Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 43

              tau beta pi taps its semi annual pledge class eight seniors and nine juniors were pledged frida y afternoon to tau beta pi national engineering so ciety before the founder's stone at williams hall they will be formally initiated on april 24 at a b anquet left to right front row john a thurn m e 43 charles s bennett e e 43 maynard g arsove phys 43 hugh w richards ch e 43 louis e sharpe phys 42 jesse o betterton met e 42 second row arthur i white i e 43 john h mueller m e 43 elwood d latimer ch e 42 richard m luckring ch e 42 preston parr ch e 42 robert k beckwith ch e 42 i russell burkey i e 42 back row charles d curtiss i e 43 frank e smith ch e 42 john s stokes i e 42 james f pfeffer i e 42 lehigh men serve country in state liquor store cellar petition will be required for late graduation fee medical students must take exam the sand bags placed in build ings throughout the campus which have attracted some attention the past several weeks are according to the american fire protection association the most effective means of combating incendiary bombs however it is important that the directions for their use be carefully followed a table chair or similar object should be first placed between the operator and the bomb this shields the worker from the intense heat and serves as a rest for the long pole which is used the hook on the pole is placed in the wire ring around the mouth of the bag sand is first spread in a thick layer around the bomb then the incendiary is pushed on to the sand and another bag placed over the bomb the bomb should then be shoveled to a safe place and al lowed to burn out seniors who did not pay their 10 graduation fee be fore 4:30 this afternoon will be required to submit petitions if they expect to receive their diplomas in may announced the bursar's office many of the graduating class have already paid but there are still many who have not before the bursar can accept a late fee the student must submit a petition journalism majors take field trip dorothy crawford known to theatre-goers here and abroad as the one-woman theatre will ap pear in a program of original char acter sketches at 8:15 p.m april 10 at broughal high school as the last presentation of the stu dent concerts-lectures series ranked with ruth draper and cornelia otis skinner as the great est monologuists of our time miss crawford's artistry has won world wide repute within a relatively short period of time her scenes running from one end of the emo tional scale to the other are hand led with extraordinary technique with the aid of a piano straight chair and small table she fills the stage with remarkable characters published songs miss crawford is noted for her masterly combination of intellect and emotion of laughter and tears which she brings to every charac terization while still a child long before she could play the piano or write a note of music she improvised songs both words and music her parents decided to give her a tho rough musical training she stud ied for three years then coached singing and song-literature sev eral of her original songs have been published and she has writ ten and directed incidental music for several plays miss crawford devoted her time to learning various european lan guages and native songs when she was abroad several years ago the interesting types that she met at that time form a large part of her present repetoire to give pre-meds quiz for college entrance completes details of insurance plan far-east reporter to talk april 20 14 newsmen visit n y publishing companies committee to send seniors pamphlets this week amazon basin will be the topic of the speech to be given by earl p hanson noted explorer and scientific writer at the annual freshman banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m on thursday april 23 charles b austin met.e 45 chairman of the banquet commit tee also announced that walter r okeson vice-president of the uni versity will be the toastmaster the price of tickets and the place will be announced later mr hanson has been editor of several technical publications in new york explored iceland in 1927 and canada in 1929 he has written on several geographic sub jects and in 1931 was the execu tive secretary of the explorer's club traveled to orinoco in 1931 hanson made an expe dition to the amazon and orinoco basins for the carnegie institution in washington d c to make a study of the fluctuations of the earth's magnetic field the story of the expedition was told in a paper written by him in 1938 en titled journey to manaos mr hanson has also been a research technician for the natural re sources committee at washington d.c and was a planning consult ant and member of the puerto rico reconstruction commission of san juan puerto rico in 1935 and 1936 mr hanson is also a popular lecturer on scientific subjects and is a member of the american geo graphical society hje has contrib uted many articles to technical magazines which have been pub lished throughout the nation a record attendance of 293 freshmen attended the class ban quet last year when william lone star dietz football coach and pro fessor at albright college was the main speaker and e kenneth smiley director of admissions was the toastmaster members of the freshman com mittee are austin chairman ad vertising james schwab bus paul franz bus harry brindle m.e placement william miller c.e william r moore 1.e aus tin tickets bernard j mulhern 1.e speaker richard b de grouchy bus john d ingram arts delta upsilon sigma chi hold dances on saturday a medical aptitude test will be given on april 24 for all pre medical students who plan to enter a medical college this fall dr stanley j thomas head of the department of biology will be in charge of the examination at lehigh all applicants must send in an application and a 1 fee to dr thomas before april 10 the attention of all applicants should be called to the fact that the test is now one of the normal requirements for admission to a medical school according to a letter from the association of am erican medical colleges the examination has been con ducted for about ten years about 10,000 students who comprise practically all the pre-medical stu dents in the country take the ex amination each year so far only five or six students at lehigh have signed up the quiz is a printed one sent in sealed envelopes to the proctor in charge fourteen students are partici pating in this year's journalism field trip to new york the three-day trip from which the students will return tomorrow consists