Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 43

              phi beta kappa initiates 13 men v j pazzetti 111 dance will not follow show by skedgell vol xliii — no 43 alexander potter will feature musical show debate team wins decision to present prom trot ters friday and satur day at 8:30 p m tickets free to students at 8:30 p m friday and satur day mustard and cheese will pre sent in drown hall ralph e sked gell's musical comedy prom trot ters because the measles epidemic forced the committee on student ac tivities to retract the exclusive date originally granted it the executive committee feeling that fraternity competition would be too strong cancelled the dance that was sched uled to follow the saturday night presentation tickets are free to lehigh stu dents and will be distributed to the various fraternities by thursday other students may receive their tickets by presenting their bursar's receipt at the lehigh union office tickets for outsiders are priced at 57 cents including tax all the musical numbers for the show have been arranged by james h reed bus 38 who also ar ranged the music for the princeton triangle show last year with the presentation of prom trotters miss charlotte bond member of the moravian music staff makes her initial appearance on the lehigh stage she plays the feminine lead judith arden the part of the leading man is taken by franklin r norton eng 39 who is cast as tommy norton made his initial appearance in the racket the december presenta tion of mustard and cheese two other young ladies will be cast in their first lehigh produc tion they are miss margaret struble who will play the role of louise and miss ruth pazzetti who will be jean new york engineer wills money for endowment of scholarships mott bequeaths 1,000 lehigh university will receive ap proximately 100,000 from the es tate of the late william c gotshall prominent new york engineer and archeologist as one of the residuary legatees named in his will states walter r okeson university treas urer gotshall who died last august in new york city left an estate of about 1,100,000 after settlement of the estate and payment of speci fic bequests the will provides that lehigh and union college each get one fifth and washington univer sity and rennselaer polytechnic in stitute each get one-tenth of the residuary estate the money is to be used to endow the william c gotshall engineer ing scholarships in each of the uni versities named had no connection with lehigh gotshall had no connection with lehigh said okeson he states that gotshall was a graduate of wash ington university and that the other bequests were probably made to the other colleges named because of his interest in engineering another bequest of 1,000 has been received from the estate of daniel l mott 88 who died feb 14 in utica n y the money is to be added to the endowment fund of the university mott who was 71 was city engin eer of utica and president of the new york central lehigh club when he died 12 attend meeting of spanish club ford gives talk on color vision on l look for the engineer to be discussed thurs day in packard lab is consulting engineer outlook for the engineer will be discussed by alexander potter 90 and university trustee at the meeting of the civil engineering society at 8 p m thursday in pack ard auditorium mr potter who is now consult ing engineer for new york city came to lehigh from halifax high school halifax nova scotia after his graduation in 1890 he practiced engineering on the canadian paci fice railroad and later became chief engineer of halifax he was engaged in the installa tion of the water supply for beth lehem cienfuegos cuba corpus christi texas evansvelle ind guantanamo cuba havana moorestown n j winchester va vineland n j santiego de cuba san antonio texas orrville o oklahoma city renfrew ont wilkes-barre and meskogee okla he was consulting engineer for the sewage system and sewage dis posal of albequerque n mex ba tavia n v corege pa elizabeth n j far rockaway l i green ville miss harrison n v mid dletown conn warren o and summit n j he is now in charge of water works and drainage system for the u.s explosive plant nitro w.va and he is also advising engineer on sanitary problems for the lehigh and wilkes-barre coal company lehigh valley coal company read ing coal company hudson coal company glen alden coal com pany pennsylvania coal company and the susquehanna colliery com pany potter is the author of dams on sand foundations legitimate use of water sewage clarification by fine screens purification of ground water reinforced con crete reservoir waterworks res ervoirs and a new water supply for the city of mckeesport pa sigma chi initiates 9 men at banquet review to contain story about prom trotters by skedgell prom trotters will be featured in the issue of the lehigh review which appears on thursday accord ing to bernard weiss c e 36 editor in chief of the magazine the cover a photograph by w mansfield white m e 38 is a study of the hands of ralph sked gell arts 38 at the piano keyboard a story on prom trotters will be written by skedgell who is the auth or of the play a biography of albert a rights instructor in english and director of mustard and cheese is one of the featured articles richard larkin arts 38 has written a story on le high's chorus girls who are in the musical show