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thus far a total of 429.35 has been collected by arcadia through the campus community chest drive the allotment of funds will in clude 35 per cent to the red cross 25 per cent to the war chest 20 per cent to the christmas seal drive and 20 per cent to the beth lehem community chest receives letter of thanks a letter has been received from the red cross thanking arcadia for arranging for a group of wrest lers to visit the indiantown gap hospital to entertain the patients plans are under way for a panel discussion with the faculty edu cation club on monday the top ics to be discussed include stu dent government extracurri cular activities physical fit ness the cut system and curricular activities seniors chosen to represent ar cadia at this meeting will be rob ert p whipple chem samuel j davy e e preston parr jr ch e bernard w deehan bus and edward a fehnel chem the members of the faculty educa tion club are j calvin callaghan allison butts wilson l godshall thomas h hazelhurst robert e mcnerney jr and milton c stu art to pledge 25 men at military ball scabbard & blade plans tapping saturday night scabbard and blade honorary military society will pledge seven seniors and 18 juniors during the intermission at the military ball saturday evening at grace hall these men were selected by com petition art wendell's band one of the orchestras at fall houseparty will furnish the music at the informal dance no corsages will be worn and only the advanced military students are requested to wear un iforms naval pre-flight students and ensigns will be admitted for half price prior to the dance lehigh's basketball team will meet temple on the gym floor of grace hall earlier in the evening a banquet for the new pledges and the reg ular members of scabbard and blade and their dates will be held at the hotel bethlehem the ban quet will begin at 7:30 colonel and mrs fay w brabson and other members of the staff of the military department will attend the banquet the seniors to be pledged are john h mueller m e william l stump ch e ludwig e godycki ch e vincent f grasso bus elbridge w palmer bus george h ried arts and robert e sieg fried ch e the juniors are roderick w link m e william c hittinger met e myron k barrett bus n clark applegate c e joseph f bonin bus eugene s stowers i e henry c ost bus richard o williams met e william h hebrank m e wil liam c stoeckle bus william b hursh met e harold j seigle ch e charles e bosserman 1.e thomas j croake ch e and carson f diefenderfer c e and william h highfield john r dove and alan c abeel all ch e 45 faculty discusses selective service pres clement c williams who saturday attended a meeting of the advisory committee to the office of education in washington re viewed at yesterday's faculty meeting the new selective service and manpower set-up and its pos sible effect on students george b curtis university reg istrar and faculty secretary who reported on the meeting said a lengthy discussion resulted but that definite information on pres ident williams report cannot be released because the administra tion does not know what shape the university will take when the gov ernment's order arrives president williams said yester day morning the order is expect ed in about two weeks see box col 4 comprehensives for senior artsmen graduating in january will be conducted on jan 7 8 and 9 curtis announced all graduat ing seniors will be required to at tend classes on jan 4 5 and 6 they will have had the christ mas holidays to study for their comprehensives curtis said club to hear 5 seniors five seniors will speak on time continued on page 2 bethlehem pa tuesday december 8 1942 price — 5 cento vol l — no 21 in memory of lehigh's dead in world war 11 dr claude g beards lee university chaplain reads a prayer to uniformed members of the r o t c and faculty members who gathered at the flag pole yes terday at pearl harbor day dean in statement to brown and white urges profitable use of time before being called these changes result from pres ident roosevelt's executive order effective dec 5 1942 under which chairman paul mcnutt of the war manpower commission became head of the selective service enlistments in the active and re serve branches of the armed forces was clarified for students by dean wray h congdon in a statement issued to the brown and white on sunday dean congdon's state ment follows the following excerpt from president roosevelt's executive or der on manpower has special sig nificance to lehigh university stu dents after the effective date of this order no male person who has at tained the 18th anniversary and has not attained the 38th anniver sary of his birth shall be inducted into the enlisted personnel of the armed forces including reserve components except under provi sions of the selective training and service act of 1940 as amended but any person who has on or before the effective date of this order dec 5 submitted a bona fide application for voluntary en listment may be enlisted within ten days after said date it is quite clear that this order means 1 only those college stu dents who are under 18 years of age are now permitted to enlist voluntarily in any branch of military service this applies equally to enlist ment for active service or in the reserves and equally to the army and navy and all their branches 2 students whose applica tions for enlistment are al ready filed and pending may complete enlistment and be sworn into the enlisted re serve any time up to and in cluding tuesday dec 15 1942 after that date even applica tions pending will be voided and made ineffective marine reserve differs slightly captain gamble of the marine corps however telephoned the dean from philadelphia and said that any one who has spoken to the