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Don’t Forget the
Exams (Ha! Ha!)
The Spectator
THE VOICE OF STUDENT OPINION
VOL. IX—No. 4
ED.NBORO
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDJNBORO. pa.
president Honors
Sheean Lecture Well
Sheean At Dinner Received By Audience
County Newspapermen, Lecture
Vincent Sheean, noted author,
Committee Present At
traveler, and war news analyst, ap
Evening Affair
peared upon the stage of Edinboro’s
president and Mrs. L. H. Van
Houten were hosts at a dinner given
in Haven Hall dining room at 6:00
p. m., Monday, January 12, in hon
or of Vincent Sheean.
Local and county newspapermen
were invited to attend, as were those
of the faculty who are on the Lec
ture-Entertainment course commit
tee.
Those journalists present in
cluded Mr. Geo. S. Welker of The
Independent, Edinboro; Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Conrath of The News, Al
bion; Mr. Robert S. Bates, of The
Tribune Republican, Meadville; and
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Lombard
with Miss Condra, guest, of The
Journal, Corry.
Miss Ludgate, Miss Wilson. Miss
Skinner, Dr. and Mrs. Mudge, Miss
Brown, Miss Pettit and Mis Baron
consisted those of the faculty pres
ent. Mr. and Mrs. Zahniser were
invited but were unable to attend be
cause of an extension class of Mr.
Zahniser’s.
Vincent Sheean lectured in the col
lege auditorium immediately follow
ing the dinner.
BARRIE’S PLAY “DEAR BRUTUS”
READIED FOR FRIDAY EVENING
Mr. Offner, Family
Leaving January 30
Where He Will Complete
Work for Ph. D. Degree
Mr. Sheean was introduced by Mr.
William Lombard, managing editor
of the Corry Daily Journal.
A house of over 400 people, limitVallance - Damits
ed almost to half by the icy condition of the sleet-covered highways,
Mr. John Edward Damits, eldest listened attentively to Mr. Sheean’s
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Damits, remarks and diagnosis of the war
°f Coraopolis, was married to Miss situation. He outlined the Japan
Louise Marion Variance, only daugh ese territorial expansion policy which
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blake . began way back in 1894 with the acVallance, of Bronte, Ontario, Can- quisition of a few islands and w.cich
ada, and Gowanda, N. Y., in a quiet has continued up to the present day.
ceremony in the chapel of St. Paul’s | His predictions for the future in
Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario.
The cluded the fall of Singapore within
wedding was an event1 of September a week or ten days, then the ulti5> 1941, at 7:30 in the evening, with mate seizure of the Dutch East
the immediate families of the Indies. The war would be a long,
hard one, he said; and only fools
ride and groom present.
bride graduated from Edin- would think otherwise.
boi‘o State Teachers College in May,
Mr. Sheean deplored the cheerful
1 9^1. The groom attended Carnegie optimism of the headlines of the
ech and Edinboro, where he is now daily papers which might cause us to
a junior.
soften up in our attitude and also
Damits left Thursday night bring us a cropper one of these days.
°r Coraopolis to see his parents, Inflation is bound to rise and the
eu Friday he will go to Toronto standard of living to fall; with these
Part with his wife. Monday Ed. concluding remarks he sat down, to
3 having for Texas after having en- loud, appreciative applause.
Air Corps.
j ,jd was very active in school, havDr. Van Houten is going to Har
I L' Won. the scenery award in the risburg Thursday and will not return
Ouriiament of plays one year, was
till some time Friday evening.
(Continued on Page Four)
Friday Night
JANUARY 14, 1942
new auditorium last Monday night
for two solid hours of lecturing and
answering questions.
His topic of
the night was “War in the Far East.” Destination Colurribia University
Vincent Sheean
“Dear Brutus”
Edinboro Players Hard At Work
Oh Feature Presentation
Of the Year
DATE IS JANUARY 16
Are you sunk in the depths of des
pair and lost in the slough of work
piled high as the end of the sem
ester looms apprehensively ahead of
you? Do you feel that there is no
way out and that you are caught in
a maze of things you ought not to
have done? Has the utterly impos
sible, yet perhaps slightly cheering
thought entered your mind that if
(you could have a second chance you
would do things differently—oh, yes,
quite differently?
Indeed timely
then is the theme of Dear Brutus, a
play by J. M. Barrie which is being
presented by the Edinboro Players
Friday evening, January 16, in the
New College Auditorium. This play
deals with the very possibilities of
a second chance and what we fool
Dean of Instruction H. L. Offner
is leaving for Columbia University
upon the morning of January 30th
to take up residence there and finish
his work for his Ph. D. degree. The
leave of absence which was granted
to Mr. Offner by the Board of Trus
tees becomes effective February 1
and continues until September 1,
1942.
Mr. Offner’s family will accompany
him to New York City where their
home for the next seven months will
be at apartment 401, Grant Hall, 514
West 122nd street.
Jean Offner,
who has attended Edinboro during
the first semester, will continue her
studies at Barnard College, a separ
ate division of Columbia University
The students and faculty of
devoted exclusively to women.
the college wish to extend their
Asked whether he had any state
deepest sympathy to Miss Ruk
ment to make, Mr. Offner replied:
tie in the recent death of her
“I extend to everyone in Edinboro
mother.
my best wishes for success during
my absence. I sincerely mean that mortals would do if the opportunity
—students, faculty, and everyone
were given to us.
else.”
Seriously speaking, however,Dear
(Continued on Page Four)
Brutus is a great dramatization wor
thy of your consideration and pat
ronage.
After a number of dis
Red Cross Benefit
couraging rehearsals the play has be
to take definite shape and prom
Bali Games Tonight gun
ises to be one of the Edinboro Play
ers’ most outstanding productions.
A joint college-high school faculty r_
_ _____
___ for
_____
The
scenery
Dear Brutus is’ exteam will play a basketball game with; tremeiy difficult, but is being capably
a select Community Club team as the i handled by Wilbur Sloan and Carol
opening
sning feature oi a gala
g<
night at Davis and will undoubtedly prove
:he cohere gym Wednesday night, quite effective.
January 14, benefit of the American
The cast and personnel have been
Sox Harrison’s Red working diligently, quite enthusiastic
Red Cro; s.
Raiders will play a first-line team in the thought that they are the first
from Erie as the second feature of to play on the stage of the new audi
torium.
They noticed immediately
the program.
Lili Bohn, Otis White and Stuart the difference the size of the stage
Achelson will be drawn from the made in the timing of speeches an
Ask anyone in the cast
ranks of the student teachers to re action.
present the college. The Erie team about the hopeless feeling of sud
which will play the varsity has not denly finding oneself in an entirely
foreign part of the stage—-not at a
yet been selected.
All students will be required to where one should have been after
produce twenty-five, cents at the completing action. It is indeed door, and the adults (that doesn’t concerting to be ready to collapse
mean us) fifty cents. Fun starts at into a chair at a dramatic moment
(Continued on Page Four)
8:00.
—
the spectator
Page Two
haven’s ravin’s
The Spectator
Frank Holowach
Editor
..................... Warren Anna
Assistant Editor ..
F. L. LaBounty
Faculty Advisor ..
