149 15 4132 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/fd657f0bf837cee57d3f81f1424c486c.pdf f9144de5d14da8bf11be6ef6bc8cbd98 PDF Text Text Wilkes ·& EACO Vol 3, No. 22. WILKF.S C0LLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Friday, March 31, 1950 EASTER-BUNNY HOP TO FEATURE AMNICOLA STAFF LETTERMAN'S APRIL SHOWERS BALL TO .FEATURE LEE VINCENT'S ORCHESTRA TAP~D MUSIC AND RECORDINGS WORKING HARD ON PICTURE LAYOUT By IRENE JANOSKI Say, guys and gals-know what's ,cookin' tonight besides • CQm? . Nope. Guess again, It's not a sport dance. What? :v ' h I' Ea st B H , N0 diff 'tw · .1.·0U re rig t. ts an er unny · op. erence een '· the two? Hop along to the cafeteria and see. The Student .,Council is sponsoring it-this info was graciously posted by -P~ter Cottontail himself- or was that Danny She~an peaking \ l I I ? . 'h'dm 1:1nder one ortg, pink, f oppy e,a r. At any rate, a multiplication of fun 'is predicted along witli dancing from 9 to 12, sentimental music and that ever 't hirst quenching Punch. Mr. 'Al Jacobs · is Dance Chairman 1p.inch-hitting for ole P. C., with the following students on committees: •Decorations: Con~ie Smith and Jim Tinsley. Music: Wade Hayhurst and Danny Sperman. House: Art Bloom, Al Mt'.narski and Don Follmer. Know something? The music for tonight wi,J.l be tape recorded, rnaking possibl~ a larger variety of songs. Uh-huh-the music was re- corded the night bef ore by 'Student Council men~:bers. This m~ans that a lot of music was, played for m.o re than an,hour on Thursday, just to get it on tape. It also means that · those with twinkrm&: toes are mvited to dance to this stuff every Thursday at .&:?O in the Music Room of Gies Hall. -Did you kno-❖••. that that lush, creamy colored rec_o rder _(which resembles a small piano) Is a latest acquisitjon ~o the ~us~c, Dept? Now you know. Yes, sir, its aversatile lp.iece of equipment - does · everything but boil · water. What, THAT too? THETA DELTA RHO Sorority To Sponsor TO FETE .ATHLETES Bridge Party April 13 The Lettermen will be guests of Theta Delta Rho at the sorority's next regularly scheduled meetin~ meeting on April 11. The meeti;ng will be held at . 7 :30 in the Science Lecture Hall and the iprogram will begin at 8. The.movie "The Rains Came" will be shown. Poli-Sci, me Members Hear of Judge Selection. Mr. Andrew Hourigan, Jr., of the Luzerne ,County Bar Association spoke on the Pennsylvania Plan for . selecting judges before the Poli-Sci classes and IRC Thursday, March 30, at 11:00 a. m. The Pennsylvania Plan will be discussed at the Intercollegiate Conference on Government at Harrisburg on April 14. Wilkes is a member -of. the ICG and will 11ttend the convention with a 25-member delegation. The Pennsylvania Plan is an effort to combine the best features of the elective and M>Pointive systems of selecting judges·. The Plan can . be accomplished only by an amendment to our State Constitution. This new method proposed iby the Pennsy.lvania Bar <would affe<;t the State Supreme and Superior Courts, the courts of record in Philadelphia and Allegheny 'Counties, and county courts throughout the state. The amendment rprovides that judges shall be appointed by the Governor from a panel of three persons nominated ,'by a judicial commission, the judge's tenure subject after one _year to approval by a vote of the !people which will be held not '.b y party ticket but on the judge's record. The juaicial or nomin11,ting commission shall · consist of one judge, three members of the Bar elected by the Bar, and _three lay citizens appointed by the Governor. TETHER TO SPEAK TO -PRE-MED GROUP Dr. Russell K. Tether will !be a guest speaker at the April 13th meeting of the Pre-Med Club. Dr. Tetl}er's topic will be: Federal Health Insurance. . , '.Dr~ Tether is the father of Robert Tether, Wilkes junior, and Biology m~jor. · · Theta Delta Rho, sorority of Wilkes !College, is planning :to hold a bridge party on Thursday; April 13, at 8 p. ·rn. The place will be on the second floor _of the cafeteria and admission will be 65c tax included. 'fhe ,purpose of this .card party is to r~ise sufficient futi.ds for the support of a War Orphan; the adoption of tfii~ child by the sorority wiil be made :possible through the Foster Parents' Plan for Homeless Children. Miss Cathy 'Smith, general chairman of the affair has selected the following COmilnittees: Publicity: Chairman, Phiscilla Swartwood; Dorothy Burayalk, Irene Janoski and Connie Smith. . House: ·Chairman, Barbara Hartley; Nancy Fox, Jeanne Smith and Miriam Long. · Refreshments: Chairman, Elaine Turner; Ann Azat, Blanche Crowder. Clean-Up: Chairman, Car 1 i e Thomas, Connie Olshefski; · Margie Brennish and Dorothy Travis. •Tickets: Chairman, . F r a n c e s· Trembath; Nancy Bolton, Barbara Close and Isabel Sullivan. By CHUCK GLOMAN The Yearbook staff is working on the layout of ;pictures for the 1950 edition. Students who · had their ,p ictures taken ·a t the Barrie studio received proofs from which they chose the ,p icture they wanted tb have in th e "Amnicola". !However, those· students who had pietures taken in the Yearbook office 'wiH not be able to choose the ,pieture they 1p·r ~fer because of the late date that the pictures were taiken. In order to have the Yearbook ready fo; distribution before the end of the spring semester, the .staff had to follow this practice. Last year, so many students de1::i.yed in having their ,p ictures taiken that it was only by sheer effort that the Yearbook was ready before the end of the finals. This year the staff hopes to have time to study for finals, too. FORMER WILKES STlJDENT.S .' HONORED Ronald Edw_ard Savage and Gepr,g e Edward ,Sharnis, who transferred to . Bueknell a.fter completing two years at Wilkes, will be initiated lby the Tau Beta Phi Honorary Engineering Fraternity at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, on .A!pril 12. Mr. Hall, instructQr in the Physics ,Oept., has announced. PEP KIDS PLAN TO REOKGANIZE . Ticket~. costing $2.80, are now ori11 sale Sfor the s forthcoming p k Letterman's Annual April Showers Ba , at ans ouci ar on Friday night, April-14, and featuring one of the valley's leading dance bands-tee Vincent and his orchestra. The affS:ir, which will . last frpm 9 to.l2, is semi-formal with the "no corsages" rule prevailing once again. The males of Wilkes will be relieved to learn that this they year, will have no parking worries for iplenty of parking space has been ,p rovided. Olie Thomas, general chairman, has announced a change in policy this year. Instead of selecting the April Showers Queen from a group of Wilkes coeds, the lettermen hav'e decided that ALL girls should be eli-gible to be chosen ., Queen. The girl does not have to 'be a student at Wilkes.' The committee is sure that the student body approves of this change. A s:p,e cial committee, known only to Dean Ralston, will observe all girls at the dance, and at the designated time, will choose the ·Queen. The following are committee chairmen: Donald Blackenbush, tickets; Jack Semmer, publicity; John Jones, programs; Richard Scrip.p, arrangements; and Chet Molley, orcheSt ra. The lettermen are making exten~ sive preparations in order to make thi.s year's dance one of the biggest social events ever jpll'esented by Wilkes _College, Students are urged to secure tickets from any letter:: man, at the 'bookstore, or at the dance. LEE VINCENT And here's a word of advfoe from the dance coonmittee:. If you want to spend one of the most enjoyable eyenings you've ever had, get yourself a date and plan to hurry on down to ·Sans Souci Park two ·weeks tonight for the April Showers Ball. · PLACEMENT\OFFICE FRESHMEN PLANNING RELEAS~ STATISTICS FUN FOR EVERYBODY The dheerleading squad will hold an reorganization meeting on ,W ednesday, April 12, at 7 IP, m. Gene Bradley, captain of the squad, ,has announced that. the "tryouts" pro- · Wilkes College Placement CentOn Saturday evening, April 27, cedure for this year will be dis- er, operating with the majority 'of the freshman class will sponsor cussed and the date wil be set for its contacts in one of the A' "Dis- the most complete wi~ner roast in tryout to begin. , tress" areas declared by the U. S. the history of Wilkes College at Charlotte ,D avis, Peggy Anthony, Bureau of Employment Security Hanson's at Harvey's Lake. The Tony Popper and Bruce Mackie, the has su!!(:eeded in uncovering 210 evening will be .-·r eplete with hot four seniors of last year's squad ,p art-time jobs for its students and dogs; an impressive assortment of will leave the fate of the new placing 60 ;per cent of the. Febru- trimmings, soft drinks, ·potato Cheerleading team in the hands of ary graduating class. · chips, campus humorists, singing, the ten remaininig members. ProbT'e announcement was ,m ade by dancing, the fruit of the entertain~ ably four new members will be John Chwalek, who released his rnent committee's ingenuity, and chosen to bring the number up to first set of statistics in a report at sheer good fellowship. "All this fourteen again. The veterans of the end of six months as director and someone too" should make the last year's team are: Gene /B radley, of the recently organized Place- night one to remember. The festivcaiptain; Helen Williams, Jerry ment Center. · ities will bJgin at seven o'clock Pauxti~, 'T oni Menegus, Joe ,CherThe news of the success enjoyed and will be open to all Wilkes sturie, An na:belle Perry, Tom Morganj 'b y the center helped considera'.bly dents and their guests. Beryl Colwell, Priscilla Swartwood to ease the tension on the students, After this week, tickets, $1.00 and Charlotte :Davis. ~ho are gra~uating in June and aipiece, will be available from the will ·b e seeking employment. bookstore, the cafeteria, and memLEADS IN "GOLDEN BOY'' At the end of January, a feder!l,l ibers of the frosh General Commitannouncement declared Wilkes- tee. Barre, with at least 12 per cent of Influenced by the large capacity, its workers -out of jobs, as one of strong appetite, and- .weak resis43 "distress" areas that .p ockmark- tance of class President Lesnick, ed U. S. 1prosperl.ty. This report, the Refreeshment Committee under coupled with the statement by edu- the leadership of Grace Ruffin will cational officials that a 25 per cent provide prodigious . quanti_ties of decline in employment possibilities food for the consump,t ion · of the is expected for June graduates, vast throng to be attracted by the caused many students to s:peculate operations of th,e Publicity Comabout their chances for ,g aining · mittee led by Dave Whitney. employment. The Wilkes Pla'tement Center Henri Bush, chairman of the has been extremely fortunate in its Transportation Committee, asks efforts to place students and gradu- anyone who can offer transpodtaates in either part-ti.Jne or full time tion to inform him, Iren~ Janoski; employment. Thomas Vojtek, or Ger~ld Blake. While a good many of the last several graduating classes at Anyone needing transportation • Wilkes have elected to continue may inform the same people. Park;. their education by attending either ing ~pace will be provided for those graduate or professional schools, driving cars. the Placement Center has had to make contacts · about employment possibilities for about 60 per cent ing received daily by the Placement of the graduates. · Center. Plans have been made for sumIn May, rEip·r esentatives from mer employment for Wilkes stu- many of the country's' leading firms I dents. To date, employment has will spend a day on the Wilkes Above are Pat Boyd and Tom Robbins who will portray the roles of been obtained for 35 students andj College campus, interviewing June Loma Moon and' Joe Bonaparte, respectively In the coming Cue 'n' Curtain produc~on · of "Golde!!, Bcty". ~ requests for additional help are ·be- graduates for positions. , i �WILKm COLLEGE BEACON 2 Friday, March 31, 195: , KAMERA WERIES VINCE MACRI Editor-ID-Chief TOM ROBBINS by Ed Bolinski ~tt~Gttt:.•t .t,, •,,_ i;.sz.•,,'$~5(•••~~~; I CHET OMICHINSKI ~IIJ, 9RIF,f ' l'fU: B,ea<!on news anJlQUncer: H !L v e the school becolD,e o ll t s t anding in some field, either through recognized authorities in the teaching field, or by offering the 'b e st all-around progrwm in teach--,::z:a ing, facilities and 1 research. The Question: What suggestions . Featurea Editor Newa Editor do you have for making Wilk'es College more attractive to . local ED TYBURSKI GERTRUDE WILLIAMS and out-of-to~ students, who are Sports Editor Faculty A~viaor trying to choose ·a college ? FRED DA VlS, member of the deCLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN bating team: The Bualneu Manager Circulation Manager post-war influx of News Staff the G. I. student ROSE MARY 'llURISSINI, ManuBill Griffith, :f\omayne Gromelskl, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabuak, Chuck has flooded the script member: (lloman, Jim Tinsley, Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoakl, Jack Phethean, market with colWe might put the Bob Metzger, Chet Molley, Nancy Fox, Homer Bones, Ed. Bolinskl. lege gradu at e s. name of Wilkes Sports Staff more in the minds T h e ref o r e the George Brop.y, Joe Gries, Paul Beers of high s c h o o l proS1pective s t ustudents a-n d even dent must first be Photographers create good will convinced that ad. Art Bloom, Don Follmer :b y sending from ditional education A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. the various dewill enhnace his PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 partments of the chances of emMember ~ college bulletins jployment. Also, Intercollegiate Press concerning develhe must be convinced that Wilkes opments in the can best serve his interest in this EDITORIAL fields with which respect. This can be aecoonplished ·b y continuing a vigorous \place- each department . is concerned. ment service and acqua\nting the student prospect with this service. CINDERELLA CONTEST A FLUKE? I ****** Dr. Harry J. Cannan, Dean of Columbia College at Columbia University, will spend a day visiting with Wilkes College students and faculty on Wednesday, April 12, according to an announcement. made yesterday by Dr. Eugene S. Farley, President. il>r, Carman, who has been Dean of Columbia , College since 1943, will be guest speaker at a special as!lembly of ill Wilkes College stu9imts at 11 a. m. in the Baptist q1urch and following his address will consult with members of the student body.'_ . .In the evening, he will speak to the members of the Wilkes faculty !lt a dinner meeting in the college cafeteria. . . Dean Carman, who holds degrees from Syracuse, Columb1a, Wagner, Hobart, and William Smith, entered education as an elementary ~pQol teacher in 1903. He later became principal of the high school at Ihineheck, N. Y. · . · The 'J}resent director of the Ur·l>an League of Greater New York, il)r. Carman entered college teach'i ng as an instructor in history and .p olitical. science at Syracuse University .in 1914. He continued in this capacity until 1917, at which ~ime he :was made an assistant . professor of history af the same school. In 1918, he began his afTHiations with Columbia Universit~, when he accepted a position as instructQr ii\ history. From. 1925 to 1931, he served as assistant to the dean of Columbia College and in the latter year he was appointed ·professor of history. He became Dean af Columbia College in ·1943. · Dean Carman 1has 'been a member of the New York City Board of Higher Education since 1938 and a member of the 1 Board of Mediation since 1941. He has been a trustee of the Institute of International Education since 1942 and since· 1947 held the same iposition on the board of Atlantic University. Among the organizations he is affiliated with are: American Catholic Historical Association, .Aimerican .Historical Association, Academy of Political •Science, American -GeQgra,phical Society, New York 'Historjca.l Society, History Teach- Coffee Hour Guests Four winter athletic teamsbasketball, wrestling, hockey, and swimming-will be . honored at . a Coffee Houl', sponsored by the Wilke, Women · on Wedn~cj-y, April 12, from 3 :80 to 5, in, the coi1 lege cafeteria. __ The Wilkes Faculty Women, an organization composed of .faculty wives and women faculty members, has 'been ~ponsorjng these Coffee Hours every other week throughout the regular school year. Each event honors several of the more important prominent organizations on the campus. · The Coffee Hours are under the direction of Co~Chairmen Mrs. I Louise Partridge and Mrs. Betty Mail'ey. .P ouring at this next event will be Mrs. Eugene S. Farley, Mrs. Thaddeus Mitana, Mrs. James l4ggan, Mrs. Gertrude -M. Williams: Hostesses will be Mrs. ~tanico · Vujica, Mrs. Charles B. Reif, Miss Catherine Bone and Mis8 Mary Harvey. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS DISCUSSION TOPIC Extra-curricular Activities ·Are a Problem At Vassar It ht1$ been called to our attention !}lat the Student Co1lllPl ****** ~ already chosen the candidates for tlrls year's "Cinderella" JOAN YONAKA-S, mem:ber of Cue · 'n' Curtaiti publicont~st. The surprising thing connected with this ·announcecity staff: CataOn Wednes.diay, March 15, the :pient was that the stud&nt body was not consulted. log the social and firrat Wdlkes College Labor-Maneducational activ- agement Forum was held at the Last year, each member of the council, class officers, CI11d ities of students 1Science Lecture Hall. Mr. John heads of campus organizations were all asked to submit lists by pre s en t i n g Rdley of the Wilkes Economics Dethem through a paritment acted as moderator for of names. The candidates were chosen from these lists on the series of ip•h oto- the top.ic "Union Pension Plans." basis of the number of different lists on which the girls' names graphs. This cat- Guest sp~ers included Mr. Chrisappe~ed. alog should then •topher Boland of the U. S. Socia,' be sent to recent Security Bure a u, Mr. Eugene There was much• criticism. ', high school gra- Burke, Vice-pi;-esident of the Penn,. ~ year, the council evidently decided to have even d11ates. We should sylvania Federation of Labor, and fewer people "in" on the choosing of the candidates. Yet the also offer more Mr.. John Griffith, AuditQr of council expects that the student body will cooperate by voting scholarships to people who couldn't S~rs, Roebuck and Coonpa.ny. afford to attend college at their On Wed,n esday, AprM 12, the for the giris which the stucjent body ·ha.s had no say in nom- own expense. .second Forum will be iheld. The inatiµg. ' '• ****** topic will be "Rights and Respoo.It is true that probably the same girls would be chosen no MERRITT WAGNER, Freshman sibili:ti.es of Labor and Man.ageClass ¢esident: ment in Collective Bargaining." matter who was d<;>ing the picking, but what irks us is the un-- Plan a "college Guest sp,e akers will be Attorney democratic method employed by the council. day" and invite Max Rosenn, and Mr. ';Leon Deckhigh school stu- er, Business Agent cYf 'the Dairy The student council should have profited by last year's ' Union. nd Workers mistake. Balloting should have been held for the student b'oay, dents atte _ de.,,,___ topic for discussion at the Duringtothis , day. h"Th and no matter how small the response, those candidates nomC , , C rta· _.t n· .l."vn,,m, whieh will be h,eld ue n u m on Wednesday, May 17, will be inated by the STUDENTS should compete. This way there could could put on a ·"Union-Management 'Co-operation: ~ no comeback on the part of i,e students that they had no · play, 1 . th e debat- I,t Can Work." Guest speakers voice in the selection of the candidates. mg team could for this meeting will be. Mr. Mortconduct a deba~e, on Wolovsky, President of the The student body was given ci voice in the SECOND most d an a m O v ~ e Pioneer Maniufacturing Company, important decision-that of selecting the band. This was done _should be sho:vn and Mr. Eugene Considine, Presi. . of th e colleg_e l~fe dent of the Central Labor Union. at a recent poll. Why not give the students a voice in making of Wilkes. We could also mvite The primary purpose of the Wilthe ,most important decision also? students t?, our f?otball ,g ame "free kes Oollege La!bor-Management After all, is this a "Name Band Dance" or the "Cinderella of char~e · Th~s would_ pro~abl~ For11m is to promote SJOund. thinkBall'? Which is the more important feature, the band playing create. a deeper mtere st m Wilkes ing about our current acrid longathletics. range critical ecnomic problems. for the affair or the crowning of "Cinderella"? , DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK, TO VISIT WILKES CAMPUS APRIL 12 Winter Sparta Teams DOROT.HY ,BURA YAK, member of •Cue 'n' Curtain: Send Wilkes students as re~ .._.<r'"._':'::'.~ ... l]JII'esentatives to the high schools from which they graduated, to speak on courses ! _.. . and activities offered at Wilkes. th Theykepdi,il~ ei as~ er spea urmg semblies or have discµ!;lsion periods with 11tudep.ts who lllan to attend colleg~. The student teachers are doing·a good jo)J of spreading good will an<i proving that Wilkes. ~ollege ;p,rovides 11,mple education for future vocat,i.pns. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-(1.P.)- A recent Legislative Assembly meeting at Va~sar College discussed the problem of financing the •student budg,et. It was pointed out that the Board of Trustees can no longer providf the student body with funds su.ffiicient to carry on the en)arged program of extra-curricuIar activities. "A-s an example of the increase in the past decade we might compare the total budget of 1940-41 of $2,925.00 with that of 1949-50 of $9,964.00," a financial report revealed. iPossibilities for supporting the extra-curricutar program for any ,ixoess of the $6,000 that the Trus,t ees have tentatively consented to provide, include: Adding the necessary 4-5 dollars to cover the additional expense as a special activities f·ee to be paid by parents; make the 4-5 dollars a blanket fee for e.ll '·students to pay on Vassar Pay D · · ~ One of the advantages of collecting time money from the stu-' dents, it was emphasized, is that or~nizatons would profit 'from fixed incomes wher,eais now the Trustees may cut a budget ait will. Large scale programs can be planned by groups if they are allowed to put their surplh,s in a fund from year to year. _ _ _ _ __ ' A basic understanding of the problems confronting management, and La~ is neces·s,ary in ordel' to help develop the kind of wt;t.itudes, thinkMORE CHUCK GLOMAN ing, and institutions, which enable people cYf different beliefs to condu,ct their affairs with a maximum This tiII).e of the yea,.r I always of co-&peration and a minimum think of an old married couple that of eonfHct. I used to know. What a happy married life they had! They were just right for each other ... he snorj!d' and she was deaf. · ;;-;, Rats ·S.urvive Fourth.. Wee-nt - k. of Ex.penm·~ . A · ers 'Association of Middle Atlantic .States and M11,rrland;: iirf'ci,tltural Hi!ftorical Society, N,~ '¥\ork 'State Historical Association, ·and the A<lult Educational Coutlcil of New York. , · Among the books he has either written or helped write are: An Introduction to Contemporafy. Civilization in the West, Record of Political Events, Social and Econo-mic History of the United S,t ates, A Histocy of the U. S., ·m storica Currents iri Changing America, American Husbandry, Lincoln andthe •. Patron~ge, and Jesse Buel, Agricultural aeformer: . The three White rats t~t- were sentenc,e<i to deilth !py t,lie J3iological Scier1<;e , classes are beginning to show the ill effects of the typical student':i diet. Manny, Moe ,ind Jack (the three white rats of course!) have ' been fed Oil -everything from b,eer and pretzels to lady :fingers an.d cQffee. . · The e)fP,e.iirirent':-1is now in i~s fourth we-ek. -The ~c;mtrol group is nonp.l!,l. '.fhe ~xpeririiental rats ar'e refusing to eat; this is a normal r eaction for animal's that are laeking vitamins. They', sleep, moSt _of the time but this is not too unusual. The fur has 'turrt~d yellow and is falling out of the experimental ·· · ~roµp. On~ of the :rats, (I think it 1s M:oe) cannot walll: any more. This is all we have for this week. We expect the rats to be with us for a few more weeks, so look for the ne)l:t play-):Jy..play acc<;>11nt in the next ,iiJsue ,9 ft.h e Beac.on. Th1"s k1'nd old wom ' an 'had com• plete control over her husband. tn fact, you might say that she had Mm eating oµt of .her hand ... then she !,)ought a set of dishes. · !She had a .very interesting ~s~. She used to !be a tight-rope wal}cer in the circus. But one day she 'V?'~S tight and the wire wasn't_.. And their courtship was so romanti~., ·T hey had a· sort ' of a· ga~,;, den romance ... he was a dead beat and she was an old tomato. Slie never got her nam-e in 'Who's Who', but once she had her picture in "What's This". · Her husband was o:rie of the most , easily content,d people I've ever known. In fact, he lived in the same house for twenty-seven years. He'd have been there yet if the , Go".ernor hadn't pardoned him. ****** . And then there's the .one aibo~t ; the two'. J~aggoti; lVhO w,er,~sne~k.r ing in dead Ernest. �~ -------------:---'-----'- SOCCER, PRACTICE SPRING IS HERE . . · .. SO IS BASEBALL NOT To BEGIN UN.TJL ATV(IDAY, APRIL 12 WED!Uhl, •' Colonels' Corner~ COLLEQE 8µ.q)N , ' By JOE GRIES (BEACON Sports Writer) Sho,wers" t90 early. Coach Partridge ~s also announced that something new has been added. Last season the team was ,p riviledge to run themselves ragged on a 100-yd. :b y 60-yd. field. This year Bob is going to let themBy PAUL B. B~S selves run ragged on a field 120If you see a bunch of fellows yds. by 63-yds. There are a numcrying in Mrs. Brennan's hot coffee, her of reasorui for this change. you'll iknow that it's the soccer Last year the twenty-two men in team. Led by Coach Bob Partridge, a game felt a little crowded. Then the boys have been moap.ing for a too, ;JX1ost colleges P,r~fer the bigmonth aibout the weather. Why•oh ,g er fi,eld. Bµt · t~e Co~~h . has his why can't "that lucky ol' ~un" do owp .littie :reasori~, too. Now wh,en some rollin' around the heavens he -says ''~ay, ju~t tw;o !IJlOre laps .· some day? Just when everything and you stagger home" it will clears up, including the boys' tears, mean ,66 more· yard~ to go, which . soml:l little angel starts peeling Partridge is v.e;n, fo:t1d of. Toss in onions and it comes d~wn a~iti. . I\ coqp·~~ trips t~e dike and you Soccer practice was . originally have l he ipest co:t1ditioner on the called for . March 13th. 'Since. then, market. Thi? iCol\Cl\ s~ys. that the rain, snow, more rain, more snow, secret ot sµoce~s \1\ B,C!Ccer ~s being and finally even more rain ha~ in sha,pe. Where ~e p\cke4 up this fallen in a steady strea:rp. Peeking information isnjt known, lbut · some out from beneath his umbrella, Bob of the boys claim he onee worked called off ,p ractice until March 20. f9r <Galumet F~rms. Well, that was mid-semester V1eek, As usual, the s:iiring prj\ctice will so 1patient Bob postponed it for an- be held in Kirby Park down by the, other week. Everything was set to picnic grow~d.· . .\II e~g-e r '\leaver& go on March 27th, and then soµie- are :i;equested t<> t ~ out. Also body turned on the faucet arid it wanted is a goo.~ ~an, f9:i; manager. started to come down again. Now l\13:.nY. llla¾¢ ~a le£t and the.. job the operations have been pushed is wide ~n. ~ill, ¥el\r PartricI:ge back until April 12th, the day ~hat wo.u ld -~et<,> J:il\~e I!' ''mf\nager•t.. the Easter vacation ends. If it rains on April 12th, Bob has promised to go upstairs and find 9ut just what is the trouble. He isn't going to let any New Yoril water shortage ruin spring prl\ctice for his two-year old so.ccer squad. The origh1al idea for scheduling practice so early was so that 1wme. of the boys on the soccer team, or . those planning to go out for i~, • could also try their luck at ~seball. That's out of the qµ,estion ' now: iDon't blame me. May,b.e Jol-· · son has been · singing his '•'April - - - - - - - . : .·_ _;_,_ _ _..;·- - - - - ~ ' - - - - - - - - - - More than 50 baseball aspirants for the 1950 Colonels team greeted 1Coach George Ralston Tuesday at ED TYBURSKI Kirby Park when he issued his first call for ipractice. · This year will mark the fifth time for the diminutive mentor to coach a The weather, mid-semester exams, and the Easter vacation have Wilkes baseball team. al_l co?1bined in a plot to upset the WHkes' spripg sport program. Many old faces greeted the, First it was the weather. Bob Partridge was forced to delay liis spring coach's eyes as he looked around training one week. Then mid-seme·s ters. The weather again; And at the boys indulged in pepper now no soccer prac~ice until after the vacatidn. George Ralston faced games and playing catch. The rethe ~ame situation with baseball; After delaying his opening practice turning veterans included Don sessions, he finally found himself in the throes of a !beautiful day and. Blankenbush, Chet Molley, Danny' issued a hurried call for spring training. All this after sweating out Pish, Jack ·Semmer, . Joe Pollack, Ben Dragon, Alex Molash, Frances the weather and mid-semesters, and lo and behold, the weather is actPinkowski, Boib Shemo, Joe Gries ing up again. And next Wednesday Easter vacation begins. , and Jerry Ostrowski. Last Monday ,~ alston issued a call for aspirants for the Colonel Ralston was also glad to see all nine. •Considering the fact that the call sounded around noon the 25 the newcomers who are com1peting would-be-stars ·who showed wp prove the campus is interested in base- for birtll.s on this year's team. ball. During the week, Ralston's flock i~creased, and it's getting to Some of these rookies included the point where he is having a difficult job in cutting the squad for Frank Zigmund, Al Minarski and the opening game. Returning to the squad from last year are 10 Al Nicholas. It is expected that veterans. The infield is practically intact. This isn't to say that the Zigimund will. bolster the pitching staff and take up the slack left by veterans have these positions cinched. Not by a long shot. There's the loss of Boyd .E arl, Crane Buzalways a good rookie who shows up and blasts all .p redictions aside. by and Walter Hendershot, all There just isn't any ipredicting the chances of a roo:lcie making the pitchers on last year's nine. squad. They just happen. Any way, to return to the veterans who When interviewed on the radio are returning to the team, we can say a few words about them. First by this reporter the Wilkes mentor of all, there is Alec Molash, hard hitting shortstop. Al took the hit- said that the pitcher forms the ting honors on the team last year with a lusty .320 average. Then nucleus of any base:bal team and there's Ben Dragon, back for ianother try at third. Ben is a consistent that if his ,p itching comes through. player, and he hits a long ·ball. Then there's Pinky Pinkowski, utility Wilkes will have the finest team infielder. Pinky has .p layed 'b oth the keystone positions and also third ever to represent this institution. base. If his hitting improves as it did towards the end of last season Mr. Ralston said that he is in fine shape at th~ o~her departments · he will almost be a cinch for an infield position. Bob :Hall, the pepper; ,b ut expects his lnggest problem to fir8t baseman of last year, is back. Bob is small for first ;base, but c~e from th~ mound because he he proved last year that he can do a good job. will have to _find replac·ements for In the outfield there are two veterans returning. Jack Semmers the three 1p1tc.hers he lost from and Don Blackenbus}t. Jack will be completing his third year as a last_ year's team. He · conclud~<i by 'baseball Colonel. Don is about the best hitting outfielder we have seen saying the "some people thmk I aroµnd here in a long time. Last year he was second, only to Molash; am a pessimist but they are far from 'b eing right because this year having hit well over the charmed .300 mark. Wilkes will field the best team ever The difficulties crop up in the mound corps. Ralston has only one to wear the Blue and Gold colors pitcher coming back from last year's team. Chet Molley is what is of this school." There you are and known. as a tough luck pitcher. Last year he hurled a 'couple of one- who are we to disagree. Somehow hitters, only to .lose the game through erratic fielding, or to ·b e shut we think he is right. Wilkes won't have to go too far out by the opposing pitcher. Chet toiled all season with a sore -arm, but his control was sha:r.p, and his fast ball had the old hop when he to better last year's record of six wins arid eleven losses, but they needed it. He has been working on a new curve, and if his flipper will have to hustle to beat the holds .out, some· of Ralston's worries will disappear.. Of course he needs mark set by the 1948 team who more than one hurler to carry him through the season. Only time :will •w on 8 and lost only 4. Six of this solve this .p roblem. Time and an early Christmas. year's returning veterans ,p layed The receiving end of the battery looks better. .lee Descha:\{ is on -that team which had a big man back after a year's absence. A hustler behind the plate, Joe wields ,p atroling right field by the name a ipretty good stick. He has a good arm, and if he doesn't mistake of Moose Galetta. This human hunk the centerfielder for the second baseman, the opposition will have of Sampson rattled the ,w indows in the armory buiding on more than trouble in the larceny department. Just a joke, Joe. Then there's one occasion and actualy hit one Danny Pish who handled the catching duties last year. over the left-centerfield fence in Adding strength to the outfield is Al Nicholas and Al Minarski. Artillery Park into the Armory Nick played ball around the valley and up in York state. Minarski building. The hall traveled over 410 played for Plains and with th~ American Legion. He is a hard hitter feet and was the longest drive hit all season in that !park including and a fast fielding outfielder. players from the Eastern Lea-g ue. Opening day_is April 15. We tried to get him a pair of-shoes from Tom McHale at the Hub but · any of the credit away from the were infoDmed some Baron won ·boys. Most of them haven't bowled ~his .award with an inside the park eithkr. Not one experienced man liomerun a few days prior., Let's The loud squeal that you just bowls with the iCue 'N' 0urtain but hope another Galetta unfolds from (O:,Jortl) heard •Wa~ not the spilling of blood because of the enjoyment received this year's nine. iby the weaker sex, but the exulta- they are talking of the' pin bo¥s inThe 1Colonels have scheduled tion expressed by Bev Van Horn stead of "Golden Boy". The Eco- ~hemselves against some tough foes as s:he scored a strike. To you peas- nomics Club has accepted its sup- this year with Scranton University ants who don't know what a strike ply and demand curve on the mar- and Ithaca College being two of me4lns, to the informed it means ginal prOlp~nsity of the bowling the better ones! This means that The Rebel Grill is one of the favor• the highest form of enjoyment that !;,all to cure on number five and six the Wilkes mentor will hav'e to field ite on-the-campus haunts 0£ students a l;lowler can experience. This gives alleys. Thor's Five, under the lead- a good team to 'bring his record , ' an idea of how the Bowling League over the five htmdred mark. Under at the :University of Mississippi. has made an imp.ression on the ership of "Thor" Sabanski, has Ralston the Colonels have rwon 18 can and lost 20. Theta Delta Rho. These inspired shown. the pin' boys,/ wh,at power That's because the Rebel Grill is a . females have shown the boys from do. Every time he bowls all the pin The Colonel baseball team opens 1 friendly place, always full of ~ Wilkes what the meaning of •illpir- b9ys leave the pits. Since Wilkes the season on A'Pril 15 a,g ainst Lyit" is. Although' none of the girls has started to bowl, ·four 1 rp,ih boys coming College of Williamsport. busy atmosphere of college life. has ever bowled before they are have 'b een hospitalized. The Chem Twenty games comprise this year's showing remarkable strides in Club has traded its test · tubes for schedule. There ; always plenty of ice-cold' bowling form. This is not to take a bowling ball. They have found Coca-Cola, too. For. he~~. as, in colIn keeping with the+beauty and out that acetysalicylic acid poqJ,"ed . . <fn the ball gives it the "pocket inspiration of the season, ,I have lege gathering spots everywheresplit" effect. The Engineers have written two p9,ems. The first one . goes sometl\ing like ·this: CQ}ce befon~s . taken their classroom training to He met a millionaire's daughter the alleys and they ~owl with one Aslcfor it either .way ••• both Up in the high S,i erras; hand and figure out the p¢rcentages Est. 1871 with their oth:er hand using· a: slide · As there he sat-trade-marks mean the sa~e, thing. She left him flat; rule. . · •omED UNDER AUTHORlrf oi= THE cocA-COLA <:OMPANY,. av Men's Furnishings and 1 After two weeks of ro,lling it has No hits, no rµns; no heirese I been sh,own_ that none of the. . t eams Hats of Quality ha sufficient strength to ron away •Or maybe you would enjoy someKEYSTONE COC~-COLA BOTTLING wit}\ honors but a.11 of the teams thing a little more on the romantt I ;; : make up this deficiency in sp.irit. tic side, like__this one: 141 WOOD STREET, WIL~BARRE, PA. JIHONE 2-8795 He drank from her slilpper, Outstanding bowlers have been ·9 ,West Market Street His toes turned t.o ward Heaven; Terry· Gavliski, Curly Shiffer, LarWilkes-Barre, Pa. He wasn'.t aware. that ry Mellus, John Surash, .J ean Wasi0 19.(9, The Coca,C.cila Campany She wore size eleven. -----------___,,..;.; lew*i and Neil McHugh. -By- can u:p STRIKES TO SPARE --- \ ··••·•• . ' 1 C~. �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Fridcty, March .BASEBALL AND SPRING GREET BONES; SPRINGTIME INSPIRES BEACON REPORTER.TO HE SPURNS BOTH, THEN IS OLD SELF WRITE HIS OBSERVATIONS 1lN THE SEASON (SPECIAL T6 THE BEACON) -------'- ~ ' , By CHUCE GLOMAN Homer "tried for Golden Boy but couldn't make it" Bones Spring is in the air these days. Yes, once again that wonsat quietly in the. Beacon office and stared glumly at the happy derful season is here. The very season that inspired Wordsstudents passing by. The two "A" students disappeared down ·worth Shakespeare Byron Keats Ddvidbff (my 1Spanish prothe street. ' . 'eo1 . ' ' ed. ' th Us f th fessor), Milton and endge, has penetrat e wa o e· Beacon office and is now inspiring me. Ah yes, it's spring, and everywhere the air is filled with adventure, youth, 'joy, happiness, love, romance, coal dust and gas fumes. !As usual this season has made every youn~ man's fancy turn to thoughts of what he's been thinking about all winter. Because of this, a great many marriages are scheduled to take iplace this month. Out in Hollywood, they have a special 1syste'ni of marriage., .. they .g et married early in the morning so they'll. have time for ,an afternoon divorce. And what weather we're having these first few weeks of spring! I'm not saying that the air these days is very damp, but just the other morning a fellow stepped out of Chase Hall and they had to drag the dew for his body. Springtime is the_time for gar- dening. · And this year, science is attempting to improve gardening. For insj;anc~, someone crossed a Virginia creeper with a cabbage to grow brussels sprouts that leap into fhe pot. An?ther f?llow has crossed snakes with r8:bb1ts to produce adders that multiply. Anyway, Slp·r ing is the time that ~veryone should forget his troubles. Ws the time to take 'it easy. Take a vacation. Get out on the o.p en highway. See America. It took nature two million years to make the Grand Cany6n. . . . the least you can do is go out and look at it. That reminds me, President Truman -w ent out to the Grand Canyon a few weeks ago. He said that he wanted to see what a depression looked like You know we were ,supposed to.bave a depr~ssion back in 1946, but it got delayed in the 3L l"9So·· red tape in Washington. I always enjoy taking bikr through the woods this time 1 year. Just last weekend, ,on 0JUH. my walks, I 1passed · a ka,:tgal'r who really looked disgusted .ali<)Qt something. Pretty soon he yank«id his offspring out of his pouch and clubbed it with a twig, exclaiming bitterly: "I'll teach you to eat crackers in bed!" ·· , .. B the way 1 guess you i,_~. abo!t the bah; kangaroo who away and left his mother holding the bag. ran •••••• I don't iknow whether or n<lt you've realized it, but 'people seem to have more respect for "old age" these days if it's bottled. I happened to be ,p resent at my advisor's office when he was correcting the Biology mid-terms. <;)n one of the !papers was written thiil · definition of SPINAL COLUMN: "A bunch of 'bones that run up and down your back, keeping you from being legs all the way up to yom; neck." And now, in closing, I would li~e to leave you with this thought: When a girl wants to become a chorus girl-it's not her family tree that counts, it's her limbs. ·11· BltRIA.RI .anif .EOlleges aill Univ.ersities ' ' ' , _· thrc>'ugHout the country (IIESJERFIElD , JANE WYATT Famous Barnard Alumna says: "What's the use," he mutteted.' "I'm a failure and, ' I just don't want to admit it. I've just been a flop, a blowhard wqo doesn't amount to anything. Take football ifor instance. All those 'bowls I told you about weren't football bowls; they were 1pipe bowls. I'm not an .athlete. I'm not an actor. i'm not .a lady's man. I'm not a student. .I'm a failure." The hysterical wails of the mis·erable creature in the Beacon office penetrated the thin walls of the room and disrupted the German class next door. "Ach, mein goodness," cried the professor, "die Tinte, sehr gut aber nicht und wie ich spreche oder S'HUT UP OVER '11HE.R E!" •.Homer came to his . senses with a start. The hollow of his eyes remained hollow, ·b ut there was something different about our hero. He had that adventurous look about him. "I'll travel! "'he shouted. "That's it. I'll travel all over the world. Oui! Oui! Si! Si! I'll broaden my education. The girls are -nice 1looking over there, too. Travel, that's the thing." Homer bounded out of the office, greeted · the ,g laring Ger.man professor with a vibrant "Cherchez la femme!" and hef,ded for Chase Hall and parts unknown. The iparts became known very shortly as the traveler (courtesy Kaiser-Frazer Corp.) was noticed qn the river common tossing a baseball with some of the f ellas. When asked about the delay in his traveling, Homer explained that he was waiting for the final papers from the front office. He continued to pass the time by playing ball. ge:~~!a!~m~~~=~:t:Z:/~~ ~~! dorm ·boys. . "Shut lllp the wise remarks before I blast ya one," returned Homer. "Okay, so I'm not such an ath' lete. But .I'm a man of the world, 'or at least will be. I'm going to travel! Ohayo, :wa karee ma sen. That's Japanes.!). Oink! Oink! That is pig Latin." - :Homer was his old self. He was confident and happy. " But I didn't mean that," said the dorm boy. "I meant that :y;our arm is terrific. You have .p ower and a beautiful natural curve. Plenty of spe~d! 'Can you swing a bat?" Homer stiffened to attention. Was the guy kidding him? Or was Homer an athlete after all? Homer's head lifted ever so sli'ghtly, and his chest 1puffed out. "Can I swing a ·bat? Brother, just wait'll you see. Why I can play baseball 'b etter than my ,g reat grandfather, Abner Doublebones, and he developed the game. Ty Cobb, ·C hristy Mathewson and even the 1Babe, himself, took lessons from my father, Kennisaw "Hills1• · Landbones. Why, just last summer I was giving ,p ointers about the game to a few of the Yankees. Heck, even my name, Homer, comes froP.1 the way I can pole the ball over the fence. And then there was the time I. ... " What's that? Homer leave Wilkes to travel? Homer to leave Wilkes? Leave the baseball team? Nosirree, not our Homer. "Chesterfields always give i:ne a lift. They're wonderfully_mild and they taste so good. They're my favorite cigarette." . STARRING IN "HdUSE BY THE RIVER" A Rl!PUBLIC PICTURB *By Recent National Survey PRE-MED SOCIETY TO VISIT PHILA. A tour of Jefferson Hospital, . Women's Medical Hospital and Hanneman lfospital will highlight the Wilkes College Pre-Med Club's triip . to Philadelphia on the weekend of April 21-23. The 31 club members and faculty advisors Dr. Reif and Miss Dague will leave Wilkes-'B arre on Friday afternoon. They will tra¥1 by Martz bus and while in Philade\- ' phia stay at the John Bartram Hotel. . , The program committee for Pre~ Med group is: ,Doris Ma_e Gauger, .committee chairlady, Walter Mokychic, Wayne Redline, James Smith: '' Joseph Bernard Schleicher, ~etty Rebennack and .,Irene Wang. HESIERFIELD � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 March 31st Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 March 31 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/bffd60ef151b20d9ac30c10abe050727.pdf 9d41254773baac5f82869d4c1f7b29fe PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACO Vol. 3, No. 21 College WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. VESTER VIVIAN VERCOE VICTORIOUS Sans Souci Ballroom · THREE WILKES IRC DELEGATES Chos~n As Site 'For ELECTED TO ICG CHAIRMANSHIPS Apnl Showers.Dance -General Chfil'lllan Olie Thomas has a.µnou~ced that the ~ettermen's annual AiPril Showers Ball will ·b e held on Friday, Apri\ 14, at Sans Souci Park Lee Vincent's orches. tra will provide the music for the semi-formal from nine o'clock in the evening until midnight. The price of the tickets will ,lie $2:so, but the males of Wilkes campus will be relieved to ,hear that the "no corsage" rule prevails' again this year. Unlike the situaition oh campus, ·IP'arking space will ·b e available for anything from 'bikes to Buicks. Committee chairmen are :Donald Blackenbush, tickets; Jack Semmers, publicity; John Jones, programs; Richard Scripp, arrangements; and Chet Molley, orchestra. Shown above ls V. V. V. soon after his election to the Presidency of the Student Council. President Vercoe Is alsq, prexy the Junior ClaBB. of "Luck O' The Irish" .Sport Dance To Be Held Tonight In Cafeteria ·Tue Student Council of Wilkes College announced that a . "Luck of the Irish" dance will be held tonight at the college cafeteria. Vestor Vercoe, Ooundl President, has announced that the group has•purcha:sed some new records. Virginia Meissner, chairman of the refres·h ment committee stated that an add1 ed feature will 1be "Green Punch". There wiLl he no admission, and dancing rwill be from 9'· to 12. Committees: Vestor Vereoe ; Refre.shmenits: Mary Porter, Elaine Connie Smith, Vir,g inia Mei,s sner; •music: Elaine Turner, Al Jacobs, {x)nnfo, Smiitb; decorations: · Connie Smith, AI _Jacobs, Jim Tinsley. CAST FOR "GOLDEN BOYY" IS .ANNOUNCED; REHEARSALS BEGIN TOMORROW·AT 3 P. M. The imembers of ·1;he cast for the :f.erthcomirig Cue 'n' Curtain major production "Golden Boy" have been announced by W Thomas ·- 1· • ·' ' • · • L 1tt eton, director. The first rehearsal wdl be held tomorrow afternoon . at 3 p. m. at Chase Theatre. Act I only; Everyone must be there and must be on time , Mr. Littleton's task of ·selecting the cast was not an easy one 'because the comtPetition during tryouts was extremely keen. The final selections came after four long evenings of try-outs. Eliminations for candidates of the major parts in the play were gradually done until, on the last night of try-quts, the two best candidates for each part competed for the part. · The rest was· up to Mr. Littleton. - "GOLDEN -BOY" CAST Joe Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Robbins iLorna Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Boyd ·T om Moody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Thomas ·Tokio , . ·.·............... . . .. ..... .... . ........ Jerry Wise Mr. Carp ..... ; ........ . ... . . . .. .. , .. ... . . .... Peter ·M argo Siggie ......... . . .. . ... .. ... .. . ... . . .. . .. ·. Henry Russato .Mr. Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Andronaco _Anna .............. ............. : ..... . ... . Diana;, 'Campus Frank Bonaparte :• .. . ... . .. . ................... Ted Krohn Roxy Gottlieb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Griffith Eddie .F useli . . .. . . .. .. .. .. . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. . Earl' Wolfe Pepper White .................... ,. ....... . .. .Skinny Ennis Mickey ............... .. ........ . . ·...... . . . . . ; . Don Tosh _C all Boy . ~-- ... , ......... . ... . .... . ... . . . . .. ...... . ?'??? 'Sam ................... . .......... ·.- ............... ???? Lewis .. . .... .. ............... ·. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Angelo ·Drake ........ ._. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . And:i:ew Evans tl)riscoll ................... • ...... .. ....... Jack Gallagher :;Barker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony PQ1Pper Three Campus Clubs To Be Honored Guests At Next Coffee Hour Mi:s. Eugene S. Farley, Miss Doris Gauger, Miss Janyt Burgess, and Miss Marianna Tomasetti will pour. •S erving as hostesses will be Mrs. Edward Heltzel, Dr. Mary A. Craig, Mrs. Raymond Munts, and Mrs. The I.R..C., Pre-Med Society, and John Boyce. Sciology Club will be honored a,s ·s pecial guests at a Coffee Hour on Thursday, March 23, at the College NO "BEACON" MEETING Cafeteria, .Mrs. Louise Partridge, chairman of the Coffee Hour ComMONDAY mittee has announced. The affair There, That'll Fill The Sp~ ! ! ! will start at 3 :30 and will continue until 5. Friday, March 17, 19,50 By ROMA YNE GrROMELSKI William Perlmuth, William Caffrey and Janet Burgess, three of the Wilkes delegates, at the regional meeting of the Intercolle<Jiate Conference on Government on March 11, at Muhlenburg College, were elected to committee chairman~hips. The informative speakers, par- Willia,ro Perlmuth, Janyt Burgess, liamentary debate, and committee Stephen Kalinovich, Charles Cafwork provided background and ex- frey, William Caruth, Edward !I}erience for the delegates who wil Godek, Anthony Bonnanni, Joseph attend the Ha,rrisburg Convention. Reynolds and ·D onald Hamlin. David Alloway of Muhlenbur-g, This year the delegates to the · Northeastern Regional Director of state I-CG at Harrisburg on April the· ICG, called the meeting to or- 14 and 15 will work on the revision der. Larry Pelesh of Wilkes is this of the Pennsylvania constitution. year's assistant r-egional chairman The sixty :member colleges of the and managed a political campaign lCG are holding meetings similar for committee chait,piansh'.ips to be to the Muhlenburg ·- convention of won for Wilkes delegates. William the Northeastern Region to elect Perlmuth landed the chairmanship chairmen of the various commitof the Taxation and Finance Corn- -tees that will be functionjng at the mittee, Willillllll Caffrey won the convention in ,Harrisburg. Miss clerkship of the Public Welfare Genevieve Blatt, the Executive Committee, .and J anyt Burgess 'be- Director and founder of the ICG came clerk of the Education Com- while she was a student at Pitt, ~ittee. The political victories of , spdke to. the Muhlen:burg Conventhese students will ena'ble W\Ikes tion on the need of revi,s iqn of the to !P'l ay a .p rominent part in the 'Pennsylvania constitution, which 'J1he Wilkes College Chemistry state convention .. Wilkes del!)gates was written in 1872. Wilkes will Society"'has been accepted as an af- to Muhlenburg were Larry Pelesh, send twenty-five delegates to have filiate of the American Chemical Harry Hiscox, Oharfos Knapp, a hand in the revision. · .S:ociety. A certificaite of recogni,tion is now on the bulletin boaTd in Con1yngham Hall. Acceptance as a student 1 chapter is a di,s1linct hon·or, and' is held by tihe· chemistry clubs of many of the larger col- ; leg,es and universities thr-o ughout the country. · · The American Chemieal Society I offers a,ssistance in the fieJd to RADIO PROGRAM TO BE AIRED AS USUAL its student af.filiates. Advit:,e and prol:ilems for study are provided Next week, the week of March 20, will be the week of midon request from some of the leading men in chemi,s try .. term examinations, although -a few exams have been scheduled The Chemistry Society of Wilkes, one of the most active groups on for this week. ,t he campus, is headed by John Su- · Social activirties will b,e suspend- on Friday as usual.. · Studen<ts are reminded to study, ,ra,sh. The S,o ciety coriduts seminars ed ·for the week, -to increase the and that somewhere the sun is proba,bility of students' studying. and conferences throug1h out the ,sc'hool year for both college and The BEACON w.ilil not be publish- .s hining, and somewhere the skies bli C ,..uenef'"' • add';.' ,PU 1,0 Lil talon .t 0 s,h ow- ed ne:x:t week, but the BEACON are 'brgihit, and that Wilkes-Barre fog movies on chemical subjects radio program, "I:Iighlights in the has a larger popula,tion than Mudand sponsoring social events. Oaanpus· News," .will b,e broadcast v i,11,e. - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WILKES CHEM CLUB AFFl LIATES WI TR AM. CHEM. ·soCIET\7 Midterm Exams Are Upon Us!- . BEACON Suspends Operations 1 Three Rats Doomed WILKES DEBATING TEAM OUTSTANDING, VICTORJOUS AT BROOKLYN TOURNAMENT In ·Experiment On . Diet of Students . By C~Cl{ GLOMAN .The Wilkes Debating Society, under the direction of Dr. by George K.abusk Arthur N.' Kruger, scored another victory to their rapidly gr?wThree white rats are doomed for ing list of successful forwns · when they defeated the debatmg centain death. Why? ,Because they teams of New York University, American International College, · are being fed on a typical' studerut's American University, Utica, and Wagner, at the BJiooklyn Col- diet. A diet that includes: hamlege Third Annual Invitation Tourncmient last Friday and Satur- bur:gs, hot dogs, beer, coffee, 00ndAn I d V dy c'he.ese wafers, 'beans, pretzels, day. They lost to West Point, _napo is, an ermont. . . tee cream, chees·e sandwiches, pop fie tournament consisted of four roun& of debate on the, topic, "Nationa,llizat.ion of Basic Non-Agricultural Industries". ' ·Representing the Wilkes Debaters were Tom Mor.gan and Fred Davds on the affirmative team, in addition to Don Kemmerer and · Oha.rles .Einstein; taking the negative side. · · Eaeh school was represented by at least two teams, each of which met opponents from fo ur · other colleges. Debate coaches a:nd other raculty representatives of the cornpeting schools served as tournament judg,es and rated the effect,iveness of the individual debaters •a1s well as the teams. Ratings were based upon nine points: analysis, ev.iilence, reasoning, a,udience adap.tation, organi.zati()l!'l, languag,e, adap,tion to opponents and refutati«n, voice and bodily action, poise and personality. At the conclusion of the tournam,enlt, names iof the upper 25 per cent of schools were announced and Wilkes College was one of the schools thu,s rated. Final standings. as soon as they are tabula.ted, will be mailed to each school together W1th the names of outst~nd1n,g mdividuals as determined by the numbe"r of poin:ts they scored. Hig1h,lig1hting th e program was a banquet a,t which several schools entertaiined with skits and songs. The Wilkes team added to the festimties by singing "The Wilkes Drinking Song". Among th e 38 competing colleg?-" w~e Caz:negie 'Tech, BoSt on Umver:sity, Pnnceton, Pennsylva:n ia, Vermont, Fordham, Temple, Dair:tmou,th, Penn State, Swarthmore King's Point Lehigh Tufts ' ' ' . · ' Georgetown, Syracuse and Rutgers. 'I1he tournament was won by Boston University and Princeton, both of which emerged wi th a perfect slate of eight straight wins. The Princeton affirmative team was the same one that Wilkes defeated at the Hofstra Tournamfillt earlier in the y,eair, The Wilkes affirmative team of Tom M-organ and Fred Davis has now won six of its last seven debates. Last month in Philadelphia, the boys made a perfect record by defeating Temple, Pennsylva.nia, and Swarthmore in dual meets. corn, pan cakes, french fries, doh 'f d' nuts, pickles, a nd ot er 00 • Miss Dague, supervisor of the experiment fur the Biological Sdence classes, said the exp-~riment started two weeks ago. Six ralt.is were fed on a balanced diet for ten days. On March 13th, the rats werie separaited into two groups. The experimental group is on· the typical student's diet; •t he. ,control grou,p is receiving a balanced diet. Miss Dag111e stated that the obj,ect of the experiment is Ibo ascertain. whether or not the 'typical' diet affords a person an adequate amount of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates , and ,p roteins, also, -to determine the caJ.oric e-0ntenit of the diet --- is it too h_igh or too low? White rats were srlected because they react .m uch rthe same a,s humans and are susceptible to the s ame di·seases. Miss Dague, as she extfil!ded her chew,ed, bandaged hands, added- that white rats bite foss than ordinary rats. :Believing that this expemment might attract the interest of many .students, the BEAiOON will report on lbheir condition until the test is ended. �WILKF.S COLLEGE BEACON 2 K . AMERA WERIES Friday,... .March 17, 19.50 EDITORIAL A Huge Task by ' Ed Bolin.ski VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor ·ED TYBURSKI GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager Everyone interviewed considered the Cinderella Ball of 1949 a highly successful affair, however, they offered these minor criticisms in answer to the question: What is your opinion of t'he CindereI!a Ball of last year '/ Skinny, Ennis, Sophomore Class President; Johnny Long put on a fine show but the music he \pfayed wasn't much for dancing. If we want a show band let's hire Spike Jones. But, since the primary purpose of having a Cinderella Ball is dancing. Let's get '• a dance band. If it's at Rocky Glen-how a,bout some heat in the joint? With less than one year of experience, the Wilkes Placement Bureau has made amazing progress in its aim to help shi- . dents find full-time, part-time, or summer jobs. Starting off frorii scratch, with no contacts whatsoever, the Placement .Bureau ha1f built up an enviable record of placing Wilkes students. -~ ;:' John Chwalek and the Administration are to be hig):ily corti~ mended for a job well done. As 1an example of the progress being made by the BureaU,; sixty percent of Febriiary's graduating class have been plac~ Bill Griffith, Romayne Gromelski, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabusk, Chuck in permanent positions\ ~ith the help of the Placement Bureau; Gloman, Jim ' Tinsley, Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Jack Phethean, Bob Metzger, Chet M6lley, Nancy Fox, Homer Bones, Ed. Bolinski. and over two-hundred Wilkes students have been placed irt part Sports Staff time jobs. Members of the February class are working for such George Brody, Joe Gries, Paul Beers large companies as Du Pont, General Electric, Consolidated Photographers Transportation, General Motors, Metropolitan Life Insurance; the Art Bloom, Don Follmer Grace Steamship Lines, American Tobo:cco, Household .F inance, A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. . PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 1.9 and such local firms as Sordoni's, Wyoming National Bank, Tlie. Member Hub, Pom~ro:z.'s, and Van Scoy's. To date no complaints hOV;e, Intercollegiate Press been received from any of the employers concerning Wilkes graduates. This fact stands as a monument to our school ·an:d EDITORIAL ****** if this excellent record can be maintained we can be assured Cy Kovalchik, Junior: It can't comof a greater demand for Wilkes graduates. _· · pare with the first •Cinderella B a l 1. Mr. Chwalek has one warning to issue to future Wilkes The location and graduates, and to tho~e students seeking .p art-time and summer Wha,t is this we hear about a ··parking problem, existing for the band of the employment: DO NOT EXPECT HIGH SALARIED JOBS. Th~ the students of Wilkes? Could it be that in viewing the situa- firS t Ball w e r e ideal. Had a fine days of high salaried jobs are over. Unemployment is ram~ tion in terms of a large available· place for parking that we are time last year but pant throughout the country and the thousands who are looking overlooking a much simpler solution? It seems that in-looking was too tired to for jobs are tending to keep salaries down. The warning is far afield we are passing up tt partial solution that can be found d an c e after th·e ~ 'long hike t r om especially aimed at those who have been accustomed to workrigh t under our noses. The reference being made here is to the my car to the ing only for the high salaries that prevailed during the ~~ir haphazard method of parking that many of our stugents are dance hall. Incitime emergency. And to those who are looking for summer emgui),ty of in parking on South River Street, directly opposite our dentaly, last year 1 th e ice on th e ployment be it realized that hundreds of people who would or-, school buildings. We have noticed for some time that about lake was too thin for skating. dinarily be working full' time are now seeking employment in half of the car~prked on River Street take up enough space for ****** two cars. Prior to last week this haphazard method of parking Beryl Colwell, Cheerleader: The places that had been ordinarily reserved for those who desired only summer work. . Consequently, wages for these jobs hctve created no special problem. But with the limited parking space dance was · wonderful ,but n o t dropped accordingly. now available to the students some remedial work in the prac- enough students One other thing to be remembered. Our school is new. All tice of parking seems t~ ·b e necessary. If every student driving w e r e there. If possible aid in contacting firms is needed. A plea is directed to school would park within two feet of the car in front of him more students attended the dance to all students and faculty members to let the school know about we could probably get as ipany more ca-rs parked on River perhains their hot any positions available. Street as can now park in the parking lot still available. With air would have two feet of space in front of every car, each car would have four provided am P 1 e , would have been life and knew him -primarily as a feet in which to man1,Jever-sufficient space for any normal able to dance , teacher, for together we spent madriver to get to and away from the curb. w i th o u t heavy ny happy hours in the carpenter Are these poor · parki · shop while BiH taug,ht me some_ ng practices .d ue to neg1igence, defi- coats. heat,· How hence,a'bout we thirug of his craft. ciency in driving ability, or pure apathy? Whatever the answer giving this year's dance more pubBill Mitchell was one of the we feel sure that if the problem can be brought home to those licity so as to insure a bigger This column ls open to any and all three completely independent perwho are guilty of these mal~practices, the situation could be crowd. ****** l Dominick Alfano, .Sophomore: The readers for their comments. Views ex• sons I h a v e ·been privileged to pressed here do not necessarily ,receive count among my friends. I admirsomewhat a leviated. What do you say boys? Do you think dance was perendorsement from the BEACON. All let- ed him for l!iving the life he wantthat we can get together on this problem.? Let us have some feet, however, the ters must be typewritten and signed by ed to live a!Jthough it may not have O respect for the next fellow. We feel sure that teamwork will n?:!ninations f r the author. For a cunent Friday IHue, !been what I would have wanted. · h. h · Cinderella are not all letters must be submitted to the To say he was independent does h e 1p out v;,1t w at constitutes a rather large. problem. There is carried out in a BEACON office by no later than noon of not mean .he was unfriendly, or no necessity to park four of five feet in back of ·t he car in front' very democratic an1ti-.social, 'or a recluse .. He was the preceding Wednesday. · of you, leaving enough space to just keep another car from manner. Only a tolerant as only completely indeparking It is fitting that a word o.r two pendent pel'lsons can be, he was . there. Can you realize how selfish that practice is?· select~d a voice fe~ m hathvee appear in the BEA•C0N concern- good company, and he p,rac,tii,ced a Perhaps the practice has not been deliberate, but in the future nominations, thus ing one Wlho has recently foUowed skill that is rarely seen today. It let us show some consideration for our fellow students. We feel the girls chosen 1Paul Gies, G,eorge May, David is true that to w a rd the end sure that a lhtle more concentration on proper parking will help tarte· ·not re1presehnBrown, · and others who helped B,ill was a lonely man. I suppose . a ives of t e build Wilkes ,College. Bill Mitch- that goes with being independen,t, out tremendously. · mass of students. ell literaHy helped ouild Wilkes -bUJt in this day of mass action ****** Colleg. e, or at least he helped ke.e.p and herd psycholiogy, I count myFrances Trernb~th, it in repair. Bill was a carpenter self as fortunate to have known the Literary ·So·and a cabinet-maker. I ,){new Bill one such a,s Bill Mite-hell .. ciety: May,be I'm Chas. B. .Reif during 'the la.st few yea11s of his old fashioned }>ut I believe that a grand march TV would have added ... to the success of the Ball. A grand \I tt:CC: ,march makes a person ~ e e 1 as though he has a part in, the entertaimnent. News Staff Efficient Parking Practices U~ged LETIERS TO THE EDITOR Judges in College "Not the Stan Mulkay, the famous ski star?" eo,,ri&ht 1950 by Esq., Inc, Reprinted from April 1950 issue of ESQUIRE Dan Denby, Member C u r tain: Disregarding the cold weather, the dance was run as perfectly as J?OSS• i'ble. Ev.en though ,most of the girls spent half of the evening in t h e Swiss C o t.t a g e and the other half in front of the band stand, we all ·had a fine time. I spent most of the evening in the Swiss •Cottage trying to get ·the girls to . go into the ·dance hall. Contest John Steinb~~• novelist, right; Charles M. Underhill, CBS.: TV Proi;-ram Direct~r, center; and Doi:iald Davis, producer. for World Video, Inc., will select the four winning scr:ipts in the seme~ ster-long CBS A wards competition for original television .dramas. wriUen by collegians. Entry blanks must be obtained from CBS' Awards. 15 E. 47th St., New York City. Contest ends June 20:· �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON }".p'day, Match 17, 1950 SOCCER PRACTICE Baseh~ll Colonels' Becoming Worried·; TO START MONDAY Weather Holding Up Spring Practi~e _ Colonels' Corner Due to poor weather conditions, ~acih Bot; Par,tridge ha.s pos.tBy JOE GRIES poned the opening date oif spring . (BEACON Sports Writer) - Bytraining for his soccer team until Officially baseball was ushered in with the adven, of the ED TYBURSKI Monday, March 20th. He had ori- Grapefruit Circuit c;m March 1 but the surest sign of the co~ng ginally planned to start practice of baseball will appear in about another week when the 't his past Monday, but it snowed College baseball team begins practice sessio:n-5 for the coming WE-NEED-A-DEPARTMENT. . . . Team managers and assistants. . . . just ellJough to mess things up for campaign. All Coach Ralston is waiting for to issue the first With the call for spring practice for the soccer team, Coach Bob Part- a week. Now the spring train~ng call is for the weather to make up its mind. .ridge is calling for more than ·just players. This same thing is true 1s going to ,s tart this Monday, re11 members of last year's squad There are 17 gaJmes on this 'of Coach George Ralston. There wil be no trouble in getting enthusi- gardless. astic players to try out for the team. ' The real difficulty is going to · iPartridge is ·1ooking forward to wjll be back again for an(?t'her sea- year's sohedul~ with three op.en, s·o n at Wilkes. They include Don dates that piight be filled and aclie with team managers .... What_are team managers? That's good seeing a large aggregation out at Blankenbush, Chet Molly, Danny cording to the teams the Colonels question. Too many people underestimate the true worth of this inKirby R,ark on Monday at 3 :00 p.m. ,Pi.sh, Jiack Semmers, Joe Po,llack, will play none will be breathers. dividual. Just ask any of the coaches what a team manager means ·s occer has made a great hit with Ben Dragon, Alex Molash, Pinky Two- of the powers W[!kes will to . his team. He will gladly tell you. . . . Remember Clem Scott? If !Pinkowski, Bdb Shemo, Bob· Hrull, have to overcome are Ithaca Colyou do; you'll remember how the football Colonels honored him for his Wilkes. Last year when it was in- J -oe Gries, and Jerry Ostrowski. lege and Scranton University. Both services to their team. He was a team manager, and a darn good one. · tDQduced mo-s t of the fellows took Don Blankenbush and Alex Mo- schools have long been known fo•r it as a game. Noy,_it·,h as establishThe honor bestowed upon him by the Colonels relates just how valu- ed itself as an honest_ to _ good lash Jed· the hitteiis las,t year with the fine t~ms they put on the diamond and for the men thait repre.able a manager is to a team better than can be described in words .... sport. You don't have to be a ma- Molash h_itting a 'hefty .350. · lMissing · from last year's nine ,sented these schools in the major The duties of a manager vary widely and are very numerous. It takes g.i,c.i'an to be a good soccer player, an average of two to three years for the maturation of a good manager. thougih it helps. Another misinter- will, be Boyd Ea-rl, Frank E.'van, leagues. Geor,g e Brod'y, Jo,e Brennan, Bob On the sm:flliCe the team look,s Therefore, if a •plan could .be .p ut into effect wherein an aspirant for pretation that kept a great man~ Waters, Crane Buzby, Wa.1,t Hen- gooo, but certainly will have -their · this position could start his training in his freshman year, no team in fr.om trying out for the sport last dershot, Tom · Richards, and Ca p~ work cut out .for them when the college would suffer from the want of a manager. An individual who year was the idea that you have tain Marty Warmus·. I umpire yells ·"play ball". would start as a freshman could learn the ropes from the bottom up, to be bi-g. Of cour,se, bigness helps, So far as is known, the Colonels and :b y the time he was a senior would be an efficient manager. In it alwa~s does, but skill is the big will :be bolstered by three rookies this way, the team would always have the services of a good manager thing in soccer. Knowing this fact, and one .r eturning veteran. 'l'he it i'S ex,p,ected tihat a lot of fresh.... A team that doesn't have to worry about the many small details men and s·o-p homores will be on rookies include John Zigmund , a taken care of by a manager functions more _smoothly and effic~ently hand at Kirby Pa-r k this Monday at right handed pitcher, Al Nicholas, EsL 1871 than a team that does not have any. In fact if a crew were ava1lable, 3:00 p.m. Partridge ,has assured and Al Minarski, both outfielde-r s. just think how ,m uch worries would be lifted from the coach's over- , everyone that all the chances in The returning vetemn is Joe Des·b urdened shoulders .... Some one will always ask the question, "Just the world will be given. He has cihak, who !1eft school one year ago. Men's Furnishings and what is the advantage of being a team manager?" Well, 'that one is hopes of holding an introducto,r y Joe is back and will be the number one caitcher in··Ralston's sch,eme. Hats of Quality easy. First of all, you travel with the team. You're one of the boys. course for those who kno-w nothing · The big problem will' be to find Managers usually are interested in the sport with which they are con- ~b~ut the ga~e. Right no~, there replacements for Crane Buzby, tt nected. Secondly you are a value to your team. And don't let any- 1sn t such a thmg as a varstty man Wa:1ter Hendershot and Boyd Earl ' · th W"lk · team AH 1 one kid you on this. It's no "hogwash". Again I refer you to the on · e . . es socce_r · - all pitchers who shared the brunt 9 West Market Street coaches. Last of all, you receive a letter, and with this )etter all the -~ evt~dP001~10~~ are_ widet openn.cBenut of the mound for la·s t year's Colo• • • t. · . ~ar r1 .g e 1sn ,, gom,g o co . Wilkes-Barre, Pa. pr1vilege,s ent~t~ed to all lettermen. ~o !ou see, a :man~ger is_ not an trate on :filling any of the posi- nels. Zigniund might_be the answer but more , t han one man is needed. unworthy_ .position .... Any one that 1s ~nterested_ m this su'bJect can ,t his spring. He's planning to stres 3 contact either Mr. Ralston or Mr. Partridge. Incidentally. the -soccer the fun.damentals, plus working the teean is now minus the services of a manager. boys :into shape. W'hen it comes to conditioning; Partridge h;a.s no eBASKETBALL .... The Colonels closed their cage season last Saturday qual. Our dear . history prof has plans of wearing a hole in the dike night at Binghamton against Triple Cities College. They lost 87-82 .... this year. He didn't quite do it last The game was fast and furious right from the opening whistle. . . . A year. new expericent was tried at the game, much to the djsappointment of So bring along a pair of sneaks the Colonels. Three officials handled the game. As a result; 45 per- and come out for the soc~r team. sonals were called against the Colonels. This is no excuse for the defeat. The Colonels don't need any. The game went into two overtime .p eriods, and Wilkes had only four men on the floor for both of these iperiods. Yes, that's right. Four men. And in that first extra period, we were -b ehind by three points. __With the advantage against them, the ,Colonels still managed to tie it up and send the game into In order to attain- a badly-need. another overtime session .. .. Charlie Jackson was high with 25 points ed credit , balance in the treasury, . ... Mackin followed with 22 . . . . The Colonels ,made 21 out of 34 fouls. .the Junior class is sponsoring a Good shooting in any man's league. . . . Ben Dragon had four personals irafmle on <three big prizes: First against him before the first half was over. Paul Huff had three. In Prize - A Portable Radio; Second fact, nary a starter saw action in the overtime periods. Prize - A U. S. Savings Bond; and B.A:SEB.AiLL .... The unofficial calling for Slp•r ing practice will be March Third Prfae - A Five Dollar Bill. 27. Coach Ralston hopes to get some informal practice in 'before this, Three chances on these prizes will but he doesn't want any of the players to let their mid-semesters slide. cost only twenty-five cents. W,ithin a w,eek all member_s o.f Even if practice doesn't get underway before the 27th, the ·b oys will have three weeks to get into shape. This is ,better than last year, the Junior class will reoeive by mail one book oonta.in,i,n g twelve chanwhen they had only about three days. · _Opening ga;me is set for the .c-es. All Juniors ar:e urged to co15th of Ajpril. . . . ' ◊-pera,te in making tliis raffle suc- u cessful. lit isn't difficult to sell (B tw,elve chances 111t the low price of JOE SOHLUNK'S SLOT . . .. (No Comment) . 3 for 25 .cents. SeH them to your family , relatives, friends, and buy a few your,self .. Remember - - you may win the Pottaible .Radio, the U. S. Savings Bond-, or the Five Dollar Bill, or all three. · Meeting the gang to discuss a quiz TMs is the firs-t ,ti;m,e the Junior • r .:.a date_, with the campus queendas'S as a group has been asked to pitch in for the good of the class. By IBENE JANOSKI or just killing time between classes Theta Delta Rho, Wilkes College Schremp; Frances Trem1bath, Dol- Please do your part. -the Field House at Louisiana State Soroity ~;ll hold .iits annual S,t . lie Frable, Margaret Aten, Lorn.a Patrick:s Day Tea this afternoon, Coughlin, and Barbara Templeton. Norris, Fay Jaffe, Jane MaxweU, University in Baton Rouge is one from 3 o'clock to 5, in the Women's House- Jane Reese, C'hairman.: Grace Ruffin, Elaine Nesbi:tt, Haz~ Lounge of Chase Hall. On this oc- Jane Bennett, Lois DeGraw, Vida el Wallis, Eleanor Kazmercyk, Maof thQ favorite places for a rendezc111sion the s·o rority will act as host Peck, Betty Ruther,£:ord, Mary Var- rysh Mieszkow,s ki, and Mary Shevous. At the Field Hous,e, as in to ,s enior girl representatives from ga, Helen Casey, Miriam Long, loslci. · a number of the regfonal high Helen Williams, and Joan Yo-nakas. Those presiding at the tea will college campus haunts everywhere, -s chools. \Pro,gtOOJm- Co-<ehairmen, Dorothy be Virginia Meissner, June WilIn ad<lition to refreshments Winterstein and Rose Mary Turris- liams, and Jean Ditoro. a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola is alwihicli will be served, an entertain- sini; Ela!ine Turner and Elva Fullways on hand for the pause that 1 ment program has been arranged er. · :f or the ·high school visitors. FolRefreshments- Chairman, Jane refreshes-Coke belongs. lowing the social function, a tour Salwoski; Gwen Clffl'ford, Nancy of the campus wm be conducted Raub, Balibara CJ.ose, Jo Anne DavAsk for it either way ... both with memlbers of the Theta DeJ.ta is, Donna Cotitrino, Marjorie Shaftrade-marks mean the same thing. Rho as guides. fet, Romayne Gromelski, and Aida YJilkes_ a JORDAN * * JUNIOR CLASS TO IIOLD RAFFLE * * Theta Delta Rho To Honor H. S. Girls At First Annual St. Patrick's Day Tea 1 Miss Marilyn Broadt, sorority president, ha,s selected Beverly H. Vam Horn as general chairman of the tea. The following committees have been appointed: Hostesses- Beryl Colwell, Ann ~ e Perry, Edna Sa.bol, and Jean •::,t,,,.:,h. . (:,~-:~.nvi!fa'tions- Chairnian, J o a n Shulman. .Guides- Chairman, Toni M-e negus; N an,cy Lew.is, Priscilla Swartwood, 'Marita Sheridan, Joyce No-. be!, Dolores Passeri, and .Carlie Thomas. Cooan-u_p - Cha~n, An~ TresJ.ar; Deenah F,le1sher, Louise Kucharski, Joan Likewise, Elfaabeth BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY ·BY KEYSTONE COCA-COLA. BOTTLING CO. 