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The Spectator
pri Frost Lectures
Eager Audience
To
THE VOICE OF STUDENT OPINION
*
VOL.
yil—No. 6
EDINBORO STATE
W. NOCE TO SPEAK
y. W. C. A. MEETING
Rev. William Noce, pastor of the
St Mark’s Episcopal church of Erie,
ill be guest speaker at a meeting of
Jhe college Y. W. C. A. held in the
Y W C. A. rooms on Thursday evening, April 11th.
i
Erie County Schools’
Head, Willis E. Pratt
Speaks to Fraternity
Phi Sigma Pi Hears
Educational Leader At
Professional Meeting
DINES WITH MEMBERS
Erie County Superintendent of
Schools Willis E. Pratt, speaking to
1-hi Sigma Pi fraternity of Edinboro
State Teachers College in Reeder
Hall club rooms Monday evening,
stated in a talk on the subject of
“What are the Fundamental Issues
Facing Secondary Education Today”
that “The curriculum of the secon
dary school is beset with growing
pains.”
Superintendent Pratt, after beingintroduced by Committee Chairman
Lee Jeffords, said that secondary ed
ucation is today facing the greatest
changes that have taken place in ed
ucation in the past hundred years.
“Prime among the issues facing
secondary education today is what
subjects should be offered in a high
school that is including all the child
ren of all the people,” said Mr. Pratt,
who in discussing the problem of fore‘&n languages and their inclusion in
the curriculum, cautioned: “We hold
no particular brief for the foreign
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Co-Recreational Swim
« Attended By Many
Jime Changed From
Evening to Afternoon
L&st Saturday’s co-recreational
ni, which was changed from SatU^ay evening to the afternoon in
J er not to conflict with the FreshClass Party, was well attended.
r tudents in the pool were: War®n Anna, Nevin Weller, Dorothy
^ar^O's, Mary Dalbey, Florence
p0rj2er, Mary Claire Wild, Richard
WMi We^’ Ellen Haiston, Alice SeI?1’ Stephen Crunick, Katherine
j, ss> Max Leslie, Charles Egan, June
Hah861*’ Eugene Manley, Robert
n and Doris Heintz.
rank Pettinato served as lifeSiiarf)
’ and swimming coach.
TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDINBORO, PA.
Junior Ciass Holds
Prom in New School
APR.L 10, 1940
?r-R°bert Frost, Poet FDlNDnpn IIINIHP PRAM Will
SpeaksWAEtnEd“borofe’ BE IN NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
BE IN NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
Keynotes Lecture With
Apt Phrase ‘Poetry
Is Entertaining’
ATTENDS RECEPTION
Junior Class Chairman Announces Use
Of New Building For Outstanding Event
Ellen Graves, General
Dr. Carmon Ross
Chairman, Is Assisted
By Several Committees
Hands Trustees His
Resignation
ELECT KING AND QUEEN
With an eager audience estimated
as upwards of seven hundred per
sons crowding Normal Hall Auditori
um at Edinboro State Teachers Col
The traditional Junior Prom of
lege. Robert Frost, that outstanding
Served Past Six Years
Edinboro State Teachers College,
As Edinboro President
poet of New England life and creaI tor of universal thought in modern
which annually is the outstanding
SUCCESSOR NOT CHOSEN
poems, lectured, read from his favor
event of the college social season,
ites, and struck the keynote of his
will
be held this year in the new
Dr. Carmon Ross, president of Ed
talk with the phrase, “Poetry is enTraining
School gymnasium, on Sat
inboro for the past six years, has an
tertaining.”
urday
evening,
April 20, according
Gray-haired, and self-styled as nounced his resignation from the
to an announcement by Miss Ellen
presidency,
effective
August
15th,
“smug”, the sixty-five-year-old poet,
Graves, general chairman in chargeteacher, and farmer was introduced after a conference on last Saturday
of-arrangements.
with
Dr.
Francis
C.
Haas,
State
Sup
by Royce R. Mallory, instructor of
This is the first time that the train
English at the college, former pupil erintendent of Public Instruction, ing school has been used for any
and
the
Board
of
Trustees.
and friend of Frost.
Dr. Ross stated that he resigned college social function. Dancing will
With the humor rolling off his
for
the “good and welfare of Edin be in the gymnasium-auditorium part
chin, Dr. Frost began his lecture
boro
State Teachers College.”
Dr. with the orchestra seated on the
with a word to the school teacher,
Ross
came
to
Edinboro
from
Doyles
beautiful new stage behind the color
who — Frost believes—is apt to
town,
Pa.,
where
he
had
been
super
ed footlights and played upon with
“over-teach” poetry. In explaining
overhead flood lights.
intendent
of
schools
for
twenty-nine
wr.at should be done with a poem, the
As is tradition at Edinboro, the
years. No successor has been named.
poet said: “Read it, remember it,
King and Queen of the Prom, who
and tell what it has done to you. It
have been elected from senior class
should not be parsed and analyzed.”
nominees at a general election of the
Speaking of memorization of po
entire student body, will be announc
etry. Frost said that regardless of
ed on the evening of the event. Two
“forty years of prejudice against
(Continued on Page Two)
C. F. Adamson, Head
memorizing any thing,” you must
I
;" :t.<3
Of Crawford Co.- Speaks
memorize poetry.
Among the selections that he read
were:
“About
a
Woodchuck,” EDINBORO GRADS ATTEND
“Birches”, and “The Road Not Tak
en”. After reading “departmental”
With Mr. F. C. Adamson, assis
poem, the nature poet was encored tant superintendent of schools in
back to the platform.
Crawford county, as principal speak
Spend Last Week-end
After the lecture, Dr. Frost talked er the Northwestern Pennsylvania
In New York City
informally with students, faculty and Rural Schoolmasters’
Association
held inhis hon-1
April meeting in Haven Hall
guests at a reception
i
RETURN ON MONDAY
or in the parlors ofHaven Hall. Over jjnjng room at Edinboro State
glass of milk and a dish of ice rpeac}1iers College on Saturday eve
A delegation of Edinboro students
cream, he asked for questions and ning, April 6th.
answered them with the same subtle
Officers of the organization are: attended the fifteenth Annual Spring
humor as on the platform.
Harold Cole, president; Fred Wells, Conference of the Eastern States As
Frost said that some persons have vice president, and John Keller, sec sociation of Professional Schools for
to be read orally in order to explain retary-treasurer.
Another meeting Teachers at Hotel Pennsylvania in
New York city on Thursday, Friday
them; others do not. When ques is planned for mid-May.
tioned as to whether only a poet could
Members who attended the dinner and Saturday of last week.
The students arrived home very
poet answered: “No, any one should were: Donald Ellsmore, Hickernell;
early Monday morning after an
Raymond
Prusia,
Sprang
township;
(Continued on Page Two)
They attended^ the
Ronald Raymond, Crossingville; Wil eventful trip.
liam Holcombe, Centerville; Walter first session of the conference at 7 *-30
MISS BEATRICE CASE,
Tozier, Elk Creek; Harold Smith, p. m. Thursday evening.
former student, visits
Accompanying Miss Justina Baron,
Waterford; John Clark, Waterford;
Harold Mallory, Lundy’s Lane; Fred faculty adviser, were undergraduates
Miss Beatrice Case, daughter of
Wells, Springboro; John Keller, East Hazel Dennison, Linesville; Elaine
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Case, has been a
Springfield; DeForest Bartoo, Edin Ghering, Edinboro; William Schaaf,
visitor in town for the past several
boro; Milton McLallen, Sugar Grove; Erie, and William Pieffer, Edinboro.
days taking her spring vacation from
Robert M. Steele, president of Cali
Harold Cole, Cussewago High school;
Ithaca, New York, where she is a
fornia
State Teachers College, Cali
F. C. Adamson, Crawford county;
junior in the college. Miss Case at Walter Jack, Erie; Dr. C. J. Christen fornia, Pa., is vice president of the
tended Edinboro State Teachers Colsen and Dr. Carmofi Ross, Edinboro. association.
lege for two years.
Rural Schoolmasters
Dine In Haven Hall
Student Delegation
Attends Teachers’
Meeting In New York
the spectator
Page Two
The Spectator
The voice of student opinion at Edinboro State
Teachers College.
