Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 48

              election results class of 1936 president r m eichner sec'y-treas h a scobey class of 1937 president n j leonard sec'y-treas r r ashman class of 1938 president h c milbank sec'y-treas r s young cheer leaders w f nutt jr senior leader r des couch r h perrine lehigh union president w m smith sec'y-treas r b picking dr wray h congdon direc tor of admissions announces that the admissions offices will be open for interviews with pro spective students during open house may 3 and sub-fresh man day may 4 the department of admis sions dr congdon stated urges both students and faculty members to see that students and parents who have particular questions are directed to this of fice for interviews mr smiley and i will be in our offices for interviews it is usually more satisfactory to settle particular problems by interview rather than correspondence w mccaa buried early this morning campus photographer dies saturday from complications william g mccaa for many years photographer for the epito me was buried this morning from his late residence at 113 w fourth street he was interred in holy saviour cemetery he died saturday from complications after an illness of several months mccaa was instructor in chemis try at lehigh from 1903 to 1907 during this time he taught courses in photo-chemistry the courses were discontinued when william h chandler head of the chemistry de partment died in 1906 during the period of nearly 35 years while mccaa was a resident of bethlehem he was interested in both the social and athletic enter prises of lehigh besides his widow he is survived by two sons david j who will continue his photography business and william d bus 36 and one daughter rosemary grace again trustee head okeson to continue as secretary r farnham 99 will replace dravo eugene g grace president of the board of trustees and walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board were re-elected for a term of three years at the regular spring meeting held april 15 mr okeson reported that the va cancy caused by the death of ralph m dravo 89 had been filled by the election of robert farnham,'99 by the board of directors of the recommended that final approval alumni association the budget for the fiscal year be ginning sept 1 1935 prepared by dr charles russ richards pres ident of the university was tenta tively approved dr richards be withheld until the october meet ing resolutions were adopted ex pressing the regret of the board at the passing of their colleague ralph m dravo 89 and theodore c visscher 99 one of the univer sity's architects winter l wilson former pro fessor of civil engineering who re tired last december was given the honorary title of professor of rail road engineering emeritus earl leverne crum associate professor of latin was given a leave of absence for a year to pur sue his studies in portugal of the early history of that country attends convention leonard represents lehigh at phi eta sigma assembly nelson j leonard ch e 37 president of the lehigh chapter of phi eta sigma national freshman honorary fraternity attended the national convention of the frater nity held april 23 and 24 at the university of oklahoma normaji okla leonard presented a report on the activities and business of the lehigh chapter before the c-nvention and was appointed to a committee on chapters and charters several suggestions were made concerning the forum the pub lication of the society the publi cation of a local paper by each chapter a page in the college year book and freshman handbook for each chapter and a scrap book of the history of the society ellis paper on welding wins prize at a i e e meet modern trends in electric arc welding was the subject of the prize winning paper presented by harry k ellis e e 35 at the convention of the american insti tute of electrical engineering held yesterday at lafayette college his paper won second prize in competition with students of four other colleges l wesley marries on sunday l r wesley arts 36 married miss adele cunningham of had donfield n j on sunday morn ing wesley will continue working for his degree barnum brown museum curator lectures on discovery of 4,000 bones in wyoming expects to mount skeletons of three specimens found . aside from man the dinosaurs are the most interesting form of life that has ever lived on the earth stated dr barnum brown in his illustrated lecture a new dino saur kingdom on friday evening in packard auditorium the lecture was under the auspices of the le high chapter of sigma xi national research fraternity the lecture included a short his tory of the dinosaur illustrated by slides of skeletons and reconstruc tions moving pictures of excava tions where 4,000 bones were un earthed and slides of an airplane trip taken l»y dr brown last sum mer while in search of regions where the skeletons of dinosaurs were still buried on a farm 25 miles northeast of greybull wyoming dr brown discovered the bones of 20 dino saurs he began excavating in 1932 and finished the task last year over 4,000 bones were recovered moving pictures illustrated the work of excavation packing and shipping dr brown said that he expected to mount three of the skeletons found but that this work would take about five years explains bone deposit as an explanation for the large number of bones found at the one place dr brown said that prob ably the spot was an old water hole which was inhabited by the dinosaurs as the hole dried out the animals crowded together in the center finally dying when the water evaporated during the airplane trip dr brown discovered eight new dino saur regions seven oil domes and a new meteorite crater the trip in cluded parts of south dakota wy oming montana colorado utah new mexico and arizona the speaker was introduced by dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology who was a student with dr brown at the university of kansas dr brown is curator of fossil reptiles in the american museum of natural his tory in new york city lectures on war green tells kiwanis expansion conflicts are inevitable to be prepared for war or to do away entirely with arms and arma ments are the two means of pre venting war declared major green head of the department of miltary science and tactics in a recent address to bethlehem ki wanis club in discussing war caused by ter ritorial expansion major green stated that war is inevitable on the face of the globe major green told the members of the club that the inability of the human mind to determine ac curately and invariably that which is right and that which is wrong that which is fact and that which is not fact and that which is best and that which is not best is the basic cause of war seniors interviewed for jobs steel firm selects eight j r knisely personnel repre sentative of the firestone tire and rubber company of akron ohio yesterday interviewed seniors in all curricula interested in scles work men will be chosen for the com pany training school starting july 8 as a result of previous inter views eight men have been select ed for technical operating jobs by n h hittinger manager of train ing in the bethlehem steel com pany results of interviews for sales positions will be received later yellow jack tickets free the mustard and cheese club will present yellow jack by sidney howard and paul de kriuf friday evening in drown hall for the open house guests admission will be free tickets may be obtained at the lehigh union office electricals chemicals journalists visit firms before easter holidays 22 senior e e.s make trip through metropolitan area the departments or electrical engineering chemistry and jour nalism conducted field trips to new york city on monday tuesday and wednesday preceding easter holi days twenty-two senior electrical en gineers accompanied by dr j l beaver professor of electrical en gineering and h c i knutson in structor in electrical engineering left on monday morning april 15 to visit manufacturing communica tion and power generating plants in new york and the vicinity on monday the group visited the washington lamp company bloomfield n j and inspected the lighting equipment of the newark airport tuesday was spent at rockefeller centre new york city studying the ventilating system and elevator mo tors and visiting the n b c stu dios control rooms and master con trol system during the evening of the same day they visited the back stage of radio city music hall in specting the curtain control thyra tion room and stage lighting sys tem visit warner brothers on wednesday as guests of the brooklyn-edison company the par ty divided to visit the research lab oratory of that company and the warner brothers studios complet ing the trip by visiting the s s california the most completely electrified ship in the world forty-three senior chemical en giners and chemists made the semi annual inspection trip prior to the easter vacation april 15 16 and 17 to industrial plants in new york and new jersey they were ac companied by three faculty mem bers of the chemistry department c w simmons associate profes sor of chemical engineering a a diefenderfer professor of quantita tive analysis and harry b osborn assistant in chemistry on monday april 15 the party visited the seton leather company of newark n j makers of patent leather and the dupont viscoloid company at arlington n j man ufacturers of synthetic plastics the party also inspected the air-condi tioning apparatus at radio city new york the following day was spent at the westinghouse lamp company bloomfield n j where a method of preparing pure tungsten for use in lamp fiilaments has been devel oped and the manhattan rubber company passaic n j which spe cializes in rubber covering of chem ical engineering equipment visit port ivory a visit was made to port ivory staten island plant of proctor and gamble company on the last day where the hydrogenation of fats and the making of soap is the leading operation fifteen students on the journal ism field trip visited a press asso ciation the offices of two newspa pers a publishing company an ad vertising agency the offices of the press-radio bureau and the offices of the world almanac prof d h gramley and k k kost were in charge of the trip tryouts on tuesday finals in oratorical contest are may 14 elimination tryouts for the fresh man oratorical contest will be held at 7 p m next tuesday in room 416 packard laboratory each con testant will be permitted to speak for four minutes the prizes to be aworded will be 40 the first prize and the second prize will be 15 the judges for the preliminary contest are prof m j luch c f strauch cedric gale c a har dind t g ehrsam instructors in english the judges for the finals to be held 8 p m tuesday may 14 in packard auditorium are prof m j luch e h riley d h gramley ossociate professors c w phy in structor and k k kost assistant in journalism over 700 are lehigh guests spring houseparty cele brated by 27 fraterni ties and dormitories over 700 girls were the guests of 27 fraternities and dormitories at spring houseparty held friday and saturday on friday evening over 600 cou ples attended the junior prom held in the coliseum with ray noble and his orchestra playing the coliseum was transformed into the decora tor's conception of a mid-sum mer's night dream dancing was held from 10 p m until 3 o'clock in the morning dean and mrs charles m mc conn dr and mrs claude g beardslee dean and mrs george b curtis and dr and mrs robert d billinger were the chaperones the committee in charge consist ed of george voehl chairman louis b stout and john l kor net d u to celebrate 50th anniversary three charter members to at tend banquet friday night