Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 34

              new athletic head the annual drawings for dor mitory rooms will be held on the following dates at the speci fied places announced freder ick r ashbaugh university bursar on march 17 the graduate students and juniors will make their drawings in drown hall auditorium march 20 sopho mores in the arcadia room of drown hall march 21 fresh men in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building and on march 22 the town students will also draw in the faculty room students who wish to retain their present rooms must file leases and pay in advance de posits of 10 each by noon on wednesday march 15 all rooms not so reserved will be open for assignment at the time of the drawings press staffs to meet here glen w harmeson club chooses show leads instructors will include professor g clancy of beloit college the faculty for the summer ses sion including the required engin eering courses june 5 to july 1 and the regular six week's session july 5 to aug 12 was announced today by dale h gramley associ ate professor of journalism included will be g c clancy professor and head of the depart ment of english beolit college of wisconsin and w l connor su perintendent of schools allentown representatives from the de partment of chemistry will be h v anderson r d billinger g c beck a a diefenderfer j c mertz and j g smull those from the department of civil en gineering wil be s a becker w j eney m o fuller a t ippen c d jensen and e h uhler the mathematics department will be represented by j e illick v v latshaw c s shook j v van derslice and j b reynolds those from the department of english will be k k kost a a rights and e h riley from the department of economics c h danhof w l bishop and h m diamond p b carwile max pet ersen and b l snavely will rep resent the department of physics t t holme t e jackson and b h jennings department of me chanical enginering the remainder of the faculty will include r d butler geology j r connelly industrial engin eering r b cowin accounting w h formhals electrical engin eering l h gipson history and government j l graham psy chology n s hibshmann electri cal engineering g a howland fine arts t t lafferty philoso phy a w luce machine design h b osborn chemical engineer ing p m palmer german h g payrow sanitary engineering e b schulz government c w sim mons chemical engineering r a soto romance languages h p thomas education f j trem bley biology and r h white ed ucation o dramatic society drafts constitution a new written constitution out lining a definite point system for electing new members has been adopted by mustard and cheese dramatic society announced mal colm carrington jr 39 president of the club last night under the revised system mem bership in the club may be gained by earning a total of four points as an actor or a member of the stage staff or business staff one point equals active participation and co operation in one club production the constitution also provides that the executive council of the club may reduce to associate mem bership any member of the club who displays lack of interest and cooperation the purpose of the constitution is to form a society of 30 active working members cap able of producing high calibre shows according to carrington o e e juniors may receive summer employment interviews with regard to sum mer employment have been given to several juniors of the electrical enginering department by william schuler representative of the day ton power and light company the policy of interviewing jun iors said stanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical en gineering is designed to obtain capable undergraduates for sum mer work with the power company so that upon the student's comple tion of his electrical course both parties may make an intelligent choice of employment 5 girls picked by majors will receive insignia of military society dance to be in armory at about midnight tomorrow night with a fanfare from glenn miller's orchestra five girls will walk beneath an arch of sabres to the bandstand in the national guard armory a few minutes la ter one of them will be an honor ary colonel in scabbard and blade honorary military society the other four will emerge from the judging as honorary captains with this ceremony a saber drill and a manual of arms lehigh's annual military ball for 1939 will reach its climax but not before a replica of the book which most le high men must ponder for two years the basic manual in military science and tactics has been fired upon by a squad of juniors all guest eligible the five girls who will compete for the top honor of colonel will be chosen shortly before midnight from the dancers on the floor the five majors of the department of military science and tactics who will choose them will then escort them to the stand where franc burnett i e 39 lt colonel jos eph s leonard head of the de partment of military science and tactics and dean wray h cong don will await them for the selec tion the girl who is chosen colonel will receive a small saber the bar of membership in scabbard and blade and a certificate attesting her rank the other four will re ceive bars and certificates the decorations for the dance will consist of several american flags and a series of cartoons on the basic manual by richard s goudy bus 40 cartoonist of the review the lounge beneath the dance floor will be converted into a cafe where dancers may drink soft drinks and listen to the music from above via loudspeaker weekend is busy the week-end carries with it several other events the varsity and junior varsity wrestling teams of virgina military institute will meet lehigh's teams in the even ing the cadets from the west point of the south will be invited to the dance the maennerchor offers another of its tea dances during the afternoon it was announced last week that glenn miller will go to the mead owbrook at cedar grove n j after his engagement here to re place larry clinton he will then go to the glenn island casino near new rochelle long island he will play for several weeks at that spot where larry clinton played last summer contests and conference highlights of conclave of 750 schools representatives of newspapers and magazines from approximate ly 750 high and preparatory schools of pennsylvania and new jersey have been invited to attend the sixth annual scholastic press conference to be held may 13 on the campus will tour the campus the tentative program for the day includes registration at 9 a m followed by a tour of the campus the opening session of the confer ence at 11 a m luncheon at 12:30 p m round table discussion at 2 o'clock and a closing session at 4 p m the round