STATE SIGNAL C, S. P. A. Medalist '33, '34, '36, '37, '38

VOL. LII (52d Year) NO. 13 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1938 Enders To Discuss Spring Athletics Will Make Premier Tibet In Assembly Period Tomorrow Appearance At Hillwood This Wednesday Track Team Will Raise Curtain Andreasmen Will Play Millersville Lecturer is Adviser to Grand Against East Stroudsburg; LEADS DIAMDNDMEN Teachers in Baseball Opener Lama of Tibet; Was American Fear Lack of Training Here This Saturday Aviator in World War HAVE FULL SCHEDULE MANY VETERANS REPORT HOLDS UNIQUE POSITION State's track team will inaugurate Baseball will make its 1938 debut American aviator, lecturer, and the Spring varsity sports program, on the campus this Saturday, April author, Gordon B. Enders will discuss when it meets East Stroudsburg on 30, when the Lions meet Millersville the topic "Forbidden Frontiers of the Hillwood track, Wednesday after­ Teachers College at 3 P. M. on the Asia" during the assembly period to­ noon. Two other home meets will fol­ Hillwood diamond. Twenty-four men morrow morning. Mr. Enders should low the opening encounter in quick who reported to Coach William An­ be well qualified to discuss the situa­ succession—Panzer on April 30 and dreas a month ago will go through tion in the Far East with regard to the Pentangular Meet on May 7. their final paces this week in an effort Tibet, since for the past four years Coach Earl H. Dean reports that his to gain starting berths for the curtain- he has been serving as foreign ad­ chief concern is that the candidates raiser of a stiff ten-game schedule. viser to the Grand Lama of that coun­ have had insufficient training, due to Ten juniors, five freshmen, and four try, retaining that position during his the deplorable condition of the track seniors and sophomores make up the brief vacation in America. and the inclement weather. He ex­ squad. Mr. Enders is the first foreigner to plains that before the holidays the Captain Harold Otis, senior port- hold a cabinet position in the "Her­ poorly packed cinders on the track sider, leads thirteen returning vet­ mit Kingdom," the first foreigner to had been a great source of worry. GORDON B. ENDERS erans who saw action on last year's receive a rank in Tibetan nobility and However, he states, the present condi­ club. Two others of the group, Bill the first foreigner to occupy a seat in tion of the track is much improved HAROLD OTIS Christian and Hank Redlus, junior the Upper House of the Tibet National since diligent work to resurface it is Business Department and senior, respectively, are also on Assembly. almost completed. the mound staff. Claudius Hammond Born in the United States, he went Will Start Practicum To date, the most outstanding Varsity Debaters Will and Fred Raker are the only new as­ to the "forbidden land" of Tibet at the tracksters in practice are Captain pirants for the pitching corps. Two age of four. Long before he learned "Bud" Leeds, the dashing sprinter Travel to Jersey City Juniors to Have Ten Observation veteran catchers, Bill Would and Roy to r ead and write his native language who ran 100 yards in 10 flat last year; Tintle, are back in harness with fresh­ and act in accordance with American Periods at Pennington High Walt Kuzianik, another wiry dasher; Thencanic Plans Meets With Two man Saul Gilman also donning the customs, he had learned the language and Marshall Lippincott, sophomore mask and glove. and customs of Tibet. He has lived Impressed by the apparent success miler who placed in every race he Universities in Near Future near the Lamaist frontiers in India, of the practicum idea initiated by ran last season. Lewis Bilancio and At first base four men are trying China, Mongolia, and Manchukuo all An experienced varsity team will for a starting job. Fred Schaible, who other departments of the college in "Ed" Lukemire, two veteran letter- his life except for the periods when men, have made their appearance on compete with the debaters of Jersey won his letter "S" there last season, the past years, the Business Education he received his American education the track for practice in their events, City Teachers College next Monday John McTamney, who saw some ac­ and s erved as a United States aviator Department will inaugurate a similar the 440 and 880 runs. Both boys will in the fourteenth contest of the cur­ tion there, and Ken Pierson and Ver­ in t he World War. educational activity for the junior run against Stroudsburg, although non Skidmore, junior and freshman, The Grand Lama of Tibet was at­ rent forensic season. The team con­ class in that curriculum next year. the coach believes that they need respectively, are all working out at tracted by the young man when he more practice in starting and en­ sisting of Shirley Selbie and Harold the initial sack. was an aviator and trainer of aviators It was necessary, however, to choose durance. Robert Foster, a fresh re­ Winterhalter, will go to the North Charlie Smerin, a junior and regu­ in Ch ina. The two soon became close a school other than Lanning School in cruit in the quarter-mile class, is per­ Jersey college with a record of vic­ lar shortstop last year, Tom Evange- friends, Mr. Enders acting as his ad­ which to carry out this program, for forming his feat nicely and appears to viser. The friendship is a strange one tories over Shippensburg and Western lista, a senior and a letter-winner two the campus demonstration school of­ be very promising material. years ago, and sophomore Bill Eigen- since to the average follower of Edward Summerton, ace hurdler and State Teachers College. The Jersey Lamaism, a single contact with the fers only grades one to eight. With City fray will be the fifth debate for rauch, are the candidates for the sec­ twice letterman, is returning to the ond base post. Smerin has switched Grand Lama in a lifetime is enough the cooperation of Mr. Saul, supervis­ cinders this year. As yet, it seems the negative team on the labor ques­ to insure him permanent future hap­ ing principal of Pennington Schools, positions with junior Ray Adkins who that Summerton will have to bear the tion, other schools met in non-decision held the second base job last year. piness. Among the Tibetans he is the Business Education Department State colors alone against the oppo­ regarded as God in human form, the has been extended the use of the Pen­ debates being Rider College and New Sophomore Jack Ellingham is also a nents in both the high and low hurdle candidate for the shortstop post. The actual reincarnation of Lord Buddha, nington High School as the educa­ races, for no candidate worth consid­ Brunswick Preparatory School. the founder and supreme being of the tional institution in which the