Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 1

              armory in grace hall first senior prom held on campus in years will be oct 17 to take place oct 4 to present top hatters festive weekend includes football with ursinus varsity soccer freshmen regulations went into effect monday the whole sophomore class will enforce the observance of the regulations requiring freshmen to wear plain brown socks plain seal brown knitted or bow ties and the brown hat they must wear their identi fication buttons until founder's day oct 3 should the fresh men beat the sophomores in football track tug of war and other events on founder's day they will be free to doff their regulations on sundays any freshman who does not follow the regulations may be reported to any member of cy anide junior activities society by any sophomore trumpeter - trombonist to feature sax man and 3 vocalists to coordinate founder's day exercises with the seventy-fifth anniversary weekend program founder's day has been set for ward to friday oct 3 the cere monies are customarily held on the first wednesday in october plans are being formulated so that all undergraduates may take part in the ceremonies formally dedicating grace hall lamberton hall and the sam uel e berger room in the gym nasium it is proposed that all classes assemble and march in a body to the dedicatory exer cises a faculty committee headed by a copeland callen dean of the college of engineer ing is completing arrangements dining service is established in old armory polio delays 212 students in returning date is set for dedication of alumni donation saturday oct 4 14-day isolation period is required for men from 13 counties fritchman is replaced continue frosh rushing sonny dunham drown urged for press use arcadia approves motion to use hall's basement for publications sonny dunham and his orchestra have been signed to play the ann ual engineer's ball oct 4 in grace hall this dance the first social event to be held in the university's new gymnasium and recreation hall will take place during the week-end of the 75th anniversary celebration the sonny dunham outfit which has just completed a summer en gagement at frank dailey's mea dowbrook in cedar grove n j has been selected by the warner brothers studio as the most prom ising orchestra in 1941 dunham began his musical edu cation in grammar school there he became proficient on the trom bone and appeared as a soloist at several concerts in brockton his home town not until he became a professional musician did he take up the trumpet plays sweet and swing edward f bodine m e 42 chairman of the dance committee stated after considering many possible orchestras the committee decided upon sonny dunham oe cause of his ability in playing both sweet and swing music and be cause of the band's current popu larity bodine also announced that the event will be informal and dancing will take place from 9 p m until 2 a m to be featured with the dun ham outfit is the sixteen year old tenor saxophonist eugene corky corcoran vocalists appearing with the band will be ray kellogg bunnie donin and diane mitchell the chaperons for the dance will be chosen from a large group of notables who are to take part in the anniversary ceremonies by george j bleul lamberton hall formerly the armory that was completely reno vated during the summer months is now a long desired dining ser vice comparable to those of other universities it will be dedicated on saturday oct 4 gifts totaling 55,000 from le high alumni made possible the transformation of the old armory into a modern building with new up-to-date equipment two additions consist of a wing that was added to the front giv ing the building a new face and the addition of a new room to the first floor providing space for a private dining room also the rear porches were enclosed the drill floor is the main din ing room that will seat 400 it is beamed and trimmed with english oak new dark stained old english pedestal style oak tables seating four six or eight persons will be here by oct 24 at that time there will be waiters for the evening meal should that system find fa vor with the students it will be continued not only for the first semester but for the rest of the year private banquet room a private dining room will be available for groups wishing to hold dinners the room will be continued on page four the rapidly expanding lehign athletic facilities will be complete ly modernized with the comple tion of grace hall by oct 1 the samuel e berger room and the new locker room in the lower gym balcony on oct 20 they will be deicated at 10:30 a m saturday oct 4 on their sites the 350,000 grace hall donat ed by eugene g grace contains a basketball court measuring 84x50 the recommended size for college floors the seating capacity of the bleachers on the east and west is 2,500 and the seating for wrestling matches is 3,250 on the upper floor is the large dance and drill floor bounded on the east and west by class rooms of the military department and on the north there is a promenade overlooking the city since the walls between the dance floor and the class rooms can be removed the amount of space available for dancing is thereby increased for dances the orchestra will be placed in one of the alcoves or rooms the rifles of the military depart ment are