Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 23

              the 1951 class gift a success kirkpatrick said the continuation of the insur ance plan initiated by the class of 1938 will provide an important part of the university's future financing he added as explained by the treasurer insurance policies taken out by members of the present graduat ing class will mature in 1971 and should amount to some 105,000 if all policies remain in force un til that lime since the inception of the class gift plan more than 2,100 policies with a maturity value of approximately 600,000 have been presented to the uni versity members of the senior class gift committee responsible for this year's success are dick al len hank bauer george blount bill breingan dick cassidy frank cummings tom curtiss tom dowdell dick elrick henry enright dick fehnel paul fell john finan philip frey dick hunter bill kanenson tom keel jack mac donald frank mc laughlin tom mcnamara john pflueger harold saydah and john ward 50 51 in retrospect at lu by carl zimmerman a solution for the dilemma of town students which would or ganize all of them and provide adequate representation has been offered by robert mielich arts 53 his plan has gathered consid erable support unofficially among town men entitled proposal for the foundation of the federation of organized town groups mie lich's plan would make the or ganization of town men more ef efective by organizing along gen real residence lines as done so well in alo social fraternity for town men whose homes are in allentown there should be five such residence groups writes mie lich alpha lambda omega alpha town house loenard hall a bethlehem society analogous to alo solely for men whose homes are in the general bethlehem-heller town-easton area and a ngroup composed of men ter mathematics part found easier on student draft quiz after three intensive hours of answering questions lehigh stu dents filed from the deferment test rooms saturday with the gen eral opinion that the quiz was easy of those queried most agreed that the mathematics section was much easier than the verbal part the problem which seemed to bewilder most was number 150 which asked the average cost of publishing 100,000 books if the first 1,000 books cost x cents per book and the remaining x 20 cents per book opinions on the verbal sec tion were varied several students felt that this part of see draft quiz page 2 new cabinet is announced for juniors * herb roemmele class of 53 president has released a roster of men who will serve on the cabinet during the next academic year the full cabinet will meet > only two or three times throughout the year to dis cuss mainly the policy and the rest of the class business t will be conducted through committees of which the cabinet members will be an integral part roemmele said john haight of the history de partment was elected faculty ad ' viser of the class he received his b.a ai princeton and his m.a at yale he is currently working on his doctorate at northwestern included in the junior cabinet are myles adelman charles at jnore bruce barstow hank bat iaglia paul beach charles bo densiab stewart campbell max carozza frank chesterman larry collins jay connors rodney crislip john dean donald dor see cabinet page 2 newly formed outing club plans trips the firsi meeting of the lehigh outing club a combination of the old ski and sportman clubs was held at phi gamma delta friday night john byerly president of the sportsman club and roger cole ville of the ski club drew up the new constitution with the help of dean charles seidle the new club is divided into two groups — field and stream and winter sports ac tivities of field and stream are hunting fishing camp ing and bicycle trips win ter sports activities include skiing skating and tobog ganing new officers of the outing club are john byerly president ed reston vice president of field and stream rus mcfarlan vice president of winter sports ted sheelz treasurer and lewis tut tle secretary attending the meeting were capt r j emerich faculty ad viser of the ski club and prof fay bartlett faculty adviser of the sportsman club movies on winter sports and camping trips were shown at the meeting plans for a possible canoe trip to the 1000 islands and a ski excursion to lake placid were discussed in refurnishing seven-hundred freshmen were added to the lehigh family this year new id cards were issued in place of the old activities tick et book and met with student ap proval the highlight of the charity ball in october was the adminis trative shoeshine service while rich parker and bernell argyle furnished the music for dancing in swift last-minute action arcadia and individual fra ternities put up the dough to send the band to dartmouth stan kenton and matt giiles pie were featured at the fall houseparty formal theta chi's lawnmower chopped up leopards to win the display contest before the lafay ette game the big brown did the same on the gridiron see roundup page 3 lehigh's first undefeated foot all team and the hot breath of the draft situation topped the lehigh news picture this year the bell