Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 45

              15 students cast in play with a near-record attendance estimated for the series of coming weekend affairs guests began pouring in today from all sections of the country and at all hours of the day above houseparty date gloria bendix waves a cheerful hello to brown and white photographer who on a roving tour to day discovered many novel ways and means that 770 girls had devised to accomplish their objective — to arrive at lehigh in time for the annual spring houseparty which opened this afternoon junior prom heads list of houseparty events recovery is near says carothers new date is set for peace forum 30 living group dances athletic events included among activities rutgers is baseball foe king of swing to retard music tempo at request of prom committee the barrenness of a cool damp spring was lifted today with le high's salutation to 770 girls houseparty dates of the student body who began participation in a weekend program featuring the junior prom at dorney park this evening benny goodman's baton will start the affair swinging as stu dents and their guests make the initial stop on a two-day program of formal and tea dancing athletic events and love affairs tomorrow's schedule includes a variety of events among them a varsity baseball game between le high and rutgers at taylor sta dium formal dances sponsored by 29 fraternities dormitory and town groups tea dances in the afternoon at the maennerchor and the saucon valley country club and special living group programs accommodations improved the junior prom committee in charge of tonight's affair has com pleted special arrangements for amplification lighting parking and checking goodman's musical program,too has undergone rec ommendations by the committee with the result that the king of swing will slow down the tempo of his music during much of the evening a balanced program is planned one which will please both those who revel in swing and those who bask in sweet music disregarding the law of aver ages the committee has taken out 300 rain insurance chaperones for the promenade are president and mrs c c will iams mr and mrs george b cur tis and dr and mrs claude g beardslee thirty formal dances will be held on and off the campus tomor row evening fraternities will hold affairs in their respective chapter houses the dormitory sections will combine to hold a dance in the armory and the town group is sponsoring a dance in drown hall o 248 sophomores take examination impromptu english quizz given 48 juniors engineering comprehensive ex aminations were given to 248 soph omores yesterday while 48 arts juniors took an impromptu exam ination in english the engineering comprehensives are given to determine the stu dents ability in engineering if the exam mark and previous scholas tic grades are too low the student will be advised to drop engineer ing the examinations were six hours long and contained 88 ques tions charles w simmons associ ate professor of engineering an nounced that they will be graded within several days the arts juniors were given an hour in which to write an im promptu theme failure will mean that the men will be required to take a course in composition with out credit during the senior year edgar h riley associate professor of english was in charge of the examination o munoz gives talk on chile paul munoz arts 40 was the guest speaker at the semi-monthly meeting april 14 of the liberty high school spanish club mu noz a resident of chile spoke about the geographical conditions historical background sports and people of chile after his talk he answered the club members ques tions on the subject 9 men will be tapped on monday evening for membership initiation ls thursday david j walsh sports editor of the philadelphia record has been selected as the annual spring initi ation banquet speaker of pi delta epsilon national honorary collegi ate journalism fraternity it was announced by eric weiss e e 39 president of the society following its meeting on tuesday afternoon the banquet to be held thurs day evening at the alpha chi rho fraternity house will be attended by the nine students elected to membership tapping of the men who submitted points and were el ected on tuesday afternoon will take place on monday evening those who submitted points are requested to remain in their living groups between 5:30 p m and 7 p m monday walsh served on ins staff walsh who will relate his exper iences as a sports editor in various parts of the country was sports editor of the international news service before he joined the staff of the philadelphia record in july 1938 he has covered the majority of the championship boxing mat ches during the past ten years in addition he has witnessed many important football baseball and track events guests who have been invited to attend the banquet are glen w harmeson head football coach and newly appointed director of athle tics charles r reilly sports edi tor of the easton express joseph mccarron sports editor of the al lentown morning call and fred s nonnemacher sports editor of the bethlehem