practi­ Recently the freshman team, com­ switch, however, may not be perma­ ering has appeared for practice in nent. Over at the hot corner, Paul religion. cum will be conducted. this event. posed of Charles Bodine and Ruth Selby, junior veteran, is getting com­ Mr. Enders' duties as cabinet minis­ Plans are now being formulated to On the field, the coach is even less Kane, met Perth Amboy High School ter have been largely concerned with provide for a ten-hour observation in a discussion of the unicameral ques­ petition from Vera Hendrickson, an­ impressed. Here Art Muniz holds top other junior. the growing danger of Japanese ad­ period which will extend through the position in the javelin and weight- tion, and the junior varsity aggrega­ vance across Asia and the steps Tibet first semester of the next school year. heaving divisions, while Walt Ku­ tion, consisting of Lewis Gunn and Three outfielders are on hand from (Continued on Page Four) In order that the practicum will not zianik is broadjumping, and both Antoinette Sakelos, spoke against the last year's nine with only two new­ conflict with classes at the college, all (Continued on Page Four) debaters of North Plainfield High comers pushing them for starting Broadhurst Will Speak observations will be probably sched­ School. Debates with Overbrook High berths. The veterans are senior Marty uled to take place in the afternoon. School of Philadelphia and South Conlon and juniors Jerry Guenter and Before Apgar Society The high school at Pennington, College Choir To Sing River High School are pending. Johnny Liscko. Sophomore Fred Sta­ which includes grades nine to twelve, Varsity debates are being arranged huber and freshman Les Ricker are Dr. Jean Broadhurst, of Teachers Col­ has been selected by the college be­ Three Types of Songs with New York University and Drew challenging them for their jobs. lege, Columbia University, a graduate cause it corresponds most closely to University. of th e Trenton Normal School, will be Singing songs representing three Coach Andreas will be watching his the type of school in which most State Outside the realm of intercollegiate charges closely this week in an effort the guest speaker at the Austin C. different periods, the college choir graduates are placed. Dr. Pichard, forensics, Thencanic Debating So­ Apgar Society banquet on Thursday will render its annual spring concert to pick a combination that will get the principal of Pennington High School, ciety's activities have included the Lions off on the right foot after two evening, April 28. Dr. Broadhurst re­ under the direction of Miss Mabel E will begin arrangements in the near sponsorship of the annual interscholas- unsuccessful seasons. cently gained national fame by isolat­ Bray, on Tuesday, May 3, at the regu future for receiving the State students tic forensic tournament among New ing the virus of measles—a disease lar assembly. Classical, romantic and next fall. Jersey High Schools, and an intercol­ which has baffled medical science for folk song selections will be included legiate conference of New Jersey and many years. She has consented to in the program. Proceeds of Tag Day Pennsylvania teachers colleges. give an illustrated talk concerning her STUDENTS PLAN JOURNEY Two works of Bach, "Now I Know To Buy Campus Shrubs recent research work on the discovery TO NEW YORK THEATRES That Thou Art Living" and "King of of this virus. In addition, Dr. Broad­ Heaven," will feature the classical MEN'S QUARTET TO GIVE hurst will tell the members of the so­ part of the program. "Alleluia We Beginning tomorrow the Austin C. ciety something about the life and A bus trip to New York to attend Sing With Joy," by Handel, and "Ave CONCERT FOR VISITORS Apgar Society will again conduct its work of Austin C. Apgar, under whom the current dramatic hit, "Our Town," Verum," by Mozart, will be the other annual drive for funds to beautify the she worked while at the Trenton Nor­ is being planned for April 30 by the classical renditions. Representing the Two programs will be given by the campus. The drive this year will be mal School. English department. This play is par­ romantic era will be Mendelsohn's men's quartet of the college at the in the form of a "tag day" which will The banquet will constitute the for­ ticularly interesting to students of "Psalm" and two works of Schubert meeting of Junior College representa­ be held on Wednesday of this week. mal initiation of the Apgar Society. modern drama because it is an ex­ "Des Tod und das Maedchen" and tives on the campus on Saturday, Each person contributing to the fund In addition to the active members it periment in play producing. It is "Am Meer." April 30. The first performance will will receive a tag signifying his con­ is expected that many alumni mem­ staged very simply, without much Five folk songs, "Moravian Love be given in the small auditorium at tribution. bers will be present to hear the scenery or elaborate costumes. If Songs," "Jenny Fair, Gentle Rose 10 A. M., the second in the same room As was the case last year, the pro­ speaker. enough students signify their desire Marie," a song of Virginia; "Tell at 3 P. M. Ray Cleveland, George ceeds will be used to purchase trees Those who will be initiated into the to go, two buses will make the trip. Bruddah Lijah," southern plantation Davidson, Frank Groff, and Mainert and shrubs to be planted at opportune society at this time are Franklin English majors will be given first selection; "Mistah Banjo," Creole Peterson are the members of the places on the campus. Already many Jootherstone, Elizabeth Dean, Doris choice of seats, but anyone who de­ song, and "Ho-la-li," a Bavarian tune, quartet. plants purchased with the proceeds iunderson, Chester Harker, Marie sires to go may procure reservations will draw the program to a close. Three of the group, Davidson, Groff from last year's drive make beauty mavy, Charles Michael, Lynda Nickl, through his English class. Incidental solos will be given by and Peterson, and Edward Wojnarow- spots about the campus here at State. ohn Okerson, Mary Papp, Henry Ro- Tentative plans have also been laid Mainert Peterson and Ray Cleveland. ski, attended the Music Educators A goal of $100 has been set and can enthal, Fred Stahuber, Helen Stan- for a trip to see "Julius Caesar" while Priscilla Carswell will be the accom­ National Conference at St. Louis be attained if each and every student ion, and John Wyman. it is running in Philadelphia. panist. Missouri, from March 28 to April 3. | contributes but ten cents to the fund. Page Two STATE SIGNAL Monday, April 25, 1938

STATE SIGNALITE THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL

