Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 50

              hastings w watkins price — five cents 425 attend sub-froshday quired leila stoughton's portrayal of gabby maple never quite got un der way she labored under the same difficulty as carrington the part was too much for her how ever in some places she emerged from her too static delivery to re veal some very fine moments of dramatic intensity nevertheless on the whole she eclipsed the sense of the embryonic un-com plexed genius torn between reality and romanticism the most honest performance in the whole cast was given by john franks as boze hertzlinger he played with an excellent grasp of his role the seduction of gabby which might have easily developed into crudity was done with a nice balance of delicacy and animal passion the role of the minor characters were within the collegiate scope and were very well played ann ellis as the socalite who lost all her inhibitions with several shots of liquor was excellent harry gun nison played his part with pro fessional ease by james k binder the admittedly difficult roles in robert sherwood's petrified for est prevented the non-profession al cast of mustard and cheese from delivering a performance of fine calibre friday night it seems too bad that an inferior production should follow the very excellent rendition of winterset the demands on the actors were very great and unfortunately they failed to meet them the actors in general missed the delicate nuances of the lines and the climaxes were either com pletely ignored or under-played the love scenes between gabby and alan appeared to be done without a grasp of the strange elec tric love that sherwood intended in his lines the interpretation leaned to the on-the-surface side malcolm carrington as alan squire was clearly mistyped he gave the impression of struggling with a part that was much over his head his characterization of the tragic artist was rather color less and he seemed to slide over the rich innuendos that his part re dean explains discipline rule pi k a wins singing cup speech finals due tomorrow 300 witness contest held outdoors sub freshman day pi kappa alpha survived the final round in the living group sing ing contest when the judges named it the winner over two other final ists in the contest held saturday afternoon before a sub-freshmen day crowd of 300 persons during the program the band played sev eral selections singing from a platform con structed in front of the main en trance to packard laboratory 13 vocalists from the winning fra ternity sang three selections two of them lehigh songs the songs were campus dreams university hymn and vive l amour competing with pi kappa alpha for possession of the cup donated by the lehigh club of new york sponsors of the contest were psi upsilon and section b of the town group bob herrick editor of the alumni bulletin presented each singing group to the audience g r macdonald 19 president of the lehigh club of new york awarded the cup students present from 5 states ; williams welcomes group approximately 425 students from high schools and academies throughout new jersey new york connecticut maryland and east ern pennsylvania attended the annual sub-freshman day on sat urday at an assembly held at 11:00 a m in packard auditorium presi dent c c williams welcomed the prospective lehigh men and dean wray h congdon outlined the pro gram of the day an instrumental ensemble gave several selections immediately following the as sembly the guests conferred with the heads of the curricula fea tured in the afternoon were dem onstrations and exhibits offered by the various departments the afternoon's activities inclu ded track baseball and tennis a concert by the university band a tea for parents given by the fac ulty women's club and tours of the campus under the direction of the members of the sub-freshman day committee o ask drown hall petitions franc h burnett i e 39 presi dent of arcadia announced that organizations who desire room in drown hall submit petitions that effect winners of living group singing contest williams prize extempore contest to start at 8 in packard auditorium the final round of the williams prizes extempore speaking contest will begin at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in packard auditorium four freshmen and eight upper classmen will be competing for the 155 in prize money offered to the two top men in each division j calvin callaghan instructor in speech who is directing the con test announced that drawings for topics and positions will be held tomorrow afternoon between 2:30 and 3:15 p m in room 211 of christmas-saucon hall finalists in the freshmen bracket of the contest are jesse f beers arts richard m foster eng charles e henderson eng and john r polinsky arts in the upper class group will be john-karl m baiz arts 39 courtland f carrier 111 i e 39 robison clark arts 39 l hen derson dudman bus 39 john v mcguire e e 40 norman l morse ch e 40 raphael g sco blionko arts 39 and john e sut cliffe arts 39 medals trophies are presented to winning groups individuals lafayette majors here the twelfth annual field day competitions and military review of the lehigh r o t c unit was held yesterday afternoon on the lower field before a crowd of 1000 the inspection was in charge of lt col george c donaldson infantry u s a the official representative of the commanding general of the third corps area he was accomp anied by majors george r hedge and john w mott both of lafay ette college approximately 960 cadets took part in the program which includ ed the manual of arms elimination contest platoon drill competition machine gun competition the one pounder 37mm gun competition a medicine ball relay race and a company drill competition hearst trophy given the program was climaxed by the presentation of trophies and medals to the outstanding groups and