Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 52

              pi delts hold hotel banquet for initiation review elects new officers club amends constitution on qualifications sixteen students were admitted to delta omicron theta honorary debating society at an election meeting yesterday in christmas saucon hall raphael g scoblion ko arts 39 was elected president james l shearer arts 39 vice president and carl r fittkau met e 40 secretary-treasurer the new members are fred eric n bahnson eng 41 william h barnard eng 41 daniel r frantz e e 38 stephen kowaly shyn jr eng 41 stephen t lowry eng 41 james l shearer arts 39 edward a herre jr ch e 39 william e keiser eng 41 also seymour margolis eng 41 richard e metzger eng 41 frank novitski eng 41 frederick d pierce bus 40 john t riley bus 41 donald r schoen arts 41 chester a brunt eng 41 and stephen weinrib arts 41 the section of the fraternity's constitution pertaining to election of new members was amended in order to qualify for membership men will now have to participate in at least two varsity debates 4 fraternities also hold dances saturday the sophomore-freshman dance attended by 100 couples topped the weekend social events as the classes of 40 and 41 held their joint annual affair saturday night in the national guard armory the music was supplied by the royal crusaders of philadelphia and chaperons were mr and mrs harry b osborn and dr and mrs john c mertz sigma phi epsilon and lambda chi alpha held a joint dance at the hotel bethlehem chaperoned by col and mrs joseph s leon ard and mr and mrs thomas t holme carl fisher and his or chestra played psi upsilon held a house dance at the chapter house it was chap eroned by mr and mrs george van sciver and mr and mrs wil liam a cornelius art wendell's orchestra played harry romig and his orchestra played for the kappa sigma dance mr and mrs arthur w klein chaperoned musical show has amplifier 510 delegates hear williams gin dc r is advertising manager freshmen get 3 positions results of elections to next year's business staff of the lehigh review were announced last even ing by henry t s heckman arts 39 business manager-elect all elections are subject to approval by the board of publications david r ginder arts 40 was elected advertising manager for the coming year ginder acted in the capacity of financial manager for the year of 1937-38 he will be succeeded by hazen p chase bus 41 a new office that of copy super visor was created in an effort to improve what in the opinion of george b rheinfrank i e 39 present business manager has been a tendency for review advertising copy to be stagnant and generally unsatisfactory harold s mohler eng 41 was elected to be the first one to hold this position robert m ulmer bus 41 was elected national advertising man ager to take over an office which had been suspended for the past year frank p glueck i e 40 and donald g denison jr i e 40 were elected to the business board for the first semester of 1938-39 officers elected by camera club appointments include instructors fellows and assistants 3 get leaves of absence president c c williams an nounced this morning 1 the appointment of three men to fill the places of dr vahan s babasinian professor of organic chemistry dr derrick h lehmer assistant professor of mathematics and dr maurice ewing assistant professor of physics who are going on leave of absence next semester 2 the appointment of six grad uate assistants and eight research fellows 3 the awarding of five gotshall scholarships and six university graduate scholarships 4 the resignation of two lehigh instructors and 11 assistants and research fellows dr edward d amstutz in structor of chemistry at union col lege will take professor babasin ian's place dr amstutz graduated irom college of wooster ohio in 1930 and then received his master's degree at the institute of paper chemistry appleton wis in 1932 and his doctor's degree at cornell in 1936 dr malcolm f smiley a mem ber of the institute for advanced study at princeton university will serve as an instructor of math ematics in professor lehmer's ab sence dr smiley received his b s degree at the university of chicago in 1934 and his doctor's degree at the same school in 1937 he served as an assistant at chi cago in 1936 peoples to replace ewing dr james a peoples jr grad uate assistant in physics at the ohio state university will replace professor ewing at the beginning of next year dr peoples grad uated with a b a degree in 1933 from vanderbilt university he re ceived his master's at vanderbilt in 1934 and his doctor's degree at ohio state this year peoples has also worked with dr ewing in geophysical work dr james p mcßeynolds as sistant in chemistry at the univer sity of illinois will be a new chemistry instructor next year dr mcßenolds graduated from james millikin university in 1929 and received his doctor's degree at the university of illinois this year nelson h eddy member of the faculty of columbia university will replace paul j stray er as in structor in economics eddy grad uated with an a b degree from fraternity officer speaks during induction affair of moravian colleges achievements praised a review of the aims and the present status of pi delta epsilon national honorary publications fra ternity was presented by edward e mcdonald grand executive sec retary-treasurer at the induction banquet of the moravian college for women and the moravian col lege for men saturday evening at the hotel bethlehem praising the achievements and progress of the lehigh chapter which conducted the installation mcdonald told the 47 members that the pi delta epsilon chapters in the lehigh valley can become one of the strongest units of the nation if they continue to cooper ate in the building program as they have in the past willet weeks arts 39 president of the lehigh chapter was the master of ceremonies and intro duced the speakers for the even ing gramley herrick speak dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism presented several incidents of hoaxes and frauds in collegiate as well as na tional newspapers robert f her rick editor of the alumni bulletin and grand vice-president of the national organization lauded mc donald for his untiring efforts in bringing about a keener appreci ation of the standards and ideals of pi delta epsilon dr edwin j heath president of the moravian seminary and college for women spoke briefly on ideals and the press tele grams from stevens institute of technology and denison college were received by mcdonald and read by