"Accuracy Above Appeal" Somebody said that Barrere's theme Published BUWeekly for the Students and Alumni by the song was "Whistle while you work." STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY And Britt's theme song must have been "I sawed you last EDITORIAL STAFF night." Editor FRED HOFKIN, '38 Assistant Editor KENNETH PIERSON, '39 Associate Editor JAMES FORCINA, '38 Anyway 45 "towson" students saw News Editor HAROLD WINTERHALTER, '40 the trio. Sports Editor MICHAEL IACIOFANO, '39 Technical Editor CLIFFORD CONNER, '39 Only thirty people turned out to Make-up Editor HOWARD MORRIS, 39 watch the seniors plant their tree Feature Editor IRENE MONTGOMERY, '39 Society Editor FLORENCE PARKER, '39 on Arbor Day. Secretary to the Editor RUTH NUDELMAN, '38 * * * Staff Photographer JOHN I. GARDNER, '38 But Butch, Seabridge and Sport Staff Artist VINCENT DRESSER, '40 were interested onlookers. Consulting Editor EDWARD SUMMERTON, '38 Advisor C. R. ROUNDS * * * ASSISTANT EDITORS There isn't room for any more News—REGINA HOCHSTEIN, HELEN STANTON, JOSEPHINE VINCH, ARTHUR J. trees along the road leading to MUNIZ, SIDNEY SCHILLING the lake. Wonder what next Sports—CHARLES SMERIN, OSCAR NELSON, MARIE LEAVY year's seniors will do. Technical—ROBERT CUBBERLEY, MELVIN MORRISON Feature—HENRY ROSENTHAL, ANNE LOUISE SETZER, CAROLYN PRAY Maybe they can plant broccoli CONTRIBUTING EDITORS groves for the Inn. FRANK VOLZ, MARY TRIPP, AGNES WALLACE, JEANETTE STOUT, MARION WOOD, DORIS GUNDERSON, MARY SOLOMON Or just be conservative and up­ BUSINESS STAFF root a tree. BUSINESS MANAGER RICHARD N. DIMMERS, '38 * * * ACTING BUSINESS MANAGER RUTH WILSON, '39 So Phi Alpha Delta has annexed the CIRCULATION MANAGER CHRIS FALLS, '40 island with the cedar tree on it. Now ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGER CLAUDIUS HAMMOND, 41 they'll have more wood to butcher. CALENDAR EXCHANGE ED ITOR ARTHUR GEILFUSS, '41 EDITOR'S TRASH BOX MAILING MANAGER - - ROBERT FOSTER, '41 * * # i ADVISOR CARL N. SHUSTER, '13 Some of the boys will be want­ April 25—Classes resume. April 26—Argo Freshmen Party Reporters—PATRICIA WHITEHEAD, LYNDA NICKL, EVELYN BOWKER, PHILLIP ing to build a bridge to it. Among the heaps of paper on the -—Norsworthy, 5:30-7:30. CARDINA, MARIAN VICARI, CHARLES WILLIAMS, MARTIN ZUCKERMAN, RUTH * * * tables in the Community Room was April 27—Track—East Strouds- CHANDLER, BERNARD GOLDBERG, HARRY LINTHICUM, GERARD GUENTER. From the other side of the lake. found the following letter. Out of burg, home. sympathy for the writer we publish it Phi Alpha Delta—Dance, here as a form letter for those who Entered as Second- Subscription, $1.50 Gym, 6:30. may be in similar circumstances: Class Matter Jan. 9, per year; Single Cop­ FACULTY PERSONALS April 28—Apgar Society Banquet Dear Sir: —Inn—7:00. 1930, at the Post- In reply to your request to send a ies, $.10. For Adver­ April 29—Class meetings. office at Trenton, N. check, I wish to inform you that the tising Rates Apply to Professor Carl N. Shuster will ad­ Gamma Sigma—Banquet— J., under the Act of dress three groups within the next two Washington's Crossing, 7:00. present condition of my bank account the Business Manager. makes it almost impossible. My shat­ March 3, 1879. months. In May, Mr. Shuster will Executive Board movies— tered financial condition is due to speak at City College of New York, 8:00. Federal laws, state laws, county laws, and at Trenton High School on mathe­ April 30—Junior College Confer­ city laws, corporation laws, liquor VOL. 52 MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1938 No. 13 matical subjects. He will again jour­ ence. laws, mother-in-laws, brother-in-laws, ney to New York in June. Gamma Sigma — Dance — sister-in-laws, and outlaws. "I wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your War Memorial, 9:00-12:00. Baseball— M illersville, Through these laws I am compelled right to say it."—VOLTAIRE. Professor Lloyd H. Jacobs was one home. to pay a business tax, amusement tax, of the speakers at the convention of Track—Panzer, away. liquor tax, head tax, school tax, income the Eastern Commercial Teachers As­ Ionian Luncheon — Nors­ tax, food tax, water tax, carpet tax, Another Practicum— sociation held from April 13 to 16 at worthy, 11:00-2:00. light tax, furniture tax and excise tax. Next year, if plans proceed as intended, the Business Education the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford in Phila­ May 3—Baseball — Stroudsburg, Even my brains are taxed. I am re­ delphia. Mr. Jacobs acted as chair­ home. quired to get a business license, car Department will inaugurate a practicum at Pennington High School. man of the sectional meeting on Tennis—Stroudsburg, home. license, truck license, not to mention With every other department in the college having organized similar "Bookkeeping and Accounting," which May 6—Baseball—K u t z t o w n , a marriage license and dog license. courses of work either at Lanning or in schools of the state, this move was held on Friday afternoon away. I am also required to contribute to Tennis—Lutheran Semi­ every society and organization which will mark the final step in the adoption of the practicum as a recognized nary, home. the genius of man is capable of bring­ unit of teacher training in the college. President Roscoe L. West repre­ May 7—Tennis—Saint Joseph's, ing to life; to woman's relief, the un­ sented the Teachers Colleges of the employment relief and the gold dig­ Begun within the past few years, the practicum has met with marked home, 1:30. state at a recognition banquet given Sigma Tau Chi—Dinner ger's relief. Also to every hospital success in every curriculum in which it has been instigated. It has meant to honor Commissioner Elliot at the Dance, Washington Crossing, and charitable institution in the city, for the student a gradual evolutionary process into the difficult task of Stacy-Trent Hotel on Monday, April 11. 