globe-times in addition to the election of nine new members the fraternity recommended a 14 point evalua tion program to the national secre tary regarding the publication of the fraternity paper epsilog the criticism program was submitted to the local chapter by thrasher t gray arts 39 and charles j mor avec assistant university news editor in charge of sports publicity to aid on sub freshman day action was also taken to cooper ate with the sub-freshman day committee in maintaining the in formation booth joseph j mc cluskey bus 40 was appointed chairman of the committee on ar rangements discussion on a proposed forum dealing with war scares and press opinion was deferred until the next meeting when the newly elected members will participate three members were placed on the inactive list because of lack of in terest as stipulated in the constitu tion of the fraternity o howland exhibits painting garth a howland head of the department of fine arts is exhibit ing one of his paintings at swarth more college the painting mid terms shows a group of students studying for examinations this picture has recently been exhibited in the warwick art galleries in philadelphia friday april 21 4 p m houseparty opens 4 p m baseball lehigh freshmen vs mercersburg aca demy at taylor field 10:30 p m to 3 a m junior prom with benny goodman and his orchestra at dorney park allentown saturday april 22 2 p m lacrosse lehigh vs lafayette at upper field 2p m varsity baseball le high vs rutgers at taylor field 4 p m to 7 p m tea dan ces at maennerchor saucon valley country club and leonard hall 10 p m to 2 p m frater nity dormitory and town council dances sunday april 23 3 p m houseparty ends o 3 papers are presented three research papers were pre sented by members of the geology department at a meeting of the pennsylvania academy of science held april 7 at pennsylvania state college dr gilbert e doan head dept of metallurgical engineering dr bradford willard head department of geology dr alfred c callen dean college of engineering will be held in packard on thursday evening peace day which was origin ally scheduled for yesterday after noon has been postponed until 8 o'clock thursday evening be couse of the sophomore engineer ing examinations held yesterday the meeting to be held in packard auditorium will be a for faculty committee of the program urn discussion designed to stimu late clear thinking on world aff airs the main question for discussion will be can the united states help prevent a world war the question will be discussed by dr amos ettinger associate history professor noman l morse ch e 40 an intercollegiate debater on the subject and howard j lewis arts 40 a member of the student committee in charge of the meet ing the talks will be followed by an informal discussion of the ques tion dr claude beardslee head of the department of moral and relig ious philosophy and hale suther land head of the department of civil engineering are acting as the business dean addresses purchasing agents the country is all set for re covery providing there is no war and the international situation is resolved dr carothers dean of the college of business administra tion told the purchasing agents association of new york at its monthly dinner meeting tuesday night although he decried the ability of economists to foretell the future he said he expected improved bus iness conditions to arrive later this year and to gain force next year to offset the favorable condition of a dammed up consumer demand and the use of obsolete machinery dr carothers mentioned that there is universal fear and lack of con fidence political uncertainty and fear of taxes and regimentation he declared also that no mat ter who is in charge of the admin istration the forces of economic regimentation are bigger than gov ernment and will go their way he warned against a possibility of disastrous inflation which he de scribed however as remote be cause of the growing ability of the economic order to control guiding forces newly elected vice president and four department heads petrified forest 7 to be presented on may 5 at liberty h 5 the complete cast of the pet rified forest which will be pre sented by mustard and cheese honorary dramatic club on friday night may 5 at liberty high school has been selected announ ced albert rights director last night those who will appear in the production and the parts they will portray are r harry gunnison arts 41 as-gramp maple john franks eng 41 as bose hertzlin ger albert w foster bus 42 as a telegraph lineman richard j berg arts 41 as jason maple malcolm carrington bus 39 as alan squier john c attwood arts 41 as herb a cowboy seymour margolis bus.'4l as mr chisholm richard f fincke bus 40 as joseph joseph h heller bus 42 as jackie robert c eng le m e 41 as duke mantee rus sell c gebert eng 42 as ruby william l davey arts 42 as py les lester r rosenfeld bus 40 legionnaire ralph buchsbaum arts 40 as the sheriff the feminine roles are to be tak en by leila stoughton who has ap peared in mustard and cheese's fall production brother rat and several of the plays presented by the top