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              a qualified committee of scienti fic and technical experts will judge the best paper presented for which the author will receive the first prize of 50.00 one lehigh man enoch perkins me 48 is presenting a paper entitled ele mentary principles of ram-jets the meeting will not be all tech nical however prof j b hart richard jones me 48 branch man faculty advisor to the branch president and other officials have worked out a program featuring an inspection trip to bethlehem steel and free tickets to lehigh's extravaganza the lehigh spring music festival the formal banquet is to be held in the main ballroom of the hotel bethlehem after the friday afternoon ses sions 400 take part in festival faculty octet to sing way down yonder friday and saturday evenings will mark the presentation of the spring music festival lehigh's new theatrical enterprise grace hall has been transformed into a huge music hall boasting one of the largest stages in the world especially for the festival the performances will begin at 8:15 each evening tickets for the student body are available for the exchange of coupon 37 of the activities booklet at the supply bureau and drown hall guest and gene:al admission tickets may be purchased at the supply bureau or the hotel bethlehem lobby for 1.50 thirty feature numbers over thirty separate feature numbers will be given in the pro gram which is divided into three sections it is estimated that over 400 students faculty and guest artists from co-operating colleges are actively participating in the festival production a student stage crew under the supervision of william crehore spent the en tire spring vacation working on the electrical installations and stage building a faculty octet composed of the following members of the faculty wray h congdon hallett ham matt floyd hekker robert her rick franklin kenyon edgar h riley hugh roberts and harold thomas will sing a spiritual way down yonder arranged by o wesley jane kuehnle dancer from cen tenary junior college with rich ard ellrick will present an inter pretive dance in silhouette to the music of tschaikowsky's waltz of the flowers original compositions several original compositions in cluding music in slow motion composed especially for the festi val by professor schempf head of die music department tim den nis music columnist for the brown and white composed the score for the finale of the festival birth of an anthem charles a seidle associate dean of students has been the admin istration advisor of the technical staff andrew litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds served 1 as construction and electrical advisor ralph schwarz has been student producer of the entire production lehigh delegates on committees assist in formulation of planks harold e stassen nominated by lehigh's lee m stritzenger 50 won election over his competitors for the presidency of the united states at the model national po litical convention this convention was sponsored by the intercol egiate conference on govern ment which met in philadelphia last week choosing a presidential candi date and drafting a model politi cal platform was the work of over 700 delegates representing 50 par ticipating colleges and universities of pennsylvania the i.c.g an nually sponsors some project in applied political science a delegation of 22 men repre sented lehigh university in de bating current political issues and arguing the merits of suggested platform planks in both the com mittee conferences and the gen eral session convocations spirited debate and parliamentary pre cision were characteristic stritzing-er speaks the nomination of presidential candidates brought attention to lehigh for lee m stritzinger chairman of the lehigh delegation delivered the address nominating harold e stassen for the presi dency stritzinger subsequently served as leader of the forces for stassen in drawing the planks of the platform twelve convention com mittees were formed each com mittee had at least one lehigh apo organizes camp for summer last saturday and sunday the lehigh chapter of alpha phi omega national service fraternity made an overnight camping trip to camp minsi at tobyhanna about 50 miles north of here minsi is the bethlehem area scout camp nineteen members of the fra ternity made the trip they are accompanied by byron c hayes assistant director of admissions and jay wilcox bethlehem scout director the main purpose of the jaunt was to get the camp in readiness for the coming summer season much progress was made toward this end and the area was largely cleared on saturady afternoon the campers under the leadership of president august weigand got off to a good start in setting up the site in the evening camp fires were built and games were played the victuals were prepared pio neer fashion — a la charcoal the campers wrapped tightly in sleeping bags spent the night under the open sky that night however the temperature dropped below freezing and sunday morn ing a cold rain fell somewhat dampening the enthusiasm of the workers except for a few unauthorized canoe trips the lehigh men stuck to their tasks and got the site in shape for the summer representative on the