Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 8

              famous composer zoltan kod aly prize winner of the inter national franz liszt competi tion his duo-piano arrangements are used by almost all of the celebrated piano teams new york-born sylvia dickler a scholarship student at both the curtis institute and the juil liard school of music first ap peared publicly at the age of fourteen as soloist with the na tional orchestral association in carnegie hall subsequently she broadcast and gave con certs throughout the united states and canada smith college graduate another juilliard product is hans heidemann who held a fellowship at that school his work there was supplemented by study abroad under the late moritz rosenthal his first re cital in rochester resulted in a guest appearance with a sym continued on page 8 col 2 soprano receives acclaim for telephone rendition by geri sideris supported brilliantly by the expressive baritone voice of paul king miss derna de lys lyric soprano literally sang her way into the hearts of 700 onlookers friday night in broughal auditorium the ovation accorded miss delys returned her to the footlights for two encores and several curtain calls following her performance as lucy in manotti's chamber opera the telephone charles j moravec rutgers theme keynotes pre-game rally by herb teden amidst screaming sirens and exploding firecrackers approx imately 800 lehigh men yelled their heads off in unison with lehigh's cheerleaders friday night in front of drinker house a huge rupture rutgers sign adorned the front of drinker after much cheering and singing accompanied by le high's band joe kinney was in troduced he reminisced briefly about his college days at le high and then strongly urged the eleven to win the game saturday an effigy of rutgers hanging on a gallows was carried to the drinker balcony where a torch was applied to its nether sec tion much to everyone's de light during this organized pande monium bob bilheimer appear ed in a gorilla suit and proceed ed to supervi the cheerleading the highi it of the rally was the loudly-cheered appearance of coach leckonby when asked who would win the game leck onby replied that he was looking strongly for an upset although rutgers is favored apparently leckonby has a few aces up his sleeve a new song was introduced — the victory song the rally ended with the alma mater and the university yell too much credit cannot be given mr king for the splendid support his rich powerful voice lent the lilting tones of miss de lys rarely have two such well-matched voices engendered as striking a contrast before a local audience promising future neither miss delys nor mr king suffered by comparison they provided for each other those compensating qualities so necessary to successful duos a more seasoned performer mr king is currently at his peak whereas the future of the grace ful soprano appears relatively more promising hers is a youthful captivating voice — somewhat lacking in ex pression but excelling in clarity miss delys crystal-clear notes time and again pierced the lis tening atmosphere with dex terous thrusts what her deliv ery lacked in expression was more than compensated for by a surprising sense of control program too varied only with the program can any fault be found in at tempting a varied presentation satisfactory to a general audi ence an undue measure of tal ent was wasted there exists of course no comparison be tween verdi and manotti la traviata and the telephone fare poorly on the same bill they detract each from the other a quality peculiar to the one miss de lys element obviously lies in the lighter pieces her refreshing and charming talent glowed in the telephone a brief but sprightly opus mr king as the lover who is frus trated at every turn by the late mr bell's invention sang con vincingly and well but when the curtain fell it was a vision of a young and beautiful so prano that the audience carried away news bureau post given to moravec charles j moravec university news editor at lehigh univer sity has been named assistant director of the international platform association news bu reau it was announced today sist dr james w montgomery a utive secretary of the national organization moravec will as sist dr ames w montgomery a member of the research com mittee for the united nations who has been named director of the service dem snubs wallacite as prelude to forum dean congdon introduced chaplain george bean who ex plained the purposes of the american veterans committee reading the preamble to its con stitution he invited all inter ested to a talk on the aims of continued on page 8 col 4 the first piano ensemble scl to present piano ensemble profs voice opinions on kinsey wed the kinsey report will be viewed from various angles by members of the faculty in a discussion to be held at 7:30 p.m wednesday october 27 in room 466 packard lab professors francis j trembly biology john e jacobi sociol ogy james l graham psychol ogy and elmer c bratt eco nomics will take part in the discussion the members of the sympos ium will make brief comments on the book in the fields they represent the audience may participate in the discussion period which will follow continued on page 4 col 3 by al beardslee i regret that my opponent in the 20th district has not seen fit to come it seems he will not appear on the same platform with a member of the progressive party began roy james republican speak er at the avc political forum last thursday night in pack ard auditorium congressman walters had been quoted on his willingness to meet james in open debate james asked i'm here where is he philip j gahagan class of 44 and bethlehem lawyer pre sented the case for the demo cratic party in the place of wal ters and of wynn james demo cratic candidate for u s con gress in the bth district who cancelled his appointment a few hours before the debate josiah gitt represented the progressive party of pennsyl vania of which he is state chairman dean wray cong don ably acted as moderator introducing the speakers for their twenty - minute state ments and five minute rebut tals he also read the quetsions submitted by the sixty-three members of the lehigh family the four piano ensemble an expert combination of tal ents will appear here for the first time on friday evening nov 5 at grace hall on the lehigh university campus under the auspices of the student concerts-lectures series com mittee this program will be open to the public and their guests who demon strated their interest in what they were voting for by at tending the forum in packard auditorium speaking to this small but in terested audience and to the radio audience of wgpa-fm gahagan reviewed the records of the 80th congress it failed to do what a democratic presi dent asked it to do and asking for a reaffirmation of our amer ican heritage said a red hot communist on every campus would make each of us a better american mr gitt stated the aims of the progressive party in detail he attacked the republican par ty as the party of big business and status quo and the demo crats for having left the liberal and progressive policies typi fied by president roosevelt james averred that only the republican party could today give the american people a government characterizing the other parties as splinter groups the question period uncovered the speakers positions on such varied topics as the taft-hart ley act federal aid to education and american support of china and israel the lehigh university brown an d white tuesday october 26 1948 bethlehem pa vol xviii no 8 freshmen . . . cyanide has announced that as of 4 p.m oct 29 freshmen no longer need wear their name tags students will be admitted to this program upon presentation of coupon b in their athletic books tickets for student wives and faculty members and their wives go on sale monday morn tiing october 25 at the regis trar's office students must present athletic books when purchasing tickets at 60 which includes tax each student will be permitted to purchase one guest ticket only faculty mem bers will be permitted to pur chase two tickets at the 60 rate two women in group the quartet comprising au drey kooper stephen kovacs hans heidemann and sylvia decker will perform special ar rangements of varied music from bach and scarlatti to brahms and rossini mr kovacs who also acts as music arranger for the group is a graduate of the royal academy of music in hungary and a pupil of the town men plan square dance square dancing and popular dancing will highlight a barn dance to be given by town council on saturday oct 30 the dance will be held in drown hall and will begin at 8:30 p.m and will continue until 2 a.m charlie eisenhower's orches tra will supply the music for the square dancing and popular records will be used for the modern dancing refreshments will include ci der doughnuts and pretzels admission is free to town men and 1.20 to anyone else wish ing to attend steel executive lehiah 84 dies • david g kerr class of 84 and retired vice - president of u s steel co died october 17 in st francis hospital pitts burgh at the age of 84 kerr an active alumnus was one of the 51 original partners of the late andrew carnegie founder of the carnegie steel company following his gradu ation from lehigh kerr studied steel manufacturing in sweden in 1889 while abroad he visited carnegie in the latter's skibo castle in edinburgh scotland continued on page 4 col 3 tea dance . . . the maennerchor invites all lehigh men to the maenner chor tea dance to be held from 4 p.m to 7 p.m oct 30 at the maennerchor admission will be 1.25 if paid at the door or 1.00 if by ticket the tickets will be sold at the supply bureau and by committee members on the campus