Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 16

              tau beta pi taps 18 men at bill hall vol xlix — no 16 basil w logechnik i e 42 was elected president of the town council to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of arthur tal laksen bus 42 the election took place at a meeting of the council held on tuesday evening nov 11 frederick c tillberg jr met 42 was elected vice president logechnik was formerly vice pres ident of the council further discussion was held on the town-dorm dance which is set for saturday evening nov 22 in grace hall a motion sanctioning the con tributing of 40 to arcadia for the campus community chest was passed by the town council ar rangement of the town group bas ketball schedule has been corn sportsman's club starts squad for competition with other schools continued on page four cyanide picks sports topic over 500 madly cheering students bid bon voyage they left for the virginia game early this morning o captain henry t reuwer and his teammates as the rally was sponsored by arcadia b w photo to survey lehigh needs facilities of varsity intramural teams curtain rises at 8:15 senior assessment due debating team holds 2 meets moravian and muhlenberg enter lehigh squad's practice session investigation of available athle tic facilities at lehigh for both varsity and intramural sports was selected as the topic of the year by cyanide junior activities soci ety at a meeting held last night in drown hall to stimulate the activity of the varsity l club organized last de seniors must pay their epi tome assessments of 5 at the placement bureau before 5 p.m nov 18 or be fined an addi tional 2 announced theodore g scott met e 42 epitome business manager lehigh's first ski team is being organized by david c osborn ch e 42 under the auspices of the lehigh sportsman's club tentative plans were formulated last night at a meeting of the sportsman's club in room 416 packard labor atory the team is being formed for the purpose of competing with other colleges in the east and providing opportunity for ski enthusiasts to participate in the sport tentative meets have been arranged with perm state and lafayette with possibilities of contests against rutgers and army according to osborn it is hoped that ski practice can be held the continued on page four continued on page four five dollars for a head of hair curtain time for the s c l presentation the emperor jones will be 8:15 o'clock to night in broughal high school producers of the play are the hedgerow players philadelphia theater group students will be admitted on presentation of the second s c l coupon in the athletic books guest tickets may be purchased at the door for 55 cents test narrows eligibility list scabbard and blade quiz leaves 15 in running 10 to be pledged town-dorm dance slated for nov 22 the combined town and dormi tory groups will give an informal dance saturday november 22 after the lafayette game in grace hall according to robert n gus dorff bus 42 and william h barnard e e 42 committee members the lehigh collegians will fur nish the music for the affair which will last from nine until one the chaperones are dr and mrs claude g beardslee mr and mrs thomas e jackson and mr and mrs joel f bailey the affair is open to all students town and dorm men who have paid their dues will not be charged admission two teams of the lehigh inter collegiate debating squad opposed teams from moravian and muh lenberg colleges in practice de bates wednesday evening in pack ard laboratory for the first debate arnold o putnam i e 43 and hugh boyd m e 44 were the first and sec ond speakers respectively uphold ing the negative of the subject resolved that the federal gov ernment should regulate by law all labor unions in the united states the affirmative team from moravian was composed of har lan fulmer and ernest andrews robert p whipple chem 43 and david p scoblionko arts 44 were the members of the lehigh negative team of the second de bate on the same subject the members of the muhlenberg affir mative team were herbert dowd and earl swank the chairmen for the debates were cole s brembeck coach of intramural debating for the first debate and howard v donohoe continued on page four tau beta pi national honorary engineering society tapped 18 men for membership at 4 o'clock this afternoon in front of the e h wil liams memorial stone the tapping this afternoon fol lowed a long smoker meeting of the members last night which was attended by charles h spencer of washington d c national presi dent of tau beta pi after the meeting the members adjourned to the lounge in packard labora tory where they remained until five o'clock this morning the list of eighteen men tapped and their activities follows seniors robert ashley c e muskegon mich freshman honors hockey club c a a flight theory course alexander brkich m.e bridge port conn freshman and sopho more honors phi eta sigma albert clark