School Year by the students of
Published on Wednesday throughout the
Edinboro State Teachers College at Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
STAFF
Fifth Annual Rural
School Music Festival
Will Be Next Saturday
Six Hundred Rural
Children Expected
To Attend Day’s Meet
.......................Walter I. Nissen
Editor-in-Chief ....
Mary Dailey, Edward Damits
Associate Editors
............................ Frank Ord on
Business Manager
T. H. CRANDALL LEADS
. W. Verne Zahniser
Faculty Adviser ...
Reporters ...........................................................................
.
For the fifth time since 1936, hun
Virginia Andrews, Warren Anna, Florian Florek, Raymond Galla*
,
Wilma Ihsen, Dorothy Williams, Earl Madigan, Harold Powers, Helen dreds of children from the one- and
two-room rural schools of Erie and
Turner.
Crawford counties will assemble in
Subscription rate to the Alumni and general public is one dollar per year. the college auditorium at Edinboro
April 13 for a festival of music. This
will include in the morning, a mass
EVENTS CAUSE CHANGE IN MAN’S INSTITUTIONS;
rehearsal of singing under the direcCITIZENS DEMAND SINGLENESS OF PURPOSES
, tion of Harold Crandall, of Millcreek,
and in the lives of the " in the afternoon a demonstration of
It sometimes happens that, in the lives of men
‘the interesting things each individual
institutions that they create, events take place that cause the rise of dis ’ school is doing in music, and in the
sension, the straining of friendly relationships, and the differing of poli i evening a concert by the entire
cies among these men as they govern, with the delegated power of the group.
Interspersed with the musical ac
state, the institutions of the people.
Then comes change. Decisions are made that must be followed, poli tivities of the day are many enter
cies must be brought in line, dissenting groups must be reconciled, diverse tainment features planned by the
college, including a children’s play, a
elements must be-brought together; in short, the men and the institutions
swimming
exhibition.
organized
must be unified. This is true of all of man’s institutions, just as it is true
games, and supper in the college din
of Edinboro State Teachers College.
ing room.
With the final completion of all these acts, it is the business of the
The festival, the only one of its
persons at Edinboro to work in unity. Those diverse elements which tend kind in the state, was first organized
to pull away from the goal must unite in genuine loyalty with the aims and in 1936 by the music department at
objectives of educators who have the trust of democracy placed in their Edinboro State Teachers College in
hands. It is a duty to youth that all the persons on this campus must work an attempt to interest the rural
together for the furtherance of Edinboro State Teachers College.
school children, teachers and parents
Edinboro State Teachers College is a public institution. As a public in a vital program of music for their
institution, it has an obligation toward the citizens of this state who sup schools. Since that year, when sev
port it to fulfill and thereby justify the expenditure of the great amounts en schools, representing about one
of money that are spent each year on this campus. Everyone who benefits I hundred children, enrolled, the festifrom these funds—students, faculty, employees, and administrators—are I vaj }qas grown steadily until this year
not only expected to do a good job, but are also required to do that job there are fifty schools and over six
to the best of their ability. Edinboro has a reputtation of service to main hundred children.
An interesting
tain and a character of traditional ideals to enrich. These two things de outgrowth of this stimulation of mus
mand a conscientiousness of heart aimed at but a single goal.
ical activities is the employment in
these districts of specal music super
visors, so that twenty-two of the
EDINBORO LIBRARY PROVIDES BOOKS
schools entered this year have music
FOR GREATEST GOOD OF GREATEST NUMBER
supervisors who visit them regularly,
lhe afternoon and evening con
The library of Edinboro State Teachers College has approximately nine
certs are open to the public, and no
teen thousand volumes, exclusive of bound periodical and government docu
admission will be charged. The proments, on its shelves. At the present time, it subscribes to one hundred and
I gram by the individual schools will
fifty-two periodicals which represent the best of the general and profession
beg n at 1:30, and by the massed
al magazines. The Edinboro library is one of the few in the state which
group at 7:45.
employs open shelves for all books and thus allows students easy access to
all the material.
JUNIOR PROM WILL BE
At least once during the past year it has been necessary to invoke the HELD IN NEW SCHOOL
penalties of the library for the misuse of the open shelf system, a system
that requires each student to be aware of his responsibility of using the
(Continued From Page One)
library for the good of the greater number. In this instance, books had
not been properly registered when they were taken from the library. For seniors will then carry out the tra
ditional procession and ceremony of
the information of all, the following is called to your attention as taken
I the King and Queen.
from “The Handbook”:
“No books are to be removed from the library except by proper J ing intermissb^ P10Ce^.10n’
and duron, a receiving line will
charg.ng at the desk by the librarian in charge. Anyone found to have i bi
■e formed with the following chaper
taken books from the library improperly or to have improperly charged
books in his or her possession will be subject to a fine of $5.00 per book ones receivng the guests of the promMr. and Mrs. Orville Bailey, Mr and
and suspension from all college activities until such fine is paid
Cl p
Mrs Waldo F. Bates, Mr?’and Mrs
ping from any book is always prohibited. Clipping from pamphlets'
C. J. Christensen, Dr. Carmon Ross,
magazines or newspapers without permission by the librarian will be
president of the college, and Miss
subject to a similar fine.”
Evelyn Bergstrom, Dean of Women
Jhe re*ulatlon® set UP to insure the use of the Edinboro library for
Benny Jones and His Orchestra, a
the greatest good of the greatest number are self-explanatory and need no
self-explanatory and need
twelve-piece band with music styled
further emphasrs. It is the belief of the college librarian
- --------- .1 that Edinboro after Glenn Miller, will plav from
students do use the library for its intended purposes, but the
preceding is nine to twelve p. m. The orchestra,
seldom called to the attention of the students and is reproduced here for playing at Yankee Lake Pavilion, is
a favorite of many colleges in this
their information.
part of Pennsylvania, having played
ERIE COUNTY SCHOOLS^
HEAD, WILLIS E PRATT
SPEAKS TO FRATERNITY
(Continued from Page One)
languages, but we do question wheth
er their elimination has been the /
suit of careful study and evaluatin'
of the curriculum.”
n
In the latter half of his jaddrej;
”
Mr. Pratt pointed out that Erie
-3 c:
conn'.
ty is attempting to discover what
—J Wg
as teachers should do in public edu.
cation. A recent survey carried
by the county office shows that the
“philosophy of the’ teachers of Erie
county is a middle of the road phil>
sophy’.’ “I believe that it is a sound
philosophy,” added the superintendent, as he said that Erie county
teachers believe that the school fc
made for the child and not the child
for the school.
In a survey made by questioning
over five thousand parents, Mr. Pratt
discovered most interestingly “that
97% of the parents thought that
school children should visit the farm;
the factories and the stores.”
In concluding his address to the
members of the fraternity, the Erie
county superintendent said that sec
ondary education presented a real
challenge to the young beginning
teacher though, in my est’.matiox
secondary education has fagged far
behind elementary education.”
Dr. Carmon Ross, president of the
college, spoke briefly in concluding
the meeting. Polnt.ng out that there
are 600,000 high school pupils in
Pennsylvania—an increase of 500%
in the last ten years—Dr. Ross stat
ed ‘The American high school is the
most typ cal thing that this country
has developed.”
Attending this professional meet
ing, which is one of several sponsored
each year by this Edinboro educa
tional group, were Waldo F. Bate;
jr., H. W. McNees, faculty advisers;
James D. Brown, Lee Jeffords, W-t*
liam Pieffer, Eugene Billings, Oliver
Wester, Stephen Lipchik, Walter Ni*
en, Joseph Norder, Carmen Seltz-t
Earl Madigan, Norman Dilley, Wal
lace Skelton, Charles Lewis, GOtis
White, jr., Daniel Wolchik, Arnold
Dunfee, Roy Christensen, James Cavarnaugh, John Sunda, Warren Anna.
Richard Benson, Harold Sehrecken*
gost, William Norris, Robert Uh’i^’
James Wood, Peter Gall, Harold M
Grant Abrams, Ray Graves.
Previous to the professional
ing, Superintendent Pratt was gu^
g°e^1
.... ....... .. Ross and the
of Dr. Carmon
Of Ups.’lon Chapter of Phi Sig^3 P’
at a dinner in Haven Hall dinin?
room.
