Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 3

              nathan j palladino m e 38 ettinger will address state society meeting dr amos a ettinger associate professor of history will present a paper at the annual meeting of the pennsylvania historical assoc iation on oct 15 and 16 at lan caster dr ettinger s subject wil be a bowdlerized diary in the pennsylvania archives herbert h beck 96 professor of chemistry and mineralogy at franklin and marshall college and m e i hick 35 supervis ing principal of hellertown public schools will also speak at the con clave the two day program is ar ranged to coincide with the prin ciple events at franklin and mar shall college's sesqui-centennial celebration along with the dedi cation of wheatland one-time home of pres james buchanan senior obtains haines award robert f herrick 34 pick herrick grand officer repairs made last summer blanche yurka will pre sent the new arc of the theatre will begin at 8:15 p.m blanche yurka in a program which she terms the new arc of the theatre will open the student concert-lecture series at 8:15 on friday evening in the broughal high school auditorium during the course of her re cital miss yurka will portray these characters medea from eur ipides play of the same name portia and nerissa from shake speare's merchant of venice celimene from the french play the misanthrope by moliere the part of millemant in congreve's the way of the world nora from ibsen's the doll house and two scenes from candida by shaw the faculty tickets for the en tire series which are in individ ual booklets can be bought through the registrar's office the price for one booklet is 2.00 and 1.50 for each additional booklet a limited number of season tickets will be sold to the general public for 5.00 individual tickets will be sold to the public at 7:50 on the night of the performance for 1.00 town people will not be seated until after 7:50 even if they have season tickets students may bring guests at the general admission price and they will be seated without any restrictions after the recital miss yurka will be entertained at a reception to which all members of the faculty are invited the hostesses will be mrs g b curtis mrs warren w ewing and mrs t edgar shields wives of the faculty mem bers of the committee the work of the student mem bers of the committee has been divided as follows publicity wil liam g dukek ch e 38 and william p gottlieb bus 38 re ception melvin s lord ch e 38 stage and hall arrangements john a cooney e e 38 ticket sales and collection william h bohning assistant registrar and raymond k maneval bus 38 o attended dinner alumni and freshmen en tertained at banquet seventy persons attended the annual freshman dinner which was given friday night by the pro-cathedral church of the na tivity among those introduced was dean george b curtis reg istrar the dinner which is attended yearly by incoming episcopal freshmen and by alumni who are members of the nativity church was presided over by rev roscoe t foust dean and rector spencer miller of new york counselor for industrial relations of the episcopal church addressed the gathering he gave his obser vations of the present youth sit uation in europe made during a recent trip abroad o will attend inauguration pres c c williams will repre sent lehigh at the inauguration of cornell's fifth president dr ed mund ezra day on friday in ith aca n y palladino gets scholarship awarded to m e students nathan j palladino m e 38 has recently been awarded the henry stevens haines memorial scholarship this scholarship was established by mrs henry s haines of savannah georgia in 1889 as a memorial to her son henry stevens haines m e 87 the prize amounts to 200 each year and is awarded to a student in m e in need of financial as sistance who has placed in the highest third of his class and who has a high character and person ality belongs to societies palladino won freshman and sophomore scholastic honors and the pi tau sigma prize for being the highest freshman in mechan ical engineering last year he ranked 14th in his class the scholarship winner is a member of newtonian society and pi mv epsilon both honorary mathematical societies he is also a member of tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity at present he is aiding b h jen nings associate professor of me chanical engineering in research work in refrigeration text revised by professors over 30,000 spent for improvement of grounds and buildings the university spent more than 30,000 during the summer the largest amount since 1930 to lit its buildings and campus for the fall semester w a litzenberger sup erintendent of buildings and grounds points out that this sum does not include the cost of the wing to the chemistry laboratory now under construction heating plants were installed roads re surfaced and class rooms redecor ated in the improvement program completely new heating systems were installed in christmas-sau con and coppee halls classrooms in both buildings were redecorated and the floors were refinished the university purchased a piece of property at the corner of packer and adams streets and converted