Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 23

              committee defers affair after clash is found with other events gerig will act asj critic moravian participates nurses are hostesses to future docs ah dates on thursday quizzes given as excuse course societies to cover 2 counties in travel to party sites call made to notre dame to cancel larson's appointment here signed producer's office was the background for most of the action the first scene of act iii was played downstage in front of a white drop representing a hospital corridor for two other scenes the tattered broughal high curtains remained closed while a radio broadcast and movie preview informed the audience of what was happening except in a few cases the re mainder of the cast was adequate kilborun gordon jr bus 42 con tributed a western drawl for his role of a cowboy star while ed ward l blossom jr arts 44 at tempted a cambridge accent to play the extra who wins the lit tle waitress abram samuels bus 42 as a hack song writer warbled songs with all the corn required while sandor mark c e 42 as his partner pounded on the piano the play's ending which called for a blare of trumpets fell some what flat but it detracted only slightly from the rest of the pro duction a comedy with a distinct appeal to students boy meets girl was a fine choice to get le high's drama season off to an au spicious start by tom c mekeel over 1000 people saw a fast paced version of boy meets girl mustard and cheese's first produc tion of the year saturday night in broughal high school auditorium the play sharply satirical of hol lywood and its false glitter was well supplied with humorous situ ations and belly-laughs the most animated actors on the stage were those who had the prin cipal roles in the proceedings con rad e kluger arts 42 and rich ard j berg arts 42 playing the two screwball writers around whom most of the action centers they made the most of the comedy already in samuel and bella spe wack's script robert n gusdorf bus 42 as the harassed producer of quickies was a good foil for kluger and berg moravians gift to mustard and cheese anna marie rons contri buted a good characterization of the heroine a naive studio waitress whose baby proves to be a gold mine for royal studios the hand of director albert a rights was evident throughout the play in general the cast acted at a rapid-fire staccato speed with pauses only for laughs a well-de record broken by interviews 3 fraternities entertain boys interview rate reaches normal for february highest since 29 invite 98 underprivileged to christmas parties santa claus appears by h william shawhan twenty future doctors went with high hopes to the st luke's hospi tal nursing home saturday night twenty future nurses awaited them with hopes equally high it was a blind date affair the occa sion being the first dance which the potential members of the medical profession have held together the nurses home was brightly decorated with red and green crepe paper and the floor was brightly waxed due to the efforts of a com mittee of pre-meds consisting of bernard a briody arts 41 rob ert e rowand arts 42 and irvin w gilmore arts 44 drop the broomstick the dance began at 8 15 the student nurses and doctors partici pated with strenuous endeavor in games of drop the broomstick and paul jones the continuous changing of partners served as a medium for the making of acquain tances all around this accomplish ed the stage was well set for lots of fun time out was declared at eleven oclock for sandwiches cookies and coffee prepared by the nurses re freshments over a victrola hookup furnished music for dancing until the party ended at midnight three instead of one the general consensus of opin ion was that the dance was such a success that it should be followed by another one as soon as poss ible said willard a litzenberger arts 41 vice-president of the robert w hall pre-medical soci ety who was in charge of the ar rangements for the dance in con junction with miss loretta kraw bath and miss geneva zimny stu dent nurses fred r gilmore arts 41 president of the pre-med soci ety said of the dance it was very successful surprisingly so for the first time i went hoping to meet some nurse that i would find in teresting the trouble was i met three dr basil w parker instructor in biology and mrs parker ac companied the pre-meds to the dance as chaperones miss mar garet haldeman miss nanette robertson and miss florence alli son of the nurse's home also chap eroned the affair a capacity crowd of students and townspeople filled the packer memorial chapel sunday afternoon for lehigh's first christmas pro gram presented by the glee clubs of lehigh and the moravian col lege for women accompanied by the lehigh symphony orchestra the program sponsored by the combined musical clubs with the help of tone honorary musical society was under the direction f dr t edgar shields director of music mrs s p goodrich of mor avian college directed the morav ian glee club in its numbers following the prelude shep herd dance by edward german by the orchestra and the proces sional o come all ye faithful greetings were extended by dr shields in his talk dr shields ex pressed his satisfaction and appre ciation at the large audience and said that he hoped the carol ser vice wil grow into an annual tra dition at lehigh as it has at neigh boring schools he also expressed gratitude to the moravian glee club for their part in the program beardslee reads after three selections by the moravian club dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy read the christmas story from the scriptures which was interspersed at various points with the singing of popular carols by both glee clubs and the audience jesu rufe mich the carol from which beth lehem was named and jesu joy of man's desiring were sung by the combined glee clubs and the lehigh glee club sang " o holy night with kenneth h smith e e 42 as tenor soloist judging from comments after ward the audience was highly pleased with the program dr beardslee said i thought the pro gram was magnificent both glee clubs and the orchestra deserve an immense amount of credit over 120 men and women com prised the two glee clubs more than 100 was received in the off ering which will be used to buy vestments for the glee club mrs goodrich said that she was very pleased with the program and is looking forward to having an other next year willard a litz enberger arts 41 student glee club leader expressed the pleasure of the glee club officers at the large number of students attending christmas parties and