Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 29

              rotc seniors must expect call to duty after graduation seniors plan big program for banquet no play on saturday applications for deferment must be filed by each reserve officer discussion of future plans will be included in dinner speaches all negro mixed chorus coming here feb 21 will sing spirituals 92 students are affected interest in music began in college ; formed orchestra himself this week's bulletin erron eously announced that mustard and cheese would present the play two on an island feb 15 the true date for this pro duction is march 15 the other two scheduled plays will fol low in april and may i.f ball tickets on sale tickets go on sale soon to perform in broughal 1669 enroll 2nd semester 119 students registered in graduate school ; 146 men on pro dr bradley stoughton members of the r o t c units who anticipate graduation and the acceptance of a commission as a reserve officer should expect to be called for one year active service in the army within 30 to 60 days after graduation unless granted a deferment according to col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics ninety-two military seniors will be called to state whether or not they desire deferment of order of extended duty in the army leon ard said an application has been distributed on which each man will state the length and reasons for deferment in most cases this application will apply to pre-medical and pre law students who expect to go to graduate school and will want 3 to 4 years time-extension whether these men will be granted defer ment will not be known until about june 1 commissions will be ac cepted on or about may 21 this action is to aid the united states government in building its army to a strength of 1,500,00 men in this program about 60,000 re serve officers will be needed ap proximately 9,000 to 10,000 eligi ble men will graduate from col leges in the united states this year meeting of this section on metal lurgical problems was held today at the carnegie institution building in the capital and professor stoughton was there he made the trip last night by train the request for professor stoughton to head the important section on heat treating equip ment came from mason britton of the machine tool division who wrote that professor stoughton is the best man in the country to head this section because of his thorough knowledge of equip ment industry and personnel of manufacturers after a furlough of more than 20 years bradley stoughton pro fessor of metallurgy is back on the job today as a part-time dollar-a year technical expert for the uni ted states as in 1917-'lb professor stough ton has been asked to serve the nation in connection with national defense in world war i professor stoughton was a member of the general engineering committee of the national council of defense and head of the metallurgical di vision and later vice chairman of the engineering division of the na tional research council and again he has two jobs ac cording to announcement today by president clement c williams professor stoughton has been granted university permission to serve 1 as head of the section on heat treating equipment in the office of production management advisory committee to the coun cil of national defense and 2 as a member of the section on metal lurgical problems of the national defense research committee in fulfilling the obligations of his first assignment professor stoughton will spend thursday and friday of each week in washing ton starting thursday as soon as school closes in june he will spend nearly all week in washington and commute to bethlehem for the week-ends in connection with his second assignment he will go to wash ington only upon call the first lehigh bachelor features if ball 10 openings exist in caa 6 pages devoted to dates to appear this week 3 - car accident injures senior latest figures received today from the registrars office showed that 1669 students 80 less than the number for the first semester had completed registration of the 1669 total 26 are new men making 1643 of the original first semester registrants re-regis tered for the second semester and 106 dropped out one hundred nineteen graduate students regis tered this semester according to the latest tentative figures released today by dean wray h congdon 45 freshmen were placed on probation and the status of 17 freshmen was left to be determined of the upper class men in good standing last semes ter 101 were placed on probation this semester and the status of 26 men is yet to be determined seventy-two students who were on probation last semester have been removed from probation and will continue in good standing while seven will continue on pro bation for another semester twen ty-two men have been dropped and the condition of six will be determined later basic advanced positions available ; graduates with air schools possible skull fracture sustained by klopp in sellersville crash the fifth event of this year's stu dent concerts-lectures series will be the eva jessye choir a nation ally known negro mixed voice chorus the concert will be pre sented at 8:15 p m friday feb 21 in broughal high school auditor ium the choir will present a program of negro spirituals and modern american favorites such as mem phis blues shortnin bread and summertime the eva jessye choir was a con tributing factor to the extended broadway run and cross-country tour of george gershwin's folk opera porgy and bess they also sang in gertrude stein's opera four saints in three acts the group has obtained a record in many fields including the the atre concert hall motion picture radio and opera they received favorable criticism for their work in the first negro talking film hallelujah and king vidor's uncle tom's cabin which had a nine week run on broadway made many recordings they have recorded for victor and columbia in support of such stars as lawrence tibbett and hel en jepson recently they perform ed with paul robeson on the co lumbia broadcasting system's pro gram forecast in addition they have made three appearances with the new york philharmonic or chestra before audiences of 20,000 or more their latest work is an al bum from porgy and bess re leased by decca miss eva jessye an expert on harmonics and distinguished com poser and arranger began her ca reer in the musical world 25 years ago she wrote the theme for uncle tom's cabin and directed the music in four saints in three acts typhoid injections are compulsory the double quartette of the