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he Glenville Mercury

Staff Augmented By New Professors

B7 K&&hrJu BralmoD ad4ltions and six replace­

been made to the CQl-EdwlD P . A.1klns,

The additions physical edu­

mathe­; and G. Gordon Ki :tgsley,

dean of men. 'llr. Josephs formerly of Bullet.

PL, 1s a Bachelor of Science gra-

::~~~ ;:;e~~~~:;~eh~r=~~~ \ degree at the University of Pltts­lnlrgh.

G . Gordon Kingsley is a gradu­ate of New York State TeaChers college and received the Master of Arts degree in guidance at Colum­bia university. He is a native of Cambridge, N . Y. ,

Mr. Newman, of Charleston, W. v •.• was gra.nted both the Bache­lor of SCience and Master of Sci­ence degrees at West Virginia uni­versity.

New instructors and courses taught by each are: Dr. Wilda Lea .Montgomery, elementary educa­tion; Seth Riley Adams, chemistry; Dr. John A. caruso, social studies; Frederick Eckman, English; Edgar B. Elder, English and journalism; and Mrs. Lillian c.11addock, home economJcs.

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GSC Enrollment' Marks 10 Per Cent Increase --------------------------------------· A Message/rom the President Figures Show

* d The opening or this school year has <been • stimulating experience 4 77 Stu ents for everyone connected with or in- ' terested in Glenville State College. Our increased enrollment at a time when colleges have elQlerience1 a decrease leads us to believe we ar~ achieving our goal of meeting edu­cational needs without losing sight of the individual.

I wish to extend a special v.el­come to a freshman class of rc.ore than 200 members. We welcome your enthusiasm and spleodid co­operation. It is ari exceptional group in abUity as well as in size.

Events of this year will det~rm;•le our success in years to ·.:om~. l:et us plan so carefully and Wf'll th"Lt our experiences will be tC.ose we wish to have repeated by stu.ient.s in succeeding years. As a college serving West Virginia we have a great tradition to uphold and great confidence in you to make this year one long to be remembered.

Sincerely yours, Harry B. Heflin, President

By Dan Rengers With approximately a 10 per

cent increase over last year's en­rollment, and 33 of 55 West Vir­ginia counties represented, Glen­ville State College opened it's 76th term with a total of 477 students, as compared to last year's 432.

As usual, the freshman class has the largest number with 202. This. marks the third time since 1935 that the freshman enrollment has exceeded 200 first-term students. Twenty-one of this number are vet-

Campus Notes Improvements

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With one of elaas ever to enroll ·in ~~~ville s..te ~ ~usting themselves to the many iitU8ls of eo'ilege m; 1ritli the student body being governed .bJr a new .aDII competent student council, with a new quarter B,Y8tem .beU!g introdueed and with the activities of "Jane and Joe College" marking a balanced social life, THE MERCURY. takes th.ia oPIIGl'tUDity jlo. welcome new students, faculcy members aDd tpi8fer students ·to our eampos.

. The genial friendship, typical of our students and fac­ulty, will be an mdiapensahle aid to your progressive goals. The fruita you gather from your efforts here d!!J)e¥1d solely upon the manner, in which you fertilize and cultivate i!le potentialities which you possess. ·

Each of you has selected this institution .for certain partjcular re~~Bons, and the reasons are as diverse as the number of atu'denta comprising your academic group. ·Col­lege can he considered as a medium to success, a medi11m WhereDy each pf us may gain a goal in life. ,

Th stan a new •term off rlllht. '!.bls Issue nf lhe ll0J'C!117 ,1nat woUldn't be cOmplete ••-«err­one kDcnrina what ta ~ "" the campus.

Someof last~·----­'l'ldo .. tile- for UUlomlleo Oil Ballle~ofaee.-­be look their v..... IOCIJl -lcbool wu - ba the IIPdDc·

John Wblte and Mary Elder •ere among the flrat couples to1 1118 1f "two can nve aa cheaplJ as one."