banquets will be held by seven societies on thursday first of all the chemical society will hold its annual christmas ban quet thursday at 6 p m in the masonic temple with the custom ary program of a speaker the banquet is the only oppor tunity for students and faculty of the chemistry department to gath er socially and virtually everyone in the department is expected to attend professor alpha a diefenderfer in charge of tickets and reserva tions expects about 280 students faculty and guests to attend the principal speaker will be re augustus a welch president of the bethlehem rotary club and pastor of the reform church of bethlehem among the guests will be presi dent clement c williams dean wray h congdon a copeland callen dean of the college of en gineering and general frank d beary chairman of the committee for the restoration of historical flags in pennsylvania last year's main speaker pre-meds to hear satire dr h a rothrock pathologist at st luke's hospital bethlehem will give a talk on new methods of teaching or a take-off on biology at the initiation banquet of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre - medical society at new shankweiler's restaurant fogels ville pa dr rothrock's talk ill ustrated with slides will be a sa tire on the biological and medical professions the banquet will be held jointly with the r w hall pre-medical society dr maurice l moore national secretary of alpha epsilon delta will be a guest at the banquet and will assist in the intiation of new members the pledges are bernard a briody arts 41 james a members of the societies will meet at williams hall at 5:45 p.m the formal initiation will be held at 7 p m the banquet and an ex change of christmas gifts will pro ceed dr rothrock's talk the placement bureau has been scheduling lehigh seniors for in terviews with industry at a rate unparalleled since 1929 announced e robins morgan director of placement the activity at present is as intense as that heretofore not encountered until february al ready at this writing six compan ies have had 258 interviews with seniors of all curricula latest to call were pratt and whitney aircraft division on wed nesday who sent two men to inter view industrial mechanical and metallurgical engineers business men and artsmen and on thurs day and friday a m rupkey personnel representative of bethle hem steel company was here all day interviewing 60 engineers previously westinghouse elec tric dupont eastman kodak and general chemicals had sent rep resentatives here on one or two particularly busy days interviews were held in the placement office the interview room in the alumni building and even in packard lab oratory the interviews extended from 20 minutes for each senior with the general chemicals repre sentative to 10 minutes with west inghouse electric the fifteenth annual session of the middle atlantic conference of the model league of nations as sembly in which lehigh will rep resent mexico will be held here march 28-29 1941 according to richard a ware arts 41 secre tary-general the purpose of the assembly will be to propose concrete methods of constructing a new world order under the assumption that in march " a total victory will not have been won by either side in the present conflict and that conditions will be such that a peace with jus tice can be negotiated 4 commissions the agenda of the assembly whose president is howard n golden of new york university will be based as far as possible up on the general principles agreed upon at the hobart assembly of last march and will be divided among four commissions these commissions are the inter-amer ican with charlotte luttrell of william smith college as chairman and ruth kroneman of wilson col lege as rapporteur the european commission with eleanor smith of moravian college for women as chairman and edward l smith of temple as rapporteur the far eastern commission with stanley nehmer of the city college of new york as chairman and fritzie nis enson of the university of penn sylvania as rapporteur and the global commission with frederick golden of bucknell as chairman and leon d silverman of brooklyn college as rapporteur gerig to be critic dr benjamin gerig formerly high commissioner of the league of nations pavilion at the world's fair and now a member of the faculty of haverford college will act as the critic of the assembly nineteen colleges will take part in the proceedings of the model league each college representing a different country the colleges and the countries they will repre sent follow university of buffalo great britain ursinus brazil bryn mawr the united states brooklyn college the netherlands city college of new york france bucknell germany university of pennsylvania china hobart and william smith russia temple rumania long island university italy wilson argentina beaver finland muhlenberg japan mor avian college for women turkey lafayette spain new york uni versity yugoslavia haverford czechoslovakia lehigh mexico and columbia eire continued on page four embryo diplomats to attend meeting as lehigh moravian singers unite in carol service international relationists to meet at georgetown philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and sciences and robert p more associate profes sor of german will attend the con vention of the model language as sociation on december 26 27 and 28 at boston the senior class banquet has been postponed yesterday afternoon the senior banquet committee announced that because of conflicting pro grams it would be impossible to hold the senior banquet at the scheduled time as yet no other date has been set the committee originally planned to hold the ban quet in the masonic temple wed nesday evening dec 18 with ma jor emery e swede larson head football coach at the united states naval academy as the main speaker last night however in a late long-distance call to major larson the university expressed its regret that the senior class could not present him at their banquet be cause of the unavoidable circum stances it was explained to major larson that the senior class would hold their banquet in february and hoped he would be able to at tend then committee issues statement the senior class banquet has been postponed a statement from the banquet committee said be cause of the multiplicity of coming events namely social and frater nity banquets parties a basketball game quizzes and placement in terviews the committee feels that the banquet is important enough to warrant the postponement of the affair until a better attendance is possible tickets already sold the state