Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 5

              he received a bachelor of arts degree from lehigh in 1917 and a master of business administra tion degree from harvard in 1924 he is the uncle of robert d gil more arts 44 gilmore is believed to be the highest-ranking lehigh officer to be killed thus far in the war after june 30 a statement of current military and naval policy regarding college students has been issued by dean wray h congdon coming registration of 18 and 19-year-olds on june 30 makes it of vital importance that lehigh students have the information con tained in the statement explained the dean representatives of the navy will be present at 4 p m tomor row in packard auditorium to in ' form students of the opportunities in enlistment in the v-7 naval re serve program opportunities to enroll in the v-7 program are still available although it had previously been announced that the v-7 program , was closed as of may 1 apparently , full enlistment quotas have not ( yet been reached a 16-millimeter sound film or iginally prepared by the bureau of naval personnel to explain the v-l program but interesting to all < who are interested in the navy ; will be shown at that time ] representatives from the navy 1 will answer all questions which - may pertain to any other branch 1 of the service all students still i interested in enlisting are urged . to take this opportunity for secur 1 ing a deferred status and being '. placed on inactive duty until they \ have completed their college work i o the article contains the six steps to registration notes on the de ferment of college students and general information on the various enlisted reserves open to students in connection with the various reserve or inactive duty set-ups dean congdon emphasized that a student once enlisted in any of these services is no longer subject to draft and induction into the army under the selective service . . . act and that once a student has received his order to report for induction — or even for pre-in duction physical examination — it is too late to start procedures to enlist in one of these services on the deferred status the following is the first part of the text of dean congdon's state ment the rest dealing with the enlisted reserve plans will be published in the next issue after june 30 — what those students who are for the first time registering under the selective service system on june 30 — and indeed others who haven't yet received their selec tive service questionnaires — are vitally interested in knowing what the prospects are of their soon be ing either drafted into the u s army or selected by the selec tive service system to stay in col lege and prepare themselves for greater or more specialized fields of useful service in the present war emergency following is a picture intended to clarify the steps which will inevitably lead practicably every college student sooner or later into some form of service to his country obviously any student who isn't applying himself thus seriously to the job of getting an education cannot justify his stay in college when there is a crying need for his immediate services both in indus try and in the fighting forces six steps to service 1 june 30 registration 2 lottery drawing of order numbers 3 yo u are assigned your order number 4 you receive your se lective service ques tionnaire anywhere from one to an aver age of approximately 6 months may elapse between registra tion and the time when you re ceive your selective service questionnaire see note a the occupational question naire is not the same as the selec tive service questionnaire and does not indicate that the possibili ties of induction are imminent 5 you are ordered to report for pre-in duction physical ex amination unless you are minus a leg blind as a bat or have an s-curva ture of the spine you are at this point practically in the u.s army no time whatever is lost between the completion of your pre-induc continued on page two july freshmen to get handbook the freshman handbook for the class of 1946 will definitely ap pear in time to be in the hands of the july entrants when they ar rive announced lynn c bartlett arts 43 editor-in-chief the book this year will be somewhat different from what has been usually carried by the pseu do-innocent freshman the cover will be of stiff white paper and will have a side binding makeup has been modernized and sans serif display type will be used throughout the book five sections will be included in this year's freshman handbook they are orientation the univer sity the freshman year activities and sports advertisements will be included with the other sections instead of being placed in the back of the book as has been done pre viously physics dept to add two men to faculty two new instructors will teach in the physics department during the second eight weeks of the sum mer semester harry g payrow assistant pro fessor of sanitary engineering will assist in the physics 22 freshman laboratory william m strouse arts 43 a major in physics will assist in the physics 17 laboratory lehigh university brown and white vol xlix-a no 5 bethlehem pa wednesday june 24 1942 price—s cents ' kou brbese two lehigh students walk up steps to grace hall — steps that were built after a session of brown and white editor ializing and student petitioning the step-walk cutting through the barbed-wire leads from the drive-way east of williams hall up the incline to the road in front of grace hall spe formal attracts 80 couples saturday about 80 couples danced to the music of dick smith and his or chestra at the sigma phi epsilon summer formal which was held last saturday evening from ten to two at the hotel bethlehem chaperones were captain and mrs samuel pierce and mr and mrs fay c bartlett other mem bers of the faculty who attended were mr and mrs james v eppes and mr and mrs alfred v bo dine article explains six steps to registration with general data on student deferment dean issues afterf ter june 30 containing draft information navy will see v-7 candidates committee plans for blackout number 270 tickets save dance the