basic tools a discussion of en gineering culture is the contribu tion of g e doan associate pro fessor of physical metallurgy in vitation for a bid a satire by p e p white e e 38 short stories by leonard schick arts 37 and harry archer arts 37 and orig inal cartoons complete the issue elects toohy howland and cowin as faculty officers the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa national honorary scholar ship fraternity initiated 13 men into the organization yesterday after noon in the faculty room of the administration building the 13 men were peter masiko arts 36 allentown carl f hen singer arts 36 allentown gates b stern arts 36 uniontown pa weston c cook arts 36 allen town charles moran arts 36 new york city james h croushore arts 36 bethlehem lancey thompson bus 36 rahway n j ernest w thorn bus 36 bethlehem john p but terfield i e 36 bethlehem ber nard s weiss c e 36 philadel phia david w hoppock i e 36 maplewood n j and walter l finlay ch e 36 new york city following the initiation the chap ter members elected three new council officers j m toohy asso ciate professor of romance lan guages president g a howland associate professor of fine arts vice president r b cowin professor of accountancy treasurer their term of office is three years plans were made for a banquet to be held in may and an exact date will be set later hold convention contribute 106 for flood relief kiwanis club favors le high over upsala on su preme court power in a debate with upsala college at the kiwanis club meeting thurs day the lehigh team won the de cision almost unanimously the question argued was resolved that congress should be empow ered by a two-thirds vote to over ride decisions of the supreme court declaring acts of congress uncon stitutional the decision was made by the vote of the kiwanis club members the lehigh debaters were how ard koller ch e 37 and norman l morse eng 39 they took the negative side of the question tomorrow at 4:15 p m in pack ard laboratory the debating team represented by howard koller ch e 37 and norman l morse eng 39 will argue with the gettysburg team on the supreme court ques tion on friday the freshman team will argue with the lafayette freshman team at 8 p m in room 466 pack ard laboratory on the supreme court question the lehigh team has not yet been decided they will take the affirmative side of the question there were three debates sched uled for last night but they were either called off or postponed there were to be two debates with mora vian one in packard laboratory and one at moravian the third debate was to be with the allentown prep school it was postponed indefin itely elects new men to petition club commit tee for recognition twelve men attended the second meeting of the newly organized spanish club friday night at the home of william bohning assistant to the registrar at 38 west union street the meeting was devoted to drawing up a constitution and by laws for the new organization a petition for formal recognition was formulated to be presented to the committee on student clubs the remainder of the evening was spent in conversation in spanish gilberto escobedo c e 36 and w h feldhus bus 37 presented vocal solos and led the group in singing spanish songs benjamin keen a former lehigh student invited the club to his home 702 east fourth street for the next meeting april 7 redcay injured lehigh art alliance hears speech friday dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology present ed a talk on color vision to the lehigh art alliance friday eve ning the attendance was restricted to the members of the art alliance and their guests the art alliance is a new organization composed of producing artists of bethlehem and allentown dr ford is a member in his speech professor ford pre sented the two scientific aspects of color vision these being the helm holtz and the herring doctrines he then gave examples relating to his talk by mixing paradoxical colors in doing this he purposely mixed colors that gave a different color than the audience expected so as to create a discussion to conclude his speech profes sor ford told the members of his audience the reactions of normal and color-blind persons and then gave them a test for color-blindness letting them find out for themselves whether or not their eyes were faul ty in this respect officers elected allentown group hears of approach to post col lege learning smiley discusses clubs dean c m mcconn and e ken neth smiley assistant director of admissions addressed the lehigh allentown club at its regular meet ing on friday in the y m c a building in allentown after complimenting the organ ization on the value of its objectives dean mcconn addressed the stu dents on continuing education af ter college calling attention to the fact that few men past 25 gain any cultural appreciation the dean urged the students to gain a start in this direction during their college years cites cultural instrumentalities he cited as instrumentalities a student's regular texts should be a part a wide reading in current events attendance at lectures and concerts and visits to art galleries and museums he warned the mem bers that their first attempts to util ize the latter of these would be accompanied by an initial boredom but that this would soon disappear and be slowly replaced by real en joyment and appreciation