Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 3

              monday is deadline for o d k lists first-semester seniors and second-semester juniors desir ing to be considered for elec tion to omicron delta kappa senior activities honorary so ciety should submit lists of their semester averages and extra-curricular activities to mrs bowker at the arcadia office by noon monday july 19 due to the irregularity of semesters the former point list system has been tempor arily abandoned the society will hold its election meeting next wednesday night vol li — no 3 bethlehem pa wednesday july 14 1943 price — 5 centa glee club selects new men officers dr e l crum . . . . . . leaves for army odk plans sunday sings first on 25th most lehigh men in 2-a students of eight military class ifications form the present student body of lehigh classifications obtained from the dean's office are as follows 1a — available for military service 1c — member of land or naval forces of the united states 2a — man necessary in his civ ilian activity 2b — man necessary to the war-production program 3a — man with child or chil dren deferred by reason of maintaining bona fide family relationship 3b — formerly deferred by reason of dependency and activity 4d — minister of religion or divinity student 4f physically unfit of those already classified 16 are in ia 4 are in ic 216 have 2 a classifications and 21 are in 28 in addition to these 7 men are in group 3a and 3 men in 38 group 4d is composed of one man and group 4f totals 40 men fifteen students have registered under the selective service law but have not been classified one hundred sixty-three have not reached the registration age of 18 thirty-four students are in the ranks of the military reserves the class of oct 43 has 8 men in the continued on page 4 egan rust willis head musical groups glee club tryouts were held thursday july 8 under the super vision of bernard j egan met e 44 new members were selected and officers for the summer sea son were chosen officers for the summer will be president of combined musical clubs senior manager of glee club egan junior manager of glee club philip h rust e phys 45x junior manager of glee club stanford willis jr met e 45x arcadia representative com bined musical clubs rust new members selected are ist tenors — august f weigand don l shettel 2nd tenors — john e devitt r d kassabian frederick n spencer henry w albing robert e sentz sgt leo e eko valeski ist basses — james law rence david gerb guy dubois vincent bell charles grubmeyer robert korkegi pvt lynwood pollard 2nd basses — pvt rodney f brown pfc william lane curtis l baskin edgar a frank ley old members who signed up in clude ist tenors — edwin t pieski ralph k woelfel jr douglas s adams 2nd tenors — bernard j egan philip s rust c d mills ist basses — edward l diehl paul l reibex 2nd basses — roy c ward l stanford willis the next rehearsal will be thursday july 15 at 7:30 p m in drown hall all old members who failed to sign up are asked to do so and any prospective new mem bers who could not come to last week's rehearsal will be welcome and in fact are urged to try-out only four a s t p men came to the initial try outs it is under stood that there are other a s t p men interested since it seems that it will be virtually impossible to find a rehearsal time that will be convenient for both civilian students and a s t p cadets a special rehearsal time may be ar ranged for an a s t p chorus if enough men show interest neville perfects new bristle after six years of research half of fraternities are open at present plans for a dance by the end of august were discussed at the first meeting of the interfraternity council last monday evening in drown hall the admission charge was fixed at 2.20 per couple the officers of the council will serve as the dance committee details of the affair will be planned in the near future the election of officers for next september was considered since only one officer will be returning it was urged that fraternities find brothers in the a s t p and promote better friendship between the a s t p and college stu dents many problems discussed arcadia's financial position is unsettled according to charles c hilton president and a possible loan by the interfraternity coun cil to arcadia may be granted to keep it going the committee to investigate this loan includes rob ert l smith william bloecher and john donahue smith was granted permission to revise the accounting methods used by the committee the council also voted to appropriate charms for each house representative the problem of moving frater nity men to off campus houses was brought up and questionnaires will be sent out to the various living groups the men chosen to handle this are e lyster frost bill mengel william b tilghman and charles r conklin jr the present officers are philip j berg president q john schwarz vice-president hilton secretary and smith treasurer no business as usual at a recent survey made by the interfraternity council it was dis covered that only 2 of a total of 29 fraternities are operating ac cording to pre-war custom it was revealed also that only half of the houses are open and that these for the most part have become rooming houses for incom ing freshmen and refugees from the dorms in normal times frat ernities accounted for about half of the students but now their com bined roster makes up only one fifth council plans dance for the end of august dr earl l crum professor and head of the department of greek has received a captaincy in the u s army and will leave lehigh to go to the provost-marshall gen eral's school at fort custer mich igan july 21 he will be stationed there for a month and then trans ferred to some other location dr crum served overseas in 1918-19 as a ist lieutenant and spent two years in france after the war in reconstruction work 1943 marks dr crum's 15th year on the lehigh campus with his departure greek will probably be dropped from the roster of studies for the duration in july 1935 