6:00-12:00. including the Red Cross, the black cross, the purple cross and the double teaching, and has given him experience even before he began his practice Baseball — Millersville, away. cross. teaching session. Students have had the opportunity of observing teach­ Miss Winifred Weldin is planning to Track—Pentangular meet, For my own safety I am required to ing methods and techniques in the average good school of New Jersey; attend the Annual Study Conference of home. carry life insurance, property insur­ the Association for Childhood Educa­ they have been able to gain insight into the problems they would meet Theta Nu Sigma—Dinner ance, liability insurance, burglar insur­ tion which meets in Cincinnati from Dance, Medford Lakes, 6:00- ance, accident insurance, earthquake while teaching; they have seen the general organization and personnel April 19 to 23. She will participate 12:00. insurance, tornado insurance, unem­ of various schools; and in general they have developed a broader, more in two study groups: one on "Inter­ May 10—Baseball—Newark, home. ployment insurance, old age insur­ national Relationships" and the other practical, outlook on education in this state. Without doubt the practicum Tennis—Panzer, away. ance and fire insurance. on "The Psychological Background May 12—Women's Athletic Asso­ for a Curriculum Based on Child Ac­ My business is so governed that it has been a worthwhile innovation. ciation—Dinner, Inn, 6:30. is no easy matter for me to find out tivities." Most of the curricula have had remarkable success in allowing their who owns it. I am inspected, ex­ students to do some teaching during the period. By this means the pected, suspected, disrespected, re­ jected, dejected, examined, re-exam­ student is increasingly motivated, and sees the problems in the light of News From the Nation's Campus ined, informed, required, summoned, fined, commanded and compelled until his own needs. It is unfortunate that such a program cannot well be By Associated Collegiate Press carried on outside of the college. Certainly Pennington High School has I provide an inexhaustible supply of DePauw University has just opened a performance of Julius Caesar in money for every known need, desire or shown its progressive attitude in allowing the new practicum. It might an endowment campaign to secure modern dress. hope of the human race. be practical that some amount of student teaching be allowed during the $3,120,000 in five years. Twenty-two presidents of the United Simply because I refuse to donate course, or in lieu of that, the students may give individual help to the "Duke's Mixture" is the name of the States were alumni of colleges. something or other, I am boycotted, Duke University student newspaper's Ventura Junior College student mu­ talked about, lied about, held up and pupils of the high school. gossip column. sicians recently began a library of held down and robbed until I am al­ Westminster College co-eds main­ their own recordings of popular num­ most ruined. T is a criticism of the college which is frequently made that there are too tain that a man they would marry bers. I can tell you honestly that except must earn $150 monthly. Newspaper Columnist Dorothy Dix many extra-curricular activities for the students participating to attain for the miracle that happened, I could I The University of Minnesota main­ awards $100 annually to the Tulane not enclose this check. The wolf that the desired degree of benefit. It is felt in some quarters that fewer tains a Newsreel Theater to bring to University student writing the best comes to many doors nowadays just activities would enable students to give more concentrated attention to students latest world news caught by human interest story. had pups in my kitchen. I sold them movie camera men. Blackburn College students, in a re­ and here is the money. their E. C. A. program instead of scattering their energies thinly over cent poll, voted in favor of more "leap In a student poll, University of Yours faithfully, many interprises. This argument, although sounding entirely logical on Pittsburgh undergraduates endorsed year" dates. "Advertising Age" is conducting an I. M. HONEST. the surface, ignores the fundamental cause of extra-curricular anemia. Anthony Eden's foreign policy for England. essay contest among college and uni­ This cause is simply lack of regulation on the part of the individual Steed Rollins, Vanderbilt Univer­ versity students on "How Advertising "I think final examinations are a organizations in regard to payment of dues, attendance at meetings, and sity's southern conference fencing Benefits the Consumer." waste of time, for I find that very few University of Miami officials con­ students have changed their semester active participation in the activities of the group. champion, never studied the sport be­ fore he came to college. ducted a special tour of Cuba for stui grade by taking a final. The time The remedy lies not in eliminating some of our extra-curricular organi­ Flash bulbs were the prizes awarded dents during the spring vacation. spent on those exams could be better winners in a Purdue University photo The Massachusetts legislature has used for further study." Purdue Uni­ zations, as is usually suggested, or in restricting the E. C. A. program versity's Prof. Seibert Fairman states contest. killed a bill which would tax college of the individual, as is now feebly and ineffectually attempted, but in San Diego State College dramatists and university dormitories in that a view held by exam-bothered students insisting that every member be an active member. were among the first collegians to give state. for many a year. Page Three Monday, April 25, 1938 STATE SIGNAL Seniors Lay Plans Tteuton Alumni News For Major Social WALTER COOPER, Resident Secretary Affairs Of Year Alumni to Hold Annual ALUMNI NOTICE Class Maps Tentative Program Reunion on May 13, 14 of Events for End-of-Year The Executive 'Board of the Alumni Association will meet in Ball, Luncheon and Game Feature Activity; Juniors Busy the conference room of Green Hall on Monday, May 2, at 8 Various Week-end Activities Preparing for its final two months P. M. George Field will preside. at the college, the senior class has be­ WALTER COOPER, Plans for the Alumni Reunion, which gun plans for its major social func­ Resident Secretary. is to be held the 13th and 14th of May tions of the year. Committees re­ on the campus of the college at Hill­ cently appointed by President Warren wood Lakes, were discussed at a meet­ Rendell include Burdsall Carr, chair­ Walnut Shields Will be ing of the Executive Board of the man of last year's junior prom, as Alumni Association on April 4. general chairman of the current senior Gift of Alumni Board Mr. Irwin Weiss and his committee ball. have obtained Judge James S. Turp as Assisting Mr. Carr with the arrange­ Plaques Designed By Armstrong speaker at the luncheon on Saturday ments are five committees. Violetta To Adorn Conference Room noon, May 14. Mr. Turp is judge of Creitz will head the invitations the Court of Common Pleas in Tren­ group; Margaret Boulger, program; ton. Frank Palevicz, orchestra; Gladys The Executive Board of the Alumni At present, plans are being carried Fish, refreshments; William Miller, Association of State Teachers College to completion for Saturday's luncheon decorations; and Ephraim Yohannan, held a meeting in the conference room to be served on the lawn of Allen of James M. Green Hall on Monday check room. BURDSALL CARR SARA GRAHAM House. A public address system'is evening, April 4, at eight o'clock. In cooperation