Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 3

              38 freshman sophomore junior prizes to be awarded friday arsove to get 225 attendance to be taken to lie firs indoor affair with entire student body attending 37 freshman scholars 43 sophs to receive honor awards maynard g arsove phys 43 permission granted to use grace hall gym floor no price change opening production to be out of the frying pan set for dec 12 committee rushes plans m & c plans first drama bunny berigan orchestra to supplement savitt at senior dance 2 bands will play at houseparty ball vol xlix — no 3 all to attend founder's day the map above illustrates the points at which classes will assemble for the founder's day exercises roll call will be taken at these points all class groups will march to grace hall where juniors and sopho mores will occupy the seats on the west side of the gymnasium floor graduates seniors and freshmen will occupy the seats on the east side a request that all students of the university participate in the ann ual founder's day exercises fri day morning was made today by president clement c williams this will be an inspiring occasion if every student is loyal and parti cipates he said the students are asked to assem ble by classes at designated points on the campus and to march under direction of senior r o t c offi cers to the new eugene gifford grace hall where the exercises will be held arcadia letter follows request by williams for cooperation although president clement c williams has requested that all students attend the found er's day exercises friday morn ing no definite penalty has yet been imposed upon those who do not attend a roll call of each class will be taken by senior r o t c students at the assembly points president williams stated yes terday that no penalty had been provided for absentees from the exercises but that any action to be taken would be handled by the disciplinary committee dean wray h congdon chair man of the disciplinary com mittee also stated yesterday that the president had given no information to the disciplinary committee as to its action in the matter out of the frying pan a com edy by elmer swarm is scheduled as the first play to be presented by lvfustard and cheese it was an nounced by albert a rights di rector of dramatics the produc tion will be presented on dec 12 out of the frying pan one of last season's great hits was ac claimed by critics from coast to coast the comedy is concerned with three young actors and ac tresses who settle down together in one apartment to combine their acting and save money their great problem is to make the producer who lives down stairs come up and see their pro duction of his play complications set in when the father of one of the girls arrives on the scene tryouts for the fall production will be held wednesday and thurs day at 4 p m and wednesday at 7:30 p m in the mustard and cheese room in drown hall about 40 men including old members and new men competing for membership attended a meet ing in drown hall last week men competing must work on four pro ductions before being eligible for initiation in the spring at which time the club takes in about eight men a dinner meeting is scheduled for wednesday oct 15 at the delta tau delta house listed for possible production in the spring is time of your life a comedy by william saroyan senior ball at fall houseparty will be a double-deck affair the ball committee this after noon announced the signing of an other orchestra — bunny berigan — to play in conjunction with jan savitt and his top hatters berigan and his band will play in the main gymnasium of grace hall while savitt who has been signed as the ball's main attrac tion swings for dancers on the drill floor above decision to engage the second orchestra was reached at a meeting ol the committee last week when attractive offers by mca agents for a supplementary band were considered permission to use the lower floor of grace hall was granted by president williams yesterday and signed contracts were mailed last night plans being rushed adequate dancing space for ths ball is now assured declared frank smith ch e ball committee chairman with houseparty week end now only three weeks away the committee is rushing plans for the dance so that adequate facili ties for checking parking seating and decorations may be arranged senior ball will be held the first night of houseparty friday oct 17 dancing will continue from 10 to 3 a m and tickets will cost the usual 4.40 berigan is no new social figure on the lehigh campus he shared the fall houseparty spotlight with mai hallet in 1938 lehigh men wed to air complaints former b and w editor marries in chapel in a letter sent to the heads of all living groups monday arca dia student governing body urged that the entire student body vbe present at the special founder day exercises being held friday in the new grace hall citing