professor crum visited portugal to study the his tory and architecture of that country to supplement a trip to portugal in the summer of 1932 during these trips he took over 800 pictures relative to his study of architecture previous to his portugal sojourn professor crum conducted courses on a mediter ranean education cruise his wife president of the local american association of univer sity women will remain in beth lehem during professor crum's absence crum made army captain ted peters elected president of society omicron delta kappa senior ac tivities honorary is investigating a proposal of sponsoring a series of sunday concerts or sings to be given for military and civilian students the society met last wednesday evening in the arca dia room plans call for the series to be gin sunday july 25 with a con cert by the university band pos sibly to be followed by glee club concerts musical recitals and group sings girls of the moravian college triple trio may join with the lehigh glee club in another concert election of new members will take place as usual this summer though only one election will be held this semester elections will not be based on a point system but men will be judged by lists of their activities submitted the exact number of men to be taken has not been decided first-semester seniors and sec ond-semester juniors interested in election to odk should submit lists of averages and activities to mrs bowker at the arcadia office by noon monday the society will meet wednesday july 21 to elect men from these lists and pledging will take place soon afterward theodore peters jr ch e 44x vice-president was chosen president of the society at the meeting replacing richard c sha fer who has gon6 into the army philip j berg m e 44x was elected vice-president and ken neth g swayne m e 44x treas urer replacing hugh boyd also in the army e lyster frost met e 44x is arcadia representative and dr claude g beardslee is secretary odk decided to send flowers to walter r okeson university vice-president who is ill at st luke's hospital the committee for the planned musicals is kenneth swayne chairman john e doxsey m e 44 and preston parr graduate student dinner meetings were abandon ed for the summer due to uni versity living conditions although an initiation banquet is planned future meetings will be held in the arcadia room enlistees — obtain personnel sheets town men plan dance next week both the army and the navy have urged that whenever college students go into service they should take with them not only a transcript of their college record but also a record with general per sonnel data the american coun cil on education together with the representatives from the army and the navy worked out a per sonnel sheet and forwarded it to various colleges and universities if and when a civilian student reports for military service at any time he should take one of these personnel sheets with him to pre sent to the interviewing officer in anticipation of this each continued on page 3 cyanide will hold freshman rally cyanide junior honorary activi ties society is making plans for a freshman rally to be held on wednesday night july 21 at 7:30 the plans are not definite as yet but it is hoped that the necessary arrangements can be made formerly the rally has been a recognized part of freshman week and it is important that it be held this year despite the difficulties the more vital material presented during ' the old freshman week will be concentrated in this meet ing since all the officers of cyanide have left the university since the election the society has no officers at this time no election is plan ned for the summer because there are only four members in all but fritz yon bergen ch e 45 has been chosen acting chairman be cause he is the only remaining member of the executive commit tee see picture page 4 the appearance of a new synthetic paint brush bristle developed at lehigh research laboratories was recently announced in full page color advertisement in time fortune and modern plastics magazines by the hercules powder company supplier of chemicals used in the manufacture of the bristles chemistry's child as the advertisement calls it is the result of six years of research work done h v t r harupv a impviii vipoh nf the chemistry department with the assistance of dr thomas g harris dr william c forbes james n moses and moulton d phelps all graduate students at the time research on the bristle had been completed and manufac ture by the devoe-raynolds com pany started approximately a year ago but the company never allow ed any publicity to be given to the new product until very recently neville outdoes pigs the original reason for the de velopment of the bristle was a the town council will sponsor a record dance saturday july 24 from 9 until 11 on the upper floor of drown hall according to ralph a evans eng phys 45x coun cil president tickets will be free to all town men who hold paid-up member ship cards for the summer semes ter admission for others will be 50c per couple including tax town men may secure their tick ets at the arcadia office thursday or friday afternoon of this week tickets will later go on sale for the entire university admis sions to the floor however will be by tickets only since there is a limit of 75 civilian couples brown & white lehigh university widely fluctuating market and an unreliable supply of chinese hog bristles which are the besi natural bristles with the supply cut off altogether at the preseni time and the development oj a synthetic product superior to the natural bristle a greal deal more than the original pur pose was fulfilled by dr neville already five patents have been granted on the work and a num ber of others are at the u s pat ent office and filed in foreign continued on page 4 third and last free b & w cadets cadets may still subscribe to the brown and white throughout this week by signing up on bulletin boards in drinker richards and taylor pay 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