone
which also plays a significant
role.
Ronald Bishop, Mateer veteran,
and Yolanda Bartoli play the con
fused lawyer, Jerry Ryan, and the
naive dancer Gittel Mosca, who
meet in New York, live together,
fight, separate, reconcile, and
part this time to go back to
their regular lives for good.
Rainbow Girls" Flood Campus-'
—Collegian Photo by Pool Lowe
ORGANIZED CONFUSION as over 3000 Rainbow girls flooded the
campus yekerday for the start of their annual Grand Assembly.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
which Penn State recently
became a member.
Twenty-nine other administra
tors and faculty members have
been appointed to the workshops
which they serve at the annual
meeting with student leaders.
Dr. Monroe Newman, Ross Leh
man, Miss Helen Kinsloe, William
Fuller and George Donovan will
be on the Student Government
Association problems workshop.
Student members of this work
shop are Jan Calloway, Walt Dar
ran, Judy Weiss, John Witmer.
Frank Milus, Duane Alexander,
Earl, Gershenow, Steve Brown,
Barbara Isaacson. Mary Sue Her
sey, Dean Wharton. Don Giagna
cova, Becky Hadden and Barbara
Watch horn.
The community living workshop
will be composed of Deans Doro
thy J. Lipp and Frank Simes,
Albert Diem, Otto Mueller amid
Fred Coombs, representing facul
ty and administration and Phil
Haines, Gage Peck, Jacqueline
Leavitt, Kathy Hughes, Margaret
McPherson, Milford Robertson,
Ron Novak, Roberta Hill, Margie
Ganter, Pat Hagan, Barry Rein,
Marianne Ellis and Mike Dzvonik.
Faculty a n d administration
members appointed to the aca
demic affairs workshop are Dr.
Howard Cutler, Lawrence E. Den
nis, Dr. Russel Dickerson, Dr.
Hummel Fishburn and Dr. Clif
ford Nelson. Student members are Three members of the our-
Jack Crosby, Betsy Eagleman, nalism faculty—George S. Bush,
Lynn Marvel, Richard King. Rob- Dr. Roland L. Hicks and Mar
ert Harrison, Herman Wcher, Pa- lowe D. Froke—will moderate
tricia McGee. Judy High, Mary panel discussions on photo
(Continued on page fon journalism, advertising and ra
dio-TV, respectively.
Rural Sociologists Ho Dr. Robert W. Iversen of the
Meeting Through Sol enter for Continuing Liberal
About 225 rural sociologists!Education will chair a joint panel
from land grant colleges and stateion mass communications.
universities across the country! Dr. Jefferson D. Ashby, assist
are on campus for the annualiant director of the Division of
meeting of the national RurallCounseling and Dr. Frank R. Hart-
Sociological Society which -con-iman. research associate of the
tinues through Saturday. Division • of Academic Research
Representatives are also attend-.land Services, will be panelists on
ing from the Netherlands, Trini-;admission testing and radio-TV
dad and Canada. i research.
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Earl J. MCGrath, former U.S.
Commissioner of Education and
rioxx , executive officer of the Insti
tute of Higher Education, Teach
ers College, Columbia University.
twill deliver the keynote address
at the opening session of the an- .
inual convention of the Associa-
tion for Education in Journalism
Monday evening in the Hetzel
Union Assembly Room.
McGrath will speak to the ex
pected 22S journalism professors
and administrators on whether
preparation for journalism should
be education or training.
Other leading newspapermen
and journalists who will speak
during' the week-long conven
tion are Martin Mayer, author
of "Madison Avenue, U.5.A.."
Lester Markel, Sunday editor of
the New York Times, Robert
Estabrook, editorial page edi-
tor of the Washington Post,
Samuel M. Sharkey. NBC news
editor, and Ralph McGill, pub
lisher of the Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Eight faculty and staff members
from the University will speak or
preside over panels.
Lawrence E. Dennis, vice-presi
dent for academic affairs, will
welcome the visiting journalists
and H. Eugene Goodwin. director
of the School of ''Journalism, will
preside at the opening plenary
session.
Over 3000 Rainbow Girls flood
ed campus yesterday for a 3-day
Grand Assembly which will con
tinue through Saturday.
The girls are members of an
organization for young women
sponsored by the Order of the
Eastern Star and assemble here
annually in August for their state
wide convention.
About 140 local groups from
all sections of the state are rep
resented at this assembly.
.The convention was Officially
opened last night at Recreation
Hall. Business sessions are sched
uled today and tonight. New of
ficers will be installed tonight.
Tomorrow morning choir com
petition will be held and in the
afternoon 13 drill teams will com
pete in Recreation Hall. A talent.
festival and coronation ceremony
are scheduled tomorrow evening.
The convention will close with
a sunrise church service at 6:15
a.m. Sunday in Recreation Hall.
The girls are being housed in
the North Halls and West Halls
residence areas.
About 400 of the girls came
three days early to attend various
classes on campus under the di
rection of Harold .T. O'Brien, as
sistant to the dean of the College
of Liberal Arts, and Wally F.
Lester, conference coordinator of
continuing educational . Eery ices.
Congo Meeting
Opens In Riots
Against Premier
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (iP)---Rifle fire and screams
of anti-government mobs yesterday marked the opening of
the Leopoldville conference of independent African nations.