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2-8795 O 19•9. The Coca•Cala Company �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON - Friday, March 17, 1950 ------------------------------=---------------------------------Lomond Tweed is. . . the vest takes Then there's the one about the the high road, the pants takes the inhaler manufacturer who went RELIGION COURSES low road and your wife's in your around sticking his business in HAVE HIGH RATING pockets before ya." other .p eople's noses. Joe is really hard at work these ****** ON DRAKE CAMPUS days. He's working on a new idea. I read in 'the paper last week He wants to cross-breed pigeons where a lady died and .left $690,000 and canaries . to deliver singing te- hidden in her bustle. That's a lot ,D es Moines, fa.-(I JP .)_- Neatly . legracrns. 100 students are taking reliigion of money to leave behind. cour,s es under the liberal arts ~ro****** Being an ardent sports fan, I In order to ill-crease your knowl- gram this year at Dnake Univercould not pass up the o,pportunity to witness the Kentucky Derby edge of words, here are three com- sity, according to Dr. R. H. Pittlast year. What an event! I'll never mon expressions a.nd theiT mean- man, head of .t he department !>f religion in the Oollege o.f Libera,1 forget it! The race started, and in ings: · NU\DIST: A fan dancer with a Arts. "Religion is taught_liike a.n:y a few seconds one of the horses cooling system. other course in the field of social ' broke· away from the group and science. Many students are of · the P ARADqX: Two physicians. soon was far ahead of the others. A~IMONY : The high cost of opinion that religion is a kind of Bible study that is a little more To the utter amazeTt1ent of the leaving. . sophisbi.cated than regular Sunday ****** gawking spectators, the horse ' You know, biological science is school," Dr. Pittman said. zoomed around the track and came "The information that we have a very interesting subject. Just the 'in over 700 feet ahead of the other other day I saw this poem in my about religion can be taught as horses. objectively as any other subject,"' I was really astonished to see text book: he holds. Dr. Pirttman said that' Microsc<>1pic 'lens doth show this. so I went to the jockey after Water teems with insects queer; vocational interests ar,e sometimes the race and asked him how in the But what a comfort it is to know in religion. "The study of the reli• world he could get his horse to run gion aspect of man's life shouldTher~ are no such things in beer. so fast. lbe definitely e part of any college The joc<key looked at me for a student's course of study.'' -moment and then, in a confidential And now, in closing, I would like According to Dr. Pittman, "The whisper, he said, "I just bend down to leave you with this thought : greatest and most impovtant reto the horse's ear and say, 'Roses Our grandmothers believed there sult frm a sine-e re appreciative exare red, violets are blue, horses was a destiny that shaped our ends, ploration of ,r el i g ion is . the that lose, are made into glue'." ·but modern girls place more faith strengthening of one's -own per****** in girdle_s. sonal faith.'' , HOMER AND WOMEN GET ALONG WELL; EVERYTHING FINE TILL HOMER DREAMS , bd; . 'WOJllle~," sighed Bali Hi Bones as he revived · nd crawled closer to the door. "I guess our P sych teaciher was right when he said that most girls go to college to catch a man or husband, which,ever the case might be." The barrag,e of women upon Homer had occured in Chase Loun-· · ge. Bones walked out to River Street am,d headed toward the BEAICON office - BEACON office,. that's nocaeb eciff·o, spelled backwards:. ''Nuts to women," ex-claimed Hooner a.s he wa,lked along. "Havin' troubles with women ?" boomed a voice "Yes, frankly" answered our he- ro, "Your name i<s Frankly, isn't i"t? ' "No, but who caires ?'' crackled the voice. "T-he point i-s, I ~ve a sure-fire, burglar-proof method for curing your aihri-ents and troub!es with woonen. Now I have a book which - - -" . , Homer's eyes gleamed dangeroU:Sly. The voice backed up a step. Our hero s,p oke in a tone armed with cold ,s teel. · "I don't need ;my help from anyone, bud. I know wome~- inside and out. I know as much now as I'll ever need to kn,o.w about skirts. And just · for your information, bud, skirts means woonen - young worn.en." The voi,ce arg ued fo,r sometime, but t o nQ avail. Homer was not convinced. That evening Homer was with a girl, a bee-u~tee-:fiul Wilkes· co-ed. He was bhe "perl,eot'' date, so she picked up a baseball bat and hit him over the head with it. The next day Homer was heard to say, "Ok;ay, bud, I'll buy your ,book." ' He read the book containing all the information about women there iis to know. And he's still dreaming. Beacon Reporter Visits Local Department Store, ·Horse Race; Relates His Adventures By CHUCK GLOMAN , - After spending four hours studying for my mid-semesters, I decided 'to take a walk in order to get a change of scenery. As I walked along South Main Street, I passed a police car. One of the car windows w,as open and I could hear the short wave radio blaring: "Calling car 46, calling car 46--haven't heard from you all day. Is it something we've said?" I entered one of the local department stores. What a rush! The store was so crowded that three ladies were trying on the same girdle. I recognized one of the clerks as Sylvia Siddlewhip. She isn't a very young girl; in fact, she took part in the famous Boston Tea Party. She was one of the bags they threw overboard. She really is a nice-looking girl, though. She's a decided blonde . . . . I was with her when she decided. For some reason s'he reminds me of coffee-strong and stimulating, hut weak in the bean. Sylvia had just recently been mJarried, SI() I asked her how she liked :marr\ed life. "Pretty good," she re!Jl:lied. "Except my husband is too bashful." "He is?" I asked. "Yeah," she retorted. "He?s ,po bashful that he brought mistletoe along on our honeymoon.'' "Ya know, Chuck," she went on, "we got some wonderful wedding presents. One fellow sent me some imported perfume. I knew it was imported because it still had the name of the boat on the label S. S. KRESGE.'' Just then her husband walked into the store. "Hiya, Joe," I said, smiling. ' "Wller'd you get that sui.t?' "Oh, it's a Loch ·L omond Tweed," he replied. "Loch Lomond Tweed?" I asked, a bit ,puzzled. "Sure. You know what a Loch , throughout tHe country IHESlERFIELD--~- ·_ .~: (SPECIAL TO THE BEACON) Halu,cinations Homer was dream:l ng about girls the other night! In the par.tku1ar dream in quest ion, .·Heavenly Homer found hiimsel.f sur·rounded by a doz,en bee, u-tee-ful W.ilkes c.o-eds. The "f,e ms" clung ·to Hooner and buried him with ·words of fond affection. He foug_ht · bis way out of the center of the gang of white-jacketed, blue and w!hiilte-emib aemed co-eds., br-usibed himself off, casually t.ook three step,s toward the door - and faint.: ' ROBERT RYAN famous Dartmouth Alumnus, soys: "I stopped switching around when l hit on Milder ClfESTERFIELD. It's my cigarette." STARRING IN "THE WOMAN ON PIER 13" AN RKO RADIO PICTURB IAICER MEMORIAi. UIRAIY DARTMOUTH COi.LEGE � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 March 17th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 March 17 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/499282fcceb48e9bc60cff5d52d970c4.pdf d863e99d6bf7d9b73ddcdf896b26f53b PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACO Vol. 3, No. 20. College Friday, March 10, 1950 WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. DEBATORS JOURNEY TO BROOKLYN GROUND -BREAKING CEREMONIES FOR THE WILKES GYMNASIUM TO PARTICIPATE IN THlliD ANNUAL INVITATIONAL DEBATE TOURNAMENT By MIRIAM LONG Wilkes College Debating Society will be represented by . a team who will attend the Third Annual Brooklyn Invitational Debate Tournament being held ,today and Saturday, March 10 and 11, at .Brooklyn College, New York. The tournament consists of four rounds of debatb on the topic, "Nationalization of Basic Non-Agricultural Industries". Among the thirty-eight schools which are participating are Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, Carnegi~. Jiarvard, Dartmouth, Kings, Swarthmore, West Point, Princeton, Wilkes, and schools from as far as William and Mary in Virginia. Members of ,t he Wilkes team who are debating in t his contest are Tom Morgan and Fred Davis, affirmative, and Don Kemmerer and Charl·es ,Einstein, negative. Dr. Arthur Krug,er is coaching the team . They left Wilkes this morning in priva.t•e cars. Since Brooklyn GoLlege is a non-resident college, the debators will stay at the St. George Hortel. 1En,t,e11tainmient will include a banquet tonight, following the first round -0f debate, and a tea tomorrow af,ternoon, following the remainin1g three rounds, when re:sults will be announced. The Debating S·o ciety has gro<Wn from a four-man team la,s t year to a g ro.up of approximately thirty members this year. Morgan and JUDGE JOHN S. FINE, WILKES TRUSTEE, TO SEEK N·OMINATION.FOR GOVERNOR IN '50 Pictur~d above are officials of Wilkes and other dignitaries present at the ground-br~aking ceremonies last Wednesday. FIRST ANNUAL TRI-SCHOOL CHEM CONFERENCE GYMNASIUM GROUND . TO BE HELD AT WILKES COLLEGE ON APRIL 19 BROKEN WEDNESDAY By DAVE WHITNEY WiHfes College will be host to the first annual Tri-School Chemistry Conference, co-sponsored by King's College, Scranton University, and Wilkes College, on Wednesday, April 19, 1950. Dr. Charles C. Price, head of the chemistry department of. Notre Dame University, will address the gathering in the Wilkes Lecture Hall following a banquet in the cafeteria. The construction of the n'~w Wilkes CoUege gymrua.sium baegan last Wednesday, wi.th a formal ground breaking ceremony. Mr. Gilbert S. Mc<Clintock, chairman of ,the Board of T11ustees of Wilkes College, -turnded over the first shovelful of earth. Dr. Eugene S. Farley represented the Wilkes Administration. !Members of the Sordoni Construction Company who were presen,t were: Ar.thur Watkins, Proj,e ct Manager; Roy Walter, Vi,ce-presi-dent ; Jack Sordoni, Vi ce-·presi<4int and General Manager; and Pa,ul Ga:bel, Superintendent of the Gymnasium project. The construction work will begin with the demoliti-on of the building which no·w occupies th,e rear of. the South F.ranklm Street lot. The gym will be •c onstruc,ted on a piot of grourid 110 feet wide and 320 feet -J.ong. The building will have 22,000 square f-eet of floo r space and a basketball court 98 f e,et wide and 150 feet long. Judge John S. Fine, member of the Board of Trustees of Wilk,es College, has been selected as a gubernatorial candidate to seek the Republican Party nomination in tbe f 1orthcoming ,~ te primary. Judge Fine was born in: Alden, Newport Township on April 10, 1893. He was one of ,t en children. He attended Nanticoke High School, and then went to Dickinson School of Law,· where later he was to hold the honor of Law School trustee. He was graduated in 1914 and laiter admitted to the Luzerne County Bar. Practice of his profession was interrupted in May of 1917 when he enli<sted for service in World Wa.r One, and served over.,seas as sergeant attached to -the Twenty-third United States Army E'.ngineers. At war's en:d, he pursued a short post-graduate coune in TrinJi.ty GoUeg,e, University of Du1blin, Ireland. At 23 the Republicans chose him as Ohairman of the Fourth Legislative Di,s trict of Luzerne County. He was only 27 years old when he became Secr,etary of the Luzerne County Repubkan Committee and when 2,9 years old he was elected RepubHcan Courllty Chairman. In Two smaller affairs co-sponsored Rebennack, and the ushers will be by the three schools will be held Bill Kashatus, Delbert Cragle, Bereach year, so that each school will nard ,Schleicher and Robert Fishcer. act as host at one joint function every year. After a preliminary meeting on January 31, representatives of the chemistry organizations of the three schools, on February 18, evolved the plan of coo:peration ' in three chemistry gath'.The 2nd a;mual c•onf,erence of erJngs each yea~. This new underPennsylvania IRC clubs wa,s held taking is something unique, per, last Friday and Saturday at Shiphaps, the first affiliation of its pensburg .S:tate Teac'hers College. type over an area of several states. Frances Loftus, E'd Godek, and All three schools will co-sponsor William Caruth were t he Wilkes delegates. each function and each school will T!he topics at the tb,ree round in turn be host fo1: the major pre- tables were; China, Japan and Kosentation, the Tri-School Chemistry rea, and the P.hilippines and Indonesia. Ed -Godek, r epresenting WHConferenc.e. Dr. Charles ,C. Price, speaker for kes, was the rapporteur for the ·the first affair, received his doctorate in chemistry from Harvard }~~oannd :i:~o~:!~e6;,hd~t:!~~~~~~~ University in 1936, and has become presenting 15 colleges, decided to · a distinguished organic chemist. hold next year's conference at GanT,h e Wilkes CoHeg.e Alumni A s·His talk will be "Electrical Factors non CoUege in Erie, •P ennsylvania. honor its new memAffecting ·Chemical Reactivity." In The first conference of state IRC sociaition 1948 Dr. Price was awarded an clubs was ·h eld at (Wilkes in 1949. bers tonight at a dinner in the Army-Navy certificate of a:pprecia- The three Wiilkes delegates gave college cafeteria. Doctor Eugene tion for wartime research. He is a a detailed report of their a,cbivities S. Farl~y,. college president, wiU _b.e the prmc1ipal speaker. Entertammember of the national executive to the members of the IRC club. •David A•Howay, Northeastern . ment will 1be provi_ded by the Mudcouncil of the United World Federalists. Dr. Price is a nephew of Dr. Regional Director of the Intercol- gutter Socety (Wilkes Barbershop Eugene S . .Farley, President of legiate Conferenc-e on Gov,erm:nent, Quartet) • ,r eported that plans are almost , Th.e new members will receive Wilkes College. Members of the cheh1istry clubs, completea for ,t he Northeastern membership cards tonight. Cards the chemistry instructors of the Riegional Meeting to be held at will be mailed to other, members. The AJ.umni campaign for the schools, and Rev. John Lane, head Muhlenberg 1College on -March 11. of King's, the Rev. J. Eugene Gal- 15 Delega,tes from Wilkes wi!I support of the new Wilkes gymlery, S.J., of Scranton, and Dr. leave 'early Saturday morning to nasium will close a:t this di.nner. · Reserv:ations Have ,be,en maned · Eugene S. Farley of Wilkes will attend the all-day sessions. Larry attend. The student body ·is invited. PeJ,esh, the Assistant Regiional Di- to all old members. T,h e price of Students are reminded to get their recto-r for the Region, reports that dinner t,icket is $1.25.· All January tickets from Bill Evans or Bill the Walkes delegation wHI be one graduates wiU •be- ,admitted free. William Boyd i,s . the general Dyke. 'Dinner arrangements are be- of the strong.est and largest that ing made by Tom Jones and Betty will attend · the regional ses.sion'S. chairman of th,e affair. 3 WILKES DELEGATES ATTEND I.R.C. PARLEY Kemmerer, w h o attended t he Brooklyn · Tournament last year and with ,their inexperienced team defeated such outstanding schools as NYU, Boston University, St. John's, and ,Stevens Institute of Technology, are ,the only rema.i.ning m embers of last year's team. The new memberis have had consid,erable experi•e nce debating. before .several community civic organizatins and have defeated sev,eral of the Brooklyn Tournamerut entrants in iprivate debates at various .schools this year. This experienc•e and e:ichaustive res,earch con.stjtute part of the preparation necessary to compete in this ,tournament, one of the most important of the debating year. 1936 ihe wa,s a sta,te-wide choice for delega.te-aUavge to the Repub~ ~ican National Convention, in Cleveland, Qlhio. John S. Fine was 33 years old when he was chosen by Governior Pincihot for appoinrtment to the Luzerne County Court, on January 3, 19'27. In November of that year · and again in 1939, tQ full ,t erms. On June 17, 1947, Governor James H. Duff honored Judge Fine; this time he was appointed Judge of the (Pennsylvania Super.ior CoU.I1t. He was again elected to a full term in a ,s tate-wide election in 1_947. J·udge Fine has been for years ,Senior Wa,rden of St. Geor-ge's Episcopal Church, Nanticoke; is now serving his second year a,s Vice P.resid,ent of Pennsylvania Council of Churches; and was a delegate to ,t he Third Province Synod of the :Protestant Epii-soopal O'hurcih, meeting in Baltimore in 1943 on chuTChly policy touching l\ large portion of the eastern area of the United Srta tes nor-th of Vir·' · H ,e ,s erve d as oh airman, . g1ma. it,wice of Red ,Cross drives in metropolitan Nanticoke; and as chairman -o f the campaign to eradicate cancer. Alumni Association To Hold Banquet "GOLDEN BOY" TO BE PRESENTED • · BY CUE 'N'CURTAJN NEXT MONTH 1 will By ED TYBURSKI Golden Boy has been chosen as the major production of th'";; spring semester of ijle Cue Curtain, it was ~nnoimced yesterday by W. Thomas Littleton, the theatrical groups director. 'n' •Clifford Odets' play is a story of a J11Usician who turns to the fi.ght game to make money. It is an exciting story, packing a · wallop throughout the entire'play. " Golden B,oy" played on Broadway in the late '30's The movie version which t d H ld ' B . s arre l 1am o en an arhara Stanwyck, appeared around the country in the early '40's. The cast includes 17 males and 2 fe,m ales. This will ' be the second production under Littleton's direction, w·ir . d lenge to the youthful director . . However, Toon feels confident that the play will be _a success. . and it should iPTOVe to be a: chalTryouts were ·held last night and will continue tonight in Chase Theatre. There will 'be no lpTe-casting, as is . often charged in .any play, and everyone will have an equal chance. It will be interesting to watch the development of this production, especially since this is the first time that a Wilkes College · The~pian group ha~ attempted this type of play. �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 Friday, March 10, 1950: THE WILXES MUDGUTTERS VINCE MACRI Editor-In-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI News Editor Features Editor GERTRUDE WILLIA,MS ED TYBURSKI Sporta Editor Facu,lty_ 1\-dvisor MARGARET ATEN CLYDE RITTER Circulation Manager Business Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Romayne Gromelski, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabusk, Chuck Gloman, Jim Tinsley, Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Jack Phethean, Bob Metzger, Chet Molley, Nancy Fox, Homer Bones, Ed. Bollnski. Sports Staff .· ' George Brody, Joe Gries, Paul Beers Photographers Art Bloom, Don Follmer A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Intercollegicde Press LETIERS TO THE EDITOR Thia column is open to any and all readers for their comments. Views expreBBed here do not necessarily receive endorsement from the BEACON. All letters must be typewritten and 1lqned by the author. For a current Friday ia■ue, all, letters must be submitted to the BEACON ·office by no later than noon of the preceding Wedne■day. Editor: mind our friend that- gym or no gym- practicing and playing basketball takes up much of the player'-s time. Does he realize we play three or four .g ames every week? These games .t ake two or three hour.s - add the time spent practicing - plus time spent traveling to the games and commuting to ,s chool. One begins to wonder how these boys have enough time to eat and sleep, let alone time to do their schoolwork. Remember that these ,b oys imah;1tain . a C averag.e in order to play; I know of a ~w of them whose average is well aibove a C. Wilkes has, made rapid strides in -a-11 :phases in the past few yea:ris. :It is Uf} to everyone of us to help the ,school continue to grow. I am' amazed that one student could 'be so wholly una,p preciative; I am amazed that one studerut could 1be so totally lacking in sohool spirit. If ,t he writer of that letter can play .b asketball better than the boy-s who now play, why doesn't :he -g et out and teach the boys somi: of his tricks? Chances are that he ,can't, and if !he can't, he has no rea·s on to back-sea.t drive. }'4:ay1b e we woirld s-ee better results in the scores if our boys _knew that they had the school behind them. What they need is some dncentivesome fighting spirit in back of them. Lette:ris like t.he one printe:! la,st week do m<>re to take away incentnve rather than to add. ·T oni Mene.gus The purpose of ,t his letter is not to make excuses for the ~asketball team, but to present the side of the qoostion that is not represented in the scoring records. I am a . professional musician, and one of ,the disadvantages of my profession is that .p eople never remember the millions of notes that a musician plays correctly; they only remember the mistakes. Shifting the situation of a musician to th11,t of an aithlete, people never remember the nights that the athlete i,s "on"; -they can only recall his "off nights''. It is a ' simple task to cl'liticize the -s,hor.t-coming,s of individual players, ·b ut as Wilkes fans we should all think of the "on nights" as well as the "off-nights". I ad.: mi,t that Jackson, Drag'o,n, · and Huff are not at the head of bhe scoring colum:ri, ,b ut why not give them credit for all those pas'S in-terceptions and rebounds. A team must have a .def.ens-e as well as an offense. Yes, r,emember how many shots our team mdss·ed, let us also remember .h ow many shot\; ,char,1ey, Ben, iPaul, and all the rest of the team prevented the opposition from scoring. ; :M y only remark to the individual who had his letter in THE BEACON last week is: ".Put on a pair of "sneaks" and let's see what you can do next November." Various institutions of higher ·R obert Moran, Faculty Member. learning both abroad and in the Uniited States are now making availwble an kinds of literature on Dear Editor: This letter is w,ritten in answer scholairs,hip~ . and fellowships for to that "school-spirited" person the summ-er. Some of the organizations which who wrote the letter last week denouncing -our basketball team. have made st.udy available are: I really could not un<lerstand UNESCO, United Christian Youth purpose of such a letter. Movement, The New School for I should first like to point out 1Social Research, Episcopal Church that our basketball team pra::tices under difficult circumstances, since R eformed Church, Students Interwe have not as yet a gym of our nationaI Travel Asso~iation, U. -S. own. Wi-t h the completion of our Nliitio:ilal Student Association, Innew gym, we should see a decided ternational Institute of Human Rei'lllql'l'ovement in playing techni- la tions, American Friends Service ques. Committee, American Youth HosSecondly, I should like to re: t els, National Interco 11 e g i a·t e Christian Council, !RC Study Tour, Institute of World Affairs, World Council of Churches, Beaver College 1S ummer School, InternationaI Study Tour Alliance Brethren 1Serviice '. Com,mi,s sion, Miethodist School and Office Youth Caravans•, Institute of International Education, and a host of Supplies others. Some of the above offer credit GIFTS AND for the travel or summer · work. Quite a number of the above perSTATIONERY mJt the student to work for part of -t he cost of the study. For any further informwtion on such study, WilkeswBarre, Pa. see Hugo Mailey of the Political Scienoo Depa_rtment. Summer Scholarships Available For Study In Foreign Countries the DEEMER & CO. · Pictured above are Frank Anderson. jack Phethean, Phil Nicholas and Don Follmer, members of the Mudqutte1'1. HUSTLIN' HOMER BONES WRITES AGAIN! Mud .Gutters -Make BEACON CABARET .PARTY GAY AFFAIR Good Stand At Philly By Homer Bones of recognition as one of ,t he "big" The BEAiOOON Cabaret Party eveI11ts of the semester. held last Friday evening in ,the VicSome, if you pardon the exprestory Room of the Hotel Redington sion, "jerk'' ,w,ho was not associatmet with the approval of all those ed wth WHkes made himself qmte who attended the affair. The mu- ridiculous and annoying by becom sic, provided by Joe Bednarek and ing inebriated and causing a scene his. "mighty like a rose" coon1bo, in the rear of the :room. Voice of was danceable and entertaining. experience: Hire a bouncer for the Occasionally Joe and his boys were next party. forced to repea,t songs, but none Notes: Tom Moran got jittery were repeated more than four or (from overwork) and dropped a five times. rtray of drinks as I was passing by. The floor shOI\V -lasted for 50 min- He just a1b out wet my fum:. utes and had the paitrons in the Marty Blake was seen at the aisles --- heading for the · doors. affair. Did .he ever get the mickey (Just kidding of course.) The en- he was supposed •t o receive? He tertainmell/t was good. Kem Wun- looked it. der, vocalist; Bobby Goldsmith, a The . pictures of the beautiful whizzer on the whistle; the Mud girls were taken from the walls of Gutters, our own Wilkes Quartet; the ma.in part of tthe Victory Room. PaW Shiffer, the Campus Caruso; Mirrors a.re ,g oing to take their and t'lw' Wilkes comic team of Paul places. Now wh~re will ,we hold Huff, Chuck Gloman, Byron Ling- dances? ertot, and Skinny Ennis; nll helped Bobby Go-ltlsmith gave up after make the event a ·~ oteworthy one. one encore. Her reason: a hea<laclie. Bill Griffith M. C'd the show in Kem Wunder gave up after five fine fashion, considering he had no encores. Her reason: ,sihe had to jokes; funiny jokes , that is. "hurry on down, baby". We can't fail • to mention the The comic team's rendition of marionette tap dancer presented "Battleground" will be undoubt edby Mike Sternigus. Entertaining, \ly go down in history as the war yes indeed! story o:f tthe , year. The sequel to The show was somewhat under• that ·sfory will probably be "Sands par compared' to the cabaret par- of Sans- :Souci" o.r "Victory Room t ies of the past. Yet, it was worthy Beach-head". The Wilkes College Mud Gutte;s Society returned from Philadelphia with no crO'Wils for their heads but with satisfa.otion for their minds. Our warblers competed in the Col· legiate Quartet Contest sponsored by the University Glee Club of iP'hiladelphia on, March 4. Although they won no prizes, the Mud Gutters received generous praise from the audience. First place was .won by West Chester State Teachers College and second ·p lace was taken by Ul\S.inus College. Miemlbers rep,reseniting Willres College were: Phil Nicholas, Bari_tone; Frank Anderson, Tenor; Jack Phethian, Lead; and Don Follmer, Bass. Mr. Partridge arud Mr. ~bert Moran, faculty adviso:i:s, accompanied th·e group. Letterman Meetipg Report By Secretary Meeting called to order by pres-.ident Waters. 1Secretary's Report read by Dick ,S cripp; treasurer's report 'by Don B!ackenl:>ush. All letter.men were requested to ha ve their dues paid as soon as possil:tle. BATTLEGROUND The annuaI April Showers Ball was discu,ssed with Olie Thoma s appodnted as chairman. Con,sidei:able difficulty was encountered in choosing the si-te for the dance. Many members felt that the !rem Temple Club was the nicest place but that it was too small for comfortable dancing. The tentative date for the affair is Ap.ri-1 U. Site has •been definetely declar~ a,s ,Sans Souci park. · · · A committee was a1s·o chosen ¥0 devise a method of choosing tl;.e, April Show.ers queen. Members {if .this committee are Jack Feen~y, Cyril Kovalchick, and Gene Sm1,e. Tickets will be $2.80, no corsagf:.~, and the musical honors will be do~ie by Lee Vincent. . New members will be initiated at ,a smoker -to he held in the near future. Jack Feeney wiTI be -in eb.ar;. ge of the arrangements fo,· the smoker. A coffee hour will also be h.eld by the Lettermen in the near fliture. Al Molash will be the chai:·man of the coffee hour. Any lettermen interested ·,.n forming a bo,wling ,team from tlie 1 , club are requested to contact Di¢k Scripp as soon as possible. Meeting closed. Riobard Scripp, Left to right. Paul Hull. Chuck Gloman, Bill Griffith and Skinny Ennla ihown Secretary. . ln an emotional scene from ~•Ir version of Battleground. �'r lday, March 10, 1950 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 3 Past Week's Events Reviewed In Pictures - - WILKES' SINGING TAiENT Wilkes" own Paul Shiffer, pictured above, at the Cabaret Party hitting a ,ow one and doing a mighty fine job of it. SCENE FROM "MIND SET" Above Is shown the c:aat of Mind Set. Left to right, Tom Robbins, Jim Gaetens, Nancy Fox and Jeanne Smlth. THE WUNDER OF IT ALL A BIT OF "PRESSED PANTS" Skinny Ennis' precarious position Is ,being viewed by ADD Belle Perry, Earl Wolfe, Diane Campus and Barbara Close. . Shown above is Ken Wunder who appeared by popular demand at the Beacon Cabaret Party. BOBBY AND HIS ,WHISPERING WHISTLE BEACON CABARET PARTY ENTENTAINERS Above is Bobby Goldsmith, entertainer, who received thunderous applause for hi.a rendition of "Marching Through Georgia" (on a whistle). · Shown above ls Mlke Strenlgus and his tap-dancing marionette. Holding the mlcrlphone ls Bill Griffith, and part of Combo �Friday, March 10, 1950 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 4 -ODE TO PARKINGThe parking lot's closed That's what we've been told. I wondered how many Permits have been sold For permi~sion to park At the o~e that survived; The one that holds four Or crowded parks fiv~. ***** The answer to this I'm hai_ppy· to say, Ten thousand, was given By finance today In the honor of }i'ord To a fund that was i 1ow Indirect tribute To autos you know. ***** Now where will I park I asked of Kersteen. " Do not worry he said The logical mean Is to park ori a street Which is close to the school" That really sounds swell Let's start a fines' pool. ***** · Inside of a week A mandate will say You have seventy cuts See Ralston today Please tell me my friends Would you think I'm a fool If a buy me a horse And ride her to school. - - - so - - I'll try ninety streets You see I look hard Could b e I might park In Farley's back yard If one question I ask So ask it I will Does a parking place go With the Go:vernment's bill? Dav:id Edwards Looking Back HERE ARE SOME SHOTS YOU MAY HAVE OVERLOOKED IN PAST·ISSUES OF THE BEACON THE STUDENT COUNCIL PROUDLY PRESENTS THE LUCK ,. O' THE mISH Sport Dance FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 17-th - in the - WILKES CAFETERIA Refreshments-For · Free! • Dancing From 9 to ? ----------------------- �5 WILKF,S COLLEGE BEACON Friday, March 10, 1950 FLORKIEWICZ, WASHCO SIGN CONTRACTS WITH PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL STEELERS Colonels' Corner By JOE GRIES (Beacon Sports writer) By ED TYBURSKI A double honor came to Wilkes College last week when it was annouced that John Florkiewicz and Gerard Washco, members of the 1949 Colonel football team, signed to play professional football with the Pittsburg Steelers of the National Professional Football League. (Beacon Sports Eclltor) SOCCER .... Monday :p. m. at 3 Coach Bob Partridge will run through his first spring practice session with his future soccer teaJ. The entire spring practic'e will last five weeks, and according to Coach Partridge, they're going to ge tough weeks. The main objective of these sessions will be the schooljng of the fundamentals bf the game. Anyone who is sincerely interested in the game and intends to try out for next season's team is invited to come out to Kirby Park, Monday .... Returning to the squad from last year are :P aul Beers, ,Robert, Hooper, Charlie Jackson, · Cy Kovalchik, Robert Nielsen, Charlie iPetrilak, Cled Rowlands, t4,e Stocker Boys (Charlie and Jim), >D on Tosh,· Charlie Wallison, Ed Wheatley, Jerry Wise, William Mosley, Earl Wolfe, Ted Cross, D. Pelmoter and Charlie Thomas. . . . . . Petrilak and Jackson played on the cage squad, while Chuck Thomas .was on the Wrestling , team. . . . Cy K9valchik was captain of last year's soccer team .... Coach Partridge wjll concentrate on getting his men in shape, teaching · them the fundamentals, and getting them on the proper diets. . . . So far he has scheduled Franklin and Marshall, Stroudsburg, Lincoln, Ithaca, Howard, Blooons'burg, and Fort Monmouth. . . . Fort Monmouth is a new, addition to last year's schedule. . . . Any one who is interested in learning to play soccer is welcome to come out for the team. BASEBALI.J. . . . The call for the · first .p ractice is as uncertain as the weather. In fact, it's depending on the :weather. It is probable, though, that Coach Ralston will issue his call within the next week or so; At the time of this writing, Mr. Ralston was not available for comment. So we'll just have to along guessing with the others' as to the actual time of the first practice. . . . Interest is sharp, and the boys are anxious to start. from talk around 'and about the cam,pus, a big turnout can ibe expected, and Coach Ralston will have a good crop to pick his regulars from .... Wilkes has a tough schedule this year, .adding another game with Lycoming and susquehanna. , Both teams had ·b een previously scheduled for only one game. This still leaves the Colonels with tl)ree open dates. Coach Ralston is trying to fill these dates in, and before the season starts, we might very well face a 20 game schedule. . . . With the prosplects of only two pitchers so far, Coach Ralston can pull a "Durocher" and switch Al Molash to the mound. Al is plenty big with a good arm. He should have lots of steam, and if 1 he has the control, he'll be able to help· Ralston with plenty a headache. , HOCKEY . . .. · In this department, we'll start off with an apology. Last week we yelled the praise of our hockey team, and went out on a limib in hoping for a vktory. As the paper :went to press, Coach Bdb Moran received a post card frotn Lafayette saying that they couldn't make it. It seems as though their student council refused them money f..or the rental of the rink. Oh well, at least no one can say we were wrong. We could have won. BASKETBALL . . .. Last Tuesday night the ,C olonels traveled to Ithaca without the services of their coach, who is si"k in bed. They lost 89-69 .... This isn't too bad, considering the fact thit these same lthacans defeated Army the previous week. . . . Mr. Chwalek handled the team iti the absence of Coach Ralston. From all observances, he did a good job ... . Bobby Benson came through again for the Colonels with a high of 25 points. Charlie Jackson followed this with 17 .... Tomorrow night the 1Colonels close their court campaigns at Binghamton where they meet Triple Cities College. . . . We hope that Coach Ralston will . be ready for this last game. JOE SCHLUNCK'S SLOT .... Last week I maka da point for some bowling teams. When I reed yore callum, ·I see dat you no ;p-u t in any ting 'bout dis game. Howa come? Well, no difference. This a week, I hear somethin else. Track. Now, dis is good game. I ikno:w. Coupla weeks ago there is much atalk on this game. Seems dey try to rob some G-Man, but in the end he get justice. Now why don't Wilkes Collidge have track team? Some say too expensive. MaY'be so. ,But hevryone pitch in and pretty soon ... . tra~k -t eam. No? I tink so. Look what hockey team do. Besides, Bob Moran also ready to teach trac'k team .... no, how you call 'em .... ·Coach track team. Let's see what we do wit this, huh? And dis time dona for.get I mention track. Not lika last week. Hokay? So long fer now, yer fran, J. (Anonymouss) Scblunk. Florkiewicz, a five-foot eleven inch, 190 pounder, played halfback on the Wilkes football teams for the past four seasons. 1Jn 1948 he was given honOJ"able mention on the Associa,ted Press All~Sta·te rteam and followed up this honor by ,g aining a position on last year's second team. Florky graduated from Nanticl>ke High ,Sohool in 1941 and spent · the next three years in the Army .. Upon his discharge he enrolled .in Wilkes and proceeded to gain an I outstanding record as Colonel football player. Wilkes football fans remember John as a hard runner and outstanding passer who :worke'd out of the Slingle wing :with Francis Pinkowski, Leo Castle and Al Nicholas to give Wilkes the rating as one of ,t he outstanding teams in the srtate. In his four years of play at a go CAGERS TO WINDUP CURRENT CAMPAIGN AT TRIPLE CITIES TOMORROW EVENING SOCCER PRACTICE TO BEGIN MONDAY Soccer coach Bob Partridge has announced that spring practice for the soccer team wHl beg.in this Monday; Anxious to get things going and produce a really fine soccer outfdt here at Wilkes, Partridge has officially ohanged the f'inst day of spring to March 13th and called soccer ,_pi:actice. Oniy the maj·o r league baseball teams have beat ,h im in that resp~t. 'T he soccer mentor has hopes that he will fdnd a lot of ne:w faces out ·a t ,p ractice. Ev.en with six returning lettermen, Partridg·e has stated over and over again that there are sti·ll eleven available posi tions. Thi-s means that anyone can break into the starting lineup come next September. Bob :wiU be lookring for some fast linemen,. and some bruising backs, plus a good goalie. If you see any such material lying around, ship it to Kirby -Park at 3 :00 on Monday, M-arc,h 13 . Last year was the first year that Wilkes had a soccer team. F or most of the fellows it meanrt learning the -game from the bottom up. Even .so, the team didn't do ba.dl,y, as several coaches expressed opinions that Partni:dge would have a high-flying bunch of hooters in a yea.r or two. This spring the Coac;h is givtl.ng a revue, on the fundamentals and he is stressing cond~tio:ning. With some hard prac,tice, -he hopes to iron out the many weaknesses of th.e Colonels and to field a powerful eJ:even next fall. \Partridge will . be assisted by his twd lieutenants, freshman c-oac.h Bob Moran and the former pro from England, the ldk,eable Reggie Burr. ence, they should lead Wilkes to a great .season. This writer is a little sorry to see the cage sport -b ow out with all its thrills and spills (beside it gave me a Saturday night out), but the sport must take a backseat to old man baseball who is now elbowing his way into the picture, so with this column we are signing "thirty" to the cage sport at Wilkes for this year. , · Wilkes, John scored 29 times in 25 games for a total of 174 points. Florky was one of the most sought after footballer,s ever ½> perform in this valley. · · Gerard W-ashco, a six foot, one inch, 230 pound giant also played 'his high school footbaH at iNanrticoke in 1941-42-43. He saw two years' service with the Navy and then en.rolled at Wilkes. He has an honor that ~ot many other gddders can claim and that is for four years he has started every Wilkes contest exceprt the last two and he missed these .b,eca,'UJS0 he· :was out with a broken wrist.. W ashco, one of the seven blocks of Anthracite, performed on the> Wilkes line and was usually found: on •t he bottom of every tackle. He was selected on many opponent teams and led Wilkes last season to one of their best seaso:na in the: pigskin sport. By signing with :Plittsburgh, Florkiewicz and W ashco wiH play together for the third time on th:r,ee different teams. John and Gerard have broughrt a great honor ,to Wilkes by being the first ones to sign with a pro team from here and it wouldn't have happened to two nicer guys. iWe hope that thi.s isn't the last time for somertbing like thi.s to haippen at Wilkes, and. somehow we don't think it is. i In Ann Arl>or, the Grand Rapids COLONELS HOPE TO . END DISMAL SEASON WITH A WIN grou;p of young men who were aiBy JOE GRIES (Beacon Sports writer) The Wilkes College cagers will close out the current season tomorrow night at Binghamton; New York, when they play in a return game with Triple Cities College. The Bingo Boys outpointed the Colonels in a close game last month in the local YMCA. Last Satµrday night the Colonels ended their home season by taking a .drubbing at the hands of Blooms. burg State Teachers Slate -College, 83 to 59. 'T he Colonels started off fast in this contest but faltered near the end when Charlie Petrilak, Charlie Jackson, ,Bill Johns, Ben ,Dragon went out on fouls. Freshman John Mackin was }_ligh ~for Wilkes with 19 points. He was followed by Bill Johns who garnered 11 point3, 1Triple Cities tlitis year lias one I of the fiJ ;est team!l _ever to r-,·.,· ! fent that school cf l1igher learn111P,. Folks up around Binghamton claim they 'are the .p ower house of the Middle New York tSate area. A huge crowd is expected to attend the game due to the many people who migrated to that are!l <luring the past war _a nd never returned to the valley. With this game Wilkes will end th~ worst season ever to n.it a Colonel cage team. The past season showed to Wilkes cage followers a, Room on the campus is a favorite ways good sports and never failed to play fair. student gathering spot. In the To111 ,1 rrow ni ght Paul Huff and Ben Dragon, both seniors, will Gr~nd Rapids Room-Coca-Cola hang Ulp their Blue and Gold uniis the favorite drink. Witn the forms i'o r the l::tst t ime as memo~! 1 college crowd at the University of of a Wilkes College cage team. ·Both being good players, it's a Michigan, as with every crowdtough blow to see tHern depart from Wilkes. Paul will be rememCoke belongs. bered for his accuracy on long shots and his great hustle. Ben, Ask }Qr it either 'l!)ay •.. both who captained the 1949-50 Colonel trade-marks mean the same thing. ¢Plusl~ team was a great rebour,id . man ~ StateTax ·who on more than one occasion .,BOTTLE0 UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY held a nervous five together. Next year will !!.eE! the return of Charlie Petrilak, Bobby Benson, KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. Charlie Jackson, John Mackin, Bill Johns and Moose May, all capable l:U . WOOD STREET, WILKES.B,ARRE, PA. PHONE 2-8795 performers who will form the nucleu\l of the Wilkes cage team. Now 0 1949, The Coca-Cola Company that they ~ave that need~d experi• ~ �WILKES COLLEGE :QEACON 6 CAMERA QUERIES· ·• • ~-:.-:. are terrible. They're t-ough and half raw." "Do ' you want m.e to turn them over?" the waiter asked. parking IP'I'Oblem "Yeh, to the Smithsonian Institute!' <was the reply. if the students . After staring at the waiter for who_ '-live near-by some time, I realized that I knew would ride buse·s him. He was none other than Eb' instead of driving eneezer Whifflesquitch. I remember to school. If these his wedding dl!,y. He was married students still de-~ on a fifty-fifty ,J:>asis .. , She was sire to drive . to half sober and he was half _drunk. school, the city ' Boy was he excited at the wedpolice should coding! He gave his ,w ife ten dollars operate by atlowing them to park and' kissed the Justice of the Peace. on all streets surrounding the colHis sister-in-law wai;; one of the lege without penalizing for rpark- most considerate people I ever ing overtime. knew. I fact, she was so consider-------ate that she shot her husband with a bow and arrow so she wouldn't ever realiz.e d it, but marriage is just wake up the children. like a card game. They start with ***** Football players must be contor- a !Pair; he shows her a diamond; tionists . . . they're always going she shows a flush and they end up with a full house. around their own ends. John Blannett, Freshman: There • w o u I d n't be a ❖• .! -:,•. ~~.,.~~~;-;::.· .-·~~ The new gym will be constructed on land which was once used by the students of Wilkes College for .parking. , Ea'c h day about ninetyfive cars were parked in this lot. Now . that construction has begun, space ;m ust be found for the parking of these " ars. · THE QUESTION: What . is your solution to this parking' !Problem_? Danny Sherman, member of the Student Coun c i 1 Parking Commit- ' tee: Obtain .p er- · mission from the dty for use of the parking lot under the South Street lll"l'JW.._~ Bridge. If this !Plan fails .p erhaps we can .get · cut rate prices at some of the parking lots near the college. The average student cannot afford to pay the high . price that is being asked by the owners -0f parking lots. f BEACON REPORTER RELATES Lu NCH' HOUR ADVENTURES By CHUCK GLqMAN The U!Ptown clock struck twelve as I gathered my stack of books, raced out of world lit class, hopped in my car, and ran into "Skinny" Ennis. I immediately jumped out of the car. Skinny was lying in the street, muttering something about passing a quiz from Dr. Craig. ****** After I picked him up and Marion Weitman, brushed the dust from his coat · Assistant Editor Skinny told me that he was on his of the Year Book: way to eat lunch at one of the l0cal hotels and ·asked me to go along I think the !Parkwith him. ing problem could , " By tp.e way", he asked, "why be alleviated if • didn't you blow your horn " parking was al"The horn on my car is indifferlowed o n ,b o t h ent", I r eplied. sides of River St. "How can your horn ·be 'indifferOf c O u r s e, it ent'?" he quizzed. would be neces"It just doesn't give a toot," I sary to prohibit answered. parking between . . Then I asked Skinny if this hotel 4 and 6 in the afternoon. If this is dining room •w as a very expensive impossible parking diagonally place to eat. could be allowed on one side of the "Expensive?" he laughed. "This ' place is so expensive that when street. . the check comes, you just throw all ****** your 'money anci jewelry on the _Bob Waters, Sentable and the waiter tells you how ior Class Presimuch you're short." •dent: The (Plot of As we entered the dining room, _ground in t h e a sleepwalker, clad in blue-greenback of Ashley yellow-'purple flannel pajamas, was stumbling around the room. , Hall and the boys' Thi:! waiter saw him and yelled, . dormitorY. could "Hey! You can walk around here be converted into in your pajamas." .an · ideal parking "But I'm a somnambulist!" the lot. This may rmar sleepwalker persisted. the beauty of the Then the waiter snorted, "Well, ,campus but _someyou CaJl't walk arqund here like times it is requirthat nu matter what your religion ed to sacrifiee beauty to fulfill cur- is." rent 11ecessities. As long as we are Skinny went up to the waiter on the subject of parking, how and said, "Where's the menu?" about the parking space that will The waiter absent ~niindedly anbe required for pe<>:ple who drive to sw.e red, "Straight down the hall, the affairs which will be held at third door to the right." the New Gym? "Oh, forget it," "Skinny snorted. ****** " Whats· on the menu?" Eugene DougJter"Our specialty today is chicken ty, Sophomore: smothered with mushrooms.' "Chicken smothered with mushWe must find a roo ms? " I asked. lot in the vicinity "Yeh," the waiter retorted, "We o f t h e college had to smother the chicken with large enough to mushrooms . .. the 'butcher didn't park all of the have the heart to use an axe." cars which. were - Then I could hear the shouts and., previously parked complaints of the 1people in the in the Franklin next booth. One of them called the Street lot. · The waiter and screamed, "These eggs ideal lot is · the one adjj).cent to Temple Israel. If it is not owned by the college we should make some arrangements with the owner for the use or this land f9r college !parking. CRAFTSMEN ENG,RA VERS ****** Friday, March 10, 1950 Charlotte Davis, Social Chairman of Girls' Dorm: I reside at the dormitory on Northampton St. so I hardly find it necessary to drive to class. However, the parking problem would be partially solved if the O 1 d River Road was made a one way street and parking allowed on 'both sides of the street. · 20 North State St. Phone 3-3151 WILKES COLLEGE ON THE Am * EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY I held next Wednesday, March 15, a,t 8:00 p.m. in the Girls' Lounge, third floor of Chase Hall. Topics for the first meetiI11g will be: Foreign Policy Toward China and Immigration. · Dr. Harold W. Thatcher, Head I guess you heard the one about of the History Department will be the two bees who got married and the Chairman of the' firs.t m·e eting. got a bumble from Heaven. The purpose of these monthly discusson meetings is to bring to***** , St. Peter : "How did you get gether members of the faculty and here?" · -students to dis,c uss current events. New arrival: "Flu." The first of a series of ·monthly All membeI1s of the faculity and ***** • round-table discus·sions !WOnsored stude:nit body are invited to partiI don't know whether or not you by the Hisitory Departmerut will be cipate. Monthly Discussions To Be Held By Wilkes History Department At DEN ISON and (olleges a~cl Universi~ies . throughout the country (HESJERFIEtD'- · DOROTHY HART Lo'vely Denison Alumna, says: ''Chesterfield was my ciga~ette in college and it's my cigarette today. They're always MILDER." :J)~v-r CO,STARRING IN "OUTSIDE THE WALL" 1AM HOWARD *By Recent · National Survey DOANE LIB � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 March 10th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 March 10 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/16b6dfa32faa0a945f94a3d21032210f.pdf f4e72a34f0b878fee3877a4e07f5ee7b PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACO Vol. 3, No. 19. College WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Friday, March 3, 1950 GYM CONSTRUCTION TO START MONDAY NEW WILKES COLLEGE GYMNASIUM GROUND BREAKING WILL TAKE PLACE MONDAY ATllA.M. Construction on the Wilkes College Gymnasium will begin Monday with a formal ground.. breaking ceremony at 11 a. m., it was .announced yesterday by Dr. Eugene S. Farley. In releasing the news, Dr. Farley also stated that after today parking will be prohibited on the big lot. Plans for the new gym, to be constructed on South Franklin Street between Ross and South .Sts., have been in the school's . possession for some time. On January 9, however, a drive for $~50,000 to finance the cost of the structure was begun. The drive lasted until February 3, anµ over 250 voluntary workers took part. During the course .of the campaign, . $215,43"5 were raised. Although th~y were apAl:>Ove is the architect"s drawing of the new Wilkes College gymnaprogram will be Gilbert S. McCllntock. Chairman of the Board: Dr. Eugene proximately $35,000 short, the sium. Construction of the athletic plant Is scheduled to begin Monday at S. Farley. and George Ralston. When the structure will be complete.d has Board of Directors decided that 11 A. M.. with a formal ground breaking ceremony. Taking part In the not yet been announced. ' construction should begin, hoping that somewhere, somehow the remaining funds would be realized. The gym will be constructed Trailing in the wake of last Starting Monday. parking on the FLOORSHOW TO HIGHLIGHT EVENING on a plot of ground 110 feet week's elections in England, the big lot on South Franklin Street will wide and 220 feet deep. When . '\Sqp,hom;_o re, Junior, and Sienior O ne of the largest crowds ever to attend a Wilkes affair is classes of Wilkes went to the J>olls be prohibited. The 0rder was put In completed, ~t will have 22,000 --' t O f 'll · · to effect by the administration so that expected to be on hand tonight at 9 in the Victory Room of 1as t T ue::,way ) vacancies m , the ~tudent Counc1l. work on the new gym can progress square feet bf floor space, and Hotel _Redington for the long-awaited social ev~nt of the yearThe Sop/homore class ,eljected without Interference. Students living a ba~ketball court 98 wide and th~ third annual BEACON Cabaret Party. Chuck Gloman to represent their near the campus are requested to 150 feet long. The seating arTickets costing 50c ·per person may cordings. interests in student government. leave cars at home so that those from rangement will be such that the be purchased from any member of the Here's a last minute word of advice. The Jrunio.rs elected Bob Elters. the outlying areas will have sufflBEACON staff, at the bookstore, or at If you're looking for a good way to To fiJ.l two vacanei.es in t\he Senior clent parking space on the small lot. gym will be utilized for gym the door tonight. spend this E!vening, what could be bet- · repres-entattion, Mary Porter and Students are not allowed to park on c 1 a s s e s, athletics contes~, ter than the BEAC,ON Cabaret Party? Don Kemmerer were selected. the river common. There will be _no reservations. With - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - dances, and other si.rQilar social the exception of a small section for en- Why? Because it's got dancing, music, events. tertainers, all seats will be given on a songs, comedy, and it's packed with first-come-first-served basis. This is done surprises. So by all means get your How far construction can proto eliminate confusion and" hard feel- ticket now or at the door tonight and gress on the limited funds is not ings that have been prevalent at past be on hand for the newest and one of yet known. However, the B~d cabaret parties. the best cabaret parties ever to be presented at Wilkes. By CHUCK GLOMAN of Directors and administration The event will begin with the smooth, , The fabulous Billy Rose, famed show,:man and columnist, are hopeful that the gym will mellow dance music of the Joe Bednared Combo, a group which everyone has consented to judge the 1950 AM1-TICOLA Beauty Contest, be completed once the project enjoyed at the Junior Class affair last Leon Gilbert, editor, disclosed this week. year. Photographs of the twenty-five recent- Marion Weitman, Joan Likewise, May has begun. Large Turnout (Expected At Beacon Party; CLASSES ELECT NO PARKING ON THE Joe Bednarek Combo To Play For Dancing COUNCIL MEMBERS BIG LOT AFTER TODAY S~OWMAN BILLY ROSE TO JUDGE . 1950 AMNICOLA BEAUTY CONTEST At last, the entertainment menu, which up to now has been shouded in mystery, has been released by Ted Wolfe, general chairman. Bill Griffith will emcee the one-hour floorshow to begin pt 10:30. In addition to Kem Wunder, a top-notch vocalist whose song stylists have received great op·plause in night clubs throughout the state, Bobby Goldsmith, ace of the slidewhistle players, will be on hand with his "famous" rendition of "Twelfth Street Rag". Student acts will feature Steve Kru, pinski, Frank Anderson, Jack Phethean, )?hi! Nicholas, Byron Lingertot. Chuck Gloman, Paul Huff and Bill Griffith. Past cabaret parties have been wellenjoyed by all students who attended them, and in keeping with the policy of Wilkes shows, a special guest, whose name has not yet been discloeed, will also entertain. Past affairs have featured such prominent celebrities as Jack Norton, the most famous drunk of the movies; Erskine Butterfield, famous wizard of the keyboard; Dick Brown, singing star of the radio jackpot show "Stop The Music"; and Freddie Stewart, star of radio, movies, television and r• ONE-ACTS PRESENTED BY CUE 'N' CURTAIN ' The Cue and Curtain presented two one-act plays on February 27, 218, and 29 , at eight o'clock in Chase Theater. The first, a psychological drama called "M.in<l Set" was diroot~d by Paul Schiffer. Th e cast in cluded J,ean 1Smith, Nancy Fox, Tom Robbins, James Gatens, a nd Marysh M,ieszkowski. The second play wa·s -a comedy <lirected by J anet Gearhart. Its cast consisted of Howard Ennis, Barbara Close, E·a rl Wolfe, Diane Ca:mpus, and An n Bell,e Perry. R01bert Stackhouse directed the lighting and Dominick Alfano and J ohn Gallagher designed the sets for both plays. NOTICE! Attendance of all students who , have le■■ than 60 Hmester houn of credit Is ·required at all a11emblles. One unexcused cut Is allowed per ■ eme■ter. ly chosen candidates will be sent to the famous Diamond Horseshoe owner, who will select five winners to be pictured in the 1950 Yearbook. The versatile song-writing master of show business has many outside interests. His book. " Wine, Women and Words", published early last year, atI tained nation-wide popularity. "Pitching Horseshoes", his daily column which is syndicated in 225 newspapers, is full of gossipy stories and fancy facts. Rose is the producer of shows and spectacles that always make a big splash - especially the famous World'·s Fair Aquacade, where his wife, Eleanor Holm, was star merma-id. Twentieth Century-Fox made a picture a few years ago, about Rose's famed showplace The Diamond Horseshoe, in an extravagant technicolor production 'which starred Betty Grable and Dick Haymes. The twenty-five coed candidates were chosen from nominations received by the Amnicola staff last November. Competing In the contest are Mary Porter, Gwen Clifford, Ann Belle Perry, ~abel Eclcer, Barbara Hartley, Jeanne Smith, Way, Helen Casey, Audrey Kohl, Nancy Raub, Irene Janoski, Elaine Turner, Ann Azat, Janet Gearhart, Marysh Mieszkowski, Connie Olshefski, Marge Brennish, Beverly Van Hom, Nancy Yaufman, Betty Rutherford, and Marianna Tomasetti. 2 ORGANIZATIONS TO BE HONORED AT NEXT COFFEE HOUR The Cue 'n' Curtain and the Deba.ting Club will be honored at the Coffee Hour Tuesday, March 7, whic.h will b,e held from 3 :30 until 5:00 in the cafeteria. Hostesses wiH be Miss Ruth Grun, Miss Lorna Holbrook, Mrs. Paul R. Werner and Mrs. Samuel A. Rosenberg. · Pouring will be -Mr.s. Eugene S. Farley, Mrs. John J. Riley, iMiss Janet Gearhart and Miss Ann Bel~ Perry. Genaral chairlady for Coff.ee Hours -this semester i6 Mrs. Robert W. Partridge. RALSTON OPENS HEART CAMPAIGN Dean George Ralston officially· opened the National Heart Campaign on the Wilkes College last Tuesday by urging each student to c•o ntribUJte at least 50 cents. Mr. Ra1ston ·stated tha.rt regardless of the seemingly endless current -Of worthy welfare drives; _ we are ,behooved to contribU,te t<> <the . Heant campaign. Heart disease, the greatest killer of man, ,exempts no one. Dean., Ralston warned tha.t no a,ge bracket is immune; money that you give may be used to save your own life.· Student chairmen of the drive· are Af Molash and Jack Feeney. They 'have placed a booth in the cafeteria where you can donate cash or make your J>ledge. �Friday, March 3, 1950 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 llf~ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WiLKES "MUD GUTTERS" TRAVEL TO PHILLY TO MAKE lNlTIAL COMPETITIVE APPEARANCE This column Is open to any and all readers for their comments. Views expressed here do not necessarily receive endorsement from the BEACON. All let• trs must be typewritten and signed by the author. For a ' current Friday lBBue. all letters must be submitted to the BEACON office by no later jhan noon of the preceding W4!1dnesday. A Mud Gutters Society quartet from Wilkes will travel to Philadelphia with Mr. Partridge to compete in the Collegiate Quartet contest tomorrow. The contest is sponsored, by the University Glee Clul?- of Philadelphia. Phil Nicholas, baritone; Frank Anderson, tenor; Jack Phethean, lead; and Don Follmer, bass, will represent Wilkes College. ' By ROMAYNE GBOMELSKI VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor ED TYBURSKI GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Romayne Gromelski, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabusk, Chuck Gloman, Jim Tinsley, Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Jack Phethean, Editor:Bob Metzger, Chet Melley, Nancy Fox, Homer Bones, Ed. Belinski, I thought that the thermometer was low until'I Icioked at the Wilkes College Sports Staff basketball record, then I thanked God George Brody, Joe Gries, Paul Beers for the weather that we're having. ' Photographers Things are really that bad. Outside of Art Bloom, Don Follmer big John Mackin and Bobby Benson, A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. Coach Ralston doesn't have a man on PHONE 4-4651 EXT. ·19 the squad that can dump in a few Member points and be consistent at it. Even Intercollegiate Press then, Mackin and Benson aren't any terrors. EDITORIAL Ralston pickeil up Mackin in the middle of the season, and he -can thank his lucky stars that .he did. Johnny is one of those boys who takes off in a ·The parking problem brought about by the construction of drive, weaves around a couple of men, and drops in two points. He's also a SHALL WE 'pARK? the new gym poses an immediate arid very important question. Where are ·the students going to park their cars? The small lot is filled twenty minutes before eight o'clock classes begin, and remains full until 3 in the aftepioon. If the student parks his car on South River Street, he is forced to play tag' with the boys in bh1e from the city of Wilkes-Barre. This particular game ·has funny rules. The cops are always "it" and the students get "tagged". Of course, every tag _costs the car owner $1.00. We hope that the problem will resolve itself in time. However, until some satisfactory plan is worked out, students who live close to the campus should leave their cars at home so 'there will be enough room in the parking lot for those who live in the outlying areas. Tlie city of Wilkes-Barre could also help by liftidg the two-hour parking limit on South River Street. The city fathers could even outdo themselves by generously reserving the block for college parking only. Perhaps the administration could help by allowing the students to park on the vacant lot adjacent to the Temple Israel. We THINK the school owns the property and this would be a very nice location for a parking lot. Naturally, we are only speculating, but maybe some brilliant student will devise some workable plan. If anyone does, we would appreciate his letting us know. EDITORIAL WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HE-MEN? A full two weeks' have passed since the Red Cross Blood Donor Campaign was launched on the Wilkes College campus. ·Realizing the seriousness involved in this national project, the American Red Cross, in addition to its appeal to individual adults, dec.i ded to make an appeal to the student bodies of colleges throughout the country. . Students who understand the dire need for humah blood during emergencies in American hospitals are the students who have been the most co-operative. Perhaps they had once donated blood, hesitatingly, to either loved ones or total strangers when the need arose. Perhaps, days later, they had experienced that inexplicable feeling when they realized that they, they alone, had saved precious lives with life-giving blood. These students have signed their PLEDGE CARDS willingly and UNhesitatingly. They are familiar with the mentally .poignant results; they anticipate the time when they may once again aid mankind, The ~im of the American Red Cross is simple enough. In approximately five years it hopes to have a series of blood banks consisting of whole blood and blood derivatives in every hospital throughout the country. Doctors in urban and rural . c;xreas alike would have the needed type of blood at their fingertips. Every ounce of blood would be stored and utilized; not a single, valuable drop of blood would be wasted. Patients would receive the necessary number of blood transfusions, be '. they one or. a hundred, entirely free of charge. The plan has been heartily endorsed by the American Medical Association. · Results on the Wilkes College campus? Surprisingly the ·women students have outnumbered the men in .their signing of the pledge cards. A high percentage of pledges is desired of both. If each individual were to donate only one pint of blood a year, the blood banks in the immediate vicinity would ,be amply supplied. The future may unexpectedly place a student's blood in the veins of a close friend or relative. But this he would never know. good pivot man, though he's usually left there stranded with the ball while the rest of the team waits outside for a pass-out. Jumping John leads the pack in scoring with a cute 12.5 avergae. Not too far behind John is the popular Bobby Benson with 9.53. Bobby leads the team In total points, 66 points ahead of his near-est rival. The amazing part about this Is that Ralston only plays Bobby about hall the game. What do you have to be to be a regular? A senior? From here on the log· book gets pitiful. Charley Jackson has slowly slipped from his two-figure mark and is now worth about 8.69 points a gcqne. Set-shot artist Paul Hull is only good for abod t 3 long shots a game, and then he's finished. Paul, a regular 40minute , mcin ,has made only 12 foul points in 19 games. You figure it out. To go on down the list any farther Would be just rubbing it in. The team is having a poor year and- you can't expect the books to have it any different. To pull up these records will mea n some terrific scoring in their three remaining games. There's a chance that they might pull them up ·above sea level, but we won't put our money on it. Among the schools entering the contest are Temple, Ursinus, Bucknell, Pennsylvania, La Salle, Albright, and Franklin and Marshall. The quarlet sang in the assembly program last Tu esday. On Monday, they will be on the· "Wilkes College on the Air" program at 11 :45 A. M. , The idea for the Mud Gutters Society originated la st spring when the Lettermen were seeking talented singers to app ear in one of the a cts of their show. They finally found the material in John Boyce, George Ralston, Charles Reil, Robert Partridge, Phil Nicholas and Frank Anderson, and Wilkes singing society tnade its debut. The group was known as the Wilkes Barbershop quartel at that time and soon expanded to receive other male singers. Phil Nicholas is the president of the Mud Gutters and Frank Anderson is the vice president. Don Follmer serves as secretary-treasurer. Mr. Robert Moran of the Wilkes School of Music is the faculty advisor and ,holds the title, "Tracer 'of . Lost Chords". Mr, Robert Partridge is the official contact man for the society. The purpose of the organization is to enable all men of Wilkes College who are interested in vocalizing for personal pleasure to get together for song lests. Since September its members have gained renown through performances at various school functions. Many students who went to the Theta Delta Rho · weiner roast last fall will remember the Mud Gutters long alter graduation day. That night a group of Wilkes students and their friends sat around a campfire at Harvey's Lake and listened to some Mucl Gutters singing old favorites . The crowd seemed to feel the spell that such harmonizing creates. Mr. Partridge announces that all MALES on Wilkes campus who are interested in joiriing the Mud Gutters are "chord-ially" invited to come to one of the regular Monday night meetings in Chase Lounge. Debators Defeat Penn, Temple, Swarthmore; Lose To Haverford College .By One .Point The Wilkes College D~bating team defeated Penn, Temple, and Swarthmore last week, while dropping other decisions to Haverford, Penn (affirmative), and Temple (affirmative). The overall record of the debaters ·was four victories and · three defeats as Wilkes defeated Swarthmore twice. 1 Tom Margan and Fred Davis debated the affirmative, while Don Kemmerer and Gene Bradley handled the negative. The affirmative team was undefeated in three debates. While 'in Philadelphia the team was the guest of the Pennsylvania Debating Society. Yesterday, another team conducted a forum for the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club. Julicm Goldstein, Charles E!sinstein, Janet Gearhart and Gytelle Freed · discussed the "place of the American Schools . in the Preparation for Adult Lile." · The moderator was Doll; Kemmerer. IMPORTANT! ATTENTION! Cue 'n' Curtain yearbook pictures will be taken Thursday. March ·9, at 11 A. M. in Chase Theatre. All those selling tickets for the BEACON Cabaret Party should make returns to Romayne Gromelskl. TO·NITE ATTEND THE Cabaret Party AT THE Hotel Redin·g ton ** MUSIC DANCING FLOORSHOW ** REMEMBER - - - - NO RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY COME EARLY· AND GET THE BEST SEATS ADMISSION 50c PER PERSON (lncludea tax) �3 WILKES COLLEG:f.: BEACON Friday, March 3, 1950 Colonels' Corner Grunt And Groaners WILKES-BLOOMSBURG GAME TOMORROW Return To Bookwork CLIMAXES HOME ST,t\ND.FOR '49}50 SEA$0N By PAUL B, BEERS With wrestling season over, the mats hung out to dry, and the grapplers throwing their half.nelsons and noseBASEBALL ••• Sometlme in the middle of March the Colonel baseball players crushers on "World Lit" and o th er such mysteries, it's time to take a peek at will atarl their apring training, Prospects. for the coming season are very favor- the old record book and see just what able, and Coach Ralston feels that he will have one of the best diamond tedms kind of a se1;1son our wrestling team ever to represent this college ••• Probably the biggest difficulty will come from. had. The records say that ii was aver• the mound. Chet Molley, who retuma from la I year's squad. ahould prove lo age, those who know claim it was good,. be the coach's "workhorse". Chet .had some trouble last year, Despite his fine and Coaches Jim Loggin .and Billy Lee pitching performances, his wln•lost record wasn' t too impressive. It seems as say that it was introductory. We're apt though the team couldn't hit behind him, or if they were hitting, they cou).dn't to go along with the two grown•up find the handle on the ball • , • John Zigmund, a newcomer, ls a mystery to grunters who say it was introductory. this col~. We couldn't find anything out about him. not even if he's going The whole squad will be back next to report for the squad. All we know ls that John is a right- hand ilreballer, season and, with 1950 under their belts, and than we're not sure of that •• , Coach Ralston will sorely miss the services .they should be red hot by next winter. By ED TYBURSKI , (Beacon Sports Editor) of pitchers Crane Buzby and Boyd Earl. Both pitchers have departed for greener Loggin has a carload of talent in such pastures , , . On the receiving ends of the battery will be Joe Deschak and freshmen as Rocky Reynolds, Phil Hus• Danny . Plsh, Joe is returning to the squad after a year's absence, He is an band and Hick Eckmeder. When you experienced catcher and would relish nothing better than lo work with Chet toss in class like Rip Crpmack, the new Molley. A lair hiller, Joe has a good arm. Danny shared the catching duties and improved Charlie Thomas. big last season with Poop Waters. He ls a good aggressive player, and if he can Mouse McMahon, George Dvorzniak, Joe get his eye on the ball, he Tomorrow night the Wilkes cage followers get their last glimpse of the 1949-50 edition of George Ralston's "Unpredict~ able Colonels" when they finish the home season against th~ powerful Bloomsburg State Teachers at 8 p. m. in the friendly confines of the local YMCA. A J. V. game will preced the varsity tilt. . Last Saturday the Colonels ran hard to see why. Among the con:. into East Stroudsburg and Frank querors are LaSalle, Temple, MiU:P-ozda and came out on the short ersvil1e, Kutzitown, and· King's. · In ,succeeding games the Kings, Mil\end of a 59 to 54 count. lit is remarkable to note that ersville, and Kutztown victories Wilkes outscored .Stroud.sburg from were e<rased. Bloomsburg is loaded with local the field 26 goals to 24. The ColoneLs :h it on 47 per cent of their ta.lent. Bil-1 Bartleson and Don .shots, iwhich ·i-sn',t ,t oo bad. At t he Butler, both from W•a rrior Run, befo ul line ,th,e •StO'I'Y was different. ing two of -the ,b etter ones. AlWilkes cashed in on only 2 of their though neither lad is high scorer for ,th.e Teachers they both play an 13 tr.ies, and that was the game. Not to ,t ake any,thmg away from . important role in Coach Harold t he Stroudsburg team and <their -Shelley's scheme. The ,Colonels this year have win, hut it strikes this writer as a rarity to note -t.h a,t they only had played in •s treaks. In some games 8 fouls called against ·them all they looked like world beaters, night. In this era of high scoring while in other,s they have looked and deli-berate fouling, it is an odd- just plan awful. Colonel followers. ity and BELIEVE IT OR .NOT know that this year's rookfe team. will be seasoned v.e terans in the should know of £ Benson with 13 and Mackin with next campaign and that can mean a 16 ca;rried it.he offense for Wilkes. bright future for the Blue and Pozd•a had 21 and .Swartz 20 f9r the Gold. Bloomsburg tamped Wilkes earTeachers. A£ter a disma:l start, in which •lier in ,t he season at Bloomsburg. they lost their first five games, the This .g ame wi-ll be differerut, becaus~ Bloomsburg Huskies 'have been set- the Colonels are now an experiencting a ''blistering" pace 1by winning ed five. I wouldn't be surprised if their next nine ·in a row, and are Wilkes wins and DON'T SAY I now rated . a.s the hottest team in DIDN'T TE.LL YOU. the Teacher'·s Conference. The Wi·l kes cagera close the seaWhen you look at the iteams tha ,s·o n on the road against Ithaca and have beaten Bloom:>burg it is not Trip1e Cities Colleges. 88 should be a sure bet •to see plenty of action • • • Stephens and Frank Radaszewski, the Also returning to the squad are outfielders Don Blackenbush and Jack Sommers. 1951 Wilkes College wreStling team is going to be deluxe. By the way. they Both saw regular duty for Coach Ralston last year and played good ball. These didn't do badly in 1950, either. velera~s will . have serious competition from Al Nicholas and Al Mlnarski. !The Things didn't come too easy for the two Al's saw actlon with the Colonel football team last fall, but this will be their first tour of duty for Coach Ralston as diamond stars •.• The infield-is. groaners in 1950. The opposition was loaded with wealth as far as retumees are concemed. The entire infield will tough and there wasn't a push•over in ·bf, back. Bob Hall played first base for the Colonels last season and in all the crowd, un'.til, of course, the Colonels probablllt-y will ·see action there again. Bob is small as far as firstbasemen go, got nasty and gave King's a bouncing but what he lacks In size he makes up Ip value to the team. A real "pepper- that ihey'll never forget .. Even then the pot", he keeps the team on their toes ••• Regul~zr thlrdbaseman ls Ben Drago;n, boys had· to sweat. True, the Colonels Ben la a good steady player with a fine arm. He ls not a steady hitter. but he did slip from their lofty perch of 5 vie• hits a long ball. He la always dangeroua at the plate and. therefore, an asaet tories and 2 defeats of last year, but a 3.3 rec;,rd isn't bad when you con• to .any team, Ben has made the shift .:)o second when he was needed there. sider , the high class oppOsilion. And and he did all right there, too ••• When "Ben moved to ilecond. Francis Pinkowski then there's always next' year. , took o'!er the hot comer. Pinky will be back again this year, and he should As the records have it, our grapplers see steady actlon • • • Al Molash will be back to play shortstop for Coach had a good 50•50 season. The boys won Ralston. Besides being a good fielding shortstop, Al ls more noteworthy as a and lost 3 meets, individually they won slugger. · Last season he averaged well over .350 • • . Interest Is spreading ·23 ·bouts and lost 24, a'iid when ii came Wilkes College Colonels were edged around the campus, and Coach Ralston expects a good tumout for the Initial to pinning, the Colonels flattened 6 op• . practice , •• So far the opening game will be against Wyoming S,e mlnary al ponenls and were laid out 9 times them- out last Saturday by a ~lrong East home on April 18. but prior to this game, the Colonels have two open dates, selves. You ca'n't balance the books Stroudsburg five, 59.54, Mackin and c:m.d Ralston la endeavoring to line up a couple of teams, George Ralston. has much better than that. Though rio var• Benson were high for Wilkes with 18 sity man went undefeated, a few of the and 13 points respectively. Pozd,a form• scheduled 15 games for this season, with 5 open dates. boys had highly impressive records. Joe er Hanover High star, was lop man for Stephens showed that he was the cream the future teachers with 21. The Wilkes of the crop in his class by· winning 4 cagers outscored Stroudsburg from the HOCKEY , , . Coach Bob Moran and his feam have been practicing all week bouts and losing only 1, and that one floor, 26 baskets to 24. A . decided in• and are in good shape for thei'r game with Lafayette tomorrow p, m. The boys to Millersville. In winning 4, Joe got eptriess on the foul line was the main have been motoring lo a small pond near "Devil's Elbow" up In the mountains them the hard way by pinning his op• cause of the Wilkes defeat, with the to practice. They're determined to win this one , .. Bob Moran feels confident ponent 3 times, which is pretty fair Colonels sinking only 2 out of 18· free that Wilkes will chalk up their first hockey win . . . Good luck, Bob. We'll be country wrestling even in Russia. An• throws. other 4· 1 man was 9-ewcomer Rocky With the Wilkes Colonels rapidly there watching it. Reynolds. The 121 pound · Rock was as catching up, the East Stroudsburg five tough as the Rock of Gi):,raltar, and displayed in the last three minutes a only one fellow figured out a way to beautiful "freeze", which featured the JOE SCHLUNK'S SLOT . . . This space will be reserved for Joe Schlunk every civer•turn him. Rocky also had a pin. ball handling of Jackie Schwartz. Wilkes sank a high percentage of its week. Joe wrote a letter to this column two weeks ago, and when we didn't Rip Cromack, wrestling in the rugged publish It. he almost blew his top. So here's Joe's letter: Dear Editor, All these 145 pound class, showed his usual tal- shots, making more than 45 per cent guys that go 'round complalnln' 'bout things, I'd like to write oL They give ent, collecting a . 4.2 record. But some- from the floor. me a ,pain in the neck. at least. Every which place I go, you run Into -'em, how Rip didn't manage to get a pin, SCORING RECORD Thia tlme ii seems thouqh they complain about lntermooral sports, Last year which comes as a s.u prise. The op.ly other grunter above the .500 mar!C was WILKES COLLEGE ·BASKETBALL Tf;AM I see this sport played by softball. It was good game, But no one want to rookie Phil Husband. Husbbnd made a play. Is good gam.e, but again, no one play. So far only six teams like to 3-2 mark in the 128 pound division. 1950 (Based on · percentage of points per play. Henry need twelve, Only half good. Maybe these guys what complain also saw Charlie · Thomas break that contest.. (Includes game played March play. we have something good, So what you say you write this letter, . Maybe two-year losing streak and hang up a l, 1950). somebody see it c;ind read It, Thanking you so much, Joseph A. (Anonymoust1 2.4 record. Charlie always has been a Name G Gls Fis Pts Pct Schlunk. PS. I see you maybe at the Eagles, wrestler with plenty of knowhow and John Mackin 8 39 22 100 12.50 lots of fight, but he has never been Robert Benson 19 , 63 55 181 9.53 able to get Lady Luck to ,give him the Chas. Jackson 19 63 39 165 8.69 eye. When the ref slapped him on the Paul Huff 19 56 12 124 6.53 back alter the East Stroudsburg meet, Ben Dragon 19 44 36 124 6.53 Charlie said good•bye to that jinx arid Bill Johns l!l 52 21 125 6.58 Opponents Date Place became a valuable man for Loggin and Geo. Petrilak 7 5 9 19 2.86 Lee to have around, APRILAl Molash 2 l l 3 1.50 The Colonels opened th!