Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 54

              fred e galbraith jr to recommend lewis editor howard j lewis arcadia elects fred galbraith to presidency price — five cents cyanide picks new leaders banquet features address on honorary societies by dean stoughton beardslee is re-elected wallace p watkins bus 40 was elected president of omicron delta kappa honorary senior acti vities society on sunday night at the saucon valley country club other officers elected at the banquet were morgan c elmer arts 40 vice-president and don ald r luster m e 40 treasurer dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy was re-elected secretary and faculty adviser for a four year term it was decided to put out a re vised folder on the o d k point list for the benefit of next year's freshman class bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering addressed the group of members and initi ates on the significance of honor ary socieites particularly of o d k the following were initiated donald r luster m e clifford b heisler bus robert c good jr eng phys edward g uhl eng phys david r ginder arts chester c baldwin i e rich ard s gowdy bus robert b palmer arts robert p carter ch e and dean congdon mor gan elmer was not initiated as he was unable to attend o soph hop planned for next term committee is appointed by class president plans for a sophomore hop for next year are being considered by a dance committee appointed re cently by robert n gusdorf new ly elected president of the class of 42 members of the committee ap pointed by gusdorf are gilbert p haven eng albert w wood bus arthur h rich bus james h boucher eng and george a brenker bus the committee's first move was to compile a folder copies of which are being circula ted now the purpose of these circulars is to sound out student opinion on the question it contains such items as regards a choice of bands possible dates and the choice of a hall among the bands suggested in the folder are those of jimmy dorsey jan savitt will osborn henry busse blue barron and charlie barnett a sophomore hop has not been held for a number of years but the spirit of the present freshman class according to gusdorf is one of the factors which is hoped to make the affair a success election committee sub mits voting suggestions for next year pick cox vice-president fred e galbraith jr chem 40 was elected president of ar cadia lehigh's student governing body for the coming year last night at an arcadia meeting in drown hall alfred t cox c e 40 was elected as vice-president thomas e ricketts ch e 40 was chosen as secretary and rich ard c kelley chem 40 treasur er dr claude g beardslee was reelected faculty adviser for an other year the body elected carl fittkau arts 40 as chairman of the fresh man handbook committee at last night's meeting the members approved a report made by the election committee al though they took no vote on the measure embodied in the report the approved features are the fol lowing give election rules 1 before all student elections a limited number of sample ballots should be printed and held avail able for anyone desiring them 2 no printed material or adver tising matter should be used for campaign purposes all campaign ing should be put on a basis of direct personal contact 3 n0 ballots should be signed by any voter 4 a sponsor should be under no obligation to the candidate whom he is sponsoring 5 if a voter is a member of one class socially and is a member of a lower class for scholastic reasons he should be allowed to vote in the class election of either of his classes that he chooses this pre ference depends upon the stu dent's decision though he can participate in only one election 6 the use of a rotating ballot should be adopted with this sys tem a candidate's name would ap pear first on an equal number of ballots and the other candidates names would follow in a definite order seniors will hold dance on june 12 revives custom stopped 5 years ago a senior dance will be held on monday june 12 in the main ballroom of the hotel bethlehem anounced henry l beekman bus 39 chairman of the committee this occasion will mark the re vival of a custom which was dis continued five years ago and was brought about by the granting of a petition submitted to the dean dancing will be from 9 to 1 p m with the music of the harry romig-piff moore band from bethlehem tentative plans are being made for a varied program this is to include the singing of the alma mater for the last time the glee club will also sing several selec tions chaperones will be dean and mrs wray h congdon dr her bert m diamond head of the de partment of economics and soci ology and mrs diamond and dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and mrs beardslee tickets are on sale for 1.65 formal dress will be optional alumnus former diamond mill superintendent dieg john t fuller m e 03 died last thursday at the memorial hospital in new york mr fuller retired from a high position with the aluminum com pany of america about six years ago and went to live in hones dale where he resided until his death immediately after his gradua tion from lehigh mr fuller went to south africa where he eventu ally was appointed manager of