table discussions will discuss editorial writing news wri ting sports writing headlines and makeup business problems mime ographed papers and magazine problems dale h gramley university news editor director of the con ference announced that contest entries ; three copies of two suc cessive issues of the competing papers must reach him before april 15 practicing newspapermen who have had secondary school and college journal training will serve as judges assisting gramley are the fol lowing committee members ken neth k kost instructor in jour nalism charles j moravec assist ant university news editor and four senior majors in journalism henry t s heckman willet weeks jr milton spilberg and thrasher t gray short getting extra duties will become assistant and manager bartlett made acting head of p e department new appointee will receive full professorship here 5 years he gets another 5-year contract to continue as head coach of football in addition to new position glen w harmeson head football coach was today named to the additional post of director of athletics by president c c williams he succeeds nelson a kellogg director since may 1 , 1933 who resigned feb 1 7 because of impaired health the appointment of coach harmeson will be effective sept 1 for a five-year period he will take rank as a full professor on the university faculty under coach harmeson's direc tion paul e short who has been assistant director of athletics will be given added duties and will carry the title of assistant and manager fay c bartlett assistant professor of physical education will become acting head of the de partment of physical education willams lauds harmeson in announcing the appointment of harmeson who came to lehigh from an assistant coach's berth at purdue in 1934 president williams said it is fortunate that a man of mr harmeson's proven capability is in the department and available for promotion to the administra tive headship since coming to le high five years ago harmeson by his ability and fine sportsmanship has won the esteem of students alumni and the sports fraternity in this region under his energetic leadership we may look with confi dence to wholesome and success ful relations in intercollegiate ath letics after graduation from purdue in 1930 harmeson was for four years assistant coach of football serving under noble kizer came here in 1934 he was brought to lehigh in 1934 by kellogg and succeeded austy tate who had been head football coach for six years in ad dition to his football coaching harmeson served as coach of bas ketball at lehigh for three years the new lehigh athletic head was a three-sports man during his undergraduate career at purdue he won varsity letters in football basketball and baseball for three years after winning numerals in these sports and in tennis as well as a freshman he was a member of purdue's undefeated football team which tied for the big ten title in 1929 he was also a mem ber of the team which won the title in 1928 harmeson played a halfback po sition in football guard in basket ball and the outfield in baseball he was all-conference halfback in 1929 he is a native of indianapolis ind and is 31 years old he is married and has one son o schools show art lehigh gallery exhibits paintings of students an exhibition of the work of the art students in the bethlehem high and junior high schools and the moravian seminary for wo men will be on display in the uni versity art gallery from march 5 to 24 those displays which have al ready come in show much origin ality and ability on the part of the students according to garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the judges of the ex hibit have not been chosen yet guggenheim's end of day and rauer's winter night tied for first place in the recent photograph exhibit of the 400 people who saw the exhibit only 65 cast votes smiley announces high school talks winterset cast by drama shop fourth concert of series to be given tonight at broughal high feature college i routine ted shawn with a company of eight athlete-dancers will add something new to the fare being presented by the student concert lecture series committee when he appears tonight at 8:15 o'clock at broughal high school in the dance drama entitled o libertad all of the numbers included on tonight's program have been cre ated and taught by shawn and offer a program of wide variety dances to be presented as solos and group routines range from dances of the barbarians to ab stract themes material for these dances was drawn from various phases of azetic and american history 24 numbers on program featured on this evening's pro gram of 24 numbers will be the college athletic routine the open ing solo of the group will be by barton mumaw who was the first member of the all-male company to present a program at the lew isohn stadium in new york city several seasons ago his role will be that of a banner bearer enter ing the stadium of the olympic games the second group of this act will present three cheer leaders at a football game the roles of the cheer leaders will be taken by frank overlees who was one of the original members of the troupe dennis landers pole-vault record holder in oklahoma and kansas and wilbur mccormack wrestler and gym letter winner at springfield college foster fitz-simons will depict 10 track and field events — broad jump shotput discus the hurdles javelin running events high jump and pole vault in the third number in this series the essential rhythms of fencing will be danced by fred hearn and dennis landers while mccormack will perform the training of a box er as well as the winning of the bout in the ring basketball dance ends suite this suite will end with a dance based on the rhythms and move ments of basketball landers cre ated this dance in which he will perform with hearn overlees mumaw and mccormack over lees created the cheer leaders rou tine fitz-simons the track num ber and mccormack his study of a boxer all of the musical accompani ment for tonight's performance will be played by jess meeker 27 year old pianist who joined the company six years ago and who has composed all of the musical back ground for several of the dance acts performed on six nation-wide tours students will be admitted upon presentation of coupons in athletic books tickets for guests of stu dents attending the ball will be on sale at 50 cents at the auditorium doors will open at 7:30 p m and no one will be admitted after 8 15 p m aero club reviews plan to train 20,000 pilots the possibility of obtaining a course here under the civil aero nautics authority was discussed at the meeting of the aero club wednesday night in room 466 packard laboratory this plan provides for the train ing