Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 48

              20athletes honored martindale tops all john davidson russell borner and gordon hoare have been elected presidents of the classes of 61 62 and 63 respectively the revised student body con stitution was ratified by a total vote of 1052 during these elec tions results of the three-day class elections held on monday tuesday and wednesday of last week were announced by arcadia president philip mezey 61 at flagpole day ceremonies yesterday davidson will serve his third con secutive term as president of the class of 61 which re-elected all of its incumbent officers on the first ballot vice-presidential positions will be filled by kenneth smith 61 jon krupnick 61 and john dickey 63 robert paternoster 61 william parnell 62 and robert sofferman 63 were elected class secretaries with charles hodge 61 james mor gan 62 and james ritz 63 chosen to serve as treasurers davidson achieved his first-ballot victory with a total of 256 votes last may he garnered 192 first place nods and won on the third transfer under the hare system smith and paternoster also first ballot winners in the 61 elections received 200 and 273 votes respectively hodge run ning unopposed needed a quota of 186 votes to gain the 61 treasurer's spot he topped the quota by 99 votes receiving the see 5 page 8 three seniors — thomas gilhool samuel matthews and robert wal ters — received top leadership and service awards at the annual flag pole day ceremonies wednesday though it never came threat ening rain forced a crowd of about 800 to witness the hour long ceremony in packard lab auditorium chaplain raymond f fuessle de livered the invocation and introduc tory remarks were made by gen p l sadler director of athletics and physical education associate dean preston parr was master of cere monies gilhool received the bosey reiter leadership cup awarded annually to the member of the senior class who has in the opinion of the faculty selection committee done most in all-around campus leadership grad uate school dean wray congdon presented the award gilhool and matthews were recipients of the deans service award for their efforts to pro mote student body unity cam pus cooperation and loyalty to alma mater dean of students j d leith gave the award to the two seniors arcadia president philip mezey 61 presented the arcadia service award to robert walters for his contributions to student activities gilhool as president of the class of 1960 passed the senior cane to john c davidson jr newly-elected see pi lam page 7 meier shubin named to rhc exec posts epitome honors earl j serfass dr earl j serfass former pro fessdr off chemistry was named dedicatee of the 1960 epitome at the flagpole day ceremonies in packard auditorium wednesday epitome editor m edward dehart 60 read the dedication presenting the book to dr ed ward d amstutz new chemistry head in the absence of dr serfass head of the chemistry department since february 1952 serfass re signed last december to become vice-president of research and de velopment for the milton roy co see former page 4 twenty of lehigh's finest athletes were honored flagpole day a total of 27 awards were presented five men receiving more than one trophy and sigma nu fraternity being awarded the all-university in tramural sports trophy wight martindale walked off with three trophies the most re ceived by anyone he was also the only athlete honored for two different sports cross country — john maxwell cross country cvp — and track — philip mcgrath track cup martindale s third trophy the beta theta pi cup was won for all-round athletic attainment walt meincke received the brown key trophy awarded to the out standing athlete of the year the pat pazzetti football trophy was also given meincke for being the best all-round player on the team robert numbers presented meincke with the second trophy which num bers himself had received 11 years ago other athletes who received two trophies were lowell latshaw see turner page 10 rathbone promoted monroe jackson rathbone chair man of the board of trustees was recently named chief executive of ficer of the standard oil company of new jersey a 21 graduate of lehigh he has been president of esso since 1954 and now replaces eugene holman as chairman of the board oxford union decides catholic acceptable president albert e meier musicologist is cls speaker don-david lustennan noted mu sicologist will discuss the tradi tions of jewish music in the uni versity center osbourne room at 8:15 p.m wednesday the composer pianist and teacher is under the sponsor ship of the cooperative lecture series during the informal presentation the audience will hear lusterman play as he uses the piano to illus trate his statements the musician will discuss the roots of jewish mv see jewish page 5 albert e meier 61 was elected residence halls council president at a regular meeting of the rhc in the university center davis room last night former rhc secretary meier was opposed by myron olstein 61 in his battle for the top rhc office he replaces william eberhart 60 elected vice-president was charles shubin 62 who competed with gerald agin 63 and richard j miller 61 george embley 62 was declared secretary after two tied ballots with john try on 61 and a drawing of lots by eberhart during the regular meeting it was voted to appropriate from rhc concessions 150 and hous ing for next year's phi beta kappa visiting scholar and 500 for the w appleton aiken loan fund this fund was established by rhc two years ago as an undergraduate loan fund in which preference is given to residence halls students the council also agreed to estab lish a 50 fund from concessions which arcadia may use for its faculty-contact program the solons see rhc page 9 religion and politics robert cochner 61 replies to heckling from the audience at the oxford union debate — this house urges the rejection of a catholic for president on the negative with cochnar was britisher dennis fitzgerald debating the affirmative were robert walt ers 60 and jeffrey harrod audience reaction at delta omi cron theta's oxford union style de bate indicated they felt a catholic could become president of the united states a pole of the audience before the debate found five supporting the house — this house urges the rejection of a catholic for president fourteen took the negative at the end of the de bate it appeared that the audi ence had not been convinced by either side as five again sup ported the house and 15 agreed with the negative initiating the debate was british graduate student jeffrey harrod he spoke for the affirmative harrod charged that a catholic should not become president be cause other countries with a large catholic population may feel thai they should and will get preferential see hearers page 7 vol 71 no 48 singing finals band free eats at pop concert bethlehem pa friday may 13 1960 davidson borner hoare win gilhool awarded reiter cup un 6-0331 newly-elected — presidents of three classes named at the flag pole day ceremonies are jack davidson beginning his third term as president of the class of 61 russell borner 62 the only newcomer in the chief executive ranks and gordon hoare 63 now in his second term lehigh university brown and white a night of semi-classical and popular band music singing group competition and free refreshments — all in a candlelight cafe atmos phere — will be in store for the 1700 people who attend the 11th annual pops concert tomorrow night at 8 : 15 in grace hall any remaining tickets will go on sale at the door reports gary schreibed 61 ticket chairman a special attraction of the pro gram is the finals of the intramural singing contest and subsequent pre sentation of the new york lehigh alumni club trophy to the winning group vicing for the coveted award are alpha sigma phi phi sigma kappa and theta chi four other awards will also be presented at the concert the t edgar shields award will be given to the senior who has contributed most to lehigh musical activities the seniors judged to have done the most for the band and glee club will receive the r k burr and j d kirkpatrick cup and the n i stotz and d e rickert cups respectively also the william h schempf see intramural page 3