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

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The Creamery On any given fair-temperature afternoon, be it fall, spring or summer, it seems that all paths lead to the Creamery Sales Room, Penn State's answer to Borden's and Elsie the Cow! While the Creamery is located on the northern edge of campus and not exactly on the course of most students’ travels, many a Penn Stater makes it a point to cross paths with this ice cream shop. The line that quickly forms between classes is mostly comprised °f Forum escapees -in for a treat after those often uninspiring lectures. And what a treat the Creamery is-ice cream has always been a universal favorite and Penn State is no exception. Students at Penn State even have “University flavorites”-the three most wanted flavors on campus. It may surprise some students to hear hat bittersweet mint is the most popular flavor sold in the Sales Room, surpassing traditionally coveted vanilla and chocolate, lied for second place in popularity are vanilla and mounds, mounds being a concoction of vanilla ice cream with coconut and chocolate chips. Besides these three favorites, there arc usually fi'c to seven other flavors from which to choose, including sherbets and variegated flavors. Selections vary from day to day duc to freezer supply and student demand, even though the Creamery staff tries to keep a running stock of all flavors. Besides the Sales Room. Creamer)’ ice cream is also served in University dining halls and provides a welcome treat to the dining hall menu. These two places-thc Sales Room and the dorms-arc the two main outlets which the Creamery supplies. And the two biggest products which the Creamer)1 supplies to these outlets are ice cream and milk. Approximately 11.000 gallons of milk-whole, skim and choco- late-arc sent to the dorms each week, at an average of 1.500-1.600 gallons per day being consumed by thirsty Penn Staters. Each lime an ice cream appears on the menu, 800 quarts of that flavor are needed to supply enough slices for the hungry dormies. The Creamery also supplies the dorms with yogurt, cream cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream and buttermilk when needed, and sells these same products in the Sales Room along with a variety of cheeses. While students arc pleasantly aware of the results of the production side of the Creamery, most are not familiar with the business side of the operation. The Creamery is a break even operation, based on a profit and loss balance. As John L. Foley, director of Creamery operations, says. “We’re not out to make a million bucks, just to break even.” And the Creamery usually does just that. If there is a profit at the end of the year, the money is put into a fund for buying new equipment and machinery when it’s needed. The people behind the scenes of the Creamery are of two types- -production and sales—and students work in both capacities. Ten full-time Technical Services employees arc aided by four students working part-time in Creamery production. In the Sales Room, five full-time Tech Services employees work with approxi- mately 15 students. Employees, production and business are the behind-the-scenes side of the Creamery, all blending to take the form of that luscious ice cream cone in your hand on a warm Penn State afternoon. What’s YOUR favorite flavor? Penn State Mudcnu working on Creamery milk production line The Creamery 27

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Packaging milk for Sal» Room Mirrored image of Creamery Salo Room 26 The Creamery Packaging ice cream canons to fill Sales Room freezer Between dies line-up for Creamery ice cream

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Penn State Proud Penn Slate means tradition, but how much of our legend, history and tradition do you really know? While students arc quick to learn that their social security number. ID card, and No. 2 pencil are vital to existence at Penn State, many fail to acquaint themselves with the University’s heritage. You. a graduating senior, try this quick trivia quiz and see how you fare! 1 -When was Penn State founded, under what name, and why? 2— What was the first year of football for Penn State, and what colors did our Lion ancestors wear? 3— For whom arc Ewing and Cross Halls named? 4— What are the words of the Alma Mater? 5 Bv what class was the Nittany Lion shrine donated? Give up? It you were stuck for answers, just read on for a bit of Penn State tradition. Penn State began as the “Farmer’s High School of Pennsylvania.” in 1855. not because it was a high school, but because the founders were concerned that farmers “might be prejudiced against the word college as that of a place where boys only contracted idle habits. Twenty-two years later, in 1877. intercollegiate football was founded, and the first Nittany Lion cheerleaders wore pink and black. In 1871. Rebecca Ewing and Ellen Cross had been admitted to Penn State, being the first two coeds to grace our campus. For this honor, the women's names are forever remembered in South Halls. The Alma Mater was written just after the turn of the century, in 1901. bv Fred Lewis Pattce. and the words (yes. he did write lyrics!) can be found in any of the student handbooks or football programs you once clutched in your hands. The Nittany Lion shrine was presented as a gift of the Class of 1940. and two years later the Nittany Lion was officially accepted by the Board of Trustees as our school symbol. If you answered all five questions correctly, you qualify for class historian: three or four correct shows you really read your student handbook: one or two correct means you did some browsing in the Penn State Room of Pattce: and if you bombed all five, you spent your college years in a vacuum! No matter how you scored, be consoled that now you leave Penn State with more than just the commoner's knowledge of the obelisk myth and Old Main bells (you DO know about them, right?). Penn State means tradition. 28 Tradition