Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 52

              ninety-six principals school administrators and others interested in the field of education registered for the seventh annual lehigh conference of the pennsylvania branch national association secondary school prin cipals held thursday and friday on campus i paul handwerk of bethlehem president welcomed the delegates and introduced the consultants while dr harold p thomas director of summer school and coordinator of the conference brought greet ings from the university production committees for the five areas of discussion were appointed as follows democracy vs communism with dr j e swain professor of history see principals page 4 public health is purchaseable dr r h mccutcheon bethlehem physician and president of the northampton county health coun cil told members of the lehigh uni versity health workshop last week you can have good public health if you're willing to pay for it speaking on the desirability of a county health unit how to get one dr mccutcheon said when you think of cost ask yourself what is the value of human life we do know that the local health unit will bring a reduction in disease and deaths the speaker told the group that a local county health department will provide six basic services 1 vital records 2 communicable disease control 3 sanitation 4 maternal and child health 5 laboratory and 6 health education defining public health as an orga nized community effort to prevent disease prolong life and protect and improve the health of the peo ple dr mccutcheon said that such a unit could be set up either by re solution of the county commissioners or by referendum — putting it up to the voters estimating that such a unit might eventually cost about a dollar and a half per person per year the speak er said a dollar and a half will buy you a lot of health we have no capacity to force par ents to have defects in the child cor rected but generally the level of parent cooperation is very high in regards to remedial defects dr reppert lehigh county physician said the basement lean-to shelter of the type tested during the march 17 atomic tests at yucca flat nevada was originally designed here at lehigh and should provide reasonable safety for occupants from blast and falling debris when such shelters are in frame dwellings announcement that the original design was prepared here was made tuesday by dr harvey a neville director of the institute of research as the federal civil defense administration released its report on the recent atomic tests local television viewers had no way of knowing that the basement lean-to shelter one of the two basement shelters they saw on their screens had been designed and the first ones built and tested — without bombs — on the lehigh campus nor were they aware that other shelters test 11 nevada a basement-exit shel nd eight backyard-type shelters originated here . neville quoted the fcda re with the exception of the cor oom these shelters are based on nal designs prepared by the le university institute of re h under contract with fcda the strongest of the shelters a re inforced concrete basement-exit type only 1250 feet from the bomb tower showed no damage what ever after the explosion and a child mannequin in it although thrown to the floor was not marked or damaged in any way fcda re the various backyard shelters most of them with cinder-block walls and concrete roof slab were placed at 1450 1800 and 3500 feet from the explosion all survived the test undamaged and with the mannequin inside not disturbed cheapest of all the shelters the 40 basement lean-to and the more expensive basement corner room both survived with no damage worth noting in the demolished house which had stood only 3500 feet from the bomb tower mannequins in the shelters were not moved or harmed the margin of safety was even greater in the basement shelters in the house 7500 feet from the explo sion although the house was sev erely damaged and the mannequins on the upper floors were chipped and marked by flying glass which would have caused serious injury to living persons the mannequins in the shelters were undisturbed the fcda report points out that the shelter nearest the blast was a basement-exit type of reinforced concrete with open entrance it was located 1250 feet from the bomb tower at an expected overpressure of 45 pounds per square inch next in line at 1450 feet 30 pounds per square inch over pressure was a covered-trench type shelter made of cinder block with a reinforced concrete concrete roof slab and open en a cluster of five shelters was lo cated at 1800 feet at an expected overpressure of 20 pounds per square inch these shelters were a covered-trench type cinder block with concrete roof slab open en trance b covered-trench type cin der block with wooden roof open entrance c covered trench type cinder block with concrete roof slab closed entrance d basement-exit type cinder block with concrete roof slab open entrance c five see shelters page 3 average distribution percents the distribution of individual averages in percentages follows consultants for high school principals conference left to right dr oscar granger haver ford h.s principal dr j e swain muhlen berg miss jane pippin temple mr robert snyder moravian dr charles manwiller pittsburgh school director volume 64 — number 52 summer univ average raised to 2.2 leonard tops thursday july 2 1953 lehigh university bethlehem pa blbmiom university ¦ ma / ¦ •¦ rown and w hite yucca a-shelter designed here leonard hall again placed first among the 62 living groups as the scho lastic ranks were released early this week sigma alpha mv which led the fraternities in the fall remained in first place and psi upsilon and tempo i were placed on scholastic probation soaring well above 3.0 leonard hall left the rest of the field well behind the all university average is increased to 2.2014 psi upsilon with a 1.68 is on the probation list for the fall along with tempo i which failed for the second semester in a row to make the re quired average the senior class paced the classes with 2.47 while the freshmen class rising in average still was fourth among the four grades placing second and third among the fraternities were pi lambda phi and tau delta phi in that order and price hall was at the top of the dorms taylor hall e and delta sigma phi showed the greatest single increases while phi delta theta and richards house 3a showed the largest drops see averages page 2 arcadia gansz wrangle over long playing $ m'cutcheon stresses $ for health by jerry friedenheim the combined music clubs and the band have thrown confusion into the finances of arcadia by claiming that a contract made up over a year ago concerning the lehigh record al bums was cancelled march 30 1953 in spring 1952 a 12-inch l-p album of lehigh songs was put on sale for 4.50 the cost of the records has been estimated at 2.00 arcadia approved the sale and agreed to promote the re cordings if the student activi ties roving fund received 7.5 per cent of the net profit and share proportionally in any loss arcadia also agreed to under write the recordings for 500 a profit of more than 100 per cent was agreed to orally so that money could be put back into the music department's organizations which made the recordings these funds it was understood by arcadia were to be used for current expenses it is reported that part of the profits has already been spent no loss was incurred in fact it is estimated that the records may see arcadia page 4 four staff men granted leave for next year four lehigh university faculty members have been granted a leave of absence for the 1953-54 academic year president martin d whitaker announced recently dr peter havas associate pro fessor of physics will be on leave to accept a john simon guggenheim memorial founda tion grant for studies in the rela tivistic theory of interacting elementary particles dr h richard gault professor of geology will serve as executive sec retary of the geology and geography division of the national council washington d.c for one year dr robert a bream associate professor of education has been granted a leave of absence to edit a series of six unit guides in social studies for junior and senior high schools and the publication of a guidebook for teachers dr felix hass instructor in mathematics has accepted an invi tation to serve as henry buchard fine instructor in mathematics at princeton university 96 principals educators hold annual convo here 4.00-3.75 3.74-3.50 3.49-3.00 2.99-2.00 1.99-1.00 0.99-o.oc freshmen 1.16 1.60 7.56 40.41 38.66 10.61 sophomores 2.79 3.83 10.10 37.11 34.69 11.50 uniors 3.23 3.94 11.65 40.68 32.26 8.24 seniors 5.78 5.94 20.30 49,34 17.99 66 entire university 3.17 3.75 11.27 41.95 31.04 7.82 he average of the highest and lowest decile quartile and median follows highest highest lowest lowest arith decile quartile median quartile decile mean freshmen 3.00 2.53 2.00 1.42 0.94 1.982 sophomores 3.29 2.67 2.10 1.50 0.94 2.086 uniors 3.33 2.71 2.17 1.62 1.12 2.173 seniors 3.53 3.11 2.56 2.14 1.67 2.589 entire university 3.32 2.79 2.20 1.63 1.06 2.201 hank living group average 1 leonard hall . . . .. 3.033 2 sigma alpha mu 2.670 class of 53 2.589 3 pi lambda phi .'. .............. . 2,565 4 richards ii-b ... i ...... 2.459 5 tau delta phi 2.455 6 delta phi ........ 2.411 7 drinker ii-b 2.373 . 8 alpha tau omega ... ... ........ 2.371 9 taylor b 2.355 10 alpna sigma phi . . 2.335 11 taylor c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...;.... 2.334 12 laurel lu i 2.331 13 theta chi 2.315 14 drinker ii-a . 2.313 15 delta sigma phi 2.312 16 .• sigma chi 2.301 all town men 2.273 il kappa alpha '.,,. ...... 2.262 18 price hall ',.. 2.259 19 dravo b-l 2.246 20 richards iv-b .......:.. .. 2,237 21 delta chi ..... ....... ...:.. 2.236 22 taylor d 2.234 23 chi psi ......... 2.222 24 phi gamma delta 2.215 ah non-fraternity ken ........ . 8.214 25 ". theta kappa phi . . . . . v . . . . v . . 2.206 26 sigma nu .... 2.205 au non-fraternity dorm men 2.2018 27 richards iv-a . . ............... . 2.2o1b : entire university j .... . ... ..;... . 2.2014 28 , beta theta pi 2.200 29 tempo ii ';'. 2.191 ' ; all fraternity men 8.189 80 dravo d-ii .'. 2.180 class of 84 2.1732 31 dravo a-i 2.1728 32 s kappa sigma .. . . . . . . ........ . . 2.170 all dormitory men 8.137 33 theta delta chi ......... 2,130 34 lambda chi alpha 2.126 35 richards iii-b .....; 2.1243 36 taylor hall a 2.1240 37 drinker iv 2.120 38 drinker iii-a 2.118 39 pi kappa alpha ....... ......... 2.092 class of 55 2.086 40 dravo '; b-ii '." 2.084 4 sigma phi ............... . .". . .. 2.057 42 '\ chi phi j . . 2.056