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              gese and norwegian by the for eign staff of the fair's press de partment fife is a member of delta phi social fraternity his early career in writing included several years of work on the new york sun while that paper was still under the editorship of charles a dana following that he was a free lance writer and contributed articles to scribners harper's and the cen tury later he was managing ed itor of harper's weekly for seven years he has written two books — the passing legions a narrative chronicle of the american red cross work during the world war and the lone eagle a biogra phy of colonel charles a lind bergh amid settings depicting in strik ing motif the architecture of the future george b fife 91 works with the publicity department of the 1939 new york world's fair in writing features and news stories which appear in newspa pers and magazines all over the world for more than a year fife has worked with the fair's publicity department of seven writers and three photographers under the di rection of perley boone more than a million clippings of articles dis tributed by this department have been received from various parts of the globe and among this num ber are included articles in about 50 different foreign languages a number of fife's stories have been translated into german french spanish italian portu ceremony in colloquim led by dr shields tone honorary musical society pledged 12 men wednesday morn ing at colloquium dr t edgar shields head of the department of music and faculty adviser of the society conducted the exercises and welcomed the men selected those pledged were sylvester d beers arts 40 malcolm car rington jr bus 39 donald l davis arts 39 ernest e edwards bus 39 robert j reid arts 40 roy s zachary arts 41 mervin j fry arts 41 frederick r gilmore arts 41 william a litzenberger arts 41 raymond r myers arts 41 lewis p rand all eng 41 and walter h vogels berg eng 41 dr shields gave a short history of the society before the exercises were held and praised the work of the group faculty members will visit alumni class to give final decision 3 clubs plan meetings to be held in may band chosen for may hop c william duncan duncan to talk at conference seven members of the faculty will attend alumni meetings in the next few weeks will'am a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni associa tion robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumni associa tion glen w harmeson head football coach paul r calvert head basketball coach and e k smiley assistant director of ad missions will go to the meeting of the reading club on may 6 at the university club in reading cornelius and herrick will at tend the annual outing of the philadelphia club which will be held on friday may 13 at the log cabin lodge medford lakes n j a planked shad dinner golf horseback riding tennis and ball games will be features of the affair john opdycke 23 is n charge of arrangements . dr harry m ullmann head of the chemistry department billy sheridan wrestling coach and herrick will be in hartford on may 18 at a meeting of the hart ford club musical clubs give spring concert travel to new york blair academy broadcast over wor concerts at blair academy at the chapel of the intercession new york city a radio program broadcast over the mutual net work through station wor and the home spring concert and dance presented in conjunction with the glee club of the moravian college for women made up the weekend program of the combined musical clubs sunday evening 12 singers and a trio a flute violin and piano sel ected from the symphony orches tra traveled to blair academy where they presented a program of six vocal and two instrumental selections the affair was under the direction of dr t edgar shields director of music the trip was arranged by fred johnson lehigh alumnus and instructor of mathematics and football coach at blair moravian glee club sings the combined musical clubs and the glee club of moravian college for women presented the home spring concert saturday ev ening in packer memorial chapel the program opened with selec tions by the glee club a sym phonic ensemble and male soloists the second part was presented by the moravian glee club included in the program was a 16th century chorale sung by the combined glee clubs accompanied by the sym phony orchestra and miss gretchen newhard at the organ the orchestra of the combined musical clubs furnished music for dancing in drown hall following the concert 250 hear group in n y fifty-five members of the com bined musical clubs presented a concert friday evening sponsored by the semper society at the chapel of the intercession new york city the affair attended by 250 persons preceded a dance in the parish house gymnasium music was provided by the lehigh dance orchestra the broadcast on friday morn ing over the mutual network marked the third successive year that the glee club has presented programs over the major networks curtis addresses lions on elizabethan history seniors vote tomorrow on outdoor commence ment question the final decision as to whether graduation th's year will be held in doors or out will be made to morrow afternoon at a meeting of the senior class dean c m mcconn and harry m ullmann head of the chemistry department will be present at the meeting to present both the advan tages and disadvantages of an out door commencement included in these discussions will be a report on any extra expenses of an out door graduation that would have to be borne by the class class decision final faculty members present will then withdraw from the meeting and the class w'll discuss the mat ter and vote on it the decision of the class provided it is by a suit able majority will be final the committee which is now making a survey of the members of the senior class to find how many will be willing to take out insurance policies n accordance with the plan discussed at the last meeting will report as to the num ber that would be willing to take part in such a plan and the class will then decide if it will adopt the plan as a class project publishers interview 20 students thursday metallurgists will hold spring