Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 7

              festival rehearsal to start combined glee club rehearsals for the 1951 lehigh music festi val to be held in grace hall april 13 and 14 begin tomorrow when the lehigh glee club travels to beaver college in jenkintown pa this is the first of several joint rehearsals scheduled for the coming weeks meanwhile the soloists for the see festival page 3 bean calis religious conclave successful several students commented that the conference particularly through the living group bull ses sions had stimulated thinking more than any other agent had done since they have been at le high by creating more thought about the how and why of life and the destiny of man the con ference jarred people from their lethargic unthinking acceptance of life and forced them to seek its meaning conference leaders claimed that the conclave confronted more people on a deeper level than any such problem they have dealt with in the past they found lehigh more alive to the real issues of life than many other see bean page 2 lehigh university's first con ference on religion was success ful in a dramatic way comment ed university chaplain george m bean as the conclave ended wednesday night rev bean stated that the drama lay in the fact that a tremendous number of students for the first time in their lives were confronted with a new dimension which they never before knew existed students and faculty alike have been rocked back on their heels continued the chaplain and they have been forced to ponder and sweat out some of the ulti mate questions of human life by concentrating on quality rather than on quan tity and intensity rather than mass the conference created a real probing into questions a probing which mr bean be lieves produced a far reach ing and hoped-for lasting stimulant of the mind one-fourth to one-third of the present senior class has accepted positions with industry accord ing to frank v palevicz assistant director of the placement bureau thus far this year he estimated that 115 senors have been aided in securing employment by the bureau the trend still favors en gineers with an abnormally large demand for m.e.'s 115 june grads secure positions the second night of a two-day contemporary music festival will be held in broughal junior high school at 8 tonight by the world famous walden string quartet of the university of illinois and a chamber orchestra of lehigh val ley musicians the first concert was last night music of five outstanding con temporary composers will be fea tured at the a n cleaver memo walden string quartet plays in festival tonight rial fund concert which will be open to the public at no admis ! sion charge tonight the chamber or chestra will be heard present ing works featuring the wal den quartet as soloists the program will include con certo grosso for strings and piano by ernest bloch adagio for strings by sam uel barber concerto for string quartet and string or chestra alvin etler quiet city by aaron copland and concerto grosso for string quartet and chamber orches tra by burrill phillips guest soloist tonight will be marjorie weidner of bethlehem the quartet has played over 100 new works in public and on the air many of them in world premiers and in 1949 made a seven-week concert tour through germany sponsored by the civil affairs division of the department of the army town council lists goals for spring semester town council listed ihe follow ing goals for this semester at its recent meeting better unity among all town men more active participation in meetings and so cial events more participation in town council sports and a more active interest in activities of town council men on the campus an advisory committee was set up consisting of henry enright bus 51 david leith arts 53 bill farkas arts 53 bruce solomon arts 53 and robert mielich arts 53 preston parr assistant to the di rector of the institute of research was asked to serve as faculty ad viser he received his master's de gree in chemistry at lehigh in 1944 studied at m.1.t and was employed by rohm and hass chemical company before return ing to lehigh in 1949 bethlehem pa friday march 9 1951 howie to lead arcadia iarocci vice-president easterns see lehigh state seeded tops for contest volume 62 — number 7 congratulations gene by john crane lehigh and perm state will re sume traditional hostilities today as two wrestling powers battle with 14 other member schools in the 47th annual eastern intercol legiate wrestling association championships at perm state the home team undefeated in dual meet copetition this year is favored to win its first title since 1942 however lehigh's much improved grapplers are expected to make a strong bid for top hon ors state has breezed through eight meets this year — six against eiwa opponents in cluding a 22-6 romp over le high — as their veteran coach 52-year-old charlie spiedel goes after his 10th team title perm state alone has had 57 eiwa individual champions in the 46 years of this tourney lehigh's matmen have come a long way since dropping their second meet of the year to state as they have a 9-1 record for the year the engineers have defeat ed eight eiwa opponents in see champs page 5 jim gill ex-presidesit of arcadia congratulates the new coun cil h&ad gene hawie shorily after his election wednesday evening looking op a?e xh newly-elecicd slate vice-president larocci j burk mcnamara secretary arid james land treasurer faculty adviser dr herbert m diamond was not present at the time the photograph was taken gene howie bus 52 will lead the new arcadia as its president aided by anthony j larocci art 53 as vice-president expressing its choice of leaders in an election wednesday evening arcadia named j burk mcnamara ch.e 52 to serve as secretary and james n land jr as treasurer dr herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology was re-elected fa culty adviser howie recently appointed co-ordinator of the arcadia associates defeated the other candidate for the office of president thomas h mohr bus and c.e veteran arca dian in a 9 to 6 vote larocci won in a field of four contenders for the vice-presiden cy defeated aspirants were alan w koppes arts-eng 52 william a carlisle jr bus 53 and thomas b maccabe jr bus 53 new secretary mcnamara was un-opposed in his election land overcame his only opponent for the treasurer's job jerold b mus kin arts 52 each candidate was re quired to express his interest and intention to run for a specific office state his quali fications and answer ques tions from the other arcadi ans the new arcadia was formally installed by chaplain george m bean and dean charles a seidle meeting of arcadia thursday ev ening george hbwatt instructor in history and government and ar cadia adviser on election matters conducted the election meeting wednesday arotc to fly pershings to drill contest flying jo champaign 111 in an army plane piloted and naviga ted by three afrotc officers a special drill team from the persh ing rifles will compete in the na tionwide invitational drill meet at the university of illinois tomor row afternoon along with the drill team's five officers and adviser maj john w see pershing page 2 cornucopia lists election results james page bus 51 was elect ed president of cornucopia the lehigh business society at a meeting last week other spring semester officers include william helm bus 51 vice-president leonard stafford bus 52 secre tary and william eppel 52 treasurer plans are being formulated for an inspection trip to the easton foundries co one of the nation's most modern foundries during the latter part of march blood drive quota met brown and white during the closing hours of operations plasma drinker iv under the leadership of morris r ronemus m.e 51 turned over 26 pledge cards to fulfill lehigh's quota of 210 applicants for the march 16 visit of the bloodmobile sam harleman director proud ly announced the end of a suc cessful campaign tuesday after noon when he turned over the re maining cards to the red cross he also pointed out that within the next few days all donors should receive their appointment cards he added that although the campaign ended with the signing up of the students from drinker a number of cards kept coming in if stu dents continue to return cards it may necessitate an other visit of the bloodmo bile he said such a visit of mobile unit would come sometime in may if officials feel thai another quota can be met wth reference to appointments harleman explained that mrs charles seidle has spent consid erable time in arranging times for students and faculty so that their donating would not interfere with class work as a result he said we have tried to make every thing as convenient as possible harleman also emphasized that a student should let the red cross know well in advance if he is not able to keep his appointment inside . • • conference 5 features 6 sports 4 s