College Student Body To Enjoy Ballad Concert Passing between classes students have in all probability noticed the table outside of the Social Room—the Red Cross Contribution Center of the school. The records show that about 200 students have taken out $1.00 memberships or more. With the contributions of both students and faculty the fund is now approximately §3S0. There are still many students who have not contributed to this worthy cau se. IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID YOUR MEMBE RSHIP, DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . Dr. Henry Klonower Stresses Need for TeacherS'in*Service The great need for in-service teacher education during the next ten years has been stressed by Dr. Henry Klonower, Director of Teacher Education and Certification of the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania . Dr. Klonower has released data which indicates the number of teachers holding college certificates employed in districts under county superintendents in 1943-44. The figures indicate that there are counties in which only 25% of such teachers hold college certificates and at the top of the range the highest county has 60% which hold college certificates. The percentage for this county is 58.6%. In another chart which indicates the per cent of elementary school teachers holding college certificates of all elementary teachers employed , the general range is much lower with one county having as low as 4.9% holding college certificates and the highest county having a percentage of 46.2%. The percentage for this county is 39.8%. Dr. Klonower points out that the State has reached "the half-way goal" in its teacher education program and that it has taken approximately twenty-five years to achieve a 50% college level of proportion for teachers now in public schools , Social Service Club Active Organization The Social Service Club, directed by Miss Rich and composed of girls who wish to give free nnd needed service to the welfare of others, is a busy organization, Members recently conducted n clothlni'.jj i'lvo and will begin a similiar ono in tho near future for clotjh- Cecile Hamilton Contributes to Aviation Fund Recent Commencement Speaker Furthers Experimental Courses The 'Aviation Fund* at Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been the recipient of its first contribution. In a gracious gesture to the experimental aviation programs which have been pioneered at the local college Miss Cecile Hamilton , assistant aviation editor of the New York Herald Tribune, recent commencement speaker, has returned her uncashed honorarium check with the request that it be used in some connection with aviation at the college. Miss Hamilton, in returning the money, requested President Harvey A . Andruss to determine "how it can best be used in promoting aviation at the Bloomsburg State Teachers' College." Miss Hamilton was an interested observer last July of the experimental aviation laboratory school conducted by the college when, for the firs t t ime, boys and girls above the age of fourteen had an opportunity to participate in an organized program of fligh t and ground instruction. Another feature of the laboratory was the jo int participation of high school teachers from four eastern states, The high school boys and girls in the course came from nine eastern seaboard states. A similar aviation program for high school students above fourteen and high school teachers of aeronautice will be conducted this summer, Science Club Program Features Excursions At the last meeting of the Science Club in the November trimester , officers were elected for the present trimester. These are : Jean Dickinson , President; Richard Grimm A/S, Vicepresident; Althea ParsoN, Secretary; Mny Kllnger , Treasurer; and Violet Wcllor/ Program Chairman , The first meeting of the trimester wns held March 15, One of tho highlights of this trimester is the all day field trip taken by the club every year to some point of interest such as Kitchen Creok Falls. Many other visits to various business establishments such as the newspnpor ofllce or florists are being planned. ing to send to refugee families. Many of tho girls hnvo boon knitting booties and Inpol pins. Club members sre planning to have a party in which thi^y will dye Easter Eggs for baskets to be distributed at tho Bloomsburg Hospital. Earl Spicer Will Present Program on Wednesday, March 21 Bloomsburg Player s Carry on Work Earl Spicer, America's foremost ballad singer will appear on the Carver Hall stage Wednesday, March 21. Miss Johnston, sponsor and- directress of the Bloomsburg Players has a leave of absence to teach and study at Hunter College. In her absence Miss Van Scoyoc third grade teacher at the Benjamin Franklin Training School is acting as