Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 50

              spring hp nets 1100 old clothes drive for wssf starts a lounge drinker front entrance hall dravo main lounge second floor richards center entrance hall and price hall main entrance in order to facilitate collection from fraternities contributions should be put near the main en trance of the house the clothes will be sorted pack ed and shipped by a pledge class as a community service project cloth ing of all types is desired but it must be clean since soiled or dirty clothes will mold during shipment campus chest has designated to day tomorrow and thursday collec tion days for the annual old clothing drive the clothing is to be sent through the world student service fund to needy students all over the world boxes will be placed in the first floor of christmas-saucon hall and on the top floor of drown hall where faculty and students may place their contri butions to the drive clothing will be collected from dormitories and fraternities on thursday by apo to make collecting in the dorms easier chest authorities have asked that clothing be left in the following places by thursday taylor section a profit of approximately 1100 on the spring houseparty dance which was sponsored by the class of 54 was announced by martin pearl 54 newly elected treasurer of next year's senior class the total income from the dance was 4330 of which 2000 went to the bands of elliot law rence and johnny guarnieri an additional 600 was spent by the decorating committee another 600 was spent by the committees on reception queen band finances tickets programs and concessions the profit will go into the trea sury of the class of 54 pearl point ed out that the larger the amount of money in the treasury in the fall the smaller the assessments will be for the next seniors he also noted that some of the profits were spent on the picnic sat urday the cost of the picnic per man was approximately 3 but each participant was only charged 1 collegians not addicted but still good ~ bach if you're s/c/c postpone exam congdon says any student who is in any sense of the word ill at the time of a final examination should not start it dean wray h congdon advised students today the dean further stated that any student who enters an ex amination must stand or fall on the results of the examination cheating on a final examination dean congdon said will be dealt with summarily and may lead to suspension from the university seniors schedule annual picnic for saturday at 2 p m seniors will hold their annual pic nic saturday from 2 to 5 p.m at the beethoven walheim there will be no charge because the cost of the picnic was covered in the class as sessment according to nicholas gentile class presdent the menu will include beer and hot dogs games will be played dur ing the afternoon everyone is ad vised by the picnic committee to bring dates the class of 1953 has already broken all records for participation in its memorial gift plan having re ceived contributions from 405 men out of the total class enrollment of 557 or 72 per cent the highest pre vious mark was set by the class of 1950 61 per cent of whose members contributed broken down into living groups the percentages are as follows 82 per cent of the sen iors in fraternities have donated 72 per cent of senior dorm men and 60 per cent of graduating men living in town have given class president nicholas gentile has asked that all those members of the class who have not contributed to do so at once before the inauguration of the class memorial gift plan in 1929 gifts by graduating classes to the univer sity had taken the form of class steps fireplaces lamp-posts and the like the class of 1938 established the insurance-gift plan as a tra dition at lehigh every class since 1938 has adopted class in surance as its gift plan which means the payment of a sum of money to the university as a gift from each individual and from the class as a whole at the class's 20th reunion the manner in which the money will be used will be decided by the class at that time the plan is a simple one whereby the graduating student takes out a policy for 300 on a 20-year endow ment basis class insurance will start bearing fruit in 1958 when the class of 1938's program matures at that time between 20,000 and 25,000 will be given to the university by see seniors page 8 last b&w issue this issue marks the end of brown and white's publishing year next issue will appear june 25 those wishing to work on the sum mer brown and white please see prof mcfadden ifc community service benefits six public sites the completion of major cleanup projects on six public buildings in the bethlehem area highlighted the ifc community service program for this semester pledges from the 30 fraternity houses under the di rection of chairmen mark kauf mann 53 and joseph workman 53 planned and carried out these and many other jobs the townspeople of bethle hem and the schools hospitals and youth organizations receiv ed the benefits of this program in addition the close coopera tion among pledges from the various houses has resulted in a successful unification of the pledge class commented kauf mann dravo gassed in sunday attack sunday proved to be a real gas ser for the residents of dravo house as they poured out of the dorm under