Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 48

              trods the boards 170 attend soph banquet last evening vol xlvi — no 48 leila stoughton who is pictured above will appear in the leading feminine role in the mustard and cheese presentation of the pet rified forest on friday evening may 5 at liberty high school miss stoughton an actress in previous lehigh theatrical productions will portray gabby maple speech contest opens tonight by roy zachary rehearsals and final arrange ments are rapidly being completed for the mustard and cheese dra matic club's presentation of the petrified forest on friday night at liberty high school after the startling bursts of gun fire in the dramatic workshop's production of winterset the au dience should be prepared for any thing one machine gun and an as sortment of approximately 12 pis tols rifles and shot guns has been rounded up for use friday night although mr sherwood's play has a deceptive gloss of realism and vivid speech says the new york times it is at bottom warm ly sentimental though the plot has familiar aspects which can be seen through its modern dress mr sherwood decorates it with spark ling comments ranging over a var iety of topics from the american legion to french characteristics the author peoples a gas station at a lonely crossroads in arizona with a bankrupt writer who is bumming his way across the coun try and a gang of desperados who are fleeing from a bank hold-up the writer falls in love with the gas attendants daughter makes his will payable to her and then re quests that the gangster shoot him he hopes that by doing this he will be able to remove the girl from her surroundings and insure a future of happiness for her he believes that the petrified forest is symbolic of his place in the world a useless relic of a past age tickets for the play may be se cured at drown hall by students at no charge there are also non student tickets on sale for 25 50 and 75 cents o stuart to deliver paper by professor larkin a paper sabbatical leave by prof fred v larkin head of the mechanical and industrial engin eering department will be deliv ered on saturday by milton c stuart professor of mechanical en gineering at a meeting of the at lantic section of the society for the promotion of engineering educa tion at swarthmore college on sunday prof larkin as chairman of the committee on rela tions with colleges will go to cle veland to attend the annual alle ghenies meeting of the american society of mechanical engineers student conference cyanide list again revised principal changes occur in points allowed for publications further changes in the cyanide point system as published in fri day's brown and white were an nounced last night by alfred cox c e 40 president of the junior activities honorary society most of the alterations are in points for publications work because of the postponement of flag pole rally day points will be received by wallace p watkins bus 40 at chi psi until 6 p m tuesday may 16 in the original point system 5 points were offered for a letter in a minor sport cox points out that these sports should be labelled in formal sports as they are not offi cially recognized by the univer sity the publications points are com puted proportional to the system used by pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fraternity points will be offered only for the highest po sition in number of points reach ed by each candidate publications points follow brown and white financial manager 6 make-up editor 6 news editor 6 sports editor 6 editorial council 4 local adv assistant 3 circulation manager 2 photo editor 2 board members 1 review financial manager 5 advertising manager 8 circulation manager 3 photography editor 2 art editor 2 assistant circulation manager 1 epitome junior editor 6 advertising manager 4 circulation manager 3 board 2 handbook editorial manager 6 business board 3 o addresses blair alumni william sheridan wrestling coa ch addressed the annual dinner meeting of the lehigh valley alumni association of blair acad emy held friday night at the beth lehem club arcadia bans written ads by candidates also recommends changes in future election of cheerleaders approves six petitions arcadia last night approved a report of its elections committee calling for a disapproval of any form of written advertising in campaigns for class officers the cabinet met in drown hall the report also recommended that changes be made in the pres ent system of electing cheerlead ers although no changes were made last night arcadia will in vestigate possibilities for improve ment of these elections the majority of the provisions of the report were published in the brown and white for april 25 other changes included the en largement of living group divisions in order to make them numerically comparable also already in effect is the com mittee's ruling that all candidates for officers submit with their peti tions for election a list of the extra curricular activities and scholastic achievements albrecht committee chairman the committee was composed of george albrecht bus 39 chair man stuart lewis m e 39 eric weiss e e 39 and william ir win i e 39 in suggesting the ban upon pla cards and all forms of written ad vertising the committee reasoned that the practice might place a burden if once started upon all candidates this would cause fin ancial hardship for many of those trying for campus positions the committee tentatively pro posed the following system for the election of cheerleaders a mini mum eligibility requirement for competition would be set for all those wishing to achieve the office this bottom plane of competition would be worked out by the head cheerleader and a member of the faculty to be selected as adviser of the cheerleaders such a plan might possibly include a periodic class in cheerleading and a course in tumbling franc burnett i e 39 reported that the lost and found auction in drown hall netted 16.25 those clothes which were not disposed of will go into the old clothes drive to aid needy students burnett report ed also that this drive was a suc cess soph class officers greet speaker to take action on graduation faculty abolishes regular fee for make up examinations the senior class petition for out door graduation was referred to the committee on the standing of students by