Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 52

              o.d.k and cyanide to tap men at ceremonies 11 a m thursday bach audience to fill chapel rushing lists available college to give trophies on thursday may 16 a flight surgeon from the united states naval aviation base will examine seniors who are con sidering entering the navy avi ation training course candidates are requested to report for instructions no later than 5 p m tomorrow at the placement bureau in the alum ni memorial building 33rd presentation of mass in b minor is sold out for all performances alumni plans now finished reiter portrait to be given at annual banquet friday june 7 frederick r gilmore musical clubs elect officers gilmore new president ; litzenberger gets manager post phi eta sigma honorary fresh man scholastic society will hold an initiation banquet at 6:00 p m next thursday in the university room of the hotel bethlehem following the dinner albert a rights instructor in english will speak on extra-curricular activi ties at lehigh according to jesse f beers arts 42 the initiation of the 11 new men will follow rights talk and the election of officers for next year will follow the initiation guests at the banquet will be president clement c williams and dean wray h congdon dean of undergraduates following are the freshmen who will be initiated after the banquet walter s titlow eng edward a fehnel eng isaac m hunsberger eng maynard g arsove eng wheeler gilmore eng frank h bower eng lynn c bartlett arts stanley caplan eng lud wig e godycki eng walter r homer bus and william c brower eng last saturday afternoon phi eta sigma held a picnic at the farm of harold v anderson associate professor in chemistry and faculty advisor of the honorary society seniors will hold final get-together eighteen men were initiated into pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematical society at the ann ual banquet of the lehigh chapter thursday night at the old sun inn the initiates included jesse o betterton jr met e 42 a bruce brown phys 42 john f clark phys 42 alton p dieffen bach e e 41 william a eisle e e 42 harry j friedman ch e 42 harold w haines ch e 42 william h innes graduate student frank librizzi e e 42 robert maiden phys 42 frank mckenna met e 42 lowell k oliphant bus 42 clarence g re ber m e 41 henry a seebald phys 42 louis e sharpe chem 42 robert n simonsen ch e 42 john j somers ch e 42 and lee r white e e 42 a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering spoke on the problems facing the university graduate and also on the visit he made last monday to the general motors exhibit now in preparation at the new york world's fair tomlinson fort head of the de partment of mathematics addres sed the society on the history of pi mv epsilon and the importance of mathematical societies in the united states from the standpoint of research particularly while war is hindering work of this type in europe john d mettler ch e 41 vice director presided over the session edward h cutler instructor in mathematics director philip g foust ch e 41 treasurer and louis g gitzendanner e e 41 secretary aided in the ceremonies parents honored by 3 fraternities presentation of 24 cups and tro phies will feature the annual flag pole exercises to be held at 11 a m thursday the majority of these awards have been donated by various departments of the uni versity and by numerous alumni classes will be suspended dur ing the hour to permit students to attend the ceremony the two outstanding awards will be the bosey reiter cup and the william p starkey-beta theta pi trophy the reiter cup awarded to the senior " who has done the most for the service of lehigh was first presented in 1938 to melvin s lord last year it was won by franc h burnett the starkey trophy will be presented to the senior who has displayed all around attainment societies to tap men other features of the day will be the tapping ceremonies of cy anide junior activities society and omicron delta kappa national honorary activity fraternity cya nide will tap 12 men and o d k will tap eight men this year a new cup is to be presented to the man who has done the most to further archery at lehigh two cups instead of the usual one will be given to the lead ers in inter-fraternity athletics while one will be awarded to lead ers in town and inter-dormitory athletics varsity letters and athletic cer tificates will be presented by glen w harmeson director of athletics frederick r gilmore arts 41 was elected president of the com bined musical clubs at a meeting of the clubs held wednesday even ing in packer memorial chapel willard a litzenberger arts 41 was made student leader of the glee club and manager of the com bined musical clubs thomas j kochuba ch e 41 was elected the new leader of the symphony