Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 45

              see hilburn page 3 faac to meet tomorrow the fraternity alumni advisory council will meet tomorrow morn ing in the university center the membership of the coun cil will meet at 8:45 a.m for coffee after which they will re tire to various meeting rooms to conduct committee sessions the committee sessions will be followed by a report to the entire membership at 11:15 a.m gin at 8 p.m tomorrow in grace hall slaughter on tenth avenue will feature bruce snyder j 6o as piano soloist and james gor man 59 will solo on the trumpet in the performance of la virgen de la marcarena one of the featured numbers of the evening will be fanfare and march transcribed from the original score by elkus for the concert band inter-living group song contest finals will see beta theta phi phi sigma kappa and leonard hall competing for the bronze cup awarded by the new york lehigh club the student dining plan survey has proved to be an unequivocal success judging by the comments made by associate dean preston parr chair man of the dining services sub-committee and resident manager wilbur blew definite changes will be made in the present dining system students took the matter seriously parr stated and in view of the fact that the survey was responsibly answered the committee will review the results to de ' termine which of the sugges tions are feasible and forward a recommendation to appro priate university officers dining manager blew thought th service to be very helpful it has given me a lot of information h said i am happy to know that the student body has their thoughts to gether he continued i try tc please the majority the dining service question aire disclosed that most students did not like the plan's hard soft-boiled eggs we did a see warm page 3 best stunt of year air force firemen et al battle swastika by joe varilla a spokesman for the small number of students who raised a german swastika for wednesday's flag pole day ceremonies boasted yesterday to the brown and white that the prank was the best stunt of the year a large number of faculty members with a strange craving for anonymity agreed — along with 2,674 students the spokesman also with the strange craving said the flag-raising exercises took about 20 minutes three air force sergeants two city electricians and a hook and ladder crew from bethlehem's victory fire company were foiled for more than three hours in attempts to take it down the small number made sure it wouldn't come down easily the spokesman said a wire coat hanger attached to the rope only let the flag go up but wouldn't let it come down the three air force sergeants headed by sgt hugh rogers discovered the flag when they at tempted to raise the american flag at 7:40 a.m thinking the swastika was merely stuck they just pulled harder the rope broke and the sergeants went reeling the problem was then referred by charles whitey anderko foreman of the buildings and grounds crew to prof john s steckbeck emcee of see but page 4 the breakers — these air force sergeants get tangled in flagpole rope after they broke it it wasn't that frustrating capturing a flag in world war ii one of them was heard to mumble cyanide takes 15 at smoker fifteen new members of cyanide today take over the duties of help ing integrate the next freshman class into the lehigh way of life initiated at the smoker last wednesday were bob smiley herman lebersfeld alan segal john kiley bill horton stroud connor george kurtossy wight martindale harry mcnally tom gilhool bruce snyder bill brainerd peter niiler john roglieri and bill mountain s : : : :- ¦¦;¦::.;: ¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦: v-x-xx : x : >: ¦<¦>¦<¦¦¦:• .¦¦¦:¦:¦:¦: mfffi broken rope — ger man flag flies from flag pole above rope broken in attempt to pull down flag un 6-0331 73 honored flagpole day 1,000 watch friday may 16 1958 vol 69 — no 45 dance picnic will highlight senior weekend eugene gifford grace pops concert saturday is completely sold out there was no flag and no epitome but 1,000 viewed traditional flag pole ceremonies wednesday joe gratto received the coveted bosey reiter leadership cup at the festivities kept in a light mood by prof john s steckbeck and dean wray h congdon the brown key society presented its new trophy for the out standing athlete of the year to dan nolan robert croneberger and richard gaintner shared the dean's service award at the arcadia sponsored proceedings thirty-eight dignitaries needed barely 30 minutes to make the 23 pre sentations at the ceremonies spiced by renditions by the band and glee club , tf larry wright president of arcadia told the onlookers that competi tion for most of the awards was extremely stiff charles tillinghast then passed the senior cane to newly elected senior class president carl schier in traditional ceremony duplication of awards in such sports as football and wrestling en abled the awards committee to escape difficult decisions dick san toro and joe gratto both received recognition for their wrestling achievement while dan nolan and walt pijawka shared the pat pazzetti football trophy track and cross-country cita tions were presented to bruce gilbert murray randall nor man rumpf and john hark rader the sailing club trophy went to edmund rhoad the outstanding fencer award from the cut and thrust society was awarded to edward schaufler martin maloney and brian mchugh copped the swimming prizes dick hoogstraten and fred hom sher shared the baseball trophies while amis balgalvis tom healy see croneberger page 5 lehigh's social season will be brought to a traditional close with the presentation of the annual pops concert by the concert band conducted by jonathan elkus com pletely sold out the concert will be eugene gifford grace is dedicatee of 58 epitome yearbook due senior weekend the 1958 epitome dedicated to eugene gifford grace will be dis tributed to members of the senior class during senior weekend — june 7 through 9 grace member of the class of 1899 is honorary chairman of bethlehem steel company and lehigh univeristy's board of trustees the dedication reads as follows eugene gifford grace symbolizes the man an aspiring lehigh grad uate pictures himself at the pinnacle of his career if one wishes to cast his life in this mold he must be cognizant of a guiding principle of the dedicatee that rich satisfaction is derived from service that benefits one's fellow man for 34 years eugene grace served as a trustee of lehigh and always gave unstintingly of his vast energy in behalf of community ac tivities he has been a stabilizing in fluence in industry and an active advocate of expanding educational horizons it is in recognition of his contributions to his community to industry to education and most of all to lehigh university that the 1958 epitome is dedi cated to eugene gifford grace members of the senior class will be the first and only students to re see grace page 8 blew dean parr pledges definite changes in plan two important events for the class of 1958 — graduation day and senior weekend — are rapidly approaching activities for the senior week end will start at 1 p.m saturday june 7 with a combination pic nic and clambake the outing to be held in hunsick er's grove will be literally a three ring circus music is to be supplied by three groups dixieland rock n roll and a rag time pianist beer softball and swimming will highlight the afternoon which is slated to last until 6 p.m a choice of lobster tail or chicken will be provided at 5 p.m saturday evening the dress as well as the scene will change — swim suits to tuxedos and form als the natural scenic beauty of a lake to the luxuriousness of the main ballroom hotel beth lehem mark hilburn will provide the background music for the gradua tion formal dance the faculty guests of the senior class during the afternoon picnic will again be hosted by the class of 1958 a buffet supper will be served at midnight sunday june 8 is baccalaureate day for the 435 seniors services will begin at 2:30 p.m in 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