Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 38

              grant weiss talk in forum kappa sigma john drury lambda chi alpha milton h grannatt phi delta theta philip r hornbrook phi gamma delta alan s grant phi sigma kappa henry l beekman pi kappa al pha robert m easton pi lambda phi stanley grosman psi upsilon harry h brown sigma alpha mv jack guttag sigma chi olin m david sigma nu john c gregg sigma phi john m mcnabb sigma phi epsilon edward p phillips tau delta phi sheldon m miller theta delta chi char les b cole theta kappa pi frank j washabaugh theta xi james e antrim phi beta kappa ken neth k kost o d x harold m selser jr tau beta pi eric weiss alpha kappa psi milton h grannatt cyanide richard c kelley pi tau sigma willard g histand eta kappa nu frank c ra bold pi delta epsilon eric weiss pi mv epsilon richard c kelley scabbard and blade malcolm car rington alpha epsilon delta wal ter m uhler alpha phi omega charles g meyers tone a george ueberroth delta omicron theta edward a herre eta sig ma phi dr earl l crum new tonian society robert c good phi eta sigma richard c kelley r w hall walter m uhler it takes the average senior three years and plenty of work in extra curricular activities to get an o d k key the choice phi beta kappa key goes only to those seniors whose scholastic averages have been extremely high but harold m selser got both charms in less than two weeks and in addition got the keys of 16 other honoraries and 29 social fraternities selser former editor of the 1939 epitome wasn't after the unofficial title of best belly-brass collector on the campus he borrowed the pins to use as models for cuts which will decorate the organiza tion pages in the 1939 epitome the pins while under shipment to the engraver to and from new york were covered by 5,000 in surance the persons whose keys will be seen in the 1939 epitome are alpha chi rho samuel r cox alpha kappa pi philip w davis alpha tau omega william valen tine beta kappa james a shields beta theta pi robert b palmer chi phi edmund h knight chi psi william f sher ratt delta phi mills g sturte vant delta sigma phi gene f mascuch delta tau delta clar ence r deßow delta upsilon william j wise kappa alpha malcolm carrington interview seniors for future jobs 3 more houses choose officers president williams picks smiley as chairman deans of the three colleges di rectors of curricula several uni versity officers and campus leaders were named today to the commit tee for sub-freshman day by pres ident c c williams sub-fresh man day will be held may 6 the committee will be headed by e kenneth smiley director of admissions other members are wray h congdon dean of under graduates philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and scien ces neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering and the following directors of curricu lae hale sutherland civil engin eering harry a neville chemis try stanley s seyfert electrical engineering charles c bid well engineering physics fred v lar kin mechanical and industrial en gineering and howard eckfeldt mining engineering professor claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy george b curtis registrar glen w har meson head football coach paul e short assistant director of ath letics dale h gramley associate professor of journalism robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumni asociation john w max well manager of the supply bur eau e robins morgan director of placement student members are franc h burnett i e 39 willet weeks jr arts 39 alan s grant i e 39 alfred t cox c e 40 and don ald r schoen arts 41 2 fraternities will be hosts sigma phi and delta phi will have national conventions here national conventions of sigma phi and delta phi fraternities will be held late this spring in bethle hem it was announced today by stweart cockenburg chairman of the convetnion committee of the bethlehem chamber of commerce the sigma phi convention will take place on june 16 17 18 while delta phi fraternity chapters will assemble sometime in may one hundred and fifty delegates from ten colleges will meet here for the sigma phi convention the chapters to be represented are from union college hamilton col lege williams college hobart col lege university of vermont cor nell university university of mi chigan university of wisconsin and the university of california it will be the fraternities 112 th an nual convention both founded at union sigma phi was founded in 1827 at union college and is the second oldest of college social fraternities the lehigh chapter was founded in 1887 by 26 men sigma phi has ten active chapters with a total membership of 2400 delta phi also was founded in 1827 at union college the lehigh chapter was establised in 1884 by six men there are 14 active chap ters of delta phi having a total membership of 4000 chester c baldwin i e 40 is head of the lehigh chapter of sig ma phi while harry w lynch ch e 41 heads delta phi o lecture at chem society on textile chemistry dr milton harris director of re search textile foundation of the national bureau of standards talked on the chemistry of tex tile fibers at a meeting of the student . chemical society last night in his talk dr harris described the structure of the common textile fibers cotton wool and silk and showed slides to illustrate his speech besides talking about the natural fibers used in the textile industry he discussed the synthe tic silk products rayon and the new nylon number of flying cadets may be increased at san antonio to give physical