.........................
Richard
Whit ehill
Advertising
Jack Mensinger
Sports Editor
Clinton Thomas
Features
Violet Nellis
Exchange Editor
Jack
Aiton,
Elaine
Harshman,
Jean
Contributors: ----Offner, Sally Wilson, Margaret Caflisch, Pat Masterson,
Chester Eisaman, Elaine Highfield, Gene Kaminski,
Carol Davis, Carmon Fiorelli, Margaret Kingsley, Phyl
lis Meyers, Ralph Santo, Natalie Jacobson, Marie Allen
Smith, Audrey Bacon.
The War Years
When falling bombs and spurting blood at Pearl
Harbor told the youth of America that another war
was come, the towers of old Normal and the walls o
Music Hall did not start in apprehension or begin shak
ing with fear and terror at the knowledge that war was
here, that war with its sacrifices and horrors, its tears
and pain, its partings and its leave-takings had once
again struck the quiet campus of Edinboro College.
No, the old buildings did not quake and tremble with
fear; instead they looked as if they had gone through
all this before.
And so they have. This new World War makes
the fourth war that Edinboro College has experienced,
. the fourth one of those of its country’s history. Edin
boro1 has weathered the three other conflicts success
fully and triumphantly; the fourth must go by the
boards the same as the others.
War is then something not new and strange to this
campus.
Three times before has it seen the grim
hand of war reach into its halls and classrooms to snatch
the young men away from their business of books and
leave only girlish voices and feminine foot-steps to
echo along the stone walks. And always before Edin
boro has weathered the demands and toil and sacrifice
and bloodshed always involved in such a thing as war;
always before have the young men come back to mount
the stairs of Normal, to browse in the library, to walk
among the trees of the campus, to mull over books and
recite in the classrooms; always before has the sign
ing of peace found the college still functioning, still
standing in its accustomed place.
The first time war struck Edinboro the school was
barely three and one-half months old. Its beginnings
preceded the flame and recoil of the guns of Fort
Sumter only by the difference between the days of
January 26 and April 12 in the year 1861. The Civil
War thrust upon Edinboro its worst going in all of
its 81 years of life, for the young, inexperienced,
newly-born school lacked the strength, the maturity,
the wisdom that only time could give it. But Appo
mattox Courthouse found the school still upon its feet,
youthful, shaky, undernourished feet though they were.
The second war came upon an Edinboro better
fitted to cope with its destiny, for precious time had
been granted it to grow and prosper before the slo
gan “Remember the Maine!” rang throughout the na
tion. The marks left this time did not take long to'
erase and the college soon reverted to normal.
The third April that brought not apple blossoms
but battle drums and marching feet to the country
marked a time when almost the entire enrollment of
the college was feminine, when many of the present
college faculty were engaged in the business of war,
when collegiate athletics were dropped, year books
cancelled, dormitory and boarding houses deserted
President Van Houten, Dr. Christensen, Mr. Bates *and
Mr. McNees were in where, as one astonished soldier
• gasped “Why, a man can get killed here!”; while others
of the faculty were actively engaged in other phases
of the war effort. But the Armistice of November 11
1918, still found shouting, hoarse-voiced students in
Phi Sig Sez:
(PHI SIGMA PI)
The embryo Phi Sigma Pi Painte*s
and interior decorators, under the
sterling leadership of Otis White
fraternity president, have neai y
completed the shining-up and dec
orating of their new room. Curtains
are the only things lacking now, and
several of the members are off
searching for suggestions and inspi
ration.
The student teachers are getting
ready to pull up their stakes and
depart from their claims, making
way for the incoming ones.
The
home-coming Phi Sigs include Hal
oid Bon, Earle Madigan, Harold
Powers, Harold Schreckengost, Bob
Ulrich and Dan Wolchik.
Florian
Florek will return only to collect his
diploma and to bid farewell to his
Alma Mater.
Almost all activities are at a
standstill due to the approaching
jsemester exams.
Immediately fol
lowing them will be the annual
pledging parties.
Kappa Komment
(Kappa Delta Phi)
First of all this columnist wishes
to deviate from the normal far
enough to toss a garland to the
swimming team and to the basket
ball team for their fine showings
Incidentally, with the exception of
two fellows, all of the point-getters
on the swimming team were Kappa
Delts.
Here’s hoping you’ll have a speedy
recovery, Doucie, now that you are
home again. From the reports that
Bloch and Whitehill brought back
after their visit with you, we’re be
ginning to doubt if we still have a
whole faculty advisor left or if you
left the better part of you in the
hospital.
Time for another Senior toe-nail
sketch, so' here we go—comes from
Erie, swims, used to sing, trans
ferred to art in his sophomore year
when he roomed with Hahn (poor
guy), curly-haired blonde, didn’t
start at first of semester, but came
here a few weeks ago after changhis ™ind> another G E fugitive,
goes with the daughter of Edin
boro’s “mayor”—none other than
Jimmy Hill.
If anybody is still reading this,
‘hey had better stop for this is
THE
END.
Then came the night when “art for art’s sake>.
suddenly took flight, and the feminine members Of
the junior crafts class began in earnest their gyni.
nasties with saws, hammers, and nails, no lessl....^
C Wild discovered that she couldn t drive a straight
nail after one coke (for further details on this story
see Alice Sewall or Olga Hubiak)....... and of course
there was that part of the dormitory who were in
such ’loving moods, because a shop class in a dormitory sounds somewhat like an army of termites with
an occasional bomb thrown in for effect.
“They Drive by Night” or “Hold Back the Dawn”
has nothing on Edinboro-, come semester’s....but that’s
life....or art. The nicest display of feminine forth
tude was the day that Sewall met in combat with, of
all things, a crow....only the crow was too willing to
go more than half way, and Alice quickly surrendered
the field....What we’d like to know is w.-.at “Pie”Ap.
pleby did to the thing....it was found dead in her room
the ne.it morning....Well, far be it from us to omit
the names of the happier dames of the dorm, so to
peak....for instance....E. Highfield....so?....but wait....a
sad thing it would be if we failed to call to your
attention the fact that there are two more nam.s to
add to the “line’s busy” list....Louise Hodnick and
Edna Zimmer....and the latest flash....Dotty Williams
has now joined the ranks of the Kappas and Al.tloch
is out one Xmas present
We’ll, we haven’t heard any more about the mice
situation from down Katie Hippie’s way, but she did
suggest to Alice Sewall that she feed “her” crow....
somehow the idea didn’t appeal to Sewall....she sound
ed a retreat....and so will we.
feeder’s digest
Greetings and salutations, dear readers. It seems
that the faculty will be on the aggressive, in a weea,
for they are going to give us the works, more com
monly and horribly known as “the Exams”. This at
tack is sure to cause quite a bit of chatter and ? •
Flash!!
Flash!!—Your correspondent has been
peeking through the proverbial keyhole again and
caught wind of the fact that the old song, “Sweet Sue
has become the rhythmical heart-beat of a certain
carrot-topped individual in Reeder. Could it be that
this war situation is drawing them together, or is 1
that certain thing? ?
