Brown and White Vol. 52 no. 13

              bethlehem pa wednesday september 27 1944 pictured here are the newly pledged members of cyanide junior honorary society who will take over the duties of the organization next semester thojf elected include frpßj the top left to right nestor blanco arts 045 edward luckenbach ch e fa 46 richard craig e p feb 46 willard boothby i e oct 45 and don shet tel ch e feb 46 formal initiation ceremonies will be held to night dur ing an initiation dinner at the sun inn kitain plays here tonite robert kitain eminent russian violinist will be presented under the auspices of the scl series of lehigh university tonight at 8:15 p m the concert will take place in the broughal high school audi torium on packer avenue where all lehigh students and astrp men will be admitted along with their dates free of charge the admission price for the general public will be fifty cents kitain has received tremendous ovations and praise in every cor ner of the earth he graduated with highest honors from the im perial conservatory of music in st petersburg after he had won a scholarship to this institution when he was only ten years of age and when he was only 16 he made a successful concert tour of all russia and siberia this is the summer semester's first and last scl program and it is expected that student and pub lic attendance will be great so come early in order to get a good seat mr kitain's performance to night will be as brilliant as his others throughout the world each and every lehigh student should take full advantage of this oportunity to see an internation ally famous concert violinist per form according to w robert moore head of the student-con cert-lecture series committee and opportunities like this do not come to one's doorstep every day you will spend an educational and enjoyable evening if you come 5 man board elections to be tomorrow all lehigh students eligible for voting lehigh will be the scene of an election on september 28 when all students will have a chance to cast their ballots for the members of the new arcadia five man com mittee this committee replaces the class officers which governed lehigh in the past war condi tions made this change necessary the five men who now consti tute the committee will graduate at the end of this semester so five new members must be voted for nine candidates for the post are named on the ballot the voter is required to vote for only five men and to sign his name to the ballot otherwise his vote will not be counted ballots may be turned in at the arcadia office at prow!n hall any time before 4 p m on thursday september 28 tear out the bal lot included in this issue of the brown and white and return it to drown hall before 4 p m pn thursday september 28 living group heads will also be required to collect ballots the candidates are wi 1 1 ar d boothby 1.e feb.-'46 william day bus june-'45 v warren pp3f ch.e feb.-'45 cornelius lindholm c.e june-'45 robert mayer ch.e june-'45 william petit bus oct.-'45 robert tre ser ch.e june-'45 william whener ch.e june-'45 and san fprd wilson ch.e june-'45 received the degree of bachelor of arts at lehigh in 1896 and the degree of master of arts in peda gogy and literature also at le high in 1899 was active as student while an undergraduate at le high laramy took an active part in extracurricular activities and in class work when a freshman continued on page 4 summer final exam schedule thursday oct 5 9 a m acctg 114 — advanced accounting biol 153 — advanced bacteriology chem 7 — physical charaistry ch e 181 — chemical engineering eco 4 — economics e e 52 — alternating currents fr i — elementary french ger i — elementary german ger 9 — advanced german met 21 — engineering metallurgy thursday oct 5 2 p m mil 21 — a b c — military science and tactics friday oct 6 9 a m acctg 2 — accounting e s 146 — business cycles and forecasting biol i — liology chem i — elementary chemistry chem 41 — quantitative analysis conference chem 48 — quantitative analysis conference chem 137 — advanced analytic chemistry c e 3d structural design fr 41 — oral and written composition ger 10 — goethe's faust math 121 — analytic mechanics math 126 — aerodynamics m e 2 — elementary heat engines m e 22 heat engines m e 29 heat engines friday oct 6 2 p m chem 194 — physical and electrochemistry eco 3 — economics e e 40 — electronic devices e e 54 — electrical engineering e e 102 distributive systems fr 13 — types of french literature geol 1 14 — structural theory ger 2 — elementary german govt 157 — municipal government mm 104 — haulage hoisting and pumping phil 102 modern philosophy saturday oct 7 9 a m chem 179 — history and literature of chemistry ch e 79 — chemical engineering continued on page 2 four houses initiate frosh the past week saw four fra ternities initiating new members and installing house officers for the coming semester they were sigma chi pi lambda phi kappa alpha and theta chi theta chi has not released any information gt the present time initiated into sigma chi were gilpin ji jefferis charles l pon tier marcus h russel ponald w castle lawrence c coule mal colm sawhill and richard w poster all of the class of feb 47 installed as house officers were paul b scarff president william sehwemlein vice-president and treasurer and john a e harris secretary the seven freshmen initiated into pi lambda