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              houseparty lists due nurses give men in white technical aid houseparty lists must be turned in no later than 1 p m wednesday lists must include all names of girls attending to gether with their home towns the chaperons for the house dance and the orchestra play ing for the respective dances morning call edited by staff gorden b enders journalists will pledge 1 senior 3 juniors one senior and three juniors were elected to membership in pi delta epsilon honorary collegiate journalism fraternity at a meet ing yesterday afternoon the new men will be pledged in colloquium next week and in itiated at a banquet thursday ev ening a william jessup arts 38 and eric weiss e e 39 were elected delegates to the national conven tion which will be held april 22 and 23 at stevens institute of technology hoboken n j henry t s heckman arts 39 and george rheinfrank i e 39 were elected alternate delegates the fraternity agreed to com ply with the request of the admis sions office to conduct an in formation booth on the campus on sub-freshman day musical group to broadcast smiley talks to freshmen group turns down plan of journalists to put book under control lord represents union after investigating a resolution made by pi delta epsilon honorary journalism fraternity that the freshman handbook be placed un der control of the board of publi cations the board decided wed nesday to leave the handbook un der the jurisdiction of the union the board passed the following resolution it is moved and seconded that the board of publications having considered the charges and recommendations from pi delta epsilon with respect to the freshman handbook com petitions has reached the fol lowing conclusions 1 it appears to be clear that the system of competitions used in 1937 was successfully abused by some competitors 2 it appears to the board that the system used in 1938 worked reasonably well 3 the board approves a sug gestion made by the chairman of the handbook for the amend ment of the 1938 system which the board believes will safe guard the operation of the plan 4 the board leaves the freshman handbook under the jurisdiction of the union with full confidence present at the meeting were dean cm mcconn dale h gram ley associate professor of journal ism dr edgar h riley associate professor of english r raymond winters bus 38 all members of the board of publications also present were eric weiss e e 38 editorial manager of the brown and white melvin lord president of the lehigh union dr claude g beardslee faculty ad viser of the union george e hurst chairman of the board of the handbook franklin f shafer bus 39 business manager of the handbook and kenneth k kost secretary to the board members chosen by relations club brown and white men work in allentown tuesday night twenty six members of the brown and white staff took over the publication of the wednesday morning edition of the allentown morning call this was the eighth in the series of the annual custom begun in 1931 editorials news stories editing of copy and the composing of headlines were among the duties assumed by the brown and white men the following were listed on the staff keiste a janulius arts 38 supervision of the editorial page j palmer murphy arts 38 telegraph editor willet weeks jr arts 39 assistant telegraph editor richard n larkin arts 38 radio news broadcast fidler is city editor william jessup 39 sports editor carl fittkau met 40 assist ant sports editor nevin l fidler arts 38 city editor and ray mond f feilbach arts 38 beth lehem editor on the city staff were robert h clark arts 38 milton spil berg arts 39 and henry t s heckman arts 39 editorial writ ers were robert h clark arts 38 raymond f feilbach arts 38 william jessup arts 39 rich ard n larkin arts 38 j palmer murphy arts 38 nevin l fidler arts 38 the reporting staff listed the following david g de beau champ arts 40 howard m con ner arts 40 david l fowler arts 40 thrasher t gray arts 39 charles f kalmbach m e 41 and roy s zachary arts 41 the bethlehem reporters were fred e galbraith jr ch e 40 robert c muir jr bus 40 willard g histand m e 39 moesel is elected adviser to grand lama to be final speaker in lecture series week-endersare invited gordon b enders foreign ad viser to the grand lama of tibet will speak on can anyone stop japan at the final program of the student concert-lecture series to be held next friday evening in broughal high school the lecture will begin at 8:15 o'clock and houseparty guests will be admit ted free of charge if accompanied by their escorts enders who has a seat in the tibetan national assembly the oldest parliament in the world is the first foreigner in history to be given the title and rank of tibetan nobility authority on tibet acclaimed as the greatest living authority on tibetan folklore and adventure enders was born in essex lowa and went to live with his family on the indo-tibetan border when he was four years old i was a typical american schoolboy when i first lived among the tibetans mr enders declared in a recent interview just beyond our house was the frontier marked