Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 50

              plaques given to first and second place winners in ten contests 171 schools compete eight publications place first or second for two straight years press meeting attracts 500 68 pennsylvania and 16 jersey secondary schools are represented 1:30 p m assembly on upper field company formation at usual locations and roll call 2:00 p m manual of arms elimination contest two basic students from each company selected by cadet company com manders 2:15 p m squad drill compe tition the best squad in each battalion 2:30 p m tent pitching con test two basic students from each company 2:45 p m platoon drill com petition one platoon from each battalion 3:00 p m equipment race two men from each company selected by company commander 3:15 p m company drill com petition each battalion will have its best company in com petition 3:45 p m assembly at stacks awarding of prizes retreat regimental parade and review radio concert will be given glee club to broadcast final air program at wcau studio ten plaques designed as shown above will be awarded to the first-place win ners in the ten classifications of the lehigh press conference contest the printing press casting the wreath and the identification plate are of bronze mounted on a mahogany board six inches wide by eight inches deep the ten second - place plaques are much similar to the winners plaques the only differences are the absence of the wreath and the size of the mahog any board which is 5"x7 students aid at conference 24 brown and white staff men address the delegates the glee club will present a fif teen minute concert over the colum bia broadcasting system at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon forty mem bers of the club are making the trip to philadelphia tomorrow morning to sing in the wcau-columbia stu dios there dr t edgar shields professor of music will direct the club in a pro gram of eight songs hal e towne arts 37 president-manager is in charge of arrangements and c y haas ch e 38 is accompanist the double quartet from the club will sing one song the program opens with hail the college van vleck and closes with the alma mater tomorrow's broadcast is the final radio appearance of the club this year previous programs were pre sented over the other two major national networks o fraternity to meet here the lehigh chapter of theta kappa phi social fraternity will be host to an eastern province con vention today and tomorrow dele gates from five colleges and univer sities will be present approximately 500 students from preparatory and high schools in new jersey and pennsylvania were present today at the fourth annual lehigh scholastic press confer ence • the groups from 68 pennsylvania secondary schools included 296 pub lication officers and advisers new jersey schools sent 104 representa tives from 16 schools the schools and the number of delegates which attended follow pennsylvania schools — south whitehall allentown 4 catholic h s bethlehem 3 liberty h s bethlehem 3 moravian prep s bethlehem 2 bloomsburg h s bloomsburg 16 catawissa h s catawissa 18 coatesville h s coatesville 4 conshohocken h s conshohocken 3 coopersburg h s coopersburg 3 dallas h s dallas 2 defiance 2 darby h s darby 2 doylestown h s doylestown 6 wilson boro h s easton 3 elizabethville h s elizabethville 2 cheltenham h s elkins park 13 fleetwood h s fleetwood 3 frackville h s frackville 13 gettysburg h s gettysburg 6 glassport h s glassport 3 glen nor h s glenolden 2 john harris h s harrisburg 4 senior h s hazelton 3 township h s hazelton 2 hawley h s hawley 3 hatfield h s hatfield 2 her shey h s hershey 3 nor-win h s irwin 3 jersey shore h s jersey shore 3 keyport h s keyport 3 packerton h s le highton 3 lehighton h s le highton 44 manheim h s man heim 3 minersville h s miners ville 2 mckees rocks h s mc kees rocks 5 nazareth h s continued on page four as delegates gathered for press conference continued on page four with combines again legalized after having been restricted for the past three years elections of class officers lehigh union officers and cheerleaders will be held from 8 a m to 6 p m tuesday three juniors have been nominat ed for the presidency of the senior class four sophomores for the leadt ership of the junior class and five freshman nominees are seeking to head the sophomore class nominees are as follows senior president harry c milbank i e sponsors lyman j craig jr bus al pha tau omega john s hoppock i e phi gamma delta myron sterngold bus pi lambda phi samnel w maclachlan i e sigma chi robert a dean i e theta xi clinton strang bus psi up silon william dukek chem e delta tau delta john p frey chem delta upsilon thomas h hughes chem town group and martin n bauman bus lambda chi alpha frank vernon i e sponsors albert j getz arts beta kap pa james t bergen ch e 37 lambda chi alpha george derr 1 e phi kappa alpha eichard parsons i e kappa al pha norman odell i e theta xi charles zell bus alpha chi rho richard hayden m e delta sigma phi harold calkins ch e allentown robert titlow arts sigma phi epsilon and andrew dapuzzo arts taylor hall frederick b bayer bus sponsors milton c enstine i e phi sigma kappa luke 0 travis bus psi up silon matthew collins m e phi delta theta j palmer murphy arts chi psi james d mack arts sigma chi melvin s lord ch e chi phi david berg bus delta upsilon francis wrightson bus sigma phi stanley eysman bus tau delta phi and randolph young arts sigma nu junior president robert g yingling i e sponsors willet weeks arts chi psi george b rheinfrank i e phi gamma delta cortland carrier i e psi upsilon john baiz arts leonard hall robert b evans s e delta sigma phi eric weiss e e price hall milton grannatt bus lambda chi alpha ; louis glesniann m e delta tau delta joseph j clements bus sigma nu and william jessup arts tay lor hall eugene b caller i e sponsors theodore thierry chem hi alpha kappa pi ; sam r cox