Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 33

              another attempt at lehigh's first eiwa crown since 1948 met with fail ure last weekend as the engineers finished third two points behind second place penn state which had 25 points though only its first year in the league pitt took top honors with 37 points four of gerry leeman's grapplers won their way into the finals but none could win titles jimmy mahoney ken faust ed eichelber ger and werner seel all had to be content with second place alex mccord who won the 123 pound title in a startling upset last year was eliminated in the semi final round by hugh peery defend ing national champion and eventual winner this year alex finished fourth as he was defeated by gene d'allesandro of rutgers in the con solation round while the engineers two defend ing titlists failed to retain their championships penn state's dick lemyre and jerry maurey the two other champions in the tourney came through lemyre defeated ma honey to become a three-time win ner at 130 pounds maurey won his second crown by downing faust in a thrilling overtime match pitt demonstrated its superi ority by copping three indivi dual championships the pan thers placed five men in the finals and had the team title wrapped up before the final round began hugh peery char lie uram and george beresford won championships while ed dewitt and joe solomon fin ished second see werner page 8 the elements mister roberts the comedy that was called by life magazine the finest war play of our generation will open a two-performance en gagement at broughal jr high school friday as a presentation of mustard and cheese directed by prof h barrett davis this great hit ran 149 weeks to packed houses when it was first produced in new york and was toured more widely by broadway companies than any other play of recent history kenneth verostick 55 will play the title role of the naval lieutenant who longs to get into the thick of a battle during the war and eats his heart out because a hard-bitten cap tain won't approve his application for transfer from an old bucket of a cargo-carrier with all its action set upon this plodding supply ship monotonously plying between pacific ports far from combat areas the play is paradoxical in that it is famous for see roberts page 5 54 s weekend date changed to june 19th in order to hold a senior week end the senior class cabinet decided at last week's meeting to change the date of the class picnic to saturday june 19 with the result that the pic nic banquet and ball will all be held on that date plans for the senior ball will begin next week according to ben reinoehl chairman of the committee for the affair frank lusby chairman of the class gift committee said that the overall percentage of subscriptions i for the insurance plan by members of the senior class is somewhat low er than what it was for the compar able time last year although many seniors have not contributed to the class plaque by payment of their assessments it was decided to put the names of all seniors on the plaque keys will be ' given to the 19 members of the class i cabinet arcadia delays joining juniors in leaders plan decision was delayed at friday's arcadia meeting on whether arca dia would co-sponsor a leadership program with the junior class pend ing the success of the junior pro gram this spring the purpose of the program is to bring out the leader ship characteristics of those attend t ing the sessions past president ralph meer warth presided at the meeting the first for the eighth arcadia with many members of the old arcadia present to assist the new men former arcadian buell miller pointed out that the program had fallen through four years ago when only seven people showed up for one of the meetings he also said that leadership is an intangible quality that cannot be taught and that he would hate to see the new arcadians undertake such a project and receive bad pub licity another former arcadian francis j flynn invited the new men to a meeting with four faculty members to discuss the revamping of the fa culty evaluation program ralph hamilton announced that petitions for the 16-man committee must be returned by march 26 they are now available in the arcadia office new arcadian dave sidikman outlined idc's new plan under which the grounds and stair ways in the various dorms are under the care of the janitors philip b woodroofe director of residence halls will now con trol the dorms they were for merly under the jurisdiction of the department of buildings and grounds hamilton also made a report from the disciplinary committee he an nounced that only one case of cheat ing had come before the group and stated that a much larger number had been reported in previous years such offenses as traffic and parking violations were also handled by the committee hamilton said but the disciplinary measures were light for violators after the meeting the members of the new and the old arcadia met to discuss the functions of the officers a party at theta chi fraternity com pleted the evening's events and a question and answer session was held there to assist the new men work on the new addition to fritz lab continues as piles to support the giant testing machine are driven into south mountain the clam shell in the background is scooping dirt which is being used for the taylor parking lot generally fair and cold weather is the weatherman's outlook for to night and tomor row with a slowly rising trend in temperature ex pected through saturday rain or snow totaling be tween 1 and 3 of an inch will fall saturday or sunday temperatures will be two to five degrees below normal through saturday tonight's low between 15 and 26 degrees bloodmobile wed ., thurs urge walk ins students who have not signed their pledge cards are urged to walk in and donate their blood when the two bloodmobiles are in operation from 11 a.m to 4:30 p.m both tomor row and thursday those who have returned their pledge cards are urged to be on time for their ap pointments approximately 600 members of the lehigh family have al ready turned in their pledge cards students under 21 must have a permission card signed by their parents and these are still available in the admissions office those under 21 must pre sent this card at the time of do nation those who cannot keep their ap pointments because of illness or other reasons are requested to no tify the red cross a list of instruc tions regarding eating have been sent to the blood donors by the red cross progress good on fritz labs new addition construction of the new addition to fritz lab is making steady pro gress according to samuel errera engineer of tests and an associate of the project upon completion the structure will be occupied by the civil engineering department the north side mezzanne is expected to be completed soon and offices will be moved there after the south wing of the building is vacated it will be dismantled so that steel ties may be erected connecting the two buildings the wall between them will then be razed com pletion of the pit for the new testing machine is scheduled for april 15 when the erection of the structural steel will begin original plans provided for a six or seven-foot foundation in the area near the powerhouse but the ground was found unfavorable for support ing the roof columns creating the necessity of sinking piles of from 4c to 60 feet in length to support them sheet piles have been sunk around the portion of the building that will see fritz lab page 6 volume 65 — number 33 tuesday march 16 1954 l u bethlehem pa roberts dance to mark if-iesta engineer jim mahoney up-ends top-seeded dick lemyre of perm state in the championship match of the 130-pound classification at the eastern intercollegiate wrestling tourney at cornell last weekend mahoney lost on a decision 6-2 pitt cops mat title state 2nd lu 3rd by dan klein sophs elect new chiefs george sommer george sommer mister roberts and billy kreachmer will be the principal characters in the annual ifc fiesta which will take place this weekend sommer and his band will play for the dancing at the monte carlo dance at grace hall on saturday night and ken verostick under the guise of mister roberts will guide the good ship ak-601 in the m&c :: x s " *- — s&9 i perf ormance bef ore the dance kreachmer will jam with his five piece dixieland combo in a two-and a-half hour afternoon session at the chor starting at 2 p.m saturday the cost of the three-show pack age is 3 on friday night members of ifc will meet in various fraternity houses for discussions pertaining to fraternity business the house presi dents will adjourn to sigma phi for a meeting and dinner there at 5:30 p.m the treasurers of the houses will meet for dinner and discussion at alpha tau omega at 5:45 other din ner meetings will take place at pi kappa alpha for the rushing chair men and at phi sigma kappa for the chapter stewards the annual pledge banquet takes place friday at 6:15 p.m at bethlehem's masonic temple the highlight of the saturday night dance will be the casino set up on the lower floor the student who is able to garner the highest amount of winnings throughout the evening will receive a valuable prize from ifc the money's of the stage varie ty by the way mister roberts opens friday because both preston seidel pres ident of the sophomore class and his successor al mercer were unable to remain at lehigh a revamping of officers was necessitated at the last meeting with the result that former secretary duncan aspinwall is the new president of the class treasurer dave walton as sumed the duties of vice-presi dent while chet page was elect ed secretary to replace aspin wall in addition vie potter and dick cogswell were elected to an executive committee con taining the three officers which will run the cabinet discussion of the junior leadership program originated by the class of 55 was put off until a later date the plan of the present junior class is to have the program co-sponsored annually by arcadia and each suc cessive junior class brown and white