committee for military affairs richard mould 51 served as clerk before the opening of the con vention the lehigh delegation had drafted what they believed were model platform planks these planks were then discussed in committee a consensus of opinion was reached subsequently the committee drafts were presented to the general session where they were finally voted upon and adopted a large proportion of the planks submitted by lehigh was incorporated into the final drafts of the convention on the agriculture committee were justin k mccarthy 50 and steve temoshok 50 richard ash 50 served on the civil rights com mittee specializing in commerce and industry were bill hunt 49 and john hurley 48 committees meet norman hughes 49 and charles nicholson 50 served on the educa tion committee presenting the delegation's views on foreign affairs were charles butterworth 50 dave caulkins 50 albert j schmidt 49 and wayne schwab 50 al schmidt also served on the rules committee don h lang 49 was the local spokesman on governmental or ganization for health and wel fare al rubenstein 49 presented the delegation's planks specializing on labor study ray h hartman acted on the labor committee and defended the com mittee's decisions on the floor of the general session vincent bell 49 and lee m stritzinger 50 were the lehigh spokesmen on military affairs on the committee for natural resources was robert lowry 50 george rainoff 51 served on the committee on taxation and fi nance while richard spalding 50 and don van wagener 49 repre sented lehigh on the committee on veteran affairs george howatt was faculty advisor of the delega tion larkin dinner is scheduled prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical en gineering will be honored by pi tau sigma national mechanical engineering society at the 20th an niversary banquet of the lehigh chapter saturday evening may 1 in grace hall served 36 years professor larkin who for the past twenty years has served as executive vice-president of the national council of pi tau sigma will retire from the lehigh faculty june 30 after 36 years of service the banquet is being planned by members of the lehigh theta chapter of the national organiza tion with richard p bodine president as chairman assisting him are milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering thomas e jackson associate pro fessor of mechanical engineering and three student members ethan a smith jr shillington louis c smith scranton and richard m smith bethlehem before joining the lehigh fac ulty professor larkin was a mem ber of the engineering staffs of telluride power company the empire engineering corporation terry and tench company and as general superintendent of the har risburg steel corporation member of many societies professor larkin who graduated from the university of wisconsin in 1906 is a member of the ameri can society of mechanical engin eers the american society for steel american management as sociation the newcomen society of england army ordnance associa tion tau beta pi sigma xi and lambda chi alpha fraternity professor larkin was granted two patents in 1933 and he has been a frequent contributor of technical publications during 1932-33 on a trip around the world he visited colleges and in dustries in the orient and in eu rope eugene grace will deliver june address lehigh announces first two-day graduation program since 1943 ihe rt rev frank w sterrett bishop of the episcopal diocese oii btthiehem will deliver the lehigh university baccalaureate address june 13 and dr eugene gilford grace chairman of the board oi bethlehem steei co will give the commencement address june 14 wnen lenigh returns to its two day graduation program the first oince 1943 the baccalaureate services will be held at 10 3u sunday morning in packer memorial church and tne commencement services in grace hall on the following day at 10:30 a.m president of board dr grace president of the boara of trustees of lehigh university and a trustee of st luke's hos pital bethlehem and memoer of the society of arts and sciences ol jnew ork has been chairman of the board of bethlehem steei since 1945 he was graduated from lenign with an ee degree m 18y9 in ii»o2 he was made superin tendent of yards and transporta tion and in 1905 became superin tendent of the juragua iron co a subsidiary to bethlehem steel dr grace became general superin tenciant of the bethlehem steei co in 1906 and later a members of the board of directors he was appointed vice president and gen eral manager of the bemlehem steel corp in 1911 and president in 1913 receives gold medal last year dr grace was award ed the american institute of min ing and metallurgical engineers charles f rand gold meaal for distinguished achievement i n mining administration in 1934 he received the gary medal of the american iron and steel institute of which he was president in 1935 36 and in 1942 the bessemer gold medal of the iron and steel insti tute of great britain dr grace was awarded the de gree of eng dr by lehigh in 1927 trinity college hartford ll.d 1941 and moravian col lege litt d in 1941 bishop since 1928 bishop of bethlehem since 1928 bishop sterrett was made a deacon in 1911 and ordained as a priest the following year