with the Alumni As­ being contemplated for installation for sociation, the class has appointed two Those who attended were George the speaking. In event of rain the committees to aid with the annual Summer School to be Field, '35; Mrs. Charles Johnson, '34; luncheon will be served at the Inn at Senior-Alumni dance. Earl Garrison GREEK LETTER Louise D'Aquili, '26; R. L. West; the same time as scheduled for out­ will head the decorations and clean­ Six Weeks in Length Miss Lois Dusinbury, '18; Charles side. up committee consisting of Albert Metzger, '28; Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, The dance committee, under the di­ Kopf, Gordon Poinsett, Robert Cub- Will Have Classes Five Days Per PHI EPSILON KAPPA '28; Mrs. L. C. Haskell, registrar; rection of Michael Kline, has engaged berley, John Gardner, Melvin Mor­ Week Instead of Usual Six Celebrating the silver anniversary of John Callery, '35; Iona Fackler, '37; Gene Seaman and his orchestra for rison, Sidney Schilling, Gus Pascale, the national organization, Phi Epsilon Paul Hartpence, '31; and William the Senior-Alumni Ball to be held in John Lehockey, Harry Lawrence, Har­ Kappa held its annual Founder's Day O'Donnell, '28. the Hillwood gym on Friday night, The fifth annual Summer Session of old Lawrence, and James Mazzacco, reunion program on Tuesday, April 12. Solid walnut plaques will soon dis­ May 13, from 9 to 1. Trenton State Teachers College will Guest speaker for the day was the while Ephraim Yohannan and Frank tinguish one of the walls of the con­ The reunion on Saturday is to begin open on June 28. Six weeks of five Eastern Deputy Director, Wilbur C. Rod will be in charge of the check ference room of Green Hall. Designed at 9 A. M., with visits to the classes room. days each will constitute the session DeTurk. by the head of the Industrial Arts De­ instead of the usual five weeks of six and inspection of the school facilities An elaborate, though tentative pro­ Plans are now in progress for the partment of the college, Mr. Arm­ days each. Thus the Summer Session and campus which will terminate at gram has been prepared for gradu­ banquet and formal dance to be held strong, they will be the gift of the will close on August 6. 11 A. M. ation, with plans being made for com­ May 14. Alumni Association to the school. On The program as offered this year * * * them will appear the names of those Registration will begin at 10 A. M. mencement, baccalaureate services, in Kendall Hall and will continue to step singing, senior musicale, picnic, will include, besides the regular work, PHI ALPHA DELTA persons who have been awarded the a special group of courses designed to Having recently acquired the island various scholarships offered by distin­ 11:30 A. M. Individual registration class day, and the class dinner. Head­ must be completed by 11:30 A. M. to ing the various committees are Carol enable graduates who are certified to in Lake Sylva with the lone cedar tree, guished graduates of the college. It is teach in grades 5 to 12 to augment Phi Alpha Delta is working on the hoped that when the present plan has qualify for the cup award, an annual Pray, Virginia Woods, Gordon Poin­ award to the class havmgjnost nearly sett, Marjorie Robinson, Harold Law­ their training for the lower grades, beautification of the island. It is plant­ been completed there 'will be a plaque to set forth the philosophy of elemen- ing shrubbery and erecting the fence for each scholarship and award offered. perfect attendance to the Alumni Re­ rence, Edward Summerton, Donald union. Robinson, Albert Kopf, Vincent Girard, This work has been designed not only which was used as a decoration at the Lowell F. Johnson, '34; Irwin Weiss, Members of the State Teachers Col­ and Frederica Goeller. tary school teaching, but to enable formal dance April 9. '28; Herbert Birch, '32; and Mrs. Has­ students to take courses in fields out­ The pledgees are sponsoring a 6:30- kell, registrar; compose the nominat­ lege Social Board are to assist in the Simultaneous to the preparations side those in which they have already 7:30 dance Wednesday, April 27, after ing committee appointed by George registration. The cup will be pre­ being made by the senior class, the majored. which their informal initiation will Field for officers for the coming year, sented at the luncheon. juniors have begun arrangements for take place. Members of the fraternity 1938-'39. The business meeting will follow the their annual junior prom to be held Tuition and fees this year will be are working on plans for the banquet Final plans for the annual reunion, visits to the classes and grounds and in the gym on Thursday, May 26. the same as those last year. The tui­ tion fee will be $6 per point for resi­ and formal dance which will be given which is to be held on May 13 and 14, will be called to order at 11 A. M. In Committees appointed recently by dents of New Jersey and $8 for out of May 14. at Hillwood Lakes, were discussed to Kendall Hall. Kenneth Pierson, president of the • * * state students. a considerable extent. All arrange­ Following the business meeting the class, list Sarah Graham, mathematics SIGMA TAU CHI Alumni will parade by classes to the Last year approximately 200 stu­ ments have been completed and the and English major, as general chairman The pledgees of Sigma Tau Chi held lawn of Allen House. The college dents were enrolled in the Summer week-end of the 13th is being set aside of the affair. Other appointments in­ a smoker on Tuesday, April 12, for the band, under the baton of Donald S. Session and an equal enrollment is for the affair. clude Eleanor Solomon, head of the brothers of the fraternity in the lower Robinson, will lead the parade from anticipated for this year. invitations committee; Arabella social room of Bliss Hall. Kendall Hall to Allen House. Wheaton, chairman of the program Formal initiation of pledgees is to Luncheon will be served at 12:30. committee; Anne Louise Setzer, in take place on April 29. ALUMNI PERSONALS The address which will be given this charge of decorations; Howard Mor­ Sororities Begin Plans The fraternity will end its social year by James S. Turp, judge of the ris, arranging the decoration scheme; whirl with a formal banquet and dance Court of Common Pleas of Trenton, Notice comes from Olive E. Ham- and Ozzie Nelson, leading the orches­ For Annual Spring Ball at Washington Crossing Inn, dancing will follow the luncheon and will be mell, secretary of the Class of 1913, tra committee. to the music of Jack Barry's band. heard through a public address system to the effect that this is the twenfy- Naming of Ruth Greenwood as gen­ Tomorrow morning Sigma Tau Chi which is to be installed for the occa­ fifth reunion