Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 39

              other groups to meet dr dexter s kimball cornell dean to speak here kimball to address m.e.s is elected member of pi tau sigma i.n.a to meet at moravian tommy dorsey census a success the bureau needs their help in the gigantic task of assembling facts about 132 million americans in two ways first by making sure that their parents will report on them to the census enumerator and second by supplying their parents with cer tain information they will need in order to report on them accurately the latter precaution is advisable even for students living at home since they may be at class when the enumerator ari'ives the queries on which parents are most likely to be uncertain are those relating to employment sta tus information is wanted on the following points it might be thought that parents would know everything about the student which would be called for in the census the questions which are being asked in 1940 however are somewhat more complex than those of previous years reflecting the need for facts bearing on the many problems which have risen in the united states during the eventful decade just closing number of weeks the student worked in 1939 equivalent full time weeks number of hours he worked during the week of march 24-30 1940 present or if seeking work last count me in when the census taker comes to the family mansion in april is what uncle sam re quests lehigh students to tell their parents when they return home for spring vacation next week the government desires students who are living temporarily at school to remind their folks to include them in the 1940 census it has been uncle sam's exper ience in 150 years of census-taking that while absence may make the heart grow fonder it also tends to make the mind forgetful census bureau officials have good reason to believe that the accuracy of the count of students who happen to be away from home at the time of the census can be improved college students temporarily away from home to attend school should be counted as members of the households in which they us ually reside students who have no permanent residence other than the places in which they are living while attending school or college however should be enumerated there such students should call or write to the district supervisor for the census if they are not enu merated feeling that college students like every other section of the pop ulation will benefit from a reliable national inventory the u s bur eau of the census is asking them to final plans are being completed for the 11th annual journalism field trip to be conducted april 1 2 and 3 in washington about 15 journalism students kenneth k kost instructor in journalism and dale h gramley university news editor who are in charge of the trip are expected to attend the trip has been arranged by freder ick h morhart jr 31 a reporter on the washington star among the points of interest that the group plans to visit are the national archives building the federal bureau of investigation the offices of the washington star the washington bureau of the new york times the press galleries of both the senate and the house of representatives and the office of congressman francis walter 16 representative from this district mr morhart will entertain at dinner april 1 at the national press club the students also hope to attend the press conference of one of the cabinet members this is the third time that wash ington has been selected as the site for the field trip since 1935 the excursions have alternated be tween new york and washington continued on page four a dinner in honor of howard bosey reiter professor of phy sical education will be held on april 12 in the hotel bethlehem at the banquet a large portrait of bosey will be presented to him by eugene g grace 99 the portrait will probably hang in the new grace hall a smaller copy of the picture will also be given to hang in the reiter home the northern new jersey le high club will hold a spring dance on saturday april 13 a breakfast will be served after the dancing charlie manner's band will play william billy cornelius exe cutive secretary and managing edi tor of the alumni bulletin has an nounced that he will attend a din ner of the northern new york alumni club to be held at albany april 9 philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science will attend the banquet of the central new jersey alumni association with cornelius the banquet will be held april 1 in trenton b and w executive board to attend convention on april 12 13 do their part in making the 1940 timken engineers to address m e.s advises seniors e e.s to make inspection trip funds sought for research cheni foundation to start annual drive thursday at society meeting society's speakers railroad authorities to be morgan urges students to seek interviews advice to job-seeking seniors t dr dexter s kimball dean emeritus of the college of engin eering of cornell university will speak here april 27 on bronze casting with special reference to works of art according to fred v larkin professor and head of the department of mechanical engineering the lecture is being sponsored by his department dr kimball was to have appear ed here on feb 23 but was taken ill and was unable to come last june lehigh conferred the honor ary degree of doctor of