—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1984
Residents told they
must shovel or pay
By GWEN FITZGERALD
Collegian Staff Writer
As long as snow and ice remain
in State College, residents should
remember to clear sidewalks 12-
hours after a storm ends or expect
to receive a citation for violating
the municipal snow removal ordi
nance.
The fine may be set anywhere
from $5 to $25, according to provi
sions of the ordinance. Currently,
the fine $5.
Thus far, 428 citations have been
issued. Of the 289 fines that were
due, 204 have been paid.
Last Thursday and Friday, 139
citations were issued but these
violations are still within the five
day allotted pay period. However,
85 citations are still unaccounted
for, said Debbie Sprowls, depart
ment of public works employee.
No exemptions are permitted
from the ordinance requirements.
If residents plan to be out of town
they must make arrangements for
the sidewalks to be kept clear,
ordinance 'enforcement officer
Fred Frye' said yesterday.
Frye can issue an additional
citation on each day the sidewalks
remain uncleared after the 12-
hour period.
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Last winter, 62 of the 115 viola
tors 54 percent complied with
the ordinance and paid the fine,
finince department records
showed. Ten of the remaining 53
cases were forwarded to the mag
istrate's office. The remaining 43
were appealed to the mayor and
voided.
The borough has two alterna
tives for penalizing non-complying
violators, Sprowls added.
A citation may be filed with the
district magistrate for further ac
tion if the fine is not paid. Or, as
stated in the ordinance, the munic
ipal manager may order borough
employees to clear the sidewalk.
The violator is then charged with
the cost of snow removal plus an
additional 10 percent charge.
No cases have been referred to
the magistrate's office this year,
Sprowls• said. The mayor is the
only person within the borough
who can void the fine, Sprowls
said.
In addition, citizens may call the
public works department to com
plain about a specific area that
has not been cleared, Frye said.
These areas will usually be the
first inspected the following day,
he added.
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College of Education gets
$2,500 in research grants
By STEVE WILSON
Collegian Staff Writer
The College of Education received
$2,500 from its Alumni Society in
October for five research projects,
the college's associate dean for resi
dent graduate students said.
Harold E. Mitzel said the grant is
made annually by the College of
Education Alumni Society to a gener
al fund for faculty research. Five
researchers will receive $5OO each for
their projects, he said. - •
James E. Johnson, assistant pro
fessor of education, said that in his
research project a committee of fac
ulty members is studying the growth
of symbolic development in children
between' ages two and seven. The
researchers are observing the sub
jects in make-believe play, drawing,
block building and story telling.
Jam 6 W. Halle, assistant profes
sor of special education, said he is
studying mentally handicapped chil
dren and people up to 18 years old to
see what ways they communicate in
class.
He will be looking at subjects in
Because of a reporting error, it was incorrectly stated in yesterday's
Daily Collegian that the Broadway , show "Master Harold . . . and the
Boys" will be presented today at 7 p.m. The show begins tonight at 8.
If the Old Grey Mare
ain't what she use
be, sell her
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different age levels at a center for
handicapped children near Philips
burg, Halle said.
Mita K. Israelite, assistant profes
sor of communication disorders, said
she will be studying the effects hear
ing-impaired children have on their
siblings in two-parent families. .
Georgiana Cornelius (graduate
early childhood) will coordinate a
project studying how a child's play
relates to his growth of oral language.
The project, run by three graduate
students and directed by Thomas D.
Yawkey, professor of education, will
use recorded interviews with the chil
dren and video tapes of their play
time, Cornelius said.
Madhu S. Prakash, associate pro
fessor of education, said she will
study the systems different institu
tions use to award outstanding fac
ulty members.
Prakash said she will collect data
on the criteria other institutions use
to award faculty members including
the degree of input from students,
other professors and administrators,
and the procedures they follow.
Correction
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Collegian Staff Writer
Former Sen. Richard S. Schweiker was studying
ceramic engineering at Penn State when, he says,
he "got a little off course" and ended up in politics.
"I found tremendous success getting involved with
student government," recalls the 1950 graduate. "I
learned a lot about how politics works, the ideals and the
motivations you can strive for. .