president clement c wil liams request that the entire stu dent body of the university be present at the exercises ralph m moss jr bus 42 asked the co operation of all living group lead ers the freshman housing problem and a new system of distributing football tickets for the fall house party game will be taken up at the october 6 meeting of arcadia an nounced wilkes mcclave 11 bus 42 president other business conducted at the meeting will include a report on the proposed reading period before mid-semester examinations ' and reports from other committees of the organization mcclave added pre-meds meet committee to hear student ideas on lamberton frosh reception held by student societies 13 events for 3 day period to mark 75th anniversary thirteen separate events constitute the program to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the granting of the charter to lehigh university by the pennsylvania legislature on february 9 1866 beginning with the founder's day convocation at 10:30 a m on fri day the three day celebration of lehigh's diamond anniversary will continue through friday and saturday and will be concluded with a convocation of gratitude and thanksgiving at 11 a m sunday the complete program for the exercises is as follows hotel bethlehem toastmaster raymond walters 07 ll.d litt.d president university of cincinnati saturday 9:30 a m dedicatory exercises a robert a lamberton hall dining hall b samuel e berger room tay lor gymnasium c eugene gifford grace hall sports center 10:30 a m alumni forum on cur rent economic problems christmas-saucon hall 10:30 a m alumni advisory coun cil college of arts and sciences drown memorial hall 10:30 a m board of trustees faculty room alumni memorial building 2:00 p m football game taylor stadium case school of applied science vs lehigh university 8:00 p m university reception eugene gifford grace hall 10 p m engineers ball spon sored by pi tau sigma eugene gifford grace hall sunday 11 a m convocation of gratitude and thanksgiving packer memorial church address john haynes holmes 5.t.8 d.d pastor commun ity church of new york three lehigh men recently an nounced their marriages fred e galbraith 40 former editor in chief of the brown and white was married on sept 2 to miss jane grafe of rutherford n j in packer chapel galbraith is now associated with newsweek on saturday afternoon a wil liam jessup 37 former news and photo editor of the brown and white was wed to miss charlotte g weiman of brooklyn jessup is now news editor of power mc graw hill publications richard c gordon jr bus 42 announced his marriage to miss matilda maria diliert of bethle hem saturday afternoon sept 20 in the church of the nativity a reception and smoker for new pre-medical students was given this afternoon by alpha epsilon delta and r w hall honorary pre-medical societies in room 201 williams hall robert w hall professor of bi ology spoke about the r w hall pre-medical society which every freshman pre-medical student is eligible to join dr stanley j thomas head of the biology de partment described the history of alpha epsilon delta at lehigh friday 10:30 a m founder's day con vocation euene gifford grace hall address william mather lewis ll.d litt.d l.h.d presi dent lafayette college conferring of degrees in course conferring of honorary degrees award of undergraduate prizes and honors 12:30 p m luncheon for special guests of the university saucon valley country club 2:30 p m symposium seventy five years of progress packard laboratory auditorium chairman henry butler allen director franklin institute a in science and technology w e wickenden eng.d sc.d ll.d l.h.d president case school of applied science b in business w e hotchkiss ph.d ll.d maurice falk professor of so cial relations carnegie insti tute of technology c in education francis b haas pd.d ll.d superintendent of public in struction state of pennsylva nia 4:30 p m tea for special guests of the university president's home campus 7:00 p m subscription dinner speaker lectures axp by telephone 75th anniversary is bulletin theme lamberton is established as university dining hall talks from buenos aires du's also convene special section to show lehigh men in army a system by which the students eating at lamberton hall can voice their complaints was set up at the first meeting of the interdormitory council on thursday william t bostock jr ch e 42 was appointed head of the lamberton hall complaint commit tee those serving with him are john b peterson met.e 42 wil liam m spears jr arts 42 and charles h schumacher i e 42 the council was generally pleas ed with improvements in the din ing service but complained of the high prices and slow service an nounced robert c mcmichael met e 42 president any person wishing to hand in complaints may submit them in writing at the arcadia office in drown hall before adjourning the council voted that it would collaborate with the town group