year for her class and an eral chairman recently was the first will hold its second drive for pennies sion. attendance which is to set a precedent Students and Faculty step in the plans for the annual Inter- to be used in the purchase of popular The feature of Saturday afternoon is to arrive for the reunion on Satur­ Sorority Ball, the date of which has fiction books for the library. is to be a baseball game between mem­ Report on Conference day at Hillwood. been tentatively set for the evening * * * bers of the Alumni and the varsity of the All-college Sports Day on Fri­ * * * All the members of the Executive THETA NU SIGMA squad. This is scheduled for 3 P. M. day, May 20. Committees have been At a meeting held Monday, April 11, Mr. Charles Metzger announces that Board, twelve office-holding students Also scheduled for the afternoon is an selected but as yet no other definite Theta Nu Sigma made final ar­ the Class of 1928 is planning to have of the college, and eight faculty mem­ informal golf match. The pool and arrangements have been made for rangements for its formal dinner- its reunion on Saturday, May 14. He bers attended the thirteenth annual courts will be open the entire after­ this event which each year takes place states that it will be the biggest re­ conference of the Eastern States As­ dance to be held at Medford Lakes. noon for the enjoyment of the Alumni. in the gymnasium and is directed by Gene Seaman's orchestra will supply union in the history of the class. De­ From 6:30 on, is described as a free sociation of Professional schools for the sororities of the campus. teachers which was held at the Hotel the music for the occasion. tails of the reunion have been sent to period on the program. Departmental each graduate of the class. Pennsylvania in New York City dur­ Chairmen of the various committees Formal initiation of pledgees will meetings, class groups, informal chats, ing the weekend of April 8. They ar­ are Veronica Bindas, invitations; Jean be held in the near future. and reunions are scheduled for Satur­ * * * rived in time to attend the first of Davison and Helen McKee, decora­ Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Clarkson day evening. the student panel discussions taking tions; Ruth Tripp, arrangements; THETA PHI have returned to Trenton after hav­ The programs announcing details of place on Friday morning. In the af­ Mary Ruhl, publicity; Ruth Marge- On April 12 Theta Phi entertained ing spent the winter in Florida. While the reunion are being printed and will ternoon there was a continuation of rum, refreshments; Carol Pray, mu­ some of the freshman girls at a Prison in the South, they journeyed to Mis­ be mailed to 2,500 members of the sic; Louise Boyer, programs; Helen Party Supper. This was the last the morning groups and a formal din­ sissippi where they visited Dr. and Alumni Association before April 15. Pajonk, tickets; Josephine Houser, "rush" party given by the sorority this ner-dance was the feature of the eve­ Mrs. Don C. Bliss. ning. Saturday morning the confer­ transportation for guests. season. Dorothy Clark was general GOFORTH, CLASS OF '94, chairman and had helping her Jean ence was concluded by a general The affair, as always, will be open '19—Geraldine Francis is now Mrs. DIES AFTER ACTIVE LIFE meeting at which reports of the pre­ to the entire college. Keating, Jean Madden, Judy Hansell, Geraldine F. Ward and is principal of Virginia Young, and Marion Wood. vious day's groups were presented. the Perrineville School, Perrineville, Word is received that Mrs. Samaria Trenton State Teachers College had N. J. 'RURAL SCHOOL MUSIC" GAMMA SIGMA A. Goforth, 65, former principal of three speakers from their group and * * * On April 5 Gamma Sigma Sorority Lake School, who taught for 35 years two faculty members taking active WILL BE TOPIC OF CLUB '11—Margie Hopler, who graduated gave a "College" party, the climax of in Hammonton schools, died on March part at the various meetings. The from the Normal School in 1911 and the afternoon being the presentation 29 in the Swenson Nursing Home. purpose of this extensive representa­ who later married Douglas T. Morse, Digressing from its ordinary method to the freshman guests of diplomas Mrs. Goforth, who retired in 1933, tion at the conference was to gain for is living at 27 Bartholdi Avenue, But­ of procedure, there will be no guest from "Gamma University." Ella Earle was graduated from Trenton Normal the college valuable exchanging of speaker at the next meeting of the ler, N. J. Her daughter is applying for ideas and systems of student organi­ was chairman of the party. Previous School in June, 1894. Before her mar­ Country Life Club, which will be held entrance to the college in September. zations. to this Gamma entertained at a Circus * * * riage she will be remembered as Sa­ this afternoon. The meeting will con­ party of which Evelyn Ansel was gen­ maria Bernshouse. '34—Kathryn E. Geiter, a graduate sist of several reports on "Music in eral chairman. She was an organizer of the Ham­ Groups Give Concert the Rural School" to be given by six Gamma's last "rush" party will be of the three-year General Elementary monton Parent-Teachers Association, members of the club. held on April 27 and is to be a South­ Course, is now Mrs. K. G. Harkins and vice-regent of the District Chapter of The string ensemble and the string The next meeting, May 16, will ern supper. Hope Sniffen is in charge. resides at 46 West Main Street, Penns the Daughters of the American Revo­ quartet performed, at a dinner given bring as speaker, Miss Corine Wood­ Carol Pray, vice-president of the so­ Grove, N. J. lution, and the first chairlady of the in honor of Dr. Charles H. Elliott, New ruff, Music Helping Teacher of Som­ rority, has reported that plans for While in school, Mrs. Harkins was Hammonton Red Cross Nursing Ser­ Jersey Commissioner of Education, at erset County. She will continue dis­ Gamma's week-end, which will take an Executive Board representative. vice. the Stacy-Trent Hotel in Trenton, on cussion upon the above-mentioned place April 29th and 30th, are nearing She was also vice-president of Ionian Mrs. Goforth, a widow, is survived Monday, April 11. subject. completion. Sigma Sorority. by three brothers. Monday, April 25, 1938 Page Four STATE SIGNAL Ten Girls Will Go Varsity "S" Club ] TRACKMEN WHO MEET STROUDSBURG WEDNESDAY j To Ping Pong And Selects Sweater Badminton Games For Official Use Chooses Gold Garment in Which W. A. A. to Send Representatives The sign in the community room Blue "S" Will be Woven; Plan To Jersey City for Play Day; reads something like this: "Come Annual Awards Banquet Farming to be Theme one, come all. Learn to play golf the easy way. Place—the gym."

