Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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Nl'lll, M. FLEMING Graduate Munugt-r ORGANIZATION NEIL M. FLEMING HAROLD R. GILBERT WILLIAM R. MOORE CURTIS C. STONE - BRONCO KOSANOVKIII Graduate Manager Assistant Crmlumu Manager President Vice President Secretary THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION THE Athletic Association is a department of the School of Physical Education and Athletics and has us its duty the management of intercollegiate sports. All regularly matriculated male students of the College who have paid Athletic fees are active members. 115 oHieers, president, viee-president, and secretary, are chosen by general elections each spring hy the active members of the Association. A Graduate Manager of Athletics is the admin- istrative omeer in charge. There is also an Ath- letic Advisory Board consisting of representatives of trustees, faculty, alumni, and students who give consideration to all matters pertaining to the con- duct or this Association. Student managers, consisting of a varsity man- ager, three first assistant managers, and any num- her of second assistant managers, under the direc- tion of the Graduate Manager, attend to 2111 the business matters incident to each intercollegiate sporL The following sports come under the wing 01' the Association: Fallefoothall, cross country, and 22 soccer; Winterebaskethall, boxing, wrestling, swimming, fencing, gymnastics, skiing, ice hockey, and riHe; Springebaseball, track, lacrosse, ten- nis, and golf. HAROLD R. GILBERT Assistant Graduate Manager

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WILLARD P. LEWIS Liln'uriun COLLEGE LIBRARY ORGANIZATION WILLARD P. LEWIS RALPH W. MMIOMB MARGARET K. SPANULICR Librarian Asstn'iun' Librarian Assislunl Librarian thudt-rs' Serviet-t - - .4.s'.vislunl Librarian Hiutulogiug und At'quisilioust EVELYN IIICNSICL CATHERINE M. BARNIIAR'IV - Order Librarian MILDRED A. AILMAN HELEN MARGARE'IV COOPER ROBERT 'l'. URAZIICR MILDRED l.. 'HUCWORGY RAYMOND 1i. DICKISON - LIBERA'I'A EMMERHIH ANNE Ii. MALONE - MARGARET C. UAUGICR vat'rt-Iu'o Librarian - Cululug Librarian Sc'riulx Librarian Cirrululinn Librarian Chwuisujv and I'lzysit'x Lihmriun :llim'l'ul Industries Librarian Agrirultuml Librarian Engineering Librarian Tllld true university, as Carlyle observed, is a collection of hooks, and Penn State has its own to emnplement and supplement the lexthook ol' the classroom. Special libraries and reading room collections, amounting to over 60,000 volumes, with trained personnel in subject fields serve the Schools of Agriculture, Chemistry and Physics, l'hlginmsring, Mineral Industries, and the depart- ments of Animal Nutrition, Arehitevtum, Forestry, and Home Ceunnmics. The importance of the library as :1 teaching ugeney in this new letyethe value of close and intimate contact with large numbers of bOOkSHiS Clldm'sed hy educational leaders. Hence the fu- ture welfare of this college demands a continuu- tlon 0f the present lihrury expansion. 21 HOLLICUI'I LIBRARY The Central Lihrury, all the head 0f the College Mull, houses uppl'exinmtely 250,000 hooks 0f the library collections. In addition to general hunks, the Central Lihrary contains the Headlight collee- liun, u selection of recreational Iietion and non- fiction, the Reference collection, and works in a number of special fields, i. e., American and Penn- sylvania history. Current periodicals are made available through the general reading mom on the second Hour. A newspaper mum provides space for the more familiar papers. The Penn State Room, planned to serve us a de- pository fur Penn State history and publications, is heing organized on the fourth floor of the main huildin .

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ORGANIZA'ITION EDWARD K. IIIBSIIMAN ll. RIDGE RILEY EDNA M. GUILLIC'I' - lalxw-ulino Serretulj 'txsixmu! .S'er'l'c'lrlu' and Editor Uljit'v illmmgw EXECUTIVE BOAR D WAYNE W. WEAVER, Lunvuster B. C. JONES, Pittshurgh - JULIA G. BRILL, Stute College H. J. MeCLEARY, Johnstown EARL E. HEWITT, SIL, Indiana CHARLES L. ICSI'HJSMAN. Cleveland. Ohio GEORGE A. DOYLE. Philadelphia E. HELEN WILLIAMS, Monessen RICHARD L. SCIIUSTER, Binghumtnn, New York RICHARD G. LOWE, Williamspurt WILLIAM K. ULERICII, Cleurtield ROBERT T. FOOTE. Ml-Cnliege President - President Firs! Vir'e Preside ! .S'cc'aml Virc' I'rexidenl - 'I'hirtl Vire Preside ! THE ALUMNI T1113 Penn State Alumni Association, founded in 1870, is an organization of graduates and former students of the College with headquarters at 104- OId Main. The primary purpose of this organization is to advance the interests of the College hy creating a well-orgunized group of informed alumni. It is, also, the means of emnmunieution between the in- dividual alumnus and the College. The Association is governed by the Alumni Coun- cil and the Executive Board. The Council, of ap- proximately 300 members, is elected on a geo- graphical basis, with men and women graduates ll. Rllttili RILIH issislunl Sn-en-mry uml litlitur EDWARD Ix. IIIISSIIMAN Ime-utiw Seerelury ASSOCIATION 23 being organized separately in districts. In turn, the Council elects the Executive Board, and from this group the oiheers of the Association are chosen. There are approximately 50 District Cluhs ol' the Association in the United States. District Cluh presidents are memhers 0f the Council, as are the permanent eluss seerelzlries. These Cluhs are or. gunized separately from the Association, but are tied to it through the Council. Members of the Alumni Association maintain emitzlet with their Alma Mater through a magazine, the Penn State Alumni News, which is published seven times during the year. While football season is in progress, members receive a weekly printed letter giving a complete and personalized aleeount 0f the Saturday games. The Penn Slater. a four- page newspaper mailed quarterly to all graduates and former students with known addresses, is a third publication of the Association. An accurate record of over 35,000 alumni of the College is kept by the Association on individual file curds. Progressive addresses and employment records are placed on the cards from the time of graduation. A folder for eerrespnmlenee, news- paper clippings, and other hiographieal informal- lien is also maintained. Geographical cards. are filed dividing the alumni body into districts and uddressogruph plates are made with the correct current address. The Penn State Alumni Association is a mem- her of the American Alumni Couneil. a national organization of zihmmi elheiuis.