engineer ing on dr kimball the lehigh chapter of pi tau sigma national honorary mechan ical engineering society has elect ed dr kimball an honorary mem ber of the society they will initi ate him on the 27th dr kimball served for 17 years as dean of the college of engin eering at cornell in 1930 received the john fritz medal the highest honor which engineering societies can award in 1929 served as presi dent of the society for the promo tion of engineering education and was awarded the lamme medal by that society in 1939 he is a mem ber of sigma xi a s m e and was national president of tau beta pi in 1923 stace addresses 100 at lecture the lehigh branch of the amer ican society of mechanical engin eers will have as speakers t v buckwalter vice-president of the timken roller bearing company and o j horger research engin eer of the same company at a meeting at 1 p m friday in room 466 packard laboratory the lec ture will be supplemented by mov ing pictures and slides the two men who will speak on various phases of railway engin eering are both known in this field buckwalter developed the electric baggage and mail trucks used in rail terminals throughout the world he entered the employ of the timken company in 1916 as chief engineer after working with the pennsylvania railroad as auto motive engineer horger has been with the com pany since his graduation from carnegie institute of technology in 1923 and is now in charge of railway engineering and research for the concern use their spring vacation to make contacts for positions was given this week by e robins mor gan director of the placement bureau just before the spring vacation each year the placement bureau suggests to seniors who have not yet secured positions that they make efforts to have interviews during this period director mor gan said college seniors throughout the country are following this proced ure rather than waiting until after commencement when there will be a general rush for jobs and competition will become keener than ever he declared those seniors who are alert to the possibilities which lie before them will profit by following the suggestion made above morgan concluded even though a position is not obtained through efforts made dur ing the spring vacation the ac quaintances made among the bus iness men are valuable later on the second visits to such men are much easier than the original meetings moreover the experience gained is very valuable if applied to later efforts attend convention visit to industrial firms of n j n v to be made this week twenty senior electrical engin eers accompanied by henry c knutson and nelson s hibshman associate professors of electrical engineering will leave tomorrow morning in private cars on a field trip to new jersey and new york manufacturing plans the trip will last until saturday afternoon the first stop will be made at the westinghouse lamp works in bloomfield n j wednesday morn ing the same afternoon the senior engineers will visit the crocker wheeler manufacturing company in east orange n j and that ev ening the radio studios of station wor in new york city thursday the men will visit the kearney generating station at kearney n j in the morning and the general cable company at bayonne n j in the afternoon friday morning the party will visit the american telephone and telegraph company in new york city and in the afternoon the ford assembly plant in edgewater n j that evening they will be con ducted through radio city music hall 8 d.o.t men represent lehigh at perm state new men elected to tau beta pi frank sinatra to sing leader was at 1938 i f ball ; bunny berigan has rejoined band tommy dorsey will play at the junior prom to be held april 19 in the new empire ballroom al lentown it was announced today by robert l stubbings ch e 41 chairman of the prom committee contracts were signed with the sentimental gentleman of swing friday by stubbings dorsey will bring with him such names in the swing world as bun ny berigan at first trumpet and georgie auld at tenor sax both have recently been at the head of their own bands auld having tak en over artie shaw's band last fall featured vocalists are frank sinatra and jo stafford both com paratively new to the dorsey group the orchestra has just begun an engagement at the paramount the ater in new york city where it has already set several new atten dance records in previous visits it has just ended a run at the mea dowbrook new jersey dance spot brothers once had same band tommy dorsey has only recently become famous in his own right until 1936 when he struck out on his own he and his brother con ducted a joint organization under the title dorsey brothers orches tra it had become very widely known when the brothers decided to separate because of a difference of opinion over their arrangements and style they got their first start playing small jobs with their fa ther in the coal regions of penn sylvania notably in the small town of shenandoah pa dorsey's band is noted for its famous recording of marie an old tune dressed up in modern style it introduced a new ensem ble background arrangement and became one of the all time best sellers since then the recordings of tommy dorsey have remained at the top in popularity has played at lehigh before this band has had one previous engagement at lehigh it played for the 1938 interfraternity ball