Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 25

              bethlehem pa wednesday january 12 1944 price — 5 cents vol li no 25 arcadia elects new five-man committee class gift drive starts warrington to play at if ball saturday popular philadelphia orchestra played here last spring prices are 2.20 and 3.30 friday night the members of the february 1944 class gift commit tee laid plans for their drive to sell insurance to lehigh seniors these men will contact all grad uating students within the next two weeks in an effort to com plete the drive well before grad uation don lowry m e is chair man of the committee when a man takes out one of these 20-year endowment policies he has his alumni dues and sub scription to the alumni bulletin paid for ten years and is not asked to make any financial gift to the university during the entire 20 year period after graduation many pay little these policies are valued at 250 and the annual payments are slightly over 12.50 dividends from the policies are left with the uni versity so that when the policies expire they are worth nearly 300 the theory behind this method of financial aid to lehigh is that many men will be making small gifts rather than a few mak ing large gifts the plan has been in effect since 1936 and is based upon the princeton plan of alumni gifts as a method of making the first payment easy the fee of 12.50 paid by every senior as a deposit for his cap and gown may be as signed to the insurance company the class treasury makes up the few cents difference between this amount and the premium amount at present about 300 men have subscribed to the plan and among the class that graduated in octo ber over 80 percent took out the insurance questions concerning the plan can be answered by lowry at 6-5196 dr c.g beards lee arcadia office or charles k zug bethlehem trust building ensign whipple,'43 marries in oil city saturday night jan 15 is the date of the annual interfraternity ball with johnny warrington and his orchestra providing the danc ing music and the entertainment for the evening prices for the dance which is to be held in grace hall are set at 3.30 for civilian couples and 2.20 for trainees and their dates promptly at 10 johnny warring ton and his band will start the evening off with a bang and from then until 2 o'clock grace hall will be the scene of merriment with the troubles of old man war shoved almost into the back ground warrington played here last year and his sweet danceable mu sic coupled with some really sen sational hot arrangements pro vided some of the most enjoyable entertainment in several years among the more popular swing arrangements are rehearsin for a nervous breakdown wednes day night hop and southern fried these found great favor with the fans and he found him , self typed as a hot arranger as a result of this criticism johnny has emphasized his ballads and produced a rich melodic style at the same time embracing the in tentions of the composers featured with the orchestra are the vocals of jack bon-bon hunter formerly with jan savitt of 720 in the books fame those of lovely marion mason the fine piano interpretations of davey stephens the band within • a band the dixie doodlers and in the comedy department harry hi ho roberts warrington was born in atlan tic city new jersey he attended duke university where he joined the famous duke blue devils les brown and johnny long were also members of this combine upon his graduation he received a wire from jan savitt offering him a position with the band as an ar ranger and saxophonist he re mained with savitt for three years and upon leaving him he became staff arranger for station kyw and began to arrange for many of the country's leading bands until recently warrington re fused all offers to have a band of his own but the lure of putting his own ideas into practice at last induced him to organize one he was immediately engaged by sta tion wcau philadelphia's fore most radio station he selected the musicians for his orchestra with great care picking each man not only for his ability as an instru mentalist but also for individual interpretation and versatility the experienced pen of johnny war rington combine the band into a thing of excellence his idea of amplifying the piano and the brass section add to the over-all quality shown robert p whipple 43 was married at oil city pennsylvania december 24th his wife was the former elinor ruth fitch daugh ter of mr and mrs howard j fitch of oil city whipple is now an ensign in the united states navy and is station ed at pontiac michigan at le high whipple was president of arcadia president of the senior class and active in athletics whip was also president of his fraternity delta tau delta whip ple graduated as a chemistry ma jor in june 1943 domeratzky shafer boyd bloecher moore gain posts for coming spring semester johnny warrington . . . ... if maestro lou domeratzky dick shafer hugh boyd bill bloecher and bob moore were elected to the arcadia five-man committee for the spring semester at the arcadia meeting monday night election of cabinet officers will be held at the february meeting the first three men elected were originally elected to the committee in may but left school with the rotc and have since returned to the campus bloecher and moore were on the ballot in the october elec tion of the five rotc men now in school who were on the ballot in may the three chosen had the highest percentage of the total vote while the same applies to bloecher and moore ralph evans had the same percent of the votes cast as moore but the latter was elected by a vote of arcadia john donahue presented a re port on the intercollegiate foot ball situation that will be present ed to president williams as an ex pression of student opinion con cerning the