Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 18

              president martin d whitaker faculty astonished post-holiday cuts sparse with most students returning for classes on friday and saturday fol lowing thanksgiving surprised faculty members reported a low absentee rate on these two days when wholesale cutting was expected many departments reported very few absenses with some re porting none dr robert s sprague of the chemistry department commented that there were more students than usual in class he went on to say that it was partially explained by students switching classes and lab sections for make-ups in the friday chemistry 4 lecture every seat was filled as compared to the usual two-thirds attendance however on saturday only half the lecture hall was filled commenting on this dr sprague said the amount absent was certainly not as much as expected a few just plain see few page 3 arcadia elections open mon seniors kick off gift campaign set 2 marks first night 28 hopefuls to compete for 7 posts friday dec 5 1958 bethlehem pa seniors kicked off their class gift campaign in record fashion tuesday night at a dinner in the asa packer room of the university center some 107 members of the class — the largest number of workers ever assembled for a campaign — heard eugene mercy gift com mittee chairman outline the drive which will close dec 20 at the end of the formal program the 107 signed up for class insur ance themselves then chose the names of the classmates whom they will solicit to also enroll in the spec ial 20-year college endowment plan paul franz assistant to the presi dent told the brown and white that for the first time since class gift insurance was inaugurated in 1938 every senior was chosen for solici tation by some member of the cam paign committee in other years some 25 to 50 members were left after workers had picked the per sons they would contact president martin d whitaker principal speaker at the dinner thanked the students present for their part in this program which can only lead to a better lehigh he told them that they have seen in a span of little more than three years something of the change that must go on constantly in order for a univeristy to live grow and work by joe varilla vol 70 — no 18 get em while they re hot members of the class gift plan committee cluster around table to sign up for class insurance before visit ing seniors in their living groups the committee hopes to have the com plete class included in the plan track co-capt dies after auto mishap see whitaker page 12 lv railroad petitions to drop service to n.y in less than four months many lehigh students and dates who have been dependent on the lehigh val ley railroad may have to find an other method of transportation to and from the university c a major president of le high valley this week an nounced plans to file a petition with the interstate commerce commission requesting permis sion to drop all passenger serv ice to students and dates from new york and parts of new jersey the lehigh valley is the only direct rail link to the university on weekends students and dates make up a large part of the crowd getting on and off the train many girls who attend college in new york find that the lehigh valley is the only convenient way to get here for a wekend the scene of a lehigh student kissing a date good by before she embarks on a lvrr train is a familiar one at the beth lehem station the main line of the lehigh valley runs from new york to buffalo and the canadian border see lvrr page 5 walter ernst appointed frosh class president twenty-eight candidates will seek seven positions on the 13th arcadia as student government elections be gin monday ballots can be cast until 5 p.m wednesday seventeen sophomores and 11 juniors are running for the seven vacant posts this year as compared to six sophomores and 13 juniors last year thirty-nine aspirants took out petitions for the arcadia nomination last month all but 10 returned the forms with the required 30 signa tures one candidate albert meier reconsidered and decided not to seek office after returning a petition candidates are howard anton 60 brian - bauknight 61 guy berger 61 michael cook 60 john dannen hower j 6l william eberhart 60 douglas edwards 61 toby james 61 otis johnson 60 george kane 61 sander levy 61 roy martins 61 john mc garry 61 robert mcgovern 60 harry mcnally 60 philip mcnally 61 john minsker 61 william mountain 60 james rhoads 61 james robertson 61 john roglieri 60 larry rus sell 60 maurice shaw 60 richard shulman 61 donald smith 61 john talucci 61 donald veglia 61 and harry watkins 61 although 15 posts become vacant each year only seven are directly elected by the students under the hare system of proportional repre sentation eight have been appoint ed to the 13th arcadia by various campus groups following are the names of the groups and their recently chosen representatives music william clarke 60 drama brian skyrms 60 publications robert walters 60 religious myron olstein 60 honoraries alfred moore 60 ifc william horton 60 rhc jack bran ning 60 and tc john daniel 60 ballot boxes will be located in packard lab christmas-saucon hall drawn hall and at the south door of the university center near the supply bureau his fiancee heddy broughan er 20 of union n.j who was riding with him at the time was treated for shock at the same hospital then released walker suffered a laceration above the right eye abrasions of the right knee and shock he was admitted see krehbiel page 4 fred krehbiel industrial engin eering senior who died tuesday afternoon from injuries sustained in an automobile accident sunday was buried this afternoon from an eliza beth n.j funeral home interment was in a staten island n.y ceme tery the engineer cross-country captain and co-captain-elect of the track squad suffered a frac tured skull and a brain concus sion when he was thrown from his car after it was struck on rear half of the left side by an auto operated by sam walker 26 of avenel n.j the mishap occurred about 1:30 a.m sunday on r 1 in avenel about three-quarters of a mile south of the cloverleaf bridge on the six-lane super highway krehbiel was rushed to the perth amboy n.j general hospital where sufgeons worked for 3 hours in an attempt to remove a blood clot from his brain he didn't regain consciousness before he died tues day at 2:50 p.m brown and white dravo house president walter ernst was elected president of the freshman class by the class cabinet at a dinner meeting nov 25 also elected were peter gratto vice-president john krupnick treasurer and melvyn roth secretary at last tuesday's frosh cabinet meeting ernst outlined his program for the rest of the year under the new program the cabinet will meet once a month at din ner regular items of business will be handled by an executive com mittee ¦ • - .-•••¦ the executive committee which will be made up of the class officers the frosh house presidents and one town man will discuss all items of business and report to the cabinet on those items which cabinet decides to take action on ernst also formed class social and treasurer's committees grat to will head the social committee consisting of art pepperman clark schier steve shaub john dyke and henry brubaker the treasurer's committee includes john krupnick chairman james rice ken gelbard warren lewis tom lytle larry woods and herb ehlers ernst dissolved the lafayette week committees and the rhc com mittee explaining that the executive committee would handle all future matters concerning rhc fftgsh leaders newiy elected officers are seated left to right walter ernst president peter gratto vice-president standing melvyn roth secretary john krupnick treasurer see centerfold for candidate dafa pictures