Alumni Fund Drive Hits $2,000 at Halfway Mark; Weaver Confident
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Alumni Fund Drive Hits $2,000 at Halfway Mark; Weaver Confident $5,000 Goal Can Be Achieved PMC's Alumni opened up their hearts and their pocketbooks and had contributed more than $2,000 at the halfway mark of their fund drive. More money poured in dur i ng the first month than in two months of any previous drive. With more than $500 being re ceived since Christmas, Chairman Jim Weaver, 1935, felt confident that a goal of approximately $5,000 can be attained before the drive ends Jan. 31. Weaver had this to say: liThe response to our annual PMC Alumni Gift Fund Drive has been outstanding. It just proves that everyone is willing to place money on a winning horse. We YOMMI E AND CAPPY - They proved to be one ;of the nation's have more to talk about in our greatest passing combinations of the 1956 season. College than at any time since I can remember. The pressure is Costello, Hill Capture National Grid mounting for admittance of quali fied students at an accredited insti tution, and PMC will be right on Honors; Help Set Several New Records top./I All sorts of honors have been them, they helped George Han " 1f you have not already made rolling in for Yommie Costello and sell's outstanding club lead the (See ALUMNI DRIVE Page 2) Cappy Hill since the close of the nation in nine departments and football season. finish runners-up in six other cat Hill was named one of the ends egories, according to statistics re Mid-W inter PMC on The Associated Press' Little AII leased by the National Collegiate America third team, and on the Athletic Bureau. Banquet Feb. 22 second team of the Little Ali-Ameri Costello paced all playe rs in the The annual mid-winter banquet ca team picked by the Williamson U. S. in average offense per game of the PMC Alumni Association is Rating System. Costello received (193.2), average gain per play to be held Feb. 22 at the Hotel honorable mention among the (10.4), passing yardage per game Penn Sherwood in Philadelphia, quarterbacks. (189.1) and yards gained per beginning at 6:30 p.m. with cock Both Hill and Costello were completion (23.0). He was runner tails. pic;ked on the No. 1 ,Iub of the up in total offense (1739), yards AI Frank, 1949, who is serving Southern Division of the Eastern gained passing (1702) and touch again as banquet chairman, had College Athletic Conference and down passes (17). not made final arrangements for were almost unanimous choices Only Jamison of Bradley sur a speaker as the January issue of for everybody's all-opponent team. passed Yommie in total offense. the Alumni Bulletin went to the GREAT PE RFORMA NCE He rolled up 1925 yards but play printers. However he promises to It's doubtful if any passing com e d one more game than Costello. come up with another ente rtain bination in PMC history matched Costello was far ahead of players ing speaker. the awesome performance turned This Washington's Birthday af in by Yommie and Cappy. Between (See GRID HONORS Page 9) (See BANQUET Page 10) A tired but happy teen-age actress relaxes after dance is CADETS ARRANGE STARLET'S CORSAGE - Cadets leonard Rice over. (left) and Tennison Dong give Miss Elinor Donahue her corsage upon arrival for dance. chaperone for the teen-age ac TV Guide Carries Picture Story of Television tress. Miss laron's escort was Cadet DiNapoli. Starlet's Visit to PMC for Thanksgiving Dance Merrill Panitt, managing editor . ;' :, ' Elinor Donahue, the lovely teen landaiche and Cadets Robert Job of TV Guide, handled arrange: ! age daughter of NBC's popular lin and Ronald DiNapoli joined ments for the pictorial play his television show, " Father Knows Dong and Rice at Elinor's dinner. magazine gave Miss Donahue's Best," had the "time of her life" Happy but weary, Miss Donahue visit, assisted by several others on as she visited PMC as guest of declared as she boarded a train his staff, including Virginia Bevan honor at the Pershing Rifles back to New York " I had a simply and Wynne Waltz. Thanksgivng Formal Hop Nov. 17. gorgeous time." And so did the Harold Wiand of the Pennsyl Confessing that it was her first cadets. vania Railroad's public relations college formal, Elinor put the PMC DiNAPOLI ESCORT, TOO staff assisted in arrangements for name into the national spotlight. Phil Cowan, publicity chief for Miss Donahue's arrival at 30th St. TV Guide, America's top tele Screen Gems, Inc., television pro station, including the presence of vision magazine, used two whole ducers, helped arranged Miss Don a Pershing