by a series of pyramidal stones set up by british surveyors beyond that line was the actual kingdom of tibet in those days entry into it was forbidden all foreigners brought up thus among a pop ulation basically tibetan enders came to learn the native language as soon as he came to know his mother tongue with the result that tibet became his life work fought in world war after returning to america for his college education gordon end ers fought through the world war as a flier with the french and american armies then he return ed to tibet and became foreign adviser to the grand lama in connection with his services to the mystical ruler of the hermit king dom he was honored with ap pointment to full cabinet rank ender's book nowhere else in the world has been a best-seller in english and in its translations into french spanish and swedish he has also contributed articles to several national magazines originally scheduled to speak on the subject of his book enders changed his topic to can anyone stop japan at the request of the student concert-lecture series com mittee glee club will present program over wor friday april 29 the glee club will broadcast a 15 minute program from 11:45 a m until 12 noon on friday april 29 over station wor of the mut ual network at newark n j the program will be followed by a concert and dance at 8:30 p m at the chapel of the intercession church in new york city in which both the glee club and the dance orchestra will take part the broadcast over the mutual network will mark the third suc cessive year that the glee club has presented programs over the three major networks the n b c columbia and mutual and the concert and dance is the second one given by the glee club and orchestra at the chapel of the intercession church the first was given in january 1937 a concert and dance will be presented by the glee club and dance orchestra combined with the glee club of the moravian college for women at 8:30 o'clock sat urday evening april 30 this will be the second time that such an event has been held the combined musical clubs will furnish 20 men comprising a singing chorus and most of the members of the orchestra which will appear in conjunction with the mustard and cheese combined musical club's show night in armor may 6 dr wray h congdon director of admissions is making the ar rangements for the appearance of the glee club in a concert to be given for the rotary district con physics society elects officers sloan and dechnik give final appearances thursday night main scene is changed under the direction of miss naomi hauser director of nurses on the st lukes hospital staff and miss dorothy greene oper ating room supervisor of the same hospital albert a rights instruc tor in english and his cast of characters of the play men in white last night re-arranged scenery and made corrections in the technique and movements of the big scene of the play which will be given thursday in the broughal high school auditorium sterrett is female lead kenneth c sloan arts 38 and albin dechnik bus 38 are mak ing their last appearance in le high dramatic productions as lead ing characters in the play they have appeared in paths of glory ceiling zero and yellow jack which have been given by mustard and cheese in the past three years the leading feminine role is taken by miss margaret sterrett veteran of several mustard and cheese productions men in white was written in 1931 by sidney kingsley who graduated from cornell university and immediately began work in the dramatic field he gained most of his technical knowledge of the life of physicians from contacts with many of his classmates who were medical students he wrote the play with the sole purpose of presenting the public with stage doctors who would act as human beings produced in 1933 it was produced on broadway in 1933 by the group theatre as sociation three years after it was written in the meantime it was peddled from producer to pro ducer for two years earning for kingsley 2.77 a day three pro ducers who held options were un able to stage this pioneer medical drama because of financial difficul ties two years ago kingsley con tributed dead end to the broad way theatre dramatic critics hailed men in white as the first play presenting authentic scenes of life in a med ical institution this was followed in 1934 by sidney howard's yel low jack and this season's suc cess all the living a serious study of physicians and nurses in an insane asylum by hardie al bright a dress rehearsal has been scheduled for monday evening tickets for the production are on sale in the union office in drown hall warns against becoming too self-satisfied from success men of scholastic attainment need beware of becoming too com placent cynical intolerant or ir reverent earl k smiley assistant director of admissions told mem bers and pledges of phi eta sigma national honorary freshman fra ternity at the meeting of that soc iety held last evening in packard auditorium harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry welcomed the incoming freshmen and alfred t cox c e 40 presi dent of the group announced the plans for the