"I realize campus government is only test-tube politics
but it served as a great motivator. Actually, that
experience drew me intopolitics."
Like many Penn State graduates, Schweiker, who
served as secretary of Health and Human Services in the
Reagan administration before returning to the private
sector, achieved more than his share of prominence
professionally.
Take, for example, space shuttle astronaut Lt. Col.
Guion S. Bluford Jr. (class of '64), the Pittsburgh Steelers'
star running back Franco Harris (class of '72), Heisman
Trophy winner John Cappeletti ( '73), conductor and
choral arranger Fred Waring ( '22) of Penrisylvanians
fame, Emmy-winning television and film director Stan
Lathan ('67), executive editor of Vogue magazine Barbara
McKibbin ( '5O), ABC-TV foreign correspondent Charles
Bierbauer ('66) and Herman G. Fisher ('2l), co-founder
and president of Fisher-Price Toys.
Even dancer, choreographer and director Gene Kelly
spent enough time at the University to perform in two
Thespian shows before economic constraints of the Great
Depression forced him to return home and study at the
University of Pittsburgh.
But Schweiker, a Norristown, native and World War H
veteran, stayed put. Along with being parlimentarian of
the all-college cabinet, he was captain of the debate team.
"The Penn State debate team and Professor O'Brien,
the assistant•coach was a tremendous asset to my,
career," he explains. :No doubt, the ability to verbalize
your point of view contributes tremendously to influencing
people. That was extremely useful when I was first
running for the House as an independent and upset the
Republican incumbent (in 1960)."
In 1968, Schweiker defeated the popular Democratic
incumbent to win his Senate seat "they said it couldn't
be done," he remeinbers. To Schweiker, his entire career
has been a series of similar challenges.
"The world's literally a lot bigger than a college
campus," he says. "You have to be prepared to keep your
standards and the ideals . . . You have to learn to compete
with the lower standards and ideals you face in the
political and business arena."
Gerald W. Abrams, a 1961 graduate in business and
speech, and executive producer for the Emmy-winning
miniseries "A Woman Called,Golda," starring the late
Ingrid Bergman, agrees. "It's difficult to balance pleasing
myself aesthetically when the networks are buying
hookers and cops," he says.
In 1979, Abrams formed and became president of •
Cypress Point Productions which produced films such as
"The Gift" with Glenn Ford and Julie Harris (directed by
Don Taylor, another Penn Stater) and most recently
"Found Money" with Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar.
In in his latest project, "Cop to. Callgirl," he says "I
found something to please me," adding "I hope I haven't
copped out on that one."
Life, Abrams explains, differs between Penn State and
"an urban situation" adding with a laugh that "they don't
call it Happy Valley for nothing.
"Nobody had a better time at Penn State than I did I
wish I had learned more, but I had a great time. But it
doesn't prepare you for living in a big city. It doesn't
prepare you for the loneliness of living in New York or
driving on the endless freeways of L.A. maybe life does
that."
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julius Epstein of
lane
"Casablanca" fame also believes that majoring in Arts
and Letters at best prepared him culturally. Except for
his playwriting course, that is.
In 1931, he enrolled in the first playwriting course ever
offered at Penn State and learned to write one-act plays.
The next year, he advanced to three-act plots and was the
sole student in his class "I had my own number," he
says proudly.
About 10 years after Epstein was writing lyrics for
Thespian musicals, Warner Brothers studio assigned
Epstein, his identical twin brother Philip (another Penn
Stater), and Howard Koch to "Casablanca," "just like we
were assigned to three other films that year. It was all
very routine," he recalls. In fact, he says he never thought
it would become an American classic. "It's a mystery to
me," he says. "I didn't think it was that great."
Likewise, Epstein doesn't consider himself a success
either. "I haven't won the Nobel Prize; I haven't won the
Pulitzer Prize," he says. "It's a very limited success, on a
modest level. Like someone who works in a department
store, mostly it's a job. It's a living . . We're not making
art we're making a living."
utstand
Advice from those
`OK, the Nobel Prize was
something. It was delightful. But
now I'm interested in other things
... Success is what-are-you-doing
lately? Being successful is keeping
busy, being excited about what you
do, being ambitious in the best
sense.'
