Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 32

              price — five cents 300 students board train for hershey lafayette hockey game attended by alumni and 82 piece band 84 engineers 31 arts 19 business attain 3 point averages 9 gain perfect record broadcasts discuss game james h crowley town council members will dance to the music of bud rader's orchestra from 10 to 1 o'clock to morrow night in the armory ad mission for town council men will be by membership card and for outsiders 75 cents couple or stag refreshments and entertainment will be free announced george a brenker bus 42 chairman of the town council dance committee the entire affair is to be financed by the town council blue and white streamers and colored lights will be the decora tions tomorrow night at the first dance of this kind to be presented by the town council members of brenker's committee in charge of the event include al bert e ponter jr bus 40 will iam r csellak ch e 40 and george j gabuzda jr arts 41 team lineups and standings lehigh lafayette mckay goal wait paul right defense murphy captain e scott left defense scofield j scott center kleinknecht sawyer captain right wing quinn wiggin left wing henderson c w simmons coach h w clark spares lehiyh ashley thomas anderson j dannemiller nutting goodman brennan lafayette palmer milicl reach bonzey goldberg hardings time of periods 15 minutes referee blinco linesman mccafferty season's records lehigh 2 pennsylvania 4 lafayette 5 hershey cubs 7 lehigh 5 hershey cubs 1 lafayette 1 princeton 12 lehigh 1 army 5 pennsylvania intercollegiate hockey league standings convention is discussed kalmbach schoen scott selected by senior honorary society o d k elects new members from juniors vol xlvh — no 32 will address senior class fordham football coach to be main speaker at banquet march 4 lehigh plans 75th jubilee williams appoints 11 men to faculty committee for anniversary idiot's delight cast chosen rights picks drama leads 4 students faculty wives head cast of wilder's play our town 16 students are selected for show on may 4 the first rehearsal will be held at 7:30 p m wednesday in drown hall sixteen students were selected today by albert a rights instruc tor in english to make up the cast of mustard and cheese's forthcom ing production idiot's delight to be presented may 4 in broughal high school mr rights extended an invita tion for all students who are not on the casting list but still have an interest in the play to report to him on wednesday the following men are in the cast walter h vogelsberg e.e.'4l robert s bothe bus 40 conrad e kluger arts 42 ira l fisher bus 43 robert p engle i e 41 welles r bliss arts 42 peter b turgeon arts 43 karl h zornig bus 40 nathaniel j brisker bus 40 howard m conner arts 40 g william wolfsten arts 43 quentin r keith arts 40 john f clark phys 42 kenneth h nor ris eng 43 and richard j berg arts 42 our town by thornton wild er has been selected as the drama tic workshop's spring production and will be presented saturday april 13 in broughal high school according to albert a rights instructor in english and director of the play the cast will be com posed for the most part of stu dents enrolled in the dramatics course heading the cast will be robert n gusdorff bus 42 r alexander wrigley bus 41 tom c mekeel arts 42 and jesse f beers arts 42 feminine leads in clude mrs lawrence whitcomb mrs william l jenkins and mrs albert a rights minor roles will be played by conrad e kluger arts 42 rich ard c seltzer bus 41 and king ston sterngold bus 43 our town is a play presenting the lives of small town people it is acted in pantominic form yet it has normal dialogue a narrator who acts as a background medium is a guide to the audience and de scribes the action of the play this personality re-creates in the mind of the audience the whimsical point of view of everyday people which is the philosophical purpose of the play dr emma schultz speaks at women's club meeting seniors to hear personnel officer the lehigh women's club pre sented dr emma schultz of the chemistry department of moravian college for women in a talk en titled chemical tricks in garden ing last tuesday in drown hall dr schultz discussed growing plants without soil by using chem ical foods mrs thomas h hazelhurst pro a total of 134 men have won a place on the dean's list for the current semester it was announced today by dean wray f congdon the list is composed of juniors and seniors who attained a 3 point or higher average last semester engineers placed most men with 84 the arts school placed 31 and 19 business men are on the list a net increase of 26 this semes ter over the number last semester is accounted for by the addition of 56 new names while 30 students have dropped off lambert of laros silk co to discuss interviews a faculty committee to help plan lehigh university's 75th anniver