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State Teachers College, Lock Haven, Penna.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932

Vol. IX, No. 30

Administration

Announces

Commencement

At a recent faculty meeting the administration announced the commencement
speakers who are to represent the graduating class in June.
The three young women meriting this
honor are Martha Zeigler, of Flemington, who will represent the four-year
College course, who upon graduating,
will secure a degree of Bachelor of Science in Education; Gladys Gearhart, of
Duncansville, who is graduating from
the Intermediate Training Department,
and Ruth Klinger, of Treverton, will
speak as representatives of the P r i m a r y
Group.
B ^ P •V'/v'St* ir-.i^^l
MARTHA ZEIGLER

GLADYS GEARHART

Appreciative
Audience Sees Junior
One-Act Plays

Y. W. Installs Ofificers
At Candlelight Service
At the regular meeting of the Y. W. C.
A. on Wednesday evening, April 6, the
candlelight service was used for the instaUation of the new officers and cabinet for the coming year.
It opened with a processional "Hymn
of Lights," played by Miss Beryl DeWett.
The commitment service was read by
Kathleen Noll with responses from the
new cabinet members.
RUTH KLINGER
Ruth Sherman, former vice president,
offered a prayer, and a Scripture selection was read by Madeline Lesser.
Miss Bertha Rowe, adviser, gave an
inspiring address to the girls.
The service closed with the pledge and
prayer given by the new president, MarThe flrst publication of this year's
ion Francisco, and a recessional "Follow Praeco Staff was issued to the students
the Gleam" with the new president lead- and members of the faculty of the coling the cabinet members.
lege in the form of a student directory.
This directory includes the calendar for
the school year of 1931-32; it catalogues
the names and addresses of the members
of the administration, of faculty, and of
the students. The names of the students
are classified according to class groups.
The election of offlcers, the leadership Each organization, with a list of its officers, is credited in this book. Adverof the Y. M. C. A. for the ensuing year
tisements, directing students to those
was held on Wednesday evening, March
whose business it is to satisfy their needs,
9, and resulted in t h e election of Kermit
completes the book. Credit for this useStover, as president; George Anderson,
ful publication is due to a committee,
as vice president; Floyd Bloom, as sec- consisting of Omar Harris, as chairman,
retary; and Allen Nelson, as treasurer. Madeline Lesser, Ann Vujcich, Christian
These officers will begin studying their Feit, Audrey Finn, Charles Baker, Ethel
respective duties a t present in anticipa- Quigg, Sebastian Grieco.
tion of actually assuming them next year.

Praeco Staff Issues
Directory to Students

y. M. Elects Officers
For 1932-1933 Term

Speakers

Three Senior Girls Merit First
Place in Record of Scholastic Achievement

S.T.C. Faculty Attends
Harrisburg Conference
The content of the courses of study in
the four-year curriculum was the general theme of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Faculties of the State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania, which was
held March 21, 22, and 23, in the Education Building at Harrisburg,
Dr. James N, Rule, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, welcomed the
delegates at the general session on the
evening of March 21. At this session
Honorable Gifford Pinchot, governor of
Pennsylvania, and Dr. E. W, Butterfleld,
Commissioner of Education of Connecticut, were the principal speakers. Other
outstanding addresses at the general sessions were "Keeping Our Balance," by
Honorable Clyde Kelly, member of the
House of Representatives of the United
States Congress, and an address by D,
William John Cooper, United States
Commissioner of Education,
The Lock Haven College Faculty took
an active part in t h e group conferences
into which the convention was divided
for discussion about the revision of the
courses of study.

5 Cents P e r Copy

The play "Sauce for the Goslings," by
Elgine Warren, was justly awarded the
prize in the Junior Play Contest held
Wednesday night, April 6. Isadore Ziff
was the coach for this play and the
smooth timing of its action and general
excellence of character interpretation
showed competent work on his part.
Those whose individual work contributed strongly to the success of the play
were Ann Crist, Marian McCloskey,
Margaret Miller, Sidney Sauter, Elwood
Rohrbaugh, Dean Shroat and Al Heydrich. The play itself was a comedy with
a modern key-note. It was a distinct
triumph for local students since the majority of the cast represented Lock Haven High School graduates.
The three other plays in the contest
were, according to the opinions of members of the audience, thoroughly enjoyable and deftly presented. "The Flash,"
a melodramatic play by J. C. McMullen,
coached by John Haberstroh, won second award. Three characters, enacted
by Walter Wilkinson, Ronald Aldrich,
Clarence Eld, were the dramatis personae of this unusually well-co-ordinated drama. Its surprise ending was an
undoubted element in its favor. Each
of the three roles were enacted in a m a n ner that should have satisfled the most
critical audience,
"Mimi Lights the Candle," a rather
whimsical playlet by Edith Coulter, was
likewise a favorable credit to its director, Edith Sharpe. The cast of this play
was composed entirely of girls who
fllled their roles capably and with much
finish.
Those appearing in this play
were: Ellen Reighard, Marjorie Deise,
Hannah Fromm, C l a r i s s a Wainger,
Gladys Weber, Jennie McMurray, Olive
Shaffer, and Ruth Peters.