Mr. and Mra. BJiJ Wiant alae are spreading Joy over lhe campus and · giving advice to all lhe olher young couples, since lhelr summer wed­ding.

!tlabae P'rymler 'Wall snatched from our campus by a home town

. You have selected Glenville State college as that med­iliiD, and you may rest assured that it will provide you with the proper tools for the foundation ~ which ·you will build that goal. The manner in which you use these tools casts ita responsibility not upon the school, but upon you,

bo~o~~~ like a well-fed · "I'WI been 1oing out ttith 11 Frenchrrum <md I uant W .....

the individual. 1 · As students, you will find here a capable administra­

tion, willing to help and cooperate with you in your educa­tional advancement. F'eel free to talk to faculty members I!.Jld advisors about your w<!rk or, any problem that might faee you. They want you to feel as near at home as can ibe afforded for you.

I:"B:"'OX:n~o::':frtedd!Dg to what M '-t>• U>hiapering to nW' onW:: ::P:; ~ ~~ ""::: _Rep_:_rin11jd _ _!.._trom ___ Aprll_:_-'.~1948--lsau--e-o_f_Esqulr&--Copyrl_: __ _:c.:.,.. -=--~-1_9111_. _. ---BDssell Slack were married ID J)e... I tober a. Many evente ~ JD eember. OPBB&TOB WANTED . the pre-war feotlvala Will boi lleld.

However, lhere are aome of last Ally8ne h~ a - for Miss •Martha Galllel, nf ..,...._ year's couples bact who haven't a ndlo opera&or Ia uked. to ville, w11l be crowned Quea:a .Billa completely mede up lhelr mind& contact !llr. lohll a. Waconer. XI1I and will reign o•er a collrt Iff

Glenville State College is your college. E;ach of you has an im110rtant role to play in the development of this institu­f;ion. Its standards rest entirely on your shoulders. Carry it wen.

yet. some 30 Pestlval Prlnee,... --

h~~~~e.:"!::S ~ :~':!,gw~ Alpha' Psi Organizes · ::U,ttngAnalle1!'i:'!~::.!: .:{t spots. Theee two must have a lot to 7 New Members Initiated Four Muses," will be preoealed em

ta:u:'hbo;;re and Jack S1mon st111 seven new members we~ lnltiat- ~:~t tournament with joUitll occupy 1ZW1n seats at lhe movies. 'ed Into Alpha Psi Oml!ga, national and other fe>tures r.- of

M M • IF BoJ' l Sf Junior Childers must haw a honorary dramtlc fraternity at Ule mtheedl'~!!\_'!,~owlllf •"ebea~!f ercury USlngs I ormer ar . fondness for lhe dlnlnl hall. He ls reorganization meeting lalt' oprlng. -~ ~ ~u- -ceonUnued frOm l'alre u

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To Coach In Japan seen waiting lhere after each meal. The IIBW memb""' were: Payne Valley" on October ?. 4D •afd

:e-je"!. 111~..': ~~n:r:t !~~ Lt. Earl Spencer, to~ student ~~risk-:.:=::::· ~~~;~J:=: ~:.r~~::L:.~-= rtf and I mean terrlf. land basketball star of Glenville, Da.,...o - oanlnd Oftr UUl ~~~al,;.,d ~ta :"· lhe J>l'C)gram. A feapae of Clot Ia&

