Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 53

              program held indoors cyanide initiates pledges living group prizes are announced by brenker chase zachary tifft smith rich elected as officers of junior honorary society a lost and found auction will be held by arcadia at 4 p m tuesday in the arcadia room in drown hall announced fred e galbraith arts 40 president of arcadia john j mcfadden bus 40 will be auctioneer all unclaimed articles which remain in the lost and found this year will be sold students may still claim their belongings before tuesday town council to aid youths wilbur chase jr met research fellow added group will send 3 boys from bethlehem club to summer camp university announces john h frye fellowship 6 grads assistants efforts of the many admirers of the group the choir continued its yearly performances under the di rection of dr bruce carey his successor and present director is dr ifor jones in the choir's long history peo ple from far and near have attend ed the sessions to prove the last ing impression which the work of this group has made on those who have heard it a glance at the list of guarantors is sufficient this year the list includes names of per sons living in california connec ticut delaware illinois indiana maryland massachusetts new hampshire new jersey new york ohio oregon pennsylvania rhode island vermont virginia washington d c new mexico nova scotia and france the board of managers of the choir estimate that this is the big gest year for attendance in the his tory of the affair accomodations at local hotels have been filled to capacity for over a week and the seats in the chapel have been sold out since early in the month many of the additional seats which have been provided in the packard au ditorium are already taken this year as in other years the program is divided into four ses sions — two today and two tomor row in accordance with tradition today's sessions were given over to the singing of a number of bach's cantatas tomorrow's sessions which to many are the most im pressive are as always devoted to the singing of the famous mass in b minor this evening the program begins at 7:30 and tomorrow's ses sions are at 2:30 and 5 p m by richard b palmer today and tomorrow lehigh university will be host to the world-famous bach choir and the colorful crowds drawn by the choir for the 33rd time since the founding of the group in 1898 le high students will again witness the spectacle of sleek limousines unloading sedate elderly music lovers at the chapel door hushed crowds waiting their turn to enter the bench-filled church and if the weather is favorable hundreds of intent listeners sitting and lying on the lawns listening to the strains of bach's majestic music coming through the gothic windows should the student be interest ed in good music he may join the crowd on the lawn and enjoy the swelling chords of the choir the crescendos and diminuendos of the orchestra the rumble of the organ he will become part of the color ful audience which thoroughly enjoys itself and is truly apprecia tive of the fine music the choir which was founded in bethlehem in 1898 by the late dr j fred wolle has devoted it self as the name implies to the presentation of the music of jo hann sebastian bach in its early years the organization gave its recitals in the moravian church later however the place of pres entation was moved to packer memorial chapel where it has re mained the choir continued un der the direction of dr wolle un til the time of his death at that time the future of the already famed and loved organization seemed doomed but through the wilbur chase jr bus 41 was elected president of the interdor mitory council for next year at a council meeting held tuesday ev ening in the arcadia room drown hall other officers elected are as fol lows robert c chase met e 42 vice-president roy l duncan jr m e 42 secretary donald a bender ch e 41 treasurer the decision to hang the picture of the council in drown hall the submission of the new dormitory code to dean congdon and the ap proval of a plan for a father's day observance formed the rest of the business transacted the new dor mitory code is to go into effect next fall the following new members of the interdormitory council have been announced price hall wil bur chase taylor hall a luther a mohr met e 42 taylor b david m parke phys 41 taylor c richard e slee arts 41 tay lor d robert r halligan e e 41 taylor e donald a bender richards house i roy l dun can jr richards 2-b howard o schroeder m e 42 richards 3-b charles e clam m e 41 rich and 4 a robert c mcmichael met e 42 richards 4-b edward m biggs jr e e 2 sections 2 a and 3-a of richards house have not yet elected representatives to the council soph suspended bartlett is elected head of honorary purchased sick excuses from local doctor 11 freshmen are initiated into phi eta sigma army ordnance chooses officers a sophomore has been convicted shepherd felch elected local post leaders three members of the bethlehem boy's club will be sent to summer camp for one week this summer under the auspices of the town council it was announced at a meeting held wednesday night in the arcadia room of drown hall charles r kiefer jr arts 41 was elected vice-president of the council to represent the living group on arcadia george a brenker bus 42 president of the town council is ineligible to