\ season by George May 12-Wednesday ............................ Open .......................................................................... . 38 ' 16 15 8 .37 knocking over Wyoming Sem, 20-.13. Eugene Snee 4 2 4 1.00 15--Saturday .................................. Open .. ........................................................................ .. Then they met a tough bunch of hom• Bob Bator 1 3 3.00 18-Tuesday ................... ................. Wyoming Seminary ........................................ Home bres up in Ithaca and dropped a meet, .,.,..,. .,...,.~~ .,. . ,..,,....,... 19-Wednesday ..............................Open ................................................ :......................... .. 10.12. Coming back to St. Stephen's, Loggin and Lee's men squeezed out a 22-Saturday .................................. Stroudsburg State Teachers ...... .................. Home 14•13 triumph over a rugged East 25--Tuesday .................................... Wyoming Seminary ......................................Away Stroudsburg, and then they unloaded 26-Wednesday .............................. Open ........................... :................................................ the works on King's. Reynolds, Dvorz• · 27-Thursday ..................................Keystone ............................................................Home niak. McMahon and Stephens all gave their men a chance lo count the lights. 28-Friday ............. :........................ King's College ................................................ Away The only men of King's lo come out of the affair alive were Armstrong and MAYMcHale, and TiiEY knew that they had WILKES COLLEGE 3-Wednesday .............................. Ithaca College ................................................Home been in a battle. West Chester was the vs. 6-5aturday .................................. Susquehanna University ..............................Home next on the list and the Colonels couldn't quite make it, dropping a hear!• 9-Tuesday .................................... Bloomsburg State Teachers-- ..........................Home BLOOMSBURG breaker, 13.16. The last meet was with IO-Wednesday .............................. Scranton University ........................................Home the power•packed bruisers of Millers• TOMORROW EVENING 13-Satruday .................................. Stroudsburg Stale Teachers ........................ Away ville. Last year these supermen came 17-Wednesday ..............................Keystone .......................................................... Away. to Wilkes•Barre and didn't g ive the AT 8:00 P. M. Colonels one bout. This year only Cro19-Friday ...................................... King's College ..................................................Home mack was able to come through with a 20-Saturday ..................................Upsala College ..............................................Home win and Reynolds with a draw. But it , AT THE , 2:i-Tuesday .................................... Ithaca College ......... '............................ Away 8:30 was an improvement. Y. M. C. A. All In all, Laggin and Lee's boys had 24-Wedneaday ..........................._Open ....... ~ ........:......................................................... .. a fairly good season last year. So 27-Saturday .................................. Bloomsburg State Teachers ........................ Away bring on 1951 I . Stroud Edges Wilkes FRESHMEN PLANNING In Hard Fought Tilt BIG WEINER ROAST * * * * WILKES COLLEGE BASEBALL SCHEDULE, 1950 . ~~~~~-.,...,~~~~ BASKETBALL * At the freshman class meeting on Tuesday, February 28, the fro~h deeided to h-old a combinaition hayride, weenie roast, and clamibake on 1Saturda.y evening, April 29, open 1x> everyone. Committee chairmen for t h e affair are Sandor Yelen, entertainment; Graee ,Ruffin, ·refreshments; Dave Whit ney, · .p ubliciity; Henri Bush , transportatio n ; Gene M1;1.r• dant, tickets; Elaine Nesbitt, welcoming. P resident Lesnick followed a unique proc,edure in appointing as ch.aimnen people wh'.o volun teered for ,the various j obs, a11d instructing them to select the r•e st of their commite,es. Fol-lowing a joint meeting of the committees on Friday, March 3, the plans will be formulated, and further . d-eta1ls will appear in the BEAOON. 42 High School Girls To Be Guests At Tea Theta Delta Rho will hold a St. P atrick's Day Tea on Friday, March 17 from 3 to 5 in <the Girls' Lounge. This wil-1 be the second tea honoring senior girls from loeal high schools. Tw.enty one high sch ools rwill be included and two girls will be invited from each. En~ tertainment will include musical numbers, a speaker, and -a campus tour. Beverly Van Horn is general chairman. She w.ill be assisted by the follow.ing committee heads: H ouse, J-ane Reese; Invitations, joan Schrempp; Program, Dorothy Winters-t een and iRosemary Turrisini; R,efreslhmeruts\, J1 -a n e Salwpski; CJ.ean-up, Ann Tre.sear; Guides, Toni Menegus. JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and Hats of Quality jrl,r: 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. -------------·- �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 4 Friday, March 3, 195G FEELZWELL DOESN'T FEEL SO WELL ABOUT Interesting Assembly NICOTINE, POLITICS, AND CAMPUS QUEENS Planned For Tuesday (Editor's Note. Herkimer V. Feelzwell, Profesaor of Exterior Decorating, has been ·unknown on the Wilkes campus aince April 16, 1948, On that Friday aftemoon a cigarette with lipstick traces illpped from the third floor of the boys .dorm went n1U1tly down Feelzwell's neck and so burned the professor that he turned into a amoke ring six feet In diameter which was laat aeen drifting slowly toward the proposed gymnasium. Last week the Beacon leamed that H. V. F. has spent the Intervening period In a pine box, aix feet deep, hall way between Kirby and Chase Hall-. Our reporter dug up the following story.) Herkimer V. Feelzwel turned uneasily in bis fancy carved coffin h . h. an d scowled a,t nn an~1ew~rm w IC had crawled under bis pillow. The nails i,n t he pine 1b ox had rotted away and ,th,e box had obviously sprung several leaks. 'IC f ded . . f 'd on oun rucotme rom o, cigarette butts •a nd a few of Marty Blake's seegars", .explained the Professor. "'l'he blasted ,s tuff has preserved r!Jhe ,wood in this box year's model Queen of the Letterman',s Ball, or an outdated Yearbook Queen? I wonder what makes the difference? ,Cer~.ainly a bit of knowl.edge woven mto the grey •.matter shouldn't cause the female physiognomy to lb ecome repulsive. I can_ ,s ee the_ goddess Aphrodite laugh1ng behind her hand at Athena." ·'J1h Professor of Exterior Decorating rolled over in his casket. One could see that he was sore perplexed about the waning superficial beauty of the campus' expretty weH but has _c ompletely de- queens, beauty of ,t he exterior so terio,rated the nails." dear to ,t he heart of Feelzwell. "What caus.ed your renascence, "Well, ni,ce to have seen you, -sir?" I enquired as 'the inquiring Bub", 'he said. "Put a couple of reporter. new nails in the Iid, ·p lease, and "Renascence? What do you mean, pound it down tight. That piano Bub? I've w~lked this campus ev- ov.e r in Chase Hall makes too much noise in t he morning." ery night. Rain or shine. New faces ,a nd all that, ibut the same old disregard for the blessings of exterior decorating. Do you know what's bothered me most, lately? Can't sleep in th.e afternoon. Tramp, .t ramp, tramp. Students cut·ting .across t he lawn. S-o confound' ed eager for an education ~at they can',t stay on the walks in getting ,t o ,t}:le front door of the Hbrary . . You'd think that Joe Myers had in. vented 'l1HAT mousetrap, "Do ,s ome things look pretty much rthe same or have ,t hey changed, sir?" "Well, a few new buildings but the same old 'bulletin boards. I'll wager some of the notices on the bulletin boards have been there ever since J: went underground. The &ame Jokers are stiH posting notice6 by sticking thumbtacks in ,t he woodwork and scotch tape on the windows. Some enthusiastic politician nailed an election notice on my coffin (po!i,tic,s has really gotrten low) 1wlhen I wasn't looking so. -that the nail stuck through on th.e inside." FeeJ,zwell thoughtfully rubbed his -derriere and continued. "I don't know why we needed •3 uch a lbig sharp spike unless he thought ihis slat.e 'had ·s ome mighty big wheels on it . . J But do you really want to know what puzz,l es Howard Higgins will pre!!ent .actual demonstrations of psychic phenomena to the Wilkes College ass·e mbly at the Baptist Church nexit Tuesday, March 7, at 11 o'clock. Do the dead speak •through me<:Iiiums? How do mediums tell our fortunes when they do not know who we are? How do mediums read sealed letters, enaible us to see spirits of our departed, and, in fact, perform all rtheir psychic phenomena? How did the Boston medium cause the corpse of a New Hampshire manufacturer appear to ,s it up in Ms casket and talk to his widow? These are only a few of the questions Mr. Higgins · will attempt to answer in hi,s program: "Among the Spiri-ts.'' The program is in t wo parts. The fir,s t part is a compo-siite seance including the outstanding features of leading mediums; spirit forces, spirit vision, ,s pirit slate wriiting, and the materaliz.ati,on of a spirit while the medium is securely bound and guarded by members of the audience. In part two he will ,expose the technique used to establish belief • • • • • ♦ • · • • • • y • • • • • • in fortune-telling. Demonstrations, speech and music are blended into a program that is dramatic, entertaining, and convincing . "Among the iSpirits'is more than mere entertainment. Lt is a scientifically sound discu,gsion on the Friday, March 3,p sychology of suggestion . Wilkes Beacon-"Highlights in Higg,ins fir-s t became interested the Oampus News" in mediums and fortJuM ,t ellers while working toward hls doctorate Monday, March 6-in psychology. The Mud Guttem SocietyWdlkes Barber Shop Quartet Radio Program LIGGE'IT ELECTED GERMAN PRESIDENT Last Friday, February 24, the German Club of Wilkes College held its weelcly meeting. At that time new officers were elected to serve in t he following capacities: President, George Liggett; Vice-presiident, John Zigimund; Secretary, Nancy Boston; Treasurer, Delbert Cragle. The meeting was conducted on a luncheon...style basis and by popular decision this informal type of meeting wiil be held every Friday at noontime. In the ensuing months the officers will appoint various committees to ,plan the activities of the coming year. Af:ter the dub completed its offi- Wednesday, March 8Chemistry Club--"Headlines in -Ohern.is try" Friday, March 10Wilkes Beacon-"High:Jiight!! in the Oampus News" .................. . cial business matters, a drama entitled "W,illiam Tell" was presented 'b y the ,g roup's able t!hes·p ians. Those who participated were Earl Crispell, Edward Niklewski, Ted Putkowski, Ted Williiams, Henry 1S kopek, and Dan Dzury•. 'Mr. E.lwood Disque, Assoeiate Professor of German, is -faculty advisori ~ ithe German Club. 1 WILLIAM LUNDIGAN famous Syracuse Alumnus, says: "You lcnow, thousands of words are being written every day. When it comes to Chesterfields, the words that I like best are short and simple ••• they're MILDER and THEY SATISFY." 0 me.?'' ~~~~ "OH, DOCTOR" A 20th CBNTURY-FOX PRODUCTION . "Indeed sir. From tlhe expression on your face I'd ·g uess that something very important is weighing on y,our mind,'' 1I replied respectfully. "Whalt is it, sir " "Well, Bub. I'm concern,ed about the delet.erious effect Wilkes College 'has on the looks of its campus queens. Once ,a girl •h as been seleoted ·a que.en at Wilkes she passes into oblivion. What happens to those fresh and lovely fros,h and sophs as upp,erclasswomen. When a girl is presented with her diploma does she have wrinkles and toothless gr,in . Does she walk up to receive her sheep.skin with faltering steps, all bent over like t!he witch in Snow White?" Feelzwell took on a melancholy mien. "Ah, how ,s ad it is to cont.empl-ate our most beautiful maidens sacrificing the bloom of youth for a B. A.! No wonder ma1;1y college ,women never marry. Whb wants •a second :hand Cnderella, or last FINE ARTS BUILDING SYRACUSE UNIV. HESTER Fl ElD 77 1111nrD/ 77 TAntt 1 ~ / NAMERJCA:r C00£tJ£S IAeyre llll~VE'H. IAeyrtJ IVI'~/. Copyright 19!0, [.,corr, & MYDS To1Aca, Co. WITHTH£TOPM£NINSP08TS WITH TH£ HOUYWOOJJ STARS Natlon,;il Survey : � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 March 3rd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 March 3 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/26c2d9a45f88a851e8ea5c18bcc17400.pdf 3f9adb2db690d04cac5383f1d8f51b98 PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACO College 1 Vol. 3. No. 18. WILKFS COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Friday, February 24, 1950 Sport.Dances Here To ·Stay After Initial Success ELECTION TO BE HELD Princeton President WILKES MUSIC DEPT. STUDENT COUNCIL TO SPONSOR SECOND IN SERIES OF SPORT DANCES TONIGHT FOR STUDENT COUNCIL Bemoans Decline Of TOSPONS0R CONCERT Liberal Education A Guest Artist Concert, sponsor- 'AFfAIR WILL BE HELD IN THE WILKES CAFETERIA Voting to fill vacancies on the ed by the Wilkes Music Depart~ Student Coundl in ·t he senior, jun- for, and sophomore ,classes w,il:l be Princeton, N,J.-(.LP,) - Depl,or,ing ment, will be •held in the First held Tuesday, F·e bruary 28, from nine un til four. The Oouncil hopes to hav·e a voting machine -in the Oh1ase LoUIIlg·e foil' ,convenience and accuracy. ·R emember to elect the p,ersons for the duties .t hey will perform. Interesit should be lhig'h because -o f the imporbance of the ,Student Council and the calihre of the cand~dates. !Senior nominees are Mary Porter, Jack Nelson and June Williams. ,Candidates from the junior class are Bob E1tus, Art Bloom, Bernie Schleicher and Cy;ril Kovalchik. N-0minated from t he ,s ophomore class are James Cooney, Chuck Glomran, Harold Hein and H1mry Merolli. • WILHELM TELL DRAMA ON AGENDA AT NOON .Aili students are inv,i ted to attend .the drama "Wilihelm Tell", to be presented today at noon by :bhe German Club. The cas•t : Earl Cl'i!sp,ell as Herrn Gessler Ed Neklewski as Wilhelm Tell Ted Putkow,slm as Wa1ter Tell Ted WHliams a•s Wilhelm Tell . der:r Junger George Skopeck as <Mama Tell Dan IDzury as derr Schutzmann. the the old ton decline of liberal education in nation's universities, 'Dr. HarW. Dodds, president of PrinceVniversity, recently s,aJid that "if widespread knowledge and appreciation of the :humanities disappear, our modern civil:i,zation can only return .t o a new dark age of so:r,d,id, ainimal existenc·e. fuesident Dodds declared that the GoHege of Libera.I Arts and Sciences rema,,ins "our most promisi:ng· social' agency for combatting a worm's eye view of life." He attacked .t he faulty teaching of the humanities as ,s uffering from haTdening of the intellectual arteries and said a ,l Jberal education is the "golden theme" which fits man to be a competent leader in the broad area ,o f human affairs. .Dr. Dodds said t hat Colleges of Liberal Arts and Science.s in .t he country's univer,s-i.ties are divided ,as to methods and objectives, with a future more uncertain than that of vocational a n d professional schools. "Yet it is througih the Hberal studies that ·one comes [nto association wit h the uncommon and t'he great in our intellectua.J iniheritance'," ·he sa·id. Dr. Dodds pointed to ,1 iterature, art, history, and philosophy as expressdng a nature w:hioh is basirally and exclusively ihuman. He declared that "politics, economics, and sociology can never ignore t hi,s fact." SOVIET SITUATION IS DISCUSSED . BY RUTH GAGE COLBY AT ASSEMBLY SPEAKER BLAMES ;RELATIONS TO BLUNDERS BY BOTH NATIONS The strained relations between the United States and Russia are a result of a series of mistakes made by both countries for many years, stated Mrs. Ruth Gage Colby, internationally · known world traveller, before students and faculty at Wilkes College at yesterday's assembly. · Coming a:t a time when the try has struggled many years to United .States was prepa,r ing to ·break diploma.tic relations with Bulgari!ll, the address by Mrs. Colby traeed t'he points of disagreement and ddplomatic blunders made 'b y both countries over a period of year.s. Mr,s. Colby -contended that these mis,takes and seemingly suspicious moves planted the seeds of mistrus t "tlhat today have brought ,a bout a ,s ituation IWhere "the pot is caHing the !kettle black." She ,emphia,sized that only _through better understanding ,in tlhe dmmedlate future can we 'hope to avoid aT.i ned conflict ,b etween two major world.powers. Mistakes were made by both eountries ina merry-go-round fas'hion. Fimt, we would make a move rohat would antagonize the Russian government and it, in turn, iwould feel it necessary to make a counter protec:tive movement. This has continued from the fir,s t World ·Wiar to the present time with each move ib ringing !both countries closer to a diplomatic crisis. Mrs. Colby, who w-ais accredited by the State Department of the Undted Nations conferences at San Francisco, Lake .Success iand .Paris as a non~gov-ernmental representative in social welfare amd the peace movem~t, traced the development of RUS1Sia to its present position as a WOl'ld power, and said that coun- gain that -s tatus. Confident of d;heir power a;fter defeating Hitler, the Russian requests following the second World War wer-e iwel meant, but were misinterpreted 1by thi,s country, the speaker said. The Ru ssi,a ns, she a,sserted, ·l aug,h at our so-called dena,z,ification program, and claim we are permitting the seeds of another war to be sown by baekil\g former Nazis in the American zone of Germany. She eited the expansion of t he Russians' propaganda programs furougihout the world, and saip an eX!planation of the advantages of democracy can do much to curb the ,spread of the 'Red ·i deology. "W,e musit cont inue to demonstrate democracy, only this time we must mean it. Examples of our way of lif.e must be presented to the peoples of the world, who are t hreaitened with Communist domination and we must exert all our efforts to ,b ringing .about peace through understanding," the speaker ,a ss·e rted. -------- NOTICE! All announcements, regardless of their nature must be cleared through the Public Relations Office before be· ing placed on the bulletin boards. Presby:ter,i an Church auditorium on Tuesday evening, February 28, at 8:30, Mr. Gohleigh has announced. Guest ar,tists wiH be Phyllis Clark, pianist, and Marjory Popky, vio.l>inist. MiSIS Clar<k',s selections will incude M-ozant's "Piano Sonata in C Major", "A,l bum Leaves" by Schumann, and MuJ:finger's "Ohiildhood Memories" and ":Sereneta". Miss Popky will play Bach's "E Major Violin ,Concerto" ,and "Roumanian Folk Da,nces" by Hartok. Both arti-s·ts Wlill parlicipate in a violin and p'iano composition "Roumanian Folk Dances" by Bartok. Phy.ms Olark is a graduate ·of the :School ,o f Music of the University of ,M iehigan. ,Marjory Popky graduated from V\assar College and studied viiolin in New York. She will 1be accompan'ied by Donna Oobtrino, who is studying piano with Mr. Charles Henderson a:t Wil~se. A,ll students and friends of the college ar.e invited to attend thil'3 concert. THETA DELTA RHO ENTERTAINS AT TEA FOR H. S. GIRLS A George W a-shington Day Tea was held by the Theta, Delta· Rho Sorority -on Thursday, Fe bruary ,23, in Ohase Hall. F'orty senio'r girls from twenty local high schools were g1.i-ests of rtihe 1sorol'iity. •Mrs. Gertrude WiHiams, Wilkes English Instructor, spoke to the girls on the subject of "On Being Young''. ,M iriam Long, who studies music under Mr. Lsaac,s of Wilkes, sang "Summertitne" by Gershwin, and "Clavelitos'' •by Valverde. She was accomp:a nied by Mary.s h Miesz.kowski. Miss Mieszkowski, who studies under .Mr. C-Obleiglh, a1so played "Malaguena" by Lecuana. B.Jam,c:he Crowder, a 1student of Mr. Henderson, played "Romance" ·by Schumann. Nancy Yaufman , general chairman, was assisted by 'DorotJhy Travis, Sally Mittleman, Beryl Colwell, Beth Badman, Janet Burgess, Nancy .Shackels, Marilyn Broadt, a,n d t h.eir committees. The Stt: · · 1.t Council will sponsor its second Sport Dance tonight in the cafeteria. Because of the success of last week's experimental dance, the cafeteria sport dance will be a regular event on all free week-ends on the social calendar. Danny ,Sherman, genera•! chairman for thi.s week's dance, has appointed Connie ,S:mith, Virginia Me·vsner and E,1aine Turner to serve on the refreshment committee. These girls will 1serve the punch and ,cookies tonight. Vester Vercoe ,a nd Al Jacobs; tihe music c•o mmittee, will buy ari entirely new supply of -records for the jukebox 't_o avoid further comp,lafots about scratchy music. ·T,he house commiittee member,s , A•l Menarsky, Ralph Bolinsky and Joe Chim-0la, have ,promised to al'l'iange a more satisfactory lighting system. No admission charge is r.equired, and 1chairman Sherman has ,emphasized tha.t ,sitiagis a~e more than welcome _for the dancing whkh begins wt nine o'clock. WILKES PLACES 4TH IN Literary Magazine DEBATING TOURNEY ·Admits New Members An untried, unhonored Wilkes College debating team last w~ekend proved ,i tself equal to experienced teams from ,such debating ·g iants as Pennsyilvania, Princeton, Columbia, Yale Brooklyn, Rutgers, CONY, and NYU at tihe Barnard Annual Invitational Tournament art; Columbia University. The Wilkes Depa.tors, al,l members of a reserve "second" team, walked away with fourth place defeating Ya.Je Undv,ersity, Hof,s tra, and twice defeaitinig NYU, winn€r of the Hofistrra Tournament. Of the deJbators, only one, JuliJan Goldstein., had ever done any infercollegiate debating. Thi_s was at Hofstra, two months ago. 'Dhe exp.er.ience of the other debator,s, Ann ·Belle Per.ry,· Janet Gearhart, and Fred Davis, was Umited to one speech course at Wdlkes and participation in a few forums this year before local civic groups. The achievement of tJhe "second" team at Barnard parallels that of ·l ast year's team at the Brooklyn ,College Tournament, wh,ere a com·pletely green team, composed of Morgan, Faneck,. Maisel, and Kemmerer defeated Boston University, NYU, 'St. J·o hn',s, and Stev.en·s Institute. The present group however, who weFe determined to Slhow their skk coach, DT. Kruger, that his faith in them had be8\ll justified, finished higher in the standings than did last yeal's. The \Manuscript staff at a :recent meeting, elected Tony An<m'<lnaco as associate editor and voted several· new members. to the editorial staff. Rose Tumssini, Irene Jainoski, Wendel Clark and Robert Metzger were nominated and eleated to the ,editoria.J staff, bringing .t hat body up to full strength. In the editorial column of the Manuscript's ,l,asit issue the staff a sked for stacks of contri,butions from the students. !People on campus sometime fail to realiz-e the importance of the College's litera,ry maga'2'line, and tend to overlook the part it plays in our ,g eneral mental development and :reading habits. Many of us seem to iihilil!k that it is the strict perverse of English majors or ~ose interested solely in the techniques of writing. Nothing . c-o uld be · fanther from the truth. A biology major, an economics major, a student of rnathematios, any of these have come across incidents IW.hic<h would make an excellenit sto:r,y or arliole for the .Manuscript. The oa:tdh, of course, is -t o sit down and write the thing. And there is the frighitening part of the situation. Too many people are afraid to wrote. Try it and drop y,o ur conitributi-Ons in the manuscript box in the lii/; rary. . And after ,r eading .tJhis little piece ,s it for a minute and thiink about ;tJhe Jll,anuscript. In what ways do you think it can be improved?· How can we give the college a better maga~ine? Constructive criticism on any phase of the magazine· is appreciated and sought. Get your contributions in early and often. FROSH GOING AHEAD ,Wilkes F~culty Women COLLEGES NE~LECT WITH GREAT STRIDES.I PayTnbuteToT.D.R. NATION'S ECONOMY T•he freshman class held a spe-· cial meeting on February 16 in Pickering Hall. Mr, Bo1,land from the Req Gross spoke to the frosh concerning the Blood Bank. The c-lass elected Ludlle Reese to fill vacancy in the offfoe of secretary. The class will ,spons,or an affair in the near future. A committee was selected to get suggestions for the ·affai:r and present them at tihe next meeting. /Members of the committee ar~ Marge Brennish, Grace 'Ruffian, Gerry Fell, Aida 8-0hulmann, Dorothy ,B orayak, Ro~rt Ladd, -Gene Marciant and Pete Ma·r go. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 28 at 11 o'clock. Thosh, come and suppor,t y,our cl,as·s! Officers and faculty advisors ·o f the Theta .Delta Rho were honored ib y the •WHkes Faculty Women at a coffee hour held on February 20, from 3 :30 to ' in the Wi-lkes Cafeteri-a. Tnose honored were-: M:f's. Glady,s Davis and Miss Betty Harker, faculty advisors, and Miss·e s M.arilyn Broadt, Peggy Anthony, Virginia Bolen, Jo Anne Davis and ,Mary :Porter, sorority <>fficers. Mrs. Hugo ,M ailey and Mr,s. 'Imbert Partridge were co-chafrinen of the affair. Entertainment was provided by a quartet of ,t he Mud Gutters Society. Mdss Betty Harker, Mfas Marilyn Broadt and Miss Mary Porter poured; Hostesses included: MiJSs Sylvi•a Dworski, -Mi.s,s :Mildred Hull, Mrs. Herbert J. Morris and Mrs. Cal'l Schindler. Los Angeles, Cal. (I.:P.)-The pre~ paration of y-o ung people for ca:re.ers in business ·ihas become one of the major tasks of colleges and universities i,n the United States during the past two or thTee decades. In sp,i te of tihis, the preoc- , cu.p.ation of business educators with problems of the curriculum has not kep,t pace with the growth or with the expainding responsibility of .col!legiate schools for the preparation of potential .leaders in :the study and management of ithe nation's econ-0mic affairs. · This condition was pointed ou~ recently and amalyzed by Georg,e W. Robbins, associate dean of the College of Business Administration on the Los Angeles campus of the Univ,ersity of Caldfornia. �~ 2 COLLEGE BEACON Friday, February .24, 1950 COLGATE UNIVERSITY SEMORS ADOPT STUDENT ADVISING . DEFENDS THE PROF INSURANCE PLAN PROGRAM DISCUSSED AT LOYOLA.COLLEGE Columbia, Mo -(LP.) -Discussing ' Hamilton, N. Y., (IP)--Contrary I belief in some qual"ters, the Iife modern psychotherapy in relation of college prof.ess.or is . no\ a Baltimor,e, Md.-(I.P.)-A plan of to the stud.ent advising program round of cla,ssroom lectures and · life insurance for seniors which at Stephens College, Dr. Eugene L. pers onal appearances well-diluted w,ill :ultimately swell the endowment Sheperd, Dean of ,Student Personnel CHET OMICHIN$.KI TOM ROBBINS iwith bridge, tea and golf and nice- of Loyola College has been brought recently emphasized the .following News Editor Features Editor I ly interspersed with long summer to the attenti~n of the Senior Class differences ·b etween profess.ional' GERTRUDE WllJJAMS ED TYBURSKI. va caitions and !holiday jaunts. by Rev. Matthew G. Sullivan, S.J. and lay-counseling, as practised Faculty Advisor Sports Editor According to a recent survey at dean. Undef the system each se- her~ . .Colgate University, the average nior iis a sked to take out a life in- 1. A faculity adviser feels and exMARGARET ATEN CLYDE RITTER faculty member devotes 57.4 hours surance policy valued at $1,000 presses his liking for an advisee Circulation Manager Business Manager a week to his cla,s,sroqm activity, which would be payable to Loyola and is friendly towards her, but ·background , preparntion, personal upon deat h of t he graduate. News Staff a voids expr ess,i ons of dislikes A psychotherapist does not exBill Griffith, Romayne Gromelski, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabusk, Chuck education a nd coll,ege~commun1ty 'Ilhe pwrpose of this long range plan press either love aversion for Gloman, Jim Tinsley, Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Jack Phethean, relations. Dr. Ronald J. Stout, of i s to provide a scholarship endowrtihe poli,tical science department, ment :fond f o.r as many students as his client. Bob Metzger, Chet Molley, Nancy Fox, Homer Bones, Ed. Bolinski. conducted the s urvey for the Col- possible. The plan assumes special 2. An advisor imparts fractual gaite chapter of the Americ·a n significa nc e :· much as the pro- information , may assist in the wtSports Staff Asisociatio,n of University Profes- posed Federal ·a id to educational lining of several courses of action George Brody, Joe Gries, Paul Beers ,s ors. Materiail for the survey was institutions wiB assist state colleges wh,ich •a student may take in dealing Photographers col,lected during a ifour-week period only. with the -p roblem, a,nd ·express· Art Bloom, Don Follmer la,st spring art a t ime when faculty It was po.inted out •h ere that a re- themselves O'Il a .controversial issue activity was figured to me "nor- cent gra:duating class a,t Yale had if such is appropriate to the converA paper published weekly by and for the students of Wllkea College. mal". 1,260 students participating in a sation. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 The survey shows :that the in- similar plan. Princeton, William 3. .The adviser may encourage , structor puts dn 13 hours weekly and Vasser also have simiJar en- suggest alternatives for consideraMember in the classroom, -tlwo hours eaclh dl()wment insur&nce programs. tion, and stimulate the advisee to Intercolleqlate Presa day and one on Saiturday. The re- Princeton has an average income the full use of her mental abilities. mainder, shown on the basis of a 11 ' -~ $102 ooo 3. ~e adviser's main concern is 1O-lhour day, is taken up' as fol- annua Y .,,. ' • with the student's conscious prolows: two •h ours of direct preparacesses as they express themselves tion for class work; one 'hour of openly in interests and activities.. conferences with_students and ,papThe necessity of the inaugurati.op. of the new Library policy er grading; one hour of staff amd which requires that all students enter and leave the Library oomnntttee meetings; one hour of building only by the front door is appalling. It became evident administrative ( depal"tmental and course) work; one and one half in recent weeks that steps would have to be taken to curtail the hours of .p rofessional reading, WTitgrowing amount of missing books. Let us hang our heads in ing and research, and one and one Sar.bog.a S,prings, N.Y. (I.P.)-'I1he The lRC is presently making Skidmore Co11ege Legiiislative Counshame. It is disheartening to think that college students must half hours of work ineluding col- cill Tecently inaugurated a new sys- plans for the annual meeting· of lege-eommunity relations. the Intercollegiate Conference on, be treated like children. It is terrifying to think that men and In commenting on the findings, tem for ,s igndng in to Vespers, to he held in Harriswomen who are /Preparing to take their pl~ces as leaders of Dr. Sidney J. French, dean of the Mass !Meetings, and Assemblies. Government This system wiH do aJWay with the bur.g in April. Tihe Northeastern faculty, said t hat: '"To see a Coltheir communities cannot be tusted. Think of the reflection that meetirig of some 12 colleges will gate teacher downtown shopping in old issuance of attendance slips. at be held at :Muhlenbel"g on March thi15 casts upon you as a member of this organization. each of tilese functions. Each dorithe afternoon, or off to S'y racuse 11. Larry •P elish, the IRC chairman, can he m~sleading to thA! uninform- mitory wiH have a notebook Wlith ,s tated that aioout 1~ to 15 members In many colleges and universities the students are · not ed. While there is no clock :bo punch the names of the students in the rbM LRC will comprise the Wilkes allowed to enter the rooms in the library in which the books iJhere is always work to do-at dormitory and a S'hoot for each of Delega,ton. Larry •Peli-sh has a,lso function. are kept. If the new set up in our library does not remedy the home througih Joing evening hours, The sheets are made up similar been selected as the Assimant Reand perehance before rtJhe family is g ional Director by <Mdss Genevieve sihJ.ation-if books still have a tendency to disappear-more up in the morning. Blue books, pre- to class roU bodks·. It will be eve- Blatt, the Executive Director of drastiq measures will have to be ,taken. If it becomes necessary paTation for .t omorrow's class, an ryone',s responsi'biUty to ,sign in on ,t he Intercollegiate Conference on ,t his book at sometime aft er attendto bar students from the book bins a definite hardship will be outside lecture, an article, a sem- ing a college function. Overcutting Gov.er:nment. inar at home or conferences wiith A state me convention ;will be create<!_. Let us all strive to keep our present library privileges. ,students-au of these are part of by a student will be Teported by ,heltl at Shippensburg State Teach,the ; s tudent herself to Honor Board. seeming leisure. ers College at which time ,t he forWe feel certain' that Mr. Myers does not r~lish the id.ea of that "Except .for sehed'Uled dass ap- No check will be made on these eign poliicy of ~e United States stricter regulations any more than we do. If full cooperation .p earances and office hours, he may ,books; therefore,' i-t is ,p ointed· out h ere, that it ,is. ail,l a parit of the wll be diseus sed. · Three round tais extended by the students we will not have to undergo the work where and how he pleases. 'Honor System and tlhe pel"sona.1 re- bles lhav,e been set up discussing humility of being treated like children-if not, we will have to But he works ; the ,e'\"idence on thait s ponsibility of each student. China, 'Phi:lippnes, and Southeast is eleair." 'suffer the consequences. · Ilhe Council also put into effect As.ia respectively. Tihe Wi.Jkes dethis y,ear a new system for taking legate sitbing on Round Taole 'Ilw-0t he Honor System Pledge. Until Clhina - will ·a Cit as the repol'ter for id ea of ,t,he purpose of the course; thds year each c.lass, took :the pledge the 11able, Ms <luty ·being to sum2 . iualciks iintelle ctual stimulus; a,t •a class meeting ·t hat was void mad ze t'he discussion at that Table of any ceremony and 'hardly fitting f or :the Conference. The IRC Tepre3. Over -emphasizes exam,s in deto t he occa sion. This y,ear the en- sentatives attendfo,g 1fuis •C onferterminati-on of final g,rades; 'I1he anal ysis of the questi-onnaire tire .student :body, faculty, and vet- ence wiill be: Francis Loftus, Round 4. Gives t oo little attention to on the Freshman Orientation proTa1:>le One; Edward Godek, Round Madison, Wis. (I.P.) A recent dismak,ing clear the degree of detail gram answered by the , freshmen eran s -on thi-s cam·pus took the Table Two; and, Louis Bonanni, cussion by t he Univers.ity of Wts- wanted ]n the answer; pledg e in • College Hall, a t a cere· has been completed. The reacti<m mony befit ting the true signifi- Rtound Table 'I1hree. consin's Commit t ee on Univeraity 5. Test s only the acquisition of to the Plan is encouraging 1io its cance of t!he pledge itself. The lRC has ·a lso had, a discusFunctions and Policie s centered on sion on "Joilm :L. Lewis, the UMW, Chapter 4 of tihe c•o mmitte.e's volu- knowledge, not ·the or ganization or spo111sors, Miss Betty Harker and -a nd the National Emerg ency." Mr. J o'lm HaH, who, in cooperation minous "report card," which has a pplication of it; aroused n.abionwide interest since 6. Does not discriminate between with the r~st of the faculty and -its publication fast fall. The com- the degrees of attainment of va- administration, began t'hiis new venture last semesiter. The opinions mittee found that in size of teach- rious .s tudents; expressed by the student s are ing sections, "you ju.st can't win". 7. Lends itself to cheating; 8. ls constructed for ,easy .g rad- bringing about improvements which Sometimes the Umiversit:y is will make Fres'h man Orientation chiaxged with such great size that ing; mor.e en joyable and profitable for 9. !Las uneven gra,<ling. 1Jhe individual Teceives no ,a ttention Sal.em, W. Va., (IP)-A recent T ih e committee recommended t his semester's new freshmen and New York, N.Y.-(LP.)-Unless col- campus poll conduoted at Salem and other times iwiroh wasting monlege administr!\,tors, faculty memall freshmen to come. · ey on many small classes." The tha,t more thought and time •b e deThe more tangiblie changes are bers, students and trustees better · College as to which type of examcommit;te,e felt that in the Uni ver- V'Oted to preparing exaitninationis, sity now ,t here aTe a number of 1Jhat grading -b e more ad~uate, and giving tlhe students complete frt!e- ~rn to u11ders,t and each other and dnation, essay or objective, is betleotures that are too large, the that the junior staff members · be d~m in c'hoosing subjects for dis- cooperate ,t ogether, a complete ter, reveals that students favor ~ize of quiz and laboratory sections trained in ,t he art of preparing and cussion, and increas.ed emplhasis on break-down. of morale and a lower- slightly the objective test. There in large courses is reasonab}y sat- evaluating examin,a,tions. Tihe com- 'hlavin,g guest mode111tors, especial- ing of academic standards of Ameisfactory, and with ",r are excep- mittee al:so indicated tlhat it "thor- ly ,those well prepaired fa the sub- rican campuses will result, Prof. are 49 per cent in favor of objecAlonyo F. Myer.s, chairman, Dept. tive, 41 per cent in favor of essay tion," the small classes that are oughly disapproves" of "grading ject 1b eing dilScussed. According to the survey, about of Higher Education at New York . and ~9 per cent have no preference. being conducted are frully justified. on the curve," with a fdxed pro-Nine of the most common, faults portion "Of a class receiving A's, three fourths of the freshmen University, warned recent ly. Ninety per cent feel that an ob1-n the University',s examinatiOlll another fixed proportion B's, and •t hought t he PJ:an was wort!hwhile. Pl,a cing much of the blame for the jective examination calls fur more misunderstandings · b etween the Tihe feature most liked was the inprog,ram were listed by the com- ,so on. It reponted that the use of this p.r ocedure "i,s dnfreque';it" here. formal discussion method of carry- admini:stration and facul t y, upon prepara.tion, nine .p er cent feel that mibtee as follows: ing on the classes, answered five the college president, Professor es.say types require more study, 1. Gives ~ittle or •a n erroneous sixths of the frosh . About one-half Myers ' said that college heads were while one per cent made no com' fouaid the most int eresting subjec,t devoting too much time to non -a- ment. cademic activities. Generally, he Seventy-six per cent cited obto be sex, including sex edu.caition, said, •t he ·h ead •o f the college rela- jective a s iindicating ,t he itruest marital problems, and dating. Sev- gates much of his colleg e duties to possible grade, 24 per cent essay. School and Office enty per cent of the frosih wished an assistant, who o~ten, establishes Student:s agreed that neither type Supplies they had had absolutely no restric- a colleague-rating plan as in a can be given for all or most of the tion in clioosing topics for dtscus- the miHtary services to determine courses in the college eurriculum. the advancement of Personnel. Al- There is a tendency to grade obsion, and sixty per celllt wanted though such an a.ssistant deJ.ivers jective exams ,on a curve basis, the GIFTS AND more guest moderators. About one pep talks to the faculty about the majority indicated. Courses set STATIONERY third wanted a student moderator. morale and efficiency, he still finds forth as ad aptable :to es.say type There are ,t wo F ·r eshman Orien- the best men are always r,esigni.ng tests were literature, history, philt ation classes for ithe green freS'h- because, a college cannot success- osop.h y and economics; phy.sicail Wilkes-Barre, Pa. men, both being led by Mr. John fully be operated like an army. a ,sci-enc~s, psychology, mathematics and langua,ges to objective exams. 'factory or a busines,s ." Hall. · VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief rt,o a m ON THE NEW LIBRARY POLICY SKIDMORE COLLEGE MAKING ADVANCES IN HONOR SYSTEM I. R. C. NEWS FROM ., THE LAST MEETING Freshmen Evaluate Orientation P~ogram UNIVERSITY EXAMS FOUND AT FAULT Better Uunderstanding Needed Badly By All OBJECTIVE EXAMS On College Campuses FAVORED AT POLL DEEMER & CO. �wn.kF.s Friday, February 24, 1950 3 COLLEGE BEACON Wilkes -E. Stroudsburg ! To Clash at ESSTC Fancyin', Prancin', Real Romancin' Tomorrow Night Dances Are Sheer Bliss By ED TYBURSKI Fresh from a thrilling 66 to 63 SO- -(Beacon Sports Editor) victory over Lycoming College, the "UnpredictaJble Colonels'' will traGrab 'er;.Then Begin Your Dancin'BASKETBALL . . . The ' Colonel Cagers did It again! time Lycoming felt vel <to East :Stroudsburg ,t omorrow Sporty! Take Your Miss! the wrath of Ralston's Raiders ••• The victory didn't come as too much of a to :play the futur,e teachers in a regame. A J.V, .g,ame will presurprise to this column ••• They were lust due. and didn't matter who they The Site Is Just The Cafeter' played , .. Hull and Benson a.e t the pace with and points respectively cide tile varsny tilt. '11his year Eaist .Stroodsburg !has , • • After piling up a first hall lead, all the Colonels had to do was protect Go And Do Your Stuff one of the better quintets in the that lead • • • They almost lost it . • .But they had enough to come through staite. This fact can be v,erified by when it counted • • • It seems as though the Colol)els go as Benson goes • • • the Colonel follower,s who saw tihem Jive 'n', Jump 'n', Swing 'n' Sway 'n' Every time Bob Is on the ball with the points. the Colonels always manage hand t he local cagers a loss a few to come out on top ••• Look at that first King's game ••• And then Hull just weeks ago in the friendly confines Put It On The Cuff. couldn't miss . . . Most of his points came via the long-shot route, but he even of ohe YiMCA. {>nee again rev,enge hooked them in • , • Maybe he's finally found stride ••• he has, we can will be tJhe motive and this can * * look for more victories for the Colonels • . . Ben Dragon played usual good mean danger to the embryo teachers. game . . . 'Ben really a floor general of the first class • • • It easy to see APhrase We Fear We MissI'he boy Wilkes will have to how much the Colonels miss him when the Big Boy goes out on fouls • • • watch tomorrow is Frank Poz.da. Is "Hamlet Was Never Like This" Mackin helped contributing points • , • AU:d he got them when they co~ted The ex-Hanov,er High School star ' ••• Tomorrow night the Colonels journey to Stroudsburg where they will be was named Last year to the AUSo Come At Nine And Twist- . In for a tough night • • . Benson and Hull can do a repeat performance, the .State Teachers College fiT>st team teachers will have their hands Anything can happen when the in addition ,to being the top pointFor "Hamlet Was Never Like Thist" , Colonels take the floor, and we wouldn't be surprised at any thing they do. getter .f or the teachers with 236 points. This year Frank is averagHave Eats And Drinks And Funing 10 points per game which isn't a boy often guard~ lby *Colonel * Grapplers took the worst ~atlng tootwo badmen.forOffensively, Cause - "Hamlet Is Ever So Glum" WRESTLING • • • Last week end the Frank does Colonel's Corner r • • This turn It 21 his 20 II his ls ls by 8 II lull • • • • of the ■eason . . . Millersville proved too much for them • • • Cromack was the only Colonel to come through with a win • • • Reynolda drew with hl1 opponent • • • Stevena !oat his ·first match of the season • • • It was a tough one for him to drop ••• Had he taken that one, he'd have ended the 1ecnon undefeated ••• We 1tlll ·thlnlt he'• one of the best to come out of this valley ••• Norm Cromack has .shown steady Improvement all ■eCIIIOll long , • , After a bad start. he ended strong • ~ • Of course, he had a bad knee to contend with all season. but I don't thlnJc that he needa any ·excuses • • • He was wrestling ln Olla of the toughest divislons. and his opponents knew they were In a match ••• Reynolds also bad a good ieason • • • He won 4, lost one, and drew once • • • He lost a tou9hle to West Chester, but came back last week with a draw , , , Stevena had a very 9b0d season • • • He won Bve, lost only one • • • Dvomlmlak also ••• He won three while losing only two • • • Coach Laggin has good prospects ' for next season. and he should have a "hummer" of a team • • • This. his Int season. was a pretty good one ••• His team won three and lost three • • • . ~ - ah.llacldng Wyoming Sem. Xlng1&1 and Eaat' Stroudsburg, the Colonels opped jneets to West Chester STC. Ithaca, and Millersville . . • Not bad for llrst ■!!l(D()n . . . Congratulatlona. Mr. Laggln and Mr. Lee. * * iMMJNG ••• Well. the Mermen dropped another .•• This time to Lock ren STC ••• We had one first and lwo seconds this time .•• The Colonels showing steady Improvement as the season progreBBes, and they stlll ~ave t more meets left • . • 1'he Swimmers are having the same trouble that the aketball team faced last year ••• They don't have their own pool and have , rely on the "Y" or Meyers for \heir practice • • • This ls only the second ,aaon that Wilkes has had a swimming team • • • Coach Karambelas has ,ne a good lob In these two years, and If he had his own pool. there's no ,11lng how far he might go .•• As It Is. he can't be condemned for a bad ..raon ... Outside of that Sem meet. every team has had to go all out to win. * * 0CKEY ••• Coach Bob Moran and his hockey team will joumey to Lafayette ,xt Saturday . . . This will be the second meeting of the two teams • • • The ys feel confident trat this one will be different . . . With the cold weather .tllng in. they might have a chance to get ln at least one good practice sslon before the game . . . More than likely Moran will be able to work out ith them more than that ..• And If he does, we think the Colonels, can take am .•• Bob knows his hockey, and if he ccin get his team together. he should tve no trouble working out a winni~_g combination . . • Captain Bob Hall has ayed his share of hockey and is a great asset to the team • • • As is Bob ng~lo and Bob Weeks . . . Al Molash is ready for another lllng at Lafayette •• He did okay last time . . . Maybe they won't win, but Lafayette will know --t they're In a hockey game • • • The boys from Easton were surprised last e ••• They'd expected an easy game ••• They tried to ease our hopes ·by ' 11ln9 us that they lost their first game 17-1 ••• And that was three years • JO , , , They're an experienced outfit. but they had plenty of trouble In I mdllng the Colonels • • • This 9ame should prove Interesting • , • And with 1l talk going around about hockey coming to the valley, this qame should I otlde more Interest than just on the campus ••• Hockey ls a big time game, nd lt should draw In the valll•y • • • II we could only 9et a rink here, the C. Ion.els would have no trouble In schedullng big name schools to come here • • IJ we don't get a rink. we'll just have to travel to whatever school CCJJ!j ~re us an open game • • • Regardless of the outcome. hockey ls here to stay a wllkes • • • Bob Moran won't give It up that easlly • • • He likes the game. ~ci as lon9 as he can get the players. he'll coach the team • • . II you want tc s'eff a lot of action. come down to Easton next Saturday and you'll get cm, ~: eful • • • The game Is scheduled to start at Bve. but since It will be played a: a ·rink In Allentown. you'd better come early ••• The trip will be well worth cny effort you take ••• We wouldn't miss the game for anything • .- • II you Cf:ne,_,1 "e1l see you there. the * * SI ,IBTS IN GENERAL .•. It's a little early to talk about football, but we overht : rd some Interesting talk the other day ••• It seems as though some King's were bragging about the football team they're going to have next year ; .• 1$EEMS, also. as though they're handing scholarships out right and left •• ~ •Thr,'.~:!,UPPOSED to be a varsity fullback from T. C. U. coming here ••• Some sc r'.-:ui:at he Is already here .•• It looks as though King's Is pointing for a: c;c J i~on , •• Well, we wish them luck ••• Next year they won't have ANY ~ - . so everybody should be happy ... Well, It won't be long before spring ~ ~~ starts for the baseball world . . . and It won't be long for Wilkes, el) The boys are pretty up for a good season and me cmxl.ous for It .to ■tart . . . Hmm! Wonder lf Chet Molley Is getting his wooden arm ln shpe? gtys ei-:... . hepped his ppint-getting from around the foul circle and is quite accurate with a jump pivot shot. It sil1-0uld be interesting to see if John Mackin can guard against a shot he himself is quite capa1ble oi making. Just as thil.s column predicted last week the Colonels did -stop Ly,ooming's two 'high sc,o rers and went on to their fourth win of th'Ls campaign. Little Paul Huff played his ·best game -of tihe sea-son as he racked up 2.1 points. The remarkable feat of his ·s ooring was tihat he put in 10 goals, and of the 10 seven came on long s·hots. Bobby Ren.son came to lHe ,a nd trailed the pint-i$i2ed guard wiJth 20 points on .seven goals and six foul shots. Again Ben Dragon played hi-s usual fine game that the Wilkes followers are beginning ·to expect of him. Ben and Bill Johns maintained complete control of the backboards and blocked many ,s hots that were des-tined to' be two-pointers for Lycoming. After •t he game a Lycom:ing ,p layer remarked that Wilkes played the hest game he had played in all season . . A finer honOT could not be payed to any team. Colonel foMdwer-s can ·see their team in action Wednesday night, March 1, when they play host to Susque'hanna University. 1 -----·----------------·--------------------·-·-·-· UNIV. OF DELAWARE BANS SORORITIES Newark, Del., (IP)~imax.ing a spirited campaign, University of Delaware w-0men students have voted three to one against permitting ,esitablishment of sororities on the campUIS. Seventy-eight -p er cent 1 of the women voted. No ,sorority ever lhas been re- cognized on the campus h-erie sinee women students were admitted m 191,4. When a study was made of the desirability of sororiities two years ago, the surveying committeEr recommended against per-mitting their establishment. The recommendation was based Olll opinions :from alumnae and facwty members. The recent vote was the first exp!r,ession obtained from the students. The discussions and poll were conducted at the instig,a,tion Gf tJh ose in favor of sororities. Scholastic Needs First; S. L. U. Drops Football St. Louis, Mo., .(lP)-Saint Louis Univei,sity, which pa1'ticip,ated in the fir.st interc.o llegiate ,f1oOltball game iwest of the Mi,ssissipp,i in 1888, has dropped football "f-OT the immediate futur e", according ito the Very Rev. 'P aul C. Reinert, S.J., president. "'11he University is unwill~ng to submit to scholastic oompromii;.es", Faither Reinerit declared tin announcing the decision. "Experiem,;e seems ito .sihow that today if a large univei,si-t y Ls to meet i~ highly In Fayetteville, Arkansas, there is -specialii:zed foatball rivals on an always a friendly gathering of equal basis, it,. . is a.Jmost imperative that .scholasitfo ,s acrifices be' deliberUniversity of Arkansas students at ately accepted." Pointing out that ",t he proporthe Student Union Building. A,nd, tions that college fooitball hais asas in college campus haunts every~ sumed tod-ay demand thait an institutiio,n place i.ts program on a ri·g where, ice-cold Coca-Cola helps orous ,business basis", Father ·R einert said: "In a private institution make these get-to-gethers something of ·h igher learning which in view to remember. As a refreshing pa~ of ·present economic trends is fore- · ed to husband its funds with the from the study grind, or on a Saturutmost di-ligence, any clhanneliing of day-night date-Coke belongs. resources from the essential academic objectives of general and professiEonal training into M"eas of Ask for it either way ... both . ,s econdary importance •s uch as in¢Plus 1~ trade-marks mean the same thing. tercollegiate football could not be . . . State Tax juis!bified." BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY Acti()l!l was taken following a poll o:f alumni leaders, reg,ents and deans, fa.culty members, and the KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. board of trustees, Father Reinert said. 'The poll revealed nearly un- 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2-8795 animous s.entiment to abolish football 1f it meant sacrificing .scho,la,s1iic standards and building needs. ~ �4 Friday, February 24. 1'8~Q WILKES COIJ.EGE BEACON AYH Groups Growing · Low Cost Traveling American ,students who want to travel this ,s ummer have the op,p ortuninty of going on a wide va'l'iety of low-cost hosteling trips in the U JS. and abroad, it was an:nounced . today by Ben W. Miller, ex,ecutive director of American Youth Hostels at 6 East 39th St., New York Ci:ty. In addition to ~7 trsips planned '.QY the National Headquarters for groups of various ,s izes, said Dr. Miller, hundreds ,o f other trips are plarnned · by A YH Local Councils 1Jhrougihout ,t he U.S., many of which wj1ll cost as ,l dttle as $1.25 a day. These trips, Dr. Miller added, wiU enaible thousands of Americans 1110w studying in American schools ,to j.oin their fellow ,s tudents who, since the war, have been traveldng .a t home and i:n Europe in unprecedented numbers. He predicted rlihat twice as many students would go on !hosteling trips this summer as in 1949. · Hosteling - ineX!pensdve . hiking or cycling along establi,s•h ed •r outes 'With overnig.ht stays in hostels '.ip:aintained by Local Councils of ,i nterested .c,itizern,s - has long been a popular .mode of travel for young peoR}e abroad, and i-s attractng follower£ in this country. pervis.ed by resident houseparents. Each h o ,s .t el provides separate sleeping quarters and washrooms for y,oung men and women, a common kitchen where hostelers may cook .their meals and, dn most ,c ases, recreational facilities. Hostele:ns travel light, knowing that they will find dean bl,a nkets, clean beds and cooking ,u tensils at ea0h hostel. J·ohn D. Rockerfeller, 3rd, pres,i<lent •O'f American Youth Hostels, believes that in addi-tion to its recreational value, hosteling is a factor in fos t ering •international unde:nstan,dirng. In a recent statement, he said, "Hosteling provides unique ·and sound opportunties for normal, friendly relations between the peop.1,es of different nations. It afford,s practical experience in the important busine&s of getting along with people of different backg,rounds and points of view. Already twenty-s,ix nations :have youth'hostel organizatiins. Ov,er a period of years bh,e many thousands of y,oung people returning each year from visits to other countries will make a basic contribution to international f11iendship and understan!,Hng." Detai.Js of itineraries and costs of trips are avadlab.1,e on inquiry at A.Y.H. N ,a t ion al Headquarters 6 East 39'th Street, New York 16, N.Y. Advisership Problem Competition Pressure Tackled By Hamline Brings On Dishonesty ,s t. Paul, Minn. (I.P.) Arunouncement of its two main projects for the second semester has been released by the A1l~College Council at Ha:mline University. They are: ( 1) facuLty advisernhtlp of ca,mpus organizations; .an<l (2) student leadenship and participation on campus. It is felt here that the problem securing a faculty a,dvis,er, which many organizations have found to be a very real •one, calls for a study and analysis of w,hat type of activity the various facu1ty members would like to par,t icipate in (suc,h as chaperoning, or having a definite club assignment), wlhi,c;h faculty members are not now taking an active part antd which are in ca,mpus orga_nizaticms, and what the organtza ti-ons themselves can do to help ,s olve the problem. ·T he Council Js going to undertake · the task of ftlnding out 1Jhe "why'.s and wherefore's" of student leaidership and participation - Why do ,t he ,s ame people have all the jobs? Why do only such a limited .number .take part in activdties? What can be done to improve the .situation? many Trips ,spon:;;or,ed ·by the A,Y H Na.tiooal :Headquarters will r.range in !length from five to ten weeks and wiH start in June and early July. On these ,t rips, •hostelel'\s will! travel in ,small mixed groups with trained ilead,ers. Estimated costs ;:range from $115 for some trips in the United States to $78'0 for trip,s to North 1S ea and Mediterranean areas. In all cases costs cover the ,enti,r e trip from .starting to finishing points. For overseas trips this means embarkation and debarkaticm points. 1n ,t he United 1States, hosteling groups will , visit northern New England, the Great Lakes, Long lsiland 1Sound and the •Colonial Virginia area. Of 'I)al'ticular inter.est are the seven-week National ,P arks and [High :Sierras trip for hikers and the RoJ.ling Hostel trip, in whic:h .specially equipped trains wdll 'take ihostel,el's cross country, perrni•t ting them to cycle in scenic areas, us'ing the train as their Hostel each night. Rolling Hostel trips wi.Jl go to the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park. -'l'6ps planned for the Norbh A•m erican continent will take hostelers to the Canadian Rockies, Gaspe Peninsula, Ontario, the Mar.ritime Pirovinces and the Saguenay .River area, aU in Canada, and to Mexico, Guatemala, and Alaska. The trips to Europe will include vi,sits to tlhe Briti,sh Isles, .Scanddnavia, ·F'Tance, the North Sea ,arfill, Central Europe, Western Europe, the Mediterranean a'l',ea and Southwest Europe. Trips i~volving work iprojects wiU also be c·o nducted in Germany and HoHand. Pos·sessiion of an A YH Pass, which costs $2.00 a year for those under 2.1 and $3.00 £or those over, permits a hosteler to remain overnight in any hostel in thi,s country or abroad at a charge of not more tfu:an 50 ·cents. Hosteling in the United States beg.an in 193-4 and has since spread from coast to coast. At present ,t here are A YH Local Councils in 29 '.states, which supervi,s e 160 hostels ,i n such pa•rts of the country as the New England coastal and Sound, the Great Lakes, Colorni,a l Virginia, and the mountain r,egions of the West. Trips ,SI)onsored by these councHs vary in [ength, but ·t heir costs are uniformly low. ,Hotel accomodations are located in bar,ns and farm buil,d,ings, in cabins and priv.ate homes, and are su- · CRAFTSMEN . ENGRAVERS 20 North State St. Pbone 3-3151 PEGGY DOW Beautiful Northwestern Alumna, says: "•M y very first Chesterfield made me a Chesterfield smoker for keeps. They•;;;~~. "WOMAN IN HIDING" A. llNIVBRSAI..JNTERNATIONAL PICTURB .. DEERING LIBRARY NORTHWESTERN Akron - (]P)~Pressure of competition wa,s rocently named as the chief issue of dishonesty in taking examinations in a report released by th,e Student Honor Committee of the University of Akron. This chief eause of dishonesty, accord,ing to the report, leads to unfai-r practices in that it causes «students overly interested in excelling to resort to dishonest means in order to obtain ..... ..grade rewards." P,o ssible remedies to be tak.en by faculty members, the report pointed out, include a reviiew before and after examinations, prompt return of papers, alterna,te seating arrangements, a review of the subject of dishonest practice before ,each test,. and •an ho.nest attempt to play fair with the student. The c•ommittee asked that the faculty m,embers not give t hte sa me test year after year. It suggest ed that tests should cover r evellent parts of the course, and not only those which have been taught. It als,o requ,ested that different sections of the class be given separate examinations. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ♦ • • Radio Program Friday, Feb. 24Wilke,s Beacoo-'IHighlights in the Campus N,e ws" Monday, Feb. 27I. R. C.-"Report on World Affairs" Wednesday, March 1Open. Friday, March 3WiLk,es Beacon-"High:Hghts in the ,Qampus N ew,s" Monday, March 6, The Mud Gutte11s 1SocjetyWdlkes Bather S'hop Quar tet Wed11 es rlay, March 8---Chemist ry c~lub-- -"Headlines in Ohemistr y'' 1 Friday, March 10Wi11{,es Beacon-"Highli,ghts in the Oampus News" 4 A A 4 A A A ♦♦ .,. ♦♦♦ + ♦♦ + � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 February 24th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 February 24 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/e3a68bf55cd16b7676a3ea852c6653be.pdf 06953d5630ce04a412abb84e37f4c566 PDF Text Text Wilkes'BEACO WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vol. 3, No. 17. Friday, February 17, 1950 RED CROSS BLOOD DONOR CAMPAIGN BEGINS ON CAMPUS Twenty-Five Coeds Chosen to Compete DR. FARLEY TO TALK Student ·Leaders,Aimirrg For 100% . · Beauty . S d Bd In Annual Yearbook Contest AT ALUMNI BANQUET Enro11ment In ·w·11 1 {es tu e ·" o y By NANCY Fox By CHUCK GLOMAN Twenty-five Wilkes coeds have been selected as candidqtes for the 1950 Amnicola Beauty Contest by the Yearbook staff from nominations received last November. Chosen -were MaJrY Porte;, Gwen Clifford, Ann Belle Per:ry, Isabel 'Ecker, Barbara Har:bley, Jeanne Smith, Marion Wehtma.n, Lois Ann Shaw, iMar.ita Sheridan, Joan Likewi,se May Way, Helen Casey, Audrey Kohl, iNancy Raub, ·I rene Janoski, Elaine Tmmer, Ann AZ81t, Janet Gearha,rt, <Marysh Mieszkowsk,i, Connie 01-shef.ski, Marge Brennish, Beverly Van Horn, NanMarianna Tomasetti. &e -o f the candidates is a memcy Yaufman, Hetty Rutherford, and her of the senfor class, five are juni011s, rten are sophomores, and nine a.re fresihm,en. ~hotographs of ,t he coed,s will be ,sent to an outside judge, whose name has not yet ·b een di sclosed. The candidaites -wiH be pictured i.n the 19'50 A1mniicola in a manner similar to .t hat of the '49 isS1Ue. A foH page photogra,p.h will be de- voted to each of ,t he five winn~~ ': and the remaining twenty candidates wm be pictured opp.osite thes·e five. Al Capp, famed creator of ,t he comic strip "l;i'l &bner", judged J,as,t year's contest. iAlthough pleased with his task ' of choosing the five most beautiful coeds, he admitted the difficulty which it involved. He added that .writing a comic strip i,s easy work compared to judging a beauty contest of such high {la:lihre. , The Yearbook ,s taff heard ma~y complaints t hat last year's contest was not open for student pairticipation. This year, in order to remedy 1lhe -situati·on, the sta.f:f conducted a campaign in which n,ominaition,s were .sent to the Yearbook office, and oandidlates were selected from these nominations. The Wilkes A,lumni AiS1Sociation will honor its new ' membe:rs at ~ dinner on <March 10 in -t he Wilkes Callege Cafeteria. Wi1liia.m Boyd, general chairmasn of the affair, has announced_that Dr. Farley wdlil be the principal speaker of the evening. '11he ' entertainment will be provided ty •t he Mud Gutter Society (1Wilkes Barbershop Quartet). Dwring the dinner, new members will receive their membership cards. The remaining (t,h i,s includes botftl Bucknell Junior College ·a nd Wilkes College graduates) Wlill receive their cards through the mat!. The Alumni Oampaign fw the •S1Uppw,t of the new · Wilkes Gymnasium will cl-o,s e ,at this dinner. Requests for reservatiQilS will be maiiled to all members. The dinner tickets for old :m,ember,s and guests will be $1.2'5. AH J a.nuary graduates will be admitted fTee. Donald Honeywell, the newly elected president of fue Alumni, cordially invited a.ll members rto attend ,tftl,e next meeting which wi,1'1 be ,h eld on February 27, Monday night ·ait 7 :3'0. Social Worker . Weekly Sport Dances .To Be Spe~ker In The Caf? Why Not? 40 HS Students COME TONIGHT AND FIND At Assembly OUT FOR YOURSELF To Be Guests Of A new and novel -i dea in sport dances will be inaugurated this Sorority At Tea Ruth Gage Cotby, social worker ev-e ning -a t 9 when the Student 1 and world traveler, wdill address 1lhe Wilkes College a•s sembly prog,ram next Tu~·d ay morning at 11 o'clock in the Baptist Church. Her topic wrn •b e : "Wihat Does Russi·a Want?" M:rs. Colby has been active in welfare work for &e past 20 years amd ,ha,s traveled thl'Olllghout Europe and 1fue Near East observing and studying the problems of refugee peoples. Mrs. Colby ha,s worked wi.th the war-oo-phaned children around the world. Closely c.o operating with the org,anizations who are endeavoring to erase the evi ls of poverty, disease and ignoxa.nce in ,the Near Eilf.lt, with the U~ N., Red Cross and other groups which are trying to ihelp the homele~ and lost child;ren of tlie world, she s,peaks from Council w:ill sponsor a ,s port dance By MIRIAM LONG 001 the secood floor of ,t he oa:ooteria There wi11I be no admi<s-s ion fee and A Washilllgtcm'-s Birlhd-ay Tea music will be f.rom pl-atters and will ,be g,iven by the Theta Delta tape. Riho :sorority in the giirt1s' lounge Tihe ,a ffair is an experiment and in Chase !Hall on Th'llfrsday, Februfuture weekly sporit dances will de- ary 23 f,r om 3 till 5 P. M. Guests pend upon its ,success. of ,t he ·· •sorority will include two Danny Sherman, president pro- students from each of twenty local temp of tilie council has appointed h.i-gh ·sohools. Virginia Meissner chairman. ,She 'T he program wi!il include ;severa-1 will be •a ssisted by Vester Vercoe, musical selections a'lld a guest Al J ,a cobs and Tom Robbins. · speaker. Afterwaird a tour of the campus will be conducted for the a backgiround of long experience guests by mem:ber,s of the •sorority. and first-hand information. Nancy Yaufman will ·a ~ as genShe was accredited by .the State eral oh.airman. She wiH be as·sisted Department to :the Ui11ited Nations by t he following committees: Conference at Sa·n Francisco, Lake House: Dorothy Travis, chairSuccess and PaT~s ·a s a non-governmental ,repr-ese:ntative in ,soc-ial wel- man, ,Clai,re N esaitil, Ann Tues1an, Dolores Wachowskii, Ruth Ilrethafare and •the peace movement. way, Ann A:oo.k, J08.!llne Brook, Isabe\-a Sullivan and Nancy Lewis, THE END OF AN ER!\, foviitations: Sally Mittlelllan, ch.airman, Beverly H. Va.n Horn, Sara Shultz, Dolores Gr<Jibka, Beverly 'Parry and Rita M:artin. Guides: Beryl Colwell, chairman, Elva Fuller, Doris Gaugher, Diana uleweillyn, Cathy Smith and Connie ,Smith. Refreshments: Beth Badman, chairman, Nancy Boston, Irene ,Makowski, Dori~ Banks, Marion Weitman, J.ean Wasilewski, Dolo,r es Passeri. Prog,ram: Janet Burgess, chaiTman, BaTbara Keat~ey, Fran Trembath and Char Davl's, Clean-'llp: N an,cy 'Shackels, chairman, Mary Campo~, A_rm De1aney, .Mary Lou Gaghard,, Florence Kistler, Edna Sabol and Emily Smetana. Hostesses: Miairilyn Broadt, ohairman, Virginia Meissner, Jo Anne Davis, Nancy Yaufman, Mary Porter and IP,eggy Anthony. · Shown above is Millie Gittens and her car "Pepsi". Pepsi has had a A ,Saint Patrick's Day Tea will long and interesting history since coming to Wilkes; This particular chapbe held on ,March 1'7 ait which time ter will soon come to a close. however, since Millie has cmnounced that students f:rom :t!he remaining ,eigh■he will soon ■ell the car. teen high schools will be guests. For a ~omplete story on Pepal's activities at Wilkes. see page 2. PLEDGE CARDS AVAILABJ'..E By IRENE JANOSKI Tom Moran, Public Relations Director, opeI1IDg of th~ Blood Donor Campaign on Campus. The purpose of the campaign is to every student for his co-operation in the gram of the American Red Cross. has announced the the Wilkes College to make an appeal Regional Blood Pro- During the forthcoming weeks, tJhe y,ear. Blood Donor ~ledge Cards will be · The collection of blood is a tred:i-strihuted rto all the colleg,e stu- mendous under.takn,g . It wiH cost dents. Students will be requested the National Red ,C ross millions of ,to frll t hese cards out and return do11:a-rs am,d it will be ·a pproximate-them to the following officers: ly 5 years before the program will Robert P. 1Stairr, Junior .O!a,s,s ireach into aU p ~ of-1lhe country. ;Secretary; ·Gerry FeJ.J, Freshman The -blood will be collected in r,eTreasurer; Jean Ryan, S-enior gional c.ente,rs which are located in Class Treasurer; Merritt Wagner, u,r,ban areas :and are equipped to Freshman C la·s s Vice-President; service outlying c o mm unities Leo Lesnick, Pxesiden,t of t he through mobile units, ireferred to Freshman Class; Howard ",Skinny" as -Bloodmobiles. Sometime in FebEnnis, President of ·the Sophomore -r uary a Center wiU be opened in Class; Ma:rolyn Broadt, President of Wilkes.(Barre. Both t he Centers Theta Delta ·RJho and Riohard and Bloodmobil,es wi·11 be provided Soripp, representative of the Let- wiil!h too'hnical equipment and sbaff. -terman's Club, and Vi,nce Macri, ed with coonpetent docto11s, nur-sea, Beacon •ediitor. and ,t echnicians especially trained P.otential donors wil,l be informed for '1:ihis type of work. of their appointments ten d-ayis in The R,egional Blood Program will •adv,a,n,ce. All donws wiH -be inter- reliev,e families ·o f the ;respOlllJSibilv,i ewed by th,e professional staff ity of · looking f·o r donors when and no one wiU be allowed to giv,e their relatives aire in need -of a . blood if the doctor decides that transfusion. W eiek.ly supplies wHl ther-e might be s.o me harmful after- ·b e delivered to both civilian and effects. A11 facilities to add rto ithe v.eterans' hospitals. comfort of ithe students will be T-he ultima,te ,go,al, when 1lhe proprovided. 10ontrary to genera.I he- gram is ip complete operatiOIIl, will lief of ,t hooe wiho have never don- be to ,supply whole blood and blood ated any blood, there i•s no pain in-_ derivativ,es to •a ll physicians and volved in -t he dooating procedure. hospitals li,n N or,t heastern PennsylA·Lso, it will not ireduce ,a person's vania without rany cost :to the reciresis<tance more than would an aft- pieTIJt for the ,product. ernoon of . strenuo-u s exercise. A Every human being realizes tha.t nwmal, healthy person as a rule the quality of mercy i-s a,s old as does NOT experience any ill effec;ts bhe human heart. Whait .greater gift f.rom donating a pint of blood. Donations m:ay .b e made once a year can anyone g.ive than a pint of and not more tran five times during blood -t o one wiho is suffering? BEACON Caba.ret Party Expected To Attain New High In Wilkes Entertainment World By CHET MOLLEY The t'hird -annual .B eacon Ca,baTet Pal'.ty wi11l be held in the Victo.ry Room of the Hotel Redington on Friday, March 3rd. Mu,sic for the evening wiJ.1 be ,s upplied by Joe Bed:nari.k's trio, wiMch ·has ahcieved fame throughout t'he v-a,Jley for its terrific r·e nditions of populai music. This trio is not to be confus-ed with Mr. ·B ednarek's orchestra which has atttaiined popularity in the field of palpitating ,P{)llkas. 'l1h,e 'combo' gives strictly with ·the POP'Ular stuff, and is undoubtedly one of the best of its kind in the surr,mnding area. 1Mos,t people who have had the pleasure of listening and danc,ing to this group'-s ar.r angements hav.e been unan imous in their pra,sie of it. Tickets wi!.l sell for fifty cents .each, and there wi!ll be no reserva, tions. The best ·s·e ats wiU he given on a firs t come-first ,s erved ha,siis. This plan has b,een introduced to eliminate all possibilities of feudin' and fus·sin'. At .the past Cabaret 'Parties, the p.ractice of reserving ta:b1es cam,ed much confus·i on and mssatisfaction, There will be a one houT floor ,show, the conteryts of whicih have not been revea:led. Looking upon past Cabaret 1Parties as a criterion, those who were lucky enough to get tickeits for those affairs · wiH certainly know what to expect in the way of wonderful entertainment. Those who have IIlliss-e d ib'he pas,t performances certainly have not lived, and it is advised that they procure .their tickets at 1fue fi.rst golden oppoclunity. Tickets are now in circulation and can be obtaiined from members of thf Beacon Slbaff and in t'he bookstore. The Beacon Cabaret Parties of 1lhe past !have a:lways been highspots upon the -school's social callenda:r. F;rom present indications, .this .p·a rty wiU achieve an even greater rating in 1fue miinds of those who are ,l ooking for an evening of good solid entertain_m ent. Job Placement Center Moves; Changes Hours The Wii1kes Col[ege Placement Center, under the direction of John Ohwalek, has moved its offices from th~ third floor of Ohase to the first fl-o or fr-Olrlt of the Guidance Center Building. , . ' ,Office h:our,s aire ,a s follorws: Monday 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Tuesday 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Wednesilay 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Thur,sday 9 A. M. rto 11 A. M. Friday' by appointment oruy. �2 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday, February 17, 1950 Millie's Willys Finally Leaves Campus; "Pepsi" Had Long and Colorful Career M. C. A. T. Scheduled For May-November Pepsi- is going to leave us. Who's Pepsi-? Ask Millie. Who's Millie? You haven't been with us very long, have you? Dkay, let's elucidate. Way back yar,s and yars ago, 'i n a'bout or around 1945, Miss Mildred Gittens app.Jied for and rec•eived ,a job from Miss !Norm•a Sanguliano, then Dean of W,oonen of Bucknell Junior Colllege. (Wilkes was at one time .BuckneLl Junior College, you know.) But Millie did not .g et the j,ob all iby herself. She had "pull". The plllll came under the term of Pepsi-, a cute ,little thing, a 1937 four~cylinder souped-up, j,et job, super-some Willyis ,Coupe---,- wi·t h the horn and a door in the trunk. Ah, it was a siglht to behold! Millie oou1dn't get t!h:e j•ob without a car, ·a nd Pepsi-turned out to be a - - car? .Mi,ss Ci.ttens would have purchas-e d the Willys ,anyway . .She was downright · hadr-tearing •a ngry. 1Some taxi drivers decided to go on •s trike, leaving MiHie n a cloud of carbon monoxide. 1S o ,she decided to 'b uy a car. She bought Pepsii-instead. Upon Pepsi-',s ar,r,ival, Miss Gittens decided it wa,s high time she learned to drive. Two wee~s later, she ,g ot her driver's license. A week after that a mail truck de.cided ~ deliver the mail to Millie's car. You know the old saying "the mai1l must go ·bhrou,g,h". Well, the q-uck went through .Peps.i-'s trunk to deliver the stuff. J.n 1947, Pep,si- was used to transport baked goods froin a No. Main Street bakery to the cafeterria. In the ,s ame year and part of the next iit was-used to haul Beacons f.rom the printer to the campus! In 1948 Pepsi- was used to haul football equipment to Kirby Park every day for football practice. It was used for many other thing,s., but Miss Gittens would not ,enumerate all of them. 'The Oongest voyage, flight, or trip (take your c'hoiice) made by Pep,si since 1Miss Gititen,s adopted it was to New York and hack. Miss . Gittens ,stated that 'Pepsi- consumed three gallons of gas and no oil for ,the trip . .She added that bhe trip was made before inflation set it, c ons.e quently New Yo,rk 1was not as far from Wilkes-Barre as it is now. The addition was made just fo:r those unbelievers who do not ·bhink that Pep,si- can go 75 miles on a gallon of gas. That's practically the who<le story. The plans for Pepsi- are indefinite save for .t he fact that it's place will ,soon be taken by a cad, a cold~hearted 1939 Plymouth. MilHe pI,a ns to ca1l,! the new oar -Cola. And the ,title -o f this, story might be Pepsi-Cola. · American Colleges Now Accepting D. P.'s in the country to which they will emigrate. The lot of the D. P.'s studying in Germany ha,s not been easy. Currency ;reform has Hmited the amount of help wMch -their fel:lowrefugees couiJd give them, and most D. P. ,students have. tried to get ,a1ong ~Y saving on food, a practice which is certainly not pra·cticabl,e from ~ !health viewpoint. Despite the •h ardships, the D. P.'s have ,a:ttadned, as a group, higlrer marks than do their fellows. These results are even more outstanding w.hen D. P. ,s tudents ar,e given a chance to study .in Univer,s ities where they are -reailly wanted and where ther p.ro:blein,s -o f eating and living a re ,l ess acute. The United ,States, under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, authorii z.es the admission of students who have the as,s urance of a scholarship, as well as fuH living expeng,es for •a yea,r . The National •Coordinating Coundl for D. P. Stu. dents, with World Student Service Fund as its operating agency, ha:s aoted as a two-way funnel .for appli-cabions from D. P. ,s tudents ,a nd Offers from University groups. . If any campus organization is interested in aiding one of these Displaced Persons it should address its inquir•i es .to World Student Service Fund, 20 West 40th Street, New York Gity 1•8, N. Y. 'The lnternational Refugee Organi:zation has irecently announced the r~sults of a survey dealing with the Displaced Persons w'ho wished to attend America!) Col,leg.es. The matetia,l wa,s distributed by ·t he World Stu<l'ent ,service Fund which is represented by the 'I. R. C. on the Wilkes campus. This survey was an attempt to point up the need for add~tional aid for those Displ,a ced Persons. • In 1949 one hundrnd American coJ.leg•e s and u'Iliversi,ties gave D. P. ,s eholar,s hips to 200 D. P. students. A,ssurances are now ·b eing ,secured for pl'a cement n September, 1950. It is hoped that many more D. P. students wiJ.l secure an opportunity to begin a riew life in a new 'land: Yale University recently announced the aceep,tance of five D. P. students and 6 will study •at Vass-a r next year. The urg-e to ,s tudy, despite the iJack of a ssurance of ,a country to live in or a profes,sional status to ,enj,oy, is keeping more than 2,000 Displaced Persons in Universitie,s in Western Germany and Austria. More than 4,000 D. P.'s with a background ,o f university training also wish to continue their studies 1 VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor ED TYBURSKI GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Romayne .Gromelski, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabusk, Chuck Gloman, Jim Tinsley. Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Jack Phethean, Bob Metzger, Chet Melley, Nancy Fox, Ho~er Bones, Ed. Belinski. Sports Staff George Brody, Joe Gries, Paul Beers Photographers Art Bloom, Don Folbner A ~er published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. ~9 Membe,: Intercoll~ate ~ . Princeton, N. J., The Medical College Admission Test, r,equired by a number of leading medical colleges throughout the country, will be given twice again during the current calender year, according to Educational Testing Service which prepares and administeTs the test for the Association of American Medical Goileges. Oanditates may take the MCAT on Saturday, May 13, 1950, or Monday, Novemb,er 6, 1950, at the administrations to be held at more than 300 local centers in all parts of the country. The Associatiori-s of American Medical CoHeges, through ,i ts Committee on Student 'l>ersonal !Practices, recommends that candidates for admi-ssion to classes sta.r.ting dn the fall of 19,51 take the May test. The results will be available to institutions in the early fall when many medical colleges beg.in the selection of their next freshman class~ The MCAT consists of tests of general scholastic ability, a test on understanding of modern society and an achievement test in science. According to ET1S, no preparation other than a review of the science sulbject is necessary. All questions are of the objective type. Application forms and a Bullitin of information, which gives details of registration and administration, as weH as sample questions, are avaiJ.abJ.e from pre-medical advisers or directly from Educational Testing Service, Box 692, Princeton, N. J. Completed applications must reach bhe E'I1S off-ice by April 29 and October 213, r,espectiv·e ly, for the ,May 13 and November 6 adminisrations. on Reprinted from Morch 1950 issue of Esquire Sopyr;ght 1950 by Esquire, Inc. "It's got to be heavy to stand up against that hair tonic he uses." Forty-Three Wilkes Students Teaching In Local High Schools By ROMA YNE GROMELSKI Fort1')-three Wilkes, College students are doing their s'ludent teaching this semester at Coughlin, Meyers, GAR. Forty Fort, Kingston, and Plymouth high schools. ' This group holds the record for being the largest since the practice teaching program began in the spring of 1948. According .fo statistics from Mr. John Hall of the Wilkes Oollege groups have !been consistently larger for the spring semes·t ers than for the foB semesters. For thios Te11s·on, i,t has been difficult to place student teacihers in the sprng, and all .students cannot 'pe sure of having/ the ,opportunity ito teach ·t!he subj;ect in which he ha;s majored. Including ·this ,s,emester'-s ~ .o up, Wilk·es has s·ent ,out a total of 177 student teachers to the local ihigh schools , to fulfill their stud,ent teaching requirement. Each potential tech er mus t sati,s fuctorily complete a m:inimum of 90 clock hours of practice teaching to qualif-y fo·r a teacher's cemific-ate. During the first week, the student teacher observes while a trained teacher conducts the class. Afterwards, the student do_es, the actual teaching under the supervision of the ·exper,t and supplements his practica-1 exp,erience with further observation. To qualify for practic,e teaching, a ,s tudent mus,t maintain at least a "C" average' during his fr,esh-. man and -s ophomore yeaI'IS, . have good health, character, and personality, and tie able to speak and wri·te acceptable Engli,sh. The following students are teaching the listed subjects below: Coughlin High SchoolMathematics: Richard Todd, Hi,sbory'; John :Per.sico, J oseph Gai'birie.J, Harri.s Havard, Edward Godek, Spanish; Dolores 'Pas.s·eri, 'English; John Fiorkiewicz, V.ictoi: Minetala, Gen.era] Sci-enc,e, Robert Gorgas. Meyers High School. M,a,thematics: John Jones, :Geo Noll; Hi,s tory, Henry Black, John F·e dtastian; ISpa,nish, Clarence McGhe.e; E-ngli'sih, George Brody, Earl Jobes, Frank Darte, Sally Mittleman ; German, 1Simon Faitz; B.iolo gy, E,'van ;Sorber. GAR Memorial High SchoolMathematics, Leon. Gilbert, Henry Rydzewski; History, Louis Miller, Thomas Jordan; Englis'h, Ross Leonardi, Edward Johns•on, ,Lester Gr,oss, Samuel Elias; Chemfa;try, Robert Obeid; IPhysics, J,ean Dertoro. Forty FortEngJ.is;h, non Kemmerer, Dorothy Wintersteen; Social Stiudies, S:teve PariaHs; Biology, Doris Gauger. . KingstonE,n'gli,s·h , John De Remet; :S ocial Studies, Theodore Killian; .Science, George Monigais, James Davis; Biology, Edward Yarish. Plymouth' ,E ngHs1h, '.Paul Thomas; Social Stu(l.ies, Joseph Brislin; Biology, Carl Malisheski. . Students Appear In Voice Recital A Voice Recital was held by the music students .last evening in Gies flal'l. The purposes of 1'he recital wer.e to help the -stud,entbs develop c-onfidence when •a ppearing before t!he pu:blic, and .t o give the pu,l>llc evidence ,o f the work being done by the students. ,Soloists included :Paul 1Shiffer, Marvin w .eis'berg~r, Miriam Long, Cairlie '.Dhoma,s, Edward Brewster, Helen Casey, ,Hilda Hunst, Nancy Bos.t on, WH!iam Cook ,a nd Helen Bitler Hawkins, newly appointed a;ss~stant voke instructor. These people are ,s tudying under · Mr. Witbur Is-a,acs, who a],s,o •s·ang at the recital. Mary-sh Mi-eszkowski and DoJ.ores Co.ttrino, piano students, accompanied sev,eral ,selechons. DEBATERS'COMPETING AT BARNARD COLLEGE By CHUCK GLOMAN , Two teams from the Wilk,e s Debating Society, und,er the ,student direction of Tom Morgan, will part icipate with twenty other debating teams in the s·econd annual Barnard CO'llege Debate Tournament a t New York tomorrow. The topic i,s "Resolved : That 1Gorrlmunist teachers should be barred from United .StateS' colleges and universities.'' Each ·WHkes team, the first consisting of Ann Belle Perry and Julian Goldstein, and the s•econd coiJ.'sist-ing of Fred Davis and Janet Gearyart, wm debate four times on both the affirm! tive and nega.tive side of the topic, Jwlian Goldstein 1s the only experienc.ed debater ,of the four. The tourname'n t will !begin with a g,enera.J meeting at 9 in the morning ari'd wiU continue through the day. Members of the.,Barnard Debate Council will not participate as debatern, but wi.Jl ·s erve as moderator; timekeeperis and student. judges. Barnard facuil ty members wm al.so ,s.e rve a;s judg,es, in ,additi0;n to ,s taff members of the Golumbia Law Review. A tr-o phy wii,11 be presented to the winners at a general meeting J.ate in the afternoon. Amon)· t\}le debating t ~ s tak ing part wHl be those of ,P<rinceton, Rutgers, Va,ssa,r , John Ma.rsha11 College, Unive~jty of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn,- Hofstra Columbia New York University; and Cit; College .o f New York. . · I Student Government Vital To Colleges Salem, ORE.-(I.P.)-'"Student gov ernment is an i-ntegral ,a id in the business of administe:ring , -a college," declared Rev. Robert H. Sweeney, vice president of the University -o f Portland, in a recent address before delagates to the Oregon F•e deration of Collegiate Leadders as~embled on th,e c-ampus at Willamette University. Every colleg·e needs dynamic student .g overnment he said, not to rep.Ja.ce the administrativ,e- professional staff, but to wor,k them and develop leaders hip among the students. Rev. .Sweeney said that "stodgy ·e ducators" are wary of the s tr on g student government because t hey have the suspicdon that student judg,ement is always going to be immature. He went on to say that the very best way to get immature judgement is to expec,t it. 'Dhe obligation of the colleg,e, Rev. 1 S,w eeney explained is to produce not only good business men, . p:r-0 fes·sional men, teachers and technicians but "men and women who are im:bued with enlightenment of leadership." He feels that '"any administration not aimed at leadership should not he in the business." •••••••••••••••••• DON'T COME TO THE STABLE! I DO COlWE TO THE CAFETERIA! AND DANCE! TONIGHT ~T NINE �3 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday, f ,e bruary 17, 1950 WILKES SWIMMERS Colonel's Corner By ED TYBURSKI (Beacon Sports Editor) µ.. SWIMMING .•. . After dropping a cl!)se meet to Scranton the Colonel tankers showed up at the Seminary pool and met a guy by the name of Mullen •.• Not satisfied with iaking two firsts, Mullen also assisted the Sem-men In the relay race, helping to add II points for his school ..• It mlght be noteworthy that Wilkes di~n't gain a first place in the meet . . . After the good build-up this column gave Jones, the Wilkes! diver was only able to gain third place In the diving contest .. . Well, there is still four meets left, maybe we wlll have a chance to hit the button on him . . . Despite the 56-8 shellacking handed them by the Sem men, the Colonels proved that they have the makings of a team the previous afternoon by making the Scranton Mermen go all out lo gain a win . . . This final score was 48-26 . . . If the Colonels can cop their next four meets, they'll still come out with a successful season . . • Here' s wishing them !~ck,! . WRESnING .•. The Wilkes Wrestlers woke up mid-way in last week's bouts against West Chester to find themselves 10 points behind ••• Charlie Thomas started the Colonels on the come back trail by decisioning West Chester's Gene Miller 6-4 . . • Norm Cromack continued in winning form and decisioned Glen Miller 6-2 •. ·. George Dvorzniak moved the Colonels lo within one point of the future teachers by romping over Jack Birmingham 14-5 ·• . . _The score at this time of the meet stood 10-9, against the Colonels ••• But Joe Stevens showed the form that has enabled ,him to remain undefeated by decisioning Bob Kibbler 4-1 .•• The Colonels took the lead for the first time but were unable to hold ii • , • George McMahon droppedan 8-0 decision and Frank Radaszewskl dropped a heart-breaker 5-4 ••• After gaining a two po_lnt advantage, Radaszewskl suddenly found himself behind 4-2 • • • He quickly rallled and knotted the count at 4-4. only to see his opponent awarded one point by referee Frank \l{alp on a neutral • , · . This match was a hard one lo lose, and so was the enilre meet • • • Captain )!m Reynolds tasled defeat for the first lime this season when he was thrown by West Chester's Lynn DeVault ••• Joe Stevens Is still undefeated ••• Tomorrow night the Colonels travel to Mlllersville where they will meet the lest of the season •.• This should prove to be , one of the toughest foes the Wilkes Wrestlrs face this season ••• But the Colonels are up to ii and should provide some stiff competition. BASKETBALL . . . The Colonel Cagers ran into some bad luck last week-end .. , bad luck and ·a big center who ran wild In the closing minutes of the game ••• Gordon Evans, 6-ft. 5-in. center from Triple Cities, racked up 19 points in all ••. 7 of them came In the last three minutes . • . The Colonels had a threepoint lead going Into the · iast period, but they blew it . . • Out-scored- In the last period. 16-10, the Colonels dropped what looked like a sure win, 57.54 ••• Mackin was high for the Colonels with 13 . . . Huff and Dragon both had 9 ••• Benson and _Jackson w,e re "off" again, scored 5 and 2 ·points respectively. Wilkes Cagers Seek Reve:µge F~r Early Season Defeat Against Lycoming Five By JOE GRIES The Wilkes College basketball fans will get another chance to see the Colonel cagers in action at home tomorrow night at 8 p. m. in the local YMCA gym when they opponse the Lycoming College quintet. The J. V. game will start at 7 p. m. ·'!1his year Lycoming has one of the fin.est quintets •ev-e r to i,epre,s ent that institution. Lo•ad.ed with veteran talent, the Lycomng team boasts a great <lea! about their offensive power. ~he bulk of :their ,scoi,i,ng is done by Graff, ·a forward and ·Brodmerkl.e, ~a guard. If the 1Colonels can hold these two boy,s in check they can pull another one of their fam ous upsets that has made them known as the unpredictable Colonels. Agai n in las:t week's game again.st Triple Giti-es -College the exceptional play of f,reshman John Mackin was evident. The ex~G.A.R. ,s tar was high ,s corer for .the sec·ond straght game with 13 p,aints. · Paul Huff, although short i~ -s-t ature, was a big man in llhe Cofonels quest for victory. The migh;ty mi-te played -a n -e xcellent defensive game, a:nd ,again showed his ability with his long set shots. Lycoming h olds a win over the Colonels in a game played at Wil-1:iamsport earlier in the .season, and with :this i,n mind the Colonels will be out for rev-enge. lt should !be ,a real thriler. JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and Hats of Quality ** 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1Coa,ch Ra·s ton will probab-ly start Bobby B,en-son and Cha,rley Jackson :at the forward posts, John Mackin at center and Belt! Dragon and Paul Huff n ,t he ,g uard slots. Af.ter the game wth Ly,comin,g the Colonel cagers wil 1h it the i,o-a d and play a return iame with S.tr-oudshurg State Teacher-s Colleg,e on Saturday, February 25 . · NEW LIBRARY POLICY IN EFFECT MONDAY · Pictured above is the 1950 Wilkes College swimming team. Now in its second year of existence, the team, to date. has been rather slow, but with four more matches coming ~ Coach Karambelas stlll has hopes of a fairly successful season . Grapplers To.F_ace Millersville S. T. C. • By PAUL BEERS With a -h ope and a prayer, the grapplers of Wi,Jkes Co1'1ege j-ourney to 1M-il'lersvi.lle to take on the wrestling ,champions of Pennsylvania Saturday night. This is -the Colonel,s' iJast meet, and the most important one. Millersville ,State OoHege 'has a three year .record of 21 victories out of 22 cont.es,ts. Last sea-son they were the champi·ons of the state teachers as one of the wrestling powers ·in the East. If the Colonels can topple -t he big boys, t he season will be a huge success. As it i,s, Jim Laggan's boys are now posting a mediocre 3-2 record. Last year MiHersvi11le dropp,ed in to ·s ee Wilkes and they swept every event of ·tfue contest, if it was a "contest". Thing,s we.r e so bad -t hat the Colonel,s could tell' you .the watts -o f the globes up in the celling. This year M:i!i! ersvH!e has come up with an even more experienced team, if suc'h a thing is possible. Coach T·om Rupp 1has -so mucli tal,e nt that he ,selects ,h is starting varsity by the : :enie ?menie-mynemoe" sys-tern. Last y-ear he took on W,i,Jk es and King',s in •one night, dividing up hi-s squad, and he still knocked •off both schools. A number of biiys on the Millersville team are from Wyoming Valley. There's J ohnny Meys from Meyers, a Middle Atlantic A. A. U. champion in ;the 136 -division; Tucker Waters of Fo.r.ty Fort, twice State heavyweight champion; Pete Ya,senc-hak of Kingsto-n, a ·star in uh.e 145 dass; Skeeter Kemp of Kingston, 128 p-ound P. I. A. A. champ; and Bob Herbert of Fo-r ty Foi,t, State Teachers GoUege Champion in 165 division. Added to .tihis home-grown talent is a number of ot!her star grunters who have collected their share of laun~l,s, It an ad<l,s up to a powerhouse. Laggan',s hope rests on the broad shoulders of Joe Stephens, t!he only undefeated memb.er of the club, Rip Cromack, Rocky Reynolds, Mouse McMahon, ChaTley Thomas and F rank Radaszewski. S OUTff 1 In Los Angeles, there is always a friendly , gathering of University of Southern California students at Ted Owen's. And, as in colleges everywhere, ice-cold Coca-Cola helps make these get-to-gethers something to remember. As a refreshing pause from the study grind, or on a Saturday-n_ight date-Coke belongs. 1 Ask for it either way ••• both trade-marks mean the same thing. BASKETBALL SCORING RECORD STUDENTS WILL USE FRONT DOOR ONLY · -N ame A new Lib-ra,r y policy, beginn:ing Monday, F,eb. 20, will require a ll students to enter and leave the Library building by the fr.o-n.t do-or only. In announcing .the ruJ.ing, Mr. J-o seph :My,e rs, Librarian, stated uhat the rear door.s of the Library wiH be II'es-ervied for emergency us,e only a nd will be dos·ed to every day use. Tihe Lihrar.ian ,believes that unnecessary noise and c-o nfusion on the lower floor can be .eliminated by requiring ,s tudents to use only one entrance :and exit. He feels that the Library /Staff will also be in a better position to control the increasing flow of books being loaned and ,r.etumed. NOTICE! There wW be a meeting of the G Gls Ifs Pts Ave. C. Jackson· 14 54 38 146 10.42 J. Mackin 3 12 7 31 10.33 B. Benson 14 39 41 119 a.so B. Johns 14 37 17 91 6.50 B. Gragon 14 30 29 6.35 89 P. Huff 14 39 10 6.28 88 Al Casper 9 7 15 39 5.57 G. Petrilak 4 8 18 4.50 5 ·G. May 11 12 29 2.63 5 G. Snee 2 4 4 1.00 (Based on percentage of points per contest). Includes game with Triple Cities. February 11. DEEMER & CO. School and Office • Supplies GIFTS AND STATIONERY Education Club on Thursday, Febmary 23, at "· P. M., in Ashley Hall eo 101. All 'Jon students are In• vited to attenc.. ' Ted Owen',, Lo, A.nttles, Calif. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Wilkes--Barre, Pa. u PHONE 2-8795 �Friday, February 17, 1950' WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 4 International StudyTour· Alliance Offers Fellowships, Awards, Grants I NOTICE! All Cheerleaders are requealed to tum in their uniforms to Dr. Relf at hla office in the Biology Building aa soon as poaaible. Seniors may keep their sweaters. Underclaaamen will, The International Study Tour Alliance, a no:p-profit mem• bership corporation for the development of educational travel abroad, recently announced its 1950 ESSAY CONTEST. Open turn in complete uniforms. to all students-without distinction of sex, age, nationality, creed or color--of accredited American institu~ons of college or uni- of -s heets eight ,and one-eighth l;IY ten and one-'half. One copy on1y versity rank, the contest closes on March 31, 1950. L S. A. are convinced that to- TIES OF STYLE wiH receive some should be submited. Since no enmorrow's leaders will, to a ,Large limi·ted consideration, especially tries can :b e :retwrned the entrant ex.tent, oome from out of tihe ranks the author'.s ability to communi- should retain a carbon copy. Pages .s,hould be oonsecurtiviely numbered . of ,t oday's students, many of them c-ate ideas clearly and effectively. veterans of ' World War Two. They Entries must consist of two pa- and ,s tapled <together. The tirtle believe iit also ioo be ·s elf-evident pers : the essay itself, containing page must S'how ;the title of the that ·the p.r epa.ration for tb.a.t Iea.d- ,not les,s than •2 ,000 and not more ess,ay and a motto' w- pseudonym by which it can be identified. En'&1ship cannot be complete until the than 10,000 words, and a brief tr=t's name, <together with his student h-.i,s had an opportunity for going · aibroad for a sufficiellltly -statement indica.ting :bhe way in full address, should 'be written on a separate sheet of paper, placed ilong time, and under such condi- which the entr-ant, wLth the aid of inside an envelope, seal,ed· and subtions, a,s to enable him to realize, -t he additi,onal study and experience mitted with the entry, tihe motto or , a broad, plans ful1ther to develop undersand and evalua·t e ,t he differps-e udonym again written on the ences in civili:z.ation, inmtwtiions his theme; field work, research, outside of thait envelope. Envelopes .and the tra.ditional ways ·o f Hf.e of s·o urce material and academic con- will be opened by the jury after the various ·p eoples living together tacts desired ,a broad, ind their loin thiis one .w orld. As their contri- cation; any other supporting re- judging only. Addres,s all communicaitf:ons to 1bution toward :m.a,king such oppor- mar~s. Quota.tion-s must be clearly •t unities availalble to ,t he •lia·r gest indicated ,as sucih, with source spe- Professor Godfrey S. Delatour, possible number of serious and cified; a complete •b ibliography of Ohai-rman, Advisory Committee, competent students of promise, LS. literature used ,s hould be ,provided. Interna,tional Study'f,our Ailiance, A. have set up a number of •s tudy- Both papers mus•t .be typewrLtten, Inc., 12 Eaist 46-th Street, New tour <fellowships, ·awiards and grants double spac·ed, ·a nd one side only York 17, N. Y. to ,b e adjudged to winner,s of a nationwide essay contest. The theme of _the ess·a y must be ,of a nature that, for its full development, requires academic con;tacts, research possibili:t~, field work a,nd/or study of source materia,l that cannot be obtained and reaHzied, respectively, except in Europe. In :a ll, seventeen pr.izes will be awiarded. 'I"h-e fir.s,t prizes are two full ,S tudy· T·o ur F-e1'low,s hips, worth $77<5.00 and consis,ts ·o f trainspOil'taition from New York to Europe and back during the .summer of ',50 by r:s.A. chartered airplane flights, and accomodations and ·a ll meals dwring ·a ,s tay not in ex0es•s of 50 ,day;s in ·•Europe wLthin the framework •of one of ,t he published LS.A . .Study Tour,s for the summer of .1.9 50. W:inne11s need not, however, follow any fix.ed :S tudy Tour itiner_ary, and their stay of -50 days in Europe 'wiU ibe ,a rranged in one, two or more localities, according to the nature of the ,s tudy, ;:res,earch or field work to ·be foUowed by Famous Gonzaga alumnus, says: them. The s,econd prizes are five a"Smoke MY cigarette. wards consis,ting of ,t ransportation from New York to Europe and MILDER Chesterfields." back by chartered airplane. The · third prizes are grants in the •aimuont of $100.00 each, to be used toward the cost of any LS.A. :Study'l'our during the summer of STARRIN.G IN 1~50. 11 The jury judging the entries RIDING . I wHl be the Advis,ory Committee of A FRANK CAPRA PRODUCTION LS.A., compos·e d of faculty memRBLBASBD THROUGH bers of colleges •a nd universities in .PARAMOUNT PICTURES all sections of the nation. In/ awarding the prizes, the judges will be guided by the following considerations: 1. The SUBJECT MATTER should clearly inp.icate .the necessity for the author to cons,ult source material available only in 1E urope; · •a nd make contact with members of academic drcles· in Europe engaged in like studie,s. 2. The 1NTR.iINiS,I•C M-ERl'l1S OF ' l1HE EJN'I1RY should esaJbli,sh the author's ,scholarly qualities, particularly that he ha-s used to best .advantage .source material that has been ,accessible to· him ·so far, and given bhe additional opportunities ·a broad offered by thes,e prizes, he wiH achieve substarutial and wo11thwhile results. 3. The QUALi- 'Music Instructor Radio Program Feb. 17Added To Faculty Friday, Wilkes Beacon-"Highlights in the ,C ampus News" HELEN BITLER HAWKINS TO Monday, Feb. 2-0.TEACH ITALIAN DICTION Report on Hoover Commi&sionJ;)r. Eugene Fair~y By DAVE WHITNEY The appointment of Helen Bitler Hawkins as as,sistant in vofoe in,s,trumerutation . at the Witkes ColJ,eg,e School of Music was m•a de F-e bruary 6 by Donald Cdbleigh, director. The seve~th member of the rap.idly~expandmg Scihool ,of Mu-sic Mrs. Hawki-ns will be in charge of a class in Ita,Jian Dietioo -a nd assist Mr. Wiilbur .Isaacs ,i n ilhe tea.ching •o f voice. Mr,s. -Hawkins, who was former'ly a pupil of Eunice Berry DeWitt, is now -a contralto soloisit at the Fi,rst P,r esbyt,erian Ohurch in Wilkes~Barl'e. S'-e has ,a ppeared several times Wl .t he Oratorio Society and the Singer.s' Guild of Scranton as s,oloi,s t. '11he -announcement of the appointment of MM. Hawkin.s as .Aissistant in Voice follows the adoption -o f a plan by ifue School of Musi.c to •o ffer instruction in diction for ·singer,s. The new plan is to be on an ex- Wednesday, Feb. 22• Chemistry Olub--"Headlines in Chemistry" Friday, Feb. 24Wilkes Beacon-"'1Iighlights in the Campu,s News" perimental :b asis for \ the present, and will be offered -to those students decla-red vocally prepared by the ?Mmibem in the School o! Music. ,P lans ca11l for this new instruction in diction to be offered weekly •s eminar oiass-1Jhait is, a ' cla&s of the discussion type. Recorded material will ·b e ma.de av,aiLaible, in addition to o1fuEr materials a-s aids 1n instruction. At .the pres,ent time ·t he preliimimary two years of work lea.ding to a. bachelor's degree in music may be obtained at Wilkes CoRegie. 'In·struction is •offered in voice, pia.no, wind instruments, vio1in, viola, and cello. BING CROSBY HIGH'~ HESTERFIELD · T/ . ,. 6.111nrD/ ff rAntt 1/4IN AM£IIICA:t~tJJJ£G£$ ,neyre ,u,1.vrn. , heyh!,Vl"',J / - *BY. RECENT NATIONAL SURVEY WITH TH£ TOP M£N IN $PfJ/IT$ WITH TH£ HtJJIYWOO/J $TARS Hear CHESTERFIELD'S Great New BING CROSBY SHOW Every Wednesday over the entire CBS Network- 9:30 P.M. E.S.T.- 8130 P.M. C.S.T•...:...7:30 P.M. M;S.T.-6130 P.M. P.S.T, Coprrlght 19S0. WGllT & M~Tawx:o Co.. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 February 17th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 February 17 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/9bba88648079ea2e90f46014cb15ceed.pdf 65c61eff1bd588d2c05f594ae3f3d920 PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACO WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vol. 3, No. · 16. College Friday, February 10, 1950, Theta Delta Rho Valentine"Dance Tomorrow Night Wilkes Begins Second 'Year of Radio Programs; 64 FRESHMEN ·ADDED AL ANDERSON'S ORCHESTRA TO PLAY BEACON To Sponsor Weekly News Broadcast TO STUDENT ROLLS FOR ANNUAL SORORITY SEMI-FORMAL By DAVE WHITNEY · Wilkes College is making itself better understood and better thought of by the people of Wyoming Valley and other districts through its thrice-weekly radio programs "Wilkes Cdllege ON THE AIR". These lively programs are presented every Monday, Wednesday a:Q.d Friday morning at 11:45 over station .WHWL from the studio in Chase Hall. They show to the people something of what Wilkes does, and make Wilkes even more a part of Wyoming Valley, because the real meaning of a locality is in the minds and hearts of its people. ·T he plan for the new semester has ,b een ,improv.ed by the inau,g µr a:tion of broadcasts every Fridai by the BEACON titled "Hig,hlights · in the Campus News". These will sµpplement rthe Chemistry Club's "Headlines in Chemistry"· µr,e sented· every other ·wednesday, the J:RC's "Report on W·o rld Affairs" given every other Monday, and .other special programs. ·T,h is week, the Ohemistry Club on Wednesday reported such news a·s the new element ninety-seven, .i ns~ticides, and mand-made mica, and today, the BEACON will make its ,r adio debut. This week marked the ,beginning of the second year f.or "Wilkes ,College on tihe Air". iPerhaps many people do not realize ·how much work is necessary to ,p ut on a successful radio perf.ormance. After arrangements have ,been fol'm:ulated with the radio station, sCTipt must b e secured and edited or written completely, and th.en studied for delivery. At ,least o~e rehearsal iis neqessary !before the show c!!,n ·go on the ;air, and the announcer and . engin-e er could tell tihat their. j:obs in".olve more than meets the eye. 1 Next week, the IRC will discuss the . world scene on Monday, and the BEACON will broadcast on Friday. On Monday, FebrllflrY 20, Dr. Farley will speak on the Hoover Commission Report, and on Monday, March 6, t he Mud Gutters -Society (the Wilkes version of a :barber shop quartet) wHl demonstrate their singing. Campus groups are inv•i ted to sponsor progra ms-if inter,ested, report to hte ··P ublic Relations Department, rthird floor, Chase Hall. The radio schedule for each week will be in the previous issue of th.e BEACON. :Two Debaters Leave EDUCATIONAL CLUB For Boston U. Tourney FORMED ON CAMPUS .If the immediate future is any 'kind of guide ,t he Wilkes Conege debating team seems assured -o f a long and very active lif.e. The team'•s calendar is . filled with important and tough engagements. Yesterday. morning the team ·sent two r.epresentatives, Tom Morgan and Charli-e Eisenstein, to Boston University for the National Invitationa1s. Their opponents are coming from all over the East and parts of the middle west. Notre Dame, West Point, M. I. T .. andvirtually aH of the Ivy league will be r,e presented. Canada is sending a team from McGill and .boys will be coming up from North Carolina Univer.sity. Th~ going will require a top-flight performance from both our boys and if past performance is any •c riterion their chances look good. George Washington University, la.st y.ear'·s champ, will be back again to. defend its title. The National Debating Society has selected a topic which promises wide fields of argument and many chances for atta.ck and counterattack. The topic will be "~solved 'Jlhat The .B asic N on-.t\gricultural Industries In The United States Be Nati?nali:zed"; a question that has troubled people for years. Barnard Col,l ege will play host to the entire team and here again our team will O:>e facing the best of :opposi-tiion. Penn, Drexel, and Temple will ibe among the schools :represented. Here again the topic will be of national interest. lt is the question "Should Communist ·Teachers be barred from American ·Colleges?"• Julian Goldstein, Tom Morgan, Don Kemmerer and Gene Bradley will take the both sides of the question a~ this tournament. NOTICE! There will be an important meeting of Theta Delta Rho 'T uesday evening at 7 :30 in Chase Theater. Every girl on campus, including new freshmen and transfers. should plan to attend. By BILL GRIFFITH On January 9, Mr. Jo·h n Hall, Director of Education, met with a group of studens to form an Education Club . .Mr. Partridge, mem•ber of the History Department and who is a charter member ·o f a similar organization at bhe University of Pennsylvania, was guest speaker. ·several students felt that such a g-roup was needed in order to better acquain t themselves with the problems of th.e profession and to keep themselves informed with the latest developments in the profession 'before .e ntering the field. The organizati·on expects to be affiliated with the National Education Association as charter group of the Future Teachers of America. At the organizational meeting, the foHowing were elected as :officers: William ,Griffith, president; Ned McGhee, vice-president; Elva Fuller, secretary-treasurer; and D-oris Gauger, corresponding se!ll'etary. ' Membership is open to all studev.ts who expect to enter the teaching profession. The time and place of t he next meetirng will be published in the daily ibulletin. ATTENTION! Any student desiring hospitalization protection in the Blue ·Cross should remit $5.10 to the Finance Office. That amount will · protect the individual student for six months, beginning March 1st. Married student~ may get special plans by consulting the pamp'hlets which are being distributed in the Cafeteria and the Bookstore. •Sixty-four freshmen have matriculated at Wilkes for ,the Spring term. Of this number fifty-three are men and eleven are women. Liberal ,Arts, with eighteen men and ifive women, has the greate~t enrollment. ·Commerce and Finance .is ,~econd with eighteen men and one woman. Three men and one woman' hav~ enrolled for B. S.'s. in Biology, with· the same numiber of new aspirants f.or ,B . .S.'s in Ohemistry. Engineering has received nine new men, and three. wemen for special courses. The annual Valentine SemiFormal, sponsored by Theta Delta Rho, will be held tomorrow night, February 11, at Irem Temple Country Club. Al Anderso~'s orchestra will provide music for dancing from 9 to l. This is the first dance of the Jean Smith, Jo Anne Davis and spring semester and a large c:rowd Diane Llewellyn; Programs, Mary is expected to attend. Tickets, Porter, chairman, with. ·P eggy Anwhich are $3.00 per couple (tax in- bhony, Delores Leagus, Kay Read, cluded), may be purchased from Blanche Crowder, Marita Sheridan any member of the sorority or at and •L ois Shaw; Decorations, Janet Gearhart, chair~an, with Toni uhe bookstore. V-irginia Bolen is general chair- Menegus, Norpia Lou Carey, Nanman and is a.s sisted 'b y the follow- cy Fox, Connie Olshefski, Marge ing committees: Publicity, Joyce Brerrish, .M arianna '11omassetti, Lee Nobel. chairman, with May Way, Ann Jakes and Ann Belle ~ercy; Beth Badman, Nancy Lewis, Ar- Arrangements, Nancy Ra,Jston, •chairma,Ii, with Irene Wong and lene Fletcher, J.ane Salwoski and Beverly · Van Horn; Invj.tations, Priscilla 1Swartwood; Tickets, Vir- ,Charlotte Davis, chairman, with ginia Meissner, chairman, with Jane Maxwel, Joan Likewise, AlJane Reese, Gytelle Freed, I)orothy dona Deromis, Sally Mittleman, Wintersteen, Audrey Kohl, Anna Lorna -Coughlin, Nancy Yaufman The walls of the Baptist 9hurch Ide, Audrey Seaman, Pat Boyd~ and Delores Ostroski. 'came atumhli·n ' down' when Curt 'Gabriel' Janssen, noted trumpeter and musicologist presented his unusual program to the college laist I'u.esday morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. Janssen brought with him a unique display of trumpets-trumBy ROMAYNE ,GROMELSKI pets from Africa, ,ChiI,la, India, , The above picture is appearing in the January issue of a 'T ibet, South America, a,nd the ·E uropean countries; ancient Greek Belman publication, Occupational Trends. Accompanying the and Roman trumpets; primitive animal •h orns and conch shells; picture is an article explaining the careers consultation service medieva,l cornettin and clarion performed by the Careers Libary of Wilkes College under the trumpets; and .the more modern in- direction of Mr. Paul Mehm. In all, eight publishers have used ·struments which represent the more important mechanical devel- the college's story on careers, among them the College Placement Association, Columbia Teachers College Alumni Newsopments •o f the trumpet. Janssen's fine collection of trumpets is valued at $50,000 I He had on display trumpets of every conceivable s·hape and size. Some we-re made -o f b.one, som e -of ivory, and some of metal. Demonstrating ,a possible path of ev-o lution of the trumpet, Janssen ,s aid that th,e first tones may have !been produc-e d by primitive man on megaphones, ,µroba/bly made of ,r olled bark -or ra hollow tube. The .speaker produced several ton.es with a straight piece of rubber garden hose. The speaker explained that the length and width of the tuibe governed its tone range. Janssen cl.emon strated a conch shell that was given to him by a Mongolian pr.i est. He said that the shell' was used · 'by the priest to announce his presence in the vill,ages . The speaker added that conch s·heHs are used by the primitive chieftan to awe his people. He displayed the weird effect produced wh.en one speaks .into a conch shell. · Mr. Janssen produced a Chinese trumpet that is used in funeral processions. 'He stated that the evoluti-on of Chinese insrui;nents has been slow. · He asserted that some instruments have been made for c~nturies witho:u~ any major letter, Junior College Journal, Science Research Associates NewleUers, and Collegi(rle News and Views. The story also apmodifications or improvements. A hampered copper, -solid silver- peared in the D~cember issue of 0c'cupations, National Vocatrin\med horn approximately 12 feet .Jong was 1 proba,bly the mo.st tional Guidance Association periodical and will appear in the u11usual horn in J anis·sen's posses. next issue of Personal Journal. The Science Research Associs-ion. Another oddity he produced ates and the National Rehabilitation Association are making was a horn made from the femur arrangements to use the story on the Wilkes careers consultaleg !bone of a ·h uman 'being. ' The ram's horn, the typ,e that tion service in forthcoming books. brought the walls of Jerico down, Through the circulation of the industry. Ano-ther student from the was shown •by Janssen. He c-om - various magazine articles, r equests Univers,i ty of Pennsy'1vania came mented that it is a very diffic ult for information and advice have in for details qn foreign ·trade and ·horn to play. This horn is the old- come from pla,ces as far away as foreign services. Others representest still in use; it is played ·in the Beirut, Lebanon. •Students from ed -suc'h well-known schools as J ewish symJgog ues on various other colleg es often seek informa- Yale, Univers,i ty of ·Chicago, a,nd fea st days. t ion, .either personally or by m11,il. the University of North Carolina. ..;I'h.e program wa•s ended by Mrs. Jus t last week, a student wrote Letters have come from S'warthJ,a nssen, an a•ccomplished concert from New Y.ork Agricultural and more, Boston University, Washingpianist, playing a Franz Li-s-zt com- Technical. Institu te for advice con- ton University, and many composition. cerning careers in the frozen foods (continued on page 2) UNUSUAL MtJSICAL PROGRAM PRESENTED AT FIRST ASSEMBLY WILKES CAREERS LIBRARY FEATURED IN OCCUPATIONAL PUBLICATION · �WILKFS COLLEGE BEACON 2 DEBATING TEAM TO TAKE PART IN .TOURNAMENTS AND MATCHES Friday, February 10, 1950 THE SERVING CREW: THEY SERVE TO EAT Riding on the crest of a successful season to date, the .Wilkes Debaters will resume their activities shortly after the second semester gets under way by taking on some of the ranking teams in the country. On February 9, Charlie Eisen:t- invited Wilkes to a. debate in Allenstein and Tom Morgan, accompanied by Dr. Kruger, will journey to Boston to take part ,i n ,t he Boston University Fourth Annual National Invitational Debate Tournament to be held on February 10 and U. They will debate boith sides of the national debate topic, "Reiolved, That the United States Should Nationalize the Basic NonAgricultural Industries." One week later, on February 18, Tom •Mo-r gan, Julian Gold,s:tein, Ann Belle Perry and Janet Gearhart will take part in the Barnard Annual Tournament in New York. On February 24, an affirmative team of Charlie Eisentstein and Tom Morgan and a negative team of Don Kemmerer and Gene _B radley ,will travel ,t o Philadelphia where they wm engage Temple University in the afternoon and the University of Pennsylvania in the evening. If present plans materialize, the two ,teams will stop oft' on the following day for debates with Haverford and Swarth~ more. Debate contracts have been sent to the )a,titer two schools, and in the event they are unable to accepJ, an effort will be made to schedule two other colleges in the Philadelphia area. Cedar Crest College, an all girls college in Allentown, recently town. Some of the newer members of the Wilkes debating team, namely Fred Davis, Janeit Gearhart and Anl\ Belle Parry, along with Julian Goldstein, will be given the ()pportunity to gain some experience by making this trip in the near futur,e. All in all, the competition is expecited to be very keen. Temple has long been a power ,in intercollegiate debating circles, and P,enn, winner of the Barnard Tournament last year, is the current Ivy League champion and recently defeated a strong Oxford team. Dr. Kruger revealed thait Wilkes has been invited to several other tournamenits scheduled for March and April. details of which, includ,i ng those mentioned above, will be given out at a later date. · The fi-nal stand.ing,s of the Hofstra Tournament; -in w.h ich a Wilkes team consisting of Morgan, Goldstein, Kemmerer and Bradley defeated Princeton, St. John's, and Brooklyn College, have just been received ahd were as follows: red th Pictured abon cue the boya who do the aenlJlq at moat of the dinners held In the Cafeterkr. It la rumo . at theJ take the Jobs not 'because of the blt of semce they do for Wilke■ but because of the money and FOOD they reNY!U, Princeton, Wagner, Barnard, celn. In the picture are Oeft clockwl.. to rlqht): Bay JCrokowald, Tommy Littleton, Al Jacobs. Wade Hayhurst. Art Queens, Wilkes, Broqklyn, OCNY, Bloom. Tom Bobblna, Tony Andronaco, Jlm Tluley and Johnny Moore. Iona, Manhattan, St. John's, and - - - - - - - ~ John Marshall. But for the defeat by Wdlkes,. Princeton, otherwise undefeated, would have won the tournament. PLENTY ON TAP FOR TOMORROW NIGHT! * A STORY OF A WINTER CARNIVAL: Scholarships Offered OR, HOW CORNY CAN GLOMAN GEf! To Finance Students By DuVal Foundation By CHUCK GLOMAJt What an affair the Split Rock Winter Carnival turned out to be! Most of the students went in cars. I know Vince Macri The Pierre A. Duval· Foundation as announced that three yearly took his car, which he calls the "Mother-in-Law Special" (be- ,hsciholars'hi.ps will ,b e awarded to cause the crank is in the back seat). students -o f schools of finance who Traffic was ,r eally slow. In fact it got so slow that we just sat and watched the pedestrians whiz 'b y. Once ,w e got on the highway, Vince ibegan to pick up speed. ln fact he went over th,e speed limit and a policeman stopped us and yelled, "Why are you going over the -speed limit?" Vince thought for a moment and then -s aid, ".My brakes don't work and I want to g,et home before there's an accident." . E)d Tyiburs-ki took over and dro'fe from tJhe highway into the lodge. And believe me, he drives just like Ji-ghtning ... he always hits tr,ees. ·When we finally got to the lodge, I noticed that some of the people were playing cards. My -g irl fa very fond of playing cards, especially b~idge. For h,er -last ;b irthday I wanted to give her a bridge lamp, but they made me put it back on the bridge. Jim Tinsley seemed to be having a good time. And what a wond,erful girl ·he ha1s! !Her heart is as hig as - ~ the A,r my ... open to any man be·-------,..-------·--tween 18 and 38. . Steve Krupinski's girl was in a very romantic mood as she -s aid in his ear, "Whisp,er ·s omebhing ooft and sweet to me." And Steve answered, "Okay. Custard Pudding." I noticed that Andy Evans had a date, too. Lately, he was getting turned down so much he lb,egan to VINCE MACRI look like a bedspread. Editor-in-Chief Everybody was having a swell TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI time, skiing, toboganncing and ice Features Editor News Editor skating, l'v,e found that the hardest thing a'bout •learning to skate ED TYBURSKI GERTRUDE WIIJJAMS is- the ice, when you come right Sports Editor Faculty Advisor down on it. At 6 o'clock in the evening, evCLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN eryone went upstairs to the main Business Manager Circulation Manager dini.J:i,g ·room for supper . .I'll never News Staff _ forget what hS:ppened at our tabl,e. Bill Griffith, Romayne Gromelski, Priscilla Swartwood, George Kabusk, Chuck We had been seated for about ten IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO THE DANCEGO TO THE BASKETBALL GAME! * IF YOU'R NOT GOING TO THE DANCE OR THEGAMEGO TO THE WR£STLING MEET! * IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ATTEND ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED EVENTS ANSWER THIS --- . ARE YOU .FOR REAL? Gloman. Jim' Tinsley, Miriam Long, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Jack Phethean, Bob. Metzger, Chet Melley, Nancy Fox, Homer Bones_, Ed. Bolinski. Sports Staff George ~rody, Joe Gries, Paul Beers 'Photographers Art Bloom, Don Follmer A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. ' PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Intercollegiate Press minutes wheJ1. a fly beg.an bu:zzi1_1g around. My girl said to the waiter, "Waiter! Remove this insect!" Was I emharras&ed when they threw me down three flights of stairs. I hear that rooms can be-rented at the lodge. Last summ,er, one of ri1y f•r iends rented a room there for $8 a day. One mqr.ning he noticed something coming up through the floorboards. He called the manager and said, "H,e, there's grass coming up through the floor!" 'T hen the manager snorted, "What do you exped for $8 a day -broccoli?" GIES RECORD ROOM OFFERS RELAXATION By DA VE WHITNEY The music listening room (Record Room), Gies Hall 302, is being continuously improved by th,e addition of carefully chosen records. Suggestions from students for new records are enc,om;aged. The suggestions should be directed to Mr. Cobleigh. The Record Room is op.en after eleven o'clock daily. Background reading matter on the records is now av,ail,able in ,the Record Room. Additional records may be borrowed from Mr. Coibleigh's offiee. As might be exp,eded, the Record Room .is used pr.imarily by students taking mu.sic, but all students are invited to make use of it for ,their own pleasure and inspiration. ·T he only rules of the Record Room are to be c-a reful with th,e records, to keep the records in order, and not to annoy classes with high volume. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • * ATTEND THE GAME! STUDENT LOCKERS NOW AVAILABLE * ATTEND THE DANCE! ;Student lockers are still availaible for ,a fee of $1.0 per semester period. When the key is returned, 25 ents will be refunded~ :Students are urged to take advantage of tlie service by making rental arrangements in the fi,nanc,e office. * ATTEND THE MEET! * ATTEND SOMETHING! •••• ••••••••••••••• "invest" a theor,etical $125,00-0 fund in a stock listed on the New York tStock and/ or Curb Exchange to the best advantage in a one year period,. ·The determining factors -in awarding the scholarships wi,H be maximum divid,ends and appreciation with cons-i stent safety. Scholars•hi,p s wi.Jl 'be off-e red yearly at five hundred,--three hund;red, and two hundred dollars each. The first will 1b e for the semester ·starting February 15, 19-50. 1Student'S who wish to participate are asked to submit typed reports of their financial actiyiiies, and such records must be mailed with~ in tw.e nty-four hours of their commission. Th.ere will be ·no fees, and students nfay use reference material and statistics. Liibraries of institutio.ns with participating students ,will be furnished subscriptions to DuVal's statisticali .se:rvices. Students who are i-nterest,ed in this scholarship are -r equested to see Mrr. Morris. WILKES CAREERS . LIBRARY (continued from page 1) mending Wilkes' College attempt to provide· such a service as the Careers Library. The -service .h as also been endorsed :by such companies as John Wanamaker, Aetna Life Insurance Company, E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, ISheH, Prudential, and the Aluminum Company of America. Other endorsers include the National Rehahilitat-ion Association, the National RetaH Dry ·Goods As'Sociation, and the Cana,dian Department of Labor. DEEMER & CO. School and Office Supplies GIFTS AND STATIONERY WilkeswBarre, Pa. �WILKF.S COLLEGE BEAC,ON Friday, February 10, 1950 Colonel's Corner STATISTICS SHOW COURT TEAM WEAK FROM FOUL LINE By ED TYBURSKI By PAUL B. BEERS (Beacon Sports Editor) (Beacon Sports Writer) $WliMiMIIN!G ... After dropping their first meet to Scranton U., the Wilkes College •s wimming team wiU attempt to reverse this decision tonight at 8 o'clock in the Meyers ipoo). Coach Clayton Karem,b ellas, who helped o.r gani.ze the sport at this S{!hool last y,ear, has a fine squad and is expecting . a lot fr<im them. Colonel swimmers in the breast stroke classification are Tom Hondorowski, 'Tony Popper and Dav.e Bolton. Free stylers.. Al Levin, Dave Minasian, Bill Fink, Jack Jones, Leon Decker and Henry Sk,o pek. Jack Jones i,s Wilkes' ace diving ing champ. He starred while at Seminary ..... against Scranton U. he placed third, ,even though he was out -o f condition. We look for great feats from this boy.. Saturday -night Wyom i,ng Sem plays host to the Wilkes' ,M ermen, and then they have meets with Lycoming, East Stroudsburg ·.STC, Lock Haven STC, and another meet with Sem. .WRESTLINI . ;· . Th,e Colonel Grapplers are continuing to have a · good season.. Only dropped one out of four .... and in that one loss · two of oor best were out of action ........ Stevens and Dvorsnfak. 'S em, East Stroudsburg, and King's fell ·b efore the might of the •Colonels ...... .. Only Ithaca was able to defeat them .. Tomo;row night the ColoneltS play host to West Ohester ST.C,... fl'his should be a good meet.. ...... Both teams are tops .. .. .... The foMowing meet will see the Colonels take the road f-0r the first time .... .... That will be their toughest meet.. .... .. Millersville ,S'DC, one of the best in the east.. ...... Coach Jim Laggiin's hopes of a good meet here are high. The Colonels have three of the v,ery !.ew undefeated wrestlers in this area.. ... .. Roxie Reyno)ds, _Dick Husband and Joe Stevens sti11 have to taste defeat ........ ·Dvorszniak only lost once, while McMahon and Cross each dropped two ........ Cromack, ·W!ho wrestles in one of the toughest divisions has had some bad luck ...... He dropped threee ....... Proba:ble starting Hneup for tomorrow night's bouts: Reynolds, Ennis, Husba1;1d,. Thomas, Cromack. Stevens, McM-aihon and Cross ...... . Meet will be held at St. Step'h en's Church House at 7:30 IP. M. BA!SKETBALL ... After upsetting the highly favored Mansfield and Kings', the Colonels' hopes for another upset vanished last Tuesday when they oouldn't buy a bucket ... ..... Seems as though King's employed "Joe Sohluk" to sit on the hoops and push ev,erything out .. .... .. King's certainly atoned for their previ-0us disgrace, and they sort of rubbed it in while doing it ........ Gould be that they saw the Globe Trotters play.... . Wh-0 knows? Dragon performed ex'cellently.. King's probably wished that he never left the campus .. Benson and ,aJckson, the Colonels high' scorers, were "off".. Mackin made a nice s•howing ...... Seems 1,ik,e a -g ood bet to help the team out for t,he rest of the season, and certainly a good prospect for next year..... He's only a Frosh. . Benson is a sophomore...... and Jackson will be back for one more :','ear.. . All we cari say is Look out King's! There's always ,another time ... . SPORTS IiN GEN-E.'RAL . . . Boil> Moran is still ranging the country side i,n searc,h -0f ice ..... .. He's an~ious to have .his hockey team practice at lea·st 'Once more.. There's a game pendj,ng with Lafayette, and Bob doesn't want to get caught short ... ..' .. Looks as thoug-h Spring is officially here.... Not only does -Marty Blake leave for the South tom-0rrow, lb ut the Lettermen ,a re already making plans for ·basebal.J .. With all this talk of <big -league plans circulating around the c-0untry, the Colonels ni,n e doesn't want to feel left ouL ..... Chet M-oHey is trying to ,g et ~ ,ba<Jk stop to .ge ·h is a.rm in shai)e. He d-0esn't care about the ,s now and ice.. All he wants is abopt nine wins this season .. Tha.t 's not many more .g ames. than the Colontls play. There's nothing unpredictable about our "unpredictable Golon·e ls" when you take a gander at the re cord hook. The ,fi,g ures, r;om:pilel by Tom iMoran, show in black and whi<te why Coach Ralston's men are ;finding things toug.h -and the records don't lie! · As a team, the Colonels have only managed to scol'e 53.1 points p-er garm,e. At this rate the boys aren't going to wear out many hoops . . . and win many games. The }:iigh man on the low totem · pole is pivot man Charlie Jackson . Charlie leads the ,p ack w:ith only 10.8 points per -game. Pile-driving Bobby Benson is the number two man with 9.3 points per game, and newcomer John aMckin has averaged 9 points for his two games. After that, things just go d-0wn. Little Paul Huff, who specializes in a long-range attack, has averaged 6.6 points per game, while other va,rsity men su{!h as Bill Johns and Ben Dragon have the same average as Paul. The main fault of the Colonels this sea·s on is its weak bench. There isn't one sybstitute that Ralston can call on with an average ove-r 3 points per game! Also, the boys havenrt been collecting their share of the foul shots. Outside of Jackson and hard-drivng 'Bo'bby Benson, the te_am 'hasn't made many points from the foul line. Huff, a full-time varsity man, h_a s made only I;) foul shots, Johns only 1,6, and Ben Dragon 24. The team record is bad, but . the f.uture is bright: Jackson is a junior, Benson a sophomore, and Mac.kin and Petr.ilak are only .freshmen. The Colonels can pull up their record to a sati'Sfactory height in the remaining four games, :but it's going to take a lot of pulling and pushing. Scoring Record To Date COLONELS TO FACE TRIPLE CITIES ON YMCA OOURT TOMORROW NIGHT PRELIMINARY GAME TO BEGIN AT 7 P. M. By JOE GRIES (Beacon Sports Writer) Conquerors ·of two of their last five games, including a win over neighboring King's College, the Wilkes College basketballers will return to the hard woods Saturday evening at 8 p. m. in the local YMCA when they play hos,t to Triple Cities College. The J. V. game will start at 7 p. m . .Beaten 'by King's last Tuesday night, tlhe ,Colonels hope to make amends against the boys from Binghamton :by plac.ing another win into their season record. , Not too much is about Triple Cities team this year, but you can •b e sure they will be out to atone for the two losses Wilkes handed them last year. It was one of these games that Phil Sekerchak netted his 46-point total to lead Wilkes to victory. The second game, to decide the winner of a to;nrnament, was a thriiler all the way. W¼1kes won out in the last 10 seconds to cop the trophy given the winner. In ·both these games the margin of vktory was a small dne, and this year Triple Cities will be out to >b e the team on top at the final whistle. With all this in mind it •s hould ·be a real thriHer. Evsen though the King's game did not ,p roduce a victory for the Ralston boys, .i t did prove to tJhe diminutive mentor that he finaBy has some material to work with known for foture seasons. The play of Freshman John -Mackin was terrifiic. His jump pivot shots, a la Caz Ostrowski were something to see. Although he was only in tlhe game a short time he did manage to come out high scorer for the C<ilonels with 11 points. George May another new co.mer to the Wilkes ,s quad this year play,ed a fine game against King's. His aibility to takJ the rebounds plus his hustle on the court stamps him as a fine prospect for future games. Ben ' ,Dragon played his usual steady game and more than once kept the Colonels attack function,in-g. Ben went out on fouls ear,ly in the last period, but still managed to collect 8 points and 'b lock many King's shots from becoming 2pointers. After the ·T riple Cities game, the Colonels hit tJhe road to play M:ans.field State 'T eachers College, whom they defeated earlier in the season. They return home :Saturday, February 18 to tangle with Lycoming. 3 Player Jackson Benson Mackin Hull Johns Dragon May Petrliak Morris Team average G Gls !Fs Pts Ppg 12 12 2 12 12 12 47 36 7 36 39 4 111 35 9 79 30 16 76 . 74 20 6 4 10.8 9.3 9.0 6.6, 6.3 6:2 2.2 2.0 .7 25 24 9- •·0 3 6 l 1 4 4 2 130 18 ..printed from February 1950 Juue or ESQUIRE Copyright 1950 l,y Eoq,ur, la,e, "I'd marry yQu in a minute Herbybut what could I tell my friend•?" ~4e· C!tnlgate .tllllarnnn YoLLDD ... 53.1 M. I. T. OFFERS FELLOWSHIPS TO GRADUATES The Massachusett'S Institute of Techno.Jogy is offering five fiellows·hips of $2;500 . to outstanding students who wish to rece•ive a doctorate in Economic Theory, Industrial Economics, Statistics, Industrial Relations, and International Economics. In addition to these fellowships -M. I. T. is also offering eight other f,eHowships and teaching scholarships ranging ,up to $1,600.. An A. •B. or B. •S. degree is ,r equired for entrance. Spedal emphasis wiH be placed on recomrpendations from professors -0f administrative offfoers of the college. Course requirements include: ·' l'hree full-year curses in social ,sc,iences, one full-y•ear course in college mathematics (including at least a ha,lf.year of calculus), and a full-year course in physics. ln addition, the candidate for the 1Ph.D. degree must meet the usual language and thesis requir,ements. For more complete information, interested ,s tudents are requested to see the registrar. * ATTEND THE GAMEi * ATTEND THE DANCEi * ATTEND THE MEET! * ATTEND SOMETHING! dsk /or it either way ••• both trade-marks mean the same thing. In Hamilton, New York, the favorite gathering spot of students at Colgate University is the Campus Store because it is a cheerful place-full of friendly coilegiate atmosphere. And when the gang gathers around, ice-cold Coca-Cola gets the call. For here, as in college haunts everywhere-Coke belongs. IOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA,COLA COMPANY BY KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. . PHONE 2-8795 �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 4 Friday, February 10, 1950 42 Missing·Volumes Returned To Library said scat ,t o all the animals. All living things rushed forth to freedom . . . except two little snakes who lingered, sobbing in a corner. "N oaih said in a stern voice, 'Why don't you do as I said: Go forth More Are £'xpected Before The By CHUCK GLOMAN End Of The Month The leering lists of final marks that haunt every bulletin and multiply,' "Then one of t he little snakes board remind us that another semester has come to a close. look up with a tear stained face By JACK PHETHEAN And this semester-, like previous ones, had its humorous side. and replied, 'We're adders'." In r.esponse to his request for Here are some incidents to prove my point. the return of missing library ***** In the first week of biological g,et into world lit class. science Miss Dague remarked to ***** Guide: ·w e are now passing •books, M.r. J-o seph H. Myers, Librarian, reported this week that forty<the class, "•Oxygen is ,essential to Overheard at the last calba,ret th rO'llh a hamlet. aH -animal existence. Lif.e would be party: Marion Weltman: Oh, I always two -0f the stray volumes have been impossible without it. Yet is was Date: IIDoes my dress look as thought a hamlet was a ,b aby ·p ig. retumed to the Ubrary -shelves. Mr. My-ers expressed gr-atificati-0n di•s covered only a hund-r ed years though it w·e re falling off my shoul ***** ago." ders?" In view of the fact that a good to the students for the cooperation Immediately, Jean Smith rais.ed ,Student: "N-o." - vocabulary makes -a well-educated They gav,e as a result of t he apasked,, "W:h-at did Date:' "Then !I'd better go and man, !here are some common ex- peals made •b y the faculty in class. 1 a-i.er lb.and and Many of ~he books Hsted lliS m-Lssthey do before it was discovered?" pressions and their meanings. ***** ·fix it. It's s~posed to look that ing still ·h ave inot been returned, • GOIJDDlGGER: A girl someway." and ·every student is again urged where in 'h er middle flirties. · ,shad Jones, one of the '.'outstand***** WEDDiLNG: . A fune,r al where to consult his own priviate library ing" world . lit students) tooik his ,I suppos.e you've heard Tom in search of wlumes that belong tb ook to Dr. Davies. The conv,ersa- ROOJlbins' new song, entitled '\She you smell your own flowers. tion went something ,like this: WOMAN: tGenerally speaking, is to the -school. The goal of the libWas Only A C'ros•s-Ey,ed Teacher, rary staff is to reacquire at leaJSt !Shad: "Dr. Davies, .what is this But Slhe rCould Control Her Pupils." generally speaking. picture in my book supposed to re.Y.A WN: 'T he only time a married one hundred books 1by the end of ***** February, Mr. Myers sa-id.. man gets to open his mouth. 1pres•ent? '; . For all students who will be takStudents ·o f Wilkes can derive Dr. Davies: ''Satan's daughters." POK:EIR F\AJOE: The face that ing 1history co<Urses this semes·t er, launched a thousand chips. the ibest benefit out of the Library !Shad: "Oh, Hell's Belles, lhruh ?" here is an actual .reprint from an if they :h ave free, unhamper,e d ac***** ***** ancient manuscript recently disNow, in closing, I leave you with cess to the fucilities. F -o r this reaF,eeling very poetic, Margaret covered in an excavation near tJhis thought: Ahbreviatio.ns are al 7 so,n, the use of the U:brary her,e is Aten showed up in class one day .Ngypt: ways followed 'by a period. Except a democratic privilege and prowith her masterpiece: '\Noah, after the flood subsided, on the beach, Where they are al- vides an opportunity for a s-tudent A •g ood ,g irl -alway;s sticks to '1N o"; opened the doors of the Ark and ways followed lb y a crowd . ity. This is a student's li!brary, · A ibad ,g irl always "yesses"; A smar~ girl makes them sound a.Iike A'Ild holqs •~m all in guesses. BEACON REPORTER REVIEWS LAUGHS OF SEMESTER; OTHER MISINFORMATION to prove his democratic responsibility. This i,s ,a student's litbra.ry, and the misuse of books depriv,es fellow students of necessary facilitie. Many of the still-missing· books are those which are most frequently used in research work. Som.a 'Olf these volumes are irrepla,cea'ble, and most of them are difficult to acquire. Being out of print, the books can s•o metimes only be ottained through out-of-'!)rint dealers, and it is noi always possible to find a dealer who has them. The Librarian -s tated that he believes that students should not be restrained from easy access to Library facilities lby inspectors said restrictions. At other institutions, he point,ed out, students must make. selections through the card catalogue and request volumes at the loan desk. An attendant sends -a page after the book. In consequence. the borrower must wait for 'his informati-0n and take his chances on not getting it: ·Mr. Myers 'b elieves that thif! deprives the student of valua!bl~ time as well as wel,J as his scholastic efforts. A few -o f the book-.i still missing are listed here. Please check your personal library and •see if you have them. ***** And -t hen t'h,ere's the cannibaP.s dauga-i.ter who liked the boys ibest when they were stewed. ***** George Kabusk was almost sent to the hospital a-gain yesterday. He threw a cigarette 1b utt into a manhole and then stepped on .it. ***** 1Some words make the English ,l anguage extremely difficult for ifor,eigners to learn. For instance, take the word "kiss". Kiss is often a noun, at the same time a conjunction; it is never declined, is irnore ·common than proper, is -used in the ,plural, and agrees witJh all genders. HELENA CARTER ***** First .Draftee': WITT.at did the little iraibbit ·s ay as he ran out of the for- · est fire? Second Draftee: "Hooray, I've heen de-furred!" Charming Hunter Alumna, says: "MILDER ... MUCH MILDER.:. that's why I find Chesterfield much more pleasure to smoke." -***** Then there was the soldier who wrote home-"Long time no she." ***** HtEA•D LINE: Vince ·Macri bought '.SOme goldfish yesterday. Goldfishbhat's a lobster with money. CO-STARRING IN "SOUTH SEA SINNER" ***** He asked her for her burning kisses; S'he -said in accents cruel, "I might be a :redhot mama, · But I ai.n't nobody's fuel." A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURB ***** Authentic news misprint: 'The motorist approached the coroner at 60 miles an hour. ***** HUNTER COLLEGE NEW YORK CITY Emily iPost gives etiquette advice for N,ew Year's Eve: When leaving a night club, the gentleman should aJlow tJhe lady to be carried out first. ***** y OU know, the brain certainly is -a wonderrful organ. It starts work- ing the moment you getup in the morning, and doesn't stop until you CRAFTSMEN ENGRAVERS 20 North State St. Phone 3-3151 M ttl /Je,,re TOP.,.'/ · ., ' • ~ I N AM£RICA:r COLJ£G£S w1TH TH£ TOP M£N 1N sPoars WITH THE HOJJYWOOD STARS ·*8"( Recent Notlonol Su,wy � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 February 10th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 February 10 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/80c98d3591ce7d7d40843cad0235ed86.pdf 16dee441b64e02a3cb62054b4dc37866 PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACON College I Vol. 3, No. 15 WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Friday, January 13, _1950 Winter Carnival, Junior Dance Share Vacation Limelight Feb. 11 Set As Date BUS TICKETS CAN NOW BE PURCHASED JOURNALISM D~CENDS TO A NEW LOW FOR FEBRUARY FIRST EXTRAVAGANZA AS JUNIOR CLASS DANCE IS DESCRIBED For Valentine Dance The Junior Class members are on the rampage. 'Dhey've gotten illle idea that their dance to be held on the 27'1Jh of this month at the Irem T,emp1e on North Franklin ,S treet is go'ing to be an occasion ipar exceUence and something which will add a notclh to the growi,ng list of Jrunior class achievements of the past. The music for t'he dance will be ably aind ,en,t.e rtainingly performed ,b y one Jack Melton and h'.is crew. Admission to the affair But getting away from the ugly By GEORGE KABUSK Bus tickets are now on sale at dress bots while ,t he girls were atcost of it all, the Junior class is I :heta Delta Rho has comple.t ed Chase Lounge for those who have .tired in skirts, blouses and dress proud to be able to have a dance its maj'o•r prepai,aticms for this 4th no trans portation of their own to shoes. on the evening of the last day of annual Valentine Dance on S•atuiI'- the student council's third annual Daniel Sherman -is transportafinal exams. lt will be one way to day evening, February 11, at <the Wiruter Carnival, to be held on tion chairman for the affair and get over the biitternes.s of your lrem Temple Counry Glub. Danc- Wednesday, February 1, at Split is assisted by the Wiruter Carnival flunking hear.ts. And, even though ing from 9 to 12 to the melodic Rock Lodge. committee: Shadrach Jones, Jack the date is Friday t'he 27th, the straJins of Al Anderson and his orShadrach Jones, council president Cain, Connie Smith, Al Jacobs, Junior class is sure that the date chestra. The tickets have been' has annouced that the round-trip Elaine Turner, Al Mana:rski, Virindicates nothing more than your priced at three doll'ars per couple, ticket pr-ice is $1.25 per person. g.inia Meissner, Joe .Ohmiola:, Geor"Passing" Day. tax included. ge Lew'is, Ralph Bolinski, J ea,n · WhetJher you've gone through the This affair, being rolled off for Chartered buses will leave Cha·s e Grumbling, Vester Vercoe, and'Bo:b final,s like a jet propelled gazelle the :oourth suooessive year, has Hall at 9 o'clock in the morning. ·sanders. or a mule train, the con.census of been a huge success in the past. Ask anyone who attended la.st Those who can furnish their own w'iH be one old Wilkkie button, an opinion in the Junior class is that The · 1s are P Iannmg · t o ma k e · g1r transpo-r tation will find that plen- year's SpMt Rock fun-fest and "A" World Lit. paper, and seventy- you will enjoy the evening's enter- this year's dance the "best yet". ty of free parking space has been they'll tell you whait a wonderful five cents. Ve.s ter Vivian Vercoe, tainment. General chairlady is Virginia provided. time was had by all. These affairs Jr., president of the class, has anThe general committee, consist- Bolen. Highlig,hting a day of, fun will have been successful and well-atnounced (showing the incompar- ,ing of Al ,Jacobs, Wade Hayhurst, Committ~es: he many free · outdoor winter sports tended .in the past, and a large able generosity and goodness of Ginny Bolen and Tom Robbins and Arrang.ements: Nancy Ralston, including skiing, ice-skating, and crowd is ex,p ected for thi.s year's his heart.) that the Wilkkie button u.nder the supertufiledge of the . chairlady; Beverly Van Horn and toboganning. Those ' who do not shindig. and tJhe World Lit. -p aper really class. prexy V. V. V.,1 Jr., has all- Irene Wang. The committee has done a tophave ice skates or ·skis may rent dop.'t matter too much; · . preparations fbr the Final Day of Publicity: Joyce Nobel, chair- them at illl;e lodge for a very small notch job in pl_a nning ith.e 1950 carThose in chaT-g e of the dance •Finals Dance under control. lady; May Way, Beth Badman, c,harge. nival which, with the support of all have announo.ed that the Junior So pack up your troubles Ln your Nancy Lewis, -Arlene Fletcher, Jan.e The main attraction of the eve- the students and their friends, wHl class is not out to make a profit. old knit suit, , grab your gal, walk Salwaski and Priscilla. Swao:-twood. ning will be the siport -dance, com- prove to be the -biggest and best As one put it "the 75 cents charge up the sunnf side of the street, 'Tickets: Ginny Meisner, chair- plete with an orchestra, to close winter carnival yet. is merel'y bo defray •e xpens•es. If purchase !Jhose tickets (they'll be lady; Jane Rees, Gytelle Freed, the fun-filled day of sports with ISO :pray for snow, then get a we can defray expenses so much on sa1e :r;ea1 soon), wait for that Dorthy Wintersteen, Audrey Kohu, dancing and relaxwtion. The com- group -o f your friends .together that 1we show a profit, why not? g'ood old F-riday 27th, grit your Anna Ide, Audrey Seamon, Pat mittee sugg,ests ,thait you bring a- and plan to be at Split Rock Lodge, After aH, how can a non-profit or- teeth and laugh at your flunks, -Boyd, Jean Smith, J.oanne Davis long some extra clothes for the n,ear .Blakeslee, on Wednesday Febganization make a profit if it· does and be on hand at Irem Temple by and Diane Llewellyn. dance. Last year, most of the fe- ruary ~st, to have a swell time not try?" (Thank you, Mr. Ker- 9 ,o'clock for the Junior Class Black Pro•g rams: Mary P,o rter, chair- lows wore G.I. clothing an'd army with all the gang. s'teen). Friday Jamboree. lady; Peggy Anthony, De1oras ___________._____________________ Leagus, Kay Reed, Blanche Crowder, Marita ,Sheridan and Lois Sih aw. Decorations: Janet Gearhart, chairlady; Tony Menegus, Norma Lou Gar,ey, Nancy Tux, Connie Olshefski, Marge Brenish, MariAFFAIR TO BE HELD AT HOTEL STERLING'S anna Tom'.assebti, Ainne Bell Parry The Finance office has received By DA VE WHITNEY and Lee Ann Jak• es. CRYSTAL BALLROOM notification from the Veterans AdWilkes College is offering two Invitations: Charlotte Davis, ministration concern~ng an import- $11200 ,s cholarships and two $800 chairlady; J,a ne Maxwell, Joan ant change in the procedure in- scholarships to .students graduat- Likewise, Aldin.a Dervinis, Sally Want to get rid of the pre-examination blues? Want to reing from high school in 19150, anV1olved in electing to authorize the nounced Her:bert Morris, Re.g i,s trar Mittleman, Lorna Coughlin, Namey lieve that hypertension? Want to dust those cobw~bs out of Veterans Administration to pay and Director of · Admi,s•sioils, last Yiaufman, Delores Ostrowski and your brain? Want to have a pleasant evening? Isabel Ecker. charges in excess of $500 per year Monday. --------------------·--------If so, come to the . sport dance These scholarships will · be proor $250 per semester, when a sinSENIOR CLASS OFFICERS tonight at ·the Cry,s tal Ballroom of . rated over the four year program; gle semester is involved. Heretothe Ho.tel Sterling. There will ,b e fore, it was possible for a veteran that is, each scholar.ship will be to authorize such excess paymenrts divided equally throughout the ,t hree houre of dancing, 9: - 12, to after the period of instruction for eight-semester program. , the music of Arnie Dae's Orches'The admission tesits on which the ·a normal school year or single tra. Mr. Dae is a newcomer to semester had .been completed and scholarships will be determin,ed w,i!l W,i lkes College dances but he proexcess charg,es kno;wn. However, be given at the Lecture Hall, Satmises to sa:tisfy "everyone's danc· according to this recent change in urday, April 29, 1950, at 9 A. M. regulations, a veteran may elec.t To be eligible for these tests a. stuing ap.p etite". to have the VA pay the• excess dent must rank in rthe up.p er fourth The affair ,is being s!}onsored by charges only at the time of regis- of his high school class and apply the Student Council, Tom Robbins, for admission to the colleg,e by traition, or within the first five chairman. weeks of school .in any period of Ap11il 26. Ap,p lications and further , enrollment. In th.e case of enro11- information may be oibtained from There i,s no admission charge men.t f or an entire school year, elec- the Director of Admiss ions, Chase and you don't need a date. tion may be made for the entire H ~.11, 184 South River S.treet, Wilkes-Bar.re. period only-not in part. The electi-ori. to authorize the VA to pay excess charges is accomplished-. by checking "yes" in item No. 7 •on ;the re-entrance form, 1909 . .'11his election may be changed The German conversation stuonly dur.i•n g the .first five weeks of dents will present a one~ac.t Ger.school by proper notification to the Since April, 1946, the United man comedy, today, at 12, in Chase F.inance Office. It will not be poss- Sta.tes Army has had, as part of its Theatre. Th.e play, .e nti,t led, "Ein ible for a v-eteran to change his military mission, rthe active assistAmerikanishes Duell", is under the election retroactively in any period ance of organized and , unorgandi11eclion of .Mr. Elwood Disque, of to recoup his entitlemerut by pay- ized youth groups in the American the -laillguag,e department. ing tp.e excess charges himself. Zone of Oc~upati-on isn respqnse to ·T he :play concerns itself with the ,F,o r further inform-ation, consult the "Youth Hel,ps Youth" project difficuHiies of a young lady, Helene, . the F.inance Office of the college. of the U. S. Ar.my Program of in making a cihoice between her As.sistan:e·e to German Y•o uth. Thi.s suitors, Herr Alfr,ed and Herr von The Finance Office has :received progr,a m• has increased in scope Roden, play.e d by Si,g mund Falz notjficati-on from the Contracrt Div- until it -now has 425 full time miliand Edward ~idz. Harry Frank ision of the Veterans Administra- tary and civtlian pers-o nnel assignplays · Helene, 'an:d Gerard Rodgers tion that the VA will no long,e r ed to the work and about 1000 volis the man-servant, Karl. authorize paym.ent for laite trial unteer workers. The program is A,J:l German student's and their or .final regi,s trati·ons, .S!}ecial ex- reaching over 500,000 young p,e ople friends are inv'ited to attend. ,a minations, removal of conditions between the ages of 10 and 25 with and incomp'letes, or for change of a dynamic program 'of sp'orts, :reNOTICE!! scthedu:le, charges which . are list- creations and educational activities ed in the cataiogue. such as dancing, music, 1anguage Ari students who desire to have _ Whenever a P. L. 346 veteran class·es, discussion groups, and .their pictures in the 1950 yearbook incurs one of these charges, he will sewing and knitting classes. There should have their pictures taken be held pers-onally responsible for are 2168 youth c·e nters in the Ameri- · as s-oon as possible at the Barre the payment of the charge. This can Zone-buildings set aside for Above are the officers of the Class of 1950. Seated from left to right are: Studio at 48 South FrankLin Street. applies to P. L. 346 veteran•s only, the use of German youth. Treasurer Jean Ditoro and Secretary Jean Ryan. Standing are l'resldent Robert The price is 50 cenrts and no ap( continued on page 4) and not to P. L. 16 veterans. Waters and Vice-President William Plummer. pointment is'· necessary. 1 MATTERS CONCERNING SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME THE VETERAN'S PURSE CH A1NGED FOR 1950 IRC TO PARTICIPATE IN U.S. GYM PROGRAM ARNIE DAE'S ORCHESTRA TO BE FEATURED AT FINAL COUNCIL SPORT DANCE TONIGHT GERMAN SKIT TO BE PRESENTED AT NOON �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 Friday. January 13, 1950 FOR JUNIORS ONLY BEACON REPORTER VIEWS PAST TRI-CLUB DANCE fflROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES Ge~tic~lating wHdly with his VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Art Spengler, Miriam Long, George Kabusk, Chet Molley, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, James . Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Russ Williams, Joan Lawlor, Homer Bones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzger ,Priscilla Swartwood. Sports Staff • Ed Tyburski, Paul Beers, Joe Gries Photographers Don Follmer, Art Bloom, Bob Croucher A paper pablished weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Intercollegiate Press EDITORIAL THE CASE OF THE LIFTED BOOKS At the year-end inventory recently completed by the library staff, it was discovered that approximately 200 books are missing from th~ shelves since last September. The people who have these books_no longer have any use for them since a book is of little value to a person once he has read it For what reasons the books are not returned we do not know. On this score we can only speculate. Perhaps they consider the fines that must be paid on long over-due books and decide that it would be cheaper to keep the books rather than return them. Or maybe they have misplaced the books and do not realize they are depriving some other stud_ent of the use of the information contained in the books. · Of course there is probably a small minority who deliberately take the books from the shelves with no thought in mind of ever returning them. The students should remember that the books are the property of Wilkes Colleg~ and are loaned to the students while they are matriculating at Wilkes. College students should have the integrity to return the books to the -library without being , asked to do so. \ A list of the missing books will be published in the February 10 issue of this paper. If you have any of the books on the list, and these books are the school's property, your cooperation by retur:r;iing the books will be greatly appreciated. FINALE FOR SOME As another semester nears its close Wilkes College approaches another milestone in its phenomenal growth. For some of us the end of classes just means more intensive studying in preparation for final examinations followed by a short . respite before resuming the same old grind in February. For others-for those few who walk around campus with . smiling faces-it means the end to their Wilkes College · careers. For Wilkes College it means the final step in its climb to recognition which will be reached by graduation on the February class. This class will be the first to be conferred with Wilkes College degrees. Let us who remain strive to make these graduates proud of their distinction. And let _those graduates strive to make WHkes proud of them. MANUSCRIPT READY TO APPEAR SOON 'l1he faH issue of ManuscriP't, literary magazine of Wilkes College, is scheduled to make its appearance on ·c,a mpus towards the end of this s,eme~ter. According to Rfohard Rutkowski, editqr of t!he publication, it will contain a numiber of s1h ort stories, feature articles, -and poems. He also stated that a section of the magazine wUl be devoted en-ti-rely to book reviews. Innovations have been made in the format of the magazine; the pages have been arr-a anged for double columns with a new type of print for easi-e r readi.ng. An added feature of the Manuscript will be the editorial, address_ed to a 11 readers, written biy the publicat'ion's staff of editorial members. Th ere will be N-0 CHARGE for a copy of the Manuscript. A definite date '!tnd points of location for distriibution of the copies will be announced later. Members of the M:anuscript staff ar.e: George Brody, Arthur Spengler, .Russell Williams, Anthony Andronaco, J ack Phet!hean, Dorothy Travis, Samuel Chambliss and Ciem Wacl-awski, business man- · ager. Publication of the Manuscript for Wilkes College students offers every sltudent-writer an o.ppO!l'tunity to see h is literary efforts in print. fork and roaring over the conversational hum of hangers-.on at the cafeter-i a, Vester Vercoe, Jr.,. president, fought his way through a meeting of the 0lass of '&1. Probably only two matiters were decided upon: (1) that the cafete- By HOMER BONES They were right! The MedlRChem dance is something to taJ k about. The Victory Room of the H tel Redington was indeed a victory room for •the tni-sponsored affa ir which was ap,parently a suc·c es fr.om ,b eginning to end. The affa ir was attended by approximatel y 200 couples --- a goodly crowd for the V room. The j,ovialness and warm friendly spirit p,ervading the room dr,essed up the occassion noticeably. The dance was well •o rganized and managed. The only hitch in the smooth e~ecU:tion of the erntertainment was the line-muffing which Chuck Gloman's "strai-ght" man committed, but ev.en that was over-shadorwed by laughter. The "sraight" man can't be blamed too much, howeve.r, because of the short time for rehears-al. The once mysterious floor show of the dance was r,evealed Friday night as one of the niftiest shows in the long line of cabaret-styled dances. It was not a production stag'ed according to de MHle's or even (ugh!) Blake's dimensions, but it was a colorful and interesting show No part of the evening's entertainmertt was dµll, so who who c.ould ask for afiything more? A little ski,t, featuring Skinny Ennis, the ravishing :beauty; Chuck Gorman, -t he old, old father of the ravi'SMng beauty; Art B.loom, the towering, sometimes srwaying, lighthou se operated by the ravishing beauty and her old, o'ld father; and Ohar1ieWi lliam£, the handsome doeto-r Malone wbo ,;red the old, old father of the !"ll ' hing beauty and after s-a ving him decided it might be just as to marry the ravishing beauty, a success. He had nothing to fo-e. Gads ! what a heart rending, ye hap il y ended story. Who will ev be able t_o for get the voyages i the small rowboat across th.e s bay, or the almost ha-ma house standing there ma· ·eally withou t ·a quiver -- on ly a ,nvay -dur ing the ra•g ing storm , or t he look in the heroine's eyes when she rea lized that the gallan , han dsome, debonair young doctor before her had saved her father's life ? Who will ever forget? Who wall ever? Who will? Who? Wh? W ? ? The stars, Jimmy Stewart, Al Jolson, Red Skelton, and Jose Goldg,erg, as presented by C. Gloman -brought ,scads, oodles , and loads of applause'. Chuck Gloman certainly came close to being a oneman show. A dancing team from ,the local Fred Astaire dancing school put on anexhibit'ion of footwork to ·music which pleased the audience no end. Jitterbugging reached a new high during that performance. Jim McCarthy of WERE m.c.'d the show and Lee Vincent sparked .i t with :s everal novelty numbers. Yes, the dance was a gold star reward for the efforts of the triclub_ group. A tip ,o f th.e fez is in order! Final tests were entirely forgotten Friday night --- sadly enough, .they were r emembered on Saturday morning. ria was not the best possi,ble place on campus to hold a meeting, even thoug,h holding it there had yielded an increase in attendanc.e, and (2) that the Junior Clas s would wind up the foll semester with a bang by holding a dance on the last day of final exams, so that those in great anguiS"h might lose their woes and feel buoyant once more. Off the record, I've learned that bhe Irem Temple on Noirth Franklin Street has already been arranged for, and also that Jack M,el•t on's fine band has been engaged to set the mood for the evening. From here it looks like a great night. But we're straying. The idea of this arti-clle is to let the Juniors who 1h a've not yet attended their class meetings know what the "attending" Juniors have decided fo-r them. I might suggest, too, that if the non~attenders .somehow dislike the decisions which have been made, only that very obvious remedy of their participation in future meetings will alter subsequent decisions. Here is what has been covered -thus far: 'Ilhe class assessment has been decided upon. Howev,er, don'.t be frightened. In fact, be thankful, for the Juniors have profited by the experience of the Senior Class, which you may or may not know, has just asked its members for a lump sum assessment which will have 1;o be paid by the end of -ne~t semester, since Seniors g,r aduate then. The Juniors are going to extract their .a ssessment quite painlessly, though, wi<th an easy-going installment set-up which· will allow members to pay their as.s essments in small am-0unts and over a period of two y,ears. The installment payment is $1.50 per semester for each of the -last four semesters. 'I\he fir.st installment is, of course, due immediately and should' be given to that paragon of honesty, Bob Starr, w,ho will shortly have a staff trustworthy treasurer's deputies to assist him, or perhaps to watch that he doesn't leave town suddenly. Oh yes, and if any of you plan to flunk ou:t in a semester or two, Boib will g,leefu:Ily return whatever lane~ you have with him at the time of your departure. Did someone in the back row ask what the assessment is t6 be used llor? Well, a class customarily u s.es its ass,essment -to finance its graduation dinner dance and its gift to the school. 'I\he monetary wizards of the Class of '51, however, plan to s-tretch their assessment in sti,H a third direction. The class had d.ecTded, following the Isuggestion of "Poop" Waters, SeniOIT Class preHarry's is a favorite student s'ideIJJt, to set another precedent in Wilkes tradition by sponsoring the gathering spot. At George First Annual Junior-,Senior Prom . and Harry's-Coca-Cola is A small p.ortion of the class ass,e ssmen t, therefore, i-s to be used as a the favorite drink. With the reserv•e to cover any p,o ssible defici<t w<hlich might result from that college crowd at Yale, as dance. The .P.rom, by the way, won't with ' every crowd - Coke be held unti-1 the end of school in May. That's a long way off, Juniors belongs. so kindly file the app-r oximate date in the back of your brain, and in the meantime g•e t behind ·t he rest Ask for it either way ••• both of your class ana' do a r eal piece of trade-marks mean the same thing. promoting for ~he dance on the ¢Plus!¢ 2'7 th. ' State Tax BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY Inci-dentally, if you're hard press-ed for cash and would ap·p re'Ci-ate a chance to do a little shortKEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. changing, ~hy not vohmteer to s-ell Coke at the dance? ·Or else you mi-gh:t o•p,erate a coat-checking 141 WOOD STREET. WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2-8795 concession. You may be sul"I)rised to find the class loqking for just ·s uch volun,teers. 0 19'9, The Coca-Cola CGapc.y ot G �Friday, January 13, 1950 3 WILKFS COLLEGE B~CON Grapplers Face E. Stroudsburg Tomorrow Night THE Beacon Lights of Sport GEORGE BRODY, Sports Editor CO UR TMEN TO PLAY MEET TO BE HELD AT ST. STEPHEN'S; LYCOMING TOMORROW COLONELS SEEKING SECOND VICTORY By JOE GRIES Beacon Sports Writer The Wilk,es College courtmen will .tr,y for their second win of the season tomorrow night when they The Wilkes College Grapplers will be looking for their second consecutive victory tomorrow night at 8 when they play host to East Stroudsburg STC at St. Stephen's Gym. Last week the Colonels showed fine form in downing Wyoming Seminary. They had to come from behind to do it, but they proved that they were exceptionally strong in the heavier weight divisions. Stevens, McMahon, Dvorzniak arid Cross all pinned their men. These same men will probably wrestle tomorro'f night, and the hopes for a victory for th~ Colonels look good. . better than th.e actual meets. Ke~n Well it's hard to a sk for a bet- with wherever it goes. •ter week-end than the last. The ****** Colonels just bowled over anyone The wrestlers meet East Strouds- will travel to Williamsport to enwho <laired come in t}:1,eir way, and burg here tomor-r ow night. C-Ome gage the Lycoming quintet. The thaJt was that! ' alonig and see them beat one of the varsity game will be preceded by ****** s'tate's strongest teams. a co-n test between the jayvee teams The cagers, as this column point****** of both sch-0ols. ed out, -s howed improvement every Incidentally, keep your eyes on week and now they had come to Stephens and McMahon. Those 'Last . week's contest against the the point where they weren't to be boys are destined t-0 make .t heir Philadelphia College _o f Pharmacy :Since the coaches Jim Laggin dfmied. The classy College of Phar- names known wherever there is demonstrated the ability of two and Billy Lee hold thei-r eliminamacy had the misfortune of tang- wrestling in t'he East. We think Wilkes ·cagers who now that they ·tion bouts on Wednesday and ;Ji-ng with Wilkes at its FIGHT.ING that they can take ahyon,e in their have hit their stride will give the 'f1hur.sday nights, we can only give BEJST. you th·e pr01bable starting lineup. weights in this whole state-and maybe in all of northeastern u. s. remammg opposition plenty of Starting for the Colonels i<n the 121 ****** ,L ittle Bobby Ben son was amaz****** trouble. Charlie Jackson, a junior d-iv-ision wiH be .either Brown or who is playing his third year of ing. On his free throws he made George Cross, student manager, varsity ball, turned in a fine game Ennis. At 1es will be e~ther Sadseven for seven! That was because vary ~ Krohn. Thomas will start ,he could see from the foul line. But has demanded an apology for our as he tossed 1'6 points through the in the 13i6 class, while Cromack sihooting for goals was another having slig,hted him so last week • hoop. .Bobby Benson, h s-0phomore at will · be in at 145. Other p-r obable matter. It seemed that Benson nev- when this column berated the lack of school spi;tit in not hav.ing anyWilkes who did not play basketball starters are 155, Echmeder; 165 er saw the basket all night, yet he Stevens; 175 McMahon; and unracked U'P nineteen points. How he one willing to serve as manager as a Colonel last year, sta-r ted last 'limited, Cross. Joe Stev.ens is the week's game at forward and before ever came up th~ough that mass for t he wrestlers. captain th!s ****** the final whistle sounded collected of giants to shoot a<t all was more 'I'hes·e -e hmmat1on bouts are very J ,u st for the record, we wouldn't six goals and seven fouls for a than this column could believe. But interesting , and s-0metimes they are a-polog'i.ze so hasWy, but ,big total of 19 points. Benson has im·,h e did, and we won. "Steamer" Gross is his cousin! prQved a great deal sinc.e the S€-a****** . ****** s-on',s •opener and will be a key-man .Besides Benson, t he work of S.pring i,s almost with us. H ere in the coming games. Bomber J ohns and Snap Dragon ,P aul Huff, Bill Johns and Ben off the backboards spel,! ed the at Wi<lkes we don't reckon Spring d1fference. Theirs was certainly a •b y the date or the weather-we Dragon, veteran courtment, were .cap81ble and i<nspiring game. And -wait until Marty Blake gets his in fine form J.ast we.ek. While By PAUL BEERS there was Jackson. His S'hooting call to head south. Most people neither, hit hi:gh 'scoring i:narks, all think Marty gets .his call from the three played fine defensive ball. !Though nobody has passed out was off in the firs<t half, but in the 'Dhe Lycoming team, which plays any .c igars, this past week W.ilkes s-econd half, the very f.act that he cuckoo bird, but that's not true. He .g ot his eye was the difference be- gets his can from the Cleveland her.e S;iturday, F-ebruary 18, boasts •C-Ollege became the proud father of tween victory and defeat. One does lndi81ns (he s·a:ys). Anyway Blake a good deal of -o ffensive pow.er. The a b-Ouneing baby boy named hockey. is heading for ~lorida as a publi- bulk of their ·scor,ing is done by When the weather got cold and the not sneeze at sixteen points. city agent and he'll be back next Graff a f·oTWar-d and Brodmerkle an spots in front of a fellow's eyes ****** fall-ais a sophomore. ,I guard. In their game with the started to :fireeze, a few of the boys Just call Paul Huff the Gus ****** Philadelphda College of Phari:nacy, .thoughts turned to hockey, and in Castle of basketball. Little BirdSo Jong 'til next semester and which Lycoming won, 65-48, these ,n o time they had hockey team . legs was d·eterm~n.ed, and how that boy made the big fel!lows run! He here's hoping you keep , punching two men scored a total of 28 points. But finding a coach tooik a little All in all, Ralston's crew seems was in t he Druggis·ts' hair for the right through those finals . A QUITlonger. Finally Bob Partridge, the !better part C1f an hour and did 'I'ER NEV•E'R WINS, AND A to have hit their stride and that hi story teacher and soccer mentor, spells trouble for future opponents. ' everything but scalp them in the W]NNER NEVER QUITS! What a g,ood tinie for thi.s to come spied his man, Bob Moran. "Say process. about, especially since the King' s B.ob", he said, "we need a volun****** teer to coach our new hockey team , game is only two weeks away. And then ther.e were tihe grapThe Col-0nel quintet wi11 remaill and we've picked you. Oh , don't plers. They, too, wer-e not to be deon the road and travel to Bloom s- worry about the pay, there isn'-t nied. 'I'houg,h it was their first burg Monday, Janua,r y 16, to do any, and the boys will have to furmeet, they acted as though the battle with that institution's five. nish their own unifoll'ms. Your whole season depended upon their COLONELS SHOW PQWER IN The Colonels will return bo t heir first game i-s with Lafayette two showing this nigiht. Consequently, plantation next week when they weeks from Thursday and you folHEAVIER WEIGHTS Wy-0ming Seminary was sent reelwill play ho!}t to Mansfield Teach- l-Ow it up with Rutgers. Best of iug, and .Cross and company marchers College on Saturday night a t luck!" And the hockey team was By f:D TYBURSKI ed victoriouslly along with the cagthe South Main Stre·e t Armory; b-0rn. Be~con Sports Writer ers. ****** Aft~r iosing the openig match COLONEL LIGHTWEIGHTS 'T he wrestling" team seeml\ to ·be last Saturday night to Wyoming a little weak in the 1,-gh<ter weights, Seminary, the Co.Jonie! g rapplers but exceptionally strong in the came from behind to win the meet heavier weights ("1415 and up) . If 23-13. lit was the first inter- colJim Laggin can .plug t ha:t gap jn legiate match the Colon.els wreshis .lighter weights he'H have a .tled undeu their new coaches, and t eam that will h ave to be reckoned it looks as though Jim Laggi n and Billy Lee are off to a good start. Ih the opening match of the meet Brown of Wilkes College deTUXEDO'S TO RENT cision,ed W . Morgan of Wyoming Special Price To Students Seminary, · 4-1. Then the Colonels 198 SO. WASHINGTON ST. dropped the next three matches. Krohn :Vas pinned by Dunne, Sem's Cap tain in .,5,30; Daw of Sem pinned Thomas in 1 :31; and Cromach was decisioned by Kl-inge, 6-0. The score at this tim.e of .the meet was 13-3 in favor of Seminary. The Colonels came back strong after that and took the next four matches by fal.!s. In the 155 class Dvorszniak of Wilkes threw Ippoloti in 7 :12 . .Stevens came right back in the 165 class and pinne<l Foote in 2 :12 of th.e tirst period. Continuing to show the strength has everything for the of the ·C-Olonels in .the heavier weight divisions, Gew:,g'!! McMahon college man's needs. pi.nned his opponent, P. Morgan, ,i n 5:39. Captain Norm Cross from ties to suits. wound up the evening by tossing . Keyes in 7 :2Q. The final score was 2•3-13. With t his win und.er their belt Above ar~ Wilkes• grapplers Chuck Thomas, who wrestles at 136 pounds, .the Colonels are looking 'forward and "Zip" Cromack, who represents the Colonels at 145. Both boys are sche•to their meet this Saturday n.igh<t duled to see action tomorrow night at 8 when the strong East Stroudsburg STC wi th E. Stroudsburg STC. team invades St. Stephen's gym to battle Colonel matmen. :wee~. competition is the pass word in these matches, and since their chances of starting in the meets depend upon their showing, the boys rure all out to prove theirwort!h to the coac-h es. Coach Jinl ·Laggin invites all students to these elimination bouts. Wi1th only this meet and twoothers remaining on the schedule there won't he too mariy chan~; to see the Col-0nel grapplers in action. So if you want to see son{e •g ood ol:ean wrestling come to the S't. Step:hen's Gym to~orrow night; The Co!,onel-s are good and they deserve your support. ' WILKES' NEW BABY- squad Sunprisingly enough, the hockey is g-r owing larger every day. HOCKEY TEAM BORN . men, Rig.ht now Bob can count about 15 four or fiv,e of whom have had a Grapplers Beat Sem In Season's Opener BA UM-, S THE BOSTON STORE Men's Shop FOWLER, DICK AND WALKER experienoe -on the ice. Tihough there isn't any captain, Bob Hall has taken hold of the reins of re-c ruiting s-0me good men. B-0b and Ed J o hnson have played .hockey back in New Jersey, Bob Angelo saw action in a New England ,prep school, and a few of the boys have pushed a ,p uck around -On some of the local pond•s. The l'a<test to join the hockey team is a thing called Martin Blake. Yes, folks, it's ,t he great Marty Blake. Marty says he played a wicked goalie while in the Army, .and he's borrowed a complete uniform from .t he USA to prove it . .Regardless, .when you have a figwre like Mr. Blake's, th.e opposition is going t o have a t-0ugh time squeeiing the puck through. The thought of Marty stopping ,pucks with his face isn't s-0 terrible, when you consider tha,t no little puck is ever going to do more damage to M.avty than nature has d-0ne already. 1,iere are -0,t hers ·on the squad with experience, but Coach 'M oran wants anyb-Ody whoever stood on a paiir of skates to come out for tme team. Bob Mor,a n, ,who has been flatt,ened many a'tmie playing hockey in Detroit, has figured -0ut a solu~ tion t9 the uniform problem. His tremendous brain has come up with the idea that they can use football shoulder pads, football jerseys, soccer trunks, their own skates and sticks, a nd ·Jong j·o hns for socks. Just what to do about the ·sock problem took a lot of bra'in work, but Bob came to the conclusion that if everybody paid 85c for a. pair of white longjohns, his wife would dye them blue, and they'd have the slickets hockey socks -in the .business. His other problem, was side pads. Since all the games are away and are play,ed in indoor rinks, side pads are a dire need because of the boards. For pure safety's sake, Bob has decided to u s.e footbdl pads, t hough they wiB slow up the boys. Our hockey tean1 may not be the best hockey team on ice, but one thing is sure-it w'ill be the most original. Due to circumstances, tihere isn't any .ice airound town, so Coach Moran and his 1boys have h.eld indoor practice on the blac_kb-Oards. Bob has been stressing offensive and defensive plays, and when. some ice comes ,to town he'll hold some real sc-r imtnages. If M-arty Bfake can hold his big mouth open lo-n g enough ii:J. that g-0al, we'll ~e okay -they'll never score a point. · �Friday, January 13, 1950 WI~ COLLEGE BEACON ----------------------------------------------'-----------------J;a,net . Burgess is chairman · of and each decision 'is worth ,t hree through· the GYA, :t hat is incidenttHOW TO SCORE A points. Booklet Printed For ,a l to the real mission which is the IRC committee in charge · of All torture holds are barred ·from si-s.ting German youth in every the corr.espondence and is awa.itin~ Mass Distribution asWRESTLING MEET collegiate meets. These holds are w,ay possible in their democratic the first lebter from Germany. · . 4 By ED TYBURSKI ' Beacon Sports Writer After talking to some of the sports-minded students around the campus, we have come to the conclusion that there aren't . many people that understand Collegiate wrestHng. And since we do have a good wrestling team at Wilkes, it might be a good idea to review the sport as it is scored iby the officials. Each meet ts composed of eight niate~s, and each match has three periods of 3 minutes. There is no rest between .p eriods. The first period is ,s tarted from a s·tanding position. 'The loser of this period is given the choice of top or bottom posi,t ion in th.e second period. In tp.i~ heat the wrestlers assume a kne,e ling position beside each other. W·h en a man is said to have the top position, or advantage, he i-s the one who puts Ms arms around his opponent. This is known as th.e :referee's position. This procedure is rever,s ed for ,t he staut of the third period. The scor.ing of points is not as -oomplicated as one would think. A take down, or gain~ng advantage, is worth two points to the man who gains the advantage. Another two points .is given to a man when be is on the bottom, and reverses thi,s position. Still another two points is awarded to a man who nearly pins Ms opponJnt. Then there is what is -known as a neutral, .i.e., when the fellow on th.e bottom gets free. F•o r instance, take the position the wrestlers assume for the -start of the second or third period. When th.e man who is at the disadvantage, the low man on the totem pole, ,g ets free and galins his feet, this is called a neutral and that man gets one point. E.'ach fall, or pin, that a team gets awards that team five points, determined by th.e referee, and he can award poirtts ,to the man against whom these ;h olds are used. Some of the illegal holds are the full nelson, head locks, blocking breathing, sdssor holds, and body slia ms. This is the big difference hetween professional and collegiate wrestling. There are very few holds in t h·e collegiate sport that cause pain to th.e participants. When a wrestler does . grunt and groan beyond reason, he is usually out of condiition. Points can also :be awarded for not wrestling .. . for staHing and keeping away from the other opponent. Points are given for a time advantage; one point':llor every .two minutes up to two points. And if the match is a draw, ·bhe referee decides who is the winner ... this is known as a referee's decision. That's about as simple as i,t can he explained. But a:s you can see, it is a good sport, and we do have a good beam. Come out and see ;them. While you are .being educated to -a new sport, you w.ill also be supporting your school's team. Rally 'round, and join us tomorrow nig,ht at the meet. Madison, Wis. "Work Study Travel Abroad 1950" has been put on sale by the publications bureau, U .S. National ,Student Association, 304 N. Park, Madis·on, Wis. The 10,000 word booklet, which follows similar bookl,ets for 1948 and 19'49, giv·e s agencies to contact for traveling during summer months, outlines their programs and provides g-eneral year-round facts oo going abroad. The booklet is being sold to stua t N!SA-member schools for 25 cents a copy. All others pay 5-0 cents a copy. Student govtirnments and campus N1SA committees may also order c,o pies in ibulk at greater price reductions. ·T he ibooklet outlines NS-A's programs abroad as weH as those of more than 100 other -g roups that cater to student travelers. me TO p ARTICIPA TE (continued from page 1) The Army Assistance Program to German Youth is not a welfare program. It is a reorientation program. Al though much material help is given to the German youth 1 reorientation. Those who work with these young people see in them the hope for the Germany of the future. These youngsters have an amazing hunger for k.nowledge of the outside world. They are curious about Amerioans t hemselves, what we ibelieve ' in and how we live. These hundreds of ,g roups which are assisted by the program are struggling to become democratie. It is difficult for them. They are accustomed to the "Fuehrer" pr-incipl.e where the leader tens :the members what to do. They look to America and Amerioans for example and help. 1 In response to this program, the Wilkes Coll.ege ]RC has decided to take an active par.t in helping to democratize •G erman youth. lA.s their share of the program the IRC will exchange letters with the E ,n g li s c,hgruppe, N eue Schule, Herrn .Studienrat Fri.tz Wieczorek. Reciprocal .benefits are expected from this plan. Th:e German group will receive information on Democratic principles from the IRC and ibhe !RC will learn much about Europe and its pro.b lems from contact wi.th the .German group. Clearing House For Concert and Theatre Tickets Established ***** The IRC members are fast maiking plans to attend the regional conference of the Intercollegiate Conf.erence on Government :to be held at Muhlenburg College in March. IOG ch.airman Larry Pelish is keeping -the club informed on events and happenings on other Pennsylvania Oollege campuses. John ,Persico, chairman of the IRC radio committee, announced that the club has been broadcasting· every two weeks with the prepared scripts from UNESCO. More radio panticipants are always welcomed, JORDAN . Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and Hats of Quality ,t t 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre, PL PATR.ICIA NEAL Lovely Northwestern Alumna, says: By MIRIAM LONG ·Professor Cobleigh has annouc- "I've always preferred Chesterfields and I'm sure I always shall. They're much MILDER." . ed that he will act as go-between for students who wish to secure tickets for 'the musical and dramatic presentations whioh are frequently presented at !rem Temple under the -a uspices of various groups in tbe community. '.Dhe need for such an intermediary was clearly evident this week when six tickets were sent ,to Prof·e ssor Cobleig,h at six o'clock of the evening on which an outstanding concert was to he presented a,t the Temple. Although s everal phone calls were made, it was not possible ~o dispose of these tickets. lt is proposed to have a notebook-' available in 102, Gies Hall, where all students who are inter- , ested in secuming such tickets may sign their names and phone number.s As .t iokets become available,' students will be called in rotation. T.he inability of anyone to accept tickets -on a cerbaii:n night will not cause his name bo be taken from the lis,t. lt is hoped that faculty, trustees and all friends of the coUege will co-operate in this venture and, when they have tickets which they carinot use, they will ,-nobify Pr-0f,essor Cobleigh so that he may contact Wilkes students who will enj.oy •these cultural offerings. ~{&~~ · CO-STARRING IN "HASTY HEART"' A WARNBR BROS. PROQUCTION . •ay Recent National Survey ESTERFIEtD . TIJPS./• / fopyright 19~0, LIGGETT & MYEIS TOBACCO Co. IN AMERICA's COJJEOES WITH THE TOP MEN IN SPORTS '1TH THENOL/YWOOO STARS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 January 13th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 January 13 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4e546286936d5da626a535dd3a6bdfa1.pdf fb13e576e786324f4780c26599a815da PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACON College WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vol. 3, No. 14 Friday, January 6, 1950 Bake Sale Proceeds MEDIRCHEM CLUBS DANCE TONIGHT WINTER CARNIVAL SET FOR FEBRUARY l; - BUSES WILL LEAVE CAMPUS AT 9 A. M. Goes To War Orphan AT VICTORY R~M, HOTEL REDINGTON SPORT DANCE IN THE EVENING WILL ffiGHLIGHT A DAY OF FUN By CHUCK GLOMAN Now is the time for all students and their friends to plan to attend the student council's third annual Winter Carnival at Split Rock I'.odge, near Blakeslee, on Wednesday, February 1. Student Council President Shadmch Jones has announced that buses have been chartered for those who have no transportation of their owh. Tickets will cost $1.25 (round trip) per person and will be on sale next week. Buses will leave Chase Hall at 9 o'clock in the morning. Plenty of free parking space will be prov.i ded for those who can furnish their own transportation. Skiing, toboganning, and iceskating ar,e but a few of the free 'recreations that have ibeen -p lanned for the affair. Those .who do not have ice ·skates or ski.is of their own may rent them at the lodge for a very small charge. The ev,ening will b e highlighted by a sport d,ance complete with an orchestra, the name of which has not yet ,been disclosed. The committee suggests that you bring along some extra clothes for the danc,e. Last year at \the dance, most of the fellows wore G. I. clothing and army dress boots, while the girls were attired in skirts, blouses and dress shoes. ,D~niel Sherman . is transportation chairman, and is assisted by the winter carnival committee: Shadracq Jones, Jack Cain, Connie Smith, Al Jacobs, Al Manarski, Elaine Turner, Virginia Meissner, Joe Chmiola, George Lewis, Ralph Bolinski, Jean Grumlbling, Vester Vercoe and Bob Sanders. All who were present at last year's carnival will recall that a wonderful time was had by ~veryone. . So make your plans now, pray for snow, and then be sure that you're at iSplit Rock . Lodge on Wednesday, February 1st, to have yourself a swell time an'.d me.et all J;he gang. ATTENTION! Applicants for medical schools, class of 'M, will meet with Mr. Morris and Prof. Reif on Thursday, January 12, at 11 a. m. fn Room 2,01 of the Biology Building. Theta Delta Rho will hold a bake sale -tomorrow in the Appliance Department of Pome.roy's. ,P roceeds of the sale will be used to support the War Orphan which the sorority has adopted. ,Co-chairmen of the sale are Mary Porter and Catherine Smith. 'They will ,b e assisted hy Marilyn Broadt, Joan Schrempp, Lorna ,C:oughlin, Gwenn Clifford-, Ma;y Lamoreaux, Carol Jones, Elaine Nesbitt, Nancy Lewis, Jane Reese, Lois DeGraw, Nancy Yaufniann, May Way, Nancy Ralston and Betty Rutherford. NOTICE! Regular meeting of Theta Delta Rho January 10, 1950, Chase Theatre, 8:00 P. M. The heads of the committees f.or the dance have completed their tasks, and all is in readiness for the razz-ma-tazz show. There is general interest in the dance, for students are wond,ering if the MedIRChem clubs can match in quality the cabaret dances of the past at Wilkes. Accordi~-g to the members of the various clubs involved, the dance tonight -w ill be something to talk a:bout. Th,ey will probably :be right. . LEE VINCENT Schubert's Serenade To Be Shown Again This Time The Audience WW See The Whole F"tlm MORRIS HOME ... , ;' . , :--- - ".,,. .......... --~- - -:;....,, ~ . ' ... Early in December --- on the seventh , to b e exact --- the film, SCHUBERT'S SERENADE was shown in Chase Theatre. At evening's end the audience was amused ,but unsatisfied, for the picture had ended in th.e middle of the story and there was no more to be seen. Since these people might become victims of some dreadful complex as a result of that incomplete .evening the film has been brought back to be shown com-. pletely on January 11, at 8:00 p.m. in Chase Theatre. Those people who saw the first .part- of -SCHUBERT'S -SERErN.ADE were very favorably impressed by the fast moving action, the fine music, and excellent comedy. It is a French language film with English titles to interpret the conversation for such of us have not visited the "West Bank" recently. For sixty minutes of capital entertainment join the crowd at Chaoo TTheatre next Wednesday night, January 11, at eight o'clock to see SCHUBERT'S SERENADE. It's free! Barber Shop Quartet To Form Monday Night · NOTICE! The Graduate Record Examination will he ,given on February 3 and 4.· Applications must be filed before January 20. Those students wishing to -enter graduate schools should take the GRE, providing this exam i.s required for admission. Applications can ibe obtained at the main office. The ever-mysterious cabaret styled dance, sponsored by the MedlRChem clubs and -to be h~ld this evening in the Victory Room of the Hotel Redington, is in the last stages of production. The mystery lies in the fact that the floor show entertainment has a curtain of foggy matter surrounding it. The most notable facts released about the dance are that Lee Vin~ cent will furnish the music and that Marty Blake will have nothing ·to do with the event. NEWEST PROPERTY ADDITIONS TO WILKES WILKES FEBRUARY ENROLLMENT DROPS By Irene Janoski Wilkes Colleg.e will accept new students again on February 6th, when the spring .s emester !begins, according to Herbert J . Morris, registrar and director of admissions. According to the Wilkes registrar, fewer students will be admit' ted for this coming ·semester than at any time during the past four years-the period when colleges and universities throughout the country were being flooded with returning GI's who sought higher learning. . "From now on", asserted M-r . Morris, "September will be the time when colleges will admit the ·largest number of students. Most institutions admit w~ry few at the half-way mark and even today several have stopped ' this practice." The present record-high enrollment of 1,929· students will be either maintained or S'Y'elled slighlty by the enrollment -of new stud,ents in 1both branches of the college for the February se~ester. DANCING FROM 9 TO l; MUSIC Br LEE VINCENT STERLING HOME The Wilk,es College Barbershop Quar:tet -Society, will hold an or,g anizational meeting on Monday, January 9, at 8 P . M., in Chase Lounge. ·T he Bar:ber 1Shop Quartet is the latest addition to Wilkes College extra-curricular activities and promises to grow into one of the outstanding organizations on campus. Under the leadership of Robert Partridge, this society offers an . opportunity to a.Jl aspiring vocalists to show -their wares. All those interested are invite{! to attend the meeting. �Friday, January 6, 1950 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 BONES BUSY BOUNCING BASl)ETBALLS; "FOUR YEAR LOAF" HOPES HE'LL HELP HELPLESS HOOPSTERS NO LONGER EXISTS AT OHIO' · STATE U(SPECIAL TO THE BEACON) ' VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CfIET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager ·News Staff Bill Griffith, Art Spengler, Miriam Long, George Kabusk, Chet Molley, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, . James Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Russ Williams, Joan Lawlor, Homer B.ones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzger ,Priscilla Swartwood. ' Sports Staff Ed Tyburski, Paul Beers, Joe ,Gries Photographers Don Follmer, Art Bloom, Bob Croucher A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Intercollegiate Press EDITORIAL DIMES VS. POLIO Once again we approach the seemingly never ending problem of donations. This time, however, the cause is worthy. In a recent press release of The National Foundation For Infqntile Paralysis, Basil , O'Connor, president of the Foundation, issued a special, urgent call for organized March of Dimes camJ)aign participation by college and. university student bodies. An alarming number of people in age groups that include college and university students Wl[lre victims of 1949's epidemics of poliomyelitis in this country. The last year, Mr. O'Conner said, has seen the largest number of polio cases in any one year in any country in ·the history of the world-or more / than 42,000 cases. · Of these 42,000 it is estimated that more than 10,000,were over 15 years of age with the greatest number p10portionately between the ages of 15 and 24. f Besides the tremendous cost . of patient care, extensive research and educational programs are . costing the National Foundation millions of dollars every year. Mr. O'Conner pointed out that these obligations are of peculiar importance- to institutions of higher learning, their student 'bodies and faculties. Homer Bones made it quite clear that he would soon tum his attentions to the basketball court and do his all for dear old Wilkes. In the latest interview, Hoopster Homer stated that he would do all in his power to pull the team out of the doldrums and start it on its winning way. •B ouncing Bones, one of the greatest and trickiest dribblers of all time, gave a brief account, past, pres.ent, and future of his prowess on the basketball court. A luncheon was served during the interview. •Highstepping Homer hustled into the Beacon office, set · shot an imaginary b a s k e t ,b a 1 l cleanly through the op,ening of the wastepaper basket, pivoted quikly, faked a pass to Vince Macri, then slipped into a chair. Gas,p s of amazement from those Beacon members present answered Basketball Bones' feats of lightning-fast play and deceptive maneuvering. Hilltop Homer played his first game of basketball in a basket with a ball. "If the Russians hadn't beaten me to it," he said, "I'd have claimed development of the game." Homer smiled, signaling the end of a spontaneous joke. His audience guffawed! (guffaw meaning "a shout of boisterous laughter". Homer ha.s played forward and guard, but never center. Yet, he he claims to be able to outjump the tallest center. To prove his claim, he jumped high above the heads of the match.es lying on the f.loor. No getting away :from it; Homer is good! ,H omer intends to toy with any off.ers that the .p ro team will offer him at the end of the current season. That is, unless his fiance changes his ever-active mind. Yes, Homer has a fiance. Exclusive!!! Her name is Sisalia Manila Hemp. Explosive BoRes, always one for bringing about a · surpr,i sing turn of events, released the news in , a calm manner. The news was shortlived however. Bingles Bones instantly turned the topic · back to basketball. "Well," he said, as he edged· his way toward the door, "I have to get going for practice. I'll see you all later. As they say in the newspaper racket, thirty." COLLEGE PUBLICATION STAFFS TO BEGUESTS AT COFFEE HOUR. The three Wilkes College publications, ·T he Year Book, Manuscript, and Beacon, will 'be honored Jby the Wilkes ·F aculty Women at the last coffee hour of this current setnester on January 11, at We at Wilkes can be proud of ~hat our school has d_o ne 3 :30 in the college cafeteria. The' coffee hours hav,e been the in support of the March of Dimes campaigns in recent ye<¥s, predominantly outstanding fea- .But can we ever give enough ~o fight this dread disease that continually hovers over each one of us? Can we ever feel secure unless we know that there is so~eone willing to care for us if we are stricken by polio? There cannot be many of us at Wilkes who could afford to finance their own treatment of \ Infantile Paralysis. In this light, should we not therefore attempt to help each other? With statistics showing that we of college age are among the more susceptible to poliomyelitis we should be prepared to suppor,t the March of Dimes campaign more readily. · tures on the campus. In the past they have caught the attention of the students and have been well attended. !Pouring will' be Mrs. Eug'e ne Farley, .Mrs. Stanko Vujica and Miss Mildred Hull. Hostesses are Mrs. Gertrude Williams, M.iss Mary Craig and, Mi:s. James Brennan. 7 We can point with pride at. Wilkes' donation of its receipts of the Wilkes-King's basketball games in the past few years. This year let us attempt to out-do our previous generosi1y. Make this the most successful March of Dimes campaign in the history of Wilkes Colleg~. ·Letters· To The ·Editor lines further the .position of the United World Federalists. We have a local chapter of UWF of which I happen to be chairman and of which sev·e ral students and a considerabl,e number of th,e faculty are members. Inasmuch as you have devoted an editorial to the Atlantic Union Committee, we hope you wiir find it possible to devote another to the United World Federalists, and we shall very much appreciate it if you will do so. Sincerely, Harold W. Thatcher, Head of History Dept. Ed. note: Further information on either of the two resolutions can be obtained a.t the BEACON . office. Dear Mr. Macri: I read with interest your editorial on the Atlantic Union resolution in tM December 1'6 issue. I should like to call your attention, however, to the fact that another resolution on world federalism, backed by the Unfted World Federalists and s,ponsored by · over one hundred congressmen and twenty senators, ..was presented at the same time arid will also be considered at the next session of Congress. :The U.WF resolution differs materially fi:om that of the Atlantic Uhion Committee. It aims at including AUL the nations of the world-not merely the present NOTICE! meiµibers of .the Atlantic Pact-in The bookstore will .be closed for a -world goYernment based -0n the ·principles of federalism. I am en- veteran sales after Friday, Janudosing some liteJ:1atur,e which out- ary 6 f.or this semester. Colum'bus, O., (I. P.)-The old jilbe aibout college being a "fouryear~loaf" is as <lead as the yau<leville jokester who coined it, at least as far as Ohio State University , students ar,e concerned. College is no loafing matter on tliis campus v.ihere a student service aigency whicih handles part-time employment, scholarships and loans has zoomed into the category of big business. Last year, stud.en.ts placed in jobs by the University agency earned an estimated income of $19,500.000. More than $50,000 was granted in loans by the same office to 640 additional students. Hundred·s of others were studying 'under various ,undergraduate scholarships administered by the office, many of the recipients also working for room and· board to help finance bheir educational way. 'That information ·is revea,l,ed in the annual report of the S.tudent Financial Aids Office, a Iittleknow.n per.S1onnel agency which goes a long way toward providing the conviction of University administrators •h ere that a big school cart also be !big and efficient in its s.er~ Yices to students. Forerunner was the !Student Employment Office, a smialler unit created in 1006 to com:bine services formerly scattered in the N. Y. A. committees, the Ohio Union, Y. M. C. A. and office of the Dean of Women. It was reorganized in l!M6 under the direction of Bland L. Stradley, vice president in charge of student affaiTs, when war-time and .r econstruction problems indicated need for •enlargement of all personnel ser,vices. ,currently, the ,f inancial aids service is free and available to all persons enrolled at the UniY,ersity. The 640 .loans ,g ranted to students last year ranged in amounts from $5 to $500, a.pip-roximately half of them going to up,percla,ssmen. Individual repayment plans are set up for each loan, with the usual rate of interest 4 percent. Loan sources now number 36, with fines ,p aid lby campus traffic violators providing the largest source of funds earmarked for general purposes. Traffic fines Jast year !boosted the net worth of the loan fund :by $1,5,464. Actual loan repayments during the same· period amounted to $7Q,30'2. All responsibility for . record keeping, accounting, reporting, preparation of ,literature and administration of details in connection with the undergraduate schola·r&hip program also belong.s to the Student Financial Aids. Office. BAUM'S TUXEDO'S TO RENT Special Price To Students 198 SO. WASHINGTON ST. THE BOSTON STORE ' J Men's Shop has everything for the college man's needs. from ties to suits. Rep rint•d from January 1950 issue of Esquirt Copyrig ht 1950 by EsQu !r e, Int. ./ "Did you ring, :Sir?" FOWLER, DICK AND WALKER �iday, January 6, 1950 WILKF.S COLLEGE BEACON 3 rrestling Squad Opens Season .Again·st Sem THE Beacon Lights of Sport GEORGE BRODY, SpoFt& Editor .Vhen you talk to Jim Laggin, , new wrestling coach, you can't p but get the feeling that th is .n will never coach anything but wi nn er. You get the impression 1t he's a lot like Bob Moran and b Partridge. He'll work like the iii under the most adverse conions with the sparsest of mateI and still make a workable com1ation out of anything he puts rether. And he knows his wrest.lg. • •••• rhe grapplers have quite a proam to plow through this season. ey meet such formidable foes as ,11ersville STC, Ithaca, and East roudsburg .STC. All top contend3 in wrestling. Coach Laggin as t hasn't decided on his starters. iminations this week will decide 10 will go against Wyoming Sem morrow night. In .all probability, the following II represent Wilkes: Reynolds, idvary or Ennis, Thomas or Husnd, Cromach (now suffering an jury, status unknown), Zwodniak. cmeter, Stephens, McMahon and ·oss or Radaszews!~. It is interesting to note that the uad harbors no seniors and is aded with sophomores. A harbin,r of things to come, perl aps. A few paragraphs aibove, this lumn stated that Coach Laggin !ls the type who would succeed ,spite adverse conditions. And he ill. But the question is " when will , be overloaded?" And I'm afraid e answer can be instilled into a thargic studen t body. It is amazing, how, in some hools, the job of student manager vied for just as ardently as is position on the team. Not here! :mtrarily, the coach can't beg, 1rrow or steal a student manager. One man. One man applied. oach Laggin was just about to Jt him to work when the young an asked, '"Can I have my letter 1d sweater now 'r'' When iniormed tha t he had to 1rn it first, he departed in a huff 1d Laggin is now his own student 1anager. That makes it tough on coach;when he should be teach1g wrestling, he is instead hand1g out equipment, checking equip1ent, straightening the locker 10m, and doing many other little 1ings a student manager should 1ke care of. A good student manager can 1ean a lot to a coach and a team. [e is a vital part of the machine. [is job is important, that is why e is rewarded with the exact a- ward ·the athlete gets. And the letter isn't merely given as a "thank yo u" g est ure. It is given because the manager is part of the team. If you think you are worthy, and if you are interested in becoming part of a great team, see Coach Laggin . He needs a good studen t manage.r ••••• The tro uble with Wilkes College is not that the basketball team is not a consistent winner, but that the student body is spoiled. The students are still walking in a gold tinted dream in the great foo t steps of its footbalJ team. They seem to forget that that team pyramided four years side by side play until they did everythin•g i,ut breathe for each other. ••••• ow we have a raw, green basketball team battling its heart to make its name equally held with its football brothers. And you think they haven't built step-bystep? Look at the l"ecord. In their first game, while still seeking a floor for practice, they were racked up proper. During the week after that game, they found a floor, practiced only a few days and played a return game with the opening team. They lost, but lessesd the gap considerably. Then in each successive game, just as steady as the chimes of Big Ben, the scores were lessened until two games ago they were , beaten in the last minute of play, and in their last game they took t he opposition into an overtime period before dropping the cont est. Sure, the build ing process is slow, ·and certainly the victory is a long time coming, but the Cagers schedule is no .breather. Their opposition is as stiff as will be found anywhere. And they will begin winning soon . •On ce they hit the t he win ,olumn, they will be hard to stop. All they lack at this stage is a point maker. They play •a beautiful flo or game. Dragon, Huff, and Johns are excellent playmakers. Jackson and Benson have done some miraculous shooting, but it's erratic. They need help. The team in general remind s this column of the time the S.t. Louis Cardinals got wind of a great prospect who, seeminglN, was Mr. Superman himself. Quickly, Mike Gonzales was rushed to scout t his marvel and to sign him if he had it. Mike trailed the young wizard for a week or so while the anxious front office bit its nail s CAGERS TO ENGAGE EXPERIENCED TEAM TO OPPOSE PHILLY DRUGGISTS BLUE KNIGHTS TOMORROW NIGHT TOMORROW EVENING By ED TYBURSXI By JOE GRIES Beacon Sports Writer The Wilkes College cagers will be seeking their win of the season when they play host to t he Philadelphia School of Pharmacy five Saturday even ing a t p.m . in the South Main Street Armory. Some of the prestige lost in the earlier part of the present campaig n could be regained if the Colonel crew could sta r t 1950 with a win over the visitors. Coach Ral ston has been severely hampered this campaign with t he loss of his high scoring twin s, !Phil Sekerchak and Joe Piorkowski. Only four men representing the Wilkes cagers have had any college basketball experience. With the exception of Charlie Jackson, Bill Johns, !Ben Dragon, and Paul Huff, Ralston is working with a green team. One not to be upset by past results, the deminutive W.ilkes mentor is only looking foi,ward to the future when his green cagers will .get the needed experience and chalk up more victories than defeats. l'his contest will mark the first time for Joe Oakley, former Ashley resident and graduate of that schoo , to return to t he coal regions with an athletic team. Oakley has been guiding the destinies of the P.C. of P. quintet for the past 18 years and in this year's team has one- of the finest that ever represented Jthat institution. The Philadelphia quintet will be represented with two Luzerne County performers - Jack Fedock of Hazleton and Gene Gavri sh of Nanticoke. A large crowd is expected at the contest because of the plans for a reunion at t he game by the former students in this area of the Philadelphia Schbol. Wilkes will have a week's rest after t his game before they tackle the Lycoming ca·gers at Lycoming ' ow that our team has a permanent place to play ~eir games, come out and support them and see them beat the future druggists from Philadelphia. waiting. Then came the long awaited telegram, a ter se, laconic message from Mike. "Good field; no hit." That ·n essence is the Colonel Cagers. Good on the floor, not too good on the points. But the future pharmacists from Ph iladelphia are going to feel the wrath of the revitalilized olonels. So come to t he armory tomorrow night and watch u s win. COLONEL CAGERS (BEACON Sports Writer) The Wilkes College wrestling team opens its season tomorrow night against Wyoming Seminary on the latter's mat. This will be the first team match under the new coaches Jim Laggin and Billy Lee. Some of the grapplers were in the "Y" tournament. Dan Sadvary, 128 class; SkinOn Wednesday and Thursday nights t he coaches held elimination mee ts to determine who will represent the school in the first match. Unfortunately this story went to press before last night's bouts·, but there was some indications as to whom the starters will be. · Wrestling at 121 will be Reynolds or Brown; 128, Krohn; 136, Thomas; 145, Cromack; 165,Echmeder ; 165, Stevens; 175, McMahon, unless he was challenged and beaten by Moran; and in the unlimited class will be either Norm Cross or Radaszewski. These are the boys who will represent our college tomorrow night, and they are also the boys who will help to supply competition to such great wrestling teams as Millersville STC,. E. Stroudsburg STC, and Ithaca. Other members of the team who were eliminated were ny Enni s, 121 cl-ass; Husband, 136 class; Moran, 165 class; and George Cross. Wyoming Seminary has always had good wrestling teams and has always supplied the keenest of competition to its opponents. It is reputed to h.a ve !lnother go<><.l.,team this year, and those who 9tend can expect some good matches tomorrow night. If you've never seen a wrestling match, this will be a good opportunity for you to see one and at the same time support your school. And if you have seen wrestling matches, you can see some good collegiate wresters . in action. The matches are being held at Wyoming Seminary which i" easily reached by bus. Any Forty Fort, Luzerne, or Swoyerville bus will take you within a block of t he school. Come and support your school's wrestling team and enjoy an evening of s'ports. II.WJ..1j,.1j,.1j,.1j,.~•·wcc~c~ Wilkes Bowling League STRIKES AND SPAR~ FINAL STANDINGS By JOE GRIES w Team LP-ts. 5 29 Chem. Club ....................... . 21 6 29 Engineers ....................... 4 . . . •The final curtain came down on the regular season of play in the ~cond Wilkes 1Bowliklg Leag ue last Tuesday at the E:agle's Bowling Academy. Playoff!< will get underway Tuesday evening, Jaauary 10 at the Eagle's. The Engineers will meet the I.R.C. and th e Chem. Club will do battle with t he C.P.A. team . Marty Jiunta of the Engineers captured individual honors with a season!s average of 174 and a high series of 598. He joined with .John Barovich, Fred lngold, Neal McJ:lugh, Bill ·Paltey,, and Jim Ogan to form the Engineers who captured team honors with a single of 854 and a high series of 2348. However they had to be satisfied with a tie for first place wi t h the Chem. Cl•b in the final standings. The Chem Club is made up of Tanky Celmar, Jim Davis, Bill and Tom Jones, and John Surash. John Persico of the I.R.C. rolled a 234 for the season's high single game. This wri te r would like to thank all team captains who so whole heartedly cooperated with me in preparing . this weekly column. 22 I. R. C . ................................. . 18 9 24 C. P.A . ............................. .. . 17 10 23 Wheels ............................... . 13 14 17 Thora ................................... . 10 17 14 Bookies ............................... . 11 13 13 Kushmalcers ....................... . 9 18 13 Dorm ................... ................. 6 21 7 7 Pre Med .................. ...... v••···· 5 19 NOTICE! The Intermediate Test for College Students will be given on May 1-3. These tests are designed to measure the scholastic ability and preparation of undergraduates who are applying for transfer from Junior to Senior Colleges, from Senior College to another college, or from a pre-profession ·p rogram to a professional program. Examination fee is $10. Applications must be filed at least three weeks 1before the date ·of the scheduled exam. Application blanks can be obtained in the main office. Al so, orchids to Phil Kennedy, the secretary of the league, who probaibly did more work to make it a success than any ten other people. THERE WILL BE AN IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE ENTIRE BEACON STAFF THIS AFTERNOON AT 4 IN THE BEACON OFFICE * Anyone interested in writing for the paper is also invited Shown above is the 1949-50 edition of the Wilkes College Basketball team which will ngage the Philadelphia ::Ollege of Pharmacy quintet tomorrow evening at 8 in the South Main Street Armory. A large turnout Is expected or the game as there are many alumni of the Philly institution in thls area. to attend �_4_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _W_IL_KES __C_O_L_LE_G_E_BEA_C_O_N_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Friday, January 6, ;~~ FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE FIRST SEMESTER 1949~1950 l P. M. Biology 209 (10) BB 101 EcoD.Omics 121 (74) GHB 201, 202, 301 Chemistry 319 (18) BB 101 Economics 306 (27) GHA ,101 English 250 (21) BB 101 History 99 (203) LH, 164, 158, 154 An's Mathematics 107 (118) LH, 154Anx, 158Anx, 164Anx History 107 (41) 154SR, 101, 102, 103 Philosophy 215 (11) BB 101 History 225 (12) 154SR 101, 102, 103 Political Science 103 (62) PH 202, 203 l P. M. 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 Biological Science 100 (176) 164Anx, LH 8 A. IL 154Anx, 158Anx Biology 101 (43) BB 101 Biology 204 (22) BB 101 \ Economics 318 (20) GHB 202 Biology 319 (6) BB 101 , English 121 (16) 154SR, 101 _ Chemistry 330 (19) Co 101 English 131 (71) 158Anx, 154Anx, 164Ax Economics 223 (22) GHB 202 Mathematics 109 (104) PH 104, 201, 202, Economics 303 (11) GHB 201 Sociology. 107 (13) 154SR 102 203 Psychoolgy 205 (11) GHB 201 l P. M. Biology 100 (48) !IB 101 FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 Economics 135 (20) GHB 102 9 A. M. Economics 241 (10) GHB 203 Economics 316 (18) GHB 203 Economics 225 (41) GHA 101 Engineering 100 (45) Co 301, 302 English 102 (27) BB 101 English 103 (145) LH. 154Anx, 158Anx Philosophy 100 (104) LH, 164Anx, 158Ax English 104 (78) PH 103, 104, 201, 202, Philosophy 213 (26) 154Anx 203 FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 English 257 (20) Co 104 9 A. M. History) 220 (66) GHB 301, 302, 201 Economics 235 (10) GHB 102 Mechanical Engineering 209 (11) Co 204 Economics 114 (18) Co 104 ~d 304 Economics 280 (14) Co 104 Politica,l Science 100 (20) 164~ French 101 (49) PH 203, 202 Sociology 231 (8) Co 104 French 103 (27) PH 201 l P. M. French 104 (11) PH 202 ' · French 301 (3) PH 202 I Chemistry 227 (19) Co 204 German 101 (52) 158Anx, 164Anx Economics 311 20) GHA 101 English 101 (261) LH 164Anx, 158Anx, German 103 (19) 158Anx, 164Anx 154Anx, 154SR, 101, 102, 103 History 255 (17) PH 203 Mathematics 210 (6) GHA 101 Music 301 (3) GHA 101 Rfliglon 107 (19) PH; 203 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 9 A. M. BAND REORGANIZES; UNIFORM, CONCERT IN PLANNING STAGE (perman Spanish Spanish Spanish 204 (2) 164Anx 101 (49) LH 103 (46) LH, 164Anx 204a (11) 154Anx l P. M. Economics 137 (9) GHB 102 Economics 217 (54) GHB 201, 202 French 204a (2) 154SR 101 By Irene Janoski Mathematics 101 (5) LH, 154Anx, 158An Mathematics 115 (59) LH, 154An, 158An Mr. Robert Moran, instructor ·in Mathematics 205 (45) LH, 154An, 158An Mathematics 206 (18) LH, 154An, 158An Music at Wilkes College, has anPsychology 203 (8) 154SR 101 nounced the recent formation of a Religion 100 (88) PH 201, 202, 203 Band Co~mittee for members of Sociology 230 (17) 164-Anx KEY TO ROOM ABBREVIATIONS 154Anx-Building behind' 154 So. River Street 158Anx-Building behind 158 So. River Street 164Anx- Building behind 164 So. River Street 154SR-154 South River Street BB-Biology Building, Rear of Conyngham Hall, 120 South River Street Co-Conyngham Hall, 120 South River Street GHA- Gies Hall A, 191 South Franklin Street GHB-Gies Hall B, 195 South Franklin Street LR-Lecture Hall, Building behind · 154 South River Srteet PH-Pickering Hall, 181 South, Franklin Street NOTE: Numbers following the above abbreviations indicate room numbers. For example: 154SR 101, 102, 103-154 South River Street, Rooms 101, 102 and 103. the college band. Willard Prater was appointed chairman, with the following ,assistants: Dick Shafer, Fred Ingold and Ted Krohm. The primary purpose of this committee is to formulate a constructive program of iband management. , The first accomplishment ' of the committee was to acquire from the college a fund to purchase new uniforms. The committee is now planning to establish a big marcMng band with an efficient organizatio n for next Fall. First on the agenda for next semester is ,a .Spring concert which will be held sometime in May. The rehearsals for this concert will begin '· during the first week of the new semester. They will be held ~very Tuesday and Thur,s day at 11 o'clock · in upper Pickering Hall. There will be no night rehears al; , The reason wh \" rehearsals have been scheduled ·;or : he time ind-ica ted is because many capable musicians in the college were prevent-: ed from playing in the foo~U band due to the night work involt ed. Mr. Moran would like to see these musicians come out in th.e Spring season. He stated ·that, ''co:: trary to popular opinion, I would : like both men and women in the ,band." Vacancies are open in all sections of the band except the trombone section. All students who are interested may contact Mi': Moran in room 202 of Gies Hall. . Mr. Moran summarized the situation concerning the band by saying: "Up until this time, material means have hamp~red the progresf of the band; but now that we hav~ financial aid the important th ing· . · is to build . a good .b and backed by student support. With student Sl':)port, Wilkes College can h:.:.ve t he best band in Wyoming Valley." CRAFTSMEN ENGRAVERS 20 North State St. Phone 3-3151 SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 9 A. M. :Economics 103 (95) LH, 164Anx, 158Anx :Economics 220 (31) PH 203 :Economics 314 (33) GHB 201, 202 Mathematics 308 (5) 154SR 101 •.Political Science 106 (40) BB 101 .Psychology 302 (6) 154SR 101 l P. M. ·Civil Engineering 103 (24) Co 309, 301 ,Chemistry 101 (109) LH, 164Anx, 158An, 154Anx .Economics 105 (79) PH 101, 103, 104, 201 :Economics 201 (30) PH 202, 203 Education 101 (33) BB 101 English 201 (12) 154SR 102 German 104 (11) 154SR 101 FRANCHOT TONE MONDAY, JANUARY 23 9 A. M. Famous Cornell Alumnus, says: Biology 207 (22) PH 203 Chemistry 115 (51) BB 101 Chemistry 209 (31) Co 104 Chel):listry 301 (19) Co 204 Economics 307 (18) GHB 202 Music 100 (144) LH, 154Anx, 164Anx, 158Anx Sociology 212 (39) GHA 101 l P. M. Economics 324 (18) GHA 101 Engineering i Ol (45) Co 301, 309 History 105 (5) 154SR 101 Sociology 100 (111) LH, 158Anx, 164Anx, 154Anx Sociology 205 (59) PH 201, 202, 203 "Every time I open a pack of MILDER CHESTERFIELDS I know that every one will leave a clean, fresh taste i'ii my mouth. No other cigarette does that for me. That's why Chesterfield is MY cigarette." '('~~\, ,~ STARRING IN "THE MAN ,PN THE. EIFFEL TOWER" TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 9 A. M. Chemistry 329 (15) 164Anx English 268 (10) 164Anx Physics 201 (59) Co 104, 204, 304 Physics 202 (20) Co 104, 204, 304 Psychology 100 (108) LH, 164Anx, 158 Anx Psychology 207 (21) 154Anx Spanish 205 (9) 154SR 101 l P. M. Biology 221 (21) BB 101 Education 20l (34) LH Education 207 (17) LH English 263 (8) 164Anx Music 105 (10) GHA 101 Music 205 (7) GHA 101 Physics 100 (29) Co 104 Psychology 214 (17) 164Anx • WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25 9 A. M. Economics 109 (90) 164Ai:ix, 158Anx, 154Anx Economics 209 (66) PH 202, 203 Economics 231 (29) Co 104 English 283 (29) Co 104 Political Science 240 (11) BB 101 Radio 100 (5) GHA 101 Sociology 215 (16) Co 204 H'ESTERFIELD . C.Opyright 19)0. l,GGm llt Mros TOIMXO 0>. *By Recent National Survey � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1950 January 6th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 January 6 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/a250e9323dc0081ab02da48f051b1fed.pdf 9df66eb8114875c63f2fa55e9e778a3f PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACON College Friday, December !6, 1949 WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vol. 3, N~ 13. <!thristmas Iformal at C!Lountry Qtluh «onight Story-Writing Contest MANY SURRRISES PLANNED BY ATHLETES . CABARET STYLE PLUS LEE VINCENT PLUS AS HOLIDAY SEND-OFF FOR STUDENTS FLOOR SHOW SHOULD EQUAL MUCHO JOY Will Close January 15 There will be dancing from 9 to l at the Cabaret style party th8 Victory Roo~ of· the Hotel Redington on Friday, January 6'. The dance will be sponsored by the Pre-Med, IRC, and Chem ,clubs of ·the College. Music for the affair will be fumishe~ by the valley-wide popular Lee Vincent and his orchestra. in . The floor~show contents still rema(n mystery. It is rumored .that the orehestra will perform part of the enterta,i nment in between times ifor dancing. " 'T he three general c'hairmen for tlie affafr, Walter .Mokychie, Delo. res Passeri and BiU Kashatus, have ~oHfied all thos,e concerned that reservations· for the party should 'be-made before January 5. , Tickets m_ay: ,be, . purchased, at $l.60 per couple, · from any stu- a at $1.50 per couple, from any student belonging to any of the thre.e sp,o nso.r ing cl~bs, or they may be ob.tained at th'e book,s tore. ·Cmmittees for the dance are: Tiekets--<Bill Dyke, Jack Russell and Walter Mokychic. Res.erv·a tions and House - Ed Godek, Elva Fuller, Wayne Redline and Tom Jones. Entertainment-Charles Knapp, J o.e Radko and Jim Williams. Publicity----1Don Follmer. The 1949 College Writers' Short Story Conte.st of Tomorrow Magazine will close January 15, 1949. Manuscripts must be mailed on or before that date. · Prizes of $5-00, $300 and $200 will be awjlrded for tM best three stories. Tl)e judges will be the editors of Tomorrow Magazine and Creative Age Pre~s. The prize1inning stories will be published in the spring and eummer of 1950. All other stories will be considered for publicati9n at Tomorrow's regular rates. ' Entries should be addressed to Oollege Contest, Tomorrow Magazine, 11 East 44th · Street, New Yor:k 17, New York. They mu:st be accompanied by a .s elf-addressed staml)ed envelope. ,, A -AND- VINCENT'S ORCHESTRA TO BE FEATURED By GEORGE BRODY Have y,ou got your ticket yet? Well, hurry up. Tonight is the night of the Letterman's Formal. Never (R. A. F. notwithstanding) has so much lbeen given for so little. Jy.st search out a Letterman, give him four dollars and in ;re• turn he wHl give you one ticket that win entitle you to a joyous evening in the 1gay confines of dreamland. Dreamland will, in this instanc-e, be the Irem Temple Country Club, and background will be amiply supplied lby Lee Vincent's orchestra. 'T he Lettermen, forgetting no one in general, and remembering you in particular, have 'm ade elaborate arrangements to ease the pressure on your to.11tured pocketbooks. Tuxedos rented from Baum's wi.Jl lbe considieraibly ·reduced in price by merely mentioning that you are a student of Wilkes College. You don't know what kind of corsage your new ,g irl friend likes? Don't worry about that, either. Jack DeRemer, 'being dutifully maro-ied, and :understanding the anguish of a man who displeases the young lady, ,prevailed upon the Lettermen to see to it · that each and every :g irl became the recipient of one great big fresh orchid absolutely free. If that is no,t being thoughtful, then what ls. Jack Semmer, Dance Chairman, who has ,worked so hard to make this affair successful · reminds everyone that this ·is the season's first formal and has .g r.own out of the request of students who felt that Wilkes College has not had enough good formal affair,s ,-.and for the girls, too, who have waited since school's start to wear a gown. Smiling, congenial Bob Waters, By IRENE JANOSKI THE BEACON STAFF THE SOPHS WENT PHETHIAN ·ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ON A RIDE, HAY! EMBRYO WILKES LITERARY SOCIETY On Friday evening, Deeemher 9, a group of tSophis packed theml!lelves into a truck lined with hay arid took off on a wind~ ride to the eountry. 'T he group went to the Huntsville Rec Center. Dancing, dart •g ames, pool, and cards filled the evening. Bolb Moran was official fire extinguisher ( cpal)t!ron) 1b ut he turned out to be one of the spark plugs of .t hq affair. After an evening of fun, the . group, bedecked in heavy coats and ~eater,s, boarded the truck and drove lback to Wilkes-Barre. It was .a lb.eautifol ride. The moon was .shining on the sno<w-covered ground. Ah yes, it sure was roman:tl;ic, !hay;! . Jack Phethian was elected president of the Wilkes Literqrr Society at a meeting which was held last Tuesday night. Bob Hooper was named as vice-president; and the offices of secretary and treasurer are to pe filled by Marion W eltman and Francis Trembath, respectively. A constitution was presented by Art 1Speng,ler and Jack Phethian, and was approved after a lengthy discussion, The group decided that future elections will be held at the second meeting of each semester. After the business meeting, the young organization ibegan a discussion which was designed to provide a sound foundation for future critical reviews. Dr. Krug,er read several artic1es which illus,t rated the proper use of criticism. He stated that the modern school of eriticism directs its attention toward the work itself, ,:rl!,ther th~A LEE VINCENT Letterman President, states that nd limit to fun wiU be the order of the day. This will be the students last gathering before departing in all directions for the Christmas holidays. He wants the students to ta:ke home a happy memory and a Merry Christmas from the Letterman's Club. He thinks there can be no better way to s,p end the las·t evenin1g 1be!ore departing than with your friends in a world of fun and pleasant surroundings. Come to the Letennan's Ball! CHRISTMAS SUPPER CHRISTMAS CARO~ HELD LAST TUESDAY SUNG AT ASSEMBLY ·- FROM - By "SKINNY" ENNIS i ,, toward the bad1:ground material which may have influenced the article. The discussion was successful, in that it established a criteria of criticism. Mis,s Janerich, one of the members of the oi,ganization, stated, "The discus,sion was v,ery' stimulating." This was the l!Ommon co;ncensus of opinion. 'the club is st1l,l open for membership and any budding .Saroyans or undevelo,p ed 1S teinbeeks are heartily requested to jofo. ,In fact, one needs not have budded, all that is necessary is predisposition to_/bear fru'it. The Theta Delta Rho's annual Christmas Buffet Sup,per was held Tuesday, December 13, on the second floor of the Wilkes College Cafeteria. Gwen Clifford was general chairman of this affair. At the supper each girl helped hers.elf to a large assortment of cold meats, salads, pickles and other tempting dishes. Coffee and a variety of Christmas cookies were serv~d individually at the tables. After the supper, the girls presented their Big Sisters with Christmas gifts; they, in turn, gave their Little 1Sisters tiny mugs (earthen drinking cups) bearing the emblem of the sorority. Following the exchange of gifts, Ginny Bolen was appointed to collect the Theta Delta Rho dues for the year. . Entertainment was provided in the main ,l ounge of Chase Hall. After the group singing of · Christmas carols a piano ,s eledion, e.rititled "Deux Arabesques", was presented lby Blanche Crowder. Two solos, "Matinata" and "Jesu Bamlbino", were sung by Carlie '.,['homas. After the e·n tertainment Santa Claus, in th.e person of Ginny Meissner, pt·es·e nted each of the gir.ls with a sul'prise gift. The evening came to a successful close with the spirited singing of carols by haip.p y, proud members of Theta Delta Rho. CHORAL ,CUJB PRESENTS ANNUAL PROGRAM The Wilkes College Choral Cluib's• Christmas .p rogram was ,p resented at the student assembly last Tuesday morning in th,e Baptist Church. The program opened with the entire student 1body singing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful." The first group presented by the Choral Club incluuded "Rise Up Early", a Slovak carol, and "Ye Watc,h era and Ye Holy Ones", a seventeenth centurj" German carol. Ned McGhee gave a reading of a Christmas story about the "Littlest Angel". Following Ned McGhee's reading, the assembly sang "The First Noel". The Chorals Club's second group consisted of "The Time Draws Near", an English earol, "Ah, Dearest Lord" ,by Johannes Brahms with a solo ,b y Helen Bithler Hawkins, and "Angel Voices Ever Singing", which is a French caro.J. Following a Christmas address 1by Dr. Farley, the Choral 'Club concluded its special 1p art of the pro• gram with "And T.he Glory And The Lord" from Handel's Messiah. Donald Cdbleigh, a"Ssistant professGr of music Wilkes, eonducted the Chorail group. . at �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 Friday, December 16~ 1941 - -·- - · - -----------~-----SCENE FROM "THE POT BOILER" VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Art Spengle~. Miriam Long, George Kabusk, Chet Molley, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, James Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Russ Williams, Joan Lawlor, Homer Bones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzger ,Priscilla Swartwood. Sports Staff Ed Tyburski, Paul Beers, J6e Gries Photographers · Don Follmer, Art ·Bloom,. Bob Croucher Shown la the cast of "The Pot Boller" as it appeared before the Alumni Organization at the meeting In Chase Theatre las_t Moziday evening. · The play was presented for the second ·time within a · wee~ by popular demand, A paper published w _eekly by and . for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Reading from left to ri~ht. those In the picture a,.: Joan Walsh, Phil Nicholas, Charlie Williams, Joha Moore, · Mabel Faye Richards, Andy Evans, Tom Robbllla. 1 , and Wade Hayhurst. , \ · Member 10 Wilkes Students Named In "Who's Who"; Ability, Leadership, Character Considered Intercollegiate Press EDITORIAL Iastic aibility, leadership, character,· and probable future success . after graduation from college. ON THE ATLANTIC UNION RESOLUTION Ten Wilkes Seniors have been accepted for recognition in the 1949-50 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in Ameri'.fhe inonopoly of atomic energ-1 ; which has now been can Universities and Colleges", according to a letter received BUILDS GOOD HEALTH broken, should give impetus to the necessity for an early solu- by Dean George F. Ralston. T'he students selected are : Deans Harker and Ralston, wotiktion to the problem of war and peace. George Brody, John Florkiewicz, ing with other members of the Realizing this, many national and state organizations have Don Fo1lmer, Wil-liam Griffith, faculty and stud.ent advi sers, sulbMeisner, Mary Porter, united in urgi~g congress to pass the Atlantic Uni6n Resolution Virginia DRINK Donald Rau, Arthur Sp,engler, mitted the· names of the 10, later chosen as the 1949-50 representawhich will bEi considered at the next session. The AU Resolu- Russell Williams and Ted Wolfe. tives from Wilkes College fo r" the •tion has been referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Five of the people cho.sen are national 'publication. maj· o ring in English and seven ~elations. And the Atlantic Union Committee is requesting that The students chosen in all cases have lbeen active on student public- w,ere judged out standing in scho- 1., _______________. the mem~ers send copies of resolutions adopted by their groups ations. Of the group, two are athto the -congressional committee. letes; John Florkiewicz played football and George Brody wa~ a The United States has attempted to strengthen the free member of the ibaseball 'squ·ad. peoples of the world within the United Nations through the The survey of American univerMarshall Plan, The. Atlantic Pact, and through the program to sities and colleges is made annuaI,! y and with the cooperation of the AN -WOl'8C>B\IIT. NIWS.P.APD re-arm ·Europe. .,, .. 1., ·•·Ii••" ·· ., ••••. •. ,1., •• ,, ••.••, ., ., • ., ........ , ., c ... .. . . deans of th,e various institutions ...,i.....,tt.i/.., c......_ ·. ~. - ,;.1, ,'•1 ;,; :•,,;• 'W.,_Ul~t However' this is not enough. the riames of the 10 top students ffe,o We ~ Again • . • ' Editors, Business Managers There _is still another course open; a federal union of the are submitted to fue publishers and judges of the college "Who's Selected F western democracies. Each of the other steps has been taken Who". under the threat of aggression, because the preceding step was Meeting. the gang to discuss a quiz-a date with the not enough. campus queen-or just killing time ·b etween classes A federal union of western democracies would definitely -Owen's Sandwich Shop at tho University of Colo- . recognize that the world is divided, _however it may· preserve rado' in Boulder is one of the favorite . places fi:r a the United Nations as a world wide fon,im. r~dezvous. At tho Owen's s 'andwich Shop, .llS. in Nothing would be lost from such an undertaking because [mmediate1y after the Oiristmas college off-campus haunts.everywhere, .a. frosty hoiiie vacation plans will ,b e fopned for ' of Coca-Cola is always on 'hand for the pause that if the people did not approve of the proposals of what -could be the organization of a society f or refreshes--Coke beloncs. called a Constitutional Convention, they could reject them. "Ba!''ber Shop 1S inging at Wilkes Co11ege". · However, much could be gained. · MILK * WOODLAWN T.he· SIL VER and GOLD Barber Shop Quartet To Be Formed In Jan. (Further information on the Atlantic Union Committee can be obtained at the BEACON office.) I REGENERATION OF STUDENT POLICIES A recent I. P. release reveals a tentative plan at the University of Miami to instr,uct students in the purpose and functions of student government. The plan is to supplement the subjects taught by th~ government department in a way that all students may be acquainted with student politics. The gist of the plan is to make students aware of the educational background provided by parti~ipation in student politics. ' Perhaps we at Wilkes could benefit by a similar plan. A plan such as this would undoubtedly benefit the student body, 'l._'Y'hich would in tum benefit our college. If our students had a broader knowledge of student government activiites perhaps more enthusiasm could be elicited towards building a more competent student governing, body. As it stands now the students at Wilkes have very little interest in our Student Council. Maybe more -information on the subject would instill new interest in an organization which should be of primary importance to every student. LO~f3§-.1nc on the square THE COLLEGE MAN'S, STORE CRAFTSMEN • ENGRAVERS 20 North State St. Phone 3-3151 , Lasrt year th,e colleeg was asked to ,p articipate in a contest for Barber !Shop singing siponsored by the Red Feather Services. At that time Wilkes had no s-u ch group. This year Wilkes has been invited to send a quartet to particiipate in a contest s,p onsored lby the Univel'.sity Glee Club of J?hiJadelphia. The ,Red Feather organization will also sponsor another contest. · Due to the requ,ests of many students for such singing groups, it was thought that an organization for such purposes should be formed. T'he group wiJ1 1be rbased on g ood fellowship and comaraderie which alway,s accompanies singing, an~ from t he organization will be draiwn the quartets for the various contesits. Everyon!) is invited to join. Look for organi zational notices in the BEACON a nd daily bulletin. Ask for it either fNY . .. both trade-marks mean the same thing. JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and Hats of Quality tt I 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Ow en' s Sandwich S ho p, B oulde r, ~ol . BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY. BY KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. _141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2:9795 �Friday, December 16, 1949 WILKES .COLLEGE BEACON 3 SOCCERITES WILKES CAGERS FACE ITHACA COLLEGE Colonel Cagers.... TWELVE AWARDED LETTERS MONDAY IN SOUTH MAIN STREET ARMORY By ED TYBURSKI {BEACON Sports Writer) By PAUL B. BEERS With the fourth baske1Jball season at Wilkes underway there are ,s till a lot of students ;t the college who do not know the p.layers irepresenting their school. In an endeavor to straighten . this out, ' the BEAJOON will run pin points on the Colonel Cagers, as· we did the football Colonels, ,Starting out with the captain, w,e feel that Ben Dragon needs no introduction to Valley hoop fans. Ben has played around the Valley 1before, :h aving played varsity ball for the Colonels last season. Before that, he played ball at King's Coll~ge. ,M ost of • the play revolves around Ben. He is a gooq, dep,endaib.le guard ·and has ?