ch e alpha chi rho l henderson dudman bus sigma phi donald w cooper e e taylor hall robert w easton i e pi kappa alpha william e bruning arts sigma nu charles thompson i e sigma phi epsilon frank h burnett i e phi gamma delta brian evans i e tow n group ; and malcolm i hope all of you noticed the flowering trees and shrubs on the campus which are bidding you wel come to lehigh stated president c c williams in his welcome ad dress at the opening session of the fourth annual scholastic press con ference here today over 500 delegates from high and preparatory schools of pennsylvania and new jersey attended the meet ing in packard auditorium this morning lehighton high school headed the representatives with a delegation of 44 dr neil carothers dean of col lege of business administration addressed the group relating some of his experiences with newspaper men he spoke highly of the car toon phase of journalism which plays such an important part in the making of today's history cartooning he continued is the greatest agency for spreading pub licity and propaganda among the people of a nation dean carothers has written many articles for newspapers on current economic problems including over 30 articles for the herald tribune he told of several experiences with newspapermen which occurred dur ing his trip with col frank knox last summer the guest speaker and artist of the conference was russ westover creator of tillie the toiler who stressed the importance of original and novelty ideas in newspaper scoops he illustrated his lecture with drawings of his comic strip characters mac and tillie and also characterizations of dale gramley associate professor of journalism and dr carothers eleven round table discussion groups at the afternoon session of the press conference today were led by lehigh journalism students and faculty members as well as practicing newspapermen and a representative of a mimeograph company delegates indicated during regis tration the round table groups they wished to attend the list of conference groups leaders and speakers follows news writing — kieste a janulis 38 journalism major and news edi tor of the brown and white chair man structure of the news story willet weeks 39 journ alism major and assistant news edi tor of the brown and white the lead john d neely 35 staff member of the allentown chronicle and news making it attractive raymond f feilbach 37 journal ism major and brown and white reporter covering the news '. copyreading and editing — j pal mer murphy 38 journalism major and news manager of the brown and white chairman desk du ties ralph e slonaker copy reader for the bethlehem globe times improving copy eric weiss 39 brown and white news editor common errors editorial writing — george yan ko 37 journalism major and editor in-chief of the brown and white chairman structure of the editor ial william g dukek 37 editor ial manager of the brown and white spice on the editorial page bob reifsnyder 37 brown and white editorial writer legitimate policies and cam paigns headlines and makeup — leonard h schick 37 journalism major and sports writer for the brown and white chairman types of page layout robert l bailey 37 journalism major and brown and white sports writer planning a head schedule dale p j gold smith 38 brown and white edi torial writer dressing it up nevin l fidler 38 brown and white makeup editor troubles at the print shop feature writing — paul e p white 38 brown and white col umnist chairman writing to in terest henry t s heckman 39 brown and white assistant news editor developing an eye for features frank kemmerer 39 continued on page four seven pennsylvania and three new jersey schools received first place awards in the contests con ducted in connection with lehigh university's fourth annual scholastic press conference the results of the contests in the ten classes were an nounced at the closing session of the conference this afternoon in addition to the first place plaques ten second place plaques and 39 certificates of merit were awarded a total of 171 high schools and preparatory schools in new jersey and pennsylvania were rep resented five publications won first place and one second place in their class for the second consecutive year in addition two schools that were second last year took first place in their classes this year the first place winners that re peated were the ui^h school record camden senior high school camden n j class a magazines the blue and white news west york high school york class c newspapers the glen-nor crier glen-nor high school glenolden class c maga zine the jeannette high school dispatch jeannette class d newspapers and the mercersburg news mercersberg academy mer cersburg preparatory school news papers the one second place re peater was the arrow ridge wood high school ridgewood n j awards announced the student voice flemington high school flemington n j won first place in the mimeograph publications competition last year it took second place in that class likewise the aster prospect hill school newark n j moved from second into first place in the preparatory school magazine class the awards were announced by dean philip m palmer head of the college of arts and science the judges of the competitions were harold b farquhar editor of the bethlehem globe-times harry k trend former manager of the beth lehem office of the allentown morn ing call and john neely member of the staff of the allentown chron icle and news class a — newspapers first place the york-high weekly wil liam perm sr h york ; second place — the beacon overbrook h philadelphia honorable mention — the megaphone north east h philadelphia pa ; the high post lat'robe h lat.