* » * At the last meeting of the Varsity Following the procedure o£ t he Tren­ "S" Club more constructive measures ton State Teachers College Women's There's a canvas set up with various numbers painted at differ­ were enacted than in any previous Athletic Association the women of Jer­ meetings. Most important of all was sey City State Teachers College are ent heights to indicate distance, 100 yards, 150, 200, etc. All you the final choice of an official varsity planning a ping-pong and badminton "S" sweater to be worn by the letter- play day to which ten members of the have to do is stand in front of it and whack a golf ball against it. men of the college. According to the local organization have been invited. details as given out by Arthur Muniz, * * * The Trenton representatives will at­ president of the Varsity "S" Club, the tend the play day along with women Good correspondence course. sweater is to be a gold one with a from other colleges in the state. All • * • blue letter "S" woven into it as well the girls participating in the games If attendance is any criterion, as blue service stripes on the right will he dressed as farmerettes and track is the least popular sport at arm. The sweater will be of medium farming will he the theme of the play State. Again we would like to put weight with a neck design that will day. forth one of our recognized worthy permit the use of a tie if so desired. The Archery Club will open its pro­ suggestions: Make it compulsory for The weight of the sweater will allow gram for this season when ten mem­ every member of the squad to get him­ it to be worn comfortably under a bers of the group travel to Newark self a gal-friend, then we will be as­ jacket or other such garment. Nego­ State Teachers College to take part in sured of at least twenty rooters at tiations for the purchase of a quantity a tournament. of the varsity sweaters will probably Following the Newark contest the Linksmen Look Ahead each meet. 1938 'GOLF SCHEDULE * * * be carried on by Mr. Quimby. Women's Athletic Association will To Difficult Schedule Better yet, have a girls' track Plans for the annual Varsity Awards hold the first archery tournament ever May 5- -Rider—Home. Banquet, which is sponsored by the to be held under the management of team and there'll be no worry Golf Team Meets Rider in First May 6- -Lehigh—Away about attendance. Varsity "S" Club, were also definitely the organization. Plans for the tour­ May 11- -Pennsylvania Military launched. The president appointed a * * » nament have not been completed but Tee-off of Spring Season College—Home committee composed of Burdsall Carr, the affair will definitely be held some­ May 17- -Rider—Away Then we would really see a broad Howard Morris, and Howard Todt to time in May. The last of State's athletes to offi­ May 23- -Manhattan—Home jump. carry out all necessary arrangements * # * Tennis, the most popular sport cially open their spring season, State May 26- -Fordham—Home for making the banquet complete in among the women of the college, will First prediction of the baseball golfers will tee off against Rider on every detail. With the assistance of offer over ninety members of the W. season! Captain Harold Otis— Coach Dean, the Club expects to be May 5 at the blue and gold's home A. A. a chance to engage in competi­ Netsters Open Season quote "Brushing sawdust off my able to present some outstanding men tion. Dorothy Briant, manager of the course at Yardley. The schedule finds clothes has certainly developed in athletic circles in the State to speak sport, has divided the contestants into them traveling the next day to Beth­ Away at Jersey City my pitching arm. Ought to have on some phase of athletics which they groups in order of their playing abili­ lehem to meet a strong Lehigh team my best season if I don't bash my will choose. ties. Several tournaments will be finger with a hammer." and then settling down to a long stay Handicapped by a late start due to Officers for the coming year will be planned for those who have shown the poor weather conditions plus the elected by the members at a meeting at home. most ability in wielding the racquet Easter vacation, State's tennis team This may be just a rumor, mind during the month of May. While matches with Rutgers and the will play their first four matches in you, but we've heard it whispered that Business Department University of Newark are as yet ten­ the space of a week's time. Starting Mr. Quimby is going to install a toll tative, State's competition in Fordham, Friday, April 29, away at Jersey City, gate at every base. Trackmen Meet East To Organize New Club Manhattan and Lehigh will be of a State plays host to Stroudsburg the * • * very high caliber. With Captain next Tuesday, Lutheran Seminary on Stroudsburg in Opener Cut rates on a home run. Seeking to form an organization to James Mazzacco alone assured of a May 6th and St. Joseph's the next replace the now defunct Pi Omega Pi, place on the team there will be three day. All these teams defeated State * • * (Continued from Page One.) former Business Education honor so places open for the five aspiring can­ last year and the blue and gold net­ No more free passes to first, either. Walt Matthews and Burt Carr are do­ ing conspicuously well in the pole ciety, the Business Education Depart­ didates. Because of their like ability sters are out to avenge the defeats. » « • vault. Vince Dresser and Tom Hop­ ment has appointed a committee com­ Coach Travers finds that the selec St. Joseph's is particularly strong and Marse John is also going to put tion of the three men necessitates a kins will also hurl the javelin, while posed of eight members—two from brings back to State its number one a stop to 'all the players stealing play-off. The five