Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 1

              rain drives plays indoors ; water carnival tennis tournament held returning students find 86 changes in faculty and administration asks change notice 48 on session faculty deans to head meetings g b curtis registrar re quests that all changes of ad dress be reported to his office immediately in order to facili tate accuracy in publishing the student directory social season opened by ball mal hallet cyanide plans fall pledging 29 houses extend bids total pledged is lowest since 35 peak beta theta pi tops list freshmen obtain bids following 12 days of rushing two hundred and six members of the class of 42 were pledged by twenty-nine fraternities saturday night following twelve days of rushing this number is the lowest since the peak of 241 freshman week pledges was reached in 1935 in 1936 the total was 237 and in 1937 214 beta theta pi took the largest number of freshmen thirteen and tau delta phi pledged the fewest four the following is a list of pledges alpha chi rho albert w foster germantown robert l hill scranton douglas m haire maple wood n j edwin i shuttworth jr philadelphia richard p smith mount airy william boynton roselle n j alpha kappa pi joseph ambrogi jr upper darby frank barrett jr port washington n v ; harry boyer jr drexel hill caleb murphy jr pasadena calif robert stowbridge 111 roselle park n j john 0 turner dan bury conn emmet white jr hillside n j alpha tau omega alex k wiggin east orange n j philip b woodrooke albany n v rob ert m baker york richard c paul york john milbank bloomfield n j robert f ryan schnectady n v ; paul l haven stein wellesley hills mass beta kappa oakley w cooke jr caldwell n v ; john b hill jr hamburg n v ; roland c stoehr bayside n y beta theta pi robert e kuhn passaic n j john s kelly mercersburg william h lindsay jr haddonfield n j frank f roberts bethlehem ; william d gorman swathmore ; robert f forshay hamstead n v ; charles g thornburg jr carnegie nel son r clark jr la grange 111 charles chipman jr easton richard h bren neman pottsville robert s struble belle vue robert brune brooklyn n v ; joseph larkin jersey city n j delta phi john ormsby phillips pittsburgh arthur mead over pittsburgh james henry kid der germantown stephen brooks longley maplewood n j ; robert mcqueeney hart continued on page four 865,226 is given lehigh during year prom committee chooses october 28 as date for houseparty hotel selected for ball house and tea dances rutgers - lehigh tilt supplement ball jan savitt's tophatters and mai hallett's orchestra will play for senior ball which this year will be held oct 28 in the hotel beth lehem robert g yingling chair man of the ball committee an nounced yesterday the bands this year were signed four days earlier than last savitt who will play in the main dining room appeared at lehigh two years ago when he played for the military ball since then he has continued his progress over na tional broadcasting company and made numerous public appear ances during the summer the tophat ters were making five broadcasts a week playing from the studios of kyw philadelphia among their appearances was an engage ment at hammond's million dol lar pier in atlantic city hallett's band has been among the leaders for eight years dur ing the season of 1936-37 his band played at the commodore hotel in new york the steel pier in atlan tic city and the roosevelt hotel in new orleans la this summer he was on tour playing at play land casino rye n v and the steel pier last year sammy kaye played for the senior ball which was held in the now defunct coliseum with the coliseum eliminated the only alternative open to the com mittee was dorney park allen town yingling last night explained that he thought there was less danger of accidents with the hotel as the site and that lehigh dances should be held as close to the uni versity as possible last year's in terfraternity ball at which tommy dorsey played was held at dor ney park houseparties this year come on the week-end of the rutgers foot ball game other features will be house dances held by 28 fraterni ties and a tea dance at the beeth oven maennerchor o bain neal are injured in automobile accident george v bain bus 40 and clark a neal bus 39 were in jured late wednesday night when a car in which they were riding overturned on the freemansburg road about five miles west of easton richard gorisse arts 39 driver of the car escaped unhurt both the injured men are reported as steadily recovering bain sustained fractured ribs and lacerations of the legs chest and arms and neal was bruised o doan presents paper the american institute of iron and steel engineers meeting this week in cleveland today heard a paper on welding by dr gilbert e doan professor of physical metallurgy engineers dance draws over 100 couples and nets 35 profit officially opening lehigh's social season saturday night the engi neers ball held in the armory attracted more than 100 couples who danced to the music of bob horton and his orchestra the dance was a financial suc cess netting a profit of 35 enough to pay off six bonds issued to furnish the lounge in packard lab oratory sponsored by societies the dance was sponsored by pi tau sigma honorary mechanical engineering society and eta kap pa nu honorary electrical engi neering society the committee in charge was courtland carrier i e 39 advertising robert grub meyer e e 39 arrangements and willard histand m e 39 music dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and mrs beardslee and john r connelly assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mrs connelly were the chaperons president and mrs c c wil liams and