from 1911 to 1912 he was vicar of grace chapel st stephen's parish kingston and from 1912 to 1914 assistant at st stephen's church in wilkes-barre 1915 to 1923 he was consecrated which he served as rector from bishop coadjutor of the diocese of bethlehem on nov 9 1923 and as sumed his present office feb 27 1928 membor of board a native of middleport n v bishop sterrett studied at hobart college geneva n.y 1902-03 at the university of buffalo law school 1904-05 and received his a.b degree at the university of pennsylvania in 1908 in 1911 he was graduated from the philadel phia divinity school which confer red the b.d degree upon him in 1912 hobart college and the phila delphia divinity school both con ferred the d.d degree in 1924 and he received ll.d degrees from university of buffalo and lehigh in 1933 bishop sterrett is a member of the board of trustees of lehigh university hobart college and philadelphia divinity school is american chaplain for the newco men society and a member of the executive committee of the feder al council of churches he is a member of of phi delta phi and phi phi delta fraternities probes st louis society currently conducting an exten sive research into the activities of the st louis movement in phi losophy is kurt f leidecker in structor in philosophy mr leidecker who is compiling this edition for the kentucky his torical society is working over the letters of william t harris and george e stedman to procure in formation for his forthcoming work on the society covering the years 1866-1868 the letters which mr leidecker is studying are the correspond ences during the civil war be tween george c stedman a mem ber of the st louis movement and william t harris the society's leader at that time stedman was a reporter who joined the con federate forces upon the outbreak of the civil war lafayette gives concert jazz will feature a concert at lafayette college from 8 to 12 p.m april 24th the four hour affair will star some of the biggest names in the jazz field today eight head liners will parti ipate including illinois jacquet on tenor sax leo parker on baritone sax sir charles thompson on piano and shadow wilson at the drums the alumni memorial gym where the concert will be held will have 1200 seats arranged so that everyone will be able to see and hear equally well tickets are priced at 51 75 per person and about 100 are on sale at the supply bureau science academy elects whitcomb the pennsylvania academy of science elected dr lawrence whitcomb associate professor of geology it's president at the 24th annual spring meeting held at grove city college grove city dr whitcomb has been at le high since 1930 when he came here from princeton university as an instructor from 1930 to 1934 he continued as instructor in the de partment of geology and was named assistant professor in 1934 a post he held until 1939 when he was appointed to his present posi tion of associate professor it was at brown university that dr whitcomb received his m.a degree in 1928 and his doctor of philisophy degree in 1930 before coming to lehigh he taught at brown and then at princeton dr whitcomb is a member of sigma xi alpha delta phi and such learned societies as the pa leontological and the geological society of america he is a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science attending from lehigh were r e stevenson dr francis j trem bley and dr whitcomb all of whom presented papers mr stevenson also presented a paper by dr bradford willard professor and head of lehigh's geology de partment in dr willard's absence two win art prizes prize-winning paintings of two university students will be in cluded in the exhibitions of the winners of the bethlehem art con test at the art gallery starting thursday april 15 the exhibition which also includes all of the paintings in the contest's adult and college divisions will continue through april 25 the two students are alvord m beardslee 50 and david c koenitzer 48 beardslee's cold flame won the first prize in the college group and also earned him the special joe jones prize koenitzer's portrait of hazel scott at lehigh was the second prize winner in the same division the gallery will be open daily from 3 to 5 p.m except saturday and on thursday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m for the benefit of house party guests the gallery will also be open from 10 to 12 a.m sat urday april 24 senior invitations ready all seniors expecting to be graduated in june are advised to visit either the supply bu reau of the arcadia office before may 1 to order graduation an nouncements for the june cere monies graduation tickets will be available in limited number at a later date announcements are 10 cents each and must be accompanied by an invitation ticket seniors are also urged to go to the supply bureau to be fit ted for cap and gown before may 1 pamphlet outlines foreign studytours sightseeing plus insight is the keynote of the more than twenty studytours offered to college stu dents and described in an illustrat ed booklet just issued by world studytours of the columbia uni versity travel service world studytours a non-profit educational corporation as the first agency to undertake student travel to europe