famous name bands who have played the junior prom since 1935 are ray noble ted fio rito hor ace heidt and benny goodman the empire ballroom site of the prom will undergo several im provements during early april ac cording to stubbings it was chos en after its success as the location of the interfraternity ball in feb ruary the committee in addition to stubbings which will handle ar rangements for the prom are ed ward d hems m e 41 claude d gilchrist i e 41 and augus tus a riemondy ch e 41 engineers to be pledged at memorial thursday 3 campus issues debated in class dr walter t stace professor of philosophy at princeton univer sity discussed the philosophy of democracy in a lecture friday in packard auditorium approxi mately 100 persons the majority of whom were townspeople at tended sponsored by the robert w blake honorary philosophic soci ety in conjunction with the fa culty lectures committee dr stace was the second of a series of speakers on the various isms the princeton professor was the guest of the blake society and a tea was held friday by the group in his honor the annual drive for funds for the harry m ullman student chemistry foundation will begin at the chemistry society meeting which will be held at 7:30 p m thursday in the chemistry build ing students from all chemistry clas ses may contribute whatever part of their remitted laboratory fees they wish according to harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and permanent secre tary of the foundation fund totals 20,000 professor anderson stated that the trust fund now amounts to 20,000 and that a fellowship amounting to 600 has been given every two years since the estab lishment of the foundation in 1927 by the freshman class it is hoped that the drive this year will en able the foundation to acquire a large enough fund to award an annual fellowship professor an derson said three graduate students will discuss their research work at the meeting they are charles f glick student chemistry founda tion fellow thomas g harris devoe and raynolds company re search fellow and william f gross research fellow glick will outline measurements of vapor pressure , temperature re lations of the binary system gross will speak on absorption and harris will present a new quanti tative method of measuring ano malous viscosities pre-meds to hear dr hilde kramer musical to have first rehearsal 200 attend ball ken brader s band plays for military dance four members of the executive committee will represent the brown and white at the spring convention of the intercollegiate newspaper association to be held friday and saturday april 12 and 13 at moravian college for wo men they are fred e galbraith jr arts 40 editor-in-chief don ald r schoen arts 41 editorial manager charles f kalmbach m e 41 news manager and wallace p watkins bus 40 business manager kenneth k kost instructor in journalism will be in charge of a special session on business on fri day afternoon leading round table discussions on advertising circu lation and business technique i n a membership includes 30 colleges and universities from the middle atlantic states professor dale h gramley head of the de partment of journalism is execu tive treasurer of the association howard m conner arts 40 form er brown and white editor-in chief is vice-president of the group moravian president to speak the convention opens with re gistration at moravian on friday followed by a general business meeting at which dr edwin j heath president of the college will welcome the delegates and instructions will be given by jane burkholder editor of the mora vian belfry friday night the dele gates will attend the lecture by dr william lyon phelps professor emeritus of yale university spon sored by the lehigh student con cert-lecture committee saturday afternoon the lehigh varsity baseball game will attract some of the conventionists and the remainder will make a tour of the historical moravian buildings sigma nu fraternity will hold an informal tea dance at the chapter house that afternoon at 4 p m for the newspaper delegates the two day session will close with a formal banquet at the hotel bethlehem saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock speakers will be dr amos a ettinger professor of his tory at moravian college for men and william reimert executive editor of the allentown call and chronicle phi beta kappa to induct 24 seniors tomorrow tau beta pi national honorary engineering society will pledge new members at exercises to be held at 4:30 p m thursday at the memorial to dr edward h will iams founder of the society senior and junior engineers who will be pledged thursday were elected last night following a smo ker in drown hall approximately 45 men including present members of the engineering society attend ed the affair thomas t holme instructor in mechanical engineering was main speaker at last night's meeting he related the history of the tau beta pi chapter at lehigh and described the life of dr williams the hughes-weiss musical comedy scheduled for presentation at the beethoven maennerchor on april 28 will rehearse for the first time on thursday at the maenner chor flood waters which rose to within 14 inches of the club's ceil ing last week did little damage and will not interfere with the schedule of rehearsals according to david hughes 39 co-author of the show lehigh men