- good driving shot. Ben is very seld.o m among the high scorers, but he is a great a,sset to the lboys who. do make the ppints. Last ye.a r, in 17 games, he scored 103 ·p oints for an 'average of 6 ,points per game. He is• a Charlie was u,p among the high scorers on the squad last season, accoun ting for 128 points. Only Sekerch.ik and Piorkowski outscored him. Charlie has a good set shot-a ,b etter one-hander. He adds a lot of scoring power to the t,eam. A junior, he still . has one more year of ,b asketball at Wilkes. As a sideline, he played soccer this past fall, lbut ,h e did ,s uch a good job at it, that he was one of the most valuable men on the team. · Paul Huff is another varsity man back from last season. He has moved right into a :starting assignment this year. He is fast on his feet, raveling around he floor like a young cyclone. A good set shot, his accuracy is invaluable to the. team. Last year Paul .was Co-Captain of the team. 'Dhis is his fourth and last ,season as a ,Colonel. These are only three of the Cager,s who play for Wilkes. E'a ch senior. ' week the BEACON will bring you Another key man i'n the Colonel at least two until we run through attack is center Charlie · Jackson. the entire squad. NOTRE DAME ADOPTS NEW TEACHING POLICY South Bend, Ind ., (I. P.)-A new Jively ap,proach to the teaching of hi,story, stressing individual student research in contemporary writinigs, is being inaugurated this year at the University of Notre Dame. Modeled after similar methods us.ed at Yale and Columbia universities, the program· here has been modified to pres·e rve more continuity in t he study of European · and American traditions and problems. program seeks to arous.e student interest iby "giving them the experience of · discovering history for themselves", according t o the Rev. Thomas T. M>oAvoy, C.S.C., head of bh.e Department of History. Study of a conventional text book is suppleni'ented by selected readings in documents from the period being considered. Thus, students become ·familiar with th,e actual documents that h,el,ped shape history, such as the Mayflower Compact, the Magna Carta, and the The Atlantic Pact. Under the No~re Dame system, the topics of study will be more closely knit than they are in the Yale and Columlbia .p rograms. An effort is !being made to trace the Christian tradition through the centuries, emphasizing the va.lue of history for its own sake. Students Hit Books ·3 to 5 Hours Daily Recent Survey Shows Clinton, N. Y., (I. P.--Just how muoh does a college student study? A recent survey conducted on the campus at Hamilton College revealed that the general average of s•tud'y time per day was between three and five hours. An even 30 .p ercent of the students said they ,spent four hours a day on the books outside classes. That, in addition to 19 hours of clas·ses a week, brings the student "working week" to just about 43 hours. Then too, bhe 6·00 men have over five d,ozen extra-curricular Recently, socc.e r coach Bob Partridge announced that he had awarded letters to twelve deserving members of the first Wilkes College soccer team. He 'made it clear that a letter for soccer isn't a cheap honor, but one that demands much hard work and plenty of fight. In Wilkes' first year of soccer Bolb gave letters to all the g raduating seniors, but not to returning freshmen and sophomore who will have an opportunity to collect theirs in future seasons. Big, loose-limbed Charley Jackson added to his collection of 11,!tters by defending the Colonels' go-al throughout the season. Keith Rasmussen, Charley Stocker, Captain Cy Kovalchik, Tom Kieb,ack, Rig,o Lemoncelli, Bruce MacKie and Ed Whea:tley all received their "W's" for their fine backfield play. Linemen Bolb Hooper, Sam Owens and Jerry Wyse all collected for their heads-up p1ay up-front. All thr.,c!e of the linemen started from scratch at the beg inning of th e season, burt they d:evelo,ped fast e::iough to earn le tters. Last but not least, Marty "Sitting Bull" Blake squeezed out a ' letter for rp1ayi-ng the part as manager of the soccer team. With six departing seniors, the soccer team is in need of some aible-bodi,ed men for the 19,50 season. Coach Partridge is looking forward to the day when the green freshmen will ,ripen, but, even so, there many o•p ened positions on the team to be filled by some good new men. activities. Over half the students study in dorrp.itory rooms, while another 29 percent hit the books in fraternity houses. Most frequent -d istraction reported (24 per cent ) wa,s "loudtalking within building". Just over half of the students said they could study in their ow n rooms any time th~y wanted to, 45 per cent reported they couldn't. The "midnight oil" prover;b took a beating, however. Only 7.2 per cent reported that they did all their studying at night. WILKES COLLEGE DEBATING TEAM COLONELS GUNNING FOR FIRST WIN By JOE GRIES {BEACON Sports Writer) The blue and gold quintet representing Wilkes College will be looking for its first home victory of the season when the courtmen play host to the powerful Ithaca College team Monday night at 8 p. m. in the South Main Street Armory. The Colonels started the present campaign by losing two straight games to the Hartwick five. Both of these engagements showed Ralston that something was missing, and the Wilkes mentor spent the :last .few .p ractice sessions seeking that weakness in preparation for Ithaca. However the squad is severely handicapped by lack of practice facilities. Ithaca College, coached by Ben Light, showed the same power in their opening games that they had last y,ear when they compiled a 16 and 5 record. The Bomber,s only last iweek trounced East Stroudss burg Teachers - the same team that whipped King's. 17 men comprise the Ithaca squad and of them nine sarw action on last year's varsity. The r,est of the team played on the junior varsity and freshman teams. ·T he team will be led by Lewis Bennett 6-ft. 5-in junior, Ed- A Qlhristmas Story ~~~,.q,,~ (From the Careers Library) In the early nineteenth century, technical progress had .almost been stopped; sdentists were 'frequently persecuted or exiled becaus_e they did ·s ome original thinking. During that time, the time when A Christmas .Carol was ·c onceived, there was, for examp.Je, no such thing as a newspaper press. When a boy delivered a newspaper, he w_aited for his customer to read it and return it so that he might move on to the next customer, there 'being only one co.py. Times were very tunbulent in the early part of that century and presented handicaps which only the strongest S(!ientific minds were able to s·urmount. This Christmas story has its setting in that day. It is the story of Mdchael Faraday, whose father was a blacksmith and who, when he was five years old, found himself living with hi-s ,parents in a room over a coach house in London. Because the family was very poor, Miohael had to help to ·e arn a living. He was a newsboy and he too had to wait patiently while each cus-tomer read the single copy. His ,education was .limited to a little reading, writing • and arithmetic. Fortunately for the world hi s attention was turned by an ar tide in the Encyclopedia Britannica on electricity. In search of further knowledge , Fara,day soub ' +. out ilecturers on scienc,e, and ori . day heard Sir Humphrey Davy lecture at the Ro yal Institution. Faraday took no tes on the l ecture and later sent them to .Sir Humphrey, who was so nrnc h impressed with the boy's accuracy that he offered him a j ob as assistant in his la,borat ory. Through th is association the young sdentist, Michael Faraday, had an opportunity to embark upon experimentation in science and electricity. It was a t abou t the same time that the ,principles of electricity were discovered. In 1821, while showing an experiment to his wife on Christmas Day, Faraday got the idea that turned out to 1be the basic principle of electric generators. W,h en he was only thirty-two years old, Faraday was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society. He, however, never forgot the lbenefit he received for the lectures he had heard. Nor did he forget Christmas day, when the idea of the electric generator I Shown above is the Wilkes College Debating Team which recently defeated Princeton. St. John's, and B'r ooklyn College in the Hofstra lnvltaUonal Tourna- . nient. · The team later defeated Lafayette, which was unbeaten for the past two years. Those, pictured above are, left to right, first row: Donald Kemmerer and Dr. Arthur Kruger, Instructor: second row: Julian Goldstein, Thomas Morgan and Eugene Bradley. ward Donnelly 5-ft. 9-in. senior, and Ray Kirkgasser 6-ft. 3;:fo. junior. Al,l the players are enrolled in the School of Health and , Physi~al Education. ' After the game ,with Wilkes, Ithaca takes on Army at West Point. If confidence is a decisive factor, Wilkes i-s on the way to its first home victory. The Colonels realize that it doesn't ,pay to lose too many gam,es and :with that thought in mind they will be aJ.l out to win. ,Goaoh Ralston iWill :b e counting: on such players to bring victory as. Paul Huff, Charlie Jackson, Ben. Dragon, Gene Snee, Bill Johns, At Casper, and newcomers Bobb-yBenson, George May and Jake Bator. Now that your team has a permanent place to play their gamesy oome out and support them. They need and deserve your sup-p ort. PLACEMENT CENTER. DOING TOP NOTCH JOB The Wilkes College Placement Service, in charge of Mr. John Chwalek, has been successful in securing part-time and full-time employment for Wilkes Students. Since its conception last September, the Placement Service has .benefited many students and built up such contacts that representatives of industry are coming to the campus to interview prospective employees. In a period of a'bout three months, the Placement Service has corresponded with over 1,000 firms and has gained such a reputation that local stores and industries visit the Service when they need additional employees. During th.e last three weeks, Mr. Chwalek ha•s interviewed all seniors graduating in February, ma:king .p ermanent records of their qualifications. The prospects for the graduating class appear good for the month of February. The increas.ed work due to the Christmas season has forced Mr. Chwalek to change his office hours to nine to twelve Mo.n day and Wednesday. Miss Stevens should be contacted for appointment!!. came to -h im. Each year thereafter he gave a series of sdentific lectures to the youth of England, and he considered them his Christmas present. The great 11cientists of England, since that first Christmas lecture by Faraday, have continued through the years to g' ve to the youtb of England the Christmas present which Michael Faraday instituted. THE BOSTON STORE Men's Shop has everything for the college man's needs. from ties to suits. FOWLER, DICK AND WALKER �4 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON .F:ti~ay~ December -----------------------------------_;_---------~--------------------' ENNIS REPORTS LOCAL DINER TO BEACON; ALFANO ENLIGHTENED; OTHER NONSENSE •Miss Dague: "No, Mr. Alfano, hardening of the arteries is NOT a highway project!" By CHUCK GLOMAN Now that tlie Christmas holidays are here again I'm reminded of the time when lloward "Skinny" Ennis was eating at a Jocal restaurant during the holidays last year. The Special of the Week was ·roast pig. When the waiter brought the pig on I a piatter, it had an apple in its mouth. .Skinny turned to the waiter and yelled: "Boy! What a brutal bunch of people you have here!" The waiter gazed with amazem-ent at Skinny and asked, "What. tpakes- you think we're brutal?" "Look at the poor thing", he yelled. "Ya kiUed it befor,e it could finish eating its apple!" ****** Mr. Partridge: "Do you believe in Buddha?" Jerry Smith : "Of c-our.se, but I think oleomargarine is jtis-t as good." ****** You rememlber that one of the marks of an educated man is the fact that he has a good vocabulary. So, in order to increase your knowledge of words, here are oome common expressions and their definitions: QU1IiCKISILVER: What the Lone Ralllger say.s when he's in a hurry. RAIN: , Something that, when you take an umbrella, it doesn't. BIGAMLST: A man who rings twice. JAYWALKERS: Bumper crop. ,GOLD-DIGGER: A fund-loving female. I CONVEX: Prisoners. MODERN WOMAN: A vision of loveliness in the evening and a per~ feet sight in the morning. JURY: Twelve men chosen to de- •••••• Wife: "Do you know wihat day it is? Just 2io years ago .we became -engaged." A'bsent-minded professor: "Why didn't you remind me befor,e, dear! It's high time th81t we got married." •••••• At Christmas time, every girl wants her past forgotten and her present remembered. •••••• At a recent court trial, one of the Wilkes freshmen, Allen 'Gery, was being questioned very specifically about a shooting whieh he had witnessed. T.he lawyer asked him, "Mr. Gery, just how far were you from the defendant when the fatal shot was fired?" "Four yards, uwo fe.et, and 6.8 inches", was the reply. "How can you be so exact?" the lawyer qlU.lstioned. "I thought some fool or other would ask me so I measured it", he answered. Before ,a fellow can print a kiss on a girl's lips he has got to be her tyipe or -she won't g,o to press . •••••• At the end of last semester, Dr. Davies- told his world lit classes: "I'm ,g oing to aUow you to do your final examinations at home, and ·w ill trust you not to cheat. I want :)"OU to rememlb.er .t hat it is diffi.cult and cheat and live wtih your11el-f ." The next morning, the paper of ·-one o! the students was letter perfect. At ·t he bottom of the page was the explanation: "Dear Dr. Davies: I find I can cheat and live with my-self better than I can -flunk and live with my father." •••••• Byron Lingertot : "You know, it certainly is wonderful l\ow moving pictures have adavnced these past few years,." Andy Evans: "What do you m,ean.?" Byron: "Well, first there were the silent pictures, then there were the talkies, and now this one smells." •••••• Many a girl has gotten a part in a full-len,g.th picture in Hollywood J)ecause she was so attractive in shorts,. •••••• Baum's Tuxedo's TO RENT Special Price To Student Body 198 S. WASHINGTOK ST. ~ :;.."..";'-N:. $$$$"...~;.;..$~~ ....~ DEEMER & CO. School and Office Supplies I I GIFTS AND/ STATIONERY Wilkes-Barre, Pa. j termin'e which side has the best lawye~. NOVELJ1ST: A person who can only count wp to Sex. SAND:WICH SPREAD: What people get from · eating between meals. -CHILDREN: Small people who are not perm'itted to act the way their parents did at that age. BOOKMAKER: A pickpocket. who lets you use your own hands. 16, .1949 think one •Of the greatest contribulife; tions to philosophy wa,s . by an Spun; gold yo~r ha_ir, and, Ups a Cupid's b ow .., anonymous pers'on' who stated: "T-0 err is · human, .but when the I vowed ·it then, my all I'd give, eraser :wears out of your pencil, Could I your name and ad-dress you're overdoing it!" know. ****** Alas, dear one, I dared not speak; Ed Ty1burski knows nothing at To hint of all I could offer you; all albout bathing beauties. He said -Of what, perchance, kind Fate "Never bathed one." assured ****** In this chance meeting of we two. It's a sure sign of summer when a Scotchman throws his Christmas And then-ah, THEN, dear girl, ****** I hear that at the school where tree away. my dream! Cled Rowlands used to go, they You 51Poke, in iaccents like a -limpid used the Honor System. The ·t eachs-tream: Pa_t Boyd says she hates morners have the honor and the stu- ings because they're so early. "Look, ya •b ig lug, fer Pete's sake dents have the system. git yer big feet outta the way ****** Angry parent striding into dimso's I can get off this . here Doctor: "Did the medicine I ly lighted room: "Young man, I'll darn bus, will ya?" gave your wife straighten her teach you to make love to my out?" daughter!" !Husband: "It sure d1d. I buried Studient: "I wish you would, old her yesterday." . boy, I'm not making much head•••••• ·way.' ,B arbara Keatley was visiting in Mas,sachusetts ·a few weeks ago POETRY CORNER: and she told me that she saw a Ode To Love sign in a beauty parlor that read : You settled down beside me on "Don't wihiatle at a girl -leaving the ,b us, here, she may lbe your grand- Aloof, cold, distant; not to know, mother!" nor care That my ,p oor heart did leap When it comes to great philoso- The moment you sat aown there. phers, I agree that Aristotle, Socrates and Plato were okay, but I Your eyes were blue, a-light with •••••• •••••• •••••• � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1949 December 16th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 December 16 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/188a2075b233f66d3c3f38d5f59187ce.pdf b996e20f386b541912c42f2f510801fa PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACO College WILKES CO~LEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vo~ 3, No.12. Friday, December 9, 1949 SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN ADDED; WILKES DEBATERS · VINCENT'S ORCHESTRA TO PLAY FOR CABARET PARTY RECENTLY SCHEDULED DEFEAT LAFAYETfE LETfERMAN'S FORMAL DECEMBER 16 . TOM ROBBINS Striving to keep good fun and entertainment synonymous with Wilkes College, the campus Triumvirate, the Pre-Med, L R. C., and Chem Clubs are tri-sponsoring a cabaret party at the Victory Room of Hotel Redington on Friday, January 6, 1950. Calbaret parties li,av,e gone over "big" in the pa:st and will continue to do so as long as th_e customers go away satisfied. They should ibe ·s atisfied at this one since the music wdhl be furnished. 'by Lee Vincent'-s orchestra. The "floor-show" has been mentioned in a mysterious tone, but as yet nothing has been discJ.osed 09ncerning the make~up of the enrter.tainment. According to the general chairman, Oharles Knapp is go'ing to be the coordinator of activ.ities which ·a re scheduled to am"Q.se the audience . . •, Everything is . done · in three's this · time. The affair is being trisponsored and trt-managed. The thr,ee gerieral ch•a irmen are Delores Passeri, Walter M.okychic and Bill Ke..shatus . . To gain achnittance to the TriUll\Virate cabaret· party, all one has to do is make reservations wi,t h either. Elva . Fwller or Bill Dyke-or go to the bookstore a·n d check there for r,eserJ;ations and tickets. iS-o, rememlber January 6 - remember the Vicrtory Room in the Hotel Redi-n gton - remember Lee Vincent and his orchestra-,.and r,emem!ber the $1,50 p~r, c,ouple. BUFFET SUPPER NEXT TUESDAY LITERARY SOCIETY BECOMES,ORGANIZED The second meeting of the embryonic Wilkes literary clulb is to be held at Chase Lounge Tuesday, January 3, at 7 :30. Thirteen students attended the initial ses•Siori of the club last Tuesday, and a groundwork was set up for the future meetings. It has been announced that there will be no membership qualifications other than sincere interest in the discussion and criticism of ldterature. The meetings of the club will be held. every two weeks. At the present time Art S:pengler, J·o hn Phethean, and Tony Andro~ naco are drawing up the constitution of this infant organization. The meeting next Tuesday wili concern itself with the election of officers and the ra,tificatfon of the constituti-on. The remainder of this session i's to be spent setting up valid standards for analysis and criticism. Future gathering_s will be principally concerned in 1mal_:yzing . contemporary student 1iterature. A name for the organization has not yet been chosen, and students who plan to attend the second meeting are requested to submit suggestions. · ·T oe mem'b ers who attended the initial meeting are Ar:t Spengler, John Phethean, Tony Andron~co, Ro•bert Rujjkowski, Sam Chambliss, Rolbert Hooper, Francis Trembath, Don Kemmerer, Anita Jenerich, -George Heffernan, Dorothy Wintersteen, James Tinsley, Marion Weltman. a On Wednesday night Wilkes Debaters claimoo. a victoTy over the Lafayette team on Lafayette's home ground. Until they came up ,against the Wilkes team, Larf.ay,ette had held the honor of being an undefeated team. The topic was the same as that of the Hofstra debate, "Riesolved, '11hat the Basic NonAgricult ural Industries in the United States Be Nationalized." H.epresen'ting WiLkes on the affirmative were Tom Moran and Julian Goldstein, while Don Kemmerer and Gene Bradley argued negatively. Fred Davis and Charles E.isenstein a ccomp•anied the team to observe the techniques used in intercollegiate debate. Judges for the deba te were all Lafayette personnel. The Lafayette ·c hapter Tau Kappa Alpha, of a national debating society gave a Debate Banquet at which the Wilkes Debaters were . the g,uests. On Monday night Wilkes Deibating Society will present a program for the Pi1ttston Ki:wanis Club at the Fox Hill Country Club. They will discuss the suJbject, "Are Our American ~choo1s. Preparing 'their Students for Adult Life.'-' Don Kemmerer will act as moderator while Fred Davis, Janet Gearhart, Doris Gauger and Charles Eisenstein present their ideas on the topic. ·NOTICE! One week from tonight, Friday, December 16, at the Irem Temple Country Club, The Letterman's Club will sponsor its Third Annual Christmas Ball. Music will be furnished by Lee Vincent and his Orchestra. Lee Vincent's Orchestra prom, The Letterman's Club wants to ises to round out a sure-to..1be-,enmake this affair a Merry Christmas send-off to the students and friends of Wilkes College. As iBob Waters, club president said, "If we can't make people happy, if we can't give them a little so they will have more, then we might just a-s weU fold up.'' · 'T he words of Mr. Waters form: the policy on which the dance will be run - much for little. The price of admission has been held to an albsolute minimum, and to further aid in holding the evening's expenses down, the Letterman's Club- requests that -no corsages ·be worn. They have a pleasant surprise in store for th·e girls. SPEAKER STATES, ANSWERS THREE QUESTIONS PERTAINING .TO -~OST.:WAR GERMAN CITIZENS / By GEORGE KABOSK . Are the Germans, by nature, capable of working out a Democratic system of government? Why do the German people co1isider themselves more cultured than the rest of the world? What has Hitler and the war done to German youth? These three questions were an'S'Wel"ed by Reverend Carl Schindler, instructor of religion and philosoThe box in which to put gifts phy at Wilkes College, a"S he spoke for the stock!ings being prepared to a student assembly in the Bapby Theta Delta Rho for the three tist Church last Tuesday. iHav1ng spent much of the sumcity hospitals is in the Girls Lounge. Please girls, do your share mer in Europe, T.he Rev. Schindto make this a happy Christmas ler's answers were based on his personal observations. for those sick kids. Not Interested In Politics In answer to the first question: Are the Germans, by nature, capable of working out ·a Democratic system of government? The Rev. · Schindler as"Serted, "Germans are Miss Beatrice .MacNally, · Penn- not interested in the busines•s of sylvania State Consultant on pol~tics. They are possessed- with Adoption, vi,sited and spoke to a dislike and a distrust for politics, Dean Harker's Child Psychology a feature that ha·s long been preclass this past week. Miss Mac- valent in German political history.'' Nally, who has twenty years e~l,Jnlike the American system, Theta Delta Rho dues must be perience in this field, discuss~ Reyerend Schindler said that the Pennsylvania adopti-on laws arld Germans do not cast a vote for an paid by Christmas. They will be t he sociological and psychological individual, but for a party. He addcollected at the Buffet Supper. aspects of adoption. ed that the majority of the govern- Adoption Consultant Talks To Psych. Class joyable evening. It .h as added to its repertoir for the affair, and ha:s ,b rought out a lot of hidden talent. V,incent will be at his best. Further, the !rem Temple Country Club lends the perfect atmosphere for such an occasion. ']Jie Letterman's Club feels sure that the student will benefit most from the diligent efforts tp make this a night to remember. Hard working Jack Semmer put it best when he said, "The only persons who will be sorry will be those . who, for som,e reason, didn't attend the affair. This is the Foi- 0 mal they've been asking for, and we have tried hard to give it to them.'' mental . offices are filled by civil serviee employees, not by elected individuals. The Rev. Schindler stated, "G,ermany is going to build its political state but it will not be like the United States. Democracy is a po!itical term. To the Germans it is an offen-sive term; call it lilberalism and they acc,ept because the latter is a word denoting a philosophy of life/' Germans Have Miseonception of "Democracy'' A plausi1b le explanation for the German abhorrance of Democracy may be their small knowledge of Greek. They 'believe the Greek wo·r d demos means mob, thus, democracy meaning mob rule. (Webs.ter's Collegiate Dictionary, ~Democracy -Gr. demokratia. from demos, the people--kratein to rule.) 'IN ewspap,ers and observers cla:im Germany is moving to the right." Reverend Schindler refuted this and added, "Germany will follow the old pattern.'' Why do the Germans consider themselves more cultured .than the rest of the world? In answering the secorid question, Rev. Schindler said that there is a slight justification in their sense of pride be( continued on page 2) Marilyn · iBroadt, Theta Delta Rho president, has . 1mnounced plan·s for· the sorority!s annual Christmas Buffet Supper. It will be held Tuesday, Dec,ember 13, in the Wilkes College Ca,£eteri-a at 6 P. M. ; Actually, this affair has always ·been Theta Delta Rho's Christmas party, presented in the form of a buf.fet supper. It has alway,s been well attended in previous years, and all .the girls are expected to attend this year. A list will be posted on the bulletin board of the ~irls' lounge to b,e signed by each girl who intends to ,b ring a coverWILKES COLLEGE SOCIOLOGY CLUB ed dish. Gwen Clifford is general chairman of the supper, with the following girls on committees: House, Mary Varga, chairman; Donna Oottrini,' Geraldine Fell, Marion W eltman, Joan Yonakas, Diane Campas, :Mary Gagliardi, Eleanor Kazmercyk, Isa1bella Sullivan, and Barbara May. 'Refreshments: Dolores Leagus, chairman; ,C atherine Read, Jane Piekarski, June WiUiams, Doris Manley, Judith Dressler, Lois The Sociology Club of Wilkes Shaw, Aida Shulman, and Vida College held a "Social hour Sunday, Peck. November 20, when it completed Entertainment: Beverly Van its organization by electing officHorn, chairman; Helen Casey, ers. The officers are Larry Pelesh, Louise Kucharski, Jane Bennett, president; Marita Sheridan, secreJanyt Burgess, and Beth Badman. tary; Michael Connors, treasurer; Decorations: Frances Trembath, · ,Mari-anna Tomassetti, program chairman; Doris Banks, Marjorie chairman. Mr. Konstantin SymonoShaffer, Shirley .Salsburg, Nancy lewicz is faculty advisor. , Raub, and Ruth Trethaway. At this meeting a panel discusClean-Up: Joan Lawlor, chairsion was pres·e nted on the subject man; .R omayne Gromelski, Theresa of juvenile deliquency, moderated Cionzynski, Bernic,e Fierman, Denby Mr. John Chwalek. The speakah Fleisher, Fay Jaffe, Elizabeth ers were Dave Edwards, Sally Norris, Hazel Willis, Grace Ruffin, Mittleman and Dolores Grabko. Doris Kanarr, and Connie OlshefJ>lans 'fere made for the Socioloski. gy Club's formal dance which will 1 :P~licity: Arlene (Pletcher, ibe held next semester. chairman; Rita Martin. The Sociology Club will present Because the · Christmas Buffet a speaker a,t its next meeting, Sun~Supper will he over at an early Left to right. first row: MlBB Hol!Srook, Marita Sheridan. Marianna Tomassetil. Sally Mittleman, Larry Peleah. day, January 8. Ref:reshments wili hour, the girls are advised not to Lois De Graw, Jane Reese, Dolores Grabko. Second row: Arthur Bloom, W!llard Prater. John Chwalek, J. W. Reynolds, t,,e served ais at all regular m~t. wqrry. aQ-Out; their lessons. James Galena. David W._·Edwards! P. L. Fera.- Michael Connors. Donald Hlml!n and John Guena. ings. NOTICE! SOCIOLOGY CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 ~':ENE FROM "BACK HOME" VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Art Spengler, Miriam Long, George Kabusk, Chet Melley, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, James Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney,, Irene · Janoski, Russ Williams, Joan Lawlor, Homer Bones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzger ,Priscilla Swartwood. Sports Staff Ed Tyburski, Paul Beers, Joe,.-Gries Photographers Don Follmer, Art Bloom, Bob Croucher A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Intercollegiate Press Pictured above are (left to riqhl): Al Jacobs, Evan Sorber and Nancy Fox In a dramatic scene of "Back Hom•"• EDITORIAL READIN', CHRISTMAS PROGRAM The establishment of a new literary society on the ca~pus TO BE PRESENTED ts definitly a step in the right direction. This society, as yet unnamed, should prove beneficial to any s-hiaent who desires to better his or her writing. Also, the society will discuss and criticize literature. The organization will probably work in close cooperation with the Manuscript, and in this way more interest in the school's literary magazine will be procreated, Any interested student is urged to attend the next meeting which will be held Tuesday in Chase Lounge. . . WRITIN' Since we mentioned the Manuseript above, we would like ~o state that the deadline for articles is Wednesday, December 14. Any student wishing to contribute to the magazine should place his or her manuscript in the box in the library. Despite rumors to the contrary, the Manuscript staff will consider all manuscripts submitted. The book contains ·short stories, esl?ays, poenis, and any other type of writin~ the students wish to contribute. 'N' 'RITHMETIC Wilkes College is about to launch a drive for $250,000 to erect a gymnasium. The · site of the· proposed building . is the large parking lot on South Franklin Street. When the structure is completed, the floor will be large enough to hold three.basketball games at the same time. The seating capacity of the gym will be about 2,000 people. The drive will be undertaken by .the board ,of Trustees of Wilkes, and will be in charge of Gilbert S. McClintock, ·who will direct a volunteer staff which will solicit. contributions from business firms and individuals of Wyoming Valley. _ While the students of Wilkes are not engaged actively in the d~ive, they, as individuals, can help. They can "talk it up" in. their home towns, and emphasize that each gift, no matter how small, will be appreciaetd. Also, if there is someone who would like to contribute to this worthy cause and has not been solicited by the workers, we are quite sure that if the student were to ·turn in the name 'and address of the individual, someone would call upon him. THE ·BOSTON STORE Men's Shop has everything for the college man's needs .. from ties to suits. FOWLER, DICK -A~ND,·-WAlKER-- The Wilkes College Cb.oral Club will present· a program of Christmas music at the assembly to be held on December 13 a.t 1i A. M. The first group will include Rise Up Early, a Slovak carol, and Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, · a Seventeenth Century German carol. Following group singing by the Wilkes students, the Choral Club W?-ll give their second group, The Time Draws Near, an English carol, Ah, Dearest Lord by Johannes Brahms with a solo by Helen Lithler Hawkins, and Angel Voices Ever Singing, a French carol. Fol lowing a greeti_ng by Dr. Farley, the Choral Club will conclude its special part in the program with And the Glory and the Lord from the Messiah by Mandel. Mr . . Cobleigh will conduct and Mr. Henderson will accompany several selections on the organ. These Christmas songs were recorded by } he Choral Clulb on 'l1hursday 'f.or presentation on ''Wilkes College On T'he Air". The · date of presentation has not been announced. A recording CYf Gil'bert and Sullivan music, sung by the Choral Cluib was broadcast in November. The entire group sang. A girls' chorus sang The Magnet and the Chu~n from Patientce. A boys' chorus 1sang When Britain Really Ruled The Waves from "Iolanthe".' Titwillow from The Mikado was sung by Pa,ul Shiff,er. ed the wider exchange of students to increase understandin:g. The last ques·tJ:ion: What has HiUer and the war done to German youth? "They want · jobs, clothing, food and enough money to m~'rry. There is no capital; fhere are few factories. The average German feels lucky to secure employment", stated ~ev. Schindler. The people under 25 have n,eve;r known real life because they have lived under Hitler, the war, and the occupation. The buoyancy of youth is carrying them on; however, they are pessimdsts. Many Germans feel that 1914 was the end of the world. Now the youth of Germany is being over:. come by a fe.e!i.ng of fuHlty. Characteristic is the view that the end of the world is at hand. Rev . .Schindler !l'Aid that it was hardly possilble to form· a conclusion. Nevel'!theless, he diq ·__say, "Germany is in a state of flux; when and where it w,ill cry,staiiie, no one knows.'' SPEAKER STATES . / continued from page I l cause they have excelled in th e field s of art, philosophy, and s-cience. He added that the G,e rman schools produce scholars; the American schools produce c-itizens. Germans Are Resentful "'The Ger.mans res,ent our efforts to re-educate them. They admire ****** 1. Do you enJoy writing let- our industrial supremacy but feel the country that produced Hollyter,s? • 2. Do you "scrihble" what you wood, Ja,z,z, and chewing gum fa not capaible of re-educating them", feel about this and that? said Rev. Sehindl,e r. 3. 4,re · you a vora_c ious reader? The Rev. Schindler recommend4. Do you have a yearning for ' people, coupled w:ith a yearning for solitude? · •5. Do you have a fondness for words? · 6. Are you curious? If your answers to the above questions ai:e yes, the authoress, Alice .Ross •Colver, says you have the traits of a writer. Try yourself out and .. Atlanta, Ga. Ask Jo,: it either way • •• both trade-marks mean the same thing, .ATTENTION! SUBMIT . y;ouR .. WORK .11HE MANUSCRIPT Deadline Is December 14th. TO The Georgi~ Tech College Inn in Atlanta, Georgia, is a: favorite haunt of the Georgia Tech students. That's because the Georgia Tech· College Inn is a friendly place, always full of the busy atmosphere of college life. There is always plenty of ice-cold Coca-Cola, too. For here, as in university gathering spots everywhere-Coke belongs. . I , BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2-8795 �Friday, December 9, 1949 3 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON -=====THE Beacon Lights of Sport GEORGE BRODY, Sports Editor Don't forget the Letterman's Ball one week from tonight. It is the number one affair of this sem~ ester. If you don't have the best time of your life, it will be your fiault. All the ~lements will be there, all you have to do is smile. BASKETBALL SEASON WATERS NAMED OUTSTANDING ATHLETE~ WASHKO, PINKOWSKI RECEIVE AWARDS TAKES SPORT HI-LITE By ED TYBURSKI Basket ball season is underway. It hardly seems poss~ble that football is a,lready tucked away for the w'inter. It is as though we were just ·looking forward to the WilkesKing's football game, but tlia.t game, like the rest of the season, is j;ust a pleasant memory. Basketball is here now, and so back to reality. Whenever a s eason starts, one is always at a loss for words . Oif cours.e, there are a,lways two ways of look,i n,g art a prdblem .. the optomistic view, or the other -e xtreme. However, we'll just ride the middle Why, th.ere's fencing, swimming, volley,ball, LaiCrosse, Hockey, baskebball, golf, tennis, and softball. Just take your pick and start org,anizing. For a starter we would sugges.t a girls basketJball team. There are plenty of r,ivals av•a ilabl.e in th·e valley. What would be nicer than seeing the g.i rls play before the varsity game. Another point, we feel sure that you would have no trouble getting some' exp.erienced -M ad. player to coach you. As a ma tter When we interviewed Coach Ralof fact, Al Molash has already vol- ston about th,e team , he gave us the unteered for the jdb. "Leahy treatment" and told us to look fo r a mediocre season. He ****** llooks like the wrestling team pc(}inted out the tough schedule the got the breaks this year. Jim Lag- Colonel cagers wuld face, and he gin and Billy Lee are as fine a pair centarl nly had a point. Just t o nam e of coaches as wi11 be found any- two big ones, let 's star t with Lawhere. They take over an exiperi- fayette a-nd the University of enced team that the capable Crom- Scranton. Those two teams alone well Thomas coached to an impres- would be enough ito make any •S>ive five won, and two lost record. coach's hair grey. Then there's It',s going to be hard to improve Hartwick, and E. Stroudsburg S. &n a season li'ke ,that, but there is T. C., and King's. And, brother, r,oom for improvement . . . an un- don't think King's isn't out to get def.eated season. ls tliat too much us. They're still smarting from wha.t the football Colonels did to to ask? them. One thing is certain, the wrestOne thing that Coach Ralston ling team will ·have fun if nothing did tell us made us feel very good. else. Among 1ts strong, viriJ.e, vig- And that was that he had 33 men orous men are little Stkininy Ennis turn out for his initial practice. and Dan .Sadvary. But hold, Bro- Considering the fact that this ther, hold! You don't think these practice was held in Wyoming Semboys are good? Come watch the inary, this was better than a good wrestling team in action and treat t urnout. Boys from Berwick, Nanyourself to a thrilling evening. ticoke, Pittston, and places fal' *** ** The basketball team's first game will be played the day this column goes to press .. We wish them the same kind of season the footoall team had. Could we wish them more? ***** * ·I t is the £ad to talk of spirit and wish there wa-s mor,e. Any corner in the cafeteria will usually have its share of students crying for more spirit. Well, file this for reference. The day 'basketball practice was ealled, the Colonels had no floor, no gym, and no hopes. After one afternoon of discouraging negotiations, Wyoming Sem permitted us use of· its c.ourt from 5 to 6 P. M. When Coach Ralston got there to start practice, he wa·s greeted by 33 inen. . You can bet your boots that if this isnlt a winning .t eam, it will be the fightingest team you ever 9a'W. This year1s club has a good nucleus. Dragon, Huff, Zl!onkiewioz. and Jackson are back from last year's vars,i ty. ' There i·s much· encouraging new materiial available to round '1IUt •the squad. Every positi~n is a battle. The best, of .course, will represent W.ilk.es. The · Wilkes Cagers have b'een the vlictims of an a:bnormal situation since basketball oame to our oollege. They have always been a better team than the record shows, but if a team has ·no place to practice, and when it does practice, do so under adverse conditions, then it can .never put i:ts best int o a g.a me. The material and the potential have been there; the prospects of a great team are here now, but .t hey too w,ill suffer from the same thing. However, patience is a virtue. Next year things will be different. The need for a gym has been realized, and the effonts to obtain one have taken fruit. Bear with us now, for the future holds promise of r,ewa rd. Playing with thoughts: A young sch pol must, of necessity, depend on its a lumni. Q.1iibside interest in a new college is t oo small to even note. It must first build, and in building it must send out an ever gi'owing alumni who become its unofficial ambassadol!'s. Its foll owing. grows in di r eot proportion to its alumni. ' ' At thios point, bhe g r eatest percentage of Wilkes alumni gra duates are from the old BUJ1C, and thes,e graduiates have lost to uch with the school. They must be broug ht bacik to the fold. If we can get them to attend our athletic everut s, t he a tt,endance will he trip led .. And once it,hey begin comi ng, they are going to form a halbit. It Is never t oo early bo think of next year, or the follow,i ng 1year, or a lt the years thereafter. ' 1Lt is this column',s suggestion, then, that starting wiith the coming football campaign, a special alumni football book of tickets to sell at half price should be distrtbuted to the entire alumni body. The practice should bnly be in eff,e ct a year or .two, because habit, once. formed is hard to break. Then watch our following grorw. It's about time the athletic program should start paying for itself, anyway. . Last we·e k we suggested an athletic program f'Or the girls. Since -t hen, many have approached us and asked, "What kind of athletics?" Wheeis meet the red hot Ohern Clllllb in another game that will have a I lot to do with the final standings. The Wheels need a few more points By JOE GRIES to get into the playoffs and by the same token the Chem Club needs The match wibh the biggest pre- one more point to get a tie with game pu'blioity of the seas·on failed the front running CPA's. The to pay off last Tuesday night a·s · Wheels in games wi.th the E.n ginthe red hot Chem Club took thr~e · eens and the CPA team took one points from the equally good En- point from each. Following these gineers. In winning, the Chem Club same lines the game should p.r ove wiped another record off the books, . to be a good one with a maximum getting 2324 pi-ns for the high team of thrills. · ,s•eries of the season. Davis took PINLETShigh honors for tile eve!lling with 'Dhe 0PA · teiam still holds first a single series of 521 for the night. pJ.a:ce with a one point lead as a He was followed closely by Bar-0- result of a three point win over vich of the Engineers with 499. the Bookies. Mr. Werner was the The Engineers managed to s·a lvage hig gun for the accounting boys one point by taking the last game with some good bowling. Captain by 12 pi ns. Czajkowiski t ells me Mamary and Jimmy Davis reminds us tha t Connor s were int erest ed in other last week the Chem Clwb bowling pins t hat were downstairs . Phil !beauties set a new hi•g h team Kjennedy didn't have to do any buy1sing le game s,eries ib y kno cking ing this week. Killian and Stofko d own 849 maples. The star of t he brought their w.ives for inspiration tea m, Tanky Ce1mar, wh o the week and t hey seemed to enjoy heckeling previo us ha d set a new game re- tJhe champ s. Th or s took 3 points cord of 233, hit a slump and had fr om t he luckless Dorm with 16 consecutive frames in which he Haracz and Weg ner high men. Precouldn't h it a mar,k. Meds dropped 3 to the IiRC with ·T h.e Wheels, who have been run- Kowal and Pers ico high . Danny -n ing into t oug h luck la tel y, came Sherman asked where the alley }Vas out of the doldrum s long enough instead of t he groove. :ijill Miller Tuesday to t ake three points from had a 22 in the fourth fram e and t he Kushmakers. BiII Miller cam e then went on to r oll a 191. Irene off t he bench to r oll a neat 191 and Wang took bowling instructions take high single honor,s in that de- from a bysta nder who never bowlpart ment. As usual 0a'l'l Gilbson ed a game in his life. J ohn Klanr.oll,ed his steady ·g ame and cam e sek, Wilkes Alumnus, coming back out wi·th a t otail series fo r his t o t he Eagles long enough to be trouble. It can be sa1id here that made official scor.er for the Wheel s. Larry Melius smoked a pipe dur- Af.ter. fourteen frames without a ing the first game and· that was mark Danny Sherman made a spare the only point the WheeJos lost for and then sai.d all yoti have to do is the evening. Mayibe th.e Wlheels "drop it". ****** better buy Larry a box of stogies This week the orchids go to Jim.for a Christmas present. Before my Davis and L. Czajkowski of the the game started Carl Gibson went Chem Club and CPA's respectively down and pinned f or the Wheels for the pwbl-i'c ity they prepared on to get a little prac:tice. Showing their teams. If y-<,u like orchids why their appreciation for th'i s jesture not prepare some material on your the boys took Carl out and .bought team and drop it in the Beacon t he refreshments. Red Brennan offi ce. had Seven~Up to quenoh hi s thirst , Wilkes Bowling League Standings 17 4 23 but only because' he is in training. CPA 16 5 22 ****** Chem Club 16 6 21 TENTH FRAMEEngineens 14 7 19 The bi g gall\e of the season win IRC 10 11 14 come u:p next week when the first Thor's Five 10 11 13 place OPA's meet the third place Wheels 9 112 13 Engineers. TlJ.ese same two team s Kushmakers 5 13 5 lbattled for the championship last Bookies 3 18 3 year. It should prove to be exciti-ng. Dorm 2 1'6 3 Along these same lines t,he Pre-Med STRIKES AND SPARES WILKES LETTERMEN HONORED AT COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC BANQUET Bob "Poop" Waters was awarded the Howard W. Davis Memorial Trophy for being named ''Outstanding .Athlete of The , Year", at the Fourth Annual Athletic Banq~et, which was held Wednesday evening in the Wilkes College cafeteria. . Other · awards were presented to Gerard Washko and Francis Pin~ kowski. ·· · T= ,M_pran, Public Relations Director, made !:he presentation to Waters. George Ralston presented t he trophies t o Washko and Pinkowski. ,Moran, in pres,enting the trophy to Watens, stated that it is awarded on the basis of four qualifications : Leadership, Scholastic Ability, Sportsmanship, and Athletic Albilit y. Waters won his letters in Football, Wrestling, and Baseball. lPinJw wsiki received a double honor ·i n that he received two trophies. One was the Joseph Gallagher Memorial Trophy, and Pinky was also named " 0utstand'ing Back.field M'an of The Year" .. Washko, because of his "heads u,p" play in the Cotonel forwar4, wall this past season, was nam~ "Outstanding Li-n eman of T~ Year". .P revious to these presentations, letters in all sports were awarded'.. !by the coaches to all the players. who had met the quialifications to• receive W's. from being conveniently located to Kingston showed up. What the team may lick in e~erietice and polish may be made up by this enthusiasm and interest showed by the students of Walkes. And now we have a permanent court to practice and play on, this interest could easily develop into the pol.ish tha.t in'akes a team better Uran average. So if we do lose in the first wteks of the season, rwe whll not lose hope. ln fact we look for Coach Ralston to dig into his bag of tricks and come out wiith a better than · fair team. Look at bhe good season he had l·a st year. Remember, he had no specific pla~ to practice. It was catch as catch can .. Coach Ralston, when questioned on tMs . point, said, "Had we a :permanent cou,;.t hi.st yl!ar, we'd have even beaten King's." And t)?at sums it up. With this. problem taken care of, tM coach can apply all of his time t:q the team instead of running around town looking for a ~oui:it to play bn: -A nother problem that a per~ manent court shotiild take care of is that of filling up the stll:rtds. Be;. fore the students of Wilkes had an · excuse. But how with tlie securing of the South Main Street Armory; fans should flock to Wil~s basketlbaJI games. The iQcation is idehl; it is cimtrally loeiteli, availabl~ to bus and troll~y traffic, and il pla:c.; Miere W.il~~ will play all of its home games. So rem~~ber. . . .. The . Colonel cager(! des~r v~ •yo_nr support jnst i I as the football Colonels........ Give them a chance Jnd,come out tq 8~ them play .. . .. Support the Coionel Cagersi I I Ig I STYLED for Campus BTO's in Glove-soft white Flagg Buck. ST AMINA galore in the. rugged red rubber sole that'll wear and wear. \,,~ $8.95 All Styles IUY A PAIR TODAY litaGG BROS. _ . , . . OI CltGAl UTAI. (CWQIAYOC 14 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. �4 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday, December 9, 194 -------------------------------------------------------------in his education column in th DEBATERS BEAT PRINCETON, ·ST. JOHN'S Vice-Pres. of USNSA Wilkes Officials At Tribune.) AND BROOKLYN IN HOFSTRA TOURNAMENT To Be Here Wednesday Education Conference NOTICE! Leaving for New )'"ork Friday afternoon, the Wilkes College Debating Team, composed of Tom Morgan, Julian Goldstein, Donald Kemmerer and Gene Bradley, and accompanied by its coach, Dr. Arthur Kruger,pnd by Fred Davis, an alternate memb_e r of the s.quad, journeye4ci to Hofstra College, located at Hempstead, Long Island, where they took part ' in the Hofstra Second Annual Invitational ·Debate Tournament on Saturday. Debated was t}le nati.o nal debat_e topic, "Resolved, That the United States Should Nationalize its Basic Non-Agricultural Industries." Conwleting . a gruelling program Such, for example, was the margin of eight debates in one day, the Wilkes Debaters gave a good account of themselves by defeating Princeton University, Brooklyn College, and St. John's. They lost to Manhattan, Barnard, John Marshall, Wagner, and CCNY. ·E ven in def.eat, however, the Wilkes. debaters were singled out ~s having "the best delivery" in tJhe tournament. They were the only • s·peakers who did not read their speeches or use excessive notes but relied wholly on the extemporaneous method stressed and taught them :by their coach, Dr. Kruger. Similar .praise was given the Wilkes group last year at the Brooklyn Tournament, where a completely inexperienced team defeated Boston Unit ersity, NYU, St. John's and Stevens Institute of Technology. · •Of tJhe .present group, only two, Tom Morgan and Don Kemmerer, are _ho1duvers fronr last year. Gene Bradley and Julian Goldstein, replacetp.ents George Maisel and Jack Faneck, who graduated last June, nail no experience in the field of intercollegiate debate prior to the Hqfstra tourney. by which Wilkes lost three of its debates, to John Mar.shall, OGNY, and Barnard. Individual speakers were graded on such factors as organization, evidence, teamwork, r ebuttal, · and presentation. The Wilkes team is scheduled to take part in two more tournaments 'b efore the end of the college year, both in March. These are the third Annual Invitational Tournament to be held at Brooklyn College and the Annual Tournament sponsored by the Debating Associationation of J>ennsylvania Colleges, to be held at the University of Pi.tts·b urg this year. for i' Winner Not Known Wilkes did not l~rn wha.t col~ Lege won the Tournament, since the .group had to leave shortly after the last round of debates in .o rder to make train connetcions for W.ilkes-Barre. Full details of relative standings will be mailed out to ea,c h school by tJhe tournament director. Last year the recipients of the plaque which signifies victory went to Barnard C::.Ollege, an .: all-girls school, which won seven .out of eight debates. Although the ·final tally for this year's tourna:ment- was not in at the time the Wi!kesmen left Hempstead, it was ·.known that the Princeton affirmative team had won three out of :four of its encounters, having been ,defeated only by Wilkes in the final Tound. Incidentally, the judg,e of the Wilkes-Princeton debate termed it the best one he had witnessed uhroughout the day. Similar commendation was given the WHkes affirmative-GCNY negative debate by its judge, who called it the debate of "highest caiibre" he had heard. Morgan Singled Out Several judges singled out Tom Morgan of the Wilkes affirmative team as "the best speaker in the entire tournament" from the standpoint of .presentatrl.on. Gene Bradley of the Wilkes negative team was complimented for his "forceful and vigorous" delivery. Of the · many speakers which the Wilkes group heard, the second Wagner affirmative speaker and the second Barnard negative speaker made the best impr.essfon. Because of the uniformly high calibre of all particiipants in the Tournament, all decisions were extremely close, being decided in many instances by a point or two. DEEMER & co. I School and Office Supplies GIFTS AND STATIONERY WilkesuBarre, Pa. Copyright 1949, UGOITT & MYnS ToMCCO Co. Ted Perry, vice-president of the U. S. National Student Association, will speak at Wilkes .on Wednesday, December 14th, on the topic "What ls The Role of N. S. A. in the Student Community?" Perry, who is vice-president for student government and student life, is a senior majoring in acCO!,mting at Temple University, and y.ras elected at the Au~ust N .S.A. Congress. Previously, he was chairman of the Eastern Pennsylvania Subreg.ion of N. S. A., and was the first student to hold a high position in the National Association f,o r the Advancement of Colored People, when he was named a member of the Philadelphia board of the above association. At Temple, he was vice-president of the student government a·n d won honors as an outstanding student. He is on a tour of four states, where he will speak at 19 colleges and universities. This tour is the seventh in less than three months taken by an N .:S .A. National Staff member. Miss Harker, Mrs. Davis, and Mr. Morris attended the school and College Conference at Cedar Crest College, Allent()IW'n, on Wednesday, December 7. The chief purpose of the convention was to study the integration of relationships between high school and college. The principal speaker was Mr. William Averitt, Educational Editor of the New York Herald Tribune. His address was entitled "The Place of Women in the World of Affairs." (Ed. Note. - Mr. Averitt spoke to the students of Wilkes College last year at one of the spring , assemblies. He wa1, so impressed by the remarkable strides made by Wilkes College in the field of education that he featured Wilkes During the Christmas vacatio1 Dec. 11 thru Jan. 2, the Librar will operate on a curtailed schecl ule: Monday thru F,iday it will ~e open from 9 :00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. It will be closed: Saturday, December 24 ~nd 3 1Sunday, Dec.ember 18, 25 an January 1. Monday, Dec. 26, Jan. 2. Joseph H. Myers SUBMIT to the MANUSCRIPT Baum's Tuxedo's TO RENT on · the square Special Price To Student Body 198 S. WASHINGTON ST. •;.;;·..,.,;.,;.$..,.:;:;,c:;·-:.$;.:;:;~.,..;.••:::.,;.$~ THE COLLEGE MAN'S STORE ~---_:__-~~~'.::::'.::'.::====--=========:::::::: � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1949 December 9th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 December 9 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/627e509a3345a035b42425223f380393.pdf a8d0729fdf48574e37b5346cca954d4a PDF Text Text Wilkes BEACON College WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vol. 3, No. 11. Friday, D_ecember 2, 1949 Wilkes Arbiters In Intercollegiate Tournament CUE 'N' CURTAIN'S PROGRAJ OF ONE-ACTS· THETA DELTA RHO DEBATERS LEAVE FOR HOFSTRA COLLEGE; TO BE CONTINUED TONIGHT ON.CHASE STAGE TO HOLD SUPPER WILL PARTICIPATE IN ANNUAL TORUNEY Theta Dleta Rho will hold its PLAQUE WILL BE AWARDED TO WINNER annual Christmas Buffet Supper in the Wilkes College Cafeteria, By ROMA YNE GROMELSKI By CHUCK GLOMAN Tuesday, December 13, at 4 P. M. This evening, Gepe Bradley, Thomas Morgan, Don KemmerThe Cue 'n' Curtain Club will present a program of one-act Each girl is requested to sign the posted on the bulletin board er and Julian ,Goldstein will trove_! to Hofstra College, Hempplays tonight at 8:15 in Chase Theatre. All students and their paper of the girls · lounge, stating what guests are invited There will be no admission charge and covered dish she intends to bring. stead, Long Island, to represent Wilkes College ·in the Second "THE POT BOILER" IS FEATURED PRESENTATION no tickets are necessary. The program will be in three divisions, the first a monologue, "The Tell Tale Heart" by E<igar Allan Poe, ·g iven ,by W. Thomas ·Li-ttleton. Following will he a one-act melodrama entitled ".B ack Home", directed by Ross Leonardi, with Evan Sori:>er, Albert Jacobs and Nancy Fox in the cast. By popular demand, the Oue 'n' Curtain players again will present "The Pot Boiler", a 1hi-larious satire on hammy acting and directing. iMembers . of the original cast include.iMa!bel Faye Richards as Mrs. Pencil, so-named because she 'as lead in her head; Charlie Williams as the hero Mr. Ruler, because he is so straight; Joan Walsh as Miss Ivory, · a gal who's pure and white; Andy Evans as the deep-eyed villian Inkwell, ibecause ,h e is so ,b lack. .N ew members of the cast are Tom Ro:tlbins in the role of Thomas Pinikles· Sud, the super director (1Super Sud); Wayde Hayhurst as W ould,by, the novice who would be if he could 'be, ·but ,h e can't .be, neverthel,ess he is; and Johnny Moore as Mr. Ivory, a .lad who is 99 4i/ 100 per cent pure. Th,e Club suggests that you make a night of it by going to see the .program at Chase Theatre and then attending the sport dance at St. Stephen's· Church House. ART EXHIBIT TO BE HELD ON CAMPUS THROUGH COURTESY ·oF STANDARD OIL LITERARY GROUP TO MEET TUESDAY An outstanding collection of paintings, water colors and drawings which record the dramatic character of an essential industry will be exhibited through the courtesy of Standard Oil Th,e formation of a new literary Company at Pickemg Hall on the Wilkes College campus from group at Wilkes College was anDecember 5 through December 26. nounced today .by Dr. Arthur N . The collection, titled "·Oil", was Mechau were assigned to do oil commissioned as an art and educa- production on the western plains tional project. Portraying the faT- of the United tates. Peter Hurd flung activities of the oil industry, depicted the activities of geologists the coHecuion documents the pro- in Wyoming and Utah, and Don duction, refining and transrporta- Burns vecorded drilling acuivities tion of oil and its uses from the in the bayous of Louisiana. arctic to the tropics. The artists Following di! through its converwere given comp.lete freedom to sion to fini'shed products were intevpret thei-r indiviidual assign- Thomas Benton, among whose ments as they saw fit. They are: paintings is one huge canvas which ThomiJs Benton, Don Burns, Fran- ca,tches the excitment of the Fluid cis Criss, Adolf Dehn, Ernest Fie- catalytic cracking plant, so vital ne, Peter Hurd, A very J o'h nson, in mass production of high octane Joe Jones, Mimi ·Korach, John Mc- gasoline, Ernest Fiene, who painted Crady, Frank Mechau, Georges the dramatic architecture of touSchr.eiber, Frederic Taubes, John Jene plants, refineries and storage A. Wedda, and Ralph L. Wickiser. spheres, and John McCrady, who Eaich artist was assigned subject recorded the round-the-clock activma:tter sympathetic to ihis style ities of a refinery. and medium. The pictures then Several artists covered the transwere augmented with text material portation of oil, among them Fredwritten !by experts in the oil in- eric Taubes who portrayed a pipedustry. 'The collection thus repre- line system. Avery Johnson depiotsents a new kind of documentation ed the use of oil in helping to bring ,based on a close relauionSihip be-J a fuller life to Central Americans; tween avt and science. The pie- and John Wedda made paintings tures 1h~ve ~een show~ at museum of oil 'bunkr ring po,r ts in Europe, and umverSity galleries through- AJfrica, and North and South Amout t he United !States and Canada. erica. Six artists were assigned to ,F rancis Criss visited the re,. portray oil as it comes from the search la:boratories-key to the ground. For this material, Georges many uses of oil in both war and Schrei,b er went up to Norman · Wells, N or,t hwest Territories, to peace. Mimi Korach did a series recor,d oil production under sub- of water colors in France in 1947 zero, ice condi\ions, and Adolf w'hich show what hap,pens to preDehn journeyed ·to the tropical cli- sent-day society when it lacks an The German Club held its regu- ma:-te of Venezuela to depict oil essential source of power for its lar meeting Tuesday, November drawn from the jung1es and Lake machines; and .R alph Wickiser pro29, in Barre 101. The club, led by Maracaibo. Joe Jon,e s and Frank duced a series of ,h.j,ghway scenes. advisor 'Mr. Elwood Disque, exchanged banter ~d sang songs in German. This jovial group produced some ·o f the hest singing and worst music ,the campus has ever known. At ·their meeting next week, the club plans to show th,e movie BUFF ALO BILL WAS ONE BIG INFLUENCE UPON FOREIGN ' ISchubert's Serenade". Interested IDEAS ABOUT U. S., SAYS SPEAKER students are urged to attend. "Schubert's Serenade" To Be Presented At Next German Meeting DR. PAUL-NEUREITER'S SPEECH DISCLOSES UNIVERSAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA By GEORGE KA1!USK Making of An American" was Dr. Paul Neureiter's POSTER CLUB TO AID topic"The as he addressed a Wilkes College assembly in the Baptist CAMPUS PUBLICITY Church on Tuesday. Realizing that ther•e is a need for an organization to aid on-thecampus pu:bJicity for social affairs, a group of interested students, under ·t he leadership of Dominic Alfano, have formed a Poster Club. The club, now a part of the Public Relations Department, will give an opportunity to students interested in lettering and related skills, a chance to s·h ow their wares. ,Memlbership in the club is open to all students and any interested persons should see Dominic Alfano. Later in ibhe year, an Art Club is to be organized as a branch of the Poster Club. Annual Hofstra Invitation Tournament on Saturday. The topic for the debate will be, "Resolved, That the Basic Non-Agricultural Industries of the United States Be Nationalized" Born in Vienna, Austria, one block fr pm th,e house where Schubert wrote his music, Dr. 'Neureiter was thorn the son of one o.f Austria's leading manuf~ctuerers. He was a privy-c;,ouhcillor to Char les of Hapsburg, the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary. As a child, N eureiter had visions of America. He said t h ese were influenced 'by stories of the wild west. His ;favorite story was James Fenimore Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans". "One day", he told. the students, "my uncle, a colonel in .the Austrian army, offered to ,t ake me to see a circus which was featuring Buffalo .Bill. After seeing Buffalo Bill, I thought of an American as a man who could ride and shoot.'' Dr. Neureiter • confessed that Buffalo Bill influenced his life. He also 'believed that the show inspired the rest of the world. In high school, N eureiter pictured our nation in a different light. It appeared as a land of 'builders and engine.ers. Henry Ford, father of mass production, was the man who personifie~ American enterprise. "Austrians were brought up in a narrow spirit of nationalism", stated the doctor. "It wasn't until World War I, while a soldier in the Austrian army that . I rec;:,gn(continued on page 2) Kruger. The group, as yet nameless, will hpld its first meeting Tuesday, December 6 at 11:00 a. m, in the Science Lecture Hall. Dr. Kruger asks all those interested in joining to attend this for-. mative meeting. He explained that this will no~ lbe a restricted society. reserved for any one group, but rather for all students interested in writing. He s-tates that the purpose is to build an intellectual climate, where students can gather, exchange views, create ideas, discuss their personal writings, ways of improving and bettering their styles. · Of course, all this is tentative. The plans, purposes, and aims of the society will ,b e discussed fully at the first meeting. _pARTRIDGE, HARKER ·CHOSEN AS ADVISORS BY SENIOR CLASS At the second senior class meeting of the current semester which was held in the Girls' Lounge on Wednesday evening, November 30,· Mr. Partridge and Miss Harker were chosen as senior class advisors as determined by a system of preferential balloting. The .balfot: ing revealed · that j,u st about all of the candidates we re extremely popular, and the successful candidates just barely edged out t he other nominees. ·Before any business could be conducted, however, it became necessary to establish a figure which would constitute a quorum. Since an average number of thirty students have attended the two inee tings, a quorum was establish.ed, using t wenty-nine as the figure. Assessment Established One of the more important items on the agenda for the evening was the determination of a class ass,essment fee. A statement of approximate expenrses entailed in graduation !bore out the fact that a $.5 charge was necessary. A motion to , that effect was passed. Class Rings Discussed Mr. A. Nolan, Balfour ring representative, related all necessary information aib out class rings and pins, which info~mation can .b e obtained from Miss •Gittens at the bookstore. All students -g raduating in February were urged to have their pictures taken at the Barre Studios and to submit these pictures to the Yeal1book staff as soon as possible. The contests will open · with a meeting at 9:3-0 in the morning and be followed by the first two rounds of the program. Rounds three and four will be held in the afternoon. 'The tournament's formal closing will be marked by another meeting ending approximately at 5 .p. m. Lawyers from the Hempstead locale, high school debate coaches, and Hofstva professors will serve as judges. The school attaining the best aggregate record will receive a plaque commem6'rating their achievement. In this contest Wilkes College debaters will compete with such well known s-chools •a s New York University, Columbia University, Rutgers, and John Marshall College. Dr. Arthur Kruger, advisor of the debating society, will accompany the group. Inter-Squad Debate Held On Wednesday night, the team held an inter~squad debate in the Science Lecture Hall on the topic for the tournament. The judges were: Mr. David Jones, a Kings~n High School history teacher; Joseph · Powell, debating coach at King's College, and .Mr. John Whitby, an economics instructor at Wil:kes. The negative team claimed the victory. Accepted In Debating Society Fred S. Rdbie, Director of Debating at the University of Pittsburg, recently" informed Don Kemmerer, the WIikes Debate Manager, that Wilkes College has been accepted as a member of the Debating Association of P.ennsylvaa nia Colleges. Mr. Robie extended • his personal congratulations in a letter, and, on behalf of the .A,ssociation, expressed great pleasure in receiving Wilkes College as a colleague in forensic endeavors. A few weeks ago, the Debating Society attempted to open intercollegiate debating relations with Drexel Institute of Technology. Drexel's debating advisor, William Bernard, replied that student interest in debate at Drexel was not sufficient to allow participation in intercollegiate contests. He c<Jnveyed his willingn'ess to include Wilkes on the list of rivals when the interest can be stimulated among the students to allow such activities. However, Temple University recently accepted Wilkes' invitation to be includued on its debating schedule. GIRLS ORGANIZATION ADOPTS NEW POLICY At the meeting of Theta Delta Rho held Novemlber 2·2, it was decided to dispense with ·the active and inactive lists. Every girl on campus is now considered an active member. whether she attends the meetings or not. However, in order to be eligilble ,t o vote or to ·hold office, a girl must attend meetings regularly and must pay her dues. �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 ATTENTION! EDITORIAL YOU CAN HELP WILKES GROW Upon you, a student at Wilkes College, depends the future success of this institution. For . sixteen years intelligent minds and cooperative citizens, who realized the need for an institution of higher learning in Wyoming Valley, worked constantly to make this college what it is today. Now, the time has c:ome for its alumni and present students to help with the burden. You,. as a student at Wilkes College, are an ambassador. To you falls the task of making this institl.1:tion greater, not necessarily in size, ,but in prestige and tradition. After you leave Wilkes College, many 'times you will be called upon to help by supporting various campaigns and attending various activities. This is your assignment for the future. At present, you, as a student, can still do a great deal to improve in the eyes of others the college of your choice. Here are six suggestions, which, if carried out even in part, will serve as your preseµt contribution to the building of a greater Wilke College. 1. If you like Wilkes, say so, not just to each ,other, hut to reiatives, friends at home and the public in general. What you, as students, say about the College carries a great deal -of weight. 2. Go out of your way to be friendly to visitors on, our campus. This is exceedingly important on days when impressionable high school seniors are our guests. 3. Let your high ~chool principal and teachers know how you are faring in college life. They are interested in you--and their good will toward Wilkes means much. I 4. . Keep in touch with high school friends. Urge them to attend college, and if practicable, Wilkes College. 5. Tum in news about yourself to the Public Relations Department Office. Names make news. And news makes a name for Wilkes College. 6. Conduct yourself on and off the campus in a manner befitting your position. Important as your words are in building good will, it is proverbial that your actions are even more important. 1 DR. NEUREITER DISCLOSES of our slang e:x;pressions; He thinks slang is "very ieX'J)ressive". "America is ,b etter than I ever ( continued from page U ized America as a land of outstand- imagined; it hasn't disappointed ing social ideals rather than a land me", added the speaker. Neureiter asserted, "America is of material · achievements. This true concept of America given in still a land of pioneers. During a S1Peech by Woodrow Wilsqn." World War H, Americans traveled ln 1930, he entered the United to the Sahara Desert, Alaska, thP Pacific Islands, Japan, and Euro.pe, States as an immigrant. He obtainwhere they were able to adapt ed citizenship in rn3•2. Neureiter themselves to existing conditions. said he learned English from the America is still a land of ingenuity classics of ,Shakespeare and Chauc- and high social ideals." Wh th d th· t' t er. ·T his explains the humor of the . • a as ;z_na e ~s. na 10n. grea following eX'J)erienc.e .. When Dr. 1s the American s·p1r1t of liberty, · • d . Neureiter first came to America, .to Ierance, Justice an equa11ty, ·h e walked into a restaurant; the stated the speaker. At th t h 1· b waitress came over to him. He S~ ·~ re;en h e ~ ~l me~ ,er 1b owed graciously and said, "Mad- 0 f t th · e_ ' aGe eac eNrs O yegek acam, I -beseech thee, convey to me u 1 y m eneseo, ew or ; a memlber of the American Chemical the ibill of fare." iNevertheless, he, like most Eur- :Society and the Rotary Internaopeans, soon learned the aptness t'iona· I· ----------------·------------- VINCE MACRI Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS CHET OMICHINSKI Features Editor News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager Nows Staff \', Bill Griffith, Art Spengler, Miriam Long, George Kabusk, Chet Molley, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, ,James Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney, Irene fanoskl, Russ Williams, Joan Lawlor. Homer Bones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzger ,Priscilla Swartwood. Sports Staff Ed Tyburski, Paul Beers, Joe Gries Photographers Orders for Theta Delta Rho pins are being taken b t Miss Gittins in the bookstore. Friday, December 2, 1949 DEBATING SOCIETY PROGRAM WELL RECEIVED BY ROTARY By ROMAYNE GROMELSKI Last Tuesday, four members of the Wilkes College Debating Society were guests at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Sterling. Under the guidance of Dr. Arthur Kruger, Julian Goldstein, Janet Gearhart, Gytelle Freed,,and Robert Smith, held a discussion in Th.e 22nd Exposition of Chemi- which they tried to q.p{swer the question, "Are Our American ral Palace, in New York City, this Schools Preparing their Students for Adult Life." ra1Palace, in New York City, th~s • Dr. Bastress Attends Chemical Exposition week. Here, about four hundred companies are exhibiting books, chemicals, laboratory apparatus, and equipment, machinery for the chemical industry and ·p lants for the p~oduction of chemical products. · Dr. Bastrass, h,e ad of the Chemistry Department, attended the exposition on Tuesday, November 29. Consideralble -pU:blicity has been given an apparatus that tells the percent of alcohol in the breath of a drink.er. The determination is started rby · having the subject breathe into the apparatus, the machine does the · .rest, turning out the answer in a short time. .Synthetic soap soads can be built up by a product known briefly as D-40. ·One teaspoon of this powder produc.es a two 'f oot column of suds five feet . high, lasting for ten hours. With suitaible modification, this surfa-c.e active agent can be used to clean anything from a locomotive to ibabies diapers. The scientfic glass equipment makers pr,esentecy-a !beautiful array of fancy distillation, condensation, and refleX!ive items n;iany of which to th.e casual observer seem like "Ruibe Golctiber.g 's". The Charles Pftger and Company exhibit, in addition to a large samplery of th,e organic and inorganic compounds made by it, stressed various antilbodies and vitamin B-12. The Koppins Company stressed the inter.r elation existing between industry in general, the chemical industry, and the final products, made for the. ultimate consumer. Consumer equipment such as Geiger counters was much in evidence. Commercial application of radio activity was shown in the new G. E. Huchnens measuring machine. The material to be meas- Don Kemmerer, acting as moderator, int roduced the subject by st at irrg that the AmericaI,J school system could prevent tragedies in adult life such as divorces, insanity, and unemployment. · J·ulian Goldstein, the fir st speaker, pointed out that the schools of t oday fail to meet the students needs . Fur t her more·, according to Goldstein, the schools fail to provide t he 'Practical courses ·!lnd voca t ional ~ui<lance and counseli ng necessary .t o meet students' future. prolblems. He suggested that senior students lbe permitted to work in order to gaiI1 experi,ence for the difficult adjustment to ,p ost-school life. Gearhart TJlkes Psychological View . Janet Gearhart, a junior at Wilkes, followed with .a psych9logica l view of the topic. ,She pointed out tha t Federal .Securities Agency's studi es named boredom and frustration a s the two greatest reasons why "5,5 out of every 100 high school st udents leave school before graduation". ,S he stressed the need for trained psychiatrists with whom the children could discuss their ,problems and recommended a cur-riculum wherein the everyday situations ar,e incorporated into all courses. Student Activities Mentioned ' Gytell Freed, the third speaker, offered student activities as an aid in solving the .ne,eds of the system and expressed a desire to have students encouraged ,i n their pursuit of activities and interests. The concluding speaker, Robert J. ,Smith, a ccused th.e American educa,tional system of failing to prepare students pro,perly for the civic responsibilities of a,dult life. He left the Rotary memlbets with this thought, "Today's citizens should demand a 1better ,e<lucati6'n for the citizens of tomorrow. It is evel'.yone'.s problem. A chain reaction should lbe ·started for better education." Knowing that · studen,ts themselves are seeking the answers to suc,h 'll,rolblems gives the community .more incentive to 'aid in the solution. Dr. ,Neureiter, the speaker in last week's assembly highly commended 1Jhe students of Wilkes on their serious minds and . their level of maturity. After hearing the four debaters, he remarked to Dr. Kruger, "I envy you. You have such superior students w,ith which to work." ured pass.es between a radio active source and · a meter device. The 1 ~t:a~:~i;e::fi~~~k~:Js:d t;n;i~ f! bratio~s in the thickness of the material and thus records the actual thickness. · 'T h e s hd. w opens b e,.,Lore noon, d b t th· · l ~n I Y w_o P· .~-, e ais es are Jammed with v1S1tors. Undoubted~ ly, much valua,ble information is exchanged at a func-tion of this t Wh'l th · h f y;pe: . '1 e ere .1~ no _c arge. or adm~ss1on, each_ v1~1to: 1s r_equ1re_d to sign a card md1catmg his bus1ness affiliation. The business of se,eing new developments or new chemicals or talking with the men responsible can thus proceed without a hord of catalogue collectors interfering. The American Chemical Society has one booth devoted to its publication. It also has a small theatre showing newly released industrial films continuously. Gaebler's Black & Gold Inn at Columbia is the favorite offcampus haunt of University of Missouri students. That's because Gaebler's is a friendly place, always full of the busy atmosphere of college life. There is always plenty of icecold Coca-Cola, too. For here, as in college gathering spots everywhere--Coke belongs. THE BOSTON STORE Meri's Shop has everything for the college man's needs. from ties to suits. Ask for it either way ... both trade-marks mean the same thing. BOffiEI> UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY Don Follmer, Art Bloom, Bob Croucher A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College. PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Interc:ollegiate Press FOWLER, DICK AND WALKER . KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. I PHONE 2-8795 �Friday, December 2, 1949 .