o the mountain theater last summer june foering and ann ellis both local girls nearly half of the cast has had previous experience in mustard and cheese productions harry gunnison has appeared in brother rat knights in armor ceil ing zero and men in white malcolm carrington president of the club has been involved in practically all of the club's presen tations in the last several years robert dech and william davey made their first appearance before a lehigh audience in brother rat last semester joseph heller was in the cast of ceiling zero while lester rosenfeld was in the recent dramatic workshop presen tation of winterset the petrified forest was first produced by gilbert miller and leslie howard the latter playing the role of alan squier in 1934 the play is in two acts the scene is the black mesa bar-b-q a gas station and lunch room at a lonely crossroads in the eastern arizona desert the action begins late in the afternoon of an autumn day in 1934 and continues into the even ing of the same day dr allen j barthold head dept of romance languages walter r okeson university vice president trustees also name a c callen of illinois dean of engineers 14 receive promotions g e doan a j jttarthold iiraiiloid w liluru made department heads walter r okeson treasurer of lehign university since 1923 today was named to tiie additional post oi vice president by tne boaru oi trustees ills appointment is ettec nve immediately he will be in cnarge oi business afeans oi tne university under president c c williams and will continue also as secretary oi the board oi trustees the board also named iour new department heads one oi whom win serve additionally as dean oi vie college oi tingirieering ap proved promotions lor 14 teacners ana auuiorized two iree scnolar snips ior reiugee students new dean appointed the new dean effective septem ber 1 win be dr alired c calien nead oi tne department oi lviining and metallurgical engineering at the university oi illinois he win aiso become nead oi the depart mciit oi mining jtingmeermg tie is a i^cnigh alumnus other appointees also graduates oi lenigh are dr bradford wiii ard oi tne pennsylvania iopogra pnic and geologic survey to be come head oi the department oi ueoiogy rroi gilbert e doan oi tne benign iacuity to become nead oi the department oi metallurgical engineering and dr allen j bar tnoid oi yale university to be come head oi the department oi romance languages relinquishing their administra tive duties under an age rule oi the board but continuing on the teach ing and research iacuity are prof bradley stoughton dean oi the college oi engineering and head of the department oi metallurgi cal engineering proi benjamin l miller head of th department oi geology and proi howard eck ieldt nead of the department of mining engineering professor bateman edwards has resigned as head oi the department of ro mance languages to accept a new post elsewhere promotions approved promotions approved are rob ert d billinger to associate pro fessor of chemistry donald m fraser to associate professor of geology thomas h hazelhurst to associate professor of chemistry lawrence whitcomb to associate professor of geology cledo brun etti to assistant professor of elec trical engineering robert d but ler to assistant professor of geol ogy j calvin callaghan to assist ant professor of english in charge of speech and debating arthur t ippen to assistant professor of civil engineering william l jenkins to assistant professor,,of psychology george l kehl to assistant professor of met allurgical engineering arthur e pitcher to assistant professor of romance languages raymond f schultz to assistant professor of chemistry hilton a smith to assistant professor chemistry the title of milton c stuart who has been professor of mechan ical engineering for several years was broadened to that of professor of experimental mechanical en gineering two leaves granted leaves of absence were granted to two members of the faculty prof hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering was granted leave for the second semester of the next school year to permit time for revision of two of his textbooks and dr maurice ewing assistant professor of phy sics was granted continuance of his present leave to pursue his re search work in geophysics he was recently granted a second fellow ship by the guggenheim founda tion during professor sutherland's leave of absence next year s a becker associate professor of civil continued on page eigbt bethlehem pa friday april 21 1939 price — five cents okeson gets post as vice president vol xlvi no 45 sports editor will address pi delt dinner criticisms requested near record spring houseparty draws 770 girls for 2-day visit to campus goodman to start weekend program lehigh university brown and white the tau beta pi-phi beta kappa criticism committee has requested that all criticisms be handed in by april 28 criti cisms may be given to james e patton ch e 39 or any senior member of either honorary fra ternity or may oe left with mrs bowker in the arcadia office all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612