Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 24

              two hundred fifty interested students and faculty members bombarded a panel of experts on lehigh's athletic problem for three hours at the fourth university meeting monday evening embracing alumni administration and student viewpoints the panel endeavored to present methods of approaching the question of subsi blake society hears maritain at princeton lehigh's philosophy honorary the blake society traveled to nas sau tavern at princeton to hear prof jacques maritain speak maritan read a paper on hu man rights and afterwards an swered questions from the mem bers continued on page 4 col 2 every year the blake society makes a pilgrimage to hear a well-known philosopher mari tain was chosen this year because he is one of the foremost thinkers alive junior council sigma chi fraternity recently announced the start of a financial campaign to raise 50,000 towards a goal of 135,000 for the construe : tion and furnishing of a new fraternity heme on the campus directing the local campaign will be claude m daniels 07 manager of sales at the bethlehem steel company separate campaigns will be run in areas where lehigh sig ma chi members reside site selected for the new build ing is centrally located between the beta theta pi and the pi delta theta houses this location will conveniently group in a symbolic triangle three fraternities original ly founded at miami university ohio the first floor of the prospective : building will house a modern kit chen and pantry dining room ' living room and library the sec ond floor will have adequate stor age facilities in addition to eleven rooms toilet and shower facili ties i sigma chi is now rounding out its 63rd year at lehigh the pres j ent home is situated at 103 east ; any sophomores wishing to hold a seat in next year's junior council should leave their names at the arcadia office sometime before friday may 26th also included should be a reason for desiring a position packer aye formerly the fra ternity was housed at 240 east bread st for more than 40 years with the chapter too small during the war the property was sold in 1945 to the bethlehem v.m.c.a estimated cost of the new house is 120,000 an additional 15,000 continued on page 2 col 2 sigma chi opens campaign seeks 50,000 for new house cyanide elects officers advisor at a noon meeting held in the trustee's room of lamber ton hall on monday may 15 cy anide junior leadership honorary elected officers for the coming year the new officers are president bob banta bus j 52 vice presi dent al koopes arts and eng j 52 secretary don styer bus j 52 treasurer bruce reinhart arts j 52 dr lawrence whitcomb asso ciate professor of geology was elected to the faculty circle of the society chaplain george bean was re-elected advisor dization of athletics here speaking on the topic dollars and sense in athletics guest speaker for the evening harry wismer director of sports at abc advocated the subsidization of college ball players saying that the greater the athletic program the greater the school after wismer's speech four members of the 1950 graduating class leland maines alvord beardslee alex smith and paul loewenwarter expounded their views on the topic in a panel dis cussion maines maintained that lehigh needs a shot in the arm in the form of a physical education curriculum beardslee explained that he would rather see each man de velop physically rather than have lehigh in the athletic headlines smith advocated a status quo stating that we do not intend to make a business of athletics he also stated that a pe course would create a snap curriculum loewenwarter claimed that le high was capable of having a win ning team any time it deemed ne cessary by scheduling weak teams but rather would prefer to see le high schedule ivy league teams other members of the panel were vincent j pazzetti 15 for mer all-american football player percy l sadler director of ath letics john i kirkpatrick treas urer and nevin funk corporate trustee following a brief intermission more than 100 students and facul ty members returned to engage the panel members in discussion brown and white friday may 19 1950 volume 59 — number 24 bethlehem pa mc offers command decision to open armed forces day ansorge to play gable's role officially opening the local celebration of armed forces day command decision will be presented tonight and tomorrow night at s t'clcck in broughal junior high school by members of mustard pnd chec c dub creating a hit in new york for over a year the play deals with the chest details 49 fund use during the last campus chest drive approximately half of the goal of 6000 was collected fifty per cent of this sum was donated to universities in need all over the world thorugh the efforts of the world students service fund continued on page 4 col 1 realizing the need for more than books the organization has helped the