Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 9

              by bob cochnar with music in the air and that aura of excitement around some 900 lehigh men and a like number of dates the 1958 edition of house party hits the campus at 4 this af ternoon with a tremorous cre scendo the weekend's theme an affair in music will provide melodious overtones to the syn copated affair from the limb ec kian cool school to the swing ing rhythms of lawrence and the round sounds of gillespie houseparty will be a potpourri of melody before the two-day composition tuned up music was the magic worod the squishing sounds of pledge-manned chamois on frater nity windows the tinkling of cock tail glasses in the dishpan and the steady hum of vacuum cleaners on dusty carpets are preludes to the majestic symphony known as houseparty hp has had its ups and downs its cancellations its revisions its disappointments but the by-product was and still is the same — a helluva good time dates will storm south moun tain beginning at 4 after which fraternities and residence halls will host their collective dates to dinner cocktails will be served before the friday night repast sufficient time will be provided to clear one's mind of all bell-clang ing and brassy pounding due to the overindulgence of beverages not necessarily coca-cola piece de resistance of the week see hp page 3 elliot lawrence earps , monsters , playboys fraternities spot rock n roll dave brubeck hillbillies will dominate the scene at alpha sigma phi's hillbilly holiday dixie jazz will be provided by the charles santly band sigma alpha mv will sponsor a mexican party with the azteca club band wardell stewart and the will have a tyrolean party with the dixie tunes of the villanovans a near-philadelphia group a large german swastika flag will announce the nazi youth rally at sigma chi amandus muthard will play for the occasion which will terminate in a bund crazy cats will offer the music for the festivities wyatt earp sets the style for the dodge city party presented by al pha tau omega rock n roll rendered by jimmy cook and the preachers will echo through dodge city hotel the wild west also provides the theme for lambda chi al pha's gala affair merrymakers will dance to the music of louis fisher and the dixieland five gallows on the roof of tau delta phi will mark the home of the dracula drag tony tyock's five piece band will offer progressive jazz sigma phi epsilon plans a charles addams monster rally to the music of the sam marino quar tet playboy parties are scheduled by four fraterinties with their themes built around the na tional magazine official pho tographers representing the magazine will attend phi delta theta broothers and see playboy page 3 careful now artists frank duckworth and paul meier work hard on sigma nu's saturday night party decorations it's a viking shield ' •- ! by george keiser and frank copeland with the pouring o the first cocktail this evening fall house party 58 will unofficially begin in fraternities an.d residence halls although the cocktail and champagne parties will be pri vate affairs residence halls and fraternities will welcome all visitors to their parties tomor row evening varied themes old and new will be used for the parties during the weekend festivities the nassau jazz band will pro vide music for kappa sigma's ba varian beer party in their interior biergarten from the female guests dressed bavarian style the kappa sigma sweetheart will be chosen another german beer party at kappa alpha will feature eddie nasters band the german alps beer garden will resound with dixieland jazz outfitted in swiss alpine dress phi sigma kappas and their guests matt gillespie lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 24 1958 un 6-0331 music tonight vol 70 — no 9 weekend officially starts at 4