party may 14 courses recommended as prerequisites for magazine positions may change constitution __ __ _^_— a recommendation that the holding of business and editorial positions on the lehigh review be revised was adopted by the fac ulty in a regular meeting yester day in the alumni memorial build ing the report recommended that 1 executive positions on the lehigh review be restrict ed to students who have suc cessfully completed certain courses in journalism addi tional courses will be institut ed for this purpose 2 certain honorary student societies be invited to elect an advisory board for the pur pose of making the review more generally representative of student interests 3 the present constitution of the review be revised to in corporate the foregoing and to bring it as far as possible up to the standards of the brown and white group makes recommendation the recommendation was made by a special committee on methods of improving the relations of fac ulty members and student publi cations the committee was com posed of fred v larkin professor of mechanical engineering chair man philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science and percy hughes professor of philosophy details on points one and two of the recommendation were not specified by the committee's re port and will be handled by the board of publications assistant director of admissions earl k smiley announced that the routine for sub-freshman day had been moved back half an hour the tour of the campus will end at 11 a m instead of 10:30 a m as the original schedule had been planned the tour will be followed by an assembly at 11 a m curriculum conferences at 11:30 o'clock and lunch at 1 p m the following faculty members were elected to standing faculty committees admissions commit tee austin r frey assistant pro fessor of physics advanced stand ing james l graham assistant professor of psychology discipline royal crusaders to play in armory for frosh sophomore dance the royal crusaders of phila delphia will provide the music for the sophomore-freshman infor mal dance to be held saturday evening may 14 in the national guard armory chaperons for the dance will be dr and mrs john c mertz and mr and mrs harry b osborn jr the tickets are 1.10 and are available at drown hall or from any representative of the fresh man union the committee in charge con sists of william f carson jr ch e 40 chairman john rem ington eng 41 john f mcquil lin m e 40 wallace p watkins bus 40 luthur mohr eng 41 francis slate eng 41 amos strode bus 41 and claude gil christ eng 41 to feature girl vocalist the contract for the band to be signed this evening calls for a 13-piece band with a girl vocalist margie george the orchestra also features a trombone trio it will provide its own amplification to be installed in the armory the crusaders will play for the junior class dance on friday night at temple university they will be featured at two dances next week near salisbury md previous to their engagement here they have also played at dances at drexel institute and the university of pennsylvania student government head class presidents to be chosen 27 running for office burnett caller and wells seek presidency of new body three hundred and twenty-five freshman votes in colloquium yes terday swelled the total as voting reached a record mark today in the student elections being held in drown hall three hours previous to the closing of the polls 775 students has cast their ballots the total number of votes in last year's election was 600 interest in the election centered about the new student government body the name president and representatives of which will be chosen candidates for the presi dency of the body are franc h burnett i e 39 eugene b cal ler i e 30 and walter c wells bus 39 four juniors running for the presidency of next year's senior class are sylvan g bushey bus l henderson dudman bus alan s grant i e and g edward hurst bus candidates for the junior class president are alfred v bodine jr m e alfred t cox e e frank elliott ch e and harold j masem arts freshmen who did not vote in colloquium yesterday are choos ing from among six candidates for their next year's president they are robert craig bus augustus riemondy eng donald r schoen arts edward j stone arts ham ilton w strayer bus and s robert walker eng town candidates listed harry a harchar arts 39 henry t s heckman arts 39 and c gerard layman m e 39 are running for town group repre sentative to the new government body the dormitory candidates are george albrecht bus 39 and eric weiss e e 39 five students are running for cheerleader they are malcolm s carrington bus 39 john gar diner bus 39 john herr ch e 39 david holmes met e 39 and wm sheldrake ch e 39 after the polls close at 6 o'clock this evening dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and dr ernst b schulz associate professor of political science will count the ballots continued on page four miami triad ball to occur may 7 kelly helwig elected williams contest has 16 entries the metallurgical society will hold a spring party from 2 to 8 p m may 14 at the home of bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering faculty guests of the society will be allison butts associate professor of metallurgy gilbert doan professor of physical metal lurgy and george l kehl in structor in metallurgy twenty undergraduates were interviewed thursday by a rep resentative of the winston pub lishing company for book-selling jobs for the summer this was the second time this semester that the winston company has sent a man to lehigh to interview students on wednesday representatives of the valley camp coal company the electric storage battery com pany and the hartford electric company interviewed seniors dean george b curtis gave a talk at a meeting of the bethlehem lion's club tuesday on the sub ject the king of cryptograph ers the talk included aspects of elizabethan history telling of elizabeth and her favorite the earl of leicester dean curtis on april 23 attended a meeting of the executive com mittee of the association of east ern deans and advisers of men held at philadelphia plans were made for the november meeting of the association which will