Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 18

              like that and blue skies his orchestra was recently named the band to watch thi year by hit parader vocalists russ mclntyre and nancy clayton and the snowflakes are featured with claude thorn hill his piano and his orchestra maybe it's because johnson rag and small hotel are in cluded on thornhill's list of hit recordings his band is currently permorming on television both floors of grace hall will be decorated with evening blue fabric on walls and ceilings white lattice work over the doorways along the walls and around the bandstands will be covered with natural green foliage and pink blossoms each bandstand will be offset by a 12 foot white l and subdued lighting effects produced by colored floodlights are plan ned spotlights will furnish chang ing color three prizes for the best posters used to publicize the dance will be awarded during one of the johnny long intermissions the posters were submitted by the freshman pledges of each frater nity house in a contest sponsored by ifc alpha sigma phi will re ceive the 10 first prize the two second prizes of 5 each were won by phi sigma kappa and theta chi dance tickets at 5 per couple will be on sale at the arcadia of fice and the supply bureau until friday afternoon lou bevere i.e 50 is in charge of ticket sales chaperones for the formal are gilbert a doan head of the mete department william a aiken as politica club sets date for future election plans for the coming year v/ere discussed by members of po litical science assembly local po litical science club at a meeting last thursday the work of the lehigh delegates to the intercol legiate conference on govern ment held april 13-16 was also reviewed officers for next year will be nominated and elected at a meet ing to be held thursday may 4 at 4:10 p.m they will assume their duties at an evening dinner meet ing to be held later in may one of the major functions of political science assembly is to sponsor lehigh's participation in the activities of the intercollegiate conference on government the intercollegiate con ference will convene next year a model congress convening as a unicameral body to adopt legisla tion on current political questions the annual conference will be held april 12-15 at the capitol building harrisburg pa last v/eek a lehigh delegation of 18 members and george ho watt faculty advisor returned from this year's annual confer ence which met as a model consti tutional convention workshop mc to broadcast bronte novel in a one hour presentation the great story of love and hate on the wild moors of england wuthering heights will be dra matized by the mutard and cheese players and the lehigh university radio workshop over radio sta tion wgpa-fm on thursday april 27th at 7 p.m this famous tale by emily bronte the story of the love of the gypsy boy heathcliff for cathy runs the gamut of emotion the radio adaption was written by joseph ruscohl starred as heathcliff will be alan koppes arts & engr 52 koppes is a mustard and cheese regular also slated to appear in the forthcoming command de cision .. ruth shaw wife of robert shaw instructor in me will por tray cathy in the feminine lead . ellen the truted servant and con fident will be played by nancy lynn hellertown pa miss lynn has appeared in many mustard and cheee and radio workshop presentations and is active in civ ic dramatic groups jean seibel wife of james seibel bus 52 will play isabella cathy's rival for heathcliff's love also featured in the cast will be gerald cashman general col lege division as edgar ivan park bus 52 as hindley and donald oplinger met e 53 will play joseph a servant roger noone arts & ie 51 will play mr earn shaw supporting players will include robert hardy chem 51 and james seibel bus 52 mr frank funk instructor in speech and radio will produce and direct the one hour program the announcer will be peter ott bus 51 sound effects for the program will be created by jack fears arts 52 assisted by paul miller arts 53 warren stevens ce 53 and john craver bus 50 music for the production will be selected by robert swanson bus 50 and richard levan me 52 wuthering heights will be broadcast direct from the speech johnny long sociate professor of history allen j barthold head of the romance lanuguages department and paul j franz assistant to the president duck turns up upside down a dead duck greeted the members of tau delta phi frater nity as they rose in the early dawn one day last v/eek the duck which had succumbed to a broken neck was hanging by a rope from a branch of a tree on the lawn upside down disclaiming all responsibility for the incident the members cut the bird down and disposed of it in a garbage pail since the duck has been recobed from the premises it will not be possible to restore it to its owner the boys regretfully ad mitted an indication of america's manufacturing trends for the next three to five years is expected as an outgrowth of lehigh university's second product design seminar to be held from june 26 through july 21 presented jointly by the society of industrial designers and lehigh university the seminar will have as participants walter dorwin teague henry freyfuss harold van doren three of the nation's leading designers various phases of industrial design will be dis cussed by 37 other speakers listed as members of the special faculty this summer consumer research design es thetics material selection produc tion technique color and design project will be analyzed by a na studio in christmas-saucon hall the lehigh university radio workshop