orchestra and edgar c slack arts 41 was elected the new leader of the dance band richard c kelly jr chem 40 presided at the election meeting frank e smith jr ch e 42 and robert j mcgregor ch e 42 were elected assistant manager of the glee club fathers day a new idea for le high will be sponsored for the en tire university early next fall by the interfraternity council it was announced last night by roy s zachary arts 41 president of the council at a regular meeting in drown hall the occasion will be held on a convenient saturday when the lehigh football team is scheduled at home speakers will be obtained and the council will put forth every effort to make father's day a success according to zachary fraternities which have not as yet installed fire escapes or have not made plans for such were warned that they may expect de finite action from authorities in harrisburg in the near future beardslee re-elected adviser dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy was unani mously re-elected faculty advisor to the council paul r calvert coach of the basketball baseball and freshman football squads appeared before the council to ask various houses with waitership openings next fall to consider for those positions stu dents coming to lehigh under the new alumni student grants this will enable those men to earn board in addition to receiving full tuition it was announced that rushing lists of new students entering in september will be available throughout the summer months to all fraternities who desire them a new list will be compiled each month the council reminded the fra ternities that university regula tions will go into effect at all hous es during june and summer school courses dances are held by 8 fraternities officers installed by tone society 2 affairs at hotel attract 750 couples saturday philosophy society takes annual trip the senior class will hold a dance on friday evening june 7 at the saucon valley country club the dance will be informal and will feature the lehigh collegians this dance which was first held last year at the hotel bethlehem will be the last senior get-together tickets may be obtained at the arcadia office or from any mem bers of the following committee terry schiff arts chairman dan iel w macfeeters i e robert s taylor bus and philip g de huff jr met e the chaperones for the dance will be the following president and mrs clement c williams dean and mrs wray h congdon dean and mrs neil carothers dean and mrs a copeland cal len and dr and mrs claude g beardslee tickets for the dance will be 1.50 a couple i e club elects officers student gets juice from prof the following juniors were elec ted last week by the industrial en gineering society president claude d gilchrist i e 41 vice president allen h zane jr i e 41 secretary robert i felch i e 41 treasurer warren e deifer i e 41 new officers of tone honorary musical society were installed at a banquet held friday evening at the delta upsilon house a musical quiz was held and a prize of recordings of music was awarded to john l diamond arts 42 this banquet concludes tone's activities for the year the officers installed were da vid e richards arts 42 presi dent robert k beckwith eng 43 program director mervin j fry arts 41 vice-president frank v hertzog arts 41 secretary rich ard t berg arts 43 treasurer over 130 parents attended the the delta upsilon pi kappa al pha and tau delta phi houses sunday sixty parents attended the affair at the delta upsilon house mem bers of the faculty present were dean and mrs philip m palmer president and mrs clement c williams professor and mrs fred v larkin dean and mrs wray h congdon dr and mrs claude g beardslee mr and mrs howard r reiter at the pi kappa alpha annual parent's day over 40 parents were present tau delta phi entertained 30 parents friends and alumni at the chapter house dr and mrs claude g beardslee were guests dr beardslee addressed the group at an informal gathering a capacity audience will hear the 33rd consecutive presentation of bach's mass in b minor as ren dered by the bethlehem bach choir in the packer memorial chapel on next thursday friday and sat urday on thursday evening the final rehearsal is to be given to a full house in both the chapel and the packard auditorium the two performances on friday and the two on saturday have been sold out since early in the month the bach choir of 220 members under the direction of dr ifor jones will be accompanied by the philadelphia symphony orchestra soloists will be miss sue harvard soprano miss jean watson con tralto hardesty johnson tenor and william gephart bass the accompanist is miss gretchen newhard dr t edgar shields will be at the organ the moravian trombone choir will play several chorales before the friday and saturday performances to use packard