South Mountaineer Volume 20, Issue 24

              University Honors Philip Rauch '33
Vol. 20 — No. 24
APRIL 4, 1978
BETHLEHEM, PA.
9-1 Start For Baseballers
Clean Sweep Over Lafayette
Follows Winning Spring Trip
Pitchers Smith, Reichenbach
Victorious Over Leopards
ARTIST'S RENDERING OF  NEW ENTRANCE-WAY
Field House Bears His Name
Lehigh's spacious field house,
one of the finest facilities of its
kind in the East and a center of
activity at the University's 500-
acre Saucon Fields athletic
complex, will be officially named
the "Philip Rauch Field House"
according to an announcement
made by Dr. Deming Lewis,
Lehigh president.
"We are privileged," added Dr.
Lewis, "to name this building in
honor of Mr. Rauch, a distinguished Lehigh alumnus and
international corporate leader
whose professional achievements
and devotion to his alma mater
have been outstanding."
Rauch is the major donor of
funds for the $2,000,000 building.
He is currently chairman of the
executive committee and former
chairman of the board of Parker
Hannifin Corp., a multinational
corporation with more than 15,000
employees and nearly 100
operations worldwide with headquarters in Cleveland, O.
The field house was opened in
1976 and immediately added a
new dimension to Lehigh student,
staff, faculty and alumni life.
A revised entrance-way, fronting a series of new windows and
featuring an appropriate "Philip
Rauch Field House" inscription,
is planned. Additional trees and
shrubbery will be added to
beautify the entrance area in
keeping with similar landscaping
scheduled for the adjacent
Athletic and Convocation Center
under construction.
The field house has 60,000
square feet of space and is
constructed    without    internal
columns or vertical supports. It
has a floor area larger than a
football field and several events
can be conducted simultaneously
on its synthetic surface. There is
a multilane Vb mile track
surrounding four basketball
courst and five tennis courts on
an area also suitable for soccer,
baseball and football practice,
and other athletic events. The
building is heated and ventilated
Lehigh's NCAA Div. II national
championship football squad
conducted its drills there in
March, and last February the
University hosted the first East
Student Job
Assistance
Lehigh alumni are encouraged to support the recruiting of students by
forwarding any information on availability of
summer employment for
college age men and
women.
Alumni should forward
their name, address and
phone numbers as well as
the location of the possible
employment, as soon as
possible to the Lehigh
Alumni Office, Alumni
Bldg. 27, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. 18015.
Such assistance is a
valuable aid to Lehigh,
particularly with scholarships awarded on the basis
of need.
Coast Conference indoor track
and field championships in
Rauch Field House.
Spring commencement, 1977,
was held there, the Lehigh
Alumni Assn. already has staged
two alumni reunion dinners in the
facility and in January the title-
winning Lehigh football squad
was honored there at a
recognition banquet attended by
almost 1,000 persons.
Rauch, of Old Westbury, N.Y.,
and Palm Beach, Fla., was a
member of the Class of 1933 at
Lehigh where he studied business
administration and was a
member of varsity football and
wrestling teams. He was also a
member of Phi Delta Theta,
national social fraternity; Alpha
Kappa Psi, national business
administration honorary, and
Cyanide, the University's leadership honorary. After leabing
Lehigh, upon the death of his
father, in 1932, he subsequently
earned his B.S. degree from the
New York University School of
Commerce in 1935, by attending
classes at night.
He has served Lehigh as Long
Island, N.Y., area chairman of
the "New Century Fund" and is,
currently a member of the
development committee of the
University's board of trustees.
In 1976 he received the
prestigious "L-in-Life Award"
from the Lehigh Club of New
York. This award, established in
1939, honors a recipient's
distinguished career as well as
his service to Lehigh. Rauch
joined a list of prominent
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Righthanders Mitch Smith and
Doug Reichenbach turned in
route-going victories last
weekend as 'Lehigh swept a
season baseball series against
Lafayette for the first time since
1963.
Smith, a junior from Allendale,
N.J., scattered a dozen hits,
struck out eight and walked six
Saturday during an 11-inning
thriller at Easton won by the
Engineers, 8-7.
Reichenbach, a sophomore
from Flemington, N.J., gave up
only three hits, fanned six and
walked four Sunday at the Saucon
Valley Fields as Lehigh won
again, 3-2.