of visits to various pub lishing companies in and around new york city included in the schedule are visits to the mcgraw hill publishing company young and republican inc acme news pictures inc country life press corporation king features syndi cate editor and publisher the press photographer's annual exhibit in the museum of science and indus try the newsweek building and the daily news building each participant has been as signed a definite company on which he must write a report while in new york the group will live in the hotel edison off times square a visit to fred waring's broadcast has been offi cially scheduled japan can be beaten within a year is the analytical opinion of hallet abend chief far eastern correspondent for the new york times who will speak april 20 in packard auditorium on ram parts of the pacific abend has just returned to the united states after a last-minute survey of the strategic centers now being fought over so oitterly in the pacific his lecture here will give an up-to-the-minute picture of the critical situation pending in the pacific he is the author of japan unmasked and many other books on asia eastern correspondent for 15 years abend believes that the vic tory will be ours if we can gain superiority in the air as it now seems certain that we will within that time the senior class insurance plan will be ready to go into full swing by the end of this week at which time pamphlets will be sent to all seniors discussing the plan in full announced jack e lane i.e 42 general chairman of the committee three junior chairmen have been appointed to represent the fraternity dormitory and town groups respectively these men will appoint students in each group to contact seniors interested in the 250 20-year endowment plan payable to lehigh university joseph e sexton i.e 42 is in charge of the fraternities albert g tromer bus 42 is the town group representative and john d vanßlarcom m.e 42 is the dor mitory chairman all subscribers to the plan will receive the alumni bulletin and be exempt from alumni dues upon graduation finishing after 42 years eckfeldt saw mining expand 52 of senior class placed 62 firms hold interviews about 300 guests attended the delta upsilon house dance satur day night and danced to the music of the lehigh collegians five faculty guests also attended mr and mrs thomas e jackson of the faculty were the chaperones the sigma chi chapters of laf ayette and lehigh universities held a record dance saturday night at the local chapter house about 60 guests were present mr and mrs fay c bartlett were chaperones student petitions must be submitted by april 20 senior class president needs 35 names juniors 25 sophomores 20 class elections will be held on monday april 27 in drown hall and students petitions must be submitted to mrs bowker in the arcadia office by 1 p.m monday april 20 wilkes mcclave 111 bus 42 president of arcadia also announced that the official petitions may be obtained in the arcadia office on thursday april 2 seniors who are running for class president must have at least 35 signatures on their petitions juniors must have 25 signatures and sopho mores must have 20 signatures mcclave stated that the signatures must be from fellow classmates and that there also may not be more than three signatures from more than one individual living group further particulars may be obtained in the arcadia office the nominating committee of arcadia will consist of the nine senior members and the nomina tions for its officers will be an nounced the same time as the other nominations are made a meeting of the nominating com mittee will be held at 4 p.m to morrow in the arcadia room of drown hall arcadia requests students to state on their petitions whether or not they are taking the accelerated program it was announced that if a student who was elected would not take the accelerated program and would leave school at the close of the semester the next in line would take his place handbook less expensive arcadia also announced that lynn c bartlett arts 43 has won the freshman handbook competi tion and will be editor of the book for the incoming class of 1946 john doxsey i.e 44 was awarded the position of alternate editor the freshman handbook for the class of 46 will be about 150 cheaper than previous years this is because the book is expected to have fewer advertisements and a paper binding an offensive driv(e for na tional defense is also being plan ned by arcadia all students are asked to save toothpaste tubes tinfoil and other articles that would be valuable to the defense effort mcclave announced that he expected representatives from the inter-fraternity council dor mitory council and the town council to collaborate with him in forming a program for the drive a collection each week is antici pated favor stamp sale arcadia went on record as being in favor of the voluntary sale of defense stamps at the junior prom of spring houseparty booths will probably be erected in grace hall and the stamps will be sold volun tarily by students frank s mckenna met.e 42 was appointed as the auctioneer of the annual auction of lost and found articles that are collected in drown hall the auction will take place about april 20 the fencing team submitted a petition for funds but the matter was tabled until the results of the inter-collegiate fencing matches that are to be held at lehigh this week-end by edgar a frankley tis a great service they are doing for their country tis a great sacrifice they are making yes lehigh now has 16 men enrolled in the civilian defense of the city of bethlehem and the base of their operations is the cellar of the building in which the state liquor store is located the service consists of playing cards or doing homework there the sacrifice lies in the fact that this has to be from six to ten o'clock in the morning colonel coyle head of the beth lehem branch of the office of civ ilian defense had issued a call for volunteers to man the four phones in the office which is located in said cellar volunteers for the more convenient times of the day were easily secured however the phones have to be manned 24 hours a day a special appeal to le high netted the 16 volunteers some of these are merely kept as a reserve force while the rest will work once a week from six to ten in the morning although if necessary they will be released for classes to take emergency calls in case of a real situation it is the duty of these men to take em ergency calls and to communicate them to the proper services wilkes mcclave bus 42 who is in charge of signing up these volunteers