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junior prom maestro arcadia asks student views on elections committee to give report on student balloting system march 19 265 tickets sold signify largest dinner yet thursday is date light funds unavailable dietz will be speaker roachto edit handbook 2nd lehigh engagement during past 4 years signed last night the glee club will rehearse at 4 p m wednesday and 7:30 p m thursday in the chapel every week during lent this week's rehearsals are especially important because of the con cert which will be given at 3:15 p m tuesday march 18 in drown hall before the faculty women's club students whose classes conflict with rehearsals will be given excuses plays sweet and swing band members starred in recently produced hollywood film 750 schools get invitations lehigh press conference to be held may 10 will be bth year twenty lehigh freshmen have been invited to jenkin town next saturday afternoon to attend a blind-date tea-dance at beaver college the written invitation issued by the dean of women stated that there would be dancing and other entertainment from 2 till 5:30 o'clock in the after noon there was a list of the heights of the eligible girls to facilitate the choice of boys for the trip little difficulty was encoun tered in making up the male contingent the twenty were easily secured and are raring to go scout training open to faculty larry clinton committee appointed by williams to nominate future groups 2 on island cast chosen fisher kluger gusdorf to have male leads 9 girls included with an advance sale of more than 265 tickets the 1941 fresh man banquet to be held at 6:30 o'clock thursday evening at the hotel bethlehem will be the lar gest of the revived class banquets so far according to e lyster frost met e 44 chairman of the banquet committee last year's freshman class sold 206 tickets which was a new record at the time the featured speaker will be william lone star dietz foot ball coach of albright college dietz will talk on some of the hu morous experiences occuring dur ing his athletic career in addition to his long athletic record dietz spent the three years following the world war as an actor and director in hollywood working principally in sports and wild west pictures during one summer while working with a stock company dietz made the ac quaintance of a young english ac tor named ronald coleman it was dietz's recommendation to direc tor victor fleming of m g m that started ronald coleman on his career in motion pictures while coaching football at lou isiana polytechnic lone star took over the coaching of the base ball team one season and turned in a string of 22 consecutive vic tories to capture the southwest conference championship during dietz's life as a coach such celebrated football stars as ernie nevers of stanford rabbit weller of haskell turk ed wards of the washington redskins dick hanley coach at northwest ern pat hanley coach of boston u and dave smukler of temple have worked under him the local council of boy scouts has started a training course for leadership in scouting all inter ested faculty members can enroll for the course announced dean wray h congdon at the faculty meeting held yesterday afternoon in the alumni building president clement c williams called attention to the conference of the faculties of lehigh valley colleges to be held march 13 at lafayette college president cow ley of hamilton college will be the principal speaker president williams also appoint ed a new nominating committee which will bring in nominations for future faculty committees at the next faculty meeting the ap pointed committee consists of roy b cowin head of the department of accounting howard eckfeldt professor of mining engineering and harold p thomas head of the department of education during the meeting registrar george b curtis also announced that the new university register is now available for distribution at the registrar's office college newsmen to meet at lehigh press association to hold convention april 25-6 by theodore peters jr larry clinton long one of the country's most popular dance or chestra leaders was signed last night to play for the junior prom of spring houseparty the junior prom committee sel ected clinton after six other im portant dance orchestras had been considered according to archie d tifft bus 42 prom committee chairman the committee is satis fied with its selection and feels that larry and his musicians will be well received by the student body clinton's orchestra playing its second appearance here in four years will be the feature attrac tion of spring pfouseparty week end which has been scheduled this year for april 18 19 and 20 the prom will be held on friday night april 18 at the empire ballroom although the committee members had hoped that the junior event would be the first major social affair to be held in grace hall those plans were abandoned some time ago when it became evident that the new sports arena would not be completed by that time five hundred couples danced to clinton's music at the military ball in march 1939 he was then comparatively new to the dancing field leading a versatile group clinton directs his musicians in the sweet or swing style he is popular for such pieces as dip sey doodle martha and 1 dreamt i dwelt in marble halls the clinton orchestra has re cently returned east from engage ments on the west coast where the men played in a motion picture production chaperones for the prom in april will be