Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 49

              above are the new brown and white and epitome j meikle arts 42 john m roach arts 42 a officers elected by the board of publications tues bruce brown phys 42 and robert e cullen day afternoon left to right theodore g scott ch e 42 met e 42 edward m biggs jr e e 42 william — b & w photo brown chosen epitome editor roach to head brown & white start dialing on sunday n y alumni club sponsors banquet final round of the williams ex tempore speaking contest will be held wednesday evening may 7 in packard auditorium with three seniors two juniors and four fresh men competing for prizes totaling 225 among the survivors of the pre liminary round in which 17 sen iors juniors and freshmen partici pated tuesday evening in the au ditorium are henry g werner phys 41 donald r schoen arts 41 richard m dietz m e 41 william f boore jr met e 42 richard j berg arts 42 hugh boyd m e 44 john e doxsey i e 44 frank e felt bus 44 and thomas a lawson ch e 44 first second and third place winners of the junior-senior con test will receive 75 50 and 25 respectively the freshmen contest winner will be awarded 50 and the runner-up 25 the preliminaries last tuesday evening were judged by dr rob ert m smith head of the english department william b todd graduate assistant in english ken neth b horning assistant in eng lish fay c bartlett director of physical education and charles j moravec assistant in journalism bach festival is may 16-17 publications posts named at meeting of board tuesday afternoon the dial telephone system will go into effect midnight satur day may 3 all local telephone numbers will be changed at that time at defense dinner dickerman receives cup scott cullen are picked horning to leave english faculty formal public rehearsal to be held may 15 jones to direct will become instructor at v.p.i in september improvement and expansion of athletic facilities are contemplated for the summer months it was learned today from administrative and athletic officials in addition to the proposed re modeling of taylor gymnasium a survey is being made on the costs of improving the upper field track and stands the study for estimat ing the costs and design of addi tional tennis courts at steel field will be continued announced glen w harmeson director of intercol legiate athletics the proposed changes at taylor gymnasium will cost approximate ly 8,500 and will include the ad dition of one story over the rec tangular portion of the field house tor shower facilities the present balcony in taylor gymnasium will be converted into locker space a total of 520 lockers will be install ed according to president wil liams report to the university board of trustees plans for the rebuilding of the present track are being studied by harmeson president williams and andrew w litzenberger superin tendent of grounds and buildings different types of track designs are being surveyed as they exist on other college grounds portable stands suggested new stands may replace the old bleachers on the upper field ac cording to president williams the old stands which have deteriorated with the years and have recently been damaged by the excavated rock rolling down on them from the hill behind may be replaced by new portable stands or repair ed pending the outcome of inves tigation the stands in the upper field have been neglected in past years when the excavated material from grace hall now under construction by wallace r wirths approximately 1000 sub-fresh men parents and guests will at tend a grand preview of lehigh life this weekend men from many parts of the country will arrive this evening and tomorrow morn ing for a fast moving program de signed especially for sub-freshmen and prospective students registration at 9 a m in the alumni memorial building will officially start the festivities and campus tours will be conducted for the visitors at that time this will be followed by a band con cert at 10 o'clock on packard lawn weather permitting albert e lee jr president of arcadia president clement c williams and dean wray h cong don will give welcome speeches at the 11 o'clock general assembly in packard laboratory depart mental conferences in the same building will follow luncheon will be served at 12:30 p m in the armory and in various fraternity houses interviews will be held demonstrations and interviews will feature the departmental visits which are scheduled from 1:30 to 3:30 p m prospective students and their parents will have the op portunity of calling for personal interviews at the offices of faculty memers special exhibits which have been set up in various build ings as well as in the art gallery in the library will be open the annual song contest of liv ing groups sponsored by the new york alumni club will be featured at 2:20 o'clock on packard lawn visitors may attend several ath letic events which are scheduled for the afternoon the lehigh var sity nine will meet rutgers in tay lor stadium while the freshman team will meet the rutgers fresh men on steel field at 2 o'clock the pennsylvania tennis team will continued on page four continued on page four the third annual spring conr cert of the combined college glee clubs of the lehigh valley will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the chapel the concert will be followed by a dance in drown hall the glee clubs of moravian col lege for women cedar crest col lege lafayette college and lehigh university will take part in the concert along with the lehigh symphony orchestra under the direction of thomas j kochuba chem 41 t edgar shields direc tor of music at lehigh will be in charge of the combined glee club selections the concert will be free to all lehigh students and they will be admitted at the chapel entrance en presentation of an athletic book or a bursar's receipt there will be an admission charge of 40 cents to all outsiders concert tickets will admit the bearer to the dance which will follow the con cert the lehigh collegians will furnish music for the drown hall dance the program will open with sel ections by the lafayette brass quartet which will be followed by the cedar crest glee club under the direction of miss mary oelrich after the intermission the glee club of the moravian college for women under the direction of mrs sidney goodrich will sing three numbers and the lehigh university glee club under