who will compose the entire cast will be assisted by the maennerchor's male and fe male choirs the production which was originally to have been presented on the campus is a le high musical revue similar to the princeton triangle shows eight lehigh men were dele gates to the annual pennsylvania state debaters convention held friday and saturday at pennsyl vania state college twenty col leges and universities from all parts of the state were represented lehigh's delegates were fred eric n bahnson phys 41 chair man donald r schoen arts 41 william i freeman arts 40 c raymond kiefer arts 41 frank l benedict bus 40 albert w foster bus 42 henry g werner phys 41 and stephen t lowry c e 41 all are members of delta omicron theta honorary debating fraternity they were accompanied by j calvin callaghan director of debating the convention included three major committees foreign affairs un-american activities and new deal committee schoen and wer ner were instrumental in the for mation of the foreign affairs group while each committee contained one or more lehigh men according to bahnson three questions of campus con troversy are being debated by speech 30 classes this week under the direction of j calvin calla ghan assistant professor of english and speech and kenneth b horn ing instructor of english on sat urday the classes debated re solved that the student concert lecture series fee should be in creased to 2 next year an affir mative decision was reached resolved that athletic letters should be awarded on a major minor basis at lehigh university was the subject for debate today thursday the speakers will discuss resolved that all lehigh uni versity social fraternities should be abolished in september 1941 a class forum will be devoted saturday to the question should a marriage course be offered at lehigh next year 9 attend a.t.o convention delta upsilon has dance alpha phi omega meets cluh meeting postponed faculty dramatic club meeting which was to be held tonight was postponed because of conflicts caused by spring vacation dr william l jenkins assistant pro fessor of psychology announced twenty-four seniors who were elected to phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity will be initiated into the fraternity at 4 15 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the faculty room of the alumn i memorial building the formal initiation will be supplemented by a dinner banquet to be held later in the week in easton in conjunction with the la fayete chapter bids to phi beta kappa were sent out two weeks ago to 24 selected top ranking stu dents in the senior class alpha phi omega national scouting fraternity held a business meeting last night in drown hall to close all old business before the new members are pledged to the society announced charles g myers m e 40 president the annual house dance of delta upsilon fraternity was held satur day evening at the chapter house over 150 couples danced to the music of george doddy's orchestra chaperones were mr and mrs walter c dacey one hundred couples attended the annual military ball of scab bard and blade national honorary military society held saturday evening at the saucon valley country club music was provided by ken brader and his orchestra this dance was the first closed military ball in the four years his tory of the event each member of scabbard and blade was permitted to invite only two additional coup les the affair was formal maynard l diamond arts 40 was in charge of the ball chap erones were colonel and mrs jo seph s leonard and captain and mrs benjamin s mesick glenn miller and his orchestra played for the 1939 military ball which was held in the national guard armory nine members of the lehigh chapter of the alpha tau omega fraternity attended the 59th anni versary celebration of the found ing of the fraternity chapter at muhlenberg friday and saturday nights main speaker of the even ing was j conrad seegers dean of men at temple university robert w hall society honorary pre-medical society will hold an open meeting thursday april 4 at 7:30 p m in room 466 pack ard laboratory at which dr hilde kramer professor of psycohygiene at moravian college for women will lecture on medical education in vienna according to frank v hertzog arts 41 member of the society dr kramer has had long exper ience in the field of psycotherapy dr kramer is a native of vienna and received her medical doctor and doctor of philosophy degrees from the university of vienna she studied under sigmund freud and worked with alfred adler in the first child guidance clinic in vienna at the time of the anchluss in austria she was placed in a nazi concentration camp for four weeks at the end of that time she was given the choice of remaining in the camp or leaving the country dr kramer then came to america where she has taken up teaching bethlehem pa tuesday march 19 1940 journalists plan washington trip engineers speaker vol xlvii no 39 uncle sam desires students to come to their ' census dorsey is signed for junior prom price — five cents lehigh university brown and white reiter banquet is scheduled for april 12 11th annual inspection tour to be april 1-3 junior prom maestro tommy's band will play at spring houseparty dance april 19 grace to present portrait at testimonial dinner in hotel bethlehem z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first