be held in atlantic city george e kelly ch e 39 and ralph w helwig ch e 39 were elected president and treasurer respectively of price hall at dorm itory elections held sunday night members of university glee club who sang in weekend concerts joint dance to be held by 2 fraternities the miami triad consisting of beta theta pi phi delta theta and sigma chi fraternities will hold its annual closed spring for mal saturday in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem bud rader and his orchestra will play for dancing from 10 p.m to 2 a m the chaperons will be dr and mrs claude g beardslee mr and mrs charles t prouty and mr and mrs william eney sigma phi epsilon and lambda chi alpha fraternities will hold their second annual dance satur day may 14 in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem music for the combined affair will be fur n'shed by carl fischer and his orchestra colonel and mrs joseph s leonard and mr and mrs thomas t holme will chaperon the affair 514 expected to attend press convention here may 14 c william duncan columnist of the philadelphia evening public ledger will be one of the pr>n cipal speakers saturday may 14 at the fifth annual scholastic press conference he will talk on close ups of famous people mr dun can who conducts the column now my idea is this will pre sent character sketches of some of the 1,700 prominent persons whom he has interviewed on subjects they know best dr harvey a neville newly elected head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineer ing will speak at the opening ses sion of the conference on a chemist looks at advertising he w'll expose some frauds and hoax es used in advertising claims of drugs a special edition of the brown and white will be published on the afternoon of the press confer ence it will contain a complete list of contest awards as well as a full account of the day's events cameramen to shoot delegates staff photographers of the brown and white will take a number of candid shots for reproduction in the special issue which will be available to delegates after the awards have been made at the closing session twenty-seven journalism stu dents four faculty members and a representative of a mimeograph machine company are scheduled to discuss problems of secondary school journalism at the seven round table discussion groups on the afternoon of the conference a total of 514 delegates from 93 high and preparatory schools in pennsylvania and new jersey will attend the sessions an nounced dale h gramley assoc iate professor of journalism of the delegates planning to attend 386 are from 73 schools in penn sylvania and 128 from 20 schools in new jersey there are 227 newspapers mag azines and mimeograph publica tions from schools in the two states to be judged in ten classes of the contest being conducted in con nection with the conference the student voice and school news newspapers of the fleming ton n j high school are planning to send 44 delegates to the sessions this is the largest delegation from new jersey group to hear professors c e.'s to hear lecture the lehigh chapter of the am erican society of civil engineers will hold a meeting at 7:30 p m tomorrow in packard laboratory dr thaddeus merriman a jour neying lecturer will present a talk a student paper entitled maintenance of the pennsylvania railroad will be given by ray mond h snyder c e 38 first extempore speeches to be given thursday sixteen men qualified yesterday for the preliminary eliminations of the williams extempore speaking contests which will be held at 7 30 p m thursday in packard audi torium each contestant will give a six minute speech topics and speak ing positions will be assigned at 2 p m thursday in room 211 christmas-saucon hall the men will then have approximately four hours to develop their talks for extempore presentation there are two contests one for freshmen and another for juniors and seniors five finalists will be selected from each group at the preliminaries the finals will be held on thursday may 12 the six freshmen who have en tered the contest are frederic n bahnson eng william h barn ard eng bernard a briody bus stephen kowalyshyn jr eng stephen t lowry eng and aus tin c wagner eng the upperclassmen in the con test are john k m baiz arts 39 starr h barnum 111 bus 40 l henderson dudman bus 39 wil liam g dukek jr chem 38 carstens y haas ch e 38 rich ard n larkin arts 38 william d scott jr chem 38 james l shearer arts 39 louis c stou men arts 39 and eric weiss e e 39 sigma xi national honorary i-esearch fraternity will hold a pro gram meeting at 8 o'clock this evening in room 466 packard laboratory dr tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics and astronomy allison butts associate professor of metal lurgy and dr edwin r theis professor of chemical engineering will present composite surveys on research work in their respective departments front row left to right mitchell zawisza payson nicholas charles i unrath raymond maneval douglas brldeaux george grow dr t edgar shields wilson pierpont carstens haas george albrecht ar thur ueberroth robert duenner arthur rothschild wayne o'neill second row philip foust george lien edward billstein charles layman elbert mahla walton henry walter ruschmeyer william freeman richard marsten benjamin rohn charles reyman john manley harry hammond ernest edwards third row charles sheldrake william todd william bruning clar ence reber charles harding james phelan edward annett richard foote thomas pulliam richard slee m clayton burgy roy wood ling howard jones willard histand fourth row harry jones edward sutherland gregory gould john heller sterling lippincott herbert vonhof donald schoen randall tucker edward s kennedy warren f boyer alfred trumpler frank ralston richard kelly walter vogelsberg carl hardegen lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 3 1938 tone pledges 12 7 are freshmen alumnus writes publicity for world's fair in 1939 vol xli — no 48 conference speaker price — five cents record vote today in student elections 4 programs are presented by glee club faculty alters lehigh review editorial jobs all the lehigh isetca first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612