Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 2

              this spring's average was 074 points better than the fall semes ter 1948 and a 020 point rise over last fall's average up to last fall the scholastic rank high mark was set at 2.258 shattering all previous records the entire university now boasts a 2.280 cumulative average which is higher than all other aver ages since 1923 when the scholastic ranks were first compiled george b curtis registrar revealed today b & w photo by kelsey pictured left above being registered by mrs auld for the curri culum workshop is pretty 21-year-old miss betty mccracken daughter of art mccracken manager of station wgpa betty a graduate of wilson college plans to pick up some tips on teaching from fellow students in the shop course some of whom are neen waiting to register 1136 students register for summer term according to figures receiv ed from harry miller assistant to the registrar there are 1136 stu dents attending summer courses this figure includes 387 students in the educational program there are 549 undergraduates registered for the eight week sum mer session 196 less than last sum mer in the graduate school there are 204 students eight more than last summer when there were 196 adult education has in creased nearly 100 per cent last year 99 students registered and this year 183 have registered the number of graduates under graduates and adult education is slightly less this session then last this session has 934 on its roster and the last session had 940 a de crease of six forty students have regis tered for a course ch e 6 and 34 have registered for c e 62 one hundred and twelve students are studying m e 6 the total number of undergrad uates attending all sessions is 751 one of the most popular courses here is a course given by prof hotchkiss professor of economics this particular course has 70 men and women who are learning how to analyse securities and invest ac cordingly ( continued on page 6 ing from as far west as lowa some for the entire six weeks others for a shorter period of one week sub jects covered will include prob lems faced by manufacturers of household personal photographic industrial and other mass pro fellowships given to 14 grad students graduate fellowship grants totaling 14,700 were an nounced recently by prof robert p more dean of the graduate school the awards will go to 14 advanced students including seven from foreign countries four chinese students were named to receive graduate grants ta-hsiung chen and chien-huo chen graduates of the national central university will receive the william c gotshall graduate scholarships valued at 1,000 each nai lung chen a graduate of china national southwest asso ciate university has been named to receive the c kemble baldwin research fellowship worth 750 in mechanical engineering a univer sity free graduate of tsin-hua university for advanced studies in electrical engineering alesksi smislova ankara turkey a graduate of robert col lege will receive the lawrence continued on page 6 alpha town house a new fra ternity led the list of averages with 2.949 tau delta phi ranking second with a 069 increase over last semester's average richards 111-b climbed from number 12 spot to third place sporting a 2.703 while richards i dropped slightly tempo 111 with a 2.555 moved from number 35 last semester to number eight with 2.556 all non frat men ranked above all frat men with a 2.375 chi psi with a 1.713 was placed on probation the averages were obtained by averaging the weighted averages of the men in each group rank living group average 1 alpha town house 2.949 2 tau delta phi 2.764 3 richards house 111-b 2.703 4 alpha sigma phi 2.638f 5 richards house i 2.6375 6 dravo house b-ll _ 2.628 7 richards house iv-a _ 2.609 8 tempo 111 2.554 9 richards house 11-b 2.551 10 leonard hall 2.543 class of june 49 _ 2.533 11 taylor hall b 2.514 12 drinker house 11-b 2.455 13 theta chi 2.450 14 tempo i 2.449 15 taylor hall d 2.425 16 dravo house c-ll 2.413 17 dravo house c-l 2.401 continued on page 3 3 yr combat vet heads rotc gallagher wins grad fellowship one of 30 fellowships awarded last week by the american council of learned societies was given to eugene bennett gallagher arts 49 a 1500 fellowship it may be used to study at any college of the recipient's choice gallagher and the other 29 winners 1 were chosen from candidates from 330 colleges gallagher majored in eco nomics is a member of phi beta kappa phi eta sigma freshman honory phi gamma social science honorary phi alpha theta his tory honorary w p newtonian society mathematics honorary fantry a japanese-american nisei combat unit col miller holds many de corations both foreign and amer ican including the silver star legion of merit bronze star with oak leaf cluster the french croix de guerre with oak leaf cluster as well as the corresponding italian decoration combat infantryman's badge distinguished unit citation ribbon asiatic-pacific campaign ribbon with one battle star and the european-mediterranean theaters ribbon with 4 battle stars col miller is married to the former ann mcgoughran of west orange n j and they have three children a daughter and two sons colonel virgil r miller of state college this week began a three years tour of duty as pro fessor and head of the department of military science and tactics here the new