remainder of the year in his discussion on the hazards of excellence smiley pointed out that men who make superior scholastic grades are prone to be come self-satisfied and complacent and often forget that there is a vast difference between sound scholastic achievement and high grades freshmen pledged members of the freshmen class who were pledged to the society are edwin a brown arts sam uel s gross eng hugh r david son eng august descheemaker eng richard m dietz eng john s ferguson eng frederick r gilmore arts arnold h e grandage eng george e hessel bacher eng charles f kalm back eng stephen kowalyshyn eng albert e lee eng james w mannion eng leonard j mckinley eng john t riley bus george m ritchie jr eng joseph w shall eng donald r schoen arts bernard stuber eng continued on page foui will give exhibit haymes hopkins will swing swing at promenade goers murphy feilbach fidler to lead discussion during session topics are announced topics and chairmen for the seven round table discussions of the fifth annual scholastic press conference to be held here may 14 were announced wednesday by dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism the round table discussions of various phases of student publi cation work will be one of the features of the conference all of the discussions will be under the direction of lehigh journalism students staff members of the brown and white and the lehigh review and executives of lehigh publications no outside speakers will address the groups this spring chairmen announced the chairmen of the seven groups and the topics of their group discussions are raymond f feilbach arts 38 news writ ing j palmer murphy arts 38 editorial writing charles j moravec assistant in journalism sports writing nevin l fidler arts 38 copyreading and make up robert f herrick editor of the alumni bulletin magazine problems j calvin callaghan instructor of english mimeograph publications and kenneth r kost instructor in journalism business problems of student publications the speakers and their topics are willet weeks jr arts 39 getting the news howard m conner arts 40 writing the lead charles f kalmbach eng 41 newspaper english t t gray arts 39 structure of the news story frank n kemmer chem 39 structure of the editorial car stens y haas ch e 38 editorial topics william c dukek chem 38 makeup of the page eric weiss e e 39 columns richard n larkin arts 38 how to watch sports charles e brown arts 38 features for the sports page carl f fittkau met e 40 writing the sports story roy s zachary arts 41 statistics tell the story topics listed robert h clark arts 38 back ground for copyreaders a wil liam jessup arts 39 copyread ing and proofreading roger f kleinschmidt ch e 40 writing the headline henry t s hack man arts 39 making your front page attractive paul e p white e e 38 de termining the policy of your mag azine keiste a janulis arts 38 short stories and essays louis l stoumen arts 39 typography and art donald r schoen arts 41 newspaper english russel e stevens ch e 39 records that should be kept wallace p wat kins bus 40 selling advertis ing john c lauderbach bus 39 problems of the circulation manager and edward manning m e 39 writing and preparing copy pi tau sigma initiates 7 new men thursday international discussion group elects officers new officers and members were elected by members of the inter national relations club meeting tuesday afternoon in the engi neers lounge of packard labor atory the newly elected officers are as follows president john e sut cliffe arts 39 vice president john m mcnabb i e 39 sec retary herbert p aldrich bus 39 and treasurer carl h rich ardson arts 40 these officers will take over their positions at a ban quet which will be held some time in may for the newly elected mem bers the new members of the club are raymond p laubenstein m e 39 james m roberts jr arts 40 roy s zachary arts 41 os car e anderson arts 41 h allen snyder ch e 39 heinz e wal ther jr met e 40 ralph d stoneback bus 41 and john f hamblin arts 41 junior chosen president of tone for next year frederick c moesel ch e 39 was elected president of tone honorary musical society for the next year at the final meeting of the group held last evening in drown hall other officers elected are wil son j pierpont arts 39 vice president donald r schoen arts 41 program director harry a snyder ch e 39 publicity di rector a george ueberroth jr ch e 39 secretary-historian douglas h prideaux arts 39 treasurer and richard d tayloe chem 38 concertmaster twelve new members were el ected to the society and the consti tution was officially adopted a treasurer's report was given and is awaiting disposal following a decision by the university admin istration to take leads in musical club drama seven men were initiated into pi tau sigma honorary society of mechanical engineering on thurs day afternoon in packard labora tory the initiation was followed by a banquet at the old sun inn at which dr sidney brown pro fessor of history spoke informally on the origin and present function of this social group the new members include rob ert g yingling i e 39 thomas j lewis bus 41 brian d evans i