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              dancing will begin at ten o'clock and end at two o'clock refresh ments will be served and all the necessary trimmings will be avail able to insure a joyous evening ac cording to duncan the inter-dormitory council vo ted its full cooperation with the dads day program on november 9 duncan stated gipson addresses penna historians actors to give 2 new plays parade to protest 3rd term for f r the american revolution is topic of speech cast of i killed the count is announced 75 try for workshop roles g o p sponsoring rally c.r.a to participate previously dads day was held separately by each living group this year is the first time it will be held as an all university affair the committee making the ar rangements is composed of the following pres c c williams william a cornelius chairman of the 75th anniversary committee roy s zachary arts 41 president of the interfraternity council wil bur chase jr bus 41 president of the interdormitory council al bert e lee jr ch e 41 presi dent of arcadia william f haus erman i e 41 captain of the football team glen w harmeson director of athletics and charles j moravec assistant in journalism fathers will be the guests of their sons fraternities for dinner while the dorm groups will make similar arrangements all students wishing to obtain seats with their dads at the muh lerlberg game may do so by pre senting their athletic books and paying the tax and the price of one admission arrangements will be made for the dads of football play ers to sit immediately behind them in the stands plans to hold an all university dads day on nov 9 were made by a special committee which met monday afternoon in the office of pres c c williams visiting fa thers will be free to attend classes with their sons in the morning a buffet luncheon will be served at 12 30 in the armory and in drown hall gridders to play mules dad's will have chance to see sons at work living group hosts plans drawn for first l u father's day price — five cents above are shown the first shift of fraternity and dormitory fresh men huddled early last evening in the dimly lighted confines of the ticket office hallway in taylor gymnasium they awaited the opening of the ticket office at 8 o'clock this morning so they could buy football tickets for their living group members and their dates as far as we know the first frosh arrived outside taylor gym about 6:30 o'clock last evening several shifts of fellow sympathizers un doubtedly replaced them during the night what price houseparty to deliver paper talk at conclave new musical group formed doan stoughton go west for research confab lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment addressed the pennsyl vania historical association at its annual banquet held october 18 and 19 at state college the talk was entitled some reflections upon the american revolution professor gipson's address dealt chiefly with certain traditional misconceptions in the relations that existed between the american col onies and great britain before the crisis last year professor gipson was elected president of the pennsyl vania historical association for a three-year term of office the association organized at le high university in 1933 for pur poses of supporting high stand ards of achievement in historical work particularly as it relates to pennsylvania publishes a quar terly magazine called the penn sylvania history lehigh u chorus is new organization built on double quartet invited to hear mit accountant professors attend carnegie meeting lehigh republican sympathizers who own automobiles are invited to join the no third term day parade tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the corner of center and broad streets according to nelson r clark jr i e 42 president of the college republican club the parade is being sponsored by the bethlehem republican com mittee and the willkie club in con junction with the national demon stration it is hoped that the par ade of motor vehicles will stretch for more than a mile the plans at the present time indicate that there will be music to enliven the festivities the parade is expected to swing down broad street to the west side of town then over the hill to hill bridge through the main streets of south bethlehem and then back to the north side wendell l willkie republican candidate for president is sched uled to speak over a radio network at 10:30 p m wednesday evening from the herald tribune forum in new york city to climax no third term day palmer thomas journey north for conference freshman contest makes newsreel two new plays i killed the count by alec coppell and two on an island by elmer rice will be produced by mustard and cheese and the dramatic work shop this year according to al bert a rights director of drama tics the entire cast of i killed the count also was announced and includes h de jongh 44 as count mattroni jean post as polly george w wolfsten jr arts 43 as inspector davidson david barnecott bus 41 as de tective raines peter prudden jr bus 41 as martin