My! My! My!! Did you notice how the sno'T
weather has affected the lassies in Haven? One wou
think, at a glance, that someone had opened the doon
thus permitting a few delicate, shapely snowflakes 1
drift in; and I do mean DRIFT.
Did any of you notice the change in a cefl-11Junior of note and wit, not only this last week-en •
out any such occcasion when his woman visits?
wonder what this next semester will bring, when ’
ainty feet again trod the velvety surface °
campus? ? Time alone win telL
Edinboro to welcome it, students who were iore‘u"T
t e flow of riotous post-war college
. .|Cj
s learned to college during the twenties. Thus'va"ay two decades and four years more.
tcli
dinboro lax in her contributions to the forces PJ®
Already 26 of her former stud
nnmkenSaSed in the art of soldiering, 26 who 1
whn ei an}on&* themselves those of the older ‘
bark
8'^ven UP their careers of normal h®
monthUPk°n that °f defendW their country.
has seen more of the students leaving
lavin
fUtUre months will find more and still
Ed nh °Wn their bo°ks for rifles. But through
almo-'f010 WiU C°me tlu'ou£h> weakened perhaps.,
always hertiin> but Sti11
still victorious
ys has been. Hail to thee, Alma Mater!
PVT. CARPENTER ON LEAVE to the fighting.
■Private Harley Qarpenter, who'
was on leave from Fort Belvoir in
int° Reed« Hall
for a Short visit ond evening.
week.
Harley said the Army last
isn’t so bad.
y life
Contribute to the Red Cross
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the spectator
ged Raiders Swamp
Fredonia to win
Second Home Game
Page Three
Edinboro Swimmers
I Ducked in First Meet
Last Friday afternoon the swim
Last Saturday night the Red
ming team traveled to New Wil
paiders opened the second half of
mington where they met and were
he current basketball season by de
defeated by the team of Westmin
feating the quintet from Fredo.iia
ster College by the score of 55-20.
formal of Fredonia, New York, by
Perhaps the outstanding Raiders
' score of 57-20.
Utilizing a fas:
of the day were Schlindwein, Linberg, and Barohn.
Mickey came
break and with Walsh sinking seven
out first in diving with a total score
field goals and two fouls in the sec
of 103.59, and he also captured a
ond hailf, ^e home team was nevex
second
place in the 150-yd. breast
really pushed.
stroke. Linberg and Barohn were
The game started out slowly in a
each responsible for seconds, Walt
half-filled gym, and Fredonia suc
in the 150-yd. backstroke, and Bar
ceeded in scoring first after several
ohn in the 60-yd. dash. Dorn bach
minutes of ball handling. Fuller
also
accounted for a second place,
quickly retaliated, but a few sec
garnering his three points in the 100onds later Fitzpatrick, the visitors
yd. dash. Rockwell placed third in
high scorer for the evening, made a
the 220- and 440-yd. freestyle events,
foul shot to put them ahead once
and Eisaman was third in the 60more. Foul shots by laderosa and
yd. dash.
Fuller, field goals by Casoli and Art
This was the team’s initial meet
while the New Yorkers were sink
of the season, and the results are
ing two, put the Raiders ahead 11-7
more favorable than the score des
at the end of the first period. Casoli
ignates. Mr. McNees is the coach
The Girls Hockey Tea m of Edinboro State Teachers College,
paced the second quarter scoring
this year, and he has succeeded in
which won six games out of seven played with other colleges dur
whipping his small squad into a team
with six points, and the half ended
ing the past season.
Miss Nettie Mai Ruttie is the coach.
worth reckoning with.
with Edinboro1 out in front 26-18.
Front row, left to right:
June
Hostetler, Edinboro; Viola
This afternoon the squad will swim
The third quarter saw quite a bit
Mead, Edinboro. Alice Sewall, New Castle; Sybil Millspaw, Corry;
against the Allegheny team at Alle
of scoring on both sides, but the
Beatrice Kusner, Springboro; Thelma Pieper, Union City.
gheny College in Meadvillu
Raiders held their own and sank fif
Second row, left to right:
Jean Manwaring, Bear Lake; Ruth
teen points while holding Fredonia
Samkowski, Union City; Margaret Cafiisch, Union City; Esther Es
to 6. In the final quarter, the pace
CONSTITUTION RATIFIED
tock, Cranesville; Marjorie Hall, Edinboro; Phyllis Myers, Erie.
really began to tell; MacGill of Fre
Third row, left to right:
Audrey Bacon, Union City; Alida
donia sank the first bucket, and it
At a recent meeting the Student
Smith, Girard; Lucille Marti, Girard; Dorothy Watson, Meadville.
Council ratified the constitution
was not until eight minutes later
Top row, left to right:
Eleanor Glenn, Meadville; Arlene Mc
which
the
Edinboro delegates
with only two minutes left in the
Intire, Conneaut Lake.
brought back from the convention of
game that the visitors were able to
find tee hoop again. In the meancation, of Don Walbridge. Bill Dove student governments of State Teach
time, the Raiders, following Andy Students Rustle,
had employment with the Warren ers Colleges held at Millersville. This
means that Edinboro will have a part
Tank Car of Warren.
Walsh, who accounted for eight
the activities of the Associated
more points, rang up a grand total
Tussle over Xmas The girls too, did their share of inStudent
Governments of the State
of 16 points for the period, bringtoil. A few of these girls were Mary
ing the final score to 57-29.
Claire Wild, who worked in the Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania.
The main objectives of this associ
Did you notice how much more Boston Store; Margaret Ellwanger,
Edinboro 'lineup for the game was:
ation are to promote cooperation
efficiently
the
industrial
and
com
*
who
also
worked
in
a
store;
Suzanne
FG F T
among the students, faculties, and
Casoli, f
8 0 16 mercial establishments in this state/ Sack, who had employment as a administrations of the colleges, to
12
4 functioned during Christmas vaca waitress, and Margaret Davis, who promote the development of more
Fuller, f
4 2 10 tion? This condition was due to the was employed as a salegirl in a cloth democratic student governments, and
laderosa, c
2 2
7 fact that duiing vacaton a consid ing store.
Soseia, g
to provide for the unification of ac
Walsh, g
8 2 18 erable number of Edinboro studenttion among the various State Teach
10
2 found employment and helped to
Bonnett, f
ers Colleges.
—Buy Defense Bonds—
24 9 57 smoot’: the holiday confusions.
Totals
Two of the boys were employed as 4------Substitutes: McCoy, Parker, Mc
Intosh, Springer, Bohn, Wailbridge. lumberjacks, George; Hills, who
worked for Hills & Sons Timber com
pany near Springfield, and Clint
Stubbe, who drove tractor for the
A. Stubbe Lumber company at North
Girard. The Union City Cooperative
association, dealers in feed and farm
The Erie Chapter of the Edinboro
^■Umni association will hold its an- supplies, had the assistance of Dick
Jenkins over the holidays. The post I TRASK PRESCOTT & RICHARDSON CO.
flual Turkey Dinner at the Luther offices of the district enjoyed the
^morial church in Erie on TkursERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
services of several of the fellows.
day> February 12, at six thirty
Leo
Harkins
worked
in the Erie post
o’clock.
office. Art laderosa, Howie Griffin,
^'ss Celestia Hershey, former
and Dave Philips worked in the post
®uPervisor of student teaching in
office at Bradford. Danny Casoli did
and now active member of many iiis bit for national defense by work
Erie’s civic organizations, will be ing for the Jones & Laughlin Steel
guest of honor. This year the corporation in Aliquippa. The Wal
?
dinner entertainment, planned
bridge Coal and Coke company was
y the Alpha Psi Omega fraternity,
the employer, during Christmas va
11 he held in the dining room.