ment continued can either be re funded or held until the banquet date in february the committee profers its apologies to all those who will suffer any inconvenience due to its postponement the committee consists of rob ert i felch i e chairman j dukes wooters bus john c att wood arts robert e malinowski met e and donald a bender ch e larson on speaking tour major larson is now on an ex tended speaking tour last night he spoke at the notre dame foot ball banquet in south bend ind he is scheduled to speak in buffalo tonight from there he was to have come to bethlehem by train arriv ing here at 6 p m tomorrow the banquet committee was in formed by albert e lee ch e 41 that the banquet could not be held the committee immediately made plans to inform major lar son of the situation at 10 p m last night larson was finally reached at his hotel in south bend ind where he had spoken at notre dame he made no comment all expenses incurred by larson due to the postponement will be paid him by the senior class delta sigs host at annual convention about 100 underprivileged boys between the ages of five and twelve were or will be entertained at christmas parties by alpha chi rho lambda chi alpha beta theta pi and sigma phi epsilon social fraternities the names of deserving boys were obtained from the bethlehem boys club the family welfare association the visiting nurse association and the salvation army alpha chi rho 500 linden street entertained about 36 young sters on friday evening games were played and prizes were awarded each boy was given a bag filled with fruit candy nuts and canned goods santa claus was played by john horn graduate of penn state in 1929 horn is an em ployee of the bethlehem steel company the boys were entertained by the bethlehem boys club hill billy band and the tricks of harry whitenight magician from allen town those arranging the program were albert w foster bus 42 richard p smith i e 42 and mr horn lambda chi alpha 515 dela ware avenue will entertain about twenty boys this evening they will be served a turkey dinner at the house and treated to a movie at the college theatre beta theta pi lehigh campus will have about thirty boys for dinner and games this evening santa claus will be played by jo seph p larkin iii bus 42 sigma phi epsilon 61 w mar ket street will entertain twelve boys on wednesday evening they will be served dinner and given gifts there will be a magic show and robert m bowman i e 42 will play santa claus most of the other fraternities will hold private christmas par ties in the chaper houses honorary initiates 7 new members four lehigh men will attend the international relations clubs mid dle atlantic conference to be held december 20-21 at georgetown university washington d c an nounced wilson leon godshall as sociate professor of diplomatic history and international relations and faculty adviser of the local club delegates will include welles r bliss arts 42 secretary john f hamblin jr arts 41 president and vice-president of the confer ence john m hood i e 41 and wallace r wirths bus 42 round table discussions on the european theatre of war our neighbors to the south power and policies in the orient and democracy will feature the con ference bliss will lead the discussion on an equitable solution for the problems of europe one of three discussions under the round table european theatre of war hamblin will be chairman of the round table power and policies in the orient the lehigh chapter of delta sigma phi social fraternity was the host on saturday and sunday to 40 delegates from six other colleges at the annual district meeting of the fraternity activities started saturday af ternoon with a general assembly of all delegates discussion groups were then formed late in the af ternoon the groups assembled at the saucon valley country club for a general discussion a dinner dance featuring harry romig's orchestra was held in the evening the proceedings were ad journed early sunday afternoon after a brief meeting of the dele gates marcus sharpe general sec retary of the national organization and dr ralph b hess of bethle hem district deputy were pres ent at the meeting eta sigma phi honorary class ical society met last thursday ev ening at the home of horace w wright head of the department of latin one hundred twenty men and women of the le high and moravian college for women glee clubs join voices in sunday's christmas carol service in packer memorial chapel directing them is dr t edgar shields professor of music with the accom paniment of the lehigh symphony orchestra chap lain claude g beardslee read the story of chris tmas from the scriptures during the body of the service capacity attendance at the service virtually as sured the service's continuation in future years say glee club leaders the offering taken is to be used to purchase uniform vestments for the lehigh glee club seven men were initiated into alpha kappa psi honorary busi ness administration society at a dinner-meeting held at alpha tau omega sunday evening the men initiated were filmore o frye william e scott roger williams seniors and john h milbank richard m palmer pres ton w parvis and arthur h rich juniors dr ward l bishop associate professor of finance spoke on the history and purposes of the society and what present members can do to fulfill these purposes also pres ent was prof a copeland callen dean of the college of engineer ing lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday december 17 1940 price — five cents 1000 see boy meets girv play termed fine choice vol xlviii no 23 carolers sing before 900 in joint service senior banquet is postponed due to conflicting programs 7 groups plan xmas socials model league to meet here march 28-29 chapel filled to capacity for club's 1st annual concert sunday 19 easter u universities to send delegations in easier holidays pre-meds play usual program to feature annual chem banquet at masonic temple coming up . • . today 4:00 p m — beta theta pi chil dren's party at the chapter house 4:15 p m — alpha epsilon delta meeting in room 218 wil liams hall 7:30 p m — pi mu epsilon meet ing room 208 packard lab oratory 7:30 p m — freshman banquet committee meeting room 416 packard laboratory 7:30 p m — sigma xi meeting drown hall auditorium wednesday 7:30 p m — varsity basketball scranton away 7:30 p m — intramural debating richards house lounge thursday 4:00 p m — hockey club meet ing room 258 packard lab oratory 7:45 p m — physics society meet ing 310 physics building and sophomore laboratory all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612