the former apartment house into modern fraternity quarters which are occupied by delta sigma phi renovate building new plumbing and wiring sys tems and new floors were instal led in this building and the rooms were redecorated the house will accomodate nearly 30 students the rooms in taylor and price halls were redecorated as usual furniture was added and the floors were refinished two drawing rooms and two laboratories were painted in pack ard laboratory and workmen be gan painting the interior of the whole building a job that is ex pected to take several summers the catalogue room of the library was also painted a total of 2,500 square feet of roads on the campus and 800 yards of the road above taylor stadium were resurfaced the property at the beta theta pi house was regraded and concrete steps added o retailers to hear haring albert haring associate profes sor of economics tomorrow morn ing will address the pennsylvania home service retail tea and cof fee merchants at the annual retail conference of pennsylvania re tailers to be held at penn state today and tomorrow professor haring will speak to the group on the subject of private brands psi upsilon phi gamma delta chi phi beta theta pi entered theives steal over 300 four fraternities were broken into last night and roboed oi 314 dollars of these fraternities beta theta pi chi phi phi gamma delta and psi upsilon beta theta pi was the highest loser having been robbed of 123 chi phi lost 57.50 psi upsilon 34 and phi gamma delta 99.50 of the 42 men in the four frater nities n h gowing i e 38 and head of the chi phi house was the greatest loser suffering a loss of 35 frank gonzales former varsity wrestler and an alumnus of beta theta pi spent yesterday and last night visiting his fraternity he was robbed of 16 during his visit the robbers seemed to be intent on money alone none of the fra ternities trophies or members watches and personal belongings were taken in their apparent haste the thieves overlooked an additional 107 in cash at the beta theta pi house these robberies seem to tie up with the fraternity robberies at lafayette college saturday after noon during the football game with upsala saturday several la fayette fraternity houses were entered and robbed of money and clothing the men from beta theta pi who were robbed are fred wood eng 40 26 d'arcy roper eng 40 12 william mcconnel eng 41 8 frank gonzales bus 36 16 william beveridge arts 39 17 william scott eng 41 12 william edwards eng 41 5 edward johnson m e 38 8 george dornin m e 38 2 mar cus wertz e e 39 5 charles houston eng 41 2 graham delany i e 40 1 and john i^agan e e 40 9 at the phi gamma delta house the men robbed are donald mar tin bus 40 4 george melloy eng 41 10 thomas habicht bus 39 19 david ginder arts 40 1.50 a s grant i e 39 4 edawrd smith eng 41 6 harry lescher eng 40 8 daniel mcaffe bus 41 3 george rheinfrank i e 39 7 robert taylor i e 39 16 grant stet son bus 39 4 john frey e e 39 10 frank stanley bus 38 harvey griffith eng 41 1 and h r bishop arts 39 1 n h gowing i e 38 lost 35 in the chi phi robbery others who were robbed are robert conrad eng phys 39 7 wil liam hamilton bus 39 1.50 george glueck eng 40 5 thomas hamall m e 39 1 the six psi upsilon men who were robbed are e m shoe maker i e 38 3.50 warren woodrich c e 38 1 george woelfel eng 41 50 a jenkin eng 41 2 f norton ch e 39 1 h brown i e 39 23 and al mahony bus 39 3 to present report 3 new faculty members 227 students receive scholastic averages better than 3.00 includes 72 freshmen eight men made straight a av erages for the second semester of last year according to the list re leased saturday by the registrar's office this is one more than the number who made perfect aver ages in the first semester of last year e h mount c e 37 e j broughal bus 37 t f jacoby ch e 38 e weiss e e 39 p palmer arts 39 e a lambert e e 39 i e lempert e e 39 and e m sharp eng 40 made the 4.00 averages broughal and lempert made a averages in both semesters a list of the 46 seniors 62 juniors 47 sophomores and 72 freshmen who made averages of 3.00 and better follow class of 1937 c b welch c e j b m cleeves bus w p patterson at e d t stevenson arts j d houck arts r m lord ch.e b k daubenspeck ch.e w bakker e.e c e lewis e e n j leonard chem j l walton met e t r brown e e m b lore chem g h colby bus h frank bus t e brookover ch e h s levenson ch e e h uhler arts r t craig met e w l doney i e a w stern arts w e thaimann arts n w taylor ch e r l schmoyer m e a b schwartzkopf m e g l bowden arts j c bogert e m j s lambert bus j drury arts g yanko arts s s paist e e m l jackson eng phys h w ahrenholz e m e r everitt bus j v fetterman ch e a r spalding i e h s ford arts h j tillapaugh arts r w boarman m e m w wolcott met e e r riter i e f p hochgesang ch e s b rawitz arts g c lee ch.e class of 1938 r f howe ch e m m simons chem g j reilly arts c f glick ch e w j schmidt ch e c h hoffman e e f e chapman ch e j r oberholtzer k e h p feigley arts j a weiden hammer m e w b ayers arts e m mahla met e n j palladino m e d g williams bus d b wheeler eng phys j parmet ch e s c bunce chem b r kelley arts w g dukek ch e j a