THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 190,
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'O2 Alum Marvels at 67 Years of Growth
Jonas Wagner sat, back and marveled at what was going
on about him. , '
"I haven't been back to many commencements," he said,
"but I can assure you I've never seen one of this magnitude
here before."
It had been a 'while since Jonas Wagner and his 28
classmates had been graduated from what once was The Pen
nsylvania State College...a long While. ..67 years to be exact.
But here he was from the Class of 1902, alert and sprightly
at age 92, seated in Beaver Stadium at the now Penn State
LIKE GRANDFATHER, LIKE GRANDSON—Jonas Wag
ner, Class of 1902, chats with his grandson_David, Class
of 1969, prior to - commencement exercises•
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WELCOME MIXER
University for the commencement exercises for the Class of
1969.
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This was no ordinary commencement for Jonas Wagner,
who lives a leisure retirement at his home s ,in Camp Hill, Pa.,
after 30-odd years as a Pennsylvania educator.
Somewhere in the midst of those 3,600 undergraduates
(the figure ballooned'to 5,100 when you counted advanced and
associate degree candidates) was his graithc. , , David E.
Wagner of White Plains, N. Y., a candidate for his bac
calaureate degree in the School of Architecture.
"I don't need to tell you how' happy I am." Jonas told an
interviewer. "I just ached to go to school here and I was hop
ing he'd come here. But I didn't attempt,to push the, place on
him. It was his dec;sion."
Grandson David, who at age 22 has' a tour with the Peace
Corps in Morocco on tap after a 12-week summer training pro
gram, will tell you if you ask him: •
"Grandfather really loved this place and, naturally, he'd
sneak a good word in when he could. But he didn't try to sell
me on the idea. It was the rural setting of the campus, I think,
that convinced me to enroll here."
Dave said his grandfather enjoyed reminiscing about his
college days whenever he had the opportunity. "He seemed
surprised to learn that chapel wasn't mandatory anymore,"
Dave recalled.
And Jonas Wagner's inquisitive nature made him par
ticularly interested in his grandson's roommates. their
backgrounds and ambitions, Dave remarked.
Yet when all was said there was one thing about Penn
State that never ceased to amaze -him.
"He just couldn't get over how much expansion has taken
place here," Dave remembered. "He was overwhelmed
everytime he came back for a visit."
Yes, that was true, Jonas Wagner would say later as he
sat under overcast skies on the field of the 48,000-seat stadium
waiting for the commencement to begin.
"Why my graduation was held in the chapel," Jonas
reflected. "Sixty-seven years ago. My Lord, that's a long ti,me.
Back then you wouldn't have dreamed all this was possible."
And then he talked about college in his day here.'He told it
this way:
"I lived on a farm near Houserville and I walked four
miles morning and afternoon to get here. One year I rode a
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horse• into the lower end of town and stabled her - with some
friends while I went to school.
"We had only 250-to-300 people going to Penn State back
then and I was one of the few who wasn't in agriculture.
"Why in my philosophy class I was the only student. It
was like the old Greek times. The professor would be on one
end of the log and me on the other and we'd talk.
"Sometimes he'd just carry on a conversation. Usually
he'd try to weave in the point of the lesson. It was marvelling.
"I was a close student. I was battey on being a good stu
dent. I •Ipved books. College was just wonderful for me. I en
joyed it so. •,
"In My day about all we had was a chem building, some
ag buildings, a botany building, the armory and, of course, the
main building (Old Main) and the chapel.
"Look around you. It's unbelieveable. Buildings
everywhere and more going up. We were such a small place
back then: You just couldn't imagine all this was going to take
place. I'm dumbfounded everytime 1 come back.
"Yes, we had a football team in those days, but I didn't
participate. I guess you'd say we were pretty successful.
Nothing like the Orange Bowl team, though."
After Mr. Wagner left Penn State he spent 13 years in the
Bellefonte school system, advancing from a teacher to school
superintendent along the way. Next came two years as
superintendent in Beaver, Pa., and then finally his move to
Camp Hill to join the state Department of Public Instruction.
"I retired after 13 years with the department," he said.
"It was sometime in the 1930'5, the date gets lost through the
years, you know."
Jonas Wagner had wandered pleasantly down memory
lane for about a half-hour but.now it was time for him to sit
back and take in the exercises.
Ninety minutes later they were over, and he and his son,
Ralph (a Brown grad, by the way) and Mrs. Wagner, his
daughter-in-law, made their way to Dave's section of the
stadium grandstand.
"Did you enjoy it, Mr. Wagner?" an inquirer asked.
"Oh my yes, wonderful, wonderful," Mr. Wagner replied
with a bright smile.
Jonas Wagner was back on the Penn State campus again
and he looked right at home. Somehow 67 years did not seem
so long ago, after all.
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Action leading to the establishment of a book store
on the University Park campus was deferred by the Board
of Trustees at its June 13 meeting because of the present
high interest rates.
R. A. Patterson, vice president for finance, said the
board temporarily tabled a motion to employ an architect
because the present interest rate would place a heavy
financial burden on students and faculty who would be
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