Martha Zeigler, who graduated from
the Lock Haven High School in the class
of 1928, has become well known to her
co-workers. She is Assistant Editor-inChief of the Praeco and Treasurer of t h e
Senior Class. Other curricular activities
in which she has taken part during her
coUege career are Beta Sigma Chi Sorority, Times Staff, Dramatic Club, Students' Activity Organization, L. A. L. I n
1931 Miss Zeigler was President of t h e
Beta Sigma Chi Sorority, Editor-inChief of the Times, and member of the
cast in "Just Like Judy." Miss Zeigler's
leadership in extra-curricular activities,
as well as her scholastic standing, have
given her prominence on the campus.
Gladys Gearhart graduated from the
Hollidaysburg High School in 1930, enrolled in the fall semester of that year as
a student of the Intermediate Group.
Miss Gearhart has done outstanding
work in the Intermediate Department.
She is a member of the Educational Club,
and of the Young Women's Christian Association.
The representative of the P r i m a r y
Group, Ruth Klinger, of Treverton, enrolled in the fall of 1930. Miss Klinger
was an active member of the American
Childhood Education and the Y. W, C. A.
Prior to her enrollment she taught for
several years in the first grade at Treverton.

Times Staff to Conduct
Original Poetry Contest

In order to encourage the latent poetic
talent in this school, the College Times
Staff is opening a poetry contest to the
students of this college. For t h e best
poem submitted to the judges t h e staff
will award a prize of some recent book.
Honorable mention will b e made of t h e
next three best poems. Ruth Peters, the
contest editor, is making preparation for
"Brothers," the play coached by Hall a large number of entries, since more
Achenbach and written by J. McMullen,
than five hundred students a r e eligible
was well-planned and acted with decid(Continued on page 2)
(Contlnued on page 3)

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Men Begin Early
Faculty Spend Vacation Supervisors Take
Ninth Grade Presents
Baseball Practice
Charge of Classes
At Places of Interest
'Two Schools' to Junior
In Training School Immediately after the Easter vacation.
High School Audience Miss Nellie DuBois, of the Art DepartIn accordance with precedents set by
former student teachers and the two
other classes of the Junior High School,
the ninth grade of the Training School
presented a play, "Two Schools," in the
college auditorium on Friday, March 18,
to an audience of Junior High School
pupils and visitors. The play, written
by Martha Zeigler, the student teacher
of ancient history in that grade, grew
out of the work the pupils had been doing for a short time previous to the presentation of the play. The first scene depicted the difficulties that a child would
have in studying ancient history after
the old textbook method. The second
and third scenes, representing the
schools of Greece and Rome, carried out
the theme of the charm of ancient life.
The fourth scene was a return to the
American home in the flrst scene.
All the properties necessary to portray Roman life realistically were m a d e
by the members of the ninth grade. The
Greek costumes were borrowed from
Miss Maloise S. Dixon, of the Physical
Education Department of the College.
The Roman costumes the pupils themselves furnished.

New Editors to Publish
Next Week's Issue
Of College Times
Ten weeks having elapsed since the
present editorial board of the CoUege
Times Staff assumed their duties, a new
group of officers will publish next week's
issue of the paper. Kermit Stover will
head the staff as editor-in-chief. Marian
Francisco will be make-up editor, having spent ten weeks since the beginning
of the semester as managing editor. Harold Sykes, now editor of the features
department of the College Times, will
begin the duties of managing editor on
t h e editorial board. Christian Feit will
still manage the business of the organization.

Times Staff to Conduct
Original Poetry Contest
(Continued from page 1)
to enter. The contest begins April 9 and
will end April 23.
For t h e convenience of the entrants
the editorial board has drawn up the following rules:
1. All poems must b e original, typewritten on a single side of the sheet of
paper, placed in a sealed envelope with
the n a m e of the author on the outside,
and it must bear a title,
2. All communications should be addressed to Contest Editor, and placed in
the box in t h e College Times Room, opposite Room 22.
3. Poems submitted must not have
appeared in print previously.
4. Poems entered will be returned to
authors at close of contest.
5. T h e period for entering and submitting poems will be from April 9 to
April 23, inclusive.
6. The prize poem will be published in
the College Times issue of April 29.
7. Poems submitted m a y b e any
length, on any subject.
The staff h a s selected competent
judges from t h e EngUsh department to
choose t h e poems with special merit.
These judges a r e Miss Berthe Daniel,
Miss P e a r l A. Payne, and Mr. Weldon W.
Williams.

ment, accompanied by her father. Mr.
Roelf DuBois, of New Paltz, New York,
Miss Belle Holaway, Dean of Women,
and Mr. Weldon Williams, of t h e English
Department, enjoyed a very pleasant
motor trip through parts of the South,
including in the itinerary Charleston,
South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Salisbury, North Carolina.
During the trip the party visited twenty
college campuses, outstanding ones of
which were the University of Virginia,
the Universities of North and South Carolina, and Duke University.
After attending t h e Pennsylvania
State Educational Convention of all
Teachers College Faculties, held at Harrisburg on March 21, 22, and 23, many of
the members of the faculty of the college spent the remaining days before
April 4, vacationing in various places.