president and mrs clement c williams and dr and mrs claude g beardslee marketing society to hold banquet scl committee to pick members will also discuss petition at thursday meeting invitations were sent today to 600 high schools in pennsylvania and new jersey and to 150 prepar atory schools in the middle atlan tic and new england states to sub mit copies of their magazines or newspapers in contests which will be held in connection with the eighth annual lehigh scholastic press conference on may 10 winners of first and second pla ces in the nine divisions of the contest will be given bronze plaques suitably engraved a number of certificates of honor able mention will be given com petitors in each division dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism who is di rector of the conference said that the contest judges will be selected from among lehigh alumni who are active in newspaper and other publication fields six divisions are open to high school publica tions based on the enrollment of the schools these divisions are for newspapers and for magazines in class a enrollment above 1,000 class b enrollment 500 999 class c enrollment under 500 mimeograph publications will compete in a separate division while the eighth and ninth divis ions will be for preparatory school newspapers and magazines the conference and contests were started in 1934 director gramley said to give secondary schools an opportunity to have their publications studied and judged by practicing newspaper men other contests of this type commonly employ faculty mem bers as judges the lehigh confer enec at which the contest winners are announced gives the delegates from the schools an opportunity to discuss with persons who are able to aid them with their numerous problems the contest last year drew 194 entries in all divisions 8 juniors to be initiated in ceremony thursday arcadia moved last night that a special meeting of that cabinet should be held march 19 to take action on a report of the elections committee's plan for student elec tions this spring the elections committee ap pointed last fall by albert e lee jr ch e 41 president of arca dia presented a preliminary re port and suggestion based on the discussion of the elections system of last year at the meeting of the combined councils last monday night after an hour's discussion by arcadia it was decided that a sampling of student opinion should be taken by asking for letters of opinion to be addressed to the elections committee after con sidering the suggestions and criti cisms received in this way the committee will formulate their final plan to be acted upon in ar cadia's special meeting a complete description of the plan used last year is to be found on the editorial page of this issue letters may be addressed to any member of the elections commit tee they are charles f kalm bach m e 41 chairman robert e montbach met e 41 john r matheson ch e 41 and richard b johnson arts 41 convention report accepted john m roach arts 42 was elected as the editorial manager of the freshman handbook for next year and william j meikle arts 42 was appointed alternate a report of the second annual convention of the pennsylvania intercollegiate student govern ment association held last week at perm state was presented by frederick r gilmore arts 41 who was arcadia's delegate at the convention in a three page mime ographed statement gilmore pre sented the views expressed by the student delegates from temple university of pennsylvania buck nell and others on election sys tems fraternity and non-frater nity relationship in student gov ernment and student-faculty-ad ministrative relations arcadia voted to buy a metal filing cabinet to replace the one loaned to the body by the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy during the past year fraternity holds dance shields is guest speaker the complete cast for the mus tard and cheese dramatic society's play two on an island was an nounced yesterday by albert a rights director of dramatics the leading parts in the play which will be given at 8 p m sat urday march 15 in the broughal high school auditorium will be taken by ira l fisher bus 43 who will play samuel brodsky eleanor lewis who will play the part of mary ward conrad e kluger arts 42 who will take the part of john thompson rob ert n gusdorff bus 42 who will take the part of clifton ross and ann ellis who will take the part of dorothy clark the other members of the cast and the parts they will take are as follows g william wolfsten arts 43 a redcap and a hindu william r sultzer arts 43 will iam flynnand a policeman frank h rich bus 42 the sightseeing guide william d gorman arts 43 the driver laura stehli mrs dora levy samcel s cross jr met e 41 frederick winthrop joseph p larkin 111 bus 42 lawrence ormont sheldon s zal kind arts 43 heinz kaltbart jean post katherine winthrop holmes seymore margolis bus 41 martin blake kathryn wol bach gracie mullen myrtle goodman helen ormont gabriel kurth sonia taranova lois jen kins mrs ballinger stephen weinrib arts'4l a museum attend ant and dorothy longenecker mrs william 19 men to attend honorary smoker dr t edgar shields director of music was guest speaker be fore the round tablers of christ at the weekly candlelight luncheon sunday evening in christ evan gelical and reformed church he spoke on ancient music its instru ments and composers plans are being formulated for the intercollegiate newspaper as sociation convention to be held april 25 and 26 at lehigh