Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 23

              wright larson boyce young graves myers shively tillinghast seltzer gratto podgursky vol 68 — no 23 brenan friday dec 14 1956 un 6-0331 mimnaugh 2 met stars sing for scl at 8 p.m glagow joseph m gratto 58 received 167 first place votes believed to be the largest number in the history of arcadia to gain election along with paul podgursky 59 with 100 votes and douglas kirn 58 85 votes on the first count only 1,163 students cast votes seventy-four votes were required to gain election and gratto's 167 votes gave him 93 extra points this 43 per cent vote of the student body was the lowest nerrpnt.ai?p in the 11 years of voting for ar cadia it represents a drop of 24 per cent from the high of 67 pei cent in 1952 dennis brenan 59 was elected or the second elimination bruce lar son 59 on the third stephen seltzer on the sixth and charlie tillinghast on the ninth alfred myers 58 and john shively 58 gained the neces sary 74 votes on the 10th ballot the remaining six candidates in the running were declared ar cadians to fill out the 15-man roster they were dean boyce 58 hugh glasgow 59 kenneth graves 58 john mimnaugh 58 larry wright 59 and ernest young 59 fraternities dominated the elec tion numerically of the 15 elected members nine are from the greeks five men represent the residence halls and podgursky is a town man robert griffin 59 was disquali fied for failing to turn in a report of his campaign expenses candidates eliminated were b brittain adams and robert draper both 59 and byron henry sheldon holzer and joseph muscarelle all 58 last b&w with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until jan 8 christmas vacation be gins after classes next wednes day and classes resume on jan 3 deadline for notices and ad vertising for the jan 8 issue will be sunday jan 6 jolly old saint modern era dawns santa not far behind placed by goodies for good children claramae turner and herva nelli two of the metropolitan opera's brightest stars will appear tonight at 8 in grace hall in the third stu dent concerts-lectures series pre sentation of the 1956-57 season miss turner is perhaps best known for her creation of the title role in gian-carlo menotti's the medium she will sing the monologue from the men otti work tonight california born miss turner be gan her career as a chorister with the san francisco opera and ap by bob grinchuk the present supersonic age has dulled none of the christmas tra ditions only quickened the r tempo santa claus now arrives in a rocket si nstead of the old-fash ioned reindeer-drawn sleigh the legend of santa claus is based on the deeds of a real myra during the reign of em peror diocletian nicholas like most early christians was tor tured and imprisoned until more tolerant constantine took ihe st nicholas no stickler whenw came to being selected as a patron saint was chosen patron saint of russia greece and certain euro pean cities and more or less the guardian of maidens children nierj chants and sailors he alsollß&*i!n'e dubious distinction of being patron saint to the pawnbrokers one legend explains how he be came guardian of maidens and patron of pawnbrokers at the same time a certain poor nobleman it is said had three daughters of mar ital age but he was too poor to pro vide a suitable dowry st nicholas who did not approve of spinsters solved the problem by throwing bridge-player bond booted from arcadia by john mimnaugh last night another arcadian bit the dust nelson l bond 57 will now have more time to play bridge in citing bond as a severe in fractor of arcadia attendance rules mahlon b simon 57 noted that bond has missed eight 44.4 per cent of arcadia's 18 meetings this year simon said bond missed arcadia's last meeting because he was attend ing a bridge club meeting if play ing a game of bridge means that much more to him than arcadia simon said let him play bridge every week arcadia passed 7 for 1 against and 2 abstaining a mo tion by simon that bond's seat be vacated the seat will not be filled because the 10th arcadia has only one meeting left at last night's meeting the organization moved to pass on to the 11th arcadia which takes office in january a proposal for the revision of arcadia election procedures made by arnold rosenberg 57 this proposal is a revision of a prior proposal made by rosenberg the new proposal is similar to the other rosenberg bill in that it pro vides for eight of arcadia's mem bers to be chosen from certain stu dent groups including 1.f.0 r.h.c town council publications musical groups drama and debating relig ious groups and a candidate from o.d.k cyanide a.p.o or brown see revision page 13 horseshoe in new york city for five years she has since come to be one of the met's manistays and is the versatile mistress of 75 major contralto roles versatility of her talent was dem onstrated by her fine portrayal of aunt nettie in the 20th century fox cinamascope production of carousel herva nelli star of opera con . cert radio and recordings is celebrated as the toscanini soprano she worked exten sively with the great conductor both in his nbc symphony concerts and on tour from 1947 until his retirement last spring in a european tour she was in troduced by the maestro at la scala in milan which is regai'ded by music lovers as the opera capital of the world miss nelli came to the united states from florence italy with her parents at the age of 12 the re mainder of her early years were spent in pittsburgh where she re ceived her training hotson pleases 400 at scl by walter grabowsky introduced as the most serendipit ous individual on the face of the earth dr j leslie hotson noted for his literary research delighted an audience of about 400—mostly stu dents and faculty memers in pack ard auditorium last night with quotes stories and anecdotes drawn from his experience in literary de tecting dr hotson suggested that his greatest problem in writing about his literary discoveries is to make the reader feel as ex cited about his finds as he is in discovering them 4^taa he emphasized the ct^wmjm ground between english arm|yilj gineering two fields poles bjf§pjffll see dr hotson's page^b joint choirs to sing xmas music sunday see 4 gloria page 9 candles greens and 130 voices from cedar crest and lehigh will fill packer church with christmas music at 4 p.m sunday as the an nual christmas vespers usher in the holiday season the chapel will be the scene of much activity tomorrow also as a decorating party takes place eight cedar crest femmes and eight lehigh men will trim the chapel with five huge christmas trees and many ever green boughs candles carried in the procession sunday will complete the holiday atmos phere four choruses from antonio viv aldi's gloria will highlight the afternoon with both choirs joining together under the direction of wilbur hollman conductor of the cedar crest group robert cutler director of the lehigh glee club and 57 epitome production way ahead of schedule all records for progress in the production of the epitome have been broken by this year's staff accord ing to arnold rosenberg editor seventy per cent of the pic tures have been turned in to the engraver and 50 per cent or the copy will be ready for fhe printer by christmas vacation all the senior pictures have been taken and the senior writeups are expected to be completed by christ mas also mahlon b simon jr business see yearbook page 12 lehigh university brown and white gratto kirn podgursky top arcadia roster kim three bags of gold into an open window at the rate of one bag per niaht on the third night the noble wm caught to the act but mod<&tvftjriipjus made him promise to ti&profn/of the deed in european countries the jolly old elf we know as santa claus is still called st nicholas the euro peon counterpart has no sleigh or reindeer but instead a gray horse or white ass who has a passion for carrots potatoes and oats these nikolaas to america when they settled new amsterdam the ft name change and change in the old man becomes more mod in for a rocket ship or another sundry mode of travel for all this commercialization ch r ife tm a s wouldn't be christmas without him he's been with us for ae past thousand years and he'll probably be with us for the next thousand viva la santa claus