the di rection of dr shields will then sing three pieces the program will close with singing by the combined glee clubs at a meeting of the combined musical clubs of lehigh held thursday evening in the chapel frank e smith ch e 42 was elected president for the coming year manager of the combined musical clubs and student leader of the glee club will be robert j mcgregor ch e 42 the two as sistant managers of the glee club are william r williams arts 43 and george c stone arts 43 competitors boost handbook income sam wins bridge round book by harmon printed recently kenneth b horning assistant in english for the past three years has accepted the position of in structor in english at virginia polytechnic institute starting in september horning joined the english de partment staff in the fall of 1938 he majored in journalism at the university of illinois graduating in june 1938 and earned his mas ter's degree in english at lehigh last june his new post will require him to teach english composition pub lic speaking and business letter writing recently a digest on his master's thesis on copy trends in advertising was published in printer's ink monthly advertising sales exceed previous year's total volume traces relations of indians and u s stuart lectures at navy a business and defense dinner was held by the lehigh club of new york at 7 o'clock last night at the murray hill hotel a recep tion was held in the cocktail par lor at which time informal chats were held between distinguished guests and fellow-alumni of le high one of the main features of the evening was the presentation of a few selections by the double quar tet from the university glee club after the glee club selections wil liam c dickerman 96 chairman of the board of the american lo comotive company was presented the honor cup by thomas m girdler 01 walter r okeson 95 acted as toastmaster president c c williams a v bodine 15 president of the le high alumni association eugene g grace 99 president of bethle hem steel e f johnson 07 and a r clancy officials of o p m were among the guests present at the dinner the speakers for the occasion were d w fraser president of the american locomotive com pany j c hardy president of american car and foundry com pany franklin baker jr 95 vice president of american cyanamid company f w parsons 02 vice president of robbins publications and d c keefe president of in gersoll-rand company milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering lectured recently at the united states naval academy in annapolis he spoke on thermodynamics the bach choir has been prac ticing for the past few thursday nights in packer chapel in prepar ation for its 34th performance to be given on may 15 16 and 17 the choir which has an inter national reputation is expected to draw a crowd of at least 1,200 peo ple this year and has already been sold out among the famous mu sicians who are listed as having at tended in the past are such names as stokowski and geraldine far ifor jones organist of the mor avian church is the conductor and members of the philadelphia or chestra will accompany the choir mrs gretchen newhard lobst is piano accompanist and dr t ed gar shields director of music is the organist the choir will sing first for the public on thursday evening may 15 this will be a formal rehear sal the true festival will begin on friday may 16 at 4 p m at 8 p m the second bach cantata will be sung saturday at 1:30 and 4 p m the choir will sing the mass in b minor this year an added attraction sigma alpha mv won the first round of the interfraternity du plicate bridge tournament with a total of 95 v 2v 2 match points second place was won by sigma nu with 83 y 2 , and alpha kappa pi placed third with 83 points nineteen fra ternities participated in the tour nament the second round will be played this evening at 7:30 o'clock continued on page four lehigh's ' groves of chestnuts 9 now few due to 1915 blight morrissey swim mentor to retire after 20 years may be retained at lehigh in another position the competitors for positions on the freshman handbook staff have sold 452.50 in advertisements to date according to archie d tifft bus 41 business manager and it is probable that the sum will amount to over 500 last year at the close of the competitions the total amount was 422.50 the man who sells the most ad vertising for the handbook will become business manager for the 1941 issue other high sellers get positions on the board twelve sophomores are now competing the four highest men are thomas m buck m e rob ert d bailey i e donald e krebs ch e and charles m nor lin met e tie for fifth place are a harrison brennan bus and robert l taylor sixty years of indian affairs by george dewey harmon asso ciate professor of history and gov ernment has just been published by the university of north caro lina press the volume is concerned with the relations of the federal gov ernment with indian tribes living within the united states during the period from 1789 to 1850 the book is the first broad treat ment given to the complex rela tions that developed between the government and the natives dur ing this period it treats in particular of the in dian rights to the soil the federal support of indian trading houses and the federal policy regarding the removal of the indians from their old habitats to the west of the mississippi o c burkhardt,'88 dies was professor at v p i dean addresses members of community chest board until his retirement a year ago burkhardt was professor of min ing engineering at virginia poly technic institute burial will be in the family plot in nisky hill cem etery sunday morning otto cornelius burkhardt 88 died last friday at his home at blacksburg va burkhardt re ceived the e m degree in 1889 and his c e degree in 1892 a bruce brown phys 42 a member of the town group was chosen editor-in-chief of the epi tome for 1941-42 at a meeting of the board of publications tuesday afternoon john m roach arts 42 of tay lor hall will be editor-in-chief of the brown and white theodore g scott met e 42 of kappa alpha business manager of the epitome edward m biggs jr e e 42 of richards house finan cial manager of the epitome and robert e cullen jr ch e 42 of phi gamma delta business manager of the brown and white assistant editor of the epitome a new post will be filled by will iam j meikle arts 42 of taylor hall six junior editors chosen