Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 7

              difficult decision — the pictured student is apparently having a difficult time deciding which of the extremely ugly candi dates will receive his monetary vote brown feathers to mark donors ugliest 1 is a gryphon a large brown feather appearing in front of the library announces this year's campus chest goal as 5000 each student will be solicited individually during the week of oct 7-12 a charity ball ticket will be given to those who contribute 3 to the drive parents are invited to attend the charity ball oct 12 in grace hall free of charge music will be provided by the collegians and along with the revival of the wishing well a king and queen will be crowned residence halls members will be contacted by the house president gifts to chest aid hungarians adding greatly to the air of friendliness and warm cordiality which will prevade the entire campus this coming weekend will be the pres ence of the faculty at all of the student activities parents are encouraged to attend the buffet luncheon on the lower floor of grace hall saturday morning at 11 where they will have an opportunity to meet and talk with faculty members attendance at both the luncheon and the football game was requested of the faculty by president martin d whitaker in a letter this week in which he emphasized the importance of the weekend in the annual cal endar and the need for greater understanding between parents and faculty those parents arriving early enough for the parents day weekend activities are invited to attend the scl program friday evening at 8 in grace hall where noted stage screen radio and tv actress clair luce will present a dramatic program students are reminded that they may bring their parents with them to classes saturday morning and that immediately after the buffet luncheon at 12:30 there will be interesting pre game activities in taylor sta dium prior to the 1:30 kick off the faculty members of the le high family will be seated among the parents and their sons in the reserved section of the stadium during the lehigh-gettysburg foot ball game as a climax to the day's activities the campus chest will present the charity ball saturday evening at 9 in grace hall where all the parents attending will be eligible to enter the contest to choose a king and queen of the ball university buildings will be open to the parents especially the alumni memorial building housing an art exhibit on the first floor and fritz engineering lab which houses the world's largest university testing machine walt grabowsky 58 has been named ugliest man on the campus this unparalleled honor came to the president of the residence hall counsellors so ciety the gryphons as a result of his piling up the most cash votes of any of the 16 contend ers in the annual ugly man con test sponsored by alpha phi omega honorary service frater nity the contest was open from mon day to saturday last week run ning immediately after grabowsky was prof donald steckbeck spon sored by beta theta pi throughout the contest many in teresting sidelights occurred a gigantic banner loudly proclaiming see grabowsky page 3 fraternity men by the ifc repre sentative and the freshmen by a delegated frosh town students will be contacted at various eating places the alumni building and packard lab donations will also be accepted in mrs moravec's office the hungarian scholarship fund will receive 25 per cent of the do nations there are at present four hungarian students at lehigh through this scholarship fund the purpose of the fund is to provide an opportunity for refugees to attend college world university service will receive 45 per cent the bethle hem community chest will re ceive 10 per cent and the march of dimes cancer fund and the heart foundation will receive a total of 5 per cent united negro college fund and the national scholarship service and fund for negro students will re ceive contributions to provide worthy negro students with a chance to attend all-negro colleges the world university service is a non political organization which provides food clothing medical aid and text books for needy students in foreign countries the service is see to name page 3 clare luce internationally known american actress will initiate the 57 r sb student concerts-lectures series with a program based on the aidous huxley essay fashions in love friday at 8:15 p.m in grace hall bliss luce is well-known in three of the world's culture cen ters — new york paris and london favorably received by drama critics miss luce has been called a very remarkable actress by brooks atkinson new yerk times critic on friday december 13 pianist johnny eaton will present a pro gram of music from classical to con cert jazz eaton a 57 princeton graduate who majored in composi tion will appear with his jazz en semble of vibraphone bass drums and flute a serious pianist arranger and composer eaton will present his three-act opera ma barker in its premier performance at princeton this season marian anderson contralto wui appear january 31 the fourth program of the season on feb 21 will highlight metropoli tan opera broadcast commentator boris goldovsky in a program of piano portraits m&c to show ist film wed all quiet on the western front will be the first opening in the cur rent mustard and cheese film series the picture will be shown tomor row at 7:30 p.m in packard lab auditorium season film tickets at 3.50 are on sale at division of speech of fice and at huff's music store individual movie tickets are 70 cents season subscription tickets for both films and plays are on sale for 5 the first play the came see ist m & c page 3 le-hi-fi is sro success every alert thinking undergrad uate who plans to make his donation to this year's campus chest nat urally wants to know what it is that he's contributing to whsrc his buck is going end who is taking his cut well here's a part of that story it was quite some time ago and many of us have probably already forgotten about it though there are some among us who never will there is a small nation in central europe — hungary is the name — which for some unfathomable rea son decided it no longer wanted to be enslaved so it rose in rebellion only to be inhumanly cut to ribbons and crushed under the heel of com munist russia a few not many of the brave people of hungary managed to escape and most of the free na tions of the world undertook to adopt these brave souls thousands were brought to amer ica and through this land are be ing given an . opportunity the first for most of them to receive educa tion earn their own living think and speak their own thoughts and live a free life foursuch individuals are now at lehigh and your campus chest is allotting 25 per cent of its fund to assist these men in see funds page 3 soph cabinet sells ivy blue blazers freshmen and sophomores are in vited to join 1 the regimented ranks of blazer wearers by the sophomore class cabinet t^he blue ivy blazers are laclornedi with the lehigh seal arid d!ass numerals with silver but tons and patch pockets price 25 representatives will contact all i'ivirtg groups'^tiis ' week sales will also take place fomdfrdw from 4 to 6 p.m in the dravti house lounge alums open drive to raise 350,000 lehigh alumni have launched their annual fund raising campaign and are striving toward a goal of 350,000 by june 1958 in a statement released wednesday to the brown and white national campaign chairman edward a curtis revealed that funds this year will be used to purchase major laboratory equipment and to make improvements and general renovations to packer memorial chapel and the alumni memorial building curtis a vice-president of the bell telephone co of new jersey and the university's alumni trustee said we can only succeed if individuals give in proportion to their ability curtis indicated that this year's committee will strive to more than doub'e the number of contributions in the 1956-57 drive this the campaign chairman said will mean in creased emphasis through the committee's personal solicitation ret ; vities in several regional picas th's fall and its organ izalian of class agents active in paul j frantz jr assistant to the university president said sunday that ecmributions received last year surpassed expectations campaigning wiih a 25350,000 goal lehigh's al umni donated 358,128 franz said that the number of contributors was 1,622 this figure he revealed was relatively low since about 5,000 al umni were meeting pledged to the packer hall drive this year j ranz continued about see curtis page 5 by john hood playing to an overflow crowd saturday night in grace hall the lehigh band directed by its new conductor jonathan elkus and the lehigh glee club led by robert cutler scored a smash hit in their opening concert of the year the concert which cutler and elkus ielt would not draw more th*n 490 persons was so well * attended that the upper half of grace hall's south bleachers had to be put in use during the first part of the program it was strictly sro as many students and their dates lined the walls waiting to be seated le-high-fi as the concert was titled was originally presented at the band and glee club's four-day pocono mountain training camp rsit edward el gar's pomp and see first page i give your campus chest $ $ $ today vo 63—no 7 tuesday oct 8 1957 faculty to join weekend events un 6-0331 student lectures to be initiated by clare luce band at work the brown and whitfc band made its lehigh debut saturday night when it presented a concert in conjunction with the glee cliib jonathan elkus director is shown putting his men through one of their lively selections