This year's freshman cllss -..Js to Ueft recently for Tol<yo, Japan, SliiDIDor. Frabert man not llelleve -.ra111p Is limited to per11011S day of the Pestlval wiD be Cllildaal­tae recommended for the conduct where he wUl coach baaketball and tn the uyblc "A-:ace DIMes the who -have taken an acttve part 1n ed tolD'S throuah ~ .... otbey beve shown lhua far. As a I football teams for lhe Far Eastern heon pow loads. u be ..,.. 10 phaoe nf dramatic work. tiona! Forest.. ' . 'I\IIIOle, I commit myself In sa~,;ng Air Forces. Lieutenant Spencer week-end tripo to -~ .U I"" . Wbetber attend!Da UUl ~ 'that it.' a one of the best freshman .coa'Cbed the Port Slocum teams tor loDe- •••.. ........................................... Poreat PeaU.val or toartDa' tile U.. claues to enroll at GlenvWe State ~three years while stationed there, ·Autumn VlsHors wtn 1lDd UleJIIIIIIdi.

eollege for some t1me. 1 :;:~ ~tto~ :;n~h~h~..:C,~ TRAVELING ·IN ~"'b:.;:: ~ 111e--:'.:;: .,. Acoordlng to ski-troop heada, lshlp. He had a reocrd of 8'1 wins up early. His room-mate muat' WEST VIRGINIA u . s. 33 Is the entriiDOII to1 =

Boone Waldo and Bob Hill. a turtle and 7 losses while ooa.chlng at be a new form of alarm cloct. Plve ...............................................

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. Yemortal Drive, ODe a! • -race is in Jtore for thos~ that like I Port SlocUm. .__._..,-t!) lay lhelr bets on lhe line. All Lieutenant s~n••r' wife Caro- o'clocl< Is too early for any growing JIOBB8T GATEWAY aoentc mort toan ID Wen -- .. will be checked !or dope be-~ r-· s • man, Wayne. . ~ 1n a ---p- Covering a total dlatanao Iff ....._

• fore lhe rooe. Everytbbag will be on line, and his aon, Steven, will go We are aure tbet all of UUl upper _ ed valley ~ed bJ -..nng six miles over a sra'Nied u. a. -'the level to Mrs. 119enoer's home In Norlh cl&lllllll"' will agree lhat lho freob- aunmtalna Elll:lns Is at once the .,.t Bervtoe r.oad, Stuart Drift....,... . One oi the main attractions at 1 carolina before Joining him ' In men lOok very becoming In lhelr seat Iff West Vlrslnla'a ~ es Stuart recreaUon area on a.-Uae Pine-ear 15 when Sam Perra- Tol<yo In October. blue and white capo. We're •just as 00111lty and pteway to "'" -'1 er's Pori< of Chea~ aver, Iiiia -a blows bubblee. They are big . nf them ... you are. - l1aqeot .--.w area The uDH.- climbs to lhe 11111111111t of Bll*la enough to take the pl..,. or the fig Elex /okay, DP, ed States -. aervi.e ·- Knob <altitude 4.008 ~ • .& .,_. Ileal, no! (Contln;.r.;i from Page 1l _._.... llf,ononaahela 'National area and a fire tower are_.,. •

To those lovers of Haw~.haw for my home. !'brest. bas Ita beadquar'ters here lt.be txJp at Btctle KDob. Tbe .._

c;lub of th Strings " His latest Is P outside of town. the top of a long rkl8e .,.. JMoil' !H•wklns go the title or the Fan

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"Dec' ember the same year ' and the Foreot Itself begins jusl then d...,.,da sllghtiJ and, .......,

, e - ' . : Russian advance approached my Miss Elizabeth deGruyter, daugh- B~- ,_ •he to- was a rural Heaven and Alpena picnic - Ill MSttin ~y ,Finger Nallii, Thlnkin home about 20 mUes and an order .- · ~u .... -'- w• -.... J In U of of You . . lt s no wonder so many I was given out by the government ter of Mr. and Mrs. Olen P. de community named Leadsvllie. In re o . S. 33. Pb)e view. lli8 people are minus flng~ nalls these Gruyter, nf Spencer, and Byron J. that year lhe main line .of lhe surrounding mount&lno - d