Edinboro Alumni Dinner
the spectator
Page Four
Good Name in
Man and^Woman,
Dear My Lord-
All Students Please Copy
Registration for the second semester will take place on cam?
January
in Normal
Hall:
includesafter
all classes.
- -2,
Late 23,
registration
fees
will this
be charged
January 26th, IS"
according to a release from the Bursar’s office.
The semester examination schedule begins on Saturday, Janu
ary 17, and will continue through Thursday, January 22.
New Women’s Rules
To Go Into Effect
Later Hours Are Approved p
President Van Houten y
The new regulations for women>&
Did you ever wonder how some
hours
have been formulated. They
people got the names they have?
will go into effect at the beginning
We don’t pretend to know, but we
Edinboro Faculty
of the second semester. A copy of
looked over a roster of Edinboro stu Edinboro Soldiers
Member On Council them is now in the hands of each
dents and let our imagination ramwoman student.
In
Armed
Service
ble, and here’s what happened:
then,
Work on these rules began early
One name is Bohn, but
Edinboro State Teachers College
We
’
d
in
the spring when the Haven House
there’s some flesh there too.
Twenty-one men who were stu has the distinct honor of having a
—, Springer was more like a year dents at Edinboro State Teachers member of its faculty chosen to re Council met with Miss Brown for a
say
ling. One of our student teachers College within the last two years are present the teachers colleges of the discussion of standing regulations
is Sto-ops, but he doesn’t. Walbridge now in army centers in 12 different state upon the newly formed Penn , that needed changing and others that
should be added.
This fall with
is two things and he’s neither. Tut- states and one foreign country.
sylvania State Science Council. Dr.
The men represent stations rang John C. Johnson, who will also re Helen Williams as president and
tie means nothing to us, but it
rhymes with scuttle. O;tis is also ing from Spokane, Wash., and Fres present the Pennsylvania Academy Marie Allen as secretary a repre
Should we no, Cal., to Dutch Guiana.
sentative group of Off-Campus anl
free and twenty-one.
of Science at the meetings, was ap On-Campus girls met to draft the
term Mary Claire’s name appro
They are, Richard Benson, Green pointed in September, 1941.
ves, but
priate?
Manwaring?
final rules.
These were then ap
ville, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; John
The function of the Council is to proved by Dr. Van Houten.
what?
Bleech, Warren, Montgomery, Ala.;
The complete rules will be pub
For gentile Oliver, Sou’ Wester James Brown, Erie, Spokane, Wash.; work out a state-wide science pro
would be more fitting. On this cam- Harley Carpenter, Meadville, Fort gram for the training and certifica lished in the next Handbook.
pus one can yell “Damits” and not1 Belvoir, Tex.; Steve Crunick, Can tion of science teachers. The State
be cussing. The Misses Harshman? 1 onsburg, Victoria Field, Tex.; John Council also works with the Nation VALLANCE-DAMITS
At any rate they’re women and may Demiankow, Erie, Fort Story, Va.; al Council for the purpose of insti
be the whole name is wrong. Mor Norman Dilley, Franklin, Camp Lee, tuting a standard curriculum for sci
(Continued from Page One)
rison’s no Orr; he’s pure metal. His Va.; Walter Gesin, East Hickory, ence teachers of the whole country. editor of the Spectator last year and
name is Bloch; he had a head, but Scott Field, Ill.
Six prominent men from the sci its present business manager, mem
he’s not what you’re thinking. Bon
Donald Granahan, Erie, Maxwell ence departments of leading col ber of the Dramatic and ScaRAb
net? Well, he needs one after that
Field, Ala.; Raymond Graves, Spring- leges of the state form the rest of I Clubs.
haircut. His name is Aiton, and he boro, Indiantown Gap, Pa.; Robert the Council. All the state-wide sci
usually is when he gets a chance.
Hahn Manheim, Ellington Field, entific societies—the mathematical,
The Christmas Vespers and dinner
he’s the man with the eyes, and his Tex.; Robert Kaufman, Cambridge chemistry, physical, and bio-logical—
were very well attende dthis year,
first name is Chester; figure it out.
Springs, Montgomery, Ala.; John are represented by the members.
with 700 people at the first and 400
Harriet isn’t a Hunter anymore; she’s Keller, Edinboro, Fresno, Cal.; Ponat the second.
already found him. David isn’t so
ziano Manning, Brockway, Scott MR. OFFNER
tiny. Her name is Devlin and she
Field, Ill.; Darwin Miller, Meadville,
usually is. If Dove means birdlike, Camp Wheeler, Ga.; Walter Nissen,
(Continued from Page One)
|
Win A
Well! Wonder what Miss Fisher is
Erie, Tulsa, Okla.; Carmen Seltzer,
Mr.
Offner
is
majoring
in
Teach
fishing for. We have on this campus Union City, Lowry Field, Colo.; Wal
ers College Education. His courses
a real genuine article and his first
lace
Skelton,
Edinboro,
Jacksonville,
name is Bud. Eleanor Rose, not so Fla.; John Swift, Edinboro, British will deal mostly with the field of
Teachers College Administration, and
tall. Ware? We think she will.
Guiana; Guy Taylor, Pittsburgh, the thesis he will be required to write
Camp Lee, Va.; John Wolfe, Warren, will be in the area of Teachers Col
“DEAR BRUTUS” . . .
Camp Croft, S. C.; Fred Casoli’
lege Curricula.
(Continued from Page One)
Montgomery, Ala.
Students and faculty alike will
and find it consistently occupied by
miss his friendly grin and helping
COMPLIMENTS |
one Bess Swaney at every rehearsal,
hand in the Dean of Instruction’s
isn’t it Sally?
OF
office, but everything is for the best.
If you have noticed a sudden
Still, it is going to feel mighty
superfluous Harvard accent blossom
Ensign Paul Thompson, D-V (G) strange for a while to meet him and
ing out on campus it is just because
one must not say can’t, aunt and U. S. N. R., will be at Edinboro up- say “Hello, Dr. Offner.”
oni Thursday, January 15, from 11:00
plant with .a harsh American “a”,
but must soften it subtley with a to 12:00 in Dr. Hiskey’s classroom
British “a”. Sholly not only has to talk to junior and senior boys uptrouble with his a’s, but since he oni the advantages of joining the
has some scenes with Lady Caroline, United States Naval Reserve.
If the young men decide to sign
whose every “r” is a “w”, found
himself saying “all wight”. If Chris up they will be permitted to finish
appears to stagger and weave with their four years of college work be
his tray as he enters the dining room fore being called for actual service.
no doubt it is just because he is It may be necessary for them to take
practicing for the scene where he a summer session training course
enacts the part of an artist who- has before their time is up.
had the proverbial one too many.
