Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 12

              a total of 7,281.61 has been appor tioned from the student activities fund to the various school organizations dean congdon disclosed recently this amounts to approximately 2.50 per student the fund will be distributed in the following manner this is the first houseparty event with music provided by top bands to start the houseparty on its dizzy way slide rules and books abandoned as campus is taken over by dates by tim dennis the fall house party week-end of 1947 is underway and from all indications will be one of the best yet the official starting time is 4:00 p.m today but the lehigh queens have been arriving since early this morning after four o'clock the dates disappear for a short time into their respective living quarters long enough to remove their for mals from suitcases to avoid wrinkles and then it's down to kinney's a walk around the campus or a tour of bethlehem to utilize the time until dinner starting at 10 p.m friday nite will be the i.f ball sponsored by the interfraternity council the dance will feature music by two of the finest young dance bands in the country buddy rich and skitch hen derson it will be a formal affair and will be the scene for the latest feminine styles highpoints of the dance will be the presentation of cups to the houseparty queen and mr and mrs lehigh the former will be cho sen by the members of the first string football team and the cup will be presented at midnight the latter was chosen by a committee from the university women's club and along with the cup they will dance to their favorite tune decorations for the dance will follow a stars in the night such boosters as bing crosby frank sinatra dick haymes and arturo rubinstein he formed his dance band at the request of capitol records who signed him to a recording contract about the time his first records were appearing in the music stores of the nation he was signed to a regular featured spot on the bing crosby philco show skitch designed his band to pro vide a soft danceable beat along with good music he feels that the trend in music is slowly veering from the frantic and raucous in dance music to the kind of music folks can keep time to without per spiring badly-formed by-product of the works of the masters it took the music of duke ellington to awak en him to american jazz it was here that the pianist still in his teens changed his mind about style his first professional engage ment in the united states was as an accompanist to cliff ukulele ike edwards soon after this he started playing his remarkable piano stylings for such top-flight bands as glenn gray skinnay en nis tommy dorsey and artie shaw skitch left the dance field for a short time for featured spots on radio shows such as the pepsodent show and dave rose's california melodies he was invited into hol lywood society by an old friend mrs bob hope and after his re turn from the air corps he found himself the rage of hollywood he was invited by frank sinatra to make a guest appareance once a month on his radio show and in between times was kept busy by a flood of invitations to parties by by car plane and train . . . dancing on the upper floor of grace hall at the i.f ball tonight will be to the music of skitch hen derson and his orchestra skitch will feature nancy reed and andy roberts on vocals and also a good share of his ingenious piano styl ings skitch was born in birmingham england where his father was in the diplomatic corps attached to the british embassy when he was still a youth he entered the lords school of music in london deter mined to become a concert pianist when he was 16 skitch headed for this country in america he studied piano composition school ed to consider popular music a his first concert performance was under the auspices of the bir mingham league cancer guild and it was generally agreed by a critical audience that he had a good chance for musical fame young henderson then studied for a while with the celebrated conductor of the london philhar monic orchestra albert coates ditterline elected town council head at a meeting in drown hall on tuesday october 21 the town council held an election of officers to fill the vacancies left by the re signation of the four major officers gene sowers dick stevick don love and george horneck presentation of nominations pe titions signed by 10 town men qualified the following men as can didates norman hughes roy dit terline charles jensen robert courtney and gene high the hare system of proportional rep resentation was applied to elect roy ditterline president charles jensen vice-president robert courtney treasurer and gene high secretary election chair man jack roche presided during the elections allentown group to sponsor party alpha lambda omega the al lentown social fraternity is spon soring a party-dance for its mem bers tomorrow saturday at the woodlawn fire co hall on the outskirts of allentown arrangements