-=====THE Beacon Lights of Sport GEORGE BRODY, Sports Editor ·.: fo·r the ~,ext two months the sport,~ slaclf will 'be taken up by the .. only truly American game .... basketball. · LETIERMAN'S FORMAL FLORKIEWICZ NAMED TO ALL-STATE; PLANS PROGRESSING FEENEY GIVEN HONORABLE MENTION By CHET MOLLEY By ED TYBURSKI (BEACON Sports Writer) It has been said, 'quote', "Pleasure is a cessation of pain." (Thank Once again the name of Wilkes reached the headlines you Mr. Shoperihauer). Do you across the state. This time it concerned two of its football stars. want a -p ainless ev,ening ? An evening 'brimming over with palpitat- John Florkiewicz, the Colriels backfield stC:U-, was named to the, ing pleasure; with .heavenly hap- Associated Press' All-State second team, arid Jatk Feeney, piness; with .ballroom gaiety? Do you want an evening that will Colonel end, received honorable mention. , Florkiewicz has b,een a star at ' h im. H:e has been .honorably menequal the brilliance of Venus in her northern flight, and put to shame Wilkes since the early days back tioned to the All~State team, and the ,p omp and pageantry. of English in '46 when the school fielded its we feel that it is an honor well dearistocr-a cy? You can ibuy such _an .first team. In the four ensuing served. This was Jack's third year revening 1b y merely contacting a :v.:e~rs Florkr reach~ the he~lines as I¾ Colonel, and in those three Le'tterman and purchasing from time and time a,gam, scormg 3~ years he has lbeen a varsity rend. ·h im one single ducat for the Letter- touchdowns in that tim,e. Starting Since •he has played both defensive~ ma n' s Ann ual Christmas Fo.r mal. at the taitbaok post with that first ly and offensively, it is hard to pin With that one little ticket you can team, he retained that position in down at which he is 'better. Perwalk into the !rem Temple on . the years t,hat followed: Since he haps it would he not only better; December 16th, and swipe yourself has aver aged eight touchdowns a but fairer, to say thaf h,e has eanra handful of Hea v.en. You can close season, it is hard to pick out what ed these honors by ' his all-around your eyes and listen to the haunt- would be his ,best year. Last season playing . Besides playing the end ing rustle of silk and satin g owns. might have be.en that year, had post from -b oth ends, he has kicked You can take your lovely partner not the Colonels' star been ham- the extra points, never missing un~ in t o your arrri s and glide serenely pered by injuries. However, since der pressure. And always, he is up to the soft, smooth and scintilating he scored 1~ TD's in eight games among the high scor,ers on the melodies of Lee Vincent. You can this year, it is only logically to say team. We feel t hat Wilkes is coming aibsorb enchan t.ed moments t ha t that this has 'been his best. But will live again and again when, you wh.en _a player plays consi_stent ball up .... and doing it .up in a big way. have become an ancient alumnu s . year m and year out, _he is a value Last year we had only ·o ne player to a team, and that 1s what John . . All this and an orchid too. Are we 'trying to sell you some- Florkiewicz ·h as been .to the Colo- ,m entioned to. the AH-State. te~m. nels in the four years that he play- Th:it was Big John FlQrk1ew1cz. thing 1 You're darn right we are. ed with th'.em. l'rue this has been This year we n~t only ,h ad a player People are wont to let the best his best scoring year, hut h·is valu,'i! honorably mention,ed, ·but we placE;d things in lif,e slip lby and often h ave as an asset to the team dates back one on the _second _ team. _If this to .b e ,g ently prodded. This is no t from '45. It has been rumored that keeps up, ·W ilkes Wlll defim_tely be meant to be a ,prod, merely a mag- he is headed tfor pro lb all, and if up on top of the 3:en;1sylvama 'foo;~ ical wand to open your dreamy that is true, we look for him to ball world. A~ it _is, we weren t eyes, for this is that once in a life- ma,ke a name for himself. Good very :f.ar from qt this year. time. You gallant blades who fear tux- luck, Florky. You have our best edos, where is your courage ? This wishes. is not th.e medieval, armored, ti nFeeney Honored Recently can that you must crawl into; there Jack Feeney was honored rewill 'b e no creaking of rusted joints to put you to shame. Here instead cently with the Beacon's nominayou have the accepted dress of the tion for the player qf the year. And 20 North State St. aristocratic world. Here you have now, less than a week later he has Phone 3-3151 the armor of finess,e; the coat of had another honor bestowed upon mail that speaks of, modern chivalry. You'll look wonderful and after the first ten minutes you'll feel so at home in a tuxedo you'll want to wear it to classes. Let the pessimists rant and rave; let th.em cower in their s,h aking shells and pray for the courage that brave. men possess. You'll feel fine too. There's something about a tuxedo that makes you square your shoulders; it brings hack that Easter Sunday (continued on page 4) The game came out of the coz,y gymnasium, students found out what their team was doing by reading ·t he, newspapers, and bas****** ketball rose to th.e top of all sports Basketball is the brainchild of in attendance. one Dr. James Naismith. In search ****** of · an active game to fill in the Men like Clare Bee of L ong Iswinter months, and to occupy the land U. gflve the game life, Eddie young energetic m.en of our land, White brought it to Wilkes-Barre, he worked qut a :plan and gave it and George Ralston /brought it to a name. Wilkes Goll,ege. At that time is was really basket****** ,i)all. Two !baskets were placed at But, the students of Wilkes Coleither end of a ·g ym floor. The idea lege are fortunate. Their team was •to get a ball down th.e floor hasn't gone big It won't go and drop it or throw it in one of to the Garden. Instead it is going the baskets !before the opposition to find ,a nice cozy g ym in Wilkescould prevent it . .Somewhat like our ~arre where you can ta.k,e your .best "kill 'em quick" of today. g,irl, and cheer your team to victory. ****** But as long as it was an Ameri****** It remains unfort una t e, however, can, it must go through a process of evolution, and it must be speed- that Wilkes still does not have a gym. The :building is in the formaed up. It was. tive stage, and from -all indicatiom:, ****** The 'baskets evolved into hoops it is .g oing to b-e a structure that with an attached net, taken off the will make th.e College proud. U ntil floor, and' placed eleven feet high then, follow the team. They need on uprights. Then backboards were your encouragement. ****** added. A court was set up, rules You may be interested in the fact 'became standardized, and bask.etball moved into schools, colleges, that Wilkes still has never beaten highways, /byways, and metropoli King's in bask.etball. There ! We already have a worthy goal to work ****** Changes were still coming. Just · for. a few years ago, there were center jumps after ev,ery point made, and ' Predriction Number One by the 10 points a game was astronomical. Beacon Sports .Staff: This will be Why, there is on record, a high the year! ****** school game that won a state title Orchids to the 'women of Wilkes: by ·a 3-2. score. I said oasketball, Thi s week's coffee hour was held ,b uddy, not baseball. in honor of the Football and Soccer ****** t.eams. We heartily join them in Then, just as the home-run ·h onoring these men who justly dechanged Baseball; and the for.w ard serve the best t he school can give pass changed Football, Basketball theni. thr,ew out the center jump, went in search of seven footers, and now a What a1bout women's sports? team has an off day if it doesn't -C ertainly, with the numlber of girls rack up a hundred points per game. in attendance at WHkes, there can ****** lh.e an active program. And they ·The game, however, was strictly won't want for op.ponents, either. a school game, and as such was A girl's -b asketball game before the played at home in a cozy little varsity takes the floor will double gymnasium. Along came a fellow the attendance. I know. I'm human, name .of N,ed Irish who had enough too. · money .t o rent ,M adison Square Garden and set up a porta:ble floor. ~~~,q hard hit as the Wheels, lost one point to the Dorm team who had one hot series. Tony tells m,e that the InternaBy JOE GRIES tional Relation boys are burdened ~~ with political problems, and that Est. 1871 their bowling is slipping as a re. Last_ Tuesday night fate stepped suit. Even so they managed to pick m a>gam, as far as the Whe,els are ll'P the remaining three points from Men's Furnishings and concerned, when they met the low- the luckless Dorm. Hats of Quality ly ( ? ) Pre-Med team w~q tu~ned S-outhpaw ·Tony is rapidly imout to. be the hot~st_ th1rlg · _smce , proving since he slowed down a the Chicago fire. This 1~ mlent10ned littl,e. For a while it looked like not to tak,e any credit from the Tony would have trouble finding 9 West Market Street ~e-Me~s, 'becau~e ~hey knocked someone to pin for him. They tell everythmg down m sight, but o~ly me that the, ball now is coming Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to sho"7" that every team has its ,down considerably less than the good ~ ghts when they play that usual 90 miles per hour, and the hard. pins are only flying across to the When the time approached to adjacent alley. start the -p ins flying, the Pre-M,eds ****O had only two 'bowlers in the Eagles PIINLE'l1Sto roll, and as it turned out the Wheels should have left, but they · Jean Ry-a n made h.er fi-r st strike didn't and waited until Jean Ryan of the season last week. The Wheels wa1ked in to give them a third walked dejectedly away from the player. The J>r.e-Meds lost the fi-rst Eagles after their t hree point loss. ,g ame, but the next two - they The thr,ee JlRC mainstays, John Persico, ,I.Jarry Pelesh and Ted should have happened to Rider. Take a gander at some of these Grilbb are not o'nly having trouble scores Malacheski, Ayan and Teth- with splits in political parties, but er garner,ed /by means of some also splits on the howling alleys fancy bowling. Malacheski 142~151, which are now !becoming a habit. Miss Ryan t57-li51, and Captain The :ERJC team recorded no less than Tether 201-192 for a 740 and 73'4 115 splits ·per gam,e last week. Larry Mellus waited until the second series. These .scores were go<>4 for game to smoke his usual cigar. the Pre-1Meds first three points of (Want a better reason why you the year and with them go,e·s a lost, Wheels?) School and Office, . I firm pat on the iback from this writSupplies er and a sug;gestion to wait until 'This writer would like to thank next time. rony Stefonetti for the materi'al ****** GIFTS AND he prepai.ed on his team for their TENTH FRAMEpu:b licitt, and hope that all the STATIONERY Tony Stefonetti of the IRC can other team captains will ci.o so in also remind you that last week the near future. Any and all matseemed t o be the we,ek for teams to erial can be submitted to me at the Wilkes-Barre, Pa. garner their first points of the Eagle's Bowling Academy any • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : i year. H is liRC iboys, though not as Tuesday ni,g ht or on the campus. ti\ie. JORDA:N 3 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON CRAF\TSMEN ENGRAVERS STRIKES AND SPARES ** DEEMER & CO. E, I I II STYLED for Campus BTO's in Glove-soft white Flagg Buck. STAMINA galore in the rugged red rubber sole that'll wear and wear. "\~,~ $8.95 All Style~ IUY A PAIR TODAY r;tAGG BROS. ~ OI CNML lf!AI. (OlfCJtATllN 14 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Pa. �4 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday, December 2, 194 -=----------------------------------------------program is still in a form3tiv NOTICE! stage) with apprehensions, but lar BEACON WRITER PICKS OVER GHOST TRAIN FROSH ORIENTATION pleased with its success. They hav encouraging improvemen AS ONE DOES COLD THANKSGIVING TURKEY PROGRAM.EVALUATED Orders are still being taken innobiced the reasoning and expression o GHOST TRAIN IS DEAD: LONG LIVE CUE 'N' CURTAIN , By HOMER BONES It would be rather foolish to ta~e up time and space now to list the 67 people behind the scenes, not including the director, Thomas Littleton, who put their efforts together to produce the long past Ghost Train. However, at . the same time, we should not completely forget Ghost Train without first looking back at the acting and personalities which formed the ,play. Writing anything on Ghost Train now is som.ewhat like picking the bones of a cold turk&y a week after Thanksgiving. Anything said now will have certainly been hashed over many times since those two nights at G. A. R. High School when mythical ghosts skimmed the sta:ge. (Mythical save for the two characters in sheets who performed pre-play .g hostlike antics to the tune of the Dance of Death. The unusual opening was performed by Ray Krokoski and Al Jacobs and was the signature of the director.) Some "vultures" would get sheer maddening joy (if there is such a thing) to tear to pieces various performers in Ghost Train. Such will not be the case. Although some of the players will never get beyond the collegiate stage; this is neibh.er the time nor the place to ~gin calling names. None of the members in the Gue 'n' Curtain grO'llp are professionals, at least not at the ,present time. And certainly there is no one OI,.l campus who · can professionally criticize the actors and actresses of Ghost Train or any other production. Therefore; we will merely generalize on the play, and speak of it as a whole. !Speaking of the whole play, it can lbe said that if any blame w,ere going to be tossed anywhere it could be aimed at the plot itself. No one can deny that the plot was somewhat weak and artificial. Keeping that in mind, let's give LETTERMAN'S FORMAL (continued from page 3) pride you had when you were a kid .and mother dressed you up in your ·new suit. Here is t hat fountain of youth. Try it once; it's a painless e~eriment. But, you will argue, the painful part is the money an1gle; ,eight big, caressable, germ-laden dollar bills and one half of another one .... total cost. Simple deduction :will prove that an affair such as this can not be held for less. Tuxedos for 4.50, which is part of the money angle abov,e, is a rock-bottom .p rice. It costs money to rent !rem Temple for an evening and for bhe services of an orchestra. Then there is the orchid, which eliminates the purc1',asing of corsages. It only hapipens · onc,e a year, and the enjoyment you will obtain is priceless. You can not .p lace a monetary tag on happiness, yet here is one of those rare instances when you can ibuy a lot of it for so little. Tickets are now in circulation , and there aren't too many of t hem . Don't let this marvelous opportunity sliip ·b y. See your -nearest Letterman and buy yourself an evening of enchantment; an evening of lingering happiness. SUBMIT to the MANUSCRIPT Baum's Tuxedo's TO RENT Special Price To Student Body 198 S, WASHINGTON ST, credit to the partly inexperienced cast which presented a better-thanaverage production. 'T hree of the newcomers to the collegiate stage, Bob Angelo, James Tinsley and Nancy Fox handled their parts a·ptly and though rough in spots were steadied by the veteran m,emtbers of Cue 'n' O'urtain in the cast Paul Thomas, Janet Gearhart, Doris Kanarr and Pat Boyd, who, at times, were a little shaky themselves. However, here again we can blame the plot of the play. The supporting players also performed adequately enough to keep up their end of the show. That covers the cast ·except for one dbviously missing person, Andy Evans. Andy, according to those ·of us who love humor, carried the show. ' By DA VE WHITNEY The new plan of semester freshman o·rientation classes has produced various reactions among the Freshmen. The faculty's intentions of helping freshmen fit into college life are generally recognized, but opinions about the program's ffectLveness diff,er. Of fifteen frosh questioned, six said the program was not helping them, nine said they :benefited by it. Five suggested that student participation should be encouraged by such m,ea:ns as having students choose their subjects from their own interests rather than fro~ a prepared list, having each student summarize the discussion, and having a student for moderator. F'ive thought th,e topics should ibe closer to the students' knowledge and interest The feature most ,p raised was understanding other people's views. 'The specific objectives of frosh orientation are p,erhaps forgotten in the activity of the camipus. Selfconfidence, poise, and the ability to expres·s one's self orall~ to a for white jackets by Jo Ann Davis. ideas 'by the studuents. Howevei they realize the plan needs im provement, and welcome sugge~ group are exercised in the discus- tions from students and faculty. sions. Building toward maturity through the thinking out with other people of various issues is a goal the faculty hope the program will help students to attain. Students and faculty get to know each on the square other ;b etter in this type bf class. THE COLLEGE MAN'S Frosh can learn to understand their STORE friends better, and to resp,ect their opinions, when disagreements occur. The classes are made more interesting by the recording and playing back of discussions. These replays also mak.e poss~ble objective reviewing of a discussion. Different BUILDS GOOD HEALTH faculty moderators add variety and new viewpoints for the frosh. The sectrlon leaders are Miss Harker, who initiated the pr.o gram, and Mr. John Hall, who was chosen DRINK because h.e is esipecially interested in the 1>lan, and especially qualified due to his study of education and his experience ~n the Guidance Oenter. Miss !Harker and Mr. Hall entered this ,experiment (and the MILK * WOODLAWN � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1949 December 2nd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 December 2 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/adfa097c7328587bcdf082a52c938a44.pdf 8fc36091c78d25709109529fb291e299 PDF Text Text Sports Vol. 3, No. 10. BEACO WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Special Wednesday, November 23, 1949 Jack Feeney Named Player Of The Year GOOD-BYE COLONELS WINGMAN WINS BEACON NOMINATION FOR OUTSTANDING GRIDDER OF '49 By GEORGE BRODY (BEACON Sports Editor) The BEAOON Sports staff has finally completed the arduous task it assigned itself and has honored Jack Feeney as Player of the Year. The process of eliminatioai' was as difficult a task as could be imagined. In a team of so many capaible men, in a team that is really a team, the fortunes of one man were sure to fluctuate. Only that man who could shine week in and week out would top th..e lis·t in the Good bye, Colonels. Kneeling, left to right: Pinkowski. Paul Thomas, Gorgas, Lewis, Elias, Feeney, Supinski. Standing: Waters, Florkiewicz, DeRemer, Knqpich, Hendershot and Washko. By GEORGE BRODY wares, and in accordance, she drew Wilkes Oollege will change. True, up her first full college sc'h edule. it has existed long before the That, in only •h er third year of names of Florkiewicz, Pinkowski, com.petition! Hendershot, Washko, Elias, Lewis, ,Of course a reactio·n set in. The Gorgas, Knapich, Waters, Supinski, men were breaking new ground, Paul Thomas and DeRemer gave feeling their way into a new atmolustre to its glorious name; but actually, it never really grew up un- sphere. And before their gears betil these men gave it statuTe. The .g an to mesh properly, they lost indication that a body has acquired their first two games. But now life is when it becomes .referrtE¥1 they had the feel. They knew they tp !lS an institution. And Wilkes were good ,enouigh and were deterCollege became an institution when the above named Colonels carried mined to prove it. No better proof her colors to victory time after could they give than that they time, and often when the odds said completed theiT sohedule without they could not. On their shoulders once again tasting the bitter she grew, and on their names she myrrh of defeat. Their reputation shall live. ' Glory, it is often said, is . the was made. They were a team to he ,cheapest of commodities. It's life feared. span measures no longer than the This year they embarked on news in today's pap.er. Perhaps t'heir fourth and final campaign tothat is true. But with pioneers it is different. Theirs is t'he task io !break the ground and lay the SOCCER CAPTAIN foundation. All that comes after merely adds to t he structure they started, and the gr.eats of tomorrow will only walk in the footsteps of today's pioneers. When we look back, just four short yeaTs ago, we are amazed at how far the depar ting Colonels have brought us. Under, the most trying conditions, lacking in facilities and equipin,ent, playing schools any,where they could find them, they never threw their hands up in despair and thought it a hopeless task. They seemed to fe,el that they were not working for t'hemselves, but for the betterment of those who weTe to _follow. Tihey starred against fly-by-nights, prep , schools, and any type of opposition that cared to face them. In just one year, they had come far enough to accept a game with t'he Army J. V.'s-the same team that is now considered one of the finest in th,e country. The revelation of just how good the Colnels were going to be became manifest in the close 13-0 game that they lost. Yes, it was this first loss that ,b rought out the best in them, and they have fulfilled the fondest dreams of their most partisan fans since that day. They went on to win every remaining game on their sohedule. 'Two years of com•p etition and CY KOWALCHEK only. one loss! Certainly, it was time .f9r Wilk.es to truly ~t her ((See story on page 3) gether. They no longer had a r,ep.u_tation to make, bµt one to uphold. Blooms/burg, who defeated the:m last year, was upended unceremoniously in the first game. St. FraJ.1cis, who ·humiliated them last year, gratefully accepted a tie and called it a night. In succession, Upsala, ;Bridgeport, Ithaca, . and Lycoming were rendered null and void: Then came t'he game t hat had been talked about for an entire year. In the 1948 football campaign Wilkes traveLed to Trent;m, N. J. ,to .meet a strong, bowl-lbound Rici.er College outfit. Confident Rider had already tucked this one away, and came into the game only to go through the required sixty minutes. The impetuous Co~onels, completely disrespectful of their opponents power, tumbled Rider out of the un'b,eaten ranks and out .o f a bowl bid. . iNow Rider was ba:ck. This time the Colonels were unbeaten. In the most thrilling football game ever seen in this valley, Wilkes went down to its only season loss by an astronomical 41-34 score. Rider had her revenge, but the Colonels stiJ.I •h ad their reputatin. The foilowing week showed that Wilkes had lo st nothing of heT power when s'he humbled the National Aggies in a 53-7 rout. And then the ,game of games. King's College who hadn't beaten Wilkes in three years depended upon spirit to do it this year. But they forgot to reckon with the spirit of these senior Colonels, and they were humbled 47-7. It is to the Colonels undying credit that they have bettered the score against every team that they have met more than once. The fourth campaign is finished . It could not have ended more gloriously for these men who so willingly gave their tim'.e and abilities. They played only because they loved to play and in so doing have set a standard that will make our college proud. Theirs are the footsteps in which future greats will · walk. Th.eirs are the names which will pour from -the Ups of the "old Grads" as long as there are old grads to ta}k. Their glorious tenure has ended, but the saga they have inscribed will be the tale that will forever inspire the athletic teams of Wilkes College. veteran ballplayers who had been through the mill. Make no mistake a1bout it .. .. Mount GloTy is reserving its crest for the name of Al Nioholas. We played around with little Gus Castle's name for a long time. When you see, unbelievingly~ how 1Jhis little fellow makes the big 'boys eat dirt, you shake your head and dizzily mutter to yours.elf. He is a triple-threat, who runs, kicks, and passes with exceptional ability. It was he who almost upset Rider's cart. But, again, Gus is a ,specialist who seees action o.n ly by minutes at a time. He goes in when the situation is right and comes out as soon as the picture changes. Reluctantly we passed ,h im by. Big John Florkiewicz w~s all that they said he would be. He was a constant threat, kept the opposition constanlY. on guard, and _played a whale of a game throughout. But we think Florky's defensive game left something to be desired. His defensive play was not equal to his offenshi'e play .. . or maybe his defensive play suffered -because he was behind men like Hendershot, Washko, Knapich, Gorgas, Elias, Feeney amd Nicholas. · .P inkowski, DeRemer and Waters suffered by playing only defense or offense. Big Walt Hendershot is too li~aible. We imagine if Walt ever got mad, he could tear holes in the .stadium walls, but that wa;i just it, he never got mad. His game was steady, sturdy, and good. On occasions when he became incensed, his game was terrific. But Walt was never mad often, or long enough. Gerry Washko presented us with the most trouble. We readily admit that he was the last nam,e eliminated and mig'ht not •h ave been had he played . in the . King's game. Generally, however he lost out mainly because of Feeney's diversity of talents. Washko was a rock througihout the season. His magnificent play on defense was a prime factor in the making of the "Seven Blocks of Anthracite", while his· final co~nt. Jack Feeney was that play on offense was a prime factor man. . , in making the power plays of ;Realizing that players who spe- Wilkes' single wing take effect. cializ e in either offense or defense Gerry was to be reckoned with .i n were doing the job assigned, and all plays at all times. His was a doing it w.ell, we nevertheles•s eli- po.st never left ungua~ded. Finally there was Jack Feeney. minated them because of the many excellent sixty minute men who He did everything, and did it perwere doilng b_oth jobs well. In doing fectly. He kicked off, kicked extra that we had to e1iminate such ex- points, was dynamite on offense, cellent players as Knapich, Gor- and TNT on· defense. His offensive gas, Bogu~ko, Molash, Elias on power is attested to by the fact defense, and Dal-ton, '11homas, Mc- that he scored 51 points from his Mahon, and Lewis on offense. True, end position. And his defense? these men were cap-able far beyond After the Bridgeport game, he was the ordinary run of players, we are invulnerable. No better compliment old fashioned and looked to the all could be paid hini tha4 that Rider neV'er ran 'his end afi't!r the first arO'llnd man. Cross was t'he first of these. A quarter. Instead, they assign.ed one hard playing, determined blocker, man to see th'at he never caught and good defensive halfback, he them even whEfa they were runnevertheless had -a tendency to ning the other end. It was his pass la,pse. His play was s·p oradic some- receiving that put Wilkes ahead of times sparkling, sometimes lacka- Rider ·in the second quarter, and in daisical, depending on the situa- t'he Lye-o ming game, it was his four tion. But always there was Cross. consecutive pass catches that Four quarters of tough football is started the Colonels on their vica heavy assignment, and it takes tory march. His one hand catch of a high pass in the National Aggies a good man to hold out. We eliminated Nicholas, not for game stands out · as on:e of the a.ny lack of standards, but rather sparkling plays of the season, and that he was a late comer, with still the 'Way he ran over a poor wouldbis bes·t years ahead of him. If we be tackler in the same game was had a Freshman of the Year, it evidence of ihis power. He has play-; would be !he with n·o opposition. ed more minutes of football tha.n (continued on page :~) But in this he was contesting with �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 Wednesday, November 23, 1949 COLONELS' COACHING STAFF EDITORIAL WE THOUGHT IT WAS SWELL Last Friday afternoon at Public Square the citizens of Wilkes-Barre witnessed a spectacle that was indeed something to see. A joint pep rally between two rival schools. Impossible? You wouldn't think so if you'd been there. Despite the rain and snow, students of both schools stood side by side and cheered their respective Alma Maters. Not even the inclement weather could stop them. The student bodies of Wilkes and King's should be commended on their good sportsmanship . . . especially considering the damaging evidence of last year's pre-game activities. This year they can hold up their heads and feel proud. This is one year that the game was decided on the field, and not with paint and brushes. Both schools felt confidence in _their teams and were willing . to let them decide the outcome of the game. Spectators were slightly amazed to see these rivals standing side by side and cheering. There wasn't even the slighest indication of any riotous act~on on either side. The Wilkes-Barre Police Force should also be commended for its wonderful cooperation in making the rally possible. On the whole, it was the best rally of its kind we have ever witnessed in this valley. As long as the student bodies of Wilkes and King's can show the people of the valley that they are good sports, Collegiate football will be here to stay. CRASH CREW GAVE FANS LAUGHS AND THRILLS AT COLONEL GAMES By BRUCE MacKIE A new grouip is in the process of organiz.ation on the campus. It is a combination w'hicih includes :fellows and girls who are interest. ed in furthering sound sclhool spir'i t. 'Pwo years ago Reese Pelton and BTuce MaeKie attempted to gather a group that would be willin·g to present halftime activity at the :football gamef!, that would ,b e ,entertaining for the assemblage. The Ch,e erleading Squad members took part along with members of 1lhe band, but this al-lowed only limited -activity. · However, the need for a separate outfit was pre.sent, and an announcement was made of tlhe intentions. The response was wonderful. Students volunteered, offered services and ideas until a sizeable collection was available. For those that might think that this was an easy jdb, they should ,h ave been in on the bustle of activity 1lhat was involved. Painting, costumes, scripts and prop·s were the biggest problems. The student body and tlh,e administration gave full cooperation. Finances were furnish.eel: quickly 'by the Athletic Department, and the props of the . Cue 'n' Curtain were at the Crew's disposal. The Maintenance Depart- ment along with the Gittens' p•a inters furnish ing help for the heavy and tedious work. The greatest obstacle was organization. Skinny Ennis and Danny Sadvary worked out the actions from start to finish, but there were many others who contdbuted and credit cannot be pin-pointed in favor of one or two indi~iduals. It was t'he Crew's ability and the Administratin's cooperation. · Marty Blake will be remembered as the rotund center in the FootbaU numlber and as Livingston in Saturday's number._ Chariie Petrilak's car will be rememlbe:red as the worst atrocity ever to grace the field. And that little tiger, Bob Boltz, we can't forget... .. ... others such as John Poole, Dave Parso-q_s, Charlie Williams, Irvin Snyder, Hank MeroHi, Bill Griffith, the John L. Lewis and Cook, David Whitney, Mario}l Weltman, Toni Menegus, Connie Olshefski, BaThara Keatley and the memrbers of the Cheerl.eading Squad. All told, t he Crew presented five !h alf-time skits and public response has assured t he Crew that their troubles were well worthwhile . Next year the charter members ipromise even better entertainment and will be looking forward to the contributions of additional members of t he student lbdy. Coach George F...._ Ralston ' Assistant Coach Joseph Michaels I Closing ihis fourtlh -s uccessful 25, lost four, and tied three. Startseason at Wilkes; Coach George ing out in '46, Ralston showed t he Ralston has every reason to feel Va Hey fans that he was out for a winning team. He has been very inproud a nd cheeriul. Not only did strumenta4 in introducing . colleg i- . his team have a very good season, ate footbaU i~ the valley, and with but he has a prospect r of 25 re- teams the like 1of those that he has turning lettermen for next year. been producing, he is seeing to it This in itself is enough to make 'that Collegiate football is here to stay. any coach happy. -Mr. Ralston was born in HaTrisIn the four years that George burg, Pa., where he played four Ralston ihas been Wilkes' head years of football and baseball. mentor, he has compiled an en- While attending North Carolina viable record. His teams have won University, lhe starred ,.,. on the foot- baU team. After graduating, he played professional baseball before accepting a coaching position at Fort y F-o rt Higih SchoO'l. 'In 1946 he came to Wilkes as the Colonels head coach. Joseph Michaels, assistant to Coach Ralst on, came to Wilkes from the Wilkes-Barre Bullets .. via Swoyerville,' Drexell, U of P, and Paterson of the American FootbaH League. He· has filled the vacancy left by Tom Miller very oapalbly. He is a hard worker and knows his footlball. ,.=====THE ers like ten pins when he blocked that 1hist punt. He was never so &harp or fa-s t. Beacon Ughts of Sport GEORGE BRODY, Sports Editor They .rang down the curtain in a iblaze of glory .. ' Those superib Colonels whose deeds surpass W!}rds. They wdll always be remembered as a team who wasn't just content ·t o win, but were out to play football for all it was worth. That is the brand of greatness. age? Hmph! ****** 1 so ****** And little Pinky. Somehow 'w e .never thougihrt; he was very fast. Now we take it ,back. That rugged Ul:tle fellow c11n run with the llest. Then, t oo, he called the best gam~ of his career against King's. He was up for this op.e, that's ~lJ.. It was our contention from long ****** ago that Ki ng'·s would enter the .Big Walt Hendershot at last g,ame inspired, and that how close showed all he really had. He was the game would be, would depend a me nace. He tore the King's line on h ow the ,early br eaks went. We ,t o shreds and was in on 50 percent ,s aid ithat if Wilkes got one good of the tackles. Maybe he didn't ·b reak early i,n the game, King's · make them al'l, but he certainly had ****** 47-7. I rode to the game with a would ;b e demoralized. Well, it a hand in a good many. He got the student from King's, who in all happened, and the question of a jump, on ;his opponent early in the seriousness, told me why the game close game dissipated. game and he kept it. Made the wa,s g oi,ng to be close and could go *** *** poor boy eat dirt sometimes. eitheT way. Imagine, he almost conFlorky set the tone when, on the ****** vinced me. game's second play, he intercepted But then there was Gorgas and ****** a · pass and scooted 55 yards to Knapich. The ease with which they F\or the benefit of the Blooms- paydirt. Thait was the beginning of _tore Uip the Monarch'-s line would burg student s w,h o insri.st that what we thought was Florky's have been hum;orous if the game COLONEL CO-CAPTAINS Wilkes caught them when t hey game of the year. Think back . . . weren't the st!rious t raditional we:r\en't ready! Wilkes took King's he ·was good for llline or more yards game that it was. It seemed as by moxe than double the score that almost · every time he carried the though, for those two, it was a baH. " mere matter of walking over the the Huskies did. ****** center and sitting on the defense't***** No game ever saw so many less, puzzled quarte11back. Kna•picll What'-s in a comparative score? King's •b eat the National Aggies p'layer1:r play _their best game of the got .h is usual blocked punt, and :by six points. Wdlikes beat the year. Olie Thomas was one of · Gorgas on one occasion took a latAggies by six points more than those. His running of int erference eral pass right out of the quarterwas the be!'lt 1:ihat w,e have seen of 'b ack's hand. Their's was a briliiant they ,b eat King's. him thi-s year. Especially good wa s g ame. ****** ****** Take your hats off t o Wyoming his down field blocking. Olie really Well, that winds up. the 19:49 cam e through in fine style. Seminary ! Seldom do relations exfo otball campaign. I'he s,e ason was -ist as between th em ,a nd Wilkes ****** fuH of highlig,hts, and there were Cdllege. Since the season began, Perfection: The- set-UJp on Gus the Blue Knights and the Colonel s Castle's 60-yard TD scamper. To few moments when the Colonels have been sc11immaging a gai,n st start with, you could hear Pinky weren't shining. Of course, its each ot her. It ser ved t wo purpo,s es : all the way a cross the field y,ell, proudest feature wa·s its fourth st raight victory over King's. It It cut down the chance of injury "Follow me, Gus !" With t hat he left a high mark for future teams w ithin a s quad iby one-half, and cut down the defensive line backto s'hoot at, and it left a King's secondly, it gave eac:h team a er, and Gus turned the end f or his chance to work agaipst the bes,t the downfield jaunt. At that p oint, Olie College determined that their year was coming. The f>Uture Colonels other had. Result? Both Wilkes and Thomas and Feeney came across ,Sem had exceptionally good . sea- th.e fi eld just a s t he defensive half- will have this to remember. Theirs sons. S owhen congrat ulating the back and safety man were converg- is a g reat task to take up the slacik and maintain the sta"ndard set by, Colonels tm a fine season, reserve ing on little Gus. As though shot the departing Colonels. a J,ittle for Wyoming Sem. from a gun, Feeney and Thomas The future seasons with new cut the two defenders down like names and new faces wilf present ****** Hmph. College Misericordia had efficient lawn mowers w orking an interesting spectacle. No matter a prom the night before t he game. over a blade of grass. . Gus just how good they are, .p eople will alMany of the Colonels were there, sailed after that. ways wonder if fuey're as good ****** the center of attention in the eyes as the '49 aggregation. Well, .. the of many of the luscious ladies who .Still on the subject of best job is theirs. Good luck to them, were present. As we said, it was games: Al Molash was deadly. His and GOOD BYE," SENIOR George '"Pickles" Lewis -and John DeRemer, Wilkes Co-Captains, among the night before the game. Could tackling was tooth-shaking and it have been an attempt at sabot:- body-jarring. He bowled his blockCOLONELS! , ~oup of departing Colonels. �Wednesday, November 23, 1949 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 3 COMPLETES FffiST Meet The Future Colonels WILKES COLLEGE SEASON OF SOCCER COMPETITION By ED TYBURSKI (BEACON Sports Writer) By ED. TYBURSKI Now that football has been put away for the winter, and now that we have run through all of the regular Colonels, let's '.a ke time out and have a look-see on what kind of a team we'll field next y,ear. though, and with the depar ture of Starting with the ends, we are happy to discover that we have four. of our mainstays returning. Ye!i, that's right. Jack Feeney, this y,ear's Player of the year, needs no int:i;:oduction ,to VaJ.ley fans. Everyone aiso knows of the brilliant de· 1 f ens,ive p ay of Al Molash, and the · ff · ·l f G ,M goo d o ·ensive pay o eorge cMahon. But there aren't many of us who've heard of Morgan Mc. ' H ugh. , or StroJny. 'Dhese thre.e have . participated in some games '-· · · turo.ughout the season. Morgan . lf b d d h 1 imse a s,ta fprove · d H to• fe st . ndwart eensive en · . e is a a s!eadr, a~d he should se.e lots of act10n 1'Il his next two yeaTs. McHugh should vie with McMahon for the offensive · f a,,, ,_,, and t ric . ky , an d post . H e is · d h" WI.th a J"ttl 1 e e:,qierience un .1.. h I'd · •er h"is belt, ,ue ,s ·OU· go p1aces m is next th ree years. B y th e way, D an· J II t b k tb II ny is a so ~n exce en a_s e a player_. Stro~ny has seen ~1s shar,e of action tlns se_ason, b~t 1t wasn t enoug,h to satisfy th1s football hung,ry demon. J,ohn loves the game, and as any man that does, he is good at it. He too has two . more y,ears a h ea d of h im, an d 1·t wouldn't SUTPrise us if he wrote . · . . , his B 00name k 0 f Fgloriously m the Colonels ame. Going on down the list we are greeted· wi.th another surprise . . . also a pleasant one. Back in his regu,lar running guard slot will be Olie Thomas. And along with Olie w:Hl be Frank Zapatoski, Bob Hall, Dick Scrip,p and Gene Snee. No;hing need be said about Thomas li1" Zapastoski; these boys have had .. chance to ·p rove themselves. Hall saw little action. ;\lthough he isn't ve:ry; ..big, he is a rug.g,ed guard. He sho1:tld impTove with experience. Diel{ ~rip,p was proving himself wsllen he was put out of action with a ,lad'· knee. He has come along Lewis a·nd Knapich, he should se.e his shar e of action next year. Gene Snee is another guard who can' t be counted out. If he repeats next year what he has done in th,e severa! games he played in this season, he will be a serious contender for a Sltarting post. Alth h C h R I t · ·11 1 ' ·o ug oac a s on wi ose 't f th b t t kl · th O wo · e es. ac es m e state, he has good replacements for them. Ed Bogusko Illas more th d h" If th· A d .·f :a_nt phrodve .t ibmse f ish?eabr. kn i i .a no , een or · is ro en fi Id 't h t nger, we wou n ave o sav yth" ' b t F k R d ' an •m g a ou ran a aszewski. At the conclusion of last season Frank was still an end but his . .. · . ' ~ize _and ability were mstrumental m to the ktackle post. L hisS transfer ·1 eo .oIomon was un nown unti h N · I A · t e ationa gg,es game. Wh en W as.hk o bro"'e ,. h"is arm on th e fi rst f h · . L · P1ay •o t e .g ame, eo went m and made a good s:howing for himself. He wil'l b,e a logical replacement for either Hendersib.ot or Washko. At the pivot post the Colonels · s· Er th" w111 1o~e ammy ias, i_s season defensive cen_ter. But coming back next year will be Al Dalton ff and · 1 0 enswe J. T. Jo~es. Al Payed. center this season and did an ex..11 •--b Noth" 1en t Jv c.,, . mg th a t we can say will paint a clearer picture than if you've seen any of the games. He was in every one of them, playing in one of the toug,hest positions in football. On the other hand, ·Jonesy ,p layed mostly defensive center, •b ut he didn't :really get a chance ,to show himself. Whenever he did get into a game, he let it be known. He is the type of linebacker that likes to meet the play at the line of scrimmage. Many's the tim.e that he throws the run•ners for loses. We expect to s·ee a lot of Jack next year. · In the -backfield we have Triple· Threat Gus Castle an Double-Duty RIDER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR REPLIES Al Nicholas returning. Do we have ,t o say anything about these boys ? We think not. However, a man who is faster than either of the aforementioned is quiet, shy, and affable Al Minars-ki. In case you don't remember him, he's the one who drew the Lycoming defense way over to the Wilkes side of the field ·on a punt return, and then reversed .his field and scampered 40 yards before he was knocked out of ,b ounds. He is a natural breakaway runner and s•h ould have no trouble in making a starting p_ost in •t he future. NoTm Cross, the Colonel:s 'blocking back wiLI be here again, as will Danny Pinkowski. Danny has proven himself to be an alert defensive halfback. He dotes on intercepted passes, and it might be that he will develop into a good running back. George Elias is another blocking back. He started out in this position · back at MeyeTs, but when that team ran short of centers, George filled in at the pivot post. And when they ran out of tackles, George made ithat shift. He did well in all three positions. Just wihat post George will fill next year remains a mystery, but it is c·o mforting to know that we have a capable man, no matter whait position he plays. Bill "Boom.er" Johns, 1Jhe Colonels pun<ting ace will also return. He hasn't had much chance to show wihat he can do this year, but the few times that he was in there leads us to believe that he will make a good running back or a g·ood line backer. J o,e Stevens is a quiet, reserved back who is fast and shifty. He should supply plenty of competition to those trying out for a · half.back post. Well, there. you have it. '!1hat's what the future Colonels look like. With material like that, Coach Ralston should field a team that is as good as this year's has been .. if not better. We look for another good season for the Colonels next year. Good luck, Colonels, and don't let us down. WILKES CAGERS OPEN SEASON AT HARTWICK In the issue of November 11, a grid fan living near Nesquehoning, accused the Rider football team of using professional players in the Wilkes game. Tom Moran, Wilkes Public Relations Director sent a copy of the letter to Mr. Walter Taylor, Director of Publicity at Rider College, asking for a clarification December .. .... away of the matter. Mr. Taylor referred the letter to Mr. Frank . J. .. 8--<Har,twfok .... home Donlon, Director of Athletics at the Trent~n, New Jersey institu- 12----Hartwick ..... .away (J. V.) tion. Mr. Donlon's reply is printed below. . 14--,S oran ton 19-l'thaca ... ...... home November 21, 1949 Mr. Thoms J. Moran, Director January Public Relations Department ..7---ll'lhila. College of Ph. .... home Wilkes College 11 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania --<Lafaye!Jte ·· .. ....... .\ .. away My dear Mr. Moran: 14-J,ycoming .... away (J. V.) Inasmuch as your letter to Mr. Walter Taylor, Director of 21---.'.iMansfield ..home Publicity, concens itself with the eligibility of some of our foot(Sun'bury YMCA( J.V.) ball players, he referred your communication to me for reply. . 28-Kii.ng's ·. home. ('J:·-v.) W.e would like very much to take this opportunity and February means of denying emphatically . the misrepresentation about a .. 4-.Strouds•b urg .. ... ...!home (J. V.) number of our players being in the professional class. · The young men in question played for a small, independent ..7--King's .... .. ... ......... away (J. V.) .. away team in Nesquehoning, and never received any money, or any 10-Wyoming Sem JV other compensation whatsoever, for their athletic endeavors. 1'1--'Triple Qities . ...... home (J. V.) ........ ..away The team was sponsored by two citizens of the community as 14-Fansfield a civic project, and this squad played other small, independent 18~Lycoming ... .... .home (J. V.) teams in their area. 25-1Stroudsburg .. .. away (J. V.) Ptjor to admitting these players to Rider College, we checked thoroughly on their background, and consulted directly the March Principal and the Coqch of the Nesquehoning High School, who .. 1-iSusquehanna •··· •· · .. .home t~stified to the fact that none of them played any kind of pro- ..3-Wyoming Sem JV .. . . . home fessional football, and furthermore, that neither had offers nor .. 4---iB'loomsburg .. home (J. V.) received any compensation at all. ..7-Ithaca ...... .away · _ At the same time, the facts should be brought out that four ll_JTriple Cities .... away (J. V.) other players on the same squad ~re playing on other college' teams this year, one of the Institutions being a member of the Ivy League. As a result of the misrepresentation that appeared in the Wilkes-Barre papers by one of your grid fans, we would appreciate vey much a story in your local press counteracting the The Wilke College Colonels are the falsification of the tue facts. highest scoring team in the state with As we have enjoyed pleasant relations with Wilkes College 294 points. Closets team to them was in the ·past, we would like to continue the same in the future, the Villa~va Wildcats with 265. b1=1t w~ <;lo feel that some sort of redress is in order. John Florkiewicz placed third in in· Very truly yours, dividual " scoring with 72 points; Gus Director of Athletics (I. recEint This pas,t fall Wilkes College fielded, its first soccer team. Gons'i<Lering the fact that none of the playeTs even so much as saw a game before, their season was fadrly successful. s·t ructor and band leader at Wilkes, went out j,ust for the workout. By the time . the middle of the season rolle(l around, he had learned so much about tbe game thait' he began to assist Partridge, -thus leaving the Coach enough free time to start on indiv:idru.al instruction. AnLast !>;pring Coach Partridge other person who did a lot of help:.. i:sisued his first ca11 for soccer ing the coach wais Reggie Burr!\,. ,p layers. Slowly and s,keptica,lly, an old time s.occer player. .Burrs, students of Wilkes ansiwered the ,p layed the game in England and fa, this country, and he understandit c'al~. They trickled into Kirby Park, it fully. ' unaware thart; tlhey were volunteerFrom the beginning Coach Parting for one of the rouglhest, fast- ridge could notice the steady imest ga~ in activ.ity. Bob Part- pr.ovement of Kowalchek, Rasmusridge, Wilkes soccer coach, schooled sen and Owens. The others develthese pioneers dil the fundamentals oped as ,t he season rolJled ai-ong. of the game. He worked with them More and more students became interested in the game, and Part~ on rules and know-ihow until the ridge had another group of week-- before the team was sche- come out after the season was half duled to meet the Blooms'burg ele- over. ven ... soccer eleven, that is . . . Pro'bably tl).e 'biggest troubl~ at which time he started to work among . _,the · indivi<lual members with them as a team. From .this was the lack cA col\fidence ii:i:them~ selves as soccer players. They al~. time on he worked on coordination ways ·had to keep .· themselv.es in of team play; however, he still check. In soccer there i-s no U1Se of, didn't have enough men to ho)d a tlh.e hands by anyone except the full s·c rimmage. Forced to use wha,t goalie. Amd remember, there is no men he did have . . . 16 a,t the ga:me in America iri which one can· not use his hands. You. can see time. . .he scrimmaged the back- what a strain this ,put on the play, field men against the line. 1 ers. After developing these players, Now in soccer, the scoring is different than in football. Instead ;Coach Partrip•g e will lose seven of of the ba-ckfie1d scoring, it's the them next season. Kieth Rasmus~ liine that makes wi-tJh the points for sen, Charlie Stocker, R. Lemonicel~ the soccer team. The backs are the lo, T. Klehack, Cy Kowalchek, defensive men. It is tJhei-r job ,t o de- Bruce MacKie, and Sam Owens fend their g,<Yal and get the ball graduate t'his June. However, he back to the linemen who set up the will have some material to start play for the score. So, as even the VvlitJh as a g,oodly p.orti.on of his greenest of novices can see, he · ,p resent team · retu,rns next year. l!ad qui.te a difficult time in pre- Charlie Jackson, the goaUe, will be i'l'aring his t.eam for their nrst •en- back, as wHl Ed Wheatley, halfcounter. What Coach Partridge did back, Jerry Wise, Bo'?> Hooper, Don would be just like George Ralston Tosh, ::!3. Beers, C. · Rowlands, E. scrimmaging ,his line against his Wolfe, all of whom are linemen. backs. With these men returning Coach Anyway, Partridge finally got Partridge feels that he will have the team .in shape for their first a team that Wilkes: can be pl'oud of game. They dropped this one, but next year. At least he .won't have it was cl,ose. Had he had a,t least to start from scratch. Maybe next two or tJhre.e experienced players, yea,r, Pa11tridge and Moran wo.n't it might have been turned into a ibe forced , to participate in scrim, victory. But wtth the green players mages ... ask J'vforan ho,y,he likes that ,h e was using, Coach Partridge to play left ha'lf. We 1ook for a discoveT.e d that his men were wor- very successful •sea-son for Coach rying about wha,t they could do Bob Partridge and ,h is soccer and what they couldn't do as far Colonels next year. And we wish as rule infractions were concerned. Santa . would bring him 2 experi-'Dhis c·o ntinued to 'be the main enced Ji,nemen and one good RHB. trouble until mid-way thr•o ugh the season. FEENEY NAMED them After that Bloom game, Bob !Partrid,ge found himself flocked by enthusiastic students who wanted to play. He now found himself with ,something like 24 p<lay.ers. However, those players, that came out after the Bloom game had never been schooled ,i n fundamentals. ·T hey were forced to learn as they went along, and that, as many of us know from otfher circumstances, is the hard way. Also, Partridge ran up against another obstacle. He now had enough men to start working with them as a ·team, but he had to a:battdon indivi:dual instru<,tion. (continued from page ll any ot'her man on . the squad, and the high resp•e ct of his ability was shown when Wilkes was trouncing King's 47-7, -Coach Ralston still trusted no one else in his post. His presence was insurance. The nickname "Golden Toe'·' is a,fe apt a name as could be ·g iven. It is remarkable that ihe never missed an extra point when the· ,p ressure was on. FOT hiis all around play, for his value to the team, and for his supe11b a,'bility in every department of ip1ay, the BEAiOON · Sports Saff Castle, with 60 points, was fifth ;, and Right after the beginning of this proudly salutea ·Jack Feeney, the semester, Bob Moran, music in- Player of. the YeaT. Jack Feeney, with 51, was eleventh. IT'S A FACT . FRANK J. DONLON Bob Moran and Coach Bob Partridge discussing strategy at soccer game. Colonel Booters recently closed pioneeer season. �4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _W_IL_KE_S_C_O_L_LE_G_E_B_E_A_C.:...O.:..:..N_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.:_W.:.·e::d=n=esday, .: November 23, 194~ HOMER LOOKS INTO FUTURE; SEES HIMSELF AS A COLONEL WILKES COLLEGE CHEERLEADERS (Special to the BEACON) Homer Bones, Esquire, and his copy of the same were easing around campus the other day when Homer overheard a letterman conversing with another and telling him that next year many of the football first stringers will not be wearing Wilkes uniforms. Above are the members of the 1949 Wilkes College Cheerleading squad. Left to right: first row, Tom Morg~ Joseph Cherrie, Tony Popper. Captain Engene Bradley, Bruce MacKie, Neil McHugh, and Jerry Yakstls; second row, Ann Belle Perry, Priscilla Swartwood, Toni Menegus, Peggy Anthony. Helen Williams, Beryl Colwell, Charlotte Da_vw. "Ye Gads", exclaimed Homer, do you mean that?" The letterman nodded. Miihty Homer bounded up River Street to the Beacon office. "Stop the presses·!" he roared as he burst into the office. "This is front page stuff I have for you. I'm going to go out for the football team next year!" Triple-threat Bones slid into a cl).air and waited patiently while those in the office scrambled about secur,i ng pads and pencils for the notes which Handsome Homer was about to give. Homer calmly reached into his fuzz pocket and drew out all . of the football press clippings he had saved while attending . NiC'O'tine Hig,h. . The reporters e~gerly gather.ed about the future •~lloping Ghost" of 'Y.ilkes. Advance publicity on such an able aithlete as Bust'em Bones was cer.tainly worthwhile, if not a necesasity, for Wilkes. · "Let's s·ee", as·s erted Musel.es 'Bones, "I won't be called the Galloping Ghost---iGrange used that hiandle. How albout Homer Bones, the Skittering Skeleton." The reporters marveled at Bruiser Bones' quick thinking. The newsbounds' pencils paused, yet the eagerness was evident. Two female reporters fainted from the s•train of it all. "You know my l<ife story", said Homer. "So I'll just summarize the foobbalf eJCperience I've had in the past." Homer's fil'st year playing ball for Nicotine High was cut rather shor,t bec:ause of a oroken ankle suffered in the first game of the season. However, the following season he caug,ht fire again in preseason work-outs and really grea,t things wer,e expected of him. He could play evet y position on the team: Fate would not allow his ability a chance to show how truly great it was. 1'n the firs,t period of the first game of his sophomore year he firactured his arm and was out for the season. Dui-ing Homer's junfor year, his fame spread like wildfire. Scouts from many colleges throughout the nation beckoned to him. Twisted knees, arms, and neck plagued the gallant athlete throughout the year so that he played only one full quarter in the s,eason. Nevertheless in th:at one quarter he sewed 5 touchdowns, tossed 4 touchdown passes, and punted out on the o-p ponents' one-foot line three times. Nicotine High smother,ed its opponent in that game 63 to 13. Homer acc-0unted for all of the scores and extra points. . In Homer's senior year at Nicotine Hig,q, he quit football. He loved the g,ame but had, in a sense, oveplayed himself. He lost much weight and was nothing more than a shell of a man. The school d-0ctor tiold the coach not to think of playing Bones until · he put .on some STRIKES AND SPARES By JOE GRIES Feeling the need for an activity that would include almost every·one, a few enterprising men start,ed the Wilkes Bowling League one year ago.· ' · As a m:1tter of. orientation, the 'league meets every Tuesday eve- ning at the Eagle's Bowling Academy w}fere ten teams howl in a spirit of competition and for the recreation derived from it. Don't let the word spirit give you the wrong idea of what goes •on at the Eagles every week. This league is fas~ in competition and the p.ep talks handed out by the team cap-tains would put any foot,b all coach to shame. These guys and gals are out to win the prizes that go to the various seas·on winners, and a little matter like competition will not interfere. ThoUJgh the league is only in its fifth week many outstanding kegler.s have already shown their talents. Men like Jiunta, Celmar, Haracz, Surash, Ritter, ~ennedy, Gibson, S.trassman and Levanduski •h ave proved they are fine bow-lers and de·s erve to be near the top. sodas for the group. (Ed. Not~ was forced to forfeit their gam6ll Phil Kennedy went broke). Sapan- to the Chem Chili. Mike Connors ski of Thor's Five rolling a str,i ke blaming his low score on exhauii.: and Danny Sher.man claiming there tion derived from his speech at the must have been a lot of wind down E'conomics Club meeting. Danny there. Because of the group of_gals Shennan making a new recofd: next to them, neither the IRC or when he left the 1-3 stan:din'g the CPA teams could concentrate three tiJl!eS in a row. Czajkow-ski on the wood.en pins and therefore rolled no high games. The CPA shunning the women and bowling team did prove their eyesight was a neat 463. Red Brennan darning worse by taking high team single he was like a baseball pitcher who and high three game hig<h'. John didn't have his stuff after a rou'SSurash taking five minutes to tell ing 116. Larry Mellus using a small the pin boy what pins were still cigar and saying it doesn't smoke standing. Phil Kennedy putting as much as the bigger qnes. Raracz some life into hds second game with making everyone leave the benehes a 166. He didn't notice the women in order to get a good run on the but only because his wife was pins. Bill Miller finally making , ,a . there. Phil did come back with a strike and then claiming there -i~ 109 in the third game and showed nothing to this game. This same that his eyesight improved. One Miller escorting the Wheels to th:e gfrl from the Pre-Med team not Eagles in his. 1950 Studebaker an4 showing up so the other one running O'llt of gas on Public Thiis year many close games wouldn't either. The Pre-Med team Square. have been played. We think this ,b ears out the fact that. the l,eague FEENEY SCORES AGAIN is fairly ,balanced in talent and that weight. Homer never put on the poundage and never played ·another Nicotine Hig,h football game. "Since ,t hat time.", sa,id Hercules Homer, team streaming d-0wn his face, "I've real,l y missed the game. Only three weeks ag-0 did I finally !'each a sturdy weight and get the doctor's okay to play foot0!!-11 again. And I 'intend to take this opportunity, since so many Wi!kes the winners won't ·b e decided unt~l players are leav<ing, to once again the season nears its end . don a uniform. It's going to be This year two girls in the1 pergreat to p1ay again." sons of Agnes Novak and Jean Homer would not have released Ryan wer.e admitted to the league the f·ootball data ab.owt himself had to roll in competition with the :inen. ,he not gained the weight he needed. These girls show their ability for He stated that he did not want to the Pre-Med team. take the spotnght away from the In the four weeks of play many Wilkes stars of the gridiron. "Now funny and odd things· have hap-that I have made the weight, you pened. So with tongue in cheek we can Wll'ite me up, and make it big!" will attempt to make some of them H omer pulled himself out of the known under pinlets. ch1air and raised hims.elf to his full PINLETSheight. Bill Miller hitting the ten pin "One thing I will like a1bowt be- with the first ball and then throwing a letterman is that I'Ll have ing the r\ext one in the gutter. Shown above is Jack Feeney catching TD pass in National Aggie game. my dhoice of the fres>hman girls CPA team making a new team rule. It was offensive play like this, combjned with his stalwart defensive play that ne~t .:__ year." ___: Anyone bowling less than 120 buys earned "Big __::_:_ Jack" the BEACON'S award of Player of the Year. __ _________ ________________ WILKES COLONELS ••• '49 EDITION � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1949 November 23rd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 November 23 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/85e71cdc0adcfa5f425af345acb29246.pdf 21e08497f0a672c600718e106e689151 PDF Text Text Wilkes College Beacon Friday, November 18, 1949 WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Vol. 3, No. 9. WlLKES FAVO-RED lN FOOTBALL FINALE WILKES DEBATING SOCIETY TO , COMPETE EXAMINATION DATES COLONE~ SEEK FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY IN SERIES WITH KING'S IN INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT DEC. 3 ANNOUNCED ·BY AIA EVENT TO BE HELD AT HOFFSTRA By ROMA YNE GROMELSKI The Wilkes Debating Society, under the direction of Dr. Arthur Kruger, received an invitation to compete in the Second Annual Invitation Tournament on December 3, 1949. The event will be sponsored by Hoffstra College, Hempstead, New York. The topic of the debate is, "Resolved, The Nationalization of Major Industries in the United States is in the Best Interests of a Democratic Party." Each school participating in the tournament is required t o s.end two teams, one of which will debate on the affirmative side a nd t he other on the negative side. Each team will debate four times. The prog ram will begin at 9:4.5 A. M. When the debates close at ·5 :00 P. M., the school claiming the greatest number of victories be declared the tournament champion. A plaque will be presented to the victorious school. Barnard College won the plaque at the Hoffstra College Debat e Tournament of 19-48 wi t h Ru tgers University and Kings Point Academ y taking second and third places. Som,e well-known schools which sent debating teams are : Columbia University, Manhattan College, New York University, and John Marshall College. will The s tudents of Wilkes have good reason to be proud of their debating team. The honor of being recognized as one of the bett er deba ting societies of the Northeast certainly cannot be passed over lightly. On December 7th, the Wilkes Debaters will go to Lafayette College in Easton, to debate: "Resolved, That the United States Should Nationalize the Basic Non-Agricultural Industries." Don Kemmerer and Eugene Bradley will arg ue on th e negative side while Thomas Morgan and Julian Goldstein will t ake th,e affirmatiive. The Debate Council of Lafayette Col.Jege extended an invitation to the visiting Wilkes Debating Team to 1Lttend a banquet which will be held at 5:45 P. M., before the debate, at the Faculty Club in Easton. TRAIN OF GHOSTS ARRIVES ON TIME; FULL OF STEAM AND RARIN' TO GO DON'T Gp INTO THE ROUND HOUSE, NELLIE: WHETHER YOU'RE CORN~RED OR NOT, YOU'LL SEE NO GHOST TRAIN THERE: IT'S AT GAR HIGH SCHOOL Wanna laugh? Or sit on the edge of your seat in a suspense packed atmosphere? Would you like to almost cry? How about racking yo\µ' brain on the question "who dunnit?" Wanna just about be scared out of your wits? If th,e a nswers to any o·r all of those queries are "yes" . then you'd •b etter pa ck r ight off to the Cu 'N' Curtain R. R. line ticket agent and get that lit tle slip of paper guaranteed to bring you pleasure or your money not r,efundable. The token you receive wHl be your guide to a couple of hours of good entertainment, your ticket for a trip on a Ghost Train. Nothing will be revealed about the subject matter of the play or t he abilities of t he cast, even though t he first performance was staged last evening. However, t his much can be said - - - "you'll like it!" E'verything is set for the final perfo rmance tonight. The plaudits of the crowd will indicate a suecessful play. What ever the merits of the play or the individual memher s of the cast, hats off to a gallan t troupe, full of determination and vigor. Best of luck!! · DRAMA AT ITS PEAK! By ED TYBURSKI On •S aturday, December 3, Level (BEACON Sports Writer) 1, Part 1 test of the American Inst itute of Accountants' ExaminaClosing their season tomorrow night, the Colonels will meet tion s will be given to all students the Monarchs of King's College on the Kingston High School in Accounting who are taking Accounting 201 or who have taken football field. It is King's home game with kick-off at 8:00 P. M. King's Big Gun In this, the fourth meeting of 201. Seniors who eicpect to graduthe two teams, the Monarchs will ate in February, 1950, are not to be looking for -their first victory. be includ.ed among those taking They have yet to defeat the Colothis examination. nels, having come pretty clos.e the On January 7, 1950, Part 2 of first two years. Back in '46 Poop the American Institute of Accountants' Examination will he given to .graduating seniors (in the February, 1950, class) who are majoring in Accounting. ' It is of extreme importance that all Accounting majors take this examination and pass it satisfactorily since it will give them an ,excellent opportunity of securing a position witih public a ccounting firms . GERMAN CLUB TO BE ORGANIZEDTentative plans were discussed by a group of students at Barre Hall on Tu.esday, November 15, for the organization of a German Club. Mr. Disque and Mr. Davidoff supervised the meeting. 1Students were chosen to give short talks in the various German classes for the puropse of obtaining .member.s. It is hop,ed that these ·s peeches will arouse enough interest in the students to make them desirous of joining the club. All plans that were fqrmulated ar,e not permanent and will be open for discussion at the next meeting.This next meeting will be held Tuesday, November 2,2, at 1 o'clock in Barre Hall. The Club will function with the intention of giving the German student a practical and usalbl.e knowledge of this language. Members will be asked to spea,k the Ger man language almost exclusively at t"he meetings, or to the extent of their abilities . This will aid t remendously in giving the st udent invaluable experience in idiomatic expres,sion and everyday speech. In vitations will b e sent to students of the various G.erman classes asking t hem to attend meeting.s in the near future. It is sincerely hoped by many students that a Ger man Club will soon become a reality here on the Wilkes campus. This reality can only be r ealized by the obtainance of a sufficient number of students who are interested in seeing this possibility becom.e a successful venture. Sociology Club To Hold Panel Discussion Laurence Peli-sh, president of the . Wilkes Sociology Club announced t ha t a meeting of t he Club will be held on Sunday, No:vembe-r 20, at 2 :30 in Chase Loung e. A panel di scuss ion on a current social problem will be held wit h Mr . Chwalek as modera tor . The members of the panel will he Ro·bert Gorgas, Delores Grahko, Sally Mi.ttlem an and Dave Edwards. Af ter the discussion refreshments will be served and i.mport-' ant business will be consid.ered. Plan s for social acti vities for the current year will b e formulated. All Sociology students as weH Shown above are Evan Sorber, Jimmy Gatens and Nancy Fox in one of as t he student body are invited to the dramatic moments of Ghost Train. attend. RAY KOWALSKI STEERING AND GIFT COMMITTEES NAMED Senior Class To Choose Faculty Advisors At Next Meeting Nominations of faculty members as class advisors, the appointment of steering and gift committees, and g.r adua tion expenses wer,e the subj·e cts for discussion at the first meeting of the senior class, which was held last ', Tuesda y a_t 11 in Chase Theatre. ' iN-ominatied as class advisors were: Robert Partridge, Dr. Alfr.ed Bastress, George Ralston, Dr. Char.J1es Reif, Betty Harker, Mr. Farrar, Hugo Mailey, Robert Riley and Robert Moran. Two of the above will 'be chosen at a vote to b.e taken at the next meeting. Appointed to the steering committee were Don Follmer, Nick Konchuba, George Lewis, Larry Peiesh, Jack Nelson, Wayne Red-line, Catherine Smith, Art Sp.eng-' ler and four clas-s officers. It was announced by Ro.bert Waters, class president, that the discussion ·on graduation rings and g radua tion -e xpenses would be cont inued at the next /meeting. NOTICE The Amnicola staff requests that all faculty pictures be taken as soon as possible at Barre Studio, South Franklin Street, across from St. Stephen's Church. Waters broke away with what proved to be the winning touchdown as the Colonel,s triumphed 7--0. The foll.o wing season King' s was leading with ouly. four minutes le£t to play when that same Poop scamper,ed ·a cross the goal. ~hat year it ended up 12-7 with the Colonels on top again. Last year the .Colonels proved themselves to be excellent mudders as they romped to a 2i6-0 victory. This y.ear is still a question . . . a big one. Will this be a repetition of the first two years, or will the Colonels run wild? Some people are inclined to take a conservative view . . . a close game . . . w.hil.e others think it's · just a question of how many points · t he Colonels can rack up hefqfe the dock runs out on them. In fact some Ralston rooters are wishing that the Colonels can reach 100 points (Pardon me, Monarchs, but this is what I heard). The former group refuses to count out th,e Monarchs despite the poor sho.wing they've made this year. But this same group fail to take into consiideration that the Monarchs did not have a bad season. They won three and lost three. Of cours'e, t'hes·e same people ask about the Wyoming Seminary game. Well,' without deliberately taking any credit away from the Sem g ridders .. .. w.e 've seen 'em scrimmage our. Colonels . . . we don't think that King's was even on the field that day. Rememlb er, it was only a week away from a game to which they've been pointing an season . . . the Wilkes game. Th.ey could have lost every one of their games, and if they could pull the unexepected and beat t he Colonels, they will have h ad a succ-essful season. Anotlher thing to take into considera-· tion is the fact that this is a traditional game. True, it's a tradition that is only four years old, but it's (continued on page 4) �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 -------- Friday, November 18, 1949 EDITORS ATTENDING BEACON CONFERENCE VINCE MACRI Acting Editor-in-chief TOM ROBBINS News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Circulation Manager Business Manager News Staff Bill Griffith, Art Spengler, Miriam Long, Joe Gries, George Kabusk, Chet Molley, Don Follmer, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, James Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Russ Williams, Joan Lawlor, Homer Bones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzgar, Priscilla Swartwood. Sports Staff Ed Tyburski, Robert Beers, oe Gries Re-Write - Chet Omichinski A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College PHONE 4-4651 EXT. 19 Member Intercollegiate Press EDITORIAL Pictured above are the vari~us school publications editors who attended the Interscholastic Press Confereace sponsored by the Beacon. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PROMINENT SPEAKERS FEATURED AT BEACON PRESS CONFERENCE By CHET OMICHINSKI FEUDIN', FUSSIN' 'N' FUMIN' Diear Sir: The BEACON Press Club held their third annual Intersch<>Last Friday, Armistice Day, I was standing on a ' South River lastic Press Conference on Saturday, November 12, at Wilkes Tomorrow night the annual football tussle between the two Street . curb watching the parade. College. chief Wilkes-Barre colleges will climax a year of revengeful The crowd on bdili sides of the Opening the conference with a welcoming speech and, a n , 11treet gave proof to the fact that outline of the aims and purposes of the gathering, Russell waiting on the part of Kings and patient biding of time by many people of all· ages 0.nd walks Wilkes. of life love a parade. Howev,er, I'ip Williams, Beacon editor until this week, then introduced the Last year vandalism almost spoiled the fun of the occasion. sure tiha:t not a few of the onlook- speakers. ers .s-aw in the affair a community The first speaker on •t he program tails. He then pointed out to t he This year thus far the fun has been partly spoiled again by expression of ·h onor to the citizens was Mr. J,oseph Gorman of the In- visiting High School delegates how who fell or were maimed in their vandalism. Apparently, Wilkes students were the guilty ones country's cause in World War I. ternational_ Color Printing Com- they could do public relatiol' s this year. •Certainly th.ere were laughter and pany of Wilkes-,Barre. After giv- work for their r'espective schools. Aft er Mr. Moran's speech, Mi's. The rivalry betwen King's and Wilkes has been, for the smUes in the crowd ... sometimes ing a brief account of how he broke most part, friendly and wholesome irr the past. However, there tears fal,l from the heart, since the into the newspap,er business and Gertrude Williams, Wilkes Journallater into color printinig, Mr. Gor- ism instructor and Beacon Facully is such a thing as overdoing it, or at least doin9 it in the wrong world can't bear to· see them roll man then summar ized the history Advisor, delivered a short speech down the face. W:h at was once direction. That seems to be the case now. The "wise-guys" quite naturally taken for an indi~ of color printing. He followed the on news reporting. To close the morning session won't stop at vandalism, yet at the same time, they will not cation of sorrow is now often look- growth of the business from its infancy as two color printing, Vince Macri, acting Beacon editor, ed upon as a declaration of weakattend so much as a pep rally. ness. This being the case, I couldn't through the trials and tribulations to·ok charge in leading a discussion Sadly enough, the Wilkes Student Council does not seem tell whether the silently weeping of growing pains, into the full on the various problems that conto carry much weight with the Wilkes students. At a joint stu- young lady dir.ectly across the blown four color .printing of today. front a High School publication. It is interesting to note that here At the close of the discussion a dent council meeting, both Wilk~s and Ki~g's pledge support street from where I stood was in Wilkes-Barre w,e have the larg- tour of the college was made which merely lacking in good old Amerito the "no-vandalism" idea. Even so, vandalism occurred, and can guts, or whether she was gen- est color printing company in the was followed by a luncheon at the the circumstances of guilt pointed directly at Wilkes 'stude:i;its. uinely grief-stricken from a recent- world. Consuming thirty-five car College Cafeteria. Mr. Robert Johnson, Managing loads of news print a week, Mr. Those who are guilty, whoever they may be, can be well ly inflicted wound. While working over this question Gorman's company sends out 30 Editor of the Wilkes-Barre Record, ashamed -of themselves, although they are probably numb bein my mind, I chanced to overhear million c61Jred ·comic supplements speaking after the luncheon, distween the ears to any sense of shame. In our opinion, the the remarks of a -man whom I took each wee·k to all p'a rts of the Unit- closed some novel ideas on news writing that had been brought out ed States ais well .as overs.eas. mental level of persons who would desecrate property, is mighty to be a local citizen. In a .loud voice Following Mr. Gorman's speech, at a recent meeting of .editorial he wais letting his small group of low. If the guilty ones are students here, how did they ever compani:ons know that he was puz- Mr. Tom Moran, Public Relations writers in New York City. After a question session the conget into Wilkes? zled 'by the aibsence of a Wiilkes Director for WiTkes College, outCoHege representation in the par- lined the task that this position en- ference came to a close. , .. Russ Williams ade. I suppose tih·e sight of th,e EDITORIAL King's band had put this thought curity Administration field office. into his head. The Wilkes-Barre Social Secm.:ity <Since I'm one of the many who Administration office is located at •h ave "pledged our hearts" to· 67 Public Square. , '· Wil'kes, our Alma Mater, l, slunk •Mr. Boland pointed out that th e Belated clarification of the Wilkes Publication .Scholarships away, more than just a bit Social Security card is not a work has resulted in a change of editors for the Beacon. As the re- ashamed. Of couvse, ,t he perplexed permit, but is used o'nly to identify citiz.en . and I may both have been With Christmas holidays ap- the worker for whom wages are signing editor, we would like to make our position clear. v,ictims of our own ignorance. Also, reported. The account card is used J;t,Ir. ·George Ralston, speaking on behalf of the administra- perhaps my interpretation of the proaching, many students may find also when claims are filed either part-time work in various business by a worker after reaching age 65 tion, informed the editors of the BEACON and AMNICOLA last eighth mark of an educated man is distorted and stands in need of establishments as a result of ' in- or by ,s urvivors after a worker week that the policy of Wilkes College prohibits cash outlays correction. I trust this is the case, cre?.sed business activity. In order di.es. Mr. Boland added that failure in the payment of scholarships. The scholarship awards may for I will not easily surrender my to be able to take advantage of any to inquire regarding possible benesuch job opportunities when th,ey fits after a worker reaches age 65 bf applied toward tuition only. To the veterans whose tuitions pride in WUkes Collieg,e . .. it is ap.pear, each student should make or when a worker dies may result ais much a part of me as I am tire provided for by the GI Bill, this meant that there was no certain that he has his social se- in a loss of benefits. of it. way in which they could benefit from the scholarships except Toot comprendre c'est tour par- curity number card available, Christopher G. Boland, Manager of by the experience they recevied from their jobs. It meant more donner, the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., social securTONY ANDR0NAC0 than that, however. It meant that by holding their jobs they ity office stated. Students seeking were depriving some non-vets of earning their tuition. employment will find that employI ers will not hire them unless they As a result of this development, we decided to resign our have a social security card, since position as editor in 'f avor of a non-vet successor. AMNICOLA employers are required to report on their social security tax returns staff members whp also resigned in favor of non-vets were photographers Don Follmer and Art Bloom. The river common opposite :both the worker's name and the s~ial security account number as All of us, surely, have received both pleasure and head- Wilkes College has lb.een the scene they appear on the social security · aches (mostly the latter) as a result of our jobs. The experience of activity recently. Since the card. Any student who has lost his or we have received, technical and otherwise, has been invalu-, danger of the Susquehanna's her social security card can 01btain able. As editor we have witnessed the impossibility of pleas- floodwaters, cannot ~ overlooked, a duplicate card with the same , . the heil1'ht of the dike has been number .b y completing an applicamg everyone (at least at one time). However, we hope that by . d r> f · Th " t· . . ra15,e two eet. JS opera ion tion. Applications can be obtained following what we considered to be the most constructive ad- JS . par · t of th e Fl oo d c on t ro 1 p ro- at any United States post office, Est. 1871 vice given us, we have improved the quality of the BEACON ject of the Corps of Engineers, !Pennsylvania 1S.tate Employment Service office, or at any Social Seby some degree. u. s. Army. 