members of the facul ty at their monthly meeting yester day in the alumni memorial build ing the committee meets at 4 o'clock this afternoon to take ac tion on the plan favored by sen iors to hold commencement exer cises june 14 in taylor stadium at the meeting two rulings re garding make-up and re-examina tions were adopted in the case of re-examinations it was announced that an application accompanied by a fee must be field with regis trar george b curtis not later than august 1 at the same time a five dollar fee for regular make-up examinations was abolished stu dents however will be required to pay that amount for each subse quent examination after the first regular final or make-up examina tion in any course flag pole rally changed the faculty approved a petition to change the arcadia flag pole ral ly from friday may 12 to may 19 following the meeting the fac ulty club met in the faculty room drown hall and elected officers for next year those named to off ice were lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government president claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy secretary-treasurer and howard s leach librarian third member of the executive commit tee the new ruling in regard to re examinations as adopted by the faculty yesterday reads as follows in order to be admitted to a re examination in september a stu dent must file an application for such examination or examinations with the registrar not later than august 1 or in the case of stu dents receiving an e in the summer session courses within one week from the close of the summer ses sion and must at the same time send an advance payment of a fee of five dollars for each re-examina tion the student proposes to take extra-mural activities of the fa culty were announced when a list of writings of 15 faculty members was distributed at the meeting 36 attend banquet annual affair is held by brown and white staff thirty-six staff members faculty advisers and employees of the printer of the brown and white attended the annual banquet of the publication held friday night at shankweiler's hotel featured at the banquet was the distribution of the clown and gripo comic newspaper which dealt humorously with the affairs of those connected with the brown and white the paper was edited by eric weiss e.e.'39 he was as sisted by david hughes and carl fittkau arts 40 faculty advisers who spoke briefly after dinner complimented the staff on its work during the past year employees of the lehigh printing company and officers of the paper also spoke during the banquet charles sehaffer 39 pho tographic editor of the brown and white demonstrated the efficiency of his department with a display of under the table photographic re production easy access to flagpole is aim of class of 89 members of the class of 89 are getting too old to climb the terrac to the flag pole declared a spokes man for the class recently today steps are being erected in front of the flag pole which will be presented as a memorial to the university in conjunction with the class's 50th reunion in june dwight long recounts experiences during world cruise college songs are sung by jim binder last night the sophomore class sat around tables at the hotel bethlehem to nibble ham potatoes and peas and listen to captain dwight long seven seas on a shoestring and hear university big-wigs congratulate it on the first soph banquet in eight years that class spirit is not dead at lehigh was proved by the very good attendance close to 170 and the atmosphere of good fellowship which prevailed as the class of 41 rubbed shoulders and sang tradi tional lehigh songs after dinner hail the college and old silver goblet were sung under the leadership of willard a litzenberger arts 41 and donald r schoen class president intro duced the speakers following short remarks by president wil liams dean congdon prof how ard bosey reiter dr beardslee director of admissions smiley and glen w harmeson captain long the main speaker of the evening rose to deliver his informal talk long tells of adventures captain long a boyish young man of 25 spoke engagingly for an hour about his adventures which he encountered during four year's sailing in a 32-foot ketch the boys sat on the edge of their chairs vis ibly stirred out of their sophomoric calm as he nonchalantly recounted stories of hurricanes cannibalism malaria and head-hunters he prefaced his talk with the re mark out of hundreds of small boats that start out each year with ambitions of sailing around the world less than ten have ever been successful according to the law of averages i should not be standing here alive meets will rogers he went on to tell of the begin ning of his trip his meeting with will rogers and ex-president hoo ver and how his plans came lose to being wrecked when his boat the idle hour barely escaped destruction as a tidal wave surged through san francisco harbor he sailed to tahiti where he met nordhoff and hall the co-authors of mutiny on the bounty he vis ited an island inhabited by a half caste tribe which at one time had to resort to cannibalism in order to stave off starvation he lived for a time with head-hunters in new guinea where a boy was not con sidered a man until he had ac quired the head of an enemy he was detained off the coast of spain suspected of being a would-be as sassin of general franco he inter spersed his adventurous tales with the story of his tahitian boy-com panion who finally died of malaria in columbo after lustily applauding captain long the sophs sang the alma mater and thus the evening closed an evening which should result in a renewed interest in the good old custom of class get-togethers 450 at conference anthracite conclave here friday and saturday the anthracite that still re mains in pennsylvania contains as much potential heat energy as all the petroleum that has been pro duced in the entire world up to the present time plus the world's known reserves of petroleum ob lained by pumping and flowing thus dr h j rose senior in dustrial fellow of the mellon in stitute of industrial research opened his paper at the second anthracite conference held at le high friday and saturday the conference was opened at 10:00 o'clock friday morning by prof howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining and chair man of the committee on