Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 31

              latest bulletin has 104 pages courtesy bethlehem globe-times president c c williams a w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds and c £. mcdonald construction foreman shown sealing records in the stone 23 awards to be made to debate at exchange club col leonard announces appointments of 64 military officers are effective feb 28 lt col j s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics has just announced the appointments of cadet officers for the lehigh regiment of r o t c these appointments will be effective until these officers grad uate the following promotions and assignments of cadet officers are announced and will be effective feb 28 regimental commander col m s lord ch e 38 regimental executive officer lt col r r winters bus 38 battalion com mander ist battalion major w a sheppard i e 38 battalion commander 2nd battalion major j s hoppock i e 38 battalion commander 3rd battalion major w i schmidt ch e 38 regi mental adjutant major w d lucas ch e 38 regimental staff capt w h roadstrum e e 38 battalion adjutant ist battalion ist lt f h reuwer met e 38 battalion adjutant 2nd battalion ist lt h r imbt ch e 38 battalion adjutant 3rd aßttalion ist lt e h stone bus 38 company officers appointed company a captain l o travis bus 38 first lt f c tompkins ch e 38 second lieu tenants r l ware m e 39 c d couch bus 38 c f smul lin ch e 38 k j cchatzlein ch e 38 company b captain f b bayer bus 38 first lieutenant f s nelson i e 38 second lieutenants w g dukek chem 38 h r bishop arts 39 d n stern arts 38 h j mack arts 38 company c captain e c fleming bus 38 first lieutenant d w edwards arts 38 second lieutenants r w zachary arts 38 n j palladino m e 38 j h pittenger bus 38 a s briggs arts 39 company e captain a c crane bus 38 first lieutenant r g phelps e m 38 second lieutenants r a titlow arts 38 h d ferris eng phys 39 j c connor ch e 38 r a dean i e 38 company f captain w f boucher arts 38 first lieuten ant p j welch m e 38 second lieutenants g a goetz e e silver anniversary issue is biggest published by alumni office by c f kalmbach late in october of 1913 just after alumni work had begun on a national scale henry scovil alumni secretary of the university had the idea that lehigh alumni could be a better informed group if some publication were available to bring the latest events of the campus to their attention at reg ular intervals it was then the first number of the lehigh alumni bulletin made its appearance as a 12 page pamphlet today twenty-five years later a 104-page silver anniversary num ber with a five color cover photo graphs and inside color came off the press the 3,500 copies each emblazoned with a picture of the alumni memorial building from a photo by shang-shoa young re search fellow in metallurgical en gineering took one month to pub lish this bulletin one of the largest magazines ever published in the alumni field in america contains contributions from six alumni ten students and one guest editor sailor extends greeting r w sailor president of the american alumni council sends the greeting of the council on the first page and expresses a feeling of gratitude for lehigh and the alumni bulletin for the work done by lehigh personalities in the twenty-five years of progress in alumni work in this country continued on page four university places letters in new dormitory cornerstone studentßody contributes letters from alumni members of the administration and stu dents and copies of university publications were included in the copper box sealed yesterday morn ing in the cornerstone of the new dormitory richards house president c c williams and a w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds were pres ent as the stone bearing the in scription a d 1938 was put into place the letters were written by eugene g grace president of the board of trustees walter r oke son secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees dr charles russ richards president emeritus of the university president c c williams william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association there were also statements by joseph a hopkins bus.'3b pres ident of the interfraternity coun cil john s hoppock i e 38 president of omicron delta kappa senior honorary activities frater nity and john cooney e e 38 president of tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity university register included the publications included were the lehigh university register for 1937-38 the charter and regula tions 1937 the directory includ ing the trustees administrative officers faculty and students for 1937-38 three issues of the brown and white a circular about the dormitories announcements of re gional scholarships and financial aid of scholarships and several pamphlets the copies of the brown and white included were the constitu tion issue of dec 10 1937 and is sues of feb 8 and 11 1938 what about college how about en gineering the college of lib eral arts education for busi ness by their works what lehigh offers and journalism as a career are the titles of the pamphlets sealed in the box commenting on the dormitory president williams stated the charles russ richards house at th opening of crystal spring ra vine will afford unusually attrac tive living quarters for 140 lehigh students it has been designed educationally as well as archi tecturally and will be an instru mentality of cultural development as well as a place of abode military dance to include coronation of queen pictures by life will be given march 5 a saber drill and military for mation conducted by the officers of the r o t c unit will pre cede the crowning of the queen of the constitutional ball sponsored by scabbard and blade honorary military society on friday march 5 at the national