dean but not necessarily filed application about enlisting prior to dec 5 and can get his papers to philadelphia before dec 16 may still be enlisted the dean stated that he has had no official information that other branches of the service will continue enlist ments on quite this basis 3 any and all college stu dents unless already in enlist ed reserves will be strictly subject to the operations of the selective service act of 1940 as it is amended now or as it may be amended under its new head paul v mcnutt chairman of the manpower commission under whom the selective service act will hereafter be operated continued on page 4 arcadia billed for leopard goal posts congdon clarifies roosevelt s order tomorrow afternoon is the last chance for seniors to buy tickets to their banquet which will begin at 6:30 tomorrow night in the hotel bethlehem tickets are available from liv ing group representatives at the dispensary or at the arca dia office at 75 cents wenzell brown the main speaker will discuss his experiences as a prisoner of the japs at hong kong last chance to buy senior banquet tickets 21 alumni are honored at ceremony dr beardslee offers prayer for casualties twenty-one lehigh alumni dead or are missing in the service since the start of the war were honored at a short flagpole cere mony held yesterday a year from the date of the japanese attack on pearl harbor lehigh men killed in action were commander walter w gil more 17 killed on the u.s.s lexington lieut leon h shane 38 killed in a plane crash in new mexico lieut george o ellstrom 38 killed in the first day's hostilities in the philip pines lieut george f glueck 40 killed in the south pacific lieut arthur m hughes 40 pilot of a flying fortress killed in new guinea douglas m brown 41 r.a.f pilot officer killed in raid over europe ensign e carlton strickland 41 killed in the south pacific lieut philip c cone 42 killed in a florida plane crash and lieut glenn b swope 41 plane continued on page 2 429 is collected in campus drive arcadia has received a state ment of losses incurred by lafay ette during the recent football weekend from dr reeve of la fayette all adjustments for losses will be handled by arcadia it has been reported that ten of the 11 class flags that were tak en at the football game have been returned along with the large la fayette college flag the goal posts have not been returned how ever and arcadia will accept the responsibility for them brown & white lehigh university president's statement to lehigh students the creation of a manpow er commission as announced last sunday to administer all allocations of personnel in cluding selective service will have significance for college students in the first place the issuance of plans concern ing the relations of colleges to the militory will be delayed since the plans which the man power commission will adopt will doubtless differ in impor tant details from those formu lated by the war and navy departments under the man power commission it is ex pected that the needs of indus try agriculture education and other activities essential to broad national welfare as well as to military effectiveness will be given comprehensive con sideration in this the value of a continuous flow of educat ed personnel will not be un derestimated although pre sumably the general features of the army navy plan will be retained exactly what this may mean we cannot know certainly until the final plan is released from intimate sourc es however information seems to warrant the expectation that the deferments in certain scientific curricula will be continued and that reserves will not be called immediately all enlistments have been dis continued the current issue of the bulletin of the council on education says students may well be urged to defer action pending the issuance of such a statement with these items of information in mind i advise all students to con tinue their educational pro grams until called to service for every semester of college training will be to your ad vantage either in armed forces or in civil occupations lehigh university will continue its program of education render ing such special services as its facilities permit there is nothing in prospect to prevent the consummation of such a policy we are in close touch with developments and lehigh will adapt its program to stu dent interests within the re quirements of national service c c williams only those students who are under 18 years of age will be able to enlist for active service or in the reserves of any of the services and any student who has applied for enlistment must complete his enlist ment by tuesday dec 15 1942 according to dean wray h congdon if a man who has made application is not sworn in by this deadline his application will be voided thus any student not already in the enlisted reserve of some branch of the armed forces is subject to the provisions of the selective train ing and service act of 1940 university receipts arcadia payments arcadia in agreeing to pay for damage done by students at the lafayette game has had to accept responsibility for some thing over which it has not real police power — behavior of in dividual students it is unfortunate that the university which is willing enough to accept the receipts of the game is evi dently not willing to accept expenses arising from damage committed by lehigh students at the game coming up tuesday dec 8 7:30 p m — town council ar cadia drown hall wednesday dec 9 6:30 p m — phi eta sigma banquet and initiation lam - berton hall 6:15 p m — senior class ban quet hotel bethlehem
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 21 |
Date | 1942-12-08 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1942 |
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 21 |
Date | 1942-12-08 |
