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

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DEDICATION Home football games found Isuu Bell busy Lou Bell joined students with other sports writers in press box as an ardent sports inn For nearly 35 years, Louis H. Bell served the Pennsylvania State University as a student, alumnus, teacher, and administrator. As an undergraduate from 1925 to 1929, Lou was a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity, and Pi Delta Epsilon and Sigma Delta Chi professional fraternities. He worked four years as a member of the Penn State Collegian staft and served as editor of the paper his senior vear. He was sports editor of LA VIE and historian of his Class. Skull and Bones and Lions Paw membership were among the honors he received. Upon his graduation in 1929, Lou entered the Held of journalism, working with , reral Eastern Pennsylvania newspapers. He returned to Penn State in 1934 as an meter in journalism. In 1941, he resigned as assistant professor of journalism to organize promotion r the General Extension Services and the war-time Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program. In 1943, he was named Director of Public Information and University Editor. One of his accomplishments in this position was the establishment of the Pennsvlvania .tate Universitv Press as a media for publishing scholarlv works of facultv members. He was active 'in the American College Public Relatioiis Association arid served a term as national vice-president for membership. He was cited by that Association in 1952 for outstanding achievement in public relations. Ill health last summer prompted Mr. Bell to assume a restricted schedule and he returned to teaching journalism on a part-time basis and directing the activities of the University Press until his death on Oct. 16, 1958, Lou Bell during his 25 years on the faculty and staH maintained a keen interest in students and their activities. He served as adviser to Collegian and Froth and was a director of LA VIE, Collegian, and Thespians. Many students came to his office for Friendly advice and Pennsylvania publishers and others also sought his help in employing Penn State graduates. Because of this sincere interest in the Penn State student and his untiring efforts to achieve a better Penn State, we are proud to dedicate our yearbook, the 1959 LA VIE, to Louis H. Bell. Discussing manuscript for the University Press

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FOREWORD This is the year of 1959, the 100th anniversary of the ar- rival of the First students on our campus on February 16, 1859. It is the year in which the members of our class complete their formal university training. Some will continue for grade uate work; others will step directly into a world of enormous opportunity, of daring challenge, and 0F bewildering change. This year of 1959 is a year marked by the continuation of the struggle between two ideologies-that of freedom and that of Communist tyranny-for the control of the world. It is also a year of concern about the educational plants of our schools and their educational programs. This is a year in which there continues a growing aware- ness of the great expansion that must take place in our colleges and universities if they are to be prepared to enroll the increas- ing numbers of qualified students that are already seeking admission. These are some of the problems that rest on the shoulders of the members of our Class and on those of other educated men and women. They are problems that require careful thought and inspiring leadership. They demand that, while formal education for the most of us will have come to an end, education must be a continuous process. We must prepare ourselves as educated men and wo- men to take a more active part and have a greater influence in afFairs 0f the community in which we may reside. The desire to improve must remain with us throughout our lives. This book is the record of our Class-the Class of 1959. It is our hope that the attainments recorded here are merely the first of many achievements that will be recorded by the members of the Class of 1959 as they meet the challenges of life in this complex and ever-changing world.