Brown and White Vol. 52 no. 38

              e k smiley to speak at maplewood club the maplewood country club at maplewood new jersey will be the scene of a meeting of the lehigh club of northern new jersey on friday may 18 the principal speaker dr e kenneth smiley director of admissions will talk on current campus trends a survey of present and post-war collegiate planning oak leaf cluster to lehigh grad another of lehigh's alumni has brought fame to himself and to his alma mater through the war first lieutenant arnold a lasser 22 has been awarded the oak leaf cluster to the air medal for mer itorious achievement during the eight air force bombing attacks on german militory and industrial installations lieut lasser who is the son of mr and mrs milton lasser of 55 fryer terrace new rochelle n.y is a navigator on a b-17 flying fortress in the third air divi sion which was cited by the pres ident for england to africa shut tle bombing while at lehigh lieut lasser was a member of sigma alpha mv fraternity and of the advanced rotc unit lehigh to sponsor paper-speech clinic debating meet in afternoon „_ plans for the extemporaneous speaking contesjt sponsored by delta omicron theta national de bating honorary have been com pleted ftvei^igh schools allen town hig-fr bethlehem high slat ington high gatasauqua high and emmaus high will be represented starting at 2:15 saturday af ternoon im.dy 5 the contestants will expound on the following topics should the voting age be reduced io 18 and should we have compulsory military train ing j cup tw best impromptu speaker as fijfst prize a loving cup will go to t|ie most competent extem poraneous speaker judging the contestants for poise delivery enunciation and manner of pre sentatio of subject will be first assistant-district attorney of le high county the hon james c lanshe a prominent figure in the lehigh county bar association and a man w'iib has long taken an active interesfeln extemporaneous speaking mr lanshe will be chairman-judge and his assistants are miss madeleine skelly of ce dar crest anct'^rofessor albert rights of lehigh debates held recently delta omicron theta has been very active in the recent past having held a debate with colum bia on april 13 at lehigh in room 256 packard lab on the topic resolved that legislation be en acted providing for the compul sory military training of all male youths between the ages of 18 and 20 upholding the affirmative against jack miller and richard friedenberg of columbia were william pettit and jack tuberty of lehigh shortly after that on the fol lowing monday april 16 the same question was debated at ur sinus with jack tuberty and rob ert ochs of lehigh defending the negative against erma keyes and betsy clayes of ursinus , on april 18 at moravian col lege for men the lehigh valley debating society held a meeting and debated the following two topics resolved that the boun daries of 1876 be restored to ger many and resolved that eco nomic control of germany be placed in the peace treaty messrs reuman and mather of muhlenberg defended the affirma tive of the former question against blanche krupnick and sylvia garfinkel of cedar crest and charles hafner and jack tuberty of lehigh upheld the affirmative of the latter question against laura fairchild and phyllis ja cobson of moravian college for women symposium set for journalists a journalism symposium spon sored by the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon national journalism honorary will be held this satur day morning may 5 from 10 until 12:30 in packard laboratory the affair is an urban and interurban one with representatives invited from ten high schools in the near by valley those high schools which have been invited to send representa tives to the symposium are liber ty high bethlehem catholic al lentown allentown catholic hel lertown fountain hill emmaus wilsonboro easton and catasau qua dale gramley speaker mr dale gramley city editor of the bethlehem globe-times and grand master of pi delt will give an opening address welcom ing the visitors in the name of pi delta epsilon to open the affair mr edwin schlechter printer and publisher from allentown will be the principal speaker at the affair giving a lecture on the problems and difficulties encoun tered by a printer with high school journalists his address will be supplemented by a motion picture on book making which will il lustrate the actual printing prob lems confronting a man in his profession this will be followed by a question period along the lines of the talk following this the group will adjourn to another room in the laboratory where a display has been arranged to disclose various forms in newspaper typography locked printers forms will be on display among them the brown and white locked forms of this issue charts of headline size and spacing will also be there round table discussion at the conclusion of the sym posium there will be a round table discussion concerning the various types and divisions of journalism with the members of the lehigh chapter leading vari ous topics such as make-up prob lems of beginning reporting edi torial writing and business man agement it isl planned to acquire some eminent valley journalist to lead this discussion and direct it along lines to interest the visiting representatives the original man for the job was mr robert her rick of the alumni office but his recent induction into the armed forces made this impossible price 5 cents bethlehem pa wednesday may 2 1945 vol lii no 38 saroyan's toyl is big success three hundred see mustard and cheese play last saturday