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fue
fit
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to th
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for (outstanding
........... events at SlpP?^ J
Rock, Westminster and Grove GVThe dance is open to college
dents and friends.
, .
Arranging the dance with 0^
man Ellen Graves, are Helen Tuin^
Frances Bates, Ester Stein, A^1'
Huber, Ethel Thomson, P^ra^.‘
Lollie Maxwell, Lawrence
Richard Benson, Vega Ihsen, dec01\
tions; Walter Gesin, music;Po***
ft
Manning, publicity.
the spectator
\ e Club Hhonors
I
Varsity Did You Know
With Our Athletes
^1.
' ‘
Sport Letter
Winners • • • that spring sports
5 are here, Away From Town
Gome on gals, ’tis time 1
to shake off
en
Hall
Dinner
•i At Hav
hat stored winter weight. AU
Page Three
Summer Session Is
Announced To Be From
June 17 To July 27
are
John Wolfe, popular’ Red Raider
out door sports and under the
capable leadership of these girls:
athlete, is at present in Macon, Ga.,
Additional Teachers
ArMa61-7’ TItary Andersoni mushball, where he is trying out as a rookie
Will Aid Regulars
laue Johnson; volleyball, Mary Es baseball player with the Elmira, N.
ther Dailey; tennis, Frances Skelton; Y., baseball team. Wolfe, who grad
USE TRAINING SCHOOL
CARMON ROSS SPEAKS hikmg Esther Neil, and bicycling uated in February, has been in the
PRsouthern training camp of the ball
Anna Tuttle.
The summer session number of the
m
The annual athletic banquet of Ed- ■ • . that at our
club since last Saturday.
t
Edinboro
State Teachers College Re
recent
WAA
meet■'•Il®
Postcarding the boys at Reeder cord was off the press last week with
of Jl jnboro
inboro State Teachers College was ing, Miss Macie Johnson was elected
'
■
i
Wednesday
evening
in
the
dinid|J held
to represent Edinboro at the Athlet Hall, John says: “Hi Boys—Put on the announcement that the regular
i
room of Haven Hall at 6:15, with ic Federation of College Women con another’ plate—they’re going to start
session would be from June 17 to .
’Ji
§ ^vards being presented to the ath- ference at Columbus, Ohio, on April curving them tomorrow. Best—‘The
July 27 and that the post session of
I letes who competed in basketball and
17, 18, 19, 20, 1940. Macie is a very Wolfe’ ”. The Warren athlete was three weeks would be from July 29
' '
11 i recent varsity capable leader and has proved her a letter winner in both basketball to August 17.
I football during
the
and football.
I seasons.
Summer instructors in addition to
worth in the WAA. We all feel sure
Another Edinboro athlete, Frank the regular faculty members will be
With the senior letter winners be she will be a credit to us at this con
Soscia, star court man for the Red Hermine Bauschard, of Erie Acad
ll
especially honored, the E Club,
itioJ§ organization of Edinboro lettermen. ference and bring back to us many Raiders, will try out with a baseball
emy High school, geography; O. L.
worthwhile ideas.
club when he leaves on May 23rd to
r 13 was
to President Carmon Ross
was host
1
. . . that Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, play with the Ogden, Utah, club in Grender, director of choral music,
Academy and Strong Vincent High
1 and Coaches B. R. Harrison and Or Pa., issued us an invitation to par
schools, Erie, music; Dr. James G.
ville R. Bailey, and faculty members ticipate in its annual play day at the Pioneer League.
faiJ
Edinboro athletes have a habit of Sigman, director of visual education,
H. W. McNees and Aime Doucette.
Pittsburgh on April 13, 1940.
Six
Norman E. Dilley, of Franklin, girls have been chosen to attend, two winning honors away from school. On Philadelphia Public schools, visual
I the winning Moose Club basketball education, history; Dr. Edward Worto 11 Pa., toastmaster and president of the
seniors, Macie Johnson and Ella Ev-1
e El E Club, presented the certificates of ans, and four juniors, Virginia Pet- Ij team which took the finals in the re- I thington, principal, Cheltenham
membership in the E Club to all let ers, Esther Neil, Helen Turner and |I cent Dispatch-Herald tournament in Township Junior High school, educa
[ Erie, former Red Raiders Bob Steph- tion.
ter winners of the past year.
Myrtle Morley.
The Record announces that the
inni| The coaches of the sports present
PHI
DEL
'enson and Harold Arkwright held
. . . that there will be a
iad
new campus training school will be
ed medals, sweaters and letter awards TA Freshman swimming meet in the 'down first-string berths. On the op
used for the first time during the
'd d to the athletes. Gold footballs were
very near future.
The “freshies” posing team in the finals, the Lone summer session.
I awarded to Anthony Cutri, Erie; Lee are developing quite rapidly and this Stars, Frank Soscia played against
)fi | Jeffords, Edinboro; Dick DeRemer, meet will prove to be very thrilling. his former teammates. Ralph Cala
udi I Utica; Daniel Kusner, Springboro; . . . that Elaine Ghering, president
brese also played with the Lone Stars
■thj ' Robert Lytle, John Wolfe, Warren,
of the WAA, sprained her big toe on
Not to be outdone by his team
I1M and James Wood, Harborcreek. Nick a piece of ice in her back yard. ’Tis
mates,
Nick Volitich, star Raider for
50: VoLtich, Aliquippa, and John Wolfe funmy business that such a prominent
ward
on
the hardwood, went to Steu
I?
T
Cl Qi 1. 1
si QYirl
and Robert Lytle received gold bas- 1 athlete should wait until an eventful
Eighteen Persons Cast
is B ketballs.
! day arrives to sprain her toe. . . benville, Ohio, ' last week-end as a
In Rare Comedy
member
of
the
Aliquippa
All-Star
DC
Football sweaters were awarded to Looks
£,00ks like ’we should all turn detecteam
and
brought
home
the
Fred
A.
Roy Christensen, Arnold Dunfee, and fives and solve the mystery.
LUDGATE DIRECTS
nJ Donald Grariahan, Erie;; Dick De- |
Hanlin Award for runnerup team
-------------------players in the Fifth National Tourna
5# rKerner, Utica; Norman Dilley, Frank- WEEKLY SWIM ATTENDED
With Stephen Lipchik playing the
ment sponsored by the Serbian-Amer
K: Hn; Lee Jeffords and Wallace Skel- B COLLEGE TEACHERS
leading role—that of Henry Aldrich,
ican National Federation.
3?.
ton, manager, Edinboro; Robert ,
The Aliquippa team won four the comedy “What A Life” will be
Kaufman, Cambridge Springs; Ray-1 The regular weekly faculty swim
n
presented in Normal Hall Auditor
F mond Meadway and Don Walbridge,
the new pool in the gymnasium straight games to gain entry in the
was
finals, but lost to Weirton, West Vir ium, Wednesday evening, April 17th,
h Wesleyville; Robert Olson and Jos- ‘ build.ng on the college campus
eph
Scalise,
Warren;
William
Schol'
held
last
Wednesday
with
good
atginia, in a close contest. The tour by the Edinboro Players, the dram
se,
.V
atic organization of Edinboro State
£ lenberger, Girard, and Robert Ulrich tendance reported, accord.ng to Vii- nament included member teams from Teachers College that each year
and
Dominic
Fanani,
Minnesota,
Detroit,
Chicago,
making
’ginia Andrews
and James Wood, Harborcreek.
offers outstanding productions to
up a roster of twenty-seven teams.
Fred Casoli, Aliquippa ; Elmer lifeguards.
its audiences.
I Among the swimmers
sw.mmeis were Miss swim is open to members and their
Abahaz’, Erie; Stephen Crunick,
1
id!
With eighteen persons in the cast,
Canonsburg, and William Bohn, ' Greta Garrison, Mrs. C. W. Ellen ei- families of the college and public the play is set in a large city high
Springboro
basketball ger, Mrs. Orv.lle Bailey, Mr. Royce school faculties and guests.
received
school, with the attending circum
Ir. Mallory and son, Royce, Ji. The
sweaters.
stances that arise shown in a decid
---------------SOCIAL CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
—
Litters for football were awarded-------edly humorous light. Miss Jane S.
to C
_________
________ William Aprl 10—Wednesday 8:00 Newman Club
Grant
Abrams,, _Edinboro;
Ludgate, dramatic coach, is in charge
sKohn, Springboro; Leo Bemis, Union
8:00
of production.
