Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 5

              ex-kenton songstress june christie to sing at lehigh both floors will be completely decorated with a single theme so continued on page 3 col 1 unable to obtain a movie contract she returned to baltimore where she later met sammy kaye and margie lee houseparty goers will re ceive one of the most sensational evenings of entertainment ever to be offered by any campus organi zation in the country according to john georgiadis chairman of the senior prom gillespie will bring a 16 piece band and two vocalists here his band has been known locally as the up and coming band matt gillespie started his profes sional career with paul specht played with irving aaronson's commanders later played with benny goodman and finally char lie banet at this point gillespie decided to organize his own band kaye will also feature tony alamo singer ernie cecil rudi sill the daffy drummer chubby silvers saxaphone lloyd roberts trombone the kayedets and the kaye choir along with laura leslie is don cornell a native of new york city he joined the kaye aggregation in minneapolis in jan 1942 he left the band and served in the army air corps he returned to the band in 1946 became his singer and for one hay hour anyone may lead the famous swing and sway band his show will be conducted as it has been in the past at every performance the maestro allows a group of four contestants to come up from the audience and wave the baton to make the music go for better or for worse the men in the orchestra play loudly or softly fast or slow depending on what the amateur does with the baton after the group of contestants has led the band through a series of involved noises sammy pre sents each with an autographed baton adding a substantial prize to the contestant judged best by the audience applause laura leslie femal vocalist with sammy kaye's orchestra was a stenographer in baltimore before joining the band as a high school student she accepted a job on a weekly sponsored program in bal timore from the maryland city she went to hollywood but was leading the field of entertainers will be june christie who origin ally sang with stan kenton and his orchestra and is one of the most popular singers in the country to day she will sing with matt gil lespie on the upper floor of grace hall from 9:30 p.m to 1:30 a.m june is rated number two in the campus survey conducted in may and metronome rated her num ber four in their female vocalist poll second on the list of top en tertainers will be sammy kaye the originator of so you want to lead a band kaye will play on the lower floor of grace hall from 10 p.m to 2 a.m kaye will come here with a troupe of 15 plus one vocalist this will be his first visit on a college campus in ten years his vocal subgroup the kayedets do rhythm numbers which the kaye choir encompasses with the whole band kaye will feature his so you want to lead a band at 11 p.m lehigh university's fall brown and white latest reports on the cam pus chest drive gave a mid-week total of 1414.06 more than five hundred dollars more than a sim ilar report last ear three dormitory sections and three fraternities led the list with 100 per cent of the memberships contributing to the chest fund drinker 1118 was the first to be reported with a two dollar con tribution from each of its thirty men richards i and taylor a also had early 100 per cent phi gamma delta led the frater nity field in money collected so far with 69.50 although only 91 per cent had contributed alpha tau omega was first chi psi and sig ma phi following with their hun dred per cent contributions at midnight wednesday night 1 no more than 25 may be spent for decorating 2 winner and runner-up will be judged by five members of the faculty 3 displays must be ready to be judged by 5 p.m nov 17 continued on page 8 col 5 homecoming display rules for the forthcoming lehigh-lafay ette football game were released by john curtis i.f.c committee . chairman of displays at a meeting y held in drown ha]l monday night five faculty members were cho sen to judge the displays they are charles a seidle dean of stu dents george m bean university chaplain dr lawrence whitcomb i geology department dr allen j barthold head of language de partment and sgt john bereznak jr assistant instructor in military science and tactics rules for displays are homecoming display contest rules released volume 58 — number 5 the pup carrying the brown feathers in her saddle bags is lena from the phi delta theta fraternity house each donor to the cam pus chest is entitled to guess the number of feathers in her posses sion and the winner will receive a free ticket to houseparty's fri day night dance oct 28 pictured above are harry jack baker bill snyder jim hood ted modfis and walt smalley photo by rudd humanism must restrain atom davis admonishes engineers war preparations are not getting at the cancer of our civili zation watson davis director of science service wash dc pointed out to members of the engineering club of lehigh valley in packard auditorium wednesday night see l.u from air plans will be announced monday by the flying club for a plane-naming contest all stu dents are invited to participate in naming the club's stetson plane winners will be announ ced at the houseparty friday evening oct 28 the winner and his date will be flown over bethlehem and the campus by a flying club member with all but two fraternities re ported the greek letter total wa 810.05 the dormitories followed with fourteen sections not report ed but 574.01 collected at the half-way point in the drive in the other 16 the only report from town showed 3 collected from thirty per cent of the allentown men contacted exclusive of members of alo the extremes within an area were demonstrated in richards house section iv b reported a five dollar contribution from 10.083 per cent of the membership while sec tion i hit 61 from 31 men all the residents giving these are not the complete returns not all living groups have reported nor has the entire stu dent body been approached due to the illness of ray roefler chair man of bethlehem solicitors no re port was possible from town which is expected to surpass last years record solicitors continued in their ef fort to speak to each student feather merchants intensified their efforts on thursday and friday in order to approach students who had not been reached through their living groups plans neared com pletion wednesday night for the female solicitors for saturday morning living group collections may b turned in at the arcadia office this afternoon and evening the total of these contributions with the addi tion of collection-cup proceeds will be announced at the charity ball tomorrow nig-ht at 11:30 the final figure will be delayed however until late contributions and the university parking fines can be added figures complete at that time will be announced sun day evening and later a mimeo eraphed list of contributions by living groups and other sources will be prepared for full distribu tion continued on page 8 col 3 winner of the feather counting contest prize of a free ticket to the senior prom of fall houseparty will also be announced at the charity mueller joins trustee board dr theophil h mueller president of the julius kayser company has been named a cor porate trustee of lehigh university it was announced today by eugene g grace chairman of the board of bethlehem steel company and president of the university board of trustees dr mueller is a graduate of moravian college for men mora vian theological seminary and lehigh university he has served as alumni advisor of the lehigh chapter of phi gamma delta was elected an alumnus trustee of le high in 1946 he taught modern languages here for five years starting in 1912 he was given the honorary de gree of doctor of laws by moravian college for men in 1942 for twelve years he served as presi dent of the board of trustees of moravian seminary and college for women the oldest boarding school for girls in the united states before joining julius kay er he was on the staff of the bethlehem steel company and the laros silk company date set for proof returns approximately 700 out of the 750 members of the grad uating class of 1950 had their epitome pictures taken last week a representative for the photographers will be in the epitome room drown hall oct 18 and 19 to receive the proofs in the event that a senior can not bring the proofs in on either day he should mail them des ignating which picture he has selected for the epitome to ed ward tarr photographs mad ison aye new york city the picture selected is to be chosen from those taken in dress clothes and not the ones in cap and gown the proofs may be sent in the same envelope and must be in by oct 21 if they are not turned in or mailed to the pho tographer by that date the edi tors of the epitome reserve the right to make their own choice declaring that understanding is more imperative than war materials davis went on to say that we are too pre-occupied with solving our immediate problems — a new kind of plastic to suit our needs a new detergent that speeds dishwashing the coming of television the important thing to do today davis reiterated is to expend a small fraction of our national sub stance upon a psychological offen sive for human international un derstanding contniued on page 2 col 4 unless we can realize the sit uation in which the war has left the large populations of the earth bethlehem pa charity drive tops 1414 at midpoint friday october 14 1949 laura leslie