Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 10

              orders are still being taken for the 1951 epitome of the 1000 to be prinled 800 have already been subscribed to according to david m baldwin business man ager of the epitome all those in ierested in obtaining a copy should get their order in now epitomes will be available may 15 the following are epitome salesmen tom walter taylor hall bob wagner fraternities on campus paul steigerwald drink er house and fraternities off campus ai colyer drinker house and fraternities off campus ; bruce steketee dravo house robert gill town men for the first time since the pres ent emergency the red cross re ceived the highest number of pints of blood in any one visit of the bloodmobile in this area in its five-hour stay at grace hall friday 177 pints were collected fiom 197 persons from the group of donors the red cross reported that 89 have specified their willingness to donate again commenting on the out come mrs j p bender chair man of volunteer services in the bethlehem area said that lehigh was most coopera tive in the drive pending a decision from dr wray r congdon chairman of the bethlehem chapter sam har leman expressed a desire to so licit students for a second visit qualifications listed for odk applicants mittees became the basic measures approved by the convention the two meas ures approved at the con vention were the extension of the welfare state and upholding of u s foreign policy attending the convention from lehigh were collins stafford robert k meyer ee 53 gordon atkinson chem 52 1 paul hand werk ie 52 and charles saylor arts 54 jon hopkins debate coach and speech instructor ac companied the group students in their sth 6th of 7th semesters who are interested in being considered for member ship in omicron delta kappa national senior leadershop hon orary society are asked to pick up applications in the arcadia office membership in the society v based on the applicant's char acter and his conribuiions to lehigh as a measure of this the candidate is rated in five fields of activity scholarship publications leadership in gov ernmental social and religious . affairs speech music dramatic arts and other activities and athletics a necessary prerequisite for initiation into the society is be ing in the upper one-third of your class with each applica tion the student should enclose a short description of some plan or idea large or small which he feels the society could institute to benefit the students or uni versity this however will not be used as a basis for member ship completed applications must be turned in to the arcadia of fice before march 28 members of lehigh's debating society delta omicron theta held positions of leadership at the 16th annual debaters con vention held at perm state over the weekend leonard stafford debate society secretary was elected second vice president of next year's con tention stafford succeeds another lehigh man lawrence collins a & e 52 who held the position for this session of the convention lehigh was the only school at the convention to elect officers for both this session and the next one lehigh debaters also were among floor leaders in both the general assembly meeting and committee meetings al though the lehigh delegation did not propose a bill at ihe convention the bills upheld by lehigh in the two corn arnold air society established here see air society page 7 founding of the arnold air so ciety was announced today by maj ralph a newman head of the arotc it is a national air force organization for advanced arotc cadets the organization's purpose is to further the mission of the u s air force at university level by encouraging team work technical knowledge and cooperating among the students enrolled in arotc the arnold air society is sponsored by the air force as sociation which is an organiza tion composed of present and bethlehem pa ticket sales for festival to continue tuesday march 20 1951 first robins of spring . . . volume 62 — number 11 i.e c>-o oa m&c to give eliot drama on april 22 mustard and cheese dramatic lub will present t e eliot's murder in the cathedral on april 22 in packer chapel there will be performances at 4 p.m and 7:30 p.m dramatizing the murder of thimos becket of canterbury the play was written by eliot for the canterbury cathedral festival of june 1935 at the suggestion of e martin brown of london eliot revised the script for the legitimate stage with the famous english actor robert speight in the role of thomas it was pro duced ai the mercury theater the producer then moved it to the larger duchess theater where it ran for almost a year c murder in the cathedral was first produced profesionally in america by the federal theater project from there is was given at the ritz theater and produced by gilbert miller hobart college was the scene of ihe play's first performance in a church in america this took place in 1940 written in blank verse the play stands out as one of the greatest religious dramas of the gentury it is a poetical drama in which eliot presents the signi ficance of beckei's martyrdom it disregards the superficialities of the murder and emphasizes the basic character of the man shown in rehearsal for the music festival are four lehigh men and a group of the opposite sex from beaver college the rehearsal took place saturday in grace hall in preparation for the festival to be held april 13 and 14 bloodmobile program acclaimed successful of the bloodmobile sometime in early may of the 214 donors listed for friday 21 did not appear five were rejected because of age and 15 were disqualified for failure to pass their medical there were also two cancellations — the low est ever received originally listed were 129 stu denis 18 moravian students two wives 33 faculty 13 staff eight graduate students and 11 town people after one day of ticket sale the 1.80 tickets for seats on the floor of grace hall were sold out for the saturday april 14 perform ance of the 1951 lehigh music festival ticket sales started thurs day and are now on sale in drown hall from 1 to 4 p.m mon day through friday both reserved and unreserved seals are still available for both performances according to louis neuweiler sales manages re served seats cost 1.80 and 1.60 and unreserved 1.30 rehearsals for the fourth annual production have been in progress for several weeks the beaver college glee club visited lehigh on sat urday for a combined glee club rehearsal in grace hall and the lehigh group will travel to jenkintown pa to morrow for the third rehearsal with beaver rehearsals for down in the valley have also started a group of dancers from cedar crest college and lehigh rehears ed today and the solo leads for the broadway production by kurt weil went through their parts yesterday mountain peaks will form the backdrop for the stage with the audience and the musical groups down in the valley koroseal a transpar ent plastic material will be used to cover the peaks with variable lighting installed be hind the backdrop lehigh victorious the second part of the musical program will feature lehigh songs and will in clude the glee club cliff clefs and eleven members of he 1950 football squad the undefeated gridiron season is the theme of this section and the songs of le high have been woven into a new form for the festival debaters get posts at annual convention some exempt in rotc at end of term brown and white col virgil miller of the mili tary department has announced thai deferments will be reviewed ai the end of each semester those who meet certain standards will remain deferred while the others will be replaced he added we have already deferred the cream of the crop rtow we want the butierfai in the cream 200 epitomes remain for sale inside • • • parking petition $ contemporary thought 6 personals & comments 6 sports 4 $ little man ft