158 15 4132 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/229ba45879e684791fb3a7945bc41d8e.pdf ab62ba4ed16ee4f2127acb7fba2dabd1 PDF Text Text ••• • DANCE MARCH 2nd AFTER THE GAME •••• BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 4. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Number 12 THESPIANS PERFORM ON CAM}'US TONIG,H T The Bucknell Junior College Thespians have been granted their first opport~mity to present a play for the students at the campus. The three act comedy "Gammer G4-rton's Needle" will be given" this evening in .t he Lewisburg High School auditorium. We consider it an honor that the English Department -$}lould .r equest the Thespians to · give this presentation at the campus. The publicity, sale of tickets 1 . aqd the .. tran~fei;ing of sce~ery \vere all taken care of by the English Department. In fact they even went so far as to -have the students search for a black cat ·which could be used in the play. The cast drove to Lewisburg this morning accompanied by several other students. It is hoped that this wiil be the opening of a closer relationship between the dramatic departments ap.d also the commencement of an annual presentation of the Junior College .;~1.1c!~nts before a campus audience Camera Club Sponsors Contest One of the newly created extracurriculum activities, the Camera · Club seems to be progressing by leaps and bounds. There are two contests in progress. · One is a monthly print contest in which any member of the dub may submit his best prints and the winners . will be selected by a committee assigned as judges. The other contest is the "Picture Pcl(;katd" contest. In this, the best pi~tures of a 1940 Packard ti\ken in any setting will be awarded five automobiles, $3600 in cash prizes, and 150 awards of l\'lerit. Mr. Meighan of the Ace Hoffman amateur photography department explained the rules to the dub and thinks the competitjon ~s quitf! ·· fair. Anyone terested may receive pamphlets .tting the rules. (Perhaps you . 'l be. the lucky one to wm a -0 Packard!} Thursdag, Februarg 29, 1940 BUCKNELL COEDS SCORN LEAP YEAR TRADITION FIFTY FOUR STUDENTS BACH FESTIVAL MAKE HONOR LISTS INTERESTS STUDENTS Unusual Number Of Freshmen On List i"ill be presented between March The following honor lists for first semester were announced recently by Dr. Farley. · · Students who have earned an average of 85% or more: M. L. Bachman L.B. Baker · G. W. Bierly M. R. Brislin G. R. Culp F. W. Girton c: Crigger R. I. Guarnaccia M: · Hopki ris P. P. Labeda H. V. Lewert R. E. Lynn ·J. Mandlovitz C. F. O. Millet H. S. Millet S. Mintzer C. J. Nagro ' J. C. O'Malley J. F. O'Ma'.lley M. E. Parry M. E. Rees D. E. Robinson L. Rossen G. Rosser W. A. Rulka D. J. Secunda P. H. Trebilcox M.A. Waters H. M. Wruble R.H. Young r Students who have earned an average of 80% but less than 85: B. G. Achhammer J.B. Aikman B. M. Benscoter I. D. Betz W. G. Carpenter S. M Charney· R. W. Connelly · . G. I. Dickinson D. J. Evans S. Gacha J. Gelb R. J. Grancey L. A .. Greenbaum A. S. Groh B. L. Hoyle D. R. Kersteen K. Kressler E. J. Labak J.B. Lewis M. B. Pincus M. Seeherman D. M: Thomas . L.A. Wilski . I\. ?akie'\Vi~z-. The third annual Bach Festival fifth and tenth. The program this year will include four events instead of the three events of former years. On Tuesday and Thursday, March 5 and 7 at St. Stephen's Parish House the story of Bach will be told with music on the instruments of his time in a stage setting of th,e period. Bach's magnificent cantata ''Christ Lay in Death's Dark Prison." will be presented on March 8 at the Irem Temple. Ernest White, the organist at the Temple of Religion at the World's Fair, win phiy an organ recital on March 9. The climax of the series will be the Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew on Sunday afternoon March 10th. · The Festival should prove to be of great interei,t to members .of the college. They will have , the rare privi1ege of heating unusual music performed by excellent muscians. Two embers of the Junior College Glee Club, Chris O'Malley and Henry Lewert, are singing with the .Bach Chorus. Girls from the college will usher at all performances. FACULTY WIVES DISPLAY TALENTS GIRLS DESCRIBE PERFECT DATE Admirable Qualities In Boys and Girls 01' Dan Cupid was given the cold shoulder by the girls of B.lJ,J.C. in a recent poll. The questionnaire asked: 1. Do you believe that girls should take advantage of leap year? 2. What are the qualities you most admire in a boy? 3. What are the qualities you most admire in a gid? 4. What is your idea of a perfect date? . According ·to 85% .of the College's femine populatiu1i, this is just another year with an overdose · of February. Said one bright lassie', "We spend three years getting them trained, and when a year with an extra day comes around--,-woof! goes our hard work. No thanks 1 not for me!" Maybe the g~rls are befog modest or maybe · they're ju~t lazy but it looks as if the boys will have to do the proposing themselves. The qualities that the girls find most attractive in the boys are: 1. A sense of humor. 2. Intelligence. 3. Neatness. 4. Personality. They like best in the members The regular monthly meeting of their own sex: of the Campus Club of the Bucknell Junior College was held 1. Sincerity. at the home of Miss Norma 2. A sense of humour. Sangiuliano on Monday evening, 3. Friendliness. February 26, The following program was given during the 4. Neatness. course of the evening; Mrs. Farley (Note the conspicuous disreplayed two selections from Chpin, . gard for the requirement of inMrs. Arthur Bernhardt sang ''Ah telligence in the girls.) Sweet Mystery of Life" and ''I Love Life", and Mrs. David Here, fellows is the girls idea Brown reviewed the book "Maud" of the perfect date: The, boy Those present were Mrs. J. A. must be a gentlemen in all reBrennan, Mrs. D. J. Gage, Mrs. spects, should be a fairly good Joseph Miller, Mrs. David Brown, dancer; he doesn't have- to be Mrs. Wilfrid Crook, Mrs. Roy good looking for his personality Tasker, Miss Betty Klinedinst, should make up for that, his Mrs. Michael H. Harper, Mrs. conversation should be intelligent William Schuyler, Miss Norma and witty above all, there should Sangitiliano, Mrs. A. F. Bernllardt be a noticeable lack of desire to Mrs. Voris B. Hall, and Mrs. go in for a lot of "petting''. George R. Faint . Think you can qualify? �Page Two THE BUCKNELL THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pertnsylvania BEACON STUDENTS DIRECT SUCCESSFUL PLAYS Co-Edilor's . .. . .. . .. . .. . . ... . ...... . Mary Brislin, Ruth Guarnaccia Reporters~Elinore Smulyan, Irene Betz, Joy Bodycomb, Marion Waters, Louise Baker, Shirley Higgins Ruth Lynn, Muriel Rees. Lillian Rosen, Lilyanne Babski, Pearl Kaufman. Business Staff-Lydia Greenbaum, Lillian Brennan. Zelda Mangel Florence Mangel. Advisory Board Mrs. Michael Harper, Elwood Disque Advertising rates: 50c per colum:i-inch Two column-inches 75c One year · $4.50 per colum,-inch; two column-inches $6.50 PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS •. . , . . . INCORPORATED EDITORIALS Youth Conference . .. Headlines in the press of the country featured the American Youth Congress, meeting in Washington to attract the attention of Congress and to awaken in its members a "youth conciousness." Their publicity was well handled and their arrival in the national capitol was not unexpected. However, their figures were magnified, their advent unruly, and their r.e ception rather cool. Congressmen were awake to the fact that this gathering did not repre:;ent real American youth and as a re:;ult had little to do with their sessions, even though they enjoyed the generous smile of the first lady of the land. President Roosevelt, in his address to them was clear, and while he admitted their right and respected their group, he warned them to be careful lest they dabble in matters about which they know very little. Their respert to law and order was clearly shown in their response to his words-it was that of a rabble. It is a high compliment to the youth of Bucknell University Jr. College and fellow students in neighboring institutions to know that they were not represented in any group of the association. Wyoming Valley college students know-and we here at the Jr. College have long been awarethat the Youth Congress is too tainted with communistic ideals and influences to permit any participation in its activities. Local youth understands the problems of the day just as well as those of the "Red Congress," but they have a solution that the Congress refuses to recognize, but which real youth readily accepts and to which Congressmen will lend a willing ear. The Youth Congress had on its list for discussion many problems of vital interest to young America, but no solution can ever be arrived at when they are viewed through the light that seems to illuminate the particular branch of so-called American youth. Silence is Golden. . . Quietness should be maintained in the library at all times. Silence is essential to efficient concentration and study. No one can accomplish anything when someone sitting across the table is talking about the happenings of the night before. For courtesy, if nothing else, the student body should co - operate with Miss Klinedinst in trying to keep the library a place for study. When young men and women reach the college age, they should not have to be disciplined by the librarian. Miss Klinedinst has a thousand other things to do in a day other than wasting her time trying to keep the students quiet. Then too, it makes a very poor impression upon a stranger who may enter the library to see everyone talking. It is the duty of every student to conduct himself or herself as a gentleman or lady at all times. If he has any respect for his fellow-·students, he will remain silent and allow his friend to study. There may be scheduled a very important test and if a few students prevent those who are taking the test from studying, they may be blamed for the failures. From now on let every member of Bucknell Jr. College prove to Miss Klinedinst and Dr. Farley that he can conduct himself properly while in the library. Remember, in any library "Silence is golden." On last Wednesday evening, February 21, the Junior College Thespians presented an unusual entertainment in the form of three one-act plays. These plays were directed by students in Art 141 under the supervision of Miss Norma Sanguiliano. A large audience of parents, friends, and students received the plays enthusiastically. The first of the three plays, entitled The Boor, was directed by Jane N agro. I ts plot was concerned with a young man, the "boor" played by Wallace Perrin, who, having come to claim a sum of money, n:ieets, falls in love with, and proposes to the beautiful, young widow of his debtor. Ruth Lynn was the irate widow and Kenneth Kressler her faithful, long suffering servant. Kathleen Wintermute directed Flood Control, the second and most melo-dramatic of the series, In a cabin in a canyon, one end of which has been converted into a flood-control lake, an obstinate young woman, Newbold Williams, who wants to be alone with her work offered hospitality upon their request to two gangsters and their "brain", who most surprisingly turned out to be Betty Schwager. Melville Hopkins was an aweinspiring" tough guy." Jack Mangan enacted the role of "Slim", a jittery first offender. Patricia lchter, a member of Miss Sanguiliano's Children's Theatre, very ably played the part of the little child whom the three have kidnapped. Harvey Wruble acquired an Italian accent, a pair of blue denims, and a habit of being present when needed. The star of the show was Flapjack, the horse who was heard but not seen. Gas, Air and Earl, the last play was aµ hilarious comedy of female deceptions directed by Stanford Tischler. Lydia Greenbaum turned in a sparkling performance in the role of Mrs. Plummer, the proud and scheming mother of an extremely winning daughter, Lois Morgan. Shirley Higgins, Henry Lewert, and Richard Bosworth, the chauffer who turned out to be an earl and then a novelist, completed the cast. This play was selected to be presnted at the First Methodist Church at their sample sale and at Plymouth High School on Friday morning. EMBASSY RESTAURANT Thursday, February 29, 1940 The Dishwashers of B U J C They work in the lunchroom All hours they are free From work in their classes Of BUJC (????) They like waiting on table and especially the "eats" But doing the dishes Just gives them the creeps! Now after the students Have eaten their fill The boys roll their sleeves up And work with a will. One of them washes And one of them driesAnd between them they get All the suds in their eyes. The ghost that now haunts them From morning 'til night Is called "Dishpan Hands" I ts the housewives 'blight'. Now, the moral of this i~: "To lotion be true" 'Les just like the boys, This ghost should haunt you! CRACKING ' THE QUIP · We enjoyed having our · Allumni Cookies home for the holidays. (We call them cookies 'cause they've been a Wafer so long.) ·So-Dr. Farley has a farmfor the land's sake! We like to see our team play Basketball, it's so much Finn. Jane Nagro is beating around with Bush. We fear that has been swayed ful budget-plan They all start down." Professor Gage by those poweradvertisement:;. with a "little Girls! Girls! Girls.! It's Leap year! We are still around. We were hoping that one of our Bucknell Belles would be chosen as the local Scarlet O'Hara, someone from the southern part of the city, or maybe Lynn would. While we are not the gambling kind, we are not opposed to making Betz. "School Romance" It was a few days after the finals-the student has just inquired about her marks-The Professor gently leans over and whispers sweet nothings in her ear. Banta's cravet: blinds. the tie that Students Cordially Invited -Open All Night- LLEWELLYN BROS. INC. Public Square --Modern Printers-- 21 S. FRANKLIN STREET �Thursday, February 29, 1940 DEBATERS HAVE A BUSY SEASON The Junior College debating .earn which consists of Lydia ;reenbaum, Harvey Wruble, K achleen Wintermute, Joe Kornblatt Eddie Labak, and Bernard Achammer is now in the midst of their ceason. To date, they have had wo non-decision debates with Bucknell University and Hofstra College. The Schedule for the remaining debates is as follows: March 1, 2-Debating Convention at State College. March 15-Penn State at home. April 12-Keystone Junior College. The dates on which the Junior College team will meet Scranton University and Hofstra again ·are not yet definite. The questions which are being used this year are: " Resolved that the basic blame for the present European War rests with the Allies." "Re:olved that the United States should persue a policy of strict economic and military isolation towards all nations outside the western hemisphere engaged in armed international or civil conflict." Camera Club. (con't.) At the meeting on February 13, a lecture entitled "Photographic Papers" was delivered by John Grigger, a m mber of the club. The lecture was accompa nied by twenty - four mounted prints, worth over $100 plus a number of slides. On Tuesday, Feb. 27 a movie entitled "Highlights and Shadows" was shown in Chase Theatre in the afternoon and evening. The lectures to be . given at the next meeting are "Seeing Things for Keeps", "The Essentials of Picture Making", and "Personal Photography." All these lectures a re productions of the Eastman Kodak Co. and are presented by student members of the club. Several committees have been selected to carry on the work for the year. They are as follows: Dark room committee; Melville Hopkins, Paul Dowdell, Ferris Miller, Kenneth Kressler, and James Hunt. Finance Committee; John Grigger, Mary Brislin, Paul Duddy, Betty Farr, and Lilyanna Babski. Monthly print competition Committee; Steve Whiteman, Katherine Griffith, John Anthony, and Irene Sauciunas. Constitution and By-Laws committee; Merle Seeherman, Shirley Brown ,' Louise Wilski, and Betty Benscoter. Publicity Committee; Harvey Wruble and others to be chosen. Among its notable camera enthusiasts, the Camera Club boasts , Professor Schuyler, Professor Hall, and Dr. Barnhardt. With such :ompetent assistance, how could any club fail ? THE BUCKNELL BEACON COMMITTEE PLANS ANNUAL PAGEANT The girls of the Junior College will present their second annual pageant sometime this spring,· it has been announced by Miss Sangiuliano. The pageant is the culmination of the year's Eurythmic work and is one of the most interesting affairs of the year. One girl has been chosen from each class to act as a committee for the selection of the pageant and costumes. These girls are Jane Nagro, Louise Rummer,, Betty Schwager, Mary Brislin, Lydia Greenbaum, Joy Bodycomb, and Shirley Brown. Work on the affair will get under way as soon as the above committee chooses a pageant. "Odds and Ends". We've been more than tickled over the showing of our athletic teams this school year and our judgment it seems is corroborated by one of Wyoming Valley's sports commentators, Tommy Heffernan, author of "Sporting Snapshots," as appearing weekly in the Sunday Independent. Here is a paragraph from last Sunday's "Odds and Ends"- Page Three ENGINEERS ACTIVE THROUGHOUT YEAR Songsters Hold Party On Friday The engineers, one of the most progressive groups in the Junior College have been quite activ e these past weeks. On Thursday, January 18, Professor Hall entertained the sophomore engineers at dinner. The guests were Paul Duddy, Paul Padlick, Stanley Kresses, Joe Jimison, John Grigger, James Aikman Gene Rogers, James Roski, James Hunt, Dave Secunda, Joe Shinal, Robert Most, George Bierly, Wayne Swanbery, Al Switch , John McDade, Professor Schuyler, Dr. Bernhardt, Mr. Weeden, and Mr. Thomas. After dinner the guests played cards and darts, and worked intricate puzzles. Professor Hall's collection of guns attracted much comment as did his collection of furniture which he himself had made. Mr. Schuyler had his camera as usual and t ook ma ny informal pictures. Although the Glee Club has up to this time concentrated on mastering the works of the great composers, they have suddenly emerged into the social whirl of the Junior College by planning a novel form of entertainment. On Friday evening, March 1 they will hold a theatre party at the Comerford theatre. The feature presentation is the much discussed "Gra pes of Wrath ." After the movie the members of the Club will return to Chase Hall where refreshments will be served . On February 2 the engineering group held a smoker in the Boy's Lounge at Chase Hall. Moving pictures pertaining to engineering and chemistry were presented. At this gathering the boys presented Dr. Bernhardt with a wedding gift. It was at this smoker that Dr. Bernhardt's remarkable ability in playing checkers and chess caused so much attention. It has been very pleasant to see The group has made tentative the Bucknell Junior College teams taking winter sports victories in plans for several activities in the basketball and the rest, because near future. These consist of a we think BUJC did things the , trip to the Corning Glass Works, right way . . .. True, they wanted a visit to the Franklin Institute winning teams to highlight their in Philadelphia, and if weather extra - curricular activties but permits a skating party. they were sensible enough to be satisfied with a slow and healthy growth. . . A couple years of steady defeats failed to send jittering into a chase for stars and Are you interested ineven now they are protecting their reputation by insisting that athPhotography letics come second . . . Meaning Stamp Collecting the athletes must keep up to Craft Work standard in the classroom. Printing , Dancing Instruction Archery Chess CONFUSION SAYS: Men are what women marry. They are divided into three classes husbands, bachelors and widowers Husbands are of t hree varities : prizes, surprises, and consolation prizes. Handling a man requires the highest maximum of art. It requires intelligence, patience, wisdom, faith, hope a rfd charity. Men are the most amazingly inconsistent creatures in creation, as far as their likes a nd dislikes are concerned . A woman, in order to please a man who says that he is very m t1e-h a nnoyed with women who wear rouge, bright clothes, and a crazy hat goes out with him attired in a dark tailored suit, no make-up, and a sailor hat. So what does he do? He spends all night staring at a girl with rouge, bright clothes, and a crazy hat. Men are like worms in the grassthey wriggle around for a while, then some chicken or an old hen hooks him. JO.ROAN READING What is Your Hobby .' Est. 1871 Will improve your Mind . . . for a few cents you can get a lot of reading of your own choosing. It can be of the most intellectual type or of the simplest blood and thunder myatery . . . at the Get into a Group with the Same interests at the MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND Y. M. C. A. HATS OF QUALITY WILKES-BARRE, PA. 9 West Market Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. Back Date Magazine Store 151 So. Main Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. JOSEPH HOGARTH -Commercial Photographer- 228 Hazle Street WEST SIDE FLORAL SHOP Dine and Dance with- Member of the TDS Tom and Nance 7-5537 Jitterbugs Welcome Market St. Kingston 49 Main St., Ashley �THE. BUCKNELL BEACON Page Four Sports In Review C. AND F. STUDENTS EXCEL IN TWO LOOPS The Commerce and Finance students are now the best athletes in the school, leading the intramural bowling and basketball loops. But they are finding it difficult to hold these positions week after week as both circuits continue to improve in general play. Last week the C. &. F. "B" team defeated the Engineers by one point in basketball to keep first place. Stars of the clubs are Joe Monahan in basketball and Merle Seeherman in bowling. The former has been the high scorer in nearly every game this season while the latter set a new pin mark of 254 in his last games to make the Big Five for the first Time. Throughout the season Dr. Roy Tasker, whose fine performances are keeping the Faculty on the heels of the loop leader, has led the circuit by a big margin. Joe Curley, unable to hit his regular stride, has been at the same figure, 158 week after week. Most improved bowler this year is Bob Patton, whose A. B. team is . in third place. After finishing _with an average of 140 last year, Patton is now in third place with 157. Until Seeherman made his big game, Patton was high with a 230. With Patton and Curley figuring in the hig.h s<::oring, the .A. B. team may be the one to stop for the pennant. Al Zakiewicz of the Engineers and Seeherman are the other leaders. The former is one of the .best scorers in the cage loop, too. With such bowlers as Piatt and ·Rogers, vterans from last year, · failing to get in stride, the Engin·eers have been a big dis appointment in the pin loop. Jack Dooley supplanted Hank Davis on the C. & F. team but slumped after making a good start. · · After a few games, -he should rank among the individual leaders. The Engineers have the biggest squad in number of players and heighth in the cage wheel. With such giants as Secunda, McDqde, Aikman, Roski, Switch and Kresses, they are the favorites to win the title. The C. & F. team lacks reserves but with sharp shooters the type of Monahan, McKernan and Ben Badman, will be hard to stop. The A. B. Boys won their first three but went into a tailspin when Joe Monahan . quit and Captain Leon Wazeter went out of action for weeks with an injured foot and dropped three in a row. Playing with a weak team, Paul Trebilcox continues to star for the B. S. five. His work week after week stamps him as one of the best players in the loop. The play-offs in . both loops, which will bring together the first four teams in single eliminations for the titles, will likely get under way the latter part of next month. The champions willl be honored and receive awards at the Lettermen Club's annual dinner in the late spring. MEET THE GANG AT-- THE SPA The Most Modern- Look Where You May Thursday, February 29, 1940 Basketball. . . Interest in basketball around school should now be at a high pitch. The intra-mural loop is flourishing with the C. and F. "B" team, the Engineers, .and and A. B. fighting for first place. We're rooting for A. B. despite the confident attitude of Messrs. Joe (Dead-eye) Monahan, Dick McKernan, and Coach Dooley of the C. and F. Going on to the varsity team which provides food for thought, especially the dribbling of KasnikowslH, the striking poses made by Finn when he shoots, and the playing of Flynn when he really gets into the game. Captain Wayne Swanbery, the quiet type around school, does a lot of "popping" on the court but we favor it because a good percentage of his tosses hit the target for points. As for the Keystone .game, it was one of the slowest of the season. The opposing team was unable to click against the tight defense of our team. Nevertheless, our cagers missed enough easy shots to make the most loyal rooter discouraged. Incidentally there were only a few on hand at the time! Last Friday n,i ght the Junior College was stopped by the Cornell Frosh. Although our cagers were leading at the half by three points, the lads from Ithaca wnet on a scoring spree _and won with a lead of eight points. On Saturday night the team was setback by the Colgate Frosh, giving us a record of twelve victories against five defeats. This is the best team in the Junior College's history and it is pressing the Bucknell Frosh for second place in the circuit. By the way, girls, it is also the best looking team Bucknell or any other school has had for some years. Let's get behind them and lend our whole-hearted sup- port, at least for their last garr this week end. Swimming . . . On Saturday, February 17, th, Junior College swimmers met th, tankers from City College c New York in the Y. M. C. P pool and were defeated by a scor of 55 to 19. Bucknell took first honors in only two events, namely, the SO yard free-style and the 10n yard breast stroke. These evenL were won by Paul Davis and Jack Mangan respe::tively. Dave Jones: of C. C. N. Y. nosed Zakiewicz out of a first in diving by four ·tenths of a point. During the course of events a new pool record was set in the 440 yard free-style by Guido, a C. C. N. Y. swimmer. Last Friday evening our natators were again .given too much competition when they met the Franklin and Marshal Academy in the local pool. This time our team was a bit more fortunate, scoring up three firsts in the medley relay, the 100 yeard breast stroke, and the 100 yard back stroke. The boys responsible for these wins were Slamon, Mangan, and Davis in the medley and Mangan and Slamon in the other two. Davis and Zakiewicz took seconds in the 100 yard freestyle and the diving. The last me.e t of the season will take place this Saturday evening when the Junior College team will swim the University of Scran~ ton at the Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. pool. This Paper is a Medium of Student Thought and Opinion * W~te a letter to the 'Editor THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE AND CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry Open 11 a. m. To 2:30 p. m. � 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource Bucknell Beacon, 1940 February 29th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940 February 29 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/dd341bb279ca3ec45034e7ef9419b73c.pdf 012d8afdb02a0c9db62b5357784340ea PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 4. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Number 11 Friday, December 22, 1939 FACULTY PLANS SURVEY OF 'COLLEGE NEEDS' IN WYOMING VALLEY Christmas Dance, Alumni Reception, Basketball Games Top College Program Next Week $50,000 Endowment Meets Approval of Trustees In Aiding Ambitious Youths Bucknell University Junior College's rapid rise among the leading educational institutions of the east became more apparant today today with the announcement that the Junior College "faculty committee" has been authorized by the trustees to make a study of the college needs in the various communities in Wyoming Valley. An attempt will be made by the members of the faculty to learn the particular type of courses high school graduates are interested in . The findings of the group will serve as a basis for broadening the needs and facilities of Bucknell University Junior College, in order that the college program may be outlined to gear with the interests of students interested in securing a higher education. Simultaneously, the trustees favored the establishment of a $50,000 endowment fund to be used for scholarship grants. While this endowment is being created, scholarship grants will be made from annual gifts. Each year an effort will be made to secure at least $2,000 to assist outstanding students. It is the opinion of the trustees that thru increased scholarship, Bucknell University Junior College will be able to meet the educational needs of this section in a complate and satisfactory manner. In connection with this particular phase of the program, Dr. Eugene Farley, director, announced today that $800 already has been contributed to next years' scholarship fund by friends of the Junior College. Lending its aid in prompting benefits to deserving students, radio station WBAX through its manager, Dale Robertson, this morning announced the inauguration of a series of seventy-five "quiz" programs at the end of which six scholarship grants will be awarded the high school seniors who are adjudged the winners. Three of the acholarships will apply to tuition at Bucknell University Junior College and an equal number will be honored by Wyoming Seminary. Two students will receive the first prize of $300 each; two others will be awarded the second prize of $200 each; and an additional prize of $100 each will be given to the two other winners. "Gammer Gurton's Needle" THESPIANS' STAGE PLAY INAUGURATES Gammer Gurton ... ... .. .. Muriel Rees Dicon Alfred Groh Hod ge.. .Bernard Achhammer Dame Chat .. Beatrice Hoyle Tib .. ........ .Shirley Higgins Doctor Rat... .Chris O'Malley Baily .Donald Kersteen Doll. . Jane N agro Cock .. .. ... .... .Walter Rulka LONG LIST OF HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES With an envious record of successful productions to inspire them, this season's Thespian players have stepped out and made their first full length play a criterion by which future productions shall be judged. "Gammer Gurton's Needle" possesses all the uniqueness so characteristic of the drama of the early English period. In their initial presentation of the play Wednesday night in the Chase Theatre, the Junior College Thespians ably interpreted the acting of the period, namely that of "Commedia de! Arte." Last night's audience was fully appreciative of the production which was launched by Miss Norma Sangiuliano a month ago. The play was highly reminiscent of the gradual influence of the theatre on college life. Everyone was justly proud of the production as a whole. The acting, due to the untiring efforts of Miss Sangiuliano and the cast, was marvellous; to the whole production crew, including the scene designers, and lighting technicians goes credit for the superb scenery which artistically transplanted the eaxact period in English Life ; as to the costuming and make-up-nothing more need be said. THANKS A Million! Student Council, on behalf of the student body, wishes to thank Philomay Wadzinski, Joseph Korn blatt, and Raymond Eaton for the use of their dance records at the tea-dances and mixed-lounge sessions. In order to assure the owners that the records will receive the best of care, a record-rack has been purchased. It is the wish of the Student Council that the students abide by the rules governing the mixed lounges and handling of the records. Again the Student Council wishes to convey its heartiest thanks to Mr. Elwood Disque for his gift of a radio. If Santa Claus can gather guards. "Red" Germak and enough helpers he might be able Harold Salsburg will be in reserve. to keep a check on the Christmas Santa himself will certainly be activities at Bucknell University on hand for the annual Christmas Junior College which started last dance which will be held Wednesnight with the presentation of day evening in the First Presby"Gammer Gurton's Needle" by terian Church House. He'll brihg the Thespians in the Chase Thea- ·along with him in his sleigh, ten tre. musicians led by one of Santa's The production, which is being ablest helpers, Milt Wiener. Milt directed by Miss Norma Sangiul- Wiener at his band are among iano, will be repeated this after- Santa's favorite musical organizanoon for the alumni at 3 :30 and tions. again this evening at 8 in the Dancing will be at 8 and at the Chase Theatre. Athletic contests stroke of 12, Santa will snap his will occupy an important position whip and through the air will fly on the Christmas calendar and the memories of a pleasant evenshould Santa and his boys chance ing. to drop in at the Central YMCA He'll probably laugh and then either tomorrow evening or Wed- set forth to arrange plans for the nesday night of next week, they reception of the BUJC graduating will find "Shorty" Thomas and classes in 1937, 1938, and 19,39, his basketballers meeting the scheduled at the home of Dr. and Scranton Frosh and BUJC Alumni Mrs. Eugene Farley, Thursday teams in what is expected to be afternoon between 4 and 6. two of hardest fought cage conTruly characteristic, Santa atests in which the Bison quintet gain will be on his way the night has participated this season. following when he plans to travel The annual and long awaited to Scranton, where the BUJC Alumni vs. BUJC contest will basketball team will meet the find the first team ever to repres- Scranton Frosh in a return match . ent the Junior College in action Then back again on Saturdayduring the last quarter of the another basketball game that night Hank Peters, former Junior in the Central YMCA at 7:30 with College mentor, will coach the the BU JC cagers meeting the alumni and will start many of Long Island quintet, and followhis former cage stars in the first ing the contest a dance in the quarter. Among the "original Chase Theatre. BUJC quintet", will be the followSanta's list checked and doubleing: Bill Haines, Wyoming, and checked, should then indicate that Scotty Mills, Wilkes-Barre, for- a continuous round of Christmas wards; Vincent Loftus, Larksville, activities is slowly drawing to a center; John Swengel, Reading, climax. His last fond farewell is and Leon Kalinowski, Nanticoke "Happy New Year to All." GUIDANCE CONFERENCE HERE NEXT MONTH A conference on guidance for counselors and teachers interested in problems of pupil personnel will be held at the Bucknell Junior College at Wilkes-Barre, Saturday, January 13, beginning at nine o'clock. Featured at the conference are Dr. Bradford Murphy, director of the Children's Service Center, and former professor of mental hygiene at the University of Colorado, and Dr. Frederick Allen, Director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Dr. Murphy will discuss "Ed- ucational Adjustments for the Development of Personality" and Dr. Allen's subject is "Counseling Techniques, Their Influence on Student Response." Following these two address there will be a general discussion of the subject, "Can the School Assist in Forming Personality .. " After a recess, the conference will close with a panel discussion of the subject, "The Teacher's Part in the Pupil Personnel Program." Dr. Murphy will lead the panel. Dr. Eugene S. Farley, Director of the Junior College, is chairman of the Conference. �Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Friday, December 22, 1939 Local Bucknell Graduates Give Impetus To Organization of Large Alumni Group WILKES-BARRE 'NUCLEUS' OF BUCKNELL ALUMNI IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA You'll Find 'Em Everywhere-- Gerard W. Golden of West Pittston, resigned his pos1tton with F. W . Woolworth recently and is now associated with the Lenox Mfg. Co. in Allentown. G. S. Geyer, former Junior Collegian, is Graduates Achieve Places In Professions a clergyman at the Madison Baptist Church in Madison, N. Y . Irma An increasing number of Bucknell University graduates residing L. Hewitt after transferring to the campus, graduated and then acin Wyoming Valley and surrounding communities is giving impetus cepted a position as Young People's Librarian in the New York Public to the formation of one of the most active alumni organizations in Library. A member of th e admini st ration department at Columbia this section of Pennsylvania. Bucknell University Alumni organiza- University is Edwa rd G. Holman, Bucknell '37. Edmund Grudtions are existent in many of the principal cities of the United States howski, a Philadelphia resident, is a member of the Wharton School and since the college sponsors Bucknell University Junior College, faculty th ere. Kenne th E. Hawk a former student at the Junior Wilkes-Barre will soon be able to take its positions among the key College completed his studies at Bloomsburg State Teachers College cities where active Bucknell alumni groups have been organized. and has been named supervising principal of the Bear Creek Township school district. Joseph J. Garrity, graduate of Bucknell University That graduates of both Bucknell University and Bucknell Uni- '38, is employed by the Pennsylvania State Employment Service as versity Junior College are achieving enviable positions in other parts an Examiner of Unemployment Compensation Claims. Gordon L. of the country is revealed in a recent check-up made by the editorial Everett is a draftsman in air conditioning for the York Ice Machinery Board of the "Bucknell Beacon" with the assistance of Prof. Geo. R. Corporation. Another Junior Collegian, Lillie L. Deimler is associated Faint, registrar. with the White Cross Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Now residing - in Harrisburg, Anne Miller, a former BUJC student, is clnnected While numerous graduates have continued their education at with the Bell Telephone company there. Employed by the sa'm e other institutions in search of higher degrees and the like, many have firm is Albert W. Shafer of Kingston. He is a commercial representastepped into high positions in the professional realm. tive for the firm. She's a Medical Technologist-- Here's a Few More-- A distinction that comes to very few college graduates was recently earned by Demetra Diamond of Nanticoke. She attended BUJC and several months ago she successfully passed tests given by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and is now a qualified medical technologist. Lazarus Weiss, who studied here and later graduated at Lewisburg, has entered the University of Chicago Medical School. William G. Beiswinger, Wilkes-Barre boy and Bucknell alumnus has been transferred to the west coast departments of the Western Union Telegraph Comapny where is making a special study of cable electroloysis. Julius Altman is enrolled in the Harvard Law School, after attending the Junior College. Mason Balwin, is another alumnus residing on the West Coast. He is associated with the Barker Linen Service in Los Angeles, Californis. Nearby, in the State of Oklahoma, Curtic Knox Barnes, a former Junior College student, is employed as an electrician with the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company. Bucknell grads and their business association follow: Frederick Witkowski, A & P Tea Co.; Joseph P. Lrd, Community Recreation Association, Dalton, Mass.; Robert Llewellyn, Mineral S15ring Coal Co., accountant; Ward Whitebread, General Chemical Co.; George A. Welch, Comerford _P ublix Corp.; Mirko J. Tuhy, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, Elizabeth, N. J . ; Saverios Tourio, American . Express Co,, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harold Skuse, General Cable Corp., Perth Amboy, N. J.; George F. Sauer, Union Roofing Co.; Ambrose Saricks, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rachel Rosser, United Charities, Wilkes-Barre; Edward A. Redington, Hotel Redington, Wilkes-Barre. Many Grads Located Here-Recently appointed to the faculty of Nanticoke High School was John H. Bone who earned a B. S. in Education at Lewisburg. Libbie Brown, now employed by the Mary Jane Shoe Store, attended the Junior College and graduated from College Misericordia. Benjamin S. Davis of Plymouth is at present employed in the Luzerne County treasurer's office. He graduated from Bucknell last June. The West Side Visiting Nurses Association has one of its capable workers in a former Junior College student, Mellina Davis of Plymouth. Frances E . Fleming of Exeter, who transferred from the Junior College to Marywood College is employed as a visitor with the DPA. HARMER WEEDEN IS LATEST ADDITION TO BUJC FACULTY Cornell Graduate Likes Roller-Skating as Hobby Millers, Gages Hosts To Class Members Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Miller nad Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Gage, recently entertained members of their class groups at thier homes. Prof. Harmer A. Weeden, recent addition to the BUJC faculty is a graduate of Cornell University The Philosophy class conducted where he received his civil engin- by Dr. Miller enjoyed a delightful eering degree. and tasty buffet luncheon at his The new instructor is working · home on Stanley street a week for his masters degree by teaching ago Sunday night. Games and here and pursuing additional work entertainment completed rhe evin the summer at Michigan Uniening's festivities. More than 25 versity. Prof. Weeden is teaching Sur- students attended. veying, and Geometry of EnginDr. Gage's history class was eering Drawing at the Junior Colentertained at a tea at his home lege. . . Discussion of His only hobby 1s roller-skating. a fortnight ago. He dosn't like to dance. He also modern trends in music and affairs disapproves of the co-eds waering in the world today highlighted the red-mittens on Friday. The program. A large number of practice tends to distract the of students were guests of Dr. and engineering students working on Mrs. Gage. the dike, he says. Two Win Dental Degrees-Vincent Maslowski of Plymouth and Marvin J udkov.icz of Luzerne were recently awarded degrees of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Dr. Maslowski received his degree from Northwestern University and Dr. J udkovics graduated from Temple Dental School. Both young men took their pre-dental work at Bucknell University Junior College. Oh Yes, More Teachers-Edson Shannon is a member of the Ashley High School faculty. Thorwald E. Lewis is teaching in the high schools of Dallas Township school district. Helen Sharpe Morgan is an instructor of French in Mansfield High School. Ignatius -F. Lutkoski is teaching in Wilkesc Barre township schools and Beverly Jane Jones is teaching English in the schools of the Lake Ariel district. STUDENT COUNCIL MAKES APPORTIONMENT OF MONEY Faint is Trustee By action of the Student Council the allocation to the several extra-curricular activities of the Bucknell University Junior College of the moneys paid into the Students' Activities Fund has recently been completed. This fund was created by the student payments into the activities fund. Distribution, made on the basis of the contribution of each student for a semester, is as follows: Bucknell Beacon, $175; Choral Club, $35; Debating, $32.50; Thes pians, $85; Athletics, $550; Social Activities, $75; Contingent Fund, $133.50. The principle on which the distribution was made was the pecuniary need of each activity, recognition being given to the fact that some activities are more costly than others. The special contingent fund was established to take care of the extraordinary expenditures. JORDAN Est. 1871 MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND -HATS OF QUALITY 9 West Market Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. �Friday, December 22, 1939 THE "Dick" Bantle Named Assistant Manager of Basketball Squad BUCKNELL Page Three BEACON Debaters Entertain Hofstra Then Journey to Lewisburg • • • Let's Sing Out-What about .. community singing" as a feature of a chapel program in the near future I The suggestion was offered to us last week by a member of the Freshman class. No, we don·t believe he's "homesick· · for the assembly exercises of bygone high school days He"d like to hear some of our students burst forth with a few choruses of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean·· or the "Old Oaken Bucket.·· The strains of popular melodies would bring the initiates to their feet with a few lusty bars. Dick Bantle "Dick" Bantle, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bantle of Barney street, Wilkes-Barre, has been named assistant manager of the Junior College basketball team. He is a graduate of Meyers High School where he was a member of the varsity track squad. Thespians Visit Kingston High The Junior College Thespians recently presented "The Inn of Return" before a chapel audience of students and teachers at Kingston High School. It was the initial visit of our players to the Kingston institution and an enthusiastic and appreciative audience voiced their approval of the talents of the Thespians. Recent Visitors to BUJC Prof. W. H. Eyster, in charge of Botany at Bucknell University spoke to members of Dr. Roy Tasker's Biological Science class Monday afternoon in room 104 of Conyngham Hall. John M. Horner of the YMCA participated in a recent panel discussion of "Horse and Buggy Politics in the World Today" before the Sociology class of Dr. Wilfrid H. Crook. Another forum of Sociology students was addressed by Rabbi Samuel Wolk of Wilkes-Barre. Wednesday Evening December 27, 1939 Not An Alias-There· s nothing in a name. The two Badmans, Benjamin and William are among the "gentlemen·· of: the Freshman class. . Jack O'Malley is in favor of retaining the Teachers Tenure Law-he hopes to marry a school teacher someday ... It happens every year. Last semster Jack Dooley turned in a false alarm in Conyngham and a fortnight ago an innocent Frosh mistakenly pulled the protector from the same alarm box . . They say if you look long enough you'll find your twin-Gloria and Norma are thoroughly convinced of the authenticity of this maxim . . . Bob Connelly seems to be the rising Casanova of the Sophomore class ... Fehlinger certainly convinced the Christmas dance committee that his ability as an advertising man is not to be disputed. Pisano believes in Santa Claus-he gave up girls because of pressing studies. . . O'Mally plans to do his Christmas shopping at the Boston Store ... Walter Rulka made his bow before the student audience last evening and Nanticoke gave the stage another prospect. . . . Joe McGuire comes from a town that boasts of the finest town hall in Pennsylvania-Forty Fort . . . Decades ago it was the Wyoming Valley Hotel, located a few feet above the Junior College campustoday it's Kearney's . .. Ken Cranston hails from the richest township in the world-Hanover Township. Can It Be Done? It is no fun being unpopular-everybody knows that. If you really are better than someone else, it's all right to think so-but don't tell him that. Don't tell everybody how good you are-let them find out for themselves. If you feel that you're just a little better than the other fellow, don't let him know it. Let him think he's as good as you'll ever be . It's just a suggestion. Try it-you'll get along better. Better Button Up-Today is the first day of Winter-which reminds us that the German Club is arranging a program of outdoor activities for the coming months .. . Sorry, all our exchange copies become theproperty of this paper and our editor hands them over to Jack Karnofsky for additional persual. .. Helen Sands helps Bob Patton with his homework-that's what we call real co-operation ... Monahan will appreciate the new "trackless trolleys" on the Kingston line ... Al Zachiewicz·s diving prowess is only excelled by his performance on the dance floor during mixed lounge . .. A busy day's work for any reporter-following "Hank" Davis around the campus ... Voyton's sleek haircomb is the source of admiration of the students. . Hard-working Joe Shina! has just about completed work in the "dark-room" of Conyngham hall. .. The life of any party-that's Paul Labeda . .. Ruth Lynn finds Scranton the seat of al learning. . . Louise Wilski insists that women are the best drivers (that is, on the open stretch) . "A Mite of a Blonde Person." That's the manner in which Kay Dangerfield, Times-LeaderEvening News columnist, described our own, little Shirley Higgins, jitterbug deluxe, in a recent comment on the customary Saturday night dances at the YWCA gym. Columnist Kay penned in part: "She resembles Simone Simone, French movie star. In one whirl about the circular gym-ballroom she often has as many as four or five partners. Shirley, like three-fourths of the girl students who attend the dances, adopts a favored costume among the girls-a bright pastel sweater, a flared or pleated skirt, ankle socks, low-heeled and gum-soled oxfords which are fondly called .. gunboats·. .. What have we found out about Shirley since she's been tripping lightly throughout our college buildings? Well, in additionto her piquant charms she has a very pretty singing voice and an abundance of stage talent. Then too she's very beautiful and what's more very becoming. r C.;;.;TMAS DANCE ~ BUJC Debaters entertained the Hofstra College debating team from Long Island last week in Chase Hall. Friday the Junior College team journeyed to Lewisburg where they met the debaters of Bucknell University. The topic debated on both occasions was "Resolved: That the basic blame for the present European war lies with the Allies." Booth meets were non-decision debates. Representing the Junior College debaters were Lydia Green baum, Joseph Kornblatt, Kathleen Wintermute, and Harvey Wruble. John "Jay" McDevitt To Speak at Boy's Smoker Sometime Next Month John "Jay" McDevitt, erstwhile good-will representative of Wyoming Valley and famed "millionaire for a day" will speak at the January boy's smoker. The student council will be in charge of arrangements. SOMETHING WORTH WAITING FOR--EH? Guess what? When classes resume in -January "leap ye'a r" will be definitely with us. Inasmuch as tradition has it that this long awaited annum 1s the time ·when maidens seek a marital tie, the Student Council committee is going to lend its bit in aiding the female endeavor. The occasion will take the form of a "tea dance" to be held in the Chase Theatre on a Friday afternoon in January -and here's where the girl's come in. Ins_tead of the boys asking the girls, "May I have the pleasure of this dance?" the weaker sex will do all the bidding. From then on it will be up to the girls. WEST SIDE FLORAL SHOP Member of the TDS 7-5537 Market St. Kingston Supscription-$1.50 per Couple Milt Wiener's Band �Page Four THE BUCKNELL BEACON Friday, December 22, 1939 Committee Arranging Christmas Dance . . Ken Cranston Chairman pf Yuletide Affair Wednesday Evening, December 27, In First Presbyterian Church House Final arrangements have been completed for t,he annual Christmas dance, Wednesday evening, December 27, in the First Presbyterian Church House. Milt Wiener's Band will play for dancing from 8 until 12. Committee arranging for the affair is pictured at the left. Left to right, first row: Ruth Lynn, Jane Nagro, Zelda Mangel, Lydia Greenbaum, Gretrude Jones, Florence Mangel,, Pearl Kaufman, Harriet Corner; second row: Harry Miller, Earl Haefele, Joe Slamon, · Stanford Tischler, Ken Cranston, Harvey Wruble, Chris O'Malley; third row: Robert Paxson, Eugene Rogers, Al Gelb, Raymond Young, and John VanLoon. THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . ... .. John Bush Business Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Mary Brislin Advertising Mana/!_er . .... .. . .... . . . . . ... .. ... . .... . ...... . ..... Lydia Greenbaum Sports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... . .... . .. . ... . ...... .... .... . ... . . 