ann ellis as louise rogers myrtle goodman as renee la lune lynn c bartlett arts 43 as samuel diamond jo seph heller 44 as johnson ira l fisher bus 43 as mullet samuel r walker bus 42 as bernard k froy and william r sultzer arts 43 as viscount sorrington due to the unusual number of contestants numbering 75 including 25 freshmen for the parts of boy meets girl and i killed the count it was necessary to select a third play for production accord ing to rights two on an island j by elmer rice was selected the cast for the new play has not yet been completely filled but the main characters include rita shafer as mary ward kenneth h norris eng 43 as john thomp son robert n gusdorff bus 42 as clifton ross laura stehly as mrs dora levy william b mc connel bus 41 as frederic win throp and joseph p larkin bus 43 as lawrence ormont other members of the cast will be an nounced at a later date describes bridge students are invited to hear wy man p fiske professor account ing at massachusetts institute of technology at 8 15 o'clock thurs day evening at hotel easton announced carl e allen asso ciate professor of accounting and president of the local chapter of cost accountants fiske will speak at the monthly meeting of the lehigh valley chap ter of the national association of cost accountants his subject will be modern trends in account ing the speaker was to have ap peared at the last monthly meet ing of the association held in beth lehem sept 27 but was unable to attend due to illness preceeding the technical meeting will be a reception and dinner be ginning at 6:30 allen said gilbert e doan head of the de partment of metallurgical engin eering and bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engin eering will attend a metallurgical convention this week in cleveland doan will present a paper on the formation of craters in electrical arc welding it was written in col laboration with roy e lorentz jr a graduate student stoughton in his capacity as vice president of the american so ciety for metals will address a meeting of the american gas as sociation at the convention elbert m mahla and marion roland graduate students will at tend a luncheon conference of the american welding society to dis cuss their research project the weldability of alloys their expen ses are being paid for by the so ciety the main speaker at the con vention will be general hugh s johnson who will deliver an ad dress on current events lehigh quartet performs at st luke's graduation durkee speaks to c e.s on baton rouge span carothers plans talk on debating commander edward ellsberg retired naval officer will speak on defending america at the first lecture meeting of the engineer's club of the lehigh valley the meeting will be held at 8 p m tuesday oct 29 in broughal audi torium special guest tickets may be obtained by club members at room 309 union bank building bethlehem the engineers club is continuing its policy in having at least one lecture meeting devoted to import ant national affairs it was decided to have commander ellsberg speak on the subject of national defense because of his experience in that field technical experts have said that commander ellsberg has accom plished the impossible in his tech nique in locating and raising the hulks of wrecked ships his salvag ing career started during the world war when he was appointed su pervisor in the new york navy yard to direct the conversion of captured german liners into trans port ships after this success he rebuilt ad miral dewey's flagship the olym pia into a convoy cruiser he then built and launched the super dreadnought tennessee after the war he ceased his sal vaging activities to take up naval engineering at th boston navy yard there he designed built and repaired many naval vessles in 1924 he redesigned the forced draft ventilating systems on the leviathan is popular author in addition to his various accom plishments in the navy command er ellsberg is a well-known author critics have praised him for ini tiating a new trend in populariz ing subjects which are usually technical his first book on the bottom was published in 1929 it tells the story of the salvage of the s-51 in 1930 thirty fathoms deep appeared and overnight became a best seller pigboats which was made into a movie entitled hell below appeared in 1931 due to his experience in the navy commander ellsberg is well-equipped to answer such questions as where do america's real defense lines lie how far at sea must we go to defend oursel ves must our defense plans ne cessarily include the phillipine is lands guam and other islands in the pacific what part has the na val air force in the national de fense commander ellsberg spoke at lehigh in april 1939 on the fa mous delong expedition of 1879 to the arctic a new movie release of the most beautiful freshman con test held at the smoker preceeding the rutgers football game may soon be shown throughout the state by pennsylvania pictures a recently organized film company according to michael shlifka of bethlehem organizer of the com pany seeking a typical college life interest