11 Thursday
x "" Y.
x- W. C. A.
Movie
Cty; Anthony Cutri, Erie; Daniel
7:30
12— Friday
Kusner, Springboro;’ Robert Lytle
All Day Music Festival of Rural Schools
13— Saturday
A. J. HALLER EXHIBIT
aiid John Wolfe, Warren; David Nor7:00 Orchestra
15-—Monday
Little Symphony Orchestra of IS HUNG IN HAVEN HALL
Concert.
ton, Erie; Bill Pelech, Edinboro. Let8:00
F
Chicago
rJ ^’•s for basketball went to Robert
Annual
Banquet, Luther Memorial; With his work hung in the parlors
Lytle, Warren, Nick Volitich, AliquipEric
Alumni
—
16—Tuesday
Church
Pa« and Frank Soscia, Erie.
I of Haven Hall, Mr. A. J. Haller, a
“What A Life” by Edinboro Players
The dinner meeting closed with in17__ Wednesday 8:00
if
i member of the Edinboro Art faculty,
|
8:00 Y. W. C. A.
Or‘iial talk by guests, letterwinners
18—Thursday
...
Ii has an exhibition on display of out7:30 Movie
19—Friday
;• and coaches.
Co-recreational
swim
i standing work done in the media of
2:00-4 :00
20— Saturday
Junior Prom in Training School Gym • crayon, water color and oils.
9:00-12:00
^plNBORO ALUMNI MEET
; Recently Mr. Haller was guest ex7:00 Orchestra
22—Monday
ERIE ON APRIL 16
w meetings
_
hibitor at a one man show at Erie
.and
............
Sorority
fraternity
9:00
Birthday
Party
for
dormitory
stuPublic Library art galleries. Some
8:15 Summer
T11e annual Edinboro alumni din23—Tuesday
of his work has been hung with local
dents
nie? will be held in Luther Memorial
24__ Wednesday
exhibits in the Pittsburgh Carnegie
ScaRAb
Second
Degree
Initiation
7:30-9:30
| church in Erie on April 16th, accord
Art
Galleries.
8:00 Newman Club
I lnK to an announcement
aullv.
by Mrs.
I
Maclnnes, of Erie, chairman.
1
Coaches Bailey and
Harrison Present Awards;
Dilley Is Toastmaster
.
M
Edinboro Players Pre
sent “What A Life”
■
THE
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spectator___________ _________ _
Dere Cobina:
Reeder’s Digest
dr.
ROBERT FROSTpnE
OF NEW. ENGLAND LlPt
SPEAKS AT EDINBORO
Off Campus Chatter
By Virginia L. Andrews
(Continued from Page
Boys, dearie, ain’t ya glad the
One)
the off-camsnow’s all gone! Course now every
What’s happened to
poet
answered:
“
No,
any
everyone rejoices over the fact that
We
time we steps out da door we re m pus housing program, MyrHe
°ne Shotfj
the everlasting pile of snow by the
get- be able to read a poem correct!,
mud up to our eyes—pretty near-— would like to have a few mo
Reeder doorway has at long last melt but jist the same dis weather sure is
ter one or two times over.”
’
togethers before school ends,
ed away.
The balmy breezes no
Dr. Frost, who left On a" H:00.
has
calmed
of
Warner
1
—
grrrand!
The House
doubt inspired the new spring hair
’ * to the m. Erie train for Iowa C
Say kid, remember that Gertie, the
Clty.
Must be due
cuts sported by Meadway, H. Stoops, eaglet, well she’s got a new moniker down lately,
the
boys
are dig- where he would make hisJ "ext Is,.
of
t...
fact
that
some
Rhodes, Walbridge and Scalise.
ture, pointed out that he made
now—“Cristco”. Sorta puts ya to
We find our baseball specialists,
mind of the “Cisco Kid,” don’t it nified S. T.’s. Est is Miriam Shindle- twenty to twenty-five lectures a
yen.
Bohn and “Sosch”, out on the lawn
On our sick
He does not wish to wear out F
dearie? Seein’ as how yer workin’
is suffering from a bad
warming up while out of the corner
in the clothin’ department of Macy’s decker who ipoems. A second lecture is > - unable to swim
schei
of one eye we see Jimmy Hill going
uled to be made in Utah during^
basement, p’rhaps ya could tell me cold and has been
The
Oblinski
south on Meadville street ....
week.
epif the goils are takin’ to wearin’ nick with her classmates,
Adam is back from New York and
Sybil and Sophia, are becomers yet? The reason I ast ya kid, is sisters, ►.
Dr.
Carmon
Ross
announced
th
♦
claims to have done his duty by
the next number on the Edinbol
that I seen Anne Krivonak pressin’ mg quite the mermaids.
Broadway . . . Volitich is also back
Hats off to
Frank Felice,
Don
a pair. Jist set a group of us girls
Lecture
Entertainment
Program
in Reeder and displays a fine basketta wonderin’—youse know how it is Granahan, Leo Bemis and Phil Ma would be the Chicago Little Philhar
bal trophy . . . Roommate “Swan
the
top-notch
wrestlers.
—jist wonderin”.
Ya oughta see honey,
monic Orchestra, conducted by Dr
Dive” Crunick, attired in Chef’s
Speaking
of
sports
we
wonder
why
Eric Soratin.
smock and cap, passes idle hours how cute Dottie Dinsmore looks in
one of them toibans that so many Parks and Dodge turn to baseball;
reading the “Daily Notes” . .
must be they know how to play the
Al Bloch and Hal Stoops had a have took to wearin’. Also, it seems
’•ame.
ta
be
the
thing
ta
plod
along
in
moc
chat with Paul Muni in his hotel room
Ernestine Pardee’s little protege is
casins.
And
Cobina,
if
ya
wanna
see
while the two were down to the
Smokey city over the Easter vacation a pretty site—youuse should jist see none other than little Shirley LamHome of
!
Eunice Rodgers is getting
. . . “Scorch” Pettinato is organiz them E Club guys in there new red bein.
swetters—Wow!
ready to spend her summer vacation
MOJUD HOSE
ing a life saving class ....
Recall
that
0
’
sayin
’
we
learnt
at
as
an industrial art instructor at a
This boy Snyder surely is busy
1 ._____________________________________ ____________
these days . . . Chin’s Chow Mein at good ol’ Public School No. 48 if ya summer camp, good luck Eunice—
You know—th£j on(e
i moiiiiiiiiiiiicJiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiiciiiimiiiiuaiiiiiuiiiiiuiiiiuiH
the “Blue Goose” on Floor Two. . . can dearie.
Schreckengost claims a place of about “In the spring a young man’s
You Can Always Find Them !
MEET THE BUNCH
honor.
He’s Reeder’s champ twig fancy—”. Ain’t it the truth!
at
If ya ever get out hear at Edin I
collector with a total of 70 turned
at
boro
and
wanna
go
fer
a
nice
little
I
|
in for his Botany class . . . The
crimson glow you see all over the ride—jist call up Don Walbridge—
EDINBORO, PA.
building is due to the presence of the he’s got the cutest li’l roadster—no
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+—.
lettermen’s dazzling new sweaters kiddin’.
■—..—.4.
Veil (who does that remind ya of
. . . It’s not a fire.
—Max Leslie.—yeah.), I gotta be
Air Conditioned for Your Comfort
go in’now, but I’ll be seein’ ya, huh
WHEN FIRST THE
CobinaDOGWOOD BLOOMS
Lovingly,
Brenda.
Down these avenues spring will be
With spring in the air once more
H.* G. GILL&HE
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coining.
White will be the bloom on the trees
Still dark from the shadow of winter.
Cast on the wind a handful of earth
Rich with the rains of April.
Walk with a dream beside you
Where the first dogwood blooms.
Do you hear what the bird is saying?
Learn again that song and its mean
ing—
For the days of silence are gone,
And in the garden the sun-dial
Measures again the luminous hours.