Rifles honor guard pages of pictures to show how the ahue's visit. He sent along Miss which attracted widespread at- 19-year-old starlet "captivates a tention among PRR patrons. regiment of cadets and vice Elaine laron from h is staff as versa." They appear in the Janu ary 5- 11 issue. A LUMNI DRIVE The Philade lphia Inquirer, Ches (Conti nued From Page 1) ter Times and other newspapers throughout the U. S. also used your contribution," he continued, graduate would just send in a p ic tures of the occasion. " kindly send your check to our little something, no matter how efficien t secretary at the College small, the goal would be met eas TWO ESCORTS in order that you too can be one ily. PMC has approximately 2, 100 Elinor, who is " Betty Anderson" of the contributors to the tangible graduates. in the Robert Young - Jane Wyatt gift this year. Our money will be A report meeting of fund drive show sponsored by Scott Paper spent, as you know, either to re captains is to be held at Old Main Co., had two official escorts for model rooms in Old Main or to buy Jan. 15. th e dance - Cade ts leonard Rice furniture for the new dormitory and Tennison Dong. Dong had in to be built in 1957. vited Miss Donahue to the dance " For those of you who have al - an.d was "floored" when she ready made your contribution, we Dr. M . M. Johnson acd~p~ted. want to soya real word of thanks. F acuity Chairman The cadets met the teen-age ac I am absolute ly sincere in the tress at the Pennsylvania Rail response and saying this to you road's 30th St. station. later, Elin because the response has been Dr. Mathews M. Johnson, pro or had a steak dinner in the pres overwhelming." fessor of Business Administration, ident's dining room at the College, As of the end of December, 100 recently was el ected chairman of he lped judge and crown the Per contributions totalling $2, 100 had the PMC faculty. shing Rifles beauty queen, and been received. They in cluded sev He replaces Dr. J . Wilson Gra danced . as TV Guide observed, eral $50 and $ 100 checks, prompt ham, who served in the post for " until her feet gave out." Paul ing Weaver to remark that if each many years. pmc Alumni Iltllefin Dear Betty THE RESPONSE TO THE Alumni cepted for flight training and .. Coach George Hansell recent Drive has been wonderful and was to begin that training ly was reelected secretary-treas with a little extra push this month this month . Word comes urer of the Middle Atlantic Inter contributions should set an all-time in that Leon ~ckerman, collegiate Football Association. He fu nd g ivi ng record for the College. 1939, is back in California and Col. C. T. Starr, 1899, took in More than a $1,000 was sent in running a motel . Army meetings of the Eastern Collegiate within a week after the drive Lt. Stephen A. Melko, 1956, Athletic Conference in mid-Decem opened, bringing recently was graduated from ber .. Wedding bells will ring a big smile to the The Ordnance School at Aber soon for George F. Wells Jr., 1956, face of Jim Wea deen Proving Ground, Md. and Miss Nancy louise Sheridan ver, 1935, the * * * * of Ardmore, Pa .. Lee. C. Whit drive chairman ... DOLORES SEJDA, WHO once ley, 1954, is now assistant buyer Army Lt. Frank D. worked in the Admissions Office at in the purchasing department of Turner, 1952, re the College, and Dr. Zefferino Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratsford, Conn. cently qualified as Aversa Jr., 1947, are to be mar * * * * a paratrooper at ried in the s ring. Dolores is the ROBERT G. BASHORE, Fort Bragg, N. C. daughter of Dr . 1948, is industrial engineer It. Turner received Martin B. Sejda, for the Reading Co., Philadel h is parachutist's prominent Chester phia .. George H. Berlin Jr., wings after com surgeon. Both she is regional sales manager for pleting the five-week course, and her father, as the E. I Du Pont de Nemours which included five training jumps. well as her broth & Co., Kansas City, Kan ... His wife, Rita, is with him at Fort er, captured head Maurice E. Boogar, 1929, is Bragg .. Donald E. Adams, 1943, lines some months with the Delaware River Joint is vice-president of the Ha lien Con ago with their Toll Bridge Commission as struction Co., Springfield, Mass . ... dramatic eyewit superintendent of mainten Henry D. Albaugh, 1949, is a sales ness accounts of ance at Delaware Water Gap e ngineer with the Radio Condenser what happened ... Robert L. Bradney, 1949, Co., Camden, N. J .. James R. SEJDA on the Andrea is an electrical engineer for Allen, 1922, is with the Kissell Doria before the great Italian lux Westinghouse Electric Corp.