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              council votes to reserve 3 party dates 21 given parts in spring play of drama club screen star to be guest at army ball wins song contest price — five cents richardfoote chosen winner by v lopez song s o s picked as best from lehigh in review contest interfraternity board sets houseparty for april 9 16 or 23 issues report on ball mustard and cheese will continue to conduct feminine tryouts date has not been set irene rich to attend mili tary dance march 6 in masonic temple commandant to come judge will play tune nelson j leonard chem 37 president of omicron delta kappa senior honorary activities fraternity announced today that points toward membership of o d k must be submitted to him at the delta tau delta house before noon monday the point committee which will go over the applications is as fol lows nelson j leonard chairman donald barnum 1 e 37 and prof p p palmer dean of the college of arts and science made some changes regarding changes in the point system leonard said the changes and additions are the results of our effort to make the o d k point system more evenly distributive more equally rewarding and on the whole more comprehensive in scope the general rules and eligibility requirements of the society are as follows — photo by william so richard h foote eng 40 musical group gives concert glee club soloists trio perform before 150 in varied program group 1 scholarship 3.5 average 5 semesters 15 1 average 5 semesters 12 2.5 average 5 semesters • 2 average 5 semesters 2 w a wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi 2 tau beta pi prize 2 alpha kappa psi 2 alpha epsiion delta 1 eta kappa nu 1 eta sigma phi 1 international relations club 1 newtonian society 1 phi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsiion 1 pi tau sigma 1 robert blake society 1 class honors 1 other scholastic prize 1 group 11 publications brown and white business manager 5 editorial manager 5 news manager 6 circulation manager 4 editor in chief 4 financial manager 4 board 2 copy supervisor 2 local advertising assistant 2 richard h foote eng 40 was announced as winner of the song writing contest sponsored by the lehigh review in collaboration with vincent lopez orchestra leader at the midnight broadcast sunday night over wabc each of the schools participating columbia rutgers lehigh and n y u was represented by a winner foote wrote his s o s num ber especially for the contest he spent however only a short time on the winning song although he is taking an engineering course he has selected music as his career playing the trumpet he leads a band of his own in his home town of bloomsburg lopez , before announcing the names of the composers remarked i have been convinced through this contest that the writers of the hit tunes of tomorrow are the college song writers of today lopez to orchestrate tunes at the same time next sunday night and over the same station lo pez will play the winning numbers these songs will be orchestrated published and given every oppor tunity to achieve recognition a feature article will be devoted to foote's accomplishment in thurs day's issue of the lehigh review critics group to start work firms send men to meet seniors committee will consider criticisms of faculty and administration 5 companies conduct cam pus interviews irene rich stage screen and radio actress and brigadier general p l miles commandant of the first army corps area will head a list of honor guests who will attend the military ball to be held march 6 in the masonic temple announces melvin s lord ch e 38 chair man otners who are expected to be present include miss elizabeth woodward debutante editor of the ladies home journal col wil liam r coyle former member of congress from the thirtieth penn sylvania district and mrs coyle and mrs dannemieer of the first army corps area captain smyser aide to general miles mrs smyser and lt commander leighton woods government adviser to the bethlehem steel company members of the department of military science and tactics at le high and lafayette have been in vited and also the board of trus tees of lehigh president and mrs clement c williams prof howard reiter head of the department of physical education and mrs reit er william cornelius alumni as sociation executive secretary and mrs cornelius and mr and mrs a a swenson sr of philadelphia to entertain guests prior to the ball major carter collins assistant professor of mili tary science and mrs collins will entertain at a dinner for the guests of honor although the plans for decora tions have not been made lord stated that they would be in keep ing with the military atmosphere lighting effects will be achieved through the use of spotlights twenty-one men have success fully tried out for the annual musi cal production of the mustard and cheese club men who have tried out for the production and did not attend the last rehearsal will have an opportunity for another trial at 8 p m tomorrow in drown hall thirteen girls have been tried out for parts in the musical comedy and there will be tryouts for more