Brown and White Vol. 76 no. 45

              cert-dance is a blind pianist who has been entertaining jazz lovers for 18 years english-born shearing became an american citizen in 1956 and has been known since as one of this country's best jazzmen his composition lullaby in birdland and numerous success ful albums have filled the restful hours of many postwar years weekend activities will include closed living group parties after the concert picnics or similar activities tomorrow afternoon and open parties all over campus tomorrow night from 10 p.m to 4 a.m visitors must leave the saturday night parties at 2 a.m comedian dick gregory and pianist george shearing will open the houseparty show this evening with a guffaw and the smooth sound of jazz piano gregory a pint-sized underdog in the st louis negro ghetto where he was born pulled himself out of the slums by dint of re sentment and ceaseless determina tion a cocky lad always ready to respond to dissenters with a ten sion-easing joke gregory becani3 known in school as a fellow al ways able to clown around applying his joke-making skill professionally gregory became a nightclub comic in the late 19505 earning 10 a night in 19g0 according to an interview with playboy magazine in august 1964 he used this quip in his 1960 night club work to quell hecklers who stood up and blatantly called him nigger during his performances they always shut up when i told them according to my con tract the management pays me 50 every time someone calls me that so will you all do me a favor and stand up and say it again in unison and then suddenly gregory hit the big time began to apply his greatly increased bank account to the negro rights crusade and be opera stars choir will sing carmen james a tiefenbrunn 66 was elected president of rhc wednes day others elected were paul e sparks 65 vice-president frederic r weiner 66 secretary gilbert a spear jr 66 treasurer and wil liam j roberts 66 social chairman weiner and roberts ran un opposed and were elected unanimously during the pre-election comments given by each of the candidates robert s young 66 withdrew his name from the ballot and asked that those supporting him support james j davidson 65 the only other business dis cussed realt with houseparty peter t meszoly 65 president announced that he received a phone call from stephen f gold mann 66 vice-president of the class of 66 stating that if tonight's concert was not well attend/ed there is a possibility the univer sity would end further friday night activities for houseparty weekends the first meeting of the new rhc officers and representatives will be held tuesday may 4 a concert version of bizet's opera carmen will be performed at 8:15 p.m may 8 in grace hall the lehigh glee club and the chatham college choir will sing the choral part while the soloists will be noted performers connected either the metropolitan opera company or the new york city center robert b cutler head of the music department will direct the pro fessional orchestra soloists choruses and the boys of the choir of beth lehem's cathedral church of the nativity who will sing the famous chorus of street boys in the first act the role of carmen will be sung by elaine bonazzi who is cur rently singing in performances of the new york city center opera company metropolitan opera tenor william lewis a veteran of perform ances of la boheme salome and wozzeck will be heard in the role see opera page 9 dick gregory comedian and author will entertain house party audience at grace hall this evening format change from primarily dance to predominantly concert eliminated tra ditional queen lewis finds u library in darkness ups and downs of buildings & grounds by lynn havach the problem of insufficient lighting facilities in the univer sity library is receiving serious consideration from president w deming lewis and several mem bers of arcadia on monday stewart early 66 and joseph loranger 65 members of arcadia met with dr lewis to discuss the library situation dr lewis suggested that more efficient use of the existing watt age could be achieved possibly by see lewis page 7 for the campus motorist who has experienced difficulty negotiating the potholes on university avenue the ge 225 computer offers the above diagram if you follow the line from point a sayre park entrance to point 6 park house you should experience the least damage to the underside of your car don't forget to multiply the wheelbase of your car by the number of tickets you have received from the campus cops and divide this by the number of tank traps on your route this correction factor is necessary due to the speedy work by build ings and grounds on the campus roads vol 76 — no 45 866-0331 lehigh university brown and white jokes and jazz piano to open hp weekend bethlehem pa — friday april 30 1965 came nationally-recognized as a negro commentator on the situa tion in both the north and south he produced a best-selling al bum dick gregory in living black and white wrote and posed for a satiric photo-and-comment book called from the back of the bus and in september 1964 pub lished an autobiography and ne gro rights plea entitled nigger sensitive always to his prob lems as a negro he dedicated the volume to momma wherever you are — if you ever hear the word nigger again remember they're advertising my book george shearing gregory's fel low-performer at tonight's con 5 elected to office at rhc meeting i notice the next regular edition of the brown and white will be published friday may 7 deadline for advertising and notices for that issue is 5 p.m wednesday