Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 21

              just before he came over his target cheli's plane was hit and caught fire he could have pulled up and bailed out but he knew this would break the formation and ruin the attack instead he kept on spraying the field with bullets from end to end the other men of his squadron at tempted to save him but by this time it was impossible flying out to sea he put his plane to his final resting place in the ocean a resident of bethlehem cheli a member of the class of 1941 was a physics major and a town man he was a native of san francisco but later lived in bethlehem he leaves his wife and an eighteen months old son ra pheal both living in bethlehem cheli left lehigh in 1940 to join the army air force at mitchell field he received his training at major ralph cheli . . . . . . lehigh's first tulsa oklahoma and randolph field texas graduated at kelly field texas and saw duty at miami in newfoundland and at owen field south carolina af ter organizing his squadron he was sent to new guinea for brave action in an attack oji the jap base at lac he was awarded the dis tinguished flying cross major cheli is the first lehigh man to receive the nation's high est award to her heros according to leonard h schick alumni sec retary research : lehigh profs aid industry attended by the largest crowd of the season friday's pre-game rally was highlighted with a talk by dean neil carothers of the business college bill hursh met.e f'44 the mas ter of ceremonies introduced dr carothers who emphasized le high's do or die spirit citing the case of george o ellstrom le high 38 a former star on the football team who was shot down over manila and machine-gunned while parachuting to earth members of the squad were in troduced by coach leo f prender gast and john donahue co-cap tain spoke for the team promis ing that every member of the squad would do his utmost to give lafayette hell col james m caperton gave permission to the second battalion who sponsored the rally to stay for the movies of last year's le high-lafayette contest which were shown at the conclusion of the rally when a company recently ran into trouble concerning the manu facture of a glareproof glass used as cover plates for airplane in strument dials two of lehigh's chemistry staff volunteered to look for the answer to the prob lem during the summer of 1942 drs neville and hazelhurst worked out formulas for a glass etching process which involves three sep arate steps in order to etch glass it must first be cleaned so as to insure uniform etching the first etching is done with a mixture of ammonium fluoride and hydro fluoric acid this is called the rough etch the second etch is done with hydrofluoric acid alone which smooths out the rough spots and gives a more uniform surface the process requires a very close control over the etching since the transparency of the glass may be come seriously impaired by too much etching the research men discovered that the company's difficulties with the process were caused by the cleaning of the glass and not much by the etching although most of the production of this glass is diverted to war use at the present there is some use made of it in framing pictures one which is expected to be quite a commercial development in the post-war world room 416 of packard lab was in total blackness as the outer sanctum a radio program presented from station lehi situated on the fifth floor of the same building went on the air the program was part of a demonstration of stereophonic sound given recently at a meeting of the student branch of the aiee electrical engineer's society stereophonic or three dimensional sound which gives the listener the impression of being present at source of the sound was masterfully employed in goose-pimp eling the audience as the mad or brennefish finally succeeded in putting his adversary prof load to death with his newly in vented infernal machine both mode and brennecke are profes sors in the e e department shown in their studio are the authors producers and actors of the show from left to right david w green robert h mathes and gordon t roberts all second semester seniors bethlehem pa wednesday dec 1 1943 price — 5 cents vol li no 21 averages released 102 men get 3 pt tau bete will hold smoker epitome will have color and design subtle use of colors to suggest its theme the 1944 epitome will feature two qualities missing from recent yearbooks at lehigh according to fritz yon bergen editor — color and smartness in design through the subtle use of maroon marine blue and an egg-shell white the 1944 epitome will suggest the patriotism of its theme lehigh in the war years senior pictures are being taken now at the mccaa studio to be followed within two or three week by that of members of the classes of 1945 and 1946 photo editor herbert kynor urges all students to be prompt in meeting their studio-appointments since every civilian student will have an individual picture in the yearbook the 1944 epitome staff expects a 100 per cent support from all members of the 1944 1945 1946 classes active fraternities will prob ably take their usual space in the 1944 yearbook and plans