9—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, April 19, 1987
Nittany Divers plunge into scuba life
By JULIE SMITH
Collegian Staff Writer
During his first dive, in Florida, Brian Houser
ran into a sand shark.
"I was hanging upside down and saw two eyes
and jaws. I couldn't believe it was real," said
Houser (junior-general arts and sciences).
While members of the Penn State Nittany Divers
scuba club may never come head to head with a
sand shark in Pennsylvania, they do enjoy a
variety of diving activities.
The club provides students and non-students
alike with the opportunity to explore the underwa
ter.world while polishing their diving skills.
Members dive locally at such places as the
Susquehanna River, Blue Hole Quarry and the
Bellefonte Ridge Quarry. They also make use of
area farm ponds and the McCoy Natatorium
.on
campus.
Divers also go on trips sponsored by the organi
zation, said Ann Sullivan, the club's president.
"Right now we're getting ready for our June trip
to Florida. This includes eight days of camping, a
reef dive, twilight dive and several other activ
ities," she said.
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• A pair of glasses with a case, a $92, were reported missing Sunday
cassette and $lO in cash, worth $llB from a car owned by Carimanti Land
total, were reported missing Sunday scaping of Glenside, while the car
by Robert Bowen, 308 Atherton, Uni- was parked in the Garner Street
versity police Services said. Parking Lot, the State College Bu
reau of Police Services said.
• The rear window was broken on
a car owned by Novachem Corp. of • Unknown persons damaged a
High Point, N.C., while the car was USA Today vending machine Sunday
parked at the Nittany Lion Inn Sun- in the 100 block of South Pugh Street,
day, University police said. State College police said.
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During their dives, members explore shipw
recks, search for artifacts, catch lobsters and play
underwater hockey.
Popular local dive spots are quarries in Tyrone,
where an abundance of jellyfish and the sub
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dive.
One club member. Diane Kraus (graduate-ce
ramic science), has had some unusual experiences
with sea animals.
"Dolphins and seals come right up to you and
want to play, because you look like them with all
your gear on," she said. "It's scary when a seal
swims straight towards you and stops a couple of
inches from your face."
Besides organizing the trips, the club has 20 sets
of equipment that any active member can borrow
for a $5 fee.
It also has a library in the natatorium which
contains newspaper and magazine clippings on
everything from dive sites in Pennsylvania to local
dive shops offering discounts to club members.
Sullivan (graduate-art education), who is serv
ing her second term as president, said "the most
important part of diving is knowing your limits.
That's where most people make their mistakes."
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Kraus and Sullivan agree that divers should
never dive alone and that to be , safe, they should
always be thinking and have lots of practice.
Although the majority of the divers have scuba
certification, Sullivan said it is not a requirement
to join the club.
"Some of our members are skin divers. All this
means is that they are not scuba certified."
Each semester the club offers a class called
"Try Scuba" for anyone interested in becoming.
certified.
For those who have thought about getting in
volved in scuba but are not sure what it entails, the
Nittany Divers sponsor Underwater Weekends,
where divers and nondivers can experience scuba
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Sullivan said scuba diving is not as expensive as
most people think. Scuba certification runs about
$lBO, which must be paid only once.
Anyone interested in learning more about the
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meetings held at 7:30 each Thursday night in 201
McCoy Natatorium.
Diving activities will continue throughout the
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By CATHY ACKERMAN
Collegian Staff Writer
Graduating seniors who want to ars' fund were sent to seniors,
donate their general deposits to a Sperry said the fund is not meant
good cause now have an alterna- to compete against the Senior
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Besides the traditional senior Class gift council Chairman
class gift, students can also give to Rich Pirotta said he believes the
a new undergraduate research scholars' fund is fine but that the
fund set up by the University entrance is more of a class gift.
Scholars Program.
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Meanwhile, the organizers of the to raise its goal because costs for
traditional senior gift this year the project were higher than were
dedicated to building a new cam- expected and the council wanted
pus entranceway have an- to add things to the design to
nounced that they are expanding enhance the entrance, to be built
their goal from $15,000 to $20,000 at the intersection of College Ave
because of their initial success. nue and Shortlidge Road.
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doing research for their senior July 30 if funds can be raised. '
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the fund's founders. the project is coming along.
Distribution of the money is Flyers will also be posted
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A tribute
Open House:
He Put
Beauty
There
Sometimes the voice is too
small and the heart too full. State
College and I have lost one of our
best friends, Lou Bell
Every man has
•• own, but Lou,
until he died last
week, had a code
which transcend
ed that of most
men. He had a
wonderful love
for his fellow
man, an intense
loyalty to 'Penn
State and it role
in the lives of
youth, and an
unselfish feeling
for the welfare
of his communi
ty . . . which is rare and cherish
ed by those tvho benefited from
counsel anti goad wik.
There are bid few good men in
our lives, too few people who are
sensitive to the needs of man
kind, to the unspoken wish for
hand on the shoulder, to the right
word at the right time, to a sym
pathetic concern at an unfortu
nate moment.
