Brown and White Vol. 66 no. 39

              edward eichelberger bid for russian visitor is too late elgart well known for his albums sophisticated swing and just one more chance as well as many individual pop hits is considered one of the top recording and dance bands in the country and has gained considerable fame as a college prom orchestra this appearance marks his initial visit to the south moun tain campus while les wields the baton on the lower floor another well liked band will hold the spotlight on the upper level the rhythmaires now a fa miliar sight at lehigh after their fall hp appearance will feature mu sic in a jazz vein duncan aspinwall is serving as general chairman of the dance assisted by fred jackson wayne reyfleld bill luce vie potter dave walton gil mos kowitz chet page dick cogs well and dave lamphear as committee chairmen other features of the weekend will include the spring production of the mustard and cheese society and a home baseball game with muhlenberg residence halls council has a well organized program scheduled for the weekend and has five separate events listed and approved by the dean's office a friday night cock tail-hour party and saturday after noon picnics are two of the events segovia is ' classical burl ives by george l beezer think you'll ever beat segovia ha ha was a frequent question asked by friends of would-be gui tarists at the student concerts-lec tures series presentation of andres segovia last friday night in grace hall the question quoted above amply illustrates the admiration the audience of 700 immediately felt toward the world-famous musician segovia with an ut ter lack of decorative support managed to keep most of the audience awake throughout the entire show — a remarkable feat at lehigh any day an adequate description of sego via might be this one — the classi cal burl ives for that is about it many guests of spanish or south american extraction went absolute ly wild at the melodic wisps of se govia's non electric instrument so outstanding was the presenta tion that the room reminded one of see guitar page 7 55 festival moves into stage stage brown and white's request that one of the 11 visiting russian college newspaper editors come to the lehigh campus was made too late it has been learned prof j b mcfadden the newspaper's faculty adviser appointed by dean hayes to inquire into the matter told the editorial board that more than 200 american colleges and universities had bid for the russians visit before the b&w mcfadden said their requests were made in the two or three daji following the announcement that the russian editors had been cleared b the state and justice department for a three-week tour o f the unitec states next month even if the b&t bid had beer made earlier he said it would have been no guarantee that the russians would come here the departmeni of state doesn't want to split lh group up for one thing for another their itinerary is being arranged according to what they want to see me see russians page 7 with their saturday night performance sold out and the friday night presentation well on its way to such an end the cast for the spring music festival allegro continues to rehearse long hours both sundays and wednesdays the two leading roles — joe taylor jr and jenny brinker — will be portrayed by richard b thompson 56 and merle letowt beth lehem on friday night the saturday night performance will feature william g murray 57 and peggy lewis allentown in place of the first night duo the stage where they will per form is a 3.000-ft square platform 01 the lower floor of grace hall the backdrop for the stage consists of ai 85 by 15 foot screen that will hang from the ceiling the design of tht stage and backdrops are under the direction of j longwell horning 55 and gordon l cron 55 allegro requries more than 3 different scenes and the group wil meet this problem by using onlj lighting effects in many instances professors robert b cutler wil liam h schempf and albert a rights are the faculty supervisors of the whole affair with cutler di recting the glee club schempf the orchestra and rights the dramatics notice with this issue the brown and white stops its presses until friday apr 15 the staff ex tends its best wishes to all for an enjoyable easter vacation by bur sienkiewicz sports editor j eddie eichlberger lehigh's 147-pound wonder boy snapped a 15-year j jinx saturday night in cornell university's barton hall as he pinned ! lloyd cornwin cornell iowa college in 6:43 to win the 147 lb indi | vidual championship and the most outstanding wrestler trophy as was expected oklahoma a&m copped its 17th team title as the 25th annual | national collegiate wrestling championships came to a close i a ike became the sixth national champion in lehigh history and the first since 1940 by winning the division crown not since harold mason took the title in the 145-lb class has a lehigh wrestler made the grade in the final team standings the aggies took the championship with 40 points pennsylvania state uni versity was the runnerup with 31 while pittsburgh oklahoma and lehigh trailed with 28 26 and 25 points respectively werner seel lehigh's senior heavyweight making his final ap pearance in an engineer uniform took a second place when he lost to perm state's bill oberly 5-2 roger taylor grappling in the 157-lb class scored a 5-2 victory over bill fisher millersville state teachers in the prelimi naries but he was knocked out of competition in the second round when he was pinned by delbert lockwood colorado a&m in 4:43 gerry leeman's entry in the 167 lb division dick whited had moved to the second round of the prelimi naries by virtue of a first round bye however in his first appearance on the mats whited was pinned in 7:33 by charles bryant the big sev en conference title-holder kenneth lever lowa ground out a 9-2 decision over lehigh's dave gallaher in the 191 lb preliminaries gallaher later lost in the semi finals of the consolation rounds to be eliminated completely dave bates brown and white sophomore who had lost only once during his first year as a varsity grappler in dual meets was coach leeman's choice m the 137-lb class bates decision - ed ronald me in tyre of lock haven teachers 5-2 in the af ternoon session on friday in the night rounds don hart of the university of oklahoma took see ed's crown page 9 amelioration of r h study seen study conditions in both drinker and dravo houses will improve next year as a result of the new plan for housing freshmen and upperclass men separately according to philip b woodroofe director of residence halls i don't feel that segregation of freshmen as such is the best thing educationally for most in stitutions but we have a pe culiar situation at lehigh whereby the ratio of freshmen to upperclassmen is quite high stated woodroofe among those living in the residence halls at present nearly 60 per cent are freshmen with the existing conditions many 8«e test pas e 7 military heads to give talks on leadership continuing in their program of furthering and developing leader ship qualities through constructive panel discussions the junior class and arcadia will present their sec ond program military leadership thursday at 7:30 p.m in packai?d lab room 416 serving on the panel will be col a c molter professor and head of the department of mili tary science and tactics and col e j berryhill professor and head of the department of air science and tactics in the program necessary quali ties and means of character develop ment from the military point of view will be discussed there will be a question and answer discus sion period after the speeches in the first presentation march 24 the co-sponsors offered prof w j richardson of the industrial engi neering department and thomas watkins superintendent of schools at coopersburg in a discussion on civilian leadership dean john d leith served as moderator aimed at developing the la tent talents of potential leaders the program has adopted as its theme trends in leadership the program provides practical lessons in leadership to men in see military page 1 pictured above left to right are music festival performers peggy lewis chico carrasquillo lunette arnold prof robert cutler fran austin seated and art perleri this year's production will be rod gers and hammerstein's allegro the production will be staged on a 3,000 feet square stage to b constructed on the lower level of grace hall photo by kaufman tuesday march 29 1955 ike snaps 15-year jinx to win championship bethlehem pa volume 66 — number 39 un 6-0331 les elgart slated for dance at hp brown and white summer fall preregistration begins april 11 preregistration for the 1955 sum mer session and the 1955 fall semes ter will take place during the two week period april 11 to 23 in ac cordance with the instructions froni curriculum directors all students should consult the bulletin boards of their cur riculum directors immediately upon return from spring vaca tion in order to determine the exact time of preregistration a fine of 10 will be levied for any late registration as well as for any change in preregistration according to james h wagner registrar by mark evans spring houseparty weekend sponsored by the class of 56 will feature the orchestra of les elgart at the friday night formal dance the perennial big weekend of the spring semester promises to be better than ever as the junior class has plotted many surprises for the days april 29 to may 1 new features never before seen at hp will be instituted according to official publicity reports