the lehigh chapter of delta up silon will celebrate its fiftieth an niversary by a banquet in honor of the three living charter members to be held at the saucon valley coun try club at 7 p m friday may 3 prof p m palmer head of the college of arts and science will be the speaker representing the uni versity and gilbert e doan asso ciate professor of metallurgy is on the committee in charge about 80 alumni of the fraternity are ex pected to attend the charter members are all from the class of 1888 they are h s miner 8.5 chief chemist of the welsbach compony and inventor and the welsbach gas mantle c j parker c e superintendent of the new york central lines and h s morrow m e president of wilkinsburg each will give a short talk r m eichner i e 36 will welcome the guests and speak in behalf of the undergraduates seven of faculty are initiated seven members of the lehigh faculty were initiated as associate members of scabbard and blade honorary military fraternity at a meeting april 15 they are r c bull t e butterfield j l gra ham r p more h sutherland h p thomas and s thomas coming events tuesday april 30 7 p m oratorical contest room 416 packard laboratory wednesday may 1 4 p m robert w blake society room 317 packard laboratory 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club room 201 packard laboratory 7:30 p m pi tau sigma meeting room 453 packard laboratory thursday may 2 4:10 p m philosophical seminar faculty club room drown hall 7:30 p m physics society meeting room 316 physics building 7.30 p m phi beta kappa banquet easton friday may 3 2-10 p m open house n j leonard m c mil bank are chosen heads of juniors sophomores at election april 16 w m smith and r b picking are lehigh union officers r m eichner was elected pres ident of the senior class at the gen eral elections held tuesday april 16 h a scobey was awarded the office of secretary-treasurer n j leonard was chosen as head of the junior class and r r ashman as secretary-treasurer the class of 1938 elected h c milbank president and r.s young secretary-treasurer at the general election w.f nutt jr was named senior cheer leader the other cheer leaders are r des couch and r h perrine the lehigh union officers are w m smith president and r b picking secretary-treasurer leon ard and milbank are the cabinet cabinet members of their respective classes the general election followed a nomination period extending from the sixth to the twelfth of april only one polling was necessary each voter arranged on his ballot the complete list of candidates in order of preference results tabulated the results were tabulated by the single alternative vote method the result of this tabulation fol lows the result of the final distribu tion of senior votes was eichner 58 and scobey 49 of the six candidates competing for the presidency of the junior class leonard was preferred by a majority four times in succession the ballots of the eliminated low est candidate were distributed among the continuing candidates according to the next available preference indicated on each ballot the result of the final distribution was n j leonard 84 f m how ells 72 after his election as president leonard was eliminated and the de feated candidates for the presiden cy automatically became candidates for the other office in the compe tition between these five candidates ashman proved to be a majority choice ballots redistributed in determining the result the ballots marked first choice for leonard in the competition for the presidency were distributed among second choice indicated on each of these ballots thereupon totals were determined and the lowest man after each stage of the count was eliminated his ballots were then distributed among the contin uing candidates according to the next available preference indicated this process of elimination was continued until the choice of the majority was determined the final figures were r r ashman 88 f m howells 68 of the nine candidates competing for presidency of the sophomore class h c milbank was preferred by a majority seven times in suc cession the ballots of the eliminated lowest candidate were distribut ed among the continuing candidates according to the next available pre ference indicated on each ballot the final distribution was h c milbank 129 r s young 98 exactly the same method was fol lowed as was employed in the cor responding competition in the junior class the result of the final distri bution was r s young 118 j p frey 101 welding research fellowship renewed for two years the american bureau of weld ing research in civil en gineering has been renewed for two years says inge lyse asso ciate research professor of engin eering materials the work will be a continuation of the work done by norman g schreiner on beam to column connections between now and next fall pro fessor sutherland and lyse will in terview the applicants for the fel lowship and make recommendations to the board of trustees upon which the final choice rests sadler keck are to leave two captains receive transfer orders to texas and maryland capt percy l sadler and capt charles h keck assistant profes sors of military science and tactics have been transferred to other sta tions through an order of the u s army states major j o green professor and head of the depart ment of miltary science and tactics captain sadler has been or dered to report to fort sam houston texas he will be re placed by capt carter collins 30th infantry now stationed at the presido miltary post san francis co cal no successor has been named to replace captain keck who has been ordered to the ordnance office of the third corps area in baltimore md capt martin b barndollar jr 45th infantry manila p 1 will succeed capt john k rice assis tant professor of military science and tactics whose transfer to fort leavenworth kan was recently announced both captain