Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 2

              annual alumni banquet friday there will be final examin ations this semester three hours of them for each course the dates set aside during the monday faculty meeting are july 13-14-15 the regularly scheduled examination period spiked tentative announcements made by several faculty meetings to the effect that examinations would consist of one-hour quizzes to honor class of 92 for 50th anniversary government and industry will be represented by speakers alfred r glancy 03 and walter s lan dis 02 at the annual alumni re union banquet to be held at 7 p.m friday in the ballroom of the ho tel bethlehem the banquet is held in conjunc tion with the 76th anniversary program of the alumni association scheduled for friday and saturday of this weekend glancy who accompanied our ambassador to great britain and acted in an advisory capacity is chief of the war department ser vices of supply headquarters lan dis is vice president of the amer ican cyanamid company the banquet at which herbert j hartzog 04 president of the alumni association will preside will be based on a lehigh for victory theme the ballroom will be decorated with old and new american flags and the tables will be arranged in the shape of a v on display will be a 4x6 v 2 foot aerial picture of the lehigh cam put and three other panels depict ing in pictures what lehigh and the alumni association are doing for the war program association to meet saturday after the banquet the alumni will adjourn to the home club party at the bethlehem club 524 new street following the regis tration at 9 a m saturday the annual meeting of the alumni as sociation will be held in the fac ulty room of the memorial build ing luncheon for alumni and families will be served from 12:30 to 2 p m in lamberton hall all alumni will form in front of packer hall at 2:30 p m for the parade of the classes to the flagpole where the award of the parade flag will be made to the outstanding class on the basis of numbers and uniforms tours of the campus will be made after the parade after which the alumni will join their own class reunion ban quets final arrangements for the weekend were completed yester day by the committee consisting of walter a schrempel 14 chair man john k coonneen 30 hart zog robert f herrick 34 secre tary of the alumni association leonard h schick 37 managing editor of the bulletin carothers makes hawaiian survey officials of the important can ning industries in america have called upon dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration to make a detailed investigation in hawaii dr carothers who has in the past conducted economic surveys for the canning industry has now left to make a study of the eco nomic effects of the war on the pineapple industry the effects of the war in the pacific have made serious inroads into the pineapple industry which is of vital impor tance to the economy of hawaii activities of the japanese have caused some trouble during the last few years and have increased since the outbreak of the present conflict preliminary arrangements for the survey will take the dean to washington new york chicago and san francisco within the next two weeks he will then go to honolulu if plane service is avail able it is expected that the dean will return to lehigh after stay ing in hawaii for about two weeks officers in for summer only preston parr jr ch.e 43 was elected president of arcadia stu dent governing body at a meet ing monday night in drown hall parr is president of the interdor mitory council the elections were necessitated as none of the officers elected in may are attending the summer term charles m norlin met e 43 was elected vice president ed ward j cavanaugh m e 43 sec retary kenneth g swayne m e 44 treasurer dr claude g beardslee faculty adviser of the group opened the meeting parr is to represent the senior class and he appointed bernard j egan met e 44 to represent the interdormitory council for the summer term as arcadia members are not allowed to represent more than one student office william g binder bus 43 was appointed arcadia member-at-large arnold o putnam i e 43 j egan and oscar d summers e.e 44 were appointed to investigate the standing of students as a means of classification for arca dia as the difficulty of classifying students according to classes is in creased under the accelerated pro gram all committees and organiza tions should make their report to the arcadia office concerning their methods of elections and length of offices of the elected officers as soon as possible new arcadia members will be chosen by a means of classification rather than by class phi bete plans two tappings elections to phi beta kappa for the present senior class will be held both in january and may in order that students taking the ac celerated program may be consid ered announced dean phillip m palmer secretary of the society although details are as yet in definite plans are being made for two separate elections and initia tions election will be on the basis of seven semesters and the total number of new men will be the same as any given year with no definite proportion for each sem ester 2 lehigh graduates achieve honor over the philippines stories filtering through the censoring lines tell of two lehigh men who while serving with the united states air corps in the philippine islands were shot down but only one lives today to tell the story the first bit of news from the war front brought notice of the gal lant death of lieutenant george ellstrom 38 the last word from him was received dec 6 and in that communication he spoke on be ing on patrol and taking gunnery practice at iba site of fort stot ensberg which was attacked sev eral days later by the japanese an informant relates that ell strom was stationed in the philip pines and on the days of the as sault was one of the three pilots in his squadron who were able to get their ships in the air