the largest diamond mine in the world the dv tortspur mine clubs committee grants dramatic group dorm council petitions beekman is chairman the student activities commit tee at its last meeting on thurs day approved new constitutions of the mustard and cheese society and the inter-dormitory council the committee also granted a pe tition submitted by 33 students to establish a flying division of the aero club and granted a petition for a senior graduation dance dean wray h congdon made the following comment about the new mustard and cheese constitu tion carrington and those who drew up the constitution of the mustard and cheese did a superior piece of work it is very workable and adequate constitution changes of the changes over the last constitution of the mustard and cheese those dealing with the membership qualifications and the selection of plays are the most rad ical the director and the execu tive committee will decide on the productions one semester in ad vance with the approval of the club the club must approve with a three-fourths majority vote a student written production before its selection can be made active participation in at least four plays is required for membership in the club the activity may be in the role of actor member of the stage crew or business staff the petition for a senior gradu ation dance was granted with the requirement that the finances be guaranteed henry l beekman bus 39 is chairman of the com mittee parent's permission required certain requirements must be met by those who wish to take flying instruction as stipulated by the activities committee the stu dents must pass a physical exam ination approved by the bureau of air commerce of the united states department of commerce and they must use only govern ment inspected planes a formal commission of permission must also be submitted to the dean by the parents the lehigh aircraft company will probably give the instruction dean congdon said the estab lishment of a flying division might place the university in a favorable position to be appointed by the civil aeronautics authority to give flying courses dot election held morse chosen president in novel balloting norman l morse ch e 40 was elected president of delta omicron theta honorary speaking fraternity last week in a novel election using post cards for ball ots instead of the usual direct vote method the other officers elected were edward h sharp ch e 40 who was chosen as vice-president of the organization and frederick n bahnson phys 41 secretary and treasurer this form of election was some what unusual and was carried out as an experiment in commenting on the results of the balloting ra phael g scoblionko arts 39 1938-39 president of delta omi cron theta stated that results had been much more successful than expected he said that nominations for officers were informed of the choices and instructed to vote by card by the end of last week three new members have been accepted into the club these are wiliam i freeman arts 40 fred e galbraith chem 40 and sharp the new vice-president o sportsmen hear cowin prof roy b cowin head of the department of accounting lectured on archery thursday night before the sportsman's club in packard laboratory simpson elected president 14 sophomores taken into junior honorary william b simpson bus 41 was elected president of cyanide junior honorary activities society at an annual banquet held friday evening in the old sun inn an nounced alfred t cox c e 40 president fourteen sophomores were also initiated into the society of the new pledges eight have been ac tive in intercollegiate athletic competition five of these men have participated in journalistic work of three university publica tions faculty advisors e kenneth smiley director of admissions dr harry b osborn instructor in chemical engineering and paul e short assistant director of athle tics each addressed the body on the aims of the society watkins cox elmer speak alfred t cox retiring presi dent presided and spoke briefly he also conducted the initiation ceremonies assisted by morgan c elmer arts 40 vice-president and wallace p watkins bus 40 secretary-treasurer the new officers are william b simpson bus 41 president john d wooters bus 41 vice-presi dent robert craig bus 41 sec retary-treasurer and william e scott bus 41 and emory w loomis jr bus 41 executive council o banquet given by c e.s an informal banquet a baseball game and swimming were the ac tivities of the civil engineering society at the annual banquet which was held friday afternoon at the beethoven waldheim loca ted near hellertown board of publications to pick new review editor thursday howard j lewis arts 40 will be recommended for the position of editor in chief of next year's lehigh review by joseph b boyle bus 39 this year's editor thurs day evening at a meeting of the board of publications in an announcement made last night boyle also listed the recom mendations for the other review posts the post of associate editor will be filled by frank norris c e 40 while the assistant editors will be david g de beauchamp arts 41 walter h vogelsberg e e 41 and robert c muir jr bus 40 newly appointed members of the board are john r polinski arts 42 john e keuey arts 39 and