auditorium the program which will be giv en in the chapel will be heard in the packard auditorium via the new transmission system arranged by the electrical engineers the program follows on thursday at the dress re hearsal at 7:30 p m the choir will give cantatas 63 144 125 and 91 in addition to the introduction and fugue and the cum sancto spiritu from the mass in b minor friday at 4 p m cantatas 91 118 144 and 63 will be sung in the ev ening suite no 2 in b minor for flute and string and cantatas 125 161 and 50 will be rendered the saturday services at 2 30 p m and 5:00 p m will be devoted exclus ively to the mass in b minor lehigh faculty and student members of the choir are dr shields director of music arthur w kline professor of mechanical engineering william b todd arts 40 james k binder arts 41 quentin r keith arts 40 and robert young 39 patrons of the bach choir live in 18 states and two foreign coun tries the extremes being calif ornia and france the majority of patrons come from pennsylvania and new york the record crowd which is ex pected is representative of almost all the states in the union and sev eral foreign countries the choir and its music have attracted peo ple from all over the world plans for the annual alumni june celebration to be held on june 7 and 8 have been completed according to william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association among the features of this year's program will be the presentation of the bosey rei ter portrait at the alumni banquet which will be held in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem friday june 7 the formal organization of a new alumni organization the fifty-year plus club will take place at the home of c a buck 87 on saturday evening another innovation of this year's celebration will be the manner in which sen iors will be initiated into the le high alumni association previous ly they were accepted by a stand ing vote of the association in the presence of the president of the senior class while this year the whole class will be present at noon on friday the weekend formally opens with a luncheon meeting of the members of the board of directors the presidents of alumni clubs all over the u s and chairmen of all standing com mittees of the alumni association to be held at the bethlehem club will hold open discussion at 4:00 p m there will be an open discussion meeting in the faculty room in the memorial building in the evening at 7 o'clock the annual alumni banquet will take place in the hotel bethle hem with alfred v bodine 15 as toastmaster at the same time the wives of the alumni and the faculty will hold their banquet in the fountain room of the hotel after the dinner the alumni will attend an informal reception and smoker to be held at the bethle hem club the annual reunion classes par ade will start promptly at 2 o'clock saturday afternoon the line of march will follow a different route from last year the parade will start at coppee hall and pass down the road behind williams hall to the memorial drive then up the drive to the flagpole and on to packer hall where the marchers will disband 60 hear concert of musical clubs glander,'39 navy aviator dies in automobile crash eleven students and three pro fessors made the annual robert w blake society trip last friday to new hope pa the group first visited the studio of mr george sotter a prominent artist and were shown the entire process of making stained glass windows they next saw pottery exhibits of miss delight ansley and were given demonstrations of how a potter models clay on a potters wheel and how glazes are put on the clay art work afterwards the group visited the art gallery and the bucks county playhouse at a dinner held at logan inn frank v hertzog arts 41 intro duced mr charles child president of the artist's group of new hope who spoke on art in america sportsman's club to hear trembley's talk on snakes five dances held by the various fraternities on saturday evening were attended by approximately 900 couples about 750 couples attended the fraternity dances held at the hotel bethlehem sigma phi epsilon gave a dance with lambda chi alpha in the dining room bud rader was the orchestra the chaperones were col and mrs joseph s leonard and professor and mrs thomas f jones the miami triad dance was held in the main ballroom of the hotel with harry romig of al lentown as the orchestra chaper ones at the triad dance were dr and mrs raymond c bull dean and mrs wray h congdon and prof and mrs fay c bartlett the bull-laird orchestra from elizabeth n j played for the kappa sigma dance which was at tended by 50 couples the chaper ones were professor and mrs lynford j beaver thirty-five couples attended the radio dance at the beta kappa house the chaperones were mr and mrs donald mccaa at the