an attack of sulphur di oxide the so2 emanating from a broken refrigerator owned by walter van winckel 56 forced the gasping dravoites out into the relatively pure bethlehem air the gas though not toxic unless the victim is caught in an enclosed area does combine with the water to form sulphurous acid this reaction turned one student's handkerchief gas-mask a beautiful brown the fire department was called in to remove the source of contamina tion no one was overcome dean leith declined to comment on any possible action until all the facts can be reviewed on april 11 the pledges from various fraternities got to work on the franklin school where they cleaned and painted various rooms the next weekend they returned and polished up the offices the bethlehem girl's club was also visited that weekend and floors were polished windows fixed and cleaned and the grounds surround ing the building cleaned up higbee school was next on the agenda pledges took up paint brushes this time in sev eral rooms sanding varnishing of floors building of cabinets and general cleaning up finish ed off the day's project the following weekend the beth see service page 7 in 1948 and reactivated in 1950 under the baton of bernell argyle 53 they've been bouncing along be tween jobs at high schools the sau con valley country club beaver college and charity balls for the next few years bach told of playing at a high school on long island — they for got their music we managed to scrape through the evening he de clared but it was terrible the kids didn't seem to know the difference — they paid us anyway a combo grew out of the group during last year's dixie land craze and was known as the southern comforters the girls at centenary jr college were regular customers of the com bo and invited them to play at their sunday afternoon dixie sessions this was one job that the boys really looked forward to music and other equipment of the collegians is supplied by the music department in return the band usually plays free of charge at the charity ball or some other univer sity dance the collegians had a big spot in the recent music festival supplying mambo rhythms which lent a south american touch and rocking grace hall with the twelfth street rag by murry jennings no one in the band is addicted but we're still good says a mem ber of the collegians dance band few lehigh people know much about the 14-piece group that pops up now and then to furnish music for such func tions as the charity ball and the dink hop the group will provide music for dancing after the pops concert saturday ralph bach 53 business manager for the collegians who has been with them four years feels that the band is the best it's ever been most of the guys in the band are followers of the modern music trend we're really a bunch of imitators though attempting to follow the style of kenton and a few of the other big names in modern music lehigh has mothered a dance band off and on for a good many years back in 1931 it was composed of rhythm men in 42 it was labeled one of the best college bands in the country activities were curtailed in 47 by the lack of a set of good drums but rhythm melody and harmony in the latest style were blended to make soft danceable music the following year ac cording to the epitome the collegians were discontinued lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday may 19 1953 pop show sat all tables taken bl.emioh university ¦ a / i •*- rown and w hitfe volume 64 number 50 53 class hits record for gift plan enrollment going going gone — are the 504 table reservations for saturday's pops concert on the upper floor of grace hall however the unprece dented sellout will still leave over 500 seats available for students and their dates the concert presented by the brown and white concert band and the cliff clefs is scheduled to begin at 8:15 p.m the audience will be presented with a program of school songs marches and semi-classi cal works following the concert there will be dancing to the music of the collegians until 12:30 p.m stage and screen star ronald rogers will be featured as baritone soloist rogers has recently completed sing ing leads in roberta and where's charlie at kansas city and fort wayne he has soloed in radio city music hall and recently was cast in the film man from tangiers the young baritone has also appeared in over a half-dozen television shows the band will begin the program with i can't do the sum a selec tion from victor herbert's babes in toyland other selections will be march for band by sir thomas beecham emperor valse by jo hann strauss also lassus trombone by henry filmore a trumpeter's lullaby by leroy anderson tubby the tuba by george kleinsinger the washington post march by john philip sousa and escapada by sid phillips also granada by j lara for you alone by henry geehl medley by george gershwin the rakes of mal low by leroy anderson selec tions from pictures at an exhi bition by moussorgsky and fairest of the fair by john philip sousa band director robert boudreau will be the soloist for the trumpet er's lullaby with richard burr as student director william haase 54 vice-president of pi delta epsilon presents frank shea time-life executive with a certificate of honorary membership shea discussed his experiences in argentina at a lunch eon here thursday