Sara Van Alstyne Allen
—Christian Science Moniter.
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pri Frost Lectures
Eager Audience
To
THE VOICE OF STUDENT OPINION
*
VOL.
yil—No. 6
EDINBORO STATE
W. NOCE TO SPEAK
y. W. C. A. MEETING
Rev. William Noce, pastor of the
St Mark’s Episcopal church of Erie,
ill be guest speaker at a meeting of
Jhe college Y. W. C. A. held in the
Y W C. A. rooms on Thursday evening, April 11th.
i
Erie County Schools’
Head, Willis E. Pratt
Speaks to Fraternity
Phi Sigma Pi Hears
Educational Leader At
Professional Meeting
DINES WITH MEMBERS
Erie County Superintendent of
Schools Willis E. Pratt, speaking to
1-hi Sigma Pi fraternity of Edinboro
State Teachers College in Reeder
Hall club rooms Monday evening,
stated in a talk on the subject of
“What are the Fundamental Issues
Facing Secondary Education Today”
that “The curriculum of the secon
dary school is beset with growing
pains.”
Superintendent Pratt, after beingintroduced by Committee Chairman
Lee Jeffords, said that secondary ed
ucation is today facing the greatest
changes that have taken place in ed
ucation in the past hundred years.
“Prime among the issues facing
secondary education today is what
subjects should be offered in a high
school that is including all the child
ren of all the people,” said Mr. Pratt,
who in discussing the problem of fore‘&n languages and their inclusion in
the curriculum, cautioned: “We hold
no particular brief for the foreign
(Continued on Page Three)
Co-Recreational Swim
« Attended By Many
Jime Changed From
Evening to Afternoon
L&st Saturday’s co-recreational
ni, which was changed from SatU^ay evening to the afternoon in
J er not to conflict with the FreshClass Party, was well attended.
r tudents in the pool were: War®n Anna, Nevin Weller, Dorothy
^ar^O's, Mary Dalbey, Florence
p0rj2er, Mary Claire Wild, Richard
WMi We^’ Ellen Haiston, Alice SeI?1’ Stephen Crunick, Katherine
j, ss> Max Leslie, Charles Egan, June
Hah861*’ Eugene Manley, Robert
n and Doris Heintz.
rank Pettinato served as lifeSiiarf)
’ and swimming coach.
TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDINBORO, PA.
Junior Ciass Holds
Prom in New School
APR.L 10, 1940
?r-R°bert Frost, Poet FDlNDnpn IIINIHP PRAM Will
SpeaksWAEtnEd“borofe’ BE IN NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
BE IN NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
Keynotes Lecture With
Apt Phrase ‘Poetry
Is Entertaining’
ATTENDS RECEPTION
Junior Class Chairman Announces Use
Of New Building For Outstanding Event
Ellen Graves, General
Dr. Carmon Ross
Chairman, Is Assisted
By Several Committees
Hands Trustees His
Resignation
ELECT KING AND QUEEN
With an eager audience estimated
as upwards of seven hundred per
sons crowding Normal Hall Auditori
um at Edinboro State Teachers Col
The traditional Junior Prom of
lege. Robert Frost, that outstanding
Served Past Six Years
Edinboro State Teachers College,
As Edinboro President
poet of New England life and creaI tor of universal thought in modern
which annually is the outstanding
SUCCESSOR NOT CHOSEN
poems, lectured, read from his favor
event of the college social season,
ites, and struck the keynote of his
will
be held this year in the new
Dr. Carmon Ross, president of Ed
talk with the phrase, “Poetry is enTraining
School gymnasium, on Sat
inboro for the past six years, has an
tertaining.”
urday
evening,
April 20, according
Gray-haired, and self-styled as nounced his resignation from the
to an announcement by Miss Ellen
presidency,
effective
August
15th,
“smug”, the sixty-five-year-old poet,
Graves, general chairman in chargeteacher, and farmer was introduced after a conference on last Saturday
of-arrangements.
with
Dr.
Francis
C.
Haas,
State
Sup
by Royce R. Mallory, instructor of
This is the first time that the train
English at the college, former pupil erintendent of Public Instruction, ing school has been used for any
and
the
Board
of
Trustees.
and friend of Frost.
Dr. Ross stated that he resigned college social function. Dancing will
With the humor rolling off his
for
the “good and welfare of Edin be in the gymnasium-auditorium part
chin, Dr. Frost began his lecture
boro
State Teachers College.”
Dr. with the orchestra seated on the
with a word to the school teacher,
Ross
came
to
Edinboro
from
Doyles
beautiful new stage behind the color
who — Frost believes—is apt to
town,
Pa.,
where
he
had
been
super
ed footlights and played upon with
“over-teach” poetry. In explaining
overhead flood lights.
intendent
of
schools
for
twenty-nine
wr.at should be done with a poem, the
As is tradition at Edinboro, the
years. No successor has been named.
poet said: “Read it, remember it,
King and Queen of the Prom, who
and tell what it has done to you. It
have been elected from senior class
should not be parsed and analyzed.”
nominees at a general election of the
Speaking of memorization of po
entire student body, will be announc
etry. Frost said that regardless of
ed on the evening of the event. Two
“forty years of prejudice against
(Continued on Page Two)
C. F. Adamson, Head
memorizing any thing,” you must
I
;" :t.<3
Of Crawford Co.- Speaks
memorize poetry.
Among the selections that he read
were:
“About
a
Woodchuck,” EDINBORO GRADS ATTEND
“Birches”, and “The Road Not Tak
en”. After reading “departmental”
With Mr. F. C. Adamson, assis
poem, the nature poet was encored tant superintendent of schools in
back to the platform.
Crawford county, as principal speak
Spend Last Week-end
After the lecture, Dr. Frost talked er the Northwestern Pennsylvania
In New York City
informally with students, faculty and Rural Schoolmasters’
Association
held inhis hon-1
April meeting in Haven Hall
guests at a reception
i
RETURN ON MONDAY
or in the parlors ofHaven Hall. Over jjnjng room at Edinboro State
glass of milk and a dish of ice rpeac}1iers College on Saturday eve
A delegation of Edinboro students
cream, he asked for questions and ning, April 6th.
answered them with the same subtle
Officers of the organization are: attended the fifteenth Annual Spring
humor as on the platform.
Harold Cole, president; Fred Wells, Conference of the Eastern States As
Frost said that some persons have vice president, and John Keller, sec sociation of Professional Schools for
to be read orally in order to explain retary-treasurer.
Another meeting Teachers at Hotel Pennsylvania in
New York city on Thursday, Friday
them; others do not. When ques is planned for mid-May.
tioned as to whether only a poet could
Members who attended the dinner and Saturday of last week.
The students arrived home very
poet answered: “No, any one should were: Donald Ellsmore, Hickernell;
early Monday morning after an
Raymond
Prusia,
Sprang
township;
(Continued on Page Two)
They attended^ the
Ronald Raymond, Crossingville; Wil eventful trip.
liam Holcombe, Centerville; Walter first session of the conference at 7 *-30
MISS BEATRICE CASE,
Tozier, Elk Creek; Harold Smith, p. m. Thursday evening.
former student, visits
Accompanying Miss Justina Baron,
Waterford; John Clark, Waterford;
Harold Mallory, Lundy’s Lane; Fred faculty adviser, were undergraduates
Miss Beatrice Case, daughter of
Wells, Springboro; John Keller, East Hazel Dennison, Linesville; Elaine
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Case, has been a
Springfield; DeForest Bartoo, Edin Ghering, Edinboro; William Schaaf,
visitor in town for the past several
boro; Milton McLallen, Sugar Grove; Erie, and William Pieffer, Edinboro.
days taking her spring vacation from
Robert M. Steele, president of Cali
Harold Cole, Cussewago High school;
Ithaca, New York, where she is a
fornia
State Teachers College, Cali
F. C. Adamson, Crawford county;
junior in the college. Miss Case at Walter Jack, Erie; Dr. C. J. Christen fornia, Pa., is vice president of the
tended Edinboro State Teachers Colsen and Dr. Carmofi Ross, Edinboro. association.
lege for two years.
Rural Schoolmasters
Dine In Haven Hall
Student Delegation
Attends Teachers’
Meeting In New York
the spectator
Page Two
The Spectator
The voice of student opinion at Edinboro State
Teachers College.