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It can be of the most intellectual type or of the simplest blood and thunder mystery. . . at the Back Date Magazine Store 151 So. Main Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. LLEWELLYN BROS. INC. --Modern Printers-21 S. FRANKLIN STREET Swinsky is BUJC'S Lone Ring Hope Bill Swinsky, a member of the Freshman class, is developing into one of the cleverest mittsters ever to represent the Junior College in the boxing ring. Swinsky, a hard-hitting 122 lb. A. B. student, comes from Hunlocks Creek. Bill does most of his outdoor training in the woods near his home and occasionally takes a three or four mile jaunt back in the vicinity of Sweet Valley. In the recent YMCA boxing tourney, Swinsky defeated Jack Walters in the first night's round but fell beneath the blows of Al Witkowski a week later. EDITORIALS CHRISTMAS, 1939 . .. We wish the students and faculty members, their families, our friends, and all our countrymen a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Christmas Day is just ahead. Monday the world will celebrate the birthday or, rather, the Day of the Nativity, of Christ, the Saviour of the World. No one in the modern world knows exactly on what day Christ was born, but for many centuries past the event has been and still is celebrated on the Twenty-fifth day of December As a matter of fact, the exact date is immaterial. What is material to the world and to the human race is the fact that Christ was born. He came to inaugurate a reign of ""Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will." And now, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine years later, America is at peace with the world, with good will toward all the peoples thereof. Our American people hold fast to that purpose for which Christ came upon earth, "Peace to Men of Good Will. .. Other nations have failed to abide by this Divine ideal, thus destruction and terror wroughts a portion of the universe on the eve of our Lord's feast day. We Americans will celebrate Christmas this year in the true spirit of the occasion, and let a prayer go up from everyone that Good Will may return to the hearts of all men and peace may be restored to the earth. ROLLING ALONG . . . Some College students seem to think no progress has been made in this country since 1929. Well, at least we've got a lot of driving done, and we're getting more done right along. The Automobile Manufacturers association reports that in the present year we'll drive 250 billion miles. That's 70 billion more than we made ten years ago. A decade ago college men and women walked more, drove less. The same principle applied to a large majority of the American populace. Since then we fell into the rut of a depression, but that didn't interfere a great deal. With all our poverty, too, real or imagined, there are two million more people operating passenger cars today than there were in those fabulous days of a decade ago. We own a lot more cars and we cover a lot more ground and see a lot more people and things. Why, the additional scenery our people behold nowadays outh to be worth about a billion dollars a year· to them. And scenery itself is improving, as people learn to take better care of it. NOT TOO MUCH ON THE 'JERSEY' SIDE. When we write it in that style we know you'll understand what we mean. In other words students, things are getting entirely too 'hep' in the college buildings. Especially in Conyngham Hall where classes are in session throughout the entire day, the noise eminating from the hallway on the main floor is distracting to the students and professors. It is the aim of the administration at Bucknell University Junior College to treat college students like young men and young women. When entering college, students enter a new world of freedom. Freedom, however, is dangerous when entrusted to those who lack a sense of responsibility. The misuse of freedom necessarily calls forth restraints. �Friday, December 22, 1939 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Five Captain Wayne Swanberry, John Finn, Spark Bison Basket Tossers --BUCKNELL PATTER-by Bob Patton John Finn When Bucknell Junior College basketballers opened their season with a 43-36 win over the Central "Y", John Finn, product of G.A.R high school paced the Bisons with 13 points. Since then has been going great guns for Coach Walter Thomas. Against Susquehanna several nights ago, Finn, who plays forward on the Jay Cee squad, pulled the Bisons through with a win in the final moments of the game. He scored 19 points in that game. Nothing short of that has been his great performances in passing. Finn, however, is to be counted on for any scoring attack in the offing. Finn tallied 11 points in the Long Island University game and 8 markers in the game against the Bucknell Freshmen at Lewisburg last week. You're going to Be Missed The registrar says: The Christmas vacation begins today at the close of school. Classes resume, Monday, Jan. 8, at 8 a. m. P. S.-The regulation theme paper is on sale at the office in Chase Hall. Our cagers are off to a grand start, winning three games before bowing to a good Bucknell University Frosh team on the latter·s floor . And what a floor' We saw a game at the campus last year and the gym is bigger than the 109th Armory in Kingston. A player must be a good track performer to keep racing back and forth on the court without turning. The peppy Bisons trounced Long Island University Frosh and the Y. M. C. A. before edging out the Susquehanna University varsity by two poirits in an extra period . John Finn starred in that game with 19 points, the most a Bucknell player has made in quite some time. That overtime contest seemed to have taken some of the starch out of the locals since the following night Bucknell Frosh took them . Well, cheer up boys, we meet those yearliings up here and you may be in a position at that time to stop them from retaining their League championship. All papers in the circuit are saying the Junior College team is the darkhorse in the loop this season. The team stands a good chance of making it dark for its opponents, judging . from the showing so far . Grace Mathews, rabid follower who missed only one game at home last season, plans on seeing a record turnout of students for tomorrow night"s crucial clash with Scranton Frosh at the Y. M. C. A. at 7:45. Gracie stuck with the team through thick and thin last year and it was mostly thin. After seeing the opener she believes the boys are in for considerable honors this year and she is doing plenty of talking in boosting tomorrow·s attraction . We would not be surprised to see the charming Plymouth lassie lead a few cheers, provided enough of her mates are there to let the visiting yearlings know our students are back of the team 100 per cent. Incidentally, the cagers are in for a busy vacation period. After tomorrow·s game, the Alumni provides the opposition on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. On Friday night the boys go to Scranton to face the young Tom Cats in a return game. They return home on Saturday night to tangle with the strong and once-conquered Long Island Frosh team in the first part of a twin bill-at 7-;45. On Friday, Jan. 5, the Bisons meet Wyoming Seminary at Kingston. The next night they meet Penn State Extension of Pottsville at the "Y'" in the second half of a double attraction. The regional open amateur wrestling tourney, in which some of our grapplres are slated to appear, will take place at 7 :30. The night of the game with Long Island Frosh will make or break the future of such Ashleyites as Fehlinger, Monahan, McKernan and Flynn. For on that night the team that these home rooters chirp about will play the Y. M . C.A. varsity for the first time. Students better get around early for that game since enough Ashley people will follow the famed Fleetwing A. C. into town that the gym will likely be taxed to capacity. If the Fleetwings win, watch out for those talking Irishmen. They will be hard to hold. Since Bucknell downed Long Island freshmen early in the season, the Blackbirds have strengthened considerably and are coming here to even the score. Having remembered the last period rout here last season, we would like to see the locals keep up thier fine work and prove to the York States that this valley has as good basketball players as it has gridders . The Blackbirds know what kind of football players come from here since about a half dozen of Vic Urban·s Luzerne neighbors play on the varsity team at Long Island. A new sport has come in for its share of publicity, both as an intra-mural and potential varsity spotr. Students have longed to see the Junior College represented by a wrestling team sufficient to compete with Wyoming Seminary, Scranton-Keystone, Wilkes-Barre "Y' " and other Schools that have first class wrestling squads. Bucknell Junior College will enter a squad . of wrestlers in the Ninth Annual Open Amateur Wrestling Championships of Northeastern Pennsylvania at the Wilkes-Barre "Y" on January 5th and 6th. Possible candidates for the Junior College squad include BiU Swinsky, Bob Hourigan, Ray Young, Harry Miller, Lee Wazeter, Bob Pickett and James Monahan. Walter Thomas has been instructing the squad in the g(Ym periods and he will continue with them in their matches. However, several prospects are in view next year for the varsity wrestling coaching position. JOSEPH HOGARTH -Commercial Photogrdpher- 228 Hazle Street Another friend of Bucknell University Junior College yesterday presented the school with a BellHowell sound projector machine, The new apparatus will be used by all departments at the Junior College. Wayne Swanberry Bucknell's "tower of strength on the defence" is Captain Wayne Swanberry. Blonde, athletic he is celebrating his second year with Coach Thomas' cagers in grand style. While defending the Bison goal, Wayne has also managed to climb up among the scoring leaders on the team. MEET THE GANG AT-- THE SPA Thfl Most Modern- Look Where You May Are you interested inPhotography Stamp Collecting Craft Work Printing Dancing Instruction Archery Chess What is Your Hobby? Get into a Group with the Same interests at the Y~ M. C. A. WILKES-BARRE, PA. �THE Page Six Friday, December 22, 1939 BEACON This Trio Really Do Things. . . ALL-STAR VOLLEYBALL TEAM SELECTED The first of a proposed annual All-star volleyball team has been selected by Walter Thomas and Steve Gacha. Players for the team have been selected on a basis of ability and all-around sportsmanship through the ten weeks schedule. The instructors feel that the team is well balanced, with each man a potential spiker and set up man of exceptional ability. Though they are players of individual atiilities, team work of the highest calibre should result as witnessed during the season's play. The teams: BUCKNELL Below is pictured three of the stellar basketball players on the varsity roster of the Bucknell Junior College cage team. "Vic" Urban, who played basketball and also baseball at Wyoming Seminary, recently donned a Bison uniform for he first time and has been proving an asset to the squad through his consistent work throughout games. LaVerne Disque, aside from his dependability in the guard position , is one of the high scorers on the Bison squad. While holding the opposing team's tally to a minimum, Disque has consistently aided in chalking up points for the local cagers. Kingston's representative this year is "Vuddy" Owens who has been giving a berth at forward. He is one of Coach Thomas' yearlings but gives great promise of becoming a star member of the team in the future. 1st Team-Earl Hafele-C. & F. Al Zakiewicz-Engineers "B" Paul Trebilcox-B. S. "B" Karl Kalweit-A. B.'s Jack Gelb-B. S. "A" Joh O'Malley-B. S. "B" 2nd Team-Paul Padlick-Engineers "A" David Evans-A. B.'s Stanley Kresses-Engin's "B" Ben Badman-C. & F . Charles Fehlinger-C. & F. Adam Voyton-A. B.'s EMBASSY RESTAURANT Buddy Owens Students Cordially Invited -Open All NightTenth Annual Public Square YULETIDE BALL Laverne Disque Dine and Dance withTom and Nance Kingston High School Alumni Association Thursday Evening 'Vic' Urban Greetings for a- KHS GYM Jitterbugs Welcome Merry Christmas 49 Main St., Ashley Student Council Chester Street THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE AND CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry Open 11 a. m. To 2:30 p. m. � 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. 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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 Bucknell Beacon, 1939 December 22nd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 December 22 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/6bf2e323e07fc7cea02b582018ab75bd.pdf 874151fb66a2aff4d129994faec13170 PDF Text Text JACK MELTON'S BAND BOOKED FOR THANKSGIVING DANCE BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 4. WILKES~BARRE, PA. Number 10 Wednesday, November 22, 1939 WHAT'S FUN? PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE THEIR OWN IDEAS 'Gies Pocono Haven' and Farley's Farm Vie with Students' Hobbies Bucknell University Junior College students and members of the faculty have , no doubt, often wondered what fun our Student Council president, Leon Wazeter, gets out of that old-fashioned tin lizzy he rides to school, when all the while he might be walking to school from his home which is only a few blocks away from the campus. But a look about us a t other students and professors too, and we find that he is only one of the many who have what some might consider slightly looney ideas about what to do for fun. Some hobbies, it is interesting to note, have a direct connection with the person's work. Take for example Joe Kornblatt. He is interested in music of all kinds a nd has tluze,1s of recordtngs which he delights in playing for his friends and students. Best of all, he likes to play the m on his old-fashioned gramophone which he picked up in a second-hand shop on the Heights. The gramophone, with which Joe threatens his guests with entertainment, is complete with hand crank, two dozen scratchy cylindrical rolls, and a bright red horn hitched on with a hunk of tubing and held in place by an old lamp stand from which the shade has been removed. Music, believe it or not, is the hobby of Jack O'Malley. When not playing the piano or listening to a radio concert, the West Side sq uire goes in for such strenuous pastimes as swimming (of course in warm weather) and sometimes ping-pong. Too, Jack is a collector. He collects badges and strange titles. Though they do not make their permanent homes in the country, Dr. Eugene Farley and Professor Paul Gies have estates in the woodland regions neighboring Wyoming Valley. Several miles from Beaumont, the Farleys are making improvements to their country home and Dr. Farley has visions of entertaining members of the student council at his farm during the school term. In the summer our director basks in the warm sun and gains a fine coating of tan. Nestling in the innermost regions of the Pocono mountain region is the farm and summer -A FA!<M I 'OR, FARLEY. ;.'' ' BEAUM0Nr0 residence of Professor Paul Gies. "Pop" has plans for the establishment of a "music school" next summer on his summer estate. On week-end trips, Prof. Gies likes to cut wood, tramp through the woods, and eat tender, juicy steaks. Now and then "Pop" takes his turn at working on the farm. Like music and other arts, photography has always been attractive. Prof. William Schuyler and dozens of students, including Joe Shina!, Steve Whiteman, Marion Roberts, Mary Brislin, John Crigger, Mel Hopkins, Matt Stribaugh, Shirley Brown, Lillian Babski, Betty Benscoter, Joy Bodycomb, Betty Farr, and Irene Sauciaunas are never happier than when · clicking the shutter on some sight which draws their attention. Hobbyists in the musical field also include Betty Schwager, Bob Connelly, and Gerald Kuschel. Bucknell Junior College's No. 1 stamp collector is of course, Dr. Daniel J . Gage. His collection is one of the finest a nd most complete of the many philatelists in Wyoming Valley. Like music and other arts, book collecting has always been attractive. J ack Gelb and Charles Fehlinger are the two leading hobbyists in this field. All the engineering students get the urge now and then to fuss with gadgets, build things, and tear them down again. Many another student of BUJC no doubt, frees himself from mental mischief by concerning himself with collecting autographs of lesser knowns, gathering matchbook folders, browsing about for uncomfortable furniture, or filling his study with toy dogs or elephants. Student Body Votes Down Important Proposal For a second time in a like number of years students of BUJC have voted against the amendment to the Junior College constitution which provides for the reta inment of Freshmen Student Council representatives (Freshman class president, male and fema le representatives) in their soJ:>homore year. The measure was defeated by 14 votes the final count being 81 against and 67 in favor of the amendment. When the same proposal was submitted last year an an overwhelming majority defea ted the amendment. The amendment proposing the election of all organizations between May 1 and May 15 of the preceding year was accepted by the student body. The decision was a lmost unanimous. Students approved the amendments regulating the election of officers and the student activities appropriations. The following officers will be elected by the Freshman and Sophomore classes : President, Vice-president, Secretary-Treasurer, and Male and Fema le Representatives to the Student Council. Each activity, as prescribed in the last amendment to win the approval of the students, will submit an audited financial report each semester to be filed with the registrar. This report will contain an itemized list of receipts and expenditures and must be signed by the president, treasurer, and faculty advisor of the organization. "The Inn of Return" Pleases Chapel Audience In their first stage production of the school year, Bucknell Junior College Thespians delighted the student and faculty audience with the presentation of "The Inn of Return" during chapel excercises yesterday morning in the First Presbyterian Church House. Everyone was justly proud of the production as a whole. The acting, due to the untiring efforts of the cast and Miss Norma Sangiuliano, director, was marvelous. The cast: "Travers" --an English novelist, Ralph Walters; "Dr. Darby" --a country doctor, Alfrer:l Groh; "Charlie Cook" --a clerk at the Inn, Bernard Achhammer; "Dorothy Spinwell", Estelle Harrington; "Martha Spinwell", Jane Nagro; "Murphy"--a salesman, Stanford Tischler; "Randall", John Kuschel; "The Ghost of George Mann", Harold Griffith. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Editor... . ......... . . . . . . .... ... . ... . . . .John Bush Business Manager . ........ . . . .. . . . .. . ... .. .. . ... .. . . . . .. . . . . . . ..... Mary Brislin Advertising Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ . . . ...... . ... Lydia Greenbaum Sports Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 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We are not particularly in favor of talking "shop" just when everybody is ready to set aside their textbooks and hop way on that Thanksgiving vacation. In short, we would like to have a little more co-operation at Bucknell University Junior College. First, in the classrooms. Students by this time should be well aware of their classroom .. manners... We refer to "manners" of study-that is to work a little harder accomplish more than the mimeographed assignment sheet asks you to do. Be prompt with your work and come to class prepared. "Life"s what you make it," " a humorist once stated. Education is like that . Then turn to extra curricular activities for a moment. We sincerely hope you are getting the ··all" out of college life. Faculty advisors and leaders of the school's varicus organi~tions woukl ap~-00-iate ygw- help. Now that the new council members have been elected, a relatively new policy will be set up. The first requisite of a successful governing body is student support; and the second requirement is a democratic and intelligent method of carrying on student activities. The council owes its power to the students and the students owe support to the council for setting up a desirable activities program. Think about it. Work to make for a finer, clearer, and more satisfactory arrangement for the entire student body and faculty of Bucknell University Junior College. Using a modern jargon-let's all "plug" ,in and out of the classroom. A polite way would be to ask you to "Do It We11.·· THANKSGIVING . .. Thursday will be Thanksgiving. Of all the things that we have to be thankful for one alone stands out as the greatest blessing that a person could have. Thank God, we are Americans! America is the land toward which the oppressed, the persecuted, the t errified in every land look as the last safe haven in a world gone mad-America, with freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the right of trial by jury, the right to secure an education and to work out one's own destiny unimpeded by histerical, bull ying, half-mad tyrants who demand obedience to every whim. Repeat it again and again, and pray that it may always be thus: America, .. the land of the free and the home of the brave." THE COMMUNITY WELFARE DRIVE .. . Today marks the end of the appeal for funds by the Community Welfare Federation. For the past several days the true co-operative American spirit has prevailed among the residents of Wyoming Valley. Annually they have been told·, that due to the widespread poverty, unemployment, and misery, a special effort to give until it hurts should be made. Our generation need not be told. We know. Just as the depression began we reached the age where these things began to impress us-and they have ,b een impressing us with increasing force each year since. · One would be an incredibly unseeing clod to have grown up in Wyoming Valley during the depression without acquiring an abiding humanitarianism. Somehow we realize our responsibility to society. That's why we give, yes give, give until it feels good. A look at the world about us. Turmoil and confusion abroad are spectacles which move all sensible Americans. Then it is time to think that little of enduring value can be done to relieve these leaders from fascist heartlessness until our own needy are cared for. The time has come to .. take care of our own backyard... The numerous agencies supported by the Community Welfare Federation are a part of our society. Wyoming Valley has treated Bucknell University Junior College well. Let us show that we too can be generous when the need arises. Bucknell students can help-not only by making the Junior College·s contribution a large one, but by urging others to give. · Girls Give Eurythymics Demonstration at Convention Last Friday night some of our Bucknell Junior College girls were given the opportunity to display their ability in eurythymics before an audience on the Meyers High School stage. The occasion for the demonstration was a convention held by the Wyoming Valley Association . of Health, Physical - Education, and Recreation. Miss Sangiuliano directed the exhibition and the following girls participated: Anneliese Greenstein, Shirley Higgins, Joy Bodycomb , Dorothy Traxler, Lydia Greenbaum, Muriel Rees, Louise Baker, Ruth Goldstein, Shirley Brown, _Nuby Williams, Jane Nagro, Gertrude Jones , Mary Brislin, Betty Schwaeger, Ruth Guarnaccia, Elinore Smulyan, Eleanor Parry, Kathleen Wintermute, Irene Saucuinas, Louis Rummer. Dr. Roy Tasker is president of the Wyoming Valley Association which has been organized less than a year. Dave Secunda Leads Engineers Club Activities Fully two months of this semester have already slipped into history, but this much time was not needed to show that the Engineers of our Junior college are on the move again. Much of the work in the first studies of Engineering is confined in the buildings. , But we do get a glimpse of our future engineers Friday mornings, when we see them surveyinging the river common . Both freshmen and sophomore mem:bers of this class are well united in an Engineering Club. Besides the many proposed trips to engineering plants and other places of engineering interest, the club has social activities. Officers were elected at the first luncheon of the year. These were: president, Dave Secunda; Vice - president, Vincent Segar; secretary, Eugene Rogers; treasurer, Raymond Young. Another luncheon will be held in the "Y" shortly. The club is planning to hold a smoker in the near future. The club also plans to hold a smoker later in the season to which seniors of high schools will be invited. Wednesday, November 22, 1939 Photographers Address Camera Club Members The Camera Club is fulfilling its promise to be one of the most active clubs on the campus. The dark room, on which the members have started to work, is now nearing completion and will soon be open for use to the members. As soon as the dark room is completed, the club will be prepared to start its program of periodical contests for the best snapshot taken by the contestants. Rules of the contest will be announced later, and the results of the contest will appear in the Beacon. At a regular meeting of the club on November 1, Mr. Jack Trumpeter, sponsor of the Y.M. C.A. Camera Club, and head of the Camera Department of the Boston Store, spoke to the members. He displayed various models of cameras and explained the advantages of each type. He also exhibited some Kodachrome trans parencies to the audience. At a special meeting on November 7, the club gave a demonstration of film developing to the members and to others interested. They also expect to give a demonstration of printing pictures in the near future. At the last meeting of the club, November 14, Mr. J. Hogarth, member of the WilkesBarre Camera Club, gave an interesting and instructive lecture on '' Photography and Personal Development." The club expects to continue to present speakers who will lecture on different phases of photography. The membership of the Camera Club has greatly increased since the program and Qbjectives of the club were announced in the last issue of the Beacon. With such a large number of interested an active members, the Camera Club is fully prepared to make their first year on the campus a very successful one. JORDAN Est . 1871 MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND HATS OF QUALITY MEET THE GANG AT-- THE SPA The Most Modern- Look Where You May 9 West Market Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. WEST SIDE FLORAL SHOP Member of the TDS 7-5537 Market St. Kingston �Wednesday, November 22, 1939 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Thanksgiving Dance Chairman and Program Aides Page Three NEWBY WILLIAMS THRILLS TO FIRST ADVENTURE WITH "JITNEY PLAYERS" After a summer spent in touring Pennsylvania and the New England states with the "Jitney Players", a stock company owned by Ethel Barrymore Colt, daughter of Ethel Barrymore of stage and cinema fame, Newby Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Coxe Williams of 60 West Union Street, Wilkes-Barre, has entered Bucknell University Junior College where she is studying "play production" under Miss Norma Sangiuliano . • Newby Williams • Gertrude Jones Lydia Greenbaum Elinore Smulyan Lydia Greenbaum, chairman of the annual Thanksgiving Dance, today announced the committees for the affair. The semi-formal dance will be held Friday evening in the First Presbyterian Church House. , Jack Melton's Band will play for dancing. Committees: Decorations, Ken Cranston, Charles Fehlinger, Ben Badman, Gloria Carozza, Joy Bodycomb, Herman Niewinski; Tickets, Florence Mangel, Leon Wazeter, James Roski, Betty Schwager, Walter Rulka, Sally Hayes; Programs, Gertrude Jones, Elinore Smulyan, Lillian Rosen, Harold Griffith, J dhn McDade, Lee Edwards, Publicity, Mary Brislin, John Bush, Harry Miller, Shirley Higgins, Stanley Kresses. Miss Williams' first contact with the "Jitney Players' · was made two years ago when the stock company was playing its entire summer season at Eaglesmere, near Williamsport, Pa., where she was vacationing. Newby became intensely interested in the work of the stage players and last summer when the "Jitney Players" returned to Eaglesmere, Miss Barrymore invited her to join the stock company. It was in the "Playhouse" at Eaglesmere that Newby started on her theatrical career. Fortunately, last summer the "Jitney Players" diverted from their usual routine and travelled to the New England states where they staged several shows. Newby was given several apprentice parts in such plays as "Streets of New York", "Seven Keys to Baldpate", and "Accent on Youth". She played in several prodi;ictions in which Maqeline Holmes, daughter of the famed stage star, Taylor Holmes, had the leading role. Doughlas Rowland, who is currently starred in the "Philadelphia Story" was a former member of the "Jitney Players." Katherine Hepburn who has the main lead in the "Philadelphia Story" has communicated with Newby Williams on several different occasions. Newby met Miss Hepburn in Philadelphia last winter when the actress was appearing there. That, according to Newby, was her biggest thrill. Another interesting experience was Newby's appearance in a play in Vermont last summer. Included in the audience were Otis Skinner, Robert Frost, and Sinclair Lewis. Newby finds stage life very interesting --'but hard. During her travels last summer it was a continuous round of work from daybreak to sunset. Plays presented on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of each week and practice sessions were held during the early part of the week. The twenty members of the stock company boarded together all summer long and Newby will long cherish the friendships she made in her association with the "Jitney Players." THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE AND CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry Open 11 a. m. To 2:30 p. m. �THE Page Four BUCKNELL BEACON Wednesday, November 22, 1939 Balanced Swim Aggregation Will Represent BUJC This Season Veterans, Newcomers Bolster Tank Team --BUCKNELL PATTER-- Coach "Slats" Obitz of the by Bob Patton Bucknell Bisons expects to have a better balanced aggregation to BISON BASKETBALL TEAM MEETS represent the River Street Insti"Y" TEAM SAT~PA Y NIGHT tution this season although he will not have any individual ''Shorty" Thomas' Giants Ready stars to splash the headlines as For Initial Cage Contest he did in previous years. _ _L _ There will be no Guiney to Members of the basketball team are counting on the student make a record of twenty wins and body for continued support this season. Players, especially good no losses against the top college competition that the Bisons meet ~~es, hate to yerform ~efore empty seats. Our team, if the boys every year but Paul Davis, a hv~ up to the1r scholastic reputat1.-:ns, shows promise of being good, newcomer from Meyers High which means that interest around the campus here should be at a School and Dave Evans a hold- high pitch for every game whether at home or on the road. The Y. ~- C:- A. gym should be taxed to capacity when Coach over from last year will give the Walter ThC?;l1~~ s B1s<?ns c_:ipen th~ir s~ason this Saturday night against opposition plenty of trouble as they continue improving with the strong Y combmat1on, which . 1s composed of former high school each additional practice session, stars who are now being drilled by the smart and talented Effie Banta and they will be competing in Bloomsburg graduate who was one 9J the best players ever turned out Guiney's favorite events, the free- at Luzerne High School. Prior_ to the game, which will start at 8: 15, two nationally style sprints. knowi: officials, Bert Mclosky and Red Smith, will demonstrate plays The backstroke event will be one of the strongest on the team, ~eatunng_ the new phases of the game. They will pass out other a different story from other years mformat1on necessary for the fan to understand the technical points as no backstroker has ever won and then _conclude their clinic by ,officiating in the game. Incidentally, another added attraction this year will be dancing in that event since Bucknell has . boasted a tank team. Jack Batey, ~n Ch_a se Theatre after the games. Progressing with time, the school number one backstroker from 1s taking another big step forward by having its home games broadcast last years squad and Joe Slamon, over WBRE. Believing that good big men are better than good small men, a member of the Meyers Team last year looks like the two w~ hope to_ see a_ championship quintet represent the Junior College this year smce six of the 13 players are around the six-foot mark . representatives in this event. Jack Mangan, a consistent win- In the past we were fortunate to have two performares around that ner in the breast stroke last year heighth. 'Fl-rt playe1s emrn:. ~ y.ed_~1Cit~ca~e ~ll'ffl':'uriitie:; -~.:i"th N owport is back and will again be top man Ashley and South Wilkes-Barre monopolfzing. Captain Wayne Swan~ in that event. His running mate will be chosen soon with Batey berry, Dave Secunda, Syl Kasnikowski of Newport; Laverne Disque, and Goodman as the two main Charles Murray, Grier Carpenter ~f Meyers; Leo Flynn, Dick Mcaspirants for the post. In the Kernan, Joe Mor:iahan of St. Leos, Ashley; Vic Urban, Luzerne; middle distance freestyle races, John ~hannon, Wilkes-Barr~ ~own.~hip ; and Buddy Owens, Kingston, the posts are wide open for the compnse the roster. The giants are Secunda Disque Carpenter ' ' ' newcomers as John Mundry grad- Kasnikowski, Shannon and Monahon. You _may not have noticed it, but the team comes up with the uated and Ken Cranston his running mate is out for the m?st pecu!iar names of any school group with Wayne, Laverne, sprints. Albert Gelb, Henry Galla- Victor: Gner and Sylvester falling in this category. We hope the gher, and Anthony are the leaders team 1s as good on the floor as it is on paper. If it is, .the Bisons in this group to date with some should set a new attendance record at the ·•y", but, as we said before, the teai:n needs your support and will do about IO per cent better if of the others coming up. · Fighting for places in the 100 a cheenng section is on hand to do some rooting. yard freestyle and places on the class and will continue until after relay teams will be Ed Jones, Intra-Mural Volleyball the Christmas holidays. After Bill Swinsky, Bosworth, Tischler and Wrestling Tourneys the tournament has been held, and Groh and before the season is Attract B'UJC Athletes an all-star freshman team will be over they will be making the The Intra-mural volleyball race sleeted to represent the Junior veterans and more experienced swimmers fight for their positions will bear watching in its final College in matches with Wyoming weeks of play. Since the upset of Seminary, Wilkes-Barre Y .M.C.A. as individual performers. Another of the always weak the strong Bachelor of Science Keystone Junior College and spots on the team has been "B" team by the lowly A. B.'s Kingston High School. A few of diving and this year it looks as the league has turned into a free the outstanding frosh candidates though it might be the strongest for all. Practically every team at presen_t are Bob Hourigan, as Al Camp and Al Zakiewicz still has a chance for one of the Harry Miller and Bob Pickett. are doing better in their practice playoff berths and the champion- Lee Wazeter has aided considerably during the instruction periods performances than any member . ship. An all-star team will be selected He is counted to win his class of the team has ever done in competition and it is the first at the end of the season and championship in the intra-mural attempt at diving that either one matches will be played with the tourney. Walter Thomas, intraassistant, has charge of the prohas made. Zakiewicz will with Y. M. C. A. teams. Several of the teams have gram, assisted by Steve Gacha more experience give any diver in this district trouble in nosing selected jerseys with definite in- and Joe Curley. out a victory over him and will signias and coloring which go to undoubtedly transfer to A.A.U. make the league games more competition at the end of the interesting to watch. Many of school year and compete for the Junior College students have Coach Obitz's A. A. U. organiza- attended the matches which are tion during the summer season. open to all. --Modern Printers-Wrestling has turned out to be Camp will improve as the season goes along but does not have the the principle intra-mural sport 21 S. FRANKLIN STREET opportunity to practice often en- for the gym classes. Instruction periods are held during each gym ough to make fast progress. LLEWELLYN BROS. INC. DID YOU KNOW THAT. Gloria Carozza was the first person to wear a "pork-pie" on the campus?. . . Hank Davis wore his for a day and for some re_ason he has discarded it. (We ~1sh he. woul~ wear it again, for 1t certamly 1s tricky) . . . Last year there were only four or five reversibles worn by the students and this year plaids, tweeds, and polo reversibles are very popul?-r . . . The only corduroy suit 1s worn by Sally Hayes. (These are new this year and Sally is setting a fast pace for the co~e';is) . . . The "twins", Newby Williams, Miss Sangiuliano, Shirley Higgins, and Elinore Smulyan, and oodles of other girls have set aside a day to show off their brilling red cardigans. (Watch out boys!) . . . Plaids this year are very popular on the campus. Jane MacEnrow looks stunning m her green and red plaid coat .. . Eleanor Parry, Irene "Dolly" Betz and Betty Schwager have set the pace for wearing "junky" jewlery. (It's a bit noisy and the only verification we have comes from the students who took the Economics 103 exam a fortnight ago and listened to Bett's "junky" jewelry rattle 60 minutes away). . . . Leon Wazeter looks like a quar_terback in his very good lookmg overcoat:· . : T11.e t:ioys are mixing and matching their suits more this year. Take a look at "Stook" Tischler's paudre blue coat and dark blue trousers. (Nice, hmmm?) . . . Jack Batey's and John McDade's bow ties intrigue the girls. READING Will improve your Mind ... for a few cents you can get a lot of reading of your own choosing. It can be of the most intellectual type or of the simplest blood and thunder mystery. . . . at the Back Date Magazine Store 151 So. Main Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. Are you interested in- Photography Stamp Collecting Craft Work Printing Dancing Instruction Archery Chess What is Your Hobby 7 Get into a Group with the Same interests at the Y. M. C. A. WILKES-BARRE, PA. � 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 Bucknell Beacon, 1939 November 22nd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 November 22 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/ad4411aae6b8e1968df93f0c52ab7fa9.pdf 6eeccd41952e48a5423931672d7d3885 PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 4. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Number 9 STUDENT'S BALLOTS FAVOR REGULATION OF UNITED STATES' STRICT NEUTRALITY This is the first of a series of feature articles prepared and written for the Bucknell Beacon by Joseph Kornblatt. In accord with policies and sentiments of millions of American youths, a large percentage of Bucknell University Junior College students, according to the results of the "neutrality poll" conducted recently, prefer the regulation of strict neutrality on the part of the United States rather than the passage of legislation that might embroil this country in the conflict abroad. Evidence to this fact is found in the overwhelming number of -,_.....,..., _,.,,...•._... students who cast ballots in the n ~gative to the questions "Should the United States help the Allied Nations"" Should the United States help Germany?" and "Should the United States - help Both?" Every move in the direction of entangling the United States in war met opposition with the student ballots. Despite the fact that trading on a boom scale would probably aid the local anthracite markets, 102 students voted against the United States trading with belligerent nations. On the other hand a rousing group of "ayes" responded to the question as to whether the United States should be allowed to sell subsistent needs and raw materials. Commercial credit, according to the opinion of 130 students, should never be extended to foreign .countries. A large percentage of the students voted to allow the administration of the United States to define a "war zone" and exclude all American ships from therein. Within this territory, more than a hundred students opined, the travel of American people should also be prohibited. More than 150 students participated in the questionnaire concerning world relations. Every indication pointed to the fact that the only way the United States can keep out of war is to "stay away from it." CANDID-CA'1:ERA '1:EN CAPTURE CAMPUS Plan "Dark Room" In Conyng,ham Hall This year Bucknell Junior College is hlessed with the addition of a new organization on the campus. We say, "blessed" becam:e this reporter has had the privilege of seeing the club in action, young as it iu. It's the Bucheli Junior Camera Club, and although still in its infancy, it boasts a nice sizeri membership and efficient leaders. At the first business meeting, the purpose and aims of the club were discussed and election of officers was held. Those elected include: Joseph Shina!, president; Steven Whiteman, zi e-president; John Grigger, secretary; and Paul Duddy, treasurer. The Camera Club isn't just a social gathering of camera fiends and would-be camera fiends. They have a definite purpose in mind. While you are reading this, the members are in the midst of the construction of a dark-room in Conyngham Hall for the exclusive use of those who belong to the Camera Club. However, They don't stop there. The club plans a number of demonstrations, at which the novices will be taught the fundamentals of developing, enlarging, etc. The Camera Club is planing trips in the country which will accomplish the dual purpose of giving the members a good time and also th ~ opportunity to get a number of interesting pictu:·es. The Camera Club has arranged to sell photographic equipment in the Collefe Book ~tore at Chase Hall. Members of the club will be entitled to a 10% discount on all equipment. · Th, profits derived from this arrangement will go into the treasury of the club in order to cov r the purchasing of material needed, such as an enlarger, developer, etc. A program of this sort is likely to bring the students of Bucknell flocking to join the (Cont. on page 2) Tuesday, October 24, 1939 JUNIOR COLLEGIANS LEARN TO DANCE While thousands of college students ponder the international crisis and attempt to master the "rah-rahs" of their alma mater, more than 20 boys and 30 girls at Bucknell Junior College are learning the secret of versatility. This time its a dancing school. What's more the students, who know how to dance, are teaching the initiates-and it's not costing a penny. Dancing classes are held twice weekly-on Wednesday at noon for the boys and the following day for the girls. A phonograph furnishes the melodies while the beginners attempt to cram the intricate steps and fancy outines into their minds. Somewhat novel is the faculty. The girls teach the girls and then its the girls again, this time instructing the boys. CONFERENCE SERIES BEGINS OCTOBER 31 Six Weekly Lectures Every Tuesday Nig,ht At 8 In Chase Hall Faculty-Student Council Has Many Advantages This year a new improvement has been made at Bucknell Junior College. This institution is among the first educational centers in the eastern part of the United States to give the Faculty-Student Council plan a trial. As the name implies, the council is a combination of the faculty with the student council and is intended to supplement the work of the latter body. The purpose of the FacultyStudent Council is two-fold: First, to bring about closer relationship between the faculty and the student council; second, to prevent any great divergence in the plans of action decided upon by the separate bodies. The two groups will meet in a joint session once a month for the general discussion of matters affecting the entire student body. Opinions and suggestions will be exchanged and recommendations formulated. Final action on any such recommendations, however, rests with the Student Council which will meet separately two weeks later. Complete· Student Council Financial Statement for Year Shows Expenditures at $3,205.51; Receipts are $3,282.40 Activity Receipts Expenditures Athletics ........... . ....... . . $1, l 02 . 22 $1,102.22 Bucknell Beacon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 .98 446.98 Choral Club.. .. ... .. .... . .... 8S .00 8S .00 Debating.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129. 34 129. 34 Social Activities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8S S . l S 8S 5 . l S Thespians . ... . ............. . . 36S .04 3 31 . 52 Contingent Fund . ........ .. ... 298 .67 255.30 Totals . .. . . .. .... $3,282 .40 $3,205.5 I Balance $33.S2 43.37 $76 .89 Dr. Daniel D. Gage A series of six lectures d ealing with "Cultural Patterns in the Shifting Scene Today", will be Presented by Bucknell Junior College, beginning next Tuesday evening, in the Chase Thatre. Dr. Wilfrid Crook, head of the Junior College sociology department, will inaugurate the series. He will speak on "The Impact of Science Upon Social Custom." "The Contributions of Science and Technology to Modern Living" will be the subject for the second in the weekly Tuesday evening conferences. Prof. Voris B. Hall will address this session. Dr. Daniel D. Gage is scheduled to speak on November 14. His subject will be "From International Anarchy to International Order." Dr. Gage's vast knowledge of world polit'cs and hi . tory forms an excellent background for a discussion of such a topic. Bucknell's psychology and philosophy professor, Dr. Joseph Miller will discuss "Social Forces and the Individual" on November 21. Prof. George R. Faint will be the last speaker of the series. His top:c will be "Is Modern Religion a Soria! Force?" Closing of the lecture series will be marked by a panel discussion of "Cross Currents" on December 5. ~er·es memberships are open to all for one dollar. The single admission price is twenty-five cents. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... .. .... . . ..... . . . .. .......... John Bush Business Manager . .... .. . .. . . .. . . . . ... .. ... . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . ...... Mary Brislin Advertising Manager . .... . . . .. . ........... .. . . ... ... . . .. . .... .. Lydia Greenbaum Sports Editor . . .. .. .... . .. . ... . . . . . . . . . ... .... . .. ... ... . . .... ... . . Robert Patton Feature Editor . .. ...... . . . .... .. ... . .... . ......... . ..... ... .... Joseph Kornblatt Exchange Editor . ... . . .. . . . .. ....... .. ........... . . .. .. . .... .. .. Robert Connelly --Reporters-Elinor Smulyan, Lois M :)fgan, Louise Baker, Ruth Guarnaccia, Marion Waters, Hannah Kolb, Shirley Higgins, Chris O'Malley, H a rvey Wruble, Muriel Rees, Henry Louit, Ruth Sirkin, Pearl Kaufman, John Rauch, Joy Bodycomb, Leon Wazeter, Gertrude .Jones, Jack Mangan, Marcus Pincus. Business Staff Florence Mangel, Lillian Brennan, Zelda Mangel, Helen Sands. Advisory Board Mrs. Barbara Harper, Elwood Disque Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch Two column-inches 75c One year: $4.50 per column-inch ; two column-inches $6.S0 PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BICKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS. - - - - INCORPORATED EDITORIALS WE SEE BY THE PAPERS.. . There's a war on in Europe. Or maybe somebody's just been kic'ding us. Here we are nevertheless, steeped in ,a period of uncertainty, confusion, and doubt. Maybe we·ve been lucky. We believe the correct answer to our current ills and worries can be found in the series of six lectures which Bucknell Junior College will present beginning a week from today. Speakers will endeavor to clear up a considerable portion of the troublesome situation abroad. Although not designed to give understandi:1.g, the lectures may help to interpret the present scene and give perspective to the facts already known. "Cultural Patterns in the Shifting Scene Today" is an experiment in community relatbns. If it meets a need or satisfies the interests of a number of persons, it will be continued . Tuesday, October 24, 1939 HAZING DAYS OVER--STUDENT COUNCIL TURNS TO SERIOUS BUSINESS Now that, the hazing period for the freshman is over, on all sides we hear many comments of what they thought of it. Most of the freshmen can't wait until the day they are mighty Sophomores so that we can inflict on those poor 'stooges' what was given to us. · As much as we all complained, it was fun (?) for a short while but when it continued for two weeks it got rather monotonous. Lois Morgan thought it would be wise to revolt and she did so. Many of the most daring freshmen followed in her footsteps but alas-they received punishment at the inquisition. Any day you could see "Stook" Tischler and Al Gelb being held almost for ransom by the bold Sophomores. Estelle Harrington was also the victim of the cruel upper classmen. After a trial which many considered unfair, we also have our suspicions, queer sights were seen around the peaceful city of WilkesBarre. Baby carriages were wheeled around the square, beautiful girls appeared on the street at eight o'clock in the morning with evening gowns; within the school we saw an active horseman. Other queer sights wei:e seen around and at the end of the day-there was much relief among the freshmen as the Hazing period was over for another year. The student council has already organized and is planning a series of smokers, teas, tea-dances, dancing classes, etc. These activities a ~e expected to induce a more frlendly atmosphere and a better "college spirit" at the Junior College. Two changes in the student government constitution are being considered. One would abolish the Social Activities committee and transfer its duties to the Student Council. By a second amendment, freshmen members of the student Council would be retained in their Sophomore year in order to prevent a complete "turn-over" each year. Both amendments will be further studied and will be submitted to the entire student body for ratification. Leon Wazeter is president of the student council and Gertrude Jones is secretary. (Cont. from page one) c'ub. Those interested can Jo·n by seeing John Grigger, who is in charge of membership. From looking over the membership, it seems that most of you are under the impression that the Camera Club is strict y a "stag" organization. However, the club isn't limited to the male species. All girls, interested in photography will be welcomed as members by the club. ON ATTENDING ASSEMBLY . .. One hour every other week-the assembly period-is set aside for your benefit, arranged to fulfill your needs, satisfy your cultural tastes, and to enrich the college program until it is a well-rounded unit . Director Farley and the Junior Colle3e faculty have made every effort to make the assembly programs for this semester pleasing to you. In -the near future, the Freshmen will be given the opportunity to select the leaders of their class for 1939-40. E very student will have the opportunity to suggest innovations which .would be advantageous to the school and to give frank criticism of present organizations. It is fortunate that so many students are begin'1ing to learn the importance of regular chapel attendance for it is here that a multitude of fine ideals and great ideas are relayed to the student. Take advantage of them-they are your for the taking. MAKING THE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER YOURS . . . There is no denial of the intense satisfaction a writer receives as he sees his own creation in print. The article may be a vehicle of information or inspiration; in either case the influence of the printed word is profound. Our College offers ample opportunity to students interested enough to come to press conferences and have a try at writing. The one prerequisite standing above even experience is a willingness to work. To the can::! idate who displays this willingness, an assignment will be made and the editors will do their part in the way of suggestions and corrections. Remember, too, that writing news stories does not by any means equal the tota l expenditure of work of the Bucknell Beacon. Make-up, advertisements, headlines, proofreading, cartoons, and the like all need to be provided. · You pay for the paper, and the opportunity to broaden the statement ··of, by, and for the students of Bucknell Junior College" is yours for the trying." Press conferences are held every other Tuesday at 11 :30 a. m. In the French room on the second floor of Chase Hall. MEET THE GANG AT-- Est. 1871 MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND THE SPA SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED . .. The American University at Washington, D .. C. , is offering scholarships to graduates of Junior Colleges throughout the United States. Information concerning hcsc Lll\'8 rds will be supplied by the dea n or registrar of the Junior College . HATS OF QUALITY 9 West Market Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. Th~ Most Modern- Look Where You May Music of Todaythe RALPH PAUL way Are you interested in- Photography Stamp Collecting Craft Work Printing Dancing Instruction Archery Chess What is Your Hobby? IN SYMPATHY . .. Students of Bucknell University Junior College extend their sincerest sympathies to Dorothy Traxler on the sudden passing of her father, Prof. William E . Traxler, educator and head of the science department of Wyoming Seminary . JORDAN Get into a Group with the Same interests at the 2-0426 READING Will improve your Mind •.• for a few cents you can get a lot of reading of your own choosing. It can be of the most intellectual type or of the simplest blood and thunder mystery. . . at the Y. M. C. A. Back Date Magazine Store WILKES-BARRE, PA. 151 So. Main Street WILKES-BARRE, PA. �Tuesday, October 24, 1939 THE BUCKNELL B E ACON Page Three The Beacon SpotlightsDOLLY BETZ Kingston High Scho:>1 Commerce an:i Fin'.lnce .. blase. . . she talks, fifty words per minute ... seldom seen with hat .. . loves birds and the outdoors . . . Just what is it that won·t ma~e her blush ?. . . she chooses the piece de resistance fo r cafeteria repasts. . . another example of the fine voice culture in JC girls . . . President, Beta Gamma Chi . . . vivacious . . . all arounci sport. LEE WAZETER Meyers High School Bachlor of Arts . . . President of the Student Council . . . . BUJC's number one pressure man . . . coperpetrator of the ··dancing school" and the ).C's ":'re~tling .