tests an examining board composed of army air corps personnel will visit lehigh this spring to examine prospective flying cadets the third corps area headquarters announced yesterday according to lt col joseph s leonard profesor of mil itary science and tactics the board will make the trip in view of a probable increase in the number of flying cadets to be trained at the air corps training center at san antonio texas the board will be concerned primarily with physical examination of suit able applicants and with contact ing prospective cadets and giving them complete information about the course cadets receive pay flying cadets receive seventy five dolars a month pay and a ra tion allowance of one dollar per day while in the training school the army furnishes all uniforms and other equipment free and pays the transportation of the cadet from the place of enlistment to san antonio this plan to increase air corps personnel is connected with the congresional proposal to add some 6,000 fighting planes to our present fleet it costs about fifty thousand dollars to train each flyer to the perfection required for piloting one of the fast and deadly new army ships lt col leonard said candidates must be between the ages of 20 and 27 and must have completed the equivalent of two years of college work complete information about the qualifica tions of candidates for the course and application blanks may be ob tained from lieutenant colonel leonard o dickinson to hold i.n.a convention brown and white to send delegates to meeting the brown and white will be represented at the intercollegiate newspaper association's first 1939 convention which will be held on the week-end of march 31 and april 1 announced dale h gram ley associate professor of journal ism willet weeks arts 39 editor in chief fred galbraith chem 40 editorial manager howard con ner arts 40 news manager and george rheinfrank i e 39 business manager were selected as delegates the above together with faculty advisors compose the exe cutive committee of the brown and white for the contest the brown and white will submit three consecu tive issues of the paper which will be judged according to the merits of the following departments news sports editorial and local advertising . in last november's i n a con vention at gettysburg the lehigh paper tied for first place in the editorial department and was mentioned for a second place in the news section math club elects bodine cullen anderson picked by frosh officers for next year were elected at a meeting of newtonian society held at 7 p m wednes day in room 466 packard labora tory the men chosen are as follows edward f bodine eng 42 presi dent robert e cullen eng 42 vice president and treasurer ray mond b anderson eng 42 secre tary edward d hems m e 41 spoke on mathematical fallacies and albert e lee ch e 41 retiring president of the society addresed the group on slide rule solutions of quadratic equations galbraith is delegate the first marriage conference of eastern colleges and universities to spread information about col lege courses in preparation for marriage is being held today at lafayette college under the auspi ces of the brainerd society of la fayette since the lehigh student body has shown its interest in the subject by circulating a petition for in struction in marriage problems fred e galbraith jr chem 40 editorial manager of the brown and white has ben appointed offi cial delegate from lehigh to the conference he will be accompan ied by howard m conner arts 40 news manager of the brown and white delegates from at least twenty colleges are expected to at tend registration this noon the conference will last from registration this noon until the fin al lecture at 8:30 this evening and will include lectures discussions and a motion picture on different phases of marriage education in colleges methods of teaching the subject in the classroom will be demonstrated by means of model lectures the brainerd society acted in conjunction with the birth control research clinic the american so cial hygiene association and the easton maternal health clinic in sponsoring the conference topics cover wide range the topics of the lectures and discussions are as follows cour ses of study in marriage by dr herbert w rogers head of the de partment of psychology lafayette college special phases of mar riage courses birth control methods and materials by dr allen h monroe medical director of the birth control research clin ic budgeting for the small urban family by f c genzmer instruc tor in economics lafayette college source materials and agencies of information on marriage and affiliated topics is the title of the lecture by mrs bolton love direc tor of the easton maternal health clinic materials methods and media of marital education and the concluding address the case for marriage will be given by dr henry e allen associate professor of religion lafayette college banquet proposed for junior class a banquet in april for the jun ior class was proposed by alfred t cox c e 40 at a meeting of cyanide junior honorary activities society held at 7:30 last night at the sigma nu house cox appointed clifford b heis ler bus 40 preston f marshall i e 40 and alfred v bodine i e 40 who first thought of the banquet to assist him under this plan cyanide will sell tickets for the banquet richard c kelley ch e 40 reported on arrangements his com mittee has made for cyanide mem bers to act as guides for visitors to lehigh three men will be assign ed to act each weekend and the entire society