· I for evacuation to Germany of all Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray w·e~- ~--land Railway reach- •both sides of the mad. Tbe ....., II days. · I young men of my age from this 011~" ....._3 posted " " anc1 1a JD111D.ta111... AU .of u at. some time or other do district. It was hard for me to leave P. Turner, of Weston, were married ed LeadsvWe and ~ and ahops one-way - IallT appreciate wba~ we bave at five o'clock, -wednesday eve- were establlsbed. In 1890 lhe town ed In good condition bJ tile - • alld . ....,. tlmeri crltlclze wl~lund. ~my mother alone, since my father nlng, sept. 7. was incorporated aa Elkins, named ~ce. • lblbklq.\ We should feel prowl of} was that time ser~ously 111 and none The double·ring ~eremony was for U. S. senator and cme-tb:ne Using ~ u a .,..... oar situations a.nd ideals Alii. Alex I of my brothers '1.ere berne. performed in the Pltst Baptist Secretary of 'flar Stephen B. can undertake an .IIUJ. . · · h;;t'~ ~:r~ :n: ~bo;~~:~nin I church "f Spencer by the Rev. Gor- Elkins who, witH hJs father-in-Jaw, tbe 1,100,000 acres

The rumor is there are so many ' Bavarian vllla•e, but after the don L . Wl~hers. U ; S. Senator Henry GasaBIW&y I National Porest keen freshman women this year =- M!.ss Bertha E. Olsen, of 1-he DavtJf. was largely responsible tor one or two .... !!"'~""~~ Mrs. Marshall has installed ampl~ j Oe:-man surrender I got free again. College music department, 'Played bringing the raUrOCLcl and other furniture 1n Verona Mapel lounge I went to Munich and got a job at nuptial music. other pe.rS('t..i .enterprls:es to the area. In the years Autumn eo that the gentlemen 'W1ll have an UNRRA Camp. Here I from OlenvWe who attetJ:Ied the that toUowed., Elkbis became an earlter in ~·m~!'il~la comfortable seata while. discussing working In the lut YFars I wedding were: Mrs. Harry B. Ref· important center of lumber and anal education with their cutles. Yep, mysomebrothshoerrterlnlnGermaterrupnytlo'n~._. W"' lin. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wagner. coal produe'tlon, other educatlo that ts vuu "' Miss Alma Arbuckle .. Mlss Alic~ Ar- "nle names of both of Elkina' of 111gb

n, ' acm. d ~eft Huniary with his University. buckle, Mr. and Mrs. Jqhn E. Ar- founders are perpetuated ln. D&vil predtct.lng l .ftlllliiCll a Tbe chow baa 1ml:irove constd- He wor!ted for the same organtza~ buckle, Miss Cla.:rlasa WUUams, and -~-- College

8 n-. .. ._.._. .. _ peak this ,ear d~ lllllf-.t

erably tbla year. 'Ibere is .alWaY& a 't!on at Munich • ~ , .n~ ... .r-ur.u varletr and lhe way tbe • stuff Is "The times in Germany Miss Julia' Nutter and :141,. Gold!~ cqedlleatlonal Institution which oo- nf October, lUOt, ln time r.t ti1lll deYoured, one would get . the im·r bard mainly in t"'· inte"al James. cuples a rolllng 60-acre campus ln Forest Pestlvall preaston that home was never Uk:e I. wa; without job ·ici'r a few ' The bride was an instructor 1n the northeastern part of town. In · 1.hla. Due credit shoUld be ,given to I made many attempts to Glenville State College. Sbe gra- early october• lhe college campus Snnday Night Vespers PMf. Mabel Todd. She lmowo ber to cverse.,, Canada or duated !rom the College wllh a wiD be the scene of 'Ule revival of Held In CoDege Loaap vJttlea. Take a baw, Profe&&or. mertca but it was very !Bachelor of Arts degree and from the famoua Mountain State Porest