most of the sessions which will be attended by representatives of approximately 30 college newspa pers will be held in drown hall prizes in the association's news editorial sports and advertising contests will be awarded at the saturday evening banquet climax ing the convention the committee in charge of ar rangements consists of charles f kalmbach m e 41 john c att wood arts 41 robert j caverly bus 41 and charles b seib arts 41 the gamma lambda chapter of pi kappa alpha held a radio dance last saturday to commem orate the seventy-third anniver sary of the founding of the frater nity edward b annett e e 41 social chairman redecorated the recreation room in the basement mr and mrs joel f bailey were the chaperons juniors to be initiated by odk pi tau sigma will select new men thursday eight junior business students will be initiated into lambda mv sigma honorary marketing frater nity at the intiation banquet to be held at 6:15 p.fct thursday at the pi kappa alpna house dr herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology will be initiated with donald t foster howard w reimer normand j wilhemy theodore d propper donald n bachman richard m palmer robert s newcomb and theo phile saulnier thomas f jones assistant pro fessor of economics and faculty adviser of the fraternity will talk on the american marketing association each of the initiates will give a short after-dinner speech a maxwell paget bus 41 president of the fraternity will be toast-master and will preside over the initiation ceremony the student concerts-lectures series committee will meet at 4 p m thursday in the faculty room of the alumni building to discuss the applications of pros pective members for next year's committee the commitee will sel ect six juniors and make recom mendations to president clement c williams who will make the final appointments at this meeting the group will also continue its study of the pe tition signed by 935 students dur ing the second semester registra tion period and submitted by roy b cowin arts 43 who conducted a campaign among the students for names the results of the sample poll taken at the eva jess ye choir concert will also be stud ied the committee will discuss the suggestions and prices submitted by several lecture bureaus as well as musical divisions of major broadcasting companies regarding talent and final plans will be made for the last program of this term's series which will be a lec ture by dr will durant on the story of philosophy faculty chorus to meet by raymond a czapko and l edward klein expressing the belief that the brown and white editorial writ ers who have been criticizing the library lighting have not been doing much studying there presi dent clement c williams yester day told a reporter that no chan ges in the lighting system will be made because of lack of funds the president who at 59 sel dom wears glasses added that he spent several hours last sunday afternoon and evening in the li brary and had suffered no ill eff ects for the past three years the editorial staff has been conducting a campaign for better library ill umination but it was not until the begining of the present school year that their efforts have become intensified up until that time no steps had been taken to remedy the situation survey was conducted a survey conducted last novem ber with a weston sight meter registering foot-candles for the purpose of comparing the light values in several locations with those specified in the code of lighting school buildings pub lished by the illuminating engin eering society showed that the lighting in the main reading room and the stacks was far below the minimum standards editorial manager william j meikle arts 41 who wears heavy glasses and who has borrowed 14 books from the library in the past week said last night i am amazed at the president's statement i know that all council members are constant users of the library last week i took out 14 books some of which i would have used there but the lighting is inadequate jesse f beers arts 42 another member of the council stated that he had studied in the library and found the lights objectionable donald r schoen arts 41 edi tor of the epitome and a member of the brown and white editorial council said last night if lack of funds is the president's reason for not improving the library lights it is perhaps understandable i don't see however how he can think that the present lighting fa cilities are adequate neither schoen nor beers wears glasses situation is worse in an article published in the brown and white dec 6 1940 andrew w litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds stated that the situation has been getting worse in the past few years when the reading room was built the ceiling was almost white and reflected the light whereas in recent years it has be come darkened giving the desired antique finish and consequently no longer reflecting much of the light at that time some progress was being made toward better library lighting george gipson of the general electric company and w r klemm of the klemm company both lighting experts were con sulted designs were drawn up and prices submitted the cost of equipping the east wing of the reading room with table lamps would be about 800 approxim ately 100 a table further objections which presi dent williams raised against a new lighting system included the task of removing or changing the pres ent lights to permit a maximum lighting efficiency he explained that table lamps would