head of the military department comes here from pennsylvania state college where he was assistant professor of mili tary science and tactics since may 1947 a graduate of the united states military academy in 1924 and from the officers infantry school ft benning ga in 1933 he has 25 years of active service during his army career he served at ft slocum n.y where any camera club members who would like to make use of the club dark room during the summer ses sion contact chuck reinbrecht at bethlehem 6-1950 notice he was with the 18th infantry puerto rico with the 65th infan try columbus ohio and madison barracks n.y with the 28th in fantry and ft francis e warren cheyenne wyoming with the ist infantry and san francisco with the 30th infantry col miller spent two and one half years in hawaii where he was adjutant of the 21st brigade and acting g 4 of the 24th division he was on the island at the time of pearl harbor he also served in italy and france for three years where he was executive officer and com manding officer of the 442 nd in because the university believes in the responsibility of educa tional institutes to make available to american business the latest in formation from expert sources we have organized this conference lecture series in product design with full laboratory and university fa cilities commented president whitaker recently we promote industrial seminar to foster business - - whitaker the know-how in product de sign has become so important to the sales curve of american indus try that more than thirty leaders in the industrial design of na tionally distributed commodities will actively participate in a six weeks conference and lecture series for industry executive which opened july fifth co-planner and co-sponsor with lehigh university is the so ciety of industrial designers pro fessional design organization har old van doren president of the society stated today industrial leaders are aware as never before of the necessity that company executives have knowledge of new materials new design methods tested consumer responses and tested ways of organizing design projects the primary purpose of the seminar is to prepare men gen erally at the managerial level to initiate and administer product de sign projects through a full under standing of what is to be accom plished and a sound basis for eval uating the work as it progresses company executives are attend progress fund campaign tops 2,000,000 mark cent of all alumni seen personally made contributions final report on campaign areas is listed below bethlehem ranked first with 505,000 final report on campaign areas over 2,000,000 was contribu ted to the progress fund by some 5,000 members of the alumni in an intensive drive which began in the spring of 1947 and ended on june 18 1949 it was revealed to day by paul franz 44 progress fund head the announcement that the progress fund had topped its goal by 700,000 was made by e f johnson trustee of the university and national chairman at the re union business meeting on satur day june 18 more than 5,260 le high friends and alumni have con tributed a total of 2,002,000 which topped the original figure of 1 500,000 set by the board of trust ees said jorinson the progress fund was founded for the sole purpose of strengthening the university in every way possible the objectives of the fund raising drive were laid down by the board of trustees after months of deliberation they decided that what was needed most were a new dormitory a gym and an increased endowment fund by december 1948 president whitaker announced that the goal of 1,500,000 had been reached in the meantime the cost of building materials and labor had risen necessitating an increase in the es timate when the operation began the estimated cost of the dorm was 750,000 the gym 500,000 with 350,000 going into the endowment fund the cost of the dorm was 802 000 or approximately 52,000 more than the estimates the gym annex near completion will cost another 800,000 and 400,000 will go into the endowment fund the progress fund said franz represents the greatest and most successful effort ever put forth in the field of fund raising by the alumni of lehigh financial advice was provided by marx and lundy of new york specialists in the field of fund raising as a result of the successful campaign franz said that 73 per lehigh university's summer brown and white bethlehem pa university average zooms to new high volume 57 — number 2 summer beauties . . . friday july 15 1949 • milwaukee 3.000 3.150 monmouth county n.j 3,000 3,550 new york 175.000 188,536 north jersey 60,000 61,660 northern new york 3,000 4.361 northeastern pa hazle+orc wilkes barre scranton 40,000 40,125 northwestern pa erie .. 8,000 8,200 philadelphia ...: 100.000 109,196 pittsburgh 200,00 255,635 reading 16,100 16.621 southern new england .... 31,000 20,540 washington 30,000 40.781 western n y buffalo & niagara falls 16.452 york-lancaster 14,400 21,416 youngstown 100.000 103,900 mail solicitation 11,241 miscellaneous 318,789 total 2,002,000 quota subscnptio ulentown atlanta baltimore lethlehem loston california chicago central jersey central penna cincinnati cleveland elaware etroit $ 60.000 8.000 20.000 225.000 22.500 5.000 15,000 13.000 17.300 18.000 18.000 13,000 14,000 $ 65,100 8,575 31,225 505,350 19,599 6,550 13,685 17,453 18,905 18,200 27,869 14,645 25,234