dean wray h congdon were guests of honor o dorm to organize richards house men will meet thursday dean wray h congdon will conduct an organization meeting of the residents of richards house at 7:30 p m sunday in drown hall at this time the university regulations pertaining to dormi tory students will be explained and officers of the group will be elected the dormitory for the purpose of organisation will be divided into seven groups one for the first floor and two for each of the other three floors a section chief a treasurer a manager of athletics and a representative for the fresh men union will be elected by each group and a head of the board of section chiefs by the entire dormitory o coach calvert is father coach and mrs paul calvert be came parents of a baby girl born sunday in st luke's hospital cal vert is freshman coach of football and varsity coach of baseball and basketball mcconn resigns as dean accepts similar position at new york college congdon promoted with classroom and laboratory seating capacities over-run in a number of departments by an all time record enrollment of nearly 1,830 undergraduates and with a new dean of undergraduates le high nears the end of the first week of the term's instruction returning students are still greeting a number of administra tive and faculty changes and a freshman class of 149 largest in the 73 years of lehigh instruction they are noting also the comple tion of a half million dollar build ing program that brought erection of the charles russ richards house with its dormitory capacity for 144 students and the harry m ullmann annex to the chand ler chemistry laboratory enrollment figures which will not be final until founder's day oct 5 have mounted daily since classes started last thursday the total reported by george b cur tis registrar yesterday was 1,847 this is 100 more than the total en rollment of the university's first 26 classes in the 60's 70's and 80s undergraduate enrollment last year the previous peak was 1,738 a record was set also this year in the percentage of the prev ious semester's students returning for re-enrollment administration changes administration and faculty teaching and research changes total 86 included are changes in five administrative posts as the re sult of the resignation of dean c max mcconn to assume the position of dean at washington square college new york univer sity appointment of ten full-time instructors nine graduate assist ants and sixteen research fellows resignation of twenty-six from the university staff promotions for fourteen and leaves of absence granted six men most of the resig nations leaves of absence and pro motions all effective sept 1 were anounced last spring the changes occasioned by the resignation of dean mcconn early in july brought promotion for four members of the staff and the appointment of c a seidel as assistant director of admissions promoted were dr wray h congdon from director of admis sions to the new position of dean of undergraduates dr tomlinson fort to the newly created post of dean of the graduate school to be held concurrently with his for mer position as head of the de partment of mathematics e ken neth smiley from assistant direct or of admissions to director of admissions and george b curtis registrar to add the duties of the new post of university editor dr bruce gilbert johnson for the 37-'3b report of walter r okeson university treasur er shows a total of 865,226 in new endowments to lehigh the report which was pub lished in the june-july issue of the alumni bulletin shows the largest bequest to be that of the late albert brodhead 88 of bethlehem this bequest amounts to 600 000 largely in real estate in and around be,thlehem the gift establishes the lehigh university brod head fund and places no re striction on the use of the in come continued on page four honorary will select 6 junior members during present semester cyanide junior honorary society announced yesterday that it will consider point lists sub mitted by tuesday oct 4 to wal lace watkins bus 40 at the chi psi lodge although no definite date has been set the initiation will be held sometime during the early part of the semester six will be taken the value of specific activities is listed as follows 7 points 3.5 average for 4 semesters varsity letter junior manager of any recognized sport 6 points president of any class officer on the staff of any publication 6 points is maximum for any one publication 5 points 3.00 average for 4 semesters head of a living group intercollegiate individual championship in any sport 4 points secretary-treasurer of any class brown and white assistant officer mustard and cheese assistant officer 2.50 average for 4 semesters 3 points mustard and cheese membership temporary freshman chairman president of freshman union sophomore representative to lehigh union delta omicron theta freshman numerals two years in musical clubs junior member of interfraternity council possessor of a college record 2 points alpha bpsilon delta membership junior cheerleader interfraternity council athletic director pi tau sigma membership member golf fencing rifle or lacrosse teams membership in robert blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi internaional relations club pi mv epsilon or pi delta epsilon board of brown and white or review staff of handbook officers in any course society president of phi eta sigma or newtonian society 1 point membership to tone president brown key society competition all season for freshman or varsity managership member of freshman cabinet student concerts group competition all season for freshman or varsity team competition for staff of any publication