for the party were made by bill diehl irv pol litt bob yeager and jack hohl an evening of well rounded en tertainment will be provided the plans call for square dancing un der the direction of a professional caller with music by the celebrated fink family of emmaus modern dancing novelty prizes and an abundance of refreshments calendar for this weekend temple ist debate opponent nov 11 lehigh university opens its in tercollegiate debating season against temple university tues day nov 11 2 p.m in the new radio studio of christmas-saucon hall the subject of the debate will be resolved that a world fed eral government should be estab lished the lehigh team will be com posed of two members of delta omicron theta the university honorary debating society these two men are robert e mertz 48 president of the society and rob ert polstein 48 the debate will be conducted in an orthodox style and will include a rebuttal a junior varsity debate will precede the varsity intercollegiate contest it will start at 7 p.m and the question will be resolved that a system of compulsary mili tary training is necessary to insure the security of the united states participants are howse and wil liam e tripp 49 supporting the affirmative and earle h conner 48 and richard f wood 47 de fending the negative lehigrh dates arrive for the fall houseparty members of the flying club could certainly bring their dates by air while less fortunate individuals must resort to more conventional means of trans portation but whether you fly walk or swim to this houseparty the effort should be worth while buddy rich his drums and band brings swing to lehigh discuss food buying plan through cooperative buying of food housemanagers from ll le high fraternities believe they can maintain quality promote econo my and get away from buying on the day to day basis at a meeting held with several large food deal ers from bethlehem and philadel phia possible arrangements for putting some plan into effect to ac complish these ends was discussed according to the men attending the meeting buying will include not only meat but butter eggs and other foods as well a meeting has been planned for nov 20 at which time further con sideration will be given to the plan theme fraternity banners will be draped on the walls and the front of grace hall will be flooded with lights all in all the decorations the new-look styles and music by buddy rich and skitch hender son add up to a enjoyable dance at the i.f ball after the dance it's back to the living groups and what ever is planned by them tomorrow features a football game between the lehigh varsity that battled hard againt muhlen berg last week and almost pulled an upset and the scrappy eleven from kings point last year our team edged a 7 to 0 victory over the mariners and it is hoped that we will duplicate our performance this year the game will start at 2:00 p.m the band and glee club have been working hard on their stunts and will provide colorful entertainment in tying together the two halves of the football game after the game plans will once again be left up to the individuals they can attend the tea dance at the maennerchor hit kinney's again or do almost anything sat urday night will find grace hall as the scene of another dance this time it will be the town council dance featuring the music of ken keely and his band tomorrow night will also fea ture many smaller dances in the various fraternity houses most fraternities have hired small bands to play in the houses for dancing some of the houses will be decor ated with a specific theme in mind interhouse visiting will be a fea ture of the night and invitations are out to the various living groups sunday in the tradition of houseparties will be left open for late sleeping and general recuper ation from the events of the week end the formals will be stuffed into bags along with wilted cor sages party favors and football programs trains busses and cars will begin the pilgrimage away from south mountain and house party will be in its dying stages by monday all that wil remain of the week-end will be some pleas ant memories and a few hangovers the saturday football game . . . friday 4:00 p.m girls arrive classes end 5:00 p.m cocktails at joe's 6:00 p.m stagger to dinner 7:00 p.m girls begin dressing for dance 9:45 pjn girls dressed 10:00 p.m dance begins 12:00 midnight presentation of prizes to mr and mrs lehigh and to houseparty queen saturday 2:00 a.m buddy rich and skitch henderson — farewell 2:10 a.m cultural discussion of world affairs 4:15 a.m oh no we're not married yet 10:30 a.m soccer lehigh vs penn steel field 11:00 a.m breakfast 12:00 a.m lunch 1:00 p.m preparation for game from private stock 2:00 p.m football game lehigh vs merchant mar ine academy taylor field after the game — tea dance — maennerchor 6:30 p.m dinner for those who can still eat 6:31 p.m chaperones go to bed 8:30 p.m dormitory dance 9:00 p.m fraternity affairs 9:30 p.m ??