So you see that rehearsals have not
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The Spectator
THE VOICE OF STUDENT OPINION
VOL. IX—No. 4
ED.NBORO
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDJNBORO. pa.
president Honors
Sheean Lecture Well
Sheean At Dinner Received By Audience
County Newspapermen, Lecture
Vincent Sheean, noted author,
Committee Present At
traveler, and war news analyst, ap
Evening Affair
peared upon the stage of Edinboro’s
president and Mrs. L. H. Van
Houten were hosts at a dinner given
in Haven Hall dining room at 6:00
p. m., Monday, January 12, in hon
or of Vincent Sheean.
Local and county newspapermen
were invited to attend, as were those
of the faculty who are on the Lec
ture-Entertainment course commit
tee.
Those journalists present in
cluded Mr. Geo. S. Welker of The
Independent, Edinboro; Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Conrath of The News, Al
bion; Mr. Robert S. Bates, of The
Tribune Republican, Meadville; and
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Lombard
with Miss Condra, guest, of The
Journal, Corry.
Miss Ludgate, Miss Wilson. Miss
Skinner, Dr. and Mrs. Mudge, Miss
Brown, Miss Pettit and Mis Baron
consisted those of the faculty pres
ent. Mr. and Mrs. Zahniser were
invited but were unable to attend be
cause of an extension class of Mr.
Zahniser’s.
Vincent Sheean lectured in the col
lege auditorium immediately follow
ing the dinner.
BARRIE’S PLAY “DEAR BRUTUS”
READIED FOR FRIDAY EVENING
Mr. Offner, Family
Leaving January 30
Where He Will Complete
Work for Ph. D. Degree
Mr. Sheean was introduced by Mr.
William Lombard, managing editor
of the Corry Daily Journal.
A house of over 400 people, limitVallance - Damits
ed almost to half by the icy condition of the sleet-covered highways,
Mr. John Edward Damits, eldest listened attentively to Mr. Sheean’s
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Damits, remarks and diagnosis of the war
°f Coraopolis, was married to Miss situation. He outlined the Japan
Louise Marion Variance, only daugh ese territorial expansion policy which
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blake . began way back in 1894 with the acVallance, of Bronte, Ontario, Can- quisition of a few islands and w.cich
ada, and Gowanda, N. Y., in a quiet has continued up to the present day.
ceremony in the chapel of St. Paul’s | His predictions for the future in
Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario.
The cluded the fall of Singapore within
wedding was an event1 of September a week or ten days, then the ulti5> 1941, at 7:30 in the evening, with mate seizure of the Dutch East
the immediate families of the Indies. The war would be a long,
hard one, he said; and only fools
ride and groom present.
bride graduated from Edin- would think otherwise.
boi‘o State Teachers College in May,
Mr. Sheean deplored the cheerful
1 9^1. The groom attended Carnegie optimism of the headlines of the
ech and Edinboro, where he is now daily papers which might cause us to
a junior.
soften up in our attitude and also
Damits left Thursday night bring us a cropper one of these days.
°r Coraopolis to see his parents, Inflation is bound to rise and the
eu Friday he will go to Toronto standard of living to fall; with these
Part with his wife. Monday Ed. concluding remarks he sat down, to
3 having for Texas after having en- loud, appreciative applause.
Air Corps.
j ,jd was very active in school, havDr. Van Houten is going to Har
I L' Won. the scenery award in the risburg Thursday and will not return
Ouriiament of plays one year, was
till some time Friday evening.
(Continued on Page Four)
Friday Night
JANUARY 14, 1942
new auditorium last Monday night
for two solid hours of lecturing and
answering questions.
His topic of
the night was “War in the Far East.” Destination Colurribia University
Vincent Sheean
“Dear Brutus”
Edinboro Players Hard At Work
Oh Feature Presentation
Of the Year
DATE IS JANUARY 16
Are you sunk in the depths of des
pair and lost in the slough of work
piled high as the end of the sem
ester looms apprehensively ahead of
you? Do you feel that there is no
way out and that you are caught in
a maze of things you ought not to
have done? Has the utterly impos
sible, yet perhaps slightly cheering
thought entered your mind that if
(you could have a second chance you
would do things differently—oh, yes,
quite differently?
Indeed timely
then is the theme of Dear Brutus, a
play by J. M. Barrie which is being
presented by the Edinboro Players
Friday evening, January 16, in the
New College Auditorium. This play
deals with the very possibilities of
a second chance and what we fool
Dean of Instruction H. L. Offner
is leaving for Columbia University
upon the morning of January 30th
to take up residence there and finish
his work for his Ph. D. degree. The
leave of absence which was granted
to Mr. Offner by the Board of Trus
tees becomes effective February 1
and continues until September 1,
1942.
Mr. Offner’s family will accompany
him to New York City where their
home for the next seven months will
be at apartment 401, Grant Hall, 514
West 122nd street.
Jean Offner,
who has attended Edinboro during
the first semester, will continue her
studies at Barnard College, a separ
ate division of Columbia University
The students and faculty of
devoted exclusively to women.
the college wish to extend their
Asked whether he had any state
deepest sympathy to Miss Ruk
ment to make, Mr. Offner replied:
tie in the recent death of her
“I extend to everyone in Edinboro
mother.
my best wishes for success during
my absence. I sincerely mean that mortals would do if the opportunity
—students, faculty, and everyone
were given to us.
else.”
Seriously speaking, however,Dear
(Continued on Page Four)
Brutus is a great dramatization wor
thy of your consideration and pat
ronage.
After a number of dis
Red Cross Benefit
couraging rehearsals the play has be
to take definite shape and prom
Bali Games Tonight gun
ises to be one of the Edinboro Play
ers’ most outstanding productions.
A joint college-high school faculty r_
_ _____
___ for
_____
The
scenery
Dear Brutus is’ exteam will play a basketball game with; tremeiy difficult, but is being capably
a select Community Club team as the i handled by Wilbur Sloan and Carol
opening
sning feature oi a gala
g<
night at Davis and will undoubtedly prove
:he cohere gym Wednesday night, quite effective.
January 14, benefit of the American
The cast and personnel have been
Sox Harrison’s Red working diligently, quite enthusiastic
Red Cro; s.
Raiders will play a first-line team in the thought that they are the first
from Erie as the second feature of to play on the stage of the new audi
torium.
They noticed immediately
the program.
Lili Bohn, Otis White and Stuart the difference the size of the stage
Achelson will be drawn from the made in the timing of speeches an
Ask anyone in the cast
ranks of the student teachers to re action.
present the college. The Erie team about the hopeless feeling of sud
which will play the varsity has not denly finding oneself in an entirely
foreign part of the stage—-not at a
yet been selected.
All students will be required to where one should have been after
produce twenty-five, cents at the completing action. It is indeed door, and the adults (that doesn’t concerting to be ready to collapse
mean us) fifty cents. Fun starts at into a chair at a dramatic moment
(Continued on Page Four)
8:00.
—
the spectator
Page Two
haven’s ravin’s
The Spectator
Frank Holowach
Editor
..................... Warren Anna
Assistant Editor ..
