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              gilhool william eberhart hp formal — more than 500 couples dance to the harmonies of war ren covington and the dorsey band upstairs at the grace hall formal bob mcclister and the kingsmen provided continuous music for more houseparty news and photos see pages four and five hp photos by barnes sander and knoebel eberhart elected to rhc presidency fifty candidates 10 more than last year will be seeking positions as class officers during campus-wide elections next monday tuesday and wednesday bruce snyder is the only candidate for secretary of the senior class the first one man race in recent history long-time observers noted unlike previous years the vote count will be delayed until may 12 results will be announced at flagpole day exercises may 13 arcadia elections chairman john roglieri announced polls located in drown christmas-sancon packard lab and the university center and manned by members of apo assisted by arcadia associates will be open from 9 to 5 on the three election days ballots will be counted in secret by the arcadia associates assisted by the apo members incumbent tom gilhool is seeking his third term as president of the class of 60 opposed by larry russell and richard schumacher in the race for senior class treasurer stroud conner is opposed by g william mountain william ross and philip talkow john davidson is being opposed by philip mezey joseph posillico kenneth smith thomas swartz james williams and paul wright in his bid to repeat as president of the class of 61 in a two-man race for junior class treasurer charles hodge faces brian bauk night robert colonna thomas daniels joseph king robert paternoster richard shulman and edmund watters are attempting to thwart roy martin's bid to repeat as secretary of the class the race for sophomore class president finds incumbent walt ernst opposed by this year's vice-president pete gratto the present freshman treasurer jon krupnick drinker house president frans hals as well as jonathan greene john herrity ron ald johnson michael moran richard ross and michael runey running against freshman secretary malcom roth are henry brubaker james detrixhe neil epstein scott maze joseph niekoski gunther richters clark schier and carl straub the wide-open race for sophomore treasurer has been entered by russell borner robert downing robert feinstein arthur klein james morgan arthur pepperman and carl petriuo russell schumacher william f eberhart jr was elected president of residence halls council for the coming year at rhc's regular tuesday night meeting in a contested three-way battle for the presidency eberhart de feated anthony garro and john heiss for the top rhc post all candidates were juniors and residents of mcclintic-marshall house eberhart's victory came on the second ballot after he and garro had deadlocked on the first vote rhc also elected louis garfinkle vice-president for the 1959-60 year garfinkle was opposed by myron olstein henry pupke and sig mund silber albert meier was elected secretary by unanimous acclimation after running unopposed following the elections council heard dravo house president james rice declare that freshmen are still bitter toward rhc we feel that rhc is doing nothing for the freshmen outgoing president top ping took exception to the do nothing statement pointing out that rhc had provided a number of benefits for the class of 1962 rice retorted that he and others nevertheless felt that we don't thing it will be worthwhile for future freshman classes to be affil iated with rhc discussion ended with no action taken on the mat ter rhc arcadia representative jack branning accused the group of which he is president ' of doing nothing he com mented'"it's springtime and no body is doing anything council concluded its meeting with a lengthy discussion on how to levy rhc dues next year with see arcadia page 7 political implications varsity band to offer may day concert at 7 the varsity band conducted by jonathan elkus will present for the first time a may day concert tonight at 7 on the lawn outside packer memorial church the band will use the side of the church as an acoustical drop for its musical sounds inclement weather will be the only difficulty says elkus but in the event of rain the concert will be postponed to may 11 the band has been in rehearsal for several weeks and has the spirit of may day to make the concert a success added deno langis who will conduct the band in taylor stadium at the le high-lafayette baseball game may 9 the program will include george gershwin's wintergreen for president from of thee i sing and john philip sousa's marches hands acros the sea and washington post for those favoring loud brass the band will play miklos rozsa's triumphal march from the motion picture qua vadis while ferde grofe's mississippin suite overture will be presented for the quiet listener bauder named as recipient of ww award donald bauder 59 has been named as the third lehigh student to receive a woodrow wilson fel lowship for the 1959-60 academic year bauder will study english history at rutgers other stu dents wljo have received the awards are john dussinger and richard chichester designed to increase the nation's output of qualified college teachers the wilson program grants an al lowance of 1,500 to each fellow plus full cost of tuition and fees candidates come from over 700 undergraduate colleges and work at 80 different graduate schools bethlehem pa friday may 1 1959 un 6-0331 elections open mon 50 to vie for positions many people say i've been making a satisfactory living for a number of years on the troubles and triumphs of three lawyers she said mrs bowen noted legislation is very much a lawyer's business she said the continental con gress was teeming with lawyers and that even coke's parliament was loaded with lawyers in politics she believed i think we shall see lawyers with us for a long time that an american wrote a book on english common law was not only entirely logical she said but inevitable no american could read his story without an immediate sense of recognition before deliberating on her topic the university played host wednesday and thursday to a woman who grew up in lehigh's presidential mansion — catherine drinker bowen daughter of the late dr henry sturgis drinker but mrs bowen was here on business not just for old-times sake the celebrated authoress biographer came to lehigh as the phi beta kappa visiting scholar author of the popular biography of supreme court justice oliver wendell holmes yankee from olympus mrs bowen during her two-day stay spoke to several class sessions met informally with faculty and students and de livered the phi beta kappa initia tion address initiated at last night's cere catherine drinker bowen monies were r brittain adams robert m anthony stephen m bakonyi denis v brenan cyrus s cowen james g early jon alian z farber jack w pisch and beall fowler also kenneth lerche stephen v pepper theodore c rojahn robert e schwartz amiris sana donald talhelm and richard e topping at thursday night's phi beta kappa initiation address the pennsylvania-born biographer pre sented a few facts about mem bers of the legal profession of a glorious historic past she told of 17th century eng lish jurist sir edward coke's in i'iuence on american law and jur isprudence scholar bowen notes new look mrs bowen recounted some of her activities while living in le high's presidential mansion my writing career began on the lehigh campus she dis closed she said she read her history of the lehigh canal be fore a number of professors in drown hall her second volume was a history of the university i walked down a board and took a high dive into the past the biographer stated when the book was published however my hus band and i were living at lafay ette of all places ' things have changed on the campus she said they are now more buildings more students and more professors mrs bowen see phi beta page 10 brown and white vol 70 — 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