guard armory major frederick w adams as sistant professor of military sci ence and tactics is organizing the saber drill on the order of those practiced by the officers of the virginia military institute where major adams was located prior to his transfer to lehigh the military formation will be part of the grand entrance of the candidates for the queen of the ball from vassar college pough keepsie n v moravian college and seminary for women cedar crest college and beaver college jenkintown life will attend life magazine is planning to take photographs of the scenes at the ball according to a letter re ceived by robert s porter jr arts 39 the honor guests of the ball are president and mrs c c williams mr and mr eugene grace and colonel and mrs j s leonard in addition to members of the lehigh military faculty and their wives the military guests will in clude col and mrs c j smith lt col and mrs c c curtis lt col and mrs harry a hall lt col and mrs e g metzger major and mrs c j herzer maj or and mrs m b goodyear maj or and mrs g r hedge and cap tain and mrs l c atwood patrons patronesses the patrons and patronesses in vited to attend the ball include mayor and mrs robert pfeifle senator and mrs w g barthold mr and mrs vernon melhado mr and mrs francis dykes judge and mrs herbert f laub judge and mrs w m mckeen congressman and mrs f e wal ter congressman and mrs c m frey also u s attorney and mrs j cullen geney bishop and mrs f sterrett mr and mrs h s snyder mr and mrs russel k laros mr and mrs harold b farquahar mr and mrs harry k trend mr leo r mclntyre and members of the bethlehem constitutional sesqui - centennial celebration committee continued on page four the alumni bulletin through twenty-five years glee club chorus presents concert university to appoint graduates to places in research president c c williams an nounced yesterday that on may 1 the university will make appoint ments to 23 research fellowships and graduate scholarships two fellowships are provided by the henry marison byllesby mem orial endowment created in mem ory of col h m byllesby 75 these are for the period of two academic years with an annual stipend of 750 half of the time of the fellowship holders must be de voted to research work on some problem in electrical mechanical or hydraulic engineering the oth er half to graduate study leading to the degree of master of science two more fellowships are pro vided by a bequest of james ward packard 84 these awards to re search fellows in electrical and me chanical engineering include an annual payment of 600 for a per iod of two academic years hold ers of the packard fellowship will also devote half their time to re search seven men will receive william c gotshall scholarships these are appointments of one year with a stipend of 500 they are for grad uate study in any branch of en gineering twelve university scholarships will be awarded they are ap pointments for one year with ex emption from payment of tuition fee sibley addresses astronomical club student mean is high alpha kappa pi is leader among fraternities with 2.187 leonard hall again topped the scholastic rankings of living groups last semester according to figures released yesterday by the regis trar's office although the 2.403 average was lower than that of the first semester of last year it was high enough to beat out price hall and section e of taylor hall which were second and third on the list the allentown group which dis placed leonard hall from the first position two years ago slipped to fourth place with a 2.206 and the highest fraternity was alpha kap pa pi with an average of 2.187 the all fraternity average drop ped 003 from the average of last february and the average of all non-fraternity men was raised by 032 the figure for the entire uni versity was raised from 1.866 last february to 1.8901 the seniors and sophomores suc ceeded in raising their average over their mark of the first sem ester of last year the freshmen remained the same and the juniors dropped 046 theta delta chi rose above the minimum fraternity average of 1.60 with a 1.629 average not since the first semester of 1934-35 have six fraternities received be low 1.60 seven houses fell below this mark in that semester the rankings are as follows scholastic rank of living groups first semester 1937-3s rank average living group i 2.403 leonard hall 2 2.362 price hall 3 2.237 taylor hall section £ 2.206 allentown group 2.196 all seniors 4 2.187 alpha kappa pi 5 2.186 tau delta phi 6 2.147 sigma phi 7 2.087 taylor hall section d 2.083 all dormitories 2.036 all juniors 8 2.011 sigma alpha mv 2.008 all non-fraternity mci 1.988 town group 9 1.963 pi lambda phi 10 1.948 phi delta theta ii 1.931 taylor hall section b 12 1.902 sigma phi ipsilon 13 1.893 theta xi 1.8901 entire university 14 1.8900 delta tau delta 15 1.874 taylor hall section a 16 1.862 taylor hall section c 17 1.841 psi upsilon 18 1.838 chi psi 19 1.829 beta kappa 20 1.821 delta upsilon 21 1.783 lambda chi alpha 22 1.778 delta sigma phi 1.767 all fraternity men 1.760 all sophomores 1.757 all freshmen 23 1.738 phi sigma kappa 4 1.720 ii kappa alpha 25 1.681 sigma chi 26 1.670 sigma nu 27 1.640 phi gamma delta 28 1.639 theta kappa phi 29 1.629 theta delta chi 30 1.616 kappa alpha si 1.593 alpha tau omega 2 1.580 chi phi 88 1.542 beta theta pi o4 1.450 kappa sigma is 1.441 alpha chi he •'.