sponsor. Because of the graduation and other elements influencing the Navy men , the club membership has depleted considerably. The club wants new members. The meetings are held weekly at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday evenings . The meetings are made interesting and constructive . Various club members direct and present a one act play. On March 20, the club will present n one act play, All who are interested are invited to attend this meeting, nnd those to como as members, Mr. Spicer 's program promises to be an unusually different and entertaining one because of his creation of a new type of vocal entertainment. With versatility this widely known baritone has. abandoned the stereotyped recital and solved the problem of song communication by dramatizing the songs. He rose from a country boy who sang as he did his farm chores to a distinguished New York baritone who has sung before Royalties of Europe, the President of the United States, and with many of the leading symphony orchestras . After his return to the United States from Europe where he was studying and touring, he achieved immediate success, singing opera, oratorio, lledor. I-Ie is exceptionally gifted in singing the old traditional bnllads and has been called "A master of the ballad." Mr. Spicer has a priceless sense o£ humor, His characterization of tho old lady who lost her teeth or the shy country lover promise amusement to the audience. Bloomsburg Gr aduates Thirte en Students Those students have completed their work nt tlie Bloomsburg Stnto Teachers College; Mildred Dzuris , Nnntlcokei Elsie Gladys Flail, Scliuylkill; Enso Robert Frosinl , West Wy(Continued on nugo 8) £. ; j "• iflaroon anb <&olb Published at the Bloomsborg State Teachers College Familiar ? TIIE MIDNIGHT MINUET §LU<*© Fissocided CbUeeSide Press mGij sjjl Editors Athamantia Comuntzis, Jacqueline Shaffer Editorial Board Jean Richard , Phyllis Schroder Sports Editor John Zagoudis Service Editor Bernard W. Kane Exchange Editor Mary Schroeder Business Manager Helen M. Wright Circulation Manager Eileen Falvey Assistant Evelyn Doney Reporters — Peggy Anthony, Rosanna Broadt , lean Dickinson , Barbara Greenly, John Hmelnicky, Audrey Lawton, ! Baron Pittinger , Marjorie Downing and Marj orie Stover. ' Typists Anna Pappas, Harriet Rhodes, Mary DeVitis Faculty Advisors Miss Pearl Mason, Mr. Samuel L. Wilson How Does Your EDUCATION . . a Mighty Force War Contribution What Makes a Nation Great? Measure Up? Not its land, not its mines, not its "Our boys over in France and in the Pacific are doing a wonderf ul job —yup, wonderful!" said the man riding home in the bus . "Anything we folks back home got to sacrifice for the war ain't nothin ' compared with wha t our boys are goin' through .'" Right, Mister, absolutely right! But there are some people—not a lot of them, but enough to make darn nuisances out of themselves—who figure we can have our cake and eat it too. They 're the folks who complain about rationing. They don't like this— and they don't like that. And they tell you that , of course, they know there's a war on , but . . . " But what , chum? They don't have "buts" in France or on the Pacific. America's fighting men know there's a war on—and they like it a heck of a lot less than you do—as much as you dislike it—because they 're the guys who are doing the bleeding and the dying. But what , chum? It's hard to get steak ? The kid who used to deliver your paper stretched one can of cold h ardly-tasty rations over six and fy half days when he was isolated in a foxhole in Belgium during some particularly heavy fighting. So when you think things are tough —or dreary—or—well you know what we mean , jus t ask yourself "How does my war contribution measure up t o his ? " B. S. T. C. Appr oved For Veteran Training The Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been listed four times in a recent "Directory of Pennsylvania Education and Training Institutions Approved for Veterans Training" recently published by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction, The Bloomsburg State Teachers College is listed under the following Catagarics in the publication: Colleges and Unive rsities Accredited by the State Council of Education; Business Administration ; Atypical Education ; Flight Schools in Pennsylvania Approved for Veterans Training for (both Primary and Advanced Work, rivers, not its forests, not its money —important as these things are. Only people make a nation truly great. Natural resources are of vital concern to a nation but they must be developed and used by people. Our country is richly blessed with gif ts of nature. Science and technology — strictly mand-made—are producing synthetic substitutes for many natural resources that we do not have . The