feminine parts tomorrow night girls who attended the tryout were florence ueberrath margar et sterrett ruth pazzetti geraldine werst barbara o'neill catalina panebianco carolyn berg jane burkholder genevieve geiring olive mills louisa stoughton jane seiter and patricia veltoe to rehearse tomorrow there will be a rehearsal at the same time tomorrow for any dance or novelty numbers the date of the coming production has not yet been decided but it will be held shortly after the spring vacation frank norton ch e 39 nelson leonard ch e 37 pat pazzetti bus 37 and ruth pazzetti are four members who had leading parts in prom trotters last year and will act in the new show are successful the following men suacessfully tried out for the forthcoming pro duction e osbourne arts 40 a ueberroth ch e 39 j kelley arts 39 w f o'neill arts 39 w musser eng 40 w wood rich c e 38 j whalen eng 40 j russell bus.'3b k sloan arts 38 c smullin ch e 38 w free man arts 40 e fisher m e 39 w feldus bus 37 w henry eng 40 r baggot bus 40 m zawisza ch e 39 and w turner eng 40 the interfraternity council voted to reserve the week-ends of april 9 16 and 23 for spring house party at its meeting last night in drown hall john s hoppock i e 38 rep resentative from phi gamma delta who reported on the dates recom mended that the definite date be de termined by the availability of the orchestra to be selected donated 200 at the same time the council voted favorably on the motion of alvin a swenson bus 37 rep resentative of phi upsilon to do nate 200 to the fund being raised for the hospital expenses of peter j morrissey injured swimming coach the resolution adopted at a pre vious meeting petitioning the facul ty to deny a diploma to any man indebted to his fraternity was ap proved and will be sent to dean c m mcconn reports on ball donald c barnum i.e 37 treas urer of the council submitted the following report on the interfrater nity ball held feb 6 receipts from 902 tickets at 2.28 2,056.56 less federal tax 902 at 20 180.40 state tax 902 at 08 72.16 252.56 1,804.00 expenditures : hal kemp's orchestra 1,150.00 derocations 300.00 coliseum 40.00 police protection 30.00 piano from goodenough 15.00 amplification h b osborn 40.00 trucking 14.50 labor ticket takers and maid service 10.00 committee salaries 20.00 menne printery for tickets 4.00 insurance on furniture a.b hamson 7.05 amusement permit 1.00 water ross-common 18.15 miscellaneous corsages phones etc 10.00 1,660.15 net profit to treasury $ 143.85 signed donald c barnum this is to certify that i have reviewed the foregoing report of the interfraternity ball committee and that to the best of my knowledge and belief it is a true and cor rect report c m mcconn 3 research men to speak of work e serfass w graeff and w guyer to talk terms lincoln american moses scoblionko 31 addresses aleph zadik aleph the combined musical clubs per formed saturday night at drown hall an audience of about 150 at tended the concert the glee club of 45 members performed under the leadership of dr t edgar shields director of music the songs which were pre sented were hail the college van vleck on to the desert strickland this merfy festal day from the bartered bride smetana two russian folk songs fireflies and at father's door bachelor's song andrews chorus of bacchantes from philemon et baucis gounod and alma mater students give solos a group of student solos were also given two newcomers to the glee club concerts h radford beucler bus 40 trumpeter and alfred trumpler eng 40 violin ist played nelson j leonard ch e 37 baritone sang without a song youmans and duna mcgill el bert b mahla met e 38 tenor sang water boy robinson and little bateese o'hara charles m schwab trustee to celebrate 75th birthday representatives of five firms held interviews with seniors at the place ment office during the past week according to e robins morgan director of placement john sinkey of the central han over bank and trust company saw those men who were interested in banking last thursday he also spoke to a group of seniors on op portunities in other lines of bus iness activity industrial engineers were inter viewed on the same date by c w beese representing the armstrong cork company of lancaster on friday j h belknap and g duffield from westinghouse elec tric and manufacturing company east pittsburgh interviewed senior engineers from all curricula john f luhrs personnel director of the bailey meter company saw mech anical engineers and john wilkin son representative of the scott pa per company chester interviewed seniors in various departments 21 frosh enroll contending that he had celebrated the birthday to end birthdays five years ago charles m schwab old est lehigh trustee in point of ser vice declined to make the usual an niversary statement for his seventy fifth birthday which will be on thursday as each birthday makes him feel just a year older schwab does not wish to be reminded of them and next thursday will be men apply for program on general education three holders of research fellow ships will speak on the topic some lehigh chemistry research at a meeting of the