Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 2

              by 808 walters band glee club open season with joint concert saturday lowed by bergsma's march with trumpets richard jones 62 baritone soloist will star in the first group of num bers by the glee club jones will sing humble a negro spiritual arranged by m bartholomew lavs deo by robin milford five italian mountain songs arranged by a dr joseph kaplan prominent in the fields of physics and meteorology dr kaplan re ceived a doctorate from johns hop kins in 1927 he has been associated with princeton and ucla where he heads the physics department the speaker has served as head of the operations analysis section of the air weather service during world war ii and was on the air force scientific advisory board opening the 1958-59 music season the lehigh band and glee club will present a joint concert in grace hall at 8:15 p.m saturday of 110 members in the con cert band 40 are freshmen the glee club comprised of 75 mem bers contain 25 men of 62 in its ranks all members of the music groups traveled to a four-day music camp at pocono pines on sept 18 prof robert cutler director of music commented that the songsters learned more music at camp this year than ever before the groups offered a preview of their concert at pocono crest casino on sept 21 according to donald foster student director of the glee club the pocono concert was highly successful beginning the saturday pro gram the band will play march indepentia by r b hall fol topping named rhc president richard e topping j's9 was elected president of residence halls council at a special meeting wed nesday evening in the university center topping succeeds james w clarke jr in other actions rho set feb 14 as the tentative date for rhc week end and accepted the resignation of see taylor page 4 perdotti and l pigarelli drinking song by r vaughan williams and two other spirituals the band will continue with march rolling thunder by h fill more the forty niners by g mc kay king cotton by j p sousa and overture to the music man stephen walton 59 will serve as student conductor directing the traditional lehigh songs next the glee club will render three songs of yesteryear arranged by hunter and shaw and love's old sweet song starring joseph pit tenger 61 also on the program are the mermaid arranged by kurt weill and songs of lehigh which will be directed by donald foster student conductor closing the concert the two groups will present entrance and march of the peers by sullivan and the alma mater tickets available from any band member cost 75 cents a tie or a loss was not what we wanted was how leckonby ex plained his gamble we wanted to win that game and that's what we went after in our point-after-touch down try nelson a member of the ncaa football rules committee last year is one of the authors of the revised point-after-touchdown rule he is one of the few coaches in the coun try who has not outspokenly criti cized it the bitterly contested game played on rain-soaked taylor field gave leckonby his first home victory over the blue hens rebounding from a seven point halftime disadvantage the engineers drove 58 yards in 15 plays for the touchdown and then gambled for two extra points where delaware had settled for one heavy rains during the morning accounted for the muddy field a small crowd and six fumbles after receiving the kickoff lehigh quar terback scheu 5 fumbled on the first play delaware lost the ball on downs in their first series as did lehigh in the next series stopped only in ches from a first down a sloppy field and a series of fumbles forced the ball to change hands several times during the remainder of the first quarter and the beginning of the second delaware's touchdown drive late in the second quarter came when lauretti fumbled on the see scheu page 8 founder's day features catton vol 70 — no 2 bethlehem pa tuesday september 30 1958 un 6-0331 engineers nip delaware 8-7 leck points to rutgers game deflav'is set up td with run lehigh university brown and white igy chairman kaplan speaks tomorrow night results of the activities under taken during the international geo physical year will be the topic of the lecture by igy chairman dr joseph kaplan in packard lab audi torium tomorrow at 8 p.m dr kaplan will speak on the efforts of his fellow scientists to study weather conditions cosmic radiation and the satellite pro gram he is the first guest of the current cooperative lecture series bruce catton internationally known author and pulitzer prize win ner will speak at the founder's day ceremonies sunday oct 12 in pack er memorial church on founder's day degrees will be presented to graduates of the summer session and awards will go to outstanding undergraduates catton a journalist historian and top authority on the civil war is best known as the editor of american heritage magazine a post which he has held since 1954 the author of the best-selling this hallowed ground was born in 1899 in petoskey mich a resort town on lake michigan's eastern shore after attending benzonia academy a small preparatory school headed by his father catton en rolled at oberlin college world war i interrupted his college career and catton served as a gunner's mate third-class after the war he returned to oberlin but left before gradua tion pulitzer prize-winner catton holds honorary degrees of doctor of lit erature from oberlin the university of maryland wesleyan university dickinson college olivet college harvard university and michigan university in addition he holds a doctor of civil laws degree from union college and a doctor of laws degree from illinois college presently residing in manhattan catton began his career as a reporter for the cleveland news the boston american and the cleveland plain dealer from 1920 to 1926 this see author page 4 a tall one — lehigh's star end bud wenzel reaches high to pull in a pass during the first quarter of saturday's game statistics d i first downs 8 10 rushing yardage 108 99 passing yardage 29 55 passes 4-8 4-9 passes intercepted by 1 0 punts 6-40.5 6.40.7 fumbles lost 1 3 yards penalized 36 30 coach bill leckonby in a third period gamble sent quarterback bob scheu driving around left end for two points after touchdown in saturday's game — enough to provide lehigh with a margin of victory over highly favored delaware and to hand coach dave nelson a defeat due to a rule change which he co authored leckonby who coached the team through its flying start in defense of the lambert cup called the 8-7 win a key vic tory but still looks forward to his two toughest games — rutgers and vmi contribute now to campus chest