men competing for Dresser and Muniz will toss the dis­ each of the classes—to formulate man, Bill Dwyer, who formerly played bases. Concrete slabs will be in the three positions are Mel Chambers cus, in Wednesday's encounter. Dres­ plans for such a society. that same position for State. order next with bear traps put out Pi Omega Pi was dissolved two veteran of last year's squad, Norman ser and Hainfeld will heave the 16- Although the selection of the first at night. years ago because many of its func­ Walsh, number one man at Long six men is not yet definite, the prob­ pound shot. The coach has reported tions overlapped and interfered with Branch High, Lennie Grandinetti, for­ able starters will be Captain Earl Pul- that the Lions' opponents have usu­ those of Kappa Delta Pi. mer Long Branch High star, Bud len, Tom Hopkins, Frank Grof, Main- LAB THEATRE MEMBERS ally been strongest in the field events, The members of the Business Edu­ Schraeder, of Toms River High, and ert Peterson, Vic Galassi, and "Ozzie" TO ACT IN PENNINGTON just where State is weakest this year. cation Department have, by means of Tom Evangelista. Nelson. The doubles will probably Before the Easter recess, very little a poll taken early in the year, signified find paired Hopkins and Pullen, Grof actual timing was done in the track Presenting the one-act play "A events. Neither captain nor coach their desire for such an organization and Peterson, and Galassi and Nelson. Sunny Morning," two members of the have revealed the practice times made to be formed. Members of the classes Junior College Confab These men are out to atone for the Laboratory Theatre, Maude Buss and by the runners. Practice distances in who will serve on the committee are unenviable record of six defeats Ed Summerton, will appear at the Bette Hourihan, Alice Freiburg, Jo­ To be Held Saturday against a single win compiled by the the javelin, broadjump, and weight Kleio Club in Pennington on Saturday, divisions were measured only once seph Wykes, Veronica Bindas, Jack makeshift tennis team of last year, so Hillwood Lakes will witness a Jun­ April 30. This playlet, one of the Weisglass, Mildred Verdier, Arthur that a good brand of tennis should be and not recorded. Four-for-a-Quarter" acts presented by Due to the Easter holidays' layoff, Geilfuss, and Gloria Valdisseri. ior College Conference, which will displayed. bring together representatives from the Laboratory Theatre earlier in the the team will do nothing too strenu­ The committee has already taken year, has been selected because it some action and has suggested two Morristown, Roselle, Lochold, Bergen, ous today and will just warm up to­ Centenary College Institute, and from Club Sees "Festspiel" lends itself readily to production off morrow in preparation for the meet possible functions for the society. the campus. They plan to offer constructive sug­ other New Jersey junior colleges, on on Wednesday. Saturday, April 30. On Friday afternoon, April 8, the At a recent meeting of the Labora­ gestions to the Business Education Norsworthy Recreation Room was the tory Theatre, reports on the confer­ Department, its graduates, and its The purpose of the conference is to discuss questions of paramount im­ scene of a typical German "Festspiel," ence held at Montclair were made. student teachers, and to carry on as The meeting was concluded after play portance to the movement of the jun­ sponsored by the Modern Language well an active social program. reading by Charlotte Pfitzinger and Engravers for ior college in this state. The prob­ Club. A trio composed of George Abel, Stella Sinclair. lems of financing the new higher LECTURER WILL DISCUSS Charles Bodine and "Warren Harker STATE SIGNAL schools, of encouraging students to sang a medley of German songs. ASIA AT COLLEGE CHAPEL attend, of vocational training and guidance, of collaborating with col­ German folk dancing to the tunes Trent Engraving of a German band consisting of stu­ (Continued from Page One.) lege and university requirements, and No College Career dents of the Music Curriculum was must take to counteract it. He is also of advancing education through the Company followed by refreshments. aiding in plans for the opening of the junior college movement will form the Is Complete country to western culture and com­ chief topics of discussion in the main 229 S. WARREN ST. merce. session in Kendall Hall and in the Phone 2-9480 Without a Yearbook TRENTON The Grand Lama is planning to open sectional meetings. Ogden's Handy Shop up hitherto unexplored Tibetan gold Commissioner Morrison, in charge of Y For Courteous Efficientmt Service fields which are regarded as being po­ teacher education, will preside over Opposite State Teachers College tentially as rich as any in the world. the day's exercises. After the morn­ School Supplies—Cigarettes CALL 3-034400 When he does, Mr. Enders will become BUY A SEAL ing session the entire group will have Lunch and Fountain Service Minister of Aviation with the task of luncheon at the Inn. carrying out of Tibet, by plane, an -O—<1 ™ M annual export of millions of dollars worth of the metal. Everybody's Going ! Publications Stereotyping Psychologists Convene

Delegates from the psychology clubs of all the State Teachers Colleges of GAMMA SIGMA'S FORMAL Kirkham &_ G uthrie, Inc. New Jersey will attend a convention at Paterson on April 30. Discussion Featuring Law and Commercial Printers will center around extra-curricular activities, and members of this col­ GREENWOOD AVE. AND CANAL ST. lege's club will give a panel discus­ Jack Barry's Orchestra sion. The schools participating in the TRENTON, N. J. convention are Paterson, Newark, Saturday Nite War Memorial PHONE 2-1886 Montclair, Jersey City, and Trenton State Teachers Colleges.