be very objectionable because they occupy table space and the glare of re flection by such lights is hard on the eyes all of the tables in the library reading room have highly polished tops nineteen juniors will attend a smoker of pi tau sigma honorary mechanical engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday room 262 packard laboratory following the smoker the society will meet to decide which men will be inducted into the group approximately ten new members will be tapped later in the week with the initiation scheduled for later in the month mr walton forstall instructor in mechanical engineering will speak briefly at the smoker pi tau sigma is also planning its third annual spring houseparty dance as yet the location of the dance has not been decided rob ert c dimmick i e 41 chairman of the committee robert caem merer m e 41 and malcolm f mcconnell jr m e 42 will have charge of all arrangements pierce 38 is married the faculty chorus will con vene tomorrow at the nome of bradford willard head of the de partment of geology to listen to recordings of the gilbert and sul livan operetta the sorcerer and rehearse parts of the operetta which will be presented april 26 at drown hall according to edgar h riley associate professor of english engagement announced the engagement of miss betty i hartzell of bethlehem to albert r culver 38 was announced at a bowling party saturday night richard t pierce 38 was mar ried on saturday jan 25 to miss kay hanshaw of harrisburg the ceremony occurred in the canal zone omicron delta kappa senior activities society will initiate left to right robe rt n simonsen ch.e frank e smith jr ch.e and richard e metius met.e thursday night at 6 o'clock in drown hall following this a dinner meeting of the society lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 4 1941 glee club to rehearse president reads in library and suffers no ill effects vol xlviii — no 35 price — five cents frosh banquet advance sale sets record clinton is selected for junior prom doubts b & w editors understand lighting conditions there beaver college invites 20 frosh to tea dance will be held at delta tau delta the three juniors are the first of the class of 1941 to be elected to membership in odk and were selected at the so ciety's last meeting on feb 20 — b & w photos coming up . . . wednesday 3 p m — varsity swimming la fayette home 3 p m — freshman swimming lafayette home 7 p m — freshman wrestling lafayette home 8:15 p m — varsity wrestling lafayette home thursday 6 p m — o d k meeting ini tiation and dinner drown hall 6 p m — freshman banquet ho tel bethlehem friday 4 p m — orchestra practice chapel member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first
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FullText | junior prom maestro arcadia asks student views on elections committee to give report on student balloting system march 19 265 tickets sold signify largest dinner yet thursday is date light funds unavailable dietz will be speaker roachto edit handbook 2nd lehigh engagement during past 4 years signed last night the glee club will rehearse at 4 p m wednesday and 7:30 p m thursday in the chapel every week during lent this week's rehearsals are especially important because of the con cert which will be given at 3:15 p m tuesday march 18 in drown hall before the faculty women's club students whose classes conflict with rehearsals will be given excuses plays sweet and swing band members starred in recently produced hollywood film 750 schools get invitations lehigh press conference to be held may 10 will be bth year twenty lehigh freshmen have been invited to jenkin town next saturday afternoon to attend a blind-date tea-dance at beaver college the written invitation issued by the dean of women stated that there would be dancing and other entertainment from 2 till 5:30 o'clock in the after noon there was a list of the heights of the eligible girls to facilitate the choice of boys for the trip little difficulty was encoun tered in making up the male contingent the twenty were easily secured and are raring to go scout training open to faculty larry clinton committee appointed by williams to nominate future groups 2 on island cast chosen fisher kluger gusdorf to have male leads 9 girls included with an advance sale of more than 265 tickets the 1941 fresh man banquet to be held at 6:30 o'clock thursday evening at the hotel bethlehem will be the lar gest of the revived class banquets so far according to e lyster frost met e 44 chairman of the banquet committee last year's freshman class sold 206 tickets which was a new record at the time the featured speaker will be william lone star dietz foot ball coach of albright college dietz will talk on some of the hu morous experiences occuring dur ing his athletic career in addition to his long athletic record dietz spent the three years following the world war as an actor and director in hollywood working principally in sports and wild west pictures during one summer while working with a stock company dietz made the ac quaintance of a young english ac tor named ronald coleman it was dietz's recommendation to direc tor victor fleming of m g m that started ronald coleman on his career in motion pictures while coaching football at lou isiana polytechnic lone star took over the coaching of the base ball team one season and turned in a string of 22 consecutive vic tories to capture the southwest conference championship during dietz's life as a coach such