F. L. LaBounty
Faculty Advisor ..
.........................
Richard
Whit ehill
Advertising
Jack Mensinger
Sports Editor
Clinton Thomas
Features
Violet Nellis
Exchange Editor
Jack
Aiton,
Elaine
Harshman,
Jean
Contributors: ----Offner, Sally Wilson, Margaret Caflisch, Pat Masterson,
Chester Eisaman, Elaine Highfield, Gene Kaminski,
Carol Davis, Carmon Fiorelli, Margaret Kingsley, Phyl
lis Meyers, Ralph Santo, Natalie Jacobson, Marie Allen
Smith, Audrey Bacon.
The War Years
When falling bombs and spurting blood at Pearl
Harbor told the youth of America that another war
was come, the towers of old Normal and the walls o
Music Hall did not start in apprehension or begin shak
ing with fear and terror at the knowledge that war was
here, that war with its sacrifices and horrors, its tears
and pain, its partings and its leave-takings had once
again struck the quiet campus of Edinboro College.
No, the old buildings did not quake and tremble with
fear; instead they looked as if they had gone through
all this before.
And so they have. This new World War makes
the fourth war that Edinboro College has experienced,
. the fourth one of those of its country’s history. Edin
boro1 has weathered the three other conflicts success
fully and triumphantly; the fourth must go by the
boards the same as the others.
War is then something not new and strange to this
campus.
Three times before has it seen the grim
hand of war reach into its halls and classrooms to snatch
the young men away from their business of books and
leave only girlish voices and feminine foot-steps to
echo along the stone walks. And always before Edin
boro has weathered the demands and toil and sacrifice
and bloodshed always involved in such a thing as war;
always before have the young men come back to mount
the stairs of Normal, to browse in the library, to walk
among the trees of the campus, to mull over books and
recite in the classrooms; always before has the sign
ing of peace found the college still functioning, still
standing in its accustomed place.
The first time war struck Edinboro the school was
barely three and one-half months old. Its beginnings
preceded the flame and recoil of the guns of Fort
Sumter only by the difference between the days of
January 26 and April 12 in the year 1861. The Civil
War thrust upon Edinboro its worst going in all of
its 81 years of life, for the young, inexperienced,
newly-born school lacked the strength, the maturity,
the wisdom that only time could give it. But Appo
mattox Courthouse found the school still upon its feet,
youthful, shaky, undernourished feet though they were.
The second war came upon an Edinboro better
fitted to cope with its destiny, for precious time had
been granted it to grow and prosper before the slo
gan “Remember the Maine!” rang throughout the na
tion. The marks left this time did not take long to'
erase and the college soon reverted to normal.
The third April that brought not apple blossoms
but battle drums and marching feet to the country
marked a time when almost the entire enrollment of
the college was feminine, when many of the present
college faculty were engaged in the business of war,
when collegiate athletics were dropped, year books
cancelled, dormitory and boarding houses deserted
President Van Houten, Dr. Christensen, Mr. Bates *and
Mr. McNees were in where, as one astonished soldier
• gasped “Why, a man can get killed here!”; while others
of the faculty were actively engaged in other phases
of the war effort. But the Armistice of November 11
1918, still found shouting, hoarse-voiced students in
Phi Sig Sez:
(PHI SIGMA PI)
The embryo Phi Sigma Pi Painte*s
and interior decorators, under the
sterling leadership of Otis White
fraternity president, have neai y
completed the shining-up and dec
orating of their new room. Curtains
are the only things lacking now, and
several of the members are off
searching for suggestions and inspi
ration.
The student teachers are getting
ready to pull up their stakes and
depart from their claims, making
way for the incoming ones.
The
home-coming Phi Sigs include Hal
oid Bon, Earle Madigan, Harold
Powers, Harold Schreckengost, Bob
Ulrich and Dan Wolchik.
Florian
Florek will return only to collect his
diploma and to bid farewell to his
Alma Mater.
Almost all activities are at a
standstill due to the approaching
jsemester exams.
Immediately fol
lowing them will be the annual
pledging parties.
Kappa Komment
(Kappa Delta Phi)
First of all this columnist wishes
to deviate from the normal far
enough to toss a garland to the
swimming team and to the basket
ball team for their fine showings
Incidentally, with the exception of
two fellows, all of the point-getters
on the swimming team were Kappa
Delts.
Here’s hoping you’ll have a speedy
recovery, Doucie, now that you are
home again. From the reports that
Bloch and Whitehill brought back
after their visit with you, we’re be
ginning to doubt if we still have a
whole faculty advisor left or if you
left the better part of you in the
hospital.
Time for another Senior toe-nail
sketch, so' here we go—comes from
Erie, swims, used to sing, trans
ferred to art in his sophomore year
when he roomed with Hahn (poor
guy), curly-haired blonde, didn’t
start at first of semester, but came
here a few weeks ago after changhis ™ind> another G E fugitive,
goes with the daughter of Edin
boro’s “mayor”—none other than
Jimmy Hill.
If anybody is still reading this,
‘hey had better stop for this is
THE
END.
Then came the night when “art for art’s sake>.
suddenly took flight, and the feminine members Of
the junior crafts class began in earnest their gyni.
nasties with saws, hammers, and nails, no lessl....^
C Wild discovered that she couldn t drive a straight
nail after one coke (for further details on this story
see Alice Sewall or Olga Hubiak)....... and of course
there was that part of the dormitory who were in
such ’loving moods, because a shop class in a dormitory sounds somewhat like an army of termites with
an occasional bomb thrown in for effect.
“They Drive by Night” or “Hold Back the Dawn”
has nothing on Edinboro-, come semester’s....but that’s
life....or art. The nicest display of feminine forth
tude was the day that Sewall met in combat with, of
all things, a crow....only the crow was too willing to
go more than half way, and Alice quickly surrendered
the field....What we’d like to know is w.-.at “Pie”Ap.
pleby did to the thing....it was found dead in her room
the ne.it morning....Well, far be it from us to omit
the names of the happier dames of the dorm, so to
peak....for instance....E. Highfield....so?....but wait....a
sad thing it would be if we failed to call to your
attention the fact that there are two more nam.s to
add to the “line’s busy” list....Louise Hodnick and
Edna Zimmer....and the latest flash....Dotty Williams
has now joined the ranks of the Kappas and Al.tloch
is out one Xmas present
We’ll, we haven’t heard any more about the mice
situation from down Katie Hippie’s way, but she did
suggest to Alice Sewall that she feed “her” crow....
somehow the idea didn’t appeal to Sewall....she sound
ed a retreat....and so will we.
feeder’s digest
Greetings and salutations, dear readers. It seems
that the faculty will be on the aggressive, in a weea,
for they are going to give us the works, more com
monly and horribly known as “the Exams”. This at
tack is sure to cause quite a bit of chatter and ? •
Flash!!
Flash!!—Your correspondent has been
peeking through the proverbial keyhole again and
caught wind of the fact that the old song, “Sweet Sue
has become the rhythmical heart-beat of a certain
carrot-topped individual in Reeder. Could it be that
this war situation is drawing them together, or is 1
that certain thing? ?