chemistry society at 7:45 p m thursday in packard laboratory auditorium earl j serfass b s in ch e m s will speak on a new theory of tannage his talk will deal with an entirely new develop ment in the tanning of leathers an nounced only a few months ago by dr wilson leather consultant of milwaukee william h graeff b.s in ch.e will discuss industrial x-raying mr graeff is the william l heim fellow walter r f guyer b s in ch e will talk on hydrate systems mr guyer is freshman student chemistry foundation fellow workers not cut no nya reduction until cards come through no action has been taken to re duce the number of nya workers because of the recent eight percent cut in funds as the certification cards stating whether a man is still eligible to work have not yet come through from the dean's office says e robins morgan director of placement he states that some men will be ineligible because of scholastic diffi culty and the subsequent reduction in the number of workers may mean that the remainder of the men will need to reduce their number of working hours only slightly to take care of the payroll reduction o pianist plays at concert the third of a series of concerts by 1 mrs ruth becker myers pian ist for bach choir and dr t ed gar shields director of music was given sunday afternoon before 175 people in packer memorial chapel this was the eighth program of the the student concerts group e g scoblionko 31 eulogized abraham lincoln friday evening in the bethlehem community center talking on the subject lincoln the american moses he was the principal speaker at the services conducted by the aleph zadik aleph national jewish youths fraternity taking the place of rabbi jerome mark in his talk scoblionko a bethle hem attorney stated that lincoln was a great states man a great lawyer an unusual wit a diplomat of the first order a man with a soul no one may question this day being the one hundredth anniversary of lincoln's admittance to the illinois bar i might say that his career may be a shining stan dard and inspiration to every mem ber of that profession scoblionko was graduated from the university of pennsylvania law school in 1935 nathan spilberg arts 38 of ficiated at the service held by the fraternity cornelius returns visited 2 alumni groups to ask for funds nelson j leonard ch e 37 chairman of the committee on crit icisms has announced that the com mittee will start functioning on criticism of the faculty and the ad ministration next month the com mittee consists of senior members of tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity and phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity the committee was formed last march with the purpose of sending the faculty and administration con structive criticism on the contents and conduct of courses the admin istration and faculty activities stu dents submit their criticisms to the committee which debates upon them if the required two-thirds of the committee vote in favor of the criticisms the chairman sends a re port of it to the proper officials of the administration to start in march the committee is unable to begin activity officially until march be cause phi beta kappa does not elect its members until that time tau beta pi however elects its members as early as the fall of their junior year leonard has asked the senior members of tau beta pi to begin to formulate criticisms now so that they can be presented to the entire committee at its first meeting the chairman said i hope all students will seriously consider con structive criticism of faculty or ad ministration and be prepared to present them before the committee in march it was also announced that the student criticism could eith er be presented in person before the committee or could be given to a member and have him present the case dean c m mcconn announced that 21 freshmen have sent in their applications for the program on general education he expects that the number will be increased by feb 18 which is the last day that applications will be received the enrollment cards are to be turned in to prof h m diamond chairman of the committee the new course will be able to accom modate about 35 members which averages approximately three stu dents to an adviser the total enrollment however depends upon the number of fresh men who apply for the course if the number exceeds the maximum limit a selection method will be used to determine the final enrollment o pi mil epsilon to hear lecture by g templeman george m templeman a profes sional mathematician will speak at a meeting of pi mu epsilon hon orary mathematics society at 7:30 p m thursday in room 208 pack ard laboratory mr templeman will relate incidents which have occurred in his work after the talk the society will consider plans for a spring lec ture morrissey better st luke's hospital reports coach out of danger charles m schwab the condition of pete morrissey swimming coach is slightly im proved over last week according to the statement issued by st luke's hospital today he was reported out of danger in spite of his improvement mor rissey is still not permitted to re