During Easter vacation the supervisors took charge of the Training School,
which was in session just in t h e mornings the entire time. Although there
were absences on account of measles, a
great deal of work was accomplished,
including the completion of a bookcase
for the new library.
Miss Alma Probst taught in kindergarten during vacation and promoted the
unit of the aeroplane following up the
train unit which had previously been
built. The plane was a monoplane with
seating capacity for two and was made
from a Majestic Radio box which Billie
Elliot's daddy took to them. The plane
also contained luggage and helmets
made from paper bags. The purpose of
this project was to promote language,
vocabulary, and co-operative work.

Miss Berthe Daniel, a member of the
English department, spent the vacation
period in New York City visiting her sister. Incidentally she very pleasurably
enjoyed the performances of "The Moon
in the Yellow Bowl" and "Morning BeJohn I. Smith, a student here in 1929comes Electra." and later spent several
days in the city of Philadelphia, previ- 1931, has recently been elected feature
editor of the "Middlebury Campus," the
ous to returning to Lock Haven.
student publication of t h e Middlebury
Mr, George F. Lehman, of t h e music College, Middlebury, Vermont. This ofdepartment, spent most of his vacation fice on the "Middlebury Campus" r e in moving his family and household ef- quires careful literary comment and crefects from 155 North Fairview Street to ative writing. To Mr. Smith falls addi325 South Fairview Street.
tional honor, because he is the flrst
Mr. Levi J. Ulmer, of the geography freshman to be elected to the position
department, in company with his son, since the newspaper was organized one
David, spent several days in Philadel- hundred years ago. Mr. Smith also conphia after which he attended the annual tributes to "The Saxonian," a literary
meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of magazine published by the Middlebury
Science Research, held on March 25, at students.
West Chester, Pa.
Mr. Smith is remembered at the State
Teachers College for his excellent literMiss Ashton Hatcher, of the Educa- ary contributions in t h e College Times
tion Department, visited friends in West and Praeco during t h e year he spent
Chester, New York City, and Washing- here. He is the author of the poem, "To
ton, D. C. After spending a day with the a Scholar and Gentleman, Autumn
home folks at Chester, Virginia, Miss Dead," dedicated in t h e 1931 Praeco to
Hatcher drove to Greensboro, North Mr, Homer Howell Gage.
CaroUna, where she visited the school
which she formerly supervised. Incidentally, she paid a visit to Duke University, located near the city of Durham,
North Carolina, As a result of her trip
Miss Hatcher's car shows an increase of
1,400 miles on its speedometer.

Former Student Writes
For 'Middleburg Campus'

Miss Mabel-Louise Arey, of the department of Dramatics, spent an enforced vacation in shaking off an attack
of laryngitis. Later in the week she devoted most of h e r time in coaching t h e
play "The Trial of Mary Dugan," which
will be given at the Court House on
April 14 and 15,
Miss Pearl A. Payne visited in New
York City and West Chester, and later
motored to her home in Charlottesville,
Virginia, where she spent an enjoyable
visit with her parents and friends.
Dr. Kenton Vickery spent the Easter
vacation at his home in Seward, Nebraska.
Miss Avis Edgerton visited a race
horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky,
where she saw two famous horses, "Gallant Fox" and "Man-O-War."

Women Replace Ofificers
Elected at Earlier
Meeting of Council

Due to a misunderstanding of t h e eligibility of those elected to the office of
secretary and treasurer of the Women's
Student Government Association, the
members of this organization elected
Myrna Lundy as treasurer, and Kathleen Conrad as secretary for t h e ensuing year, in place of Nellie Manning and
Elizabeth Nelson. This second election
was held to observe an article of the constitution which reads that only a college junior can become treasurer and
only a college sophomore can hold the
office of secretary.

Vivian Eberhart, a graduate of L. H.
Miss Lyndall Fox enjoyed the vaca- S. T. C , in 1928, and at present a teacher
tion at her home in Carbondale, Illinois. in the kindergarten at Ardmore, was at
Dr. Frances V. Coppens spent the Eas- her home in Lock Haven for Easter.
Lydia Gross, '25, who is attending Coter vacation in New York City.
lumbia University, visited her parents
on South Fairview Street, Lock Haven.
The College Times wishes to correct
"Mid" Peiter, '27, and Rose Bower,
an error about t h e starting of t h e Sum- '27, a r e both teaching in the Montoursmer Session at this college, found in t h e ville High School.
recently issued Student Directory. InMr. and Mrs. Roland Fredericks, who
stead of beginning J u n e 6 as stated was Winifred Harman, '27, have moved
therein, the Summer Session will begin to their new home on t h e corner of First
on J u n e 13.
and Main Streets, Lock Haven.