« 1.420 delta phi will hold smoker forensic team to argue negative of question on labor board the varsity debating squad will meet muhlenberg college on fri day before the bethlehem ex change club lehigh will take the negative side of the question re solved that the national labor relations board should be em powered to enforce arbitration of all industrial disputes fred e galbraith jr ch e 40 will present the constructive case and state the position of the negative carl fittkau met e 40 will be the second negative speak er for lehigh each team will be allowed a nine minute construc tive speech and a five minute re buttal first of two debates this debate is to be the first of two which will be presented be fore service clubs the next will be presented before members of the rotary club on wednesday march 9 the speakers for this debate will be warren ache eng 40 and henry werner eng 40 on monday march 14 another debate will be presented before the members of the bethlehem exchange club the audience will ballot on the question before and after the de bate in an attempt to determine what shift of opinion will take place plans for the intercollegiate for um to be sponsored on april 11 are underway douglas edwards arts 38 is acting as chairman of the committee on arrangements and is being assisted by warren ache met e 40 and russel kow alyshn arts 40 the subject will be rearmament and peace four colleges invited the forum will be presided over by lt col leonard head of the department of military science and tactics four eastern colleges have been invited to the forum at a recent meeting of delta omi cron theta honorary debating society d q marshall m e 38 was elected to be lehigh repre sentative at the discussion o ewing presents paper depicting new zeophone dr maurice ewing assistant professor of physics presented a paper on a new zeophone at a meeting of the american institute of mining and metallurgical en gineers thursday afternoon in new york city the paper contained a descrip tion of the technical details of the apparatus used last summer by dr ewing in his experiments at the bottom of the ocean and was writ ten jointly with allyn c vine graduate assistant in physics employs motion pictures to illustrate lecture how the moon would look from a hundred miles away was re vealed by ruroy sibley through motion pictures friday evening in packard auditorium sibley s lecture was sponsored by the e w brown astronomical society the speaker covered the whole field of heavenly bodies he stated that the pictures were taken through the mt wilson telescope the largest in the world it has a 100 inch lens and reaches out 500,000,000 miles into space he showed how an eclipse of the sun made it possible to study sun spots and their strange ex plosive power the pictures of the moon brought the mountains val : leys and craters of the moon with in recognizable distance and were explained by the speaker o gramley to address club dale h gramley professor of ! journalism will speak on journ ialism yesterday and today at \ the next meeting of the moravian i men's club william todd 40 soloist at recital in chapel selections by the special chorus of the university glee club and tenor solos by william b todd arts 40 were featured in the third concert of the semester given by tone honorary musical society sunday afternoon in packer mem orial chapel about 70 persons at tended the recital four solos were sung by todd una furtiva lagrima by doni zetti i attempt from love's sick ness to fly by purcell who is sylvia by schubert and a dream by bartlett donald r schoen arts 41 program director of the society accompanied the solos the special chorus sang six numbers now let every tongue adore thee from the cantata sleepers wake by bach mem ories by lehar we sail the ocean blue by sullivan farm er's son so sweet by purcell student logic then and now by smith and precious wee one by forsyth the accompan ist was raymond k maneval bus 38 next sunday's concert will con sist of trumpet solos by h r beucler bus 40 violin solos by f c moesel ch e 39 and baritone solos by e m mahla arcadia will sponsor rally for student body a smoker prior to the perm state wrestling meet will be spon sored by arcadia student govern ing body at 7:30 o'clock friday evening in taylor gymnasium billy sheridan coach of the brown and white wrestlers and dick bishop arts 38 captain of the team will give short talks walter okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees may also be present to give a short pep talk the last smoker for the wrestl ing team was held four years ago preceding the national collegiate wrestling meet and the present re ! vival may be extended so that i there will be a smoker preceding the princeton meet the above photo taken from the current edition ; of the lehigh alumni bulletin shows several steps in the progress of the magazine over the period of j 25 years above left is the cover of the silver anniversary edition which is published today featured by a sil ver and four color cover design below and to the right is an issue typical of the small format of the publication as it was printed during the war period and showing several pictures of lehigh alumni in the war to the lower left is the specially designed futuristic cover featured in the late 1920's and be low right an inside lay-out of the format de signed by mr buchanan when he first became editor cornerstone of richards house is laid bethlehem pa tuesday february 22 1938 vol xlv no 31 price — five cents leonard hall tops scholarship ratings formation and drill will be ball features seal records in metal box for posterity melvin lord named head of rotc unit lehigh university brown and white 6 fraternities fall below 1.60 average theta delt rises above fraternity ball report shows 142.09 profit income from the sale of tickets 2559.00 expenditures music corporation of america and dorsey lhoo.oo dorney park 175.00 federal tax 244.16 decorations 60.00 maid parkers doormen police 40.00 committee 20.c0 printing 4.25 advertising 28.c0 miscellaneous — corsages tele phone telegraph and floor committee 45.50 totnl expenditures 2416.91 tot profits $ 142.09 respectfully submitted henry g naisby treas all the i lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612