conney e e w a rusch meyer bus c y haas ch e e h stone bus h r weaver bus g w getzoff bus j g ehlers ch e d w edwards arts h t mantis ch e f glenroy smith ch e r g phelps e m p j welch m e j h weigel i e r feilbach arts d crary e m d p j goldsmith ch e j s hoppock i e w b woodrich c e w b clark ch e v m brubaker e e a s ayer bus d w morrow bus w r graham e m f c tompkins ch e w h roadstrum e e d q marshall m e r a titlow arts j g mccleery bus v p edwardes m e c m allen bus m hindlin arts n m kennedy eng phys j ganz chem e c fleming bus t j ruhf ch e r j hertz arts c f smullin ch e h l hilton bus h g naisby ch e c e martinson ch e k j schatzlein ch e w g hempel bus class of 1939 n l morse ch e f c moesel ch e a s raff ch e c f brown arts g e hurst bus d w cooper e e n c hartman bus f l jackson e e e v mcdonough bus w m uhler arts j d saussaman met e h tanczyn met e j e patton ch e e e edwards bus f h burnett i e r c parsons met e g m reinsmith e e n w lewis ch.e e r l gaughran arts h a strohman m e a f jones m e v m white m e a c worsley ch e e c boh len ch e c g layman ch e n spil berg arts l c stoumen arts f h cly mer met e r w helwig ch e j a waldschmitt e.e j r bright m e f n kemmer ch e f f schafer bus j f hollister m e j e sutcliffe arts r b evans s e r h greenwell ch.e continued on page four anderson and hazlehurst modernize book a completely revised edition of the textbook qualitative an alysis used in chem 20 qual itative analysis was published sept 15 announced its authors h v anderson and t h hazle hurst assistant professors of chem istry the publisher is prentice hall inc of new york the text formerly used was written by professor anderson doctor hazlehurst and dr j s long former professor of inor ganic chemistry who is now chem ical director for devoe and rey nolds the new edition contains 280 pages 14 more than the old text the theoretical work has been completely revised and the contents have been rearranged in addition the work on pre cipation has been modernized and a different and more concise meth od of writing oxidation and re duction equations has been includ ed there have also been revisions in the material on acids and bases and in the organization of the schemes of analysis phi eta sigma will hold initial meeting tomorrow phi eta sigma national honor ary freshman scholastic society will hold its initial meeting at 7:45 p m wednesday in the packard lab oratory the most important bus iness will be that of choosing a number of prospects from the sophomore class of whom must have had an average of at least 3.5 for last semester following the routine business the society will hear an address by dr garth a howland head of the department of fine arts journalism society holds national convention at washington robert f herrick 34 assistant alumni secretary and editor of the alumni bulletin was elected grand vice president of pi delta epsilon honorary journalism fraternity at the fraternity's national conven tion saturday in washington d c the convention voted unani mously to admit women to mem bership which has been restricted to men since the fraternity's or ganization 28 years ago further actions to increase the scope of the fraternity and to revive more wide spread interest in it were taken by the convention including a reduction in initiation fees and revision of the national consti tution lehigh represented the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon was represented at wash ington by j palmer murphy arts 38 william g dukek ch e 38 carstens y haas ch e 38 and wiuet weeks jr arts 39 sessions were held at george washington university on friday afternoon and saturday morning friday evening the delegates were the guests of the host chapter at the george washington wake for est football game saturday noon president marvin of george wash ington at luncheon and saturday evening the convention banquet was held at the national press club other officers elected other national officers elected in addition to herrick were rob ert h macneil of virginia poly technic institute grand president and edward e macdonald of carnegie tech grand secretary treasurer herrick received his a b de gree in 1934 after majoring in journalism he was editor in chief of the brown and white in 1933 1934 after graduation he worked on newspapers in ohio for two years coming to lehigh in jan uary 1936 in addition to his al umni duties herrick is faculty adviser to the epitome he is a member of the alpha kappa pi social fraternity the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon met last night in christ mas-saucon hall and elected new members all men who submitted points are requested to remain in their houses from 5:30 to 6 o'clock tonight at which time the men elected will be tapped pledges will wear the traditional printer's cap until the initiation banquet which will be held at 7 p m thursday in the chi psi lodge o section e holds supper makes houseparty plans a get-acquainted supper was held by section e of taylor hall friday evening at haas restaur ant in allentown following the supper the section decided to have a houseparty as in other years the problem of securing a