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              see seniors page 9 rhc refuses to accept resident officers in halls residence halls council has unani mously refused to accept the impo sition of resident officers in upper class residence halls until three con ditions are met the conditions presented to the group by arcadia represen tative jack branning at wednes day night's meeting will be for warded to director of residence halls c b campbell in the form of a recommendation the resolution states the residence officer program should not be in stituted until 1 rhc is consulted on the issue 2 an equitable agreement between campbell and rhc concerning resident officers has been reached and 3 the names of men who are to serve as resident officers are sub mitted to rhc for approval in the two-and-one quarter hour session council vigorously debated the proposal and finally moved in to a closed meeting of the commit tee of the whole before finally ac cepting branning's motion after the closed session newly elected rhc president william eberhart stated council his dis cussed the question of resident officers we should recommend to mr campbell the installation of these officers be postponed until the second semester of next term so all can be hashed out we won't have much chance to do anything about it this semester mcclintic-marshall president sam see rhc page 10 prof emeritus e h riley named epitome dedicatee dr edgar h riley associate professor emeritus of english was named the dedicatee of the 1959 epitome at flagpole day ceremonies wednesday in dedicating the epitome to dr riley richard k ber nard 59 editor-in-chief said this year we would like to honor one who has made his contribution to the mind and heart of the lehigh student one who has directly fostered students growth and development this dedication therefore is offered as a token of student appreciation to one who has given his lifetime to the ideal of inspired and devoted teaching dr riley who retired june 30 1958 after 32 years on the faculty considered the dedication to be the finest tribute i could ever hope to receive he explained that teachers re wards are intangible ones the dedication is the finest ex pression that there is a tangible reward for the intangible a member of phi beta kappa he joined the lehigh faculty in september 1926 as an instructor in english he see epitome page 9 meet the beats at 8:15 tonight the beats will speak tonight at 8:15 in grace hall after successes at harvard princeton columbia vassar and muhlenberg beat generation poets gregory corso leßoi jones ray bremser and village voice critic marc d schleifer will read poetry and discuss america's newest literary move ment what is this beat generation is it a group of non-conformists residing in greenwich village or san francisco or a groping new movement now seething under a censor's lid jack kerouac called by many see poets page 3 dr arthur s flemming secretary of the u s department of health education and welfare will deliver the commencement address on june 15 flemming who last july succeeded marion b folsom as hew head in president eisenhower's cabinet is a former president of ohio wesleyan university and former director of the office of defense mobilization the 62-year-old ex-educator and editor recently made newspaper headlines by striking out against the loyalty oath provision in the na tional defense education act he said on dec 15 the loyalty oath will make it necessary for educators and students to go through a procedure that results in un necessary expenditures on the part of the federal government without ~— ~ making a contribution to na tional security in the field of civil rights legis lation dr flemming stated he was unalterably opposed to the paul h douglas bill d.-ill provisions that would give the health educa tion and welfare secretary authority to approve state desegregation plans or to institute such plans if the state did not act the douglas bill featured strong provisions for speeding desegrega tion it would authorize the hew department to advise localities on school desegregation procedures and to prepare plans for integrating schools when the localities do not do so promptly last february the department see flemming page 4 dr edgar h riley gilhool elected senior prexy vol 70 — no 46 un 6-0331 bethlehem pa friday may 15 1959 schier mercy wright mitchell win awards class of 60 while davidson will serve his second consecutive time in the 61 presidency chosen to fill the vice-presidency slots in the recent class elections were richard schumacher 60 ken neth smith 61 and peter gratto 62 class secretarial positions were captured by bruce snyder 60 robert paternoster 61 and james detrixhe 62 while wil liam ross 60 charles hodge 61 and russell borner 62 are the newly elected treasurers gilhool garnered 164 of his class's 304 first place votes in adding the senior class presidency to his list of campus and intercollegiate honors which includes the speakership of the pennsylvania intercollegiate conference on government the presidency of delta omicron theta theta chi presidency and cyanide vice presidency with the transfer of gilhool's votes under the hare system schu macher's total was brought to 154 giving him the class vice-presidency the third place man significantly behind snyder gave ballot counters from arcadia's elections commit tee very little trouble during see davidson page 3 thomas gilhool john davidson and john krupnick were elected to head the class of 60 61 and 62 re spectively arcadia president jack bran ning — in addition to flagpole day ceremonies — announced the results wednesday elec tions were held monday tues day and wednesday of last week in prior years it was cus tomary to announce the winning candidates immediately after the counting of votes on the last day of balloting gilhool will be serving his third consecutive term as president of the lehigh university brown and white jon krupnick 62 tom gilhool 60 jack davidson 61 congdon dean of the graduate school the dean's service award was presented to mercy and mitchell by dean j d leith the award is pre sented to the senior or seniors who have given the most outstanding service to the university during their four years at lehigh arcadia president jack branning presented the arcadia service award to former president larry wright the award is presented to the senior who has done most for arcadia during his years at lehigh selected for membership in omicron delta kappa senior honorary were faculty mem bers george p conard director of the mageetic materials lab prof robert b cutler head of the music department joseph a dowling assistant professor of history prof alan s foust head of the chem ical engineering department dr dudley w johnson associate pro fessor of economics and dr j don ald ryan associate professor of geo logy also william e eberhart wight martindale harry mcnally john roglieri and alan s segal all jun iors odk president paul prestis an nounced odk tapping took place at the flagpole outgoing senior class president schier presented the senior cane symbolic of leadership of the senior class to thomas gil hool who was re-elected presi dent of the class of 60 richard k sprenkle president of alpha phi omega service honorary presented the apo service key to carl schier eugene mercy david mitchell and clarence wright received top leadership and service awards at the flagpole day ceremonies wednesday driven indoors by heavy rains an sro crowd of about 800 jammed packard lab auditorium to witness the hour-long ceremony associate dean preston parr was master of ceremonies schier received the howard r bosey reiter lead ership award given annually to the member of the senior class who has in the eyes of a faculty selection committee done the most in all-around campus lead ership the presentation was made by dr wray h dr arthur s flemming flemming to deliver graduation speech