Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 47

              classical and contemporary music will be featured in the second spring concert of the lehigh university band to be held in front of pachard labora tory on may 24 under the direction of prof william schempf the band is setting a precedent by pro ducing for the first time two spring concerts in a single year student directors for the pre sentation will be spencer colll mann and gene sowers both conducting their last concert as students at the university officers for the fall semester as elected by members of the band at their meeting of may 3 are august wiegand student director robert cairns assist ant director maynard turnbull manager and robert gehl moyer assistant manager dravo dedication on june 12 to mark alumni services b&w foto by john e traise charles boig past president of arcadia congratulates charles w nicholls new president of arcadia at the program for flag pole day when nicholls election to the post was made public both men are residents of taylor hall and the new president assumes his duties immediately tau beta pi taps whitaker heikes first initiate to be guest at banquet president martin d whita kerwill be initiated into honorary i membership of tau beta pi na tional honorary engineering so ciety at special ceremonies and banquet to be held saturday even ing may 22 at the bethlehem club tau beta pi members located in bethlehem and members of chap ters at other colleges are invited to attend the initiation exercises and banquet since a complete mailing list has not been made available since world war 11 all local mem bers interested are requested to contact samuel t harleman sec retary of the lehigh council of class agents in the alumni mem orial building telephone 7-5071 extension 322 guest of honor at the banquet will be irving a heikes of lan caster the first student initiate of tau beta pi and a member of the lehigh class of 1885 after a few years in mining engineering mr heikes turned to teaching and taught mathematics in the morris high school new york city before he retired song contest opens tonight fifteen units enter n.y club competitions over 200 lehigh university un dergraduates will represent 14 liv ing groups in the intra-mural sing ing contest sponsored by the new york lehigh club which will be held tonight in drown memorial hall the public is invited to at tend and there will be no admis sion charge the program will consist of 45 selections each group required to present three songs one selection oy each ensemble is to be chosen irom the 1937 official lehigh uni versity song book the other songs will include fraternity songs bar ber shop quarter numbers sea chanteys spirituals and college numbers shields serves as judge from the group of 15 ensembles three will be chosen to compete in the finals dr t edgar shields professor emeritus of music at lehigh will serve as honorary judge other judges will be dr kenneth w lamson associate pro fessor of mathematics dr clar ence a shook professor of mech anics and william h schempf assistant professor of music twelve fraternity and three dormitory units have entered the competition and will sing during the elimination round arrange ments are being handled by leon ard h schick secretary of the le high university alumni associa tion the fraternities to be repre sented are beta theta pi winners in 1947 chi phi chi psi delta tau delta kappa alpha kappa sigma lambda chi alpha phi delta theta phi gamma delta psi upsilon sigma phi and sigma nu the other groups are drinker house 1 and taylor hall cup award contest rules specify group sing ing arrangements of songs will not actually be a point of judging winners will be selected on the basis of enunciation blend pitch rhythm and spirit the winning group will be awarded a 24-inch bronze cup which will remain in its possession for one year each group shall consist of no less than 12 students and no more than 16 undergraduates . bozy reiter leadership winners sophomores cop williams prize debate uphold lengthening of engineering course to add liberal education graduates from lehigh in engi neer i n g are only half trained men declared ned wallace 50 co-winner of the 120 williams memorial debate prize in the con test final held in christmas-sau con may 14 wallace and robert wherry of sigma chi upheld the affirmative of resolved that all lehigh en gineering curricula be expanded to five years and that at least one year of the time be devoted entire ly to studies in liberal arts and defeated seemon pines and char les palmer of tau delta phi win ners of the 80 second prize both sophomores participating in their first debate contest wal lace and wherry built their argu ments on a three-cornered founda tion the present cultural lag of morals and ethics the lack of civ ic responsibility and the dissatis faction of industry with engineer ing graduate of today stress liberal education seniors pines and palmer main tained that the deficit in the engi neering student's educational pro gram should be filled prior to en try into a university by liberal sec ondary schooling such a program they claimed would acquaint the college student with an under standing of the problems faced and open to him the means of ob taining liberal arts background away from college moral obligations to his fellow man must be awakened in the heart of every engineering stu dent said wallace only through a liberal education can he answer the call of civic responsibility so necessary in this chaotic world wallace cited examples to show that those engineers out of jobs today have lost them more from an incompetence in the field of hu man relations rather than through any lack of technical education five year program admitting that lehigh had shown on the whole a progressive institution wherry insisted that the university had fallen short of its aims toward continued im provement by failure to adopt the five-y ear engineering curricula progress in the field of liberal ed ucation he declared should be commensurate with the commend able advances in student govern ment and faculty evaluation judges of the debate were dean c a seidle dean j d leith prof t t holmes and prof h b da vis dray house new 750,000 dor mitory will be dedicated on the afternon of june 12 it was an nounced by president whitaker the structure is being named in honor of the late francis r dravo dedication of the building will be made by mrs francis r