Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 51

              speak at first session ye ridlyan magazine takes a first place again the presentation of awards climaxed the eighth annual le high scholastic press conference this afternoon in packard laboratory as 1 8 secondary school publications received winner or second place bronze and mahogany plaques and more than 40 received honorable mention certificates with the distribution of contest wards 400 delegates rep resenting nearly 1 00 high jr high and prep schools in penn sylvania new jersey maryland and virginia marked finis to their visit to lehigh university registration and campus tours beginning at 9 o'clock this morning opened the day's program at 11 a m opening ses sion the delegates were welcomed by president c c williams who was introduced by prof dale h gramley head of the course in journalism at lehigh and director of the press con ference godshall hawley speak dr wilson l godshall asso ciate professor of diplomatic his tory and international relations then addressed them on the im portance of a knowledge of inter national affairs to a journalist and hudson hawley news editor in ternational division national broadcasting company spoke on the field of journalism as viewed by a practicing journalist at 12:30 p m luncheon was served in the university armory after which delegates were free to roam the campus or visit the ex hibition of contest entries and the treasure room in the library from 2 until 3:30 o'clock round table conferences were held in packard laboratory the closing session convened at 3:45 o'clock and the awards were announced and distributed probably the most successful of the 181 contest entries was the ye ridlyan ridley park high school which added another first place plaque in class c magazines to its already long list in mimeo graphed publications the quaker challenge quakertown high school took first place for the sec ond successive year while the shady side news shady side academy pittsburgh and the mercersburg news mercersburg academy mercersburg repeated 7 groups hold round tables students newspapermen faculty men discuss common problems n j honorable mention — brunswick high lights new bruns wick n j high school the hill top star passaic n j senior high school the east side criterion paterson n j east side h s the megaphone philadelphia northeast high school ; the spotlight philadelphia simon gratz high school the acorn upper darby high school the york-high weekly william perm h s york pa class a — magazines enrollment above 1,000 first place — cliveden magazine germantown high school second place — impressions central high school scranton honorable mention — high school record camden n j high school cherry and white williamsport high school canary and blue allentown high school libertas liberty high school bethlehem tech quarterly technical high school scranton class b — newspapers enrollment 500-999 first place — the mirror palmerton high school second place — the cheltonian cheltenham high school honorable mention — the abingtonian abington high school ; the town ship log hazel township high school hazleton ; blue and wlhite news west york high school ; the orange and black eichelberger high school hanover the haven fax schuyl kill haven high school the minaret brentwood high school pittsburgh class b — newspapers enrollment 500-999 first place — th nutshell moorestown n j high school second place — the oracle abington senior high school hon orable mention — the syrer/ade sayre high school ; the ar row ridgewood n j high school the garnet and white west chester high school the school industrialist hershey industrial high school bangor slate bangor high school preparatory school magazines — first place — the beechwood tree scarborough school scarborough second place — the academy monthly german town pa academy honorable mention — the perm charter magazine william perm charter germantown ; the wyvern kingswood school west hartford conn acorns from friendy oaks ahington pa friends school the skirmisher bordentown n j military academy birch leaves birch wathen school new york n y class c — newspapers enrollment up to 499 first place — the blue ace gifardsville high school second place — mount joy hi-crier mount joy high school honorable mention — riverton review wrightsville high school ; the leni-lenapian lehighton high school n c hi times new cumberland high school the littonian echo littlestown high school the leader mahanoy city township high school the b-hi times biglerville high school class c — magazines enrollment up to 499 first place — ye ridlyan ridley park high school second place — the pointer point pleasant bsach n j high school honorable mention — brown and white catasauqua pa high school ; the glen echo codorus township high school glen viiie pa the trumpet south whitehall high school allen town the d h s beacon dallastown high school orange and black galeton high school ; blue and white news west york high school the orange and black eichelberger high school hanover the haven fax schuylkill haven high school the minaret brentwood high school pittsburgh mimeographed publications first place — quaker challenge quakertown high school sec ond place — tie salt and pepper sellersville-perkasie high school and becahi bethlehem catholic high school bethle hem honorable mention — the inkwell hastings high school the rocks wyalusing high school the blue and gold con shohocken high school ; the norwalian north wlales high school norco news north coventry high school pottstown pa ; the echo wilson boro high school easton pa preparatory school newspapers — first place — the shady side news shady side academy pittsburgh second place — the mercersburg news mercers burg academy honorable mention — the academy news har risburg academy harrisburg pa ; choate news choate school wallingford conn ; the peddie news peddie school hights town n j the blair breeze blair academy blairstown n.j university school news university school shaker heights o ; the marksman lasalle military academy oakdale l i class a — newspapers enrollment above 1,000 first place — hershey broadcaster hershey h s hershey pa second place — the entree plainfield h s plainfield presidents fight state competition talk on air corps heard by seniors pres williams opens session maj h franklin gregory talks to 40 in rotc 20 heads ask protection for private colleges speaking before nearly 400 del egates to the eighth annual le high scholastic press conference this morning in packard auditor ium dr clement c williams pres ident of lehigh university charged young people beginning in jour nalistic work with the task of maintaining and justifying the freedom and responsibility now vouchsafed the american press by the people of the united states dr williams informed his audi ence representatives of nearly if state colleges which are sup ported by tax money were made vocational colleges producing men above the status of skilled labor they would better serve the people declared 20 