in packer hall rang for the first time since 1936 and sir thomas beecham caught cold and missed the london philharmonic con cert the lehigh muscle toughened with the advent of increased pe facilties in the new 800,000 gym and with a verbal storm brewed by brown and white's own al applegate sam harleman alum ni secretary narrowly missed be ing lifted from his chair in lam berton hall when a bullet from the rifle range tore through the floor the floor has since been armor-plated december's big breeze whipped through the campus tearing up a few trees and this spring some breezy residents of taylor hall talked the administration into giving the 44-year old dorm a face lifiing which should be com pleted in two years the year was marked by progress in campus improve ments and good feelings be tween campus groups only the recent houseparty flare up in arcadia marred the tranquility even b&w man aged to stay clear of any spats reminiscent of the one with arcadia last spring campus lighting was improved a new drain now being con structed should eliminate the possibility of beta house tumbl ingg into taylor hall sigma phi brothers have just moved into their new 115,000 house and a psychology lab was appended to packer hall the lounge in drown hall had the cobwebs removed and was given a modern touch volume 62 — number 27 i ny 2.3 a altar dedication in packer june 17 tuesday may 29 1951 sen duff to give senior address bethlehem pa sigma chi is cup winner at pop concert consecration of ihe new altar in packer memorial church will take place at special services at 10:30 a.m sunday june 17 when rt rev frank w sierreit bishop of ihe diocese of bethlehem will officiate he will be assisted by the rt rev wallace j gardner as principal speaker and the very rev frederic m adams both of the diocese of new jersey the altar designed by leslie h nobbs new york architect is the gift of william p starkey and his sons austin and paul and is in memory of gertrude c starkey this altar will speak for years to come to the students and faculty of lehigh uni versity as to the sovereignty of god as the supreme ruler graduation weekend for the class of 1951 will be marked by the traditional alumni and class day on june 16 baccalaureate sunday on june 17 and univer sity day on june 18 pennsyl vania's sen james h duff will be the principal speaker at the com mencement exercises on univer sity day on friday evening grace hall will be the scene of the annual alumni reunion which is an informal gather ing of classes graduated in the years ending in 1 and 6 edward a curtis president of the lehigh alumni association will induct the class of 51 at the annual business meeting of the association saturday morning al bert f bryniarski jr president of the graduating class will be pres ent to represent the seniors after a parade of the reun ion classes on the campus saturday afternoon lehigh fraternities will hold open house for the returning alum ni lunch at lamberton hall will follow the alumni asso ciation meeting dr liston pope dean of the di vinity school at yale university will speak at the baccalaureate services sunday at 2:30 p.m in packer church the new chapel altar will be dedicated sunday morning lu treasurer praises 51 gift committee work student submits plan to alter town set-up sigma chi won the inter-living group singing contest at the le high band's pop concert satur day night in grace hall the cup was presented by the new york lehigh club to sigma chi when they won over the other finalists alpha tau omega and alpha sigma phi hail the college moon glow and mister moon were the selections sung by sigma chi under direction of tom dowdell alpha sigma phi sang hail the college sylvia and as off to the southard we go under the leadership of dave ryerson alpha tau omega's selec tions were campus dreams toast convivial and old alpha under the direction of bob miller see winners page 7 or not affiliated with alo or the analogous bethlehem group these groups would be auton omous and would only be organ see plan page 8 lehigh university brown and white praise for work done by the 1 senior class gift committee was voiced by university treasurer john i kirkpatrick saturday as l the campaign neared its close with a reported 105,000 in pledged insurance policies * the university greatly appreciates the efforts of those members of the senior class who spent a great deal of time and effort in making of the universe starkey said the dignified and liturgical high altar will be carved in mar ble with the mensa to be carved with five traditional crosses the front of the altar is to have three panels the center of the main panel will be ornamented with a carved symbol of a pelican feed ing its young the two side pan see dedication page 3 last issue after publishing an estimat ed 324,000 words of news sporls and features copy ap proximately 5600 column inch es of advertisements and 2400 i column inches of flag pic tures and sundry other mater ial brown and white con ( eludes publication for the sem | ester with this issue inside • • • feature 3 sports 4 5 editorials .«• personals & comments c letters 6