of 20,000 american students so that they may get their private pilot's licenses these students are to be chosen from about 1,000 diff erent colleges and universities in the country carrington and stoughton awarded main roles in modern drama malcolm carrington jr bus 39 and leila stoughton have been chosen for the leads in petrified forest mustard and cheese pro duction announced albert a rights coach of the play after final try-outs last night carrington wil play the part of alan squier and miss stoughton will be gabby maple gramp ma ple will be played by r harry gunnison arts 41 ann ellis will take the part of mrs chisholm and seymour margolis bus 41 wil be mr chisholm john franks eng 41 will play boze hertzlinger either robert c engle m e 41 or raymond m rosenstein arts 39 will play duke mantee and robert w dech arts 41 won the part of jason maple other parts were won by the following albert w foster bus 42 as a telegraph lineman jane foering as paula john c attwood arts 41 as herb joseph h hel ler bus 41 as jackie william a davey arts 42 as pyles other minor parts will be as signed before the next meeting of the cast on thursday o tired steel is topic of lecture by godfrey the fatigue properties of steel was the subject of an illust rated lecture by howard j god frey engineer of tests wednesday night at fritz laboratory godfrey gave a brief review of the history and manufacture of cold-drawn steel wire and the eff ect of coldwork in the physical properties of steel he described a new fatigue machine for testing wire and discussed the fatigue properties of wire stadium would be used in place of chapel could seat 2,800 gift committee chosen ballots will be placed in the arcadia office in drown hall and the supply bureau this week so that the opinion of the entire sen ior class on the proposal to hold graduation in taylor stadium rather than the chapel may be learned this measure was adopted at the senior class meeting wed nesday in packard auditorium the results of this poll and the written vote taken at the meeting will be put in a petition and pre sented for faculty approval alan s grant i e class president told the meeting that an investiga tion by john w maxwell 26 manager of the supply bureau showed the chances of rain on the date of graduation to be one in ten if the plan is adopted grant said sections c to g in the south stands will be used by the specta tors students and faculty will sit on folding chairs in front of the stands and the speakers will be seated on a platform although the use of the chapel permits each senior only three guests the stadium which under this plan wil accomodate 2,800 vis itors will give each senior eight guest accomodations in case of rain the services will be held as usual in the chapel and the extra guests will hear the ceremonies by loudspeaker in packard auditor ium plan discussed last year this is not the first time that such a plan has been discussed by the seniors last year's graduating class voted to hold its exercises in the stadium but the plan was thrown out by the committee on educational policy expenses for the traditional cer emonies in the chapel should not exceed 50 grant said but the outdoor exercises would cost at least 150 because of the necessity for chair rentals the installation of a public address system for the stadium and packard auditorium and the rental of a platform for the speakers there is about 800 in the treasury at present john f leherer i e of the epi tome board asked that those who do not wish their names placed on the cover of the yearbook in gold leaf a feature which costs an addi tional 50 cents telephone him im mediately and cancel the order those who fail to do this will be required to pay when the book is released dance committee appointed grant appointed the following committee to investigate and re port on a suitable class gift george e hurst jr bus henry t s heckman arts franc h burnett jr i e willet weeks arts harold m selser e e mil ton h granatt bus l henderson dudman bus walter a decker c e and george a albrecht bus other committees will be appoin ted and published in the near fu ture grant announced henry l beekman bus was named head of a committee to find the cost best place and time for a senior dance to be held sometime during senior week grant told the meeting that he had ben asked by john i kirk patrick 39 assistant to the presi dent to present to the class a plan whereby the class would adopt its official costume before graduation as the system works now it is necessary for the class secretary to write twice to each member of the class and arrange for the costumes to be worn at alumni day parades and other functions the adoption of the costume in advance would cut needless expenses he said six lectures to be given by fac ulty members in various high schools during march have been announced by e kenneth smiley director of admissions the schedule is as follows march 7 camden high school dr edgar h riley associate professor of english on the popular bal lad and folk song march 8 ten afly high school dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy on life is an honor system march 24 sellers ville high school dr robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry on the chemistry of the air march 24 west philadelphia high school earl l crum asso ciate professor of greek on our heritage from greek and roman medicine and march 26 peeks kill military academy new york dr riley on sane living and a sense of humor winterset the underworld drama by maxwell anderson to be presented by the drama work shop has been cast by albert a rights director of dramatics the play is to be presented on march 17 and possibly 18 in drown hall miss sylvia mellner of the all entown broadway players will fill the female lead miriamne miss mellner conducts a dramatic school for children in allentown mio will be played by nathaniel j brisker bus 40 trock by ray mond m rosensetin arts 39 and judge gaunt wayne f o'neill arts 39 other members of the cast are shadow ralph buchsbaum arts 40 barth olin m david bus.'4o the hobo john l sipp bus 41 carr albert t leonhard bus 39 lucia richard f fincke bus 40 policeman anthony famighetti bus 39 radical richard j berg arts 42 and the sergeant lester r rosenfeld bus 40 lehigh university brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa friday march 3 1939 glen w harmeson is named athletic director vol xliv — no 34 dorm room drawings to begin on march 17 faculty named for summer willreplacekellogg at opening of term seniors to poll on graduation out of doors firing squad arms manual to climax ball shawn troupe will perform dance drama browk and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612