Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 6

              dr lawrence h gipson re search professor of history at le high university has just recently completed the seventh in a 13 vol ume history series entitled the british empire before the ameri can revolution columbia university awarded dr gipson the loubat first prize for 1948 for the first six volumes of his monumental work his most recent volume entitled the great war for the empire the victori ous years 1758-1760 deals pri marily with the french indian war wlrn adds power programs disc jockey shows featured opening its second consecutive broadcasting year thursday sept 22 wlrn swung onto the airwaves with the musical billboard — and four and one-half more watts despite the worried brows before the second hand marked the zero hour the initial broadcast went over smoothly during an interview with paul lowenwarter the program direc tor it was learned that many new programs of varying types are scheduled for this and the coming semester many of these are in the music department and according to lowenwarter every taste in music should be satisfied the daily programs will be listed in brown and white from now on so that no confusion will arise as to what will be coming on the air the nightly schedule will run as it did the latter part of last semes ter — from 8 p.m until midnight and from 10:00 p.m until one in the morning on saturdays the engineering department wishes to remind all the listeners to phone about any technical de fects that come across the air since wlrn is doing everything in its power to have a smooth and completely understandable pro gram wlen plans also to broadcast as many of the away games as pos sible and according to lowenwar ter the rutgers game is definitely scheduled sign up for pixl class of 50 all men who expect to graduate in february june or october 1950 and who have not made an appointment to have their pictures taken for the epitome call john kirk delta sigma phi 6-0684 any time after 10:00 a.m on tues day october 4 a reminder to those men who have made an appointment i—bring1 — bring your appointment card to the sitting 2 — be prepared to list the activities you wish to have in cluded in your yearbook write up 3 — the photos will be taken in the epitome room in the basement of drown hall 4 — the senior assessment of 14 or any part thereof can be paid at the time of the appoint ment tug-of war scheduled with marquismen plans for the tug-of-war be tween lehigh and lafayette fresh men at the frosh football game in easton are being formulated by cyanide an equal number of men from both schools will oppose each other on the field during half-time all physically able freshmen are encouraged to try out for the team dates of such tryouts and further information about the tug of-war will appear in the brown & white at a future date an alternative class project will be the traditional bonfire follow ing the lafayette week-end pep rally this bonfire on the evening before the varsity game will be an activity of the class of 53 regard less of the outcome of the tug-of war the skits at the pep rally pre ceeding the leh i g h-laf ayette game are to be an all-freshman undertaking this year the annual pa jama parade will take place this year as usual 700 scouts to visit here alpha phi omega will conduct its annual scout visitation day to morrow arriving on the campus at 10 a.m the scouts will be divid ed into groups and taken on a tour of the campus by a.p.o brothers the tour will give special empha sis to lehigh's laboratories and testing equipment after luncheon at lambertorr hall the scouts will gather in grace hall for an assembly pro gram the afternoon's activity will be concluded with the lehigh-case football game / over 700 scouts representing 100 troops in 12 councils are ex pected also expected from the 100 mile radius are delegations of a.p.o broth/ers who represent many of the aearby colleges they will meet at a conference following the game / gm boss to speak october 9 charles f kettering inventor and manufacturer and general manager of the general motors re t search laboratories will deliver the * commencement address at lehigh university's founder's day exer cises oct 9 baccalaureate degrees will be granted to a class of approximately 80 war veterans who studied here under the g i bill of rights ad vanced degrees will be conferred by president whitaker upon 40 graduate students rev pittenger here i sunday subject the fact of death on the meaning of christian faith / fellow and tutor at general theological seminary since 1936 dr pittenger received both the stb and the stm degrees there he was/ordained an episcopal dean dean ixi 1936 and a priest the fol lowing year dr pittenger has written many books on his field including a living faith for liv ing men and sacrament — signs and symbols the fact of death will be dis cussed by dr norman pittenger of the general theological seminary in new york n y at the regular 11 a.m sunday morning service at packer memorial church dr pittenger is the first in a series of four nationally known theologians