~quad .. .. liter3:~y procli vities, Esquire and R eaders Digest . .. Bucknell's jolliest. . . constantly before the student body's eye and in it's ear .. . Casanova pe:sonified . . . dancer deluxe. . . . NORMA EMANSKI Forty Fort High School Commerce and Finance . . . her smile portrays her fr iendlin ess. . . al ways going somewhere . that ··come hither" look .. . She and Gloria look after the Frosh . . . her second home-the library . . . her favorite eading for pleasure or study in history .. . silent doer . .. journalistic leanings . . . excellent example of everyday enthusiasm. HARVEY WRUBLE Kingston High School Bachelor of Science .. hi-ho-a jazz man dressed up in cap and gown. . . has languages for breakfast , lunch, and dinner . .. the linguis t and the jokester of the Freshman class ... laughs at life, loves, and lives on . .. likes to write . .. smooth of tongue and serious of purpose . . . respect for the international questions-attempts -to do something abou t them .. . pax omnibus cum, he says . . Camera Club reporter. Junior College Activities Announce Plans for Year - ~--- - - -- - - · - -- - - - - THESPIANS PLAN PLAY FOR CHAPEL EXERCISES IN NOVEMBER The Dramatics activities group has not as yet completed plans for the school year but a partial amount of work has already commenced and Miss Norma Sangiuliano is wiell pleased with the work of the Thespians so far this year. Following the tradition of the college to participate in as many community affairs as possible throughout the year, two members of the college are lending their talents for the presentation of " M adame President", which will be presented in the Presbyterian Church, Ashley, on Thursday evening. Miriam Housley and Jack Mangan are the characters in this stage play written by Wallace Action. Chapel excercises on November 21 will feature a one-act mystery play, "The Inn of Return·· by Don C. Jones . The cast includes future Barrymores and Cornells in the persons of Bernard Achammer, Stanford Tischler, Ralph Waters, Harold Griffith, John Kuschel , and Alfred Groh. Miss Sangiuliano is planning an adaptation of "Gammer Gurton's Needle" , on eof the early English comedies, for future production. The talent committee has reported many possiblities a mong the Freshman and additional try-outs will be given throughout the year for those who have not as yet displayed their dramatic ability. Acting is not the only type of participation in dramatic work. The theatre has a job for everyone. Thespians a re seeking the services of many young men interested in electrical work, and painting, to assist in making future productions successful. The Thespians also have social affairs during the year. A Hallowe'en party will be given October 27, Invitations will be issued for this affair. The Thespians this year will strive to purchase new lighting equipment for the Chase Theatre stage. The German Club is forging ahead. A wiener roast held at Chase a fortni ght ago attracted dozens of German students and their friends . M embers s:1ng German folk songs around the log-fire, while they munched frankfurters and marshmallows and drank cider. Twenty Boys and a Girl. This unusal candid snapshot shows Lois Jayne Morgan surrounded by a group of Freshman boys on the campus surrounding Chase Hall. Miss Morgan is a graduate of Meyers High School. In the front row, left to right are: Harvey Wruble, John Jenkins, Kenneth Kressler, John Pratt, Lois Morgan, Dave Friedman, Bucknell Junior College Glee Club, under the direction of Mr. Charles Henderson, will appear in a number of concerts sponsored by churches and schools in the central city. The chorus is composed of thirty-five mixed voices. Charles Fehlinger and Eleanor Parry, have been elected president and secretary respectively of the musical organization. The two musical numbers that have been practiced are "Ave Verum Corpus" by Mozart and a Bach Chorale. The glee club plans to study secular music this year and is rehearsing diligently for the concerts to be presented in the near future. A luncheon at the YMCA and the election of officers featured this month's activities of the Engineer' s Club. Nearly fifty members of the student body and faculty attended the the luncheon meeting. Blaine Lewis, George Culp, and Robert Paxson. Back row, left to right: Raymond Young, Theodore Cybulski, Harry Miller, John Rolands, Chris O'Malley, John Rauch, Edward Jones, Vincent Segar, Thomas Gazowski, Grier C-i.rpenter, and Solis Goodman. This Paper is a Medium of Student Thought and Opinion * Write a letter to the Editor �Page Four THE T ANKMEN'S TEAM WELL BALANCED BUCKNELL BEACON Tuesday, October 24, 1939 --BUCKNELL PATTER-- The 1939-40 swimming team at Bucknell University Junior College appears to be the best balanced team to represent that institution in all the years that the aquatic sport has been a major athletic activity there. SWANBERR Y LEADS BUJC QUINTET by Bob Patton Our Bowlers Fade Away . . . Students Watch College teams Perform . .. Cranston Lettermen's Head. It was a sad blow to the writer when he learned fellow students failed to show enough interest in bowling to warrant having an intramural league at the .. y .. again this year. It was a pleasure (well, at least on the days when our hook was working) to compete against friendly rivals. Freshmen Cagers Have Experience Bucknell cagers are practicing at the "Y" daily, anticipating one of the most successful basketbal I seas:ms in the history of the institution. The keglers had two incentives. While the winning team received worthwhile awards at the end of the season, each individual, whether on the leading or last-place team, had a chance to make the varsity which was a member of the .. y .. Major League. The best five bowlers, so determined by the quarterly averages, were placed on the varsity. One sophomore likely to miss the sport is Charlie Fehlinger. The Ashley resident, who takes all his sports seriously, developed into an outstanding player after a bad start last season. Affecting Charlie like it did all bowlers, the game got under his skin, so to speak, and he would argue and discuss every pitch, but, nevertheless, he got good results. It's too bad Charlie your ability is going to waste now. Incidentally, volleyball, which was considered a girl's sport a few years back, supplant:ed bowling on the intra-mural schedule. Ken Cranston, president of the Lettermen·s Club, is another hustler. No grass will grow under this boy's feet as far as his interest for the club is concerned. The first luncheon for the group was quite successful. Get a few more speakers like Speed Williams, Ken, and the .. y. won't be able to hold the gathering. With such a leader it is possible our teams will attract more interest from the student body as a whole this season. Al Zakiewicz . . .aauatic asset The best prosp~ct of the newcomers is Al Zakiewicz, a diver who is coming along fast in this department and who will undoubtedly show the most improvement of any of the candidates. Possessing natural ability to start with and having enough interest in the sport to come out and practice eVfn when he is not scheduled, it is likely that he will be the top performer before the season ends. The squad will be cut down November 20th in order to give the varsity the benefit of all possible coaching before the season opens on December 9th. An addition to this years physical education program is beginners swimming instruction and it is being taken advantage of by 18 of the Junior College students. Our swimmers now are getting the necessary training demanded to whip them into championship form. Coach Slats Obitz was tied down considerably the past few years with classes; but no longer in school, the stringbean mentor spends most of his time around the .. y .. pool and varsity candidates are forced to put in tiresome workouts In fact Slats drilled one freshman so hard last week that the latter had to grab a few winks before being able to resume his regular routine of classes. Such drilling is bound to bring favorable results. This should be a warning to Bucknelrs foes. Several students are doing plenty of gloating these days because their alma maters are making the headlines in scholastic football. Dolly Betz, whose brother Joe is an end on Carnegie Tech·s team, is drinking sodas on Kingston·s good fortune . Not much is heard from the Hanover contingent which knows when to keep mum as their team is having a terrible season. Joe Kornblatt is gloomy over the medicore showing of G.A.R. John Dooley, who is trying to make a star out of his brother Tom, a halfback on Larksville·s reserve team, was broken hearted (and went broke) on his team·s downfall before Kingston. Wayne Swanberry . . . cage captain Blonde, Wayne Swanberry, BUJC basketball captain wi111 ead Coach Thomas states this season. WEST SIDE FLORAL SHOP Member of the TDS 7-5537 Market St. Kingston Well, only one team can win a game, so don"t feel so badly when your favorite loses. Which reminds us that our team, Coughlin provides plenty of food for fond thought. THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE AND CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry Open 11 a. m. To ' 2:30 p. m. � 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 Bucknell Beacon, 1939 October 24th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 October 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/f37dd4281a9b1195561ca6d1e777d768.pdf 120403679a138899e2686e258c532a40 PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON WILKES-BARRE, PA. Volume 4. Number 8 WELCOME FRESHMEN TEN SCI-IOLARSI-IIP WINNERS ANNOUNCED A '"LUCKY 13" DARTE SCHOLARSHIPS PRESENTED TO TWO SOPHOMORE STUDENTS GREETINGS FROM OUR DIRECTOR The character of a college is determined not only by its faculty and its standards of 'instruction, but by its student body. We are delighted this year to welcome an outstanding Freshman Class. While in high school you have clone excellent work; we anticipate that you will continue to do outstanding work while you are with us at Bucknell. Although the Junior College is young, a high standard of scholarship has been set, and it is our hope that each succeeding class will raise this standard. · There are other standards, however, with which Bucknell is equally concerned. Education is not a matter of intellect alone, but is also concerned with the development of character and the formation of fine ideals. During your two years with us, you may develop personal q!!..<J.litjes tha_t will add to your happiness and increase your value to your community and to your country. Through your associations at Bucknell finer standards will be created. May all of us have the strength to adhere to these standards. \i\That l have said may seem to he in a serious vein: the thing that I really want to say is that we are delighted to have you with us, am( we look forward to working with you during the next two years. Dr. Eugene Farley. VARIO US IMPROVEMENTS AID STUDENT STUDY Heating Plant Installed at Chase Hall Larger accomodations and increased facilities are the result of the past summer's work in the two buildings of Bucknell Junior College. Improvements to Conyngham Hall, including renovations and painting of several rooms, have been completed. \Vorkmen yesterday put the finishing touches on the newly enlarged lecture room on the third Aoor. A new heating plant has been installed in Chase Hall and additional work in the cafeteria and loung-es was finished last week. The repainting and redecorating of the reception room in Chase Hall are among the many improvements completed earlier in the summer. Frida~, September 22, 1939 Eight Freshmen Win Honors PRES. MARTS, Dr. FARLEY ADDRESS ASSEMBLIES New Junior Collegians are Advised to Stand Firm and "Grasp Every Opportunity" Addresses by President Arnaud C. Marts of Bucknell University, and Dr. Eugene Farley, director of Bucknell Junior College, featured the opening of Freshman Week exercises which came to a close with ope11 house in the College theatre on Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Farley, speaking to the members of the Freshman class assembled in the college theatre on on South River Street, contrasted the change in different generations and urged the students to grasp every opportunity in these changing time that will lead to selfimprovement. He stressed the importance of setting an ideal and maintaining faith in "ourselves and others." He declared the "challenge of uncertainty" is facing the youth of America daily and that only through study can confidence be gained. Greetings to the new students were extended by President Marts After congratulating the students for having advanced so far in the field of learning, he stated that college is for those who are to rise above the others. President Marts told the students to set their course and follow it through "regardless of opposing winds." He cited an example in Abraham Lincoln's life as an example of preparedness for the time when "your chance comes." In the future; Mr. Marts prophesied, historians will be writing that on September 1, 1939, when Europe embarked on a second World War, the center of civilization shifted to the Western Hemisphere. This, he claims, is a challenge to our youth to make a better world, since the leadership of civilization will be entrusted to them. FRESHMAN EYE-TESTS GIVEN Corrective Measures Advised For Sight Improvement. Dr. William Policoff, WilkesBarre optometrist and a graduate of the University of Scranton, University of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania College of Optics and Ophthmology, completed his research work in the "diagnosis and correction of reading disabilities" among members of the Freshman Class on Monday. Tests, which started the early part of last week, were given daily to about twenty-five new students at the Junior College. Dr. Policoff has examined more than one hundred students since he commenced the research at the Junior College. Freshmen were given the Gray oral reading test and through the medium of an Ophthalmograph, a comprehensive analysis of the student's ability to read silently, the speed of the reading, the number of fixations (per hundred words), regressions, and binocular efficiency were determined. Corrective measures have been instituted by Dr. Policoff where defective reading has been noted. Dr. Policoff explained that scientific data shows that some of the more common types of reading disability are not due to disturbance of vision but rather in the student's failure to read correctly. Ten Bucknell Junior College students have been announced a,s beneficiaries of scholarship awards Dr. Eugene Farley announced today that Robert Connelly, son of Dr. and Mrs. T . J. Connelly of Kingston, and David Secunda, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sec~,nda of Newport Township have received scholarships donated by Mrs. Franck Darte, Junior College trustee, to honor students of last semester's Freshman Class. Eight me'mbers of the Freshman Class have been announced as winners of competitive examinations conducted several months ago. They are Harvey M. Wruble, Kingston High School; Ferris Miller, West Pittston High School; Julius Mandlovitz, Edwardsville High School; Ruth Lynn, Nanticoke High SGhool: Betty SGho.r-n~ stein, Forty Fort High School; Lillian Rosen, Elinor Smuylan, and Jane Nagro, all of Meyers High School. PILOTS WILL BE TRAINED HERE Bucknell Junior College has been selected to participate in the Civilian Pilot Training program now being inaugurated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority at Washington. This means that the college is ready to accept registrants for training in the flight course for the academic year 1939-40. Students will receive a private pilot's certificate of competency upon successful completion of the course Dr. Farley said the college will co-operate with local Chamber of Commerce and Airport officials to get the training program underway by October 1 when ground school classes are expected to begin at the college. Flight instruction will be given at the airport between October 15 and November 1. By Co-operative arrangements between the college and CAA students will pay a laboratory fee of about $40 to cover cost of medical examination, 24-hour insurance coverage of $3,000 accidental death and dismemberment, and $50 hospitalization and medical reimbursement. Students eligible must be citizens of United States and between 18 and 25 and must not have had any solo flight experience �THE Page Two BUCKNELL THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Co-Editors ........ Mary Brislin, John Bush BEACON Friday, September 22, 1939 "In the Good Old Summertirne ... " EVERYONE WAS BUSY--DIRECTOR BUYS FARM MUSIC PROF PLANS "BIGGER AND BETTER" BACH FESTIVAL ON POCONO MOUNTIAN ESTATE Sports Editor-Robert Patton Librarian Visits Europe; SangiuHano Tours West Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch Two column-inches 75c One year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.'>0 PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BICKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS . . . . . INCORPORATED EDITORIALS GETTING A CULTURAL BACKGROUND . .. Of more than passing significance last semester was the failure of students to to acquaint themselves with the BUJC Library. Circulation of books was low, and newspapers and periodicals received little attention from the students. We hear continuous talk about acquiring a cultural background as if it were something passed out in a little package along with one's diploma. The biggest single agency for getting a wide background is books and Junior Collegians are particularly fortunate in having a well-stocked library at their disposal. Most students have discovered the value of the Library as a reference tool but they seem to be either unaware or completely disinterested in the library·s other possibilities, Current events can be reviewed and an insight on national affairs gained through constant persual of the Library·s newspapers and magazines. True, the periodicals are, for the most part, in stacks but they arc always on call and the library assistants arc more than willing to be of service. Use the Library as a source of pleasure and incidentally improve yourself culturally. DEMOCRACY . . . Perhaps the best definition of the ethical concept which is s()dly neglected these days was expressed by Thomas Parker when he said, "Democracy means not Tm as good as you are,' but ·your·e as good as I am· ... We who hold this democratic conccpt---do we live by this way of life:' Were we on this stricken globe to practice this, we would {ind a real solution to our political and social problems. GUESS WHAT? ANOTHER BRISLIN Thomas Brislin, graduate of the Meyer's High School, is the third member of the Brislin f amity to enroll at Bucknell Junior College. Tommy's older brother Joe, was a member of the Junior Coller,e swim team. Ile is completing his college studies at the University of Scranton. lvlary, a sister, is entering her second year at B UJC. She is a swimmer too. Tommy is expected to uphold the aquatic reputation of the Brislin family when Coach Obitz starts the swim team to action. IT'S HERE TO STAY Jack O' Malley offers his "appeasement policy''. He would like it known, once and for all, that he has prepared a limited budget for the school term, and will be unable to support the financial obligations of his many "friends" for the next ten monhs. The fortunate individuals who 'worked' the sympatMes of O' Malley last semester for their weekly portions of cigarettes will have to turn elsewhere this semester. 0' Malley's budget is self-styled~ for O' Malley's use only. Spending the summer abroad, Miss Elizabeth Klinedinst, librarian, encountered many thrilling experiences. The excitement in London caused by practice air raid drills, "blackouts", etc., were among the many high lights of the journey. Before departing from the Junior College in June, Miss Klinedinst was dubious as to making the trip abroad because of the then gathering war clouds. Determined to visit England, she made the trip with a friend, Miss Claudia Montague of Scarsale, New York. The couple returned to the United States on September 6, thrilled by the spectacular events in Europe but nevertheless unharmed. In his second annual report to the Board of Trustees of BUJC, Dr. Eugene Farley reported that comparative data from 355 colleges show that the students of the Junior College possess greater scholastic ability than do the students in more than seventy per cent of these colleges. Prof. Elwood Disque, who returns to the Junior College this year, completed his studies for a maste1 's degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Marraige of Miss Barbara A. Ryerson, instructor of French and English at the Junior College, to Michael H. Harper of New York, took place at the home of her mother, Mrs. Eugene C. Ryerson, \Vorcester, Massachusetts. John J. Emanski, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Emanski of Forty Fort, was admitted to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He is a graduate of Bucknell Junior College. Aiding in the direction of the Children's Home Center Camp at Noxen during the warm weather was Robert Hopkins, BUJC grad, who, incidentally was the first man in the history of the social institution to direct the summertime activities of the youngsters. Bob will continue his studies at Lewisburg. Dr. Eugene Farley purchased a farm in the Back Mountain region, and Prof. Gies, contemplating a bigger and better Bach Festival, vacationed at his Pocono Mountain Estate. Miss Norma Sangiuliano, touring the west, gathered information on stage work and in other dramatic phases, which she will present to her dramatic arts classes with the opening of sessions this week. Another marriage of local significance was that of Miss Mary Reiff of Shawnee, Oklahoma and Dr. Arthur Bernhart, assistant professor of mathematics at the Junior College. Mr. and Mrs. Bernhart are residing at 230 South River Street. Attending his first military Jack Mangan, BUJC sophomore and member of the swimming team, made an unusual record for himself. Jack, in winning a medal for military conduct and efficiency offered by the Military Training Camps Association and also a medal for excellence in citizenship awarded by the Civilian club of Baltimore, won high regard among his fellow civilian sald.iers at camp Meade., Ma.qrlawl where he was stationed. THE SIGNS READ "No Parking" Wilkes-Barre City authorities will again this year enjorce the parking ref!,ulations on River street to the nth degree. Freshmen are advised to heed the parking signs that are posted on both sides of the thorough(are between Market and South Streets. Parking time is unlimited in unrestricted zones. No parkinf!. is permitted on the east side of River street. Parking limits are marked on the west side of the street and in order to avoid a fine it is advisable to stay within the limits prescribed. The Director of the Junior College also requests students to refrain from parking on the side or in the rear of Conyngham Hall. The same rule applies to open space in the rear of Chase llall. The Second floor hcis been rese1'ved for smoking and recreation. Upperclassmen are asked to comply with this new ruling, thereby setting a good example for the Freshmen to follow. �THE Friday, September 22, 1939 BUCKNELL BEACON Page Three SWIMMERS WILL BE SEEKING NEW RECORD THIS SEASON Obitz Has Only 2 Veterans Back As Tough Schedule Is Arranged The Bison Tank Team will be out to establish a record for future teams to shoot at when they get underway this season. Last year under the captaincy of John Guiney, the best swimmer ever to register at the River Street Institution, they finally won their first contest and then went on to make it two straight for the Season. In 1936-37 swimming was established as a major sport at the Junior College, with Wayne Gardner as captain. The team met some of the best College frosh teams in this section of the country but failed to win any of its contests, which was due more to lack of sufficient material than anything else. The following season, John Kasper and Norman Costine were co-captains and with a much stiffer schedule than the preceding year, they were forced to remain in the ranks of the defeated aggregations. The bright spot of the season was the undefeated record of John Guiney, then a Freshman, who participated in twenty freestyle sprints in ten meets and won all of them. Guinev was elected captain for the 1938-39 season a-nd it was under him that the Bucknelians won their first and second meets. The first win was over the Scranton University Varsity and the second over Franklin and Marshall Academy. Only two lettermen from last year's squad will return to school this fall, John Mangan, a breast stroker and Kenneth Cranston a middle distance swimmer. Coming in with this year's freshmen will be Joseph Slamon, a back,-;troker who won his letter at Meyers High School last year and from whom much will be expected this year. Another former Meyers High swimmer, Tom Brislin, also will be out for a place on the team. He is one of the best prospects ever to enroll at Bucknell. It was only because of illness that he did not compete at Meyers last season. An older brother Joseph was a member of the first Bison team and Tom will be out to uphold the record set up by his brother. Many of the new enrollees wi II undoulJtedly p:)ssess plenty of ability in aquatics but because of retiring natures will have to be found" out through the medium of class periods in swimming. Eel Labak, who captained the baseball nine last year, has stated that he will be out for the swimming team. If he has anywhere near as much ability in swimming as he has shown in baseball he will be a welcome addition to the squad. John Jenkins of Taylor also possesses swimming possibilities but \\·ill not have a chance to prove it as Thomas has him spotted for the cage squad. --BUCKNELL PATTER-- As far as the coaches are concerned, Junior College teams should hold a top rating since the mentors are well experienced and know their sports thoroughly. However, lack of material plagues the teams year after year. When athletes do not have to fight hard to gain a place on the varsity, they are lax in their training and it shows up in competition. For example only enough students turned out for the swim team at one time to round out the squad. The coach did not have a chance of cutting or shifting since the performers were not available. As a result the boys were not forced to earn a place on the team. The team will be coached by Clarence "Slatz" Obitz, who will be starting his fourth year as the Bison mentor. Don't forget if you are interested in swimming, be sure to contact the coach at the earliest possible moment. As another school term rolls around, upperclassmen are looking forward to a successful season in sports. Last year's freshman class produced many good athletes and if the incoming class duplicates, Junior College teams will be tough to stop. The coaching staff is intact from last season. Clarence "Slats" Obitz, who was an outstanding athlete in high school, will be starting his fourth year as swimming coach. He is one of the foremost figures in the sport in the valley and is responsible for the increased interest in swimming throughout this section in the last few years. The other three leaders, Walter "Shorty" Thomas in basketball, Joe Curley in baseball and Steve Gacha in boxing and wrestling, got their first starts here last year. However, Thomas assisted Hank Peters, former coach who is now working in the physical education department at the University and studying for his master's degree at the same time, while a member of the varsity team. Curley knows his baseball, having played with many teams in Three Man Bowling Teams to be Formed Lettermen To Have First Meeting Oct. 3 All Teams Expect To Have Banner Season The much talked of bowling league will start its fourth year of intra-mural competition with a complete change in league teams and rosters. Instead of the usual five-man team composed of members picked at random, a series of three-man teams selected from the social Studies, Engineers, Education, Commerce and Finance, and A. B. groups will go to make up two six-team leagues to operate on Monday and Wednesday afternoons on the Y. M. C. A. alleys. The Lettermen's Club again leads the others with its first meeting of the 1939-40 Feason scheduled for Tuesday, October 3. The program will include a short business meeting; an address of welcome by Dr. Roy C. Tasker, faculty adviser of athletics; and motion pictures. The physical education department will agian play a major part in the everyday life of the Junior College student. . . A program of intr-mural, inter-clas'i, and regular class period activities consisting of competition in volley ball, handball, bowling, ping-pong, billiards, wrestling, basketball, softball, and archery will fulfill the needs and interests of all male ,students. A few new teams have been added to this year's schedule and as usual, the swimmers did not pick their spots as the new foes are all noted for the quality of their tank teams. Cornell Frosh, C. C. N. Y. and Lafayette are the new additions. The season will open on Dec. 9, with Syracuse Frosh at Syracuse. 14, C. C. N. Y. at New York City. January 6, 1940, University of Pennsvlvania Frosh at Philadelphis. i 2, Cornell Frosh at Ithaca, N. Y. 19, Wyoming Seminary at home. 20, Lafayette Frosh at home. Dates following the ones mentioned are pending and will be against Franklin and Marshall Academy at home, C. C. N. Y. at home. Scranton University, home and home, Wilkes-Barre Y.1\/I.C.A home and Colgate University Frosh. The faculty team, composed of Messers. Hall, Tasker, Schuyler, Bernhart and Thomas, winners of the Intra-mural crown last year, will not enter this fall, leaving the league open to student competition. The following are holdovers from last year's league: A. B.'s John Bush. Steve Gacha, Robert Patton, Adam Voyton, and Joseph Kornblatt; Commerce and Finance: John Dooley, Ray Eaton, Charles Fehlinger, Earl' Haefele, Wesley Hershkowitz, Merle Seeherman, and John Stanchak; Engineers: Jack Berry, Paul Pad lick, Charles Piatt, Eugene Rogers, Clarence Steinert, and Al Switch. There are no s udents in the education group returning. A reorganization meeting will be called with notices to be posted on the various bulletin boards. A special invitation has been issued to the following sophomore students who participated in some form of athletics during the past year to attend the meeting: Lee Wazeter, Jack Mangan, Victor Urban, John Dooley, Earl Haefele, David Secunda, Wayne Swan bery, John Kuschel, Edward Labak, Charles Templeton, Jack Smith, David Evans, Jack Batey, Stephen Gacha, John Bush, Kenneth Cranston, Charles Fehlinger, Robert Most, Raymond Eaton, Edward Roberts, Albert Stets, Paul Trebilcox, James Aikman, Jack Berry, Wesley Hershkowitz, Donald Kersteen, Robert Patton, and Clarence Steinert as well as all freshmen students who are interested in any line of athletics. Kenneth Cranston, President, has enlisted the aid of a special committee to make a_rrangements for luncheon meetings to be held in the Y. M. C. A. It comprises David Evans, Lee Wazeter, John Dooley, and Earl Haefele, representing swimming, wrestling, baseball, and basketball. these parts. He kept in condition during the summer by pitching two softball teamsto championships. Gacha engaged in a few fights outside of the city during the vacation period. With more good athletes entering the school each year, competition for starting assignments promises to be keen and we should see some good results this year. Considerable interest will be centered around the wrestling program . . . Though still in its infancy here, enough interest has been shown to select a varsity team from all intra-mural competition this fall for matches with neighboring schools ... Lee Wazeter, Paul Trebilcox, Ed Roberts, Al Stets, and Dave Evans are among those returning this fall who won honors in the intramural tournament. Something new in the way of bowling will be tried out this fall when the season gets under way ... Instead of the usual five-man team, there will be a three-man team ... Two separate leagues of six teams will operate, the winners of each league to engage in a play-off series. . . The faculty team, long the nemesis of all student teams, will not enter into intra-mural competition this year . . They say that there isn't enough competition . . . Oh yeah! �THE Page Four BUCKNELL Freshmen "Grin and Bear It" Even a Goldfish Swallower Amon~ the Initiates All in all, the Freshmen are taking their medicine like real col!ege men and women. (Heaven help those, who are belligerent.) Since Wednesday morning the new college students have been the targets of upperclassmen . Rubber aprons, din ks, buckets for books, odd shoes, and divers other requirements are being enforced rigidly by the Sophomores. Sophomore class officers will conduct an inquisition at the encl of the prescribed "initiation period" and the guilty students will be penalized. Aside from custom, the initiation requirements seemed more than interesting this year. The hobbies of many of the Freshmen are varied and interesting, Several horseback riders , a few "sleepers", and even a "singer" have enrolled here. Surprising of all is the fact that a "gold-fish swallower" is in our midst. Subsequently he will display his collegiate spirit. WITH THE ALUMNI Majority of Bucknell Junior College graduates who finished two years of work in. June will begin studies at Bucknell U niversrt-y,- kewishurg, today. Those who will begin their Junior year include Genevieve Brennan, Jacob M·urray Edelman, Rose Frantz, Robert Graham, Dorothy Hughes, Abraham Mandlovitz, Marion Martin, Julia Place, Dorothy Smailes, Wilbur Troy, William Dowdell, Robert Kerr, Milton Goldstein, Robert Hopkins, Dudley James, Marguerite Kraskevich, Robert Nagle, Alfred Ringstron, Robert Royer, Darina Tuhy, Christine Whiteman, Carl Matukeitis, Frank Donnelly, William Morton, Stanlev Henning, Philip McCabe, Pi1ilip Netz~!, and Joseph Vlodowski. BEACON Friday , September 22, 1939 Mang Have Very Interesting Hobbies Faculty Frolic Before Work Begins. The Bucknell Junior College faculty and members of their families held their first reunion of the school year at the Director's fari:n in the Back Mo1;1ntain s~ction. It was a glorious occass1on-the celebrat10n havmg as one of its main events, the welcoming home of two members of the faculty who married during the vacation season. To the left, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Bernhart are pictured in a candid shot as they w~tched the festivites. In the rear can be seen Dr. David Brown, dad in picnic attire--while nearby Dr. Roy Tasker is observing the beauteous scenery surrounding the Farley summer home. * "Rare or well clone" -that was the call for dinner and none other than Dr. Farley himself was in the "kitchen" supervising the preparation of the "hamburgs". It's rare that hamburgs are "well done" but in this case the faculty found the repast quite enjoyable. There were other delicacies too' which the wives of the faculty members prepared. "Tempting and delicious" were the words Dr. Tasker used in commenting on the dinner. Professor Paul Gies, a cook in his own right, complimented those responsible for the eatables. * Mr. and Mrs. Michael Harper, shown at the left, were also present. While congratulations were being offered, the newlyweds managed to obtain a little snack. The picnic continued throughout the day and everyone had a "grand time." THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE AND CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry Open 11 a. m. To 2:30 p. m. � 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 Bucknell Beacon, 1939 September 22nd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 September 22 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/bf35b4f12b32cbb9cf46b52a0bca7129.pdf d721fcac0ebd70e72922997dd04355af PDF Text Text • Dinner-Dance At lrem Temple Country t;lub June '71ft • BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 3. Number 8 MAY PAGEANT THIS AFTERNOON PAUL SWAIN HAVENS IS CONVOCATION SPEAKER DOROTHY HUGHES, JOHN GUINEY TOP POPULARITY VOTE Today for the first time in its history t he .I unior College is going to present a Mav Pagea nt. This afternoon at fo·ur o'clock the performance, which boasts a cast of about fifty girls, will be f!iven on the lawn in the rear of Chase Hall. Miss Sangiuliano has chosen a pageant in which the steps of woman's emancipation are depicted through the ages. In episode I, as a result of the rebellion of the Trojan slaves against such treatme'lt, woman is fteed from physi al shve rv. In the next episode the bonds of custom and prejudice, which hold woman fast , are broken by the women who wish to make this world a better place to li,·e in . The final episode shows woman's complete emancipation when she is freed from mental and spiritual slavery by education and those in search of knowledge. During the entire performance Dorothy Hughes who represents woman remains placed on a pedestal. Miss Hu ghes was chosen by the i;re neral agreement of the girls to fill this honorary position. It is hoped that if the pageant is enthusiastically received it may be established as a n annual event. Friday, May 26, 1939 WILKES-BARRE, PA. Artie Shaw, Charlie McCarthy, Kay Kyser Entertain Junior Colle~e Students Most ' . Scholars! The judges have arrived at a decision. Here they come-over the dike with a verdict. From the deep, deep waters of the Susquehanna, the three lea rned gentlmen with their white beards and horn-rimmed spectacles bring welcome new s. For weeks now they've been counting and c hecking th ose precious popularity poll votes. What are the results gentlemen? " It was an arduous task. Never in our many yea rs of teaching have we encountered such a cloEe race for college campus honors ," speaks spokesman number one as he cheerfully opens the orange and blue envelope containing the results. Ceremonies completed let's loo k over the final winnings. Junior Collegians picked tall, dark-haired Dave Secunda as the test athlete among his male sports -men at B U J C and crowned sprig htly, blonde Madge Space with a thletic laurels in the girls di vis ion. · Evidence to the popularity of Student Co uncil President , John Guiney is found in his capturing popul a rity favors as the boy most like ly to succeed, most outstandPROF. GIES ing, a nd most active. Best all around person? Jack TURNS HERMIT O'Malley all the way in the male class with Joy Bodycomb winning The news has finally leaked out. the sa me honors by a slim margin in the female division. Professor Paul Gies is now a Co llegians placed the "soaphome-ow ner as well as a land- box" under J oe Gibbom and holder. The ever hustling music Marian Wilner, picking the two director has purchased a home in as the most radical in their the Pocono moutain region in the respect ive divisions. vicinity of Lutherland . Professor Phi Beta Gamma President Gies visits his new summer ho me Dorothy Hughes annexed three each week-end for relaxation. ti ties. Dot was selected as the But with mu sic out of the way, most outsta nding , most popul ar, ' along came more arduous duties. and most · active of the girls. First, the place needed painting. The " rare" humor of Dudley Professor Gies thought he could J a mes and Lydia Greenbaum that easily enough. Result- a bounded the couple into the "stiff neck" . Cutting the grass "most wittiest" berths. The lower required only the mechanism of county styles imported to BUJC a good lawn-mower. "It's harder for two semester by Constance than swinging a baton," Gies and John Koons, really meant avers and he recently purchased something. Yep, they were selectseveral bottles of liniment to ed as the best dressed. prevent further rheumatic ocThe " jitterbugs" selected were curences. Gert Jones a nd Bob Nagle. The Thin gs really started to happen judges took time out for an when the Professor turned kitchen aspirin after count ing the votes maid a nd attempted to cook mea ls in this sect ion. "Those names Professor G ies bla mes the stove. just kept 't ru ck'in' all around One week-end guest was happy, us," they said . Here are some of though. He preferred burnt toast them: Twyla Berke rt, Betty Schblac-k coffee, (the Prof. forgot the wager, J a mes Roski, Joe Korncream) and crisp bacon . blatt, a nd Lee Wazeter. Powder your nose or tie your cravat, whatever the case mig-ht be for ~.ere are the winners in the "best looking" field. To be brief we'd like to present Marguerit~ Kr askevich of Wilkes-Barre and Robe rt Royer of Kingston Township. Back to the danc-e division once more- Robert Conway and Betty Schwager were selected as the smoothest dancers, and Jimmy Hunt a nd Twyla Berkert as the most outstanding dance couple. Surprise! Robert Hopkins and Doris Wiegand were picked as the most out,standing couple. Most eccentric-Robert Graham and Chris Whiteman. Most studious -Murray Edelman and Bessie Lewis. In the most important of the "mosts" John Emanski and Kathe rine Griffith were the winners. They were chosen as the two Jr. College students most likely to succeed. The survey of "tastes" disclosed that World Literature is th e favorite subject at BUJC with Sociology and History next in popularity. Students chose Tyrone Power as their favorite movie acto r. Bette Davis was voted the favorite actress with Loretta Young, Hedy LaMarr, and Jeanne tte MacDonald trailing. On the radio, "Kay Kyser's Kollege of_ Musical Knowledge", was rated first. The favorite dance band chosen was Artie Shaw. C ha rlie McCarthy was picked as the favorite movie and radio star. "Gunga Din" was selected as t~e f~~ orite n!ovie of the year with Pygmalion ", "You Can't Take It With You," and "Wit hering Heights" running in that order. GIRL - BOY - GIRL Recent additions to the families of faculty members have been responsible for the wave of congratulations heaped upon Dr. Daniel Gage and Prof. William H . Schuyler during the past several weeks. The Gages' arrival was o girl. Prof. and Mrs. Schuyler greeted a boy addition. Walter HShorty" Thomas recently became a proud father . He boasts of a girl, which arrived several days ago. WILSON COLLEGE PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS GRADUATES Exercises in Presbyterian Church, Thursday Nil!,ht, June 8th . Fifth annual commencement of Bucknell Junior College will be held Thursday evening, June 8 in the First Presbyterian Chu~cl; Auditorium. Address will be by Paul Swain Havens, president of Wil son College, Chambersburg in keepi ng with the custom of th~ Junior College to prese nt a dean or president of a neighboring C?llege at commencement exerc ises . Dr. Eugene Farley announced yeste rday that diplomas will be prese nted to about fifty students showing two years of satisfac-tor~ ialy completed work toward Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Science degrees in finance, education, and engineering as well as in the general scien ce course. Diplomas will be presented by Armaud C. Marts, president of Bucknell University, a nd Gilbert S. McClintock, chairma n o f the board of trustees. Invoca tion will be by Rev . C harles Stilwell Roush , D. D . past or of the First Baptist Church '. Graduates will enter th e auditorium in caps and gown~ to the strains of Mozart's "Minuet e Trio," from "Serenade in G. Major," played by members of the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Sinfonietta Orchestra. Following orchestral se lec-tions from Cluck's "Iphigenia in Aulis," Mr. Ha vens will speak on "The Free Man ." Preceding the prese ntation of certificates the Girl's Glee Club will sing " Life Thine Eyes," from Mendelssohn 's Elijah a nd "Clouds" by Charles Dies. Benediction will be by Rabbi Samuel Work, of Temple B'nai B'rith and the Sinfonietta Orchestra will offer Mozart's "First Movement from the G Major Serenade," as a recessional. Board of Trustees of Bucknell Junior College will occupy seats on the platform for commencement excercises. Members include : Edward 8. Mulligan, Charles H. Miner, James P. Harris, Marv N. Baker, Mrs. Charles E. Clift, Mrs. Franck G. Darte, Samuel M.Davenport, John Davis, Thomas F. Farrell, John A. Hou rigan, Mr s. Edward H. Kent, Daniel C. Roberts, Leland C. Rummage, Andrew J. Sonloni, Julius Long Stern, L. J. VanLaeys, Mrs. Sidney Warner, Frederick J. Weckesser. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania . Mary Brislin. John Bush Cc-Editors . . . .. . . . . . . Friday, May 26, "1939 CHANGES IN SOCIOLOGY AND ALGEBRA CURRICULA TO AID AMBITIOUS STUDENTS Sports Editor-Robert Patton Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 pe~ column-inch; two column-inches $6.50. Dr. Crook· Meets Youth's Challfnge With New Plan PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS. ,...,@ INCORPORATED EDITORIALS AN EXPERIMENT . .. Are Freshmen as good as graduate students' The Freshman class in Sociclogy -much too large this semester for good results- is trying an experiment in order to find an answer to this question. Dr. Kilpatrick of Columbia University breaks up his large graduate classes in~o small groups and appoints, from the class, leaders for each group. For the last six weeks of the Spring semester Dr. Crook has tried a similar plan for the Sociology class at the JuniJr College. Four groups, ea ch with two student leaders, spend the Thursday class hour in separate rocms vigorously debating the issues rof the week ·s reading. ·The instructor is a silent auditor. Great variety of opinion has developed and more interest in the rest of the course has been aroused by this experiment. The question remains: If Freshmen are as good as graduates in thfir ciscussions why bother to take another three years of college .' Well, that's a question for students of Sociology I 00. perhaps. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS . . With the coming of summer and the close of the school term. our thoughts turn back to thP. 1nonths and years we. hRve spent. at Bur.knell Unive:r5ity Junior Co lleg~. The realization that our days here are numbered compels us to consider all we have gained by our associations at the college. When we have forgotten all abQut psychology and philosophies of education. we will rember the friendships we have made. The common interests and aims which have drawn us together and shown us the personal values in different individuals have taught us the lessons we can appl'y in li fe as well a~ in the class room. The cheery ''hello .. one gives and receives in the halls and on the streets is _a tradition we may well carry with us always. We have seen many examrles of loyalty and found, in many instances, how a true friendship can make the hardest day easier. To be part of a gro1- ing instituticn has been ancther part of cur life here. Of course we have been hindered by lack of sccial roe ms in Conyngham Hall. by carpenters in the Chase Theatre and nurr..ercus ctr.er inccnveniences which one must experience to realize how truly sporting the student body has been this year. The realization that Bucknell University Junior College is forging ahead and is vital and wide-awake has made us all proud to be part of the schoc I. We will always remember the personal contacts with faculty members and the individual work with them. Many ha v.e insi:ired us and taught us more than they perhaps realize. Perhaps we are not aware of the "book learinng" we have tucked away in dark corners of our minds but when we need that "learning" we \\ ill be surprised to find out how much we really did slip away. It is huma n nature to find fault and to d isagree but we would be hapr,ier humans if we would find the best in a situation and stop tr.inking of the worst. We should be old-fashioned enough to sit down and "count our blessings" for just five minutes. We would be amazed at all we have here in our Alma Mater . Let us build up pleasant memories these last few weeks and take those thoughts with us through the Summer and the years ahead. CAREFUL, DR. BENES. In most of the things he has done since coming to the Unit ed States, Dr . Eduard Benes, former president of Czechoslovakia , has been wise and tcn-Ferate. We have admired his courage and his balance. But he is "off on the wrong foot .. in his latest statement. Certain Slovak organizations have refused to support Benes· organization working for restoration of the Czech republic. They argue that their Slovak minority was heartlessly exploited by the ruling Czechs, therefore they will have nothing to do with the Benes organization. Whether they are right or not, most Americans have no way of knowing. They have no opinion. But Benes· reply is of interest because it follows a line common in political .. argument .. today . Benes said simply "Those who are against the restoration of Czechoslovakia" (as it was in 1907) .. are followers of Hitler ... It doesn't follow . And it is regrettable to see Dr. Benes descend to that lowest level of political argument today, which consists of crying .. Yah! Dirty Fascist• .. or " Yah! Dirty Communist!" when better arguments fail. Confidence in any cause is not strengthended by this son of evasion. Dr. Wilfrid Crook Tl:e experiment inaugurated by Dr. Wilfrid Crook in the arrangement of his Sociology 100 classess, is one of the ways in which Bucknell University is meet ing the c hallen ~· ing interest of youth in the world today. The rew plan commence:! several weeks ago. One day in the week (Thursday) has been set aside for class discussi:m with several groups headed by individual student leaders. The novel arrangement is featured by verbal battles among the students during the course of the discussion on the week 's assignments. Classes are held in separate rooms in the Presbyterian Church house near tl:e campus. The new system is designed to aid students in expressing their own views and ideas and evaluating the cpinions of othus anent topics of current interest. Dr. Roy Tasker Is Honored Dr. Roy Tasker, head of the bilogy department at BU!C was elected president of the Wyoming Valley c'-iapter of the P. S. E. A. Association, a branch of the State Association of Health and Physical Education, at a meeting of that group held Tuesday in Cough lin high school. Dr. Tasker ac,-omp:rnie:l his biology students on a tour of the Kirby Health Center yesterday morning and later in the day guided a similar group to Huntsville dam, were the workings of that project were studied . Dr. Bernhart Is Attemptin~ "To Gear Students To Their Own Ability." A depart111e from the cnnventional methcd of grading in colleges is the latest innovation introduced at tl:e Junior Collep-e bv Dr. Arthur Bernhart. We ask Dr. Pernhart to explain his new system of marking which is teing used in his Algebra rnurses. Here is the reply: "I do not u~e a different grading system, but adapt the convention al s, stem to my instructional method. And the method of instruction is not a radical departure from recognized, teaching techiniques, hut merely an emphasis of thcs(• features for which I believe a small college is peculiarly adapted." Dr. Bernhart is seeking the following goals: " Every course in the department is offered on two levels; the regular credit level for the average student, and an honor level for the tetter student. Routine assignmen ts are given to the nedit level students, in order that they may get a working knowledge of the fundamental processes and ideas involved in the traditional c-ourse. Those who perform these drill exercise, satisfactorialy, developing the requisite skills, as shown by quiz~es and final PXamination, may expect the grade C, which signifies credit for work of collegiate caliber. As a bonus to better students, a few B's are distributed." "I feel however that an honor level student should do something beyond the routine level; qualitatively as well as quantitatively. He must do more difficult problems, not merely a greater number of easy problems (or greater speed in working them). He should work on challenire projects beyond the "blanket" assignments. to give the honor student more time for rackling this additional work on a higher level, he is exempted from certain of the routine drills." " At the end of the semester, honor students will be given a separate and more difficult examination . In short, we ·seek to gear the study of better students to their own abilitv, and not on the "average pace. ' ' "No attempt is made to distribute grades according to the ''curve.'' The ' 'average ' ' class will have about half its number doing credit level work (grade C) and one-third or more on the higer level, (with more B's than A's) In extenuating circumstances, as when a student does work below par but is work;ing to the best of his ability in the subject (effort excellent, though results meager) recourse is made to the D grade." �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Friday, May 26, 1939 Grebe Attacks Mismanagement of Meetings and Student Funds "LET'S LEARN TO DO MORE THAN SCRATCH AT SUPERFLUOUS ISSUES", STUDENT URGES You Enter BUJC . . Students received the new 10page booklet, "You Enter Bucknell Junior College" with a great deal of enthusiasm. Candid-shots of school life depicted a number of freshmen and sophomores at work and play. It was the first opportunity for students to judge themselves before the candidcamera. Ruth Smith, Lillian Celmer, Jack Mangan, Robert Nagle, and Robert Graham, were snapped as they attended a tea given by Mrs. Eugene Farley. Another highlight of the picture-review was the photograph of Helen Beaver, taken in the First Presbyterian Church with Miss Beaver at the console of the church organ, illustrating the careful development of music in the curricular activity of the Junior College. Praises "The Beacon" MILT WIENER'S BAND TO PLAY FOR ANNUAL DINNER-DANCE By Russell C. Grebe The conduct at the meeting held in assembly on Tuesday, April 18, was pitiful in its childishness, yet dreadful in its ignorance. Due to improper management by the chair. parlimentary procedure was lacking entirely, and in its stead confusion and disorder reigned. The principal issue was raised but immediatel y side tracked in favor of an idea to discontinue, or minimize the expense of, the Bucknell Beacon. It is my aim, herein, to defend the paper publishing this article. The purpose of the paper is to raise the intellectual level of this institution. Those seeing no value in a publication want to deprive the other group, seeking higher intelligence and culture, the opportunity to develop and expand their talent for composing and editing a paper. At the rate of ten dollars per year paid by each student, there is enough money paid into the student activity fund to p ovide for every activity students care to take part in. Why should the publication of a journal, such as this one, be suspended or limited because of improper budgeting and financing on the part of those directing the activities? Di$.CUssion of the paper in the meeting, as well as at this time, was irrevelant, but it is my aim to defend the paper from such inconsiderate, ignorant, and false criticism. Furthering the point, at the end of the meeting a decision was made to raise the student activity fee one dollar per semester, making the total twelve dollars per year, which is a staggering sum in proportion to the number .of students. This alteration can not be materialized next year, due to the previous publication of rates. But even if the fee were to be skyrocketed, what would happen? Mismanagement of a larger sum would prevail , and thereby make the need as "ell as the sum, larger. We must start at home. and lea rn to manage on what we have , before endeavoring to appropriate more money, only to meet the same fate of being squandered. This article is written because I was denied the privelege of self-expression due to the hub-bub at the meeting. Let us try as citizens of the United States, as well as proud students of B. U. J. C., to alter our ways, learn to do more than scratch at superfluous issues; and think and act rationally while attending a gathering in which issues of common benefit are being discussed. Page Three Gertrude Jones Annual dinner-dance of the Junior College will be held on the eve of Convocation Exercises, Wednesday night, June 7, at !rem Temple Country Club, Dallas. An energetic committee headed by members of the Student Council are striving to make this affair one of the greatest in the history of the Junior College. Event will be a testimonial to the Sophomore Class and one hundred per cent attendance from that group is expected. Students and alumni who plan to attend are asked to have their reservations in the hands of the committee before the close of school on Monday. Milt Wiener and his Band, ever-popular dance favorites among BUJC students, will furnish music. Following is a list of committees: Tickets: Robert Hopkins and Doris Wiegand, co-chairman , also Jerome Greenwald, Christine Whiteman, James Hunt, Ruth Smith, Robert Nagle, Wayne Swanberry; Decorations, Robert Graham and Margaret Wolfe, co-chairman, also Madge Space, James Roski, Twyla Burkert, Robert Royer, Shirley Brown, Dudley James, Gert Jones; Programs, Miss Ryerson, advisor, John Guiney, John O'Malley, Dorothy Hughes, Murray Edelman, Eleanor Parry, Darina Tuhy, Dave Secunda, John Etnanski. Milt Wiener's Band Faculty Active . .. LOUNGE TOPICS Current topics corre in for considerable discussion in the boys lounge. What with baseball season in its prime, the World's Fair and the movements abroad highlighting the chatter, the frequenters of the third floor denizen have plenty to occupy their minds. Public speakers are gradually being groomed from within the ranks of the round table. Matt Stribaugh is recognized as the discussion director and calls upon such authorities as Kornblatt, an exponent of Woestern World History, and Wazeter, who always can be counted upon for divers directions to the World's Fair. Of course when the boys are puzzled as to etiquette problems, Dooley is consulted pronto. He has persued Emily Post's book from cover to cover. He attributes his smooth mannerisms and poife to the gle-anings from the book. Jeter and Gacha are the · music-men of the round table. Jeter likes jazz; Gacha prefers classical music The heated arguments resulting have been heard from floor to floor. Warm weather has spelled the exodus of the round-tablers from the lounge to the garden spot of Chase Hall. Now the horiculturists are expected to hold sway for a few weeks. It's been a hard and tedious task, this business of preparing for the girl's pageant. Aches and pains, caused by long hours of patient practice, under the supervision of Miss Sanguiliano have been heard of far and wide from the lips of the sufferees. Members ofthefaculty spent a busy month, addressing meetings and winning honors throughout the state. Registrar George R. Faint, was elected president of the Luzerne County Sabbath School Association for the third consecutive year. Dr. Roy Tasker and Dr. Wilfred Crook were the principal speakers at the annual Research Group meetings held at Lewisburg a fortnight ago. Dr. Stanley R. Townsend addressed the Public Affairs committee of the Y.' W. C. A. recently. Dr. Townsend spoke on "Morality of Conquest," refening to the idea of force as applied by presentday dictators as being old, having been used by totalitarian governmen ts in the past. Dr. Arthur Bernhart visited the West Side for the first time since his arrival at BUJC and delivered an address before the Sunday School League. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Four Friday, May 26, 1939 DOOLEY AND URBAN BID FOR BATTING TITLE BUCKNELL PATIER: Another term is about to close at the Junior College, but as far as the athletes are roncerned it is not welcomed. Several important changes were made in the athletic program here this year. After Henry "Hank" Peters had practically "grown-up" with the school he left us after several years of directing our teams in all sports. Knowing Peters as they did the sophomores thought the athletic affairs would decline when "Hank' went to the campus to prepare for his degree, which he will get in June. However, two new faces, both prominent in the sporting limelight locally, appeared as our new leaders along with Walter Thomas who was Peters' right-hand bower as far as our teams were involved. Young in years but old in experience, Joseph Curley and Steven Gacha were added to the coaching staff, the former as director of phvsical education and baseball coach, and the latter as assistant to Thomas and Curley in the physical education department. Thomas coached the cagers and comprled an impressive record with a small squad, whieh boasted of five outstanding freshmen, Wayne Swanberry, captain-elect for -next season; Dave - Secunda, Earl Haefele, Vie Urban, and Wes Hirshkowitz. Not only did Thomas do a fine job in directing the bowling league but he lead the M. I. T. faculty team to its initial championship in years by defeating Harva'rd by 65 pins in the play-offs. Clarence "Slatz" Obitz featured in the bowling circuit with an average of 180, while Curley was runner-up for honors with 17 3. With faculty members ineligible to compete in the tourney Jack Berry captured the singles championship with a mark of 506 . Hirshkowitz placed second. Outstanding cager of the season at the school was Albie Baker, team captain and leading scorer who placed on the loop's second all-star team. The previous ,eason he made the first five. Contrary to the general outcome of inter-class contests between the freshmen and sophomores, because the ·1atter group has not enough time to devote to sports in their second year, the sophomores turned in an nearperfect record against the under classmen. The sophs triumphed in basketball, bowling, volleyball and wrestling. The latter sport was inaugurated here this year with Gacha and Thomas turning out some fine performers. Leon Wazeeter, former Meyers athlete, aided the pair and he was the outstanding man in the tourney, winning the 155-pound title. The baseball team came up with serveral seasoned campaigners this year but it was the old story all over again-only one By Bob Patton pitcher, Walter Thomas, and no reserves. However, the club got more than its share of victories. Forming the necleus of next year's team will be former schoolastic stars, no~ on the varsity-Urban, Jack Dooley, Curley, Gacha, John Kuschel, Swanberry, John Bush, Joe Horoshko. For the first time in yea,s Coach Obitz's natators registered a victory, and to prove the team had calibre it added another win, thereby giving us something to think about for the future as most of the members are freshmenMangan, Cranston, Templeton, Jeter, and Jack Smith . Missing from our ranks r:ext year will te such stellar athletes as Captain Eddie Labak, Jack Saricks in baseball; Captain John Guiney, Bob Conway, Jack Batey, John Mundry in swimming; Capt. Baker, Bill Thomas, Bob Hopkins in basketball ; Bob Graham and Leonard Osheroff, in bowling; James Hunt, Bill Morton, Freas Brittingham, Bill Dowdell, _Al Baldauski in wrestling; but augmenting the present freshmen will be many high school stars, now prominent in athletic success at their respective schools, "Whitey" Maslowski and Grier Carpenter, Meyers; John Finn, G . A. R . ; Buddy Owens, Kingston, Sylvester Kasnikowski and Suffern Newport. THEY'RE ON THE HOUSE uBoys, if you win y :,ur last three baseball games, I'll treat all < f you to free double-decker ice cream cones daily for a week !1, No, this isn't the Ion,: sought for Utopia of delicacies, but an actual quotation from the esteemed lips of Joseph Francis Curley, Sr., better known as "Curley", the BUJC baseball maestro. Need we tell you that the Bucknellians came through last Saturday to upset Keystone Jr. College and complete their second win over the Lackawanna County nine. Well Curley, the boys are appreciating your generous hospitality no end. You certainly are making a lot of friends. You may not be producing an extra number of wins this year, but you're surely making a lot of friends. Make mine vanilla, please, Joe, and lay on that dipper! BISONS END SEASON TODAY WITH GAME AT ITHACA, N. Y. Keystone Junior College was 'Cousin' To Bucknell Teams This Season Second baseman Jack Dooley and Catcher Vic Urban are bidding for batting honors on the Junior College nine this season. Up until press time both boys were even in their hitting with averages slightly above the .500 mark in eight games. The team goes to Ithaca, New York, today to meet the frosh aggregation of the college of that place in the final game of the season. The game between both clubs down here was rained out. In athletic warfare this season Keystone Junior College was the enemy which proved to be a 'cousin' to Bucknell teams. The Bisons divided with the Little Giants in two basketball games, but Coach Curley's ball tossers turned the LaPlume team back twice. Walter Thomas did the trick on both occasions, but escaped with one-run margins each time. In a prgram honoring the late Christy Mathewson, Keystone star back in 1897, Bucknell defeated Keystone on Saturday. 6 to 5, in a game cut short in the sixth frame by. rain . Dooley, Gacha and Curlev featured for the winners . After Keystone grabbed a 3 to O advantage, the powerful ba ts of the Bisons broke out in a ra,h in the third to account for two runs and the disease spread in the fourth with four markers crossing the plate. Urban saved the game when he nabbed Red Wallace at the plate in what would have been the tying run. While the Bisons downed Keystone in two games by the margin of one run, Coach Curley's club suffered some close setbacks itself. Last Friday Bloomsburg State Teachers College Jay-Vees pushed over a run in the last stanza to take a 7 to 6 win. Curley was on the mound but weakened in the late innings, permitting the Huskies to catch up . The Bisons smothered the Bloomsburg team in the game up here. Mentors Make Team If it were not for the athletic coaches, it is probable that the Junior College would not have a baseball team thi s year. Coach Joe Curley is playing second base regularly , but had to hurl last wee k against Bloomsburg as Walter Thomas, cage mentor, had been doing all the mound work this season. Steve Gacha, the other member of the physical education department, is holding down an outfield position. LETTERMEN TO BE FETED ON JUNE 3rd Musser, Stagg Will Talk at 6th Dinner The lettermen will hold their 6th annual dinner Saturday night, June 3, at 6 in the reception room of Chase Hall . Two of the State's outstanding basketball coaches, Malcolm Musser of BU<_·knell University and A . A. Stagg, Jr., of Susquehanna University, will be the principal speakers. Henry " Hank" Peters, former Junior College coach, and John Gold, former athletic director here, will also attend. Fathers of the lettermen as well as Chet Miller, Noah Belding and Paul Edwards of the "Y" staff have been invited to the affair. Awards will be made to the following: Intramural Trebilcox. handball - Paul Intramural ping pong - Morris Veigh. Wrestling - Robert Most, Al Stets, Edward Robects, Lee Wazater, James Hunt, Paul Trebilcox. Basketb;ill - Albie Baker, Willia m Thomas, Robert Hopkins, Wayne Swanberry, David Secunda, Earl Haefele, Wesley Hershkowitz, Paul Padlick. Swimming - John Guiney, Robert Conway, John Mundry, David Evans, Harry Jeter, Jack Mangan, Kenneth Cranston, John Batey. Baseball- Victor Urban,Edwartl Labak, John Kuschel, John Sa ricks, Joseph Curley, John Dooley, Stephen Gacha, Waynt- Swa nberry. Intramural bowling - M. I. T., Voris Hall , Roy Tasker, Arthur Bernhart , William Schuyler, Walter Thomas, William Gardner. J. C. vs Campus Team Joe Curley will take an allstar softball team to the campus tomorrow to play a team headed by Hank Pete rs. It will be the fir st time for the two institutions to meet in this sport. Our team will leave in the morning and return at night. About 12 men are expected to make the trip. �Friday, May 26, 1939 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Five BUCKNELL JUNIOR COLLEGE ATHLETES TO ENROLL AT OTHER SCHOOLS 3 CAGERS WILL PLAY AT CAMPUS Swimmers Will Likely Continue Elsewhere Several members of this year's graduation class hope to continue in athletics at other institutions next fall. Most of these students will attend Bucknell University. Leading the procession to the campus will be cagers Albie Baker, Bob Hopkins and Bill Thomas. University of Pennsylvania may be blessed with the presence of swimmer John Guiney, who was president of the class this year and ,dso head of the Lettermen's Club. Rob Conwav, another natator, may resume ·his activities at University of Scranton. John Mundry another of Coach Slats Obitz's performers for quite some time, may go to the Lewisburg campus. the swimmers who go to the campus will be forced to remain inactive as far a; their sport is concerned as no pools are available for teams. Clarence Obitz John Guiney Albie Baker Two athletes were elected to high offices in the recent elections. Earl Haefele of the basketball team was chosen president of next y~ar's class, and Kenneth Cranston, a swimmer, was selected to head the Lettermen's Club. Freshmen Engage In Many Sports V..1hen students voted for the outstanding male athlete in the school, they failed to example the performances of the athletes, before voting for their choices. Not wanting to take any honor away from the victoriuos person, it is impossible to pass up the performances recorded by some of our freshmen. Paul Trebilcox excelled in handball, wrestling and is now making a good showing in tennis. Vic Urban has been a reliable standby in basketball and baseball as has been Wayne Swanberry. Jeter, Hershkowitz Gain Net Victories The Junior College tennis team made its first start last week but bowed to East Stroudsburg State Teachers College Frosh. Hank Jeter was the only individual to take a match for the Bisons, but he and Wes. Hershkowitz teamed up in the doubles to win another one. Every member of the team, including the coach, is a newcomer in this sport here, as every member of last year's team graduated or left school. With the exception of Bob Conway, the others on the club are freshmen. They are John O'Malley, George Scott, Paul Trebilcox. Prof. Arthur Bernhart is coaching the team. William Thomas Jack Saricks All these athletes, with the exception of Coach Obitz of the swim team, have finished their careers at the Junior College, this year and will be honored at the Lettermen's Dinner, June 3. Obitz will be back t::, le'ld the natators again next season. Berry, Steinert Take Pin Title "ZEKE" ZlGS AND ZAGS .. After winning the singles championship easily in the bowling tournament, Jack Berry set a fast pace in snaring the doubles title for himself and Clarence Stienert The veteran from Avoca toppled the maples for 527 pins in the doubles while Steinert scored 436 pins for a total of 936 to garner honors. Charles Fehlinger and St.anley Kressess ran a bad scond, trailing the leaders by nearly 150 pins. Because he bowled before time Len Osheroff's score of 565 was clisqulifiecl and his partner, Bob Patton, then teamed up with Joe Kornblatt and finished in third place. Had Osheroff's score been accepted, he and Patton would have won the title with a total of better than 1,000 pins. "Zeke" Kuschel put his thumb to work last Saturday in a moment of despair and received a ride to the Mathewson Day celebration at La Plume-gratis. We don't know whether uzeke'' was aware of the financial condition of the baseball organization or not but his economical step was greatly appreciated by Coach Curley. The Junior College nine was scheduled to play the Keystone Junior College team as' part of the day's festivities and HZeke,,, stellar first baseman of the crew, was appointed to join the local caravan in Pittston. Impatient "Zeke" thought the boys forgot about him after a few extra minutes of waiting at the east end of the Pittston bridge and he decided to solict a ride to Scranton. .John Mundry Miss Space's Dogs Win Prizes Voted the outstanding feminine student in the athletic field at the Junior College, Madge Space is living up to that honor. In the Luzerne County Kennel Club's dog show last Sunday, Madge's long entry won first prize. She said the dog will compete for more honors at the big show at Sky Top in August. A resident of Dallas where the family has a large farm near the Huntsville Dam, Miss Space gets more than her share of outdoor life. When she is not grooming her clogs for shows, she incl ulges in horseback riding and swimming. If you are ever in that neighborhood this summer it is possible ·that Miss Space would be pleased to acquaint you with life on the farm. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Six Friday, May 26, 1939 "Und a Grand Time Was Had By All" Prof. Townsend caught ; this one of Britting1 ham in action . .. cake through courtesy of Kornblatts Bakery . .. Mundry tells about the big one that got away Row, row, row your boat . .. . Poor Julie -she's Camera shy, but the other girls enjoy it . .. . . Brrrr- Gacha goes in for a dip. 111-._r I. to r. Jimison, Duddy and Roski . .. Wa,eter at bat, Gelb behind tree, Kornblatt counts runs "Som e f un canoein.~" observes Greenwald German Club Picnic The Happy Germans gathered at Lake Nuangola recently and spent a day of fun and rec1eation. Prof. Stanley R. Townsend acted as chaperone and snappe:I the candid shots accompanying this article. A soft-ball game between the Freshmen and Sophomores featured several spectacular hits and catches. Pl-tther Brittingham was the only Sophomore man who was able to hold the Frosh hitless. Umpire Tonsend took time out to snap the boys in action. Sluggers of the day included Edelman. Greenberg, and "Seppel" Kornblatt, each getting three perfect hits The ,ottage of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bodycomb was the haven of the group at lunch time. Hot dogs and soda served as a repast. COLLEGIATE SOCIALS Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Farley will entertain sophomores Thursday evening, June 8, at 6 :15, on the college lawns. Guests will include members of the faculty and graduates: Affair will be held prior to convocation exercises. On Tuesday, May 16 the Beta Gamma Chi Sorority held electior) for two of next years offices,, namely that of president and treasurer. The positions of vicepresident and secretary will be chosen from the Freshmen class next September. The nominations for president were Twyla Burkert, Mary Brislin, and Mary Pace. Twvla Burkert was elected to the· office . Those nominated for treasurer were Lydia Greenbaum, Gertrude Jones, and Grace Mathews. Grace Mathews was chosen Columnist Kay Dangerfield of the Times-Leader remarked recently concerning the likeness between our own Miss Norma Sangiuliano and the equally beautiful Miss Lily Pons. Columnist Kay penned in part; "Both are petite, gracious, of Latin ancestry or birth and possessed of artistic temperament as befits theatre folk." The year's social activities came to an end for the girls with a tea on Friday , May 12. The wife of one of our faculty members, Mrs. J o~eph Miller gave a delightful address on the value of the individual's personality in the present day and left the group with quite an optimistic out-look. The turn-out of the high school guests was greater at this tea than the preceding ones. A wide and varied group of programs featured the past several chapel programs. A capacity audience (we know you didn't skip) attended the dynamic lecture deli vere<l by Emory Nelson, concerning·•' Courtship and Marriage'' Followed then by an address by Dr. Donald F. Closterman of Kingston, who gave an illustrated lecture on "The Heart, Good and Bad." The last in the entertainment series of program was presented by Geraldine Kuschel, a student of the Junior College and a student at the Scranton Conservatory of Music. Miss Kuschel played several piano selections. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Bucknell Beacon, 1939 May 26th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 March 26 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/b300cde36c90371b915ca147e0b46ae4.pdf 799674f35e2eb3c1d90bf009c6e59ce8 PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 3. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Number 7 Science Show Opens Friday, April 21 Modern Advancements In Scientific World To Be Demonstrated Bucknell Unive rsi ty Junior Co llege Science Show will begin Friday, April 21, at noon and will continue for three days. As a resul t of the success of last year's endeavor, t he members of the Science Department have decided to repeat a similar performance again t hi s year . Evervone is invited to attend t his show. Visitors are we lcome. The program will be conducted by professors and stud ents of the Junior College. Various features and exhibits will be on display throughout the Science Show. Professor Schuyler with the aid of Chemistry students are designing projects and intend to complete the work within the next few weeks. A few of the exhibits whil-h they will have on display include Light Streamers, Luminous Iceberg, Cosmetic Preparation, Electro-Plating, and Photography. Professor Hall wi ll be in charge of the physi.--al portion of the show. Demonstrations of Polarized light; non-glaring headlights for autos; location of strains in in machine parts, what tempered glass is and how it acts, are certain t o prove educational to the Science show visitor. The organic side of life will be explained by Dr. Tasker and his associates in the biology department. Demonstrations of the use of the microscope a nd an explanation o f the size of organisms, circulation of blood, and insect's social life wi ll be featured in this portion of the show . Bucknell Junior College students are preparing the exhibits and will serve as demonstrators for the Science Show. Guides will explain t he various phases of the show to visitors. NO SCHOOL ON EASTER MONDAY The Easter vacation which begins at the close of school today, has been extended to April II, according to announcement made this morning by Dr. Farley. Sessions will resume on the Tuesday following Easter Monday . FOREIGN PROBLEMS DISCUSSION TODAY Due to the recent crises which have been occuring in Europe, the sudden acquisitions of territory, and the probable domination of Central Europe by der Fuhrer, the International Relations Club will meet this afternoon. All your doubts concerninr. international affairs will be answered at this a/'ternoon' s meeting. The Club.will make arrangements for their next luncheon. Members who have suggestions to make are asked to attend the meeting . STUDENTS URGED TO AID IN INCREASING JUNIOR COLLEGE ENROLLMENT Funds Provided For Basehall--Forum On April 18th. Students of Bucknell Junior College, upon recom mendation of the Student Cou ncil, are urged to encou rage high school graduates to attend t he Junior College in the fall . This movement follows the s uggestion made by a member of the student body , that "persona l contact" shou ld be employed in orde r to increase the 19391940 enrollment. Freshmen and Sophomores will be called on, short ly after the Easter vacation to interview gradates of their respective institutions. These private conferences will deal with the advantages that the Junior College has to offer to Wyoming Valley students and other favorable educational phases. Dari na Tuhy, J ohn O' Malley, J ohn Emanski , and John Kishel, have been appointed by the Student Council to act as a committee on arrange men ts. A portion of the money in the contingent fund of the Student Activity budget, has been transferred to the ath letic department to defray swimming expenses and a lso for the purchase of baseball equipment . Plans have been completed by the St udent Co uncil for another student forum to be held in chape l, Tuesday, April 18 . It was suggested that the session might bring better results if the teachers did not attend. With this thought in mind, Dr. Farley kindly consented to the st rict ly student-forum. A vacancy exists in the Student Coun cil. Freshmen will soon meet to elect a nother representative to t he Student Council, to replace Tom Slattery . Fridag, March 31, 1939 EASTER DANCE IN IREM TEMPLE SATURDAY NIGHT, APRIL 8th THERE'S A DESTINY THAT SHAPES . . . . Sometime , when the burden of classroom assignments is lifted, observe t he posture of the boys and girls who frequent Conyngham and Chase Halls. You'll find a ll shapes and forms of individua ls, as they sl ump and slouch at their favorite angle. Now and then you'll find a student sitting in a "Youngster Slo uch" fashion. He carri es· rere laxatio n to extremes, lets go everyth in g. Hi s body slides into a formless heap on the bottom of the c hair. Legs droop dismally from an inert mass of flesh. This denotes an utter di sregard for everything, a nihilist, a critic, or characteristically, a new youngster It 's a favorite pose in the illustrated- lect ures presented in CO 104. Another fo rm of sitting is the Drag Special. You'll find the latest exponent of thi s art in the Boy's Lounge daily between 12 and 1:30. It's just the plan, Eve ryday Slouch. Then when the body more or less observes the right a ngle imposed by the soft-cushioned chairs in the Conyngham conservatory, we recogni ze the "Kidnev Ache." This is plain sitting with a touch to the leeward side. Another form is sitti ng with the head thrown back so as to gaze ceilingward and hands either clasped behind neck or drooping listlessly on chair arms. If a forward cant is substituted in above so that th e head droops downwa rd, shoulder blades protrude , and brow is wri nkl ed, position is called t he "Swimmer's Slump". It's caused by overtraining and Junior College tankmen a re susceptible. But the st rictly regulatory met hod of taking things easy, that is chin in, shoulders back, body erect , we call the "V-8 Fold-up." According to observation it appears this pose is natura l for some unfortunate people. The moral mi ght be to relax while studyi ng. The professors believe better results can be accomplished by studying in a straight-back chai r. The only solution to the whole thing is thisnever, never sit unless forced to do so. Always, every time there is a flat, fairly level surface near you, relax, stretch. It's . one of the modern ways of accomplishing nothing. Guy Hall and His Orchestra To Play Dancin~ 8 to 12 Annual Easter Dance will be held Saturdav evening, April 8, in !rem Temple, North Franklin Street, City . Guy Ha ll a nd his Orchestra will play for dancing, from 8 to 12. Social Activities co mm ittee of the Junior College is in cha rge of t he affair. Elaborate decorations have been planned in keeping with the Easter holiday spirit. Refreshments will be se rved. Juni or College Alumni and fr iends a re invited to attend. SPEAKERS DISCUSS SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT In the Social Problems course of this semester, Dr. W ilfred C roo k has added a great deal of interest to the subject by inviting different speake rs to deal with the vario us phases of the material st udied. Already Dr. Crook has presented six s uch speakers. Mr. Messner of Ph iladelphia, a representative of the Student Christian Movement gave an interesti ng description of the housing condit ions in New York City . The assistant rector of St. Stephen's C hurch, Rev. Edward Tate spoke to the class on "The Cooperatives in the South ." Re v . Tate illustrated this topic with in g pictures. The refugee Problems and the J ews in Palestine were disc ussed by Rabbi Sam uel Wolk and accompanied by moving pictures. Mrs. O'Toole of the Department of Public Assistanc-e dealt with the administration of public relief. Most recently Miss Klave, a member of. t he staff of . the Osterhout Library and Mr. John Pu gh, Associate Boys Work Secretary o f the Y. M . C. A. led an ope n discussion on the social picture of Wyoming Va lley. Each of the speakers offered first hand information to the class and obligingly answered the questions which members of the class brought up . This type of subject presentation has proven very popular wi th t he st ude n ts. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes--Barre, Pennsylvania Friday, March 31, 1939 DO YOU THINK THE STUDENT COUNCIL IS DEMOCRATIC? Co-F..ditors ..... •.• . • ..... . . . . .. . •. . .. . . • ... . .. . . • . . ... . Mary Brislin, John Bush Rita Yurkanin-"No , I think it should have more power than it does." Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50. PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS . . . . . . @ INCORPORATED Jerry Greenwald-"Constitution ally it is democratic but functionally it is not." Marvin Fischer-"It might be democratic but I do not know enough of its activities to confirm this statement. Bob Hopkins-"it has certain democratic powers, but it is not truly a democratic body." Phylis Ackerman-" ! agree with Jerry Greenwald's statement." Ruth Goldstein-"The student Council is democratic in its beliefs but not in its actions. Shirley Brown-"No, I don't think it is. It makes many suggestions but they are not carried out by the school." Julia Place-"it might be but it isn't active enough to show it. " EDITORIALS ary rules and regulations of the school." Irvin Freed-"! think it tries to be but it is impeded by the necess- Marion lvfartin - "i think it is democratic but it lacks the wholehearted support of the student body." ADMIRAL HAROLD R. STARK. Bucknell Junior College points with pride to the recent advancement of one of its most appreciated donors, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Not so ·long ago the man who was selected by President Roosevelt as next chief of operations, top post in the United States Navy, presented Chase Hall, to Bucknell Junior College. Born in this city, Admiral Stark is the son of the late Col. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Stark. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1903, Admiral Stark has been commander of the battle force cruisers and aide to both Secretaries Swanson and Adams. With only two years of flag rank, Admiral Stark has eight years of service ahead before he reaches the age of compulsory retirement. It was in this selection of Admiral Stark to succeed Admiral William D. Leahy, that precedent was shattered for the United States Navy Department. A CARAVAN OF BOOKS Junior College students are urged to take advantage of the reading material now available in the school library. Just as rapidly as the library staff is able to do so, many new books are being placed on the shelves of the college library. The unusual number of new books of all types is due to the fact that, in addition to the regular college appropriation, a recent gift of $2,500 has been directed to the library for expenditure. Congressman Harold Flannery recently donated past copies of the Congressional Records to the library. Dr. David Brown's World Literature classes have aided in the selection of some of the later editions. With the excellent selection of new books being increased every day it behooves each of us to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the wide choice. Take some time out to read! SPEAKING OF IMPROVEMENTS. You have a date Tuesday, April 18. Students will assemble in chapel on that day to discuss improvements to the Bucknell Junior College. All students who have constructive criticism are invited to speak. As in the past, the session will be in charge of the Student Council. DEBATERS WIN, LOSE. On Thursday, March 23 , Edelman and Greenberg, members of the debating society were defeated by the Penn State team. However in the preceding debate with the Scranton-Keystone Jr. College, Lydia Greenbaum and Bernard Greenberg won the decision. The question used was "Resolved that the United States Government should cease to use public funds to stimulate business." During the past week the J,unior College met debaters from Muhlenberg and Hofstra. The Junior College team, which consists of Murray Edelman, Lydia Greenbaum, Margaret Moore and Bernard Greenberg, has been chosen to judge the debates of the Pennsylvania High School Forensic League. What's more the flag of freedom will wave for sixty. minutes. Dr. Farley has kindly consented to a student forum surrounded by the utmost secrecy. Teachers will not be present. It is suggested that personal feelings of petty feuds among individuals be dropped from the discussion. Furthermore, the welfare of the school does not rest upon a few individuals. It is only through the frank expressions of the entire body that the Student Council will be able to make recommendations to the Junior College director and faculty. Let's have your opinion. Bucknell Junior College students extend their sympathies to Dr. Daniel L. Gage on the recent death of his father; to Dolly Betz and Robert Patton, students, whose fathers recently passed away. Fully recovered from a wound, accidentally inflicted by a companion a fortnight ago, Donald Kersteen returned to school last week. His return was welcomed by the Junior College students. CLIPPING ILLEGAL Students are requested to refrain from cutting clippings from the library copies of newspapers and magazines. Particular attention is called to the fact that the New York Times is being ruined almost every week, and since the librarians are keeping an accurate file of the Times, all students are kindly asked to co-operate in this respect. Visit the Y.M.C.A. LUNCHEONETTE -MR. SCHALL THIS PAPER is the MEDIUM of STUDENT THOUGHT AND OPINION \¥'rite A Letter to the Editor Are You Interested In-If PHOTOGRAPHY JORDAN Est. 1871 STAMP COLLECTING CRAFT WORK PRINTING DANCING INSTRUCTION ARCHERY CHESS Men's Furnishings and Hats of QUALITY 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre What Is Your Hobbyr Get into a Group with the Same Interests at the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION WILKES-BARRE �Friday, March, 31, I 939 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Three THE BEACON SPOTLIGHTS: •••••• ENTERPRISING . . . . H eading the Socia l Ac t ivities committee of Bucknell Junior College is Ro bert H opkins. son of M r. a nd Mrs. F ay Hopkins, M iner St reet , W ilkes-Barre. J ovial, affable. Bob, a graduate o f Meyers High School, is now in his second year a t BUJC and p la ns to continue his studies at the ca mpus in the fa ll. In high school Bob engaged in a ll kinds of at hletic compet ition but we know him best at BUJC for his basketba ll p rowess. Bob is an enthusiastic worker and has a ided as an enterprising agent fo r a number of Bucknell da nces. In t he summer Bob lays aside his t ext-books and turns to his pet hobby-fis hing. •••••• EQUESTRIENNE . .. . Madge Space , daughter ol M r. a nd Mrs. E . W. Space, Da llas, attend ed Wyoming Seminary a nd Wi lson College, befo re ente ring Bucknell Junior College. She is enrolled in the Commerce and F inance cou rse. Miss Space is one o f W yoming Va lley's most popula r equestriennes. She is active in t he G irl"s Glee Club a t the J un ior College. Girls Plan Teas Arrange Bridge, Archery Tourneys - - May Pageant BET A GAMMA CHI TO ENTERTAIN GIRL GRADS Miss Dorothy Dyer Is Guest Speaker Girls activities at Bucknell Jr. College will soon move into more active stages according to an announcement made yesterday by Miss Barbara Ryerson, dean of girls. At the last meeting of the Beta Gamma Chi Sorority, Miss Dorothy Hughes the president announced that seniors from the various high schools in the valley will be invited to attend the teas during the spring. The pu1pose of this plan is to acquaint t he seniors with the students and activities of the Junior College. The invitation list will be made up of the names submitted by each member of the sorority. This plan was put into e ffe ct last year and proved very successful. The speaker f01 the girl's tea on Friday, March 24 was Miss Dorothy Tunell Dyer, Dean of Women at Lewisburg. Miss Dyer discussed the type of life one could expect to find at the campus This subject proved to be of special intere~t to the Sophomores since so many of them are planning to continue their college work in Lewisburg. The di~cussion was especially valuable in clearing up many of the questions and problems which had arisen in the minds of the girls. Increased popularity of bridge is responsible for the arrangement of a bridge tourney which will get underway shortly after the Easter vacation. Started by a group of girls, as a medium of lounge recreation, the fad has steadily increased in popularity. WHAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION? Eleanor Parry, Student Counr ii representative , met last week with a committee girls from the freshmen a nd sophomore clases, and outlined a plan of renewed sports activity among the girls at the Junior College. The co mmittee consists of Joy Bo<lycomb, Mary Brislin, Dollie Betz, Lillian Celmer.Gertrude Jones, Madge Space, Betty Schwager, and Christine Whiteman. Miss Ryerson will assist the girls in an advisory capacity. Results of the contest should prove interesting, inasmuch as an ideal bridge partner will be declared the final winner. Archery will develop the necessary poise for the May pageant, which is in its initial s tages. The May pageant is an annual event at Lewisburg and if the proper amount of enthusiasm is shown here, Miss Sanguliano will endeavor to arrange it for next month. Meet the "Gang at-- The Spa "BUTTON, BUTTON", LATEST VENTURE BUJC THESPIANS Presentation Scheduled For April At present the Thespians are in the midst of their play, "Button Button". Which will be presented in the Littl'e Theatre about the middle of April. The comedy was written by by Maurice Clark and was presented in 192() at the Bijou Theatre New York. Alison Skipworth of the movies played one of the leading roles at that time. The storv centers around one Button Alexander Woodhou se. His socially prominent family consider him somewhat unbala nced but the audience soon find s out that it is not Button but his family who is unbalanced . The worst that can be said of Button is that he would rather be considered eccentric than spend his youth in a mad quest for stocks and bonds only to arrive at middle age with wealth, a bulging waist, and golf, all of which his family possesses. He is beset by rich women who try to force their hobbies upon his restful days. Button runs away from an antique collector, bumps into a girl with a new variety of free verse, wads his brother with a bag of golf clubs, and falls in to the hands of an amateur psy- DEEMER & COMPANY SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES The Most Modern - Look Where You May TEACHER MEETS FORMER PUPIL Edith Vongehr, a reside nt of China and a st udent at Sweet Briar, who 1ecently visited Helen Beaver, was surprised to lea rn that one of her former teac herr. in the American School in the Orient, Profe-;so r Stanley R. Townsend, is at prese nt a member of th e Junior College faculty. Several years ago, Mr. Townsend ta ught in China and last yea r co mpleted a tour of Eur ope. Miss Vongehr was born in C hina and received her primary ed ucation there . Her father is a n exporter. She a nd Mr. Townsend talked ove r ex istin g co nditions in Europe and some of the changes that have taken place since their departures. chiatrist, who needs him as -.:..1 experiment. Finally, a nd much worse to his peace of mind, he meets the p1actical minded housemaid who sincerely loves the easy going and delightful Button . Compliments of-- The Mayflower Public Square SODA - - CANDY - - LUNCHES ACE HOFFMAN Studios PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Corona Portable Typewriters Camera and Photographic Supplies 6 W. Market St. 32 W. Market St. W-B. Dial 2-1174 �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Four Friday, March 31, 1939 CURLEY'S BALLTOSSERS AND SWATTERS PREPARE SEASON VETERANS, NEWCOMERS, BEGIN OUTDOOR PRACTICE NEXT WEEK AT KIRBYPARK Tough Schedule Faces BUJC Nine Next week you shall know by a sign that Spring is here to stay, and even the most chronic pessimist will agree that the throaty cry of "Play-ball" carries •this welcome message with more force and conviction than all other omens. The scene-Kirby Park, and the actors-the Bucknell Jr. College baseball nine. Out there on the field will be a squad of eager, ambitious Junior Collegians, trying out for perm. _,_ent berths on the team. Over on the edge of the grass, Jack Dooley, Larksville's gift to the team, Jack Saricks, Gacha, Netzel, and Morton, crouch alertly at their divers positions. "Zeke" Kuschel and host of others are practicing at the first base position. Holding down the hot corner (third base to the uninitiates) is Captain Ed. Labak. Play-ball! the outfielders hear it too, tense a bit, shift away from the hitter's side. Coach Curley is pleased with the fine lot of candidates· tor outfield posts and is rapidly shaping the boys together. Play-ball! The battery mates approach each other, hold a short [ SOFTBALLERS WARM-UP Softball season will get under way during the middle of this month. Six teams have been sleeted for intramural competition. Team captains are as follows: Yankees, Robert Conway; Giants, John Emanski; Phillies, Robert Patton; Cincinnati Reds, Robert Hopkins; Athletics, Wilbur Troy; Chicago Cubs, John Kuschel. Last year there was a decided ·interest in softball activity. The current season is expected to attract more students who are rapidly learning to appreciate more the value of sports at Bucknell Junior College. council of war, return to their battle stations. Out on the mound are Veigh and Bush. Back of the plate, fully rigged for the fray, in the game's toughest and most thankless role the catchers. They crouch signal, straighten a bit, there is a flash of white, the batter takes a hold with his cleats, swings lustily, and . . . . but you will have to find out the rest for yourself. The Annual Letterman's Banquet will be held this year on Saturday June 3 at Chase Hall ... Efforts are being made to have Malcolm Musser, varsity basketball coach at Bucknell, as the principal speaker. . Former coach Henry Peters will also be present . . . With the arrival of spring weather the pysical education department will sponsor an intramural softball tourney, the games to be played Tuesday and Thursday noons on the lot adjoining South and S. River Sts. . . At least six teams will be enrolled ... It looks as though Harvard will run away with the second half title in the intra-mural Bowling League unless Cornell trips them in their forthcoming match. . . The faculty team won the first half last year, lost the second half, and were defeated in the playoffs by a few points. . . . They don't want a repetition of that occurance . .. Harvard holds the high single game and high three games bowled in league competition . . . "Slatz" Obitz, a member of that team, holds the high three game title. . . The only thing they don't hold is the high single game . . . . John Ferguson and Paul Trebilcox put on the best intramural wrestling match of the year when they battled for two extra periods before Trebilcox gained the decision making him the 17 5 lb. champ. Freshman-Sophomore Cagers, Wrestlers To Meet, - SPORT SHOTS - One of the most amusing incidents happened during the finals of the Intramural Wrestling Tournament when but one of the female sex showed up to root for her favorite ... A slight accident happened to Joe Kornblatt's pants . .- . and was her far.e ,,;,d. Baseball practice is progressing very slowly as a result of the inclement weather. . . Kuschel, Dooley, Henning, Netzel, Veigh, Saricks, Thomas, Capt. Labak, Urban, and Curley form the nucleus of what is expected to be the finest diamond aggregation ever to represent the Junior College ... The first game is scheduled with Wyoming Seminary on April 28. The question of interclass basketball supremacy will be settled for another year when the freshman and Sophomores clash on Tuesday, April 11, at 11 :00 in the Y. M. C. A. Last year the upperclassmen managed to eke out a win in an exciting game by the scant margin of one point. They are expected to duplicate their win again this year but by a wider margin . Albie Baker, Bob Hopkins, Bill Thomas,Bob Royer, Fred Semmer Algerd Baldauski, Al Ringstrom, and Wilbur Troy will carry the colors for the sophomores while Wayne Swanbery, Dave Secunda, Earl Haefele, Wesley Hershkowitz Vic Urban, John Dooley, and George Scott are listed for action in the frosh lineup. Albie Baker and Wayne Swanbery will captain the sophomore and freshman teams. Immediately following the basket ball classic there will be introduced for the first time in interclass relations what is expected to be an annual wrestling tournament. Results of the Intramural Wrestling Tournament reveal the supremacy of the freshman in the grunt and groan sport. Several good bouts are assured. In the 126 lb. class-Bob Most vs. Al Ringstrom; 136 lb-Al Stets vs. Chet Weinstock; 145 lbEdward Roberts vs. Bill Dowdell; 155 lb-Lee Wazeter vs. Algerd Baldauski; 165 lb-Joe Kornblatt vs. James Hunt; 175 lb-Paul Trehilcox vs. Chet Warakomski; Heavyweight-Karl Kalweit vs. Bill Morton. Freshmen Dominate Intramural Wrestling The first intramural wrestling tournament staged under the guidance of Joe Curley, Walt Thomas and Steve Gacha proved to be a big success insofar as the number of students participating and that the freshmen completely dominated the weight division titles. The sophom01es managed to win but one title and that by James Hunt in the 165 lb. division . No other sophomore went further than the semi-finals. In the finals In the final bouts Bob Most decisioned Dave Evans at 126 lbs; Al Stets pinned Eugene Rogers at 136 lbs; Edward Roherts pinned Charlie Fehlinger at 145 lbs.; James Hunt pinned Joe Horoshko in the 165 lb. class; and Paul Trebilcox decisioned John Ferguson in two extra periods in the 17 5 lb. class. The matches were well attended and several exc-eptionally fine bouts wre staged. COLLEGE THE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA SUPPLIES OPEN PENNANTS II JEWELRY A. M. TO 2:30 CHASE HALL P. M. � 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. 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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 Bucknell Beacon, 1939 March 31st Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/75fbe75fdb8083928ec26307740222c7.pdf a115f52c9e60b62e115d43246ca97f8d PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 3. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Number 6 Friday, March 10, 1939 HONOR ROLL ATHLETES ACTIVE NEW BOOKS Forty-Eight Students On Farley's List For First Semester Swanberry Named Basketball Captain- -Tankmen World Literature Sections Select Books For BUJC Library Forty-eight Junior College students had marks plac· ng them on the honor lists for the first semester according to an announcement hy Dr. Eugene S. Farley. Of this group, 19 students-14 sophomores and 5 freshmen-attained averages of 85% or better while the remaining 29 had averages of 80% or b2tter but less than 85%. Over 90%: Bessie Lewis, M urray Edelman, John Emanski, Ber .. nard Greenberg. 85- 90%: Betty Davidson, William Dowdell, Irwin Freed, Dorothy Hughes, Weat Matukaits, Margaret Moore, Wil iam Morton, Robert Royer, Darina Tuhy, Rita Yurkanin. Mary Brislin, Jack Gelb, Melville Hopkins, David Secunda, Paul Trebilcox. 80-85% · Phyllis Ackerman, Lil.lian CelmeF; Rose Frantz, RuLerl Graham, Robert Hopkins, Robert Kerr, Ma ion Martin, Robert Nagle, Julia Place, Alfred Ringstrom, Wilbur Troy_. James Aikman, Lilyanne Babskie, Dolorese Betz, George Bierly, Robert Tonnelly, Lydia Greenbaum, Anneliese Greenstein, Tonstance Koons, John Koons, Robert Most, John O'Malley, James Padlick, Eleanor Parry, Reese Roberts, Eugene Rogers, Betty Schwager, Mei le Seeherman, Doris Wiegand. DEAN RIVENBURG VISITS JUNIOR COLLEGE CAMPUS Romeyn H. Rivenburg, Dean of Bucknell University as well as Bucknell Junior College, has been ih Wilkes-Barre the past two days interviewing those students who intend to continue their studies at the campus next term. FEBRUARY SEMI-FORMAL DANCE IS HUGE SUCCESS The fourth semi-formal dance for Junior College students and their friends was held in the First Presbyterian Church House, on Friday night, February 17. Milton Wiener (a former Junior College student) and his orchestra furnished music for the affair. Robert Hopkins was general chairman and was assisted by Margaret Wolf, Betty Schwager, Madge Space, Gertrude Jones, John Bush, and John Guiney. Complete Successful Season- -Wrestling Tourney--Baseball Schedule Listed The members of the Varsity Basketball squad have unanimously elected Wayne Swanbery, varsity guard for the past season, as captain of the 1939-40 cage edition. He replaces Albie Baker who graduates in June. Swanbery played at Valley Forge Military Academy after graduating from Newport High School. His record on the basketball court here in the Junior College lists him as second high scorer on the team, · being topped only by Capt. Albie Baker. Dave Secunda, Earl Haefele, Vic Urban, and Wesley Hershkowitz are the holdovers for next year while Albie Baker, Bob Hopkins , and Bill Thomas have finished their court careers for the Junior College. A total of seven wins against fourteen losses compromises the record for the past season which included two games lost in overtime periods; two by one one point; one by two points; a,n d two by three points. A vast improvement is expected of next years' team as far as games won and lost are concerned. Wrestling-The first wrestling tourney got underway Tuesday at noon at the "Y". Bouts will be staged every Tuesday and Thursday at noon until the champions are determined Competing for honors are: 126-pound class, Bob Most, J. Padlick, Dave Evans, Steinert, Weinstock, Edelman, Vlodowski, McDonald; 136 - pound class, Rogers, Al Stets, Reese, Roberts, Duddy, Stanchak, M. Goldstein; 145-pound class, Voyton, Seeherman, Van Loon, Mandlovitz, Gelb, Ed Roberts, Baldauski, Devins, Connelly, Fehlinger, Eaton, Brittingham; 155-pound class, Switch, Wazeter, Urban, Grebe, Piatt, Mel Hopkins; 165-pound class, Fischer, Hunt, Warakomski, Horosko, Kornblatt; 175-pound class, Ferguson, Trebilcox, Bodycomb, Aikman, Stribaugh, Niewinski, Kalwelt, Al Condosta. Baseball Coach Curley's baseball team has 12 games scheduled for the season which opens April 26th against \Vyoming Seminary. The Bisons will play four games away and eight at Wyoming Seminary's Nesbitt stadium, which serves as the home diamond for the Bisons. The Schedule: April 26-Wyo(Cont. page 3) Dr. David Brown, head of the Bucknell University Junior Col- World Literature course at Bucklege swimming team has just com- nell Junior College, last week pleted its most successfull season introduced a new system of selectin its three years of being a major ing outside readings which is dessport at the River Street institu- igned to teacfa students to develop tion. In the third meet of the their own reading interests~ year against the Scranton UniTo quote Bi:.. Johnson and Carversity varsity aggregation the lyle: "Read the book you do locals copped their first win in twenty-four meets, nosing out a honestly feel a wish and curiosity victory in the last event of the to read." This is the main idea of evening when they defeated the the new arrangement which will freestyle relay aggregation by a supplant the method of selecting few inches. They followed up materials for additional reading this victory with another one the used in former semesters. following week at Lancaster when An attempt will be made to they gave the Franklin and Mar- .encourage students to study curshall Academy tankers a forty- rent or recent books, not only those seven to seventeen lacing to make published in America, but also on their record two straight wins. In the continent. Dr. Brown's new a meet following the academy con- schedule will require a report from test the Bisdns received a similar three students in each World lacing from the stellar freshman Literature section weekly concernteam representing the Franklin ing one book reviewed in the and Marshall College. critical periodicals. It will be their Captain John Guiney was un- privilege to join in a round table able to duplicate his record of the discussion of current books and preceeding year when he went report their findings and recomthrough the season undefeated mendations to the members of but he continued to be one of the their respective sections. Library mainstays of the team. Of the additions in the field of modern newcomers to this years team, literature will be based no these Jack Mangan, Ken Cranston and recommendations, and students Harry Jeter made the best show- will select their outside readings ings in intercollegiate competition from this list. with Dave Evans showing prosStudents may make their selpects of being one of the mainections from recommendations in stays of next years team on the stength of his steady improve- the Saturday Review of Literature, ment during the past season. Jack the New York Times and New Batey returned to school in the York Herald-Tribune book secsecond semester and did a great tions and other magazines. deal to strengthen the team. Water polo was a new innovation at the school this vear and Student Council Plans although Coach Slats Obitz did Discussion In Chapel not expect much from the lads as it was new to all of them he was School Improvements To agreeably surprised. He found Be Aired; Guiney that many swimmers showing a In Charge great deal of ability had failed to come out for the varsity swim team for the simple reason that Members of the Student Council they thought that they were not will have charge of the chapel good enough. If they had come program on Tuesday. Discussion out the past season might have been able to boast of more than of the needs and benefits of the the two victories that they did Junior College v,-ill be lead by account for. John Guiney. Reports of a comProspects for next seasons team can not be fully discussed because mittee of "fault-finders" will be of the lack of complete knowledge aired and some excellent recomof what swimmers will be back mendations tov.,ards the improvefrom this years team and as to ment of the school will be made just what swimmers will come in There will be a discussion of the in the new class. It is expected that Jack Mangan, Ken Cranston, use of the victrola, cold water in Jack Batey, Charles Templeton, Conyngham Hall, quiet in the Library, and dancing. (Cont. page 2) �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two CURRENTLY SPEAKING THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50. Some time this session the Congress will be asked to amend the National Labor Relations Act. The American Federation of Labor and many large industrialists contend that the Act is unfair to employers, and that the National Labor Relations Board has favored the Congress of Industrial Organizations over the A. F. of L. In order to determine whether these complaints are well founded let us look at the provisions of the Act and the record to date of its administration. PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS.·~@ INCORPORATED EDITORIALS WHAT'S IN A GRADE? Several members of the faculty believe that student~ would get far more out of college courses if our p esent marking system were abandoned. Since the honor lists are announced in this issue, it is a fitting time to discuss the matter. Undoubtedly grades serve as an impetus to study; but in most cases it is the wrong kind of study. A grade of "A" indicates that the student has mastered the technique or sheer "mechanics" of learning the things professors ask an :l knows how to state his knowledge in the way professors want it. It does not necessarily mean that he knows the subject. This is especially true when an objective test is given. The experienced student can often tell from the phrasing of a question whether it is true or false or which of the suggested answers to choose. In justice to ··good" students it must be said that they usually do get a good deal more out of their courses than others. But this due to work done apart from class assignments. It simply is not fair to these students that they .should be hindered by the necessity of impressing professors with an overt show of brilliance. Moreover, there is a strong possibility that students who do not attain high grades under the present system might learn a good deal more if they did not have to worry about marks. 5 If evidence of the feasibility of this plan is desired, we point to the contention of Messrs. Gies and Miller whJ assure us that European universities which do not use the grading system achieve better results. The International Relations Club has not held a meeting for some time. We don"t know what the trouble is, but there is certainly plenty of material to discuss, and we have no doubt that many students would like to discuss it. If you are interested, Professor Gage or Lillian Celmer would like to have your suggestions. (Cont. from page 1) Dave Evans, Jack Smith, and Harry Jeter will be back. Some of the swimmers graduating from Wyoming Valley high schools who may attend Bucknell next year are Tom Hodorowski, Andrew Tryka, Harry Welsh, Junior Green, Tom Brislin and Gibby Austin. With the advent of a group of freshmen tankers of that quality to bolster up the ones remaining from this years squad it would be unnecessary to add that the picture would look very rosy for next years record. SEASON NOTES John Mundry veteran of three seasons on the Bison tank team had to quit competitive swimming in the middle of the last campaign because of an ankle injury . . . . Captain John "Goon" Guiney did most of his training on the cars of the Wilkes-Barre Railway Corporation, traveling between this city and West Pittston. Why daddy? . . . . Jack O'Malley after one practice session with the mermen decided that there were many things that were easier to do than get in condition for a season of racing. . . We understand that Harry Jeter had some trouble with fire alarm boxes. There are easier ways to get water than that Hank .... Jack Mangan is known to his teammates as the "Dipperduck" ... Ken Cranston is gradually getting away from doing the "hula-hula" as he swims. . . . HARVARD, M. I. T. TIED FOR FIRST POSITION Obitz High Man Harvard and M. I. T. are tied for first place in the Intra-Mural Bowling League according to the latest standings released yesterday. Indications point to a nip-andtuck battle among the Junior College teams as members of the teams are raising their averages as the weeks pass. The standings: Total Won Lost Pins Points 2 12 Harvard 12 4 M. I. T. 12 4 3 12 1 8 8 8 Penn 2 7 Cornell 7 9 1 10 6 Yale 6 13 1 Brown 3 3 Individual high, one game, \V. Thomas--248. High Team, one game, Harvard -930. Individual High, Three games, C. Obitz-·614. High team, three games, Harvard-2552. Big Six-1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. C. Obitz ..................... ..... J. Curley............ ......... .... A. Bernhart .................... R. Tasker ..... .......... ......... H. Campbell .......... .......... C. Fehlinger. .................. Friday, March 10, 1939 532 522 516 503 494 492 Under the Act as passed in 1935 the N. L. R. B. may investigate charges that an employer is engaging in unfair labor practices, and may order such an employer to "cease and desist" from such practices if it finds the charges true. Also, it may hold elections in a plant to determine which union shall be recognized as the bargaining agent for the employees. But it must ask a federal court to enforce its orders-and courts are rarely too zealous in enforcing orders which work to Labor's advantage. Many large employers hold that the Act is unfair because the Labor Board may investigate unfair practices (company unions, yellow dog contracts, etc.) on the part of employers, but has no jurisdiction over unfa·r practices on the. part of workers or un=ons. This argument loses much of its force when it is recalled that employers can and do ask the regular courts to proceed against workers at the slightest provocation- and many feel that the courts have not been nearly so fair in such cases as the National Labor Relations Board has been in cases under its jurisdiction. We all know of the many sweeping injunctions issued by courts depriving Labor of the right of collective bargaining and often of civil liberties. All fair reviews of the work of the Board ·concede that it has done its work comretently and impartially! Those who eek a competent and scholarly treatment of the subject will find it in Robert Brooks' recent work, Unions of their own Choosing. Both the Brooks study and the statistical data of the Department of Labor show that ninety-five per cent. of disputes which the Board was asked to handle were settled without formal procedure to the satisfaction of the disputants. It was a small port~on of the remaining five percent which have made the headlines. As Mr. Brooks puts it, "A small number o: these, such as the Remington Rand, Consolidated Edison, Ford, Republic Steel, Weirton Steel, Seamen's Union and Longshore Men's Union cases, have been the basis for forming a good deal of public opinion about the board's work." As to the A'. F. of L.'s contention that the Board has favored the C. I. 0., statistics show that the contrary is actually the case. Many claim that the A. F. of L. is raising all this clamor merely to impose craft unionism on all industry and in that way keep many union officials in their sinecures. Relations Act has been a milestone in worker-employer relations, assuring the workers the right to collective bargaining in a field where employers' rights have long been safeguarded. The proposed amendments will put s back in the er l of reaction. Thespians To Present Modern Comedy In April The Thespians will present a modern comedy in April. Neither the cast nor the play have yet been chosen; but this one, unlike Tartuffe which was given for its literary value, will be given for entertainment. THIS PAPER is the MEDIUM of STUDENT THOUGHT AND OPINION Write A Letter to the Editor Are You Interested ln-X PHOTOGRAPHY JORDAN Est. 1871 STAMP COLLECTING CRAFT WORK PRINTING DANCING INSTRUCTION ARCHERY CHESS Men's Furnishings and l-lat:s of QUALITY 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre What Is Your Hobbyf Get into a Group with the Same Interests at the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION WILKES-BARRE �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Friday, March, 10, 1939 Page Three THE BEACON SPOTLIGHTS: •••••• PRESIDENT . . . . John Emanski, Coughlin High School graduate, is president of the Sophomore class, Junior College. Enrolled in the engineering department , John has consistently maintained a high average at BUJC. The sleek, dark-eyed engineer has many hobbies but devotes a major part of his time to study. On the dance floor he is a man apart from the rest of the male species. His popularity at BUJ C is supreme because of his personality and friendliness. Next year John pl;ms to continue his studies but hie plans at present are uncertain. •••••• VIVACIOUS . . . . Her presence on the campus is most noticeable because of her sweet smile and sprightly air. D0rothy Hughes, a sophomore, is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hughes of Spruce Street, Wilkes-Barre. She is a graduate of Meyer·s High School. Miss Hughes enjoys dramatics , is fond of singing and likes to dance. Students will remember her as director of the Christmas play which was presented in chapel. Next year Dorothy will enter her junior year at Lewisburg. Wrestling Soon To Be A Major Sport At Bucknell Junior College Intra-Mural Program Planned This Semester Thomas, Wazeter Directini1 Activity of Grapplers A new sport is being introduced into the intramural program this semester with the purpose of developing it into a major sport next year. Wrestling was supposed to have been a competitive sport for us this year and meets with the Frosh teams of other colleges had been scheduled. This all had to be abondoned for the lack of a coach when Ralph Tucker, 165 lb. champion of North Eastern Penna., who was to coach the team, was unable to attend school. Because of the crude, rough and tumble ideas many of the fellows are apt to have of wrestling, Shorty Thomas, with the aid of Lee Wazeter, former Meyers wrestler, is teaching the prima ry fundementals of wrestling in the gym classes. Iter-collegiate wrestling is not the groaning, grunting game of fake fall s represented by the professional grapplers. It is a sport of speed, precision, and science in which every muscle of the body is developed. By the end of a month, the gym classes should be informed enough on the rudements of wrestling to be capa ble of staging some interesting bouts between the students. Thjs will be done in the Junior College Wrestling Tournament to determine the Junior Colkge Champions of the various weights. The boys who reach the finals of their class will have a chance to display their talent in the climax of the tournament in the Bucknell AllSports Nite at the Y. M. C. A. r (Cont. from page 1) - -SPORT SHOTS - The annual freshman-sophomore basketball struggle will attract a record crowd of enthusiasts to the Y. M. C. A. Monday March 13, at 12 :00 Noon when the underclassmen attempt to avenge last year's upset . . . Swanberry, .Secunda, Haefele, Hershkowitz, Urban, Wazeter, Scott, Padlick and Aikman will do or die for the Frosh while Baker, Bill Thomas, Bob Hopkins, Bob Royer, Al Ringstrom, · Fred .Semmer, Algerd Balclauski, and Wilbur Trov will attempt to duplicate last year's win ... Fair and impartial referees will hold sway and may the best team win ... Who are you rooting for? .... Intramural wrestling has received considerable attention during the past two months. . . The wrestling t.o be staged Tuesday and Thursday Marcb 14 and 16 more than likely will produce some excellent material for next year's varsity team. . . The bouts will be held at 12 :00 noon in the main gym of the Y. M. C. A. Baseball practice has uncovered the best squad of ball players the Junior College has ever boasted ... Vic Urban, Jack Saricks, Ed Labak, and Walt Thomas furnish considerable experience while John Kuschel, Stan Henning, Al Switch, John Dooley, Morris Veigh, Ed Roberts, and Phil Netzel round out the squad ... Saricks, Thomas, Meet the "Gang at-- The Spa Visit the Y.M.C.A. LUNCHEONETTE -MR. SCHALL The Most Modern - Look Where You May Netzel, and Henning are Lettermen from last year. Urban is a Wvoming Seminary luminary: John Dooley played at Larksvill:e High; and big John Kuschel is a product of West Pittston High . . . . The members of the basketball and swimming teams as well as those trying out for baseball will hold considerable interest in the following notice. . . All mem bers of the various athletic teams must attend their gym classes regularly at the end of the regular playing season to receive credit for physical education . . . There are no exceptions . . . Water Polo is not considered as an excuse for absence .... The varsity bowling team is hopelessly outclassed in the Keystone Major League . . . They are holding up the bottom but are competing against bowlers of much greater experience. . . Bucknell will not enter a team in this league next year, but will compete against other college teams in the near vicinity . . . The female sex seems to be left entirely out of the picture in regards to athletic activity. . . . However when spring rools around, archery again will be the topic of the times. . . The male sex will again try to dominate the sport which was never intended for their use. DEEMER & COMPANY ming Seminary, home; 29-Keystone, away; May 3-Bloomsburg, home; 6-Cazenovia, home; 10Wyoming Seminary, home; 12Keystone, home; 13-Ithaca College, home; 17-East Stroudsburg, away; 19-Bloomsburg, away; 24- Wyoming Seminary, home; 26-1 thaca College, away; 27Dickinson Seminary, away. Softball will occupy an important spot on the sports program for this semester. Coach Curley, who is recognized as one of the fastest pitchers in the game, is conditioning boys from BUJC daily during gym classes. Teams from the various schools throughout Wyoming Valley will be engaged for competition. The Junior College team will open their softball season against members of the Kingston high school faculty. Compliments of-- The Mayflower Public Square SODA - - CANDY - - LUNCHES A.CE HOFFMAN Studios SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Corona Portable Typewriters Camera and Photographic Supplies 6 W . Market St. W-B. 32 W . Market St. Dial2-1174 �Pag~ Four, THE BUCKN'ELL BEACON Debaters Complete Road Tour: Several Non-Decision Debates Here Next Month -TR IV.I A DISTRACTION . . . . The dance seems to be one of the biggest distractions, and at the same time one of the most enjoyable pastimes of American youth. We do not know of any other section in the State in which dancing seems to be as popular as in this, save perhaps in the larger cities where !!he craze has been commercialized to a greater extent. Discussing dancing among BUJC student recently, they predicted that the modern craze in dancing will soon die out and that it merely represents a phase like roller-skating and other amusements of that kind which appeal to a section of the people, especially the youth with surplus energy and enthusiasm to work off, but will fade in course of time. Our College friends are quite wrong. Dancing has always been popular, but we believe not one quarter as popular as it has become within the past ·few years. Strange as it may seem, the popular dances of today are really the dances that used to be popular a quarter of a century ago. Our grandparents danced the waltz, the quadrilles, the polka, the barn dance. Not long ago they were dancing the waltz, the barn dance, the lancers, the valeta, the one-step and the two-step. Today the dance vocabulary is. changed to such terms as "'jitterbug", "shag", and "truck". In many sections the waltz remains the popular favorite, changed perhaps a little as to time-or rather speed. Our Junior College "jitterbugs" like to spend a night or two in the country enjoying the diversities of the "barn-dances." Not long ago the students mastered the intricate steps of the "Lambeth Walk" for exhibition in the finer places and then turned their talents to fast-steepping routines to be demonstrated in a rendezvous where the _nickel victrola supplies the danceable melodies. But the college. students of today are not alone in their enjoyment of the modern dance craze. We are told there is not a village hall or "ballroom" in the countryside in which it is not danced by all. WELCOME . . . . Several former Junior College students have returned to Wilkes-Barre after a year and a half at Lewisburg. John Saricks, James Ramsey, and Leon Rokosz are with us again. They expect to graduate from Bucknell University at Lewisburg in June ... Six persons who convocated last June have returned this year to continue their studeies, taking one or more courses: Marion Dunstan, Rosser Morgan, John Mundry, Robert Grover, Robert Peters, and William Thomas . . . Newcomers from other institutions include Helen Beaver (Sweet Briar) and George Whitenight (Lehigh) . . . Donald MacHugh, who attended the Junior College two years ago and made his mark as a debater, has completed his course at Lewisburg in one and one half years. CONFLICTS . . . . To bring old issues up-to-date, we note that the Conyngham conservatory, although less vigorlessly, still wages, as shown by sporadic instances of professorial indignation at the noise emanating from Conyngham hall. It has been suggested and oftimte repeated that the conservatory should be opened, for the sole purpose of socialization. In view of the fact that there is no other place to go in Conyngham hall, the conservatory seems to be the logical place for the recreation that bnow threatens to disturb students in the library. It's good to pass along. In the interest of justice, the student Council should summon representatives from the Boy's and Girl's lounges in order to devise a plan whereby equal use of the victrola is afforded both groups. Last year the use of the victrola alternated weekly between the two lounges. There seems to be quite a disturbance over the question raised by Dr. Crook during sessions of his Sociology classes. It involved the personal wish of the student concerning what he would do if he were financially independent. Of course, there were many who expressed a desire to rest; others believed service to the advancement of science would be opportune. One student vowed to join Hedy Lamarr in matrimony should dame fortune smile on him. VERSATILE . . . . One of the BUJC instructors, whose versatility is ably demonstrated by his hobby which he has developed into work of practical beauty, is Prof. Voris B. Hall, teacher of physics and engineering. Prof. Hall works off hours and in the summer THE Four Junior College debaters, Lydia Greenbaum, Margaret Moore, Bernard Greenberg, and Murray Edelman, attended a debaters' convention at Penn State on February 17 and 18. Delegates from Scranton-Keystone, Bucknell, Juniata, Hazleton, and Penn State were also present. The convention discussed the relative merits of collective security and isolation as techniques for preventing war. Our delegates drew u the resolution favoring collective security and this was defeated only by vote of the chairman after repeated ballots by delegates resulted in tie votes. On Friday, February 24, Bernard Greenberg and Murray Edelman journeyed to Hempstead, New York, to debate a Hofstra College team on the question of socialization of medicine, the Junior College team arguing for socialization. This match was held as part of the assembly program at Hofstra and was a decision debate. Junior College students will have an opportunity to hear several decision debates in Wilkes-Barre in the next two months. Penn State, Hofstra, Scranton-Keystone, and the University of Scranton will meet Junior College teams here during March and April. vacations away from school, busily engaged in the manufacture of his own furniture. Prof. Hall has practically furnished his apartment on South Washington Street with beautiful, hand-wrought furniture that not only bears the stamp of good taste but but also that intangible sign of quality that would appeal to everyone who likes and appreciates f-urniture. One of the most striking pieces of furniture in the Hall house is a corner cupboard made of cherry, with striking lines and the beautiful wax color characteristic of that wood when well handled by expert hands. The cupboard contains the Hall chma and glassware and is a prominent feature of the diningroom. Prof. Hall has made numerous pieces of furniture in his spare time. He makes his furniture over his garage at his home down country, near Lewisburg, where he formerly taught before joining the BUJC faculty. PATTER. .. Hello operator! Give me Bryan 709-Hello Annie, is this you? Say, have you heard the latest? Dot Hughes certainly does know what she wants-something tall, dark and Handsome!. . . How long has Peggy Coates been musically inclined? I guess "her heart is taking lessons" ... Gert and Bill are at it again, or is it yet? Anyway Bill thinks that she should break down and "have a heart" ... Betty Schwager must be losing her grip on Steve; he is spending most of his spare time at Kingston High School. .. I guess we'll haYe to hold "open-house" so that Madge and John Koons can meet ... "Promise not to tell anybody" but Mary thinks she "got a guy" Maybe so, and more power to her. .. Imagine Nagle admitting that he dosenn't have c"ulture", that's-what psychology can do for you. Do you think Jerry Greenwald seems ·'superior" to his fellow Bucknellians? Confidentially... Secrets-Scotty and 1vlarge have a theme song-"I won't tell a soul I love you" ... Dudley and Dotty went for a walk on the dike-it's just too, too, romantic!. .. Jimmy and Twyla keep on going "day after day'·; day in and day out, and so far into the night ... Doris is on a 20-hour week now-what does she do with the other 148 hours-Why don't you investigate, Happy? .... Florence and Batey made the rounds of the barbeque stands on Saturday night ... Is that why Florence started on a diet Monday morning? . . . Joe and Lydia don't believe in letting people from· Nanticoke getting separated - They did enjoy the Nuangola skating party, we noticed ... "The you and me that used to be" (J.B-C.W.) Why don't you try again, Jack? She's ready, willing and able!. .. Have you heard that Zelda hasn't been in the best, of health; she is a victim of "myronitis'', truly a serious ailment-the sufferer might have pains around the heart. . . Has anybody seen "John Knox"----'please let Margie know if you have. Anneliese fell down the steps the other day-who were you "falling for"? .. Drew Devens so kindly lent his records for the tea dance .. , Dotty Hughes and Bob Graham looked as if they were in mourniugotherwise the thing was a success ... Annie, please don't let these things get out because I wouldn't want everyone to know-I'll call you again soon. I. C. Everything. COLLEGE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA SUPPLIES OPEN PENNANTS II JEWELRY A. M. TO 2:30 CHASE HALL ·p_ M. � 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 Bucknell Beacon, 1939 March 10th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/5cb002dcb23e67aef6b470ae623abc7b.pdf 55965c62d5c654dfeb1ca6fe5216aa75 PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 3. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Number 5 fridag, Januarg 20, 1939 TRUSTEE GIVES COLLEGE $2500 FOR BOOKS BUSY SEASON AWAITS ENGINEERS VISIT 0 !: -!:~:.!~~~!~~<'s The~~~~!,,~~!! Jumor ~ollege ~ebatin~ Society 1s proving an interesting _one. On Monday, January the mnth, four of the members journeyed to Lewisburg to debate the question, "Resolved that the Unite_d States should cease to use publtc funds for the purpose of stimulating business." During the afternoon Lydia Greenbaum and Bernard Greenberg capably upheld the negative side before a high school audience. In the evening debate Margaret Moore and Murray Edelman took an affirmative stand. Besides the above question the following two are to be used in the of the year: (1) Resolved that the United States should maintain a policy of isolation toward all 1-raiions invdived ;11 i11ternatiu11al or civil conflict. (2) Resolved that a system of socialized medicine should be adopted making available to all complete medical service at public expense. The schedule of the remaining debates is as follows: Feb. 17, 18--Convention at Pem1 State. Feb. 24--Hofstra at Hempstead, N. Y. March 13--Scranton-Keystone at Wi 1kes-Barre. March 23--Penn State at WilkesBarre. March 28--Hofstra at WilkesBarre . April 17--Scranton-Keystone at LaPlume. April 18--U. of Scranton at Scranton. MRS. FARLEY, KERR,PLAY On Tuesday, January 10, Mrs. Farley and Robert Kerr gave a program of music in assembly. Mr. Kerr played two groups of sele~tions on the flute, accompanied by Mrs. Farley. Mrs. Farley also played three solo numbers on the piano. These represented dances of different ages and peoples. Mr. Kerr's selections were: Pan-by Doujon. Stars in My Eyes-by Kreisler. Sparklets-by Miles. Gavotte-by Gossec. Dance of the Reed Flutesby T schaikowsky. Waltzing Doll-by Poldini. Melody-by Charles G. Dawes. Thine Alone--by Victor Herbert. Mrs. Farlev's selections were: Rigaudoi1-by Grieg. Juba Dance-by Nathaniel Dett Spanish Dance-by Navarro. istmas vacatiol? in a very scholarly way by spending Saturday, December 17 at the Franklin Institute in Philaclelphia. Prof. and Mrs. Hall and twenty engineers left Conyngham Hall about six o'clock in order to be at the Institute when it opened at ten. Because the displays were so vast, the students did not remain as a group except in the sections concerning their studies, where Prof. Hall explained the exhibits. Not least interesting was the planetarium in which the lecture delivered at the time was on "The Star of Bethlehem." A glorious time was had by all playing as the captain and his erew in the -lllodd. ship in the nautucal department. The tri}) was a great success except for a few magnetized watches and many bruised thumbs that resulted from pushing too many buttons in order to start the exhibits. Everyone enjoyed himself and the engineers are looking forward to their next trip to the glass works at Corning, New York. TASKER REPORTS ANNUAL SCIENCE CONVENTION Dr. R. C. Tasker, biology professor, spoke at the first assembly of 1939 on January 3. His brief but interesting report of the events at the Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held at Richmond, Virginia, was well received. Eighteen hundred papers were read to the five-hundred scientists who attended. They dealt with such interesting matters as the new electronic microscope which magnifies a millions times, the discovery of invisible glass, experiments with neurotic rats proving that animals react to illness as humans do. The highlight of the convention in Dr. Tasker's opinion was the report that air travel is reaching the end its advances insofar as sustained flight, height, and loads are concerned. The speaker complimented the Virginia hosts of the convention for their display of "southern hos pi tali ty .'' Total Apportioned 1000 VOLUMES WERE NEEDED TO MAKE Among ACCREDITMENT Of Deparbnents College PERMANENT The library is making good use of its recent $2500 gift. Each department of the College was allotted a portion of the gift toward the purchase of greatly needed books to be selected by the department head. With the assistance of Miss Klinedinst, college librarian, the latest books have been ordered and will soon be catalogued and ready for use Additional shelves have been purchased to make room for the flow of new books which will greatly augment the present inventory. Cambridge Natural History, ten volumes, and George Gray's The Advancing Frontiers of Science are two of the many titles to furnish biology students with new material. The Business English department will be enlarged by such volumes as A Course in English for Engineers by Naether and Richardson, and Poffenberger's Psychology in Advertising. Many fine sets of classic were ordered including Milton's Complete Works in 18 Volumes, Spenser's Faerie Queene, works of Dickens, Thackery, Mark Twain, Marlowe, and others. Of interest to drama as well as English students will be The Elizabethan Stage and The Medival Stage by Chambers. Elton's Sufvey of English Literature in 6 volumes and many choice novels as well as pliays by Coward, O'Neill, Barrie, and Shaw. Chemistry students will be pleas(Continued on page 3) TO HOLD DINNER On Thursday evening, February 2, the annual dinner for the extension course students will be held at Hotel Sterling. The toastmaster of the dinner will be James Driscoll, Bucknell alumnus and present professor of Education at the University of Scranton. Other entertainment will be provided by Con McCole, popular Wilkes-Barre humorist. Judge Farrell will be the guest of honor at the dinner. The committee for the dinner includes BUJC faculty members and the following former extension students: J. F. Moran, Stephen Emanuel, Emory Diffendafer, James Driscoll, Nicholas Bianco, Bruce Lamont, Zigmund Jacubzky, Alice Hughes, and Arthur Dymond At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Junior College, one of the Trustees gave to the College a gift that is tremendously appreciated and which was much needed. Learning that the accreditment could only be made permanent tihrough expansion of the Library, this friend inquired how many books were required, and immediately proffered the funds which would enable the library to meet the requirements of the accrediting agency. In consequence of his generous act 1000 new books will be added to the Librarv within the nE>..xt few months. All who are associated with the College and interested in its growth are deeply grateful for the assistance rendered by this member of the Board of Trustees. THESPIANS TO PRESENT THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS The Thespians will soon stage three one-act plays in the College Theater. Due to frequent interplay switching of characters, necessitated by the painstaking casting of Tartuffe, rehearsals of the onedivision dramas have been somewhat irregular; hence, it has been impossible to set a definite date for the performances. The theatre has undergone a number of changes since the days when it sheltered the Chase means of motivation. A stage has been built, and the front part of which is so constructed that it can be dismantled and neatly stored under the permanent portion of the platform. A ladder leading from the dressing room above and be hind the stage is so connected by means of hinges and pulleys that a slight tug on a rope will elevate the entire stairway out of sight of the audience. Further lighting equipment is being planned and any males handy with the saw, etc. are asked to offer their services for this phase of the renovation. A domestic air has been imparted to the theater by the addition of drapes to the side windows. A new main curtain is another factor which is doing much to effect the magical transformation of the former auto inn. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two Friday, January 20, 1939 THE BEACON SPOTLIGHTS: THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Bessie Lewis Co-Editors . Murray Edelman Helen Coats Michael Polk · Jerome Greenwald 1 Associate Editors Lillian Celmer, Joseph Jimison, Ruth Goldstein, Joseph Kornblatt Reporters Mary Donnelly , John Bush, Mary Brislin, Arthur Davies, Leon Wazteer, Joy Bodycomb Gertrude Jones, Jane Boyd, Russel H. Grebe, Ge::irge Dickinson, Irene Betz . Business Manager . R obert Nagle Business Assistants Lydia Greenbaum, Zelda Mangel, Florence Mangel . Genevieve Brennan Exchange Editor and Proofre:ider Advisory Board . . Miss Barbara Ryerson. Walter Thom:1s Advertising rates : 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year : $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50. PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS, . . . . @ INCORPORATED THE A.S.U.: A BIASED APPRAISAL-Many young students will find it difficult to approve the resolutions adopted by the American Student Union a t its convention in New York Cit y during C hristmas vacation. We refer, of course, to those resolutions which voiced a pproval of R . O.T.C. training in colleges a nd of the recent armament program. One cannot escape the conclusion that the leadership of the Union has fallen prey to the militarist hysteria which a ppears to have overcome practically all "liberals·· and " leftist s"' with the notable exception of the Norman Thomas hue of socialists. The other A. S. U. resolutions were quite commendable. They endorsed the socia l security program, advocated increased emphasis on civil liberties, and were genuinely liberal- as A. S U resolution,, L..:..v..-·.,.,,.,...,,""€,._t!y-bee:, t1p ~<;; tl;is time. We have heard students advocate the establishment of a branch of the A. S. U. here at B . U. J. C. The views expressed above are not to be construed as condemnatory of such a move. In fact, a student union here would be wlecome if only to destroy the smugness, indifference to current affairs, and anachronistic ideas of many amongst us. That such smugness, indifference, and anachronism exist is proven by recent discussions in Economics 103. Some of the reactionary views there might well destroy one"s faith that evolution is progress upward. CURRENTLY SPEAKING By M. E. Our Debating Society has been asked to play a leaping role in e Convention to be held at Penn State which will discuss the relative merits of isolation and collective sec_urity as techniques for preventing war. This is a timely topic a nd ·worth considering. The Society would appreciate hearing the views of anyone interested. The view that we should-orcan-isolate ourselves from other nations politically, economically, culturally, or socially is untenable to a nyone with a realization of contJemporary historical forces . Secretary Hull recently put it this way: "Deliberate renunciation by us of any particpation in internationa l affairs would make for an easier triumph on this planet of lawlessness, brute force, and war. In a world growing internationally more disordered and chaotic, we would be compelled to increase our armed defenses on a scale that would impose a truly crushing burden on our people. And even so, we would have to live in constant danger that the rising wave of international anarchy would, sooner or later, reach and b,a tter down our own walls and engulf us as well as the rest of mankind." Self-interest, then, if nothing else, dictates that we should cooperate with other democracies in an effort to insure international morality and destroy fascist savagery. This can be done without war if we act resolutely, immediately, and in concert. Stringent application of economic sanctions against Germany, Italy, and J apan, the establishment of a new League of Nations with far greater power over member nations than the last one enjoyed, greater education in current world problems, in the dangers of militarism , and in the value of civil liberties-these measures would go a long way in aiding bewildered statesmen to keep the world at peace. America simply cannot expect to live at peace unless it does its part to promote international morality by methods like those suggested in the last paragraphand these methods, especially the last one, will in the end, prove far more effective than building armaments. John Guiney Darina Tuhy Splash I A streak of white flesh in the water a nd up comes the first in a series of Bucknell Junior College personages. He is John E. Guiney , slim, blonde, aquatic star of the Bucknell Swimming Team , and holder of divers pool records. Guiney's Coughlin High School career is replete with activities which carried the Bucknellian from swimming to dramatics thence to the Presidency of the Aviation, Science, and 1:ii-Y C lubs, Graduating in 1936 the young natator entered Bucknell Junior College and at present is studying a PreLaw Course. team and president of the Lettermen's Club. He is chairman of the school's most honored and responsible society-The Student Government. Springing from the captaincy of the Y. M. C. A. swimming team, an honor conferred upon Guiney in 1933, the popular BU.J C enrollee immediately commenced to garner aquatic laurels. To date, Guiney has been undefeated in ten consecutive meets; is holder of the Pennsylvania State YMCA 100 yard free style and Pennsylvania AAU 50 yard free style. Guiney is captain of the BUJC swim In addition to the promotion of international morality, it behooves us to improve social and economic conditions at home if we wish to prevent war. There is evidence that t he President is coming to realize the truth of this assertion. In his message to Congress he said : "Our nation' s program of social and economic reform is a part of defense as basic as armaments themselves.'' Many feel, like 0. G. Villard, that this is only a half-truth; that "social and economic reform is infinitely more important than armaments, which . . . never kept any country out of war or insured its victory." Guiney plans to enter the University of Pennsylvania next year as a junior. His ambition to become a lawyer serves to introduce the second of our persona lities, Darina Tuhy, who has ambitions o-f b-ecoming a court stenographer. Miss Tuhy, likeable Coughlin High School graduate, class of '37 is enrolled in the Commerce and Finance course at the Junior College. During her high school days, she attai ned recognition as a member of the National Honor Society and "Masquers" (dramatic club.) You'll remember Darina as Dorine in Tartuffe produced recently in the Little Thea ter by the BUJC Thespians. She is also taking an active part in Glee C lub affa irs at the Junior College. Darina hopes to continue her st udies next year at Lewisburg. Are You Interested In--. JI PHOTOGRAPHY STAMP COLLECTING CRAFT WORK PRINTING DANCING INSTRUCTION ARCHERY CHESS What Is Your Hobbyr Get into a Group with the Same Interests at the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION WILKES-BARRE Visit the Y.M.C.A. LUNCHEONETTE -MR. SCHALL �Friday, January, 20, 1939 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Tankers Capture Two Swim Meets; Trounce U. of S., F. & M. Same Week Guiney, Mondry Take B.U.J.C. Quintet Downs First Places Dickinson Junior College 40-36 The Junior College swimming After absorbing a sound trouncing at the hands of the Bucknell University Freshmen last Friday at the local "Y", the Jay Cee cagers went on to Williamsport to topple a strong Dickinson Junior College five by the score of 40-36. The game was a nip and tuck affair until the last three minutes when the locals forged to the front by spectacular shots of Bill Thomas and Bob Hopkins along with the fine defensive playing of Wayne Swanbery and Capt. Albie Baker. Dave Secunda, regular pivot man, was forced to remain at home due a severe cold and his place was taken by Wesley Hershkowitz. Bill Thomas with 16 points; Hopkins with 12; and Swanbery with 8 points led the barrage for the "Baby Bisons". This week the cagers will encounter Wyomissing Poly. Tech at Reading on Friday and will be at home on Saturday against the ScrantonKeystone Junior College team in a Northeastern Penna. League game as the main attraction of a double bill. team captured its first mee of the current season-and of the entire school's history-by defeating a University of Scranton team recently. As usual, Cpatain John Guiney was high "point-get.t er", placing first in the fifty and hundred yard heats. John Mundry, one of last year's veterans, came through in the 220 with the only other first. Jack Mangan garnered two seconds -in the 200 breast stroke and the diving competition - and Dave Evans placed second in the 150 yd. breaststroke. Ken ·Cranston and Bob Conway garnered third places in the 150 yd. backstroke and diving specialties respectively. With the score deadlocked at 31-31 and only the final event remaining, the medley relay team composed of Guiney, Jeter, Cranston, and Mundry came through, making the final score 36-31. (Continued from page 1) ed to find such recent books as Sherman's Cht:,mistry of Food and Nutrition and New Methods of Volumetric Analysis by Oesper and Boettger. Students of economics will find an abundance of excellent reading in such works as Seidman's Labor Playing in the company of ex- Czars; a history of labor racketeering perienced keglers in the Keystone and Sydney Eliot's The English Major Bowling League, the Buck- Co-operatives. In the language department adnell Varsity Bowlers are in fifth ditional dictionaries and grammars position at the end of the first • half of the league schedule. Games have been selected. Prof. Gage was delighted at the are played every Tuesday at the Y. M. C. A. First place is held opportunity to obtain such history by the Esquires, a team composed classics as Baker's Public Papers of "Y" members. Captain Obitz of Woodrow Wilson. History stuis a member of the League's big dents will also have at their ten with his commendable average disposal Diplomatic History of U.S. by Bemis and Causes of Internationof 521. The Intramural Bowling League al War by Dickinson . will resume action again immediately after the exams. The three associated with Woolworth Co. I. men attaining the highest averages R. Shoemaker has been making will represent the Junior College special progress in physics. at the Intercollegiate Bowling ConRalph Ford, who graduated last gress at Philadelphia at the end year has been teaching at Lewisof March. Last year, Bucknell burg High School. placed third in a field of eight Beiswinger and Simmerareworkentrants. ing for the Western Union Co. KEGLERS IN FITTH PLACE WITH mE ALUMNI Manv former students of Bucknell Junior College have gone on to further their education. Among these are Donald Koselle, chemical engineer, and Edward Davis, electrical engineer, both of 1937, who have been elected to membership in Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematical Fraternity. Both Davis and Koselle were student assistants in physics at the Junior College. Albert Ralphs, another former student assistant in physics, is now ~ _ SPORT SHOTS _ The Most Modern - Look Where You May ·11 . r=~= = = = = = = = = = : = : : : ! . I · . The Swimming Team finally came into its own when it defeated the University of Scranton natators in a thrilling last minute rush. The team would be much improved if the boys would take their practice to heart. . . . The highlight of the present basketball season is the annual Wyoming Seminary tussle which always packs the "Y" gym and offers a bang-up game ... Last year under the tutelage of Henry Peters the cagers defeated the ~eminary lads for the first time in five years, only to lose later in the season to to the same team on the winner's court in close game. January 28th is the nite that promises to bring home the bacon for the Bucknellians . . . . The Physical Ed boys have been limbering up their long latent muscles under the careful supervision of instructor Joe Curley ... The "Y" gym is the home · of many aches and pains as evidenced by the smell of rubbing alchohol administered freely after the gym classes . . . However' the boys seem to enjoy the workouts and claim that a sound body and sound · mind go hand in hand . .. The ping pong rooms are scene of much activity especially in regard to the female sex. . . They are quite adept at playing the game until tournament times comes around and then they are harder to find than the hole in the scotchman's pocketbook. .. The boys' tourney is progres!:ing rather slowly after the Christmas layoff but promises to finish before June. . . Red Wallace of Scranton-Keystone will again plague the Junior College team this Saturday ... In The philosophy list includes modern works on personality as well as the classics of renowned philosophers. Engineers will have more handbooks as well as such works as Friser's The Story of En?,ineering in America. and the well-known Builders of Empire by Darrow. A twelve volume set of the Ecyclopedia of Reli?,ion and Ethics and Johnston's Confucianism and Modern China will contribute materials to students of the religion courses. The sociology department, which is constantly in need of recently published sociology books, has finally been enabled to purchase Rainey'sHowFareAmerican Youth and Glueck's Preventing Crime, Calvin Hoover's Dictators and Democracy and many others. Meet the "Gang at-- The Spa Page Three one game last year at LaPlume he scored 40 points against the local team .. He was the unaminous choice for All-League center last year as well as high scorer, being followed by Albie Baker . . . Mac Jones of Seminary now at Keystone, is another one the boys will have to watch . .. Dave Secunda is probably the most improved player on the cage team ... Wayne Swanbery and Bob Hopkins are the hard luck pair while Bill Thomas absorbs the bumps. . . The basketball team has run into some of the strangest men who call themselves referees. . • Colgate Frosh and Dickenson Junior College were considered the worst case of home influence. . . The Dickinson affair resembled a good game of kill them quick or sooner, if possible ... Bill Thomas came out of the melee with a battered lip while several of the other boys were battered and bruised . . . . The Intramural Bowling League will open the second half immediately following the mid year exams. ... The faculty all-star game has been postponed until a favorable time can be found for the faculty to bowl. .. A complete revamping of the teams will be necessary before the faculty will suffer any opposition. Oh yeah . . . . An intramural wrestling tournment will be conducted by the Physical Education Department with Steve Gacha in charge . . . Efforts are being made to enlarge upon such a program so that wrestling eventually will become a major sport here in the Junior College. . . A fine crop of heavy weight bouts are looked forward to . . . JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and I-lats of QUALITY 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre ACE HOFFMAN JOSEPH HOGARTH Commercial Photographer 228 Hazle Street Studios PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Camera and Photographic Supplies 32 W . Market St. Dial 2-1174 �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Four LACK OF RESERVE MATERIAL HANDICAPS COACH THOMAS -TRIVIABy B. L. Th s writer, the other day, accidentally came b v a bit of knowledge that saddened us. We no longe r be'ieve that man is instinctively good . We always suspected t hat there was a fair percentage of evil in the world, but, hi gh up in our ivory tower, we never realized how close to us this thing called cheating was, or to what lengths people g'.) to achieve this nefarious end. But now, roughly snatched from our ivory tower, we realize and, we repeat, it saddens us. Last year, since Junior College English finals were sched uled prior to the Campus tests, certain people lacking ethics exerted themselves to send parts of these tests to friends at the campus, with the result that there was an abnormal number of high marks a nd that scores on certain sections of the tests had to be deducted from the totals. This story seems especially timely in view of the approaching finals. And we don't mean timely in the sense of suggesting a repeated performance. Anyway, those people to whom this might seem a good idea may as well abandon their plans now, for in view of last year' s occurence it seems a sure t hin g t hat the campus's and our exam sched ules will conincide this year. This incident of cheating, which undoubtedly was only one of many, is particularly funny (and we c,311 it funny or.!;: for the lack of a better word) when we recall that it was last year when the a ir was filled with controversy over the advocation (by students) of an Honor System at BUJC. We hope that those people who particpated in this occurrence are no longer at BUJC-and if they are, that they don't sit next to us at any of the coming exams. For a long time now we have been mulling over the fact that the positions of the bulletin boards have been changed and that we do not approve. We finally have decided to act-well, at least to let people know what we think about it . In the beginning we did not say anything about the change, thinking we would be fair and give it a chance to prove itself. Now, time enough has elapsed for students to have become conscious of the change and to have become familiar with the new locations (which, we obstinately think, are in very out-of-theway places), and one would expect, that on posting an announcement, students would see it and respond -well, see it at any rate. This has not proved to be the case. The Beacon posts announcements for a staff meeting, the editors hopefully sit in the office waiting for the reporters to appear, the reporters do not appear, and on being questioned later, say they did not see the announcement. On second thought, it might not be the fault of the bulletin boards b.ut rather that of the reoorteri, At any rate, we'd like a changeeither more prominent bulletin boards or a more observant staff. DEEMER Compliments of-- Friday, January 20, 1939 Hindered by lack of reserve material, Coach Shorty Thomas's BUJC basketballers were handed a heartbreaking defeat by Colgate 42-41, at Hamilton, N. Y. With two seconds of play remaining Taft, Colgate center, made himself the nemesis of the Bucknell squad by letting t .h e ball fly wildly for a Colgate two-pointer and victory. The score is a true indication of a closely fought game. Shorty attributes his defeats to tough breaks and to the fact that the Jay Cees carry a squad of only eight men. The opposing schools are not subject to weakening in the last moments of the game because they can be bolstered by fresh men from their squads of 15 or 16 men . The approach of the second semester brings a ray of hope to the Jay Cees' basketball chances for a former Seminary man, Vic Urban, will bolster the squad. A Sem varsity player for two seasons, Urban is expected to strengthen the team at one of the forward positions. The next four games are of unusual interest to Bucknell fans. After a trip to Reading to play Wyomissing Poly Tech on Jan . 20, the team returns home for a series of three home games: Scranton-Keystonei-Jan. 21, Wyomissing-J a n. 27, and Wyoming Sem. -Jan . 28. The keen rivalry between our cagers and the Sem aggregatio'n is sure to bring forth a large turnout of fans on the night of their encounter. Scores of games to date: B.U .J .C. 32-Y.M.C.A.-46. 54-Susquehanna-S 1 45-U of Scranton-57. 40-Alumni-31. 30-Long Island U.-46. 30-Syracuse-64. 