being stored in a gallery one floor below the dance floor and two floors above the gym on the south end of the building and not around the drill floor parking behind price grace hall also contains offices for the military department store rooms a band room lavatories for men and women and team rooms containing showers a road running past the rear of grace hall is being rapidly finished before founder's day it will have a temporary gravel surface a parking space to the rear of price hall angle parking in front of grace and parallel parking on the opposite side will solve the park ing problem the third floor addition to the field house of taylor gymnasium the samuel e berger room will house the new showers and toilet facilities that will be available for visiting athletic teams and the general use of the student body the room measuring 38x32 can be reached from the balcony of the lower gym and from the field house it will be possible to visti alize by founder's day how the 39 new students enroll in journ i continued on page four late-coming frosh invited to smoker bureau formed to help housing information center set up in drown hall sat i.f council to introduce men to fraternities dancing feet at the senior bali of lehigh's fall houseparty v/ill glide to the music of jan savitt and his top hatters the senior ball committee com pleted negotiations with dance band agents late last week and contracts which will bring savitt and his shuffle rhythm to , the drill floor of new grace hall have been signed other arrangements to prepaie the lehigh campus for the first houseparty ball held within its boundaries in many years are be ing rushed to completion by the committee the ball first big event ox the fall weekend will be held oct 17 small band considered completion of grace hall this month permits fulfillment of plans to make the campus once again tha scene of the main houseparty proms inadequate space in any university building has forced the larger dance committees for years to engage off-campus halls within oi outside the city of bethlehem it is expected that the 10,000 square feet of the drill floor in grace hall plus the additional space of opened classrooms at either end will provide a dancing area suitable for a lehigh dance of any proportions the ball committee will meet thursday night to decide whether a smaller band should be engaged for dancing on the lower floor of the new building according to chairman frank e smith ch £. 42 agents have offered the ser vices of several smaller though well-known orchestras at reason able prices he said other events of houseparty weekend include the ursinus foot ball game a varsity soccer contest with pennsylvania the saturday afternoon tea dances and evening banquets and formal dances at each fraternity house savitt is violinist the top hatters leader savitt has had a wide classical education with the violin he played for se ven years with the philadelphia or chestra before switching to popu lar music and organizing his own musical group savitt and his top hatters have been national dance favorites for more than three years the orches tra has been broadcasting over the three major radio networks allen dewitt is the featured vocalist candidates called for cheerleading freshmen and sophomores wanted for squad dedication of three additions to lehigh's physical plant constructed at a total cost of 362,500 will be held at 9:30 o'clock saturday morning as a part of the univer sity's three-day observation of its 75th anniversary listed on the three-day program are speeches by emminent educa tors historic symposium a foot ball game a dance a tea art ex hibits and meetings of administra tive officers friday oct 3 has been designated as founder's day saturday oct 4 as alumni home coming day and sunday oct 5 as day of gratitude and thanksgiv ing dr william m lewis president of lafayette college will be the principal speaker at the founder's day exercises which are to be held fa the newly completed grace hall plans are under way to have the complete student body of 1700 wit ness the conferring of degrees and prizes symposium to be held a symposium seventy-five years of progress will be held at 2:30 p m oct 3 with henry b allen director of franklin insti tute philadelphia as chairman dr w e wickenden president of case school of applied science will discuss progress in science and technology dr w e hotchkiss maurice falk professor of social relations carnegie institute of technology progress in business and dr francis b haas state su perintendent of public instruction progress in education among the highlights of the an niversary weekend are the foot ball game with case saturday af ternoon oct 4 the engineer's ball and a university reception the same evening in grace hall scheduled for sunday oct 5 is a convocation of gratitude and thanksgiving to be held at 11 a m in packer memorial chapel the rev dr john h holmes pastor of the community church of new york will be the speaker president to hold tea special guests of the university will be entertained at tea at the home of president and mrs cle ment c williams oct 3 and a subscription dinner will be held at 7 p m in the hotel bethlehem dr raymond walters 07 presi dent of the university of cincin nati will be toastmaster at the banquet following the saturday morning dedicatory