are lynn c bartlett arts sigma phi epsilon edwin h dafter ch e lambda chi alpha samuel j davy e e sigma phi joseph f kemmer ch e town group robert w pugh ch e taylor hall and william r sultzer arts delta sigma phi beers is art editor jesse f beers jr arts 42 of sigma phi epsilon was named art editor of the epitome and frank s mckenna met e 42 of delta upsilon senior section editor brown is organizations editor of this year's epitome and a mem ber of phi eta sigma cyanide pi mv epsilon tau beta pi and the r w blake society roach has served as news edi tor makeup editor and news man ager of the brown and white and was just elected president of the intercollegiate newspaper associa tion he is a member of the new tonian society phi eta sigma cyanide pi delta epsilon and the student concerts-lectures com mittee cullen has served as national advertising manager local adver tising assistant and copy supervis or of the brown and white scott is a member of scabbard and blade and alpha phi omega members of the board of pub lications present at the meeting were dean wray h congdon chairman dale h gramley uni versity news editor and associate professor of journalism and garth a howland head of the depart ment of fine arts representing the faculty and robert m ulmer bus 42 of delta tau delta and rich ard m shepherd ch e 41 of alpha kappa pi student represen tatives 22 picked for chest drive curtis meets with deans peter j morrissey seven years ago he conducted the first inter-sectional swimming meet in the united states the le high mermen opposed miami uni vrsity at coral gables that meet resulted in the organization of the collegiate aquatic forum at fort lauderdale fla dean wray h congdon address ed the board members of the local community chest at a pre-cam paign rally held noon tuesday at the hotel bethlehem the topic of the dean's speech was unseen hands how much farther each of us can reach and how much more each of us can do because we re main unseen and enable the actual healing touch of professional hands to make contacts dean congdon said this very type of profes sional service as rendered by the 14 agencies of the chest dean congdon continued makes poss ible wide complete effective at tention to the welfare health and character-building needs of the whole community continued on page four administrative officers of the uni versity in order to safeguard the many other species of the forest trees some of grand and notable proportions many of the primeval forest stock the insidious chestnut blight is rapidly spreading its work of destruction throughout the east ern and northern united states and now is most virulent in new hampshire vermont massachus etts new york connecticut new jersey pennsylvania and dela ware today all that is left of the grove of spreading chestnuts are shoots which have sprung up from the stumps of the old trees botanists today have a very de finite idea of the causes results and character of the blight that destroyed almost every chestnut tree in the country the blight is a fungus parasite that attacks the bark and to a lesser extent the leaves of the tree the chestnut trees now growing on the campus have sprouted from the roots of the trees killed by the blight and because of this they are immune according to dr basil w parker instructor in biology however if seeds from these roots by l e klein elms magnolias maples wil lows beeches all have leaves on them now that spring has come everything is green except the chestnuts to which lehigh songs so often refer the campus has no groves of spreading chestnuts today only a few exist and they are small and scattered the reason for all this was ex plained in the oct 26 1915 issue of the brown and white during the present school year that iss ue of the paper stated the stu dent body has viewed with sur prise and regret the removal of a large number of the magnificent old chestnut trees that have adorn ed the grounds for so many years the reason for cutting down the trees was given by the superinten dent of buildings and grounds of that day it is very natural that the undergraduates and alumni view with distress the taking down of the many beautiful old chestnut trees which have adorned the campus since the days of the founder some of them for an even longer period of time the super intendent began fluently other trees saved this is however he contin ued a condition forced upon the george b curtis registrar at tended a regional meeting of the eastern association of college deans and advisers of men in new york city april 25-26 curtis is president of the association peter j morrissey veteran swimming coach will be retired in accordance with university regu lations it was learned yesterday coach morrissey has reached the age limit after having served the university in various capacities for over 20 years it is expected that morrissey will be retained by the department of intercollegiate athletics to serve in some capacity no successor has been named for the swimming coaching job morrissey's swimming teams won 62 and lost 74 meets during his reign twelve eastern collegi ate swimming association and three middle atlantic champions were trained by him as a member of the eastern dis trict olympic swimming and wrestling committees in 1920 1924 and 1928 morrissey conduc ted over 1,000 competitions since 1927 he has served as executive treasurer of the eastern collegiate swimming association in 1940 he was elected president of the amer ican swimming coaches associa tion a team of 22 workers to solicit faculty members and other em ployees at lehigh university in behalf of the bethlehem commun ity chest which opened its annual campaign today was announced today by e kenneth smiley di rector of admissions smiley is serving as captain of the group brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 2 1941 b & w epitome heads elected by publications board 7 men to compete in speech finals vol xlviii no 49 williams contest to end wednesday evening propose plan for improved gym facilities officials study changes for track and stands on upper field to install new lockers registration at 9 a m to present 3rd annual concert on may 3 in packer chapel 4 glee clubs to give recital university to act as host to sons and parents coming to campus expect 1,000 here for sub-frosh day price — five cents all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612