Coach Kaiser began his program of
spring football. Every afternoon, for
the next two or three weeks, will find
most of the last season's squad out on
the fleld.
The practices will be light. The technical side of football will be stressed.
Right now t h e boys a r e practicing in
their gym suits, so that blocking and
tackling will be taboo. The Coach e x pects to h a v e the boys learn some new
plays and signals. H e expects to give
the veterans of last fall plenty of practice in passing and throwing of passes.
There are faint r u m o r s to the effect
that there will i n t r a m u r a l or possibly
varsity baseball. The coach should not
lack for good material, for t h e r e are a
number of good sand-lot stars in our
midst. It is expected t h a t t h e courts
will be flxed by next week for spring tennis. If the present weather continues,
the courts should soon dry u p so that
they may be rolled. The Coach expects
to have a spring tournament similar to
that held last fall.

Faculty and Students
Take Part in Play
Miss Mabel-Louise Arey, of t h e College faculty, will direct the court room
drama, "The Trial of Mary Dugan," to b e
presented in t h e Clinton County Court
House on April 14 and 15, for t h e beneflt
of the Citizens' Relief Committee, The
price of admission is $,50. Tickets a r e
now on sale in the book room.
The personnel of the cast is v e r y interesting to t h e students. In it a r e two
members of t h e College faculty. Dr. S. A.
Rude and Miss Mabel-Louise Arey, as
well as many students. The college students who t a k e part are: J e a n Matteer,
Clarita Duhart, Hall Achenbach, Carl
Hatter, Robert Breth, Max Cooke, and
Sebastian Grieco. The cast is completed
with townspeople who take several of
the leading roles. Mr. Edgar Heffner is
very convincing as the judge at t h e Trial
of Mary Dugan. Rebecca Gross, Betty
McCormack, Mrs. L u c y Caprio, Mrs.
Erma Gasenbender, Madeline Strump,
Sara Bittner, Mary Wynn, and Mrs. Milton M. Grossman create the feminine atmosphere for t h e play.
The other m e n of the cast are: Mr.
McGill, WUliam McCormack,
John
Forsht, A b r a h a m H. Lipez, David Forsht,
Robert Scheid, Earl Howard, W a r r e n
Heigh, W a r r e n Weidhahn, and Mr, Bubb.
The story of "The Trial of M a r y Dugan" is brought to a climax in t h e thrilling court scene where Mary Dugan is on
trial for her life.

Several Students Teach
In Training School
During Easter Recess
During t h e absence of t h e regular
student teachers during t h e past Easter
recess, a n u m b e r of student teachers
who have had previous practice teaching
experience volunteered or w e r e r e cruited to teach in t h e J u n i o r High
School grades of the Training School.
To Martha Zeigler, Dorothy Bickel, Sebastian Grieco, Gwendolyn Stringfellow,
Scott McLean, Richard Miller, Relda
Haagen, Albert Sundberg, and Olive Livingston were distributed the duties of
taking charge of the seventh, eighth, and
ninth grade classes. During t h e first,
second and t h i r d periods, ending at noon,
geography, social studies, mathematics,
English, and L a t i n were taught.

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ties of a similar nature, form for those
professionally-minded a scientifically
sound philosophy of education.

The College Times is published at Lock
Haven State Teachers College, Lock H a The radio in the Training School is afven, Penna., by the Board of Editors of
fording much pleasure to the children.
t h e College Times.
It is being used in assembly programs,
during holidays and sometimes on occasions when an especially interesting
Published weekly during school year.
Subscription rate, $1.00 per annum.
program, such as stories or special music
for children is being featured.
BOARD OF CONTROL
Editor-in-Chief
Olive Livingston
Managing Editor
Marion Francisco
Make-up Editor
Kermit Stover
Copy Editor
John H. Haberstroh
Business Manager
Christian Feit

This is a very much-needed factor in
the education of our children. Music
has long been neglected. These children especially a r e In need of this infiuence. Many, perhaps, have never had
the opportunity of hearing anything but
cheap trash.

Sub-Editors
Miss Larabee has correlated her work
H. Leslie Sykes, Madeline Lesser, Alma with the radio in helping some of the
Crawford, Florence D a y e ,
Ann
Vujcich, Mary Sharpe, J e a n Mateer, children gain a sense of rhythm. They
Isadore Ziff, Isabelle Welch, Martha all beat time to some particular piece
Hammon.
of music and in this way even the dullest perceives a sense of rhythm and
time.
Special Writers
Julie Silagyi, J e a n n e Hopler, Martha
Zeigler.
"Nothing is healthier for American
Universities than student criticism. ConReporters
formity is the evil to be fought. UniMadeline Faulkner, Roberta Newman,
A u d r e y Finn, Elizabeth Kohler, Jenice versities should welcome the utmost
Sharpe, Ruth Doebler, Mirabelle Elia- freedom of discussion of university and
son, Ethel Quigg, Pauline Graden, public affairs by t h e student groups and
Pauline Hamilton, lolabelle Milligan, publication."—The Civil Liberties Union,
R u t h Peters, Allan Secula, Vivian
Rhinehuls, N e l l i e Shaffer, Ruth in the New York Times, April 3, 1932.
Brown, Alice Shaffer.

