Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 36

              old china hands such as dr and mrs congdon had no trouble but for the uninitiated the how - to - pick - the - rice - with - chop sticks problem was considerable it moved some to reminisce lloyd e antonides e m 48 for in stance commented just like the good old days in tokio after the guests had wrestled with rice and chicken they re ceived a respite as dong koo botsan tong soup was ser ved consisting of mushroom shrimps and chicken this was eaten in the regular manner and the meal ended with the tradi tional cup of buttered unsweeten ed tea served in chinese manner mr yang had the assistance of some fellow countrymen t y chou f k chang and ai ting yu mrs h h hazlehurst and mrs rafael de soto did much of the spadework to make the dinner successful since the dinner not only featured genuine chinese dishes but was also served in the traditional manner numerous persons among them general percy l sadler director of ath letics rendered assistance by let ting the club have rice bowls wine cups and other chinese dinner ware albeneri trio to perform the albeneri trio perform ance will be given tonight at 8:15 p.m in broughal high school auditorium complimen tary tickets may be obtained at huffs goodenough's phillip's and kramer's music stores in bethlehem and from members of tone society chop chop experiences in west europe told by pharo communism's spectre to paraphrase marx had already pervaded europe as early as july of last year claimed robert s pharo lehigh student at the dames club march 15 pharo traveled alone through western europe last summer in an effort to find out first hand the true picture presented by the foreign situation his trip by train steamer train and on foot carried him through england france the lowlands italy switzerland and the scandinavian countries despotic regime in italy he said that the supposedly rep resentative government in italy was actually as stringent as that which existed under the musso lini regime the press and all forms of public promulgation of governmental activities have been censored by the provisional authorities france today is in the throes of actual starvation black margets are running rampant he assert ed the apparent laziness of the french people is due more to the lack of nutrition than to inherent indolence switzerland unique switzerland alone stood out to pharo as a bright picture in the european landscape their de mocracy might well be an example to the rest of europe he com mented while in soissons france he attended a boy scout jamboree which brought 44,000 scouts from 31 countries hatred and racial prejudice is not an intrinsic part of the world's youth maintained pharo these youngsters from soviet dominated countries harbored no ill will toward our scouts or toward those of any other country peacemakers and politic ans could learn a lesson in amity from these lads chapel society elects brothers the university chapel society elected ted brothers 50 to membership at the last meeting held in february the society is composed of sixteen members four from each class brothers was elected to fill the vacancy left by joseph gladdon who was graduated in february the society has been working in co-operation with the other col legiate chapel societies in the le high valley area in the past sev eral months the groups are at tempting to co-ordinate and inter relate their activities the chapel society has under taken a program of ushering by living groups fraternities and dormitory groups are invited to morning service at the chapel and supply ushers for the sunday to attend en masse each group will be asked to usher approx imately once a year under the direction of alvord beardslee feb 50 the commit tee for c.a.r.e packages has been encouraging living groups and in dividuals to sent these relief par cels to the european needy it is possible to establish contacts with students and faculty members of heidelberg university in germany and help care for heidelberg with c.a.r.e and other packages and with letters pamphlet lists faculty papers publications by lehigh univer sity faculty members appeared in 98 different periodicals within a space of three years according to the lehigh publication biblio graphy and abstracts of the pub lications of lehigh university faculty members now being dis tributed on campus this abstract is intended to pro viae a complete record of those publications of each member of the university faculty which ap pear during his association with the university the current issue is the first to come out in a num ber of years owing to conditions rising out of the war many subjects covered subjects covered by the articles include accounting and statistics civil engineering and mechanics classics economics and sociology education electrical engineering english speech and journalism finance fine arts geology german history and government interna tional relations mathematics ana astronomy metallurgical engi neering mining engineering moral and religious philosophy physics psychology romance lang uages and a number of miscellan eous topics the articles appeared in journals of learned societies tech nical and educational magazines and newspaper book sections debate team represents lu at tourney recommends a un army and curb of veto power taft-hartley reform urged the lehigh debating club sent representatives to the penn sylvania state tournament at state college last friday and sat urday debating teams from sev eral colleges attended the tourna ment two topics were considered steps to be taken for labor management regulation and steps to be taken in the maintenance of world peace two separate committees were established the first the proposi tions for steps to be taken for the maintenance of world peace the second considered propositions for steps to be taken for labor-man agement regulation each college with representatives on both com mittees presented its own bill so that all colleges might have their bill considered lehigh bill accepted on the committee for main tenance of world peace the bill submitted by the student repre