Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 8

              knowing there are some students at lehigh with minds so aesthetic ally slanted that they have been im pervious to such mundane things as posters and ticket salesemen we would like to announce that lehigh's fall houseparty will start at 4 p.m friday the highlight of the weekend the hp formal will be held that same night in grace hall from 9 p.m to 1 a.m and will feature dave bru beck elliott lawrence and matt gillespie of course a few other things will take place or at least are scheduled to take place such as living group cocktail parties and dinners before the dance parties after the dance on friday saturday activities will in clude football game with a high powered rutgers team in tay lor stadium followed by living group theme parties and all which this activity usually in volves until 4 a.m dst sunday will be a welcomed day of rest devoted chiefly to going io church getting rid of hangovers and finally allowing your female part ner-in-crime for the weekend to re dr m candler lazenby opal plan before ifc see beth page 5 parcels of land to the city the city in turn gave four choice land par cels to the company and the com pany donated to lehigh a tract which added to land already owned by the university will allow expan sion of intramural athletic facilities the steel company will pay for development of south mountain park a tract that will provide picnic and recreation areas to the general public the city will demolish at its own expense the throwing mills at 6th and atlantic sts — located on one of the parcels which the steel company traded a little league park and swimming pool will be constructed there by the city the university in cooperation dr m candler lazenby assistant professor of german here since 1946 died sunday night at st lukes hos pital he was 49 he taught his german 1 and 9 classes up until a week ago saturday he was taken to st luke's early last week born in forrest home ala he was a son of the late rev marion and sarah feagin lazenby he received his b.a from birmingham southern college in 1930 his m.a from vanderbilt university in 1933 and his ph.d from johns hopkins university in 1940 he did further study at the uni versity of berlin germany and at the university of basil switzerland he had previously taught german at dickinson college carlisle pa dr lazenby was a member of omicron delta kappa and kappa phi kappa national honorary fraternities he also held mem bership in the modern language assn the american association of teachers of german and the foreign service section of the see dr lazenby page 4 no assessment , no yearbook seniors have been warned by president carl schier that if they do not make their 15 assessments soon they will not see their pictures in the 59 epitome assessments should be paid in mrs moravec's office operation opal a drive to outlaw pilferage at lehigh has been placed before the interfrater nity council by dean of students j douglas leith ifc president carl schier said sunday in a memorandum to lehigh s 30 fraternities dean leith out lined his plans to curb fraternity stealing lehigh's interfraternity council as a council leith noted can either 1 do something about the existing practice or 2 do nothing leith said that he hopes to be able to report to the national interfra ternity conference to the college fraternities secretaries association and to the 30 national headquarters that all concerned at lehigh be ginning with ifc have joined in a firmly articulated policy of effective support of the nic position — and of the commandment thou shalt not steal for this is basically what is see fraternities page 3 curtis maginnes named trustees editor's note this is the first article in a four-part series on the ex tensive south mountain development project dfhich is now under construc tion by tom ruddell a shrill warning whistle then a deep throb a lon of rock and earth is shot skyward then it settles in a swirl of dust and smoke multi-ton earthmovers giant bulldozers and crates of dyna mite are changing the shape of south mountain a clay sun-baked clearing stands where a road once threaded its way between ranging trees a rock pile covers a restful spot where houseparty dates once fidget ed in the moonlight a slope covered by matted foliage has been replaced by a bare plain of rock fill this is progress millions of dollars worth of progress it is a project that will place on a once-lonely mountain crest three areas of development a park for the people of bethlehem a massive laboratory for the tech nicians of bethlehem steel co and an intramural athletic field for the students of lehigh plans for the 1,000-acre south mountain development program have existed for several years but the first step toward actual fulfillment of the plan was carried out on jan 21 when the city of bethlehem an nounced its approval of a three-wi land swap . the land deal was designed to benefit the three parties concerned bethlehem steel turned over four bethlehem pa tuesday oct 21 1958 houseparty festivities to roll at 4 on friday vol 70 — no 8 a record number of parents and girl friends visited campus satur day to make parents day 1958 one of the most successful in the history of the university ¦ the public information office estimated that 5,900 visitors were here this number surpasses by 700 the record throng of last year .^ biggest attractions for the guests brown and white reporters found were 1 i the luncheon the hills the uni versity center the hills the band more hills facilities for the students more of those confounded hills the other parents and their sons the pressed by the building mr and mrs calvin parks summed it up in one word magnificent the luncheon was judging from comments a big hit one couple labeled it as enjoyable while others went to great lengths to ex press the same view one father was amazed that it went so smoothly de spite the crowd and that there was enough of a variety to more than satisfy everyone after informal tours around the see parents page 6 seen some pretty sharp bands in ac tion but agreed that lehigh doesn't have to take a second seat to any of them seagreaves has followed the con struction of the university center but was still surprised when he saw the finished structure particularly impressive he felt were the kitchen facilities seagreaves works for caterers and has never seen any thing like it other visitors were also im hills the game and the rest of those blasted hills freshman glenn wilson's par ents for instance said life here certainly has its ups and downs one freshman's mother complained all these hills are just dreadful i don't see how you stand them this same understanding mother couldn't see how the band members kept from running into each other mr and mrs norman seagreaves of allentown admitted they have albert b maginnes edward a curtis vice-president of bell telephone company of new jersey and albert b maginnes cf kelley drye newhall and maginnes of new york have been elected cor porate members of the board cf trustees the two vacancies filled were created by the deaths of stewart jj cort and earle f johnson the elections were announced by the office of dr e kenneth smiley secretary of the board of trustees curtis 25 served as president ci the alumni association from 191 d to 1951 and as chairman of the an nual-giving committee for the past , see new page 6 record throng on campus for parents 1 day edward a curtis turn to her base of operations the university dictates this final hour for departure of dates as 5 p.m houseparty chairman ted rojahn announced that eariy ticket sales indicate a large sale of tickets for the formal dance attendance figures are expected to top last hp's record-breaking number the signing of three bands in tended to please almost every taste in music is labeled by rojahn as very unusual and an innovation in hp formal bands dr lazenby dies prof of german some hills hey — a group of visitors climb up one of the many flights of stairs strategically placed on south mountain more than 5900 parents made lehigh the center of their activities last saturday they saw the football game lunched in grace hall and visited sons have steel pass might travel (?) lehigh university brown and white