The sweep, following a winning
spring vacation trip to
Statesboro, Ga., gave Coach Stan
Schultz's squad nine victories in
its first 10 starts and a winning
streak of seven.
"These were very crucial
games for us," said Schultz
following the Sunday triumph.
"We had done very well down
south but unless we continued to
win against Lafayette those
earlier victories wouldn't have
looked like much."
On the spring trip the
Engineers upset host Georgia
Southern twice, 3-2 and 6-4, swept
twin bills from Armstrong State
at Savannah, Ga., 4-1 and 5-4, and
Methodist College at Fayet-
teville, N.C., 9-3 and 4-3, and
whipped Indiana, Pa., State at
6-2 Advantage
For Engineers
Lehigh's clean sweep of
weekend baseball, against
Lafayette, assured the
Engineers of no worse than
a tie in the 1977-78 All-
Sports Trophy series
against the Leopards.
The Engineers lead 6-2
with events remaining in
track, tennis, golf and
lacrosse.
Fairfax, Va., 6-1. The only loss
was to Charleston, S.C., Baptist
College, 9-7.
The Engineers played longball
in Saturday's game at Metzgar
Fields, outlasting Lafayette as Al
Ottinger of Allentown, Pa.,
homered with one aboard, Jim
McCormick of Millville, N.J.,
homered with two aboard and
Glenn Troxel, of West Lawn, Pa.,
broke a 7-7 tie in the top of the
11th with a shot over the right
field fence.
In the Sunday triumph, their
1978 home opener, the Engineers
went into the bottom of the eighth
locked in a 2-2 struggle. Two outs
later Ken Wood, of Pennington,
N. J., trotted home from third
base on a clutch single by Mike
Robinson of Philadelphia, Pa.,
with the deciding marker.
Wood, an outfielder, led Lehigh
during its spring trip with a .434
batting average and nine RBIs.
Third baseman Ed Scheidler, of
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LEHIGH
ab r h
LAFAYETTE
ab r h
Spence cf
Troxel lb
Scheidler 3b
Wood rf,lf
Ottinger c
Bilenki dh
Butz ss
McCormick rf
Krieder It
Robinson 2b
Smith p
Totals
3 2 0
5 I 1
5 1 1
5 0 1
5 1 2
4 1 0
3 1 0
3 1 2
1 0 0
3 0 0
0 0 0
Neborak ct
Kamine 2b
Fruci rf
Cohen lb
McMillan If
Freeland dh
Duncan dh
Price ss
McNulty c
Little 3b
Fredlund p
5 2 1
4 3 4
6 0 4
6 0 1
6 0 1
5 1 1
1 0 0
2 0 0
4 0 0
4 1 0
0 0 0
37 B 7    Totals
LEHIGH    300 300 100 01—8
LAFAYETTE    101 102 011  00—7
E—Wood, McCormick, Fredlund. RBI—
McCormick 3, Ottinger 2, Wood, Scheidler,
Troxel, Fruci 3, Cohen. 2B—Scheidler, Ottinger. 3B—Fruci. HR—Ottinger, McCormick, Troxel. BB—Smith 6, Fredlund 6,
Watts 4. SO—Smith 8, Fredlund 3, Watts 5.
WP—Smith (3-0), LP—Watts (0-1).
LAFAYETTE
ab r h
Kamine 2b
Price ss
Fruci rf
Cohen lb
Freeland dh
McMillan If
Nebarak cf
McNulty c
Little 3b
Weigel p
Ramsey ph
Totals
3 0 1
3 1 0
4 1 1
3 0 0
4 0 1
3 0 0
3 0 0
3 0 0
2 0 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
28 2 3    Totals
LEHIGH
Spence cf
Troxel lb
Scheidler 3b
Ottinger c
Bilenki dh
Wood If
Butz ss
McCormick rf
Robinson 2b
Reichenbach p 0 0 0
ab r h
5 1 1
4 0 1
4 1 3
4 0 0
3 0 0
3 1 0
3 0 2
4 0 0
3 0 1
LAFAYETTE    000 200 000—2
LEHIGH   101  000 Olx—3
E—Little, McNulty, Price. RBI—Freeland
2, Scheidler, Robinson. 2B—Scheidler, Butz.
BB—Reichenbach 4, Weigel 4. SO—
Reichenbach 6, Weigel 2.