Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 20

              see story page 3 wiley house children will be the guests of the lehigh scl committee at the concert to be given by the don cossacks in grace hall friday evening dec 17 children will occupy first two rows on the main floor of the auditorium christmas festival packs packer chapel see story page 2 more than 1000 members of the lehigh family and their guests braved early december rains to attend the annual christmas vesper service of the combined glee clubs of moravian college for women and lehigh 26 students answer alumnus call for blood 4 by robert n swanson answering a desperate call early last saturday afternoon £ twenty-six lehigh students each donated a pint of blood at st luke's hospital in hopes of sav ing the life of richard sprad ; ling june 48 spradling is suffering from acute pancreaitis an infram \ mation of trie pancreas and a disease noted for its high mor tality rate the patient was be . ing fed intraveneoualy until fri ■* day when due to his weakened condition the feeding had to be changed to pure blood satur day afternoon his condition was regarded as very poor and at the time the brown and white went to press on sunday night dr john snyder of bethlehem stated that mr spradling was not over the hump that he was no worse but also no bet k ter the blood was also donated for dr thomas hazlehurst pro of chemistry at lehigh who was to have an intestinal operation yesterday and has been in the hospital since no vember 30 the request for donations was received by charles nichols president of arcadia v at 11:45 a.m by 1:30 p.m twenty-five of the twenty-six donors were at the hospital nichols said that he made about seven phone calls to dorms and fraternities and he had all that was needed stated mrs reed the re sponse of the boys was wonder ful to see so many boys get down here so fast for people they hardly know is inspiring spradling was graduated from lehigh last june and was re siding with his wife in beth lehem his father who is presi dent of the american steel company in argentina flew here to be at his son's side vol xviii — no 20 tuesday december 14 1948 jaroff sets don program bethlehem pa the lehigh university brown and white