will serve on sub freshman day o linkages subject of talk pi mv epsilon honorary math ematics society will present a lec ture by professor r c yates of the mathematics department of the university of maryland on link ages in room 466 of packard lab oratory this evening his lecture will be open to everyone and will be illustrated by models and black board drawings hartzell cox and bachtell will head fraternities officers for the coming year have been elected by alpha kappa pi delta sigma phi and phi delta theta fraternities alpha kappa pi elected the fol lowing officers jacob s hartzell bus 40 president loring lane bus 40 vice president richard m shepherd ch e 41 treasurer charles g myers m e 40 sec retary frank l benedict jr bus 40 chaplain howard v donohoe arts 41 sentinel and robert d marsden eng phys 40 historian the officers elected by delta sig ma phi are alfred t cox c e 40 president arthur a mccam bridge bus 40 vice president and steward george g andrews bus 41 treasurer john r torrens bus 41 sergeant-at-arms hast ings w watkins i e 41 chap lain and ralph e martin ch e 40 secretary phi delta theta elected as offi cers elmer p bachtell jr i e 40 president william m har baugh i e 40 secretary steward b powers bus 40 treasurer richard w mueller m e 41 chaplain phillip r hornbrook i e 41 chorister james h bash ford eng 42 historian albert collins bus 40 reporter charles h conover arts 41 warden and john f kizer arts 42 librarian concert planned tone winds up season with special program tone honorary musical society will present its last concert of the season sunday afternoon in pack er chapel members of tone have been invited to a tea after the con cert at the president's home the symphony orchestra will use the new viola cello and bass vio lin presented to them by w j turner of philadelphia trustee of the university in the following program overture schauspiel by chris tian bach concert in g alleg ro adagio and presto with mrs ruth becker meyers at the piano the allegro and min uet from haydn's twelfth sym phony and ballet music min uet musette and zambour ino by rameau and mottl o society to hear selsem professor howard selsem of the departmetn of philosophy of brooklyn college will address the r w blake philosophical society on what is philosophy tonight in room 201 of packard laboratory steel soap utility firms send representatives five men representing the uni ted states steel company inter viewed seniors on wednesday and thurslay they were recruiting for the subsidiary companies carne gie-illinois steel corporation and the american steel and wire com pany yesterday and today the proctor and gamble company represented by dr james e egan and f g atkinson held interviews for sen ior mechanical engineers industr ial engineers and chemical engin eers on march 3 herbert wottrick of the public service electric and gas company of new jersey inter viewed seniors from all engineer ing curricula for the company's engineering cadet training course from the same company george webber interviewed senior arts and business men for the com mercial cadet training course giv en by the company on march 1 john e luhrs rep resenting the bailey meter com pany interviewed mechanical en gineers george wolf a representative of the dravo corporation interviewed chemical mechanical and electri cal enginers on march 2 henry disston and sons was represented by e k spring who interviewed metallurgical engineers kenneth a meade representing the general motors corporation interviewed business men me chanical industrial metallurgical engineers and engineering physi cists on march 7 on march 8 the provident mu tual life insurance company rep resented by charles s peck inter viewed arts and business men the international business ma chine company held an interview for arts and business men on march 9 r j lincoln of the electric comptroller and manufacturing company interviewed electrical engineers last friday business and arts men were interviewed by gordon e burns today for admit tance to the general electric com pany's business training course o crum talks to pre-meds about ancient medicine ancient medicine was the sub ject of a talk given by dr earl l crum associate professor of greek before the robert w hall pre medical society at a meeting 7:30 last night in room 466 of packard laboratory dr crum's talk traced the origin of medicine and surgery from the greeks and romans through the arabic period down to the seven teenth century student government is topic of discussion alan s grant i e 39 and eric weiss e e 39 took part in a ra dio forum on student govern ment wednesday night over wc ba from the hotel bethlehem be fore an audience of about thirty miss mildred diefenderfer and miss betty brown of the moravian college for women were the other two speakers dr boyer of muh lenberg acted as moderator weiss opened the forum with a brief discussion of the operation of student government and asserted that student government is not completely democratic and is be coming less so he further stated that the veto power held by the faculty and board of trustees over the actions of student governments makes the system more dictatorial than democratic discuss faculty veto grant discussed student faculty relations in student government and said that the faculty should rightfully control the academic matters of a college but that a stu dent government should control social affairs subject to faculty veto misses diefenderfer and brown discussed the proper sphere for student government its present