tended Yale University where she versity. He later did graduate work He was Economic Advisor for THREE NEW INSTRUCTORS was awarded her Master's Degree. at Columbia and North Carolina United Nations Relief and Rehab- She received her certificate d'Etu- Universities. He expects to receive ilitation Administration, and also des Pratiques de Prononciation his doctorate in Economics later relief administrator in Egypt, Ita- ADDED TO WILKES FACULTY Francaise from Institut de Phone- this year. ly, Yugoslavia and France in 1943- tique de l'Universite do Paris in Prof. Rosenberg was professor 44-45. His latest position has been 1939, and her doctorate from Yale of Economics andSocial Studies at as a member of the faculty at Uni- WILL BEGIN DUTIES IN FALL University in 1941. Hampton Institute and later field versity of North Carolina and as Prof. Samuel A. Rosenberg re- administrator of Office of Foreign a member of the Department of ceived both his Bachelor's and Relief and Rehabilitation Organiz- Agriculture, Division of Credit The addition of three new members to the fast growing Master's degrees from Boston Uni- ation for the Department of State. Unions, Raleigh, N. C. Wilkes faculty was announced early this week by Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president of the college. Dr. Alfred W. Bastress, who will government agencies in analytical assume a position as assistant pro- work. He worked as an analyst fessor of Chemistry in the fall, re- Matanouska Valley project under ceived his Bachelor's and Master's the Agriculture Experiment Sta- Degrees from Penn State. He then tion in that area during the sum- took work which eventually led to mer of 1936. In 1943 he assumed his Doctorate at Yale. He was a charge of the United States Quin- graduate assistant at Penn State me Laboratories in Ecuador and and Yale, and an instructor at the later in Bolivia and Columbia. American University at Beirut, Dr. Sylvia Dworski will join the Syria. He was also an instructor Wilkes Language Department up- and head of the Chemistry Depart- on her return from France. She re- ment at the University of Alaska. ceived her Bachelor of Arts Degree While here, he assisted various from Connecticut College and at- Vol. 3, No. 3 WILKES COLLEGE, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Friday, July 16, 1948 BEACON MEETING OFFICERS ELECTED AT I. R. C. LUCKY BARREL SPORT DANCE, MONDAY LANGEL DRIVE COLLECT 2i3 There will be an important RE-ORGAMZATION MEETING meeting of the BEACON staff on Monday, July 19, at 12:00 in the The Student Council of Wilkes any other music-maker who has BEACON office. All members CLUB WILL DISCUSS BERLIN CRISIS College has announced that the appeared at Wilkes affairs in the are requested to be present, also AT NEXT MEETING Michael Langel Drive and the past. any other person desiring to join The two blue-and-gold four-leaf the staff. Lucky Barrel Benefit Sport Dance containers, located on South River By ART SPENGLER men2ber of the organization. held last Friday evening at the Street in front of Chase Hall, and A regular meeting of the Inter- The club has had many promin- Admiral Stark Ballroom of the in the Cafeteria, yielded approxi- national Relations Club was held ent speakers on some of its weekly Hotel Sterling collected a total of mately $68, and the Sport Dance 'La Boheme' Shows Friday night, July 2, in Chase agendas. Former governor Arthur $213 in all. This is in addition to realized a total of $145 for an Lounge at which the following off- H. James and Attorney Daniel the $150 donation the Council gave over-all amount of $213. icers were elected: John Faneck, Flood have addressed the club on to the County Langel Drive a few Although the ballroom was a To Large Audience piesident; Julius Likowski, vice- separate occasions; Dr. Thatcher weeks previous. trifle too hot for comfort, much president and parliamentarian; Al- and Douglas Falconer, faculty The Drive consisted of "Fill the less dancing, nearly 250 people The United Nations Club of lan Miller, treasurer, and Dolores members, have also given interest- Barrel Week" which ran from July turned out for the affair and danced Wilkes College presented the film Pisarri, secretary. ing talks. 