41-Colgate-43. B. U. J. C. QUINTET IN ACTION & COMPANY The Mayflower SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES Public Square Corona Portable Typewriters SODA - - CANDY - - LUNCHES W-B. 6 W . Market St. THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA SUPPLIES OPEN PENNANTS 11 JEWELRY A. M. TO 2:30 CHASE HALL P. M. � 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource Bucknell Beacon, 1939 January 20th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 January 20 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/03b95a5ddc6af869a8a7bca1f405054f.pdf e8a975dab233e717b7bd487cef67b387 PDF Text Text BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 3. Number 4 WILKES-BARRE, PA. MOUERE'S CLASSIC SINFONIETIA PLAYS WILL BE REPEATED BALANCED PROGRAM BY BJC THESPIANS Heard By Large Audience Moliere's masterpiece, Tartujfe, The Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Sinwas presented by the Bucknell fonietta under the direction of Paul Junior College Thespians in the Gies opened its third season on College Theater last night to an December 6 before a large and audience of Junior College students responsive audience which filled The play will be repeated this St. Stephen's Parish House. The afternoon at a matinee perform- remarkably well balanced program ance for school children at a included works ranging from Hanspecial matinee price. On Thurs- del to Granger and Seibelius. day and Friday evenings it will be Gluck's spirited "Overture to presented to adult audiences. The Orpheus" was the orchestra's inilimited seating capacity of the tial number. This classical comCollege Theater necessitates the position was followed by the beauseveral performances, and, if need tiful and moving "Concerto Grosso be, another matinee will be given in D. major" of Handel. on Saturday afternoon, December The unusual "Serenade No. 6" 17. of Mozart followed. One of the After numerous tryouts the cast least "Mozartian" of Mozart's was selected by Miss Norma San- works, this composition was played giuliano, and rehearsals have been jointly by two orchestras, the going on for the last three months. second orchestra consisting of six The characters in the order of first desk men from the regular appearance: Sinfonietta ranks. Dorine-Darina Tuhy The seldom heard "Rakastava Madame Pernelle-Julia Place Suite for String Orchestra and Elmire-Twyla Burkert _ Percussion~ ---Gf)efled the second M ariane--Duris Wiegand group. This brilliant composition, Damis-Robert Nagle (Continued on page 4) Cleante-Jack Gelb Orgon-Robert Graham Valere-Thomas Slattery Tartuffe-Joseph Horoshko M. Loyale-Morris Gevanthor Flipote-Robert Patton The results of the Poll on American Youth which was recently taken in Dr. Wilfrid Crook's Introductory Sociology class prove very interesting. Some of the more significant votes in this Dr. William W. Policoff, Wilkes- questionnaire from The American Barre optometrist and a graduate Observer are listed below. of St. Thomas College, University 1. · Which politi .:al party do of Pennsylvania, and the Penn- you favor? sylvania College of Optics and 2. Would you oppose a presiOphthmology, is conducting a re- dent running for a third term if search in the "diagnosis and cor- you favored him on other grounds? rection of reading disabilities," 3. Do you consider yourself a among students at Bucknell Junior liberal or a conservative? College. Dr. Policoff is being as4. Do you think the governsisted in his work by Miss Dorothy ment has regulated industry too Guerra, a graduate of Misericordia much and too harshly? College. 5. Has the Roosevelt adminisTests, which started in the tration been guilty of spoils politics middle of October, are moving to a greater extent than most other along with great rapidity. Dr. administrations? Policoff has examined more than 6. When you hear of a dispute sixty students since he commenced between employers and workers the tests. Students are given the and before you have had a chance Gray oral reading test and through to study the facts., are your the medium of an Ophthalmo- sympathies ordinarily with the graph, a comprehensive analysis employers or the workers? of student's ability to read silently, 7. Which organization do you the speed of reading, the number regard most favorably: the Chamof fixations (per hundred words), ber of Commerce, the American regressions, and binocular efficiency Federation of Labor, the Comare determined. mittee for Industrial Organization? Dr. Policoff explained that scien8. In the main are you in tific data show that some of the agreement with the federal governmore common types of reading ment's relief program? disability are not due to disturb9. Should America go to war (Continued on page 2) if necessary to maintain the "open CHRISTMAS DANCE TO BE HELD IN HOTEL STERLING· AIDES NAMED ______' HOPKINS HEADS SOCIAL ACTIVITIES At a meeting held December 6, the Student Council appointed a Social Actvities Committee whose function will be to assist the Council in planning the dances, tea dances and other social affairs. This Committee, which will be directly responsible to the Student Student Council, will meet every other Thursday and make suggestions which will be submitted to the Council for approval. The following students make up the Committee: Robert Hopkins,chairman; John Bush, assistant chairman; Thomas Slattery, Council representative; Christine WhiteWhiteman, William Morton; Robbert Conway; James Hunt; Madge Space; Gertrude Jones; Margaret Wolfe; and Betty Schwager. Sociology I00 Class Shows Conservative Trend In Poll OPTOMETRIST CONDUCTS OPTIC RESEARCH TESTS Wednesdag, December 14, 1938 door" in China? 10. Should United States go to war if necessary to keep Germany, Italy, or Japan from gaining control of Latin American nations? 11. Did England and France make a mistake by signing the Munich agreement? 12. Which name "fascism" or "communism" sounds worse or more menacing to you? 1. Repulican, 19; Democrats, 9; Socialist, 1. 2. 15, yes; 15, no. 3. Conservative,16; Liberal,14. 4. 14, yes; 15, no; 3, uncertain. 5. 12, yes; 10, no; 10, uncertain. 6. Workers, 18; Employers, 10. 7. Ch. of Com.,21; A.F.of L.,7; C.1.0, 1. 8. 11, yes; 19, no; 2, uncertain. 9. 5, yes; 25, no; 1, uncertain. 10. 19, yes; 9, no; 3, uncertain. 11. 22, yes; 5, no; 4, uncertain. 12. Fascism, 22; Communism, 8. One interesting fact stood out. Many Republicans claimed to be Liberal and voted for "New Deal" measures. Some Democrats claimed to be Conservative and voted against "New Deal" measures. In general there was much crossvoting, indicating that the students had not hardened into a stereotyped pattern of thought on many questions. Perhaps the answers to (12) were the most surprising. Ralph Paul's Band To Play; Record Crowd Expectd The Annual Christmas Dance of Bucknell University Junior College will be held in the Cyrstal Ballroom of Hotel Sterling, Thursday evening, December 29. Dancing will be from 9 'til 1. Ralph Paul and his Music Masters will play for dancing. Having gained considerable popularity throughout the past summer during his tour of the east, Ralph Paul and his Band will be the feature of the Bucknell Yuletide dance. Every indication points to a record crowd, including many Bucknell Junior College alumni, friends, as well as members of this year's classes. The dance will be chaperoned by Dr. and Mrs. Farley and Mr. and Mrs. Faint. John _Guiney is general chairman of the dance committee, which includes the following co-chairmen: Tickets, Robert Nagle; Decoration, John O'Malley; Publicity, John Bush. John O'Malley, as chairman of the Decorations Committee, will be assisted by the following students: Lillian Celmer, Gertrude Jones, Ruth Smith, Eugene Rogers, Jack Smith, Joseph Jimison, and James Roski. MARTS EXPLAINS COLLEGE POLICIES In a recent chapel program at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, President Arnaud Marts answered various questions on administration policy put to him by the Student-Faculty Congress. Naturally, not all the questions related to the Junior College, but several are. The answers presented here are not verbatim as given by Dr. Marts. 1. To what extent does the University favor student self-government? To a great extent; as much as the students desire, with more of it as time goes on. 2. What college records are available for students, i. e., why are numerical grades not made avialable? It is the practice of 31 out of 33 colleges in Pennsylvania to use the letter system, instead of a numerical one. The practice of giving letter grades is accepted generally by the educational systems of today, in high schools as well as colleges. Numerical grades may be shown to parents who wish to know them. (Continued on page 3) �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wednesday, December 14. 1938 CURRENTLY SPEAKING Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania By M. E. Bessie Lewis Co-Editors . Murray Edelman Helen Coats Michael Polk Jerome Greenwald Associate Editors Lillian Celmer, Joseph Jimison, Ruth Goldstein, Joseph Kornblatt Reporters Mary Donnelly, John Bush, Mary Brislin, Arthur Davies, Leon Wazteer, Joy Bodycomb Gertrude Jones, Jane Boyd, Russel H. Grebe, George Dickinson, Irene Betz. Business Manager . Robert Nagle Business Assistants Lydia Greenbaum, Zelda Mangel, Florence Mangel . Genevieve Brennan Exchange Editor and Proofreader Advisory Board . . Miss Barbara Ryerson. Walter Thom3s Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50. PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS.,,...@ INCORPORATED L. I. D. LECTURE SERIES . . . . In pursuit of the BEACON editorial policy of reporting and discussing community events of cultural and intellectual value, we would like to call to the attention of the students the forthcoming series of discussion lectures to be presented by the League for Industrial Democracy. The League for Industrial Democracy is a national society, which. by its own definition, is "engaged in education toward a social order base<l on production for use and not for profit... T awards this end, the League presents lectures by outstanding men who are authorities in their fields in cities where there are organized chapters of the League or similar groups interested in practical plans for social' control. Although the words "social control" might suggest to a few a radical group engagec;l in sul:,versive activities, this far from che truth. A glance at the list of officers of the league would reveal such distinguished names as John Dewey, Harry Laidler, Norman Thomas, and Stuart Chase, and in each community the sponsors of the lectures include men of achievement and responsible position. The speakers in this year's series of six lectures, which begins January 25 and continues through the next six weeks, are all exceptionally well-suited to discuss their particular subject. Dr. Jesse Holmes, who will begin the series with a lecture entitled "Democracy in Crises", is the Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Swarthmore College and a student of social trends. Dr. Joel Seidman, who has studied and written extensively on labor and has been associated with the Economics Department of Johns Hopkins and Brookwood Labor College, is to speak on · The Middle Class and Organized Labor." Rev. John P. Jones, of Union Church, New York City, and Dr. Frederico Bach, faculty member of National University of Mexico and special economic advisor to the Mexican Ministry, will lecture respectively on "Home..-. for America-A First Line of Defense" and "Problems of Mexico." "World Trends Toward Democracy and Dictatorship" will be discussed by the noted columnist and lecturer, Ludwig Lore, and the series will end with Norman Thomas, who is known to all through his books and speeches.speaking on "Democracy and Social Planning... Readers of the BEACON may feel that this series of lectures has too limited an appeal to be treated here at such length, and that the listing of the particular speakers is not necessary or suited to the editorial page. We think that the listings of the speakers is justified by the fact that it illustrates the high caliber and qualifications of the type of people conducting the series, and that the appeal of the series to the Junior College students will probably be increased by an editorial such as this which explains a movement about which they had heard vaguely but had not been fully informed. College students who are alert to the world about them should be particularly interested in the L. I. D. or similar lecture programs. It is at this age that most young people begin to think about social, economic, and political conditions, and, at times, either become confused in mind due to propaganda and inaccurate information, or blindly follow one guide, becoming chained to one set of ideals which app_eal to them. To prevent either of these conditions of mind-confused or biased-students should take advantage of every opportunity where they can secure accurate, authoritve information. College students, it is alleged, occupy that status as a result of their desire to receive specialized training, and/ or to receive general mental awakening. The stimuation to careful thought motivated by lectures such as these presented by the L. J.D. is too important to allow neglect. SERVICE ENGRA\'ERS ~ NEWSPAPER CUTS - CATALOGUES ~ SCHOOL ANNUALS -COLOR ENGRAVINGS IIS·lll SOUTH MAIN• WILKES·BARRE Sound and fury in deafening volume emanate from Washington these invigorating winter days. For the brass hats and jingos, inspired by the vast new armaments program, are very, very close to Nirvana. With their shining new arms the one hundred percent isolationist, flag-waving, "the best - way - to - avoid - war - is to - be - armed - to - the - hilt" nationalists, bless their hearts, will soon be ready and eager to defend the gates of Washingtonin Asia or Europe. Or is it Greenland or Costa Rica? This "fourth New Deal" as columnists are terming the armaments plan is difficult to reconcile with the sound foreign policy which Mr. Hull and Mr. Roosevelt have pursued thus far. The reciprocal trade agreements with almost all Latin American republics as well as Great Britain and Canada, the encouragement of international morality, the settlement of the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute, the belated recognition of Russia, and now the vigorous (though not vigorous enough) denunciation of Hitler's latest savagery are all distinguished monuments to the competence of our State Department. I say the armaments program is difficult to reconcile with this sound foreign policy because armaments on such a vast scale are not only unnecessary but positively dangerous. Let us consider these points-se7'>arcftety.:;.. I gather that the militarists want the increase in araments (1) to lend weight to the words of our diplomats should we be involved in another "Munich", (2) to defend both our coasts as well as the entire Western Hemisphere from attack by an Asiatic or European nation, (3) to defend our foreign policies-the Monroe Doctrine, Open Door, etc. While these may sound like justifiable reasons, a little thought discloses their shallowness. Another Munich would call for real diplomats rather than an increase in armaments ad nauseam. Competent observers agree that Chamberlain and Daladier could have secured peace without disgrace had they done less bungling and vacillating and called Hitler's bluff. DR. POLICOFF. .. (Continued from page 1) According to Dr. Policoff, efficient reading is not determined primarily · by intelligence, because these tests show that a student with a high "I. Q." is not necessarily a good reader. In accounting for the wide variability in reading performance, the compensatory capacity of the individual must be taken into consideration. As long as the defect remains within the limit of compensation, he may progress fairly well, but as soon as the limit is reached he becomes identified with a group which Dr. Policoff called "problem cases." Many students who have reach- As to defend the hemisphere, it is both impossible and unnecessary. If any enemy crossed the Atlantic and landed at, say, Plymouth Rock the Plynouth, Mass. police force could probably handle them. Spain has proved that modern warfare is drawn out, and the necessity for first crossing an ocean would make an enemy's chances exceedingly slim. Major J. F. Eliot's recent book, The Ramparts We Watch, holds that we need a slight increase in armaments and greater administration efficiency, but anything more is sheer jingoism. A still more pressing argument against greater armaments is the harmful consequences which these are almost certain to bring. The super-patriots, who are even now curtailing civil liberties, will be encouraged. The knowledge that we have arms will encourage us to use them on the slightest pretext; populations who feel they are powerful enough are uncanny in their ability to find a pretext for fighting a "defensive" war. The badly needed New Deal program of social reforms will probably be curtailed because the necessary funds will be used to build armaments. Worst of all, the inevitable militaristic spirit may well encourage the appearance here of fascism; we have several potential "men on horseback". Also, somebody may get the bright idea that we ought to have compulsory militMY t ~ te teaeh y:EmRgSir Galahads to use the nice new armor. The resulting spread of militarism and the curtailment of useful production would almost certainly kill democracy. And there is always the danger that the savage procedure of using troops to quell strikes will be revived. Here, then, is a grave situation. Fortunately there is every evidence that the armaments bill will have anything but smooth sailing in the next Congress. And it is significant that many conservative elements join with progressive ones in opposition to it. The defeat of the armaments appropriations bill would be a most reassuring sign that the spirit of democracy and true liberalism is still very much alive in these United States. ed college find it impossible to accomplish the required work because they cannot read comprehensively, never having developed the mechanical skill that would enable them . to grasp through units. Dr. Policoff pointed out that since 1900, the reading load of college students has been multiplied by five, and that from ten to twenty per cent of all college students show some type of reading disability. The purpose of the tests at BUJC is to determine those who are below normal in reading ability and try to help correct the deficiency present. �Wednesday, December, 14, 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON CAGERS TO BATTLE STRONG L. I. FROSH ON DECEMBER 28 - SPORT SHOTS The Alumni basketball game has been scheduled for Wednesday December 21 , at 2:00 P. M . . . Eddie Davis, Duncan Thomas, Leon Kolanowski, Don McHugh, Bill Atherholt, Vincent Loftus, Bill Thomas, Andy Giermack, "Snitz" Reimensnyder, and Coach "Shorty" Thomas will ba ttle the Jay Cees in an attempt to garner their first win in five years. . . A reception will be held in Chase Hall for the Alumni immediately following the game. . . . The M. I. T. faculty keglers will tangle with an All-Star team to be selected from the Intra-mural league . . . The list will be posted this week. . . Watch for it. . . The Annual Alumni bowling match will be staged on Friday, December 30 .. . John Bush, Jack Berry, Joe Curley, "Slats" Obitz, and W alt Th omas are out to avenge last year's defeat at the hands of a superior Alumni outfit . . The girl 's ping pong tournament, contrary to reports, is in the last throes of what seems to be a fatal illness. . . There was a time when a terrific outcry was heard from the members of the fair sex because they received no benefit from any physical education program. Now that something has been done about it, interest in the program has fallen flatter than the proverbial pancake ... Chris Whiteman has done everything in her power to arouse interest, but to no avail. .. Is it a swan song for the female sex? Must we insist that you play your match under supervision? . Why not snap out of the etherial regions and cooperate with the physical education department and Chris Whiteman . .. Another group of students need a father's advice. Whoever has the habit of breaking the pool and ping pong equipment should he made to pay for the same . . . Whv not work it on the basis of. . . I break-I fix. . . GIRL'S TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY UNDERWAY An active interest has been shown in the ping-pong tournament by the girls of BUJC. When the announcement was made a fortnight ago, the members of the fair sex forgot entirely any new wrinkle in dress-wear and could not pause long enough to talk about "hats," but they hastened to the recreation rooms in Chase Hall to demonstrate their superiority in the fine art of table-tennis. Amid cheers (and laughter) the novices sauntered forth with great optimism and were defeated in the series by more experienced players. The Sophomore Sportswomen were completely surprised at the ability of the Freshman Fems. Although the tournament is not yet com- Basketball seems to be the revived art since the team has overcome the weaknesses so evident in the Y. M. C. A. game . . . Long Island Frosh, next opponents of the Jay Cees are in for a busy night according to Coach Thomas . . . Swanberry, Hopkins, Baker, Secunda, and Hershkowitz form a smooth offense and a zone defense that is hard to break up ... Bill Thomas, Earl Haefele, John Kuschel, and John Dooley form dependable reserve material. Reports are that the Jr. College has the most evenly balanced squad in its history . .. The swimming squad, under the capable direction of Slatz"" Obitz, is headed for its best season in many years ... Too much cannot be said of the fine spirit displayed by the team and the manner in which they go through their practice routine. . . Tryouts for freshman and sophomore volleyball teams will be held after the Christmas Holidays. A varsity squad will be selected from these teams. Steve Gacha will inaugurate his boxing program also immediately after the holidays. . . Bouts will be staged during the regular gym periods with practically every male student participating. . . . The weights will run from 95 to the heavyweight division. . . . Bill Thomas, Bill Morton, John Emanski, and Irwin Freed readhed the finals in their respective divisions last year ... The winners receive suitable awards at the Annual Letterman's Banquet in May . . . . The examination in physical education will cover rules in basketball, volleyball, and handball . . . . Marks will be based upon attendance, willingness to participate in Gym activities, and the test mark. Those who have not completed the number of hours required in physical education will not be allowed to take the examination . .. A list will be posted shortly. . . pleted, the final series promises to be hard-fought. Among the final participants are Christine Whiteman, (who is in charge of the tourney), Darina Tuhy, Joy Bodycomb, and an upper-county entry, Doris Wiegand. The list of the victors and vanquished is posted on the bulletin board in the recreation room in Chase Hall. DEEMER & COMPANY SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES Corona Portable Typewriters 6 W . Market St. Page Three W-B. On Wednesday, December 28, the Bucknell Jay Cees will swing into action against a veritable troup of goliaths in the form of the Long Island University Frosh, an undefeated high-scoring team of national fame. This game will be the high spot of the Bucknell season, and if our Jay Cees come through with a victory, Coach Shorty Thomas will call this a Islanders can be estimated by the following heights of their players: Applegate 5'11" · Schaefer 6'2" · Gimpel, 6~3"; Si~10n, 5'11'~; Sch~ neider, 5'11"; Denberg, 6'2"; Zeithen, 5'11"; Mulhern, 6'4"; Rathjan, 6'2"; Walterson, 6'2" ; Cantor, 6'; Luckiger, 6'2": and Melofchik, 6' . Coach Thomas has the following men, undoubtedly of smaller sta- Swanbery, Hopkins, Secunda, Kuschel, Hershkowitz, Haeffle, Dooley. Captain Baker was absent when picture was taken. banner year, regardless of whether the rest of the games are won or lost. Last year, more than 600 fans packed the local " Y" gym to see the Long Island team win out over the Jay Cees in a hard fought, close scoring game. A similar turnout is expected to witness these teams play again this year, the valley fans being well aware of the calibre of the Long Island team. · This is the only game of the year at which the Student Activities cards will not be recognized. A reduced price of twenty-five cents is being offered to .the students of the college. The amount of student admission to this game should hardly be thought of since two games will be played, the opening game at 7 :30 bringing together the Scranton Jay Vees and the Wilkes-Barre "Y". The towering size of the Long ture than the Long Island team, from which to choose his starting five:--Swanbery,Hupkins, Seci:rn:da, Baker, Hershkowitz, Thomas, Dooley, Padlick, and Wazeter. On Friday, December 2, the Jay Cees journeyed to Selinsgrove to defeat the strong Susquehanna quintet in a thrill- packed game by the score of 54-52 . The smoothness arid swiftness with which the whole team cooperated was the telling factor in the victory for the Jay Cees. Starring on the offense were Captain Albie Baker and Bob Hopkins. The stalwarts on the defense were Dave Secunda, Wayne Swanbery, and Wes Hershowitz. "Bim" Thomas played a bang-up game throughout, frequently coming through with a two-pointer when it was needed. At no time during the game did either team possess more than a 5 point lead. MARTS. .. (Continued From page 1) 3. What is the attitude of the University toward cuts? Students are supposed to attend all classes. Mr. Marts added his opinion, which was that if you are paying ten dollars a semester hour for your classes you are "balmy" if you cut. 4. How does the University justify the requirement that a portion of the last two years be taken outside the field of concentration? Graduate schools write to the University requesting that students have as much cultural background as possible and that the grad schools do the concentrating. College is the only place where one has a chance to get a good cultural background in all fields. ACE HOFFMAN Studios PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Camera and Photographic Supplies 32 W . Market St. Dial 2-1174 Meet the "Gang at-- The Spa The Most Modern - Look Where You May �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Four TRIVIA By B. L. A few of you who are faithfu I readers of this column (and judging from the volume of criticism we get there (must be more than a few) may remember that several issues back we indulged ourselves in self-pity because no one ever contributed anything to us, and that we lamented the fact that we never got any fan mail. Also these same faithful readers may remember the column in the last issue in which we attacked those people who demand a gossip column and in which we thought we justified this column's policy of no gossip. Both these columns have been answered-and in one blow. Our !amen t on the lack of fan mail has been answered by a letter which is at the same time a response to our attack of the gossip-lovers. Even the fact that this is a nasty letter containing derogatory remarks to ourselves does not kill our pride in receiving this column's first legitimate letter. In view of the BEACON'S policy of acting as an outlet of student opinion (and also in view of the fact that this letter is just as trivial as anything we could possibly think up) we print in full the letter. B . L. who writes Trivia: In the last edition of the Beacon, we the students, found two columns under an appropriatf, he.:!<lirig-Trivia-(don't believe the dictionary-it leaves out the "I".) which holds itself up as a model and scorns a gossip column which we believe is the spice and life of all school papers. To quote a part of the contents, "and the most often repeated complaint deals with the desirabilty of having a gossip column." So we understand that since the most of us desire a gossip column, the policy of the paper will be "No Gossip"! Because the German people want freedom of press and religion, Hitler's policy is "no freedom of press and no freedom of religion." Of course we wouldn't say that there is any similarity of policy there-or would we? Do not misunderstand us. We do not mean that we itch to find out who kissed Margie behind what bookcase in which library, but we do believe that such true nonsense would create a lot of innocent fun when read in the Beacon. Don't believe that college students are different from high school students. People don't change over night. In closing we suggest that the author of Trivia discard the word gossip which hints "Old maids." That is far from what we want our column of dirt and humor to be . Finally we hope that the warped humor of the author of Trivia becomes enlivened before it goes to seed and that a few gallons of moist spice be sprinkled to irrigate the Trivia Desert. We will try to answer this letter point by point-leaving out those points which are obvious to our more intelligent readers. (1) The writer says we are trivial. We admittedly are and would hesitate, after reading this letter to be any more intellectual for fear that certain of our readers would not understand . (2) Although we still do scorn a gossip column, we do not set ourselves up as a model, but merely pound out so many words an issue trying not to violate too many of our ideals. (3) Regarding the second paragraph, we fear the writer either reads · too hastily or understands too slowly. We· did not say that most of the students want a gossip column, but that most of the students who complain comp- Wednesday, December 14, 1938 lain about the lack of a gossip column. Of course, this may be too fine a point. Regarding Hitler and us, do you think you would be able to express your opinions about him in a paper whose subject matter he controlled? (4) Personally we do not see where "such true nonsense" would create "a lot of innocent fun", but then, some people play bridge or pinochle and others get just as much fun out of tiddleywinksso there you are. (5) If college students aren't at all different from high school students, the professors have certainly been fooled for a long time. They think, and base their teaching methods upon it, that college students are capable of more and better thought, but we think this wrong attitude of theirs may be cleared up by your letter. (6) This last suggestion, that we discard the word "gossip" because of its connotation had us baffled for awhile. It seems that "gossip", which word we use, has a not-very-nice connotation, but that "dirt", which our "fan" uses, is practically synonomous with clean, wholesome humor. (Continued from page l) unmistakably Sibelian, is one which we should hear more often. It is poignantly expressive and the orchestra's exquisite rendition of its lovely lyric contrasts was enthusiastically applauded. Grieg's "Nordic Tunes for Strings", reflecting the beauty and simplicity of the Norwegian countryside, was also well received. The scheduled program concluded with "Mock Morris Dance" by the modern English composer, Percy Grainger. In response to the prolonged applause Professor Gies obliged with two encores: an original dance by Franz Schubert and a hurlesque composition, "Oh Dear, What can the Matter Be!" by Cyril Scott. Well played throughout, the program displayed the versatility of which the Sinfonietta is capable. The mellow quality of the violins and celli was exceptionally fine, and the use of tympani for the first time in a Sinfonietta concert was justified by the added fullness which this innovation lent. By B.G. and M. E. Visit the Y.M.C.A. LUNCHEONETTE -MR. SCHALL An Ideal all Year Round-- Christmas Gift JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and Give Him I-lats of A Membership In The QUALITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre WILKES-BARRE COLLEGE THE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA SUPPLll:S OPl:N Pl:NNANTS 11 Jl:Wl:LRY A. M. TO 2:30 CHASE HALL P. M. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Bucknell Beacon, 1938 December 14th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 December 14 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/b01317585ad832871c2b8634d2a4cac5.pdf 8ca05a2ad6a302e3dad20b1ca870baea PDF Text Text ••• • Wiener's Band Booked For Dance On 23rd ••• • BUCKNELL BEACON Volume 3. Number 3 ELIZABETH KLINEDINST NEW COLLEGE LIBRARIAN WILKES-BARRE, PA. Tuesdag, November 8, 1938 DIRECTOR'S HOME, WECKESSER'S DONATION, TO HOUSE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM; PLAN RECEPTIONS IN NEAR FUTURE Observe Dance Rules Mr. Blankenship informs us that the response to the suggestions for conduct at dances which were published in the last Beacon has been decidedly gratifying. Everyone will certainly want to keep up the good work. M ay we suggest again that all st udents at school dances speak to the chaperons either on entering or leaving. FROSH ELECT O'MALLEY Building May Become PRESIDENT; HAEFELE, College Dorm. BUSH, BROWN WIN DRAMATIC STUDENTS TO PRODUCE Tartuffe Miss Elizabeth W. Klinedinst A great lo~ for books .has char acterized the life of Miss Elizabeth W. Klinedinst, new librarian at Bucknell Junior College. Miss Klinedinst, who assumed her new duties last week, has always had an intense love for books and their contents. The new librarian, a native of York, Pa., is the daughter of Attorney and Mrs. David P. Klinedinst of York. Her father, who is a former district attorney of York County, also served as State Senator from York County more than a score of years ago. Miss Klinedinst received her elementary and secondary education in York public schools. She attended Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, situated about 12 miles north of Lynchburg , Va., where she was awarded her Bachelor of Arts' degree in 1935. In 1936, she attended the School of (Continued on page 4) Dean Will Show Films Dr. R. Sutherland, Dean of Men and Professor of Sociology on the campus, and joint author of the text now being used at the Junior College in Sociology 100, will present a most interesting film on the Bootleg Coal industry in Pennsylvania, on Thursday, November 17th. Dr. Sutherland took the films himself quite recently, and will describe the conditions in the bootleg mines and discuss the causes that bring about coal bootlegging. A second film on the same type will be presented by a superintendent of a Tamagua mine. Moliere's classic, Tartuffe, will be the first dramatic production of this year given by the Bucknell Junior College Thespians. The play was read by several members of the club and was then chosen as the first major performance of the Junior College, to initiate the new College Theatre, where all performances will be given. It was thought that a play of this type would be especially appropriate for commemorating the inauguration of the building in the rear of Chase Hall as a College Theatre. It is unusual for a Junior College the size of Bucknell to attempt so difficult a play as Moliere's famous comedy, Tartuffe. But with last year's success in presenting an equally difficult piece of work in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , Miss Norma Sangiuliano a nd the Thespians feel enough confidence to attempt another classic. A tentative cast has already been selected, after several try-outs, and some rehearsing is now under way. It is expected that the play will be given sometime in December. The stage in the College Theatre will have to be enlarged and further alterations will be required of the ceiling above the stage before it could be in readiness for a performance of this kind . Because the play requires no changes in scenery, the College Theatre is well adapted for its production. The Thespians, who recently enjoyed a Hallow'en party, are looking forward to the annual trip to New York during the Thanksgiving vaction. Not only will they view some of this season's most outstanding plays, but they will also have opportunity to go backstage and meet Broadway actors John O'M~lley Freshman Class of the Junior College has selected the following class officers for the current school year: John O'Malley, president; John Bush, vice-president; Shirley Brown, secretary, and Earl Haefele treasurer. Dave Secunda and Thomas Slattery were named represe ntatives of the boys in the Bucknell Student Council. Among the girls, a threeway tie resulted; the representaative will be sleeted during Tuesday's chapel excercises. Eleanor Parry, Mary Brislin, and Lydia Greenbaum tied for coveted position. O'Malley and Bush are graduates of Kingston High School. President O'Malley was a member of the Kingston High School Honor Society a nd was captain of the tennis team in his senior ·year. Vice-president Bush was editor of the Kingstonian yearbook and managed the tennis team in his senior year. O'Malley is enrolled in a Bachelor of Science at Bucknell Jr. College and is a member of the swimming team. Bush is enrolled in Bachelor of Arts course. He is a member of the Glee Club, and intra-mural bowling league and newspaper staff. Shirley Brown graduated from Meyers High School in 1938 and was active in sports at the Wilkes(Continued on page 4) The new building which was recently added to the Bucknell Junior College through the generosity of Mr. Weckesser is destined to become a very important factor in our college life. Since the building is so constructed that alterations would be required to make it into either a library or class building, it was decided that the best use would be that of a residence for Dr. and Mrs. Farley. A part of the building is to be set aside as a Collegium Musicum where classes will meet and where Professor Gies will have on display his collection of old instruments. A library of recordings wi!l also be located here so that students may hear the music which corresponds to the periods studied in the courses. Each year an increasing number of students not only apply for tuition but also for board. If in the future the Board of Trustees find it necessary and fitting, this building will be available for dormitory use. During the school year a number of social affairs for faculty, stud en ts and alumni will be held in the new home. Dr. and Mrs. Farley and members of the faculty have long wished to increase the number of such occasions in order that all Bucknellians might strengthen and renew acquaintances. The convinent location and commodious size of this new home make possible a realization of these desires. In the near future two such receptions are planned. One will be held for those friends of the Junior College who have contributed to its development by creating a fund for the conditioning of Conyngham and Chase Halls, and for the members of the University faculty at Lewisburg. The second reception will be for alumni and students. It will be held during Christmas vacation. TO FORM NEW CLUB Dr. Joseph Miller has announced that a Philosophy Club, open to all students interested in discussing contemporary philosophical problems, will be organized at an early date. It is likely that the Club will meet on Sunday afternoons at a cottage available to it in the Poconos. �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Tuesday, November 8, 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON .Page Two CURRENTLY SPEAKING Wilkes-Barre, ,Pennsylvania By M. E. Bessie Lewis Co-Editors . Murray Edelman Helen Coats J Michael Polk 1 Jerome Greenwald Associate Editors Reporters Lillian Celmer, Mary Donnelly, John Bush, Mary Brislin, Joseph Jimison, Arthur Davies, Leon Wazteer, Joy Bodycomb Ruth Goldstein, Gertrude Jones, Jane Boyd, Russel H. Grebe, Joseph Kornblatt. Business Manager . Robert Nagle Business Assistants Lydia Greenbaum, Zelda Mangel, Florence Mangel Exchange Editor . . Genevieve Brennan Advisory Board . Miss Barbara Ryerson. Walter Thom'.ls Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year : $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50. PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. LLEWELLYN BROS.~@ INCORPORATED The Community Welfare Drive-Our generation is used to being told annually that this year, due to widespread poverty, unemployment , and misery, we must make a special effort to give until it hurts---or until it feels good. And yet we need not be told. We know. Just as the depression began we reached the age where these things began to impress us-and they have been impressing us with increasing force year each year since. One would be an incredibly unseeing clod to have grown up in Wyoming Valley during the depression without acquiring an abiding humanitarianism. Had the process of being instilled with humanitarianism been incomplete before, international developments of the last few months would certainly have completed it. The spectacle of two bullies and two frightened statesmen (neither experienced in the trickery of crisis diplomacy) condemning thousands crf peopt-e--"'t o ~ t slav:ery or penniless vagabondage is not one to leave Americans of sensibility unmoved. Little of enduring value can be done to relieve these fugitives from fascist heartlessness until our own needy are cared for. Finally, our training in the social sciences has taught us the practical folly of a callous attitude toward human wretchedness. Poverty is contagious in a closely interdependent nation and world. Wyoming Valley has treated Bucknell Junior College well. Let us show that we too can be generous when the need arises. The Community Welfare Federation Drive will be open on November 11. It will be seriously handicapped by lack of local newspapers. Bucknell students can help-not only by making the Junior College's contribution a big one, but by urging others to give. Letter To The Editor Elect Celmer Secty.; Plan Lunch Meetings To the Editor of the Beacon: Have you ever been disgusted? Well, we are! And we believe that you will be if you will reread the editorial of the previous publication concerning the lack of a social room in Conyngham Hall. We feel that you should have taken a positive stand on the issue rather than your decidedly neutral one. Whether the stand be for or against the use of the Conservatory as a social room is not for us to judge, that is up to the editor, but we do feel that editorials such as this should express a definite opinion. Why a paper should stand on the fence and throw bouquets to both sides is beyond our comprehension. Let us have a paper whose editorial policy the students need not be ashamed of, one which will take a definite stand on any subject under consideration. M. J. McCague . I. R. C. Begins Year's Program The International Relations club under the supervision of Professor D. J. Gage, reorganized on Oct. 28, in the Reception Room at Chase Hall. Lillian Celmer was elected secretary and the following committee was appointed to plan tentative program for theyear: Zelda Mangel, Mary Brislin, Abe Mandlovitz and Thomas Slattery. Lillian Celmer, Margaret Moore, and Murray Edelman, sophomores agreed to lead a discussion on ''The Probable Effects of the Recent Realignment of World Powers" at the next meeting. The Club plans to invite persons versed in various aspects of the international scene to speak at future meetings. Luncheon meetings may be arranged shortly. In conversations on foreign affairs Margaret Moore reveals a clear concept of the problems involved, a gift for lucid exposition, and a thoroughgoing liberalism - all of which, make her an ideal guest columnist for Currently Speaking. She has f!.enerously consented to act in that capacity for this issue. By Margaret Moore In the past whenever my viewpoint has dissented from that of the general, ofttimes the accusation, "You're just prejudiced," has been cast at me. In all due sincerity I have resented this criticism. I believe that the following statements are based on reason and not on unreason. Therefore, to me they represent convictions. I am out of step with certain aspects of college life! An intelligent girl would not attempt to interpret the international scene. It is a decided attempt to detract from the marked superiority of the male. The punishment resorted to is known by the specialized term, "engagement boycott." In spite of these well-known axioms, I have consented to "beard the lion in his den." The fact that the present international chaos is a result of the unjust peace treaty of Versailles is a familiar statement subject to very little disagreement. Today, we hear about another peace treaty thee Mun.i.ch-Ea.ct. Concerning that treaty there is much dissension. Are Chamberlain and Daladier to be hailed as followers of the Prince of Peace or as modern Judas Iscariots? Each to his own opinion. I remember during the terrible tenseness of the Czechoslovakian situation the many earnest conversations that I had with my friends. Sympathy was predominantly with the Czechs. Perhaps I should say that feelings were in favor of democracy versus dictatorship. German demands ostensibly for the cessation of the Sudeten territory reached such an exhorbitant height that it seemed the Czechs would be forced to fight. I recall the thrilling feeling I experienced when I read that France would keep her treaty with Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia. Here was a chance for the democracies to test the omnipotence of collective security. The democracies failed-and peace was preserved at what expense and for how long? Trusting the word of a man who had already broken his _promises four times internationally, the brilliant leaders of the democratic nations consented to the dismemberment of a fellow democracy. Mr. Hitler had said that he would seek no more territorial demands. Some of us recall, however, that somewhere in Mein Kampf he said that he would not rest until the annihilation of France and Russia was a "fait accompli". In respect to the former he has already been partially successful. France, due to the Munich Pact, has been relegated to the status of a third class power. No small nation can trust her word. She is simply the hand-maiden of Great Britain, and with Chamberlain representing England the outward aspect is not very appetizing. If Franco were to be victorious, France would be completely surrounded by Spanish, Italian, and German fascism. M. Daladier realizes this, I am quite sure. I wonder if the majority of French people did when they feted him on his return from Germany. Reverberations from this treaty have been felt all over the world. In Europe, the small nations in tune with Britain's new policy are wooing the dictators. Roumania has become completely totalitarian. In America, Federal men have uncovered a Nazi espionage system. In South America, there has been renewed fascist activity. In Palestine, British loss of prestige has resulted in Arab uprisings. Today it is Hitler who demands. His price for peace is never at a standstill. His new demands call for return of former German South African colonies, complete abrogation of any treaties with the U.S. S.R. It is not hard to visualize the present governme'nts of France and Great Britain acceding to these demands. The Munich Pact has left the world uneasy, dependent on the whims of the dictators. The vacillating actions of the _g_~tnOGra.tjc..Jli)wers have r.esulted in._ a stronger entrencnmtmt of fascism. We in America are not wholly guiltless. Our blind isolation was instrumental in bringing about this dubious peace best understood in Lord Beaverbrook's commendation of Chamberlain's action which said in effect, "It was necessary to preserve our class, our property, our system." CHAPEL SPEAKER TALKS ON COMMUNITY CHESTS The student body heard an inspiring speech on the history of the Community Welfare Federation,by Mr. Van Huying, director of the Children's Social Center, during the assembly for Nov. 1. In 1913, according to Mr. Van Huyning, Cleveland established the first Community Chest, by which the contributions of the public were divided among the seperate social agencies of that city. Other towns and cities throughout the United States followed Cleveland's example, until today there are fourhundred seventy-five Community Chests scattered throughout the land. These chests receive approximately $85,000,000,000 a year in contributions. The chief result of the community welfare system of annual drives, Mr. Van Huyning believes, is that it teaches the people of the communities "to think and act together." This year the local drive is under the chairmanship of Mr. E. B. Mulligan, Jr., who is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bucknell Junior College �Tuesday, November, 8, 1938 '38-'39 CAGE SEASON OPENS NOVEMBER 26 With November 26th, the date of the opening game with the much rivaled Y. M. C. A. Varsity fast approaching, the details of the Jay Cees basketball squad, its coach, and its manager, are rounding into shape in fine fashion. The Jay Cees will be second to none when the garb of well dressed basketball teams is discussed this season. Our boys will attain the center of attraction this year when they take the floor for "warm-up" practice in their jockey satin jackets of blue and white with "BJC" in block letters across the back. Under this will be the jerseys of white with a blue striping on the sides--having on the front in blue, "BUCKNELL". White with blue striping and a blue belt to contrast will be the color scheme of the trunks worn. After weeks of diligent practice every afternoon (including Saturdays), Coach "Shorty" Thomas is able to form a tentative lineup. At forward positions, he has selected Captain Albie Baker and Wayne Swan berry; slated for the pivot post is Dave Secunda, while for the guards he has chosen Bob Hopkins and either Haefele, Hershkowitz, Podgorski, or Dooley. There has been one addition and also a revision to the Jay Cees Schedule. The added treat will be the Penn State Extension Five at Pottsville on Saturday, Feb01ary 4th. The dates of the games with the Campus team from Lewisburg, January 14, away, and Mar. 4th, home, have been reversed. Realizing that many a game has been lost by a margin of one point, a foul, Coach Thomas has established a system of practice in foul shooting which is beneficial to the boys in more ways than one. Each night, every member of the squad attempts 30 fouls. At the end of the week, rewards are given in the form of football tickets to the player having the largest total number of successful attempts and to the player who has made the best consecutive number. The whole team is out to win the tickets for the Homecoming game at Lewisburg on November 19th with George Washington U. Irwin Freed,the Varsity Manager has been forced to assume entire managerial responsibilities as a result of the resignation of his former assistant, Clem Roski, who is overburdened with scholastic labors. However, everything is under control from manager to coach, so let's go Jay Cees! 1\CE HOFFMAN Studios PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Camera and Pho(ographic Supplies 32 W. Market St. Dial 2-1174 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Three - SPORT SHOTS II The M. I. T. faculty bowling team is on the loose again headed by the invincibles (Hall, Tasker, Schuyler, Bernhart, Gardner, and Thomas) and are a sure bet to cop the first half honors away from their nearest rivals, the Penn and Harvard Keglers . . The rise of Mr. Bernhart to the ranks of the 170 class has been amazing . . . The final meeting with Penn, Harvard, and Cornell will tell the story for the faculty team .. Yale and Brown, though holding up the list have some of the best bowlers i'n the entire intramural league ... Ray Eaton and Harry Campbell are in the big ten practically every week and with a little help from the rest of the team, Brown can come out of the depths easily . . . It is astonishing what a low score will do to some of the boys ... The once proud Letterman's Cub has hit an all time low for student interest and activity . . . This is the first time·in four years that this organization has not functioned properly . . . Each and every luncheon held in the past has been well attended and greatly enjoyed by both students and faculty ... This year two meetings have been called, but none has had sufficient interest to attend . .. We hope that the sophomore Lettermen will have enough pride in their organization to carry on the fine work of the past.- .. . Handball again hits the headlines as the frosh tourney enters the third round with no unforseen results . . . Jack Gelb and Reese Roberts are favorites to enter the final round with Wesley Hershkowitz and Stanley Kresses asuming the role of dark horses. . . A tourney including every interested male student will occupy the attention of all handball lovers as the sophomores loosen their long latent muscles and prepare to conquer the pesky frosh . . . We might include that the frosh are getting so pesky as to convince the upperclassmen that they are b~tter volleyball players than a ENGINEER CLUB ACTIVE The Engineering Club held its first meeting in the form of a luncheon at .the Y. M. C. A. The principal speaker was Prof. Gardner of the faculty at Lewisburg who gave a talk on "The Opportunities of the Future Engineers." Other speakers who gave short talks were Professor Hall and Professor Bernhardt. After the dinner officers were elected, the positions being filled by William Morton, president; Stanley Henning, vice-president; Shirley Brown, secretary; and David Secunda, treasurer. The group chose to hold further meetings every other Friday in the Men's Lounge at Chase Hall. The Club proposes to be bigger and better than last year, with fortyfive members in the club at the present time. The first social function was a month previous. It is simply amazing to this writer, that of all the students who attend basketball games about ten percent know any of the rules of the game ... This fact was revealed during the regular gym instruction period when questions were asked concerning the game ... The basketball team is slowly rounding into shape with daily practice sessions being held in the Y. M. C. A . . . Dave Secunda, Wayne Swanberry, Earl Haefele, Wesley Hershkowitz, John -Kishel, John Dooley, Eddie Podgorski, Paul Pad lick, George Scott, James Aikman, and Lee Wazeter topping the freshmen list of candidates ... Bob Hopkins and Captain Albie Baker are holdovers from last year and probably will be aided by Bill Thomas who returns to school as a special student ... A practice game has been arranged for Saturday November 12 at the Y. M. C. A ... This will be a sure fire test for the boys. . . Known to few and unknown to many the Jay Cee cagers will be outfitted in bright new uniforms this year. .. White and blue will be the contrasting colors as a change from the school colors, orange and blue. . . Blue jackets will compelete the outfit ... Contrasting with the cagers will be the swimmers with their robes and suits ready to set the world on fire.