Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 8

              individual dances to be held by living groups lehigh collegians to play at inter-dorm hop for estimated two hundred couples robert c boston ch e 43 shows movie on zinc tells chemistry society bettering the product is possible now brown key head dr stutz calls present good for research vol xlix — no 8 weekend activities boston is head of brown key dafter named sec.-treas at managers society meeting last night the senior ball committee composed of left to right john m roach art rich frank e smith arthur tallaksen archie d tifft make final arrangements for tonight's dance in grace hall committee studies new plan for domitory assignments friday 3 p m — soccer lehigh vs pennsylvania lehigh field 10 p m — senior ball at grace saturday hall 2 p m — football lehigh vs ursinus taylor stadium 4:30-7:30 p m — tea dance at the maennerchor 9 p m — fraternity and dor mitory dances sunday 3 p m — houseparty week end ends 12-man housing body formed to work out system for apportioning section members by classes and for eliminating method of ceding rooms tests conducted at asce meeting six juniors were tapped last night by eta kappa nu national honorary electrical engineering fraternity at a meeting of the electrical enginering society in the liounge of packard laboratory the pledges are charles s bennett frank h bower stan ley caplan samuel j davy wal ter s titlow and richard a waer principle criterion for election was scholarship a rank in the upper quarter of the curriculum being required the initiation will take place at a banquet to be held in mid-november according to frank p librizzi e e 42 president about 50 men attended the meeting which was the society's first of the semester time was passed in getting acquainted before the group was addressed by nel son s hibshman assistant profes sor of electrical engineering on the development of the a i e e at lehigh grendon k sebold e e 42 announced the proposed plans for a monthly society newspaper for all e e.'s he urged all who were interested in active work on the paper to see him at any time it was announced that j lyn ford beaver professor of electri cal engineering and a group of student officers of the a i e e plan to attend a student branch convention to be held next week at the university of maryland jensen explains benefits aims of membership band to describe weekend moods will depict 3-day party with popular songs this is the best time for re search for nobody bothers the re search man with problems of bet tering the product stated dr george f a stutz 22 as sistant chief of research at the new jersey zinc company last night at the year's first meeting of the chemistry society dr stutz whose topic was re search in the zinc industry went on to say that since both produc tion and sales are swamped with orders industry is not particularly interested in bettering the product or interesting more customers and consequently leaves the researcher up to his own devices a movie giving a brief review of zinc research was shown by dr stutz including glimpses of re search on the place of zinc and its compounds in paints rubber and alloys it showed typical research scenes and processes one of the features of the talk was a demonstration of the diff erence between phosphorescnt and fluorescent lighting and an exhibi tion of the various properties of these two types of illumination zinc almost pure according to dr stutz zinc is now being commercially produced which is better than 99.99 per cent pure furthermore the small amount of impurities remaining is carefully regulated he further said that in producing zinc and other metallic sulfides for use in luminous paint less than one ten thousandth of one per cent of cer tain materials will cause the sul fide to lose its usefulness dr stutz graduated from lehigh in 1922 and was employed by the new jersey zinc company sent by them to johns hopkins to do fur ther academic work and then re turned to work in the research di vision his department contains 290 men of which approximately 100 are technicaly trained of these 11 are lehigh men according to george e elliot jr ch.e.'42 there were about 150 men present robert c boston ch e was elected president of the brown key junior manager's organiza tion at a meeting last night in drown hall edwin h dafter ch e was voted secretary-treasurer the brown key is an organiza tion whose aims are to act as host to visiting athletic teams meeting them and showing them their ac commodations directors william r taylor arts robert w appleton bus and richard h bernasco bus were appointed general managers to oversee fall winter and spring sports respectively by president boston at the close of the meeting members of the brown key so ciety are e william palmer bus and boston football philip a thomas ch e and dafter soc cer chandler h mckaig ch e and taylor basketball barton r heinz bus and bernasco swim ming roy b co win arts and john j hucker ch e wrestling robert w appleton bus and wil