sophomore saraband will definitely be held announced john j lotz c e chairman of the committee enough tickets were sold so that dean congdon will permit the dance to go through as scheduled on june 27 from 10-2 to date 270 tickets for the sar aband have been purchased by le high men sales will continue as usual and a great many more tickets will probably be sold be fore saturday night in addition to the dance being given by luis matamoros c e 45 and his date an attempt is being made to have another specialty the committee is trying to make arrangements for a blackout dance during the evening at this time the only light on the floor would be that attached to breese's baton lou breese the orchestra for the saraband has selected a host of popular melodies to be played at the affair his trumpet will be heard on the balconies which will be decorated according to the spanish theme before allowing the students to use the course lieutenant camp bell ran it himself the course is considered safe for all men in good physical condition constant work outs are considered good training since men in the regular army are drilled on longer and more diffi cult territory a race sponsored by the physi cal education department will be held later this summer medals will be awarded the winners at present the men will run the course unencumbered but lat er when they become familiar with the obstacles they will be obliged to run it carrying full pack and equipment all students enrolled in the basic r o t c courses will be assigned a time to use the course the course which was built by student volunteers under the di rection of lt james d campbell occupies a rectangular plot of ground between the lookout road and the spring at drinker house the course is wide enough to ad mit two men at a time and is ap proximately 225 yards long ob stacles include two water hazards two high walls and a hurdle except for a few members who fell in crystal spring a company of r o t c students monday afternoon successfully completed the new obstacle course on south mountain rotc tests obstacle run dr ettinger took his a b at muhlenberg college an a m at the university of pennsylvania a ph d at oxford university eng land and a litt d at oglethorpe university he taught at the uni versity of pennsylvania lafay ette college and yale university before he came to lehigh he resigned two years ago to become head of the department of history at moravian college for men he has recently been en gaged in a work on the history of bethlehem in preparation for the city's bi-centennial dr ettinger is the only american ever to win the two outstanding historical awards of great britain and the united states the alexander medal of the royal historical so ciety and the dunning prize of the american historical associa tion assistant professor of education at lehigh since 1937 dr white is a graduate of drury college springfield mo he has another bachelor's degree from southwest missouri state teachers college a master's degree from the univer sity of chicago and a doctor's de gree from columbia university he has been a superintendent of schools in nebraska and wyoming associate professor of psychology and school administration at ne braska state teachers college at wayne neb and assistant co-or dinator of practice teaching for columbia university teachers col lege dr aiken who graduated from yale university in 1929 and re ceived a degree of master of let ters from cambridge university england in 1932 and a ph d from yale in 1938 taught history at mc master university hamilton on toria before coming to lehigh last fall to succeed prof douglas m brown his book the conduct of the earl of nottingham was pub lished in 1941 one faculty member has been granted leave of absence another has resigned and another has been hired it has been announced by the president's office dr william appleton aiken as sistant professor of history has been given leave of absence to be come a first lieutenant in the mil itary intelligence dr raymond h white assis tant professor of education will leave the university at the end of the first eight weeks to become superintendent of the abington township school district succeeding aiken will be dr amos b ettinger who resigned from the department of history and government two years ago to become head of the history de partment at moravian college for men dr ettinger will rejoin history staff aiken white leave posts w gilmore killed aboard lexington commander walter w gilmore 17 has been announced as killed aboard the u s s lexington dur ing the midway battle though originally announced as lost in the sinking of the ship the navy de partment later said he was killed by a bomb blast gilmore was the supply officer of the lexington and was co-or dinating supply officer between all carriers of the pacific fleet he was due for promotion soon tuesday june 30 is draft registration day for every male citizen who has attained the eighteenth or nineteenth anniver sary of the day of his birth on or before june 30 1942 or the twen tieth anniversary of the day of his birth after december 31 1941 and on or before june 30 1942 ..." dean wray h congdon has announced that all students should register at the municipal building 53 east third street on that day tuesday june 30 hours are from 7 a m to 9 p m the student's registration card states the dean will then be for warded to his local board at home there is no reason whatever for students going home to register because these facilities are partic ularly provided for college students to register in the town where they are attending college "... the only exemptions are those students already enlisted in the armed forces of the united states and i interpret this to mean those enlisted with deferred status and placed on an inactive duty this would apply to students enlisted in the army air corps reserve the army enlisted reserve corps in the naval reserve corps under the v-l v-5 v-7 and other specialized programs and designations as well as those irt advanced rotc students between 18 and 20 who have not yet reg istered—june 30 municipal building third street