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Digital Responsible Institution Code | PBL |
Issue/Edition Pattern | Semiweekly |
Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
FullText | thus far a total of 429.35 has been collected by arcadia through the campus community chest drive the allotment of funds will in clude 35 per cent to the red cross 25 per cent to the war chest 20 per cent to the christmas seal drive and 20 per cent to the beth lehem community chest receives letter of thanks a letter has been received from the red cross thanking arcadia for arranging for a group of wrest lers to visit the indiantown gap hospital to entertain the patients plans are under way for a panel discussion with the faculty edu cation club on monday the top ics to be discussed include stu dent government extracurri cular activities physical fit ness the cut system and curricular activities seniors chosen to represent ar cadia at this meeting will be rob ert p whipple chem samuel j davy e e preston parr jr ch e bernard w deehan bus and edward a fehnel chem the members of the faculty educa tion club are j calvin callaghan allison butts wilson l godshall thomas h hazelhurst robert e mcnerney jr and milton c stu art to pledge 25 men at military ball scabbard & blade plans tapping saturday night scabbard and blade honorary military society will pledge seven seniors and 18 juniors during the intermission at the military ball saturday evening at grace hall these men were selected by com petition art wendell's band one of the orchestras at fall houseparty will furnish the music at the informal dance no corsages will be worn and only the advanced military students are requested to wear un iforms naval pre-flight students and ensigns will be admitted for half price prior to the dance lehigh's basketball team will meet temple on the gym floor of grace hall earlier in the evening a banquet for the new pledges and the reg ular members of scabbard and blade and their dates will be held at the hotel bethlehem the ban quet will begin at 7:30 colonel and mrs fay w brabson and other members of the staff of the military department will attend the banquet the seniors to be pledged are john h mueller m e william l stump ch e ludwig e godycki ch e vincent f grasso bus elbridge w palmer bus george h ried arts and robert e sieg fried ch e the juniors are roderick w link m e william c hittinger met e myron k barrett bus n clark applegate c e joseph f bonin bus eugene s stowers i e henry c ost bus richard o williams met e william h hebrank m e wil liam c stoeckle bus william b hursh met e harold j seigle ch e charles e bosserman 1.e thomas j croake ch e and carson f diefenderfer c e and william h highfield john r dove and alan c abeel all ch e 45 faculty discusses selective service pres clement c williams who saturday attended a meeting of the advisory committee to the office of education in washington re viewed at yesterday's faculty meeting the new selective service and manpower set-up and its pos sible effect on students george b curtis university reg istrar and faculty secretary who reported on the meeting said a lengthy discussion resulted but that definite information on pres ident williams report cannot be released because the administra tion does not know what shape the university will take when the gov ernment's order arrives president williams said yester day morning the order is expect ed in about two weeks see box col 4 comprehensives for senior artsmen graduating in january will be conducted on jan 7 8 and 9 curtis announced all graduat ing seniors will be required to at tend classes on jan 4 5 and 6 they will have had the christ mas holidays to study for their comprehensives curtis said club to hear 5 seniors five seniors will speak on time continued on page 2 bethlehem pa tuesday december 8 1942 price — 5 cento vol l — no 21 in memory of lehigh's dead in world war 11 dr claude g beards lee university chaplain reads a prayer to uniformed members of the r o t c and faculty members who gathered at the flag pole yes terday at pearl harbor day dean in statement to brown and white urges profitable use of time before being called these changes result from pres ident roosevelt's executive order effective dec 5 1942 under which chairman paul mcnutt of the war manpower commission became head of the selective service enlistments in the active and re serve branches of the armed forces was clarified for students by dean wray h congdon in a statement issued to the brown and white on sunday dean congdon's state ment follows the following excerpt from president roosevelt's executive or der on manpower has special sig nificance to lehigh university stu dents after the effective date of this order no male person who has at tained the 18th anniversary and has not attained the 38th anniver sary of his birth shall be inducted into the enlisted personnel of the armed forces including reserve components except under provi sions of the selective training and service act of 1940 as amended but any person who has on or before the effective date of this order dec 5 submitted a bona fide application for voluntary en listment may be enlisted within ten days after said date it is quite clear that this order means 1 only those college stu dents who are under 18 years of age are now permitted to enlist voluntarily in any branch of military service this applies equally to enlist ment for active service or in the reserves and equally to the army and navy and all their branches 2 students whose applica tions for enlistment are al ready filed and pending may complete enlistment and be sworn into the enlisted re serve any time up to and in cluding tuesday dec 15 1942 after that date even applica tions pending will be voided and made ineffective