nelson w lewis ch e 39 business men chosen members of the business staff of the review were also announced last night by donald g denison jr i e 40 new business mana ger of the magazine they are robert m ulmer bus 41 adver tising manager j dukes wooters bus 41 financial manager and david f wells eng 42 circula tion manager new members of the business board will be gene a marusi eng 42 jonas silver berg bus 41 and leonard h miller eng 42 these members will have to be approved by the board of publications lewis is the brother of sidney j lewis who was editor of the lehigh review during 1936-37 howard lewis was a member of the review's editorial board dur ing 1937-38 and has been assistant editor during the past year he is a member of the pi lambda phi social fraternity norris has been an assistant edi tor during the past year and is a 140 boys compete for 4 year regional 1600 awards activities considered the winners of the ten regional scholarships worth 1,600 each based on their standing on an ex amination given by the college entrance board were announced today by e kenneth smiley di rector of admissions a total of 140 boys from all parts of the country competed for the scholarships two boys were selected from the new england states three from the middle at lantic states two from the south eastern states and three from the country at large the winners were active in a wide variety of outside activities including such sports as tennis football track and others five of the winners were active in their preparatory school papers the winners with a list of their outside activities according to the districts follows new england states no 1 oerald v carroll meriden high school meriden coun active in tennis li brary club chemistry club washington his torical society secretary president of the french club and assistant editor of the lincoln lantern no 2 william j peck mercersburg acad emy mercersburg active in football base ball dramatics rifle shooting nature study secretary of the chemistry club secretary of the english club member of the german and french clubs and a junior and regular coun cillor of a boys summer camp southeastern states no 1 charles dwight curtis jr bethes da-chevy chase high school bethesda md active in debating chess and checkers ping pong hi-y track junior and senior com mittees senior class parliamentarian and mathematics coach no 2 chester lee finch jr woodrow wilson high school washington d.c active in science club rifle club rifle team glee club year book staff captain of high school cadet corpy member national honor society member of the student council and was awarded on honorary letter middle atlantic states no 1 maynard g arsove monroe high school rochester n v ; he was active in cross country band orchestra hi-y pres ident of the chess club vice president en gineering club secretary hi-y council mem ber of the national honor society french honor society honor guard and the inter high science club no 2 arlington w canizares jr of rad nor high school wayne pa and also hav erford school haverford pa ; active in ten nis football glee club dramatics editorial staff the radnorite chairman of the law and order committee student council award ed a prize for the best work in science no 3 william h sens hackensack high school hackeusack n j he was active in football track library council president of the student body treasurer of the sopho more class treasurer of the junior class and a member of the honor society group at large no 1 william c walker of milwaukee country day school milwaukee wis ; active in track baseball basketball advertising manager of the school paper member of the milwaukee entomological society awards for excellence in mathematics science and a silver medal for high scholastic attainment no 2 robert g wheaton alliance high school alliance 0 active in football ten nis lea skating glee club quartette piano mysterious check from fair nets prof smith a tidy sum continued on page four ' continued on page four term-paper wetting results in shiner for playful frosh alumni dinner to be held at the hotel bethlehem friday june 9 the class of 89 celebrating its 50th reunion will be given the place of honor at the alumni ga therings to begin with a meeting of the board of directors of the alumni association at noon fri day june 9 at 4 p m friday an informal council meeting of the alumni offi cers and class agents will be held in the alumni office improvement of club meetings and the building of class spirit will be discussed at 7 p m the alumni banquet will be held at the hotel bethle hem with the class of 89 having the place of honor the speakers will be howard bosey reiter professor of physical education william sheridan wrestling coach and glen w harmeson head foot ball coach directors to meet at the same time a dinner will be held for the wives of the visit ing alumni in the fountain room arrangements are under the di rection of mrs clement c will iams after the banquet the local club will open the doors of the bethle hem club to the alumni for the annual entertainment saturday morning the events begin with a meeting of the board of directors class officers and the general alumni body to decide on the action of the association