Brown and White Vol. 67 No. 18

              lehigh university brown and white vol 67—no 18 friday december 2 1955 lu bethlehem pa henry iv opens 2-night run at 8 by bob schwartz lavish costumes and the pomp and splendor of medieval english royalty will fill the broughal jr high school stage tonight as the mustard and cheese players present henry iv part i this production promises to be one of the most colorful yet staged in the 70-year history of the organization it is the opening perform ance of the 1955-56 season and curtain time tonight and tomorrow is 8 henry iv part i is the second in a series of four plays dealing with the reigns of richard 11 henry iv and henry v in richard ii the play which precedes this one richard banishes his cousin henry bolingbroke later henry iv who is portrayed by newton kinsey while bolingbroke is in exile his father dies and rich ard attempts to confiscate the estate bolingbroke returns to eng land to secure his inheritance and aided by the powerful percy family northumberland his son hotspur and his brother wor cester played by john thomp son george kantra and eugene cohen resectively manages to depose the king and have him self crowned henry iv richard is murdered and henry although he denies any complicity in the late king's death promises a pilgrimage of penitence to the holy land henry iv part i opens with a reference to the proposed pilgrim age but the project is set aside be cause civil war is brewing the per forsooth—polishing up their lines for the weekend's mustard and cheese production of henry iv part i are george kantra as north umberland gil moskovvitz as a welsh chieftain mike driscoll as hot spur's brother-in-law mortimer and milton hendricks gillespie plays at soph dance an annual event the snowball dance takes place tomorrow night on the familiar site of upper grace hall under the sponsorship of the class of 58 once again matt gillespie and his aggregation will take over the musical chores and are ex pected to perform in their usual competent manner the semi formal dance will be from 10 p.m to 1 a.m a snowball under the stars theme illustrated by the use of stars hanging from strategic points on the ceiling and other appropriate win well-wishers greet grunboum by dick gaintner dr adolf grunbaum professor of philosophy arrived safely at the allentown-bethlehem-e as to n air port wednesday night from oberlin college in ohio where he had pre sented several lectures on the phil osophy of science as he stepped from his first ride in an aircraft he was greet ed by a group of some 50 col leagues their wives children and an avid coterie of student admirers including representa tives of the b&w and wlrn somewhat non-plussed dr grun baum mumbled logically non-posi tive thanks upon being presented with a simulated key to the city hawaiian leis and a harmonica solo by dr francis j trembley amid popping flashbulbs waving placards suitably inscribed the whir of movie cameras and the hum of recording equipment the following on-the-record press conference took place question in what way has your experiment in aerodynam ics helped to confirm or dis prove your hypothesis concern nig time memory and gravita tion answer it has left me uncon vinced that probability can be ap plied to single events question what was the theme of your chapel message at oberlin col lege answer how to be immoral and get away with it question what significant con nection is there between your pur chase last week of a tv set and the second law of thermodynamics answer none whatever question is it true that dur ing your unfortunate illness of last year you had a vision of end of a flight—dr adolf grunbaum of the philosophy depart ment accepts the key to the city of bethlehem from prof arthur e pitcher of the mathematics department at welcoming home ceremonies last wednesday night at the abe airport he had just returned from ober lin college ohio fall valentines at 5-yr low 149 are on pro fall valentine distribution has marked this semester with the low e st percentage of men receiving the unpopular pink slips since fall 1950 of the 2,697 men enrolled 39.9 per cent or 1,076 of them now hold a valentine or more more valentines were received than last spring but records in dicate that drops in both num bers and percentage occur every spring of those receiving valentines this semester 149 are on valentine pro bation the result of totaling nine or hours of valentines one man re ceived a high sum of 16 hours of valentines valentine breakdown follows d indicates a drop over last fall arts lg0 business administration d 216 chemical engineering 70 chemistry d 8 civil engineering d 56 elec whitaker franz tell seniors of $ needs by art roth an intensive two-week drive to secure greater participation in the class of 1956 memorial gift plan was initiated monday at a kick-off din ner attended by 80 representative seniors in the hotel bethlehem president martin d whitaker and paul franz assistant to the presi dent were the principal speakers the drive which will end dec 12 will feature a program of individual solicitation whereby each of the 80 men are responsible for contacting five specified classmates in this speech dr whitaker point ed out some of the differences be tween public and private higher education saying we are witness ing in this country a unique experi ment — to educate a greater per centage of the citizenry than ever attempted anywhere before about one-half of the load is carried by public institutions and one-half by private schools it is good to have both public and private institutions but in times of stress public institutions often come under restraints he stated that a private institution is independent and that by the ad dition of all these independent in stitutions we get an integrated sys tem able to resist restraints another differentiating factor that dr whitaker brought out was that rivate institutions have control 30 men chosen among seniors for who's who thirty seniors have been named tc appear in the 1955-56 edition of who's who among students in american colleges and universi ties students were selected by the heads of various curricula academic activities leader ship participation in extra-cur ricular activities and service to the school were the criteria of selections who's who represents approxi mately 630 colleges and universities throughout the united states among the 30 seniors chosen from lehigh are duncan p aspinwall robert e balestier sheridan c biggs william t burgin jr rob ert carrasquillo carlton s clark and john e dougherty edward b eichelberger robert k haltenhoff john r hillegass duane jennings edward h kott camp jr william s luce george h mac lean frank j macre robert c mcgrory wayne f rayfield thomas b morgan and gilbert e moskowitz also chosen to who's who were eugene c murphy ronald j mur ray arthur j roth eugene h sie gel jr ferdinand thun arthur f veinott jr f bruce waechter rob ert w worley jr robert f zecher and william e zeiter class gift plan insured for life by pete burdash gifts from graduating classes to their alma mater are traditional at lehigh at lehigh these have taken the form of steps fireplaces lamp posts and the like until the program of class inurance was established by the class of 1938 every graduating class since 1938 has also adopted class in surance as its class gift pro gram such a memorial is a gift from each individual and from the class as a whole at its twen tieth reunion exactly 3,936 members of previous classes have subscribed to the plan the plan is a simple one in which each senior takes out a 20-year en 22 petitions submitted by arcadia candidates twenty-two petitions for arcadia had been received when the dead line was reached wednesday ac cording to gil moskowitz 56 of the arcadia elections committee actual balloting for mem bership in the student govern ing body takes place dec 14 15 and 16 polling places which have been selected for the elec tion are to be located in drown hall lamberton hall and chrisi mas-saucon hall moskowitz expressed a feeling of pessimism about the future of ar cadia elections he said it's a very poor showing of candidates even lower than last year's all time low of 26 men he also announced that monday would be the initial day for the poster campaign mrs moravec announced that the candidates meeting scheduled for monday would be held at 4 p.m to day the list of the candidates which follows is made up of 12 sophomores and 10 juniors resi noted jesuit theologian to lead interfaith convo the reverend gustave weigel s.j a roman catholic theologian will be the conference leader of the conference on religion which will be held beginning monday dec 12 and end thursday dec 15 sponsored by the interfaith council the conference will in clude lectures in classrooms seminars for faculty and stu dents informal discussions in living groups and the individual appointments rev weigel professor of ecclesi astics at the jesuit theologate of woodstock college woodstock md was formerly dean of the faculty of the theology at the catholic uni versity of chile he has lectured at harvard georgetown and at the universities of chile quito and peru see 100,000 page 5 see senior page 7 see play page 5 see m&c page 5 see 8 divisions page 5 see prof page 4 see solon page 5