individuals among these was the presentation of the william randolph hearst trophy to the le high rifle team for placing third in the third corps area section the presentation was made by mr alexander gifford of the balti more news-post awards given following are the awards made society sons of the american revolution medals lor excellence in theoretical and practical work and outstanding leadership qualities thomas e bogert met e 39 2nd year adv infan try john d saussaman met 39 2nd year adv ordnance carl h richardson arts 40 ist year adv infantry william r csellak ch e 40 ist year adv ordnance ; charles f kalmbach m e 41 2nd year basic henry j olson eng 42 ist year basic set of second lieutenant's insignia for leadership and value to the r 0 t c robert p mcquail bus 39 2nd year ad vanced infantry and james r bright i e 39 2nd year advanced ordnance scabbard and blade sabres for leader ship and value to the r o t c alfred t cox c e 40 ist year adv infantry edward g uhl eng phys 40 ist year adv ordnance these awards were made by cadet captain grant b stetson bus 39 army medals presented army ordnance association medals for scholastic standing and interest in ord nance affairs ashley c worsley ch e 39 2nd year adv ordnance william b continued on page four h.w watkins dies in jump of 3 stories coroner's report states that death was by suicide study worries^blamed hastings w watkins i e 41 died sunday afternoon from injur ies received when he jumped from the third floor porch on the east side of delta sigma phi he suc cumbed at 2:35 p m in st luke's hospital where it was found he had sustained a broken neck fractured skull and several broken ribs according to the report of cor oner w calvin nickel death was by suicide an empty iodine bottle was found on the landing from which watkins leaped a regional scholarship winer watkins appar ently worried about maintaining his scholastic rating his mother younger brother and an aunt arrived on the campus shortly after the accident to attend delta sigma phi parents day watkins home is in barahona dominican republic and his moth er had not seen him for two years the group was rushed to st luke's immediately upon arrival they reached watkins bedside a few moments before he died taken to hospital watkins was discovered uncon scious by a fraternity brother robert w thompson ch e 39 lying face down partly on the lawn and partly on the concrete walk on the east side of the frater nity house thompson called al fred t cox c e 40 house presi dent and the injured student was rushed to the hospital where he was admitted at 12:57 p m john r torren bus 41 drove watkins and cox to the hospital the last person believed to have seen watkins prior to the accident was ralph e martin ch e 40 who passed through the room and said that watkins appeared to be studying watkins was missing for about an hour before he was discovered but nothing was thought of this be cause the parents day group at the fraternity necessitated a double serving at dinner win regional scholarship watkins came to lehigh from caldwell high school caldwell n j in 1937 after he had been awar ded a full competitive scholarship he was enrolled in the curriculum of industrial engineering and be came a member of delta sigma phi fraternity last year at that time he was also a member of the brown and white business staff besides his mother and father mr and mrs frederick h wat kins he is also survived by a bro ther ted and a sister mary definite funeral arrangements will not be made until mr wat kins arrives from the dominican republic hold joint dance nearby schools lehigh combine for program approximately 400 people atten ded the concert and dance of the combined glee clubs of lehigh ce dar crest lafayette and moravian college for women saturday even ing at packer memorial chapel the concert was followed by dan cing in drown hall until 1 : 00 a m in the program were included solos by two members of the glee club and three selections by the triple trio from moravian the four glee clubs combined to open the evening's singing and to close the program williams discusses nya at eastern conference president clement c williams led a discussion of general ad ministrative problem of the na tional youth administration with in the institutions at a conference of officials of colleges and univer sities of eastern pennsylvania held recently in philadelphia the conference which is meeting at the invitation of the university of pennsylvania discussed the student aid activities of the na tional youth administration says recent suspension for intoxication is no cause for alarm despite the recent suspension of a senior for intoxication dean wray h congdon issued a state ment today stating that students should not be fearful of precipi tous action before there has been further discussion on university policy this further action dean said will not under present cir cumstances be forthcoming the dean's statement sought to clarify student opinion on the question of how the suspension of a student applies to the university regulations stating that any stu dent guilty of intoxication is liable to suspension and university policy that each living group has a cer tain responsibilty for the behavior of its members the living group of the senior who is suspended from the time his last examination until founder's day was not put on so cial probation cites two alternatives in his statement to the brown and white dean congdon said the disciplinary committee rec ognizes that in any government of students there are two alterna tives student self government au thority or police power of the ad ministration the tradition at le high is to urge as much student government as possible the com mittee feels that perhaps students are not fully aware that self gov ernment means self discipline where any living group does take responsibilities of self