- . . Their suits will be fiery orange and easily distinguishable from any opponent ... Robes will also be worn. . . This is getting to be a regular fashion parade ... The varsity bowling team has regained its stride and is hitting on all five cylinders after a week or two of stage fright. . . We're ashamed of you, Slats! Bob Peters Slats Obitz, Joe Curley, Walter Thomas, and George Scott compromise the team . . . Now that football season 1s drawing to a close it should be your desire to support the swimming and basketball teams with all your might ... Student activity tickets will be available soon ... SECUNDA, SWANBERRY BOLSTER QUINTET David Secunda Two new members of the Bucknell Junior College basketball team who show great possibilities for this year's campaign are Wayne Swanberry and Dave Secunda. Swanberry,a native of Glen Lyon was formerly on the roster of Valley Forge Military Academy. He is slated to take the place of Ed Gayewski at forward position and will team up with Albie Baker of last year's team. weiner roast at Henning's farm, Having played with Newport's near Trucksville at which Professor team for the past two years, and Mrs. Hall were the chaperons. Nearly everybody was present and Secunda, who is six feet two inches food, (plenty of it) was the main tall, is counted on to replace attraction. After eating, every- Captain "Bim" Thomas at the body gathered around in a big pivot position. His height and circle, sang songs, told jokes, and speed will add greatly to the Jay had a good time. Further plans call for two trips, Cees' fast breaking offense and one to the Franklin Institute of zone defense. Science at Philadelphia and one to the Home Coming Game. Meet the "Gang at-- DEEMER & COMPANY The Spa SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES The Most Modern - Look Where You May Corona · Portable Typewriters 6 W. Market St. W-B. �Tuesday, November 8, , 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Four -TRIVIA- WITH THE ALUMNI By B. L. With November come Thanksgiving (which is significant in that it involves a two-day vacation), warnings that there are only " - days until Xmas," and mid-semester tests. Also around this time essays, maps, collateral reading reports fall due, and students are warned that they should start working on term papers that are due at the end of the first semster. Sopomores recall the horrible confused weeks at the end of the semster last year when they spent day and night finishing term papers maps, and reading reports, and they solemnly swear that there is going to be none of that this year. Some even go so far as to begin their papers; this virtuousness soon wears off, and they again let everything go until a week before it's due, justifying their action with that old, familiar "I can work better when I'm pressed for time." During the short time since the birth of this column, it has been the recipient of much critism. The most universal and the most often repeated complaint deals with the desirability of having a gossip column. It seems that a large group of the student body, fresh from high-schools where the greatest part of the school paper is given over to such choice items as "We wonder whose pin Mary Jones is wearing" and "What football player whose initials are G. P. is taking L. C. to the dance?", would appreciate the Beacon much more if it would model itself after these high-school papers. We're foolish enough to believe that the average intellignece in college is higher than the average in highschool, and that the possessors of this higher intelligence would like, or at least, should like, to read something a little more intellectual than a succession of paired names connected by some variant of the verb "love". In view of our firm convictions and the fact that none of the critics have offered any intelligent reasons for having a chatter column, we will continue our policy of no ,r,_ossip. The question of what has happened to our alumni mtlst have risen _in the minds of many of us, especially the sophomores. Our interest naturally centers on those who were with us last year. Columbia: Stanley Daugert. University of Chicago: Maurice Reishtein. Yale Medical School: Earl Rhoades. Duke University: Thomas Melson. Ohio University: Ernest Wesiberger. Philadelphia School of Osteopathy: Virgina Steele. Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy: Anne Reinecker. Penn State: Pauline Kirshner, Marjorie Shapiro. Bucknell University: Dorothy Thomas, Ilaria Sterniuk, Betty Fenton, Helen Balliet, Lily Morgan Arline Luce, Joseph Conlon, Richard Roush, Willard Warmkessel, Reuben Rader, Charles Millard, DEBATE QUESTION KNOWN (Continued from page 1) Barre school. She is a member of the equestrian club in BUJC. She is enrolled in the chemical engineering course. Earl Haefele is a graduate of West Pittston High School, class of 1938, where he was president of the Senior Class. He capatained the varsity basketball team at West Pittston High and b a member o; ct1e Basketball squad at BUJC. Thomas Slattery, student council representative, is enrolled in a B. A. course at BUJC. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy, Wyoming Seminary, Harry Hillman Academy, and Georgetown University. Dave Secunda, Newport Township graduate, class of 1938, is enrolled in the engineering course at BUJC. He participated in dramatics, basketball and was salutatorian at commencement. Visit the Y .M.C.A. LUNCHEONETTE - MR. SCHALL DO YOU HAVE A HOBBY? If not you can fin.:! one at the "Y" where there is a Program for every purpose. Ask at the Main Desk for a special Young Men's Program phamplet. The Pi Kappa Delta Debating Fraternity question-used by the Junior College Debating Societyhas been announced: "Resolved that the United States should cease to use public funds for the purpose of stimulating business." Several intramural debates have been held on this subject. In addition to the schedule announced in the last Beacon, the Debating Society will meet Hofstra College, of New York University. (Continued f ram page I) Library Science at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, where she earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Library Science. · During the past two years, she has been head of the library science department in Bradford, Pa., High School. Miss Klinedinst succeeds Miss Dorothy Davenport as head librarian at the College, although the latter will remain as an assistant to Miss Klinedinst for several weeks. Miss Davenport, who holds the distinction of being the first Junior College alumna to become a member of the faculty, is contemplating accepting a position as substitute instructor at St. Maryin-the-Field, a girl's preparatory school located near White Plains, N. Y. Miss Davenport took charge of the library at the opening of the present term. She attended Bucknell Junior College, Pasadena Junior College and was awarded her degree by Columbia University, N. Y. Miss Davenport succeeded Miss Etta Pence, who served as librarian last year and who was married during vacation to Dr. Charles Keevil, instructor of chemical engineering at the Lewisburg campus. JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and RIDING HABITS Hats of For men, women and children QUALITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BALL OUTLET Co. WILKES-BARRE 113 S. MAIN ST. THE Jack Leather, Fred Miller, Leo Simoson, Paul Meyers, Robert England, George Beiswinger, Robbert Maguire, Francis Ford, John Gambold, Alex Wazeter. SPECIAL PRICES TO CLUBS 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre COLLEGE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA SUPPLll:S OPl:N Pl:NNANTS 11 A. M. TO 2:30 CHASE HALL P. M. � 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource Bucknell Beacon, 1938 November 8th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 November 8 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/e478a97f4faafd94a677982465428280.pdf 32a315cf7fd4b257754272f1867c903a PDF Text Text FRESHMAN NUMBER Volume 3. Number 1 ~l,,e,B ..- ucknell Beacon WILKES-BARRE, PA. PLANS FOR TERM'S COLLEGE HELPS IN LATER LIFE, ACTIVITIES KNOWN FARLEY HOLDS The following calendar is that of the social activities for the year. Faculty advisers in charge of these events are Miss Barbara Ryerson for women's activities and teas and Mr. Don ' Blankenship fo; semi-formal dances. September23-Tea for girls. 30-Tea Dance. October1-Reception for Lewisburg faculty. 7-Smoker for men. 14-College dance, semi-formal. 21-Tea for girls. 28-Thespians party. November4-Tea dance. Night School dinner and dance. 18-Tea for girls. 23-College dance, semi-formal. December2-Tea dance. 9-Tea for girls. 28-College d-ance,-semi-formal JanuaryDr. Eu~ene S. Farley 6-Tea dance. 20-Tea for girls. May I welcome the class of 1942 February3-Tea dance. with a hope for the present and the 9-Smoker for men. future . In this period of uncer17-Tea for girls. tainty when jobs are all too few , 24-College dance, semi-formal. and unrest and misunderstanding , are too common there is perhaps March2-Night school get-together. nothing that we desire more than 3-Tea dance. reasonable assurance of work and 24-Tea for girls. security. Past generations have gone thr- April8-College dance, semi-formal. ough periods of transition, as we 21-Tea for girls. are doing today, and during such 28-Tea dance. periods they likewise have faced uncertainty. Ultimately, however, May5-Tea for girls. conditions improved and for a 19-Tea dance. time there was both security and stability. These goals of our hopes June7-College dance, Spring do not continue forever and each Dinner Dance. generation must adjust itself to new conditions. You are reaching the age when you will assume added responsibilities. It is possible that before you Harry W. Robbins, of the Definish college, economic and social conditions will once more be stabil- partment of English at Bucknell ized and you will be offered op- University, and William H. Coleportunities that young people have man, Professor of English and not had during the past ten years. Director of the World Literature Security of this sort cannot be Course at the campus, are the counted upon, however, and the compilers of Western World Literwise student will prepare himself ature, the book to be used in the to face any situation that may World Literature Course this year. The new book is a one-milliondevelop. The man who does this can make four-hundred-thousand-word antha place for himself under any ology; its content covers a very circumstances, and can create fro hr-rge field-from Homer to the for himself some sense of certainty present, including America. Its in the midst of shifting standards four hundred and sixty-four seland changing standards. He ections from the works of more develops within himself qualities than one hundred and ninety that enable him to face difficulties authors make it representative of with poise, confidence and faith. the whole span of literature in the western world. (Continuded on page two) New World Literature Text RECEPTION TONIGHT Thursday, September 15, 1938 GRADS OF EIGHTEEN SCHOOLS ENROLL AT JUNIOR COLLEGE FIVE FRESHMEN Largest Group from Meyers; WIN SCHOLARSHIPS Kingston, G.A.R. also Send Many The following freshmen have been awarded scholarships by the Junior College for attaining the highest grades in a · competitive examination held last May: Eleanor Parry of Wyoming Seminary, Mary Brislin of Meyers High School, Clarence Steinert of Kingston High School, and Doris Weigand of West Pittston High School. Chase Garage Now Little Theater Many notable improvements and changes have been made in the buildings which co mprise- Bucknell University Junior College. These do much to enchance the beauty and grace of these stately old structures. In Chase Hall, a beautiful rug has been placed in the reception room, and a business-like counter has been erected in the office of the Registrar. The garage behind Chase Hall has been renovated and will be known henceforth · as the Little Theatre. It will be used as a lecture hall for World Literature, General Biology, and the History of Western Man. In addition, the Physical Education classes for women will be conducted there. The Little Theater will be used, as its name implies, for play practice and the presentation of plays. It may also prove to be an excellent setting for social functions-teas, tea dances, forums. The interior of Conyngham Hall has been greatly improved by a new coat of paint which will do much to enliven the atmosphere and make the building a more enjoyable place of study. Miller, Gage Receive PhD's Mr. Joseph Miller, instructor in philosophy and psychology at the Junior College received his Ph D degree from New York University shortly after Commencement this summer. Prof. Daniel Gage, of the history and political science departments, has completed his treatise, and it has been approved by Stanford University. Professor Gage will receive his Ph D degree next year. The class of '42 consits of an as yet unknown number of students from every high school in Wyoming Valley and surrounding districts. Never before in the history of Bucknell Junior College has a class showed such an amount of enthusiasm toward its progress in the future . The following list consists of the freshmen enrolled up to September 8: Meyers High School: Irma Bodycomb, Rosser I, Bodycomb, Shirley Brown, C. Connor, George I. Dickinson, Betty Farr, Steven Gacha, John F. Mangan, Florence S. Mangel, Zelda M. Mangel, Reese E. Roberts, George A. Scott, Jack Dickie Smith, Leon F. Wazeter, Ralph L. Wood, Edward Richard Amesbury, John Edwin Johnson, Ivan· Bell Thompson, Anneliese Greenstein, James Benjamin Roski, George Bierly and Mary Brislin. Coughlin High School: Armand M . Kolesar, Stanley Dresses, Helen Kirwin, and Matthew Stribaugh. G. A. R. High School: Joseph J. Kornblatt, William J. Murphy, Jack Gelb, Dorothy Teresinski, and Joseph McDade. Wyoming Seminary: Lawrence P. Casey, Robert W. Connelly, (Continued on page three) Finances Bared The following financial staement is the Student Activities Fund Report of Bucknell University Junior College for the year 19371938, as issued by Mr. George R. Faint, Trustee: Activity Rec. Exp. Bal. Bucknell Beacon$ 350.30 $ 313.07 $ 37 .23 Choral Club103.99 103.99 Debating161.54 115.64 45.90 Thespians528.69 528.54 .15 Athletics948.85 915.07 33. 78 Social Activities847 .02 947.02 Contingent Fund291.63 177 .61 114.02 $3,232.02 $3,000.94 $231.08 �THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Thursday, September 15, 1938 CURRENTLY SPEAKING Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania By M. E. Bessie Lewis Co-Editors . Murray Edelman Marguerite Krashkevich Associate Editors Jerome Greenwald Robert Nagle Business Manager Advertising Manager Marion Dunstan Faculty Aadviser Barbara Ryerson Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c . Dne year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6 .50. PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. EDITORIALS TO THE FRESHMEN . .. In this first issue of the Beacon, we of the staff are prouj to gr-:et the sixth freshman class of Bucknell University Junior College. Just as the first week of school is set aside as Freshman Week, the Beacon presents its first issue as the Freshman Issue. The purpose of this issue, dedicated to the freshmen, is similar to that of Freshman Week-namely, to create an atmosphere of friendliness and welcome and to aid the new students in the process of becoming acquainted with each other, the faculty, and other features of school life. We hope that this process of becoming acquainted will be applied to the Beacon~ its aims, principals, desires; in short, that this issue will serve as an introduction to the issues of the entire year, In these future issues, we will strive to present accurate accounts of school events and personalities. Editorially, we shall comment upon school affairs; however, in order that our paper may be more than a mirror of a narrow confined school life, we shall extend our editorial comments to outside events-foreign, national, and local. We do not think this latter to be an improper extension of editorial privilege ; rather, we do think it only fitting that youth should inquire into and think intelligently about events outside the narrow, protecting confines of their immediate school-life. As a final purpose of this issue, we want to welcome the freshmen to take part in the Beacon, both as a class and as individuals. As a class, we hope that you will read the Beacon, make helRful criticisms, and feel free at any time to express your opinions on any matter in a letter to the editor. As individuals, we hope that any of you who feel that you would like to write or do anything else connected with the paper will help us to make this a better Beacon. THE SECOND WORLD YOUTH CONGRESS ... Though an editorial on the World Youth Congress, which convened at Vassar the week of August 16, may be rather belated, we feel that the movement is of suf-ficient interest to college youth to warrant comment here. On the whole the gathering was disappointing. True, the Congress exhibited the degree of liberalism which most people expected of it; its condemnation of aggressor nations, the bombing of civilian populations, and treaty violations, and its resolutions to help established justice between nations and within nations, set right injustices against minority groups, and set up international machinery "to solve differences between nations in a peaceful way" are all to the good. But these resolutions are commonplace today in all liberal and decently humanitarian circles. The failure of the Congress to advocate any positive program or to specify the type and extent of the "international machinery" makes its contribution to world peace an extremely dubious one. Another aspect of the pact drawn up by the Congress is even more disheartening; the emphasis it places on the fact that the Congress is a Youth movement. This reduces it from the status of a disintenterested movement for international decency to that of a pressure group. Already the Congress has shown signs of being as much interested in getting prestige for itself as in attaining peace among nations. An international gathering of this sort would be far more effective if it consisted of all people interested in solving world problems instead of limiting itself to youth. For the role of youth groups in the past has not been a proud one. Such movements are only too likely to be swayed by herd emotions rather than reason; witness the ease with which Hitler and Mussolini organized youth behind them. And even Mazzini's Young Italy of the middle of the nineteenth century was quite fanatical-in a good cause, it so happened. These are faults which the leaders of the World Youth Congress Movement will find easy to remedy. Let us hope they will see the need for taking prompt action. How the democratic nations can most effectively deal with the dictatorships remains the most pressing problem of the international scene, and events of the last few moonths have enabled observers to weigh once again the relative merits of the three principal courses which the various democracies have urged: "realism", isolation, and collective security. The factors which seem of most importance at the moment are these: (1) Germany, acknowledged the principal menace to peace, has secured all its gains :virtual abolition of the Versailles Treaty, military occupation of the Rhineland, Anschluss with Austria, etc., by plain bluff, no fighting having taken place at any time. (2) Economically and financially the Reich is in a desperate plight, making it highly improbable that she could stand a war. Moreover Germany's military machine appears to have been vastly overrated, judging by its lack of efficiency in the march to Vienna last spring. (3) Despite Prime Minister Chamberlain's apparent willingness to compromise with Hitler, der Fuehrer continues to force crises, and to rattle his saber, making it quite clear that Mr. Chamterlain's unrealistic "realism" will not insure world peace. (4) France, with Russia's backing, has announced that she will fight for Czechoslovakia, and there is every evidence that Britain will also soon see the light. Thus it becomes increasingly improbable that Hitler will risk war. A consideration of these factors makes it clear that, although war is unlikely, it is to Hitler's advantage that everyone else fear war, and make overtures to him in order to avert it. Moreover, most experts agree that a dictator who fails to gain more for his nation periodically is soon overthrown, especially if the people are suffering economically because of the dictator's measures-as the Germans certainly are. Thus it is quite probable that if all the antifascist nations agree to maintain a rigid boycott of German and Italian goods and assure Hitler and Mussolini of their willingness to fight, thus bringing the bluster- ings and threats of the latter to naught, not only would war be averted (Both dictators realiseor should-that al tough they might conceivably survive a war, they could not hope to survive the peace), but these gentlemen would soon find themselves and their respective parties without jobs. Considered purely from an ethical point of view the propriety of pursuing a course which might overthrow the government of another nation might be questioned by some. However, anyone with a spark of humanitarianism or ideals who appraises the situatiop r'a tionally will have no qualms on that score. Forgetting for the moment the horrors to which minority groups within the Reich are subjected, it is still undeniable that the modern world is too closely interdependent to allow a few nations to bar all progress and retreat to medievalism. In the Introduction to his Outline of History H. G. Wells wrote: "There can be no peace now, we realize, but a common peace in all the world; no prosperity but a general prosperity. There can be no com- mon peace and prosperity without common historical ideas." Although we are not yet agreed entirely as to what these common ideas should be, we are indubitably agreed on one of them: tolerance and the maximum individual freedom compatable with the continued welfare of society are essential if mankind is to advance. And such tolerance and individual freedom are exactly what the fascists abolish. It behooves us, then, to quit being frightened by recurrent, fascist-inspired crises. It has often been pointed out that the nations which deny the effectiveness of leagues of nations and collective security are the very ones which killed the last League by deserting it. There is no reason why a new League in which ALL the democracies will join and continue to co-operate with each other, and which will recognize the force of Mr. Wells' argument quoted above, should not end the world-wide reign of terror which the dictators of Germany, Italy, and Japan have sponsored, and initiate that new era of progre,:s and peace which Woodrow Wilson once believed he had secured for humanity. Farley's Message. .. (Continued from page one) The man or woman who can do this has d~veloped inward resources that surpass in value an accumulation of material possessions. It is my hope that during your years at Bucknell you will not only gain a broader knowledge of the world, but that you will develop the personal strength to solve your own problems and also have a surplus that you may give to others. by Dr. EUGENE S. FARLEY, Director. JORDAN Est. 1871 Men's Furnishings and Hats of QUALITY 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre �Thursday, September 15, 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON "Shorty" THOMAS RELEASES YEAR'S INTRAMURAL PLANS Many Opportunities for Sports Shots. . . Competition Offered By Walter Thomas An intramural program, complete in every detail and including every phase of atheltic activity will afford opportunities for individuals of specialized ability to participate according to the program released by vValter Thomas, assistant in the Physical Education Department. Tournaments in billiards and wrestling and alumni swimming and baseball matches have been added to the five programs already set up up by Henry Peters, former Physical Education head. The program follows: SoftballSeptember 26-October 7. HandballOctober 14-November 14 Ping-PongNovember 1-November 14. Basketball-Gym ClassesNovember-March Bowling-(Intramural)October 3-March 31. BoxingDecem ber-J an uary WrestlingFebruary-March BasketballFreshmen-Sophomores. BowlingF reshmen- Sophomore. SwimmingFreshmen-Sophomore. BasketballFreshmen-Sophomore. BowlingAlumni-December 30. SwimmingAlumni-December 29. BaseballAlumni-June 17. All intramural activities will be features ·at the Bucknell All-Sports Nite to be held at the Y. M. C. A. on Friday, April 14. Finals of various tournaments will be staged as well as exhibitions of other activities. Assistant in the PhyisicalEducation Department. Another season of intercollegiate and intramural sports is about to get under way ... This will be the first time in six years that such a program has not been under the direction of Henry "Hank" Peters. He has been transferred to Bucknell University at Lewisburg where he will serve in the Physical Education Department. The swimming team under Coach "Slats" Obitz will inaugurate what is expected to be their best year in intercollegiate competition. . . With the return of four of last year's veterans headed by Captain John Guiney, who was undeafeated in the intercollegiate meets, prospects are more than usually bright ... Jimmy Campbell, forced to leave school last year, may again enroll in the Junior College. . . This would be a decided break for the swimming team. Eddie Gayewski, dazzling floorworker and one hand artist for "Hank" Peters' cage squad, will enroll in the University of Scranton where he is expected to duplicate his amazing work with the basketball squad. . . Practice sessions for basketball will start earlier than usual this year. .. Freshmen candidates will be given a two weeks workout to familiarize them with the intricate system used in college basketball ... Captain Albie Baker, Bob Hopkins, Herman Propker, Wilbur Troy, Bob Royer, and Al Ringstrom form the nucleus for what promises to be a fast cage squad. . . Games with leading college freshman teams in the East have been arranged. . . Again this year some Junior College students will have the opportunity to witness the Annual Bucknell Homecoming Football Game at Lewisburg ... It has been the custom in the past to reward the winner of the handball tournament, as well as the runner-up, a ticket and free transportation to the game ... The same procedure will be followed this year. The Varsity bowling team has felt the loss of four of its members during the past year. .. Captain MESSAGE TO FRESHMEN John J. Emanski By John Joseph Emanski, Jr., President of the Class of '41 I have been priveleged by the class of '41 to welcome you to our college and to assure you that you have been wise in choosing Wyoming Valley's own college for the start of your education. Bucknell Junior College although one of America's youngest colleges, is highly accredited. Its small size makes possible more intimate relations among students NEW ATHLETIC HEAD ANNOUNCED Joseph Curley gets Post Page Three MISS ETTA PENCE, LIBRARIAN, RESIGNS Miss Etta Pence, college librarian, has announced her resignation from the Bucknell University Junior College Staff. Miss Pence, who came to the Junior College in 1937, is a graduate of the University of Washington, and has been associated with Reed College, the Seattle Public Library, and the New York Public Library. Miss Pence did not disclose her plans for the future. GRADS ENROLL. . . (Continued from page one) Mary E. Parry, Thomas Slattery, and John H. Ferguson. Forty Fort High School: Jack 0. Austin, and Raymond M. Eaton Larksville: James B. Aikman and John Joseph Dooley. Ashley: Charles Fehlinger. Newport Township High School Lilyanne W. Babski. St. Leo's High School: Mr. Joseph Curley is a graduate of St. Leo's High School where he starred in football, basketball, and baseball. During the past few vears he has been affiliated with the Wyoming Valley Playground Association as head of the softball department. He is familiar with the workings of the physical education activities and will aid in that department as well as serving as head baseball and assist: ant basketball coach. Bob Peters, Dave Jones, Tom Jenkins, and Al Shafer are the quartet lost by graduation. . . Slats Obitz and Herman Propker are the only experienced men remaining . . . A series of elimination tournaments may be held to select Varsity material. . . Joe Curley, latest addition to the Physical Education Department, is quite a bowler, not to mention his ability in softball, baseball, and football ... (Continued on page four) and provides the faculty with with opportunities to become familiar with the student not only in classes but individually as well; a factor of prime importance in a well rounded education. The preceding classes have established an enviable record which aroused the community's interest in our college as a cultural center of Wyoming Valley. Let us not allow that enthusiasm to wane, but let us substantiate that interest through new activities and a more vigorous program. The Junior College was established with the hope that it would be soon recognised as Wyoming Valley's own. The civic minded citizens of this community have displayed more than expected interest in our college and have materially proven their faith through generous donations and endowments. The donation of Chase Hall and Con- Joseph T. Curley. Kingston High School: Rosina B. Curtis, Donald R. Kersteen, Robert Lecher, Robert E. Most, Mary L. Pace, Eugene L. Rogers, Merle Seeherman, Clarence Steinert, Wesley Hershkowitz, and John Francis O'Malley. Nanticoke High School: Lydia Greenbaum, Joseph M. Iishel, Adam J. Voyton, Elizabeth Whitenight and Melville Hopkins. West Pittston High School: Earl C. Haefele, Doris Wiegand. Plymouth High School: Gertrude R. Jones, Grace F. Matthews Charles R . Piatt, Ruth Selma Goldstein. Kingston Twp. High: Frances J. Pierce. Hanover Twp. High School: John M. Pisano, John Elliott Sorber, Kenneth A. Cranston. Plains High School: Aloysius C. Switch. Edwardsvill High: Morris Veigh . St. Mary's: Albert Stets. Valley Forge Military Academy Wayne Swanbery. In 1933, the freshman enrollment consisted of 150 students; in 1934, 75; in 1935, 84; in 1936, 89; in 1937, 115; in 1938, ?. yngham Hall gave us beautiful surroundings, which provide a colege environment in every sense of the word. The freshman class is included in all activities of the Junior College and is expected to maintain an active participation in all activities. The attitude and actions of the sophomore class may cause you to doubt the sincerity of our welcome, but further association will dispel any doubts that may arise. Allow me to assure you that you will be well taken care of by the sophomore class; as a matter of fact, very well taken care of. �Page Four T H E BUCKN E LL BE ACON -TRIV IA - WITH THE ALUMNI By B. L. We know that we're letting ourselves in for a lot of name-callingwe'll probably be branded as radicals, even Communists-but we'll brave the storm. We are going to stick to our decision-we are not going to greet or welcome the Freshmen. Besides being conventional, it would be redundant and unnecessary; by the time the freshmen get to the back page, after wading through three pages (all right, we know that's exaggeration) of greetings and assorted sentiments to make them feel better acquainted, they'll feel as though its Old Home Week. Anyway, they didn't ask for our cut to put above the greeting. Furthermore (we're in a very defiant mood today) we are not going to explain our purpose as our editorial confrere did-see page 2. Frankly, we're rather puzzled ourselves concerning the Purpose . Sometimes we think that to the editor this colum means only filler while it is doubtful if it means anything to Beacon readers since they probably give up before they come to it . A three-minute Thursday, September, 15, 1938 By Hank Peters interval was just observed during which we felt very sorry for ourselves. Unlike the aforementioned editorial confrere (use a word twice and its yours) we cannot promise anything about the future. We certainly cannot promise accuracy and as for intelligent comment upon anything ... well. Flash news-Exclusive newsWomen's rights come to B. U. J.C.! No longer will B. U. J. C. girls have to brave the wind, rain, snow, and sleet in the long trek up to the Elk's Home. No longer will they come straggling into class with hair uncombed and shoelaces untied. No longer will they look pale, wan, and haggard because of undue exertion. All this is ended. Henceforth the home of Eurhythmics will 1:;,e the Little Theater (known as the Chase garage in the pre-glamor days). At this moment all the sophomore girls who survived last year's terrible experience will observe a moment of silent prayer in honor of those stalwart individuals who effected this momentous change. SPORTS SHOTS. . . The Alumni Association has brought to a close its second year of existence, having carried out informal meetings, teas, dances, and an outing . . . An executive committee composed of Henry Peters, Ambrose Saricks, Walter Thomas, Betty Tonks, James Ramsey, William Thomas, and William Atherholt were responsible for the fine program of activities . . . Bill Atherholt, as chairman of · the dance committee and Bill Thomas of the outing committee did unusually fine work . . . The outing held at Harrison Park and attended by over forty people climaxed the summer's activity. . . "Snitz" Rumensnyder and his gang were given a bad shellacking by Henry Peters' lads in an interesting ball game .. . score 13-9. . . Rumensnyder claimed that the sun got in his eyes. A program has been set up by the Alumni for a fotmal dance during the Christmas recess as well as the Alumni Sports Nite at the Y. M. C.A. Beverly Jones, '35 has accepted a position as teacher of the social studies at Lake Ariel. .. Ambrose Saricks, '35, has returned to Muncy Pa., where he will resume his teaching. Francis Antoinelli, '35, of Hazleton, successfully passed a Civil Service examination and is now employed as a Junior investigator for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Robert Mayock, '36, will enter the University of Pennsylvania Law School while James Ramsey of the same class will enter the Law School of Georgetown University. The Executive Committee is anxious to hear from any of the alumni. especially of any interesting incidents, change of address, etc. You will be doing your correspondent a favor by forwarding any information to the Junior College in care of the Alumni Association. THIS PAPER is the MEDIUM of STUDENT THOUGHT AND OPINION Visit the Y.M.C.A. (Continued from page three) It is a little early for predictions tmr it·issa'fe n:rsayrhar-rhe Junior College will again be represented by a mighty fine tennis team ... All in all, the athletic program _arranged throughout the year will ·· amply take care of the ma ny interests of the student body . . . . As for the alumni, a night has been set aside, January 13, 1939, as Alumni Night at the Y. M. C. A ... Bowling, swimming, and basketball with the Long Island University Frosh team will be featured . . . A Program Write A Letter to the LUNCHEONETTE Editor -MR. SCHALL ··-·· -- -· - - ~- for- Every Purpose HOFFMAN J\CE Find Your IIobby at the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION & COMPANY DEEMER Studios PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES Camera and Photographic Supplies Corona Portable Typewriters 32 W. Market St . 6 W. Market St. WILKES-BARRE THE Dial 2-1174 COLLEGE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA SUPPLIES OPEN PENNANTS 11 JEWELRY A. M. ·TO 2:30 CHASE HALL P. M. W-B. � 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource Bucknell Beacon, 1938 September 15th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 September 15 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/7fa869b085a80401184c65e4b68edcd2.pdf 329540db6159184df978a3ee0a2d8076 PDF Text Text Dinner-Dance June 8 Volume 3. Number 7 Bucknell Beacon WILKES-BARRE, PA. Convocation June 9 Monday, June 6, 1938 BEACON POLL DRAWS CLOSE TO 100 PER CENT RESPONSE Votes Scattered On Many Questions DRIVE FOR FUNDS THE annual Beacon Poll, in terms of the number of peoENDS NEAR GOAL, ple voting, received close to a hundred per cent response from student body this year. WITH $28,000 TOTAL the Opinion as to the various "favHE recent drive for 1$30,000 made by the Junior College has ended successfully with $28,000 pledged and additional contributions being made daily. It is hoped that the quota will be reached before the summer is over. Of the nine hundred individuals contacted, over fifty per cent of them contributed toward the fund. Committee heads were: Gilbert McClintock, general chairman; Edward Kent, chairman of the listing committee; E. B. Mulligan, chairman of the special gifts committee; Mrs. Edward Kent, James P. Harris, Charles Miner, T (Continued on page four) Swarthmore Dean Convocation Speaker T eight o'clock Thursday evening, June ninth, the fourth annual convocation of the Bucknell University Junior College will be held at the First Pmsbyterian Church House. President Arnaud Marts of Bucknell University will present certificates to the departing sophomores, and Dr. Harold S1peight, Dean of Men at Sw:arthmore College, will deliver the address. The convocation exercises this year are taking on a more formal and significant aspect in that for the first time academic caps and gowns are being worn by the sophomores and certificates are being awarded. The order of exercises follows: The Academic Procession Processional - "Coronation March" from "Die Folkkunger" ..................Kretschmar Invocation Charles Stilwell Roush Orchestral Selections Atlante Cantabite .. ................... ...Tschaikowsky A (Continued on page four) orites" was so scattered as to render the results rather inconclusive. However, we are able to conclude from the answers received that the average Bucknell student is strongly against another term for Roosevelt, participation in a foreign war, Fascism as embodied by Hitler and Mussolini; prefers swing bands, athletics, history, and has some pretty definite ideas on how The BEACON should and should not .be run. Below is a question-by-question tally of the voting: 1. Would you vote for President Roosevelt for a third ter m? 91 no; 39 yes. 2. Would you fight for the United States on foreign soil? 95 no; 34 yes. 3. Do you favor isolation or collective security? Collective security, 74; isolation, 47. 4. Who has done most to undermine democracy? Several people voted for more than one "underminer" on this one: Hitler, 64; Mussolini, 23; Roosevelt, 14; Stalin, 8; Hague, 8; John L. Lewis, 3. Scattered votes went to Henry Ford, "Imperi,alistic Britain," Capitalists, Trotsky and Costine. 5. Do you think LaFollette's idea of a third party is a good one? 63 no ; 56 yes. 6. What is your favorite magazine? 32, Life; 25, Reader's Digest; 14, Esquire; 10, Time; 8, American; 3, New Masses; 6, mechanical magazines; 3, Colliers; 3, Liberty. 7. Who is your favorite columnist? 44, Winchell; 15, Pegler; 8, Boake Oarter; 7, Walter Lipmann; 5, Damon Runyon; 4, Heywood Broun; 4, Dorothy Thompson. 8. What was your favorite film of the past year? 17, Emile Zola; 15, Lost Horizon, Snow White; 13, The Good Earth; 9, Robin Hood; 6, Dead End, Hurricane; 5, In Old Chicago. 9. What is your favorite orchestra? · 23, Horace Heidt; 19, Benny Goodman; 18, Guy Lombardo; 14, Kay Kaiser; 8, Tommy Dorsey; 6, Russ Morgan; 5, NBC Symphony, Sammy Kaye. 10. What is your favorite radio program? 24, Chase & Sanborne; 20, Jack Benny; 11, Lux Radio Theatre; 7, Lone Ranger, Eddie Cantor. 11. Who is your favorite motion picture actress? 23, Myrna Loy; 9, Olivia deHaviland; 8, Louise Rainer; 7, Loretta Young; 5, Betty Davis, Jeanette MacDonald, Greta Garbo. 12. Who is your favorite motion picture actor? 19, Paul Muni; 16, Errol Flynn; 14, Spencer Tracy; 10, Ronald Colman; 8, Clark Gable; 7, Tyrone Power, Garry Cooper; 5, Jimmy Stewart. 13. Who is your favorite writer? 13, Sinclair Lewis; 7, S. S. VanDyne; 6, John Galsworthy, Margaret Mitchell; 3, Alexander Dumas, Lloyd Douglas, R. L. Stevenson. 14. Which do you consider most important: extra-curricular activities or scholastic work? 65, scholastic work; 23, extracurricular activities. 15. Which extra - curricular activity do you consider most beneficial and most important? 53, the various athletic activities; 17, dramatics; 10, Beacon; 9, Debating; 8, International Relations Club; 1, chapel, apple polishing! 16. From w h i c h college course have you gained the most? 30. H i s t o r y o f Western Man; 19, World Literature; 12, Mathematics; 8, Business, English, Economics, Drawing; 7, Sociology; 6, Chemistry. 17. Would you favor a marking system based on the principles of passing or not passing rather than our present system? 67 no; 60 yes. 18. Whom do you consider the (Continued on page four) GUINEY, EMANSKI, TUHEY ELECTED ,COUNCIL OFFICERS council officers for STUDENT the coming year were elected at a recent joint meeting of the out-going council members and newly elected members. John Guiney, representative of the Athletic Association was elected president. Mr. Guiney has been prominent in student activities, and is president of the Lettermen's Association and a member of the swimming team. John Emanski, recently elected president of the class of '41, was elected vice-president, and Darina Tuhy, women's representative to the council, was chosen secretary-treasurer. •--- LEWIS, EDELMAN TO EDIT BEACON LEWIS BESSIE Edelman have and Murriay been chosen as co-editors of next year's BEACON. Appointment to the .editorial staff is on the basis of interest actively manifested in BEACON work and journalistic ability. Selections were made by the members of the retiring staff and the faculty advisers. Instead of the system of three alternating editors, the procedure followed this year, each issue of The BEACON for the coming year will be co-edited by Miss Lewis and Mr. Edelman. Several innovations have been planned by the new staff. The BEACON for next year will be a five-column sheet instead of the present four-column paper. Each edition, as at present, will consist of four pages. Print will he smaller, thus making possible the use of more words in each column. Standard type of paper will be used in place of the present heavy, glossy-finish paper. The staff has formulated a definite schedule of publication whereby The BEACON will appear on every third Thursday. �THE Page Two BUCKNELL BEACON Monday, June 6, 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON CURRENTLY Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Marjorie Shapiro Murray Edelman, Maurice Reichstein, Stanley Daugert Betty Fenton Herman Propker Ilaria Sterniuk, Pau'.ine Kirshner, Helen EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSO CIATE EDITORS LITERARY EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR I Coats, Bessie Lewis, Lillian Stein, Irwin Freed, Jerome Greenwald, Marguerite Krashkevich Marion Dunstan Jack Leather Marguerite Krashkevich, Darina Tuhy CONTRIBUTING STAFF .A DVERTISING MANAGER BU SINESS MANAGER TYP ISTS ADVISORY BOARD { Joseph Brislin, Joseph Gallagher, Walter Thomas, Betty Tonks, Chairman; Barbara Ryerson, Elwood Disque Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 per column-inch: two column-inches $6.50 "°'"® PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA Editorials Suggestions Considered ... T is heartening to note that almost without exception the students m_a nifest very definite ideas for the improvement of The BEACON. While the staff has endeavored to make use of many of the suggestions in the planning of next year's BEACON, we could not attempt improvement where , according to the poll, it is most needed. The majority of the criticism concerned frequ e ncy of publication, size of reporting staff, use of "stale" news and need for more school news. I Without a doubt a weekly or a bi-monthly paper would be desirable, but lack of funds, lack of reporters, lack of news makes the realization of such a plan impossible. The appropriation that The BEACON receives from the student activities fund allows for only a limited number of issues. Many of the students complained of the lack of representation on l he staff; they seemed to feel that the present staff members are given too much responsibility; that there should be more opportunity for talent to exhibit itself. We heartily agree with this criticism; we have been trying, unsuccessfully, all year to increase the size of the staff, and we have been searching, also unsuccessfully, for hidden talent. Obvious ly being a BEACON reporter consists of so mething more than having one's name printed on page two; it means work and that, we have found, is the reason for our small staff. The proposal for less "stale" news and the one for more school news are, of course, contradictory. In a small college it is unreasonable to expect a vast amount of news , and it is even more unreasonable to expect an absence of "stale" news. W e cannot manufacture news where it does not exist, nor can we assure our readers of "fresh" news in a paper which appears once every t hree wee ks. We were happy to see the interest in The BEACON evidenced in your answers to the final question in the poll. We should be happier if you would actively demonstrate that interest by working on The BEACON staff. LEfilRS TO EDITOR Editor, Bucknell Beacon: FARLEYS TO DINE SOPHOMORE CLASS • After being subjected to eurythmics all year and grinning R. and Mrs. Farley will enand bearing it, the girls finally tertain the sophomore class got the long-awaited archery at the dinner before convocation set. Who uses the archery set? on Thursday, June 9. It has Well, most of the time-the been the custom for the sopohoboys. The boys have a whole mores to meet at Dr. Farley's YMCA in which to be athletic. home, but this year the Chase The girls have been busy de- lawn will be the scene of the anveloping dynamic personalities nual affair. It will be the last in eurythmics class during the time before convocation, itself, year and now they would like to that the class will be officially relax and have some fun with together. After the dinner the their archery set. But there are ,sophomores will proceed to always males cluttering up the Conyngham Hall to don caps place. Someone should do some- and gowns for the evening, and from there they will march to thing about it! Dynamo. the First Presbyterian Church. M SPEAKINC ByM.R. the recent dep~esDURING sion of 1929-'34 much thought and discussion was given to the issue of economic planning. The new recession has precipitated a revival of interest in this subject. Last week niewspapers carried a report prepared by a group of advisers to President Roosevelt, which recommended a form of planning for the United States. It appears that economic planning is becoming a serious challenge to the ,economic system of the United States. Economic planning is defined excellently by Mary Van Kleck of the Industrial Relations Institute : "The word planning . . . signifies controlled development based on facts and knowledge of thle functioning of the parts in the entire structure of economic life . . . to plan is to determine what the future course shall be, not merely to forecast and not to dictate it arbitrarily, for the control which accords with planning is control by knowledge." The two main purposes of economic planning are to obliterate economic ills and to mise the standard of_ Ii.Ying,_ But why economic planning? For answer, exponents of the theory point out the great irony in our economic system. On one hand science has presented us with an economic system which affords the possibility of obtaining universal prosperity. And on the other hand, we utilize that system so unintelligently that we have depressions, unemployment, waste in production and consumption, and widespread inequality of income, all of which destroy the harvest we might reap from the productive system. Economic planners explain that our method of unregulated economy is a complex industrial sodety is the cause of economic chaos. A popular writer on the subject of economic planning draws the picture of a trans-Atlantic liner, manned by an inefficient and unorganized crew, having no captain and no nautical instruments. Most of us, no doubt, have our grave worries concerning the safety of the passengers on this boat. But this situation seems absurd. Nonetheless, isn't the operation of our economic system very similar to this? There is no organization and there are no scientific instruments to control production and consumption. We set out wildly and blindly on the 1e conomic sea, and the history of depressions shows us how many times we have been wrecked and sunk. Economic planning proposes to substitute knowledge for the haphazard and unintelligent way. Four important plans have been suggested for possible use in the United States: (1) Van Kleck Plan (LR.I.) This plan, modelled closely after the Russian plans, utilizes socialism as the economic and poIi tical system, (2) Gerard Swope PlanBusiness and industry initiat,e and control planning. Government acts in advisory capacity only. (3) Stuart Chase PlanPlace Industries Board. This is shaped upon the principles of the War Industries Board and opemtes within the capitalistic system. ( 4) National Economic Council-This is an investigatory and fact-finding agency. The Congress would act upon its suggestions and 11ecommendations. To this column the Van Kleck Plan is undesirable because it makes for the possibility of the loss of social freedom. The Swope Plan is inexpedient because governmental ,ag1eincies could plan much more efficiently. It is our belief that the best economic policy that the United States could follow would be planning fixed to operate within the capitalistic system and under the regulation of government boards. The Chase Plan is too far-reaching for immediate acceptance. The formulation of a National Economic Council which would doubtlessly meet with the approval of the majority of citizens, would be a lo~ical first step. Many champions of economic planning would consider the idea of such planning entirely too innocuous. It is! But if public opinion is to be convinced that economic planning is the proper instrument for the solution of economic ills and the raising of the standard of living, action must be slow, careful and convincing. The setting-up of a National Economic Council, which would function as an investigatory, fact-finding, suggestion-making ag,ency, would be a progressive move in the direction of a system of extensive economic planning. Toward the establishment of such a council, all exponents of economic planning should direct their efforts. DINNER-DANCE JUNE 8th �THE Monday, June 6, 1938 BUCKNELL BEACON Page Three B. U. J. C. ATHLETES FETED AT N. Y. BAND TO CHORAL CLUB GIVES LETTERMEN'S CLUB BANQUET PLAY AT DANCE CONCERT AT CAMPUS HIRTY per cent of the male students received letters and awards at the fifth annual banquet of the Lettermen's Club. This gala affair was held at Chase Hall on May 28. The largest crowd ever to attend a lettermen's banquet was assembled as the club celebratad its most successful year. Ernest Weisberger acted as toastmaster while other speakers included: John Guiney, president of Lettermen's Club, 1938'39; R. C. Tasker, adviser of athletics and presenter of letters ; Henry Peters, coach and director of intmmural sports; Walter Thomas, presenter of awards; Raymond Sparks, wrestling coach at Wyoming Seminary and principal speaker; Mr. Smith, coach at Wyoming Seminary, and John Casper, president of this year's club. The committee for the banquet included: Francis Ford, chairman ; Norman Costine, John Guiney, Robert Hopkins, Robert Peters, William Thomas, Donald MacGuffie, and Herman Propker. T LETTERMEN Basketball William Thomas, captain, '38; Albin Baker, '39; Edward Gayewski, '39 ; Walter Thomas, '37; Herman Propker, '39; Robert Hopkins, '39; Donald MacGuffie, '39 ; ~obert Royer, '39; Clarence Jones, '38 ; Charles Romane, '38; Albert Shafer, manager, '38. Baseball Walter Thomas, captain, '37; Philip Netzel, '39; William Thomas, '38 ; Quentin Walters, '39 ; Edward Gayewski, '39 ; Edward Labak, '39 ; John Gambold, '38 ; Ernest Weisberger, '38; Stanley Henning, '39 ; Charles •--- The Y.M.C.A. URGES ALL BUCKNELL STUDENTS to use the Facilities Rogers, '39; Robert Maguire, manager, '38. Bowling Robert Peters, captain, 38; David Jones, '38; Herman Propker, '39; Quentin Walters, '39; Thomas Jenkins, '38; Clarence Obitz, '39. Tennis Thomas Melson, captain, '38; Irving Cohen, '39; Albert Shafer, '38; Henry Doran, '39 ; Stanley Daugert, '38; Joseph Conlon, '38; Albert French, '39. Swimming John Casper, co-captain, '38; Norman Costine, co-captain, '38; John Guiney, '39 ; Jack Batey, '39; John Mundry, '38; Robert Conway, '39; Joseph Conlon, '38 ; Robert Maguire, '38; Wayne Gardner, '38; Willard Warmkessel, manager, '38. INTERCLASS CHAMPIONS Basketball Bowling Swimming Volleyball Softball Sophomores Freshmen Freshmen Sophomores Sophomores INTRAMURAL BOWLING League Champions Brown: Alexander W az.eter, captain; Clemens Pell, Leonard Osherof, John Gambold, Joseph Kotalik, Quentin Walters. High Single Average Robert Peters - - - - 172.6 Quentin Walters - - - 172.4 High Single Match Robert Peters - - - - 268 Anthony Spotanski - - - 268 High Individual Match Quentin Walters - - - 672 Invitation Tournament Singles champion, Clarence Obitz; doubles champions, Robert Patton, Robert P~ters. Intramural Boxing Champions 110 lb. class, Irwin Freed, Eu- ---• HE Bucknell Junior College annual dinner-dance will THE be held on Wednesday, June T Glee Club presented its annual concert in Lewisburg on 8, at the Westmoreland Club. As is the custom, the dance will be a closed affair, and will be semi-formal. Artie August and his orchestra of New York City, have been engaged for the evening. Dinner will be at 6 :30 p. m. and dancing will follow from 9 until 1. The price is three dollars .a couple. •-- MATCH WITH U. OF S. ENDS DEBATE SEASON Debating Society closed THE its season with a hard-fought, non-decision match against the University of Scranton on May 6. John Gambold, Murray Edelman and Bernard Greenberg debated for the Junior College, and Maurice Reishtein was chairman. The National Labor Relations Board question was used. About thirty students and parents, many of whom had come down from Scranton for the purpose, attended. gene McDonald; 125 lb. class, Quentin Walters, Ernest Weisijerger; 135 lb. class, Edward Labak; 145 lb. class, John Emanski, Rlobert Kerr; 155 lb. class; James Campbell, James Hunt; 165 lb. class, William Thomas, Wilbur Troy; heavyweight, William Morton, Herman Propker. •--- -1 I r--·--------------------- KASPER'S SERVICE Corner North Main and Bennett Streets Sunoco Gas, Oil and Expert Lubrication ·I i t--~~:::~:~::~:____ I SUPPLIES o I I Susan CasseJIJ ❖ Ds:::~:D~FF:~·II i I l_________ ::-~~~~:: __ ~ 16 I Luncheonette ---•--- (Continued on page 4) 0- ~ - , . _ - 0 ~ 0 - - 0 ~ --- r~ISIT THE YMCA May 22. The musical was given at the First Baptist Church before a group of approximately 100 attentive listeners. A good many of the 32 members of the club went to Lewisburg early in the day and spent the time in visiting the campus and friends. The concert, which was held at four o'clock, was in charge of Dr. Stolz, dean of the music school at Lewisburg. The club was accompanied to Lewisburg by Mr. Blankenship, director; Mrs. Farley, accompanist; Miss Roberts and Professor Disque. The following numbers were rendered: "Calm As The Night" ......... Bohm "Robin In The Rain" ............. Cain Girls' Glee Club Flute Solo"Adagio Mobile" ............ Donjon ''Melody'' ................................. Dawes ''Sparklets'' ..............................Miles Mr. Robert Kerr "Homing" ......................... Del Riego ''Pretense'' .................................... Clokey ''Homeland'' ....................................... Cain Corona Portable Typewriters I i W. Macke+ St., Wilke,-Bacce ID II 0~ .:::,i EURYTHMICS and DANCING Studios in WILKES-BARRE HAZLETON SCRANTON 1 ~-,-o--o~o.-.o.-.a- r JORDAN r--··----------------1 i Ace Hoffman Studios of the Men's Furnishings and Hats of New Building QUALITY PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Gym Pool Ping-Pong Club Cra#shop Bowling Alleys Programs, etc. 9 West Market Street We Specialize In School Photography Wilkes-Barre I-=-~ ~~:.=:~~+'. . ~ ~~ ~--_B: .. • Woodlawn "A" Milk AND DAIRY PRODUCTS Dial W-B. 2-2171 �Page Four THE BUCKNELL MANY ADDITIONS MADE PROF. DISQUE TAKES TO COLLEGE LIBRARY LEAVE OF ABSENCE library has recei vied reT has been announced that THE cently, through purchases I Professor Elwood Disque has and gifts, many much-needed volumes. The Osterhout Library made a useful gift of a 12 volume set of Shakespeare. and a complete set of thie worl,s of Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley. Mrs. Franck C. Darte presented the library with a 15 volume set of the Historian's History of the World. Among books given by RJeverend Gardiner Day is a valuable set of Bradford's History of Plymrmth Plantation. Dr. Crook and Dr. Miller also have given books recently-the former having contributed a large number of sociology and economic books and the latter books on mathematics. The library has purchased several indispensable works: a 24 volume set of the 1937 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a 12 volume set of .Frazer's Golden Bough. Besides these standard volumes the library has purchased some new best-selling fiction and non-fiction. Among these are: Thurman Arnold's Folklore of Capitali$m, Stuart Chase's Tyranny of Words, Lin Yutang's Importance of Living, Michael Foster's American Drea,m, John Dos Passos's Big Money, Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, and Millen Brand's The Outward Room. - CONVOCATION JUNE 9th been granted a leave of absence for next year. Professor Disque will work for graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. He already has credits for work done at the Universities of Berlin, Marburg and Freiburg, Germany. Professor Disque's successor has not yet been selected. • SCIENCE SOCIETIES HONOR BUJC STUDENTS has been A NNOUNCEMENT made by two Bucknell honorary societies of the election of two Junior College students as members. Earl Rhodes has been elected into Alpha Chi Sigma, honorary chemistry fraternity, and John Lewis into Beta Epsilon Sigma, honorary engineering fraternity. Election to honorary societies is made on the basis of specific ability and general scholastic achievement. --• BEACON Monday, June 6, 1938 "O, for Wings," from "Hear My Prayer" ......... ................................. Mendelssohn Presentation of Certificates Arnaud Cartwright Marts Junior College Song Benediction Samuel Wolk Recessional • VOTES SCATTERED (Continued from page one) most all-around (i.e.-scholastic ability, extra-curricular participation, etc.) student? Maurice Reishtein received more votes than any of the contenders, but opinion was very scattered. 19. Do you think the Thespians should attempt to produce Shakespeare and like classics? 69 no; 60 yes. 20. Can you offer any suggestion for next year's BEACON? The predominant idea was that of more frequent and more regular publication, and more people doing the reporting. We second the motions ; ( see page 2) . • DRIVE FOR FUNDS (Continued from page one) William Ruff, divisional leaders. The bulk of the fund will be used for reconditioning Conyngham Hall. A large lecture hall with a seating capacity of eighty and a drawing laboratory for the engineering classes are among the proposed additions. Necessary painting and floor recovering will be done throughout Conyngham Hall. Part of the money will be used to improve the grounds of both Chase and Conyngham Halls. The remainder of the contributions will be used for the establishment of several scholarships. •-- CHORAL CLUB GIVES CONCERT (Continued from page three) Mixed Glee Club "The Snow" . . Elgar "Lullaby" ....... .... ... ....... Cain Girls' Glee Club Two Pianos----"Sonatina" ..... ....Clementi "Sicilienne" ................ Bach "Wedding Day" ... .Grieg Darina Tuhy and Marguerite Krashkevich "O, For ·The Wings" from "Hear My Prayer" ....... ..........................................Mendelssohn Mixed Glee Club After the concert the Glee Club was given a supper at Larrison Hall. Miss Melrose was the hostess. ' SWATHMORE DEAN (Continued from page one) Interludium in Modo Antico . ..... Glazounoff Address "Life Means Selection" ..... . ...... Harold Balme Speight Choral Selections "Calm as the Night" ..... Bohn SPAULDING BAKERIES Makers of AMERICA'S FINEST KRULLERS � 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 Bucknell Beacon, 1938 June 6th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 June 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4ef4b9eb7272d02428d1384ef0942c50.pdf 0a3eee524e9652ecaa5eeb833cc6cded PDF Text Text EASTER DANCE Volume 2. Number I L, Bucknell Beacon WILKES-BARRE, PA. lrem Temple APRIL 16 Thursday, March 31, 1938 SHAKESPEARE PLAY, THESPIAN HIGHLIGHT, ON APRIL 7 PRE-EASTER DANCE The More Important Side ... TO BE HELO IN AST May The BEACON denounced editorially the prevailing moral cenL at that time seriously hampered any anti-syphilis campaign. TEMPLE BALLROOM Todaysorshipthatwhich aspect of the problem is obsolete-everyone is talking about syphilis and commending the zeal of Dr. Thomas Parran and others who are HE Irem Temple, South it. T Franklin Street, will be the lead ingFine!theButfightweagainst fear that much of this talk merely results from the thrill scene of the Easter dance, one of the more notable ,annual affairs of the social life of Junior College students. It will be held Saturday, April 16. The Social Activities Committee has reported that Al Brockway's band has been contacted to play the program. The committee has also planned extensive decorations in flo11al patterns symbolic of spring. The affair will be semi-formal. Friends of Junior College students are invited to attend. Admission is by invitation only. Price is $1.50. ---• DEBATERS ACTIVE All OVER STATE Matches Usually NonDecision; Interest Keen, However past several months have T HE been active ones for BUJC'c debaters. The debating club has engaged in eight intercollegiate matches and one intramural match and has taken four trips to various Pennsylvania colleges. Included in these trips was one to a Penn State Debate Convention. The debaters have engaged in two matches with each of the following schools: Bucknell, Scranton-Keystone, Penn State, and Muhlenberg. There were also a number of intramural debates, one of which was given in Assembly on February 22. All debates were on the question, "R·esolved that the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to enforce arbitration of,·<sall industrial disputes." · Stanley Daugert and Maurice Reishtein comprised the negative team; John Gambold, Murray Edelman, and Bernard Greenberg the affirmative team. Dr. David Brown is faculty coach. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM TO BE PRESENTED AT MEYERS HIGH SCHOOL people get from discussing a previously forbidden subject, and that few are really interested in the seriousness of the syphilis problem as such. If this is the case, a merely cursory perusal of the pamphlets now in the conservatory and library and the Assembly talk by Dr. John W . Rice of the campus should shock us into profound interest in the less sensational but more important aspects of this problem. It behooves us, as a supposedly intelligent element of the comm~nity to set a commendable example in two ways. First, we should familiarize ourselves with causes, symptoms, practical preventive measures, and cures for the "Great Imitator." Second, every Junior College student should immediately submit to the Wasserman Test-now being offered without charge by Dr. Pugh of the Kirby Health Center. Dr. R. A. Vonderleher, Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, recently wrote for the campus BUCKNELLIAN. In his article he declared that Bucknell is an acknowledged' leader of student opinion in the United States. As a part of the University we at Bucknell Junior College should feel it both a duty and an honor to participate in the campaign to wipe out this dread social disease. HEALTH HEADS LAUNCH VARIED PROGRAMS PROBE OF SYPHILIS MARK ASSEMBLIES ILARIA STERNIUK Bucknell Junior College THE Thespians under the direc- tion of Miss Norma Sanguiliano will · present "A Midsummer Night's Dream," April 7 in Meyers High School. This is the third major production of R. JOE MURPHY, managing the year, the list including, editor of the Wilkes-Barre "Lady of Letters," presented Pre-Med Group Times-Leader spoke to the as- DeC'ember 10, and "Pomeroy's Hears Mr. Pugh sembly March 8. His topic was Past" which was presented Freshman Week. Rehearsals "Editing a Newspaper." have been taking place regularSpeaking .at length on the On March 9 the Pre-Med Club ly in the garage theatre and the was addressed by Mr. Pugh. composition of newspapers Mr. adjoining lot. Students interacting head of the Kirby Health Murphy destroyed a prevalent ested in any phase of drama Center. The topic of his address, "Syphilis and Its Treatment," notion that newspapers devote have been given the opportunity was one of vital interest and altogether too much space to to contribute their share toward news of crime, scandal, etc. He making the play a sucC'ess. importance to every one. maintained that modern news"Syphilis," said Mr. Pugh, "is It is hoped that Whitford known as the 'Great Imitator' papers try to relegate such news Kane, now playing in the Merfor it imitates many diseases to the back pages, though, he ad- cury Theatre, New York City, while it is in the third stage." At mitted, some papers will use will be the Thespian's guest artthe Kirby Health Center there screaming headlines to boost ist. Those holding speaking are between 70 and 100 persons circulation. parts, in the order of their aptested weekly and 3 per cent are An out-of-the-ordinary pro- pearanC'e, are : found positive. "All prisoners gram was presented to the as- Duke ·Theseus - Elwood Disque at the Luzerne County prison sembly March 15. A round- Hippolyta - Dorothy Hughes are given Wasserman tests be- table discussion of faculty and Aegeus - - - Robert Graham fore they are admitted and students on the question of the Hermia - - - Ilaria Sterniuk there are several states which adoption of the honor system Helena - - Betty D. Fenton require tests before issuing mar- was held. Taking part in the Demetrius - - Robert Conway riage licenses," added Mr. Pugh. discussion were: Chairman, Lysander - Algerd Baldauski Wilkes-Barre has a low rate in Doctor Farley; Dr. Crook, Dr. Bottom - - - Dudley James the number of cases because Brown, Professors Gage and Quince - - Murray Edelman each known case is followed up Schulyer, Betty Fenton, Maur- Snout - Gilbert Meyer (Continued on page two) and given proper treatment. (Continued on page two) M �THE Page Two BUCKNELL BEACON Thursday, March 3 I, I 938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSOCIATE EDITORS LITERARY EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR CONTRIBUTING STAFF ADVERTISING MANAGER BUSINESS MANAGER TYPISTS ADVISORY BOARD Stanley Daugert Marjorie Shapiro, Maurice Reishtein, Murray Edelman Betty Fenton Herman Propker Ilaria Sterniuk, Pau:ine Kirshner, Helen Coats, Bessie Lewis, Lillian Stein, Irwin Freed, Jerome Greenwald, Marguerite Krashkevich Marion Dunstan Jack Leather Marguerite Krashkevich, Darina Tuhy Joseph Brislin, Joseph Gallagher, Walter { Thomas, Betty Tonks, Chairman; Barbara Ryerson, Elwood Disque ! Advertising rates: s ·o c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50 PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, W ILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA -e-,@ Editorials Unfair Bowling Tactics ... A TTENTION has been called to +he unfair tactics of several participants in the present bowling tournament among the men students of the school. The rules are known by all and are expected to be followed, but are all too obviously being discarded by these few. There is a rule to the effect that a person will bowl at least three games , having proclaimed which games will count on the score sheet BEFORE bowling them. He can tell this fact to a member of the opposing team or a responsible member of the YMCA bowling department. But a flagrant disregard for this rule is evinced by persons whom we thought were above such practices. Their practice is to bowl as many games as possible and choose the best three to put down on the tally sheet. In all fairness ·to the members on all teams this practice must be stopped. The rules are there to be obeyed, they are known by all. Dissent over these unfair practices is fast coming to a head . Something should be done by the d irector of the tournament. We recommend dropping these persons from the contest. Assembly Programs (Continued from page one) ice Reishtein, Reuben Rader and Donald MacGuffey. Rector Reverend A SSISTANT Tate of the St. Stephen's Church was host to the students of the Junior College on March 22. Assembly was held in the St. Stephen's auditorium where Mr. Tate showed pictures of the Delta Cooperative Farm, an attempt on the part of a f'ew interested individuals to give some Southern sharecroppers better living conditions. Previous to their membership in the farm these people were either poor "white trash" or negroes in a semi-feudal state of society. --• Schwartz's Address Feature of Smoker HE first of a series of smokers planned by members of the faculty was held in the men's lounge, Chase Hall, Friday, March 15. Leon Schwartz, district attorney of Luzerne County spoke on "Circumstantial Evidence." T After Mr. Schwartz' speech, students grouped themselves around the piano and sang, accompaniment being contributed by Mr. Charles Cann. Peanuts, cider and cigarettes were served by the faculty. • GROUP DISCUSSES PEACEFUL CHANGE Reishtein, Daugert Speak on F. D.R.' s Trade Policies T HE International Relations Club was the guest of Professor and Mrs. Gage and daughter Jane at a meeting held March 8 on a discussion of the question, "Peaceful Change." The following Tuesday, March 15, Messrs. Reishtein and Daugert took charge of the meeting in a discussion of various trade policies. Mr. Reishtein discussed free trade and Mr. Daugert spoke on the present reciprocal trade treaties of the Roosevelt administration as ,a desirable factor of our foreign policy to be continued. CURRENTLY SPEAKINC By M. R. times when shockDURING ing news of an unexpected (2) It is difficult to draw up a clear-cut union of antagonists for a world war. The RomeBerlin axis supposedly established strong ties between Hitler and Mussolini. However, many observers of international affairs feel that the treaty was never powerful, and now is weaker than ever. Because of Japan's war in China, it is doubtful that Germany or Italy could find an ally in the Land of the Rising Sun. Until the totalitarian states are fused in a potent coalition, the democratic, peace-loving nations can be optimistic, for not one of these fascist states could, alone, wage a successful war against an alliance of the democratic countries. ( 3) Science has made the processes of war so horrible and dreadfully destructive that a prospective instigator of war is doubtlessly restrained by the fear of the disastrous consequences that a war might bring. Although the Japanese-China conflict and the Spanish Civil War have amply demonstrated the curse of modern hostilities, how women and children are slaughtered indiscriminately by bombs, these battles are child's play in comparison to what a world war would be. "Ingenious" military science has invented gases, incendiary bombs, infectious bacteria projectiles, which are capable of wiping out millions of people, women and children included, inside of one day. And military men plan to utilize these implements if war comes. Unless the leader of a militaristic country is absolutely insane or inexorably obsessed with the desire for power, we have good reason to believe that the catastrophic potentialities of a next war will go a long way in staying a militant fist. These three factors, we believe, make a practical, if unorthodox, case to lend support to those millions of humans who hope and pray that a conflict will be avoided ;a nd peace maintained throughout the world. Thespians ... FairiesMarion Clark, Gertrude Menecker, Marguerite Krashkevich, Christine Whiteman, Dorothy Smailes, Marion Martin, Rose Frantz, Jane Mackenrow. In addition to the above cast there are students filling the positions of court-men and women. Darina Tuhy is accompanist. international crisis is suddenly thrust upon the world, most of us are moved immediately to fear -and extreme pessimism and in the midst of our waves of emotion, we speak of the "next war" as if its coming were a positive certainty. However when the immediate crisis blows over, and when we make an attempt to return to reason, we wonder whether or not the "clouds are as black and portentous" as they seemed during the periods of emotional tenseness and we wonder whether or not it is true that war cannot be avoided. It is the contention of this column that there are certain factors in the international pictures which afford us ,t he hopeful prospect that universal conflagration is not imminent. ( 1) It is highly improbable that Germany, the springboard of Europe, desires war. Hitler, · no doubt, questions very seriously the ability of his military forces to win over an alliance of democratic countries. Also there is a good possibility that he is extremely dubious concerning the capacity of the German finances to withstand the expense of a drawn out conflict. Shrewd Hitler knows a better game than war. He has discovered that by bluffing in an international game of poker he can gain many ends without the risk of provoking a war. In his conquest of Austria, in his occupation of the Rhineland, in the abrogation of the Versailles Treaty, he had his European neighbors so baffled, that no one dared or wanted to call his bluff. It is our belief that Hitler is taking all he can get now becaus·e he knows that soon someone will "call." And when that showdown comes, Hitler will suddenly drop his "Aggressive front" and concentrate upon retaining what he had gained for Germany up to that time. We repeat that Hitler will not resort to war if he can possibly avoid it-and he can. (Continued from page one) Snug - Abraham Mandlovitz Flute George Andrasko Starveling - Robert England Titania Betty M. Tonks Oberon - Bernard Greenberg Puck - - - - Robert Nagle �THE Thursday, March 31, 1938 BUCKNELL FROSH SWIMMERS DOWN SOPHOMORES BUT SOPH QUINTET GAINS REVENGE Free-Style Relay Proves Victory of Upper ClassDeciding Event in men Their First In Close Meet School's History OR the first time in the hisFreshmen showed their F THE tory of Bucknell Junior Colsuperiority over the Sophomores by defeating them in a very exciting swimming meet, 37-29. The meet was close throughout, arid it wasn't until the final match, the free-style relay, that the Freshmen proved their worth, when their team composed of Hopkins, Guiney, Meyer, Conway outclassed the Sophomore stars Kasper, Ratajski, Gardner and Maguire. The summaries: 50-yarci free-style-Won by Kasper (S) ; second Batey (F) ; third, Rataj ski ( S) . 100-yard breast stroke-Won by Jones (S); second, Conway (F) ; third, Gardner (S). 200-yard free-style-Won by Maguire (S); second, Meyer (F). 100-yard back stroke-Won by Batey (F) ; second, Costine (S) ; third, Hopkins (F). 100-yard free-style-Won by Guiney (F) ; second, Jones (S) ; third, Maguire ( S) . Diving-Won by Conlon (S); second, Hopkins (F). Medley relay-Won by Freshmen (Batey, Conway, Guiney) ; second, Sophomores ( Costine, Gardner and Kasper). Free-style relay - Won by Freshmen (Hopkins, Guiney, Meyer, Conway); second, Sophomores (Kasper, Ratajski, Gardner and Maguire) . Officials-Lillian Stein, Anne Gallow, Marion Beech and Eleanor Burke. ---•--- BEACON Page Three FRESHMEN g. gls. fls. Hopkins, f. 3 14 6 H. Propker, f. 3 15 3 Royer, c. 3 11 2 •Ringstrom, g. 3 5 2 MacGuffie, g. 2 4 3 Baker, g. 1 2 2 Troy, g. 3 0 0 Hyman, g. 3 0 0 pts. 34 33 24 12 11 6 0 0 Totals 128 5118 SOPHOMORES g. gls. fls. Ford, f. 3 16 4 B. Thomas, f. 3 10 5 Romane, c. 3 9 3 Boyle, c. 3 9 2 W. Thomas, g. 1 5 1 Gambold, g. 3 3 0 Semmer, g. 3 2 0 Mayock, g. 3 0 0 Pell, g. 3 0 0 lege the Sophomores won the pts. basketball championship by de36 feating the Freshmen 44-43 in 25 the third and deciding game. 21 The Freshmen won the first 20 game 36-29, while the Sopho11 mores came back strong to win 6 the second 50-41. 4 The final game was nip and 0 tuck all the way with the Sophs 0 holding a two-point margin at half time. Early in the third Totals 54 15 123 session the yearlings went out in front with sensational goals by Propker and Royer. Baker, Freshmen guard, was taken out of the game via personal fouls and then the Sophs started to sink baskets from all angles. With the score tied at 43-43, and one minute remaining to play Charley Romane sank a foul to put his team in the lead. The scores: UCKNELL Junior College SOPHOMORES ( 44) cagers ended a comparativegls. fls. pts. ly successful season March 5 3 0 6 when they were defeated in a B. Thomas, f. W. Thomas, f. 5 1 11 hard-fought game by Bucknell Pell, f. 0 0 0 University Frosh 59-48. Out of Romane. c. 5 0 10 18 games the Jr. Bisons emerg-· 3 1 7 ed victorious in 5. These vicFord, g. Boyle, g. 3 2 8 tori'es are the first the Jr. ColSemmer, g. 1 0 2 lege cagers have realized. The prospects for next year Totals 20 4 44 look even brighter. Although FRESHMEN ( 43) the Juniors will be without the gls. fls. pts. services of such veterans as 6 1 13 H. Propker, f. (Continued on page four) 4 0 8 Hopkins, f. 0 0 0 Troy, f. Royer, c. 6 1 13 Hymen, c. 0 0 0 2 2 6 Baker, g. 0 0 0 Ringstrom, g. MacGuffie, g, 1 1 3 ---•--- PAST CAGE SEASON SAW FIVE VICTORIES FOR BUJC TEAM B ---•--- Deemer & Co. SCHOOL AND OFFICE Totals BUJC ATHLETES IN SPORTS PARADE Junior College BUCKNELL athletes will. be well represented on the "Y" Sports Parade beginning March 28 and continuing to April 9. On Monday night at 8 :00 o'clock the Junior College quintet will oppose the "Y" varsity in the third and deciding game of the series. The Bison five won the first while the "Y" won the second. Wednesday night, April 6 at 7 : 00 o'clock Bucknell Junior College will be represented in the boxing tournament. Four bouts will take place among the Bisons, to decide the championship of each group. Finals: 147 lb. class-Gambold vs. Kerr. 155 lb. class-Campbell vs. Hunt. 165 lb. class-Troy vs. B. Thomas. Heavy1:veight - Propker vs. Morton. Winners of each group will be presented with attractive golden gloves. ---•--- , .....................•. KASPER'S SERVlCE Corner North Main and Bennett Streets Sunoco Gas, Oil and il____ John Ex_p_ert_L_u-br-ic_a_ti_on--~ J. Kasper, Prop. Swan GasseJlf -:- l EURYTHMICS ID II The Y.M.C.A. () URGES :, ~ and DANCING Studios in WILKES-BARRE HAZLETON SCRANTON ALL BUCKNELL STUDENTS to use the Facilities of the New Building Gym Pool Ping-Pong Club Cra~shop Bowling Alleys Programs, etc. JORDAN f Ace Hoffman Studios Men's Furnishings and Hats of QUALITY 9 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre l PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS We Specialize In School Photography AND DAIRY PRODUCTS 32 W. Market St. W.-B. _ Phone2-1174 -••••••••••••I Woodlawn "A" Milk ■■ •••j Dial W-B. 2-2171 �Page Four THE BUCKNELL THINCS and STUFF BEACON Thursday, March 31, 1938 Past Season BOWLING RECORDS I (Continued from page three) being spring, there THIS comes a natural lull in the activities of homo sapiens during which interval the young blades of grass and the early spring crocuses may be perceived to slowly emerge, the divers varieties of bird life are heard cheeping, whistling and uttering other sounds of bird revelry and white •s hoes-varying in degrees of cleanliness-appear. There is something in our innate self which rebels at the idea of getting to class on time, but being a conformist at heart we try (half-heartedly-to be sure) to maintain a semblance of punctuality. But we think that we'd be even more punctual if the bells at Chase and Conyngham could possibly be regulated so that they'd ring at the same time. Of course there are periods where the Chase bells cease to function entirely. This makes it all the more confusing. We note with mixed and unmentionable feelings that the Bucknellian devotes a generous two column space to an account of the strike-breaking activities of one of the ca'Inpus students. Strike-breaking, if we are to judge by the Bucknellian's attitude, is a fine and commendable thing; the strikers are horrid, cruel people who busy themselves by heaving iron bars about, by sprinkling acid upon paint, and by engaging in similar destructive activities as they leer ghoulishly at the innocent employer. The one-sided treatment of the situation is particularly reminiscent of the anti- labor articles to be found in a certain well known chain of newspapers. Now that the girls have acquired a zest for exercise, plus dynamic personalities (thanks to eurythmics classes) , they all agree that they'd like to indulge in some competitive sports. Of course, there is always bowling, but even bowling at its best is not enough. The cry is for archery-and we hasten to join in the chorus. It is a .g reat source of amazement to us that the faculty exhibits such a thorough knowledge of the various and devious methods of cribbing. We gained a large, but-we hasten to add-valueless, store of information the other week when some of the faculty members gave vent to their imaginative powers and suggested a number of rather complicated methods for cribbing during an exam, among which was the suggestion that the potential cribber write microscopically upon the head of ,a pin or upon his watch crystal what information he so desires, and carry a pair of magnifying glasses to class with him. "Bim" Thomas and "Shorty" Thomas, most of the team will remain to play next year. Albie Baker, newly elected captain, for next year and member of the all-scholastic team, will feature next year. Other hold-overs are Goyewski, Hopkins, Propker, Royer, Troy and Ringstrom. Nov. 27 Bucknell 40; YMCA 39 Dec. 3 Bucknell 43; Susque. 48 8 Bucknell 33; Syc Frosh 34 11 Bucknell 39; St. Thm. F. 41 22 Bucknell 36; L. I. Frosh 72 Jan. 1 Bucknell 29; St. Thm. F. 57 7 Bucknell 38 ; Cornell F. 57 8 Bucknell 48 ; Colgate F. 47 15 Bucknell 33; Key. Jr. 49 22 Bucknell 50; Wyo. Sem. 34 29 Bucknell 51; Wymsng P. 49 Feb. 5 Bucknell 38; L. I. Frosh 53 11 Bucknell 52; Wyo. Sem. 55 12 Bucknell 61 ; Buck. Frosh 59 18 Bucknell 41; Key. Jr. 80 25 Bucknell 26; McCann 28 Mar. 4 Bucknell 42; Dick. Jr. 50 5 Bucknell 48; Buck. Frosh 59 12 Bucknell 48; YMCA 5,1 BIG SIX FOR WEEK OF MARCH 21 Obitz ·--------------················· Pell ·-----·-··············-·······-·--H. Propker ............... Jenkins ····-··--------······•····· Walters ........................... Fox .................................... 610 558 533 526 518 512 TEAM STANDING w. 1. t.p. Yale 14 7 4 Brown 16 5 6 Cornell 11 10 4 Harvard 10 11 4 Penn 9 12 3 pts. 20 20 15 15 12 BIG TEN AVERAGES UP TO MARCH 18 g. st. sp. avg. Q. Walters 60 234 225 173 47 189 245 171 Obiitz Jones 54 189 195 170 R. Peters 60 208 237 169 H. Propker 45 159 174 166 45 133 180 163 iPell 47 152 172 162 Fox 3 10 10 162 Ford 60 164 129 161 W. Miller 60 194 215 160 R. Tasker ---• --- SPAULDING BAKERIES EASTER DANCE lrem Temple April 16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~---~------·-----------i~ m m THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry Open 11 A. M. to 2:30 P. M. m m m � 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 Bucknell Beacon, 1938 March 31st Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 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 Bucknell University Junior College https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/0c4a84c6a4ea7052135e7f01a8cc7b4c.pdf c8d55028ecb5a412c2c7b78da2cb4448 PDF Text Text Bucknell Beacon SPORT DANCE Volume 2. Number t~ WILKES-BARRE, PA. Shakespeare Play Singers, Orchestra To Be Civen In Bach Festival In Near Future HE Wyoming Valley Bach T O definite date has been set the third major dramatic production, Midsummer Night's Dream, to be presented by the Thespians under the direction of Miss Norma Sangiuliano. The date has remained uncertain as it must suit the convenience of the guest artist, Whitford Kane, now playing in the Mercury Theatre, New York. Those taking part in the play are: Betty Tonks, Betty Fenton, Ilaria Sterniuk, · Dorothy Hughes, Elwood Disque, Robert Conw.ay, Algerd Baldaski, Rohert Graham, Bernard Greenberg, Robert Nagle, Marion Clark, Dudley James, Murray Edelman, Gilbert Meyer, George Andrasko, Abraham Mandlovitz, and Robert England. It is hoped that all those students interested in any phase of drama; acting, scene-designing, costume-designing, etc. will submit their names to the drama office soon. N for ---•--- Festival, a community enterprise designed to provide music lovers with an opportunity to enjoy and participate in the presentation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, will take in Wilkes-Barre on March 28, April 1, and April 3 under the direction of Professor Paul Gies of Bucknell University. Prof. Gies has prepared a very complete program which is divided into three p~rts, one section to be presented on each of the above days. The first is entitled the "Musical Ancestry of J. S. Bach" and is primarily a concert of ancient instruments with a small chorus and soloists. "Johann Sebastian Bach and His Sons," a concert by the augmented Wilkes-Barre Sinfonietta with soloists will be presented on the second evening, April 1. The repertoire concludes, on Sunday afternoon, April 3, with "The Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew." Membership in the Wyoming Valley Bach Society is open to all interested persons within limits set by the seating capacity of the auditorium. The annual membership fee of one dollar admits the member to all three programs. ---•--- Debaters Attend Penn State Parley Assembly Hears Cage, Debaters EMBERS of the Debate SoM ciety attended a debate convention for freshmen and junior college teams held at Penn State February 11 and 12. The convention as a body resolved - that there exists a very serious labor-capital problem in the United States and that compulsory arbitration enforced by the National Labor Relations Board would be the best solution to the problem. On Friday, February 18, the affirmative team, consisting of John Gambold and Murray Edelman, met the Penn State negative team at Wilkes-Barre. The negative team, consisting of Stanley Daugert and Maurice Reishtein, will go to La Plume on Thursday evening to debate representatives of the ScrantonKeystone Junior College. the school a INclearorderideatoofgive what a debate is, the Debating Club argued the question, "Resolved that the National Labor Relations Board be given the power to enforce arbitration of all industrial disputes," at yesterday's Assembly. Stanley Daugert and Maurice Reishtein, taking the negative side, opposed Murray Edelman and John Gambold. Mr. Daugert and Mr. Edelman presented the rebuttals. Bernard Greenberg acted as chairman. The highlight of the February 15 Assembly was a speech by Professor Daniel Gage. Mr. Gage asserted that Soviet Russia representing communism, Japan representing Japanism and the United States representing de( Continued on page 3) SAT. NIGHT FOX HILL Thursday, February 24, 1938 Twenty-Four Students Attain Honor Roll; Average Over 85 % Drama Director Eight Freshmen Listed; Unknown Six Included On Dean's List Following is the list of students who made an average of 85% or more during the first semester: Mwho last year joined the Bucknell Junior College faculty ISS NORMA SANGIULIANO, as dramatic coach, teaches a course, this year, in Play Production, added because of the interest of the students in drama. Miss Sangiuliano was born in Wilkes-Bane and went to Syracuse University. There she received the degrees A.B. in English, and A.B. and A.M. in Drama. While a student at Syracuse, Miss Sangiuliano acted in several plays, among them the World Premier of Zona Gale's "Faint Perfume," and assisted in the production of many others. While working for her higher degrees, Miss Sangiuliano was an assistant in Dramatics, supervised the production of plays and taught several courses in makeup, play production, and appreciation of drama. Miss Sang-iuliano instituted at Syracuse the School of Speech Play Contest which has been carried on since she left. For several summers Miss Sangiuliano has been an actor, business manager, and assistant to the director in the Syracuse Summer School Players, a stock company made up of graduates of Syracuse School of Drama. Miss Sangiuliano's work, outside interests, and pleasures can all be found in drama. Helen A. Balliet '40, Jacob l\L Edelman '41, John J. Emanski '41, Betty D. Fenton '40, Robert S. Graham '41, Bernard L. Greenberg '41, Jerome B. Gre~wald '41, Pauline Kirshner '40, Jack Leather '40, Bessie A. Lewis '41, John L. Lewis '40, Paul A. Meyers '40, Chas. F. Millard '40, Margaret Moore '41, Lilly Morgan '40, Robert E. Nagle '41, Robert G. Peters '40, Reuben W. Rader '40, Maurice A. Reishtein '40, Earl J. Rhoades '40, Richard J. Roush '40, Marjorie F. Shapiro '40, Dorothy M. Thomas '40, Ernest Weisberger '40. • Committee Plans Semester's Dances Social Activities CommitTHE tee is planning several dances for the remainder of the college year. Jerry McHale's Orchestra has been secured to play at the dance on Saturday, February 26. This affair is to be held at the Fox Hill Country Club and will be a sport dance. An Easter dance is planned for Saturday, April 16. The committee hopes to secure Ray Keating . for this semi-formal dance. Sometime in the early part of May a Spring dance is held annually. And just before school closes in June, a dinner dance will be given in honor of the departing sophomores. �THE Page Two BUCKNELL BEACON Thursday, February 24, 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON CURRENTLY Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSOCIATE EDITORS LITERARY EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR Murray Edelman Marjorie Shapiro, Maurice Reichstein, Stanley Daugert Betty Fenton Herman Propker Ilaria Sterniuk, Pau 'ine Kirshner, Helen Coats, Bessie Lewis, Lillian Stein, Irwin Freed, Jerome Greenwald, Marguerite Krashkevich Marion Dunstan ! CONTRIBUTING STAFF .ADVERTISING MANAGER BUSINESS MANAGER TYPISTS J l ADVIS OR Y BOARD Jack Leather Marguerite Krashkevich, Darina Tuhy Joseph Brislin, Joseph Gallagher, Walter Thomas, Betty Tonks, Chairman; Barbara Ryerson, Elwood Disque Advertising rates: 50c per column-inch. Two column-inches 75c. One year: $4.50 per column-inch; two column-inches $6.50 PUBLISHED EVERY THREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA .,.,., @ Editorials Dr. Crook Resigns ... IT IS with regret that The BEACON announces that Dr. Wilfred Crook has found it necessary, because of lack of time, to relinquish his duties as faculty adviser to The BEACON. Not enough can be said for the great amount of work he did for Th~ BEACON. It was he who organized the staff last year after the paper had suffered a lapse of publication for a year. It was he who formulated the plan whereby we are able to publish every three weeks even though our ' ~ ncial resources are extremely limited. His aid and advice in the writing of the copy and the technical composition have been indispensable. The entire staff stand as one in expressing profound gratitude for his untiring efforts in behalf of The BEACON in the past, and in feeling a deep sense of loss now that he has resigned. Adopt The Honor System C ALLED by various other names throughout the country, the honor syste:r-, as we prefer to call it, is gaining general acceptance. This is the system which puts the students on their own, so to speak, by asking the student body, none excepted, to report "cribbing," copying and such childish practices io the student council. The report is usually made anonymously followed by appropriate action by the student council. As in other colleges and universities, we suggest that the following method be put in practice: Upon report of student misdemeanor of the above caliSer, the student council will inform the director who will summon the accused before him. The student will be told frankly of what he has been accused and may offer a plea. The director will give the plea either written or verbally to the council with recommendation as to acceptance. The council will vote on the same and a majority will determine the opinion. The director will inform the accused of the council's decision. Removal from the college is recommended if the student's plea is not accepted. By adopting this system we expect to see a three-fold gain: Instructors will not waste time proctoring lengthy examinations; students will be obliged . to depend only upon themselves, as it should be; students who would otherwise rely on their fellows' knowledge for their personal gain will maintain an honest conscience. It thus puts a premium on one's personal knowledge and conscience. We urge the adoption of this system by the student council, modified er amended by such methods as they deem wise. A Cultural Milestone ... T HE BEACON heartily joins all Wyoming Valley in congratulating the Osterhout Free Library on its fifty years of superb service to the community. The Library has ample reason to be proud of its record since the day in 1888 when the Wilkes-Barre Record carried the notice that "The pews of the south side of the old Presbyterian Church were removed yesterday in preparation for the occupancy of the book shelves of the Osterhout Free Library ." We hope that Bucknell University Junior College will be able to claim a similarly distinguished position as a cult_ural center of Wyoming Valley. SPEAKINC By M. R. DAZED world looks on-in A abject silence-as a ruthless dictator, with "Deutschland ( and Hitler) ueber alles" in his heart, silently, swiftly, cunningly, seizes control of an independent country. We look on as he disregards completely a Versailles Treaty, a League of Nations, and the burning desire of millions of humans for peace. And will Hitler stop with Austria ?-of course not! Drunk with power and the desire for more. Hitler shouts to the world his plan of Pan-Germanism the consolidation of all the Germans in Europe under the Reich. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, all of Central Europe are in the range of his cannons of ambition. Thus ominous portends of war are thrust upon the world! France and Great Britain will surely not sit back and complacently watch Germany gain control of Central Europe. Both nations remain silent for the present because a definite plan of counter-attack has not yet been resolved. To believe that powers of such great military stren!!th will sub serve to the ambitions of Hitler is naive stupidity. The position of _Italy is more difficult to define. Did Italy and Germany work together for mutual benefit in the seizure of Austria or did Hitler steal the march on Mussolini? Is Mussolini in agreement with Hitler's plot to Germanize Central Europe? These are pertinent questions which no outsider can as yet answer authoritatively. The welfare of the United States is also affected by the coup of Austria. In the first place, the easy conquest of Austria and the proposed plan to gain Central Europe suggests a probability of an attempt in the future on the part of Hitler and Mussolini to wield influence in South America. As Walter Lippman suggests, the Monroe Doctrine wouldn't be effective in stopping an aggression because a new type of "aggression" is being utilized. Germany didn't send troops into Austria to shed blood, and thus make a conquest. Instead Hitler intimidated Austrian statesmen, intrigued and diffused propaganda which stirred unrest in the Austrian people. Hitler or Mussolini could use the same methods in South America and we would be powerless to act. In the second place, the Austrian incident concerns the United States because it would b0. impossible for us to stay out of a world war resulting from Hitler's conquest even though we are geographically removed from the trouble zone. This point is conceded by everyone except the "Isolationists," and their point of view went out with the Model T. The ultimate outcome of Hit.Jer's action can only be war and s p r e a d o f totalitarianism through the world-that is unless the democratic nations, the peace-loving nations unite immediately and make a concerted demand that Hitler (Mussolini and Japan), stop their aggression. · Hitler would have thought twice about making a move to control Austria if the United States, France and England were united against such aggression. However, the United States still refuses to enter a pact of this type. After the next war is over maybe well wake up to the fact (if w~re sti1! ~live) that we may be wrong once in a ~vhile. FOR HOME AND COUNTRY You raised, oh mother, sons for death! They lay so quiet without breath. So soon their living like a sob Was felt to move us with a throb And then was stifled and put out. Oh hear these rumored calls without! You're sad, my friend, because they're dead. It's not so long you felt a dread At marching feet of rows and rows Of Sons, your sons, to meet the foes, And long you wondered in the night What it meant and what was right; And then you knew: it wasn't long Since you had taught them right and wrong. And there they're lying teaching you And preaching sermons still rows through, Hm·e now, oh mother, hear the call! Your sons will die, your sons so tall. B. D. F'. �Thursday, February 24, 1938 THE BUCKNELL BEACON Page Three Swim Ace BUJC Bowlers Veterans Return Jay Cees Defeat Lewisburg Frosh Defeat Tommies For Baseball Season In Tournament In Extra Period B UCKNELL JUNIOR COLLEGE bowlers defeated St. Thoma3 varsity, 3 to 1, last Saturday evening in the Y.M.C.A. alleys. The Tommies took the first game but the Bisons captured the second and third and also total pins. Intramural Bowling League standing. w. L. T.P.P. Brown ..................... 6 0 2 8 Yale .......................... 4 2 2 6 Penn ...................... 4 2 1 5 Cornell ................... 3 3 1 4 M. I. T ...................... 1 5 0 1 Harvard .................. 0 6 0 0 "BIG SIX" Week of Feb. 14 Ringstrom ................ .. . . ............ .. 545 Propker ....... ... ... . ..... ... ............... .. 537 Pell ............................. . ...................... 534 Walters ........... ........ ............. .. ..... ... 534 S potanski .............. ....... ..................... 530 Obitz ..................................... .................. 513 "BIG TEN" Individual Averages For the First Half 1. Q. Walters .......................... 178 2. R. Peters ................. ......... .... 171 3. C. Obitz ................................. 168 4. D. Jones ................................ 167 5. R. Tasker .............................. 164 6. W. Miller ........................... 164 7. H. Propker ........................... 164 8. C. Pell ................................... 161 9. V. Hall ....... . ................ ... 160 10. J. Fox ....................................... 160 THIRTY-FIVE men responded to Coach Hank Peters' first call for baseball candidates, including five veterans; Weisberger, Bim Thomas, Shorty Thomas, Gambold, and McGuire. The team has been having ligh~ work-outs in preparation for the first game which is to be played at Colgate on April 22. The remainder of the schedule is as follows: April 23 Keystone Jr. Col... ..........Away 30 Dickinson Jr. Col... ..... Home May 4 Bloomsburg Frosh .... Home 6 Wyoming Sem ............... Away 7 Keystone Jr. Col... .......... Homc 14 East Stroudsburg ........ Away 18 Bloomsburg Frosh ...... A way 21 Dickinson Jr. Col... ......... Away 28 Wyoming Sem . ............... Home U. J . C. quintet registered B • their sixth victory of th~ season by setting a new Northeastern League record when it defeated Bucknell University Frosh 61 to 59, in an extra period game. The 61 tallies, scored by the Bison Juniors made it 113 points the local five has scored in its last two games. Coach Henry Peters' team started with a rush and forged into the lead with a 12 point advantage over their rivals from the campus. Eddy Gayewski was responsible for a good part of this margin by collecting six field goals in the first half. John Guiney The Frosh tightened the game up in the closing minutes of the Assembly Programs second quarter when Buzis and Nolan, two big men, scored fre(Cont inued from page one) quently under the basket. The Junior College led 27 to 22 at mocracy all desire to remold half time. China according to their respective pattern. "The outcome of The lead see-sawed throughWalsh Will Address out the second half and, with the present Far Eastern str~ Letterman Luncheon one minute remaining to play, gle depends on which of the the campus five held a 5 point three will be strongest and most lead. A foul conversion by aggressive," he said. THE Letterman's Club will Royer, which was followed by a --sponsor their next luncheon on goal by Propker, cut the lead to the second Tuesday of March. 2 points with ten second reMr. Joe Walsh, former Sports maining to play. Then Baker Editor of the Wilkes-Barre Rec- sank one from the middle of the ord, and now City Editor, will court to tie the score, thus f orcbe the guest speaker. Robert ing the game into an extra perPatton, sports writer on the iod. Baker and Gayewski roll- 1 Valentine Tea Record Staff and a student at ed into action in the extra perCorner North Ma in and Bennett Streets f Bucknell Junior College, will act iod, and enabled our team to I take the first victory in five as toastmaster. Sunoco Gas, Oil and I THE women and wives of the The Club is looking forward years from their Lewisburg I Expert Lubrication I faculty of the college entertain- to having Dick Harlow, football rivals. I I ed the students at a Valentine coach at Harvard University, at I John J. Kasper, Prop. I Tea on Friday, February 11. one of their future luncheons. The affair was held at the home The members of the Club will of Dr. and Mrs. Tasker from sell tickets for the next lunch3 :30 until 5 :30. Over one huneon, as a large crowd is expectdred students attended and enSu5an CaHe41j ed to attend. joyed a pleasant afternoon. Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Brown, and Miss EURYTHMICS Pence poured. SCHOOL AND OFFICE i •--- ---• rKiiPER;si ---•--- l SERVICE I I I --• The Y.M.C.A. URGES ALL BUCKNELL l-----------------•--1--·--·-------, ❖ I Deemer & Co. l i1 •-i ------------1 I fi DANa(ING I I! SUPPLIES VISIT THE YMCA L~~:~~~~~;;~_.1 I JORDAN I Ace I New Building QUALITY I Gym Pool Ping-Pong Club Cra~shop Bowling Alleys Programs, etc. 9 West Market Street I I of the 6 w . Mackel St.. w;lke,-Be"e ~--·--·······-- Men's Furnishings and Hats of · Facilities 0~ .::,i Studios in WILKES-BARRE HAZLETON SCRANTON ~~ STUDENTS to use the Corona Portable Typewriters Wilkes-Barre Hoffman Studios I I I PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS We Specialize In School Photography 32 W. Market St. W.-B. i_ .. ~::n•e· 1 I Woodlawn 1 I "A" Milk I ~-~ ~ ~4- ••• ___j AND DAIRY PRODUCTS Dial W-B. 2-2171 �Page Four THE BUCKNELL BEACON THINCS and STUFF A NEW semester; late-winter colds; early signs of Spring fewir. But always there is the cheering thought of another BEACON to spur us onward, to spread a little sunshine. And it seems that everyone feels that way about it. People have been approaching us and sadly querying, "Where is the BEACON?" The BEACON has been recuperating from a severe case of frustration (We, too, hav:e troubles) but we persevere. The problem, to have or not to have a gossip column seems to be a moot question, but as far as we are concerned, there shall be a complete absence of lightly malicious chit-chat in ye Beacon, let the opposition rant and rave as it will. After all, we do have our ideals! The egotistical desire to see one's name coupled with that of a member of the opposite sex in print is too pretty to deserve gratification. A. B. loves C. D. Oh, what we know about you! Z. loves X. If one "7ishes to publicize one's supposedly private affairs let them be posted upon the bulletin board, which no one reads anyway. We have an ingrained dislike for "Scabs" and strike-breakers, but be that as it may, we award cheers and applause to the eight hardy female souls who dared to disregard the boycott of last Friday's tea dance started by someone or other for reasons unknown. So all the little girls went into a corner and pouted, with the exception of aforesaid eight who attended the dance and had for themselves a (quote) marvelous ( unquote) time. We complained in our last column of the fact that the men had a phonograph and piano in their lounge while the women were left ( poor souls!) to strain their ears as best they might to hear the music issueing from the third floor. Well, it seems everything is fine now and Justice prevails. The women will have the phonograph one week and the men will have it the next. Presumably, we are to overlook the whole semester vvhen the phonograph did NOT circulate. Despite affairs in the Far East and all the anti-Japanese propaganda that has been reaching our ears, we were suffused with a fine glow of brotherly love when we viewed the exquisite .Japanese prints that are on display on the first floor of Chase. The naturalists, the cubists, the realists, and surrealists come and go, but the Japanese have been putting out some fine work in the way of prints for the past few centuries-and that, dear readers, is ART. •--French Club Organized Thursday, February 24, 1938 Death Life Again the propagandists take their stand ; Merchants of war, apt advocates of hate, Luring to death the youth of every land With specious pleas of honor, or of fate. Though nations bleed to death in in most uncivil strife, And falsely neutral lands assist their fratricide, Yet, midst the falling bombs of war's red wrath, New babes are born, new lovers plight their troth. '"Hope springs eternal," Faith will not be dimmed, Thus Life moves on! Builders of bombs, of tanks and lethal tools, Makers of wings of war and deadly gas, Expand their markets best midst frenzied fools Whose fears grow daily, fed on legends crass. Munitions men hold Christ an outworn dream And love of brother man a broken reed. Rough word, "Big Stick," gas bomb, for safety seem Man's only hope. Such is their bloody creed. ---• Christ Speaks That men might have abundant life, I came; But ye have rent my Holy Church in twain. My Holy Church-compact of souls aflame-Struggling to life and love from death and pain. Through endless years of crime, of cruelty and war, The world has striven towards its distant goal. Tyrants have fallen, idols lost their power; New ills have risen, new tyrants seized the spoil; Still common folk have dared to Ii ve, to love, to toil. Life still moves on! Workman of Galilee! Heroic Nazarene! Thou spak'st the Living Word to men of death; Gav'st hope to slaves, to ailing men new health; Then met the Cross, the faithless mob's contempt. For thee proud men turn saint, casting away their wealth. Thy life moves on! -WILFRED H. CROOK. THE first meeting of the newly organized French Club was held in Chase Hall on Thursday, February 17. Twenty-one members of the first year, intermediate, and advanced classes attended. Officers elected were: Jack Leather, president; Henry Doran, vice president; Helen Balliet, treasurer. SPAULDING BAKERIES Makers of AMERICA'S FINEST KRULLERS ~~~~~~~~~a~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~----------------~~ m m ffl m ~ ffl ~ m m THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE and CAFETERIA Supplies Pennants Jewelry m m ~ ~ Open 11 A. M. to 2:30 P. M. ffl ~ CHASE HALL ~ ffli------------------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 Bucknell Beacon, 1938 February 24th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 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 Bucknell University Junior College