future is bright with hope because educated men and women can perform these wonders . In like manner, people determine the great social trends that carry a nation forward to the more perfect achievements of j ustice and liberty or backward to barbarism and brutality. The story of every family, every organi zation , every group, every comm u ni t y, every nation , is the story of ?eoDle. All victories in war and peace are won by people. They min e the ore. They make the steel . Th ey fashion" the weapons . They fight the battles. They make or break the peace. We can build a greater and nobler America only as we develop human resources. People imiko a nation jj reat. —N.E.A, Around the Dorm This semester four new girls moved into the dormitory, Two of these are Freshmen , Mary Mosor from Ringtown, and Marj orio Brace from Hunlocks Creek , Hazel Gaumer and Virginia King former day girls, also bocame fellow dorm inhabitants . Those girls help to fill the vacancies left by the several seniors who graduated last trimester, A sure sign of spring! The Navy has begun to muster outside again. Trto girls have no need for the quarter of seven rising boll since the Navy is more dependable than an alarm clock, Peggy Lou Anthony done went and did It! She is now Peggy Lou Jones and her husband is—David Jones of the Marino Corps,, It was a big surprise to everyone when Peggy came back from vacation a Mrs, but here's to much success and happiness for tho Joneses. The bewitching hour was at hand; but the rustle of housecoats could be heard as their owners swished to and fro, tending to those millions of last minu te details that simply must be taken care of before one can retire with a satisfied conscience. Then came a period of silence, broken only by the infrequent , muffled , feminine giggles. The time passed and soon were heard the familiar steps of the night watchman making his usual rounds. Yos, by this time all good little girls on third floor should have been deep in the arms of Morpheus. But hush ! From somewhere down the hall drif ted the sounds of footsteps—ever so faintly, but yet definitely footsteps. Someone- several "someones" in fact was trying to make as little noise as possible; but regardless, a steady taptap-tapping could be heard. Soon a faint melody that seemed to blend with the now more audible tap-taptapping. Slowly—and ever so silently, as if some ghostly hand penetrated by fear were turning the knobs,—several doors opened. The disturbed and bewildered sleepers tiptoed inch by inch through the wide corridor. There was nothing in sight, and yet the melody and the tapping were 'becoming more distinct with each advanced inch. It was noddingly agreed that the source of "It" lay around the corner. Ah , now, almost there but who was to be the firs t to look around the corner? Each faint-hearted Sherlock shook her head horizontally. Finally, by common consent, all took that last inch together. "It " was only a student teacher and her pals vainly trying to recapt ure the long forgotten steps of the Minuet; for the student teacher was to present the same to her classes the following day! Story of Pctnzarine And Silverstein « Once upon a time there was a bashful boy with a friend who was a bashful boy too. Now these two bashful boys had saved their pennies and and bought a beautiful white sticker with a red cross on it. After these two bashful boys had looked and looked at their beautiful white sticker with a red cross on it they decided it was j ust too lovely for their humble abode . So, they put their bashful heads together and decided to donate their beautiful white sticker with the red cross on it to the public so the public could enjoy its beauty. They ran their tongues over the sticky side of their sticker and then pressed it to the window j ust outside of the Dean of Women 's Office . As they stood and looked and looked at their white sticker with a rod cross on it they decided that something was lacking. There was nothing on it to explain who gave it to tho public. So tho one bashful boy, said to the other bashful boy : "Lot's put our names on our .sticker so that the public will know who gave this beautiful sticker. But' tho other bashful boy, who was j ust a woe bit "bashfuller " said, "No, lot's put 'pretend' names on our.stickor!" Apd. that's just what they did! That is why tho Rod Cross sticker (Continued on page 3) ^r "^^ \ ^^^ u ^^ being a former sports editor on it , tinguished Flying Cross, an award for makes me more interested in its con"extraordinary achievement in aerial tinued improvement . fligh t," has been awarded to First I have been up to my neck in pubLieutenant Buddy M. Hartman , 20, licity work in my capacity as Bu. son of Mr . and Mrs. A. J, Hartman , Public relations Chief which is, of R.D. No . 