Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 28

              hillel to sponsor an open forum hillel the jewish community organization on campus will spon sor an open forum on the ideal jewish community at their week ly meeting feb 24 beginning at 8:00 p.m in the jewish community center at brod head street and packer avenue the program will incorporate leading examples of community centers in the east and problems faced in the organization of present day centers well-stocked jewish libraries and recreational facilities includ ing swimming and basketball are offered as a part of the organ ization's program a schedule of vital and contraversial topics are planned for the coming semester and all interested students are urged to attend the meetings held each wednesday night at the center predatory women motif of junior prom murals of mate hunting thru ages adorn site of leap year day affair by robert young cavemen romans knights pil grims and representatives of ev ery historic period since men have been chased by women up to the present day man of distinc tion will greet the dancers from panels adorning the walls when they enter grace hall for the in formal junior prom saturday eve ning feb 28 william e diehl chairman of the decoration com mittee announced recently from the center of the hall col orful streamers and balloons will bring out the gayness of this mark ed occasion symbolic features of leap year such as a wedding ring crossed by a rolling pin will dec orate each of the sixteen columns large tables trimmed in accord ance with the color theme will flank the three walls junior class officials announced that the leap year through the years motif was chosen because of its timeliness and date of their dance the backdrop for randy brooks and his band will be a huge mural of the ever famous sadie hawkins day race a gay lighting system is planned they add that in order to in augurate the first junior jamboree of which the junior prom is the climaxing event the class of 49 has based its theme on the uni versal chase dating back to the first man and woman randy brooks to appear junior class president richard c fuehrer stated that it is the inten tion of the junior class to estab lish the junior jamboree as a tra ditional social function falling be tween the fall and spring house parties as in the case of the forthcoming jamboree the accent should be on an afternoon and evening of integrated activities of fering the student a maximum of entertainment yet involving a rela tively small expense he said randy brooks a down beat magazine poll-winner will furnish music for dancing at the prom tickets now 3.60 tickets priced at 3.00 per cou ple plus 60 tax can be purchased at the arcadia office in drown hall and the supply bureau a soft drink photography and checking concession has been awarded to james d rice and harvey g hallenbeck president and mrs martin d whitaker and dean and mrs wray h congdon will be chaperones for the dance employers bid for athletes industrialist addresses wrestling spectators the appearance of james c gorman president and treasurer of the gorman-rupp corporation of mansfield ohio at the lehigh syracuse dual wrestling meet pro vided the spectators to the event with an unexpected bit of interest rising to an extemporaneous ad dress between the freshmen and varsity portions of the event this prominent alumnus put forth in plain language his attitude as an alumnus and industrialist toward athletic scholarships when a man is out on the mat he has to think and act alone said mr gorman i prefer an ath lete with a decent average to a straight a student who is a book worm he stated that he is 100 behind the policy of alumni grants and advocated that the pol icy be extended to encompass all sports not football alone gorman who attended the meet as a guest of his fraternity beta theta pi has the distinction of having started wrestling at lehigh a wrestler himself and coach of the heavyweight division of the first team it was he who solicited funds to launch the sport and re cruited 16 students who comprised lehigh's first squad after his graduation mr gor man personally sent nine sweaters each year to be competed for by students not on the wrestling team thus encouraging intramural activ ity along these lines it was due largely to his influence that pres ident drinker first set aside funds for the wrestling team gebhart boiling discuss price control at avc forum in packard auditorium 48-ers plan smoker feb 25 decisions on class rings senior ball will be made at a senior class smoker to be held at 7:30 p.m in drown hall on wednesday feb 25 the class of 48 must make several final de cisions on important problems in cluding graduation announcements and invitations class rings and plans for the senior class ball to be held on april 23 during house party week-end announced pres ident gene sowers today free cokes and smokes will be dis tributed to all seniors attending president sowers urges all mem bers of the class of 48 to attend in order that the requirements of graduation can be fully explained an understanding of the univer sity regulations to which seniors must subscribe will avoid many inconviences and delays next may pending the action by the