Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 44

              robert b ring phillip r sal ter and charles p weigel the six seniors included william e burdick fred canova daniel j collins richard w davis william w fetzer and duane c wilt the graduate student was joseph s ma thias tau beta pi a national honorary was founded at lehigh in 1885 by prof e h williams jr the society is now made up of 71 chapters en gineering students may be elected to membership during their junior and senior years if they have maintain ed high scholarship each year the society awards a slide rule or other prize of equivalent value to the engi neering freshman having the highest scholastic average the following men were elected to phi beta kappa fred armstrong robert h banta jack barnett wal lace j butler mark s charwat daniel j collins richard w cor ney joseph j eisenhauer robert feldman james g gottling james h jewell robert r kuehner stan ley c levy ronald lipshie and fredrick a saal also richard m schectman ted f scheetz kenneth r stahl joshua w stout ken neth w todd william w trumbore robert e vander pool and gardner w van sco yoc also lawrence j wallen charles f o'hay nicodemo n gregorio auric d dunlap frederick a gra nados bernard m kostelnik and hillard c miller membership in phi beta kappa is restricted to students enrolled in arts or business curricula who up to the middle of the senior year maintain high scholarship a limit ed number of engineering students may be selected for membership whose work in philosophical scien tific and language studies is of high grade bach festival begins may 13 once again this year the national ly-famed bach music festival will be held in packer memorial chapel the event has taken place here for well over 50 years and attracts lov ers of bach music from many dis tant points conductor of the bach choir is ivan jones the 185-voice choir will per form may 13 14 15 21 and 22 fifteen hundred people can be accommodated in the chapel at one time tickets range in price from 6 to 18 and may be pur chased from mrs freeland in see bach page 6 brations this saturday considering the type of weekend is kappa sig's bavarian beer party they will have a band lambda chi's theme takes participants to the hills of heather their scotch high land party will feature the four stories making with the music beta will penetrate darkest africa while phi gam holds out on their south sea island beta's theme is jungle party ana the fijis come up with their perennial fiji island party band at the latter while the theta chi's embark on a safari the delta chi's will settle in denmark with a copenhagen criss-cross both will have bands lou batts blows dixieland at delta chi see hp plans page 6 hp calendar frd3ay 5 p.m houseparty begins 10 p.m houseparty dance at grace hall 1 a.m idc breakfast at lam berton hall saturday 2 p.m triangular track meet afberg g'berg , upper field 2:30 p.m baseball vs lafayette taylor field tennis vs g'berg steel field frosh baseball vs lafayette steel field sunday 11 a.m chapel — rev george m bean 4 p.m houseparty ends the elements clearing skies and much cooler temperatures tonight and tomorrow is the weather man's forecast a chance of frost to night with a low temperature of 34 degrees expected chance of show ers and warmer temperatures to ward the end of the week with the amount of precipitation not expect ed to exceed 25 inch temperatures will average 3 to 5 degrees below the present normal of 57 for the next five days greek plot sewer to heaven drags be quiet there no band pi lam's party will also look like the 19205 a band will play dixie no doubt • th eta chi's party is fittingly named the roaring twenties dixieland will emit from that house men of theta chi and pi ka will escape with their dates into the kentucky hills pi ka will set up shop in dogpatch while theta chi has no particular objective in the hills except someplace dark and unfrequented everybody will get a lei at either the delts or sigma chi's hawaiian parties johnny barker will create mad music at the delt house while a group of anonymous troubadors will emote at sx one of the most appropriate cele when the sun comes up over south mountain sunday morning those on their feet at that unearth ly hour will be witness to one of the most discouraging sights in the world for scattered around the grounds of each of lehigh's 30 fraternities will be tell-tale rem nants of saturday night's cele brations hats leis pith helmets cardboard beer steins and other assorted party accessories will be strewn over front lawns and in gutters from the hill to delaware aye and market st the most popular themes this spring are those of a french nature sigma alpha mv is taking the dim mer view of the city of light as they hold a parisian sewer party jack ward will be rendering cool sounds among the storm drains members of sigma nu and phi sig will tour the bistros in their gaiety parisian parties playing at the latter will be willie restum and his group with berets and basque shirts the members of delta phi will throw a trench apache soiree with a band an unusual brand of ball will be tossed at phi delt