sentatives from lehigh was the one adopted by the committee the lehigh proposal was that a world federation be established the committee for the main tenance of world peace came to the conclusion that the best hope for a lasting world peace lies in the effecting of some necessary changes through the united na tions the decision that an effort should be made to curb the veto power was reached a proposal that a united nations army be established and that there be some sort of control over the production of bacteria bombs and gas bombs and the like was made and ac cepted use un more the committee also agreed that there should be a strengthening of the social and economic council of the united nations the proposal that the unted states use the power of the united na tions more was made and accept ed there was a special resolu tion criticizing the action of the united states on the palestine question lehigh was represented on the committee by robert mertz 48 paul maleson 49 albert ru benstein 49 and mario d antonio 50 the committee on labor man agement regulation made num erous decisions most of the in volving suggestions for changes to be made in the taft-hartley bill a decision that union funds should not be used for political purposes was made after a pro longed debate on the matter a proposal for the extension of social security benefits to em ployees not presently covered under the social securities act was accepted a proposal for com pulsory arbitration of labor-man agement disputes wais rejected lehigh was represtented on this committee by ray hartman 50 and james gentles 48 phi deltas 100 years old hold banquet at club elect dannies laub faga the election of officers and the celebration of the 100 th anniver sary of the founding of the phi delta theta fraternity highlight ed a meeting of the lehigh val ley alumni club on wednesday evening march 17 at the north ampton county country club o j tallman pennsylvania state senator who is also president of the general council of the fra ternity outlined the aims of the organization during the short business meet ing the following officers were elected robert dannies bethle hem president george laub easton first vice-president rich ard palmer bethlehem second vice-president cary evans beth lehem secretary edward how ells bethlehem treasurer and edgar faga bethlehem reporter the 25 members of the lehigh chapter were introduced by h l mcgrath chapter president twelve chapters were represented by 34 alumni attending the affair all told there are 108 chapters of the fraternity in the united states and canada s j harleman of the lehigh alumni office presented a golden legion certificate to f h roper who was initiated at lafayette col lege in 1895 the entertainment furnished by the lehigh and lafayette chapters included movies and a televised broadcast of the n.y.u.-st louis basketball game spring houseparty to be held april 23 decorations to be romantic yet gay thornhill band engaged for gala senior affair donahue also to play by r a young large yellow and blue flower arbors dim lights and the mellow tones of claude thornhill's 20 member band will proclaim the spring-time theme chosen by the senior class for the house party april 23 while the upper floor will be decked in flowers the lower rloor of grace hall will be decorated with pillars reaching to tne ceiling with changing multi colored lights emphasing the gay ness of the occasion from 10 to 2 a.m the dancers can choose be tween claude thornhill on the upper floor and sam donahue on the lower floor of grace hall tickets will go on sale after easter vacation at 4.80 each available at the arcadia office and living groups this dance is spon sored by the senior class in an effort to raise money for the epitome arranger for glenn miller claude thornhill received his basic education in music at cin cinnati's conservatory of music and the curtis institute from there he went into the practical field as pianist and arranger he worked for such musical greats as bing crosby benny goodman charlie spivak and the late glenn miller with an orchestra composed mainly of musicians who served under him in the navy mr thorn hill has come forth with some thing new on the musical horizon the rich quality achieved by the orchestra is due to an uncommon arrangement of the reed and brass sections thornhill has four trum doubling on sax and clarinet and pets two trombones five men two french horns which are an innovation to the dance world vocalist featured claude's lovely young vocalist fran warren was voted the most promising new girl vocalist of the year by disc-jockies in the first annual poll conducted by the billboard show business periodi cal thornhill plays the piano with casual ease his fingers gliding over the ivories with an effortless grace that belies the difficulties of the arrangements his piano is heard to telling effect in the beau tiful theme of the thornhill band snowfall which he composed and on virtually all of the dis tinctive claude thornhill arrange ments that have made his band so outstanding here too dance beat is interwoven with the tech nique of the classical style of music served in pacific claude left the musical world after attaining top rank to enlist in the navy in october 1942 as an apprentice seaman when artie shaw was transferred to another station claude took over the rangers the navy musical aggre gation that shaw had led shortly thereafter he was assigned to two complete tours of the pacific as star of the claude thornhill all star show in which he and the band dennis day and tommy riggs played every island but ja pan itself claude rose to the rank of chief musician in this time debaters meet dickinson tonight at eight o'clock lehigh will debate dickinson college the lehigh team represented by james gentles 48 and ray hart man 50 will up hold the nega tive side of the topic resolved that compulsory arbitration should be established in the basic industries the lehigh debaters have recently returned from the perm state tournament where they sat on the committe on labor management regulation the de bate will be held in 314 christmas