ceive visitors because of his weak ened state just another day for the oldest ac tive executiye on the board of the bethlehem steel corporation starting at 16 as a clerk in a braddock grocery store schwab got his start in steel when the super intendent of the edgar thompson steel works gave him a job five years later he was chief engineer of the thompson steel works make-up editor per semester 2 news editor per semester 2 photographic editor per semester 2 sport editor per semester 2 editorial council 2 columnist per semester 1 review editor in chief 6 business manager 5 assistant editor 4 advertising manager 8 circulation manager 3 art editor 2 board 2 handbook chairman of the board 2 business manager 1 editorial manager 1 epitome editor in chief 9 business manager 7 chairman senior section 5 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 junior editor 3 assistant business manager 2 senior section committee 2 pi delta epsiion membership 1 group 111 social leaders cum officers president senior class 6 president junior class 4 president sophomore class 4 secretary-treasurer senior class 3 president freshman union 2 secretary-treasurer junior class 2 secretary-treasurer sophomore class 2 interfraternity council interf raternity council 2 president 2 societies president of any society listed in group i 1 president course society 1 arcadia head of living group 8 president 6 dormitory chief 4 town group representative 4 executive committee 1 secretary 1 treasurer 1 note when two or more living group heads are elected in one scholastic year the first one elected will get the eight points group iv other activities lehigh union president 6 secretary-treasurer 3 cabinet 2 brown key membership 1 cheer leaders senior 4 head 1 junior 1 band leader 4 junior band 2 manager 2 d 0 t president 8 manager 2 membership 2 student concert-lecture series committee chairman 2 membership 1 scabbard and blade membership 1 mustard and cheese president 4 business manager 8 membership 8 production manager 8 musical clubs president 4 manager 3 membership 2 group v athletics varsity assistant manager 6 playing letter 5 captaincy 4 manager 4 additional letter in same sport 2 playing in intercollegiate contests per sport per year 2 freshman team manager 3 numerals 2 captaincy 1 playing in intercollegiate contests per sport 1 miscellaneous national intercollegiate champion 10 new college record 5 sectional champion 6 intramural sports director 3 fencing per year , a golf per year 2 rifle per year 2 notes 1 distribution no student shall be al lowed more than 75 per cent of his points in any one of the five groups 2 bonus students who have one quarter of their points in each of any three groups shall be given a bonus of five points 3 for noteworthy achievements and ac tivities not covered by the point system additional points may be awarded william a cornelius executive alumni secretary returned yester day from baltimore and washing ton where he had visited lehigh alumni clubs in connection with the drive to raise funds for the chem istry building annex on wednesday evening he was the guest of honor at an oyster roast held by the baltimore club and on friday lunched with the of ficers of the washington club the rest of his visit was spent in seeing alumni in those two cities about in dividual contributions cornelius had previously spent ten days in pittsburgh with alumni there to secure their contributions and pledges for the building fund he held the presidency of the carnegie steel company at 35 and four years later andrew carnegie and j p morgan chose him to head the u s steel merger to carnegie's buzz saw as the dynamic schwab was called the morgans offered 1,000,000 annual salary which equalled the offer of krupp's of germany who also wanted his services joined u s steel schwab it is said adequately solved the problem by tearing up the morgan's contract and designat ing a salary of 1,000,000 a year for himself but he was not to remain long with u s steel i was not happy there he said with mr carnegie i was a czar in the steel corporation i had too many bosses and one of them was wall street so i got out and form ed the bethlehem steel company known as the diplomat of the in dustry schwab urged cooperation among the companies rather than cut-throat competition and suggest ed the u s steel merger to mor gan as a practical venture schwab himself was one of the organizers of the american iron and steel in stitute a trade organization that binds most of the american pro ducers success guided by luck he once told an interviewer that his success was guided by luck as i look back over those years he said i cannot for the life of me understand the whole thing here i am a not over-good business man a second rate engineer i can make poor mechanical drawings i play the piano after a fashion in fact i am one of those proverbial jacks of all trades who are usually failures why i am not i can't tell you brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 16 1937 applications due monday for 0 d k membership vol xliv no 29 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first