sary celebration in 1941 was ap pointed today by president c c williams headed by dean a copeland callen of the college of engineer ing the committee comprises dean p m palmer of the college of arts and science dean neil carothers of the college of business admin istration vice-president walter r okeson and professors howard eckfeldt professor of mining en gineering dale h gramley asso ciate professor of journalism fred v larkin associate professor of physics benjamin l miller pro fessor of geology robert p more associate professor of german bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engineering and harry l ulmann professor emer itus of chemistry the committee will cooperate with committees to be appointed by the board of trustees of the uni versity and the alumni associa tion announcement of the form the celebration is to take will not be possible until after the three com mittees start to work a number of suggestions have already ben made by members of the faculty and these will be turned over to the committees by president williams the consensus of opinion at this time president williams said today seems to be that the cele bration should be attached to the 1941 commencement because alum ni will return more willingly at that time the dates connected with le high's founding which the pro posed celebration in 1941 will mark are the granting of the char ter by the legislature of pennsyl vania on feb 9 1866 and the opening of the university for classes in september of the same year jim crowley head football coach at fordham university since 1932 will be the principal speaker at the annual senior class banquet on monday evening march 4 at the hotel bethlehem it was an nounced this morning by alfred v bodine jr i e 40 chairman of the class banquet committee the announcement was made when crowley notified the commit tee by telegram that he would be delighted to be the speaker at the final social gathering of the seniors bodine also stated that final ar rangements for an interesting pro gram will be completed before the middle of next week administra tive officials of the university will be invited to attend as guests played under rockne crowley was one of the four horsemen at the university of notre dame under the coaching of the late knute rockne this quartet rode rough shod over ten opponents including stanford in the rose bowl game during their sophomore year all of them have become coaches at leading institu tions in the country harry stuhl dreher is now head coach at the university of wisconsin while el mer layden succeeded rockne as head coach of the fighting irish after his graduation in 1925 crowley became backfield coach at the university of georgia where he was responsible for the development of some of the backs who were responsible for georgia's consistent success in the east after four seasons at georgia crowley upon the recommendation of rockne was named head coach at michigan state college which wished to project itself more defin itley in midwestern football un der his guidance the spartans won 22 games lost eight and tied three from 1929 to 1932 crowley came to fordham upon the death of major frank w cav anaugh forced to teach an entire ly new style of play to the rams he still managed to maintain a high winning percentage since the fall of 1933 crowley's teams at fordham have been victorious over 64 opponents losing 16 contests and playing ties with 10 others intercollegiate debating team to meet dickinson 12 groups plan to enter contest the lehigh intercollegiate de bating team will meet dickinson college at 6:30 p.m tonight before the coopersburg lion's club the teams will debate the topic re solved that the basic blame for the present european conflict rests on the allied powers albert e ponter bus 40 will give the nine minute constructive speech and william i freeman arts 40 will present the six min uet rebuttal for the negative side payrow elected president a telephone survey conducted today by the brown and white re vealed that 12 living groups plan to enter the second annual living group singing contest which will get underway next thursday eight fraternities three dormi tory sections and the cosmopoli tan club will compete in prelimin aries to be held thursday evening in the lounge in packard labora tory final eliminations in the con test sponsored by the new york lehigh club will be held outdoors now in the possession of pi kappa alpha last year's winners living groups who desire to en ter the contest this year may apply next week to robert f herrick 34 editor of the alumni bulletin harry g payrow assistant pro fessor of sanitary engineering was recently elected president of the lehigh valley chapter of the penn sylvania society of professional engineers hale sutherland head of the department of civil engin eering was elected a director of the chapter leonard m fraivillig 