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              n y firms offer tours to seniors bamherger's and macy's invite inspection trips empire picked as dance site for l f ball seyfert dies after illness of 2 months orchestra to be engaged after choice is shown by fraternity poll affair to be feb 10 head of e e department taught for 35 years burial wednesday one of oldest on faculty prof stanley s seyfert 16 inducted by tau bete honorary society holds banquet for initiates president speaks scientific and technical silcox lectures to m e society advances discussed reasons why the world should continue to advance in scientific and technical progress even in view of the paradox such progress has created were given last friday by dr l k silcox vice-president of the new york air brake com pany the mechanical engineering department sponsored the lecture dr silcox went on to say that concentration on technical advan ces alone without regard to hu man consequences would provide but empty and temporary reward to conclude his talk he stated that the human will would drive men to further scientific advances but it was necessary not to lose sight of the fact that spiritual hap piness was the ultimate goal after studying abroad at the ecole polytechnique brussels bel gium dr silcox received his de gree of doctor of science at clarkson college of techonolgy in 1932 mr a w laird also with the new york air brake company and a graduate of rensselear polytech nic institute spoke informally at the lecture all senior business and arts men are invited to go on guided tours through the organizations of both l bamberger and company oi newark n j and r h macy and company in new york city dur ing the vacation in order to become acquainted with the companies and retail practices according to noti ces received from these compan ies by e robins morgan place ment director the bamberger tours will be held on thursday dec 28 and friday dec 29 beginning at 10:30 a m both mornings all those at tending should call at the train ing department on the ninth floor before 10:30 o'clock at that time the company will be glad to talk to any undergraduate regarding retailing as a career macy's mr o'rourke executive placement director will discuss careers in retailing during macy's tours which are scheduled for the period dec 18 to jan 3 inclusive the tours will start from the training department on the 16th floor starting at 10:30 o'clock ev ery morning the empire ballroom in allen town has been chosen as the site of annual interfraternity ball it was announced last night by walter s russell ch e 40 president of the interfraternity council after the monthly meeting among the reasons for selecting the empire as a site according to russell is its capacity of 6,000 per sons and its large parking space the date of the ball had been pre viously set for feb 10 it was also announced that the band will be signed up by the end of the week although several bands are now being considered the two foremost bands discussed at the meeting were jimmy dor sey's and glen gray's fraternities will be polled during the middle of the week in order to determine which band is more favored al though all bands will be included in the poll it is probable that one of the orchestras above will be sel ected it was decided that beginning with this year a cup will be awarded to the fraternity showing the best net improvement over a period of one year this cup will be given during freshman week of the following school year sunday vespers attended by 150 upton close representative fish served as chairman of a special committee of the house of representatives to investigate the activities of the communists in the united states in 1930 and 1931 since that time he has been an outstanding leader in combatting the spread of subver sive activities in this country hamilton fish jr republican representative from new york who will take the affirmative in the debate has been an active mem ber in politics since 1914 at that time serving as a member of the new york assembly and a strong follower of theodore roosevelt at present close is at work on a new textbook of history for american high schools giving em phasis to the americas gleen j christensen instructor in english has aided close in parts of this history christensen will entertain mr and mrs close during their brief stay at lehigh was aided by christensen close has made his travels as an operative for the american intelli gence service as newspaper corres pondent as explorer for the na tional geographic society and as lecturer for various other organi zations upton close author of seven books and more than 1,000 maga zine articles has been on tour lec turing to different organizations throughout the country since sept 15 he has traveled throughout europe and asia in the past 20 years and has been under fire in more than one of the various wars that have been fought during that time is america going into this war will be the topic of the de bate sponsored by the student concert lecture series to be given friday night in broughal high school between hamilton fish jr from new york and upton close author and traveler fish will take the affirmative attempting to prove that america is upon the threshold of a new war while close will take the negative proving that america will not go to war in the near future close to take negative author traveler to debate with representative friday in broughal war entrance will be topic of close fish vol xlvii — no 21 18 to be initiated by pi tau sigma dinner to follow induction wednesday evening sixteen men including three juniors were formally initiated in to tau beta pi national honorary engineering society at a formal in itiation banquet held at 7:00 p m saturday in the hotel bethlehem speakers were mr c h spenc er national president of tau beta pi and dr g s backenstoe a medical examiner of the civil aeronautics authority dr back enstoe's subject was medicine in aviation toastmaster of the banquet was edward g uhl phys 40 over 40 attended the affair which was in charge of donald r luster m e 40 social chairman six faculty members were present and 20 undergraduates in addition to the 16 initiates alpha phi omega selects officers proposal to fingerprint students considered lewis writes on war policy dec review will feature article on university during 1914-17 the december issue of the le high review which is expected to go on sale friday contains an ac count of how lehigh got into the last war written by howard j lewis arts 40 the article de scribes the university's policy for peace and its subsequent change of policy to one of preparedness after the declaration of war by president wilson in 1917 the feature covers the period from 1914 until 1918 and reveals that lehigh was ready to fight be fore the formal declaration of war by the president incorporated in the review are the results of polls taken on foot ball subsidation endowment and on the students bodys reaction to na tional political problems here and abroad among the stories in this issue are an account of a trip on an oil tanker by david g deßeauchamp arts 40 and a humorous story by edward h klein ch e 42 union triad holds its winter dance middle 3 night to be dec 26 lehigh lafayette rutgers are invited to affair at meadowbrook approximately 700 students and their dates from lafayette rut gers and lehigh are expected to attend middle three night to be held december 26 at frank dail ey's meadowbrook cedar grove n j larry clinton and his orches tra will play for dancing arcadia has approved a plan whereby reservations for the affair to be held the night after christ mas can be made in the arcadia office drown hall those desiring to atend are requested to make re servations in person or by phone as soon as possible a large section of the meadow brook is to be taken over exclu sively by students from the three schools those from each college will be seated as a group special arrangements of songs of lehigh and the other two schools comprising the middle three will be played by the orchestra the affair which according to dailey may become an annual event is modeled after duke night alumni and students of this university have held a reunion during the christmas holidays for the past several years faculty chorus to hold informal hour of music to hold dance friday pi tau sigma honorary me chanical engineering society will initiate two honoraries and 16 pledges at 6 00 p m wednesday in packard laboratory a banquet will be held afterward at the hotel bethlehem with dean alfred c callen of the engineering college as a speaker the two honoraries to be initiat ed are dean callen and joseph groff 22 who is with the aldrich pump company the seniors are robert c albert m e aaron h brennesholtz i e l j g bueh ler 1.e spencer r griffith m.e alfred l trumpler m.e charles e west m e and robert j wright m e the juniors are robert caem merer m.e robert i felch 1.e claude d gilchrist 1.e charles f kalmbach m e benjamin ojserkis i e clarence g reber m e george m ritchie m e richard l vockel m e and al len h zane jr i e delivers sermon dr william h bollman about 150 persons attended the first sunday afternoon vesper ser vice held in the packer memorial chapel the sermon finding the deep channel was delivered by dr william h bollman pastor of the first reformed church of lan caster dr bollman stressed the fact that it is the art of selection that determines the path one choo ses during life as an analogy he gave the story of the traveler who asked the river pilot how he knew where all the rocks in the river were in answer the pilot said that it was not know ing where the rocks are but where the channel is the deepest reverend w h robinson of the fritz memorial methodist episco pal church read the scripture the chapel choir composed of mem bers of the glee club sang two an thems directed by dr t edgar shields director of music and or ganist dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy was in charge of the service the program will consist of songs by various members and groups of members of the faculty and the concert is open to the fa culty and student body the faculty chorus will hold an informal hour of music at 4 p m friday in drown hall the first of the weekly dances sponsored by arcadia student gov erning body will be held on fri day evening from 10 to 12:30 in the university armory music will be by the lehigh collegians tau beta pi members initiated thursday new officers were elected last night by alpha phi omega nation al service fraternity at a meeting held in drown hall a proposal from the federal bureau of inves tigation to have the fraternity con duct a fingerprinting campaign at lehigh was also considered the men elected to office are as follows charles myers m e 40 president gilbert cardwell e e 40 vice-president richard ware arts 41 recording secretary rich ard sheperd c e 41 correspond ing secretary john liebig c e 40 treasurer thomas lewis bus 41 historian and george messing - er m e 41 alumni secretary fingerprinting of students as proposed by the fbi may be done during next registration it was suggested other chapters of the fraternity have conducted similar surveys plans for reconstruction of the fireplace on top of south mountain were made council convenes national meet here theta kappa phi to hold dupuy to speak the union triad composed of the sigma phi delta phi and kappa alpha fraternities held its annual winter dance from 10 until 2 o'clock saturday evening in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem approximately 75 couples at tended the dance which was in charge of donald g denison i e 40 sigma phi arthur m over arts 42 delta phi and william l archer bus 41 kappa alpha the union triad is composed of the three original national frater nities founded almost simultan eously at union college in 1825 chaperones were dean and mrs wray h congdon and prof and mrs herbert m diamond art wendell and his orchestra provided the music perish by the sword to be the major's topic announce contest will get 15 awards best senior dissertations edmond l flynn national president of theta kappa phi catholic fraternity presided over a meeting of the national council of the fraternity held sunday ev ening at the alpha chapter house at lehigh the council decided to accept the invitation extended by the lehigh chapter to hold the coming national convention in bethlehem on the 28th 29th and 30th of this month curtis f bayer of scranton na tional vice-president and former captain of the l3high cross-coun try team edward j kirchner of washington d c national spir itual adviser and procurator of the catholic university of america and joseph quinn of pittston 34 national alumni secretary were present at the council meeting mr kirchner international president of pax romana organi zation of catholic students and alumni which maintains branches in 45 different countries reported on the 18th world congress of pax romana held recently in the na tion's capitol and new york city fifteen williams prizes are being offered this year to seniors writing dissertations in the five fields of business administration english history and government philoso phy and psychology awards of 75 50 and 25 will be given for theses submited in each field the 50 awards having been added to those given in past years by a vote at the september faculty meeting seniors who are competing have been advised to begin work on their papers which are due next year students writing similar dis sertations as required senior work in their field of major study may submit this work for both gradua tion requirements and the williams prize competition dr stanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical engin eering died of coronary sclerosis at 7 35 a m yesterday at his home 55 west market street professor seyfert who had been bedfast since oct 7 was 58 years of age he was a native of strausstown berks county in point of service dr seyfert was one of the oldest members of the lehigh faculty he completed 35 years teaching at the univer sity last june having accepted a position as instructor in electrical engineering upon his graduation from lehigh as head of his class in electrical engineering in june of 1904 he leaves his wife mrs helen arnold beam seyfert and his mo ther mrs cassie mahala reber seyfert of strausstown funeral services will be held at 1 p m wednesday from the home bishop frank vv . sterrett and the rev merrill m moore pastor of trinity episcopal church will offi ciate members of the electrical en gineering department faculty will be pallbearers interment will be in the family plot at strausstown held several patents dr seyfert who was widely known in his profession and throughout the lehigh valley held several patents on devices in his field was the author of numerous papers ana co-author of a labora tory manual and was active in engineering and other societies at the time of his death he was chair man of the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electri cal engineers he was past president of the torch club of the lehigh valley a member of the engineers club of the lehigh valley past master of the h stanley goodwin lodge f & a m a member of bethlehem rotary and a member of the bach choir from its founding until 1927 he was also a member of the american institute of electrical engineers the institute of radio engineers the society for the pro motion of engineering education tau beta pi eta kappa nu and sigma xi patents held by dr seyfert in cluded several on single phase commutator motors on electric lo comotives and on rectification and inversion of a c and d c cur rents wrote many papers among his research and writings were numerous papers published by the american institute of elec trical engineers included were synchronous mechanical recti fier inverter i and with n s hibshman and d c bomberger synchronous mechanical rectifier inverter ii with franklin and esty both former professors at le high he was co-author of dyna mo laboratory manual dr seyfert was at one time president of the wissamaking cor poration bethlehem and was for years engineer for the blue moun tain electric company bethel he served as secretary-treasurer of this company from 1917-27 he was also a director of the strausstown national bank at the time of the planning and then the erection of packard labor atory on the lehigh campus dr seyfert was one of the consultants he was born in strausstown march 19 1881 the son of jacob wallace and cassie m reber seyfert he received the b s de gree from kut7,town normal school now kutztown state teach ers college in 1900 and the e e degree from lehigh in 1904 in 1909 he received his m s degree from lehigh and in 1932 the degree of doctor of science from massa chusetts institute of technology his service at lehigh included these steps instructor 1904-09 as sistant professor 1909-14 associate professor 1914-28 and professor since 1928 since 1932 he was di rector of the curriculum and head of the department of electrical en gineering major r ernest dupuy of the u s army field artillery will give a speech perish by the sword dealing primarily with the rise and fall of czecho slovakia from a mil itary viewpoint at 8 p m thurs day in packard auditorium under the auspices of scabbard and blade honorary military society major dupuy is the author of world in arms and co-author of if war comes he is public rela tions officer for the united states military academy including in his activities the writing of the syndi cated sports column peeks from the press box he is also the au thor of numerous articles on mili tary subjects in magazines and newspapers major dupuy has traveled in europe and was chosen as military expert by the columbia broadcast ing company during the august crisis 40 john v mcguire e e 40 bottom row wil liam r clark c e 40 william a blum ch.e 40 richard c gangwer ch e 40 john l worzell phys 40 william m harbaugh i e 40 philip g dehuff met e 40 george m ritchie m e 41 gilbert m keller m e 49 pictured above are the new members of tau beta pi initiated thursday night in packard lab in the top row seated left to right are george s sprague chem 40 donald c young ch e 40 albert e lee ch e 41 hulme w thomas e e 40 charles k kalmbach m e 41 harold f truchess ch e hamilton fish jr bethlehem pa tuesday december 12 1939 e e head suceumbs brown and white price — five cent pro con all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate neivspaper association z 612