liam h eichlin m e baseball george w wolfsten arts lacrosse walton f heley jr arts and james m morris met e track and richard f goebel bus and john m macminn m e tennis 2025 available to nya students morgan attends meeting 117 men working 25-50 hours every month special band formations pre pared for the lehigh-ursinus game tomorrow at taylor field will be a feature of houseparty week end the first formation will be a large heart over the abbreviation frl while in this position the band will play happy days are here again the fri will then be changed to sat and sun accompanied respectivley by the playing of daddy and g'bye now these formations were de signed by george j gabuzda arts 41 the trumpet arrangements of the above songs were made by charles m wetzel i e 43 inclement weather during prac tice will prevent the band from presenting everything they had planned getting ready for houseparty the problem of a more intelli gent dormitory room assignment plan is now being studied by a committee of six students and six faculty members a plan to give the individual section a say in the selection of its members is already under the consideration of robert mcmich ael met e 42 head of the inter dormitory council and frederick ashbaugh bursar under this plan a better balance between the var ious classes would be attainable and the condition in which some sections are filled with members of a single class would be abolish ed this according to john i kirk patrick assistant to the president and secretary of the housing com mittee is one of the most import ant problems facing the committee new lease system to solve this problem the entire system of leasing must be altered according to mr ashbaugh the present system whereby a dormi tory resident turns over his room to whomever he desires must be changed and a scheme whereby the section may decide upon whom is to be admitted must be substi tuted this idea is part of the ori ginal plan as presented by mc michael why many fraternity men are ; living in town or in dormitories is . another question under study by : mr kirkpatrick who is interested in learning whether this condition is due to study conditions or finan i cial reasons : student relations and personnel . within the living groups is being studied by another sub-committee ; i headed by e keaneth smiley di rector of admissions the members of the housing ! committee are dr claude g i beardslee chairman john i kirk '• j patrick secretary smiley george 18.i b curtis dean wray h cong don and frederick ashbaugh student members are wilkes mc clave 11 bus 42 ralph moss bus 42 robert mcmichael met e 42 arthur tallaksen bus 42 lynn bartlett arts 43 and john , gehr bus 44 hayes talks to teachers : byron c hayes assistant direc i tor of admissions discussed occu pational adjustment at the joint meeting of college teachers of education and the pennsylvania educational research association at 2 p m today in liberty high school e robins morgan director of the placement bureau is attending a conference of the eastern col lege personnel officer's association friday and saturday oct 17-18 at princeton university the con ference which is discussing the problems of placement and college personnel man vs machines was fea tured at a meeting of the lehigh chapter of the american society of civil engineers held last night in fritz laboratory hydraulic tests were conducted by dr arthur t ippen assistant professor of civil engineering and mr robert m mains engineer of tests demonstrated tensile tortion beam and fatigue tests cyril d jensen associate pro fessor of civil engineering faculty adviser explained the aims and the benefits that students receive irom membership in a course soci ety he also stressed the necessity of civil engineering students to meet and associate with the men of their profession mr william fisher an employe of the structural steel division of the bethlehem steel company was introduced as the new contact man to the student chapter from the parent society to take the place ox mr w e labelle also an em ployee of the steel company pre - meds hear talk on obstetrics a total of 2,025 a month is available to lehigh students by the nya announced e robins mor gan director of placement at the present time 117 students are working from 25 to 50 hours a month at the rate of 40 cents per hour last year the average wage per student was 14.48 per month the average time spent by each stu dent was approximately 37 hours a month based on these figures a table has been made which accur ately calculates the number of men that can safely be hired this year in order to be appointed a stu dent must show reasonable need for the money scholastically he must be in the upper two-thirds of the school nurses register 40 from st luke's enroll with date service by william hinterleiter the leaves on the trees are turn ing red and another fall house party is here debutantes models college girls home-town girls blind-dates and sweethearts to a number of 795 invaded the campus today by train car and