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              gineering english speech busi ness fine arts physical educa tion military science biology and geology continued on page 2 col 1 academy winner actor harold russell scl guest lecturer traveling parson — fighting dan poling minister here sunday america's nonstop preach er as a saturday evening post article by hartzell spence calls the rev dr daniel alfred pol ing will be the guest speaker in packer memorial church sun day morning the protestant leader known in most religious circles simply as dan poling holds three posi tions any one of which would be enough to make him a pow erful influence in religion dr poling is the pastor of the baptist temple in philadelphia an evangelical church he has been president of the world's christian endeavor union a religious youth group having over four mililon members for the past twenty years in addi tion he is the editor of chris tian herald this threefold job accord ing to the post article com pels dr poling to travel around 50,000 miles a year he has flown 650,000 miles and has rounded the world twice fighting dan poling defends his stands on current issues wherever he finds them under debate he came out solidly behind the universal military training program robert e sherwood the play wright once commented on dr poling saying the whole united states is his parish mr sherwood might have said the whole globe since there are few countries in the world where the evangelist has not preached dr poling has authored many books and novels of a religious nature his books for children include youth marches fif ty-two story sermons for chil dren and your daddy did not die sunday morning's address by dr poling in the chapel irre ducible minimums will be broadcast from 11 a.m till noon through the facilities of wgpa andwgpa-fm the remaining chapel services for the month will also be broadcast members of the classes of june 1950 and february 1951 who desire election to mem bership in cyanide junior honorary society may submit applications in the arcadia office no later than thursday december 9th election to membership is based upon a point list pre pared by the society consid ering membership and leader ship in classs living group athletic honorary and other extra-curricular activity as well as cumulative scholastic average postcards will be sent to those whom records in the registrar's office show to be scholasticaliy eligible how ever any who feel themselves qualified may apply for con sideration harold russell winner of two academy awards will be the guest lecturer on friday evening jan 7 in grace hall the student concert - lecture series committee announced on wednesday the lecture is intended to be a bonus program for all holders of season tickets a limited number of tickets for the general public will also be available at the box office mr russell will be remem bered by movie audiences as homer parish the handless vet eran in the best years of our lives this role which won the acclaim of many hollywood critics was written for him by robert e.sherwood noted play wright and biographer on june 6 1944 as an instruc tor in demolition at camp mackall sgt russell attached a defective fuse to a half-pound charge of tnt it exploded in his grasp when he regained consciousness in the emergency ward of the field hospital he discovered that both his hands had been amputated at the wrists russell was born in cam bridge mass 32 years ago and has lived all his life apart from his army career within sight of the charles river after graduation from rindge tech nical high school he went to work for a nationally known chain grocery concern first as a counterman then as a meat cutter and finally as store man ager russell enlisted in the para chute troops in feb 1942 and had made 51 successful jumps when he was hospitalized af ter his army discharge he en rolled in the college of business administration at boston uni versity at the present time mr russell is booked for a limited lecture tour at the nation's leading colleges he emphasized the fact that the forthcoming festival will not be merely a musical pro duction but rather a medium to solicit the varied interests of the entire student body using glass and plastic as im portant materials in stage con struction the festival will ac cept the challenge of the exper imental theater space staging and stylized setting will com bine with straight line effects in contrast to last year's em phasis on curves we will balance physical or ganization on the stage added schwarz by combining both the legitimate theater and mo tion pictures drown hall will be used as a motion picture studio during production the motion pictures will be used as part of the theatrical whole they will never be shown in continuity he stated the pic tures will be a flexible express ive medium and will assist in greater movement by overcom ing the limitations of the nor mal theater stage the program will include theatrical treatment of subjects relating to most of the major departments in the university history international relations government philosophy religion chemistry physics music en mack appointed new librarian dr martin d whitaker announced wednesday the ap pointment of james d mack to the position of university li brarian he will assume the duties of the late howard sea voy leach mack had served as assistant to the former librarian since jan 1946 a native of bethle hem he was graduated from lehigh in 1938 and studied at harvard law school and colum bia university as an undergraduate at le high he served as manager of the swimming team and held membership in cyanide junior honorary society pi delta ep continued on page 8 col 3 the lehigh university brown and white ue clvhia vol xviii h — no 17 friday december 3 1948 goodnight sweet prince — royal family ' relates barrymore escapades bethlehem pa photo by rudd cloyd criswell instructor in english puts the final touches on a portrait of aubrey cavendish to be used in the mustard and cheese production the royai family friday and saturday dec 3 and 4 based on the life of the barrymores the royal fam ily will be presented by mus tard and cheese tonight and tomorrow night curtain time is 8:30 p.m for both perform ances of the edna ferber-george kaufman comedy in broughal high school the play revolves around the life of a great family of the american stage complications arise involving the tempera ments of the family and their associations with other people audree kirchman a student at the moravian college for women will be starred as julie cavendish america's greatest actress miss kirchman has appeared in cyrano de ber gerac the mikado and in a number of radio workshop pro ductions herbert dean brother of fan ny cavendish who is the matri arch of the group will be played by roger noone noone also ap peared in cyrano de bergerac and has done radio work don ald olroyd who has previously been seen in rur and the philadelphia story portrays oscar wolfe a broadway pro ducer freshman alan koppes will be seen in his first mustard and cheese role he plays the part of a yale man in love with the youngest member of the acting family carol rickard also from mo ravian college for women will be featured as kitty dean her bert's wife mrs rickard was elected an honorary member of mustard and cheese last year after her performances in rur and twelfth night other mmbers of the cast for the royal family which is under the direction of professor h barrett davis are john jor dan herbert trumpoldt jesse monsell eric rickard charles reed peter thompson nancy lynn marjorie long and san dra bishoff . lehigh students will be ad mitted upon presentation of ticket v from their activities books general admission tick ets cost 60 tax included in this year's spring music festival we are not attempt ing to match last year's production we are going way beyond it stated ralph g schwarz festival director during an inter view in drown hall wednesday 2000 students will spark gala music festival of 49 schwarz back to run show no china aid say debaters how will american foreign policy be affected by the re cent election this oft-debated question was the topic discussed at the in ternational relations club meet ing in packard laboratory wed nesday night in the opinions of justin mc carthy arts 50 and newton frischberg arts 50 there will be no basic change in american foreign policy due to the re continued on page 8 col 1 chicago police exposed see story on page 3