celebrated football stars as ernie nevers of stanford rabbit weller of haskell turk ed wards of the washington redskins dick hanley coach at northwest ern pat hanley coach of boston u and dave smukler of temple have worked under him the local council of boy scouts has started a training course for leadership in scouting all inter ested faculty members can enroll for the course announced dean wray h congdon at the faculty meeting held yesterday afternoon in the alumni building president clement c williams called attention to the conference of the faculties of lehigh valley colleges to be held march 13 at lafayette college president cow ley of hamilton college will be the principal speaker president williams also appoint ed a new nominating committee which will bring in nominations for future faculty committees at the next faculty meeting the ap pointed committee consists of roy b cowin head of the department of accounting howard eckfeldt professor of mining engineering and harold p thomas head of the department of education during the meeting registrar george b curtis also announced that the new university register is now available for distribution at the registrar's office college newsmen to meet at lehigh press association to hold convention april 25-6 by theodore peters jr larry clinton long one of the country's most popular dance or chestra leaders was signed last night to play for the junior prom of spring houseparty the junior prom committee sel ected clinton after six other im portant dance orchestras had been considered according to archie d tifft bus 42 prom committee chairman the committee is satis fied with its selection and feels that larry and his musicians will be well received by the student body clinton's orchestra playing its second appearance here in four years will be the feature attrac tion of spring pfouseparty week end which has been scheduled this year for april 18 19 and 20 the prom will be held on friday night april 18 at the empire ballroom although the committee members had hoped that the junior event would be the first major social affair to be held in grace hall those plans were abandoned some time ago when it became evident that the new sports arena would not be completed by that time five hundred couples danced to clinton's music at the military ball in march 1939 he was then comparatively new to the dancing field leading a versatile group clinton directs his musicians in the sweet or swing style he is popular for such pieces as dip sey doodle martha and 1 dreamt i dwelt in marble halls the clinton orchestra has re cently returned east from engage ments on the west coast where the men played in a motion picture production chaperones for the prom in april will be president and mrs clement c williams and dr and mrs claude g beardslee marketing society to hold banquet scl committee to pick members will also discuss petition at thursday meeting invitations were sent today to 600 high schools in pennsylvania and new jersey and to 150 prepar atory schools in the middle atlan tic and new england states to sub mit copies of their magazines or newspapers in contests which will be held in connection with the eighth annual lehigh scholastic press conference on may 10 winners of first and second pla ces in the nine divisions of the contest will be given bronze plaques suitably engraved a number of certificates of honor able mention will be given com petitors in each division dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism who is di rector of the conference said that the contest judges will be selected from among lehigh alumni who are active in newspaper and other publication fields six divisions are open to high school publica tions based on the enrollment of the schools these divisions are for newspapers and for magazines in class a enrollment above 1,000 class b enrollment 500 999 class c enrollment under 500 mimeograph publications will compete in a separate division while the eighth and ninth divis ions will be for preparatory school newspapers and magazines the conference and contests were started in 1934 director gramley said to give secondary schools an opportunity to have their publications studied and judged by practicing newspaper men other contests of this type commonly employ faculty mem bers as judges the lehigh confer enec at which the contest winners are announced gives the delegates from the schools an opportunity to discuss with persons who are able to aid them with their numerous problems the contest last year drew 194 entries in all divisions 8 juniors to be initiated in ceremony thursday arcadia moved last night that a special meeting of that cabinet should be held march 19 to take action on a report of the elections committee's plan for student elec tions this spring the elections committee ap pointed last fall by albert e lee jr ch e 41 president of arca dia presented a preliminary re port and suggestion based on the discussion of the elections system of last year at the meeting of the combined councils last monday night after an hour's discussion by arcadia it was decided that a sampling of student opinion should be taken by asking for letters of opinion to be addressed to the elections committee after con sidering the suggestions and criti cisms received in this way the committee will formulate their final plan to be acted upon in ar cadia's special meeting a complete description of the plan used last year is to be found on the editorial page of this issue letters may be addressed to any member of the elections commit tee they are charles f kalm bach m e 41 chairman robert e montbach met e 41 john r matheson ch e 41 and richard b johnson arts 41 convention report accepted john m roach arts 42 was elected as the editorial manager of the freshman handbook for next year and william j meikle arts 42 was appointed alternate a report of the second annual convention of the pennsylvania intercollegiate student govern ment association held last week at perm state was presented by frederick r gilmore arts 41 who was arcadia's delegate at the convention in a three page mime ographed statement gilmore pre sented the views expressed by the student delegates from temple university of pennsylvania buck nell and others on election sys tems fraternity and non-frater nity relationship in student gov ernment and student-faculty-ad ministrative relations arcadia voted to buy a metal filing cabinet to replace the one loaned to the body by the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy during the past year fraternity holds dance shields is guest speaker the complete cast for the mus tard and cheese dramatic society's play two on an island was an nounced yesterday by albert a rights director of dramatics the leading parts in the play which will be given at 8 p m sat urday march 15 in the broughal high school auditorium will be taken by ira l fisher bus 43 who will play samuel brodsky eleanor lewis who will play the part of mary ward conrad e kluger arts 42 who will take the part of john thompson rob ert n gusdorff bus 42 who will take the part of clifton ross and ann ellis who will take the part of dorothy clark the other members of the cast and the parts they will take are as follows g william wolfsten arts 43 a redcap and a hindu william r sultzer arts 43 will iam flynnand a policeman frank h rich bus 42 the sightseeing guide william d gorman arts 43 the driver laura stehli mrs dora levy samcel s cross jr met e 41 frederick winthrop joseph p larkin 111 bus 42 lawrence ormont sheldon s zal kind arts 43 heinz kaltbart jean post katherine winthrop holmes seymore margolis bus 41 martin blake kathryn wol bach gracie mullen myrtle goodman helen ormont gabriel kurth sonia taranova lois jen kins mrs ballinger stephen weinrib arts'4l a museum attend ant and dorothy longenecker mrs william 19 men to attend honorary smoker dr t edgar shields director of music was guest speaker be fore the round tablers of christ at the weekly candlelight luncheon sunday evening in christ evan gelical and reformed church he spoke on ancient music its instru ments and composers plans are being formulated for the intercollegiate newspaper as sociation convention to be held april 25 and 26 at lehigh most of the sessions which will be attended by representatives of approximately 30 college newspa pers will be held in drown hall prizes in the association's news editorial sports and advertising contests will be awarded at the saturday evening banquet climax ing the convention the committee in charge of ar rangements consists of charles f kalmbach m e 41 john c att wood arts 41 robert j caverly bus 41 and charles b seib arts 41 the gamma lambda chapter of pi kappa alpha held a radio dance last saturday to commem orate the seventy-third anniver sary of the founding of the frater nity edward b annett e e 41 social chairman redecorated the recreation room in the basement mr and mrs joel f bailey were the chaperons juniors to be initiated by odk pi tau sigma will select new men thursday eight junior business students will be initiated into lambda mv sigma honorary marketing frater nity at the intiation banquet to be held at 6:15 p.fct thursday at the pi kappa alpna house dr herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology will be initiated with donald t foster howard w reimer normand j wilhemy theodore d propper donald n bachman richard m palmer robert s newcomb and theo phile saulnier thomas f jones assistant pro fessor of economics and faculty adviser of the fraternity will talk on the american marketing association each of the initiates will give a short after-dinner speech a maxwell paget bus 41 president of the fraternity will be toast-master and will preside over the initiation ceremony the student concerts-lectures series committee will meet at 4 p m thursday in the faculty room of the alumni building to discuss the applications of pros pective members for next year's committee the commitee will sel ect six juniors and make recom mendations to president clement c williams who will make the final appointments at this meeting the group will also continue its study of the pe tition signed by 935 students dur ing the second semester registra tion period and submitted by roy b cowin arts 43 who conducted a campaign among the students for names the results of the sample poll taken at the eva jess ye choir concert will also be stud ied the committee will discuss the suggestions and prices submitted by several lecture bureaus as well as musical divisions of major broadcasting companies regarding talent and final plans will be made for the last program of this term's series which will be a lec ture by dr will durant on the story of philosophy faculty chorus to meet by raymond a czapko and l edward klein expressing the belief that the brown and white editorial writ ers who have been criticizing the library lighting have not been doing much studying there presi dent clement c williams yester day told a reporter that no chan ges in the lighting system will be made because of lack of funds the president who at 59 sel dom wears glasses added that he spent several hours last sunday afternoon and evening in the li brary and had suffered no ill eff ects for the past three years the editorial staff has been conducting a campaign for better library ill umination but it was not until the begining of the present school year that their efforts have become intensified up until that time no steps had been taken to remedy the situation survey was conducted a survey conducted last novem ber with a weston sight meter registering foot-candles for the purpose of comparing the light values in several locations with those specified in the code of lighting school buildings pub lished by the illuminating engin eering society showed that the lighting in the main reading room and the stacks was far below the minimum standards editorial manager william j meikle arts 41 who wears heavy glasses and who has borrowed 14 books from the library in the past week said last night i am amazed at the president's statement i know that all council members are constant users of the library last week i took out 14 books some of which i would have used there but the lighting is inadequate jesse f beers arts 42 another member of the council stated that he had studied in the library and found the lights objectionable donald r schoen arts 41 edi tor of the epitome and a member of the brown and white editorial council said last night if lack of funds is the president's reason for not improving the library lights it is perhaps understandable i don't see however how he can think that the present lighting fa cilities are adequate neither schoen nor beers wears glasses situation is worse in an article published in the brown and white dec 6 1940 andrew w litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds stated that the situation has been getting worse in the past few years when the reading room was built the ceiling was almost white and reflected the light whereas in recent years it has be come darkened giving the desired antique finish and consequently no longer reflecting much of the light at that time some progress was being made toward better library lighting george gipson of the general electric company and w r klemm of the klemm company both lighting experts were con sulted designs were drawn up and prices submitted the cost of equipping the east wing of the reading room with table lamps would be about 800 approxim ately 100 a table further objections which presi dent williams raised against a new lighting system included the task of removing or changing the pres ent lights to permit a maximum lighting efficiency he explained that table lamps would be very objectionable because they occupy table space and the glare of re flection by such lights is hard on the eyes all of the tables in the library reading room have highly polished tops nineteen juniors will attend a smoker of pi tau sigma honorary mechanical engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday room 262 packard laboratory following the smoker the society will meet to decide which men will be inducted into the group approximately ten new members will be tapped later in the week with the initiation scheduled for later in the month mr walton forstall instructor in mechanical engineering will speak briefly at the smoker pi tau sigma is also planning its third annual spring houseparty dance as yet the location of the dance has not been decided rob ert c dimmick i e 41 chairman of the committee robert caem merer m e 41 and malcolm f mcconnell jr m e 42 will have charge of all arrangements pierce 38 is married the faculty chorus will con vene tomorrow at the nome of bradford willard head of the de partment of geology to listen to recordings of the gilbert and sul livan operetta the sorcerer and rehearse parts of the operetta which will be presented april 26 at drown hall according to edgar h riley associate professor of english engagement announced the engagement of miss betty i hartzell of bethlehem to albert r culver 38 was announced at a bowling party saturday night richard t pierce 38 was mar ried on saturday jan 25 to miss kay hanshaw of harrisburg the ceremony occurred in the canal zone omicron delta kappa senior activities society will initiate left to right robe rt n simonsen ch.e frank e smith jr ch.e and richard e metius met.e thursday night at 6 o'clock in drown hall following this a dinner meeting of the society lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 4 1941 glee club to rehearse president reads in library and suffers no ill effects vol xlviii — no 35 price — five cents frosh banquet advance sale sets record clinton is selected for junior prom doubts b & w editors understand lighting conditions there beaver college invites 20 frosh to tea dance will be held at delta tau delta the three juniors are the first of the class of 1941 to be elected to membership in odk and were selected at the so ciety's last meeting on feb 20 — b & w photos coming up . . . wednesday 3 p m — varsity swimming la fayette home 3 p m — freshman swimming lafayette home 7 p m — freshman wrestling lafayette home 8:15 p m — varsity wrestling lafayette home thursday 6 p m — o d k meeting ini tiation and dinner drown hall 6 p m — freshman banquet ho tel bethlehem friday 4 p m — orchestra practice chapel member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first |
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