Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 2

              congdon releases names of highest scholars ; 79 seniors listed banner rush planned 10 get perfect average cyanide to accept points towards membership oct 6 is deadline to enforce frosh rules game traffic restricted the same material as the track each runway is to be connected to two pits one at each end so that running will be possible in either direction to allow for the wind they will be located along the straightaway in front of the old grandstands all concrete curbing two fans one for the high jump and the other for the shot-put wili probably be situated at opposite ends of the field the javelin will be thrown on the lower field approximately 3,690 feet of concrete curbing will be used throughout the track runways and pits there will be permanent brass marking plates set in con crete for the placement of the high and low hurdles the track will be equipped with complete watering and drainage systems the south side must be by george j bleul the immediate construction of a complete modern track on the up per field was authorized by presi dent c c williams last week the new regulation one-quarter mile track is scheduled to be completed by dec 15 and will be ready iov spring competitions the track will have a 220 yard straightaway 24 feet wide allow ing for six 42 inch lanes in place of the old four the surface will consist of a mixture containing soft coal cinders loam processed clay sand and hard coal cinders complete field event appoint ments are to be of modem design and structure and located so that all events can be seen by specta tors from some centrally located grandstand to be built in the fu ture . the pole vault and broad jump runways will each be 130 feet long four feet wide and constructed of continued on page four pi lams move to new house alumni to get story of game to celebrate occupation with housewarming sunday afternoon report address changes play - by - play description of hartwick contest to be mailed out the lower campus with the exception of the drive from new street to sayre park will be closed to motor traffic at 12:30 p m saturday and will remain closed until after the football game no parking will be allowed on the campus this rule will be followed on all sat urdays when a football game is scheduled for taylor stadium andrew w litzenberger su perintendent of buildings and grounds announced yesterday all students who change their local home addresses must re port such changes as soon as possible to the registrar's of fice this rule is a part of the university regulations prompt compliance by the students will facilitate the publication of the student directory the brown and white circulation depart ment will not recognize any change of address not reported to the registrar epitome succeeds in sales method mcclave names ten committees brown & white places 3 new men on staff the freshmen will seek the pri vilege of doffing their dinks socks and ties on sundays when they en gage the sophomore class in the customary founder's day inter class contests to be held at 2 o'clock friday oct 4 on the upper field if the freshmen succeed in de feating the sophomores the fresh men regulations will be suspended on sundays if not they will be in effect every day until they end officially on flag pole day the events in charge of cya nide junior honorary activities so city will include a push-ball game a tug-o-war and probably a game featuring one class defending a banner against the other accord ing to david h schaper c e 43 cyanide president to defend banner . plans for the defending of the banner are as yet unsettled but will probably be a defense of a 1 class of 44 banner against the frosh the banner probably will be placed on the bank on the south side of the upper field and the frosh will have to charge the sophomores in an attempt to seize the banner omitted from this year's sopho more-freshman contests are the usual football game relay race and pants-tearing events the foot ball game is not being held because the junior varsity football squad has been abolished the pants tear ing has been dropped because of the lack of interest shown on the part of the sophomores in the past two years because of the work that is to be started on the building of a new track the present track will be turn up and will consequently not be available for the customary relay race on founder's day to register soon for blind dates pi lambda phi fraternity will hold a housewarming from 3 until 6 p m sunday afternoon to cele brate the occupation of their new home at 141 e market street an nounced frank h rich 42 newly elected chapter president the former chapter house lo cated at 827 n bishopthorpe street had to be vacated in accordance with the demands of the wilbur { trust mortgage pool which owns the house more comfortable living quarters are provided by the new house which contains 19 rooms 7 bath rooms and a paneled library also on the premises is an outdoor swimming pool and a three-car garage with rooms above which will be occupied by the chef and his wife there are several large porches surrounding the home which has a private laundry in the basement from 1915 when the lehigh pi lambda phi unit was founded until 1931 when the group moved to bishopthorpe the chapter house was at market and center street about one block from the new home a running account of the le high-hartwick football game will be written and mimeographed by members of the alumni staff in the press box saturday afternoon announced leonard h schick 37 alumni editor yesterday this idea was formulated with the intention of increasing circu lation of the bulletin by giving the alumni a more detailed and inter esting account of the game on sat urday if this first attempt proves successful and suitable facilities can be made the plan will be adopted for all home games in the press box will be the mimeograph machine and during the half stencils will be made and the first half of the game will be run-off it is hoped that the whole account will be ready for mailing by 6 p m so that alumni will receive their copies in the monday morning mail moravian lehigh accept demolay club bureau canterbury club to hear dr kelley smoker cancelled by i - f council fraternities lack room for more pledges last year's method of sales by