operation and a consideration of how this operation might be im proved grant president of the senior class was chosen by j calvin cal laghan instructor of english be cause of his affiliation with student government at lehigh weiss was chosen to speak because of his connection with publications on the campus 5 chapter houses to hold dances delta tau delta to have delta tau delta will inaugurate a new idea in lehigh annual housgld^^#^tj^rlrjv uflhjnk they hold what is believed to be the first informal dance by a fra temitqu^tw^s.jtitif craig's orchestra from philadel phia will play for the dance mr and mrs howard j godfrey will act as chaperones doddy brothers orchestra will play for a formal dance of delta upsilon which will be held at the chapter house tomorrow night dr and mrs harry osborne will chap erone the dance another formal dance at the theta delta chi house will feature the music of the romig-moore or chestra chaperones will be mr and mrs fay c bartlett and mr and mrs e l farabaugh alpha chi rho will play hosts to their brothers from the university of pennsylvania at a dance which will be attended only by the local chapter members and alpha chi rhos from perm this dance is an annual affair with the two chap ters alternating as hosts from year to year saturday night's dance will feature the nomads orchestra prof and mrs charles w sim mons will chaperone another closed dance also will be held by delta sigma phi with music being provided by radio only chapter members and their dates will attend o ursinus to hear gram ley dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism will speak at the annual banquet of the staff of the ursinus weekly monday at collegeville combined dramatic clubs present play tonight audience limited students admitted free winterset the poetic under world drama by maxwell ander son will be presented at 8:40 this evening in drown hall by the combined lehigh dramatic work shop and mustard and cheese dramatic society albert a rights director of dramatics will direct the production the play is a modern tragedy based on the sacco-vanzetti gang killing in the 20's the plot centers around mio whose father had been electrocuted for a murder for which he pledged innocence mio's wanderings in search of justice bring him to the lower east side of new york city where he meets and falls in love with miriamne a girl of the slums mellner plays miriamm the leading role of mio will be played by nathaniel brisker bus 40 sylvia mellner of allentown will have the feminine lead mir iamne the gangster trock will be portrayed by raymond m ros enstein arts 39 these roles were played on the stage and in the sub sequent movie version by burgess meredith margo and eduardo ci annelli brisker is a member of mustard and cheese and has had roles in the society's plays paths of glory men in white and ceil ing zero he also appeared in the summer theatre productions of petticoat fever another lang uage and broken dishes conducts dramatic school miss mellner will make her first appearance on a lehigh stage in winterset although she has par ticipated in summer theatre work for two years she conducts a dramatic school for children in allentown rosenstein has had parts in paths of glory ceiling zero and men in white other members of the cast are garth merrill david bus 40 judge gaunt wayne f o'neill arts 39 shadow ralph buchs baum arts 40 the hobo john l sipp bus 41 carr albert t leonhard bus 39 lucia richard f fincke bus 40 policeman anthony famighetti bus 39 s£*kaltßmsel j berg arts 42 and the sergeant lester r rosen feld bus 40 v"ftki will be limited to 350 spectators because ot4h small seating capacity in drw wulaadjkrium students will be admitted free but 25 cents will be charged for outsiders if the demand is sufficient a second performance will be given tomor row evening prizes awarded to school artists prize winners in the bethlehem high school art contest were an nounced monday by garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the winners in the color divi sion are first prize of ten dollars to ruth pakulla liberty high school for lily second prize of five dollars to antoinette spadac cia broughal high school for donkey third prize of two dol lars and fifty cents to sheldon hill liberty high school for green houses and honorable mention to marion keenly liberty high school for boats and houses in the black-and-white division the winners are first prize of ten dollars to marjorie valkenburg liberty high school for stoop second prize of five dollars to jul ius stevancez liberty high school for steel works third prize of two dollars and fifty cents to fred bees fountain hill high school for girl at desk and honorable mention to raymond fortunate liberty high school for liberty high school facade lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 17 1939 sub - freshman committee chosen vol xlvi no 38 prize belly-brass collection is insured for five grand 150 sign senior petition price — five cents hold conclave on marriage at lafayette army board will examine for air corps brisker plays leading role in winterset brainerd club sponsors meeting of 20 schools today at easton one hundred and fifty of the 320 members of the senior class have already signed the petition expressing a preference for an outdoor graduation announced alan s grant i e presi dent of the class yesterday for the benefit of those who have not signed but wish to do so the petition will be circulated again next week member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first