disci pline it should not expect freedom of self government at present the committee on discipline is merely enunciating general policy and is not pretending to outline at this time the details for putting this policy into operation o psychologist to speak on ghosts henry mccomas to be sponsored by sigma xi henry clay mccomas author and psychologist will present an open lecture on ghosts i have talked with at 8 p m on fri day in packard auditorium the lecture is being sponsored by sig ma xi honorary research society according to professor pres ton b carwille secretary of the so ciety mccomas will debunk the ghost stories that are supposed to be true mccomas has been a lecturer in psychology at johns hopkins since 1928 from which he graduated in 1897 mr mccomas has written a number of books in 1911 he wrote some types of attention and in 1912 the psychology of religious sects the aviator was written in 1921 and his latest work ghosts i have talked with which was written in 1935 will be in the main the subject of his lec ture shown above are the members of the group from pi kappa alpha who won the cup awarded by the lehigh alumni club for the best group singing among lehigh living groups reading left to right are the following c william freed gilbert curtiss edward b annett conference on saturday to cover all phases of news writing will interview congdon eight round-table discussions of school publications problems will be featured in the 6th annual lie high scholastic press conference io be held on the campus saturday the conferences which will be gin at 1:45 p m will cover the topics of general news writing editorial writing headlines and makeup sports writing magazine writing mimeographed publica tions faculty advisers and busi ness advisors and business staff problems dean congdon will be inter viewed by donald r schoen arts 41 during the discussion of gen eral news writing which will be presided over by thrasher t gray arts 39 other feautres of this dis cussion will be talks by gray who will speak on complete cover ages howard m conner aits 40 whose topic will be news feat ures charles b cole ch e 41 who will discuss writing the lead and charles f kalmbach m e 41 who will give some newspaper style hints to lead discussion during a round table discussion of editorial writing which will be presided over by willet weeks arts 39 the talks will include writing the editorial by weeks the exchange column by eric weiss e e 39 columns and features for the editorial page by frank kemmer ch e 40 and trends in editorial page makeup by fred e galbraith ch e 40 the conference on headlines and makeup under the direction of henry t s heckman arts 39 will include the following talks makeup and typography by heckman type devices by mil ton spilberg arts 39 and what's in a headline by charles b seib arts 41 glen w harmeson director of athletics and football coach will be interviewed by carl r fittkau arts 40 during the conference on sports writing which will be pre sided over by charles j moravec assistant in journalism other fea tures will include what to look for in covering sports by charles reilly sports editor of the easton express how to write a sports story by willard g histand m e 39 and the sports vocabul ary by roy s zachary arts 41 sloane to talk writing the magazine story by eugene sloane assistant profes sor of english and editing your magazine to sell by robert f herrick editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin will be the talks feautred during the discussion of magazine writing during the conference on mim eographed publications which will be presided over by j calvin cal laghan instructor in english an thony r carcione arts 41 will talk on newspaper style hints herman j baumann bus 39 will discuss writing the lead and the paramount business service will give a demonstration dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism will preside over the conference of faculty ad visers during which dr alan o dech former director of curricu lum revision 61 the pennsylvania department of public instruction will speak on the state depart ment of public instruction and school journalism the high school principal looks at publica tions will be the subject of a talk by clarence e boyer principal of boonton high school while j w beattie faculty adviser of the mirror at palmerton high school will speak on the faculty advis er looks at publications executives on the business staff on the brown and white will pre sent various phases of business management of student publica tions at the model business meeting planned for this group the com plete program for the conference will be available on wednesday william l davey frank e harper george f salathe r carter wells paul m tanis robert i felch richard r walling in rear charles f plate thomas a mostyn and herbert vonhof , who acted as leader vol xlvi no 50 junior prom statement petrified forest 9 too difficult for amateur cast says critic bethlehem pa tuesday may 9 1939 suicide victim press meeting will feature 8 discussions 1000 watch r.o.t.c unit on field day lehigh university brown and white according to albert j collins bus 40 chairman of the junior prom committee 1248 people attended the dance held at dor ney park on the friday eve ning of houseparty weekend following is the official account of expenditures released by collins which has been audited and approved by dean cong don receipts 610 couples at 4.40 2,684.00 28 stags at 2.20 61.60 miscellaneous 45 2,746.05 expenditures orchestra 1,600.00 dorney park rental 75.00 police services 10.00 corsages 4.50 tickets and posters 9.00 advertising 78.25 ticket taker and seller 20.00 commitee chairman 50.00 2 members at 25.00 50.00 100.00 insurance 30.00 programs 74.80 miscellaneous 2.85 federal tax 249.60 2,254.00 profit $ 492.05 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612