Lou Bell had'the unique ability
to discern these moments in men
. . and there are hundreds of
persons who have passed through
Penn State and many others
who have lived in this town—
who remember Lou for one of
those moments, for his extreme
kindness and his unsolicited help.
He never thought of a "return
favor."
• I am sad, because a man like
' Lou walks alone. He walked a
mong men with ,humility and
with thoughts of others, while
most of us walk with our own
concentric thoughts and our petty
ailments. Where, among us, are
men like Lou who make us "feel
good" when they enter our lives.
Where are the men, among us,
whom we can trust, whom we
may call friend?
I grieve not only for my loss
but for the loss to mankind of a
person who wished so little for
himself but so much for his Uni
versity, his friends, and his fami
ly. I grieve because a man like
Lou comes into one's life but once
in a lifetime . . . when, in con
trast, he needs a man like Lou
every day of his life. •
Everyone of us wants to be a
needed friend to another, but how
many of us will give so much of
himself to be thoughtful, kind,
unrewarded, humorous and pain
staking.
But I will look.• I will look a
bout me and try to see the world
in the friendly and charming.per--
spective that he saw in it. I will
try to see in my defeats and er
rors the composts of human frail
ty, and I will try to learn that
here—and now—there is so much
to life, so much to holding life,
that I am endowded with a beau
tiful heritage and a chance to
share it.
I will look beyond the harsh
clangs of day-to-day conflicts and
. try to understand the loneliness
of man and his search for love and
recognition in his own way and in
his own time.
That .is the tolerant way' Lou
looked at life, and he saw beauty
and purpose . . . because he put
it there. —Ross
Collegian is proud to honor the memory of Lou Bell. Fondly
remembered as "Mr. Penn State" by friends and alumni, Bell gave
Collegian his talent, his time, his energy and above all his compassion
to student journalists.
Bell, who served as Collegian editor in 1929, became a professor of
journalism in 1934. In 1943 Bell began a 15-year term as director of the
department of public information. He was instrumental in organizing
the Penn State Press, and served as its executive director.
Former Collegian staff members plan to pay tribute to Bell at a
special dinner in his honor during Collegian's 100th Anniversary
Reunion Weekend.
Current Collegian staff members will acknowledge Bell's
contribution to Collegian with a donation to the Lou Bell Scholarship
Fund.
, .
Louis H. Bell
1906 -
.1958
Banner Calls Bell
"Mr. Penn State"
Franklin Banner, professor
emeritus, retired head of the
journalism depalltment, wrote
from his retirement home in
La Jolla, California:
"If any graduate of the Uni
versity could be rightly called
Mr. Penn State, Lou was that
man. The value of his work as
ambassador of good will for
the entire University is so
great that it will be difficult to
excel. He was unquestionably
one of the most capable jour
nalism graduates of the past
thirty years."
The Daily Collegian Tuesday, April 14, 1
Open House:
Happily,
All Is
Not Lost
(Editor's Note: The Lehmann
are vacationing. Today's guest
columnist is James H. Coogan
of Puddintown.)
. . •
Surprisingly, I can't recall th.
exact moment or the exact cir
cumstances under which I firs
/net Lou Bell, But it had to be on
campus since he was a year ahead
of me in college, and. we both
aspired to the editorship of The
Collegian.
Even though our paths crossed
earlier, our close relationship be
gan to develop when he was a
junior and I was a sophomore. In
those days, a junior board of six
,battled it out for the editorship.
Freshmen and sophomores watch
-ed from the sidelines. However,
as sophomoreg, we looked to jun
iors for direction and• guidance.
Lou Bell gave me both.
Thereafter. I lost track of him
for a few years but we exchanged
an occasional letter and he pre
vailed on me in the early '4os to
switch my allegiance to the cam
pus. I am glad I did. I profited
immensely from my association
with him.
Throughout this association I
marvelled at his uncanny ability
to make people laugh and talk
and he merry. No problem ever
loomed so large that Lou could
not take leave long enough to
tell a story.
Those stories were more than
humorous. Some'of them pointed
up a moral. Others managed to
delineate character. He told end
less stories about people he knew
and they were invariably warm
and human. His innate kindliness
never deserted him.
Lou Bell is a gentle man. He
dislikes controversy and is upset
by differences of opinion. His gen
erosity. of course, is legendary.
His friends for years have chided
him about his "open door" polio•.
No person ever is unwelcome at
the Bell home.
He also is sensitive. This sen
sitivity stems from many factors,
but none more important than his
all-consuming desire to under
stand and to befriend people. He
frankly abhors the idea that any
body should think less than well
of him.
These, then, are the personal
attributes he brought to his job
and to the University of which
he is so inordinately proud.
These. plus a sound perspective
an d undisputed talent, have
brought him the acclaim of
friends, associates. and profes
sional peers. No man ever ques
tioned Lou Bell's ability,
Happily, all is not lost. Even
though he no longer will be in
timately concerned with Univers
ity-wide public relations, his ex
perience and counsel will be
available and those youngsters
who draw nn it in the classroom
may count themselves fortunate.
Dedication is an abused word
today• But I,nu Bell has it in
abundance. And he has given of
it freely over the years.
—Jim Coogan