dur ing 1939-40 a report will be given by president c c williams and the senior class will be accepted into the association the results of the friday meeting will also be announced the reunion will end with the parade at 2:30 p m followed by a baseball game between the 39 varsity and the alumni at 7 p m the classes will go to their separ ate class dinners o alpha phi omega holds initiations scouting fraternity taps 9 at meeting saturday alpha phi omega honorary scouting fraternity held a formal initiation last saturday afternoon in drown hall nine of the ten men pledged on may 3 were ini tiated at this ceremony among those present at the initiation were mr j j wil cox of the bethlehem council of the boy scouts of america mr brawn of the national boy scouts council and dr claude g beardslee faculty adviser for al pha phi omega the initiates are joseph a arnold eng 42 richard r bright arts 42 albert p cald well e e 40 ernest gamble jr eng 42 miltoun w harper eng 42 harry w jones eng 42 donald w kurtz eng 42 george f messinger m e 41 and theo dore g scott eng 42 richard c kelley jr chem 40 newly-elec ted president of alpha phi omega presided over the initiation o williams to talk at case president c.c williams will de liver the commencement address june 5 at the case school of ap plied science cleveland all seniors must report jobs to placement office all seniors who have jobs and have not yet reported them to the placement bureau should do so immediately an nounced e robins morgan head of the bureau morgan asks all seniors who have not secured jobs to see him and talk over their situa tions before they leave school reverberations of dormitory life were evident recently on mont clair avenue as several town group freshmen decided to bright en their arid lives with a bit of water - throwing unfortunately one of their victims was the re nowned clifford d slug root arts 40 one calm evening these dare devils who had no wholesome homework with which to keep oc cupied their little minds worked up a cute scheme to dump two 2 waste-paper basketsfull of water on everybody and anybody sap enough to walk into their rooming house the first victim was your cor respondent who was soaked to the skin but with no loss except the press in his pants then mr root came whistling down from the lib rary with his 42 page term paper under his arm as he mounted the first step he was caught in a sheet of water that seemed like a cloud burst mr root is an arts man sacri ficing dignity for action he let forth a stream of unprintable language and broke the intercol legiate record for the third-story upstairs dash his shoes squish ing as he ran hot with rage he burst into the freshmen den of iniquity and challenged one of the pranksters who was hiding behind the door this fearless specimen of man hood — his cronies call him all american — acepted the challenge in order to keep up his repuation it wasn't long before he was lean ing against the wall with a beaut of a shiner hung on his left eye for the past few days all american and his pals have been learning to take dictation in a valiant attempt to help compose another 42 pages of immortal prose by tom c mekeel prof robert m smith head of the department of english had a very pleasant surprise last monday morning as he was opening his morning mail out of one of the envelopes fell a check for 30 dol lars made out to him by the west inghouse corporation since prof smith had no connection whatever with the westinghouse corpora tion he was very puzzled indeed two other sheets of paper in the envelope both letters gave him his explanation it seems that westinghouse has an exhibit of the new york world's fair of which it is very proud so proud in fact that it hands out a lot of money just to hear itself praised out of every thousand people who enter the ex hibit five are chosen at random and herded into a little room one of those elected on may 11 was theodore ehrsam an english in structor at lehigh from 1932 to 1936 apple-polishing mr ehrsam was placed before a typewriter and instructed to write a letter home describing the exhibit perhaps mr ehrsam still considers lehigh his home anyway he wrote his letter of praise to prof smith and therein lies the story mr ehrsam's ex perience as an english teacher en abled him to use all sorts of clever and glowing adjectives to sing the praises of westinghouse and he was awarded 30 dollars for having written the best letter of the five westinghouse however wasn't satisfied with the letter-writing it went to all the trouble of mail ing the letter with one of explan ation including another 30 dollar check for the addressee thus it was that prof smith by merely sitting at his desk open ing a letter removing endorsing and cashing a check earned him self the tidy sum of 30 dollars vol xlvi no 54 selected by boyle suspends publication bethlehem pa tuesday may 23 1939 succeeds burnett with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until september o.d.k elects watkins head initiates 9 men approve new flying group senior dance smiley gives names of 10 exam winners class of 89 to be feted lehigh university brown and white all the lehigh news first member 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