are be ing made to include data on all oi the campus's 29 fraternities that were represented during normal times through the cooperation of the interfraternity council to feature lehigh at war most important chapter in the 1944 book will be lehigh at war which will tell as complete a story as possible of what has been going on since pearl harbor in the engineering chemistry and physics laboratories and also in the liberal arts and business di visions of the university senior class leads university as usual by placing 39 students on dean's list tau beta pi honorary engineer ing fraternity will hold a smoker tomorrow night at 7 30 in packard laboratory lounge for the purpose of electing new members according to president glenn murray m.e 44 all eligible men have been invited to attend the smoker will begin with a get together period during which the members will meet those candi dates whom they do not already know after about an hour the candidates will leave and the members will vote on them those elected will be tapped eith er friday or saturday the number of new members is not set in other words tau beta pi may elect any number of them to membership depending on their individual qualifications to be eligible for tau beta pi an engineering student must have either completed four semesters and be in the upper eighth of his class or have completed six sem esters and be in the upper fifth of his class all eligible candidates are considered on the basis of ex tra-curricular activities effort put forth attitude toward other stu dents and numerous other things despite the fact that the civilian students attending lehigh during the summer semester were quite few in number 102 men struggled on with sweated brows and man aged to make dean's list leading the field with perfect 4.00 averages were six men — three seniors a junior and three sopho mores they were david f cox e.p oct 43 theodore peters ch e oct 43 robert l smith c.e feb 44 richard r williams arts june 44 carl w helstrom e.p june 45 donald f ressler e.p june 45 the senior class placed 39 men on the selected list while the freshman had 27 the sophomores 20 and the juniors 16 men whose averages were 3.00 or better following are the names of those who obtained averages better than 3.00 seniors oct 43 feb 44 cox david fredrick e.p oct 43 4.00 peters theodore jr ch.e oct 43 4.00 smith robert louis c.e feb 44 4.00 devitt john edmund bus oct 43 3.83 munford john r arts feb 43 3.83 miltenberger robert s met.e feb ' 43 3.65 swayne kenneth gilbert m.e oct 43 3.64 buczynski joseph j jr met.e oct 43 3.60 rouse robert wilson m.e oct 43 3.44 schwarz quirin john m.e 0ct."43 3.44 gross john hammes met.e feb ' 44 3.42 gumpert hibbard g jr arts feb ' 44 3.40 frost edward lyster met.e oct 43 3.37 berman frank w met e oct 43 3.32 cahoon robert leslie met.e oct 43 3.32 kurtz claude jennings ch.e oct 43 3.28 tomlinson joseph n ch.e feb 44 3.28 blossom edward l jr e.e oct 43 3.24 kutosh stephen ch.e oct 43 3.22 ramsdell robert c arts oct 43 3.21 egan bernard john met.e oct 43 3.19 gerhart richard lee c.e feb 44 3.18 lowry donald randolph jr m.e.feb.'44 3.18 wallick earle w e.e oct 43 3.17 adler alfred aron m.e feb 44 3.13 shawhan hubbard w arts oct 43 3.12 snyder samuel idell m.e oct 43 3.12 berg philip james m.e oct 43 3.11 doxsey john evans m.e feb ' 44 3.11 feigley donald malcolm arts feb ' 44 3.10 heironimus robert allen m.e oct 43 3.06 collmann irving r arts feb ' 44 3.00 cordrey james milbourne ch.e feb ' 44 3.00 gruenwald fred ch.e 0ct."43 3.00 hebrank william h m.e oct 43 3.00 megas theodore g met.e feb 44 3.00 mills courter d arts oct 43 3.00 ross john alexander ch.e oct 43 3.00 schmuk joseph met.e oct 43 3.00 juniors june 44 oct 44 williams richard r arts june 44 4.00 evans ralph aiken e.p june 44 3.81 little leslie ralph jr ch.e 0ct."44 3.64 lauterbach herbert g ch.e june 44 3.61 born ira brahm e.p june 44 3.60 franz paul justus jr bus oct 44 3.44 horlacher richard d c.e june 44 3.41 pappas michael james bus june 44 3.33 bloecher frederick w jr e.m oct 44 3.32 kaplan martin jerome ch.e oct 44 3.17 mcelroy stephen bowne bus june 44 3.17 myers joseph h arts oct 44 3.17 richards louis m arts june 44 3.17 epstein arnold samuel e.e june 44 3.11 lee jay richard chem june 44 3.06 dewan charles joseph arts june 44 3.00 sophomores feb 45 june 45 helstrom carl wilhelm e.p june 45 4.00 ressler donald frey e.p june 45 4.00 marsh frank h jr m.e june 45 3.83 milch victor warren jr ch.e june 45 3.70 pieski edwin thomas chem june 45 3.70 continued on page 3 large crowd attends rally former lehigh man killed earns congressional medal by emerson virden major ralph cheli class of 41 has been posthumously awarded the congressional medal of honor the highest possible award according to a recent war department announcement the nation's highest honor was awarded to airman cheli for glori ous sacrifice in his final action on august 18 cheli went as the leader of a mission to bomb and strafe the jap base at dagua new guinea as his squadron approached its objective jap zeros attacked them picking on cheli particularly brown and white lehigh university from stamp here to i mail the brown and white home