after the war they arranged one studytour in the summer of 1946 and six last summer studytours for 1948 vary in length from 21 days to 97 days and in cost from 230 to 1960 they include eastern europe be behind the alleged iron curtain as well as western europe south america hawaii australia new zealand and points of interest in the united states trips scheduled several european trips for stu dents are scheduled at costs of only 600 round trip from new york the figure includes steam ship rail and bus fares rooms meals guides admission fees and the leadership of an educator es pecially skilled in combining the recreational aspects of travel with opportunities to meet people and to observe life abroad in ways which most tourists miss union triad renew ties delta tau delta fraternity won the crew-racing contest at the an nual union triad party saturday night at the beethoven waldheim leithsville the party was spon sored by sigma phi delta phi and kappa alpha chaperones for the party were elbert f caraway assistant di rector of athletics and baseball coach and mrs caraway and fay c bartlett assistant professor of physical education and mrs bart lett all three fraternities were founded at union college and were the first three secret collegiate so cieties in america this annual social function held jointly by the three societies commemorates their early bond cyanide to name 20 new members cyanide honorary junior so ciety will elect new members to the organization may 4 the candi dates will be chosen from among the 257 students of the class of 50 who have cumulative averages of 2.5 or better in addition to scholastic achieve ment election to membership will be based on the students participa tion and leadership in the various extra-curricular activities on cam pus the registrar's files have been checked and cards will be mailed to those with the requisite 2.5 average notifying them of their scholastic eligibility for member ship upon receipt of these cards those who desire to be considered for membership should submit a list of activities participated in along with their cumulative aver ages to the president of cyanide this report should be left at arca dia office before april 30 be-ause of the increase in en enrollment cyanide has decided to increase its membership from a maximum of fifteen to twenty the additional members cyanide feels will help better to promote the or ganization's programs for the freshman class cyanide emphasizes that it is not infallible in checking the stu dent files any student classified as feb or june 1950 who feels that he has been overlooked is asked to notify the cyanide president at the arcadia office foi.lvi — nc^k 38 lehigh political representatives bethlehem pa tuesday april 13 1948 service to community lehigh to present music fete elaborate preparations made price — 5 cents brown and white at the mock convention in philadelphia lehigh was well rep resented lehigh had twenty-two delegates including one facul ty member present more symphony tickets available tickets for the friday even ing may 7 performance of the detroit symphony orchestra continue to be available at the registrar's office students must exchange coupon f from their athletic book and may purchase one guest ticket at 60 cents if any guest ticket remain purchased by faculty members uprchased by faculty members each faculty member will be limited to two tickets for the friday evening performance tickets for the saturday may 8 evening performance ar3 available at the supply bureau the leading music stores of bethlehem , and if any remain unsold will fee available at the box office the evening of the performance these tickets are scaled at 1.20 for the per manent bleacher seats 1.80 for tickets in the block on the main floor and 2.40 for reserved reats in the north balcony of grace hall stassen presidential nominee at model political convention while on an overnite camping trip taken last weekend mem bers of the lehiffh chapter of apo national service scouting fra ternity cleaned out trees damaged by winter storms at camp min si scout camp for the bethlehem area photo by chisholm asme holds meet friday many eastern schools will send delegations this friday and saturday under the auspices of the lehigh student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers lehigh university will be host to 18 other eastern universities who are send ing delegates to the a.s.m.e re gional student meeting here about 150 students are expected to attend the parleys excluding lehigh's lafayette is bringing the largest delegation about 20 mem bers while most other schools are sending between four and eight some of the more prominent uni versities represented are cornell princeton pennsylvania villano va perm state and syracuse nearly all of the schools repre sented plan to present technical papers ranging in subject matter from automatic automobile transmission to poultry sizing tickets for houseparty dance friday april 23 are in sale at the supply bureau and arcadia price 4.80 including tax town men who desire dormi tory room for their houseparty date should contact the dormi tory presidents william nichols of drinker house 6-7923 or edward leaton of richards house 6-3872 before april 16