Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 9

              rich iconoclasts three lndividually known 3sr 1 to r dave guard rißob shane kriil nick reynolds j>layep jand?sang to'a packed grace hall saturday night even men who paid ten dollars a ticket thought the trio was worth every penny f _ ca&t j a folk song singers still enjoy touring dr j burke severs bethlehem pa tuesday october 20 1959 400g most ambitious annual giving fund un 6-0331 lehigh university brown and white if it were just for money id never do it • .<• speaking was dave guard acknowledged leader of the na tion's hottest vocal group — the kingston ttrio agreeing with him were nick reynolds and b«>b shane who admitted after satur diay's lehigh performance that they still get plenty of kicks out of their months-long one-night tours ......... \ . ' nevertheless the just-out-of college trio admitted 99 per cent o.f the humor of each show is plotted although much of the perform ance is cut-and-dried we try to relive each joke in each show 1 ' to keep things interesting they change the att every few weeks by altering the line of patter and inserting a new song '* '•• l •" were singers of folk songs t^-not folk singers explains guard the difference is we have no ax to grind we have no message we're entertain cis t j ¦. ¦ •¦<- •:/ / - ti the trio has close to a hun dreds songs in its dnr ing the lehigh show theyw went thro-tigh 22 anothef 26 rte«i con see trio page 4 - parents dates deluge campus 3 projects proposed a 400,000 goal for the 1959-60 annual giving fund most ambi tious annual giving undertaking in the university's history — was an nounced today by paul frantz de velopment director projects for this year's cam paign are another distinguished service professorship endowed fellowships and scholarships and new laboratory equipment last year's fund exceeded its 350,000 goal by almost 5500 with the support of nearly 1500 givers who did not give the previous year included in last year's projects was the first of the distinguished service professorships awarded to dr j burke severs henceforth one of these awards will be in cluded in each giving campaign through 100,000 endowment obtained during the campaign for these endoved chairs the regular salary of each dsp is supplemented by approximately 4000 annually in obtaining 100,000 for endowed fellowships franz hopes that at least two additional students will be able to continue their advanced studies each year further the sum alotted for scholarships should pro vide as many as four scholarships see equipment page 4 on severs ist recipient dr j burke severs head of the department of english has been ndiined recipient of the first of a series of . distinguished service pro fessorships dr harvey a neville vice-president and provost an nounced this afternoon the new grant was estab lished through funds obtained from the 1958-59 annual giv ing fund plans are underway for the establishment of a sec ond award through an endow ment fund of 100,000 to be included in the 1959-60 giving campaign dr severs recognized authority on chaucer has been head of le high's . english department since july 1 l95iv a graduate of rut gers'in 1925 he received his mas ter jof arts degree from princeton in 1926 and his doctor of philos ophy degree from yale in 1935 dr severs has served both as secretary and chairman of the chaucer group of the modern lan guage association since 1945 he has served as general editor of the chaucer library sponsored by the chaucer group of the mod ern-language association - numerous groups have hon ored dr severs for his accom plishments he received a 1,000 award from the ameri can council of learned so cieties a 500 award of the scroll and fffifty r of college and in 195fc ivas named recipi ent , n of „ the 2,000 hillman award by lehigh who is uglier leith or bewley deans j d leith and loyal v bewely dr joseph a dowling and p e director henry red campbell are among the fourteen candidates for campus ugly man michael f jarvis 62 chairman of the contest for alpha phi omega announced all voting is taking place on the steps or in the main lobby of the university library the votes are cast in the form of coinage and all receipts will be given to the campus chest last year the contest netted over 800 sigma alpha mu's hup hollander won the contest after a rally in the freshman quadrangle dave wismer running again this year came in second the polls opened yesterday and will be open until friday from 8 a.m to 4 p.m the contest will close on satur day at noon applications to spon sor a candidate were turned in last see 14 page 3 by andy svenson balmy skies and a festive air greeted parents arid guests of le high undergraduates as some 5,500 visitors swarmed the campus this past weekend to celebrate the uni versity's seventh and best at tended annual parents day many of the moms dads and 2 dates who arrived saturday morning attended classes with students or were treated to tours of university facilities and the autumn-garbed campus a roast beef luncheon in grace halliwas the scene of hundreds of amiable parents and their sons swapping news from home and campus and exchanging predictions , , , a see tours page between tours parents day visitors take it easy in the uni versity center between hill-climbing sessions they're a part of the more than 5,500 parents friends and dates who participated in the seventh parents day six named to uc committee three seniors and three juniors were appointed to the university center advisory committee asso ciated dean of students preston parr announced yesterday edward s sider 60 and theo dore v horger 61 are the inter fraternity council representatives on the committee appointees from the residence halls council are william eberhart 60 and sigmund silber 61 representing the town council are william grason 60 and morris i kelsey 61 poetry session friday will feature macleish the works of pulitzer prize winner archibald macleish read by professor darvid greene will highlight the second in a series of already successful : poe.try • readings , „ ., .-, . greene popular assistant professor of english will read mac leish's . verse at 4:10 p.m friday in the university center faculty lounge . , .. ,\ ¦ friday's reading follows by two weeks a similar effort by prof frank hook who read a e housman to initiate the english depart ment-sponsored scries approximately 75 attended the first reading macleish has been awarded the pulitzer prize three tifne — for conquistador collected poems and most recently for j 8 the latest effort j.b is finishing up a long run on broadway this month before starting a road tour greene admits that he is not in any way to be regarded as an authority on macleish but adds certain lines of macleish and a few entire poems strike me with the visceral impact that i expect from great poetry — though i doubt that on the whole the man is a major poet moreover i find his understanding of the sounds and rhythms of the english language make his work unusually grateful to read orally _ r ->• & vi greene sees macleish as being very , much pf our 1 time yet for the neophyte he does not speak so obsour^.-as do some of his con temporaries of similar calibre tie is '¦=<?£ . our country and frequently speaks as ati'americaw his pcetry is markedly individual yet reflects many df the ' itn^cirfent 7 poetic trends of this century w'heth'er 1 nis work will prove lasting is perhaps questionable greene observes but he certainly deserves to be heard now vol 71 — no 9 give once for all 1 to the campus chest hp tix on sale today tickets for the fall house party dance on friday oct 30 will go on sale today the tickets will be sold in living groups by representa tives of the senior class the price will be 5.50