phi gamma dance 75 couples were present the orches tra for the affair was len may fair from philadelphia and the chaperones were mr and mrs james w havson jr and mr and mrs don nissley engagements of alumni are announced recently william h glander 39 a naval training corps cadet at pensacola fla was killed saturday when an automobile in which he was a pass enger crashed into a telephone pole near the air base another cadet was killed with the lehigh alum nus and four others are in a hos pital glander a member of alpha tau omega fraternity was instru mental in the founding of the le high aero club he was a member of scabbard and blade and the radio club chems nominate officers the sportsman's club will have a special meeting at 8:00 p m on thursday may 16 in room 466 packard laboratory francis j trembley assistant professor of biology will give an illustrated lecture on reptiles live specimens wil be shown is connection with the lecture the annual sportsmans club picnic will be held at moredale farms at 2:00 p m sunday may 19 the proposed picnic will be dis cussed at the meeting on thursday all members planning to attend the picnic are asked to be present at the meeting approximately 60 persons at tended the annual spring concert of the combined musical clubs held saturday evening in drown hall carl richardson arts 40 conducted the glee club selections which were accompanied by john l diamond arts 42 willard litzenberger arts 41 who sang two solos was accompanied by robert c beckwith eng 43 other solos were as follows beck with on the piano alfred trumpler m e 40 violin accom pained by donald r schoen arts 41 and james w woods eng 43 vocal the program which was su pervised by dr t edgar shields director of music closed with the alma mater following the concert 30 coup les danced to the music of the le high collegians from 10 p m to 12:30 a m dr and mrs shields were chaperons addresses jewish group soph 2 frosh put on pro with his nose to the grindstone and his shoulder to the wheel peter turgeon arts 43 is shown in the center with prof j adelthorpe mibbs harry gunnison arts 41 who is giving his inquiring in terviewer a treatment with the brain machine a figment of the professor's imagination a former sydney m brown professor of european history spoke to the members of the center youth group at the brith sholom com munity center last friday evening brown's subject was civilizations their rise and fall in which he traced the highlights o f various eras explaining the causes of their ascensions and ulitmate downfalls the student chemical society has nominated the following men for president john beriont ch e 41 philip g foust ch e 41 and john d mettler ch e 41 for vice-president charles h carter chem 41 keron m man ion ch e 41 and robert m shepherd ch e 41 for secretary george e elliot ch e 42 and frank e smith ch e 42 for treasurer ernest gamble jr ch e 42 robert r macy ch e 42 and john s saylor ch e 42 voting will be done by the ware preferential system the election will take place during the week of may 13-17 one sophomore and two fresh men have been dropped from eng lish 2 with loss of credit and have been placed on disciplinary pro bation until june 1941 by the dis ciplinary committee announced dean wray h congdon yesterday the action was taken because of plagarism in long term papers president of lehigh in the form of cam bradley 38 on the left nods his head in approval all this is from university show by david hughes 39 and eric weiss 39 graduate student which was pre sented sunday night at the maennerchor brown and white photo the engagement of miss janet k laros of easton to william s thompson former graduate stu dent was announced on saturday thompson is now employed in the accounting department of the bethlehem steel company the engagement of miss may elizabeth lindstrom of bethlehem to matthew k morris i e 40 of bethlehem was announced the engagement of miss mary malloy of bethlehem to frank n stanley jr 38 was announced saturday at a party mr stanley is now manager of the poughkeep sie n v office of the monroe cal culating machine company bethlehem pa tuesday may 14 1940 heads musicians 18 are initiated intopimuepsilon honorary to hold banquet thursday no 11 o'clock thursday price — five cents navy aviation surgeon will examine seniors vol xlvii — no 52 i f council makes plans for dad's day phi eta sigma will initiate 11 rights to speak leaders to get cups awards at flag pole brown and white callen fort address group at annual banquet all classes meeting at 11 a m thursday will be suspended so that students may attend the annual flagpole meeting dean wray h congdon announced today fraternity fire escapes are demanded again by harrisburg z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association auihs lehigh news firrt