le high glee club under the direc tion of willard a litzenberger arts 41 will sing at the senior banquet to be held at 6:30 p m thursday feb 27 at the masonic temple major emery swede larson head football coach of the united states naval academy will be the principal speaker of the evening the program will include a dis cussion on class day and com mencement day exercises the class gift and class treasury profits these are to be supplemented by short speeches tickets will be on sale soon un der the direction of donald a bender ch e 41 they will be priced at one dollar each congdon to speak dean wray h congdon will speak on class and commence ment day exercises and as pre viously planned walter r okeson vice president of the university will lead the discussion on choos ing the class gift the parley will include what is to be done with the profits from the class treasury and with the discussion will be given the treasury report by augustus a riemondy ch e 41 e robins morgan director of placement will speak on senior placement major larson is expected to speak for about 30 minutes ac cording to robert i felch i e 41 chairman of the committee presi dent clement c williams will be present the committee hopes to make the time of the banquet as limited as possible besides felch the com mittee members are j dukes wooters bus 41 john c att wood arts 41 robert e malin owski met e 41 and bender surveying rotc men must be innoculated marketing society will hold smoker announce meeting cosmopolitan club men to lecture thursday 15 prospective pledges are invited to attend frederick s klopp ch e 41 is in grand view hospital sellers ville suffering from a possible fracture of the skull as a result of a three-car accident saturday night on route 309 according to information receiv ed last night from the hospital klopp's condition was reported as good and he was resting com fortably x-ray pictures taken yesterday would determine the approximate date of his release the hospital authorities reported klopp was an occupant of a car driven by lewis j stock of cata sauqua the stock machine collid ed with two other cars driven by sellersville residents state motor police at quaker town have investigated the acci dent the february issue of the le high bachelor to be circulated the middle of this week will deal al most entirely with the interfrater nity ball editor-in-chief edwin h klein arts 42 announced six pages of the new bachelor are devoted to pictures of dates and facts and figures from all of the fraternity houses a new fea ture this time will be four ping pong sonnets by james k binder arts 41 donald r schoen arts 41 has written the sixth in a series of ar ticles on the football question an other contribution to this month's issue is a satire on daphne dv maurier's rebecca entitled r . . r . r by tom c mekeel arts 42 in addition to the regular car toons features and departments found in the bachelor there is a contribution entitled enigmatic ireland by prof lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government psi upsilon elects okeson will be speaker by george j bluel ' bob chester one of the country's best known band leaders will play for the interfraternity ball which will only have a limited number of non-fraternity men present from 10 to 3 saturday evening at the new empire ballroom it was while attending the uni versity of dayton that chester first became interested in the masters of modern music he had starred as a pitcher on the dayton team and nearly chose the diamond ca reer to one of music upon graduation bob decided to make his own mark he turned down offers of help from his weal thy family and entered the musi cal world he first landed a job with paul specht's band played with him a year and a half and then signed with arnold johnson after johnson bob played with ben pollack irving aaronson ben bernie as well as with other ra dio and recording orchestras has top flight orchestra in 1935 he returned to his home city of detroit got a group of un known musicians together whip ped them into shape and secured a job at the detroit athletic club which lasted for eight months leaving no section of the country unaware of his prowess he has played at many of the country's night spots and has been definitely slated for a top spot among the na tion's orchestras betty bradley who has been singing with orchestras appearing in theaters and in movie shorts all her life is chester's featured solo ist tickets to sell at 3.30 those fraternity men who are not going to the ball began turning their tickets in to mrs bowker in the arcadia office in drown hall this morning the tickets will be sold in the order received to any non-fraternity student who wishes to attend the dance each fraternity member turning in his ticket must take it to the office personally and should not sell it privately as it will be sold for the full price of 3.30 at drown hall any tickets left over will be taken to the ball to be sold at the door also at full price each fraternity will have its own furniture at the dance arranged in a horseshoe facing the dance floor and having a sign over it a truck will pick up the furniture saturday morning and transport it to the ballroom dean and mrs wray h cong don dr and mrs claude g beardslee and mr and mrs rob ert a zackary will chaperon the dance shook is dinner speaker george w woelfel c e 41 has been elected president and treas urer of psi upsilon fraternity for the second semester other officers are william t hitchcock arts 42 vice-president jeffrey s wetrich bus 42 secretary ward a det wiler 11 bus 42 corresponding secretary and harry s clarke bus 43 historian andre j leroux arts 44 and louis e sharpe phys 42 will speak on the social life of bel gium and the great pyramid of gizeh respectively at 7:15 p m thursday feb 13 at the cosmo politan club according to thomas fleischer m e 42 secretary leroux lived in belgium during the early part of his life sharpe has made a special study of the pyramids and will tell how they predicted the napoleonic wars the world war and many other events this is one of the regular bi weekly meetings of the club at which members speak on their ex periences in foreign countries anyone interested in these sub jects are invited to attend the regular monthly dinner meeting of cyanide junior honor ary activities society will be held at 6:30 p m thursday at the delta upsilon house walter r okeson 96 secretary and treas urer of the board of trustees will be the guest speaker clarence a shook associate professor of mathematics spoke