despite the constant strafing by the jap planes once in the air lt eu strom shot and badly damaged three enemy craft before his own plane was riddled and he was forced to bail out the japanese pilots displaying true nipponese sportsmanship shot him several times as he was floating to the ground ellstrom lived only long enough to pass on to his supervisors val uable information concerning the firing powers of the attacking planes he died a hero the first lehigh man to give his life for his country glad for red hair the other story concerns lt william sheppard 38 who today is thankful that he was born with red hair sheppard was shot down over the philippine jungles and narrowly escaped beheading at the hands of half-naked bolo-bearing savages who mistook him for a jap as the natives closed in for the kill sheppard whipped off his flying helmet revealing his flaming thatch of red hair the natives re alizing that no jap sported red hair befriended sheppard and lat er aided him in reaching the am erican lines after several weeks of hospital ization sheppard was transferred to australia and manager to tele phone his parents a few weeks ago assuring them of his safety new uniforms and a new method of drill will be introduced on the lehigh campus during the summer session a rumor that the revision in the method of drill had been neces sary because our rifles were need ed by the armed forces was re futed by lit james d campbell assistant professor of military sci ence and tactics who stated that the old springfields had merely been changed for new garands and that the new type of drill had been instituted in order to instruct the students in the methods of field combat the drill will be more exacting and precise there will be exten sive ground work such as grenade tossing barbed wire snipping groups of map problems and in ter-platoon and inter-company sports and calisthenics to assist in training the students an ob stacle course is being erected on south mountain hereafter the companies will be organized from the class sections that is a company will be organ ized from class section a b com pany from class section b and so on no longer will there be any corporals each man will take his place as squad leader there are 189 advanced r o t c students and 211 basic trainees taking the course some juniors are acting as platoon commanders on alternate weeks due to the small number of seniors enrolled new garb for lehigh rotc lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa wednesday june 3 1942 vol xlix-a no 2 price ... 5 cents campus blackout sunday night on sunday evening june 7 between 9:45 and 10 o'clock there will be a blackout on the campus all lights will be turned off for the full period of time this blackout is in cooper ation with city of bethlehem and the rest of northampton and lehigh counties no cars will be allowed to move on the campus during that time mitchell ayres for saraband 142 sign for insurance plan sophomores promise full moon for dance mitchell ayres and his orchestra have been chosen as the band for the sophomore saraband which will be held in grace hall on sat urday evening june 27 from 10-2 ayres is known for his fashions in music and should provide the students with an excellent pro gram he will bring with him his quartet and vocalists having consulted the astrono mers the sophomores are happy to announce that there will be a full moon on the night of the dance there are to be tables on the terraces around grace hall and refreshments will be available this was decided so that it would blend in nicely with the soft music of the band a cup that is a foot high will be presented to the queen of the saraband at 12 o'clock during the dance 162 men reside in 2 dormitories one hundred and forty-two sen iors completed their applications for the 250 20-year endowment insurance plan topping the class of 41 by four subscribers this form of endowment plan was adopted at the senior banquet as the 1942 class memorial gift to the university the plan had sim ilarly been adopted by four pre vious graduating classes the policies were dated may 18 1942 and annual premiums will be due in succeeding years by that date to the prudential insurance company the endowment insurance may be described as a combination of regular insurance and a savings bank account each year a fixed premium is paid to the insurance company by the man insured and at the maturity of the policy in 1962 the university will receive the face value of the policy plus accrued dividends total of which will be approximately 300 per man the class insurance plan was adopted several years ago as a means of enabling the non wealthy alumnus to help endow his alma mater the memorial gift committee consisted of john e lane chair man john d van blarcom dor mitory chairman joseph m sex ton fraternity chairman and al bert g tromer town chairman there are 162 summer semester students living in the dormitories according to frederick r ash baugh bursar of this number 107 are in richards house and the remainder in taylor a few students he stated are still residing in the dormitories under the leases which expire june 8 drinker and price houses are closed leases for next year must be filed with the bursar's office be fore the end of this week re minded ashbaugh a deposit of 10 must accompany each lease so far 57 freshmen scheduled to enter college in september have applied for dormitory rooms as signment of rooms will be made in the near future by ashbaugh and e kenneth smiley director of admissions robert riley of the library staff looks at the latest copy of the illustrated london news — an especially interesting publi cation in these days of bombs in britain and u-boats in the atlantic british newspapers and magazines still appear in the huge mail that arrives at the library every day yes doc 3 hour finals are still here — no rumor parr named arcadia head no classes on july 4th the faculty has so voted so go home and get some sleep