Steel-helmeted Congolese police fired over surging crowds
clamoring for the death of Premier Patrice Lumumba, host
to 11 African governments who
Olympic Games ,answered his appeal for an all
:(Africtm meeting.
An honor guard, lined up in
front of the modcrnist ie Palace of
Open in Rome
'
Culture, broke ranks and charged
the demonstrators gathered
around a dusty square.
Before 100,000
ROME 031 Amid the p ea l_ Lumumba's keynote address.
ing of all the church bells of an-. "Gentlemen, you are now mak
dent Rome, the 17th Olympic ing contact with Congolese real
.game,.; opened yesterday before a ity," he said. "There is no corn
sun•drenched crowd of nearly:promise between liberty and slay
-100,000. .ery."
Athletes of 84 nations paraded
in a brilliant variety of uniforms. - Shielded from the tumult by
the palace's thick walls, about
But the heat. held the march past 50 African delegates listened to
to much less than the 4.000 limit, Lumumba. They looked grim.
that the Italian organizing com-1 From conversations later. ,i 1 was
mittee had imposed. : clear they were shocked.
There are nearly 8.000 contest- ,
ants and officials in these biggest' Congolese_, police ' 4 nd troopers
o f a ll games , Th ey en d S ep t . ii,, under the command of Col. Jo-
Somalia failed to show up f or seph Mobutu. army chief of staff,
the parade. roughed up reporters nod pholog-
The Nationalist Chinese learn raphers covering the riot.
marched behind a placard marked' Cameras were seized. some 10
"Formosa." A Chinese official be returned later. Films were de
followed carrying a white pennant stroyed.
across his chest on which were: xi .
Newsmen were pushed around,
the words "under protest."
This referred to the continuing kicked and shinned.
Russell Howe, special corres
ispute with the Internatioal:
pendent of the Washington Post,
Olympic Committee ove n
r the des
ignation of the team. -
I was slapped in the face by sev
,
The shirt-sleeved crowd gave its eral Congolese soldiers when he
refused to give up his camera.
loudest cheer for the big Italian.
team that brought up the rear of . Three Congolese swooped down
the parade in bright blue jackets on AP correspondent. Andrew 13o
,and white trousers, but the sec- rowiec when he tried to telephone
cittd warmest by far went to the from a specially set up pre!:s
'United States squad. room. They slapped the phone
Only 156 marched behind the,from his hand and gushed him
American flag carried by Hafer outside under a hail of blows
!Johnson, world record smasher in from their rifle bulk.
the decathlon' and first Negroi The o
rl . broke out when Lti
ever to be chosen to bear the ; mumbaro lg
rode in an open car with
!American standard. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboho
The total U.S. team numbers
,t 0 open the conference. A crowd
'nearly :350. 'of perhaps 8,000 watched. Goats
Russia was politely applauded. wandered about the grass and
The highlight of the afternoon
;came when Giancarlo Penis, a 19- dust.
:year -old Italian student, circled; There was some applause and
the bright red running track car-;shouts of "savior.'
rying the torch that had been lit 4 Placards raised over the heads
,at Mount Olympus in Greece, and of the crowd demanded the resig
ibounded up to the big tripod at:nation of "Lumumba's Fascist
the top level of the stadium, government."
Review
'Seesaw' Explosive
Evening of Theatre
The final production of the season at the Mateer Play
house at Standing Stone is the William Gibson comie-drama,
"Two for the Seesaw."
It is the often hilarious, often pitiful story of a lawyer
trying to learn how to stand on his own feet and the "infant"
woman who makes it. possible.! •
Jerry Ryan, played by Ronald sex makes her delivery of the
Bishop, has lost his pride. his wife covlie lines—which often deal
with this subject—delightful. Her
and his home because of his weak
ness. He is an odd combination voice. reminiscent of a fog horn
of a physical man and a m e ntal in the East River, adds to her
baby. .beautiful characterization of this
Only with the help of Gittel woman who brings a man back to
Mosca (Yolanda Barton) is Jerry life.
And in her fights with Jerry,
of which there are several. Miss
Bartoli has desperation in her
It is an explosive evening of voice. She becomes a dynainic
'theatre, spiced with laughter and, character, fighting to keep the
high emotion: A beautifully writ- man she needs almost as much
!ten play, the current production as he needs her.
draws on excellent performanees ! In her only appearance at Ma
by both members of the cast to tecr this season. Miss Bartoli may
make it far and away the best,well be giving the best perform
;presentation at Matter this sea- . ance seen at the playhouse this
;son. summer.
able to fed needed and thus start
(living a respectable life.
Most of the explosive quality • • •
of the production comes from In the role of Jerry, which is
Miss Barioli as the would-be overshadowed by the magnificent
dancer who has given her own character Gibson has made Gittel,
life away to too many men. :Bishop gives his finest perform-
From her first flying entrance ance of the year.
to the final curtain she is puree. Friendless, completely alone
TNT—tantilizing, naughty and !and , needing help, Jerry turns to
terrific. Gittel whom he had just met.
Gittel'a candid naivete aboutt (Continued on page three)
As the rifles cracked and police
smashed into the crowds with
gunhutts. loudspeakers boomed
By JAY RAKE
Collegian Reviewer