briefly upon the new atlantis at the regular weekly dinner of the general education program thurs day feb 6 in drown hall faculty gets high marks on rifle range fifteen prospective pledges will attend a smoker given by lambda mv sigma honorary marketing fraternity at 7:30 p m thursday in packard laboratory lounge ac cording to allen m paget bus.'4l president membership to the fraternity is limited to junior business men with a minimum of a two point average for five semesters and a b grade in marketing subjects extra-cur ricular activities will be one of the requirements considered when making selections five of the fif teen men will be initiated into the fraternity at a banquet to be held the last week of february or the first week of march thomas f jones assistant pro fessor of economics will speak on some subject in the marketing field neil carothers dean of the college of business administration and herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology have been invited to at tend the smoker typhoid innoculations will be compulsory for all men attending the summer surveying camp in ad dition to those who will attend the rotc summer camp the univer sity has now ruled the innoculations will be given in two series the first will begin on saturday feb 15 and continue through the two saturdays there after the second series will follow in april the hours for the inno culations are to be from 9 a m to 1 p m all students and faculty men are eligible tor this free service but freshmen who are not compelled to be innoculated must secure written permission from their parents dr raymond c bull director of the student's health service announc ed dr bull advises that those par ticipating in winter sports take the april innoculations and those out for spring sports take the first ser students who might be incon venienced by having an innocula tion during houseparty are advised to sign for the earlier series those who wish to be in this first group must leave their names at the dis pensary before saturday glee club is guest ten openings in primary and sec ondary caa flight training courses are available it was announced by thomas e jackson instructor in mechanical engineering and assist ant instructor in ground training courses five openings exist in the prim ary flight training quota of 30 men there are also five openings in the secondary training quota of 20 men juniors seniors and graduate students to whom the courses are open are asked to apply at room 266 in packard laboratory the primary flight training course requires 35 hours of flying and 72 hours of ground work the university gives four hours credit in the course toward graduation the mechanical engineering de partment is in charge of the ground school course the fee which in cludes insurance a physical exam and the university fee is 25 there is no expense for books ap proximate commercial value of the course is 500 advanced course worth 1000 the secondary flight training course is open only to men who have completed the primary course the requirements are 40 to 50 hours flying in army type training planes and 126 hours of ground work the fee is 34 and the uni versity credit toward graduation is six hours this course which has a commercial value of 1000 is sim ilar to primary stages of army and navy flight training and paves the way to army navy and commer cial flying two graduates of the fall sec ondary courses are now receiving further training in the pilot train ing school of united air lines the two men will then enter the line's service as first officers gordon brandt 40 and frank elliott 40 who took the caa courses are now army pilot-in structors combined musicals hold dance after program seminar hears godfrey on strategic materials stoughton is honored bradley stoughton professor of metallurgy was honored at the an nual stoughton night sponsored friday by the lehigh valley chap ter of the american society for metals the banquet began at 8 p m at the hotel traylor in allentown information please was the fea ture attraction stoughton was the judge and mr m w dalyrymple of the bethlehem steel company was the master of ceremonies sixty girls comprising the bea ver college glee club were guests of the combined musical clubs of lehigh university saturday even ing in drown hall after a singing program in which both clubs participated a formal dance was held to the music of the lehigh collegians willard a litzenberger arts 41 | was in charge of the program and dr t edgar shields directed the lehigh glee club the second floor of drown hall where the dance i was held was decorated with crim son and red streamers and large ! letters proclaimed welcome bea i ver strategic materials was the subject of an address by howard j godfrey engineer of tests be fore the bi-weekly seminar held yesterday in fritz laboratory he discussed a few of the metals that are vital to our national de fense particularly those used in the steel industries and for machine tools godfrey stated that the con dition of supplies in this country at the present time is much better than it was in 1917 since the gov ernment has taken steps to pro vide stock piles and is developing our resources to maximum capa city ten members of the faculty rifle club were the target of the camera for this picture the faculty men and wives were snapped at a recent meeting of the group which fires away at targets at the armory range every tuesday night from december to march left to right are prof rafael soto dr lawrence whitcomb prof and mrs austin r frey mrs soto sgt george f gazda mrs whitcomb mrs samuel pierce dr glenn j christensen and capt william m barrows lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 11 1941 stoughton to aid in defense will be dollar a-year man price — five cents vol xlviii — no 29 chester called band leader of top rank jessye choir will be next in scl series o coining up • • . today 7:30 p m — faculty rifle club armory 7:30 p m — placement talk by robert lambert of the r k laros silk company room 208 packard laboratory wednesday 7:00 p m — freshman basketball lehigh vs muhlenberg home 7:30 p m — intramural debates drinker house lounge 8:30 p m — varsity basketball lehigh vs muhlenberg home thursday 7:30 p m — blake society meet ing professor ford will speak on current trends in psy chology leonard hall 7:30 p m — lambda mv sigma engineers lounge packard laboratory friday 7:30 p m — tone society meet ing r b beckwith will speak on tristan and isolde chapel all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association