appearing here this semester many bethlehemites re member him as the director of the school of religion for episcopal laymen which he addressed for three consecutive sunday evenings apo assists new arrivals during the week starting tues day the 13th 760 frosh wandered over the lehigh campus helping the faculty to organize the fresh men were the brothers of alpha phi omega the scout service fra ternity tuesday night they served as ushers and guides at the organiza tion meeting and convocation dur ing the following four days they served as assistants to the faculty group advisors answering many questions about life at lehigh on wednesday and thursday nights a.p.o showed some navy films which were viewed by some 400 freshmen the fresh were tak en on tours of the campus by a.p.oi men the tours included most of the buildings on the lower campus with a brief explanation of what was done in each one the crowning event of the week was a dance held saturday night for the freshmen on the upper floor of drown hall over 100 girls attended from moravian st luke's the ywca and town air most all of the clas of 53 attended music was supplied by al hogle's trio and by the wrln disc jockeys veterans become minority group lehigrh university is now in its 83rd year of existence with an undergraduate enrollment of 2,900 and an additional 300 advanced students taking graduate work for the first time since the war veterans will be a minority group on the campus only eleven per cent of the in coming freshman class of 750 will study here under the g.i bill of rights while 43 scholarships valued at 44,650 are being pre sented to freshmen five foreign countries argen tina colombia india siam and venezuela as well as eighteen states are represented in the in coming class eighteen high school and prep school football captains are also members of this class lehigh university's fall brown and white bethlehem pa sammy kaye once engineer to appear here at houseparty friday september 30 1949 record please volume 58 — number 1 arcadia receives nsa report pledges aid to campus chest seventeen suggestions were submitted to arcadia by paul loewenwarter 50 and fred wibiralske 50 delegates to the national student association convention in a report on that convention in ar cadia's first meeting of the semester wednesday evening the suggestions involved charities monetary aid to students op portunities for cultural advancements and a general increase in student music for your enjoyment is supplied by the men of wlrn each evening card system was switched to the national student association com mittee previously it was organ ized under a separate committee support was pledged to the campus chest which is to be held from october 8 to october 15 the goal of the drive is 6000 an average of about two dollars per student highlight of the cam paign will be a charity ball on the fifteenth a film of the lehigh rutgers football game is also plan ned for the evening participation in their own instruc tion george howett and dr rob ert bream supplimented the report with short talk concerning the convention ther consideration important among the other busi ness of the night was a discussion concerning cooperation with who's who in colleges and uni versities 1 ," a book in which the twenty most deserving seniors from lehigh would receive men tion the idea was passed and re ferred to a committee headed by edward haltenhoff 51 for fur authority over the purchase the future equipment of civil engineers may include a baton or a musical instrument if any more intended transitmen follow the footsteps of bandleader sammy kaye and turn their interests from integration to harmonization on view weekly before 75,000 people the former engineering student and track star of ohio uni versity will bring his 16-piece orchestra to grace hall oct 28 for the houseparty formal dance popular among the big four of radio movies hotels and theaters the kaye orchestra delivers a smooth style of music with the emphasis on a mike centered sax section vocalists laura leslie and don cornell help round out kaye's musical retinue his popular so you want to lead a band contest will also be part of the musical enter tainment at the houseparty dance his radio program sunday serenade helped bring sammy kaye to the double-a class of or chestras of which there are only ten in the country among the leading theaters which have presented the swing and sway style and stage revue include the capitol paramount and strand in new york city the chicago theater in chicago the earle theater in philadelphia the earle and capitol theaters in washington the palace in cleve land stanley theater pittsburgh rko theater in boston hippo drome baltimore and the or pheum theater in minneapolis for dancers sammy kaye has dispensed his flowing style at the astor commodore and new york er hotels in new york the palla dium in hollywood eastwood gardens detroit and frank dail ey's meadowbrook in cedar grove new jersey his music will be heard in grace hall oct 28 from 9:30 p.m to 2 p.m at a charge of 4.80 per couple prof completes 467 page volume