'Men's Furnishings and It is unfortunate that the situation was not realized and The temporary appearance of clarified earlier. It has proved embarrasing to all concerned the dike has been al~ered co~sidHats of Quality eraibly by the spreadmg of limealthough no one person is responsible. Innovations are usually stone dust for f.ertilizer prior to accompanied by unpleasant circumstances at first and that is the seeding of the levee. what makes a project worth while when it is finally realized. The principal working area of 9 West Market Street • the Army Engineers has moved 20 North State St. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. We sincerely believe that the Wilkes Publication Scholarships farther down the dike toward __________ __JI Phone 3-3151 will have a great future. Hanover. Social Security Number Should Be Available For Part-time Work THE CHANGE OF EDITORS Bf&&:+&&ffiEfffiiB River Common Dike Being Raised By Army SUBMIT to the MANUSCRIPT E-ff&&&&&&:+3-fffPd JORDAN CRAFTSMEN ENGRAVERS I ** �F~day, Nov.ember. 18, 19.G 3 FRESHMEN! GET TOGETHER AT THE GAME TOMORROW NIGHT! ** LET'S SHOW THEM THAT ONE CLASS AT WILKES HAS SPffiIT! tt LET'S HAVE AFRESHMAN CHEERING SECTION! BEACON REPORTER REVIEWS GAGS, Half-1'me Festivities HUMOR AND STUFF 'N' THINGS OF 1949 Planned By Crash Crew J;Jy CHUCK GLOMAN •One of the Wilkes freshmen was The Wilkes Crash Crew, which This year had Lts fill of news eating his lunch in the cafete-r ia for. two years has put on skits be- events. One of the la.test w-as "Russia Gets Atom Bomb!'. Russia -That's the. pJace where ,every1thing is tied up in red, white. and , blue tape; and where last August they held a Miss. America contest. The returning contestants explained why they missed America. Not everyone had a high I. Q. this year. Howie. Phillips was under the impression that Kremlin was a place where hair tonic was made, and that Rudy Vallee was a summer resort. We had a lot of spy scares this y,ear. In fact, in October of this year Bob Sanders called a waiter in a local restaurant and yelled: "Waiter! There's a spy in my soup!" A certain psychiatrist murmurred, "you're in a bad way. Tell me, have you and neuroses, inhibitions, or phobias?" "Don't be silly, doc!" Blake _a nsw,er,ed. "I never touch those new brands ' of cigars!" Prices really went up this year. Prices went so hig,h someone cried, "Rich? He's so r,ich he owns a bottle of milk outright!" Rents went up and apartments got s~aller. Some apartments got so small all they do when you d-i,e is put handles on t hem and lbury you in them. But 1949 had a lot of good advice for everybody. "If at first ·you don't succeed", a wise man caut ioned, •~try, try again. Then stop. There's no use being silly a.bout it!" Meet The Colonels ****** a,nd he noticed that his coffee was served wi-thout a spoon. He called Tom Littleton and said, "This' coffee is pretty hot to stir with my fing,er;" A short time later, Tom returned to the table with another cup of coffee. "Here!" he said. "This cup is a little cooler." ****** I was checkdng out of the S,terling Hotel a few weeks ag<o a.nd I a.sked the cashier, "What's that tfuing around your neck?" "Jit's a ribbon", she said. "Why?" "Well", I said, "Everything else is so high around here th.at I thought mayhe it was your garter." ****** Bing Crosby: "How old are you anyway, .Al " Al Jolson: "Oh, ar ound 30." Bing: "Yeh, but how many times?" •••••• tween the halves of home football games, is preparing a presentatioh for the King's game Saturday night which is planned to be one of the funniest the Crew has ever stagP.d. Danny Sadvary, " Skinny" Ennis, and Bruce MacKie, who ha ve worked hard all season, are making still better efforts for this game. Frank Anderson, who has been the Colonel on previous occasions, will resume his familiar role. Charlie Pet rilak and his vehicle Carmen will join the f,estivities. Al.so in the act will pe the Stocker boys, Charlie and Jimmy. -Other participants for the Crash Crew are Bob Sutherland, John !Poole, D.avid Parsons, Charlie Williams, Bob Boltz, Irvin Snyder, Henry Merolli, Bill Griffi th, Marty Blake; David Whitney, Marion Weitman, Toni Men.eg us, Connie Olshefski, Barbara Keatley and the cheerleading squad. Warden: "We're going to give about a girl's dormitory and the you anything you want for your girls are running from room to last meal." Convict: "Could I have a bottle room lightlj\ dad." "Ah yes. And you want me to of champagne·?" , make you -stop dreaming &1boUJt the Waroen: "Sure. Any particular girls?" vintage?" · t "Yes-l 9o,"'." "NO, NO! All I want you to do Convic : °" is make -t hem stop slamming 1lh1t •••••• doors." "My grandfather was a politi****** cian in Texas during the early My world lit profess-o r wrote a days." note on my laet exam. "rime will ''What did he run for?" pass . WiLl you?" "The Mexican border." ".Skinny" Ennis, while driving his car, stopped suddenly on the "Jimmy", asked t'he professor, highway. Th,e car behind crashed "How many mak,e a -million?" into him. By ED TYBURSKI "Not many", answered Jimmy. "Why didn'rt you hold out your on the square ****** hand?" the judge asked him. Winding up the season with the "Doctor", said the dorm student, ''Well", Skinny replied. "if he THE COLLEGE MAN'S regular Colonels, the· BEACON ,...,._,,.__ _ _..,. couldn't even see my car how could "my trouble is in my dreams. I STORE would like to express its pleasure always dream the same thing:he ever see my ha.nd ?·" in having been a,bl,e to bring · you the members of a team that stands ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• out as the greatest in the . school's history, These men that we: have chosen for the closing weeks of the current campaign are not appearing in order of rank, or anything like that. If this were the case, w,e'd have to publish the entire team in the same· issue. The first selootion for this week BOGUSKO has been purposefully held off unNICHOLAS til now . ; . the day be£.ore the King's game. With tomorrow night heralding the Wilkes-King's game what more opportun.e time could · you find for talking about "Poop" Waters? This is Poop's, fourth year as a Colonel, and in the three . previous years he has been the· cause of many a King's headache. In '46 with the score 6-0 in favor of King's, and only a couple of min·1 tes 1.eft to play, Poop reeled off the winning touchdown. He· repeated this same feat the following -¥ear when Wilkes won 13-7. Z:APOT0SKI WATERS And last year he contributed· to the · • 26-0 shellacking the Colonels hand- _bad at all. In fact . the Beacon would ed th.e Monarchs. It has become 'like to take their h!i-ts off to Al such a habit with Poop that every Nicholas as the Freshman of the ti me his name is mentioned in front Year . I . . of a King's man, he .b ows and calls . : Another first year· Colonel, Ed to Allah. We look for him to con, .B.ogusko has seen plenty of action tinue his excursions into touch.- .even though he · hasn1t li.een listed down land tomorrow night. as . a . starter. Ed is a gra,l.uate of A first year Colonel, Al Nicholas, ·Plains High School and a transfer has already set a place for h'imself student of Duquesne University among the outstanding gridders of where he played· ac y,ear of'. FreshWilkes. As a fr.eshman at Canisus man hall. He· is slated to start College, Al· sho,wed what could be against King's· tomorrow night and expectea of him in the years to will no doubt see- plenty:. of action. come, and Coach Ralston was only He is 5. ft, 11,--in. and 2.15. pounds tdo· happy when he decid~d to come ·of rugged. dynamite, A hard man to Wilkes. Although he · has been \to move on the efense, ,he· is also playing mostly defensive ball, Al a-good offensive man. He· is a sure has scored four times for the Colo- bet to be one· of ,Co31ch RalstoR's nels ... all of them on long runs. starting tackJ..es . next year . At Upsala he gathered in a punt . The last of the regular Colonels and raced and weaved his way 78 is another first year· man. Frank yards to ,p aydirt. He repeated this Zapotoski only played one half procedure at Ithaca, this time go- against Bloomsburg before breaking 90 yards. Not satisfied with ing his ankle. He didn't see action waiting for punts to come to him, again until last week a gainst the e intercept ed a pass against Ly- Aggies, but whenever he is in the~e coming, returning it 70 yards for he is a mountain of a guard. He 1s a six-pointer, and the an Aggie an All-Scholastic from J>lains and pa·s s provided Al with -a nother six- ,has three more years as a Colonel. points and a 40-yard return. Not He is another sure ,b et to get a # • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • · • • • • • • • • • • * ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• t ad wol'k for a freshman . . . not starting berth next year. ···••* All Wilkes Students Are Requested To Sit In The Bleachers On The Western Side of llBngston Stadium 1 Tomorrow Evening �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON ,-:=:::::::::=::=== THE BLOOMSBURG TOPS WILKES BOOTERS, 3-1 Beacon Lights of Sport Friday; Nqvember 18, 1949 Wilkes' Triple Threat King's Quarterback By PAUL B. BEERS GEORGE BRODY, Sports Editor The Wilkes College Soccer team ended its first ·m ajor season of socIn view of ·tomorrow's .g ame won th.em all despite the fact that cer last Thursday at Bloomsburg with King's College, there is little not even the students in the school while dropping a tough battle to the Huskies by a 3 to 1 score. one can say about the Wilkes- cared what they were doing or Coach Partridge's boys played hard how they did it. . . National Aggies game. But for the benefit of the absentees (and there But they played alone, and be- soccer every minute, but a winning came more inspired when , our soccer team cannot be built in one were many) we'll orient you. It was a listless game. O.bvious- friends from acros the street, year, ·especially in a town like ly, Wilkes was looking beyond to King's College, came to life and Wilkes-Barre where good soccer the King's game. Strange as it they, too, fielded a . football team. players are few and far between. may seem, while everyone was It was the most Natural Natural As the season progressed, the Colowondering when the Colonels were that could be dreamed up. An<,! they nels improved rapidly, but the going to start moving, they were reserved the last game of each sea- high-class opposition proved a little too strong for our boys to top. in the process of rolling up 400 son for each other. Given a few breaks the Colonels yards gained and 53 points. And it It mattered not the power of one stili looked as thdugh they weren't team, or the weakness of the other. would have pulled an upset over doing anything. Every man on both squads became the favored Bloomsburg Huskies as equally determined that the last week. Earlier in the season ****** Well, well, well! The Colonels' other wasn't going to win. The nloomsburg had beaten the ·colofirst offensive play was a hand-off .irst game was battled on even nels 3-&, and th,e bol{s were out for to Cross. It was good for 40 yards. terms until the closing minutes of revenge: .Still, breaks or no breaks, i'hat told the tale. From that point the game when Poop Waters brok,!) the Huskies barely managed to on the only question was how high through and Wilkes came out on sneak by with a 3-1 victory. The first-half saw both teams -t op 7-0. The following year saw a would we go. repeat. A grim ungiving battle battle to a scoreless deadlock. Try ****** The second play was a toucp- that saw Waters again come as they may, Bloomsburg just down pass to Big Jack Feeney. through with a closing minutes couldn't push that past stubborn That also told the tale. The Big run that put the Colonels again in Charley Jackson, Wilkes goal,ee. Charley came up with the ball on Boy took up from ther,e and per- che win column 13-7. sonally saw to it that the Aggies Last year differed slightly. Rain numerous occasions, and he saved BILL ZEKAS were going to have one miserable £,ell steadily throughout the day, the day for Wilkes in those openLEO CASTLE Florky can pass with the best of ing 44 minu tes. The Colonels had afternoon in Huber Stadium. and the deep muddy field was made them. Gus is one of bhe few triple - WIL,KES FAVORED to order for the battling behemoths one threat for a goal and nearly -threat men left in football today. ****** made it. Lefty Earl Wolff crossed a Coach Ralston will sorely miss In fact he did so much to the from Wilkes College, They pr9ved beauty right in front of the Teachto be as go od a bunch of Mudders (continued from page 1) -the services of Gerald Washko. Aggies that the officials had to ers' goal and center forward Bob warn him not to molest the boys a-s your heart could desire, and the Hooper took it cin his head. The just the same as if this were an The big tackle broke his arm on lighter Monarchs were pushed Ivy League game. Tradition is tra- the first play of the Aggie game. that 'were still on the bench. around quite freely. Score 26-6. ba11 bounced off -the top of the goal dition, and ther,e's no gettin,g away Wash is a key man in both offense ,' ****** a nd was cleared free by Bloomsand defense f ~ the Colonels. It is Big oaks from littl,e acorns grow : That gave the Colonels three burg's big halfback, Bob Benzin- from it. King's has a good team. Don't also doubtful whether F-rank ZaIt was an easy game. Just a breath- straight with King's still seeking ger. _ let anyone kid you on that. They'1·e poto.ski will play. Ollie Thomas er before the grand finale. Yet on its first victory. The Teachers opened strong in Hght ,and fast with a fairly heavy was sti11 on the injured '1ist on last tihe first play of the game, one of The boys from King's maintain the second half, but Wilkes held the major injuries of the season that the muddy field . alone made tight. Finally Bl~oms•b urg got their line that has been gaining expefi-_ reports, as was Frank Radaszewhit the Colonels. Gerry Washko, a the difference, and that they would first major break. l11,. an attack at ence wi-th every game they've been 'ski, another tackle. · This shortens p1aying. Leading the King's ground the depth of the Colonel" line, and sup,erb tackle and a key man in all be back to prove it. · our goal .Bill Baker let fly a hard of the Colonel1t. games, suffered a Sinc-e that first meeting, the drive. It hit defending Don Tosh attach is Ray Kowalski, one of the this tnight tell the story. Whatever the outcome, i-t is broken arm. All of which proves -Colonels have grown even stronger squarely in the ribs and the referee Monarchs' high scorers. He is fast that a good player never takes it and more popular. The stands are called it a hand-ball. Tosh didn't and shifty and always a threat. bound to be a good game. We would easy. Not even for little games. no J.onger empty, and the students have ,enough wind left in him to And then there's always Bill Zekas Ilke to wish our fri,end'!y riv-a1s ****** now care about what their team is protest. Bloomsburg took the 12,- ... the boy who hand-1,es the T and luc'k . . . which we do ... but we ,S hame · on us! The Aggies came doing. This will .be the biggest of foot penalty kick an scored easily. the air arm of King's College. feel the Oolonels are too much for What these two -boys are to King's, th'em again this year. Remember, with a beautifully decked out, well all the Wilkes-King's games to Minutes later .the Teachers coldrilled 315-piece band. It wouldn't date, and if the field is dry, as lected their second big break of Florkiewicz and Castle are to the this Ls one of bhe besit Colonel have hurt -so much if you didn't King's hopes it will be, the deter- the afternoon. Another hand-baU Colonels. Florky is only a ·c ouple teams to take the fi,eld against any have to look around and s-ee cap- mination of the men will erase the was called on the Colonels and the of TP's away from being the high opponents. And this year will be· able, efficient, and likeable Bob odds on the heavily favored Colo- Huskies received their second pen- scorer in the state, while Castle the last year for many of the Colo-M oran struggling along with some- nels. The proud Monarchs from alty kick. Bob Benginger scored his remains one of two ,g ridders who've n els bo hav-e a crack at the Mon-thing that loo'k.ed like the vestigial King's have much to shoot for- second goal whife the Colonels scored four times in one contest. archs. We look for a Colonel vie. Besides this, Gus is right behind tory ... even if we won't name the remains of the Grand Army of the their first ;win, while the Colonels stood by helplessly. Florky in scoring. Both Gus and score. Republic wheezing away on a have equally as much to shoot fo; Blooms1b urg scored its first legicouple of lbeat up horns. -all of the men playing their last timate goal early in the fourth Mr. M oran, I am sure, could game have never lost to King's. quarter when Bill Baker took a give Wilkes College as good a band They want to keep1 it that way. · pass and drove it into our net. as has ever been seen in this area. ****** After that the breaks started goBut don't ask m,e why he hasn't Just to prove to you that foot- ing to the Colonels. This was all got it, because I don't know. ball is a very funny game and that well and good, but the y were called we don't attempt to fool you when in the middle of the field where Now a grand season is coming we say anyone can win, we give they meant absolutely nothing. to a close. No longer do people look an incident from the Pittslburg With minutes left in the ball game, in askance when the name of Steelers-Los Angeles. Rams game Bob Hooper took a pass from halfWilkes College is mentioned. They .of last week. . back -Charley Th~mas and rammed knof{ it means a rapidly rising, 'The S,teelers were leading 7-0 in it into the goal for Wilkes' firs1; academically establish.ed institu- the fast quarter. They were on the and only score. The clock ran out tion. They know, -too, that it is the verge of the season's biggest up,. before the Colonels could dump in ,h ome of .t he best football team to set. The Rams' Bob Waterfield was another one, and the score stood 'ever perform in this valley. And back to kick, and center shot a bad 3-1 in favor of the home-team. that football team is composed of pass over his hea.d that the .SteelNeedless to say, Coa,ch Partmen who play only for the love of ers recovered on the ii-yard line. ridge was disapp_ointed when his playing. That absolutely sewed up the game. boys failed to cop a victory in its It was not long ago that these But wait! The Rams were penal- fir.st campaign. But the future is same men walked over to Kirby ized for delaying hte game-a pen- bright. Although the Colouels lose Bark to practice together as alty that absolutely cannot be re- the backbone of the team in halfWilkes CoHege's first football fused. So Waterfield got another backs Tom Kieback and Cy Kavalteam. They were the B. U. J. C.'s chance to kiyk and put the ball out chik, fullback Ras Rasmussen, and t!-ien, and their ,p icture was too far on Pittsburgh's line. Get this-Pitt lineman Sam Owens, Coach Partover the distant horizon to see. lost 83 yards on the play for an in- ridge has enough returning materiThey only kn,ew that places called fraction on tht! part of the Rams. al for the makings of a fine team Pittston ,.- Vocational School, Key- Result: Pittsburgh couldn't get out for l!t50. stone College, and Dickinson Jr. of the hole, the Rams scored with With Wa~ Quilted College were on their schedule. only Minutes remaining, the game 111111111111111 I I 1111111111111111 II I I I I IIIIIIII I Wool Lining There were six such games, all ended 7-7 instead of 14-0, and the told, and they won them all. They Steelers upset went out of the window. 1 PERFECT FOR CAMPUS WEAR! # Gabardine. Jackets. 14.95 ****** With that in mind, we will not ask our usual question of the week. .King's will be there fighting on Saturday and so will the Colonels. The better team will win. Baum's Tuxedo's TO RENT Special Price To Student Body 198 S. WASHINGTON ST, ~ ~ : : .:: ;'$~:;:;$~$~ :: =~ SUPPORT THE LETTERMAN'S FORMAL DECEMBER 16 ,~, A handsome jacket . . . ·. durable gabardine outershell lined with a thick quilted wool lining. Full zipper front, double purpose pockets as shown. Tan or gray. _ THE - HARR~ R.HIRSHOWITZ 1111111111111i1111111111111111111111111111111111 & BROS. �Friday, November 18, 1949 5 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON "DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE" ADAGE IGNORED Bl'.' .,IRE l'WIRLING GAL WILKES STUDENT COUNCIL, 1949-50 Miss Mary Morgan, night stu- Telephone operator in the daytime d,ent at Wilkes, introduced the art and she is taking courses in music of fire twirling to Wyoming Valley at Wilkes at night. She remarked at . the Wi1kes-Bridg,eport football that she believed that 9n.e gets more out of night school than regame. Miss Morgan, a 5-ft., 1-in. fresh- gular sessions, beca~se one doesn:t man, .began her activities as a maj- have outside activities to detract orette at the age of three. She was from school · work. She also . ·e?i::the mascot at Plymouth High pressed the belief that Wilkes · is ,School and later became the young- going to trounce King's. Miss Mor· '. est majorette ever to perform gan is a rabid Wilkes fan. there. Miss Morgan learned the intricacies of using a fire baton at a state competition at Pottstown. -Sammy Lange, director of the University of Pennsylvania band, dir(The music was written by Ted ected the classei. Mr. Lange re- Warkomski for the show "All ln ceived nation-wide publicity sever- Fun".) al years , ago for his adeptness in We're gonna beat King's handling two fire batons at one We're gonna beat King's ' time. We're gonna drive 'em in the Although Miss Morgan was inS-U-S-Q-U ~E-hanny structed in the uses of a fire baton, Beat King's! Beat King's! she has never had any previous exShown above are the members of this year's Student Council. At an election held at the last meeting the f61- perience in its use. She only at- Our iboys . are gonna knock 'em on their fannys. lowing were elected as officers. Sliadrach Jones, president; John Cain, vice president; Virginia Meissner, secretary; tempted to twirl with fire once beDaniel Sherman, treasurer. fore she put on h,er exhibition at We're gonna hit high the Bridgeport game. Miss Morgan We're gonna hit 1-0w •a lways prepares her oWl!l baton. We're gonna hit 'em in the place She stated that the baton must be where it waill always show .. very carefully wrapped in order to Yes-Hit high! Hit low! prevent the gasoline from running So--come on. Colonels-let's go. down th,e shaft. If this occurred, By CHET MOLLEY By IRENE JA~OSKI the results would be disastrous. As Humpty-Dumpty who sat on a Many students attended the Each . and every year one can hear rumors around the Coffee ,Hour whi,ch was held from The costume w.hic.h Miss Morgan wall campus of bigger and better social affairs that are in the offing. 3 to 5 in the cafeteria, on 'ruesday, wears is designed to give her a As Humpty-Dumpty who had a great fall Each and every year the social affairs here at Wilkes, College November 15. Faculty and stu- :r;naximum amount of protection. The cap covers her head complete- So all King's horses and all King's dents alike enjoyed the informality are undoubtedly getting bigger and better. But. .. many a year men ' · in leisurely chats at this affair. ly, and her jacket has long sleeves will come and go before any social event will surpass the com- The Coffee Hour is the third of its with tight cuffs which are designed Will never put them together again. ing Letterman's Second Annual Christmas Formal. kind being sponsored by the Wilkes to protect her wrists. Miss Mo11gan said htat although Faculty Women this year. This, of course, has to be an very reasonable if the student will A number of students attended she appears in the coldest of We're gonna beat King's assumption; but it is an assump- stop to consider that the price of wieather, she never has to worry We're gonna heat King's tion based upon observance. Never living has spiralled to a new high .the Coffee Hour betwe,e n classes. about ,b eing cold. The heat which They're gonna wish they never met While some students dashed off to 1 before in the history of Wilkes has in th,e past ,year. This, incidently, th,e fire :baton throws is so intense the boys from W-1-L-K-E-S a more enthusiastic body of men is the same price as that of last their r,espective classess other stu- that she is k•e pt very warm. Yes-Yes-Yes-Yes dents dashed in. They, in turn, engathered together to formulate and year. Miss Morgan works as a Bell We're gonna win this game. put into operation plans for makAfter much cajoling, threa ten- j·oyed a choice of Coffee or tea with cookies as a snack. · They ading this annual affair a monumen- ing, bargaining, and pleading, a mitted, too, that the signs on the tal success. The Lettermen that committee appointed to secure college campus were helpful in respecial rental price on tuxedos suewere named to the various commit- ceeded in acquiring th,e same at minding them about the Coffee tees · of organization laid down their Baum's at !Jhe phenomenal low Hour. Hostesses were Mrs. John Hall, tentative plans many moons ago. cost of $4.50. And this is phenomena•! because 'fish and tails' rent Mrs. Welton G. Farrar, Mrs. In the time interval that has elapsat double and triple that price Charles Henderson, Miss. Lorna TrumanProposes ~~~~ 2,220 To Compete ed . sinced their first meeting and throughout the valley. Holbrook and Miss Mildred Hull . · Health Bill In Kansas Relays the present <late, these men have The women who pour,ed were Mrs. 'r!here will be onlu two hundred pondered over many plans, discard- and fifty tick,ets printed. Tickets Edwar? Williams, Mrs. Eugene For (Otllfry ~ ing some, and retaining those that ._,...... .......... Farley and Miss Catherine Bone. they thought , best for placing this can be obtained fr.om any of the •....- .w._,_., The Coffee Hour committee that Lettermen. social affair within the means and n......-... There have been many heated arranged Tuesday's social included :;.:-circumstances of the entire male Mrs. Alfred Bastress, Chairman, discussions a~out the campus in :-.,,.111.:..portion of the student hody. After ::":":..-· pertinence to this event being a Mrs. John A. Chwalek, Mrs. Edsuch stupendous effort and painward N. Heltzel, Mrs. Donald R. formal affair. The Lettermen, who staking diligence on the part of Kersteen, Mrs. Arthur N. Kruger, the vario_us com111ittees, how can represent a good cross-cut of the Mrs. James J. Laggan, Mrs. Ed' this affair be anything but a great varied opinions of the entire stu- ward J. Manley, Mrs. ;r ohn A.. success? dent body, agreed unanimously Cooney and Mrs. ·John J. Riley. The Letterman's ,S econd Annual that the attire should be formal. Another Coffee Hour is being Christmas Formal will be held at How often does the student wear planned for Wednesday, N9vember a Tuxedo? '11his in its,elf should the !rem Temple Country Club, 30, to which students, faculty, and Dallas, on December 16,• 1949. Lee make the occasion a memorable friends ar,e invited. Vincent, who has one of the ibetter one: an •occasion to be long reorchestras .in the surrounding area, memlbered. One can never realize will s,erve up his sweetest array of the great amount of inherent digmelodies. Corsages will not be per- nity that on,e possesses until he has mitted because ; . . and here a arrayed himself in the <lashing surprise for the little women . . . splendo•r of 'fish and tails'. You other arrangements have been may never have noticed your strikOrders for Theta Delta Rho made by the Lettermen. And the ing reselmblance to Cary Grant or girls wiLl be surprised, and over- Ronald Coleman until you have Pins are being taken in the Bookjoyed, and entirely happy about donned this symbol of suave gal- store until December 17. these arrangements. This was one lantry. You can wear your dothes Din.e•A-Mi:e Inn Orders for white blazers for of the outstanding issues of the every day. Once a year there Lawrence, Kan.. entire project and the conclusion should be something new ... this Theta Delta Rho will be taken to which it was brought should is it! It is ' the metamorphosis starting Monday at the bookprove satisfactory to the men as complete, and you shall have store. The deadline is Dec. 9. Meeting the gang to discuss a .w ell as the women. The price wiU achieved the stature of the perfect ·, quiz-a date with the campus be 4 dollars per couple. This is gentleman. queen-or just killing time between classes ~ the Dine-A. Mite Inn at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas is one of the favorite places for a rendezvous. At the Dine-A-Mite Inn, as in all college off-campus CONCERNING-The formation of a Literary Society at Wilkes. haunts everywhere, a frosty PURPOSE-To create interest, activity and a chance to "Talk Things Over" bottle of Coca-Cola is always . Ask for it either way •.• both on hand for the pause that refor those on the campus who are interested in writing prose or poetry. trade-marks mean the sam~ thing. freshes-Cok~ belongs. We're Go~na Beat·King'~ LETTERMAN'S SECOND CHRISTMAS FORMAL WFW COFFEE HOUR ABOUT TO TAKE SPOTLIGHT ON '.CAMPUS LARGELY ATTENDED --=-- -----. __ .. NOTICE! n.•----------~----........~~~~-~-..,,. NOTICE!! WHAT, WHERE, and HOW-Any one interested in the idea of looking for further information, please see BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEYSTONE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. DR. KRUGER 141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2-879S 01'49,. c-c.i. c.,.,. �.6 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday, November 18, l94~ -----------------------------------------------------• • • •• • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Twenty-Four Students chess, pool, and ping-pong draw Manuscript Asks For . the students to the "dorm". The officers elected by the dormStories, Poems, Essays - - - AROUND THE COLLEGE CAMPUSES Living At Boys' Dorm itory men . are: President, R R. (aa preaented in the Herald Tribune) ........... ...•..................... By DA VE WHITNEY ~ Wilmington Changes Rule . , Wilmington College has changed an academic requirement which has been a part of the program since the seventy-nine-year old school opened its doors : The factulty authorized an alternative for the two y,ears of study in a foreign language, which has been a requisite for the Bachelor of Arts degree. ' Under the new plan, students may elect fifteen sem,ester-hours work in art, music, history; . government and geography, instead of the fourteen hours · in a foreign language. The plan will become effectiv,e for students entering after June 1, '50. Plans Wider Placement Amherst Cpllege will expand its ' guidance and placement facilities for seniors as the result of ac tion taken by the Alumni Council at the college last week end. By unanimous approval the council has created an alumni committee to study ,g uidance and placement problems and to recommend ·a program to the -college's trustees. As a first step ' the college h* assembled a panel from the faculty, administration and alumni who are available to students for consultation and advice. survey of voter intelligence and sentiment in Marietta, Ohio, as a prelude to the municipal elections Nov. 8. Class members went from door to door asking questions such as: Of what party do you consider yourself a member? Who is your choic,e for mayor? What are your reasons for this choice? Results of the survey were not disclosed, but Representative C. William O'Neill, former speaker of the Ohio House of Repre&entatives, who teaches the class, termed the survey a "great success" and pointed out that by meeting and talking to voters first-hand the student gets better experience than dealing with the problem abstractly in the classroom. Dedication at Davicison Davidson College dedicated its new $75,000 Johnston Memorial gymnasium and conducted groundbreaking ceremonies for a new $600,000 church yesterday in a special Homecoming Program. Lectures at Clark Clark University, Wore.ester, Mass., has announced that Senator Paul H. Douglas, of Illinois, will address the Connecticut Valley Economists. in Atwood Hall on the campus on Nov. 19. This meeting will ibe the first of a series of lectures during the present acad,emic year in observance of the sixtieth anniversary of the university's ,,opening. Smith Appeals to Alumnae Smith College, in the final year ,of its fund drive for sev,en minion -dollars, is appealing to its 26,00-0 :alumnae, for the remaining $1,900,•000. Letters geared to the seventy:,fifth anniversary are asking for .anything from a Hope diamond to ,a diamond chip to set in .Smith's :d iamond jubilee crown. Th,e appeal .e xplains that the college sti,11 needs funds "to hold a preeminent faculty, to maintain her scholarship ship p'r ogram, and to modernize her science equipment." Opera Workshop Continues Pennsylvania College for Women will continue the Opera Workshop, organized . last summer, through. out the school year. There are two ten-week terms; the first began Nov. 1 and the second will start on Feb. 7. A concentrated course is to offer tal,e nted, mature singers a course dealing with the singing and acting techniques of · the operatic stage. Marietta Surveys Voters Marietta College's class in practi'cal .p olitics recently completed a THE BOSTON STORE Men's Shop has everything for the ·college man's needs. from ties to suits. FOWLER, . DICK AND WALKER Copyrip I~, l'.iGGJrr a, MYW TOBACCO Co, . Butler Hall, the men',s dormitory, serves two outstanding purposes. The historic building at 154 South River Stre,et is both living quarters for resident men, and a favorite gathering place for many of the men of the college. Four lounge rooms, another room for study, a coke machine, and a piano, as well as facilities for checkers, New N. J.C. Scholarship · New Jersey College for Women, Rutgers University, wil~ offer a scholarship of $400 in memory of an alumna, Emily May Phelps Atwood. it was announced by Dean Margaret T. Corwin last week. The scholarship will be awarded to a senior or 'an alumna of N. J. C. for study during 1950-'51 in the nursery school department of the Bank Street School, New York City, or some comparabile training for nursery school teachers. Weeks; Vice President, Robert Croucher; Secretary - Treasurer, Malcolm Lee; Publicity chairman, Sam Chambliss. Twenty-four men are living at the dormitory this semester: Thomas · Adams, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Samuel yhambliss, Plainfield, N. J.; William Clous,en, Berwick; Robert Croker, East Moriches, N. Y.; Robert Croucher, Linden, N. J.; Gerald DeUinger, York, Pa.; Fredrick Fisher, Philadelphia; Robert Green, Scranton; Robert Hall, Rahury, N. J.; Leigh Harrison, Washington, D. C.; James Hartman, Nescopeck, Pa.; Sidn,ey Heidelback, Catorsilles, Md.; Russell Jones, Harrisburg; Charles Knapp, Trenton, N. J.; Matthew King, Strafford, Pa.; Robert Ludd, Rutherford, N. J.; Malcolm Lee, Staten Island, N. Y.; Gene Marciant, Trenton, N. J .; David Minasian, Glen Ridge, N. J.; Charles O'Sh,ea, Trenton, N. J.; Walter Pryse, Upper Darby, Pa.; Robert Weeks, New York; Jules Wegner, F'lushing, N. Y.; Edward Wheatle y, Wilmington, Del. · The Manuscript announced that it is acceptilig short stories, poems, and essays to be considered for publication in the winter, 1950, issue. Any student who wishes tc, submit work may place his mai1Uscript in the box near the rear entrance of the library. ,T he editor of the Manuscript recommends that this be done as soon as possible as the coming issue is being plan~ ned now. The Wilkes literary magazine exchanges its publications witlJ colleges and unhiersities through• out the country. Our student auth ... 'ors have reached readers at Har·vard, Yale, University of California, Notre Dame, and many other institutions. Authorities, in appraising our college, have pointed out that the Manuscript can be proud of the accomplishments of the writers who appear in . its pages The -s taff of editors again asks the cooperation of i literaryminded students in producing another fine issue of the Manuscript. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1949 November 18th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 November 18 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/e7b56248db312066d325e9a38714e664.pdf b8efea7bc688ea3d500f89eb86f3d218 PDF Text Text Wilkes College Beacon Vol. 3, No. 8. WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Friday, November 11, 1949 Psychology Students J. HOWARD BLAKE WILKES STUDENT W. W. G. SPONSORING Beacon Will Hold Visit Mental Hospital TO SPEAK HERE WINS ELECTION COFFEE HOUR THURS. Press Conference Sat. AT NEWPORT TWP. Irene Janoski Wilkes stud.ents interested in By Mike. Connors The third annual Beacon Press psychology visited Clark Summit M.e ntal Hospital on, Wednesday, November 9. Mr.' Joseph Kanner ~1ccompanied approximately 60 students on a field trip designed to j>rovide psychology students with first hand observation of mental symptoms. A · trip to Retreat Mental Hospital, where students will see shock treatment and other modern ther·apy, . is being planned for later in the semester. The students spent about an · liour and a half at ·the hospital where they saw various types of m.e ntal disease, senile patients, vialent patients kept solitary, and the hydrotherapy room where ice packs, needle shower~, and warm water therapy are administered. The Economics C-lub has made By Chet Omichinski arrangements through Mr. Rosen.Albert Kanyuck of Glen' Lyon, a b erg to ha ve a speak er f rom th e student here at Wilkes, w;1s elected Department of Commerce address on Tuesday to .the post of school the school Tuesday, November 15, director of Newport Township at 8 P. M. Mr. J. Howard Blake, schools. Mr. Kanyuck's election to the Oommerdal specialist, will address office has been rather unique in the group; his topic will be r,e tail- many respects. At the age of twening and manufacturing as it affects ty~five years, Al is the youngest the Northeastern Pennsylvania man to ev,er have been chosen for area. In connectioJi) with this sector this position; he received the highest number of nomination votes in he will outline trends, current conthe history . of Newport Township; ditions and future possibilities. if he has not polled ,t he hig hest number of votes for election to the office he has come ver~ near; and he is a disabled veteran, having lost an arm as a r·e sult o wounds received while fighting in· france. Mr. Kanyuck left· Newport Towns hip . Hig h School in March of 1944 · to enter ,the services of our a-rmed forces: Though three months were shy of completing his senior year, A•! received his diplom,a on the basis of hif school record. In less than six mont hs, after enLAST PREPARATIONS FOR GHOST TRAIN PRODUCTION tering the army, Al arriv'ed in EnNOW IN PROGRESS g!and. After a few months of, intensive infantry training in Englamd he was shipped to France, where in January, 19'45, less than a year after he entered our country's military service, he was wounded by a snip.er's bullet at Ba.stogne. After spending a year at various hospitals in England, Al was sent ,back t o the United S tates in March, 1946. A year's stay at Atlan tic City( a year at Walter Reed Hospita! ' in Washington, D. C., and twelve operations found Al well enough to be discharg.ed, which ' took effect in March, 1947. Af.ter his discharge from the Amny, Mr. Kanyu 0k enrolled at (continued. on page 4) The Economics Club in keeping with ts policy is happY: to have the opportunity to sponsor this affair. The Club extends an invitation to all sliudents and interested parties. GHOST TRAIN, MULE TRAIN MOVING UP; TIME TO SPARE RAPIDLY CLOSING DOWN Extensive Plans Made For Arnnicola Contest Next week will be the time for a)! good ( or not so good) Wilkes students to go to the GAR auditorium to see the Cue 'n' Curtain production of GHOST TRAIN. On the evenings of November 17 and 18 the chllb will stage the com.edymystery to start the 1949-50 parade of dramatic.s at Wilkes. Thomas Littleton is directing the ;production and has announced that there wil1 be various special effects which should prove interesting to th,e audience. He did not disclose what those special effects will be. Beginning Monday evening, rehearsals will take place in the GAR •auditorium. Each evening until the nights of production the cast will '. go through rehearsals at the high school. 'T he cast, for Ghost Train includes both experienced collegiate actors and those with little or no previous experien~e. However, the actors who have not had much ex'peri,ence are learning ra,pidly under the direction of Mr. Littleton and with the valuable pointers g-iven by the more ex;perienced members, the new-comers are improving. Tickets for the production are on sale now to non-members of the student body. The student tickets can be nrocured on the strength of the activities pass. Pertinent data concerning the sale of the tickets will •b e posted on the bulletin board and in various places in town. By Chuck Gloman " Extensive plans have been made for it.he 1950 Amnicola Beauty Contest, and with mor,e student participation it will be bigger and ,better than any we have ever had," Leo n G~ll;/er, editor, said this week. The staff has h.eard many complain ts that l:ast year's heauty contest was not open for part icipation of the student •b ody. In order to remedy this situation the &taff has requested more in ter est shown by the students this year. All situdents are asked to list their choice of the ten most beautif ul Wilkes coeds and to take the list, as soon as possi:ble, to the Yearbook office, second flo-or of Science Lecture Hall. From these nominations th.e staff will select 25 candiimtes whose names will be posted ,before the student body. Then photographs of the cand,idates will be sent to an outside judge whose name has not yet been announced. The candidates will be pictured in the 1950 Amnicola in a manner S'imHar to that o'{, the '49 iss·ue. A full~page photograph will . be devoted to each of · .the fiv;e w inners, and the remaining tweruty candidia tes will ibe pictured opposite these five. Last year, Al Capp, famed creator of the comic strip Li'! Abner, was the beau ty contest judge . . Although Mr. Oapp was pleased with his task of choosing the five most •beautiful coeds, · h•e admitted th e difficulty which it involved. He said tha1t writing ·a comic strip was easy work compared to judging a beauty comest of such a high calibre. on Conference will be inaugurated the Wilkes Catnpus, Saturday, N ovem1b er 12. All valley high schools have .b een invited to send representati;ves tq participate;. in activities cbncerning the various aspects of newspaper work. The program, will begin at 9 :30 and come to a close at 2:30 P. M. Joseph Gol'lman of the Inte~national Color Printing Company will speak at 10 o'clock. Robert Johnson, Managing Editor of the Wilkes-Barre Record will discuss current topics •pertaining to the journalistic world. Their speeches· will · undoubtedly have ·great . interest value for those . who are intending to make their careers in journalism. Both men are outstanding in their respective fields; and their experience should r;eve.itl much worthy ,m aterial to aspirant·s in the newspaper world. Approximately one hundred rep;-; resentativks are expected to attend t he conference in the Lectlire Hall. These people will have been chosen by faculty advisors to represent the various local high school newspapers. The · purpose of th~s conference is to famiJiarize and a cquaint th,e stud ents of these high school s with f uncti ons an d aspects of the college newspaper. It will also aid in the promotion of bettett relation s and closer cooperation among the valley high schools. The committees responsible for the formulation a~d org~nization of t h.e ·plans for this affair are as follows: . . !Speakers: Vmce Maq·i, Art Spengler, Tom Robbins, and George Brody. Invitations: Irene Janoski, Joan Lawlor Margaret Aten, and Miriam Long. Luncheon: Clyde Ritter, Rit~Mar tin and James Tinsley. Reception: Chet Omi chins~i, Joe Gries, James Tinsl ey Vince Macri and Dave Whi t ney. , .Program: Chet Omachinski and Russ Williams. Ci 1culator for Better Relations: Martin Blake Esq. Luncheon will be served at 12 o'cloc.k at Wilkes College Cafeteria. After the luncheon th,ere will be a ' discussion period between attendin g personnel and the speakers. During this period financ ial ~sBy ~risci!la Swartwood pects ,public relati ons, publicatio'p ,Saturday morning, October 29, da tes and data, and editorial conthe members of the Wilkes 1Coll ege t.-ent will be discu ssed. Chemistr y Club journ ey.ed to the Duplan Si'l k Mill , Kin gsto n, Pa. The pul'pose of the t rip was to gain a ·b etter un derstanding of the met hods use<l in processing t he rough products of silk , nylon, and ayron so th.a t they ,may be used by The Wilkes Debating Soci~ty unclothing companies and industries. der Dr. Alfr,ed N. Kruger htis been Arriving at the mill, the club was gr,eeted !by M;r. S hrimp, who accepted as a member of the Deafter leading the club to a con- ·b a ting Association of Pennsylvania ference room gave a brief h istory of the ,mil1 a nd tl-gm discussed the Colleges. A debate at Lafayette has ipeen methods of -p reparing t he various scheduled for December 7, with the threads for the u se of industry. The most significant fact and topic "Should the Basic N on-Agrifigures of th.e discussio:I}, were t ha t the Dup lan Mill ,p rocesses of its cultural Industries l3e N~tfonaltota,l products, 70 % nylon, 30% ized? '' Member.ii of the D~l>ft!ng rayon, 5% silk, and · 5% ayron . Society to take part in this d!lbite A,yron is a comparatively new pro- are · Donald Kemmerer. Tho~fll duct. After the discussion, Mr. Wright Morgan, Gene Bradley and ;J-uliim conducted a tour of .t he mill. All Goldstein. processes from the very first rough The Debatin~ Society will J?feproducts throug h the spindeling sen t a forum before Rotary on the process to the fin ished spools wer.e subj ect "Are American Schools ubserved. The high light of the trip to the Preparing Their Students for Adult club .members was te vlewing of Life?" Moderator for this program the chemist~y ,l aboratory in carge will ,be Donald Kemmerer, and of Dr. Max Arnold, where the varispeaikers will be Janet Gearhart, ous grades of products ar.e tested for viscosity and dyeing suscept- Gytelle Freed_ Julian Goldstein ·and ibility and analysis of the fibers. Doris Gauger. Another important Coffee Hour is being planned by the Wilkes Women's Group to be held Tuesday, November 15, in the cafeteria. The one held last Thursday, November 3, had a moderate turnout of students; a majority of thos.e that did appear at this social gathwere the college athletes. These boys frankly admitted their love for a good cup (or cups) of coffee as well as their friendlly chats with mem.ber.s of the faculty and their wives. A lack of Freshman student.s was attributed to the mid-semester exams. Since exams are over (for a while)., the W. W. G. js expecting a large attendance, of students old and new. Mr.s. Edward Williams, former instructress, stated 1that all th,e faculty wives are anxious to meet the students. Last year, the Coffee Hours were held only on Thursdays of every other week. This year, for the siliudents' conveni,enoe, these social function s w ill ,b e h eild every other week on rotated days of Tuesd ay, •W ednesday : and Thursday. · The Coffee Hour was fi rst started at the imggestion of Mr. and Mrs. Ro1b.ert Pa'r tridge who t h ought i;t would be ·an excel'lent idea to get students and faculty acquainted on an · informal basis. Dr. Eugene Farley wisely suggested that t he Wilkes Women's Group, when it •Wtas organized, sh ould undertake the Coffee Hour as its first proj ect. , Mrs. Alfred Bastress is general Chairman on the committee which includes the following memibers: Mrs. John Chwa:lek, Mrs. ATthur Kruger, Mrs. JoHn Riley, Mrs .· Edward H.eltzel, Mrs. Jaimes Laggan, Mrs. Edward ,M anley, ,Mrs. Donald Kersteen and Mrs. John Cooney. Hostesses for ~ Tuesday's social hour will ibe Mrs·. Welton G. Farrar, Mrs. Charles Henderson, Mrs. Jo·hn Hall, Mis.s Lorna Holbrook, and Miss 1Mildred Hull. These women appointed to pqur t h e coffe.e are: Mrs. Eugene F arley, ¥rs. Edward Williams ,and Miss Catherine Bone. I CHEM. CLUB .VISITS DUPLAN SILK MILL WILKES DEBATERS ACCEPTED BY DAPC �WILKES COLLEGE BEACON 2 AN APOLOGY -- RUSS WILLIAMS Editor-in-Chief TOM ROBBINS News Editor GEORGE BRODY GERTRUbE WILLIAMS Sports Editor Faculty Advisor CLYDE RITTER MARGARET ATEN Business Manager Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Bill Griifith, Art Spengler, 1Miriam Long, Joe Gries, George Kabusk, Chet Molley, Don Follmer, Gene Bradley, Chuck Gloman, James Tinsley, Rita Martin, Dave Whitney, Irene Janoski, Ed Ty;burski, Vince Macri, Herbert Rosen, Joan Lawlor, George Brody, Homer Bones, Romayne Gromelski, Bob Metzgar. Re-Write - Chet Omichinski A paper published weekly by and for the students of Wilkes College Phone 3-3148 ·Ext. 19 Member Intercollegiate Press ,.,.,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,_,,,,,,,,,,,,.,.,. Rider attack scoring two of their touchdowns, also starred for the LETTERS TO · THE Hurricane eleven; Sam ltutalek, EDITOR anoth.er backfield man for Rider, .,.,.,,,,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,., played fullback for the Hurricanes; Steve Koval, that big tackle Dear Sir; of Rider, was a key man in the After witnessing last week's Hurricane line; John Kuzma, the game between Wilkes and Rider, end who got thrown out of the I· would like to publicly congratu- game, was a star tnd for the hurlate the Colonels on a fine per- ricanes; William Damian played for.mance ........ especially consider- in the guard slot for both teams; ing the fact that they were play- Joseph Yatsko, the center of the ing against at least six players Rider outfit, also handled the who had previously played for a •p ivot post for the Hurricanes; semi-pro outfit. These six players These are the men that I am ab-performed for the Nesquehoning solutely certain played for the Hurricanes, and as a team they Hurrican,es. compiled an enviable record of 32 ·I wish ,that you ·would publish wins out of 33 games. They piayed this. I know that the outcome of independept ball, beating suchi the game cannot be changed, but teams as Allentown Bethlehem I think that this will add to the Bulldogs, Trenton, a~d Paterson. prestige of the Colonels. They are I have seen them play many t_imes deserving of every bit of credit as a professional team; this is the they can get. Remember, they were reason that I can name them. They 1_>laying professionals. are as follows: John Etianche, who A Loyal Colonels Fan, was one of the big guns in the JIMMY GA TENS We humbly apologize to the Psychology Club and to its president, i.Viarvin Horwitz, for our negligence in handling the story of the club's field trip. The early part of last week Marvin brought us the facts about the field trip which, after being booted around the Beacon oiljce in longhand form, wasn't typed up till Thursday evening~ Unfortunately it was too late for· tlie story to be in the Beacon for that , week. Not too long ago we · made a .p lea for the club l)Tesidents to try to help us . oh t on, nwes for their organizations. We asked them to cooperate by giving us the five w's and an h on any story they mi~ht have. But what happens when a olub gives us news which doesn't I get printed? The memlbers of the club and everyone concerned gets downright discusted with the Beacon, and justly so, too. It would ,be futile or at any rate, merely rationalism -to try to make excuses for our procrastination of duties. We sincerely }].ope that our apology is accepted and that clubs, all clubs, do not ,b egin to feel that their stories will be ignored. From no,w on, the Beacon wiH strive to lbe a beacon highlighting any and all campus affairs without omission. Collegicf,te Football Topic At Assembly Friday, November 11, 1,949 BEACON REPORTER U. OF CINCINNATI . NOW ON THE MEND OISCUSSES TEACHERS MARITAL STATUS George Kabusk, one of the versatile reporters of the Beacon is · recuperating from a recent append,ectomy at the Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Hosiiital. Reports have it that George is doing well and that he wiJ.l soon be back on the campus. We're looking forward to seeing George again in the near future for we miss his inter.esting accounts of assembly occurences. Good luck, George, and take care of those stitches; your post is re.s erved and waiting. • • • , • ities at the University of Cincinnati believe they have come up with the best possible answer to the anonymous letters reported to be received in many sections of the country urging young women to give up training for teaching The letters, referring to teachers colleges "ol,l maid factories", W&.,..,, ~ , • Mai eachers never marYou May be spending your PaCifIC Umvers1ty ... •t Out •d W k holidays alone." .CredI s SI e or _localSo university's Dean Carter V. Good of the Teachers College ! Forest Grove, Ore. (I. P.-Pacific University is developing a program this year .bi' which students who have outside jobs will receive a work-experience rating. I'he University is entering contracts with employers who ·may have parttime or occasional jOlbs for students, which provide that the University will undertake to supply the workers when wanted, and ·in 'return the employers will rate the ·student-workers on such things as industry, initiative, promptnes, willingness to assume responsibility. Wages will be paid directly by employer to worker. The arrangement, it is expected, will provide more work oppo:r:j;unities and enable students who need it to get in more man-hours than \vould be possible for them seeking employment . on their own. However, the plan will not prevent students from seeking jobs individually. D. D. Darland, dean of students, responsible for the program, be- By Dave Whitney A dcl>ate entitled "Should Intercollegiate Football Be Abolished " was the main feature of the assembly on Tuesday November 8. The debate had the· form of a symposium-after all of the speakers had _stated their views, discussion was thrown open to the audience. Moderator for the discussion was Donald Kemmerer, who introduced )le speakers, Fred Davis, Ann Belle "arry, Herbert Rosen apd Gene 3radley. These people are mem>ers of the De~ating Society direct 3d by Dr. Kruger. Mr. Davis discussed the problem from the standpoint of the studept, naintaining that intercollegiate football is detrimental to the 1ealth and morals of the partici:ants, as well as to the academic )rogress of all students because of he emotional 'tensions created. Mr. Davis cited gambling as an evil 3timulated by colleges' devoting h,e mselves to public entertainment. 'vliss Parry also considered the ;opic as it affects sttidents, and de'. lared that athletic scholarships mable deserving boys ,to earn their vay through college. Miss Parry asserted that the injury and fatality rate in intercollegiate football is low, and tliat football is a desirable part of the American way of life. Mr. Rosen spoke on the effect of intercollegiate football on the college as an institution_ asserting that colleges should expend their efforts to encourage competition by all in scholarship ·ratrer than by a few in athletics. Mr. Rosen pointed out that intercollegiate football Day after day at _!he Univerdoes not bring colleges the finan~ ¢ Plualt cial return it is often thought to sity Store in Athens, Georgia, ... StateTax bring. • as in college shops throughMr. Bradley discussed the probout the cqµntry, you can lem as it affects the college, emphasizing enrolment as e~ouraged ahyays find University of by alumni school spirit. Mr. BradGeorgia students and ice-cold ley quoted Dou~las MacAr thur's -statement "On the fields of friendCOC'll-Cola. For with students ly strife are sown the seeds which everywhere, frosty ice-cold bear fruit in later life", and gave Dwight Eisenhower as an example Coca-Cola is the favorite of the character building of footdrink~ke belongs. ball. When the speakers had finisheq, I . Mr. Kemmerer opened the discusAs'/c for it nthn- f/Jll7 ••• loll, sios to the students, and several lrtlik-marlcs nu1111 1M s11nu t/,i~ stimulate~ questions were asked. "Are all collel!'es critized for the KEYSTONE COL.n.-~v.a...n. .t)UJ.'l.L.lliG CO. abuses of the few '' "Should a col141 WOOD STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. PHONE 2-S7SS l,ege try to develop scholars or individuals who know how to live too 1949 n,. C--Cala Coapany gether "even '!)er_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _..,;;;;.....;.;.:,•.;,;;,;_;;,;;,;,;_:;;;;:..;:==.centage" ofand injury to .ab e small justified {' set about to prove the fJilsity of the anonymous ,w riter's claims, even though none of his coeds had received such letters. Selecting seven Tecah.ers College coeds at random, he found two are already married, another two are engaged, still 'another two are "going steady", and only one as yet "unattached". Dean Good was not surprised. "We have long had the opposite experience to the claims o fthe letter writer", he said. "Many of our graduates go out and teach for a few years, then some alert young fellow marries them." lieves the work-rating will have distinct educational value to students, in particular those who have had little experience in working for wag-es. Students whose workrating is poor will be counseHed on how to improve performance. It is believed an excellent work-rating will be an asset to graduates in seeking jobs. r--;:;;;;--,~~\ .'inf4,8AM- I 1 I Cincinnati, O., (I. P.)-Author- , LONGHORN\ LEATH.ER J I ' lz I II - - STYLED for Campus BTQ's in Glove-soft white Flagg Buck. ST AMINA galore in the rugged red rubber sole that'll wear and wear. \,,~ 7!' 8 IIIJ g~ IUY A PAIR TODAY ~LAGGBROS. DMll0N o, G88AI. MTAI.. ~110N 14 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. In Philadelphia: 1223 MARKET - 4605 FRANKFORD �Friday, November 1~. 1949 3 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON THE Beacon Lights of Sport AGGIES-COLONELS TO RESUME RIVALRY AT HUBER STADIUM Meet The Colonels By ED TYBURSKI GflORGE BRODY, Sport• Editor Tomorrow afternoon will be another homecoming at Wilkes The stream of strife is turbulent been justified, too. How much do not in the sense of last week's maybe, but none-the-less, it will b,e and a position on the crest of its ,you expect for one dollar? a hom~oming. At 2:00 P. M. when waves is precarious. It is too easy * * * * to get knocked off. The Colon.els Chet Knapich was back. And the Aggies of National Agriculturwere one of tho~e waves, but they don't you think the Rider center al take the field against the didn't get kn-0cked off. Theirs was was glad ,to hear that he'll never Colonels at Huber Stadium, three a v11oliant battle that was stopp.ed see Chet again. Once is too many. of . Wilkes' former sons will be not by Rider, but by the clock. If you can think of more ways playing for them. Tom Miller, forto heap .mountains of praise on 1µier assistant coach to George * ** * That's the kind of a ,g ame it the heads of Feeney, Washko, Ralston, is now the assistant coach was .... a ,ug of war that saw the Bogusko, Hendershot, McMahon, at National. John Guisti, who lead lik.e a bobbing cork, change Gorgas, Thomas, Lewis, Dalton, played guard for the Colonels last hands with the speed of a whirl- Molash, and Elias let me knzyw, year, will be playing guard for the Aggies, while Phil Sekerchak, :ing dervish. It was just a case of My w,ell is running dry. * * ** former basketball star at Wilkes, Rider scoring last. Wilkes got the Now is the time to start argu- will ,be playing end. So you s.ee, in ball with one second to go. Looking at the game just as it was, it is ing. Who is your choice for the a sense it will be a homecoming. The Beacon Since Miller was assistant coach not speculating to say that if that player of the year. one sec-ond· were, instead, one tiny Sports St.. 'f has reduced the can- at Wilkes ,naturally he knows the With the minute, things would have been didates to · c'Ur, but we ain't talk- Colonels only too well. ing. Betw 'n classes we will b.e dope he has on them, he'll .be in differenit. mooching co1.. e in the cafeteria. a better position than if he had to * * * * rely solely on scouting them. He But let's not minimize the ef- Come in and g d e us your views. You are missing a treat if you knows the team's strong points, forts of Rider. That team waited an entire year for this game, and it haven',t seen the soccer team and its weak ones. And he's sure is to their credit that they made perform. This is a team of b-Oys, to have his · team up for this one; their determination pay off. I'h,ey who, in many cases, have never there's nothing a former coach refused to go down. They didn't even seen a soccer game. Yet, they likes better than ,b.eating his old hol<l.ing th,e best in the East school. Well, we wish him luck, know theh meaning of the word ~~ ,1air-breadth decisions. Howard but we're afraid he'll need more "quit.' : You don't mind losing that kind U. was behind until the last eight than just knowledge of the Colminutes of Saturday's game. That onels ,to stop them. We look for the of game. was the first time in eight years Colonels to win this one .easily. * * ** After losing last week's game to Strange, that such a football that they found themselves in that Rider .. .... .. a loss, by the way; that game should leave the most im- position. * ** * the Colonels in no way should be portant question still unllnswered . 0y Kowaldi.ek, Captain, is · the ashamed of.. .... the Colonels will be Which is the better offense, a good single wing, or a good "T"? Both only ~ minute man on th.e squad. out to get back on the victory teams worked withh perception. However, Sam Owens is only two ,bandwagon. Even if Florky is out, Both teams were sensational. And minutes short for the season, Jack- as Rumor has it, the Colonels still theh l-0sing margin was a squeek. son is only one quarter short, and have little "Gus" Castle. Rem.ember that 78 yard run last week? The losing margin was dictated by Rasmussen, one half. * * • • And then there's Al Nicholas, time, not opposjtion. ;Outstanding to date is Tom '.Paul Thomas, Pinky Pinkowski, Who in his lifetime can ~ver Kleback. He is only a sophomore, and Jack DeReemer. Besides, the forget the performance of little but will transfer to Penn State Colonels still have the "Seven ''Gus" Cattle? The Will-0-The- next s.eason. Bob Hooper, Don Blocks of Anthracite." What more • Wi-sp back with his rapier-like Tosh, and Sam Owens are the could a team want? most rapidly developing players. Should the Colonels receive, thrusts which accounted for 4,000 • *• * Ralston will field the following hoarse voices Smith · Bros. ought -to J.?ay him a commission. Certainly . When the, season started, Owens team: Ends, Feeney and McMahon; the run of Phillipides was no great- didn't even know he had a left tackles, Washko and Hendershot; foot. He- played ball like an Army guards, Lewis .and Thomas; center, * * * * awkward squad drill,ed, but in the Al Dalton; backs, Florkiewicz, or And ~an you ima,gin.e! A girl on last Saturday's game, he left- Castle, Pinkowski, Nicholas, and ,thi.s campus asked, "Who is that footed one from 24 yards out on a Cross. In case they kick off, Coach libtel fellow with te letter? Does beautiful shot into the upper cor- Ralston will field his defensive eh play soccer or something?" ner of the net that caught the team; Ends, Feeney and Molash; Yes, Girlie, you can bet your g oalie flatfooted. ,t ackles, Hendershot or Bogusko; ·boots he plays something. Mostly Time and teaching creates mas- guards, Knapich and Gorgas; cenfootball: ters. ter, Elias; backs, Florkiewicz qr * * * * * * * * Castle, Supinski, Nicholas, and On second thQught, maybe it's Solomon Grundy Saga: Earl •Cross or Thomas. These are the better that the Colonels didn't W olf.e reported for the soccer sam.e boys who held a powerfulscore again. After all, I'm mily team on Tuesday, exercised on that's spelled without the 'r behuman and my heart can stand ·so Wednesday, practiced on Thurs- tweeri the 'p and '0-Rider College much. One night like that ., is day, and played a creditable game eleven to a one touchdown victory. enough ~until nex;t season, then ... on Saturd,ay. Well, they always They'll be out to win ae-ain, sightGET RIDER. said that he was fast. ing their guns on t)le Kings game * ** * 41-34! Have you ever seen s-0 much football in one night? If Mr. Kirstein knew what kind of game it was~oing to ' be, heh would have charged a_n · admission price for each quarter. . He w-0uld have MILK BUILDS GOOD HEALTH * DRINK WOODLAWN * * * * ,Saturday, the farmers from National Agricultural College 'fill meet the Colonels at Huber Field. This will be on the order of a homecoming day. Tom Miller, Aggie's ass't. coach, Guisti at g,uard, and Sekerchak at end are all~ products of Wilkes • College. They are more than aqua,i nted the Colonels' styl,e of play. They knmv every quirk and trait of every ball player on our club. This is sure to make an interesitin-g game. Now all they have to do is catch us. * * * * Question of the week: Does Kings hav,e confidence? A student at the Monarch school when asked what he tougt of Wilkes said, "Gimme Kings and 30, and I'll talk." JUNIORS BUILD CI._ASS SPIRIT VOTE President __________ Charlie Knapp Yice President ____ Don Williams Secretary __________ Janet Gearhart Dois Banks (Paid Adv.) which is just one week away. We'd like to pull an "Effie" on you and say Wilkes is going to win by about 42-7, AND DON'T SAY WE DtDN'T TELL YOU, but we'll just let you come out and see for yourself. No matter what happens you're hound to see a good game. By the way, in George Brody's BEACON LIGHTS OF SPORTS, he mentions the player of the year. In case you haven't decided yet, this would be an excellent chance for you. The BEACON Sports staff has narrowed the field down to four with a possible fifth. Get out there Saturday afternoon and watch the Colon.els ._,.. .... And DON'T only watch the ,b acks; keep your eyes on the line. They're just as eligi,b le as the men who carry the ball. By this time we shouldn't have to tell you t o SUPPORT THE COLONELS. After last w,eek's game you should be PROUD TO OLAIM THE COLONELS AS YOURS AND SUPPORr THEM. GET BACK ON THE VICTORY BAND W .AiGON AND. SUPPORT THE TEAM. SUBMIT to the MANUSCRIPT MOLASH FEENEY McMAHON GORGAS 'fhis week's choice of the Colonels sees the BEACON staying in the line as it brings you four more of the boys who make glory for Wilk.es. One of Coach Ralsiton's sixtyminute men, Jack Feeney is an old timer in Wy-0ming Valley football. He started his career by playing four years at Kingsit9n High where he was chosen All-Scholastic in 1943. Before coming to Wilkes, Jack play,ed in the Navy and then at Lafayette. This is his third see.son as a Ralston.man. He is a big husky end, standing 6' 2" and weighing 210. At the other end of the line we have two starting ends. Queer as it may seem, this is true. George McHahon starts f-0r Coach Ralston when the Colonels receive, while Al Molash starts when the team kicks-off. Mack · is a sophhomore who showed such great promise in pre-season drills ,that he was shifted to the offensive team as the starting end. He proved himself in game after game. He did more than shaw what he could do in that Lycoming game. Rememher when he caughth a pass and ran the Lycoming defensiv.e half.s ragged while he waited for his - blockers to come up field? That was only one incident. How · 'bout the Rider game? Can you recall that pass that he caught on the three-yard line? .. ...... the one that Pinky threw and the one that a Rider man went up for? George came down with the ball. That is pass rece1vmg. He also punts when he is called on, and he does it well. Al Molash is Rals-ton's d,efensive end. He is one of the mainstays in the ,Wilkes "Seven Blocks of Anthracite." Al is a 9op.hom-0re who still has two years of football in Coloneland. Besides being a likeable guy, he possesses that "Do or · Di.e" spirit, bred in all Brooklyn Boys. He is also a good offensive end, · The fourth choice of the w.eek is another of the "Seven Blocks of Antracit~•. He is guard Bob Gorgas. Eob is a . modest, but powerful lineman. He took allscholastic honors for Hanover Township High School in ":1.942. Captain of the 1946 Colonels, he is playing defensive guard for Coach Ralston this s.eason. He was late in reporting for the squad this year because of schedule difficulties. LATEST CAMPUS FASHION HIT! Corduroy Vests .Jflltft:=:•·-· · ·· ❖ :•. \ 4.95 ' Handsome carduroy vests for extra warmth on cold days . . . for a dash of added color! Weax them under your jacket or coat . . . over your shirt or sweater in class. - THE~H,UB HARR~ R.HIRSHOWITZ r, BROS. �4 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday,. November 11, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------I score. Howard bounc,ed back when mark was only 2 pins short of STRIKES AND SPARES l This Felix Blake, following a mix-up at .ne .ea~i.e r ecora which was seL by Wilkes Bowling League WILKES BOOTERS By Joe Gries Who was it that said a woman's place is in the home? All one had to do to disprove that theory was to be in the -Eag les Bowling Acad.emy last Tuesday night and see Agnes Novak and Jean Ryan showing their form for the PreMed tea/Ill. These lovely ) asses may not be the best bowlers in the world, but you certainly · have to giv,e them credit for being . the first girls to take up this fast and costly sport a.t Wilkes. · · Remarks were flying a.I! around the Eagles Tuesday night as to the merits of letting the gals bowl wit h the men. Some w.ere good and others not so good. The one I likes the best was when someone said it ought to be stopped because I can't keep my mind on the game. Watch the pins boys! TENTH FRAMEBy far the ·best game of the season was played Tuesday on alleys 5 and 6 and the undefeated Engineers tangled with Carl Gibson's Wheels. The first game was taken by the Engineers by 118 pins. But not to be outdone by this feat the Wheels came back to win the sec·ond game wi t h a total of 810; these same Engineers. ·1·he third and final game ended in a tie, eacn Standings c,eam otas.i ng down 699 maples. 2 CPA .............. 7 9 The Engineers won this game i.i 2 9 ,1,n ex~ra frame, but certainly felt IRC ...._... .. .. . .... 7 8 3 Chem. Club . . . . . . . . 6 the presence of the 'W heets. 8 Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 7 1 Engineers . . . . . . . . . 5 PINLETS 6 6 Red Brennan assuming so much Thor 's Five . . . . . . . . 4 3 Kushmakers . . . . . . . 2 7 s t.re ..g .n in his follow through 2 4 that he nearly came to a .h,·c:~- Bookies . . . . . . .. . . . . 2 9 •s point landmg with the flo or . Bill Pre-Med.. . .. . ..... 0 o 9 ,niller making his first strike in Dorm .......... . .. 9 the last frame and gecting 011 his Top Five knees and thanking the heavens. Jiunta, Engineers ... .. ........ 180 .,... arty Juinta rolling a strike and Ce.mer, Ch.em. Club .......... 169 th.en jumping over the side into the isle in order not to commit a Hadcz, Thor's Five .......... 168 ~,... _ .. e '-'· .,: . a. team finding Palfey, Engineers ... ·.......•. 163 it tough to bnwl al!'ain st the two girls on the Pre-Med team. Larry Ogan, Engineers . ............ 160 1u.e,1us cr,;atmg &J· mu~11 s ~,,v"-e High Single: Celmer, Chem. Clu,b .vith his cigar that the pin ' 'boy 233. High Series: Haracz, Thor's complained. Everybody bowling on the first floor with one . ear on Five 571. High Team ~ingle: .ae raaio lis ..ening to the election Wheels 810. High Team Series: returns with the bonus in mind. Thor's Five 2251. TO ALL TEAM CAPTAINSPlease submit to this writer any oddi ties or information that you think suitable for this column. It is for you and the publiciz ing of the Bowling Lea1me. High Single, season: Celmar, Chem. Club 233. High Series. season, . Jiunta, Engineers 693. High Team Single, season, Thor's Five 812. High Team Series, s.eason, Th or's Five and Engineers 2261. WILKES STUDENT WINS (continued from page 1) Wyoming Seminary from which ins titution he graduated .in 1948. Mr. Kanyuck stated that he had ·no thoug-hts , about- entering the fi E!ld of politics tintii he was ap, p_roa ched on the : subjec~ PY friends an,d . neighbors who begged him to enter into the race for public office in the township. After much deliberation, anci long talks with his family Al consented to .try for the School Directorship. ' · Having been 6pp osed hy th.e political organization of the township Mr. Kanyuck realizes tha t he will have to sit on the sidelines for awhile with .the m inority members of the School Board, but he sees a bright future ahead and plans to make p olitics his career. When Al finally decided to enter into politics he realized that a colleg e education and degree would .be a •big help t o h i,m. Consequently be enrolled at Wilkes with the new freshman class where he will purs ue a course of studies t owards a B. A. in Education with Political Science as his major field. CHESTERFIELDS ARE MILDER •. IT'S MY CIGARETTE!" DEEMER & CO. School and Office Supplies GIFTS AND STATIONERY Wilkes~Barre, Pa. THE BOSTON STORE Men's Shop has everything for the college man's needs . . . from ties to suits. FOWLER, DICK AND WALKER \ DROP ANOTHER By Paul B. Beers For eighty minutes las•t Saturday life was beautiful for Coach Partridge and his Wilkes Colonels soc·c er team, and then the bottom f.ell in. The score was dead-locked 2-2 against a strong Howard Uni, er s1ty t eam with eight minutes remaining to be played. The game looked to be in the bag for Wilkes. They figured to capture the first soccer victory in the school's history; but in their anxi,ety to score that one goal, they left themselves wide-open while fleet-footed Felix Blake ' streaked in and scored the winning tally. Before the clock could run out, Mr. Blake wornied his way through the exhausted Colonel eleven and tallied another. The final count was Howard 4 and Wilkes 2. · Howard, one of America's topfHght soc,c er teams has a record of one defeat in the las.t three years, and the Wasington club came into Wilkes-Barre expecting an easy scrimmage with Coach Par.tridge' s first-year team. But Howard's joy melted quickly a s Wilkes jumped to the lead with Bob Hooper's the Colonels' goal, netted his first score of the afternoon. Things stood pat until Wilkes' Sammy Owens looped a lonk drive into the corner of the net in the third period. That pushed the Col- . onels out in front, but not for long. Sammy Clark of Howard soon knotted teh count with a n~e drive. Then Howard's star, Felix .Blake, go t hot and broke the ice with his two goals, giving the visitors te game. Wilkes played heads-up ba:11 throughout the contest. Howard's abl.e soccer cloach had heaps of praise for the Colonel kickers and stated that they would have a well-rounded soccer team by next season. The Colonels close their season this Thursday at Bloomsburg. The Wilk.es hooters dropped an earlier encounter to· the Teachers · by a 3-2 score. ,· n the square THE C,)LLEGE MAN'S STORE � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 1949 November 11th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 November 11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes College