Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 51

              lecture series chooses ware as chairman lee riemondy reelected junior class elects breuker gusdorff kalmbach to be newspaper editor in chief schoen to head epitome committee is considering larger fee pending petition returns men desiring n y a requested to apply now town officers elected klein will edit review to conduct poll in fall whipple olinsky to head sophomores gabuzda wins arcadia post irown am left to right robert j caverly bus 41 business . manager of the brown and white for the first sem ester charles f kalmbach m e 41 editor of the brown and white edwin h klein arts 42 editor of the review donald r schoen arts 41 editor of the epitome and henry d chandler bus 41 business manager of the brown and white for the second semester — brown and white photo students desiring work on the lehigh n y a program next year should deposit a self-ad dressed stamped envelope at the placement bureau according to e robins mor gan director of placement ap plication blanks will be mailed in these envelopes as soon as they are received from the gov ernment accepted students will register when they return in the fall clubs planning concert dance 5 dances planned by 8 fraternities will present play tonight 3 seniors win speech prizes harry romig bud rader will play for houses combined musical group to hold annual affair tomorrow night mustard and cheese club to give production of idiot's delight benedict walker morse receive cash awards in williams contest five dances have been schedul ed by various fraternities for to morrow night kappa sigma beta kappa and phi gamma delta will hold affairs in their respective houses while beta theta pi phi delta theta and sigma chi are combined for the miami triad dance in the main ballroom of the bethlehem hotel and sigma phi epsilon will give a dance with lambda chi alpha in the dining room chaperones at the miami triad will be dr and mrs raymond c bull dean and mrs wray h congdon and mr and mrs fay c bartlett at the sigma phi epsilon lambda chi alpha dance col and mrs joseph leonard and prof and mrs thomas f jones at phi gamma delta mr and mrs james w havson jr and mr and mrs don nissley at kappa sigma prof and mrs lynford j beaver and at beta kappa mr and mrs don ald mccaa the orchestra for the triad will be harry romig from allentown for sigma phi epsilon bud rader for phi gamma delta len mayfair from philadelphia and for kappa sigma the budd-laird orchestra from elizabeth n j the beta kappa affair will be a radio dance chessmen elect team ends season oliphant new president ; frank benedict bus 40 john c walker arts 40 and norman morse ch e 40 were chosen the first second and third prize win ners in the williams extempore speaking contest finals for juniors and seniors held wednesday ev ening in packard auditorium arnold o putnam eng won the first prize in the freshman contest and lynn c bartlett arts won the second prize senior prizes are 75 50 and 25 dollars freshman prizes are 50 and 25 dollars the following were the winning topics benedict the half way mark walker where are these pacifists morse overdose of tolerance putnam will we eventually fight japan and bartlett intelligence vanquish ed phillip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science dr robert m smith head of the de partment of english j calvin cal laghan director of debating ken neth b horning fellow in english carl f strauch instructor in eng lish and charles j moravec as sistant university news editor act ed as judges for the senior con tests judging the freshmen were j calvin callaghan glenn christ ensen instructor in english carl strauch and charles j moravec alfred l trumpler m e 40 act ed as chairman of the contest the annual spring concert-dance of the combined musical clubs will be held at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow night in drown hall the glee club band will unite to present the fol lowing program the concert will open with hail the college by the glee club conducted by carl richard son arts 40 and accompanied by john diamond arts 42 the club will continue with on to the des ert willard litzenberger arts 41 will sing house by the side of the road and shortnin bread accompanied by robert beck with eng 43 the glee club will sing i'm a jolly rover the chorus of the pirates from penz ance russian collegiate drinking song hey robin jolly robin sweethearts and dance my comrades solos will be given by beckwith on the piano alfred trumpler m e 40 violin accom panied by donald r schoen arts 41 and james woods eng 43 vo cal the program will be closed with the alma mater dr t edgar shields director of music will con duct the program ford to address psych conference following the concert the colle gians will play for dancing from 10 until 2 admission to the con cert will be free to students but a charge of 35 cents will be made to all others richard a ware arts 41 was elected chairman of the student concert-lecture series committee at a meeting tuesday in the fa culty room of drown hall ware is president of the local chapter of phi alpha theta na tional honorary history fraternity secretary-general of the 13th as sembly of the model league of nations a member of the r w blake honorary philosophical so ciety the international relations club and alpha phi omega hon orary scouting fraternity an increased series fee is still being considered pending the re ceipt of petitions from town and dormitory groups these petitions have not yet come to the attention of the committee a plan to con duct a complete poll on the in creased fee during fall registration is being considered no symphony concert the committee decided not to present a program by a symphony orchestra next year because of financial limitations and the im possibility of securing convenient dates richard c kelley jr chem 40 president of the com mittee announced that negotia tions with guy fraser harrison director of the rochester civic symphony orchestra did not ma terialize because of the crowded calendar of that organization in selecting the possible attrac tions for next season the commit tee has studied the unofficial at tendance figures of the past four series kelley said that the atten dance figures would be taken into consideration in completing a pro gram which would meet with the interest of the student body the committee will continue to base its decisions on the poll made two years ago and on attendance fig ures since grace hall will not be completed until the second semes ter of the next academic year the committee voted to have the entire series in the auditorium of brou ghal high chool government 52 classes make trip to harrisburg richards 1 sigma chi elect next year's officers the editors of three student publications were selected tues day afternoon by the board of publications those selected were charles f kalmbach m e 41 for the brown and white donald r schoen arts 41 for the epi tome and edwin h klein arts 42 for the review robert j caverly bus 41 was elected business manager of the brown and white for the first sem este of 1940-41 and henry d chandler bus 41 will succeed him second semester all of the editors will serve for the entire year both kalmbach and schoen were leading competitors for the editorships of the brown and white and of the epitome schoen was class editor of the epitome and is editorial manager of the brown and white while kalmbach is organization editor of the year book and is news manager of the newspaper schoen will resign as editorial manager at the end of this semes ter in compliance with the board of publications ruling limiting the number of major publications offi ces one man may hold richard l vockel m e 41 was named art editor of the epi tome and chandler was named senior section editor junior editors announced the five junior editorships of the yearbook went to a bruce brown eng phys organizations frank s mckenna met eng sports william j meikle arts classes robert n simonsen ch e photography and jesse f beers arts fraternity practically all of the men sel ected have had outstanding records for scholarship kalmbach has a 3.98 average for five semesters while schoen has averaged 3.39 the three semester averages of the junior editors of the epitome are brown 3.96 mckenna 3.13 meikle 3.30 simonsen 3.43 and beers 3.26 no move was made by the board to take action on the motion to abolish the epitome which had been tabled at the previous meet ing several members however indicated that they will be ready to act on the matter within a week but are waiting to get additional facts review elects 4 frosh to new business board the lehigh chess team recently elected officers for the coming year ther are president lowell k oliphant bus 42 vice-president maynard g arsove eng 43 and secretary-treasurer richard b moyer phys 41 the chess team completed its season against the newark college of engineering whom it defeated saturday 4-1 three members of the team are undefeated they are arsove who has won 5 oli phant who has won 3 and theo dore c gams eng 43 who has won one the chess team has a record of four wins and one loss continued on page four with a comparatively small number of 675 votes cast at the arcadia polls on wednesday ac cording to alfred t cox c e 40 chairman of the elections commit tee class officers cheerleaders member at large to arcadia presi dent of the town council and town section officers were chosen the turnout of the voters was 128 less than the polling of 803 last year and 236 less than the year before according to cox the results were popular with class members but he hopes elections in the fu ture should they be held under the present new plan will be smoother he added that any stu dent criticisms of the plan will be welcomed albert e lee jr ch e mem ber of dormitory group and au gustus a riemondy ch e a fra ternity man were reelected by their class to the positions of presi dent and secretary-treasurer of the senior class respectively the new officers of the junior class are president george a brenker bus a member of the town group and secretary-treas urer robert n gusdorff bus member of the dormitory group chosen as president and secre tary-treasurer of the sophomore class respectively were robert p whipple eng a fraternity man and william h olinsky bus a fraternity man whipple heads sophomores george j gabuzda arts 41 was chosen member at large to arcadia by a substantial majority he is a member of the town group chosen to be head cheerleader next year was robert a ritchings c e 41 with richard m dietz m e 41 as assistant junior cheerleaders elected are william f boore jr met e 42 and frank s mckenna met e 42 george brenker the sole nom inee was elected president of the town council those