Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 21

              the college of business adminis tration has a new home yesterday the business college completed its move into the completely renovated drown hall redone at a cost of 300,000 the fifty-year-old landmark has been transformed from the old student activities center into a modern building housing offices classrooms and laboratories for the 31 faculty members and 620 students in the business college as rebuilt the basement level of the building which formerly con tained the offices of the student publications and radio station now has six classrooms and a seminar room a feature of the largest class room is a 14 by 4 foot mirror-vision window which permits observation in one direction only this will be used for the critique of practice teaching the first floor formerly contain ing the student lounge and activities rooms now provides office space for dr allen dean of the college of business administration and seven departmental offices it also features a reading room and three class rooms the second and third floors now provide a lecture hall four class rooms a statistics lab and seventeen see drown hall page 6 teris et artibus medal from king gustav adolf japan's yukosho med al presented to her by the emporor and finland's esteemed order of the white rose and marshall manner heim medal other decorations were conferred by haiti liberia france and the philippines in the united states miss an derson was the recipient of 10 honorary degrees from universi ties and colleges five of these were conferred last summer by st mary's college ind virginia state college morgan state col lege md rutgers university and the university of rochester see anderson page 5 b&w petitions now available all students desiring positions on the brown and white executive editorial or business staffs for the spring semester should submit ap plication today or tomorrow anyone not on probation is elig ible return all applications to the journalism office university center basement east wing marian anderson world famous american negro contralto will star in a student concerts-lectures ser ies program on jan 1 the perform ance is slated for 8 p.m in grace hall miss anderson recently re turned from a 10-week tour of india and the far east under sponsorship of the international exchange program of the anta and the u.s state department born in philadelphia miss an derson has appeared in nearly 1,500 auditoriums in 500 cities since she launched her singing career in 1935 she has performed three times in the white house and in great brit ain has appeared in command per formances before king george and queen elizabeth the singer is among the most hon ored performers in the world she was the recipient of sweden's lit davidson jerome m edwards j richard gaintner donald c garaventi bruce t gilbert walter p grabowski joseph m gratto richard m harris thomas j healy john m hobby robert m holcombe douglas j kirn francis j mc michael john m mimnaugh robert e meyers william d norlander also walter c pijawka robert a roepke ralph j scalso william j scarlett 111 james h shea curtis l shollenburger george s steward llewellyn r wililams charles c tillinghast 111 alfred rogers jr alfred f meyers j daniel nolan william h helfrich and r thomas shaver a committee of cyanide composed of paul podgurski chairman dave webb al moore jim swenson and paul prestia made the selections from a list of seniors the qualifica tions were 3.00 average or better omicron delta kappa important po sitions in campus activities or excel lence in intercollegiate sports 105,300 subscribed renovation of christmas-saucon hall original building of the campus at a cost of 35,000 has been author ized by the board of trustees the remodeled facilities will provide new headquarters for the department of mathematics of which dr george e raynor is head in announcing plans for the reno vation work elmer w glick uni versity treasurer said that the pres ent mathematics building a wartime one-story frame structure will be demolished andrew w litzenberger univer sity supervising architect said today that six additional offices a class room four additional placement in terviewing rooms an occupational reference library and a storage room will become available when space is reclaimed in the basement of the historic building the project is part of the uni versity's modernization of plant see math page 9 next b&w issue tuesday feb 4 this is the last issue of the brown and white this semester the next issue will appear on feb 4 dead line for all material to be used in this issue is 2 p.m sunday feb 2 all material for future issues should be brought to the editorial offices in the basement of the uni versity center with 105,300 already subscribed to the class memorial gift plan the class of 58 is rapidly approaching a record set by the drive of the class of 53 it was revealed at a meeting of the gift committee yesterday with nearly 63 per cent of the class already signed co-chair men joe gratto and pete biehl stated yesterday that the record should be broken this week and that the goal of 150,000 was not out of sight by any means although there will be no more concentrated selling efforts by the 100 seniors charged with the insur ance sales those students who were overlooked or undecided about the plan will be contacted during the first week of the spring semester paul franz assistant to the presi dent expressed confidence at yes terday's meeting that the 150,000 goal will be reached he said that the 351 applications received had set a record for this stage of the cam paign competition between the 13 solicitation teams has been close since president martin d whit aker opened the drive a month ago the team captained by senior class president charlie tillinghast is presently leading the race for sales team captains for the drive are steve beech tom cuddback don garaventi tom gott dick harris bill helfrich jack hobby john mimnaugh bill scralett steve sel tzer curt shollenberger ned voss and tillinghast the plan calls for each senior to sign a 20-year endowment life in surance policy for 300 at an annual cost of 14 the fund is to be turned over to the university at the 20th reunion of the class the gift of the class of 38 first class to subscribe to the plan will be donated to the university at the classes 20th reunion next spring marian anderson un 6-0331 vol 69 — no 21 delayed eating plan will definitely begin tuesday january 7 1958 business staff completes move to drown hall cheese please — deans parr and allan gaze contemplatively around new offices in university center and drown hall college of business administration is now located in drown both moving projects took place during christmas vacation 32 seniors elected to who's who tuesday january 28 has been established as the opening date for the university center dining service the evening meal that day will in augurate the eating plan under the management of university officials and m w wood inc although most of the decisions pertaining to dining service operation have been made final details have not yet been completed when the final plan is decided upon a letter will be sent to all residence hall men outlining the operation the letter will be written during the exam period the dining service sub-committee of the university center committee has agreed on the following details 1 all residence halls students will be required to participate in the plan freshman will be required to purchase 21 meals per week while upperclassmen will have a choice of 15 17 or 21 meals 2 students will sit at six and eight man tables student waiters and headwaiters will serve the food trays will be carried from the tables by the students and placed on subveyors where they will be carried to washing areas 3 for the first few weeks all meals will be served cafeteria style after the plant is organized all evening meals will be served family style except on monday and saturday when they will be cafeteria style 4 freshmen will eat lunch at 11 a.m and dinner at 5:15 p.m upper classmen will dine at noon and 6:15 p.m these times are not definate nor are the breakfast hours 5 coat and tie will be required dress at all evening meals starting with the first night military uniforms will also be acceptable 6 the snack bar will be open from 8 a.m to midnight the asa packer room will not be completed until later in the semester when open it will be available for students and faculty members see meal page 9 scl to present marian anderson thirty-two seniors have been se letced to represent lehigh in who's who among student in american universities and colleges for the 1957-58 academic year chosen were harry d biehl robert e bollinger james s trustees plan c-s remodeling lehigh university brown and white