My! My! My!! Did you notice how the sno'T
weather has affected the lassies in Haven? One wou
think, at a glance, that someone had opened the doon
thus permitting a few delicate, shapely snowflakes 1
drift in; and I do mean DRIFT.
Did any of you notice the change in a cefl-11Junior of note and wit, not only this last week-en •
out any such occcasion when his woman visits?
wonder what this next semester will bring, when ’
ainty feet again trod the velvety surface °
campus? ? Time alone win telL
Edinboro to welcome it, students who were iore‘u"T
t e flow of riotous post-war college
. .|Cj
s learned to college during the twenties. Thus'va"ay two decades and four years more.
tcli
dinboro lax in her contributions to the forces PJ®
Already 26 of her former stud
nnmkenSaSed in the art of soldiering, 26 who 1
whn ei an}on&* themselves those of the older ‘
bark
8'^ven UP their careers of normal h®
monthUPk°n that °f defendW their country.
has seen more of the students leaving
lavin
fUtUre months will find more and still
Ed nh °Wn their bo°ks for rifles. But through
almo-'f010 WiU C°me tlu'ou£h> weakened perhaps.,
always hertiin> but Sti11
still victorious
ys has been. Hail to thee, Alma Mater!
PVT. CARPENTER ON LEAVE to the fighting.
■Private Harley Qarpenter, who'
was on leave from Fort Belvoir in
int° Reed« Hall
for a Short visit ond evening.
week.
Harley said the Army last
isn’t so bad.
y life
Contribute to the Red Cross
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the spectator
ged Raiders Swamp
Fredonia to win
Second Home Game
Page Three
Edinboro Swimmers
I Ducked in First Meet
Last Friday afternoon the swim
Last Saturday night the Red
ming team traveled to New Wil
paiders opened the second half of
mington where they met and were
he current basketball season by de
defeated by the team of Westmin
feating the quintet from Fredo.iia
ster College by the score of 55-20.
formal of Fredonia, New York, by
Perhaps the outstanding Raiders
' score of 57-20.
Utilizing a fas:
of the day were Schlindwein, Linberg, and Barohn.
Mickey came
break and with Walsh sinking seven
out first in diving with a total score
field goals and two fouls in the sec
of 103.59, and he also captured a
ond hailf, ^e home team was nevex
second
place in the 150-yd. breast
really pushed.
stroke. Linberg and Barohn were
The game started out slowly in a
each responsible for seconds, Walt
half-filled gym, and Fredonia suc
in the 150-yd. backstroke, and Bar
ceeded in scoring first after several
ohn in the 60-yd. dash. Dorn bach
minutes of ball handling. Fuller
also
accounted for a second place,
quickly retaliated, but a few sec
garnering his three points in the 100onds later Fitzpatrick, the visitors
yd. dash. Rockwell placed third in
high scorer for the evening, made a
the 220- and 440-yd. freestyle events,
foul shot to put them ahead once
and Eisaman was third in the 60more. Foul shots by laderosa and
yd. dash.
Fuller, field goals by Casoli and Art
This was the team’s initial meet
while the New Yorkers were sink
of the season, and the results are
ing two, put the Raiders ahead 11-7
more favorable than the score des
at the end of the first period. Casoli
ignates. Mr. McNees is the coach
The Girls Hockey Tea m of Edinboro State Teachers College,
paced the second quarter scoring
this year, and he has succeeded in
which won six games out of seven played with other colleges dur
whipping his small squad into a team
with six points, and the half ended
ing the past season.
Miss Nettie Mai Ruttie is the coach.
worth reckoning with.
with Edinboro1 out in front 26-18.
Front row, left to right:
June
Hostetler, Edinboro; Viola
This afternoon the squad will swim
The third quarter saw quite a bit
Mead, Edinboro. Alice Sewall, New Castle; Sybil Millspaw, Corry;
against the Allegheny team at Alle
of scoring on both sides, but the
Beatrice Kusner, Springboro; Thelma Pieper, Union City.
gheny College in Meadvillu
Raiders held their own and sank fif
Second row, left to right:
Jean Manwaring, Bear Lake; Ruth
teen points while holding Fredonia
Samkowski, Union City; Margaret Cafiisch, Union City; Esther Es
to 6. In the final quarter, the pace
CONSTITUTION RATIFIED
tock, Cranesville; Marjorie Hall, Edinboro; Phyllis Myers, Erie.
really began to tell; MacGill of Fre
Third row, left to right:
Audrey Bacon, Union City; Alida
donia sank the first bucket, and it
At a recent meeting the Student
Smith, Girard; Lucille Marti, Girard; Dorothy Watson, Meadville.
Council ratified the constitution
was not until eight minutes later
Top row, left to right:
Eleanor Glenn, Meadville; Arlene Mc
which
the
Edinboro delegates
with only two minutes left in the
Intire, Conneaut Lake.
brought back from the convention of
game that the visitors were able to
find tee hoop again. In the meancation, of Don Walbridge. Bill Dove student governments of State Teach
time, the Raiders, following Andy Students Rustle,
had employment with the Warren ers Colleges held at Millersville. This
means that Edinboro will have a part
Tank Car of Warren.
Walsh, who accounted for eight
the activities of the Associated
more points, rang up a grand total
Tussle over Xmas The girls too, did their share of inStudent
Governments of the State
of 16 points for the period, bringtoil. A few of these girls were Mary
ing the final score to 57-29.
Claire Wild, who worked in the Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania.
The main objectives of this associ
Did you notice how much more Boston Store; Margaret Ellwanger,
Edinboro 'lineup for the game was:
ation are to promote cooperation
efficiently
the
industrial
and
com
*
who
also
worked
in
a
store;
Suzanne
FG F T
among the students, faculties, and
Casoli, f
8 0 16 mercial establishments in this state/ Sack, who had employment as a administrations of the colleges, to
12
4 functioned during Christmas vaca waitress, and Margaret Davis, who promote the development of more
Fuller, f
4 2 10 tion? This condition was due to the was employed as a salegirl in a cloth democratic student governments, and
laderosa, c
2 2
7 fact that duiing vacaton a consid ing store.
Soseia, g
to provide for the unification of ac
Walsh, g
8 2 18 erable number of Edinboro studenttion among the various State Teach
10
2 found employment and helped to
Bonnett, f
ers Colleges.
—Buy Defense Bonds—
24 9 57 smoot’: the holiday confusions.
Totals
Two of the boys were employed as 4------Substitutes: McCoy, Parker, Mc
Intosh, Springer, Bohn, Wailbridge. lumberjacks, George; Hills, who
worked for Hills & Sons Timber com
pany near Springfield, and Clint
Stubbe, who drove tractor for the
A. Stubbe Lumber company at North
Girard. The Union City Cooperative
association, dealers in feed and farm
The Erie Chapter of the Edinboro
^■Umni association will hold its an- supplies, had the assistance of Dick
Jenkins over the holidays. The post I TRASK PRESCOTT & RICHARDSON CO.
flual Turkey Dinner at the Luther offices of the district enjoyed the
^morial church in Erie on TkursERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
services of several of the fellows.
day> February 12, at six thirty
Leo
Harkins
worked
in the Erie post
o’clock.
office. Art laderosa, Howie Griffin,
^'ss Celestia Hershey, former
and Dave Philips worked in the post
®uPervisor of student teaching in
office at Bradford. Danny Casoli did
and now active member of many iiis bit for national defense by work
Erie’s civic organizations, will be ing for the Jones & Laughlin Steel
guest of honor. This year the corporation in Aliquippa. The Wal
?
dinner entertainment, planned
bridge Coal and Coke company was
y the Alpha Psi Omega fraternity,
the employer, during Christmas va
11 he held in the dining room.
