Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 25

              bethlehem pa friday january 10 1936 price — five cents buchanan keiser resign from graduate positions e.e.'s to hear high on future of radio vol xliii no 25 musical clubs will sponsor concert dance dorsey to play feb 1 for fraternity ball myron j luch dies suddenly of heart attack ball maestro william a cornelius 89 robert f herrick 34 nbc news commentator to speak in allentown dr stanley high director of talks and national broadcasting company news commentator will speak on radio in a democracy to the members of the electrical en gineering department and student members of the american institute of electrical engineers at the meet ing of the lehigh valley section of the a i e e to be held tonight at the masonic temple in allentown dr high was an army aviator during the war a foreign corres pondent in europe asia africa and spent time in china and soviet russia he has covered the united states and canada from coast to coast interpreting news covering special assignments making surveys of public opinion and interviewing the world's greatest statesmen there will also be a short talk by earle w weaver of the penn sylvania power and light company on 20,000 kilowatt hydrogen cooled frequency converter clement c williams president of the university addressed this so ciety at the easton meeting held at lafayette college last november lehigh university will be host to the society early in the spring tcinray dorsey society hears i messmore william a cornelius 89 and robert f herrick 34 to become executive secretary and assistant secretary respectively he graduated in 1889 and has been secretary of his class ever since prior to his retirement in 1929 he was for 25 years manager of the national tube company of mckees port since then he has lived in philadelphia and has been employed as an executive of the philadelphia community chest three of his sons are lehigh graduates — george 24 robert 28 and john 35 his fam ily will move here in the spring h d keiser 16 assistant sec retary since september tendered his resignation at the same time in professor of english suc cumbs to persistent ailment dec 22 was here for 27 years myron j luch professor of eng lish died on sunday morning dec 22 of a heart condition from which he had been suffering for a month dr luch was born jan 27 1881 in macada then a part of bethle hem township he entered lehigh in 1898 and graduated in 1902 with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1903 the university conferred upon him the degree of master of arts in 1908 tulane university awarded him the degree of doctor of phil osophy dr luch became associated with the lehigh university faculty in 1903 when he was appointed assis tant instructor in english in 1904 he was instructor of english from 1905-1907 a teacher fellow in greek at tulane university from 1907-16 assistant professor of english at le high from 1916-25 professor of rhetoric and oratory and from 1925 to the time of his death professor of english dr luch was the recipient of an honorary life membership to the alumni association of lehigh uni continued on page four kreller freed by grand jury glee club symphonic en semble and dance or chestra to participate first program this year the combined musical clubs will present their first annual home con cert at eight tomorrow evening in drown hall the glee club the symphonic ensemble and the dance orchestra will participate following the program the dance orchestra will play for dancing un til 1 a m admission is free to students who should present their bursar's receipts at the door or se cure tickets in the lehigh union office before noon tomorrow tick ets for guests are 46 cents includ ing taxes the program hail the college and landsighting grieg glee club the bells of st mary's adams double quartet mexican songs gilberto escobedo c.e.'36 nut brown ale from robin hood de koven glee club sel ections from naughty marietta herbert ensemble ole clipper days andrews glee club baritone solo the trumpeter ford nelson j leonard ch e 37 deep river burleigh double quartet piano solo polichinelle rachmaninoff carstens y haas ch e 38 shadow march protheroe and alma mater glee club new societies are approved dean addresses school principals joint exhibition opens in library announcement was made this week of a change in the office of executive secretary of the lehigh alumni association william a cor nelius 89 of philadelphia will suc ceed andrew e buchanan 18 as executive secretary robert f her rick 34 will succeed h d keiser 16 as assistant secretary the new men will take over the office feb 1 mr buchanan is leaving the uni versity in order to accept the posi tion of director of research for the remington arms plant of the du pont company at bridgeport conn in his new capacity he will be called upon to build up a program and an organization involving the expenditure of a half million dollars a year for the development of bet ter arms and ammunition graduates in war class after graduation in the war class of 1918 mr buchanan be came affiliated with the dupont company the same one to which he is now turning his attention he lat er entered the employ of the mc graw-hill publications in 1923 he returned to lehigh and served the alumni association for five years as assistant secretary under walter r okeson he succeeded okey when the latter became eastern czar of football in 1928 in addition to his secretarial po sition mr buchanan also relin quishes his post as head of the de partment of promotion and public ity william a cornelius has been ac tive in alumni affairs for 47 years music will go round and around as edyth wright sings band night club success leader has played with lopez and whiteman and in show the music goes round and around oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho and it comes out here where — at the coliseum at 10 p m feb 1 with tommy dorsey furnishing the swing numbers for the annual in terfraternity ball edyth wright versatile person ality singer will appear with dor sey lehigh is familiar to miss wright as she was present at house parties several years ago dorsey has recently enjoyed a sensationally successful run at the french casino new york's famous night club broadcasting twice weekly over the columbia broad casting system his specialty is coaxing difficult tunes out of his pet trombone walter crockett i.e 36 is chair man of the committee in charge of the dance louis stout bus 36 a member of the committee will have charge of the decorations for the hall john kornet ch e 36 will distribute the tickets to the frater nity houses dean to be chaperone chaperones for the dance are dean and mrs c m mcconn dr and mrs c g beardslee and dean and mrs g b curtis dancing will continue from 10 o'clock until 2 tommy dorsey is a native penn sylvanian hailing from the coal re gions of shenandoah at the age of eight he started to make the music go round and around on all types of brass instruments but finally se lected the trombone and has since specialized on that instrument dorsey made his entrance and exit in various big-time bands play ing with vincent lopez roger wolfe kahn and paul whiteman eventually he organized his own band and was featured in the broad way musical show everybody's welcome will try student for manslaughter mcconn gives suggestions for modern education charles m mcconn dean of the university spoke to the associated academic principals of new york saturday at their final session in syracuse n y discussing the dilemma of democratic education dean mc conn set up a two-point plan where by more and highly differentiated standards adapted to as many dif ferent kinds of a capacity as can be reasonably segregated could be introduced the points considered were first a very great diversification of pro grams and methods and goals adapted to all classifiable kinds and degrees of individual difference and second a full development in all schools of guidance activities to assist the students in choosing wise ly among many programs of differ ent kinds at different levels verdict exonerates student of manslaughter charge in auto accident max a kreller m e 38 was exonerated of charges of man slaughter and leaving the scene of an accident in a verdict handed down by the grand jury of hunter don county n j on friday kreller's arrest followed an ac cident on dec 2 near clinton n.j as he was returning to school after the thanksgiving holidays charges of manslaughter resulted from the death of john utter c.c.c worker at the clinton point camp utter was found dead at the bridge over the new jersey central rail road tracks on route 28 between clinton and lebanon indications were that utter had been the vic tim of a hit and run driver trooper walter schindlin who investigated the case found frag ments of a broken windshield on which were pieces of a lehigh stick er and an inspection tag after trac ing these leads he arrested kreller who was taken to the office of pros ecutor anthony m hauck at clin ton he was held on 1,000 bail supplied by dean c m mcconn until the decision of the grand jury was made public myron j luch versity at a dinner given in the ho tel bethlehem on june 19 1933 when he completed 25 years of service as a member of his alma mater's fac ulty during his association at lehigh dr luch prepared many members of debating teams he is survived by his wife and three children tribute paid luch faculty sanctions allen town outing and eagle scout clubs the faculty committee on student activities approved on tuesday af ternoon four petitions three for the organization of new student socie ties and another for the interfrater nity ball the interfraternity council was granted the privilege of holding the annual ball on the evening of sat urday feb 1 from 10 to 2 in the coliseum dean and mrs mcconn dean and mrs curtis and dr and mrs beardslee will chaperone the committee approved the or ganization of the new lehigh al lentown club and recognized the lehigh university outing club whose members have been active since last spring the lehigh uni versity eagle scout association or ganized to foster scouting interests of the group was also approved they plan soon to petition alpha phi omega national honorary scouting fraternity for a charter model of watt engine is convincing replica pre-med student reads pa per at alpha epsilon delta banquet the relation of yaws to syph ilus was the subject of a paper presented by i l messmore arts 36 at the banquet of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-medical frater nity wednesday at the delta up silon house yaws is primarily a disease of the tropics messmore explained and went on to say that it was pre valent among children and younger people yaws is divided into three stages corresponding to the stages of syphilus but not so clearly de fined serum reactions such as the washerman test which is used for syphilus are uniformly positive the disease is caused by the or ganism known as treponema per tenue this organism is very closely related to treponema pallidum which causes syphilus cases are imported the only cases of yaws in tem perate climates are those imported directh r . the disease does not spread in the temperate zone messmore's report was taken from an article by herbert u williams m d which appeared in the ar chives of pathology october 1395 following messmore's talk pres ident clement c williams gave an informal address in which he lauded the progress of alpha epsilon delta and expressed his conviction that lehigh's chapter would attain an even higher place