expressed his satisfac tion about the good response which colonel coyle's appeal found he said this reflected well on the spirit of lehigh students the volunteers who have signed up until now will be sworn in by colonel coyle himself this week they are henry l abbot e.e 42 lewis a james ch.e 45 robert p whipple chem 43 john l loughran bus 42 james gordon ch.e 42 charles b dut tcn i.e 42 william r taylor arts 43 t quinn raney ch.e 45 james m morris met.e 43 ahlert d wolff bus 42 alton h kingman i.e 44 robert c haas arts 43 robert l dodson jr bus 45 john d williams i.e 45 edgar r conover m.e 43 and c parker davidson i.e 42 hawley enters industry evans is winner of math contest by james schwab forrest mann is delegate to pre-med convention roger s hawley graduate as sistant in chemistry has left le high to work for the standard oil company of new jersey he came to lehigh in 1940 cosmopolitan club hears speakers on spain cuba only 2 submit 5 answers toward frosh prizes eta kappa nu to choose chapter officers editor members of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-medical fraternity will convene on april 2-4 at west virginia university morgantown for the seventh biennial conven tion representing the lehigh chapter will be a forrest mann arts 43 any pre-medical student inter ested in the work of a.e.d should endeavor to attend the convention admissions secretary dies ralph a evans phys 45 was the winner of the freshman math ematics contest which was spon sored by the newtonian society last semester according to robert e roberson phys 44 chairman of the contest committee evans handed in correct solutions for each of the five problems which had been posted successively in various buildings on the campus his prize will consist of five dol lars the winner of the second prize which consists of three dollars is charles l sollenberger chem 45 he had four solutions right out of the possible five these two students were the only ones to turn in a complete set of answers c alfonso fernandez arts spl of chile and isodoro r benavides e.e 45 of cuba spoke at a social meeting of the cosmopolitan club last tuesday evening fernandez described the atrocities of the spanish civil war which he wit nessed as a student he left spain on a british destroyer after being there for more than r a year of fighting cuba was the topic of bena vides talk he stated that cuba is predominately agricultural and that the united states plays a large part in cuban economics but that the cubans are proud of their independence by john f hannan with nearly 42 years of service with the university howard eck feldt professor of mining engineering intends to retire at the end of the present semester professor eckfeldt came to lehigh as a student in 1891 and enrolled in the curriculum of metallurgy during his student days he was a member of alpha tau omega social fraternity tau beta pi honorary engineering society scabbard and blade honorary military so ciety and omicron delta kappa honorary activities society he graduated in june 1895 and re turned the following year to con tinue studies in mining engineer ing surveyed in mexico soon young eckfeldt accept ed a position as mining engineer and surveyor with the mazapil copper company ltd concep cion del oro mexico in august 1896 he traveled to the mexican mining country to assume his new duties and for the rest of the year he was engaged in surveying mines in august 1898 eckfeldt re turned to the mines from a two month vacation in the states it was here in mexico that eckfeldt met catalina trousselle of parres coahuilla they were married in continued on page four eta kappa nu , the national el ectrical engineering honorary will hold its regular meeting in pack ard auditorium thursday evening the main purpose of the meeting will be to elect new chapter offi cers and to select a new editor for zero sequence which is the de partmental publication the members will hold a dis cussion on the men who have been nominated for the national officers and will also discuss the possibil ities of having a display in the lobby of packard auditorium for sub-freshman day jessie p farley for 17 years a secretary in the director of ad missions office died saturday mor ning in st lukes hospital she was graduated from the bethlehem schools and was 30 years old at the time of her death she died of a complication of diseases and is survived by her husband and family at the present time a total of 186 seniors or about 52 of the class has accepted positions effective upon graduation in june e robins morgan director of placement announced this week this number compares with 177 on the same date last year 87 in 1940 41 in 1939 thus it is evident that seniors are being sought more eagerly this year by business and industry morgan said that the number of ' interviews to date has been very large and that representatives of 62 companies have been to le high the explanation of the rush for college seniors morgan says lies in the improved business con ditions now prevailing he further stated that all hiring is not due entirely to the larger defense in dustries since non-defense firms are getting the jump by selecting men in many instances before they are taken by first-line defense industries some companies do not bar sen iors subject to the draft declared the placement director many firms are willing to take a chance and offer guarantees of furloughs some do not even inquire about the students draft numbers all ce's em's placed companies which have training continued on page four brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 31 1942 price — five cents miss crawford will give final scl program april 27 is picked for class elections pick bartlett as handbook editor gains world-wide repute appearing in original character sketches presentation is april 10 sand for bombs is most effective means of extinguishing fire okeson is toastmaster topic of explorer writer to be amazon basin 9 ; april 23 is date hanson chosen to lecture at frosh banquet vol xlix — no 43 brown and white — first with all the lehigh news z612 coming up . . . today march 31 7:30 p m — interdormitory coun cil arcadia drown hall tomorrow april 1 7:30 p m — pi tau sigma smok er and election 262 packard 7:30 p m — glee club drown hall thursday april 2 4:10 p m — phi beta kappa ini ation faculty room alumni memorial 7:15 p m — international rela tions club election of officers arcadia room drown hall 8:00 p m — sportsman's club 466 packard friday april 3 7:30 p m — student branch a i e e 416 and balcony packard save your dough no corsages for the junior prom