providing practice in speech and radio presents two dramas per month over radio sta tion wgpa-fm wutheeing heights''.con tinues the radio workshop tra dition of broadcasting radio adapt ations of classical novels plays and short stories summer seminar will show u s manufacturing trends tionaily known design specialist through case studies panel dis cussions and laboratory exercises the seminar is aimed in part at an understanding of the economic competitive and social importance cf industrial design the recogni tion of design projects as distinct entities and the derivation of guides to the organization of de sign projects einar m rambeeg instruc tor in i e at lehigh and ray mond spilman of the society of industrial designer have been cho-en as co-directors for this year's four-week program dele gates will be housed at the chi psi fraternity house in sayre park on the lehigh campus most of the seminar meetings are to be con ducted in the james ward packard laboratory of electrical and me chanical engineering among the visiting instructors this summer will be george f nbrdenholt editor of product engineering h e blank jr ed itor of modern industry philip mcconnell managing editor of u s industrial design george kepes professor of visual design at massachusetts institute of tech nology egmont arens president of the society of industrial de signers charles h h weikel manager of commercial research bethle hem steel company fred k pow ell jr and h g mustonen in dustrial designers american ma continued on page 3 col 2 offers a six weeks summer session for americans at the university of st nicholas de hidalgo in mo relia morelia lies 180 miles south of mexico city and is 8000 feet above sea level ' living fs very cheap and vet erans can f equally rave money on their monthly allowance since you can net room and board in a pri vate home for as little as 40 a month making extra-curricular more interesting is the morelia country club its social and athletic facili ties are open to all yank students these include swimming baseball tennis handball and jai alai because of the recent evaluation many mexican goods are very in expensive for example rum is only forty cents a quart and pluto crats can buy canadian club for only 1.90 foreign study institute offers life of riley at special rates with devaluation magic carpets can be bought for as low as 390 and a week in paris is chucked in as an extra selling these plushy travel item is the foreign study institute after a purchase speedy travel to practically all european destinations plus mexico is guaranteed for the in titute specializes in summer stu dent tours sea travel as well as air is avail able for the tours the prices fo them including transport to anc from europe travel within eu rope room and board at goo hotels tips and the services o guides and tour leaders aside from an ai!-inclusiv trek at 90 complete there are nin other tours as well tours cove england holland belgium lux embourg germany austria spain italy norway sweden anc others for as long as two months also available is a quickie which picks you up in new york then deposits you in turn in oslo stockholm copenhagen paris london and scotland and back t your desk only 13 days later student travel in mexico als williams contest to start may 8 an opportunity for undergraduates to obtain practice in speaking before a critical audience on subjects of current interest will be offer ad by the annual williams prize in extemporameous speaking the opening round of which will take place in christmas-saucon hall on may 8 at 7:30 this contest is conducted under he auspices of the department of english prizes include first 75 second 50 third 25 while prizes of 50 and 25 will be given for the two best freshman speak ers registration will take place on wednesday thursday and friday april 26 27 and 28 in room 316 of christmas-saucon hall mem bers of the faculty will serve as judges and prizes will be awarded on the basis of delivery organiza tion and audience contact all un dergraduates in regular standing are eligible to enter except previ ous first place winners brown and white university bethlehem pa april 28 brings long thornhill blossoms tuesday april 25 1950 four hours of continuous music by two name bands an evening blue background offset by colored lighting and a blossom time motif will open spring houseparty at 9:30 p.m friday april 28 in grace hall the spotlight will be on johnny long and claude thornhill fea tured band leaders for the blossom time formal johnny long the only south-naw violinist on record features vocalists jimmy sedlar and floyd sullivan long's unique method is a result of a childhood accident at the age of six a bite by a pig severed the tendons in his hand and his teacher tought him to play backwards long who will play on the lower floor of grace hall is noted for his recording of shanty town just volume 59 number 18 on the air . .. while jack fears arts 52 produces appropriate sound effects ruth shaw a faculty wife and alan koppes arts & engr 52 re hearse lines from the forthcoming production of wuthering heights directing the actors is mr frank funk instructor in speech and radio better deal . eeown and white wishes to apologize for publishing wrong in formation on arcadia candidate joseph m deal in the april 18 issue deal is in the i.e snd bus cur riculum june 51 he lives in richards 111-b and has a cumula tive average of 2.21 additional activities not appearing in the is sue are president of richards house member of a.s.m.e i.d.c member and former president and secretary treasurer of richards 111-b