dravo widow of francis r dravo one of the two brothers for whom the dormitory is named a tablet will be unveiled in the foyer of the building by mrs elizabeth dravo harlow daughter of the late ralph m dravo and mrs jane m dravo sansone warns on removal of posters voting to take place tomorrow and thursday from 9 a.m 4:30 p.m lehigh's first campus-wide pop ular election of class officers will take place tomorrow and thurs day when men of the classes of 49 50 and 51 will cast their bal lots to determine their choice of their class leaders for the ensuing academic year seventy-four candidates nomin ated by petition are vying for twelve available positions these posts consist of the usual four offices in each of the three classes seniors will of course have no offices to fill polls open at 9 a.m voting will take place from 9 a m to 4:30 p m on wednesday and thursday polling places will be available during these hours at packard christmas-saucon and the library at lamberton hall there will be a ballot box until 2 p m after this hour it will be moved to drown hall the system of majority prefer ential voting will be used to elect these officers the system resem bles the pr type of voting used in the arcadia elections but in the case of class officers a candidate will require a majority of votes to ue elected arcadia representatives needed only a percentage quota of votes to be elected the ballot used in the alterna tive vote system closely approxi mates a pr ballot in that all the candidates for each office will be listed alphabetically with similar provision for the numerical rating of preferences if no candidate rec ceives a majority on the first count then the lowest candidate is drop ped and his ballots are distributed according to their second choices to the remaining candidates this process is continued until a major ity vote is obtained by one candi date large scale advertising advertising by candidates is be ing done on even a larger scale than the campus witnessed in the arcadia elections of two weeks ago several candidates are solicit ing votes by mail unique posters can be seen inside the buildings and on campus trees candidates though permitted to display their posters are warned by john sansone 48 chairman of the arcadia election committee that all advertising must be re oved by each candidate within a jay after the close of the elections failure to remove all advertising sansone stressed may result in a ban on all outdoor advertising in uture elections thumbtacks and nails must be removed as well as ihe posters and the late ralph m dravo founders of the dravo corperaion of pittleburgh and former alumni trustees of the university speakers at the dedication ex ercises will be dr eugene g grace chairman of bethlehem steel company and president of the university board of trustees dr john d berg chief executive officer of the dravo corporation pittsburgh earle f johnson corp orate trustee of the university and national chairman of the lehigh progress fund and president whitaker dravo house is the largest build ing of its kind in the lehigh val ley area architecture is along english collegiate gothic lines and will be in harmony with other buildings erected on the campus during the last ten years the new building the largest of five dormitory units at lehigh is being completed this month de signed by jens fredrick larson new york architect dravo house has been built in four connecting sections five stories in height it will have accomodations for 280 students b minor mass is the high point mack harrell bass and lura stover excell in difficult solo roles by les whitten traffic congestion and rain failed to dim the spirit of 1200 bach en thusiastists who packed packer memorial chapel friday and sat urday for the annual bach festi val dr ifor jones conductor of the choir led the 246 voice group through the tremendous anthem shout for joy ye ransomed band as the opening number on the pro gram so began the first of the three sections of the annual bach festi val presented for the 41st time may 14 and 15 the chapel was filled to capacity fo all three sec tions and saturday with a re prieve from the rain of the previ ous day 400 listeners flocked to the lawn outside of the chapel powerful performance bach enthusiasts the nation over hurried to the annual celebration blocking roads for blocks around the campus and giving bethle hem's harassed police force good reason for many headaches officer james mercker directing traffic at the intersection of packer and new streets could only sigh all bach means to me is horns and sore feet officer mercker however was for the most part alone in his sum mary of bach music for the per formance was reverent as a mass should be and intense as true de votion should be i wrestle and pray second of fering of the friday afternoon sec tion was well sung by the group dramatizing the difficult passages skillfully following was oh lord how long and thou very god and david's son neither of which attained the heights of the pre vious works the friday night section was composed of how brightly shines yon morning star lord are thine eyes not searching and beautify thyself my spirit all executed with the volume and depth for which the choral group is famous mass in b minor each presentation of the friday sections seemed to build up to the climax of the festival bach's massive mass in b minor in the past dr jones has been critisized for a seeming tendency to over dramatize his conducting however it must be realized that for music to be natural it must come as much from the personality of the con ductor as from the score itself what has been misconstrued by some as over-dramatization is in actuality a manifestation of his in tense love and understanding of bach's masterful music oustanding among thesoloists was bass mack harrell whose flow ing voice made of bach more than a tonal exercise or a physical fete soprano lura stover also excel led instilling not only through her voice but through her poise the dignity of the sacred music catalysis progress conference held leading investigators in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis representing both industry and universities attended the two-day adsorption conference on the cam pus on friday and saturday highlight of the conference was an open lecture on the role of pores in catalysts given by dr ahlborn wheeler of the e i dv pont de nemours company ex perimental station friday