Sylvan Karchmer wins $300 award
; Sylvan Karchmer, assistant
■professor of English, was given a
Longview Foundation award for
his fiction story "Bar Mitzvah
Boy," which appeared in Folio
(summer 1958). The sole criter
ian for the $300 award is literary
excellence.
Karchmer’s story was selected
by a distinguished committee con
sisting of Saul Bellow, novelist:
Humanism theme
for essay contest
Humanism, sometimes called
ethical, scientific, or modern, is
the subject of a short essay con
test in 1959 for prizes offered by
the International Humanist and
Ethical Union, which has its
headquarters in Utrecht, Neth
erlands.
The topic of the essay is to be
one of the following: Varieties
of Humanism, Ethical Humanism
as a basis of Right and Wrong,
The Humanist Answer to the
World's Needs, Ethical Human
ism as a Way of Life, or Methods
of Promoting a Humanist Out
look. Prizes include $300, first
prize; $200, second prize: and
also a first prize of $100 and a
second prize of $50 will be offered
in each of the six regions, Africa.
Asia. Europe, Latin America.
North America, other areas.
Conditions of entry specify
that contestants must not be more
than 35 years of age in 1959; and
the essays may be submitted in
any language, but preferably in
English or French. No essay
should exceed 2500 words and
the essays in typescript, accom
panied^ by a letter stating the
name, address, and age of the
contestant, should be posted not
later than December 31, to IHEU
Administration, Oudegracht 152,
Utrecht, Holland, marked ‘Essay
Contest.'
Copies will not be returned and
IHEU reserves the copyright of
all prize-winning essays. All con- ■
testants will receive a journal1
for one year of their choice from
those published by member or
ganizations of IHEU. The Board
of Directors of IHEU, whose de
cision is final, will announce the
prize winners in 1960. The Board
reserves the right not to award
a prize for which no essay attains
the expected standard.
Asia Foundation
to receive books
Approximately 3,000 pounds of
books and periodicals have been :
sent by the University to the
Asia Foundation in the “Books
for Asian Students” drive.
This includes some 836 books
plus journals. Townspeople, Uni
versity faculty and students do
nated to this project.
The program has operated suc
cessfully in Japan since January
1955, with more than 250,000 vol
umes distributed. Books have also
been shipped to many other
Asian countries.
To date, the foundation has
shipped a total of 1,144,348 books
and 259,019 journals to Asian
countries.
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6:00 Festival Classics
6:55 World and Regional News
7:00 Exploration — “The Last
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7:30 Radio Nederland
8:00 Baton Classics
10:00 President Reports
10:20 On Campus "
10:30 Program FM
11:55 News and Sign Off
Louise Bogan, poet and poetry
critic: Alfred Kazin, literary cri
tic. The committee was joined in
the selections by Longview direc
tors Charles Boni, publisher: Tho
mas B. Hess and Henri Peyre,
Sterling Professor of Yale.
A feature of Longview's litera
ry awards program is that no ap
plications arc received and that
there are no forms to fill out.
Unpublished manuscripts will not
be considered, but all literary per
iodicals are invited to send in is
sues for consideration.
Job IOC's
Interviews will be held October
26 by the Texaco Co., which has
an open job location for Business
Administration or Liberal Arts
majors and also for sales chem
istry. MS, Ph.D., and research
and development majors.
The AJ. S. Army Ordnance
Weapons Command has a nation
wide job location open to math
majors with BS. MS, and PhD de
grees and also open to physics
majors with the same degrees.
The Lawrence Radiation Labo
ratory will hold interviews Octo
ber 27 for math, chemistry, and
physics majors, or for those with
BS, MS, or PhD degrees in these
fields. The job location is Liver
more, California.
On October 28 and 29, the Dow
Chemical Company will interview
BS, MS and Ph D Chemistry
majors. Job locations are in Cali
fornia, Texas, Michigan, and Vir
ginia.
Boeing Airplane Co. will inter
view math and physics majors or
those with BS, MS. PhD degrees
and Business Administration ma
jors with BS or MBA degrees
October 30. The job location is
Seattle, Washington.
Qualified and interested per
sons should sign interview sched
ules in the Placement Service.
Campus Briefs
• There will be a meeting of all House
librarians today at 4 in the SU Browsing
Room.
• Reminder Health 150: Televised
course raid term. 7:30. Thursday, Oct. 22.
Room 104 Villard for text book group.
• General meeting for all Homecoming
Dance petitioners, Wednesday, 6:30 in S.L.
The room will be posted.
• Asklepaids will meet Thursday night
at 6:30 instead of Monday as previously
stated.
• Phi Chi Theta pledges are to meet in
the S.U. fishbowl at 12 :30, Tuesday after
noon. Study your lessons.
A Campus-to-Career Case History
“I found I could be an engineer
—and a businessman, too"
William M. Stiffler majored in mechani
cal engineering at Penn State University
— but he also liked economics. “I wanted
to apply engineering and economics in
business,” he says, “and have some ad
ministrative responsibilities.”
Bill got his B.S. degree in June, 1956,
and went to work with the Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.
During his first two years, he gained on
the-job experience in all departments of
the company. Sjpce June, 1958, he’s been
working on transmission engineering
projects.
Today, Bill is getting the blend of engi
neering and practical business-engineer
ing he wanted. “The economic aspects of
each project arc just as important as the
technical aspects,” he says. “The great
est challenge lies in finding the best solu
tion to each problem in terms of costs,
present and future needs, and new tech
nological developments.
“Another thing I like is that 1 get full
job-responsibility. For example, I recently
completed plans for carrier systems lx*,
tween Scranton and four other communi
ties which will bring Direct Distance
Dialing to customers there. The trans
mission phase of the project involved
almost a half-million dollars—and it was
‘my baby’ from terminal to terminal.
“Telephone engineering has everything
you could ask for—training, interesting
and varied work, responsibility, and real
management opportunities.”
Bill Stililer and many college men like him have found inter*
eating career* with the Bell Telephone Companies. There
may be a real opportunity for you, too. Be sure to talk with
the Bell interviewer when he visits your campus —and read
the Bell Telephone booklet on file in your Placement Office.
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