night on broughal high stage by dick mesirov last saturday night in broughal high school auditorium an audi ence of over 300 saw the mustard and cheese club present william saroyan's five act comedy time of your life this was the first play produced by the organization since last summer goodman in lead role capably filling the lead role of joe a champagne drinking loafer with money and a good heart was club president allen goodman who interpreted saroyan's character with marked ability joe's only apparent occupation was philoso phizing for his own amusement his source of income was dubious although horse racing seemed to be a contributing fa lor his ap parently unlimited supply of funds was spent for sundry articles in cluding baby's toys and a world map helping joe to spend his time and money was tom played by jon epstein who joe had be friended three years before the scene of the play 1939 and had been his friend and companion ever since betty steams in female lead betty steams in the part of kitty duval came under joe's philosophy shook off the bonds of her despicable life and eventual ly married tom after blick head of the city vice squad had been murdered by kit carson blick portrayed by roger tove seemed to think that nick's bar the scene of the play was a dive and that kitty duval was work ing from there as he accused kitty kit carson in reality dick macadams a westerner who had had all sorts of experiences took matters into his own hands and shot blick twice killing him supporting roles well filled the audience found out that there was no foundation all the way down the line from arab hans baer who was in a perpet ual drunken condition after being served by bartender tom lewis dick heilman and fred raifl provided nicks with entertain ment heilman giving out with a solid piano and yellow-trousered raiff supplying the dancing the supporting players were also well cast and seemed to fill saroyan's characters the entire production was un der the direction of faculty ad visor professor albert a rights don shettel was in charge of changing broughal high's stage into nick's bar while business manager seymour glatzer was in charge of props david gerb was in charge of ticket sales all cos tumes were arranged by bob maver june 2 picked for arcadia dance at a recent meeting of the ar cadia dance committee it was decided by the group to hold its first dance of this semester on saturday evening june 2 as this will be the last big so cial event of the semester it promises to be a big weekend so get your date now before it's too late and you miss your chance until next semester although no definite plans have been made as yet the work such as getting an orchestra will start soon as usual there will be a coke concession and a coat con cession as soon as the committee is definitely set bids for these will be accepted odk tapping set for may 18 last wednesday aftenoon omi cron delta kappa national hon orary leadership society held a meeting in packard lab the main topic of discussion according to president lido lacoc ca was the arranging of the dates for the tapping and initiation of the new members-to-be of the so ciety the date of the tapping was set as flagpole day friday may 18 all men in their seventh or eighth semesters who wish to be considered for membership are requested to submit their activi ties point lists to the arcadia of fice in drown hall or to any mem ber of the society the final date that these lists may be turned in is may 7 officers of the society are lido lacocca me feb-46 pres al ve trosky arts june-45 vice-pres bill wehner bus june-45 treas and dean wray h congdon sec retary cyanide taps flagpole day cyanide lehigh's junior hon orary society will tap its new members at the flagpole on flag pole day president dick huyett me j-'46i will officiate all point lists including com plete lists of extra-curricular ac tivities and scholastic averages should be taken be taken to mrs bowker at the arcadia office in drown hall before noon on satur day may 12 members of the classes of june and october 1946 are eligible the services and purposes of cyanide are 1 it recognizes achievement in men whom such a limited society as odk can not honor but who are worthy of recognition 2 it is an incentive to fresh men and sophomores to attain other things than scholarship 3 the reward of being elected gives present members an incen tive to do more in lines in which they are active leading to odk 4 it is organized ready to en tertain guests of the university and of individual parts of the university 5 it gives the men a chance to exercise leadership 6 it promotes friendship and comradeship among its members 7 it recognizes achievements attained during freshman and sophomore years 8 it is the only wholly junior organization on the campus 9 it has a traditional value on the campus 10 it is solely a lehigh or ganization brown and white lehigh university activity lists wanted now . . • as the present semester draws to a close the time has come for the election of a new five man committee on classes with the decreased enrollment of lehigh the old method of class officers was abandoned in favor of a committee of five men elected from the student body at large by popular vote under this committee are combined the duties of all class officers arcadia is now calling for activity lists from all juniors and first semester seniors who are interested in trying for a position on the committee any man in his fifth sixth or seventh semester is elig ible to submit a list but remember these lists must be in before 5:00 in the afternoon on monday may 7