-obe pa ; the henshey broadcaster hcrshey li ll.rshty pa the southern news south philadelphia 11 phil adelphia pa the olm-y highlights olney h philadelphia pa class a — magazines first place — the high school record camden sr h c&tnden x j second place — the torch irvington h lrvington x j honorable mention — the cherry and white williatnsport h wiuiamgport pa the liberta.s liberty h bethlehem pa the optimist south sid 11 newark n.j ; the impressions central 11 scranton pa class b — newspapers first place — the spotlight coateaville h coatesville pa second piact — the blue and white berwick h berwick pa honorable mention — the xor-win bi-weekly norwtn h irwin pa tile iarn^t and r;ty lariß downe h lansdowne pa the clarion hawthorne h hawthorne x 1 the high school news doylestown h doylestown pa the stow-away stowe h mckeeß rocks pa class b — magazines first place — the el delator cheltenham h klkins park pa second place — the arrow ridgewood h ridgewood n j honorable mention — the nutshell moores town h moorestown n j the orange and black jersey shore h jersey bhore pa the ship ahoy wildwood h wild wood n j the sayrenade sayre h sayre pa class c — newspapers first place — the blue and white news west york h york pa second place — the rivertown review wrightsville h continued on page four major charles c morgan of the third corps area u s a will re view the r o t c unit of le high at the tenth annual field day competitions and military review which will be held at 1:30 p m monday at taylor field the following prizes are to be awarded the association of the u s army cup will be given to the best drilled company throughout the year the american legion cup to the shooting company and the scabbard and blade cup to the best drilled platoon on field day the army ordinance association will give gold medals to w p patterson m e 37 and c h hoffman e e 38 for scholastic standing and interest in ordinance affairs sabres are to be awarded by the lehigh scabbard and blade society to w h roadstrum e e 38 and w a sheppard m e 38 for scholastic standing leadership and general ability the society sons of the ameri can revolution will award medals to the following v j pazzetti 111 bus 37 a s mckaig ch e 37 w d lucas ch e 39 w j schmidt ch e 38 a c worsley ch e 39 and a t cox eng 40 to present medals bronze medals will be presented by cadet colonel pazzetti to the following students in each basic course having the highest leader ship rating william irvin i.e 39 and c h richardson arts 40 for excellence in classroom work and general value to the r o t c unit these men receive awards a set of gold officers insignia to j m berutich ch e 37 and e h uhler arts 37 gold charms and merit ribbons to j a dallen e e 39 and r c gangwer eng 40 and merit ribbons to j a manley ch e 38 e c fleming bus 38 e h stone bus 38 r s porter arts 39 william icranz m e 38 e c bohlen ch e 39 a f jones m e 39 eric weiss e e 39 n l morse ch e 39 j l hankins e e 39 c b bayles eng 40 h c hixson eng 40 r f koenig eng 40 p telfair eng 40 and s simon bus 40 the whitten memorial cup is awarded to the sophomore class rifle team for having won the fresh man-sophomore shooting competi tion c l stieg eng 40 is cap tain of the team win rice trophy the captain john k rice trophy will be presented to the junior class for having won the inter-class shoulder match w a sheppard e m 38 is team captain the veteran of foreign wars is to be presented to j a dallen e e 39 for having the highest aggregate score in the kneeling and standing positions a medal and letter will be given to h l beidler ch e 37 for managing the varsity rifle team for three years the following five men receive either sweaters or letters for being the best five in the shoulder match es w a sheppard j a dallen c l stieg e v manning m e 39 and d x.tag eng 40 to receive letters letters are to be awarded to the following rifle team members for participation in the required num ber of matches w b ayers arts 38 a c crane bus 38 r w kirkpatrick bus 38 h w ahren holz e m 37 and w h mount c e 37 freshman numerals are to be given to the following freshmen for participation in the required num ber of meets e g uhl eng 40 l lane bus 40 c w darby eng 40 d r luster eng 40 c h fetzer eng 40 w p wat kins bus 40 r n swanson eng 40 r f pearce bus 40 s hart shorne eng 40 d j klein eng 40 a bronze plaque for high in dividual freshmen-sophomore match is to be given to l lane upper left five of the bloomsburg delegation make an early smiling appearance at the fourth annual lehigh press conference upper center the doylestown delegates complete the first step of registration upper right all set for a tour of lehigh's campus under the guidance of kenneth k kost university journalism instructor lower left distance was no obstacle to this group coming from mc keesrocks pa a distance of 300 miles they started at 4 a m in the morning lower left center three of the fairer sex from wyomissing examine the day's events as outlined in their programs lower right center if the early bird catches the worm the award goes to simon gratz high school of philadelphia who rightfully claim the dis tinction of being the first arrivals lower right the youngest delegation at the conference in the fore ground is goodell from flemington n j he's 14 price . . . five cents bethlehem pa saturday may 8 1937 c c morgan to view unit on field day r o t c field day schedule of events vol xliv no 50 first place plaque distribute year book 59 prizes are awarded at 4th press conference westover speaks to group 12 will compete in elections of class presidents may 11 milbank vernon bayer named by juniors as candidates awards to be made for r.o.t.c competitions monday afternoon 2 will receive sabres distribution of the 1937 epi tome began tuesday at the le high union office in drown hall this year's book is dedicated to dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and relig ious philosophy the brown and white president williams wel comes delegates in open ing address to assembly 2 guest speakers heard dean carothers and car toonist westover speak before 500 guests all the lehigh netcs first member intercollegiate newspaper association