exercises meetings of the board of trustees the alumni advisory council of the college of arts and sciences and the alumni forum sponsored by the alumni of the college of business admin istration will be held during the three day observance an exhibit of asa packer and beth lehem materials will be open in the treasure room of the university library an exhibition of paintings • by kenneth frazier 87 and the painting which john z miller 91 presented to the university last june will be on display in the art gallery 98.2 of 41's placed more n y a jobs opened thirty five freshmen and four upper classmen have enrolled in journ i brown and white during the coming semester it was an nounced yesterday by kenneth k kost instructor in ournalism john m roach arts 42 is edi tor-in-chief of the brown and white for the coming year and craig baker bus 42 is business manager additional officers selected by the board of publications include william j meikle arts 42 edi torial manager albert l thal hamer phys 42 news manager samuel j davy e e 43 make up editor richard b palmer arts 43 sports editor g william wolf sten arts 43 and e walter ed wards arts 43 news editors other business officers are ralph bown jr bus 42 local advertis ing assistant musa j eways m e 43 national advertising assist ant james a gordon bus 42 copy supervisor and lloyd a croot bus 43 circulation man ager myrcn i buchman arts 43 was re-elected photographic editor university regulations distributed to freshmen a recommendation for the use of the basement of drown hall re cently vacated by the cafeteria for offices and laboratory space for the brown and white the epitome the lehigh bachelor and the journal ism and publicity departments was passed by arcadia last night archie d tifft bus 42 was sppoited to represent arcadia this afternoon at the meeting of the faculty committee on educational policy which will decide on the use of drown hall arcadia believes that since drown hall was constructed solely for student use it is the logical lo cation for the publications to be centralized the space made avail able would be large enough to pro vide the necessary room for eaoh organization offering office space to the epitome for the first time it was declared at the meeting would relieve saucon the journalism classes would be held in the brown and white la boratory during the day and the paper staff would work there at night space would thereby be freed in christmas-saucon hall for the use of the english depart ment and the college of business administration a committee composed of will iam j meikle arts 42 and rob ert c mcmichael met e 42 was appointed to push the recommen dation also passed by arcadia for fu ture discussion was a recommen dation for an all-university pres ident to be elected by the student body instead of the present system of electing the president of arca dia by the cabinet this new system would elimin ate the politics within the cabinet a closer contact between the pres ident and the student body would be possible an agenda of arcadia meetings will be published prior to each meeting in the future thereby let ting the student body know what is being done and making it poss ible to secure student opinion be fore action is taken the sophomore junior and senior classes will compete this fall to see which can put on the best rally before the football games a rally will be held friday night for the hartwick game engagement is announced for the purpose of finding rooms for students who were not pledged to fraternities and for others who had housing problems a center of housing information was set up saturday afternoon in the arcadia room drown hall with about 50 students present the idea of a center of housing information was evolved at a meeting thursday afternoon in drown hall in attendance at the meeting called by dr claude o beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy john i kirkpatrick assistant to the president e kenneth smiley director of admissions frederick r ashbaugh bursar ralph f moss jr bus 42 president of the interfraternity council and wilkes mcclave 11 president of arcadia bus 42 on thursday evening the presi dents of each fraternity met m drown hall and discussed the problem from the aspect of how many freshmen would be pledged they also considered deferred rushing for boys quarantined by polio another meeting will be held friday afternoon in drown hall to j reconsider and rearrange the re | suits of saturday's housing center freshmen and sophomore can didates for cheerleading will report to frank s mckenna met e 42 wednesday afternoon practice will continue for a week and after competitions four sophomores will be added to the staff men with some acrobatic ability are especially in demand stated mckenna cheerleaders should be able to execute back handsprings toe flips rolls etc from the four sophomores selec ted this fall two will be elected to be junior cheerleaders next year the head cheerleader and his as sistant are always seniors fresh men may be elected to the staff if not a sufficient number of sophc e robbins morgan director of placement service revealed yes terday that 98.2 per cent of the class of 41 has been definitely placed out of a total of 338 men 332 have reported that they now have jobs morgan said that all engineers are placed and already three