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

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W N THIS WAS THE YEAR yew This was the year that Penn State pl fed in the Cotton EM pitting its undefeated team against the Southwest Conference Cham; on, Southern Methodist niversity. The year that prices went higher and skirts went lower, and tate men, maddened by the' x 'New Look, fought back with everything from letters to the editor to i ividual threats, but still the silhouette lengthened X Orientation week was held in thei'fall for a sophomore class instead of freshman for the first time in the history of The College fganizations and activities started pledge classes and candi- dates' meetings on the new three- -year; asis, and sophomores from the IState Teacher' 5 colleges broad- ened their interests to fit the opportuhities of a larger, more sophIsticated campus a m, This was the year Coach Werner' 5 Cross country squad ran over a snow- covered course at East KEansmg Michigan, to take top honors in the National Collegiate Athletic Association' 5 Meet, and the year that Penn State students welcomed the TUB, Temporary Union Building, as a rain check for a if permanent SU to come. This was the year which the 1948 LA VIE staff tried to record for the graduating class, and far the history of Penn State, an iQiervai that was a beginning and an end. The end of a 20- -year career of service deVoted by Ra.I phg? Dom Hetzel, late presidentI to The Pennsylvania State College, J and the beginning ofkactual construction on his long cherished plan of vigorous, permanent expan- ilg' SiOn by The College. LA VIE has shown this plan through The Future Penn State section, so that - ' 3 the seniors may picture the greate Eenn State to which they will return as alumni. Ni x. Over two thousand qraduat ng seniors are carried in the 1948 LA VIE, more than were ever wa included before in a book goveiii gone year. Fougggraaia'ayfians two summer programs, and the X It Winter and spring ceremonies submitted students for the volume Social organizat ons and profes- k' h sionai groups, activities, as well as College and school admInIstrai'Ion are part of this book which 3 X ' 533 V will be the senior' s strongest; most iasting tie to x iii hIS campus ifs ; i i . ix Mir E3: ' IL I L? This wa's'th-gyear The eaIg that the class 3. i 13 Q, of '48 left ca pu $ life and erhe d, the profes- A sionai world; .the year, which -IVIE has at- tempted to preserve for them in printed form within this voiume Mm , ammw 3 mar: m ,y 4; WI mm RM... V, 'tvtmyfcs'WLXQQRw' - . 1 . n M; Wm M ,1 TE WI- mgasveltwmi WWW, ths: t ?gmm, x1 fag; .mgww v - .WT'FWN . S

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