School Year by the students of
Published on Wednesday throughout the
Edinboro State Teachers College at Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
STAFF
Fifth Annual Rural
School Music Festival
Will Be Next Saturday
Six Hundred Rural
Children Expected
To Attend Day’s Meet
.......................Walter I. Nissen
Editor-in-Chief ....
Mary Dailey, Edward Damits
Associate Editors
............................ Frank Ord on
Business Manager
T. H. CRANDALL LEADS
. W. Verne Zahniser
Faculty Adviser ...
Reporters ...........................................................................
.
For the fifth time since 1936, hun
Virginia Andrews, Warren Anna, Florian Florek, Raymond Galla*
,
Wilma Ihsen, Dorothy Williams, Earl Madigan, Harold Powers, Helen dreds of children from the one- and
two-room rural schools of Erie and
Turner.
Crawford counties will assemble in
Subscription rate to the Alumni and general public is one dollar per year. the college auditorium at Edinboro
April 13 for a festival of music. This
will include in the morning, a mass
EVENTS CAUSE CHANGE IN MAN’S INSTITUTIONS;
rehearsal of singing under the direcCITIZENS DEMAND SINGLENESS OF PURPOSES
, tion of Harold Crandall, of Millcreek,
and in the lives of the " in the afternoon a demonstration of
It sometimes happens that, in the lives of men
‘the interesting things each individual
institutions that they create, events take place that cause the rise of dis ’ school is doing in music, and in the
sension, the straining of friendly relationships, and the differing of poli i evening a concert by the entire
cies among these men as they govern, with the delegated power of the group.
Interspersed with the musical ac
state, the institutions of the people.
Then comes change. Decisions are made that must be followed, poli tivities of the day are many enter
cies must be brought in line, dissenting groups must be reconciled, diverse tainment features planned by the
college, including a children’s play, a
elements must be-brought together; in short, the men and the institutions
swimming
exhibition.
organized
must be unified. This is true of all of man’s institutions, just as it is true
games, and supper in the college din
of Edinboro State Teachers College.
ing room.
With the final completion of all these acts, it is the business of the
The festival, the only one of its
persons at Edinboro to work in unity. Those diverse elements which tend kind in the state, was first organized
to pull away from the goal must unite in genuine loyalty with the aims and in 1936 by the music department at
objectives of educators who have the trust of democracy placed in their Edinboro State Teachers College in
hands. It is a duty to youth that all the persons on this campus must work an attempt to interest the rural
together for the furtherance of Edinboro State Teachers College.
school children, teachers and parents
Edinboro State Teachers College is a public institution. As a public in a vital program of music for their
institution, it has an obligation toward the citizens of this state who sup schools. Since that year, when sev
port it to fulfill and thereby justify the expenditure of the great amounts en schools, representing about one
of money that are spent each year on this campus. Everyone who benefits I hundred children, enrolled, the festifrom these funds—students, faculty, employees, and administrators—are I vaj }qas grown steadily until this year
not only expected to do a good job, but are also required to do that job there are fifty schools and over six
to the best of their ability. Edinboro has a reputtation of service to main hundred children.
An interesting
tain and a character of traditional ideals to enrich. These two things de outgrowth of this stimulation of mus
mand a conscientiousness of heart aimed at but a single goal.
ical activities is the employment in
these districts of specal music super
visors, so that twenty-two of the
EDINBORO LIBRARY PROVIDES BOOKS
schools entered this year have music
FOR GREATEST GOOD OF GREATEST NUMBER
supervisors who visit them regularly,
lhe afternoon and evening con
The library of Edinboro State Teachers College has approximately nine
certs are open to the public, and no
teen thousand volumes, exclusive of bound periodical and government docu
admission will be charged. The proments, on its shelves. At the present time, it subscribes to one hundred and
I gram by the individual schools will
fifty-two periodicals which represent the best of the general and profession
beg n at 1:30, and by the massed
al magazines. The Edinboro library is one of the few in the state which
group at 7:45.
employs open shelves for all books and thus allows students easy access to
all the material.
JUNIOR PROM WILL BE
At least once during the past year it has been necessary to invoke the HELD IN NEW SCHOOL
penalties of the library for the misuse of the open shelf system, a system
that requires each student to be aware of his responsibility of using the
(Continued From Page One)
library for the good of the greater number. In this instance, books had
not been properly registered when they were taken from the library. For seniors will then carry out the tra
ditional procession and ceremony of
the information of all, the following is called to your attention as taken
I the King and Queen.
from “The Handbook”:
“No books are to be removed from the library except by proper J ing intermissb^ P10Ce^.10n’
and duron, a receiving line will
charg.ng at the desk by the librarian in charge. Anyone found to have i bi
■e formed with the following chaper
taken books from the library improperly or to have improperly charged
books in his or her possession will be subject to a fine of $5.00 per book ones receivng the guests of the promMr. and Mrs. Orville Bailey, Mr and
and suspension from all college activities until such fine is paid
Cl p
Mrs Waldo F. Bates, Mr?’and Mrs
ping from any book is always prohibited. Clipping from pamphlets'
C. J. Christensen, Dr. Carmon Ross,
magazines or newspapers without permission by the librarian will be
president of the college, and Miss
subject to a similar fine.”
Evelyn Bergstrom, Dean of Women
Jhe re*ulatlon® set UP to insure the use of the Edinboro library for
Benny Jones and His Orchestra, a
the greatest good of the greatest number are self-explanatory and need no
self-explanatory and need
twelve-piece band with music styled
further emphasrs. It is the belief of the college librarian
- --------- .1 that Edinboro after Glenn Miller, will plav from
students do use the library for its intended purposes, but the
preceding is nine to twelve p. m. The orchestra,
seldom called to the attention of the students and is reproduced here for playing at Yankee Lake Pavilion, is
a favorite of many colleges in this
their information.
part of Pennsylvania, having played
ERIE COUNTY SCHOOLS^
HEAD, WILLIS E PRATT
SPEAKS TO FRATERNITY
(Continued from Page One)
languages, but we do question wheth
er their elimination has been the /
suit of careful study and evaluatin'
of the curriculum.”
n
In the latter half of his jaddrej;
”
Mr. Pratt pointed out that Erie
-3 c:
conn'.
ty is attempting to discover what
—J Wg
as teachers should do in public edu.
cation. A recent survey carried
by the county office shows that the
“philosophy of the’ teachers of Erie
county is a middle of the road phil>
sophy’.’ “I believe that it is a sound
philosophy,” added the superintendent, as he said that Erie county
teachers believe that the school fc
made for the child and not the child
for the school.
In a survey made by questioning
over five thousand parents, Mr. Pratt
discovered most interestingly “that
97% of the parents thought that
school children should visit the farm;
the factories and the stores.”
In concluding his address to the
members of the fraternity, the Erie
county superintendent said that sec
ondary education presented a real
challenge to the young beginning
teacher though, in my est’.matiox
secondary education has fagged far
behind elementary education.”
Dr. Carmon Ross, president of the
college, spoke briefly in concluding
the meeting. Polnt.ng out that there
are 600,000 high school pupils in
Pennsylvania—an increase of 500%
in the last ten years—Dr. Ross stat
ed ‘The American high school is the
most typ cal thing that this country
has developed.”
Attending this professional meet
ing, which is one of several sponsored
each year by this Edinboro educa
tional group, were Waldo F. Bate;
jr., H. W. McNees, faculty advisers;
James D. Brown, Lee Jeffords, W-t*
liam Pieffer, Eugene Billings, Oliver
Wester, Stephen Lipchik, Walter Ni*
en, Joseph Norder, Carmen Seltz-t
Earl Madigan, Norman Dilley, Wal
lace Skelton, Charles Lewis, GOtis
White, jr., Daniel Wolchik, Arnold
Dunfee, Roy Christensen, James Cavarnaugh, John Sunda, Warren Anna.
Richard Benson, Harold Sehrecken*
gost, William Norris, Robert Uh’i^’
James Wood, Peter Gall, Harold M
Grant Abrams, Ray Graves.