26 is the new vice-president omicron delta kappa national honorary senior activities frater nity elected three new members from the junior class last night at a meeting held at the delta upsilon chapter house and also discussed plans for a northern section con vention according to wallace p watkins bus 40 president the three juniors who were el ected are charles f kalmbach m e donald r schoen arts and william e scott bus these men will be initiated at a meeting to be held on march 7 o d k will hold its annual convention at lehigh on april 27 and delegates will attend from each chapter of the northern sec tion which includes colleges and universities within the circle of muhlenberg dickinson and the university of pittsburgh dr wil bur h norcross national president of the fraternity from dickinson will be present dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy is the deputy of the northern pro vince palmer gives report also at the meeting robert b palmer arts 40 gave a report of the committee investigating stu dent finances president watkins announced that at the next meet ing there will be a report presented by the committee investigating student playing fields and the in tramural athletic problem glen w harmeson director of athletics was asked to be present at this next meeting kalmbach has an average of 3.98 for five semesters is the w a wilbur scholar and has received scholastic prizes and is a member of tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity and pi tau sigma national honorary mechan ical engineering fraternity at present kalmbach is news manager of brown and white having pre viously served as news editor and makeup editor he is a member of the junior editorial staff of the epi tome scabbard and blade nation al honorary military society cya nide junior honorary activities society and is a letter man in soc cer schoen scott chosen schoen has an average of 3.40 for the five semesters and was the president of the sophomore class last year this semester he is presi dent of tone the editorial manager of brown and white and the jun ior editor of the epitome schoen is a member of eta sigma phi na tional honorary classical fraternity pi delta epsilon national honorary journalism fraternity cyanide and delta omicron theta national honorary debating fraternity scott letterman of the varsity swimming team has an average of 1.90 for the five semesters and is president of beta theta pi social fraternity scott was a member of the record-holding 400 yard relay swimming team and holds a let ter in cross country a member of cyanide scott also is serving on the interfraternity council gram chairman introduced dr schultz and mrs regina r bacon president of the club presided continued on page four 3 juniors elected by omicron delta kappa by howard m conner with high hopes of cheering le high's hockey team to a victory over lafayette over 300 students faculty and supporters boarded a special train late this afternoon which will carry them to hershey for the eastern intercollegiate hockey league game tonight a lehigh band of 82 pieces at 4:30 p m marched from the flag pole to the jersey central station where they were joined by the le high rooters at allentown a group from cedar crest college was add ed and at reading the train took on an additional car containing 25 alumni from the southeastern pennsylvania lehigh club approximately 75 alumni from the central pennsylvania club held a dinner meeting this evening and will attend the game later tonight mclachlan to perform the hockey special will return to bethlehem tonight after specta tors at the hershey sports arena have skated for an hour at the con clusion of the game a lehigh victory tonight will put lehigh in a two-way tie for second place in the eastern inter collegiate hockey league other league teams are lafayette perm state the university of pennsyl vania and the hershey industrial school the game this evening as play ed under league rules will consist of three periods of 15 minutes each in case of a tie an extra 15 minute period will be played between the first and second periods miss ailsa f g mclachlan a leading cana dian skater and professional at the hershey arena will present an ori ginal rhythmic dance routine sawyer interviewed under the direction of w rod man turner i e 40 manager of the hockey team all arrangements for the trip were made in a three week publicity campaign two sports commentators broadcast news of the affair on wednesday evening from radio stations in al lentown and easton james riley of station west traced in a broadcast the development of hockey in the lehigh valley dur ing the program warren sawyer ch e 41 captain of the lehigh team and captain frank murphey of lafayette were interviewed in dealing with origin of hockey at lehigh the program refreshed the minds of many who are ac quainted with the details