in putting on three dances during the year committees were appointed to take care of all particulars 25 naval officers enroll in diesel enines course a new course in diesel engineer ing as part of the university's pro gram of cooperation in national de fense began this week according to a copeland callen dean of the colleeg of engineering twenty-five naval reserve officers reported for the first class monday sept 22 after completing the course the officers are expected to be assign el to naval vessels operated by die sel power the program of study will in clude metallurgy thermodynamics design diesel engine theory and laboratory and work in lubricants and lubrication a preview of lehigh's 75th an niversary celebration will be fea tured in the alumni bulletin which will come out this week according to leonard h schick 37 manag ing editor besides the regular features the bulletin will feature a section de voted to lehigh men in army camps throughout the nation at the aberdeen proving grounds in maryland a lehigh club has al ready been formed and plans are being made to form similar clubs in other camps the bulletin will also contain the first exterior views of grace and lamberton halls pictures of the new members of the coaching staff and action shots of the re cent scrimmage between lehigh and bucknell farnham is randolph grad if the students turn out loyally for the program it will be the first time in many years that the entire student enrollment has as sembled indoors for any affair it was pointed out by administrative officers the fact that founder's day this year is being observed as a part of the university's 75th an niversary should make it a mem orable occasion and should prove incentive for strong student par ticipation dr williams said assembly at 9:45 according to plans developed by col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics students will assemble at 9:45 a m at these places graduate students — on memor ial walk near taylor gymnasium seniors — on memorial walk in rear of the graduate students juniors — on road in back of coxe laboratory between coxe labora tory and drown hall sophomores on road between coppee hall and packer hall freshmen on road fronting wil liams hall and running toward and south of the library prize and honors winners — on the road north of the library near the memorial lamp post senior r o t c officers in uni form will form the students into columns of four and supervise the match to grace hall the respective class rolls will be called at the point of assembly the students will march in two columns which will enter grace hall simultaneously the down campus line will be headed by the graduate students and will include the seniors and freshmen the up campus line will be headed by the juniors and will include the soph omores band will play the university band will as semble north of memorial walk and west of the chemistry building and will play while the students march the student columns will move promptly at 10 15 a m after the students have passed the band will pick up and head the academic procession which will start moving from the alumni memorial build ing at 10 15 a m the band will i halt west of the entrance to grac ■ hall and then follow the faculi : into the building the junior-sophomore line > phi sigs will hold dance thirty-eight prizes will be awarded to members of last year's iieshman sophomore and junior classes during founder's day ex ercises on friday honors will be awarded at the same time to 37 of the freshmen class and to 43 of the sophomore class the wilbur scholarship a prize of 200 given to the highest ranking sophomore was this year won by maynard g arsove phys 43 arsove will receive 25 addi tional for ranking highest in soph omore physics and sophomore elec trical engineering other founder's day prizes and awards follow wilbur prizes freshman year mathematics first prize 15 roderick w link second prize 10 david f cox english 15 harvey f soule french 15 da vid p scoblionko wilbur prizes sophomore year mathematics 10 charles s ben nett english 10 john j meehan physics 10 arsove williams sophomore prizes in english composition frist prize 50 donald b sands second prize 25 meehan third prize 15 lynn c bartlett honorable mention arlington w canizares williams junior prizes in english compostion first prize 50 john r polinsky second prize 25 robert e goodman third prize 15 richard j berg william prizes in intramural de bating first prize 60 each al fred l haft david p scoblionko second prize 40 each hugh boyd frank e felt williams freshman prizes in ex tempore speaking first prize 50 hugh boyd second prize 25 thomas a lawson robert w blake memorial prizes in general education first prize 25 frank w berman second prize 15 robert j gill electrical engineering prize 15 to the highest ranking sophomore in electrical engineering arsove william h chandler chemistry prizes to the highest