continuation of foot ball at lehigh bill hittinger re ported that a letter to be sent to all ast men and officers stationed at lehigh has been written and will be distributed together with an aerial photo of the campus within the next two weeks col james n caperton com manding officer of the service unit stationed here stated that com pany e has been disbanded and its former members will be among the other five companies remain ing on the campus he stated that for the present semester there will be approximately 1150 trainees here and that the number will be reduced still further at the end of the present 12 week period election of officers for the cab inet will be held at the next meet ing of feb 7 lou page reported that he has been unable to trace the bandlights that formerly be longed to the collegians and that his efforts to purchase lights have met with failure new head elected by town council the town council at its reg ular monthly meeting thursday elected david l keese me-j'44 to the vice-presidency of the group for the remainder of the current semester and formulated plans for the selection of a new pres ident when the present semester ends the term of ralph a evans ep-j'44 present chief officer the council ruled that any mem ber of the town group in good standing who submitted a peti tion with 15 signatures using not more than five from any one town section would be eligible for the presidency petition forms may be secured at the arcadia office but need not be used all petitions must be submitted by feb 3 the date of the next meeting of the council at this same meeting members of the council will nominate from the floor for the presidency and nominees will be selected by vote of all town men who will be contacted by section presidents the council will sponsor a ban quet for town men saturday jan 29 in the hotel bethlehem pollock led changing life charming pollock journalist dramatic critic press agent play wright author lecturer and song writer has led a diversified life as evidenced by the above since he first saw the light of day in washington d c in 1880 he has been selected to address the feb ruary graduation first in the his tory of lehigh to be held on sun day the first position pollock held after a sketchy grade school educa tion was on the washington post at the ripe old age of 16 summers pollock was assistant dramatic critic of this paper but because he won a short story contest he entered the bethel military acad emy warrenton va he remained there only a short time however since he refused to remove a pic ture of robert g ingersoll from his room the new york dramatic mir ror and later the washington times were his next employers he left his position with the wash ington paper because of attempts to control his writing by the bus iness office he now turned to press agentry to earn his daily bread serving successively as expositor for such producers as zeigfield william a brady and the shuberts in 1906 he became the husband of anna continued on page 4 collegians present dance friday eve london lehigh club holds alumni banquet in england the lehigh collegians have been having many a jam session during the past few days in pre paration for the dance which is being held on this friday evening jan 14 1944 the dance is being held in the newly redecorated masonic tem ple the hours from nine to one were chosen for the special pur pose of giving the fellows and their dates a lot of time in which to sleep in preparation for the if ball on saturday the collegians are especially noted for their su perb renditions of extremely danceable music and ever since their reorganization last semester have been in great demand throughout the locality the price of tickets is 1.00 per couple and tickets may be pur chased from any member of the orchestra john doster m e j'4s is the chairman of the dance com mittee and is the man directly in charge of the sale of tickets according to a story published in a recent alumni bulletin a bang-up time was had by all at the middle three alumni meeting held in london last september 27 a fine dinner a rarity in war-time england was served and beer as well as a little more potent stuff was downed in true lehigh fashion after the dinner movies were shown of the lehigh-lafayette foot ball game of 1942 in which the two teams were deadlocked in a 7-7 tie rutgers men were not dis appointed however for they all agreed that they could have beat en both teams easily one of the outstanding features of the party was the fact that not one speech was made serious or otherwise lehigh men must have had happy memories of old south mountain that night borrowed pennants were strung along the wall and even though cigars are rationed in england the room soon looked like taylor gym after one of the good old smokers one was lucky if he could see the guy opposite him well worn stories brown and white lehigh university were swapped and every one left with the same question on his mind when are we going to have another lehigh men present included lt anthony r carcione 41 captain w c gleadall 42 capt francis t krupinski 38 major harry a harchar 39 lt schuyler v c larkin 24 lt myron sterngold 38 capt james r henrdy 41 major paul anderson 26 major herbert phyfe 27 capt rudy renker 41 lt leonard mckin ley 41 lt r w leonard 38 lt ivan a kuryla notice to all graduating seniors within the next two weeks a representative of your class will talk to you about insuring lehigh's future he will tell you about the advantages of participating in the class insurance program that has worked so successfully over the past six years this is your way of contributing financially to secure lehigh's position as a top university in the country in october over 80 percent of the graduating class subscribed to the plan let's beat their record