smiley advanced the theory that all organizations are held together by an intelligent selfishness on the part of their members this selfish ness stated mr smiley arises from a desire on the part of each indi vidual to get all that he can from his membership and by compro mise this benefits a majority of the members he stated without dispar aging civic service clubs that the quickest way to destroy a club is to establish a moral obligation on the part of its members to take an active part nominations for officers made following the speeches the bus iness meeting was opened by the president walter r f guyer ch e 36 nominations were made for next year's offices elections will be held at the next meeting on april 17 nominees are president joseph rossetti bus.'37 harold dent m.e 37 and benjamin k daubenspeck ch e 37 vice president richard schmoyer m e 37 normal tay lor ch e 37 and herbert hil ton bus 37 recording secretary joseph parmet ch e 38 charles glick ch e 38 and ralph howe ch e 38 corresponding secretary charles hoffman e e 38 har old calkins ch e 38 and charles glick ch e 38 and treasurer robert davis ch e 38 richard schmoyer m e 37 and charles hoffman e e 38 plan for sub-freshman day plans were made for the part al lentown students will play in the sub-freshman day exercises the work of completing the plans was placed in the hands of the program and membership committees under the chairmanship of peter masiko arts 36 albert watson bus 36 spoke on swimming as an extra-curricular ac tivity he discussed the methods of the fraternities in encouraging such activities on the part of the fresh men a picture was taken of the organ ization for the allentown morning call f c raybold to speak on mathematical oddities frank c raybold eng 39 will speak on mathematical oddities and f h burnett eng 39 will present a talk on the life of sir isaac newton before the newton ian society at 7:30 tomorrow eve ning in room 258 packard labora tory all those students that received invitations for the first meeting on feb 19 and did not attend are again requested to come to this meeting senate summons grace eugene grace president of the bethlehem steel corporation was summoned last week to appear along with w a irvin president of the united states steel corpor ation before the senate interstate commerce committee to give infor mation the nature of which was not disclosed by senate officials a.t.o conclave attended by 100 delegates over 100 delegates representing 14 chapters of alpha tau omega assembled friday morning at le high for the bi-annual tri-provincial a t o conclave victor e eng trom bus 36 was acting chair man the program consisted of a group meeting friday afternoon a panel discussion saturday morning and an address saturday afternoon by roy f hinkle national alumni di rctor dr h s oberly professor of psychology at the university of pennsylvania presided over the con ference the delegates were quartered at the local a t o house and at the chapter house at muhlenberg the last time this conclave was held at muhlenberg the last time this conclave was held at lehigh was in 1916 union receives donation for red cross fund by last evening students faculty members and members of the ad ministrative staff had contributed 106.62 to the red cross flood re lief fund being raised at the lehigh union office also to be accredited to lehigh is a fifteen dollar donation sent di rectly to the local red cross chap ter by one of the fraternities be fore the official university drive was announced all donations received at the union office will be turned over to the bethlehem chapter of the red cross the quota for this district is 3,500 william m smith jr ch e 36 president of the lehigh union announced that contribu tions would be received until the beginning of the easter vacation fortune knocks elects officers eta kappa nu to conduct pledging thursday eta kappa nu held a special meeting last night in room 201 packard laboratory at which an election of new men took place the pledging exercise will be con ducted thursday at the meeting of the student branch of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers in room 416 packard labora tory a committee consisting of t r brown e e 37 b s s ulak e e 36 and d l waedilich e.e 36 was appointed by the president to revise and bring the by-laws of the local chapter up to date b s s ulak william taddeo e e 36 h c bickel e e 36 wilbert bakker e e 37 were appointed to arrange for the coming initiation to be held after the spring vacation o small audience attends student group concert the second public concert of the student concerts group was pre sented to a small audience com posed most of townspeople sunday evening in packer memorial chapel george condit arts 38 was in charge of the program which in cluded gluck's ballet suite han del's water music and hallelu jah chorus and three of bach's shorter compositions next week's regular concert will feature the work of wagner and liszt suffers broken kneecap in jump from train james e redcay i e 37 is in st luke's hospital with a broken kneecap and severad tendon which injuries he suffered when he leaped from a moving train recently redcay and two fraternity broth ers were seeing their week-end dates off on an eastbound lehigh valley train the train began to move and redcay ran to a nearby door to get off