class to adopt a ring a committee has made arrangements with a well known jeweler for class rings to be purchased at greatly reduced prices if bought in sufficient quan tities the rings have a relief of the alumni building and the class nu merals on one side with the le high seal on the o^her side en gineers may have a transit substi tuted for the university seal if they so desire the stones avail able include 1 black onyx sardonyx or green onyx 24.00 2 synthetic ruby or synthetic blue spinel 28.50 because all seniors will be ef fected by the decisions reached at this meeting president sowers stressed the importance of having all seniors participate working drawings for the interior have been authorized by the uni versity board of trustees drive gets under way financing of the new addition will be made possible at an ap proximate cost of 500,000 from funds secured during the lehigh progress fund campaign which will get under way on wednesday evening feb 25 at a dinner to be held in the hotel bethlehem goal of the local committee in the prog ress fund is 225,000 exclusive of gifts from trustees as contemplated by larson the addition will be constructed to the north of taylor gymnasium ex tending to taylor stadium en trance to the new addition would be through present facilities as well as separate entrances to the south and west of the new struc ture present facilities of taylor gym would be remodeled inadequate facilities in summarizing the need for ad ditional facilities for physical edu cation and recreation dr whit aker said that taylor gymnasium space is adequate for a student body of 800 the size of the enroll ment when the structure was built more than a quarter of a century ago our enrollment for the past ten years has been nearly double that number he said and at present is nearly four times that number many students have to be denied the use of athletic facil ities simply because there isn't space for them facilities in the addition will in clude a large gymnasium area two smaller gyms a new wrestling room team rooms a conference room and a first aid room the architect will prepare a de tailed study of the size of the building and make plans for the interior divisions on three or four levels included in the plans he will prepare will be changes to the present building for use in physical education classes intra mural athletics and campus ath letic tournaments newest dorm to be known as dravo house largest in lehigh valley named for two alumni dravo corp founders lehigh's newest dormitory will be named dravo house in honor of two former alumni francis r dravo and ralph m dravo foun ders of the dravo corporation pittsburgh pa dravo house known previously as dorm c is the largest of the five dormitory units and will be completed this summer the build ing is being built in four connect ing section five stories in height it will be the largest college dor mitory in the lehigh valley area although part of the new dormi tory is now occupied it will not be ready for full accupancy until september each of the five floors of dravo house contains rooms for students founded dravo corporation the new unit was authorized by the board of trustees at its meet ing nov 8 1946 and ground was broken by president martin d whitaker nov 23 1946 the cor nerstone was laid june 28 1947 by dr alfred v bodine president of the bodine corporation bridge port conn and corporate trustee of the university the two dravo brothers founded f r dravo and company which later became the dravo cor poration a few years after ralph m dravo was graduated from le high until the death of francis r dravo in february 1943 they were associated together not only in business but in civic and phil anthropic activities in pittsburgh ralph m dravo died in november 1934 francis r dravo was one of the most prominent and devoted alum ni of lehigh university he was the senior member of the alumni of lehigh university he was the senior member of the alumni trus tees of the university at the time of his death a graduate of the class of 1887 he had served as president of the lehigh alumna as sociation in 1905 and again in 1927 he served as an alumnus trustee from 1908 through 1911 and again was elected to that post in 1928 for a six year term pittsburgh's most prominent citizens the dravo brothers were two of pittsburgh's most prominent citi zens being intensely public spir ited and extremely generous in their support of all worthwhile civic and welfare enterprises both served as members of the carne gie hero fund commission and the advisory board of the salvation army both of them held member ship in delta upsilon fraternity at lehigh the duquesne university club keystone athletic club and the edgeworth club all of pitts burgh ralph m dravo served as pitts burgh chief of ordnance for the united states army from world war i until he resigned in 1932 he also served as a member of the war settlement contract adjust ment board after world war i for these services he was award ed the distinguished service medal by the congress of the united states he was graduated from lehigh in 1889 had served a three-year term as alumnus trustee at lehigh university from 1915 to 1918 and was elected to a six-year term the spring