—Paul Berg, chairman and professor of
biochemistry at Stanford University
School of Medicine
For Samuel B. Casey, executive director of Merrill
Lynch Private Capital, "just the numbers and the
competition athletically, scholastically and politically
at Penn State" gave him a taste of the business world.
Coming from a small, boys' prepratory school to Penn
State in 1945 and a graduating class of 5,000 "and
dealing with the various ethnic groups, I think,
strengthened me," Casey says, "particularly in,
international dealings when I was running (Chicago's )
Pullman (Inc.) . . . If I had continued to go to 'boutique
schools,' I never would have been as well prepared.
"All lever wanted to do was to go into business. I was
terribly interested in free enterprise and not interested in
anything but engineering and construction . . . balance
sheets, profit and loss, accounting. I wasn't culturally
enriched at that age, not at all interested in the
humanities."
In 1970, Casey says he figured he made it when he was
named chief executive officer of the multinational New
York Stock Exchange Company. "It made me a
financially secure human being," he says, but it also
thrust him into an uncomfortable position center stage.
"One of the things is to keep your sanity," he explains.
"You're swimming in a fishbowl. There's no privacy, and
that is a sacrifice. But there's no shortcut to (success). It's
got to be hard work. It's got to be sacrifice."
Astronaut Paul Wietz, a '54 graduate in aeronautical
engineering and Navy pilot in Vietnam, says his training
took him away from his family for relatively long periods
of time but "that was part of the deal."
Weitz, who originally wanted to fly off aircraft carriers
as a naval aviator, piloted the first manned Skylab in 1973
and commanded space shuttle Challenger's first mission
last spring. Now he says he's "plowing along for the next
alumn
who made
it big
year or two with the next 15 flights," still working to
advance the manned flights.
"I'm an, engineer, not a philosopher," he cautions, "but
I really believe you can do what you want to do, unless
your goal is unattainable . . . If you want to become well
known in a certain field, you can do that if you have
enough reasonableness and practicality and hard work
and some 'sacrifices,' like taking an extra course during
the summer or not partying as much.
"If you want to feel sorry for yourself, you call it a
sacrifice. If you want to get somewhere, you call it hard
work. It all depends on your perspective."
After a 21-year football career with the New York Giants
and later as one of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome
Foursome," and a lucrative acting and writing career,
Rosey Grier shifted perspectives about six years ago.
That's when the 1955 Penn State graduate and four-year
letterman says he saw a man on television teaching the
Bible and changed his life. •
"I had exasperated everything I could think of to be
successful," he explains. "In the end, I was still hungry.
There had to be more to life than playing football and
acting and writing. There had to be more to life than
trying to hear the applause of the public.
• "I look back over my life, and I see the football, I see the
acting what people call success, but they were not
success . . . I appreciate all of it, yet inside myself, I was
afraid. A big football player and I'm afraid of when it all
will end, afraid to give of myself, afraid to enter into a
relationship."
What was missing, he says, was "the right spiritual
ingredient," a commitment to God. So four years ago,
)laving reunited with his estranged wife and son, he
started a ministry to spread his message.
"Young people are going to college so they can learn a
profession, so they can achieve success," Grier says. "But
so many times, we're only prepared physically and
mentally . . . Material success is fine, but knowing the
truth is more important.
"It's not necessary to go to college to be a success," he
continues. "If you're a street cleaner, be the best. If you're
a janitor, be the best. Then you can be happy where you
are and strive for a greater challenge . . . We spend our
time trying to be recognized by men, but man must first be
successful in himself."
Satisfaction spells success for James P. Jimirro,
president of The Disney Channel and a '5B graduate in arts
and letters who returned to Penn State in 1960 to work on
his doctorate.
"The main thing in my life is that I'm working on a
service that people need and that people love," he says,
"and that's a rare and wonderful thing. We get hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of letters from families telling
us how the channel is. impacting their lives . . . I'm very
successful in that sense being very, very satisfied in
what we're doing, more than the title or the money which
have nothing to do with happiness so they can't bring you
success." .
