Brown and White Vol. 57 no. 1

              bethlehem pa friday july 9 1948 summer scl program features early films vol lvii no 1 5 cents u.s olympic wrestling trials now being held in grace hall olympic ticket sale tickets for the olympic tryout meet will go on sale at 6:30 o'clock saturday evening in grace hall pro ceeds will be used to cover the squad's expenses during its two-week training period workshop speaker asks new outlook p - the doctor's secret will open a program of early come rdies being presented by the student concert lecture series committee on wednesday july 14th in packard auditorium all students enrolled in all programs of summer school will be admitted upon presentation of bursar's receipt each student may bring one guest without charge the first selection the doc tor's secret was produced de * vised and directed by georges melies in 1908 and although a silent film employed every trick of the camera — stop motion l * rapid motion and slow motion the picture also developed every known kind of situation even b the impossible second on the program will oa winsor mccay's gertie the dinosaur produced in 1909 and as the father of ani mated film cartoons a 1916 mack sennett feature his bit ter pill will be the third silent i picture character comedy will be por trayed in the freshman star ring harold lloyd and produced 1925 the last two comedies will be representative of early sound technique in motion pic p-tures the first produced in 1926 the sex life of the polyp stars the late robert fsnchley the program will ose with one of the earliest walt disney cartoons the skeleton dance produced in 1929 speaking before an audience of lehigh university summer session education workshop stu dents and faculty last monday dr lennox grey head of the department of english teachers college columbia university ex plained the work of the national curriculum commission in outlining the commission's general program dr grey placed special emphasis upon the immediate project one which is to continue for at least another three or four years due to the fact that the media of the movies and radio have created a new symbolic aware ness for young people dr grey argued the immediate problem facing the nation's educators is that of finding a practicable method for matching experien ces with symbols in order that experiences may effectively be conveyed from one individual to another more specifically we need to establish common learnings dealing with major areas of living — work health and information the lecture delivered by dr grey was the first of a series of projected lectures intended to continued on page six the united states olympic wrestling team first row left to right william jernigan oklahoma a & m 114.5 lbs gerald leeman iowa state teachers college 125.5 lbs harold moore oklahoma a & m 136.5 lbs william koll iowa state teachers college 147.5 lbs william nelson iowa state teachers college 160.5 lbs glenn brand iowa state college 174 lbs henry wittenberg new york police sports association 191 lbs richard hutton oklahoma a & m unlimited heavyweight olympic coach art grif fith oklahoma a & m second row left to right leland christensen university of california 114.5 lbs malcolm macdonald navy 125.5 lbs lee thomsen cornell college of iowa 136.5 lbs john fletcher navy 147.5 lbs leland merrill new york ath letic club 160.5 lbs joseph scarpello uniersity of iowa 174 lbs verne gagne university of minnesota 191 lbs robert maldegan michigan state college unlimited heavy weight ; olympic manager cliff keen university of michigan dr shields dies promoted lehigh bach choir 43 years honorary doctor of music degree from muhlenburg college surviving him are his wife the former emilie schultze daughter of rev augustus schultze a former president of moravian college and theologi cal seminary three daughters mrs colin l ward aruba netherland west indies mrs boyd king prince frederick md and mrs thomas e but terfield jr bethlehem and two sisters mrs charleton mur phy philadelphia and mrs stanley brown detroit the 16 man olympic wrest ling team coached by art grif fith of oklahoma a & m ar rived on the campus saturday afternoon to inaugurate a strict training grind which will cul minate in the choice of the men who will represent the united states in the olympic games to be held in london this summer of particular interest to local wrestling fans is the first sched uled meet which will be open to the public saturday evening july 10 at 8 o'clock in grace hall this is the first in a series of tryout matches to de termine the final contestants and the only opportunity amer ican fans will have to see the prospective finalists in action prior to the departure over seas selected after rigorous com petition in district olympic try outs a a u and n c a a tournaments navy eliminations and the final olympic tryouts the current squad is loaded with mid-western talent six of the candidates represent lowa col leges gerald leeman william koll and william nelson of lowa state teachers college leo thomsen cornell college of iowa glenn brand lowa state college and joe scarpello uni versity of lowa completing the mid-western nucleus are verne gagne university of minnesota and bob maldegan michigan state college griffith who has guided the oklahoma aggies through seven consecutive undefeated seasons since 1941 has three of his own pupils on the squad bill jer nigan hal moore and bill hut ton rounding out the squad are leland christiansen uni versity of california malcolm mac donald and john fletcher of the navy henry wittenberg new york police sports associ ation and leland merrill new york athletic club continued on page 3 assisting griffith in the train ing program is cliff keen coach b & w photo by ramsey tom belmont 49 chairman of the recent lehi?h team m naming contest congratulates mr samuel harleman 01 one of the contributors of the winning name — the pack ers mr harleman requested that his share of the prize money s100 total be divided equally among the other winners the portrait on the wall is that of asa packer founder of lehigh uniersity dr t edgar shields profes sor emeritus of music and or ganist emeritus of the bach choir died suddenly sunday night from a heart attack at his home 10 e church st bethlehem following a celebra tion in observance of his 71st birthday succeeding dr j fred wolle as organist and choirmaster in 1905 dr shields had been as sociated with the department of music until his retirement july 1 1947 prior to his resig nation oct 26 1944 he had served the bach choir for a period of 43 years long regarded as an authority on bach dr shields was instru mental in bringing to bethle hem the interest and acclaim that has been associated with the annual bach festivals among his many contributions to the cultural life of the city were his services as organist and choirmaster of the pro cathedral church of the nativ ity since 1901 and professor of music at moravian college and seminary for women since 1909 in june 1935 he received an dr whitaker named to asee military committee dr martin d whitaker pres ident of lehigh university has been named a member of the committee of military affairs of the american society for engineering education the le high administrator was notified of his selection by s s stein berg president of the associa tion the committee is to keep in touch with the developments in the nation's armed forces par ticularly as they effect students and faculty members in the col leges of engineering the lehigh university brown an d wh ite ifihe brown and white wiil n \ bef i published every friday y during thfe^sunijmer haif or shigestfifßr tromy our a * readere>^fa^l|^roß r