saucon hall prof h ullmann dies in florida dr harry m ullmann professor of chemistry and chemical en gineering at lehigh and for 43 years prior to his retirement an active member of the faculty died last week in melbourne fla fol lowing an illness of four months dr ullmann after receiving his b.a and ph.d at john hopkins university studied at the univer sity of munich and the ecole dcs mines in paris france in 1895 he came to lehigh became head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering in 1912 he remained in that position until his retirement in 1938 listed in who's who in america dr ullmann was the author of many articles on chemistry and was a member of numerous chemi cal societies including the ameri can institute of chemical en gineers and the royal chemical society he was honored by the alumni and the university in 1937 when the new wing of the chem isthy building was named in his honor since his retirement he has been actively engaged in re search and consultation work in the field of chemistry leith and seidle to attend parley john d leith and charles a seidle associate deans of students will attend conferences in chicago during the following two weeks dean seidle will represent le high at the national conference on higher education sponsored by the national education asso ciation from march 21 to 26 he will serve as recorder for a group of 25 college and university ad ministrators studying the problem of tuition and student fees other issues to be studied by the 500 university representatives registered for the conference in clude the problems of student per sonnel organization curriculum and teaching faculty relations and administration leith to represent lehigh dean leith will represent the university at the annual meeting of the american college personnel association which will also meet in chicago from march 29 to april 1 all problems in the area of the functions and duties of the dean of students and the director of personnel services will be con sidered at the feessions of this meeting the town council will give a spring dance in drown hall tues day april 10 music will be given by a five piece dance band and records admission is free to all town men 75 cents to others re freshments will be served tc to sponsor dance exchange tickets for scl concert students who want to hear the detroit symphony orchestra which will be brought to lehigh on friday may 7 by the student concerts-lectures committee are requested to exchange their activi ties coupons for tickets at the re gistrar's office at any time until saturday april 10 each student may purchase one university guest ticket for 60 cents for his wife or date at the same time that he exchanges his own activities coupon to insure that all lehigh students who wish to hear the detroit symphony will have a seat tickets are being re served for them during this week and the first week after spring va cation after april 10 students may purchase as many guest tickets as they want ordnance group invites the lehigh bethlehem post of the american ordnance associa tion is extending an invitation to all students who are interested in ordnance affairs but who are not enrolled in the military depart ment to attend the april 7 meeting in packard laboratory at present the membership in cludes representatives of the larger firms of the lehigh valley such as bethlehem steel mack truck this combined membership gives the students an opportunity to meet industrial leaders plans are being laid for the ann ual spring banquet the group is also planning to take a trip to the proving grounds at aberdeen maryland b&w foto by john e traise at the cosmopolitan club party staged at the sigma phi house last sunday nite the feature at traction was the real chinese dinner sans chop suey prepared under the expert guidance of harry yang second from right other epicureans in the pix are left to right p y chou f k chang e h wang mrs thomas hazlehurst a t yu mr yang and mrs raphael de soto price — 5 cents delegates needed to political meet bethlehem pa tuesday march 23 1948 pi tau sigma initiates anyone interested in political affairs is urged to attend the meet ing of the model political conven tion delegation on thursday after noon at 4 p.m in room 34 coppee hall george howatt faculty ad visor of the delegation announced that the delegate-chairman will be elected at this meeting members are still needed for the committees on conservation and natural resources and health and welfare the lehigh delegation will attend the model political convention in philadelphia on april 9 10 and 11 this is the last opportunity to sign up for the convention already 20 delegates from lehigh have been chosen claude thornhill vol lvi no s 3 b&w foto by s c antas richard bodine president of pi tau sigma mechanical engin eering honorary congratulates george astrove one of the soci ety's new pledges others pledged at the friday tapping were harry griesemer charles keller brooke baier jack hohl keith mattison wallace brummitt grant kresge john adams chester wesolowski john mitchell and philip paulus cosmo club stages real chinese meal chopsticks present problem to westerners congdon shows skill brown and white under the expert guidance of harry yang c e 49 the cos mopolitan club staged a chinese dinner at the sigma phi house last sunday night conspicuous by it absence was the chinese dish chow mem the chef decided to cook some authen tic food instead true to can tonese custom the meal started with chicken hong shou gi and beef yang yu neu a beef pota toe and soy sauce served with it was fun more generally know as rice fun is appropriate how ever if one watched the various members try to pick it up with chop sticks chopsticks a problem notice there will be no issue next issue scl applicants don't forget to pick up your application blanks for member ship on the student concerts lectures committee from pub lic relations and turn them in by this saturday an open hearing will be held at 4 p.m wednesday march 24 in drown hall concerning dis tribution of student activity fund the finance committee ur ges all those interested to at tend