Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 37

              gifts increase by 200,000 contrary to the trend in most col leges and universities lehigh's fi nancial picture for 1952-53 showed a considerable increase in gifts and bequests over 1951-52 total gifts and bequests from all sources for 1952-53 were 667,500 compared with 439,905 for the same period in 1951-52 findings of a study conducted by john price jones co inc consultants and managers for institutional financing reveal that the 50 institutions they studied received gifts in 1952-53 totaling 8.2 per cent less than the previous year the new york times published these fig ures last monday bequests to the university totaled 125,610 in 1952-53 a considerable increase over 1951-52 when only 55,813 was bequeathed to lehigh the alumni fund also showed con siderable increase totaling 202,668 see lehigh page 5 the semi-annual houseparty ball will be held this spring on fri day night may 7 beginning at 10 p.m the admission for the four hours of dancing will be 5 the dance committee has requested that no flowers be worn to the dance extra features of the ball will in clude arrangement of chairs and tables in a room adjoining the upper dance floor for the convenience of those who wish to kick their shoes off every so often plans for refreshments checkroom facilities and a photographer are be ing made by the dance committee tommy tucker's aggregation will hold the fort on the main floor while buddy williams and the band will be the center of attraction on grace hall's upper level the tucker aggregation is prob ably one of the oldest dance bands in existence today during the war he gained popularity through his girl vocalist bonnie baker though miss baker has since left the group tucker continues to produce an agreeable brand of dance music buddy williams is the leader of a philadelphia band which has obtain ed public acclaim in and around the quaker city williams has recorded for one of the major studios and has played in many dance halls in the area flowers taboo at houseparty sweet scents of carnations and or chids will not fill the halls of grace during the spring houseparty dance friday may 7 charles a eisenfel der jr 55 chairman of the house party publicity committee stated the group renewed the ban placed on posies by senior class prexy phil ip f newman jr last fall the ban was reminiscent of newman's action last october in that eisenfelder's committee also cut the corsages because it will enable more people to come to the dance eisenfelder emphasized that the junior class cabinet would profit monetarily he stated that the class cabinet's arguments centered on the point that many men wouldn't attend the dance if they had to buy flowers for their dates last fall newman imposed a similar ban on flowers for the identical reasons given by eis enfelder the outlawing caused see ban page 4 brown and white friday march 26 1954 opinions on ic vary widely volume 65 — number 37 lehigh university bethlehem pa by bill haase the recognition of religion as an integral part of every man's life whether he be an engineer scientist or lawyer was the purpose of the interfaith conference just concluded whether the two-week conference led by will herberg nation ally known author and social critic fulfilled its purpose as expressed above by george lemmon interfaith council president is a matter of campus conjecture cossacks strut stuff tonite features soloduhin dance dancing in dark theme for 54 hp see faith page 6 the brown and white in an in formal campus survey has obtained favorable and very unfavorable opinions this year's conference differed from previous conferences in that it lasted for two weeks instead of one the conference offered a unified program under a single leader combining all catholic protestant and jewish interests on the campus by aiming the conference at the classroom level the students were presented lectures and seminars cov ering topics bearing on their inter ests regular classroom attendance boosted the number of student contacts to a record high of 2,332 this figure includes 1,557 men attending 15 class lectures 192 at seminars for faculty and students 403 at meetings and 180 at dorm and fraternity informal gatherings herberg's presentations as sum marized by chaplain raymond e fuessle included an analysis of our approaches to the problem of mean ing in life in terms of various secu lar and religious philosophies his purpose as the chaplain saw it was to underline the necessity of making a clear-cut decision in the area of our ultimate loyalites he challenged committees nominated by arcadia flowers or no flowers we'll be dancing in the dark on friday night of this spring's houseparty grace hall's two dance floors will resound to the music of buddy williams and tommy tucker while lehigh men waltz with their dates in a dim provocative atmosphere created by in direct lighting and decorations festival tickets gone for sat friday's remain music festival tickets for satur day night april 24 were sold out completely in the group sale tues day it was announced by don schindel 54 business manager there are many choice seats left for the friday performance they may be obtained at the grace hall ticket booth which will be open from 4 p.m to 6 p.m monday through friday until the day of the festival we were very encouraged by ticket sales schindel said it was the best advance sale in the history of the festival it was also announced that chore ographer john begg and his profes sional dancing partner betsy drew will be the dancing soloists in part i the first part consists of music by campus music groups thus professional performers will be presented in the first two parts of the festival pianist william fairlamb will be soloist during the second portion part three is the billy sheridan story rehearsals for that part are now being held twice weekly begg is conducting the sessions for the dancers who will be accompanied by the original music of prof wil liam h schempf before students faculty police and firemen the don cossack choral group will literally strut their stuff this evening in grace hall at 8 p.m nicholas kostrukoff's famed group is expected to display the same verve and bravado which entertained a lehigh audience six years ago included in the repertoire of the group's singers and dancers will be gabriel soloduhin's violent dance of daggers the renowned cossack's dance will portray in contrast the simple peasant life of his home country with a stirring climax of primitive jubilation which we hope we will view only from an orchestra seat among the onlookers this evening will be bethlehem policemen and firemen and their wives who will attend as guests of the concerts lectures series committee soloduhin's notoriety is not limit ed to daggers and dances after his debut a decade ago at the san fran cisco world's fair and tours with wild west shows he presented the horsemanship he developed in the caucasus into the services of the barnum and bailey circus there he awed hardened american circus goers by riding a horse strapped to its belly in addition to soloduhin there will be several vocal soloists these will come from the troupe of 26 singers who have toured the world for over 15 years no matter where the cossacks perform they are always heartily appreciated their recent appear ance in new york was as successful as their last appearance on the le high campus during their last en gagement with the lehigh family the cossacks thrilled a capacity au dience who had nothing but words of praise for the show arcadians at wednesday's meet ing named the following men for membership in the various commit tees alumni contact — gene mur phy lou peters ralph hamilton athletic — paul ringenbach larry reynal campus — don kirkpatrick ken carlson murphy student fi nance — reynal kirkpatrick bill burgin concessions — ted baum bill wessner student publications — bill zeiter dave sidikman bob balestier safety — carlson kirkpatrick baum leadership — norm gasswint charlie eisen felder peters big four — ralph hamilton class — not named 16-man — kirkpatrick disci pline — mai gross hamilton drown hall — peters bob hal tcnhoff zeiter faculty evaluation — bill wess ner jack crandall ringenbach fine arts — sidikman freshman ori entation — haltenhoff stan corbett ringenbach pete veinott health service — corbett crandall reynal lamberton hall — wessner lost and found — carlson publicity — sidik man corbett murphy veinott rec ognition keys — baum student acti vities — veinott haltenhoff zeiter student elections — crandall sidik man wessner four members of the don cos sack singers cut-up with gabriel soloduhin featured dagger dancer appearing tonight in grace hall • fair skies are forecast for the weekend by the weatherman to row will be cooler fai - next five days will average two to four inches below the present normal of 43 degrees colder tuesday and wednesday