phi were jona thon x epstein ponald m gruhn richard c krauss richard b mesirov arthur i ross jr na than schloss and pavid h solis jr pi lam officers for next se mester are h edward gross president pavied e simon 11 vice-president malcolm h stoll secretary v warren fox treas urer and allen j goodman master of work kappa alpha initiated william church of the class of feb 47 the house officers will remain the same as for the past semester john turner president william wehner vice-president and treas urer and harry ramsay secre tary debators end in deadlock finals friday lehigh engineers subject of debate after seven hotly contested weeks of intramural debating the season culminated last friday evening in a first place tie be tween team no 8 s sass j tu berty r staley and team no 6 e mertz r polstein p war eek these teams each of which garnered a total of 40 points in six debates will meet in a final debate this friday evening sep tember 29 in room 466 of pack ard lab playoff for 100 this debate which will decide the team to receive the lion's share of the 100 offered as first and second prize will be judged by prof . a rights prof r p billinger asst prof c strauch the topic will be resolved that lehigh has failed to prepare its engineers adequately for social political and economic life varsity debating ends varsity debating too wtound up its season last week*end when j tuberty arts feb 46 and r macadams m.e june 46 jour neyed to carlisle pa to debate the pickinson college team in a successful flair at the topic re solved that germany should be divided into several international ly recognized national states the pickinson men not only gave our boys a real test but they also showed our fellows a good time via a dance and dates a return debate is being plan ned for the week-end of nov 4th successful season ends all in all the season has been a rather successful one the var sity team competed in three de bates without mishap and the in tramural teams except for the fact that the selective service act eliminated two of the rival com bines also emerged relatively un scathed the teams which competed dur ing the season are team no i—j,1 — j baum r ochs and c spindler team no 2 — f attaway p kirk and f carr team no 3 p franklin a good man and e gross team no 4 — a cohen m dinten fass and m schwartz team no 5 — r mayer l aeh terman and t van winkle team no 6 — r mertz r polstein and p wareck team no 7 t lewis r mac adams and w pettit team no b s sass r staley and j tuberty the final standing of the team is no of pts pet team no 8 6 40 666 team no 6 6 40 666 team no 5 6 37 616 team no 3 7 40 571 team no 7 6 23 383 team no 1 6 19 316 team no 2 6 18 300 la ramy retires from long brilliant educational career june 30 1944 marked the final end of a brilliant and active career of one of lehigh's outstanding men it was on this day that robert edward laramy 96 resigned his position as associate director of ad missions for lehigh university it was the second time that mr laramy went into retirement mr laramy assumed the title of associate director of admissions on july 1 1942 mr byron c hayes who had previously held this position left lehigh to enter the u s navy mr laramy agreed not only to accept mr hayes work but also to assume most of the responsibilities of the director ' of admissions mr smiley who was occuppied with other univer sity work well fitted for job director laramy was very well fitted for his work in the admis sions office having sierved in various local public schools as a teacher principal and superin tendent he gained valuable knowl edge of high school graduates and he was able to understand to the fullest extent the problems of each individual prospective lehigh en rollee mr laramy was able to solve the parents and students problems on enrollment in lehigh robert e laramy was born in catasauqua pennsylvania in 1875 he received his secondary educa tion in bethlehem having gradu ated from bethlehem high school in 1890 he attended bethlehem preparatory school and graduated from this institution in 1892 he gross wehner chosen epitome editor manager h edward gross 1.e fefc>.-'46 and william g wehner ch.e j-'45 were named editor-in-chief and business manager of the 1945 epitome at a recent meeting of the board of publications and work has already commenced for this book at the present time the new stafl is being formed and a call has been issued for anyone interested in advertising or circu lation staffs to phone wehner at 7-4241 and for prospective writers and photographers to call gross at 6-9488 or 6-6262 vol.^f no 13 brown and white price 5 cents here's your chance . . . want a date saturday night well here's your chance moravian college for women is holding a dance in their gym on saturday for the purpose of introducing their new freshmen to college life and they need fifty 50 lehigh men to do the introducing this is no kidding fellows and there are absolutely no strings attached with repeated assurances that this is no gag the brown and white asks that the heads of fraternities and dormitory sections turn in lists of the men who will be going to the dance to mrs bowker in the arcadia office by 4p m on thursday in this way the committee running the dance will be able to get an idea of the turnout here's your chance to be sociable fellows show moravian that lehigh is not socially backward