Previous to the professional
ing, Superintendent Pratt was gu^
g°e^1
.... ....... .. Ross and the
of Dr. Carmon
Of Ups.’lon Chapter of Phi Sig^3 P’
at a dinner in Haven Hall dinin?
room.
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Rock, Westminster and Grove GVThe dance is open to college
dents and friends.
, .
Arranging the dance with 0^
man Ellen Graves, are Helen Tuin^
Frances Bates, Ester Stein, A^1'
Huber, Ethel Thomson, P^ra^.‘
Lollie Maxwell, Lawrence
Richard Benson, Vega Ihsen, dec01\
tions; Walter Gesin, music;Po***
ft
Manning, publicity.
the spectator
\ e Club Hhonors
I
Varsity Did You Know
With Our Athletes
^1.
' ‘
Sport Letter
Winners • • • that spring sports
5 are here, Away From Town
Gome on gals, ’tis time 1
to shake off
en
Hall
Dinner
•i At Hav
hat stored winter weight. AU
Page Three
Summer Session Is
Announced To Be From
June 17 To July 27
are
John Wolfe, popular’ Red Raider
out door sports and under the
capable leadership of these girls:
athlete, is at present in Macon, Ga.,
Additional Teachers
ArMa61-7’ TItary Andersoni mushball, where he is trying out as a rookie
Will Aid Regulars
laue Johnson; volleyball, Mary Es baseball player with the Elmira, N.
ther Dailey; tennis, Frances Skelton; Y., baseball team. Wolfe, who grad
USE TRAINING SCHOOL
CARMON ROSS SPEAKS hikmg Esther Neil, and bicycling uated in February, has been in the
PRsouthern training camp of the ball
Anna Tuttle.
The summer session number of the
m
The annual athletic banquet of Ed- ■ • . that at our
club since last Saturday.
t
Edinboro
State Teachers College Re
recent
WAA
meet■'•Il®
Postcarding the boys at Reeder cord was off the press last week with
of Jl jnboro
inboro State Teachers College was ing, Miss Macie Johnson was elected
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Wednesday
evening
in
the
dinid|J held
to represent Edinboro at the Athlet Hall, John says: “Hi Boys—Put on the announcement that the regular
i
room of Haven Hall at 6:15, with ic Federation of College Women con another’ plate—they’re going to start
session would be from June 17 to .
’Ji
§ ^vards being presented to the ath- ference at Columbus, Ohio, on April curving them tomorrow. Best—‘The
July 27 and that the post session of
I letes who competed in basketball and
17, 18, 19, 20, 1940. Macie is a very Wolfe’ ”. The Warren athlete was three weeks would be from July 29
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11 i recent varsity capable leader and has proved her a letter winner in both basketball to August 17.
I football during
the
and football.
I seasons.
Summer instructors in addition to
worth in the WAA. We all feel sure
Another Edinboro athlete, Frank the regular faculty members will be
With the senior letter winners be she will be a credit to us at this con
Soscia, star court man for the Red Hermine Bauschard, of Erie Acad
ll
especially honored, the E Club,
itioJ§ organization of Edinboro lettermen. ference and bring back to us many Raiders, will try out with a baseball
emy High school, geography; O. L.
worthwhile ideas.
club when he leaves on May 23rd to
r 13 was
to President Carmon Ross
was host
1
. . . that Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, play with the Ogden, Utah, club in Grender, director of choral music,
Academy and Strong Vincent High
1 and Coaches B. R. Harrison and Or Pa., issued us an invitation to par
schools, Erie, music; Dr. James G.
ville R. Bailey, and faculty members ticipate in its annual play day at the Pioneer League.
faiJ
Edinboro athletes have a habit of Sigman, director of visual education,
H. W. McNees and Aime Doucette.
Pittsburgh on April 13, 1940.
Six
Norman E. Dilley, of Franklin, girls have been chosen to attend, two winning honors away from school. On Philadelphia Public schools, visual
I the winning Moose Club basketball education, history; Dr. Edward Worto 11 Pa., toastmaster and president of the
seniors, Macie Johnson and Ella Ev-1
e El E Club, presented the certificates of ans, and four juniors, Virginia Pet- Ij team which took the finals in the re- I thington, principal, Cheltenham
membership in the E Club to all let ers, Esther Neil, Helen Turner and |I cent Dispatch-Herald tournament in Township Junior High school, educa
[ Erie, former Red Raiders Bob Steph- tion.
ter winners of the past year.
Myrtle Morley.
The Record announces that the
inni| The coaches of the sports present
PHI
DEL
'enson and Harold Arkwright held
. . . that there will be a
iad
new campus training school will be
ed medals, sweaters and letter awards TA Freshman swimming meet in the 'down first-string berths. On the op
used for the first time during the
'd d to the athletes. Gold footballs were
very near future.
The “freshies” posing team in the finals, the Lone summer session.
I awarded to Anthony Cutri, Erie; Lee are developing quite rapidly and this Stars, Frank Soscia played against
)fi | Jeffords, Edinboro; Dick DeRemer, meet will prove to be very thrilling. his former teammates. Ralph Cala
udi I Utica; Daniel Kusner, Springboro; . . . that Elaine Ghering, president
brese also played with the Lone Stars
■thj ' Robert Lytle, John Wolfe, Warren,
of the WAA, sprained her big toe on
Not to be outdone by his team
I1M and James Wood, Harborcreek. Nick a piece of ice in her back yard. ’Tis
mates,
Nick Volitich, star Raider for
50: VoLtich, Aliquippa, and John Wolfe funmy business that such a prominent
ward
on
the hardwood, went to Steu
I?
T
Cl Qi 1. 1
si QYirl
and Robert Lytle received gold bas- 1 athlete should wait until an eventful
Eighteen Persons Cast
is B ketballs.
! day arrives to sprain her toe. . . benville, Ohio, ' last week-end as a
In Rare Comedy
member
of
the
Aliquippa
All-Star
DC
Football sweaters were awarded to Looks
£,00ks like ’we should all turn detecteam
and
brought
home
the
Fred
A.
Roy Christensen, Arnold Dunfee, and fives and solve the mystery.
LUDGATE DIRECTS
nJ Donald Grariahan, Erie;; Dick De- |
Hanlin Award for runnerup team
-------------------players in the Fifth National Tourna
5# rKerner, Utica; Norman Dilley, Frank- WEEKLY SWIM ATTENDED
With Stephen Lipchik playing the
ment sponsored by the Serbian-Amer
K: Hn; Lee Jeffords and Wallace Skel- B COLLEGE TEACHERS
leading role—that of Henry Aldrich,
ican National Federation.
3?.
ton, manager, Edinboro; Robert ,
The Aliquippa team won four the comedy “What A Life” will be
Kaufman, Cambridge Springs; Ray-1 The regular weekly faculty swim
n
presented in Normal Hall Auditor
F mond Meadway and Don Walbridge,
the new pool in the gymnasium straight games to gain entry in the
was
finals, but lost to Weirton, West Vir ium, Wednesday evening, April 17th,
h Wesleyville; Robert Olson and Jos- ‘ build.ng on the college campus
eph
Scalise,
Warren;
William
Schol'
held
last
Wednesday
with
good
atginia, in a close contest. The tour by the Edinboro Players, the dram
se,
.V
atic organization of Edinboro State
£ lenberger, Girard, and Robert Ulrich tendance reported, accord.ng to Vii- nament included member teams from Teachers College that each year
and
Dominic
Fanani,
Minnesota,
Detroit,
Chicago,
making
’ginia Andrews
and James Wood, Harborcreek.
offers outstanding productions to
up a roster of twenty-seven teams.
Fred Casoli, Aliquippa ; Elmer lifeguards.
its audiences.
I Among the swimmers
sw.mmeis were Miss swim is open to members and their
Abahaz’, Erie; Stephen Crunick,
1
id!
With eighteen persons in the cast,
Canonsburg, and William Bohn, ' Greta Garrison, Mrs. C. W. Ellen ei- families of the college and public the play is set in a large city high
Springboro
basketball ger, Mrs. Orv.lle Bailey, Mr. Royce school faculties and guests.
received
school, with the attending circum
Ir. Mallory and son, Royce, Ji. The
sweaters.
stances that arise shown in a decid
---------------SOCIAL CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
—
Litters for football were awarded-------edly humorous light. Miss Jane S.
to C
_________
________ William Aprl 10—Wednesday 8:00 Newman Club
Grant
Abrams,, _Edinboro;
Ludgate, dramatic coach, is in charge
sKohn, Springboro; Leo Bemis, Union
8:00
of production.