plane for the next three days the dates will make lehigh their home and will do much to brighten up old south mountain the girls come from many pla ces a dozen or more states new england colleges new york city the sunny south and moravian and cedar crest colleges but no matter where they are from all are queens for a week-end the mad whirl began officially at four p m in rapid succession will follow a socccer game the senior ball a few hours sleep co-ed classes on saturday morning the ursinus game tea dances and 30 dances sponsored by the dormi tories and fraternities which will close the week-end ball features events the main event of fall house party is the senior ball featuring continuous rhythm to the jan sa vitt and bunny berigan orchestras in grace hall from 10 p m to 3 a m savitt and his tophatters with allan de witt and al lepoi ao vocalists will play on the drill floor while berigan will swing it out in the lower gymnasium the bands will alternate their inter missions so that at least one or chestra will be playing at any one time savitt has stylized his music with a distinctive off-beat known as shuffle rhythm he plays a lot of swing but doesn't neglect sweet music jan has done a great deal ol arranging he has achieved suc cess in such songs the world is waiting for the sunrise and el rancho grande berigan the miracle man oi music will feature dick ames as vocalist bunny owes a great part of his success to one song i can't get started with you this is his second appearance on the lehigh campus he shared the spot-light with mai hallett at fall houseparty in 1938 ursinus game friday afternoon at 5 o'clock the varsity soccer team will play on steel field the annual houseparty football game will be against ursinus at two o'clock saturday afternoon the lehigh band will perform spe cial formations between halves immediately following the foot ball game is the maennerchor tea dance with jimmy gorham and his orchestra a dance previously scheduled for the same time at the northampton country club has been cancelled saturday night the various liv ing groups will hold dances at the different houses many local or chestras will furnish the music the biggest dance of the evening will be the interdormitory dance in grace hall from 9 p m to one a m two hundred couples ar expected to dance to the music of the lehigh collegians under th direction of swing trumpeter will iam s dawless sunday afternoon at three an other houseparty will draw to a close the boys will crack the books again for there are 8 o'clocks monday darn dr biro 33 addresses rob't w hall society obstetrics as a specialty was discussed by dr frank biro 33 local gynecologist at a meeting of the robert w hall pre-medical society held last night in williams hall in his talk dr biro gave a his tory of obstetrics and described the problems lacing physicians today he also described treatments for the diseases which are common to obstetrics today colored movies loaned by dr donald schloutter and shown by dr h a rothrock jr pathologist at st lukes hospital illustrated dr biro's talk the next meeting of the society will be held thursday nov 20 dr robert w hall professor of biol ogy has offered the use of movies on tuberculosis taken by the tu berculosis association for this meeting a tentative date for the christmas banquet with alpha epsilon delta has been set for dec 11 forty nurses from st lukes hospital have registered for the demolay date bureau it was an nounced by howard hoch presi dent of the demolay club this brings the total number of regis trants from lehigh moravian col lege for women st lukes hospital and allentown hospital to 100 all lehigh students who wish to use the date bureau for next weekend are asked to contact any of the men mentioned in the last issue of the brown and white the club held the first series of luncheons on wednesday at lam berton hall all work and no play makes jack a dull boy goes the old saw and jack lehigh can certainly demonstrate its truthfulness in the above pictures he starts out by deciding that no matter how good a dancer he may already be nothing can be too good for his houseparty date so he en rolls in the athletics department's free dancing schol in order to pick i up a few new terpsichorean tricks but after this pleasure come many long and tedious hours of house cleaning at home in order to have things in the very best of condition by the time his date arrives it's all quite useless work jack she'll probably never notice the fruits of your labor anyway bethlehem pa friday october 17 1941 795 girls arrive for fall houseparty record number will dance to music of savitt and berigan in grace hall price — five cents ball committee completes plans eta kappa nu inducts 6 men on thursday engineering society taps new junior members at aiee meeting lehigh university 50 attend ceremony continuous dancing to be alternated between gym and drill floors in sports hall this evening grid battle saturday feature member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first