registration for the summer session at lehigh reached an all time high this season the sur veying camp at canadensis pa enrolled a record number of 222 freshmen for the four weeks per iod the summer session at le high enrolled a record high of 376 students both the june as saying laboratory course and the heat engines laboratory course re ported record enrollments the course in route surveying which was taught from sept 7 to 21 to students of civil engineering at tracted 22 students faculty numbers 48 there were forty-eight on the faculty for the summer these in cluded three visiting professors supt william l connor of allen town schools professor s m stoke head of the department of education at mt holyoke college both in the department of edu cation and carl f strauch yale graduate in the department of english during the session four lectures were given by faculty men these were medieval women by syd ney m brown professor of euro pean history some aspects of education in totalitarian states by stuart m stoke head of the department of education of mount holyoke college the federal theatre project by howard mil ler assistant national director of the federal theatre project and people and places in germany by friedrich o kegel assistant professor of german four plays were presented by the top o the mountain theatre group only one play was held at the top o the mountain theatre the other three being held at drown hall due to rain plays presented were petticoat fever a bill of divorcement nine pine street up pops the devil reber wins tourney among other activities was a tennis tournament robert c reber bus 40 won the singles for a second year doubles were won by paul calvert and dean congdon three musical vespers services were held in the packer chapel under the direction of dr t edgar shields director of music a graduate picnic was held at catasauqua playground a large water carnival was ar ranged by james mahoney assist ant in swimming an exhibition diving team from the lehigh country club of allentown was one of the features as were com petitions between faculty children a botany excursion was held at deep lake the geology de partment visited the coal regions during the session dr harold p thomas head of the department of education and director of the summer session is on leave of absence for 1938-39 dale h gramley associate profes sor of journalism will be in charge of the summer session dur ing his absence this was the second year that the summer session published the brown and white it was pub lished weekly in tabloid size precedent was established this year when the alumni association decided to hold its annual home coming saturday oct 15 the day of the lehigh-penn state rather than the lafayette game there will be a smoker on the eve of the game at the bethlehem club following the game a reception and inspection of the richards house will be held with the class of 1892 as honored guests all alumni friends will be the guests of the university at the reception deans lead conferences conferences to be held at 10:30 a m saturday will be led by philip m palmer dean of the col lege of arts and science in coppee hall neil carothers dean of the college of business admin istration in christmas - saucon hall bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering in the lecture room of the addition to the chemistry laboratory tickets for the smoker will be on sale at the door for one dollar each the committee is a potter 90 chairman c o wood 92 p j ganey 16 r b adams 25 o 2 of trustees die in summer h h mcclintic succumbs at pittsburgh f coates at avon n j two trustees of lehigh univer sity died during the past summer howard h mcclintic 88 died on august 5 and frank raymond coates 90 died on june 26 mcclintic along with charles marshall a classmate at lehigh and also a trustee organized the construction firm of mcclintic marshall with financial aid from the mellon brothers this concern grew into one of the largest steel fabricating companies in the coun try mcclinic was 72 years of age when he died in pittsburgh coates was prominent athlete coates was 69 when he died at his home in avon n j after a long illness at lehigh he was a prominent athlete he played on the varsity football squad cap tained the track team for two years and managed the baseball team he took a postgraduate course after his graduation he was a member of the phi delta theta fraternity coates was an officer or director in 17 large corporations princip ally in the public utility railway and oil industries at the time of his death he entered the indus trial world after his graduation from lehigh as a roadman for the baltimore and ohio railroad and won rapid advancement later transferring to various other transportation enterprises he was a veteran of the spanish-ameri can war serving as regimental ad jutant of the fourth connecticut regiment campus greets new and familiar faces involved in administrative shifts occassioned by resignation of dean c m mcconn charles a seidle asst director of admissions dr wray h congdoj dean of undergraduates dr harvey a neville chemistry department head dr c max mcconn former dean of university dr tomlinson fort dean of graduate school george b curtis university editor price — five cents bethlehem pa tuesday september 27 1938 seniors to present savitt and hallet vol xlvi no 1 alumni change reunion date to state game brown and white high mark set by enrollment this summer classes labs overrun as over 1850 register fraternities pledge 206 ball maestro homecoming scheduled for oct 15 features inspection smoker e kenneth smiley director of admissions member intercollegiate newspaper association z 812 lenjgnwjghis