angle shlifka with his crew of cameramen came to le high on saturday noon to film a re-enactment of the contest he filmed pictures of the actual con test and of three moravian girl judges measuring william rankin bus winner of the contest and close-ups of rankin and the three judges a group of d u.s and psi u.s provided a background for the short the carnegie foundation for teaching held a conference on oc tober 13 14 and 15 at lake mo hunk house ulster county new york to discuss the graduate re cord examinations sponsored last year by the foundation according to philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science dean palmer and harold p thomas head of the department of education represented lehigh at the conference during the monday afternoon and evening sessions of the con ference a careful inquiry into the validity and usefulness of the grad uate examinations was made said palmer the general conclusion of the discussion was that the senior examinations are a valuable aid in determining a student's fitness for graduate work provided they are used as corraborative evidence in addition to the student's scholastic record his comprehensive examin ation and the recommendation of his teachers a history of tau beta pi nation al honorary engineering society is being completed by edwin s stackhouse 86 for the national association of tau beta pi pre-meds see operation performed at hospital the lehigh university chorus a new organization built around the university double quartet was formed as a result of a large turn out for the quartet tryouts held wednesday night according to willard a litzenberger arts 41 student glee club leader the chor us was formed as a result of the exceptionally fine talent and coop eration displayed at the tryouts membership is never to be less than eight nor more than 16 the following students were chosen for the double quartet ist tenors harry f jones bus 41 james m phelan ch e 41 2nd tenors philip g foust ch e 41 edward b annett e e 41 ist basses floyd e ivey ch e 41 willard a litzenberger arts 41 2nd basses james w woods eng 43 frank a zimmerman bus 41 the chorus consists of the double quartet plus the following stu dents ist tenors k h smith 44 william r williams arts 43 2nd tenors b summers 44 frank e smith ch e 42 ist basses rich ard b palmer arts 43 ressler 44 the 2nd basses have not been selected yet the double quartet and the chor us will practice after the regular glee club rehearsal tomorrow night in drown hall light engineers scheduled to talk surgeon to speak r w hall a.e.d to hear morrissey plan dance the value of debating is the title of a talk to be given by dr neil carothers dean of the busi ness college at the smoker to be given by delta omicron theta honorary debating society at 8 p m tomorrow night in the faculty dining room downstairs in drown hall the program will also include a discussion of intramural debating a review of the scope of delta omi cron theta and the planning of a program for intercollegiate debat ing the meeting will be concluded by a registration for intermural debating competition alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-medical society held an open meeting last tuesday and a motion picture the treatment of appen dicitis was shown friday morning six members of the robert w hall pre-medical society witnessed a three hour op eration at st luke's hospital per formed by dr william estes jr an alumnus of lehigh the society will present dr james e morris sey as guest speaker at its next regular meeting at 7:30 p m thursday a special double quartet of glee club members sang last friday night at the broughal high school auditorium for the graduation ex ercises of the st luke's hospital nursing school songs by victor herbert and gilbert and sullivan were featured on the program the quartet consisted of the fol lowing ist tenors harry f jones bus 41 frank e smith ch e 42 2nd tenors anthony m kar wacki e m 41 philip j foust ch e 41 ist basses richard e slee arts 41 willard a litzen berger arts 41 2nd basses james e woods eng 43 richard o marsten e m 41 selections rendered were sweethearts victor herbert then and now and student logic frederick smith chorus of the pirates gilbert and sul livan and dance my comrades richard bennett congdon rules on frosh houseparty lists due wednesday noon seniors to file job cards two lectures will be sponsored jointly by the university and the illuminating engineering society at 8 p m on oct 28 and nov 4 in packard auditorium the first lecture to be presented by willard brown illuminating engineer for the general electric company will be on modern light sources and the second to be presented by samuel hibben director of applied lighting of the westinghouse electric and manu facturing company will be on light control no admission will be charged for these lectures e leland durkee resident en gineer of the bethlehem steel com pany gave a talk last thursday in fritz laboratory on the construc tion of the baton rouge bridge in louisiana to the members of the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers mr durkee showed slides which gave details of the bridge the bridge is one of the three cantilev er bridges of its type in the world a series of tests and demonstra tions followed the talk the dem onstrations included a torsion test by the seniors and a tension test by howad j godfrey engineer of tests arthur t ippen assistant professor of civil engineering con ducted a tour of the hydraulics la boratory and described the action of model spillways future meetings will deal with highways hydraulics structures and sanitary engineering two other tentative scheduled events are a christmas party and a picnic harry g payrow assistant pro fessor of sanitary engineering gave the freshmen guests information on the student chapter of the so ciety and its relation to its parent chapter in new york sportsmen watch hawks miners hear geologist seven members of the sports man's club climbed hawk moun tain friday to watch the migration of the hawks the hawks alight on the 15,000 ft mountain on their way south during the months of september and november at this same meeting will occur the pledging of new men to alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-med ical society dr e james morrissey ortho pedric surgeon of st luke's hos pital will speak on orthopedric surgery at an open meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society to be held thursday evening at 7:30 in room 416 packard laboratory the lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides it has also been announced that the r w hall society and alpha epsilon delta will be the guests of the nurses of the st luke's hospi tal training school at a joint dance to be held december 14 at the nur ses home according o frederick r gilmore arts 41 president of the former society houseparty lists from all liv ing groups should be turned in by noon wednesday at room 305 christmas-saucon hall to insure their publication by the brown and white the lists should have names of all guests and their home towns names of all chaperones and their home towns and the name of the house dance orchestra the list should be typed dean wray h congdon has announced that sophomores are not to enforce discipline on the freshmen sophomores are to report the disobedient freshmen to the disciplinary committee of cyanide junior honorary soci ety appropriate action will be taken by the committee on thursday the initiation banquet of cyanide will be held at the phi gamma delta frater nity house w l cummings chief geologist of the bethlehem steel company gave an address thursday evening to the mining and geological so ciety concerning the recent search for new iron ore fields e robins morgan director of placement sent to all seniors cards which have to be filled out and re turned to the placement bureau however students in different de partments will register in different ways and should consult with their department heads as to the proper method of registering the cards are to be placed on file in the office of the placement bureau they will be referred to in aiding seniors to find jobs after graduation lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 22 1940 frosh suffer for dates cheerleaders compose yell for weekend game collegians to play for dorm dance vol xlviii — no 9 lafferty reports on failing frosh sub salvager will address engineers club lehigh valley men to hear commander ellsberg at broughal on oct 29 to discuss u.s defense a new cheer will be initiated next saturday at the hampden sydney game according to head cheerleader robert ritchings c e 41 the cheerleaders urge everyone to learn this cheer so that it will be effective it is fundamentally of the standard skyrocket variety and will be known as the skyrocket team the words are as fol lows long whistle boom ! ! ! ! yea-a-a-a .... team ! theodoroe t lafferty associate professor of education spoke be fore the faculty education club yesterday afternoon in the faculty room of the administration build ing his subject was remedial work for delinquent freshmen lafferty pointed out that recent experimental results taken on this problem have been successful and effective percy hughes clara h steward son professor of philosophy pre sided at the meeting the arrangements for a dance to be held saturday at the armory were planned by the inter-dormi tory council at a meeting held last night according to roy l duncan jr m e 42 secretary of the so ciety music will be furnished by the lehigh collegians all the lehigh neivs first coming up | wednesday 4:00 p m varsity soccer rut gers home 7:30 p m — glee club rehearsal in drown hall camera club in 208 packard lab 8:00 p m — debating society smoker faculty dining room drown hall thursday 4:00 p m — hockey club 258 packard lab 7:30 p m r w hall pre medical society in 416 pack ard lab pi tau sigma smoker in 262 packard lab friday 2:00 p m — industrial applica tions of plastics-symposium 3:30 p m — freshman football rutgers home junior varsity football rut gers away 4:00 p m — houseparty week end begins member intercollegiate newspaper association