11 Thursday
x "" Y.
x- W. C. A.
Movie
Cty; Anthony Cutri, Erie; Daniel
7:30
12— Friday
Kusner, Springboro;’ Robert Lytle
All Day Music Festival of Rural Schools
13— Saturday
A. J. HALLER EXHIBIT
aiid John Wolfe, Warren; David Nor7:00 Orchestra
15-—Monday
Little Symphony Orchestra of IS HUNG IN HAVEN HALL
Concert.
ton, Erie; Bill Pelech, Edinboro. Let8:00
F
Chicago
rJ ^’•s for basketball went to Robert
Annual
Banquet, Luther Memorial; With his work hung in the parlors
Lytle, Warren, Nick Volitich, AliquipEric
Alumni
—
16—Tuesday
Church
Pa« and Frank Soscia, Erie.
I of Haven Hall, Mr. A. J. Haller, a
“What A Life” by Edinboro Players
The dinner meeting closed with in17__ Wednesday 8:00
if
i member of the Edinboro Art faculty,
|
8:00 Y. W. C. A.
Or‘iial talk by guests, letterwinners
18—Thursday
...
Ii has an exhibition on display of out7:30 Movie
19—Friday
;• and coaches.
Co-recreational
swim
i standing work done in the media of
2:00-4 :00
20— Saturday
Junior Prom in Training School Gym • crayon, water color and oils.
9:00-12:00
^plNBORO ALUMNI MEET
; Recently Mr. Haller was guest ex7:00 Orchestra
22—Monday
ERIE ON APRIL 16
w meetings
_
hibitor at a one man show at Erie
.and
............
Sorority
fraternity
9:00
Birthday
Party
for
dormitory
stuPublic Library art galleries. Some
8:15 Summer
T11e annual Edinboro alumni din23—Tuesday
of his work has been hung with local
dents
nie? will be held in Luther Memorial
24__ Wednesday
exhibits in the Pittsburgh Carnegie
ScaRAb
Second
Degree
Initiation
7:30-9:30
| church in Erie on April 16th, accord
Art
Galleries.
8:00 Newman Club
I lnK to an announcement
aullv.
by Mrs.
I
Maclnnes, of Erie, chairman.
1
Coaches Bailey and
Harrison Present Awards;
Dilley Is Toastmaster
.
M
Edinboro Players Pre
sent “What A Life”
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spectator___________ _________ _
Dere Cobina:
Reeder’s Digest
dr.
ROBERT FROSTpnE
OF NEW. ENGLAND LlPt
SPEAKS AT EDINBORO
Off Campus Chatter
By Virginia L. Andrews
(Continued from Page
Boys, dearie, ain’t ya glad the
One)
the off-camsnow’s all gone! Course now every
What’s happened to
poet
answered:
“
No,
any
everyone rejoices over the fact that
We
time we steps out da door we re m pus housing program, MyrHe
°ne Shotfj
the everlasting pile of snow by the
get- be able to read a poem correct!,
mud up to our eyes—pretty near-— would like to have a few mo
Reeder doorway has at long last melt but jist the same dis weather sure is
ter one or two times over.”
’
togethers before school ends,
ed away.
The balmy breezes no
Dr. Frost, who left On a" H:00.
has
calmed
of
Warner
1
—
grrrand!
The House
doubt inspired the new spring hair
’ * to the m. Erie train for Iowa C
Say kid, remember that Gertie, the
Clty.
Must be due
cuts sported by Meadway, H. Stoops, eaglet, well she’s got a new moniker down lately,
the
boys
are dig- where he would make hisJ "ext Is,.
of
t...
fact
that
some
Rhodes, Walbridge and Scalise.
ture, pointed out that he made
now—“Cristco”. Sorta puts ya to
We find our baseball specialists,
mind of the “Cisco Kid,” don’t it nified S. T.’s. Est is Miriam Shindle- twenty to twenty-five lectures a
yen.
Bohn and “Sosch”, out on the lawn
On our sick
He does not wish to wear out F
dearie? Seein’ as how yer workin’
is suffering from a bad
warming up while out of the corner
in the clothin’ department of Macy’s decker who ipoems. A second lecture is > - unable to swim
schei
of one eye we see Jimmy Hill going
uled to be made in Utah during^
basement, p’rhaps ya could tell me cold and has been
The
Oblinski
south on Meadville street ....
week.
epif the goils are takin’ to wearin’ nick with her classmates,
Adam is back from New York and
Sybil and Sophia, are becomers yet? The reason I ast ya kid, is sisters, ►.
Dr.
Carmon
Ross
announced
th
♦
claims to have done his duty by
the next number on the Edinbol
that I seen Anne Krivonak pressin’ mg quite the mermaids.
Broadway . . . Volitich is also back
Hats off to
Frank Felice,
Don
a pair. Jist set a group of us girls
Lecture
Entertainment
Program
in Reeder and displays a fine basketta wonderin’—youse know how it is Granahan, Leo Bemis and Phil Ma would be the Chicago Little Philhar
bal trophy . . . Roommate “Swan
the
top-notch
wrestlers.
—jist wonderin”.
Ya oughta see honey,
monic Orchestra, conducted by Dr
Dive” Crunick, attired in Chef’s
Speaking
of
sports
we
wonder
why
Eric Soratin.
smock and cap, passes idle hours how cute Dottie Dinsmore looks in
one of them toibans that so many Parks and Dodge turn to baseball;
reading the “Daily Notes” . .
must be they know how to play the
Al Bloch and Hal Stoops had a have took to wearin’. Also, it seems
’•ame.
ta
be
the
thing
ta
plod
along
in
moc
chat with Paul Muni in his hotel room
Ernestine Pardee’s little protege is
casins.
And
Cobina,
if
ya
wanna
see
while the two were down to the
Smokey city over the Easter vacation a pretty site—youuse should jist see none other than little Shirley LamHome of
!
Eunice Rodgers is getting
. . . “Scorch” Pettinato is organiz them E Club guys in there new red bein.
swetters—Wow!
ready to spend her summer vacation
MOJUD HOSE
ing a life saving class ....
Recall
that
0
’
sayin
’
we
learnt
at
as
an industrial art instructor at a
This boy Snyder surely is busy
1 ._____________________________________ ____________
these days . . . Chin’s Chow Mein at good ol’ Public School No. 48 if ya summer camp, good luck Eunice—
You know—th£j on(e
i moiiiiiiiiiiiicJiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiiciiiimiiiiuaiiiiiuiiiiiuiiiiuiH
the “Blue Goose” on Floor Two. . . can dearie.
Schreckengost claims a place of about “In the spring a young man’s
You Can Always Find Them !
MEET THE BUNCH
honor.
He’s Reeder’s champ twig fancy—”. Ain’t it the truth!
at
If ya ever get out hear at Edin I
collector with a total of 70 turned
at
boro
and
wanna
go
fer
a
nice
little
I
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in for his Botany class . . . The
crimson glow you see all over the ride—jist call up Don Walbridge—
EDINBORO, PA.
building is due to the presence of the he’s got the cutest li’l roadster—no
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+—.
lettermen’s dazzling new sweaters kiddin’.
■—..—.4.
Veil (who does that remind ya of
. . . It’s not a fire.
—Max Leslie.—yeah.), I gotta be
Air Conditioned for Your Comfort
go in’now, but I’ll be seein’ ya, huh
WHEN FIRST THE
CobinaDOGWOOD BLOOMS
Lovingly,
Brenda.
Down these avenues spring will be
With spring in the air once more
H.* G. GILL&HE
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coining.
White will be the bloom on the trees
Still dark from the shadow of winter.
Cast on the wind a handful of earth
Rich with the rains of April.
Walk with a dream beside you
Where the first dogwood blooms.
Do you hear what the bird is saying?
Learn again that song and its mean
ing—
For the days of silence are gone,
And in the garden the sun-dial
Measures again the luminous hours.
Sara Van Alstyne Allen
—Christian Science Moniter.
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