arrange ments of the engineering confer ence dr clement c williams president of the university deliv ered the welcome address to ap proximately 450 men williams extempore meet to begin at 7 p m in packard auditorium the williams extempore speak ing contest for 1939 will begin this evening at 7 o'clock in packard auditorium as nine freshmen and 14 upper classmen begin competi tion for the prize money offered to the best speakers in each of the class groups this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock the entrants met to draw subjects on which to speak and also to draw for positions all of tonight's speeches will be unrehearsed pres entations selections for contestants in the final round of the contest on may 10 will rest upon the decisions of the judges in the freshman contest each speaker will be allowed to talk for six minutes and in the up per class bracket each is allowed eight minutes speaking time all judges in tonight's contest are members of the department of english judging the freshman en tries will be messrs ellerman gertz winship and kost for the other division drs severs sloane green and woods will act as judg es j calvin callaghan director of debating who has been in charge of all plans for the contest will act as judge in both branches of tonight's contest the names of the junior and senior contestants are as follows j m baiz arts 39 j e sutcliff arts 39 w r clark e e 40 f e galbraith jr chem 40 b a smith bus 40 w d turner jr bsu 40 a e porter jr bus 40 r g scoblionko arts 39 j v mcguire e e 40 l c stoumen arts 39 l h dudman bus 39 r f koenig met e 40 c f car rier i e 39 n l morse ch e 40 and c h hearsey bus 40 the freshman contestants are w s shuttleworth bus p b georgopulo eng a w foster bus c e henderson eng g h leach arts f b mayer arts w j meikle arts j h polinsky arts and j f beers jr arts annual spring dance held by woman's club the lehigh university woman's lub held its annual spring danes saturday night in drown hall mrs g d harman and mrs r c bull members of the hostess committee w?re in charge the receiving line was composed of the officers of the club who are as follows mrs c c williams honorary president mrs h m ullman president mrs wray h congdon first vice president mrs j b reynolds second vice presi dent mrs r d billinger corres ponding secretary mrs francis trembley recording secretary and mrs adelbert ford treasurer elections will be held in drown hall tomorrow from 8 to 6 p m town president chosen arcadia delegate at large to be selected from field of 6 men four juniors five sophomores and five freshmen will have their names on the ballots for the class elections which will be held tomor row from 8 a m until 6 p m in drown hall under the supervision of the election committee in addition to the class officers the delegate at large to arcadia will be selected from the six can didates whose names will be made known on the ballots tomorrow the only candidate for the position of president of the town council norman l morse was declared elected last night by the elections committee also to be elected is the head cheerleader from a group of five tomorrow there will be 25 can didates on the ballots to fill a total of five positions after the elections the ballots will be turned over to dr claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy who with a faculty assist ant of his own choice will count the ballots they will be assisted by one member of each of the three students governing bodies the result of the elections will be published in the friday issue of the brown and white the following is a list of the can didates their activities and their sponsors class of 1940 alfred t cox c e cox is a member of omicron delta kappa senior honorary ac tivities society cyanide junior honorary activities society tau beta pi national honorary engin eering scholastic fraternity scab bard and blade national honorary military society and pi mv epsi lon honorary mathematics society he was president of the junior class sophomore representative to the lehigh union and is president of delta sigma phi fraternity he is football captain for next year and a member of the basketball and baseball teams his scholastic average is 3.6 his sponsors are the following albert j collins bus walter r catching c e ; richard f fincke bus clifford b heis'ei bus joseph l matteson bus john 1 mcfadrien fsus ; john w mcquillin m k ; robert r merwin bus ; herbert k llitlww sen ch e ; kdwanl i i'hl ing phys philip r van duyne jr e e van duyne is president of kappa alpha fraternity a member of the lacrosse team his scholastic ave rage is 1.42 his sponsors are the tooomimg cheater c baldwin i e ; robert p carter ch 10 maynnrd l diamond arts charles f mi chell c x ; otto v xorvif i x ; tlfll m roberts jr arts willard m sicily h e ; kdward w stoehr i e ; jarne.s m walton i e david l'homirujdieu mrt.k fred e galbraith jr chem galoraith is editorial manager of the brown and white editor-in chief elect for the second semester member of the intercollegiate de bating squad member of delta omicron theta honorary debating society member of pi delta epsi lon honorary journalism frater nity he is section chief elect of section a taylor hall his scho • lastic average is 2.32 his sponsors are the following norman l morse ch e ; bernard f tripp jr i x ; thomas e ricketts ch e ; john e decher jr ch e ; michael r durochik ch e ; n'onnan a shane ch e ; warren f saw yer ch e ; gilbert d cardwt •:!, k e ; gordon e tait m e ; bernard berkov itz arts douglas c paul bus paul is a member of scabbard and blade honorary military soci ety and a member of the hockey and lacrosse teams he was also in freshman and junior varsity r->st!ing his average is 1.2 his sponsors are the following edward f dannemiller bus william t luce bus vernon s gray jr met e ; robert i coleman bus harry j wenck bag george b motheral bus david r oinder continued on page four captain dwight long globe-trotter and sopho more banquet speaker discusses his world travels i with class president donald r schoen and secre < tary treasurer augustus a riemondy brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 2 1939 price — five cents petrified forest 9 to be given at liberty high school friday 14 are candidates for class offices member intercollegiate 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