elected to positions as president and vice president of their respective town sections are tabulated as follows with the ex ception of the officers of section e and the vice presidents of sections j and l the officers of these sec tions will be elected next fall town officers listed section a — jonas silverberg bus 41 president charles h car ter jr chem 41 vice president section b — albert clark jr chem 42 president and caleb w holy oke m e 42 vice president section c alton p dieffenbach bus 43 president and william k hodson i e 41 vice president section d — arthur tallaksen bus 42 president and charles ba recovers from illness dr lawrence whitcomb associ ate professor of geology has re turned to his teaching after an ex tended absence due to illness five new members were elected to the business board of the le high review on april 29 in drown hall announced donald g deni son jr i e 40 the members are jonas silver burg bus 41 william r taylor bus 43 robert e joslin bus 43 richard c hardenburgh bus 43 william c walker eng 43 dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology will speak before a meeting of the philadelphia experimental psy chologists on friday evening in packer hall the title of his talk will be a critique of experimen tal method in binaural space colleges to be represented at the meeting include the university of pensylvania temple bryn mawr swarthmore rutgers and lafay ette according to dr ford his talk will concern observations sur rounding the ability to determine the direction of the source of sound by use of the ears alone in con nection with this a number of pieces of apparatus will be used for demonstration purposes the class in government 52 con ducted by wilson l godshall as sistant professor of diplomatic his tory and international relations took a field trip yesterday to har risburg where they visited with governor james and inspected sev eral departments of the govern ment the house of representatives was one of the salient places that the men stopped and later on they were conducted to the supreme court room they made three calls at different departments of the state police the first being the bureau of motor vehicles the sec ond the state police headquarters and the third the motor police crime laboratory section i richards house elect ed officers monday in the dormi tory's lounge the following men were elected roy l duncan jr m e 42 section chief william p varner bus 42 secretary-treas urer and richard c gordon bus 42 athletic manager sigma chi fraternity announced the results of their elections re cently men chosen include thom as r hunt arts 41 president m clayton burgy chem e 41 vice president and steward richard s davis bus 41 secretary john t taylor bus 41 treasurer will iam w fuller i e 43 historian and alan b heinrichs m e 43 corresponding secretary peace propaganda in the form of robert e sherwood's idiot's de light will be presented to a lehigh audience at 8:30 o'clock tonight when the curtain rises on mustard and cheese's spring play at brou ghal high school the action takes place in an al pine hotel in italy near the swiss border at a time when war clouds are gathering over europe russian counters rita shafer slick amer ican showman nathaniel brisker bus 40 with his dance troupe les belles are thrown together in this setting comedy produced by the former's insistence that the countess irene is the same girl he had an affair with in omaha neb and the effect on other hotel guests of the terrors of the impending war forms the basic plot of the play on the cover of the program will be a cartoon done especially for mustard and cheese by james thurber prominent cartoonist for the new yorker magazine and co author of the current broadway success the male animal the drawing was procured from thur ber by peter b turgeon arts 43 the cartoon shows thurber's conception of the scene from idi ot's delight where the stranded hoofer harry van sits at the piano talking gaily with the phoney rus sian countess irene while italian planes bomb the alpine hotel where they are staying upon sub mitting his work thurber said this is the way it looks to me other important parts in the show will be played by ira l fisher bus 43 as doctor hugo waldersee welles r bliss arts 42 as achille weber conrad e kluger arts 42 as quillery and robert s bothe bus 40 as don navadel joseph p larkin 111 bus 43 wil play dumptsy robert c eng le i e 41 pittaluga richard j berg arts 42 captain locicero peter b turgeon arts 43 mr cherry and gabriel kurth mrs cherry the misses gladys whitaker jean marine jean wanisko bettie sharesky bettie bazer and dorothy longnecker will take the parts of the fast-stepping les belles student body elects senior junior sophomore class officers arcadia member for coming year george a brenker bus junior class president bethlehem pa friday may 10 1940 light vote of 675 features balloting price — five cents brown and white review brown and white epitome leaders chosen 5 publications heads chosen for next year vol xlvii no 51 william h olinsky bus sophomore class sec.-treas augustus a riemondy ch e senior class sec.-treas george j gabuzda arts arcadia member-at-large albert e lee jr ch.e senior class president robert p whipple eng sophomore class president robert h gusdorff bus junior class sec.-treas member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first z 612