Edinboro Alumni Dinner
the spectator
Page Four
Good Name in
Man and^Woman,
Dear My Lord-
All Students Please Copy
Registration for the second semester will take place on cam?
January
in Normal
Hall:
includesafter
all classes.
- -2,
Late 23,
registration
fees
will this
be charged
January 26th, IS"
according to a release from the Bursar’s office.
The semester examination schedule begins on Saturday, Janu
ary 17, and will continue through Thursday, January 22.
New Women’s Rules
To Go Into Effect
Later Hours Are Approved p
President Van Houten y
The new regulations for women>&
Did you ever wonder how some
hours
have been formulated. They
people got the names they have?
will go into effect at the beginning
We don’t pretend to know, but we
Edinboro Faculty
of the second semester. A copy of
looked over a roster of Edinboro stu Edinboro Soldiers
Member On Council them is now in the hands of each
dents and let our imagination ramwoman student.
In
Armed
Service
ble, and here’s what happened:
then,
Work on these rules began early
One name is Bohn, but
Edinboro State Teachers College
We
’
d
in
the spring when the Haven House
there’s some flesh there too.
Twenty-one men who were stu has the distinct honor of having a
—, Springer was more like a year dents at Edinboro State Teachers member of its faculty chosen to re Council met with Miss Brown for a
say
ling. One of our student teachers College within the last two years are present the teachers colleges of the discussion of standing regulations
is Sto-ops, but he doesn’t. Walbridge now in army centers in 12 different state upon the newly formed Penn , that needed changing and others that
should be added.
This fall with
is two things and he’s neither. Tut- states and one foreign country.
sylvania State Science Council. Dr.
The men represent stations rang John C. Johnson, who will also re Helen Williams as president and
tie means nothing to us, but it
rhymes with scuttle. O;tis is also ing from Spokane, Wash., and Fres present the Pennsylvania Academy Marie Allen as secretary a repre
Should we no, Cal., to Dutch Guiana.
sentative group of Off-Campus anl
free and twenty-one.
of Science at the meetings, was ap On-Campus girls met to draft the
term Mary Claire’s name appro
They are, Richard Benson, Green pointed in September, 1941.
ves, but
priate?
Manwaring?
final rules.
These were then ap
ville, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; John
The function of the Council is to proved by Dr. Van Houten.
what?
Bleech, Warren, Montgomery, Ala.;
The complete rules will be pub
For gentile Oliver, Sou’ Wester James Brown, Erie, Spokane, Wash.; work out a state-wide science pro
would be more fitting. On this cam- Harley Carpenter, Meadville, Fort gram for the training and certifica lished in the next Handbook.
pus one can yell “Damits” and not1 Belvoir, Tex.; Steve Crunick, Can tion of science teachers. The State
be cussing. The Misses Harshman? 1 onsburg, Victoria Field, Tex.; John Council also works with the Nation VALLANCE-DAMITS
At any rate they’re women and may Demiankow, Erie, Fort Story, Va.; al Council for the purpose of insti
be the whole name is wrong. Mor Norman Dilley, Franklin, Camp Lee, tuting a standard curriculum for sci
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rison’s no Orr; he’s pure metal. His Va.; Walter Gesin, East Hickory, ence teachers of the whole country. editor of the Spectator last year and
name is Bloch; he had a head, but Scott Field, Ill.
Six prominent men from the sci its present business manager, mem
he’s not what you’re thinking. Bon
Donald Granahan, Erie, Maxwell ence departments of leading col ber of the Dramatic and ScaRAb
net? Well, he needs one after that
Field, Ala.; Raymond Graves, Spring- leges of the state form the rest of I Clubs.
haircut. His name is Aiton, and he boro, Indiantown Gap, Pa.; Robert the Council. All the state-wide sci
usually is when he gets a chance.
Hahn Manheim, Ellington Field, entific societies—the mathematical,
The Christmas Vespers and dinner
he’s the man with the eyes, and his Tex.; Robert Kaufman, Cambridge chemistry, physical, and bio-logical—
were very well attende dthis year,
first name is Chester; figure it out.
Springs, Montgomery, Ala.; John are represented by the members.
with 700 people at the first and 400
Harriet isn’t a Hunter anymore; she’s Keller, Edinboro, Fresno, Cal.; Ponat the second.
already found him. David isn’t so
ziano Manning, Brockway, Scott MR. OFFNER
tiny. Her name is Devlin and she
Field, Ill.; Darwin Miller, Meadville,
usually is. If Dove means birdlike, Camp Wheeler, Ga.; Walter Nissen,
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Well! Wonder what Miss Fisher is
Erie, Tulsa, Okla.; Carmen Seltzer,
Mr.
Offner
is
majoring
in
Teach
fishing for. We have on this campus Union City, Lowry Field, Colo.; Wal
ers College Education. His courses
a real genuine article and his first
lace
Skelton,
Edinboro,
Jacksonville,
name is Bud. Eleanor Rose, not so Fla.; John Swift, Edinboro, British will deal mostly with the field of
Teachers College Administration, and
tall. Ware? We think she will.
Guiana; Guy Taylor, Pittsburgh, the thesis he will be required to write
Camp Lee, Va.; John Wolfe, Warren, will be in the area of Teachers Col
“DEAR BRUTUS” . . .
Camp Croft, S. C.; Fred Casoli’
lege Curricula.
(Continued from Page One)
Montgomery, Ala.
Students and faculty alike will
and find it consistently occupied by
miss his friendly grin and helping
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one Bess Swaney at every rehearsal,
hand in the Dean of Instruction’s
isn’t it Sally?
OF
office, but everything is for the best.
If you have noticed a sudden
Still, it is going to feel mighty
superfluous Harvard accent blossom
Ensign Paul Thompson, D-V (G) strange for a while to meet him and
ing out on campus it is just because
one must not say can’t, aunt and U. S. N. R., will be at Edinboro up- say “Hello, Dr. Offner.”
oni Thursday, January 15, from 11:00
plant with .a harsh American “a”,
but must soften it subtley with a to 12:00 in Dr. Hiskey’s classroom
British “a”. Sholly not only has to talk to junior and senior boys uptrouble with his a’s, but since he oni the advantages of joining the
has some scenes with Lady Caroline, United States Naval Reserve.
If the young men decide to sign
whose every “r” is a “w”, found
himself saying “all wight”. If Chris up they will be permitted to finish
appears to stagger and weave with their four years of college work be
his tray as he enters the dining room fore being called for actual service.
no doubt it is just because he is It may be necessary for them to take
practicing for the scene where he a summer session training course
enacts the part of an artist who- has before their time is up.
had the proverbial one too many.
So you see that rehearsals have not
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