jr chem nanti coke freshman honors tone robert w blake society chemical society robert w clark i e lake wood n v sophomore honors pi tau sigma glee club william a eisele e e maple wood n j freshman honors pi mv epsilon eta kappa nu elec trical engineering society ernest gamble jr ch e lang horne freshman and sophomore honors phi eta sigma alpha phi omega chemical society william e gheen m e jersey shore alpha phi omega malcolm f mcconnell m e pittsburgh freshman and sopho more honors cyanide pi tau sigma robert j mcgregor ch e dunmore freshman honors alpha phi omega chemical society glee club frank s mckenna met e crafton freshman honors cyan ide epitome sports editor 1941 pi mv epsilon cheerleader robert c mcmichael met e chester sophomore honors in terdormitory council metallurgi cal society john h norwood met e ham burg n v freshman and sopho more honors captain tennis 1942 phi eta sigma cyanide john j somers ch e phila delphia freshman and sophomore honors pi mv epsilon chemical society robert g taylor m e north hills sophomore honors kurt h weber tenafly n j freshman and sophomore honors fencing team phi eta sigma physics society juniors frank h bower e e ruther ford n j freshman and sopho more honors band phi eta sigma newtonian society glee club ten nis thomas m buck m e phila delphia freshman and sophomore honors epitome staff football samuel j davy e e new castle freshman and sophomore honors brown and white epi tome cross country servicemen to be honored at 75th lafayette game alumni of both schools now in armed forces will march on field between halves lehigh graduates will be guests of university lehigh university's student body swarmed over union sta tion early this morning to give the football team one of the biggest and most spirited send off rallies in years approximately half of lehigh's men — estimates ranged from 700 to 1000 — began descending south mountain and crossing from fra ternities on delaware avenue at 7 d m and for one half hour kept up a continuous roar of cheers and songs that ceased only after the team's train disappeared around the bend toward philadelphia twenty-six members of the squad accompanied by coaches and managers left bethlehem on the 7:40 they wil larrive at char lottesville va where lehigh will clash with the university of vir ginia tomorrow by 4 25 o'clock this afternoon the rally culminated a period of spirit generation which began on monday under direction of the ar cadia rally committee fraternities dormitories and town group sec tions were contacted by the com mittee personally and through the living group heads and by last night practically every unit in the university had promised represen tation everybody came and upperclassmen did not leave it to the freshmen to do all the work men arrived this morn ing bright and early from north ernmost theta xi and southern most theta delta chi and all points in between with many groups reporting 100 per cent at tendance most fraternities pushed breakfast time ahead to before 7 o'clock a taylor house bugler sounded reveille in the dorm's quad at 6:45 a m the assemblage at the station began to grow more than a half hour before train time and was still increasing as the team was leaving the city thirty band mem bers brought their instruments and filled every minute between cheers with the old silver goblet hail the college and every body takes his hat off to lehigh high point of the rally was in the station waiting room which was filled to overflowing when head cheerleader frank mckenna directed the spirited mob in fa maliar yells and in the singing of the alma mater just before 7:40 o'clock after the team members had boarded their car captain reuwer leaned from a doorway and delivered the brown and white players promise to do their best to bring home le high's first victory of the 1941 sea son the rally dispersed in plenty or time for the men to make 8 o'clock classes although a rather severe traffic jam resulted between the station and the campus more than 100 student cars leaving the area at approximately the same time joined forces and made things di fficult for the local traffic constab ulary the barbers paid for the privilege of this haircut edward a orth met 45 holds the payment of 5 in his hand as fellow dorm members shave his head — b * w photo eligibility of 15 juniors for rifle marksmanship competition in the final selection of ten candidates for membership in scabbard and blade honorary military society was announced yesterday by john h dudley m e 42 president of the society these men became eligible by attaining the highest marks in the pledging quiz given yesterday af ternoon in grace hall and were selected from 31 competitors these candidates will demon strate their marksmanship ability on the range before tomorrow noon and after these grades have been evaluated with quiz marks ten men will be named as pledges the formal pledging will be held at drill on