concerns have written for information regarding this year's senior class he also said that 81 n y a workers have been placed with the total expected to reach 140 the national rules governing n y a work are more stringent than pre viously a list of the rules is post ed in the placement bureau for the benefit of those fresh men who arrived at lehigh on or later than last tuesday a smoker will be held at 7:30 o'clock tomor row evening in the lounge of drown hall house presidents and rushing chairmen from each fraternity will be present the purpose of the meeting being to introduce the latecomers to lehigh fraternities short talks will be given by dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and ralph f moss bus 42 president of the interfra ternity council which is sponsor ing the smoker the gathering is expected to provide opportunity for those freshmen who wish to join fraternities to do so and to help the houses fill their quotas the following freshmen are urg ed to attend as well as any other freshmen who arrived after last monday carl p bauer carl r brant robert s cliss frank w dickel john r dove peter j economo j nutton ettinger frank forthko irving geiger jr theodore w harrisberger leon herbert richard m kitzmiller john lally john x miller an thony morfy john b nicholson i robert d robinson charles l sollenberger walter treicher larry ueland fletcher s van dersmith burr wilcox ralph key - ser it is significant that no news has been forthcoming from r omar quadowitz erstwhile arts 44 has he flunked out the engagement of mervin james fry 41 of bethlehem to miss anastasia feyock was an nounced yesterday the wedding will take place on october 25 mr fry is associated with the bethle hem steel company a booklet containing the rules and regulations of the university was distriuted to the class of 1945 during freshman week the booklet was prepared by registrar george b curtis dean wray h congdon philip m palm er dean of the college of arts and science neil carothers dean of the college of business adminis ; tration and a copeland callen i dean of the college of engineering the prevalence of poliomyelitis cases in certain areas of pennsyl vania and new jersey delayed 21*2 students in returning to college of this number 153 were upperclass men and the remaining 59 were freshmen the majority of those quaran ined were able to return to col lege before classes started and suffered only a slight delay in re gistration those who had re-ex aminations to take were unable to return in time and special re-ex aminations at a later date will be arranged for them some of the freshmen however were unable to attend freshman week and those interested in fra ternities missed most of the rush ing period according to dean congdon fraternities have agreed to hold places in the freshman delegations for a few extras and some therefore still have a chance to be pledged letters sent to students a letter outlining the precau tionary measures necessary to pre vent any possibility of bringing the infection to the campus was sent to each of the students resid ing in the counties affected since a medical examination is inade quate to determine the presence of this virus in the system the pro cedure was to require a period of quarantine away from all crowds and likely sources of infection after this period two weeks m most cases an examination by the health officer was required if a certificate of a clean bill of health was obtained the student was per mitted to return to college no re gistration ticket was issued to a student until his release from quarantine had been turned over to the health service these precautionary measures affected those living in adams cambria cumberland dauphin franklin lancaster lebanon montgomery northumberland schuylkill and york counties in pennsylvania and bergen and pa ssaic counties in new jeresey on the whole stated dean cong don lehigh was fortunate in being able to formulate adequate plans to protect the student body from any possibility of infection and cooperate completely with the state department of health and yet not have to delay opening col lege health plan evolved working with the pennsylvania state board of health dean cong don and dr raymond c bull di rector of the health service evolv ed the plan whereby a student could return to college after a quarantine period up to that time no procedure had been worked out for students expecting to return to college this lehigh plan worked suffi ciently well so that the state de partment of health of pennsylvan ia approved of it for all college students in the quarantine coun ties students from new jersey counties affected were admitted continued on page four lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday september 23 1941 entire sophomore class to enforce frosh rules founder's day delayed to provide big weekend vol xlix — no 1 price — five cents new facilities will provide more space will dedicate 3 alumni gifts on sat oct 4 2 dances set for grace hall dunham engineers choice savitt to play at houseparty athletes drivers alumni to receive benefits of improvement to play at ball anniversary celebration will include football dance symposium first dance in grace hall listed for weekend of founder's day 3-day program ready member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first