ranking stu dent in each class in chemistry and chemical engineering freshman year 25 theodore peters jr sophomore year 25 isaac m hunsberger junior year 25 richard m luckring williams junior-senior prize in extempore speaking third prize 25 berg john r wagner award 15 to the highest ranking student in me chanical engineering during his first two years robert w saylor alumni junior prizes — to the highest ranking juniors in each of the three colleges of the univer sity arts and science 25 will iam j meikle business adminis tration 25 ralph bown jr en gineering one prize 25 richard m luckring engineering one prize 25 divided between irwin r burkey f stuart nolte alpha kappa psi medallion to the highest ranking junior in busi ness administration ralph bown jr tau beta pi prize slide rule to the highest ranking freshman in engineering link eta kappa nu prize engineer's handbook to the highest ranking freshman in electrical engineering link pi tau sigma mechanical engin eering prize engineers hand book to the highest ranking freshman in mechanical engineer ing glenn a murray pi tau sigma industrial engin eering prize engineers hand book to the highest ranking freshman in industrial engineer ing franklin j rhodes phi eta sigma cvp — awarded for one year to the living group whose freshman not fewer than five have made the highest scholastic phi sigma kappa will hold a closed dance saturday afternoon following the case football game in the 34 years since present lamberton hall was erected on the lehigh campus students have seen the squat red brick building used for two purposes each for 17 years at a stretch the first was eating and the second was instruction in military science now filling the same need for which it was built in 1907 lam berton hall renamed to honor le high's third president once again shelters hungry lehigh students at meal times until this summer since 1924 the present dining cen ter had been used as an armory the history of eating at lehigh consists of alternate periods of adequate and inadequate univer sity facilties for student and facul ty dining service lehigh students first dined at the mess in oid christmas hall on the lower cam pus rapid growth of the univer sity in both students and faculty during robert a lamberton's years as president forced the mess to stop operations in 1887 lehigh then had 20 years of grow ing pains and students found rough strong and fraternal sub stitutes for a common dining hall in the town eating clubs which rose to a boisterous heydey the lehigh university dining hall was constructed in 1907 stu dents called it the commons and the first monthly meal ticket was sold to parke b frain of the class of 1909 and present assistant professor of physics at brooklyn polytechnic institute the growing university again became short of breath and funds in 1924 and because the dining hall was losing money meal service ceased fraternities which then numbered 24 were employing their own cooks and had long ceased patronizing the commons the building was turned over to the military department and became the armory dining service was renewed again in 1928 in the basement of drown memorial hall when stu dents pleas forced the administra tion to provide some sort of cam pus eating facilities this site serv ed until lehigh's 75th birthday anniversary when students and alumni joined demands with cash to allow dormitory and other non fraternity men faculty and guests to eat in style continued on page i ... continued on page four richard inenoehl chief speaker at a dinner aftd dance held by al pha chi rho saturday evening sept 6 at the hotel bethlehem talked over an international tele phone hook-up from buenos aires argentine rienoehl spoke to his sister who lives in allentown and friends for a half hour at a cost of 350 and with the use of a public address system his voice was amplified so that the delegates to the annual national convention of alpha chi rho could hear what he said but not what those speaking to him said a graduate of the university of pennsylvania and a member of alpha chi rho rienoehl is con nected with the international tele phone and telegraph in buenos aires neil carothers dean of the col lege of business administration addressed the delta upsilon ban quet on sept 6 at the saucon val ley country club miss margie ann jolly of beth lehem was elected sweetheart of the 107 th delta upsilon conven tion ellery h farnham 39 was among 285 cadets representing ap proximately 126 colleges and uni versities to graduate from ran dolph field texas last saturday bethlehem pa tuesday september 30 1941 wilbur prize winner price — five cents lehigh university brown and white president urges ah students to attend founder's day 118 win honors prizes where classes will meet each cbm will assemble at designated points for march to grace hall f member intercollegiate neics paper association z 612 all the lehigh news first