As appeared in The Rattle - Vol. XXXVX No. 3 - February - March - April 1947

News
Charles George Zink, Jr., after three yearn in the Air Force, serving as a B-29 lead navigator in the 676th Bomb Sqdn., 20th AF, returned to serve Omega as vice president, and later as president. He has been treasurer of the Penn State Mineral Industries Society, and a member of Blue Key and Parmi Nous recognition societies. He is listed in Who's Who in the News 1947. He belongs to the American Society for Metals and is treasurer of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He is varsity track manager and plays interfraternity volleyball and soccer; is stage manager for Thespians; on Froth staff, chairman Mineral Industries Banquet, interfraternity councilor, and a member of the Lion Coat Committee.

Activities of Vaughn Stapleton, BS degrees in agricultural education and agricultural economics, include: all college president, all college secretary-treasurer; president of Omega Chapter, Interfraternity Council representative; Penn State Christian Association, college usher, member chapel committee, Penn State Christian Drive; Agricultural Student Council, Block and Bridle Club, Riding Club, Dairy Science Club, Penn State Club, X-C-I Club, Hat Societies, Lions Paw, senior recognition society, president of Parmi Nous, upper class society; Student Handbook; freshman boxing, vanity boxing, intramural sports; chairman of All College Dance, Senior Ball, Class Day Awards, Football Pep Rally, and the Paul Smith Memorial Fund; freshman counselor, Student Union Committee; winner of Danforth Fellowships; "Who's Who"; entered war service, September 19, 1942, and was discharged as a flight officer on June 30, 1944.

Region III Assembly
Award to Penn State whose chapter’s delegates traveled the most man miles to the conference.

MISSED RECORD BY FOUR SECONDS
It took another Theta Chi, Gerald Karver, Penn State, '48, to beat the fastest of the season made by Robert Rehberg, Illinois. '49, 4:14.6, but in doing so Omega’s star runner ran the fasten college mile in 5 Years, 4:11.6, only four tenths of second slower than the IC4A championship record. In addition, Karver ran on a track made heavy by a week of rain, snow, and frost. Concerning the event, the winning of which practically assures Kraver a place on the 1948 Olympic squad, an unnamed sport writer in the Sunday Bulletin of Philadelphia under date of May 18 writes in part as follows:

Penn State’s Gerry Kraver’s mile performance—the best college mile in five years-started this story.

Karver, no newcomer to the game, was on his way to greatness before the war, but uncle sam got him before he could live up to his full promise.

Like most collegians, the Boyertown, Pa., youth has been trying since the war’s end to reassert himself in the mile filed. He won the IC-4A indoor title, but his time still was over what his coach, Chick Werner, felt he can do.

Last fall, in common with college distance runners, he ran cross-country and was doing all right until he came down with a pilled ligament in his leg. :He is captain-elect of Penn State’s cross-country team.] he started, but failed to finish the IC-4A title run, He finished seventh in the NCAA cross-country run.

He ran indoors a half dozen times this past winter, and found Gil Dodds tough, but disappointed in that he ran only one outstanding mile - a 4:12.8 second-place effort against Dodds at the Chicago Relays. His IC-4A effort was 4:19.

Again this spring, at the Penn Relays, he fell below standard and was outshone by three teammates as Penn State took the four-mile relay championship in a classy field.

But then came his masterpiece - a 4:11.6 victory over Michigan State’s Jack Dianetti, on a heavy track at State College, PA., in a dual meet. It was the best college mile since Bobby Ginn, of Nebraska, reeled off a 4:11.1 in the 1942 NCAA championships, and was only four-tenths of a second off Lou Zamperini’s IC-4A outdoor record.

For Werner, it was a total victory. The Lion coach has a way of predicting that a man will go places if “he gets over the hump.” To him Karver in now over the hump, and he’s most grateful to Dianetti, who made it possible by running a 4:12 - the best mile he has ever run - and to KArver, who proved he had it when Dianetti tired to “out kick” him in the last 75 yards.

Schlademan, who predicted a 4:17 mile because of the heavy track, was almost as pleased as if his own man had won the race. He felt the Dianetti’s time portended great things for the 18-year-old Michigan State freshman.

Karver appear on the way to proving that a boy can come back from the wars, pick up where he left off, and go on to new accomplishments.

And Karver’s oft-spoken advice is the only sure way to achieve that promise: Work at it - all the time.”

Missed by 4 Seconds and Omega News - The Rattle, Winter 1947