Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 2

              lehigh buzzed with activity last week as conferences were held by the pennsylvania branch of secondary school principals and by the health workshop the sixth annual lehigh con feience of the pennsylvania bianch national association of secondary school principals met june 26 and 27 sixty teachers and educators were present at the two day conference dr harold p thomas opened the meeting by greeting dole gates from nine counties puiticj pants came from lehigh north ampton montgomery wayne pike monroe upper bucks car bon and berks counties raxph burrows east strouds i burg president of the confer i ence presided at the opening se ion and introduced the consult ants who lad four discussion groups paul handwerk principal of fianklin junior high school was elected president of the confer ence lee graver principal ol the nazareth area senior high school vice president and a j oplinger principal of heltortowit senior high school secretary treasurer one of the highlights of the conference was the dinnoi in lamberton hall at which dt wil liam j frey head of the depart ment of german and russian at franklin and marshall and co directoi of ihe pennsylvania dutch folklore center spoko on pennsylvania dutch language and lore ' at the same time this summer's session of the health education workshop progressed with talks on public relations between health personnel with the com see shops page 3 over 700 admissions deposits have been accepted by the ad missions office from prospective mernbeis of the class of 56 dr charles a seidle newly appoint ed admissions director announced this week plans have been made he stat ed to ddmit a freshman class of about 700 there's as much dan ger in going over this figure as here is in falling short of it lie explained formerly associate dean of students seidle accepted his new position tuesday he is retaining iesponsibility for student orga nization and activities ufliil a new associate dean is appointed admission work is not new to dr seidle he worked in the ad missions office from 38 to 41 when he entered the armed sei see seidle page 3 admissions prepares for 700 freshmen the republicans are sure could win the election in november , tail will probably withdraw and throw his support in favor of ike so that he can accept a position in washington after the election robert a bream asso prof education president — it is a toss-up between taft and eisen hower taft has the political ma chine and eisenhower has tre mendous popular appeal how ever i suspect the machine will win dean wray h congdon presi dent — taft will win if the re publican machine has its way and eisenhower if popular pre ference will override the power machine if there is a deadlock warren will get in the vice presidency is indeterminable because of ihe fact that the chi cago nomination is indetermin able for the presidency auric n dunlap asst prof j int rel president — it is likely that the republican delegates as individuals will bolt from lead ership as in 1940 with wendell i wilkie and elect eisenhower as | candidate for the presidency eisenhower will be the candi date by a popular surge at the convention roger e kolm asst prof ce president — taft will certainly win at the republican conven tion for he has it rigged of the 184 students placed on holastic probation at the begin ing of the spring semester 54 aye been droped from school ith 27 cases still pending the utcome of final exams dean of tudents wray h congdon an ounced this week one hundred welve students have been plac d on probation for the fall se ester in spring of 1951 125 stu ents were placed on probation ith 32 dropped at the end of the emester the committee on discipline nade up of two arcadia members wo elected faculty members and tie dean of students acted on a otal of 14 cases during the se nesier involving 32 students ac ion on three of these cases is till pending four students have been uspended for two semesters for articipating in the panty raid n moravian college for women dne student has been placed on iisciplinary probation fotef one emester while eight other cases lave been dropped five students have been placed m disciplinary probation for lext semester for tearing down iome 800 to 900 legally placed rosters of candidates for class of ices they were also required to ay for damages as approved by he chairman of the committee n discipline two students caught cheat ng in an hour examination had see pro list page 3 74 conquer ce 40 bugs poison ivy seventy four ces speni three weeks in near isolation at a surveying camp owned by ste vens institute of technology in johnsonburg n.j 15 miles east of the delaware water gap where they donned their old slothes to master ce 40 according to prof raymond h snyder sanitary engineering the camp was one of the most suc cessful they ever had because of the willingness of the students and the opportune facilities of course the men had absolutely no source of diversion to hinder them since they were more or less in the middle of nowhere he said the camp covering 380 acres of land consisted of a large mess hall class rooms a camp store and cabins for sleeping there were 20 cabins for the students and five staff cabins with running water only a few of the latter had showers though snyder said also the cooks had three cabins see camping page 3 the poll of the faculty taken on the question of the republi can nominee for president and vice president was answered by 23 of the group there was an approximately even split between those predict ing taft and general eisenhower several of the faculty responding felt that taft would gel the nomination through his already established machine due to the fact that the vice presidential nomination depends upon the presidential selection there were few opinions ventur ed frederick a bradford prof economics head dept finance president — eisenhower will probably win the nomination be cause he is the only person that sleep well but don't get burned happy vacationers will prob ably enjoy the fourth of july while old mister sun smiles down at them but according to the weather man there is a chance of scattered showers saturday and sunday the high and low temperatures for the week beginning tuesday june 24 follow thursday afternoon's high of 99.2 degrees brought welcome news from vice president smiley at 2 p.m to all department heads to close iheir offices and dismiss the staff family gels w'end breather ah j two days relief from the heat j and the books has been granted members of the lehigh family to '¦ morrow and saturday the fourth of july is the only holiday en ; enjoyed by summer students dr charles a seidle lehigh university brown and white thursday july 3 1952 principally speaking . . . r olume 63 — summer number 2 54 dropped from school 112 on pro bethlehem pennsylvania workshops principals palaver dr charles r zwezig miss ruth krapf dr o car grasigor and dr jach bixch above were the four consultants on ihe problems discussed at the tbzth annual lehigh conic m cc of t!e pemt sylvania branch nation association of second y school principals friday in drown hall ther are specialists in the fields of which they spoke ' favors taft and ike see veep page 2 george f feeman grad asst malh president — taft he will j be nominated on the first or sec ond ballot if he is not nominated on those ballots he will not be nominated at all he is a strong politician and has the party back ! ing dwight l freshiey speech in structor president — i think the taft machine is very strong but the question that will have to be decided is who can win the elec tion in november two factors may carry the nomination to ike the texas issue and governor fine's hold on his delegates i think taft was seriously hurt high low tuesday 83 59 wednesday 97 71 thursday 99 74 friday 94 74 sosurday 88 70 sunday , 88 65 monday 82 64