Glad to aee Prof. R Y. Ola<k .on and 1 •had no luck. April George Peabody· college wllh a Festival which attracted lhotl$&nds EBcb Sun4ay nlgb.t, In LD1III bil feet Jl.fter his receD! Ulneas. I got an applieatlon master's degree and has done ad- 'of vtaJors to Elk1ns ln pre-war Benneot IDuDee. then Ja • ftiiPII' 'J'hey alwayS say ;vou cant keep a scholarships of the Worlds vanced graduate wort in 11brary }rears.. ' &ervtce for all the lltUdentl. ftlll good man down. , FUnd 1n our Hungarian science in the University\ of Michl- Tb:1rteen 1n the series, the Porest service consists of a abort ~ • ...::~;s t~~~ a:.\f ,b~:r M;::; Assool~tlon at Munich. When ga.;,'n.. Turner Is an Instructor 1n I ~~=~~. ~=ed5 f~~hfo~: !~:l:ts a::.,u~ ar:=..- All Waynesburg. What w111 happen ~:'oft 1~P, I dld not bape any the College, where he graduated when the DeGrootmen taee Penn "It was my happiest day since with Bacblor of Arts degree. Be state ancl Pitt? ..I predict that the long time w,hen at June 1944 t ;:~~~ u!:va.:f~ a!T(: n::, =g at~~=tc!:n~ in the celved th~ letter of the World . comptettng his doctorate tn scU!nce

In a statemnrt Jaat year,' this dent Service Fund. A gate was at cOlumbia university, New York wrKer ' elucid.a.&ed the fact tbat of opened for me, leadlng to a new Ctty, where the couple are residing. aa the prftty rkls that a.Uellded life. My desire was always to ger. WOOl Vlrcbda ooUec.., 99 per ceot over to tile United States. Anybody did Dot 10 1o Glenvtlle. wen. 1 am of here can hardly imagine, what eatlnc my wonts, coeds. Tb st•o•· does this scholarship mean for me. ttoa bat baproved. . ~.:. . 'The "It was too long for me, to wait The rotfawma new courses are campaa looks more Uke Errol Car· 'W1 my emigration affairs were set· now being offered to students ?f raJ's nery da7 tled. But on September 1st, after GlenVWe State college: General

on Saturday· nights, one can go all, I could enter the shtp and a fter Adolescent Psre):lology. in tbe beer establJJhments of great- ~ ~~e~n~t vezlee:~e~bl~here aDd. TechDJquea of ~ G~~~ ~~.,!'e :~~ really have to get ready for a Becondary G~'h~'i:. ~am lAt~ Bells Are Breakmg Up That Old' cess!ul future." Amorll:an B1atorJ to 1824. Gang of Mine." mtchlng& must be Latin Amerlcaa m.tory Since OD lhe boom aroun4 these parts. put out lhe best teachers In the la:M, ~lean Dtplooamy to 1.8'1~.

Thoae who are preparing to do state. Nuf said. American Dtplo.....,. 8IDce 18'11; o&helr practice teaching are abaglng 'Wltb a last thought for lhe week. Gel>graphy nf Burope; and Teate - blueo aa of late. Seems that I leave with you lhe llttle phraae In Beallh and ~ Bd111011tton - pre-teacblng testa have which In time will make Coach for ph711cal eduootlon 114ajorl. -., a shadDw Into lhe brlgh~ Carlo& Ratwr Immortal. " Don't be spbere of fUture upirants. Our a lost ball in the hllh weeds." B "Oe}'Hr" la an Icelandle word capable administration plans to c-un Ya. mNDing "gusher• !Jr "ranner." .

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Will Continue Studies For Dodorate Degrees

Roger Amos, freshman, Is a member of the livestock Judging :-•·•••'""''•••••"'""••·••••• team which wtll participate tn " contest at the SOutheastern States exposition, In Richmond, Vtrgtnls, October 3 and 4.

ADios, a graduate of Parker.lburg btgb school, wW represent West Vtrgtnls In the contest.

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