evening in the chemistry building topics for discussion on friday morning included brief review of discussions at amherst on heats of adsorption and bet theory and modifications interaction be tween adsorbed molecules chemisorption and adsorption techniques wer discussed on fri day afternoon other aspects af ad sorption and catalysts were discus sed on saturday morning dr albert c zettelmoyer asso ciate professor of chemistry was chairman of the round table dis cussion on gas adsorption and was assisted in making arrangements by dr william c walker asso ciate director national printing ink research institute navy commissions open to graduates limited numbers of college graduates are being offered the op portunity of being commissioned as ensigns in naval aviation this spring and of receiving flight training the navy has announced in order to provide full informa tion to those who are interested a flying team of navy officers will visit lehigh university from fri day noon may 21 to saturday noon may 22 this is a career program in which college men with degrees who are between the ages of 18 and 25 will be taken in to the navy as commissioned of ficers flight training will be at pensa cola florida frequently referred to as the annapolis of the air this will take from 18 to 24 months after which the officer pilots will join regular naval avia tion units shore based and on car riers minimum starting pay is 290 a month details on the program will be brought to lehigh by the naval aviation information team plans are now being made for a meeting of interested seniors at drown hall on the main floor the information team will be available to answer questions on friday from 1 p m to 5 p m and on saturday be tween 8 a m and noon apo sponsors book sale lehigh will again have a non profit sale alpha phi omega na tional service fraternity will start its collection of used texts on may 31 you may bring books you wish to sell to drown hall between 12 a.m and 1:30 p m from may 31 to june 4 in addition to the above dates you may present your used books for sale during the first two days of the fall registration apo has realized the need for better text book exchange and has set up this non-profit system the student names own price on the book if it is sold the seller is charged ten cents to cover the cost of materials used by apo there is no charge for an unsold book please remember that language books mus be free of marks the actual sale will take place during fall registration apo will take all precautions but cannot be responsible for loss through fire or theft b&w foto by john e traise this year there were two winners of the famed bozy reiter leadership award richard p bodine and bill d'olier they are shown here after the flagpole dal ceremony where this and all athletic awards were presented the last winner of this most coveted award was dick huyett who is taking post-graduate work under the m.e department wlrn enlarges program jazz popular and classical music will be the chief offering of wlrn campus radio station broadcasting this week from 8 to 10 p m here's to vets featuring na tionally-known stars on a fifteen minute transcribed variety show will be open the schedulee each evening at 8:00 p.m thursday at 9:00 p.m harry williams wlrn announcer will interview new ar cadia officers baseball games with lafayette will be broadcast at 4:00 p.m may 19 and 4:00 p m may 26 official opening of the station will take place next fall present broadcasting will serve as a final test for station equipment and wir ing and for the new dial setting of 640 kilocycles future programs will be announced in the brown and white krueger to lead detroit symphony with dr karl krueger conduc ding the detroit symphony or chestra will present a series of three concerts may 19 and 20 in grace hall tomorrow night may 19 pian ist henrietta schumann will highlight the program by playing concerto no 2 in c minor by rachmaninoff a school children's concert will be presented at 3 o'clock thursday afternoon may 20 with walter poole conducting the orchestra while the final per formance on thursday evening will be a public concert students holding pink tickets dated may 7 will be admitted on wednesday evening may 19 white guest tickets will also be honored the same evening the doors will open at 7:30 p m a limited number of tickets for the special children's concert will be available to lehigh students at the box office on thursday after hoon this concert will begin at 3 p'clock doors will be opened at 2:30 dr krueger the dean of ameri can conductors studied under ar thur nikish was a protege of fel ix weingartner and was associated with franz schalk director of the vienna opera although music is his first love dr krueger has interests ranging from championship prize fights to abnormal psychology his educa tion includes a liberal arts course at kansas university a law degree from heidelberg university and specialization in abnormal psy chology economics and higher mathematics caniff show is popular over 450 people from lehigh university and vicinity have visit ed the steve canyon exhibit by milton caniff during the first three days of showing the exhibition which is being held in the journalism division of drown hall consists mainly of original drawings by mr caniff the art work is divided into four classifications including black and white and color sketches for the steve canyon and male call miss lace cartoon strips photographs of the artist and his models and explanations of the engraving pro cesses used in newspaper repro duction work after successful showings in new york philadelphia chicago baltimore and other cities mr caniff's work has come to lehigh under the auspices of the brown and white the exhibition will be open to the public until may 22 visitors are welcome weekdays monday through saturday from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m and tuesday evening from 7:30 to 10:00 pan price — 5 cents bethlehem pa tuesday may 18 1948 seventy four candidates to vie for class positions university is host to bach festival vol lvi — no 6 4-7 brown and white boig retiring president greets nicholls spring concert may 24 correct address of the va for men under p.l 346 is 136 north sixth street reading pa vet erans may also make inquiries at the va contact unit 1124 turner street allentown phone 3-5277 over 200 persons visit the milton caniff exhibit in drown hall daily exhibition ends may 22