Jimirro says his brainchild, conceived in 1977 and
launched last April, thrives on a "participatory
relationship" with the audience, especially with the 1,000
kids a week who "draw pictures of Mickey Mouse" to be
aired. And, he says, he firmly believes "success is 90
percent perspiration and 10 percent inspiration."
"You've got to be creative and have good skills, but you
have to work hard . . . You can't set your sights at those
goals to the extent that it interferes with what you're doing
like an athlete can't think about the Superbowl when
he's in the second game of the playoffs."
Similarly, he attributes his success to "a great deal of
vision. I have the ability to see what might be innovative
and'new, what's never been tried before. But without hard
work, that vision would have been for nothing."
Retired Pittsburgh Press editor John Troan remembers
The Daily Collegian
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A few of the University's famous alumni are (clockwise from
left) Rosey Grier, former football player, actor and writer
Thomas J. Anderson, composer; Gerald Abrams, Emmy.
winning film producer; Paul Berg, Nobel prize-winning
chemist; and Richard S. Schweiker, former senator.
many 72- or 82-hour work weeks after leaving Penn State
and The Daily Collegian where he was editor in '3B and '39..
"There were sacrifices of time away from the family, but
the family understood it was part of the job," recalls
Troan, who was also the Press' science editor and science
writer for Scripps-Howard newspapers. "Once I was
caught in an ambush in a coal mine strike," he recalls,
"and I'm thinking, 'What am I doing here?' But the fear
came afterwards."
The rewards were more immediate. Like his "most -
exciting experience covering the birth and growth of the
space program" and his "most satisfying covering,;
step by step, the discovery of the polio vaccine by Dr. Salk:
"Today, polio's only a word in the dictionary . . . but in:
those days, the fear parents had every summer if their
kids came back from swimming with a sudden fever or a
stiff neck was very real."
Translating obtuse scientific language into layman's
terms, however, required more scientific knowledge thari
Troan had acquired in his basic science courses at Penn
State. "We never heard of DNA; we never even knew the
atom could be split," he recalls.
When "science exploded," Troan took evening courses;
and now advises people to "try to get a kick out of
something everyday," keep learning and stay optimistic:
"Remain skeptical, but don't become cynical," he
advises. "When you hear someone say he can solve the
world's problems, be wary, but wish him well."
`lf you want to feel sorry for
yourself, you call it a sacrifice. If
you want to get somewhere, you
call it hard work. It all depends on
your perspective.'
However, Sam Vaughan, former Doubleday publisher
the first since founder Frank Nelson Doubleday resigned
the post in 1928 and now vice president and chairman of
the company's editorial board, shies from giving anyonO ,
advice. . .
"I've stumbled my way through life, but it worked out
pretty well," he jokes.
Vaughan, a '5l graduate in journalism, calls himself an
"indifferent student" who "did a couple of jobs" on humiir .
magazine, Froth, became editor-in-chief and started a
literary magazine, Inkling.
"Getting involved in student publications seemed a •
better thing than just dropping in for four years," he
explains. "The tendency is to think that Penn State isn't:
the real world, but . . . my experiences at Penn State are
as real to me as the ones" that followed.
Vaughan says college especially taught him how to
reject things "I went out for the swim team and I'm not
that good a swimmer. I went out for the track team, and
I'm not that good a runner, so they would have wasted 47
time." And he says he was as busy then as he is today:'.
"Life doesn't owe me anything," he adds. "I married l
woman I love. I have kids who I love. I have a job that I.
love. And it's been this way a pretty long time. It soundi
pretty boring, but that's how it is."
Marathon Oil Company President Victor G. Beghini
explains his success in similarly simple terms. "I worked
for Marathon 28 years, and when the opportunities came
up, I never turned one down," says the 1956 graduate ir!
and
petroleum natural gas engineering. "That meant we
moved 11 times, but I don't think my wife and I regret any
one of them . . . you just suck yourself up, decide you're
going to do it and do it "
, Feb. 7, 1984
—Paul Weitz, astronaut
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