Brown and White Vol. 67 No. 55

              lehigh university brown and white volume 67—number 55 summer bethlehem pa thursday july 19 1956 phone university 6-0331 fall applicants number 3,138 711 accepted by bill leclere a record number of applications for acceptance this fall 3,138 has flooded the office of admissions this is an all-time high compared to last year's record of 2,712 a total list of 711 freshmen for the 1956-57 academic year was released this week with some expected to withdraw by sep tember leaving a class of about 700 last year's new class to talled 702 at the beginning of the term the release from dr charles a seidle director of admissions show ed present distribution in the incom ing class up in all curricula with the arts-engineering curriculum showing the largest increase last year's incoming class had 33 enrolled in this field while this fall's class is expected to have 60 to 63 start in this area dr seidle attributed the inter est in this field to recent publici ty on a nationwide scale on the need for engineers with an arts background to complement their engineering abilities dr seidle also stated that they try to guide men they feel are qualified into this type of program when dis cussing admission at lehigh admissions into the arts college showed a slight increase with 96 this year compared with 93 at this time last year business college en trants increased from 88 to 104 this fall and the engineering students jumped from 448 to 477 dr seidle emphasized the fact that these figures will change between now and the be ginning of the semester and in the final analysis the distribu tion will probably be quite simi lar to that of last year's class in an effort to improve upon the university's program toward pros pective freshmen and to discover what they are looking for in choosing science workshop slated for elementary teachers nelson f beeler professor of science at the state university teachers college potsdam n.y and author of elementary science textbooks will conduct a science workshop at lehigh from july 30 to august 14 the course is designed for elementary science teachers in the public schools according to dr beeler the demand for more science in the schools is a particularly hot topic right now the workshop conducted by dr beeler will acquaint teachers with ways to interest small children in science as a possible career dr beeler is former president of the new york state science teachers association and is vice-chairman of the northern new york section of the american chemical society he received his bachelor of science degree in chemistry in 1933 from the university of massachusetts his master of arts degree in 1937 from columbia university teachers college and his doctor of philosophy degree in 1954 from new york university he was named to his present position in 1949 after teaching science at adams high school adams mass and nyack high school nyack n.y and a period as assistant professor of physical chemistry at clarkson col lege of technology potsdam n.y he is co-author with franklyn m branley of the following books pub lished by the thomas y crowell co experiments in science experiments with electricity more experiments in science experiments with optical illusions ex periments with airplane instruments experiments in chemistry experiments with atomic and experiments in light he currently is engaged in work on experiments with the micro scope and several junior high school science textbooks ivy league—civii engineers in the summer surveying course at red ington pa cutting through knee-deep poison ivy pictured are bruce harrison bob holley and gecrge fryer all of the class of 59 thirty-four men are attending the camp until saturday july 21 to complete dorm by get 15 or nov 1 some 250 men who have signed up to live in the new dormitory sched uled to be completed this fall are going to be temporarily in tempo rary quarters according to the latest completion date released this week by philip b woodroofe directer oij residence halls the inconvenience should end some time before nov 1 how ever and the building could be complete by oct 15 my guess will be sometime be tween oct 15 and nov 1 depending on how our luck holds out stated woodroofe the change in dates of completion was caused by a series of strikes between contractors and their work ers in the lehigh valley the most recent settlement with the bricklayers means the building can go ahead as sched uled for some tme as this is the aspect of the work now in pro gress according to woodroofe the tile setters and plasterers are still out but settlement is hoped for in these fields in time to complete this work on schedule the men who have signed leases for rooms in the new quarters will be temporarily housed in tempos taylor and price suites and larger rooms in dravo inquiries are now being made about housing some of the homeless ones in fraternities and some faculty members have already volunteered facilities for men if needed woodroofe made it clear that proper financial adjustment will be made with the men for the period of time they are not in the new building and with the men in whose rooms those from the new dorm will be temporarily moved those signed up for the new build ing will get a letter from woodroofe sometime around aug 1 telling them what steps should be taken in order to insure themselves of ade quate housing in the fall exam period next fri sat examination schedules for the first six weeks of summer school have been posted as follows classes from 8 a.m to 9:10 a.m will have exams next fri day july 27 from 9-12 a.m classes held from 9:20-10:30 are scheduled the same day from 2-5 p.m courses held at the 10:40 a.m per iod and the 12 noon hour will have exams on the following day satur day july 28 examinations for the first period will be from 9-12 a.m and for the second period from 2-5 p.m registration for the second six weeks of summer school will be on monday july 30 according to the office of the registrar consummatum est this is the last issue of the sum mer brown and white publication will be resumed on september 18 and advertisements and notices for the first fall issue are due in our of fice on sept 16 best wishes for a pleasant and profitable summer sac supports music festival for spring 57 the spring music festival organization is going ahead with plans for a festival in 1957 after having received assurance from the committee on student activities that they are unanimously and enthusiastically favorable to the concept of a spring music festival in a letter this spring from dean byron c hayes represent ing sac to the executive com mittee of festival it was indi cated that the major points not resolved previously that led to cancellation of that show are now or shortly will be settled the festival organization has been planning since cancellation of last year's show to put on a festival this year and recently released hayes letter the 1957 festival according to prof albert a rights technical di rector will probably be a three part show as past festivals have been and one portion of it will commemo rate the 10th anniversary of the music festival in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the brown and white band other parts of the show have not been specifically decided upon but they are considering some sort of a rodgers and hammerstein musical sequence and a general section to utilize all lehigh musical organizations generally tentative dates for the musical weekend are now set at april 12-14 pertinent excerpts from the letter from hayes to the festival commit tee are our committee sac is unanimously and enthusiastic ally favorable to the concept of j a spring music festival furth j er we are anxious to encourage and assist your committee as fully as possible and find our selves the more strongly obliged to do so because the spring music festival has become one of the largest student activities one of the questions which your executive committee has raised and which has been under discussion by our committee has been the question as to the use of outside talent in your productions the committee feels that it cannot grant blanket permission for the use of outside talent in the music festival produc tions under its mandate from the faculty but is willing to consider at any time specific requests for the use of outside talent local amateurs students from other colleges profes sional talent etc and will weigh carefully such requests keeping in mind the needs of the festival and the interests and wishes of the fac the other question which you raised and which has been discussed by the committee pertains to festi val finances and financial responsi bility our committee felt that we had come to an understanding in this area and that no further state ment is necessary at this time . . ." other areas of the letter dealt with the date being tentatively sav ed for the festival and asked for confirmation of the fact that there was going to be a festival in 1957 3 new coaches take positions in september the appointment of three new coaches to begin this fall has been announced by gen p l sadler di rector of athletics the three will comprise a new freshman coaching staff in foot ball and a new varsity backfield coach james r shreve will begin this fall as varsity backfield coach re placing paul e short who will de vote full time to his duties as busi ness manager of athletics shreve produced the first winning season in 13 years for moravian college while head coach there in 1954 frank r maze head football coach at colby college maine for the pastfour years will become head freshman football coach he will succeed raymond j whispell who resigned last winter to become head football coach at muhlenberg col lege george f halfacre football coach the past four seasons at hellertown high school will join the staff as freshman backfield coach in addition he will coach freshman basketball and track squads sadler announced that maze also will serve as varsity lacrosse coach freshman wrestling coach and in structor in physical education shreve new backfield coach is a graduate of syracuse university where he earned varsity grid letters for three years prior to his gradua tion in 1951 during world war 11 he served as intra-mural athletic director at fort lee va maze a graduate of syracuse university in 1938 has served as coach at dickinson college wes james r shreve see freshmen page 2 see coaches page 2