monday nov 17 ordnance members are robert students in the infantry branch of the advanced military course who are eligible include louis f dellwig arts andrew f leckie jr bus charles e seiger met e george c stone arts nathan g lesh e e john j meehan arts robert s rumsey arts clarence a steams jr arts and joseph p thomas jr arts leonard names officers for review on monday c boston ch e albert w hemphill jr m e ludwig e godycki jr ch e william me gee ch e and william l stump ch e student body thanked ceremonies honoring lehigh and lafayette graduates now in the armed forces of the united states have been arranged for the half time of the 75th lehigh-lafayette game according to robert f her rick executive secretary of the lehigh alumni assocation planned jointly by both institu tions the program is an outgrowth of a meeting held recently at which glen w harmeson direc tor of athletics h w eskey clark lafayette athletic head joseph bell lafayette alumni sec retary and robert herrick lehigh alumni representative were pres ent after the bands have formed in the center of the field alumni of both institutions who are now in the service will march into posi tion after which they will be hon ored in a brief address all spec tators will join in a patriotic song to complete the ceremony lehigh men from the army navy and marine corps will be guests of the university and will be seated in a special section for the game a public address sys tem will carry the program to the crowd special wires will carry it to the lehigh alumni club meet ings broadcast facilities are ex pected to give wider coverage in the local area the lehigh and lafayette bands are now arranging a special forma tion for the event however as the ceremony will be brief the band also will be able to carry out their traditional football arrangement the ceremony for service men is being planned in line with a pro gram sponsored by the american alumni council in collaboration with the war department it will be duplicated on many college gridirons as traditional games are played this fall senior staff officers for the re view on monday according to col joseph s leonard head of the de partment of military science and tactics will include the following henry j olson jr colonel albert clark jr lieut colonel henry a seebald adjutant john h dudley major ist bn theodore g scott major 2nd bn robt j mcgregor major 3rd bn m f mcconnell adjt ist bn b wm logechnik adjt 2nd bn a e horka adjt 3rd bn appreciation of the response to arcadia's call to the send-off rally this morning was express ed by wilkes mcclave bus.'42 president of arcadia mcclave stated that the send-off was a great success and a credit to the morale and spirit of lehigh students seeing that the boys didn't be lieve that one nate got in deeper by offering to go around a la cueball for five dollars to the secret surprise of the unfortunate frosh the mob took him up on it a night later the second act opened up in drinker section i edward a orth jr met 45 said that he too would go around shaved to the boner before he knew it he was left holding a bag full of hair and five dollars in six months or so no one will know the difference but right now a pair of saddened freshmen are hoping that they will quickly pass out of the public eye some thought it was a cult to re place gold-fish swallowing others that it was a new and horrible form of initiation the phenomonon of two fresh men braving the november blasts with shaven heads produced a sen sation on every front the first act of the double trag edy took place on monday night at the d u house the boys were kicking the bull around and nate sceva e m 45 was in there pitching when the conversation lagged he came up with one about a friend who shaved all the hair off his head for ten pieces of fold ing money heads town men brown and white bethlehem pa friday november 14 1941 rally overflows station price — five cents as reuwer pledges victorious return from virginia town council election goes to logechnik takes over presidency vacated by tallaksen tillberg in post nearlyjhalf of students assemble at send-off for football men dance to be nov 22 campus spirit rises many living units report 10 0 attendance at unique affair 1st ski team being formed basil w logechnik leadership is stressed night-long session held after pledge smoker 15 seniors taken * * member intercollegiate newspaper association coming up . . . today 2:15 p m — freshman football lafayette home 4 p m — hockey club rooms 201 251 packard laboratory 7:30 p.m — student concert-lee tures series emperor jones broughal high auditorium tomorrow 1 p no — varsity soccer navy away 2:30 p m — varsity football vir ginia away 3 p m — varsity cross country small college meet lafayette 7 p m — faculty dinner drown hall monday 4:10 p m — engineering faculty faculty room alumni mem orial building 7:30 p m — camera club room 208 packard laboratory all the lehigh news first