rep resent the council on arcadia as he will already have a seat on the governing body as president of next year's junior class in a special election held tues day night in section e of the town charles v clark i e 41 was el ected president of the section john j yankevitch jr arts 41 vice president george j gabuzda arts 41 was formerly elected president of the group but was disqualified on becoming arcadia member at large in the recent elections band to present concert at blair the student was found guilty of purchasing fraudulent excuses for illness which he had purchased from a local physician of falsifying records and lying to a university official announced dean wray h congdon he was suspended from school until feb 1 1941 and was placed on disci plinary probation for the remain der of his stay at lehigh 60 members will travel to academy sunday officers elected by alumni clubs new officers of the bethehem post army ordnance were elected at the annual supper meeting of the group at the sun inn last ev ening announced capt benjamin s mesick assistant professor of military science officers for next year include richard m shepherd ch e 41 president lieut col r b ger hardt of bethlehem steel company first vice-president re-elected robert i felch i e 41 second vice-president robert caemmer er m e 11 secretary and leon ard j mckinley ch e 41 treas urer after the dinner at the sun inn william b wrigley phys 40 pre sented movies of the rotc unit at aberdeen maryland last sum mer and of the annual military field day last week john bosterle engineer of the roller-smith com pany spoke on switzerland to award purse outstanding senior review plans to honor sixty members of the lehigh university band will present a con cert at blair academy at 6:30 o'clock sunday evening announc ed ralph e martin ch e 40 di rector of the band the program will be similar to that presented here on sub-freshman day fred a johnson 05 former football player and present mem ber of the blair academy faculty arranged for the program the band will leave the university at 3 p m and will dine at blair the program will include over ture of helmet and sword ted dy bear's picnic at a persian market and several popular sel ections from victor herbert time permitting several marches will also be included in the concert dr t edgar shields professor of music and martin will alternate in leading the band four alumni clubs elected offi cers for next year at their district meetings held during the past month according to william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association officers elected in the southeast ern pennsylvania club include henry j kaufman 10 president douglas r beggs 33 vice pres ident george e potts 23 secre tary and augustus g mayers 19 treasurer the northeastern penn sylvania club elected william e connor 28 president and ed mund h poggi 33 secretary retary william davis 34 president was the only newly elected officer of the pittsburgh club the south ern new england group elected thomas g shaffer 14 president and lewis h vanßilliard 23 sec sportsman's club tau beta pi to hold picnics cosmopolitan club selling tickets for refugee fund lynn c bartlett arts 43 was elected president of phi eta sigma national honorary freshman scho lastic society at an initiation ban quet held last night in the uni vrsiy room of the hotel bethlehem other officers for next year are as follows vice president and treas urer walter e titlow eng sec retary william c brower eng historian maynard g arsove eng albert a rights director of dramatics was the principal speaker at the banquet which pre ceded the initiation ceremonies and the election stressing the need for a well-rounded collegiate life a medium between the all colle giate student and the student who devotes himself entirely to his stu dies mr rights stated that stu dents should rid themselves of the ivory tower attitude towards the world by getting out and joining extracurricular societies where they might meet and mingle with others others who spoke briefly were dean wray h congdon e ken neth smiley director of admis sions and harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry who is also faculty adviser to the society jesse f beers jr arts 42 retiring vice-president introduced the speakers the following freshmen were initiated edward a fehnel eng frank h bower eng maynard g arsove eng lynn c bartlett arts william c brower eng ludwig e godycki eng stanley caplan eng walter e titlow eng walter r hoerner eng is aac m hunsberger eng wheel er gilmore jr eng tau beta pi honorary engineer ing society and the sportsmen's club will hold picnics during the coming week the sportsmen's club will pic nic sunday afternoon at the farm of robert p m stoudt bus 41 located at riegelsville members are requested to meet at 2 p m at the new street gate the tau beta picnic will be held at the little lehigh park on tuesday afternoon epitome will be ready for delivery tuesday eight juniors were tapped by omicron delta kappa national honorary senior activities frater nity and 14 sophomores were tap ped by cyanide junior activities society at the the flagpole exer cises held yesterday morning in packard auditorium the omicron delta kappa ban quet at which the eight pledged yesterday and a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering will be initiated will be held at 7 o'clock sunday evening at the sau con valley country club election of next years officers will be held at the banquet a faculty speaker will be obtained for the affair cyanide holds banquet cyanide held its initiation cere monies at a banquet held last night in the sun inn dr beards lee professor of moral and religi ous philosophy spoke on the prin ciples of the organization william b simpson arts 41 retiring pres ident of cyanide also spoke ar chie d tifft bus 42 was elected president for next year other offi cers elected last night are the fol lowing frank e smith jr ch e 42 vice-president and arthur h rich bus 42 secretary-treas urer retiring vice-president is j dukes wooters jr bus 41 and retiring secretary is herbert p el liott jr bus 41 newly elected members of omi cron delta kappa are the follow ing henry o chandler bus rob ert m ulmer bus albert e lee ch e robert l vockel m e roy s zachary arts augustus a riemondy ch e and john h mathewson ch e dean callen was elected as an inactive faculty member since the quota of four active faculty members has been filled charles f kalmbach m e donald r schoen arts and will iam e scott bus were initiated earlier this year new members of cyanide fol low richard h brenneman e m john m roach arts arthur h rich bus frank e smith jr ch.e wilkes mcclave bus ralph f moss jr bus james a gor don bus frank s mckenna met e richard e metius met e archie d tifft bus edwin h klein arts a bruce brown eng phys geoge e elliott ch e robert m simonsen ch e odk discusses epitome at an odk meeting held last wednesday night in drown hall the abolishment of the epitome was discussed the general senti ment was against such an abolish ment although a posible revision in the method of selecting the business staff for that publication was discussed along with the idea of including the cost of the epitome in registration fees so that every student would receive a copy a report on the epitome situation will probably be made at the next meeting richard c kelley jr chem 40 presented a report of the committee on education several changes in the new sys tem ow awarding letters to contes tants in major and minor sports were suggested although no de finite recommendations were made white to attend forum the lehigh review will award a purse to the senior most repre sentative of the lehigh ideal and will print the awardee's biography in the issue which is coming out during the latter part of next week according to edwin h klein ch e 42 editor of the review the theme of this issue of the review will be graduation chailes j moravec assistant in journalism has written an article entitled impressions and confessions of a publishing director which will also be featured in addition to the regular issue there will be a special supplement which will be the reprint of the hughes-weiss comedy university show cowin talks on archery fort to be guest of honor dr tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics will be guest of honor at the reception and dinner in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the found ing of the hunter college chapter of pi mv epsilon national mathe matics fraternity to be given sat urday evening may 25 in new york city establishment of a new research fellowship in metallurgy and the appointment of six graduate assist ants and 17 research fellows to the staff of the university for the com ing years were announced today by president c c williams the new fellowship will be known as the john h frye metal lurgy fellowship and will carry an annual stipend of 600 the first recipient of this new research award will be jesse w caum of bellefonte now a senior at perm state college majoring in metal lurgy the graduate assistants appoint ed are the following louis a waters a b harvard university graduate assistant in english will iam b todd a b lehigh grad uate assistant in english roger s hawley a b haverford college graduate assistant in chemistry david r williams m e drexel institute of technology graduate assistant in mechanical engineer ing chester h powers m e pur due university graduate assistant in mechanical engineering l p burton b a university of ala bama graduate assistant in mathe matics scholarships awarded seven william c gotshall scholarships valued at 500 and exemption for tuition fees ap pointment for one year of grad uate study were made in five de partments as follows william f gross b s lehigh in chemistry alfred r flinn b s virginia mil itary institute in civil engineer ing chester h buchanan b s lowa state college in electrical eng w g s fort b s georgia school of technology in electrical eng elbert m mahla b s le high in metallurgy marion row land b s south dakota school of mines in metallurgy appointment for two academic years with an annual stipend of 750 for the henry marison byiles by memorial reseach fellowships was made to gerald g murphy b s montana state college and morris l greenough a b tufts college in electrical engineering eugene r l gaughran a b lehigh was appointed for two years at a stipend of 500 annually and free tuition to the katharine comstock thome fellowship in biology stanley g shuttleworth b s rhodes university college of south africa was the recipient of the hunt-rankin company fellowship in chemistry university scholarships were awarded to five graduate students as follows edwin h miller a b lehigh in english james n mos es b s moravian college for men in chemistry richard n rhoda b s lehigh in chemistry will iam b white a b hampden sydney college in mathematics john l worzel b s lehigh in geophysics the 1941 epitome will be ready for delivery at noon tuesday robert c good editor in chief announced yesterday students who have already or dered copies of the book may secure them at the arcadia offi ce in drown hall the books will also be on sale at 3.50 a copy raymond h white assistant professor of education will make a trip to riverdale n v this sat urday to attend a meeting of the educational administration club of teacher's college columbia uni versity the meeting will be held at the home of dr george g strayer and the topic for discussion will be who shall graduate from high school continued on page four a total of 40 cups and trophies was presented to living group and individual performers in various intramural and other athletic pro grams yesterday morning at the traditional annual flagpole exer cises which however due to the rainy weather were moved indoors to packard auditorium the tapping of eight men by omicron delta kappa senior hon orary activities society and of 14 by cyanide junior honorary acti vities society and the traditional presentation of the senior cane to the president of next year's senior class completed the program cya nide tapping was announced by william b simpson arts 41 and that of odk by wallace p wat kins bus 40 alfred cox c e president of the class of 1940 presented the senior cane to albert e lee jr ch e president of the class of 1941 at 11 o'clock fred e galbraith jr arts 40 opened the program by introducing howard r reiter professor of physical education who announced the following awards athletes are honored the physical education depart ment cup in intrafraternity lead ership presented by fay c bart lett director of physical education to donald r luster m e 40 the physical education cup in intrafra ternity leadership presented by bartlett to joseph l matteson bus 40 the physical education cup in leadership and sportsman ship in the sportsman's club pre sented by bartlett to robert p stoudt bus 41 the physical edu cation cup in the leadership of the town group by bartlett to walter m schweder e e 40 the physical education cup in dormitory leadership was present ed to r kingman poetter m e 40 the physical education cup in archery promotion presented by bartlett to roy b cowin head of the department of accounting a presentation by warren e sawyer ch e 40 to charles w simmons associate professor of chemical en gineering in honor of his service to the hockey team the frank dravo interclass swimming cup presented by pete morrissey swimming coach to the class of 1941 represented by william b simpson arts the fritz mercur tennis cup presented by bartlett to marvin d kantrowitz bus 41 in absentia the h r reiter interclass soc cer cup was presented by dean wray h congdon to the class of 1942 represented by ward a det weiler bus the interclass track and field cup by morris kanaly track coach to the class of 1942 represented by george e elliott jr ch e the philip l mcgrath track trophy by gilbert e doan head of the department of metall urgical engineering to j dukes wooters jr bus 41 cox wins football cup the theodore h meyer delta tau delta cup presented by kan aly to john beriont ch e 41 the john w maxwell jr cross country cup presented by max well manager of the supply bur eau to morgan c elmer arts 40 the nannie l wilbur baseball cup and medal by paul calvert var sity baseball coach to harry a leidich jr bus 40 the archi bald johnston 89 football cup and medal by glen harmeson director of intercollegiate athletics to al fred t cox the ernesta drinker lacrosse cup and medal was presented by mrs clement c williams to will iam t luce bus 40 and douglas c paul bus 40 the r a lewis freshman wrestling cup by will iam sheridan wrestling coach to the cosmopolitan club is spon soring a campaign for the benefit of refugees who have been award ed scholarships by the university through the medium of tickets to local movie houses the tickets are good for admittance to the boyd and globe theaters from may 10 to 29 and profit fom their sale will go to the fund tickets have been distributed for sale to the heads of all frater nity houses dormitory sections and town groups as well as to the members of the faculty the price is the same as that of tickets pur chased in the usual manner and they may be used at any time dur ing the prescribed period except on saturday nights roy b cowin head of the de partment of accounting addressed the members of the st mathew's lutheran brotherhood on archery during the monthly meeting of the group tuesday evening in the social rooms of the church pro fessor cowin illustrated his talk with several sets of bows and ar rows and explained the technique of their use brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 17 1940 heads dormitories colorful throngs are drawn to campus by bach choir vol xlvii — no 53 price — five cents wilbur chase elected dorm council head robert chase chosen vice president duncan is group secretary 40 awards are presented odk taps 8 cyanide 14 during flag pole exercises arcadia to hold auction cox transfers traditional senior cane to lee receives 3 cups don bender is treasurer odk discusses plan to include epitome expense in fees z cis member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first