prior to his death and had been a member of the board of governors of the lehigh alumni council francis r dravo also held membership in sigma xi national honorary scientific society and was a director of the diamond national bank of pittsburgh opera tickets available a limited number of student guest and faulty tickets for the mozart opera production in english of cosi fan tutti will be available to the office of the registrar starting tomorrow morning tickets will be offered at the special rate of 60 cents for either performance thurs day or friday evening march 4 and 5 in broughal high school auditorium religious life to be discussed in three day series noted theologian will act as consultant dr edwin e aubrey national authority on religion and educa tion and president of crozer theo logical seminary will be the prin cipal speaker and consultant for a three-day series of faculty and administrative conferences on the role of religion in higher educa tion the discussions will be held on lehigh campus beginning thursday feb 26 the consulta tions are sponsored under the aus pices of the national council on religion in higher education the american council on education and the edward w hazen founda tion native of scotland dr aubrey a native of scotland came to the united states in 1913 and was naturalized in 1918 for service in the u s armed forces he served as corporal in the u s army ambulance service during the first world war in 1919 he graduated with highest honors from bucknell university and studied for a while at cambridge he was awarded a masters degree in 1921 from the university of chicago and earned his b d in 1922 his ph.d in 1926 a fellow of the national coun cil on religion in higher educa tion member of the american so ciety of church history a phi beta kappa dr aubrey served as pres ident of the western section of the american theological society in 1939-40 dr aubrey is an outstanding theological writer having written such books as religion and the new generation living the christian faith man's search for himself approaches to world peace the christian an swer and church and commun ity he has taught at union theolo gical seminary carleton college miami university vassar college university of chicago and also lec tured at california institute of technology theological consultant at the oxford conference in 1937 dr aubrey also served as founder and chairman of the chicago ecumen ical study group 1939-44 a founder of the conference on sci ence philosophy and religion and as chairman of the chicago insti tute for religious studies he is also active on the national y m c a committee on spiritual em phasis on several important fed eral council commissions and in many other groups his brother is the general secretary of the bap tist union of great britain and ireland on thursday morning dr au rey will be greeted by president whitaker and vice-president smi ley and will meet with the faculty committee which includes dr william a aiken chairman chap lain george m bean prof richard m davis prof william j eney dr francis j trembley and dr robert d stout need for spiritual education feeling the need for a greater stress on spiritual matters in edu cation in the colleges and univer sities of the country the national council on religion in higher education the american council on education and the edward w hazen foundation jointly spon sored the first consultations in 1945-46 at which time nineteen institutions took part friday and saturday mornings have been held open for individual conferences and a luncheon with faculty leaders of student activi ties athletics will be held friday noon and a discussion group with students and faculty at 4:15 p.m friday one of the highlights of the consultation program will be the open meeting for all stu dents and faculty and their wives to be held friday evening in room 466 packard laboratory at 8 p.m john c gebhart imposing price controls strikes merely at the symptoms of infla tion stated john c gebhart di rector of the statistics department of the national association of manufacturers at the avc spon sored forum on price control in packard auditorium last night to combat inflation he said the expenditures of the govern ment must be reduced and bank credit expansion controlled mr gebhart explained that the pri mary cause of the present eco raynor to head mathematics dept dr george e raynor professor of mathematics will become head of the department of mathematics and astronomy succeeding dr joseph b reynolds who will re tire after 41 years of service at lehigh dr raynor's appointment will become effective july 1 it was announced by president martin d whitaker a native of seattle wash dr raynor is a graduate of the uni versity of washington and receiv ed his master's and doctor of phil osophy degrees from princeton university before coming to le high in 1931 as assistant professor of mathematics he taught at princeton university wesleyan university and the university of oklahoma he was promoted to the rank of associate professor of mathe matics and astronomy at lehigh in 1936 and to full professorship in 1946 becomes full professor the author of several research papers on potential theory which have appeared in annals