Exchange

Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October
3, 1917, authorized June 3, 1923,
students at the Texas College of Arts
Entered as Second Class matter November 6,
1928, at the Post Offlce at Lock Haven, Penna,, and Industries were given a holiday on
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
February 22 because of t h e bi-centennial
celebration of the birth of George Wash-,
ington and because the famous frigate,
APRIL 8, 1932
"Old Ironsides," was docked in the port
of Corpus Christi not far from the college.

TIMES

Over the Fence

Anticipating w a r m spring weather,
lolabelle Milligan, Alma Crawford, and
Making tangible t h e results of their
Myra Seyler took so m a n y winter clothes
home that some day room girls had to s t u d y of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
come to their rescue with the luggage. u n d e r t h e direction of Martha Zeigler,
student teacher, and Mr. Allen D. P a t Elizabeth Miller spent part of her va- terson, supervisor of English, t h e ninth
cation camping. We wonder w h a t she g r a d e of t h e Training School published
a newspaper, the interest of which was
did when the snow came along.
centered wholly about the event of Julius
Florence Ayres was quite childlike Caesar's death. Each pupil writing upon
during vacation. She had the mumps. a subject selected by the group as a p Clarissa Wainger was in New York. plicable to newspaper writing, t h e p u b Wouldn't you have liked to see Clarissa lication was issued as a special edition
standing beside the Empire State Build- of today would be written on a similar
event. Articles covering t h e m u r d e r of
ing?
Caesar in t h e Senate, Caesar's will, Mark
"Dot" Quigg spent several days in Anthony's funeral oration, t h e departing
of Brutus and Cassius from Rome, and
Renovo.
t h e prophecy of Cinna, t h e soothsayer,
What most everybody did: Stayed at concerning Caesar's death on t h e Ides
home, slept, ate and worked on projects. of March were features of this special
Hall Achenbach and Betty Fullmer edition. Jokes, fashion comments, and
w e r e on the receiving line at t h e Mili- weather forecasts completed t h e project.
t a r y Ball held Friday, April 1, at the T h e paper was distributed to the m e m bers of the ninth grade on March 29.
Masonic Temple. Ruth Doebler, Betty
Stevenson, Mary Simon and Genevieve
F r y e were also guests at the ball,
Elizabeth Bigelow visited with Mabel
Creighton, '31, in Altoona,
Bernice Moran spent all of h e r vacation at Niagara Falls. No, she wasn't
on her honeymoon, only visiting relatives.
(Continued from page 1)
Betty Dalby visited in Philadelphia edly professional touch. T h e three charfor a week.
acters in this play w e r e delineated b y
"Ikey" Thompson substituted for three J a m e s Harlan, H a r r y Condo, and H. L.
days in a school in t h e old home town, Sykes.
Clearfield. During t h e rest of the time
According to a general consensus of
she helped in t h e family's restaurant. opinion gleaned from various members
Mary Triponey w a s in h e r home, of t h e audience, the following performOlanta. She had Virginia Schaffer, one ances seemed unusually meritorious:
Gladys Weber as Mimi; H. Leslie
of her flfth grade Training School pupils,
Sykes as Feldon; Dean Shroat as Robert
as her guest.
Taylor; Elizabeth Miller as Martha Lee,
Walter Wilkinson had so little to do and Clarence Eld as Doctor Gardner.
over the vacation that h e tried curling
The proceeds from t h e plays go to the
his eye lashes.
F r e e Milk Fund of t h e Training School.
Hildegarde B a e r spent several of her T h e sale of tickets w a s not so l a r g e as
might have been desired. T h e audience,
vacation days in Blairsville.
though small, was amply r e w a r d e d for
After spending all h e r week-ends in its acknowledgment of t h e appeal and
Bellefonte, J e r r y Jones helped Mayor interest centered in these junior one-act
McCloskey keep Johnstown wide awake. plays.
Edna Mae George also wished to grace
the city of Johnstown during vacation.

Appreciative
Audience Sees Junior
One-Act Plays

From "The Kent Stater" we learn that
recently at the University of Oklahoma
a certain professor announced that nothing short of a fractured neck would be
considered sufficient reason for cutting
class. As a result a certain co-ed was
carried to class on a stretcher because
Helen and Elizabeth KoUar called on
of influenza, only to flnd the class was
dismissed because the professor had a Williamsburg just before t h e snow
storm,
headache.
Edith and Jenice Sharpe left t h e meWith so many heavy snows in the tropolis of Brushvalley for Indiana and
mountainous regions around Reno, the Blairsville during Easter vacation.
University of Nevada has experimented
Spring Shopping!
Clarita Duhart
with a class in skiing, which has created spent the entire vacation with her grandmuch interest and met with much ap- mother in New York City buying clothes
proval.
and having a good time.

In t h e last few issues of t h e College
Times t h e staff has consciously attempted
to call attention to t h e creative work
done in t h e Training School. The activities centered in the making of a motion
picture reel in the fifth grade and a
dramatization of the story of Joseph p u t
on by the same grade, w e r e mentioned
in t h e issue of March 11. In the present
issue t h e results of t h e ninth g r a d e
activity in studying Roman and Greek
Life and in reading Shakespeare's
"Julius Caesar" claim attention. This
Mansfield State Teachers College has
same grade plans to write original poetry
introduced into their extra-curricular
in t h e n e x t few weeks.
offering a six-weeks' course in training
This list of Training School activities for Scout leaders. Two courses, "The
Elements of Scout - mastership" and
gives rise to various comments. From "Principles of Scout-mastership" a r e beone point of view, they indicate that our ing offered to all men eighteen years of
practice school has departed from the age or over. Two one-hour classes will
worn-out tradition of the public schools be held one night each week, with a
twenty-minute intermission between pein the things it offers t h e pupils; from riods when the boys will be instructed
another point of view, they indicate that along health and safety lines.
the students preparing to teach are able
to execute projects that represent their
Northern State Teachers College at
creative interests and which employ t h e Marquette, Michigan, has secured Councreative interests of their pupils. F u r t h e r tee Cullen, outstanding negro poet of
than these advantages, however, which America, as one of its assembly speakers
for March, Mr. Cullen, a graduate of
are expressed by the seniors a r e advan- New York University and Harvard, and
tages that benefit a greater number of a Phi Beta Kappa, has received univerpeople. Careful observation of this sal recognition for his books and verses.
work from time to time, sincere and in- Those who have had the opportunity to
hear him feel that he is one of the most
telligent evaluation, balanced b y t h e accomplished lecturers and readers of
comment of eminent educators on activi- poetry in America.

Ninth Grade Publishes
Newspaper From Study
Of Shakespeare Play

Mary Steiner entertained Peg Gardner, Gen Frey, and Ruth Grier at her
home in Pittsburgh for a week.

M a r y Greninger spent p a r t of her vacation with school chums a t State College.
Leona Brown didn't stray very far
from home. However, she managed to
give Westport the once over.
Williamsport received some lucky
breaks. Thelma Monti, Helen Meyers
and Virginia Albright vacationed there.
Barbara Rhodes honored Philadelphia
with a visit there. While vacationing
t h e r e Barbara also went to Atlantic City.
Nora Holmes tried to keep it a secret
b u t w e discovered she had spent p a r t
of h e r vacation in Loganton. We won't
tell you with whom she visited!

Mary Steiner was t h e guest of Lynn
Norman at her home in Percelleville,
Virginia, for several days. They returned
to school Sunday night by train.
Betty Dalby divided her time between
"Libby" Gorman visited her sister in West Chester, Altoona and—it's a secret.
Philadelphia and reports having a very
Eva Matter must h a v e had a very
nice time.
pleasant vacation. She had a tonsil opMolly Hamman and Polly Barndt m o - eration in t h e Lock Haven Hospital.
tored to Tremont on Good Friday, and
Bernice Moran journeyed to Niagara
visited Kay Karterman.
Falls to see how far the faUs fell.
As usual, when vacation time comes
J a n e was so anxious to g e t back to
around, Tom Wilt is a visitor at Treschool she came for a 10:30 class Monmont.
day morning. Too bad, J a n e !
Madeline Lesser had a very nice time
Vivian Rinehuls considers her vacaat a dance in Buffalo, N. Y.
tion quite educational. She learned to
Myra Evans, from Altoona, and Kath- play chess, improved h e r bridge, and
ryn Peters, from Bellefonte, visited at learned how to drive a Ford.
each other's homes d u r i n g vacation.
Mirabel Eliason spent a w e e k at P o r t
Treverton.
Hazel Harris visited at Crescent.

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Snatched From the ]
Blotter
You may enjoy your newspaper yarns,
thrill to stage plays like the "Front
P a g e " and "Five Star Final," but, if you
want a small portion of this concoction
of mania, hysteria, and temperament,
listen in on the Tuesday afternoon tetea-tete's in our own Times room. If only
t h e cheer leaders at our games could
evoke half as much noise as the Times
staff seems capable of emitting on these
afternoons! Noise was the word.

Campus Chatter
Marty Zeigler calls the play she wrote
for her ancient history class "Two
Schools." That's a good start, Marty!
William Ellory Leonard has a poem
called "Two Lives," and John G. Neihardt has one called "Two Mothers."
Was the frosh who asked if we still
had slaves prolonging some pseudo-historical discussion or was he making insinuations?
Then Don Francisco made a grave
mistake and mentioned "calla lily."

Again: "Now that spring is here the
Vacations for most of you were doubtless days fllled with joy, gaiety, merry upper social square railings have ceased
laughter, even romance. If they were, to creak,"
you're to be envied. If they were not,
Mr. Fleming—"So you haven't any
your scribe keeps you company. After
hereditary traits from either your faall, moving is no Roman holiday.
ther or mother?"
Owens—"No. I'm original."
We aren't often thrilled by detective
Evidently one little freshman never
novels, b u t there is a recent one that
you can't afford to overlook. It's Tif- heard of the Civil War in 1863, She
fany Thayer's "The Illustrious Corpse,' wanted to know if we had slaves in 1889.
If it's chills and thrills you lack, here's
Ruth Brown has improved much in ice
your dish. Thayer has made a name for
himself as a writer of much originality skating; she has come from 23 falls down
and power. Luckily, in the present book to 3. Maybe the boy friend was bigger
h e forgets the "power" that m a d e "Thir- this time.
teen Men" a best-seller. We mean,
"Sharpie," nodding her head during
merely, that the sex motif is dropped
and a rousing action story told with an observation in the ninth grade: "Isn't
many touches of Hemingway dialogue. he cute?"

Things that linger:
The Junior Plays, and need we say
more , , ,
Robinson Jeffer's two volumes of poetry within a year , , .
Ruth Chatterton's fascinating
onslaught of artificiality in t h e movie "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" and the fact
that even such obvious theatricalism
could not entirely dull us to the fact
that she is really a great actress temporarily gone wrong.
The local production of "The Trial of
Mary Dugan" is to be given at the Lock
Haven court house soon. Miss Arey is
directing this staging of Bayard Veiller's drama and a local cast is enacting
t h e various roles. Veiller's drama formed
Norma Shearer's talking picture debut;
before, it had been Ann Harding's outstanding stage success. You'll hear more
of this, as they said in the Forest of
A r d e n , . . anon and anon.
The Poetry Contest means that YOU
and YOU and YOU should enter. Read
the rules and then write, write, write.
At that, it seems a peculiarly apt time
of the year for a contest of this sort.
Birds, flowers, bees, and the beauties of
Spring . . . Seriously, though, a try at
the contest can't harm you. If you have
that certain urge, that peculiar feeling of
"must-get-this-on-paper," by all means,
out with it!
And now that's off our chest, and like
the great Garbo (with only a myriad of
differences, we hope) we doff our hats
and chirp . . . "I tank I go home now."

Article by Instructor
Appears in Journal
In the late issue of t h e Bucknell Journ a l of Education appeared an article on
The Education of the Gifted ChUd, writt e n b y Mr. George F. Lehman, of t h e
Music Department of this college. In attending a summer session at the Bucknell University Mr. Lehman wrote this
thesis in connection w i t h a course in the
adjustment of t h e individual child.

TIMES

Miss Edgerton Enjoys
Brilliant Performance
By German Danseuse
Miss Avis Edgerton, of the physical
education department of this coUege, attended a mid-western Athletic Conference, Thursday, March 24, at Columbus,
Ohio. She reports having attended numerous demonstrations of dances and
representative sports.
One of the outstanding events was a
dance recital given by the famous
danseuse, Mary Wigman, who started a
new movement in Germany for dancing
that is sweeping the country. Her pianist,
Mr, Hastings, from Germany, gave a
brilliant lecture on the use of percussion instruments in the art of dancing.
He gave an interesting illustration of the
use of the tom-tom.
After splendid examples of dancing,
archery and swimming were exhibited,
the conference was divided into sections.
Miss Edgerton attended the section meeting which took up women's basketball
in an attempt to formulate rules. It was
decided to change the floor to a four
section in place of the three section floor.
The State of Ohio has recently erected
a new men's physical education building
in which the conference was held. The
building has flne modern equipment, including three large swimming pools.

Training Schools to
Hold Spring Festival

Boner—After tripping into Mr, Sullivan's 9:30 Political Science Class and r e ceiving a lot of undesired attention, Cal
Miss Maloise S. Dixon is formulating a
Cooke and Hannah Fromm inquired,
"Isn't this t h e 10:30 History of CivUiza- spring festival unit, to be given May
tion Class?" This was the second of- 11 and 13 by the pupils of the Training
School.
fense to the 9:30 class. No, 'tis spring.
"The Seeking of Cinderella" is the
"Peg" F r e m a n rehearsed "Madame main theme about which the festival is
President" to an excess in Girls' Meet- being devised. The main characters will
ing.
be portrayed by girls from the Junior
High School, Peggy Stouck has the role
of Cinderella, and Lillian Johnson the
CHARACTER ANALYSIS
part of the Fairy Prince. The two small
Check your outstanding traits:
heralds who seek the lost princess will
1. Usually late—especially for classes. be enacted by the Quigg twins.
2. The campus newscrier of the tabloid
The festival is to be divided into three
style.
sections. The first will depict t h e story
3. Another nodder.
of the German fairy tale; the second, the
4. The one who remains after the class search for Cinderella against village
recitation to talk to the teacher backgrounds; and the third scene will
for—(you know w h y ) .
be devoted to the finding of the prin5. You read when someone is talking, cess and the subsequent rejoicing of the
and then ask what was said.
populace.
6. A student who shakes like a leaf
All the students in the Kindergarten
when called upon intheclassroom.
7. A person who spends his time in Department and first three grades will
participate in t h e festival. In the r e
looking for others' work.
maining grades only the girls will be as
8. A pencil collector.
9. When all the people are ready to signed roles.
leave the table, you always want
another drink of water,
10. Assuming t h e responsibUity of
counting the cookies on the plate,
you bluntly inform the people
In the fleld of invention, George Washhow many each is going to get ington achieved the same notable sucw h e n the plate is to be passed,
cess that characterized his activity in
11. One who is collecting other's laun- many other endeavors. His most impordry—especially P. J's.
tant invention was a barrel plow. This
12. A night-shilt worker.
was an improvement on the old methods
13. One who yells in t h e hall.
of sowing grain.
14. An Arbor harborite.
In 1706 the Spanish founded town Al15. Or just another one of those who buquerque in the desert country of New
parks on the steps at social square. Mexico. Its mission church of San F e lipe, previously built by the Franciscan
POLLYANNA AT SCHOOL
fathers in 1620; it still stands with its
We are glad—
adobe walls, seven feet thick.
We have only seven tests instead of ten.
In 1862 Albuquerque was the scene of
Vacation looms near with promises—if a long-range battle between Confederate
our marks don't arrive while we are and Union troops which lasted a whole
at home.
day but the struggle resulted in few casWe can catch up on lost sleep at home— ualties.
or can we?
During Lincoln's inauguration DougWe don't have to correct those test palass, a bitter enemy, held President Linpers.
We're here instead of behind a counter coln's hat.
President Andrew Johnson's wife
at t h e Five and Ten—although some
of us are both here and there. Anyway, taught him how to write.
if we w e r e neither here nor there, we
President Hoover is the first President
would be elsewhere.
from west of the Mississippi River.

From the Archives

A Roman Holiday . . . Upton Sinclair's
dramatic narrative and satire on class
struggle seems rather time-worn and
dull.
The story is concerned with an illusion
experienced by one Luke Faber, who is
lying unconscious upon a hospital bed.
He believes himself to be in ancient
Rome. Here, the people of his own set
dress in Roman garb and speak classical Latin, You'll be surprised at the
unique ending of this picturesque novel.
The Wild Orchid , . , Sigrid Undset
There are two problems posed in this
latest of Miss Undset's works. One concerns Paul Selmer's confused ideas
about ethics and religion. The other concerns his loye for a girl whose past bears
a stain.
He is the innocent victim of his parents' broken marriage and his freethinking mother's logic. T h e book does
not solve either problem. A sequel is
really necessary to complete this novel.
It is as superbly written as all of Miss
Undset's novels, and for those of you
who a r e acquainted w i t h "Kristin
Lavransdatter" no more need be said.
Alexander Platz, Berlin . . . Alfred
Doblin's attempt to repeat the undeniable success achieved by James
Joyce in "Ulysses,"
The book is stylistic to the point of
satiety. It is a curiously fascinating depiction of Berlin's present underworld
and takes its name from the square
which separates the fashionable living
quarters from those held in disrepute.
The central problem which is glimpsed
through the maze of modernistic symbolism is that of a criminal finding himself an unwelcome member of society
upon his departure from prison. Social
and psychological issues crowd each
chapter. The book really deserves a
reading because of its unusual style, its
revelation of present day Berlin, and its
unusual qualities of snap-shot like
psychological revelations.
"The Romanatic East," a recent travel
book, by Greenbie, is, at one time, an
account of a country that writhes with
the fierceness of its national maladjustment; at another time, it is the account of
folk lore and folk customs that have r e sisted the attack of time and progress
and which call our attention to them by
their beautiful and charming antiquity.
Always, however, from t h e time he discusses "India, The Self-Mystified," to
"Japan, The Tragic Gift of the Gods,"
through "Indo-China, t h e Land Between" and "China, or the Mystery of
Numbers," the four divisions of the book,
this author speaks of these countries as
one who appreciates t h e m and loves
them.

Ninth Grade to
Write Original Ballads
As English Project
Beginning with this week, Martha
Zeigler, student teacher of English, plans
to direct the ninth grade in a study of
various types of ballads. The pupils plan
to write original ballads to show their
appreciation for the models they study.