Brown and White Vol. 61 no. 17

              luigi silva silva has transcribed many works for cello and has written pedagogic works which have been published in milan rome vienna and new york he is at present engaged by ricordi mu sic publishers company fine arts department displays two works by skerritt in coppee each week some student in the fine arts department has his work selected as the treasure of the week this painting is dis played in a specially lighted place of honor in coppee hall this week special honor has gone to james l skerritt sopho more from mount vernon n.y for his water color sketches and two of his works are co-framed in the place of honor town group brown and white distribu tion boxes — for town men only — have been installed in christmas-saucon and packard lab with the aid of buildings and grounds fraternity men and men on campus are urged to leave b&w copies in the boxes for town men to lake julius caesar by william shakespeare will be the first pro ( duction in the 66th year of mus tard and cheese club according to prof h barrett davis direc tor the play will be given in 1 broughal junior high school dec 8 and 9 ed fenton c.e 53 has been . selected for the lead role julius caesar ronald ansorge bus 53 who played the role of general dennis in command decision will play the part of mark an thony and alan koppes arts eng 52 will portray the villain x jus cassius snowbound students refused excused cuts t c dance set rich parker and his orchestra will entertain members of town council at a dance to be held on the top floor of drown hall to morrow night the orchestra a five piece combo will provide music from 8:30 p.m until 11 3 cx p.m casca will be played by brace barstow bus 53 who also played a dominant role in command decision while peter ott bus 51 will play brutus ott is also pro ducer of the daytime radio program many faces has the globe the conspirators will be david mcadam bus 53 theodore christiansen bus 51 peter vail david devlin richard best and robert hardy all c.e 53 and georg lommon m.e 54 others in the cast include al beri rudolph c.e 53 gordon kemp arts 54 richard grant bus 54 ray bergstresser bus 53 george matarazzo bus 54 martin underhill bus 53 james dyche bus 52 thomas mc cabe bus 53 louis henston bus 54 paul rudd arts 54 morris nelson arts 52 and ralph towne ch.e 52 the production will feature a space stage designed by donald c mullin instuctor in speech and technical director of m&c with customes by the eaves cos tume company lehigh students will be admitted free upon pre sentation of their id cards gen eral admission is 1 including taxes ifc banquet given tonight approximately 370 persons are ¦ expected to attend the interfrafer nity council banquet for pledges to be held in masonic temple at tonight principal speaker will be dean arthur r warnock of pennsylvania state college who recently was elected chair man of the national ifc chaplain george bean will give the invocation dean wray i congdon and dean charles sei dle also are expected to speak snowbound unavoidably de layed this terse line explained simply the predicament of many students whose thanksgiving holiday was prolonged by a lay er of more than 20 inches of snow which blanketed western penn sylvania and ohio causing a complete tieup of transportation facilities one of the 14 students from pittsburgh who wired or tele phoned the office of the dean of students explained that the snow was up to the knob of his front door of the other men heard from 11 were from cleveland four from johnstown two from akron and one each from lock haven sewickley ashtabula beaver lewistown and blue ridge summit these and many of the other students who were unable to re turn to school monday will not receive excused cuts friday december 1 1950 silva concert at 8 tonight bethlehem penna timber . . . volume 61 — number 17 tree along bth st was snapped off during saturday's storm narrowly missing quartermaster hut campus damage totaled about 1,000 b & g chief a w litzenberger estimated plans for religion parley aired at arcadia meeting cellist luigi silva will give a concert of cello works in broughal high school aduitorium at 8 tonight in the second of the cleaver concerts series the program wil linclude ciaccona by vitalli-silva sonata in c major by boccherini sonata in d major opus 102 no 2 by beet hoven adagio and allegro opus 70 by schumann valses nobles anr sontimontnlos hv s^vmhert meditation hebraique by bloch and danza siciliana by casella piano accompanist will be carlo bus admission will be free to le high students and the public will be admitted by patron tickets which are available without cost at the lehigh music office silva solo cellist at the roya opera in rome when only 23 years of age has taught at the conservatory of music in venice and padua italy where he was head of the cello department and at the royal conservatory of mu sic in florence after coming to the united states in 1940 he taught for seven years at the eastman school of music rochester n.y as well as at the man nes school in new york city dominican college in san ra fael calif and at colorado rise in total valentines not serious wray h congdon dean of stu dents reporteds that the increase in the number of valentines sent to students this year was not real ly serious since we do get that variation among a total of 2,801 students 149 less than last year's enrollment 1,120 valen tines were distributed dean congdon has noted a steady increase in the num ber of valentines sent out during the past three years and he stated although there is no way of confirming the fact the increase is in inverse ratio to the number of gl's hinted that there may be attending lehigh he also some connection between the undefeated football season and the increase in valen tines there were 194 valentines sent to arts students 267 to business students 381 to engineering stu dents and four to students in the general college division storm cost on campus hits 1,000 * our losses on the campus are minor considering the type of storm we had said a w lilzen h berger superintendent of build ings and grounds following a survey of damage resulting from the 40 to 70 mile-an-hour winds * which rattled bethlehem last sat urday for nearly 14 hours on south mountain the gale i uprooted trees but did only minor damage to the many buildings according to litzenberger the i loss amounted to approximately 1,000 compared with a loss of nearly 3,500 as a result of the ice storm two years ago l ground crews reporting to work on saturday morning were put to work immediate ly and worked around the clock clearing trees from the roads no repairmen were available from the electric * company stated litzenberger and the lehigh crews were pressed into service to re store one circuit from sigma nu to packard lab hardwood trees will be a total loss according to litzenberger 1 while approximately 75 per cent stored minor damage was done to the roof of packer hall and to hall the chapel and the apartments on laurel st compared with the rest of the city the campus faired well ac see damage page 8 description of a forthcoming university conference on religion by chaplain george bean formu lation of a studetn health com mittee and a reading of a plea for books from the dean of west en philippine colleges highlight ed wednesday's arcadia meet ing reports were given concerning the sale of discount cards facul ty participation in intramural m&c club will present uulius caesar dec 8 9 sports an arcadia radio program about the draft and the faculty evaluation program the conference on religion according to chaplain bean will attempt to deepen the understanding of the stu dent concerning his own reli gion by presenting three sep arate programs to satisfy the needs of catholics jews and protestants the conference will be held march 4-7 arcadia voted to request all student groups to avoid schedul ing meetings which would con flict with the conference pro gram th newly organized committee for student health will work with dr carl keck director of the see arcadia page 2 lehigh university brown and white inside ... so long george z lehigh night 5 sports 4 s personals and comments 6 on other campuses 7 radio news z