of mathematics and the bulletin of the american mathematical society he collaborated with dr reynolds in writing a textbook en titled elements of mechanics first aid course begun a course in first aid sponsored by the lehigh ski club and given by the local red cross chapter will begin wednesday feb 25 7:30 p.m in room 301 williams hall the course is to be given pri marily for members of the ski club will be open for all interested students upon completion of this course members of the ski club will be eligible for the lehigh ski patrol of the national ski patrol system an initial charge of 60 richard vv boiling duction prices wages and their relation to each other statistics conflict conflicting statistics presented by the two men to uphold their definitions of prices in relation to weekly and hourly wages made the use of these figures ineffec tive the forum was part of a pro gram of discussions of current problems sponsored by the avc the moderator for the debate was prof elmer c blatt of the eco nomics department nomic condition of the country lies in the monetary system in financing the past war the government has raised money at the expense of the nation's banks due to the war there has come an increase in consumer demand which has upset the economic bal ance of supply and demand price control is not the answer con cluded mr gebhart boiling for control richard w boiling vice-presi dent of the avc american veter ans committee based his argu ment favoring price control upon his observations of the past year the average man said he working for a fixed salary or the veteran student with his 65 per month cannot keep pace with the rising cost of living mr boiling pointed out that the same groups that promised in creased production and a decline in the cost of living when they waged a war upon the op a have proven false prophets and again are fighting price controls of any kind the two speakers quibbled over the use of 1939 as a base year for comparisons mr gebhart held that as the last peacetime year it must necessarily be used as a ba sis of comparison with the pres ent year and mr boiling insisted that since it was not a year of full employment it was a dangerous one to use in defining current pro bethlehem pa tuesday february 24 1948 campus suffered little damage this winter says litzenberger at junior prom price — 5 cents brown and white aubrey to address faculty conference randy brooks ol lvi no.kag touch with mr litzenberger in the alumni building from what was revealed in the recent thaw the campus roads seem to be in good condition the worst road is eighth avenue a city street not under university care the good condition of the roads is probably due to excellent drain age and the fact that many students did not use their cars during the worst part of the winter sayre park road which has been closed since christmas vacation is ex pected to be opened in the near future no definite plans mr litzenberger has formulated no definite plans for an extensive spring program as yet he has stated however that the many activities planned for the future will slow down the annual spring cleaning of the campus the grounds crew responsiblflfer this job will be diverted to set up seats at lectures erect and tear down bleachers for sports events and perform various other activities which require considerable time these incidental jobs prevent the campus from being cleaned as rap idly as mr litzenberger and the rest of us would like there will be little need for re pairs to the campus this spring andrew w litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds announced in spite of the severity of the past two months the actual damage to lehigh has been slight mr litzenberger cautions how ever that some damage not yet ap parent may show up when the snow has finally cleared the greatest single amount of damage was that done to the trees during the devastating ice storm of january 2 about 650 trees were injured to such an extent that they will require care to some degree while for many of these trees pruning will be sufficient there are others which will require exten sive surgery and the removal of limbs completion date set a crew of six men is working on the tree regeneration project it is expected that the job will be completed in about a month the wood which is being collected is distributed to fraternities and oth er buildings on the campus any person connected with the uni versity who desires wood for fuel or other purposes should get in dr edwin e aubrey here for the lehigh faculty con sultation on religion in high er education new addition to taylor gym is aim of progress drive one of the three immediate objectives of the lehigh university prog ress fund campaign is securing funds which wil make possible the addition of a wing to taylor gymnasium dr martin d whitaker president of the university said february 20 when architect's draw ings were made public jens frederick larson architect from new work city has pre pared preliminary drawings on the exterior of the structure detailed m.&c presents cyraao de bc-rgciac thursday and friday at braushal junior high school all societies should contact the registrar's office beforehand to obtain room assignments for meetings