weeks at the banquet preceding the banquet the pledges of the two moravian chap ters were formally initiated charters were presented by mc donald to mary malloy retiring editor of the belfry at the worn ens college and stephen donchez retiring editor of the comenian of the mens college affairs planned by juniors plans for the banquet were made by henry t s heckman arts 39 milton spilberg arts 39 and russell stevens jr bus 39 mcdonald held conferences sun day afternoon with robert her rick and representatives of the three chapters tentative plans for the national convention to be held on the campus in december were discussed by mcdonald weeks and herrick continued on page four 2 men inducted by eta kappa nu graduate student will obtain award vittorio de nora graduate stu dent is to receive the weston fel lowship of 1,000 from the elec trochemical society to pursue grad uate studies during the 1938-39 term at columbia university it was announced saturday at col umbia de nora who is 25 years old and a native of altamura italy re ceived his degree of doctor of mechanical and electrical engi neering with high honors from the koyal politecnico of milan in 1934 at that time he was the youngest doctor of engineering in italy after studying at king's college in the university of london he came to the united states last september the weston fellowship is being presented for the ninth time since h was established in 1929 by the late dr edward weston president of the weston electrical instru ment corporation newark n j de nora will investigate the co deposition of metals in the ionic and collodial states and the ap plication of the faraday law un der the direction of professor colin g fink of the columbia chemistry department o muring to attend meeting dr albert haring associate pro fessor of economics will attend the meeting of the american market ing association friday and satur day in washington vice president is wells larkin will occupy carothers place freshmen to get folder edward g hurst bus 39 was elected president of omicron del ta kappa senior honorary activi ties fraternity following the initi ation ceremony sunday evening at the saucon valley country club other officers elected were wal ter c wells bus 39 vice-presi dent alan s grant i e 39 treasurer and dr claude g beardslee secretary by the reg ular retirement procedure of the active faculty members of the fra ternity fred v larkin head of ihe mechanical and industrial en gineering departments was elected to fill the vacancy left by neil carothers dean of the college of business administration tapped men are initiated the men who were tapped at the flag pole rally thursday morning were formally initiated into tne fraternity before the ban quet at the clubhouse the init iates were franc burnett i e 39 alan s grant i e 39 frank c rabold e e 39 malcolm carrington bus 39 robert yingling i e 39 frederick c moesel ch e 39 milton h grannatt bus 39 har old m selser e e 39 eric weiss e e 39 and robert c parsons met e 39 hoppock introduces carothers at the banquet at which the stu dent members were guests of the faculty members the retiring pres ident john hoppock i e 38 in troduced dean of the college of business administration dr neil carothers he made several well oirected remarks to the seniors on the unsettled economic conditions which are prevalent and which they must cope with after gradu ation dean carothers stressed the re isponsibility of the juniors as mem bers of 0.d.x which they must realize as they carry on their ac tivities next year revised by laws adopted the revised by-laws for the local chapter of o d k were read and adopted by the members hurst re ported as chairman of a committee lor designing a folder describing o d x.'s history purpose meth ods of electing members this will be given to the freshmen during rushing season next fall a former custom of giving the entering freshmen a similar folder was discontinued in 1935 the pur pose of the folder is to acquaint the freshmen with 0.d.x and to give them early incentive to work toward membership 58 school publications win awards in fifth annual conference the importance of a free and en lightened press was stressed by president c.c williams in greeting the delegates to the university's fifth annual scholastic press con ference saturday morning in pack ard auditorium five hundred and ten delegates from 115 high and preparatory schools in pennsylvania and new jersey attended the sessions which included round table discussions presenting of awards by phillip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science and talks by harvey a neville newly elected head of the department of chem istry dean c m mcconn and c william duncan columnist of the philadelphia evening ledger dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism in charge of the conference introduced the speakers free press tops security a free and enlightened press probably stands at the top of all agencies of national security even above army and navy declared president williams in his address the great dangers to our national security are not from foreign foes but from hidden germs of disin tegration within dr williams cited broad under standing of civilization and of current movements and a knowl continued on page four vice president secretary and treasurer elected by governing body committee heads namec new frosh hat selected identification button plan authorized alan s grant i e 39 willet weeks jr arts 39 and g ed ward hurst bus 39 were elected vice - president secretary and treasurer respectively of arcad ia new student governing body at the second meeting of that group held last evening in drown hall franc burnett jr i e 39 had previously been elected president of the organization chairmen of the standing com mittees named by the organization at that time are malcolm car rington jr bus 39 rally com mittee donald r schoen arts 41 freshmen committee alfred t cox c e 40 athletic committee and george a albrecht bus 39 elections committee student chairmen of the joint student-faculty standing commit tees elected at this time include henry t s heckman arts 39 board of publications james e patton ch e 39 student activi ties committee milton h gran natt bus 39 student clubs com mittee and franc h burnett jr chairman ex-officio of the drown hall house committee to restrict committee heads it was voted to restrict chair manship of the standing commit tees to members of the arcadia cabinet a special meeting of the cabinet will be held at 4:00 p m monday to name two other