college presidents be fore the senate committee on ed ucation of the state legislature at harrisburg wednesday president clement c williams attended the meeting to protest the passage of a bill designed to per mit state teachers colleges to en large their arts and science cur ricula twenty-one members of the staff of the brown and white two lehigh faculty members and three working newspapermen took part in the roundtable discussions held this afternoon in packard labora tory as part of the eighth annual lehigh scholastic press confer ence the seven programs of talks and discussions were attended by conference delegates according to the type of work they do on their publications leaders and speakers of the groups and their topics were general news writing charles f kalmbach editor in chief of the brown and white leader sam j davy news editor complete coverage edward w edwards copyreader architecture of the news story raymond d czapko reporter writing the lead tom c mekeel former news editor identification and authority continued on page four major h franklin gregory u s army air corps and represen tative of the materiel division wright field dayton ohio spoke wednesday at the armory to r o t c seniors interested in air corps engineering training the major flew to bethlehem from cornell university where he spoke to students there business students were also told that there was a need for men in non-flying activities such as post adjutants recreation officers and supply and mess officers delegates to lehigh's eighth annual press conference received practical advice from a working journalist and an authority on in ternational affairs this morning as hudson hawley news editor of the international division na tional broadcasting company and dr wilson l godshall associate professor of diplomatic history and international relations at lehigh addressed them in packard labor atory mr hawley's talk replete with anecdotes of journalistic occur ances and people gave the aspir ing newspapermen and women a down to - earth unromanticized picture of the profession they may some day enter he told them of the over-crowd ed conditions the strict require ments the unbelievably hard work attached to such a career but he also told them of the fun the thrill that comes when a good story breaks the exciting adven tures and interesting people that a top-flight newsman gets to know journalism is a profession although this ex-newspaper man now head of nbc's foreign broadcast department addressed himself primarily to those who are seriously considering entering the journalistic profession — and it is a profession just as noble as the ministry the law or medicine or even civil engineering — he also commended those who were en gaged in school newspaper work just for the experience and the fun "... there's no mental dis cipline like it ," he said with a lot of good clean fun thrown in on the side to the more seriously inclined he declared in no other profes sion will you find that everything you learn in school and college will come in most helpful some day in the most unexpected ways and at the most unpredictable times . . . the gentle art of mix of the 37 preparatory schools which entered publications in the contest four offer instruction in journalism and six do not accept advertising the typical prepara tory school publication has a staff of 19 persons * * * as you probably noticed when you registered lehigh has the first packard automo bile ever built it is on per manent display in the james ward packard laboratory do nated to the university by the founder of the packard automobile company * * * • travelling the greatest distance to attend the conference is hart ley stirling of the staff of the sabre randolph-macon academy front royal virginia * * * members of the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon national honorary collegiate journalism fraternity served as guides on the campus tours taken by press conference del egates this morning * * * twelve of the 23 new jersey high school publications entered in the contests offer instruction in journalism the size of the aver age staff in this group is 38 the largest staff is that of the hi kearnian of kearny high school with 102 members * * * charles f kalmbach chair man of the news writing roundtable and john m roach chairman of the head lines and makeup roundtable were released from a three day confinement thursday they had been quarantined for measles kalmbach a grad uate of lansdowne high school is editor of the brown and white this year and roach a graduate of merchantville high school will head the pa per next year * * * exclusive of the york high weekly which reports a staff of 250 and the silhouette of am bridge high school with a staff of 102 pensylvania school publica tion staffs average 29 v 2 persons * * * in his speech this morning mr hawley referred to rich ard harding davis and his brief but tempestuous stay at lehigh despite the short time he was here davis had a pro found effect on student activi ties at lehigh he was the founder of arcadia then a so cial club now the student gov erning body and a founder of the mustard and cheese dra matic society he scored the first touchdown in lehigh foot ball history against lafayette in 1884 davis proved his in telligence while at lehigh but his antics and lack of atten tion to studies resulted in his expulsion * * * john h dudley a junior from mckeesport was in charge of continued on page four continued on page four continued on page four continued on page four delegates register visit exhibit and tour campus during lehigh scholastic press conference today high lights and side lights vol xlviii — no 51 bethlehem pa saturday may 10 1941 press conference edition brown and white awards given to 71 publications godshall hawley are speakers price — five cento nbc news editor expert in diplomatic history comment advise eighth lehigh scholastic press conference awards lehigh university bethlehem pa saturday may 10 1941 18 ist and 2nd place plaques 40 certificates presented at closing session 400 delegates attend eighth annual press conference the conference opened at 9 a m with registration in packard laboratory in the first picture the delegation from meshoppen loraine pinock miss moore debbie jackowick marjorie cole hubert mclarin and charles van gordon sign up at the registration table that's lynne bartlett on the campus tour guides and a brown and white columnist grinning in the background and in back of him in its gleaming glass case is the first packard after registration delegates toured the campus and visited the art gallery in the library where contest entries were on exhibition in the middle picture a group looks over some newspapers another group setting out on a campus tour is pictured on the right starting out from packard laboratory under the leadership of al paget they visited the buildings on the lower campus and such points of interest as the library treas ure room and the brown and white laboratory in christmas saucon hall