subscription was credited by ken neth k kost instructor in journal ism yesterday at a board of pub lications meeting for making the epitome the successful issue in three years l craig w baker bus 42 was elected business manager of the brown and white g william wolfsten arts 43 news editor and robert m baker bus 42 circulation manager financial re ports of both the lehigh bachelor and the epitome were accepted by the board on the basis of the epitome's success members of the board or dered the sending of congratula tory letters to the staff letters will go to donald r schoen 41 editor william l archer 41 business manager allen m paget 41 financial manager irc to plan conference for thanksgiving recess dr alden kelley national sec retary of canterbury clubs will speak at the meeting of the can terbudy club at 3:30 p m sunday in the arcadia room of drown hall in his position as secretary for church college work dr kelley has traveled throughout the coun try meeting college students and discussing their problems with them the canterbury club the young est campus organization here at lehigh is devoted to religious dis cussions and actions and is open to all students the meeting this sunday is in conjunction with youth sunday a participation in the ten year program of forward in service engagement is announced the international relations club held a special business meeting last night to formulate plans for the middle atlantic conference to be held at lehigh during the thanks giving holidays about 350 dele gates from 40 colleges are expect ed to attend the annual meeting which is under the direction of the carnegie foundation clyde ruffle i e 42 was unanimously elected secretary at a club meeting in drown hall while phillip c whiting bus 43 and louis stein 45 were voted into the club insufficient notice a lack of room in fraternities for additional pledges and the small number of freshmen were cited as reasons for the cancellation of the smoker planned by the interfraternity council by ralph f moss bus 42 president upon checking the list of fresh men who were invited to attend the smoker it was found that sev eral were already pledged to a fraternity and there were too few remaining to warrant holding a smoker moss also stated that this year an exceedingly large group of freshmen were pledged and it would be difficult to find room for any additional pledges cyanide junior activities society will elect five juniors who will be chosen on the basis of the point system the society composed of 15 juniors of high scholastic record and positions in activities on the campus will rigidly enforce fresh men regulations with the added cooperation of the sophomore class any offenders to the rules will be brought before the committee on discipline on october 1 eligible juniors should submit points to thomas m buck m e 43 at the kappa sigma house not later than oct 6 the point list is as follows 7 points 8.8 average for three semesters varsity letter i and ii groups junior manager of any recognized sport 6 points president of any class financial manager of brown and white make-up editor of brown and white junior editor of epitome 5 points 00 average for 8 semesters head of any living group letter in a group 111 sport junior manager of intramural sports intercollegiate individual champion in any ! sport sews editor of brown and white sports editor of brown and white 4 points secretary-treasurer of any class 2.5 average for 8 semesters mustard and cheese assistant officer editorial manager of handbook brown and white assistant officer brown and white editorial council epitome advertising manager art editor of bachelor t'hoto editor of bachelor 3 points mustard and cheese membership delta omicron theta freshman numerals two years in musical clubs possessor of a college record brown and white ; local adv assistant epitome circulation manager handbook business board junior varsity letter iff aging secretary of bachelor adv manager of bachelor financial manager of bachelor feature editor of bachelor fiction editor of bachelor 2 points junior cheerleader membership in alpha epsilon delta robert w blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi pi mv epsilon or pi delta epsilon hoard of brown and white or review staff of handbook president of any course society president of phi eta sigma or newtonian society assistant director of the band competition all season for freshman or varsity teams competition all season for varsity man agership brown and white circulation manager brown and white photo editor board of epitome p.achelor circulation manager 1 point officer except president in any course society competition all season for freshman or intramural sports managership competition for staff of any publication junior member of interfraternity council international relations club tone membership lambda mv sigma captain of a freshman sport bachelor distribution manager bachelor assistant circulation manager bachelor assistant advertising manager bachelor competition all year special consideration for additional activities will be given class gifts jo net 105,000 from 414 insurance policies engineers cancel trip the engagement of miss made line l angeline of bethlehem to edgar c slack jr 41 was an nounced yesterday slack is now employed by the calco chemical company of bound brook n j the ten standing committees oi arcadia student governing body were appointed monday evening by wilkes mcclave bus 42 presi dent at the arcadia meeting in drown hall the members of the committees which will serve for the entire year include the following board of publications john m roach arts 42 william j meikle arts 42 and james a gordon bus 42 athletic committee ralph f moss jr bus 42 william s eis ner ch e 43 and e lyster frost met e 44 alumni contact edward f bo dine m e 42 . financial committee robert n simonsen ch e 42 a bruce brown phys 42 and arthur tal laksen bus 42 elections committee albert w foster bus 42 henry t reuwer bus 42 richard j berg arts 42 and robert n simonsen ch e 42 freshman committee david h schaper c e 43 robert n gus dorff bus 42 robert b steele jr met e 42 and joseph e smith m e 43 handbook committee archie d tifft bus 42 richard m palmer bus 42 and john m roach arts 42 student activities robert c mcmichael met e 42 richard l heyniger bus 42 and frank s mckenna