e 39 robert m easton i e 39 thomas hamill m e 39 and charles layman m e 39 ken neth j trigger instructor in mechanical engineering became an honorary member o trembley gives paper francis j trembley instructor in biology tuesday presented a paper on why birds migrate during the monthly meeting of the bethlehem natural science assoc iation held in the first national bank building camera club to sponsor photographic display approximately 60 prints have been submitted for the photogra phic exhibition to be sponsored by the camera club from april 18 to may 18 in the art gallery of the university library two faculty submissions were included among the entries a group of four professional photographers will act as judges namely messrs david mccaa j j ryan charles dennis and judson shaeffer there is also to be a popular ballot cast for the best print in the exhibit cash prizes will go to the judges selec tion in each of the four divisions also a cash prize will be awarded to the popular choice the camera club committee in charge of the exhibition is com posed of malcolm m simons jr chem 38 louis c stoumen arts 39 john v mcguire e e 40 and samuel m graf ton eng 41 to attend conference dr wray f congdon director of admisisons will leave tonight for new orleans la where he will participate in a five day panel discussion at the american assoc iation of registrars brown and white photo by hammond albin dechnik margaret sterrett kenneth sloan capt heck explains work of science in survey dr austin r frey assistant professor of physics was elected faculty adviser of the physical society and joseph b matthews e phys 40 elected president thursday evening at a meeting in the physics building capt nichol as heck chief of the division of seismology in the u s coast and geodetic survey spoke on phy sics in the work of the geodetic service the other officers elected were robert j mccurdy e e 39 vice president edward g uhl e phys 40 treasurer and john l worzel e phys 40 secretary after being introduced by vin cent f acri e phys 38 retiring president captain heck told of the aids to navigation established and preserved by the survey he out lined the methods used in plotting ship positions from these aids and by means of sound signals from lightships the means of establish ing a position in fog because of continual variations of magnetic deviation the bureau must continually obtain data on the changes to keep the charts up to date in conclusion captain heck told of the studies of seis mology made by the department and described the work done in this field the 1938 junior prom will get under way on the evening of april 22 with the melodious strains of i would do anything for you claude hopkins signature song coming from the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem at the same time downstairs in the main dining room joe haymes usually called america's swing stylist will take up his baton and beat out swing for the prom-minded lads and lassies both are playing return engagements hopkins one of the most popular and successful of harlem's orches tra leaders will lead his 13 piece band which boasts of having one of the longest unbroken engage ments of any colored orchestra at any night club when it played last season at the cotton club pianist composer and arranger hopkins has been featured with his band twice at the famous motion picture ball and played in dance team with james dunn and in way ward with nancy carroll classes add to jazz the maestro began his whirling career with the study of classical music and he admits that his study of piano and harmony in the best classical tradition helped immeasurably in establishing his success as a jazz player in louis armstrong's new book swing that music hopkins is selected as the outstanding swing pianist of the present time the band leader's piano pyrothechnics were familiar to many radio listen ers when he was broadcasting from the cotton club and his latest compositions mississippi river and harlem serenade have been heard on may college campuses since he has been on tour features barbara burns joe haymes has surrounded himself with a company of 15 musicians and entertainers feat uring barbara burns ronnie chase and clyde rogers as vocal soloists haymes like hopkins pounds the ivories and began his career as band maestro as a professor of music in a small western college at the age of 18 later to become chief arranger for ted weems at 20 joe became a leader and song writer in his own right a year later and has to his credit such well known numbers as the life of the party one man band and let's have a party physically the little man of swing he has made a practice of organizing bands and selling them to less fortunate band leaders his last band was taken over by bud dy rogers of motion picture fame lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 15 1938 price — five cents will discuss jap power vol xlv no 43 pi delta epsilon chooses 4 men 24 students will address press parley japan subject ofender talk friday night board drops pi belt's plan handbook still under union all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612