Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 3

              half million dollar gym pool underway nov 1 say trustees bethlehem pa vol lviii — no 3 friday october 8 1948 helen not peggy the brown and white wish es to apologize for a state ment which appeared in the tuesday issue announcing that peggy lee would be fea tured with larry clinton the news release which we re ceived from the dance com mittee was erroneous the correct name of the vocalist helen lee arcadia head lauds athletic building above is an artist's sketch of the swimming pool planned for the new addition to taylor gymnasium the gallery will accommodate 600 spectators founder's day sunday suchter of harvard speaks degrees to 111 one hundred and eleven sen iors will receive baccalaureate degrees at the annual founder's day exercises on sunday ad vanced degrees will go to 32 graduate students dr sumner h slichter la mont professor of economics at harvard university will be the speaker for the graduation ex ercises which will begin at 2:30 - p.m in packer memorial church dr martin d whitaker will confer the baccalaureate de grees prizes and honors will be - announced by dr wray h congdon director of personnel services dr slichter who will be ' awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the cere mony is the author of many books in the economic and in dustrial relations field he has served as chairman of a board appointed by the governor of . massachusetts and as arbitra i tor in numerous labor disputes dr philip mason palmer dean of the college of arts and sci ( ences will present the candi dates for bachelor of arts de grees candidates for the de gree of bachelor of science in k business administration will be presented by dr carl e allen acting curriculum director candidates for engineering degrees will be presented by dr harvey a neville head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering thirty one candidates for graduate de grees will be presented by pro fessor robert p more secretary of the graduate faculty an announcement early this week that a new gymnasium annex will be constructed imme diately was hailed by students alumni and faculty as another milestone in the development of modern facilities for future stu dents charles w nicholls president of arcadia said the action of the board of trustees in approv ing this new gymnasium makes me particularly happy since i regard this action as another example of the trend toward making a university more than just an institution of learning dr wray h congdon direc tor of personnel services hailed the action as the elimination of another bottleneck in the field of student activities at le high the health morale and general well-being of a student body are we believe directly affected by the adequacy of these recreational facilities interdormitory council presi dent william a nichols said that the decision of the board of trustees to improve the phy sical education facilities will be welcome news to dormitory men the dormitory living group he said is in a better position continued on page 8 col 3 terest-to swimming fans as the new swimming pool will be one of the most modern in this part of the country and we will be in a position to hold national intercollegiate swimming cham pionship meets here comment ed percy l sadler director of intercollegiate athletics the project has been under study by the trustees commit tee for the past nine months and they chose jens frederick larson internationally known architect of new york to han dle the structure financing of 878 vote on packers in survey follow up the new addition will be made possible from funds secured during the current lehigh prog ress fund drive in addition to the new swim ming pool which will seat 600 spectators the new annex will contain a large gymnasium on the second floor and three smaller gymnasium units other features of the new building will be an enlarged wrestling room a boxing room separate quarters for fencing locker fa cilities for approximately 2,600 continued on page 3 col 2 immediate construction of an annex to taylor gym and reno vation of the present building will get underway by the end of the month it was announced monday by the board of trus tees the project will cost more than half a million dollars and is to be the second largest build ing project on the campus the addition will more than double lehigh's facilities for physical education and intra-mural ath letics this project is of special in new york trip planned for french 41 class dr allen j barthold head of the department of romance languages has planned a trip to new york for the members of french 41 an advanced course of study in speaking and writing french the group will attend the film version of andre gide's sym phonie pastorale based on beethoven's sixth symphony the movie is set in a severe turn of the century background reading french book-of-the month-club selections will oc cupy a major portion of this semester's classroom work gridders freshmen hobnob smoker features song-fest highlight of the freshman smoker in grace hall thursday evening was an address by football captain forrest bast and an introduction of the football team members \ cokes and cigarettes were given to members of the class of 52 as they entered the band and the cheer-laders led a prac tice session of the chief songs and cheers to get the class of 52 in voice for the saturday game plans for freshman seating in section h on the 50 yard line were announced and arrange ments made for a human tun mel to cheer the football team onto the field at the drexel game renn zaphiropoulos graduate assistant in physics entertained the frosh with impersonations accompanied by a piano in his song-and-accordion style al beardslee president of cy anide which sponsored the smoker gave an account of the financial status of the class of 52 eric erickson member of cyanide acted as master of ceremonies chaplain george bean was faculty sponsor hopefuls open last quarter with beer party at sokol the class of 1949 unanimously agreed on a tentative twelve dollar arressment on each of its 880 members at its first meeting this semester the meeting conducted by class president ed leaton was held in packard auditorium on wednesday evening october 6 the twelve-dollar assessment breaks down into cost of a plaque for the chapel cost of publishing the epitome and inci dental expenses al rubenstein reported on his inquiries con cerning the class plaque which will be made of cast bronze or etched brass the expense of buying a cast bronze plaque is the reason for the uncertain amount of the assessment final decision will depend on class efforts to purchase the plaque at cost rather than retail ten dollars of each man's assessment goes toward pub lishing the epitome said earle compton editor-in-chief of the yearbook total cost of epitome is 15,000 — senior class share is 8,000 at least a thousand copies will be printed and at least two hundred will be avail able to undergraduates at a maximum of five dollars per copy further comment on the ass essment was made by don love class treasurer who announced that the first of two six-dollar assessments will be due on no vember 10 doctor francis j trembley was elected class adviser by a show of hands doctor trem bley who received a master's degree from lehigh in 1931 and a ph.d from pennsylvania in 1940 is an associate professor in the biology department and is well known for his work in wild-life conservation honoraria the practice of di viding spring houseparty pro fits among members of the dance committee was unani mously voted down by the class various proposals for spending this surplus met with little en thusiasm and decision was postponed until the spring ed leaton reported that e robins morgan director of the university placement bureau was pleased with the coopera tion of the class in filling out senior placement forms he added that mr morgan wants a record card from every 49er whether or not he already has a job in addition each man should supply one picture of himself for identification if continued on page 3 col 2 douglas whittaker bus 50 originator of th are you in favor of the name packers survey revealed today that he had asked this question of 878 men on campus of this num ber 149 expressed approval while 729 voiced dissatisfaction because of the adverse sen timent which accompanied the choosing of the name packers for the football team in a con test co-sponsored by the inter raternity council and the brown and white whittaker began his survey towards the close of the summer semester to arrive at a more concrete consensus of opinion working alone whittaker is contacting approximately 200 students a week an approxi mate ratio of five to one op nosed to the present name has been maintained when a rep resentative number of students is reached whittaker intends to submit results to arcadia along with a plan of action the lehigh university brow n an d white seniors — all students who want to take advantage of a large redaction in prices of the lehigh class ring be sure to see walter babe fly in drown hall on wed oct 13 between the hours of 10 a.m 5:30 and 7 p.m 9:30 p.m take notice of the price list on your living group bulletin boards these are the lowest possible prices obtainable if purchased in lots of 50 or more