Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 33

              the cleaver foundation is a bequest made by mrs albert n cleaver in memory of her hus band a former trustee of lehigh university the purpose of the foundation is to advance the ap preciation of music reservists compose future ast units entire lehigh unit to be disbanded at the completion of present semester lehigh's ast quota has been set at 50 army specialized training reservists and the reserve program will begin here on or about april 1 after the dissolution of the present unit headquarters has announced the new under-18-year-olds will be volunteers in the army and will receive up to nine months of intensive engineer training equiva lent to more than one full college year until they reach thir 18th birth day the reserve program essentially is an army offer to give a young man a year of college without ex pense before he enters military service the headquarter officials explain after reservists reach their 18th birthday they will leave the ast reserve corps and move on to an army basic training camp else where all scholastic work com pleted as a reservist will be cred ited to them upon their return to college and civilian life after the war lehigh ast authorities ex plained that the sub-18-year re servists can only enter the new program with parental permission and after receiving army eligi bility ratings from the general ex ams given in high schools through out the country on march 15 present reservists now mainly quartered in price hall are being ordered to their homes upon reaching their 18th birthday to await army orders to proceed to a reception center gas saver cheli may be jap prisoner major ralph cheli 41 one of the u s army air corps out standing fliers in the southwest pacific theater of war reported missing since last august may be alive and interned in a japanese prison camp according to a re lease from allied headquarters in the southwest pacific major cheli lead a bombing raid on the japanese base at we wak last fall unfortunately his plane was riddled by machine gun fire and he was forced to crash into the sea on his way back to the base for this and other daring exploits cheli was award ed the congressional medal of honor however his wife mrs cheli the former miss geraldine reilly believing her husband to be still living refused to accept the nation's highest award until such time as he could return to receive it personally cheli was reported missing in action on august 18 1943 the news that he was still alive was received from a japanese-english broadcast heard in australia the citation which cheli re ceived for conspicuous gallantry stated that intercepting aircraft set his ship afire two miles from the objective cheli decided to con tinue the attack to prevent his for mation from becoming disorgan ized and exposed to enemy fire grace hall to be closed for duration withdrawal of ast unit basis of consolidation grace hall lehigh's newest building will be closed for the duration according to word re ceived from the office of the su perintendent of buildings this step first to be taken in a general program of contraction soon to be adopted by the university has been necessitated by the with drawal of lehigh's astp unit on march 25 though tentative it is planned to hold all military classes in christmas-saucon it is expect ed that all indoor drilling will be cancelled due to the lack of an adequate drill floor in addition to closing its doors to the military department grace hall will no longer be available for any sports events in order to continue basketball and wrestling will have to be held in taylor gym with the closing of grace hall lehigh also loses its most popular spot for all social functions any social events in the future will have to be held elsewhere or dis banded entirely whether or not any other build ings will meet the same fate as grace hall in the immediate fu ture is not known however more drastic moves of a similar nature are expected in order to meet the great decrease in enroll ment after the army moves out university library loans varied types of literature for the first time in many years the university library is loaning more books periodicals and technical material to other libraries than it is borrowing in addition to other colleges and universities borrowing material for research industrial libraries such as those located at the new jersey zinc company or at the hamilton watch company also borrow ma terial recently the government borrowed a book of poems by a puerto rican to micro-film for record and in gratitude for the loan when the book was returned a copy of the micro-film was sent along this micro-film is the first that has come into the possession of the library most new books that are pur chased are selected by faculty members used books that are impossible to obtain new or that have some particular significance are purchased from large used book firms during the year many gift books are sent to the library some which are worth keeping are cataloged and placed in the stacks although compara tively few gifts have been sent to the library recently in normal times 2000 worthwhile volumes were donated yearly the only newspapers subscribed to by the library are the herald tribune the philadelphia inquir er and the new york times and of these only the times is saved and bound it is the policy of the library to subscribe to most first class peri odicals national and international because of the war many of the international magazines cannot be obtained particularly german technical journals subscriptions at the present number around 950 which cost nearly as much to bind chems construct charcoal engine a charcoal burning engine for automobiles now being driven around the campus by professor stoops of the chemistry depart ment was the creation of three recent graduates of the chemical engineering school the three men hal sherwood robert schmoyer and charles giles un dertook the design and construc tion of the engine as their senior research project the working of the engine is very simple its successful opera tion depends primarily upon a limited amount of air passing through a hot charcoal bed the resulting carbon monoxide then passes through a line into the cylinders of the car any form of carbon may be used for fuel the resulting impurities of which are filtered out to insure a clean engine the model that was built on the campus has a speed of about 15 m.p.h it requires ten to fifteen minutes for starting purposes but once underway it can make a suc cessful climb to the lookout professor stoops commends the engine as a very practical econ omical and efficient car unit he points to its increasing popularity in brazil and sweden but he does not believe it will give any serious competition to the gasoline en gine in the u s as to buy magazines such as time life and fortune can be found either in the racks or can be obtained at the desk but a few outstanding ones including saturday evening post and colliers are noticeably absent the explanation is that these publications have just re cently improved in quality and the university cannot now in crease library spending not too many war books have been bought since there is such a great volume of war publica tions that never amount to much after their first effects wear off just recently 450 worth of books on foreign relations were pur chased with army funds in 1924 all books published be fore 1640 were removed from the stacks and many valuable vol umes were found and placed in the treasury room it often hap pens that some insignificant pub lication turns up in the library and is found to be of value pro fessors often read about rare books then check the card cata log and often a valuable book is found this way a recent find was a 20 volume index to the gentleman's magazine an eigh teenth century british magazine of value because of an introduc tion written by samuel johnson vol li no 33 bethlehem pa wed mar 22 1944 price 5c lehigh ast's farewell ball saturday evening formed a fitting back-drop to the program's end as colonel george w easterday commandant and dean wray congdon bade good bye and good fortune to the soon-departing trainees dick smith's orchestra played to more than 300 couples in the darkened flag-decorated grace hall drill floor during intermis sion dance committee members were presented with gifts for their work by colonel easterday soft drinks and sandwiches were served in buffet style in a g 1.-decorated cabaret room and a wandering accordianist played to the couples at the tables dignitaries at the ast ball included lieutenant and mrs elmer grimm col george easterday dean and mrs wray congdon astp set to graduate lehigh's first graduation services for army specialized trainees competing full basic or advanced programs will be conducted tues day morning in packer memorial chapel all soldier engineers complet ing either the basic or advanced nine-month curricula will receive their diplomas if the remaining advanced foreign area and lang uage group is still here they too will receive diplomas recognizing their nine months of f.a.l train ing according to official an nouncement president clement c williams of lehigh and colonel george w easterday post commandant will officiate with other high univer sity officials invitations have gone out to general hayes com manding officer of the third service command asking him to speak at the graduation colonel easterday will present diplomas for men completing the entire cur ricula and certificates to trainees completing full semesters amount ing to less than a complete basic or advanced program a regular academic procession preceded by the colors will begin the com mencement program cleaver foundation sponsors concert the busch little symphony an organization composed of twenty seven musicians will present a concert in broughal high school auditorium april 25 the con cert will be sponsored by the cleaver foundation lehigh and remaining ast men will be admitted free of charge but those wishing to attend must secure tickets from mr george b curtis at the registrar's office brown and white lehigh university