on the campus members of the chapter received copies of the scalpel the official publication of alpha epsilon delta in which was an account of the in stallation of the pennsylvania alpha chapter at lehigh last may 12 in the paper were also the speech given at the installation banquet by rob ert w buchanan 35 president of the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety last year and first president of the lehigh chapter and the address given at the same banquet by maur ice l moare grand historian of the fraternity collins to speak photographs etchings and prints feature art show a joint exhibition of the drawings of martha fort anderson the prints of frank hartley anderson the etchings of richard coe and the photographs of w mansfield white 37 opened wednesday afternoon at the university art gallery in the li brary the drawings of mrs anderson are practically all southern sketches depicting the negro at work at play in repose her husband made prints both in black and white and in several colors of some of her drawings and is also represented by several original drawings and prints richard coe shows a few deli cately small etchings of industrial plants w mansfield white 37 is rep resented by 48 photographic en largements his choice of subject matter includes the lehigh campus machinery interiors and four por traits of babies the exhibition will remain on public view for about three weeks faculty fills vacancies ap proves college meeting at its meeting monday afternoon in the alumni memorial building the faculty payed tribute to the memory of dr myron j luch pro fesor of english granted a petition to arcadia and appointed men to fill vacancies caused by faculty deaths the group observed a moment of silence in memory of the late dr luch and adopted a resolution con cerning his death arcadia student governing body was granted the privilege of holding a college meeting at 11 a m tues day may 18 dr v h babasin ian professor of organic chemistry was elected to fill dr luch's posi tion on the committee on advanced standing dr n m emery's place on the committee on honorary de grees will be taken by dr benja min l miller ! o sunday recital cancelled the all-liszt recital which was to be given at 3:30 p m on jan 12 in packer memorial chapel by mrs ruth becker myers miss anna gehman and dr t edgar shields has been indefinitely post poned due to the death of mrs j upton myers mother-in-law of mrs ruth becker myers o snavelys parents of son a son was born tuesday morn ing at lancaster to dr and mrs benjamin l snavely dr snavely is instructor in physics library heads iii will address phi eta sigma at meeting tonight phi eta sigma national honorary freshman society will meet at 7:30 this evening in room 258 packard laboratory major collins assistant professor of military science and tactics will be the principal speaker and will choose his own topic john cooney e e 38 president of the society stated there would be a short bus iness meeting following the talk by major collins general business for the new year and plans for the entry of new members will be discussed o roadstrum to talk tonight magnitude and photometry will be discussed by w roadstrum e e 38 at the meeting of the e w astronomical society to be held to night at 7:30 in room 353 pack ard laboratory leach and miss wheatley confined to hospitals howard s leach librarian has been absent during the past month on account of illness high blood pressure caused his removal to mas sachusetts general hospital boston where he is to be under observa tion for a short time starting jan 1 the compilation of books ob tained by the library during de cember has been delayed because of the absence of miss mary wheat ley the head cataloguer miss wheatley has been operated on at st luke's hospital the december list will be combined with the reg ular january summary jury indicts washabaugh for accident last year frank j washabaugh met e.'3b was indicted by the lehigh county grand jury on wednesday and will face trial for the involuntary man slaughter of stanley r adler of bethlehem last february at the time of the accident wash abaugh a resident of the canal zone was driving to the interfra ternity ball at the coliseum when blinded by the lights of an ap proaching trolley he crashed his car into two alighting passengers adler one of the victims died shortly after the acident mrs mary werkheiser was taken to st luke's hospital and mrs adler was also injured by the collision the true bill decision returned by the grand jury signifies that evi dence against washabaugh is suf ficient to warrant a trial by jury o three of faculty attend eastern philosophy meet three faculty members attended a meeting of the eastern division of the american philosophical as sociation on dec 29-31 in the south ern hotel baltimore md the lehigh representatives were dr c g beardslee prof t e shields and prof f c becker o daughter born to alumnus a daughter adelaide sherwood was born to mr and mrs john scott skelly on dec 22 1935 mr skelly ch e 33 has a position with the standard oil company at pampa texas mrs skelly is the former lillian payrow cedar crest 33 daughter of prof h g pay row of the department of civil en gineering built for the watt bicentennial exposition to be held under the auspices of lehigh and the franklin institute jan 19 20 and 21 this 1-16 scale model of a watt walking-beam engine is a tribute to the crafts manship of w s clewell the mechanician and lab oratory assistant of the m e department was assisted by r m coates and e e hagermen freshman en gineers with working parts almost entirely of brass the model may be run by compressed air or steam the brickwork beams and supporting members are of wood brown and white photo brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first