— visiting hours get up off the floor sunday 11:00 a.m church 12:30 p.m breakfast you don't have to 12:45 p.m lunch 4:00 p.m girls go home 5:00 p.m bail lehigh students out of jail monday 8:10 a.m classes begin 1:10 p.m students begin to arrive at class hayes speaks at apo convention byron c hayes associate di rector of admissions at lehigh addressed a regional convention of alpha phi omega national scout ing service fraternity on sunday nov 2 at cornell university ith aca new york mr hayes state chairman of alpha phi omega lead the le high delegation which included edgar k mulhausen a civil engin eering instructor chester czephya 50 and paul maleson 49 he spoke before representatives of 13 pennsylvania and new york schools and warned the other chapters against losing sight of their primary purpose as a service organization lehigh s alpha psi chapter now boasting 55 active members and pledges compares favorably in size and activity with chapters in other eastern universities its members worked with freshmen during orientation week and re cently operated the coke conces sion without payment at the com bined charities dance at grace hall providing the music for the i.f ball tonight from 10 to 2 will be one of the finest young dance bands in the country today — bud dy rich and his new orchestra the rich band has been in exist ence only a short time but has been a smash hit in top dance spots in the country among which are the college inn of chicago and the aquarium restaurant in new york buddy himself has had a long and successful career in the show world he started his rise to fame at the age of two when he was a featured part of his parents vaude ville act wilson and rich bud dy's first association with the drums came in these vaudeville theaters when he would climb on the pit drummer's lap and beg for the drumsticks a few years later when buddy was five he was featured in the greenwich village follies of 1923 at seven he toured austra lia and honolulu and all points east upon his return to this coun try he continued his tour when he was at the keith theatre in washington president wilson was so impressed with the rhymthic young man that he had an audi ence with him backstage buddy was in his late teens when he decided to play with a band a series of jam sessions at the crystal cafe in his home town brooklyn was the first step toward this ambition it was here that joe marsala first heard him and gave him a job after he left marsala's band he joined leith stevens the band that was famous at the time for its saturday night swing club sessions over cbs after this job buddy joined the famous bunny berrigan ensemble artie shaw heard buddy and was amazed at his ability he ask ed buddy to join the shaw band buddy stayed with shaw about a year and while with him he added greatly to his list of fans about this time tommy dorsey was chaning the style of his or chestra from a sweet outfit to a swing band he needed a drummer who could provide the punch that was necessary to put across the fine arrangements of sy oliver he hired buddy for the job and before their six year association was up buddy had risen to the leature position in the band buddy's stay with dorsey was interrupted by a two year stint in the marine corps but upon his re turn to dorsey he started to for mulate plans tor a band of his own with the help of frank sinatra his plans finally became a reality buddy's band is one of the few bands in the country that was an immediate success and when still undergoing formative changes was a smash hit wherever it played buddy's reputation promises good danceable music tonight at the i.f ball senior interviews begin during the week representatives from the hartford electric light company pennsylvania railroad and the stanolind oil and gas company were at lehigh inter viewing prospects e robins mor gan director of the placement bureau announced that 12 inter views are scheduled for this week as compared to only three inter views last week time out for a different type of houseparty activity watch lehigh pile up the fourth victory for the season after the same go to the tea dance at the maennerchor vol lvi no 12 the friday night formal . . . and twennum.akln.ci skam relqn wpn.eme 0 6 0 u brown and white price — 5 cents bethlehem pa friday november 7 1947 lehigh prepared for weekend of fun and frolic as fall houseparty promises to be gala event skitch henderson features soft danceable melodies student fund statistics eoaring musical clubt land classes „ lustard and cheese arcadia irown and white 4.6 $ ili.tx .. 7.1 517.4 .. 8.1 591.41 .. 10.1 739.2 .. 11.2 813.11 .. 23.3 1,700.21 . 36.6 2,587.3 otal .. 100.0 7,281.6 the next issue of the brown and white will come out fri day november 14 there will be no paper tuesday meet mr and mrs lehigh on page three of this issue the lehigh-lafayette faun will be shifted to the bethlehen high school stadium from tay lor stadium to accommodate the unprecedented demand fo tickets