the door was lock ed so he tried another by this time the train had gathered speed and was about 100 yards from the sta tion redcay jumped and hit a switchblock the other two students remained on the train and rode to easton o escobedo to take part in yo-eddie minstrels gilberto escobedo c e 36 who recently won honors in an amateur radio contest over station wip will take the role of a mexican trouba dor in a musical act for the yo eddie ministrels the minstrels under the direc tion of jeff laßose will be given in the boyd theater tonight tomor row and thursday at 8:15 p m the receipts of the performances will go to the purchase of uniforms for the new municipal band dean c mcconn speaks on fraternities the sigma chi fraternity formal ly initiated nine men sunday at the hotel bethlehem following the initiation a banquet was given for the new members dean c m mcconn spoke at the banquet on the subject the fu ture of the american college frater nity the dean endeavored in his speech to point out the four main failings of college fraternities they were extravaganve snobbishness dissipation and hell-week he said that in his estimation the fraterni ties at lehigh were fairly clear of such charges the dean expressed his opinion that the future of the college fraternity at lehigh is a bright one as far as legislative ac tion is concerned the other speakers on the pro gram were dr raymond c bull director of the students health ser vice and faculty adviser for the fra ternity and bolon b turner grand praetor of the sixth province dr bull talked on fraternity spirit while mr turner spoke about the sigma chi fraternity the initiates were d robert frantz e e 38 robert w bow en bus 39 robert s grubmeyer e e 39 edward a herre tr ch e 39 charles g hub jr bus 39 f graham ort arts 39 wil liam a tupper arts 39 louis f wittman bus 39 and w paul zabel jr eng 39 put 63 on valentine pro one student receives 5 sixty-three students have been placed on valentine probation as a result of their getting valentines in nine or more hours these figures were recently released by w h bohning assistant to the registrar the highest number of hours of valentines received by any one man was 15 and the greatest number of valentines sent to any one man was five l a king made president of maryland club new officers of the maryland lehigh club were elected march 23 at a meeting attended by william a cornelius alumni secretary at the hotel stafford in baltimore twen ty-eight alumni were present those elected were thomas a king 88 president frederick w lewis 23 vice president w s mccurley 29 treasurer william e miller jr 30 secretary cornelius attended a luncheon of the alumni fund committee of the washington d c lehigh club on march 25 at the merchant's hotel where further plans for attaining the club's quota for the 40,000 li brary fund by june 1 were dis cussed made general manager edward j burnell 12 was ap pointed general manager of the link-belt company of chicago at the annual stockholders and direc tors meeting recently he had been sales manager for the company for the past three years and prior to that was district sales manager luck misses reynolds by 2 houses dame fortune knocked at the door of mrs joseph b reynolds wife of the professor of mathemat ics 721 west broad street friday but found that she had the wrong address the ticket held by mrs lena grim 727 west broad street in the grand national steeplechase at aintree england which netted her a second place and 75,000 was de livered by mistake to the home of mrs reynolds realizing the error mrs reynolds took it to mrs grim at the time of the announcement that her horse ego came in second was broadcast mrs grim was seat ed by the radio of her neighbor mrs alpha a diefenderfer wife of the professor of quantitative analy sis and assaying m e society hears talks by dalrymple curren the student branch of the amer ican society for mechanical engin eers held its elections of officers for the coming term thursday evening at a meeting in packard laboratory results of the election will be an nounced within a week w m dalrymple metallurgical supervisor in charge of the labora tories at the bethlehem steel com pany spoke on inspection of iron and steel products he demon strated several testing machines and showed slides another illustrated talk at the meeting was given by a t curren m e 37 whose subject was the carbon pile oscillograph indica tor brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 31 1936 prom trotters player to talk on outlook price — five cento dean mcconn speaks to club on education a potter 90 will address a.s.c.e meet w c gotshall leaves fund of 100,000 students vote 348 to 57 to back lecture plan four hundred and five students have voted in the brown and white-tau beta pi polls totals obtained at noon today reveal of this number 348 voted to sup port a student lecture series for next year and 57 opposed it men living in bethlehem polled 331 to 53 the allentown group voted 17 to 4 a complete report will be available by friday any living group or individual missed in the distribution of the lecture series ballots is urged to vote by writing out an informal ballot and submitting it either at the lehigh union office in drown hall or at the brown and white office in christmas-saucon hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first