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              well as various research reports and articles in addition he holds five pateats jjishop corson in addition to his position on the methodist world council is the resident bishop of the methodist church for the philadelphia area he is a graduate of drew uni versity and holds 29 earned and honorary degrees from 26 univer sities and professional schools he entered the ministry in 1920 and served as a pastor in new york see neville page 6 in 1948 he was awarded the hill man award which is given an nually to a member of the le high faculty who is deemed to have done the most toward ad vancing the interests of the uni versity dr neville received his bachelor of arts degree from randolph macon college in 1918 his master of arts from princeton in 1920 and his ph.d from princeton in 1921 he has written several text books on general chemistry as students to publish course evaluations dr harvey a neville lehigh president emeritus has been chos en to deliver the commencement address june 14 bishop fred p corson president of the methodist world council will deliver the baccalaureate sermon june 13 dr neville who served as pres ident of the university from octo ber 1961 to october 1964 is a sci entist as well as an educational ad ministrator a recognized authority in the field of catalysis and colloid chem istry he came to lehigh in 1927 as an assistant professor was pro moted to associate professor in 1930 and to full professor and head of the department of chem istry and chemical engineering in 1938 he was named dean of the grad uate school in 1949 and was pro moted to university vice president and provost in 1956 from 1945 to 1960 he served as director of the university institute of re search junior class incurs loss for spring houseparty dr harvey alexander neville plans for next year's senior class weekend hinge on the success of the class-sponsored activities dur ing houseparty next fall according to class president stephen f gold mann the class absorbed a 1200-1500 loss on the spring houseparty concert after sponsoring two moderately successful concerts earlier in the year david p etzel jr class treasurer said he be lieved experience gained from the last houseparty would preclude a repetition of the loss cited by goldmann the treasurer said he believed that one of the factors in this year's loss was the need to correctly assess student entertainment tastes the treasurer said he believed the class would laundry price rise approved by rhc see juniors page 4 do a better job of assessing student taste in enter tainment and publicity coordination he also cited the absence of a houseparty queen as one factor which may have contributed to the failure of some living groups to demonstrate much interest in the friday concert and dance goldmann said that all profit from fall house party probably will be used for senior weekend he indicated that 3,500 probably would be allo cated for the weekend the class dues next year will be 20 a 5 in crease over last year's assessment in the past few years senior dues have varied between 15 and 20 a student group is attempting to evaluate the major elective courses offered at lehigh the group known as the student evaluation committee has dis tributed questionnaires to selected students presently enrolled in the various courses the committee will compile the information received and publish a supplement to the university catalog before pre-reg istration next year v rodger digilio a member of the committee said the supple ment is intended primarily to provide students with pertinent facts concerning the work load and relative worth of the electives available he emphasized that the supplement is not a criticism or evaluation of instructors and does not at all interfere with their academic freedom john r chamberlin also a committee member said that similar evaluations have been made at harvard the university of north caro lina and the university of california at berkeley attempts at course evaluations have been made at lehigh in past years he said chamberlin said six to 10 students have been contacted to provide information for the evaluation of each of 70 to 75 courses the selec tion of the students was arranged to give good representation among the classes and colleges but otherwise it was arbitrary he said the idea for an evaluation was first brought up over a month ago at a meeting of omicron delta kappa the senior leadership honorary included in the questionnaire distributed by the committee are questions covering whether or not the course description in the catalog is accurate whether there are tacit prerequisites for the course which are not mentioned in the catalog collateral reading in the course the number and type of tests given in the course and the amount of class preparation necessary bok program of folk songs well received folksinger gordon bok treated a cosmopolitan club audience to a widely varied musical program in the osbourne room university center wednesday evening bok let his deep mellow voice range over exotic songs of the hebrides islands the wild folk tunes of the mongolian steppes and folksy scottish and irish bal lads a self-taught musician bok is adept in utilizing all stringed in struments he demonstrated his versatility with numbers on both the guitar and mandolin his reportoire wednesday in cluded such varied tunes as irish rover liverpool judy and the bells of eadorbee the residence halls council in a meeting tuesday night voted to increase laundry service rates 5 per year starting in september rhc also voted to raise the sal ary of the concessions manager from siooo to 1200 per year and turned down the date proposed by the student activities committee for next year's rhc concert after a plea by the manager of the allen laundry for an increase from 75 to 85 per year for laun dry rhc decided to permit a i increase next year and a second 5 increase the following year james a tiefenbrunn 66 neav rhc president said that the allen laundry is the only laundry in the lehigh valley which can handle the 1000 bundles of dirty clothing delivered from the uni versity each week tiefenbrunn said the laundry had requested the 10 increase to b&w photo by eric murray students exercise franchise while graduate student a paid poll-watcher looks on members of the classes of 1966 1967 and 1968 voted for class officers in the elections which end today see rhc page 4 accommodate higher costs and larger laundry bundles the in crease he said is the first request for a rate increase since the laun dry started to serve the campus seven years ago rhc licenses all residence halls concessions and receives a com mission from them tiefenbrunn said 10.67 percent of the laun dry's income from lehigh con tracts goes to rhc he said the laundry which is affiliated with mary macintosh wanted the 10 increase for themselves alone without sharing the receipts with rhc tiefenbrunn said but after consultations between the conces sions committee and the manager of the laundry rhc agreed to give the laundry the entire 5 this year but to claim their share of next year's price tiefenbrunn who took office may 4 said that the added load of vol 76 — no 48 lehigh university brown and white 866-0331 dr neville to address at 65 commencement bethlehem pa — friday may 14 1965