sur rounding the first brown and white hockey team the imagination of a sky-top correspondent of the new york herald-tribune provided the im petus for organizing lehigh's new est sport in the paper a dispatch appeared announcing that lehigh and lafayette would meet in the first game of a weekend double header at sky-top students at a university without a hockey team and without thoughts of one read the story with interest enthusiasm for the idea was aroused and with in a few days former dean mc conn granted permission to a group of students to represent le high the game went off as un scheduled the score was lafay ette 3 lehigh 2 holds ist meeting machine shop club elects caemmerer as pres the lehigh university machine shop club a newly formed organ ization held its first business meet ing tuesday a constitution writ ten by one of the charter members was unanimously accepted and el ections followed the officers elected are robert caemmerer m e 41 president clarence reber m e 41 vice president and robert wilson m e 41 secretary-treasurer profes sor fred v larkin head of the de partment of mechanical engineer ing is faculty advisor and will ard s clewell department me chanic is shop advisor and instruc tor preparing for interviews will be the topic of discussion when robert a lambert personnel di rector of the r k laros silk com pany of bethlehem meets with seniors monday evening in room 416 packard laboratory during the second of a series of group discussions with seniors who are seeking employment and wish advice on placement prob lems mr lambert will stress the preparation necesary to carry on a succesful and intelligent inter view two representatives of the pub lic service electric and gas com pany of newark n j interviewed 51 seniors on wednesday at the placement bureau herbert watt rich interviewed 28 engineers seek ing employment with the utility corporation while 23 men mostly business students were in confer ence with george b webber a group of metallurgical engin eers were interviewed today by l s bergen of the crucible steel company new york frank j gibbons 39 and m k diskin representing the burroughs adding machine company inter viewed 10 seniors mostly business students yesterday morning at the placement bureau above donald r schoen arts left charles f kalmbach m e right william e scott bus distributed on the train en route to hershey brown and white bethlehem pa friday february 23 1940 senior banquet speaker rader will play at armory dance 134 juniors seniors placed on dean's list town council members to be admitted free z 612 playe ed \\ \ in lost til led goal is for f points pennsylvania 3 8 i 0 11 i hershey i 2 j 0 14 14 i lehigh 2 1 ! ii 7 5 1 lafayette 1 0 i 0 5 7 u perm state . . . v ii 0 8 0 the list follows ache warren w met e 40 3.27 adamson ralston 0 met.e 40 3.10 albert robert c m.e 40 3.17 altmaier john m chem 41a 3.56 altshuler bernard eng phys 40 3.70 attwood john c arts 41 3.68 bayles charles 8 m.e 40 3.10 beauchamp james j jr i.e 41 3.24 benedict frank l jr bus 40 3.83 berkowitz bernard arts 40 3.25 bothe robert s bus 40 3.50 brennesholtz aaron h i.e 40 3.47 brown carl f ch.e 41 3.53 brown edwin a arts 41 3.47 brown robert x i.e 41 3.25 buehler louis j g i.e 40 3.44 burke david w jr arts 41 3.50 buser richard a met.e 41 3.33 carter robert p ch e 40 3.47 cary robert a met.e 40 3.58 catching walter r c.e 40 3.17 chandler henry d bus 41 3.17 ciark william r c.e 40 3.00 coleman robert f bus 40 3.00 coopey george s met e 41 3.00 cox alfred t c.e 40 3.71 cross albert j arts 40 3.00 darby charles w met.e 40 3.26 davidson hugh r eng phys 41 3.72 dehuff philip g jr met.e 40 3.06 descheemaeker august ch.e 41 3.35 dieffenbach alton p e.e 41 3.50 dimmieh robert c i.e 41 3.22 prustrup thomas g ch.e 41 3.71 eler wellington 8 i.e 40 4.00 epinger frank j arts 40 3.00 feucht herbert f bus 40 3.00 foss albert c jr e.e 41 3.00 foust philip g jr ch.e 41 3.82 fry mervin j arts 41 3.50 gabuzda george j jr arts 41 3.78 gangwer richard c ch.e 40 3.18 geissinger david s c.e 41a 3.16 giacobbe john ch e 40 3.21 gilinsky stanley 8 bus 40 3.50 gilmore frederick r arts 41 3.68 gitzendanner louis g e.e 41 3.47 godard robert r e.e 40 3.53 good robert c jr eng phys.mo 3.00 guilford charles f bus 40 3.63 guy walter g jr bus 40 3.17 hammer norman arts 40 4.00 harper frank e jr c.e 40 3.60 hems edward d m.e 41 3.33 hess richard c met.e 40 3.17 hendry james r bus 41 3.00 hertzog frank v arts 41 3.50 hodson william x i.e 41 3.22 johnson richard 8 arts 41 3.20 juer frederick bus 40 3.00 kalmbach charles f m.e 41 4.00 kaufman john a arts 41 3.80 keller gilbert m m.e.'4o 3.50 kelley richard c jr chem 40 3.29 kirk richard l ch.e 41 3.12 koenig robert f met.e 40 3.40 kowalyshyn russell arts 40 4.00 kowalyshyn stephen jr e.e 41 3.33 lee albert e jr ch.e 41 3.60 liebig john 0 jr c.e 40 3.00 hockey special hockey special