student members for each committee an amendment to the arcadia constitution was passed authoriz ing the elections committee to sel ect three instead of five candidates for presidency of the arcadia cab inet it was voted to have that of ficer selected by the ware pref erential system cox chairman of a temporary budget committee reported on the tentative financial plans of the or ganization for the next fiscal year but no definite action was taken on this matter the new freshmen hat was selected and the arcadia president was authorized to select che new identification button to be worn by freshmen it was voted to require that this pin be worn until the end of rushing week ihe distribution of profits from last year's freshmen handbook was approved arcadia voted to assume any loss which might be incurred by that publication this year it was voted to approve the purchase of bound leatherette covers for the present handbook to replace the paper covers used last year night in armor to employ speaker system for spring production when the curtain rises on night in armor 8:30 o'clock saturday evening the auditorium of broug hal high school will have an amp lifier system resounding the voices of members of mustard and cheese and of 21 girls from bethlehem and local colleges who make up the cast of the club's spring musical under the direction of albert a rights instructor in english the play written by william g dukek ch e 38 and featuring 11 songs by david hughes special student entered its final week of rehearsal last night at that time a new song the wench is not amused was tried out and will be used in the show costumes will be satirical costumes to be used in the play will be for the most part satirical especially in parts where men will wear r o t c and band uni forms and caps and gowns girls will wear sports clothes or will be dressed as girl scouts scenery will be done in a fan tastic mode it is being painted and set-up by charles dent i e 40 under the direction of garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the scenes will change little throughout the play the first is the social hall of a college and later changes to the hall of an an cient castle master minds of night in armor hold discussion 90 seniors have definite placement grafton selected to lead photographic society samuel m grafton eng 40 was elected president of the cam era club at a meeting friday even ing in room 416 packard labor atory other officers elected were edward p phillips m e 40 vice president george h reussner jr arts 40 secretary and john v mcguire e e 40 treasurer the program committee for next year will consist of louis c stou men arts 39 chairman reussner and gregory gould arts 41 robert a williamson bus 38 won the two dollar award for the photograph receiving the highest number of votes in the contest sponsored by the club in the art gallery of the university library williamson's prize-winning picture was entitled handstand during freshman week next fall members of the club will mount their photos and place them throughout the town the pictures will be displayed in stores fre quented by the student body o washington lehigh club officers will be elected the lehigh club of washington d c will hold a dinner and elec tion of officers tomorrow at the congressional country club wash ington the speaker of the even ing will be e w james chief of highway division of highway transportation of the united states bureau of public roads he will present an illustrated lecture on the inter - american highway from the rio-grande to panama the golf course will be available to members the afternoon of the meeting ninety seniors have reported definite placement to date accord ing to e robins morgan director of placement the salaries of the men placed compare favorably with those of previous years morgan also reports that two more companies have sent rep resentatives to lehigh to interview seniors in the past few days john n luhrs representing the bailey meter company was here on may 6 to interview mechanical and in dustrial engineers the general electric company s'jnt two men on may 11 to inter veiw eletcrical mechanical and industrial engineers and engineer ing physicists in packard labora tory o metallurgical club holds spring party saturday the metallurgical society held its spring party saturday after noon and evening at the home of bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering about 40 society members at tended as well as dean stoughton allison butts associate professor of metallurgy dr gilbert e doan professor of physical metallurgy and george l kehl instructor in metallurgy the annual spring initiation and banquet of eta kappa nu national honorary electrical engineering fraternity was held friday night glenn m reinsmith e e 39 and marius x stavros e e 39 be came members of the fraternity at the formal initiation at 6 p m in packard laboratory the initi ation ceremony was followed by a banquet at the old sun inn robert s grubmeyer e e 39 the new president of the chapter was the master of ceremonies at the banquet prominent among the guests were morris buck national pres ident of the fraternity a b zerby national secretary jacob l beaver professor of electrical en gineering and william h form nals assistant professor of elec irical engineering o speech class members plan banquet at sun inn members of the class in eng lish 30 fundamentals of speech will hold a banquet at 6 p m thursday in the old sun inn mat thew r collins jr m e 38 will be master of ceremonies following the banquet each member of the class with the ex ception of collins will give an eight minute after-diner speech which will be graded as part of his final mark in the course left to right david hughes special student albert a rights instructor in english and william dukek ch e 38 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 17 1938 soph-frosh ball tops house hops vol xlv — no 52 16 students join debate fraternity price — five cents grant weeks hurst get arcadia posts 0 d k elects new officers hurst is head williams fills 3 1 vacancies for next year rehearsal tomorrow for june graduates members of the senior class are to report at 4:10 p m to morrow to the alumni memor ial building for a commence ment day rehearsal at that time major carter collins assistant professor of military science and tactics will explain the procedure to be followed at commencement as to the line of march chapel seating and the receiving of diplomas member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first