they're having a french artist's ball the hitch no band ka will dab in the arts also as they give a band-less artists and their models party three houses are tripping back to an earlier and dryer generation giving parties on the roaring 20's theme du has a speak-easy party in the making replete with sliding panels and back rooms it'll lehigh university brown and white volume 65 — number 44 two honoraries initiate 48 men tuesday may 4 1954 1,000 dates expected for dance in the dark lehigh university bethlehem pa buddy williams two honorary societies initiated 48 men in the past week tau beta pi engineering honorary initiated 11 juniors six seniors and one graduate student on wednesday phi beta kappa selecting men in the arts and business curricula initiated 30 seniors on sunday tau beta pi initiated the following juniors raphael s aronson chares e brady stephen g cupshalk ted a dolotta robert w jenkins jr paul e klinedinst jr robert long richard a proebstle seniors to file petitions by 15th for diplomas pat kirby three more days and houseparty will be upon us parties picnics cocktails and dates will make their annual spring appearance on cam pus once again over a thousand guests are expected to mob the cam pus as the festive weekend arrives dancing in the dark will be the theme of the biggest event the houseparty dance in grace hall tommy tucker will appear on the lower floor where a venetian scene complete with gondolas and water will appear the upper floor will feature mu sic by buddy williams and soft lighting will be emphasized the friday night dance will be held from 10 p.m to 2 a.m and will be followed by an idc breakfast in lamberton hall saturday will be highlighted by picnics and parties at various living groups flowers for dates at the dance will be optional a baseball game between lehigh and lafayette will take place in taylor stadium at 2:30 p.m satur day the winner of the liar's con test designed to promote ticket sales will be awarded a 45 rpm record player at the dance the houseparty queen will be se lected at the dance the decision be ing made by presidents of ifc idc town council and arcadia a queen's court will be also be select ed and will be comprised of 11 of the prettiest female guests the four student presidents will pass through the crowd between 11 and 12 p.m to choose winners with the appearance of the or chestras of buddy williams and tommy tucker at the spring houseparty formal dance friday lehigh's roll call of big name bands since the festive weekends began in 1910 climbs to 81 williams the man behind the band for many of america's top flight orchestras a decade ago is now the man in front of one of the nation's most popular campus-touring bands rated as one of the top arrangers in the business williams was influ ential in setting the styles for such bands as those of the late glenn mil ler and the dorsey brothers he be gan his own group in 1941 boasting a fine musical back ground having graduated from the curtiss institute of music williams took a job with miller's band as saxophonist and chief arranger in 1935 the use of three euphoniums giving a golden echo to his mu sic was recognized as one of the most outstanding creations in the popular dance band field several other top bands now use his innovation williams group which is making a return engagement after playing for the fall 1951 houseparty is known for its youth vitality and its ability to play the type of music that appeals to the collegiate set today pat kirby will be the featured vo calist when the downbeat is given friday night at 10 ex-chaplain to return for hp chapel service former university chaplain george m bean will return to the pulpit of packer memorial church to deliver a special houseparty weekend sermon at the 11 a.m ser vice sunday topic of the sermon was not announced bean left here in 1952 to become pastor of st mark's episcopal church richmond va he had serv ed as university chaplain for six years all seniors must file petitions for graduation by may 15 in order to receive a diploma during commence ment ceremonies at 10:30 a.m june 21 according to class president philip newman the petitions which have been mailed out to all seniors must be returned to the bursar's of fice when the petition is turned in each senior will receive his allotment of five tickets for the graduation program requests for additional tickets may be i made at the same time martin pearl class treasurer an nounced sunday that the class plaque will not be ready by gradua tion he explained that originally the bronze plaque which will hang in the chapel was supposed to bear the names of only those seniors who paid their class assessment recently it was decided to change the policy on the plaque and include all the names of the entire class in cluding men graduating in october pearl said the original plaque would have cost 1,400 according to the es timate but the new plaque which will be ready sometime after octo jber will only cost in the neighbor hood of 900 in the near future graduation gowns will be available in the sup ply bureau the deposit will be 14 with a rental charge of 2.25 ac cording to pearl