2 to July 9, and the Sport Dance from 9 to 12. Special dances were La Boheme on the lawn between Dr. Harold Thatcher, head of the Last semester the I. R. C. was Friday evening. announced whereby the dancers Chase and Kirby Halls before a History Department, was chosen more active than ever before. It The use of the steaming hot Ad- were asked to throw a certain crowd that was much larger than as the new faculty advisor replac- sponsored a joint rally with the miral Stark Ballroom was donated amount of money into the barrel, expected. This movie was the third ing Mr. Hugo Mailey who ha taken Intercollegiate Zionist Federation by the management of the Ster- located in the center of the dance in a series of weekly foreign films advantage of the summer vacation of America when the U. S. re- ling. floor,, for that certain dance. This being presented this semester by period. The advisory post will be versed its decision on the Palestine Music for the affair was provided added a little more spice to what the club. satisfactorily filled by Dr. Thatch- problem. Representative Flood and by Reese Pelton's Collegians, who might have otherwise been a com- LA BOrHEME, Giamco Puccini's er since he specializes in constitu- Dr. Farley were the principal also donated their services to the paratively uninteresting evening. great grand opera in four acts, tional history. During the last war sipeakers. Prefatory remarks were affair. Pelton's orchestra is one of All in all, everyone had a good was founded on a tale by Henri he served as Chief of the Historical made by Mr. Thatcher and Mr. the most popular aggregations in time, and the affair, in fact the Murger and first produced at Tur- Section, Office of Quartermaster Falconer. In March the Wilkes the valley, and at the Langel Dance entire drive, experienced moderate in, Italy, in February, 1896. It was General, War Department. Free- College I. R. C. played host to the showed more talent than almost success. the composer's fourth opera and dom and Union and the American regional conference of the Inter- at once placed him at the head of Political Science Monthly Review collegiate Conference on Govern- the younger Italian school and are two of the many magazines ment in which twelve colleges and gave him an international reputa- which have carried some of his universities from Northeastern INTRAMURAL Language Group tion. The plot is constructed out of writings. Pennsylvania participated. At the four slightly connected scenes, The International Relations Club statewide convention of the I. C. SOFTBALL Forms UN Ciii each complete in itself, presenting, is an organization originally estab- G. in Philadelphia many of the in admirably contrasted light and lished by the Carnegie Endowment Wilkes College "planks" were ac- shade, a vivid picture of the Latin for Peace. It had its genesis on cepted into the platform drawn up SEASON'S RESULTS FILM SCHEDULE RELEASED quarter of Paris of the period of our campus on December 13, 1946, by the delegates. Clowns 1830. The four inseparalbles, Rod- when Dr. Edward Hartmann, now This Friday evening at 8:00 P. 7 CPA 2 At a recent meeting of the lan- olphe, Marcel, Schaunard, and Col- teaching at Suffolk College in M. the club will again meet in 6 BEACON 0 guage students, it was decided that line, poet, painter, musician, and Massachusetts, assisted and ad- Chase Lounge. The business meet- 12 Dorm 11 during the summer all language philosopher, Mimi, the frail grisette vised several students in drawing ing will ije followed by the usual and Musette, up a constitution. Just an interest discussion period which, for Draft Dodgers groups would be incorporated to frivolous, but kind- this form one club, the United Nations hearted child of pleasure, form an in current international events meeting, will center around the 16 . Pre-Med 4 Club. The following officers were appealing group, and th composer qualified any student to become a Berlin crisis. 8 CPA 3 elected: has, with unquestioned genius, giv- CPA President, Thomas Miller; vice- en them a human touch unusual on president, Bruce McKie; secretary- the operatic stage. 2 Clowns 7 treasurer, Jean The music is melodious in the true BROOKSIDE W. JONES BACK 16 Dorm 6 Hartman. William Yeager and Ruth Law- Italian sense. There is a fine sin- 3 Draft Dodgers 8 were appointed as co-chairmen cerity in the reflection of the 8 BEACON 6 br IN WILKES SOCIAL CIRCLES of the Social Planning Committee. pathos, even near the surface, even Pre-Med The club will present a series when the characters are at their gayest, and there is usually 4 Draft Dodgers 16 of foreign films this summer on a sat- Brookside W. Jones was a bit coming Democratic and Third Par-. isfying psychological fitness be- 5 Dorm 4 the lawn between Chase and Kirby late getting to school for the sum- ty campaigns in any way he can, Halls. In case of rain, the films tween the melody and the underly- mer semester. Seems he was out even to the extent of carrying on BEACON will be shown in the Science Lec- ing sentiment. The composer's com- of town putting in his bid for the the work on President Truman's mand of his 0 Clowns 6 ture Hall.