3, Benton , Pa . cou rse, activity, in addition to my A 15th AAF P-51 Mustang pilot , .other duties. Since we have been atLt . Hartman has been cited for his tached to the famed 5th Div. and the successful strafing of the Seregelyes 3rd Army for some time they have Airdrome in Hungary on October 21, made plenty of news. At present am plugging a contest 1944. Attacking the airdrome in the face of intense light flak and small to select the "Sweetheart of the arms f ire, Lt . Har t man 's plane was 4§9th" from afrfong pictures of men hit in both wings and a fuel tank in the unit. Ou r Dv. Public Relations was hit while he was making his first Officer and Aaron Borand , former Life staff artist and now a war cortwo passes over the field. In spite of the damage to his plane, respondent , are ( the judges. Also he continued his attacks and made author a weekly news column which reaches our isolated men on their • four more passes and destroyed two guns. German planes, damaged four others, and also destroyed a locomotive on a We are on the move again and God willing we hope this is the swan song. siding near the airdrome. Sure miss the old campus and I The citation accompanying his a- might add a bouquet for the pictorial ward concludes, "Lt. Har tma n 's out- issue of the college bulletin . standing courage, professional skill and devotion to duty in the face of S 1/C Joe Kaz/ook, Seabee's—Marthe most determined enemy fire and iannas Recently received letter from Joe with a badly damaged plane, r eflec t great credit upon himself and the says he's acting Librarian. He says Armed Forces of the United States of the most frequent inquiry is, "Is it spicy?" America." Joe's battalion celebrated it's first A veteran of 43 successful missions anniversary overseas by dedicating its over enemy territory, Lt . Hartman camp to a fallen comrade, having 8 has flown over 224 hours of combat flying. In addition to the DFC, he is Japs surrender to the guards, receivauthorized to wear the Air; Medal ing praise from the Navy and an Army B-29 crew they sponsor, attendwith 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. ' ing a show in their new outdoor theA graduate of the Benton High atre. School, he was enrolled as a student Lieut. Bernio Pufnak at Bloomsburg State Teachers ColBernie's Cargo Security Officer. He lege when he entered the AAF, in April 1943. He was awarded his pilot's accompanies cargo ships overseas and wings at Napier Field, Dothan , Ala. returns. He Is now in the Pacific. on January 7, 1944. In a January edition , we carried a news report on the heroism of Lt. Buddy M. Ha r t m an , a mustang pilot and former student of B.S.T.C. He re's more details on Hartman-s activity ; they were sent to us by the 15th Army Air Force in Italy. AMONG THE BEST Pvt. Mor r is M. Cabolly Just a few lines to say hello to the old gnng back at B.S.T.C, and to let you know that my address has changed since I last visited B.S.T.C. I am now overseas and somewhere in Franco. My unit is part of the Seventh Army. While over here, I have seen in the "STARS AND STRIPES" some awards .given men that I know while attending college. There is not much more to say except that we arc enjoy ing some good weather after a rather cold January. We had almost two feet of snow then , but now you cannot toll If there- was an inch of snow here. R i t t e r 's School and Office Supp lies "When you gonna make some War Bonds. Poo ?" TEXAS LUNCH Bart Pursel D. J. Comuntzis MEN and BOYS J. L. DILLON Dillon 's Flowers CLOTHIER Phone — 127J DRY CLEANER , SNYDER'S DAIRY Fred DANVILLE Hi pp ensteei 1 CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS John E. Schlaugh Jack has been promoted to First Lieutenant in the United States Army. He is stationed in India. Cpl. Gilbert Jflenrie Cpl . Henrie has been commended by Major General Robert W. Douglas, Jr. commanding the Seventh AAF for his part in the campaigns which have taken a large section of the Pacifi c from the enemy's hands. T-Sgt. Jack Andreas Sgt . Andreas has returned home to spend a furlough with his parents afier spending forty months in the Panama Canal Zone. Lt. Woodrow Aten ? By direction of the President, Lt. Aten has been awarded the Meritorious Service Plaque for the period January 1, 1944 to November 30, 1944. Pvt. Herman Vonderherd Herman is stationed at Gulfport, Miss, working on B-17's. Conrad Schaeffer E. M. 3/O Conrad is now on the seaplane tender. U . S. S. Norton Sound. Cpl. Loren Collins "Chips" transferred to the Air Corps and is doing photography work in the Aleutians . Lt. H , E. Miller—U.S.M.C.R. "Taxi" is somewhere in the Pacific. No hope girls, he's engaged to a girl from Philadelphia or thereabouts. BLOOMSBURG HAZLETON WHERE COLUMBIA COUNTY SHOPS and SAVES PENNEY 'S Bloomsburg, Pa