rice and captain keck have been stationed at lehigh for four years while captain sad ler has been here since 1929 philadelpia club host to sub-frosh lehigh alumni group enter tains friday in edison building the philadelphia lehigh club held its annual sub-freshman meet ing friday evening in the edison building auditorium the meeting was preceded by a dinner at the hotel benjamin franklin dr wray h congdon director of admissions e kenneth smiley assistant director admissions and walter r okeson university treas urer addressed the group on the university and entrance require ments billy sheridan gave a talk on wrestling at lehigh and explained different holds which were demon strated by the bishop brothers other entertainment was furnished by the lehigh student quartet ac companied by the lehigh student quartet accompanied by carstens y haas eng 38 club to compete mustard and cheese to present two original plays two original one act plays will be presented by the mustard and cheese club dramatic society this friday evening in the drama tour ney sponsored by the allentown civic theatre a bowl of soup written by prof garth howland was present ed three weeks ago over wcba allentown on a mustard and cheese broadcast a lucid mo ment written by herbert and william woronoff arts 37 in col laboration with albert a rights instructor in english is a product of the playwriting course of dram atics 61-62 the plays are 25 to 30 minutes long other organizations competing in the tourney are muhlenberg beth lehem's plays and players spring town players allentown commun ity center allentown high school and two groups from the allentown civic theatre tickets may be ob tained at the lehigh union office rechosen to syracuse faculty william s miller who received a degree of master of science at le high in june 1932 has been reap pointed graduate assistant in chem istry at syracuse university all university depart ments will participate in third annual event to be held on friday lehigh goes on parade says larkin chairman brown and white will go on the air at 7:30 p m over station wcba with favorable weather we ex pect at least 20,000 visitors to attend the third annual lehigh open house on friday states andrew buchanan publicity manager of the open house committee all departments are preparing unique exhibits and displays mo tion pictures lectures demonstra tions a radio broadcast a mustard and cheese play and a military re view make up a program that is the most elaborate yet planned fred larkin chairman of the open house committee comment ed lehigh again goes on dress parade to stimulate interest in mod ern education and to show what le high has to offer its students the brown and white will go on the air from 7:30 to 8 p m open house night over station wcba allentown dr natt m emery vice president of lehigh university is to speak about the various phases of open house gilberto escobedo c e 36 will sing several spanish songs accompanied by the lehigh collegians admission to the broadcast which will originate in the packard audi torium will be permitted until 7:30 p m the possibility of remote pickups from various campus points is being considered by the com mittee an information booth is to be es tablished near the flag pole at the entrance to the lehigh campus by members of pi delta epsilon hon orary journalism fraternity the booth will be attended by the 12 members working in shifts who will give out information and dis tribute campus directories journalism department will conduct news displays a continuous display of newspa per equipment will be an important part of the open house exhibitions of the journalism department these displays will include the teletype by means of which news is received by wire in typewritten form police radio of the ultra-short wave type as used by the local police depart ment various stages in stereotyp ing a newspaper front page in type each half hour in room 103 a student lecturer will present a short talk on modern journalism the group which attends this lecture will then be conducted through the brown and white laboratory continuous displays will be placed on the first floor of the building 1 journalism and brown and white men will be available to explain them to prevent confusion the various rooms used by the depart ment will be connected by a tele phone system current news from the associated press will be post ed continuously on a bulletin board important news flashes will be an nounced over a public address sys tem the journalism open house committee is headed by judson schaeffer arts 35 the committee includes three seniors and one mem ber of each of the other classes the other seniors are kent s put nam and robert w schwartz both journalism majors james crou shore arts 36 michael l cun ningham bus 37 and nevin l fidler arts 38 are the other mem bers chems to exhibit oldest drugstore in u s an exhibit of the oldest drug store in america is the chief feature of the open house exhibits of the chemistry department this year the old apothecary shop is rau's drug store of bethlehem and the exhibit includes a drug mill made in 1848 clay retorts spirit lamps a balance made 100 years ago by le hamn brass foundry of bethlehem and other accessories of the drug store room 104 of the chemistry building will be converted into a miniature store for this purpose some of the features of the phy sical chemistry laboratory are an ultra-microscope study of the brownian movement electrolysis of sodium chloride and glass blowing continued on page four bethlehem pa tuesday april 30 1935 vol xlh no 48 describes new dinosaur find to sigma xi three groups inspect plants in new york 20,000 expected for open house price five cents senior class elects eichner as president congdon will interview sub-freshmen may 3 and 4 the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first