Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 17

              noticing a lehigh student also hastening to school schempf stopped his car and motioned for the students to get in it was truly a beneficient act one which is re peated all too seldom but what happened next must have made schempf's dark brown hair stand on end under his similarly-shaded fedora upon arriving at the auto the student opened the door backed himself in — and promptly en graved his posterior quarters on an album of records schempf had on the seat ' cut pays off staffer ' n date win oakleys speak of the luck of the irish well brown and white reporter jerry hanks arts 53 isn't a wear er of the green but that didn't hinder his luck in the the least the other day indulging in the questionable practice of cutting classes hanks hied his girl friend and himself off to philadelphia tuesday to take in the baseball opener be tween the phillies and the dodg ers besides hanks 29,073 other fans thronged into shibe park to view proceedings and nearly all spent a dime for a lucky number score card as did the redoubtable re porter only hanks got the real thing — you guessed it — his contained the lucky number good for two tickets to a future contest three seniors walk last mile as another teeters on brink two lehigh seniors were married last week another was mar ried april 1 and a fourth became engaged richard j farreil a tenicr majoring in international relations was married to joan stafford saturday afternoon april 15 in the rectory garth howland fine arts head dies in hospital garth a howland head of the department of fine arts died at 9 p.m last night in st lukes hospi tal he was 62 he received his b a degree from the university of north da kota in 1912 and master of arts degree from harvard in 1923 he came to lehigh in the fall of 1927 as an assistant professor of fine arts six years later he was pro moted to associate professor and made head of the department he was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1946 prior to coming to lehigh he taught art in the felton minn high school for two years and served as assistant professor of fine arts at indiana university from 1923 to 1926 he was superintendent of schools at amenia n d from 1921-23 during the first world war he served in the ninth evacuation hospital in france for one year services will be for the family only william howland arts 51 requested the brown and white that no flowers be sent author of the book the begin nings of christian art he was a member of phi beta kappa the lehigh valley art alliance amer ican veterans assn of artists the medieval academy of america the archaeological institute of america and the college art assn surviving are his wife sarah e and two sons armand t and wil liam g band lists wagner opus for sunday lehigh valley's first per formance of gabrieli's canzon duodecimi toni and of king's ar rangement of wagner's funeral march from die gotterdamme rung will be a feature of the con cert to be given by the lehigh band at 4 p.m sunday in grace hall featured on the gabrieli num ber will be a double brass choir one on the stage and othe other playing from the balcony partici pants in this innovation will in clude j robert cairns arts 50 joseph gilormo bus 52 bernell argyle ep 53 and frank a hoagey me 52 cornets playing horns will be donald r davis arts 50 and lee d peach ey ee 53 while richard hosfeld ee 50 and robert e geasey ee 50 will be the trombonists scheduled as baritones are martin l snyder arts and engrg 52 and frederick h harding ce 53 while john d kirkpatrick chem 53 tuba will complete the first choir continued on page 8 col 4 in the second choir will be cornets — neil a fisher ee 52 john h hiestand che 51 rich ard j orgord ee 50 and sam h keiser chem grad horns — robert f taylor arts 52 and ghosts haunt lambda chi lead digbies cops astray dean palmer has served lehigh for the longest period 48 years as professor and head of the de partment of german dean of the college of arts and science and as chairman of the lehigh adminis trative committee which was formed f olowing the resignation of dr clement c william as presi dent in 1944 native of maine dean palm er received his bachelor of arts degree from bowdoin college in 1900 and later studied at har vard university the university of heidelberg and the university of zurich the university of padua conferred the degree of doctor honoris causa upon him in 1922 and moravian college for men the honorary degree of doctor of lit erature in 1941 he has been active in local civic affairs since coming to lehigh having served both on the bethle hem school board and the board of directors of the bethlehem public library continued on page 8 col 1 he is affiliated with theta delta chi social fraternity omicron del ta kappa phi beta kappa the modern language association of america and the american as about 2 a.m the man on duty at the police department answered the phone and a muffled voice asked this is lambda chi alpha what happened to the under takers they haven't showed up yet said ed haltenhof president of lambda chi alpha i didn't know anything about it until i read it in the globe-times must have been a joke of one of the other fraternities here on delaware avenue when the man on duty asked who was calling the voice hung up further attempts of the police to trace the calls have been futile with several hundred peo ple at lambda chi alpha's party it was highly improbable that any one would need the services of an undertaker nevertheless at midnight sat urday kulik and weierbach two undertakers from fountain hill drove their hearses to the lambda chi house on delaware avenue in answer to telephone calls arriving at the brawl and find ing no one who wasn't breathing they called fountain hill police and went home to bed the police spent the next hour checking to find out whose joke it was april 1 in little falls followed by a reception at the moresque in west orange n j shortly after the reception the couple left for williamsburg va where they spent their honeymoon mr fuller expects to graduate from lehigh this june mrs fuller also is a graduating senior at cedar crest college at present the couple are residing in nearby ' l ocust valley mr and mrs robert burk holder of allentown announce the engagement of their daughter mary jane burkholder to edward daniel sprang of green bay wis miss burkholder was graduated from allentown high school and cornell university mr sprang was graduated from admiral far ragut academy where he was cap tain of the football team member of the varsity football squad and president of the phi delta theta fraternity he will receive his de gree in industrial engineering from lehigh in june of ss simon and jude church the rev james vizzard officiated mr farrell is also a graduate of liberty high school and served two years in the army air corps he will graduate from lehigh in june miss stafford is a graduate of liberty high school and attended moravian college for women she is now employed as a medical technician at allentown general hospital william h murphy jr a senior was married to shirley else langefeld of scotch plains n j last week in the baptist church at fanwood a reception was given at far hills inn somerville miss langefeld is a graduate of averett junior colege va and mr murphy will graduate with the june class of 50 theta delta chi announces the wedding of harold b fuller claremont cal to miss audrey l garlick of little falls n j the wedding took place saturday friday april 21 1950 volume 59 — number 17 five profs to retire in june with 165-year service total five lehigh faculty members with a combined teaching service of 165 years will retire june 30 president whitaker announced re cently following the spring meet ing of the university board of trustees they are dr philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science harry g payrow associ ate professor of sanitary engineer ing judson g smull associate professor of chemistry dr horace w wright head of the department of latin and frank c becker chairman of the department of philosophy br own and white bethlehem pa prof becker prof payrow dean palmer prof smull prof wright muse moans as good deed backfires what price favors prof william schempf must wonder if it pays to be a good sa maritan thursday morning the energetic music prof was driving to school for an 8 a.m music 14 class with his usual split-second timing he should have bounded down the steps into the browsing room at exactly 8:10 but things didn't work quite according to schedule this bleak day lehigh university harry wismer director of sports of the american broad casting company will be the principal speaker at the fourth university meeting to be held monday evening may 15 1950 at 7:30 p.m in grace hall ned wallace arts 50 chairman of the university meeting com mittee anounced that the topic will be dollars and sense a discussion of the lehigh uni versity athletic policy