fund's activities aided in founding libraries and giving fi nancial aid to war impoverished universities in such places as man dalay rangoon japan china greece and poland 250 attend 4th um discuss lu athletics sports prizes given athletes for excellence in the awarding of 13 trophies to lehigh's outstanding athletes at flagpole day cere monies may 17 carl reetz jr c.e 50 was named top athlete for which he received the varsity l club trophy one award was given for outstanding campus leadership another for excellent campus services and one for tlje best all-round dormitory section reetz also received the peter j morrissey memorial trophy for his swimming achievements was a freestyler on the swimming team and discus thrower on the track team the awards to reetz were given by james arthur arts 50 robert w numbers c.e 50 captain and center of the lehigh varsity gridders last fall became second winner of the pat pa zetti football trophy awarded by vincent j pazetti jr assistant general manager of the local beth lehem steel plant harold e conway bus 50 pitcher and captain of the le high nine won the nannie lam berton wilbur baseball trophy as the outstanding member of this year's varsity baseball team dr martin d whitaker presi dent of the university presented continued on page 4 col 2 werjd war 11 the screen version featured clark gable as dennis on broadway the lead was played by paul kelly john jordan arts 50 will act the role of general kane her bert trumpoldt bus 50 will be seen as general garnett playing the part of brockhurt the war correspondent will be edwin fen ton ch.e 53 the part of the wise-cracking sgt evans will be played by peter conover arts and eng 53 col martin will be played by alan koppes arts and eng 52 and the role of dennis executive officer col haley will be play ed by bruce barstow bus 53 other key roles will be played by albert rudolph c e 53 thomas mccabe bus 53 stan ley goodnow bus 53 david mc adam christopher sholes chem 53 david groner arts 53 peter continued on page 4 col 4 war-time responsibilites of a top air corps commander forced to sacrifice men and material in or der to destroy nazi porduction of et planes played by ronald ansorage bus 53 general k c dennis the hard-boiled but human com mander of a heavy bombardment air division fights to maintain his operation stitch against inter ference from a snooping news paperman stupid politicians and armchair brass hats in washing ton acclaimed by critics as the most effective drama to come out of its all yours al mozart piece stravinsky air set for sunday presenting the final program in lehigh university music de partment's sunday recital series the university orchestra will give the first performance in this area of mozart's lambach symphony the program will be held at 4 o'clock sunday afternoon in the parish house of the cathedral church of the nativity music for the mozart lam bach which will be in three movements allegro maestoso an dante and presto was made avail able for this performance through the free library in philadelphia the edward a fleisher collec tion this collection of music con tains many unpublished manu scripts reported to be written while mozart was still a youngster the lambach symphony was found only fifteen years ago among the scores which arrived from all parts of the country at the vienna musicological institute where manuscripts from austrian castles were collected and published the program will include pur cell's sonata no 9 — the golden sonata in five move ments — largo adagio allegro grave and allegro haydn's concerto in eb for trumpet which will also be performed here for the first time on sunday with a trumpet solo by bernell argyle june 53 octet for wind instruments by stravinsky sin fonia lambach symphony serenade no i opus 11 by brahms in three movements scherzo minuet and scher zo admission to the concert which will be directed by prof william h schempf head of the lehigh department of music will be free and the public is cordially invited to attend during flagpole day ceremonies eric erikson retiring senior class president presents al bryniarski with the cane symbolic of the office bryniarski is the newly elected president of th class of 1951 lewis k and richard k hos feld were presented the t edgar shields trophy for outstanding service in music president martin d whitaker presented certificates to living group representatives whose se niors have 100 per cent participa tion in the class gift plan the band and the cliff clefs furnished the music for the program the questions centered around the financial aspect of the lehigh athletic program as explained by funk all funds collected from alumni for athletics become a part of the students grant fund for this fund 82,000 have been re ceived since 1940 of this amount 60,000 has been spent the funds though insufficient are being con centrated on the building up of a football power according to funk