chaper one was discussed and referred to a committee this was the first of the monthly suppers that the section will hold during the year ewing will read paper at society meeting maurice ewing assistant pro fessor of physics will read a re port at the mid-winter meeting of the american geological society on his work during the past sum mer improving and constructing equipment for determining the nature of the ocean floor his report will deal largely with the engineering aspects of the work in which he was assisted by a c vine and n h webster graduate assistants in physics this episode in a program of submarine surveying was sponsored by the american geological society and the woods hole oceanographic in stitution the weather permitted only three operating days although three weeks of the summer were spent on the atlantic ocean south of cape cod from the records obtained from lowering the equip ment to the ocean floor it is pos sible for him to determine some thing of the nature of the bottom and the distance to solid rock university will dedicate memorials to emery drinker exercises in chapel four honorary thirteen baccal aureate and eight masters degrees will be awarded at the founder's day exercises at 10:30 a m tomor row in packer memorial chapel at this time dean c m mcconn will announce scholastic prizes and honors a tablet in memory of dr natt m emery former university comptroller will be un veiled and a tree will be planted in honor of dr henry sturgis drinker 71 late president em eritus dr albert g rau 88 dean of the moravian college for men will deliver the founder's day ad dress on the new frontier the board of trustees will meet in the afternoon and is expected to consider the construction of a new dormitory unit masters degrees the degree of master of arts will be awarded to blanche win gert lucas b s new york uni versity allentown and sadik m balkan b s robert college istanbul turkey majors in eng lish louise albright b a cedar crest college allentown and joyce elizabeth beary b a moravian college for women allentown majors in history and ernest floyd white a b al bright college bethlehem major in latin the degree of master of science major in bacteriology will be awarded to james plattenberger sell a b oberlin college beth lehem and alfred mohr web b a lehigh university allentown the degree of bachelor of arts will be awarded to robert louis bailey montclairs n j arthur mack seybold mountain lakes n j and frederick edward thal mann jersey city n j receive business degrees the degree of bachelor of sci ence in business adminstration will be awarded to irving thomp son klein staten island n v and merrill hornor wallace key port n j the degree of bachelor of science in chemical engineering will be awarded to allen went worth phillips washington d c g lloyd schoen atlanta ga and donald glenn van tilburg whar ton n j the degree of bachelor of sci ence will be awarded to john ger ald dwyer bethlehem chemistry joseph e fay west pittston in dustrial engineering earl purnell cooper coopersburg mechanical engineering and to john vladimir warinsky west new york n j mechanical engineering the degree of bachelor of sci ence in metallurgical engineering will be awarded to william henry gardner ell wood city louis ralph pennauchi burlington n j and jay gordon terry perkasie honored for average the list of freshman and soph omore honors awarded to those members of the classes of 1939 and 1940 who made an average grade of 3.00 or higher during the scholastic year 1936-1937 fol lows freshman honors bernard altshuler eng newark n j bernard berkowitz arts elizabeth n j william adrian blum eng bethlehem john branch eng nesquehoning william walter brown eng ilion n v louis john gottlieb buehler eng allentown william franklin carson jr eng phila delphia robert prentiss carter eng south orange n j richard frank clock eng kenmore n v alfred thomas cox eng new york n v carlton elmer creitz arts pen argyl william robert csellak enc bethlehem philip greenawalt dehuff eng lebanon wellington ballard eler eng trenton n j morgan campbell el mer eng rutherford n j richard charles gangwer eng allentown theodore bagnm gerber eng bethlehem stanley ellis gilinsky bus trenton n j louis george gitzendanner eng new york n.y robert ray godard eng pittsburgh rob ert charles good jr eng pittsburgh paul radcliffe gregory eng chapman quarries spencer ritner griffith eng lancaster norman hammer arts brooklyn n v william milton harbaugh jr eng allen town clifford budd heisler bus pember ton n j harold clifford hixson eng al lentown john jacob hursh jr eng beth continued on page four dr cledo brunetti instructor in electrical engineering paul j strayer instructor in economics clarence h danhof instructor in economics lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 5 1937 to present paper before historians elected vice president vol xlv no 3 wins engineering prize price — five cents former heads to be honored founder's day 8 men attain perfect rating last semester 4 fraternities are robbed during night concert series opens friday in high school member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first