Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 34

              bethlehem pa wednesday march 29 1944 price 5 cents dr warren w ewing professor of chemistry is instructing the newly organized class in theory and application of electro-chemistry the course held on monday evenings from 7:30 to 10:00 was offered at the request of several lehigh graduate students and men now employed in nearby defense plants instruction is being given in the principles of electrometallurgy electrochemical analysis electrolytic production of organic and inorganic compounds and other related subjects although this is the first time that a course of this type has been offered in recent years there is a possibility that it may be offered in subsequent semesters if the demand is sufficient the b & w hopes that a broader policy of service to the community will develop junior prom set april 22nd is date the annual junior prom will be held saturday april 22 in grace hall dick smith and his orchestra will furnish the music for dancing from 9 to 1 the spring prom will probably be the last dance to be held in grace hall for the duration since only last week announce ment was made that the military building would be closed word has been received from dean congdon that the fraternities will be permitted to house their dates from 1 p m saturday to 4 p m sunday all fraternities should | ast grads march in full ceremony yesterday morning 503 army specialized training cadets re ceived certificates of the comple tion of their respective courses at the ast graduation convocation held in packer memorial chapel the affair was the first complete ly military graduation in the his tory of the university approximately 65 foreign lan guage students received certifi cates along with 150 basic engi neers and 380 advanced engineers the ceremonies opened with the traditional faculty procession in cap and gown from packard lab oratory to the chapel led by the colors after which the entire ast unit marched into the building dr t edgar shields played an or gan prelude march by de la tombelle dr claude g beardslee uni versity-chaplain and acting chap lain of the unit here then read the scripture and said a short prayer asking guidance for the departing cadets after the pray er dr shields played caprice by matthews the featured address of the cer emony was given by dr c c williams president of the univer sity he spoke on the topic free dom and self-control and com mended the cadets on their fine conduct while at lehigh col george w easterday com mandant of the unit next gave a short farewell talk to the men he explained why it had become ne cessary to abolish the unit at this time and closed with go with the will to win . . . goodbye and god speed many faculty men will leave soon most engineering departments will lose two or more members to draft industry with the completion of the last semester in the existence of the le high ast unit the university faculty previously enlarged to meet the army program is now experiencing a rapid depletion in all the col leges particularly in the college of engineering according to the leaves of absence and resignations received at the president's office most of the engineering departments are sure of los ing two or three men within the next month from the chemistry department a resignation has been accepted from willis a heisey half-time chemistry instructor mr heisey is a graduate student completing his work for an ma degree this semester he has accepted an in dustrial position with the syl vania industrial corporation at fredricksburg maryland last summer mr heisey served as as sistant to mr thomas g harris in a devoe-reynolds company re search project on a devoe-rey nolds teaching fellowship dr robert d billinger received a leave of absence from his posi tion as associate professor of chemistry to replace schick re cently called to the army as alum ni secretary and editor of the alumni bulletin dr basil w parker assistant professor of biology has applied for a leave of absence to accept a war-time position with the hey den chemical company located at princeton new jersey professor parker will work in the biological control and production of penicil lin dr peter g bergman will leave his post as assistant pro fessor of physics on a leave of absence to take a post as theoret ical physicist at the columbia uni versity division of war research in new york dr robert a buerschaper in structor of physics has accepted a position at the taylor instrument company at rochester new york while on his leave of absence dr buerschaper will do government research in physics simon abrams and robert s sherry have both resigned as in structors in the electrical engi neering department to work at the bureau of standards in washing ton mr robert c king has re signed as instructor in mathe matics send a petition complete with names of all those who are going to attend to the dean's office at the earliest possible date names of faculty chaperones must also be included in the petition tickets will be distributed to the various living groups in the latter part of the week they may also be procured at the sup ply bureau or at the arcadia office price of tickets is 2.00 plus tax after april 15 the price will rise to 3.00 plus tax it is to be noted that effective april 1 tax on all admissions will total 20 2a's slated for physicals according to recent regulations of the selective service office le high men now holding 2 a defer ments under the quota or not will probably be called for pre induction physicals this how ever does not mean that these en gineers will be called for military service instead this action of the se lective service office may be re garded as a great advantage to college men the physicals will serve to ferret out many 4f's now holding positions on the quota and make deferments available to other scientific students not at present eligible this policy follows in line with the establishment of an industrial quota of 50,000 technical men who are to be retanied out of the 200 000 key men under 26 now in in dustry the entire situation is re garded in well informed quarters as a belated attempt on the part of the selective service office to correct an unpopular and un wieldy affair in regard to young men without dependents still working in industry under occu pational deferment student directory to be ready soon the new student directory com piled by the town council is now being printed and should be ready for distribution by the end of this week or next according to a statement made by ralph evans chairman of the directory com mittee students who are not members of the town council may receive their copies at the arcadia office town council members will re ceive their copies of the directory from their section president one copy of the list will be given to each of the department heads the price has not yet been fixed for fraternity men severs to return for fall semester according to r m smith head of the english dept prof severs formerly of the lehigh faculty will take up residence at lehigh university next fall professor severs is now conducting grad uate work four hours a week at yale he also is completing some graduate research work of his own upon completion of his studies professor severs will take a va cation this summer before return ing to lehigh for the fall semes ter billinger new alumni head robert d billinger associate professor of chemistry has been named acting secretary of the le high alumni association according to an announcement made by robert herrick alumni secretary well known to both alumni and students of lehigh dr billinger dr billinger will begin his new assignment on april 1 he will take over the duties of secretary robert herrick and leonard schick editor of the alumni bul letin both of whom are leaving for the army some time in april is well qualified to accept his new post he is editor of the octagon monthly publication of the lehigh valley branch of the american chemical society dr billinger is a native of reading pa and a graduate of lehigh university receiving his degree in chemical engineering in 1921 in 1925 he received his master's degree and later became a graduate assistant at yale dr billinger continued his education at the university of cincinnati where he received his doctorate in 1929 dr miller dies served 37 yrs last thursday afternoon dr benjamin l miller professor of geology was found dead of a heart attack in williams hall dr miller would have reached the age of seventy next month and was looking forward to retirement born in sabetha kansas dr miller traveled extensively all over the world and was inter nationally renowned as a geolo gist mr miller has been teach ing at lehigh since 1907 although last september he was granted a leave of absence to teach at princeton he recently returned to continue his writings dr miller received his bache lor's degree from the university of kansas and his doctorate from johns hopkins university in 1903 in 1941 he was awarded the hon orary degree of doctor of science by moravian college before com ing to lehigh he taught at lowa bryn mawr kansas university perm college and kansas high schools as a geologist dr miller has traveled over the united states spain morocco south and cen tral america and in 1937 he again circled the globe in traveling to russia to attend the international geological congress returning by way of china and japan work ing with various government bu reaus dr miller investigated the natural resources of germany and in 1937 the mineral resources of japan continued on page 6 brown and white lehigh university vol li — no 34 give us a hand . • . since the start of the war many lehigh activities have collapsed for lack of student support if lehigh men want to have any col lege life left at all they will nip this paralyzing movement in the bud the brown and white is now on slightly shaky legs since the civilian editorial staff has been reduced to ten men and since the a s t p has left 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