marine reserve differs slightly captain gamble of the marine corps however telephoned the dean from philadelphia and said that any one who has spoken to the dean but not necessarily filed application about enlisting prior to dec 5 and can get his papers to philadelphia before dec 16 may still be enlisted the dean stated that he has had no official information that other branches of the service will continue enlist ments on quite this basis 3 any and all college stu dents unless already in enlist ed reserves will be strictly subject to the operations of the selective service act of 1940 as it is amended now or as it may be amended under its new head paul v mcnutt chairman of the manpower commission under whom the selective service act will hereafter be operated continued on page 4 arcadia billed for leopard goal posts congdon clarifies roosevelt s order tomorrow afternoon is the last chance for seniors to buy tickets to their banquet which will begin at 6:30 tomorrow night in the hotel bethlehem tickets are available from liv ing group representatives at the dispensary or at the arca dia office at 75 cents wenzell brown the main speaker will discuss his experiences as a prisoner of the japs at hong kong last chance to buy senior banquet tickets 21 alumni are honored at ceremony dr beardslee offers prayer for casualties twenty-one lehigh alumni dead or are missing in the service since the start of the war were honored at a short flagpole cere mony held yesterday a year from the date of the japanese attack on pearl harbor lehigh men killed in action were commander walter w gil more 17 killed on the u.s.s lexington lieut leon h shane 38 killed in a plane crash in new mexico lieut george o ellstrom 38 killed in the first day's hostilities in the philip pines lieut george f glueck 40 killed in the south pacific lieut arthur m hughes 40 pilot of a flying fortress killed in new guinea douglas m brown 41 r.a.f pilot officer killed in raid over europe ensign e carlton strickland 41 killed in the south pacific lieut philip c cone 42 killed in a florida plane crash and lieut glenn b swope 41 plane continued on page 2 429 is collected in campus drive arcadia has received a state ment of losses incurred by lafay ette during the recent football weekend from dr reeve of la fayette all adjustments for losses will be handled by arcadia it has been reported that ten of the 11 class flags that were tak en at the football game have been returned along with the large la fayette college flag the goal posts have not been returned how ever and arcadia will accept the responsibility for them brown & white lehigh university president's statement to lehigh students the creation of a manpow er commission as announced last sunday to administer all allocations of personnel in cluding selective service will have significance for college students in the first place the issuance of plans concern ing the relations of colleges to the militory will be delayed since the plans which the man power commission will adopt will doubtless differ in impor tant details from those formu lated by the war and navy departments under the man power commission it is ex pected that the needs of indus try agriculture education and other activities essential to broad national welfare as well as to military effectiveness will be given comprehensive con sideration in this the value of a continuous flow of educat ed personnel will not be un derestimated although pre sumably the general features of the army navy plan will be retained exactly what this may mean we cannot know certainly until the final plan is released from intimate sourc es however information seems to warrant the expectation that the deferments in certain scientific curricula will be continued and that reserves will not be called immediately all enlistments have been dis continued the current issue of the bulletin of the council on education says students may well be urged to defer action pending the issuance of such a statement with these items of information in mind i advise all students to con tinue their educational pro grams until called to service for every semester of college training will be to your ad vantage either in armed forces or in civil occupations lehigh university will continue its program of education render ing such special services as its facilities permit there is nothing in prospect to prevent the consummation of such a policy we are in close touch with developments and lehigh will adapt its program to stu dent interests within the re quirements of national service c c williams only those students who are under 18 years of age will be able to enlist for active service or in the reserves of any of the services and any student who has applied for enlistment must complete his enlist ment by tuesday dec 15 1942 according to dean wray h congdon if a man who has made application is not sworn in by this deadline his application will be voided thus any student not already in the enlisted reserve of some branch of the armed forces is subject to the provisions of the selective train ing and service act of 1940 university receipts arcadia payments arcadia in agreeing to pay for damage done by students at the lafayette game has had to accept responsibility for some thing over which it has not real police power — behavior of in dividual students it is unfortunate that the university which is willing enough to accept the receipts of the game is evi dently not willing to accept expenses arising from damage committed by lehigh students at the game coming up tuesday dec 8 7:30 p m — town council ar cadia drown hall wednesday dec 9 6:30 p m — phi eta sigma banquet and initiation lam - berton hall 6:15 p m — senior class ban quet hotel bethlehem |
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