met e 42 student clubs frank e smith jr ch e 42 william j meikle arts 42 and arthur tallaksen bus 42 rally committee robert p ! v/hipple ch e 43 george e ell iot ch e 42 and charles h | schumacker i e 42 hartwick rally cancelled increased activity on national defense orders has called a halt to the previously scheduled trip of the lehigh valley engineers club which was to be made this satur day to the franklin institute and fels planetarium philadelphia dean tells students to study instead says no class was sponsoring meeting also blames schedule ball tickets cost 2.20 the pep rally for the hartwick game scheduled for tonight by ar cadia was cancelled yesterday by dean wray h congdon because of its lack of class sponsorship in the regular competition and because the schedule at the present time is too full when the plan was proposed by robert p whipple ch e 42 chairman of the rally committee the dean said that since rallies will be held before all other home i games it would be best to keep tonight open to study for tomor j row's classes no detailed plans for the rally had been made the junior class will sponsor the rally before the case game the seniors the muh lenberg rally and arcadia the la j fayette rally at which time a cup will be awarded to the class that sponsored the better of the previ ous rallies the de molay club date bureau committee which plans to register all interested students of lehigh and neighboring girls colleges and nursing schools has contacted and presented its plan to student and faculty officials of those institu tions actual registration of mora vian college for women is expected to begin soon the committee's proposal was also favorably received at cedar crest college allen town hospital and st luke's hospital the re spective committees promised to take action as soon as possible some delay will be encountered with the allentown hospital be cause its faculty committee meets only once a month the date bureau committee was changed at a meeting yesterday with the addition of two members they are dick treco met e 43 treasurer and al horka ch e 42 last year's demolay club pres ident and activities chairman for this year respectively other members of the commit tee are as follows randall c gid dings arts 43 secretary howard a hoch bus 42 president rich ard c gottschall e e 44 and dr carl o keck adviser within two weeks the commit tee will submit to the brown and white a form to be filled out by registrants the form will contain pertinent facts about the individual and will be kept in a file of which each committee member will have a copy interested lehigh students will clip the completed forms and send them to one of the committee members the cost for registering will be 25 cents for the semester instead of the small charge for each date tickets for the engineers ball costing 2.20 went on sale today they may be procured at the arcadia office the supply bureau or from dormitory and fraternity house representatives announced edward f bodine m e 42 chairman of the ball committee approximately 15 per cent of lehigh's 1,602 undergraduates last semester have been placed on the dean's list which was released this summer by wray h congdon dean oi undergraduates the list contains the names of ali students who secured a 3 average or better out of the senior class ol 337 79 men are listed of 373 juniors 69 of 418 sophomores 48 and of 474 freshmen 44 but ten men in the entire school received a 4 point average each oi the classes placed three men in - this group except the frosh whose sole entry is r w link the list is as follows seniors juniors continued on page four lehigh will be presented with 105,000 at the twentieth reunion of the classes of 1938 to 1941 as a result of the class insurance plan first adopted in 1938 four hundred and fourteen insurance policies each valued at 250 will mature under the present plan of class gifts each graduating class will be able to give the university an amount equal to the income for one year from a 1,000,000 endow ment previously each senior class would make some gift to the uni versity at graduation in later years these gifts lost their value and became insignificant the gift of the class of 1941 will amount to 35,000 in 1961 the date of ma turity the class of 1938 inaugurated the plan with a total of 90 policy holders in 1939 the number had increased to 93 and in 1940 to 95 the class of 1941 made real head way with the plan selling 136 pol icies to class members because the plan had a good foundation there was a better selling organization and a larger committee with rep resentatives from the dormitories fraternities and town groups each policyholder pays a prem ium of 12 each year and receives the alumni bulletin free besides having his alumni dues paid for ten years after graduation during this period most alumni marry and become established in a busi ness or profession brown and white lehigh university new home of pi lambda phi bethlehem pa friday september 26 1941 vol xlix no 2 pres williams authorizes construction of new track 240 students on honor list last semester price — five cents one-quarter mile track to be completed by dec 15 6 lane 220 yard straightaway will be built centrally located grandstand planned frosh - sophs will compete founder's day 5 more men to be elected by junior club freshmen seek abolition of rules on sundays by winning contests kalmbaeh c f m e 4.00 kaufmann j a arts 4.00 mettler j i jr ch e 4.00 dieflenbach a p e e 3.88 holmes w s jr bus 3.85 hems e 1 m e 3.78 ware k a arts 3.75 burke d w jr arts 3.75 gitzendanner l g e e 3.74 degiaconio g m c e 3.72 brown c f ch e 3.72 davidson h r e phys 3.68 manion k m ch e 3.60 gilmore f &., arts 3.60 gabuzda g j jr arts 3.60 ritchie g m jr m e 3.58 wtf m j arts 3.57 meikle w j arts 3.53 zane a h jr i e 3.50 kindorff j r bus 3.50 foust p g jr ch e 3.50 spiiman &. 8 m e 3.50 lehr w h m e 3.44 howland g w jr c e 3.44 bricker j h bus 3.40 caplan h arts 3.40 i'ankevitch j j arts 3.40 smith c d bus 3.37 bobbe r a i e 3.33 temoshok m e e 3.33 koller a j bus 3.33 stubbings r l chem 3.29 dietz k m m e 3.28 reber c g m e 3.25 brown e a arts 3.25 attwood j c arts 3.25 shepherd r m ch e 3.24 schall j w ch e 3.24 morse w h m e 3.22 toohey w j jr ch e 3.22 leßoy g h m bus 3.21 snyder c c 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