Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 15

              volume 62 — number 16 i.e ctylo 1 5s flanagan band set for may 4 tuesday april 17 1951 spencer basso sings here fri glee club hit by theft at festival business flanagan now has a 14-pj.ece combination includ ing five saxophones four trombones three trumpets d turns and siring bass he handles the piano solos him self in one of his first eastern ap pearances since completing two movies in hollywood kenneth spencer negro basso will be guest soloist on friday at 8 p.m in grace hall in the next of the current scl series spencer better known as big name among negro singers to day has given recitals in town hall and carnegie hall he also ralp flanagan the piano-play ing bandleader and his orchestra have accepted ifc's invitation to play at houseparty dance friday may 4 according to bill smith publicity chairman for the house party dance committee along with flanagan george sommer is slated to play on the upper floor of grace hall rela tively new group it will feature his rhythm and rhyme in summertime hailed by the nation's disc jockeys and record fans as the man who was instrument al in reviving dance band ralph flanagan featured with flanagan are his two singers hope zee who has her own particular style of sing ing and harry prime in an effort to perfect his ar see ralph page 7 while a capacity audience heard the third portion of the music festival on the lower level of grace hall saturday night thieves were at work in the glee club dressing room on the third floor a partial list of the missing articles compiled by a ques tioning of glee club members by telephone on sunday re vealed that the culprits suc ceeded in making off with one tuxedo one pair of tuxedo trousers several var sity letter sweaters borrowed for the performance 38 in cash several german beer steins and a checkbook in addition a women's purse belonging to sharon harkey of the lehigh valley symphony or chestra was stolen from the band room the purse contained keys a checkbook and 20 in cash prof william h schempf di rector of the music department and advisor to the glee club re ported that the articles were • see theft page 3 has appeared as guest soloist wil many leading symphony orche tras kenneth spencer during his career spencer has appeared on the stage and tv and in movies and night clubs his most out standing performances on the stage were in showboat and cabin in the sky two recent movie appearances were in the film version of cabin in the sky and bataan see scl page 3 gipson to go to england dr lawrence h gipson re search professor in the departs ment of history will be official representative of the american historical association at the fifth anglo-american conference of historians to be held july 9-14 in london england he will present a paper entitled john dickinson penman of the american revolu tion and the great war for ihe empire 1754-1763 at the con ference recipient of the loubat and bancroft prizes for distin guished writings in american history dr gipson will be granted a leave of absence from lehigh during the 1951 1952 academic year to serve as harold vyvan harmsworth professor of american his tory at oxford university before coming here in 1924 he taught at the university of idaho wabash college indiana univer sity pennsylvania state college and the university of pennsyl vania m&c prepares for sunday's production graduate wills lehigh 20,000 the late walter i nevius a graduate of the class of 1912 has willed 20,000 to lehigh univer sity as a new trust fund for out standing graduates nevius a native of west grove pa was a retired mechan ical and chemical engineer the will provides that awards of 400 and 500 will be made yearly to the young man who shall give promise of leading a useful life as evidenced by his virility gentility patriotism hon esty integrity and scholarship lu squadron of arnold air society named in honor of late major cheli lehigh music festival is termed successful in honor of major ralph cheli lehigh 41 who was awarded ihe congressional medal of honor posthumously for outstanding service in vorld war ji the members of the newly-formed arnold air society have named their unit the cheli squadron palevicz lists placement of 136 ingineers seniors in the engineering col lege placed in jobs now total 136 according to statistics compiled by frank v palevicz assistant director of the placement bureau this is less than one-half of 325 seniors who have applied for placement bureau services in addition to those placed 74 offers have been made to other seniors who have not yet decided to accept or decline palevicz said he asks those who have accept ed jobs to leave information at the bureau this applies to any one who has secured employ ment whether he has been aided by the bureau or has received the job through his own efforts pale vicz added by curricular subdivision the employment statistics are palevicz stated that 63 february graduates are now working for dollars instead of grades placements for technical men on an average basis rated high see placement page 3 mustard and cheese moves into redecorated packer chapel on sunday for its final production of this season the play will be t s eliot's famous drama murder in lhe cathedral the costumes for the entire cast were designed by mrs nancy de soto wife of prof rafael de soto of the romance language department and mr donald c mullin instructor in speech and technical director of the club the costumes for the four tempters were designed by mr mullin who is also creat ing elaborate and grotesque ly symbolic masks for these characters the faculty wives chorus and the cast have been holding re hearsals this past week in lhe chapel under the direction oi prof h barrett davis performances are at 4 p.m and 7:30 p.m and are open to the public a voluntary con tribution will be taken to help defray the costs of pro duction cyanide applications ready now for sophs by bob benedict as the audience which packed the lower floor of grace hall sat urday evening responded with their applause the cast of down in the valley bowed out ihe 1951 lehigh music festival many favorable comments were heard as the crowd of nearly 3,000 filed out of the student-built theater one of the highlights of the evening came when percy l sadler director of lehigh athletics took his hat off to the football team in part 111 of the show down in the valley warren t jones took the male lead and laurel milne a student at moravian college for women filled the feminine lead for saturday eve ning's performance jeanette rhodes also of moravian starred in friday evening's show part i featuring songs of many peoples included spirituals and popular music of european countries georges enesco's roumanian rhapsody completed the first section of the festival although financial figures have not yet been totaled receipts were well over the amount re quired to meet the budget ac cording to lawrene d edson business director herbert c hoover jr was coordinating di rector major cheli major cheli led an attack on ihe japanese in new guinea in august 1943 al though his aircraft was dam aged earlier in the mission major cheli maintained for mation rather than expose his see cheli page 7 tories promoted card designs at home football games and reor ganized ihe lehigh-lafayetie tug of-war in cooperation with the calumet club of lafayette the two groups arranged for the joint purchase of a trophy for the win ning team also undertaken was supe vision of frosh projects including the bonfire and the skits at the lafayette pep rally this year a cup was purchased for the dorm section with the winning skit groundwork has already been laid for freshman group song con test which is to begin with the class of 55 cyanide is now accepting ap plications for membership from sophomores whose cumulative average is 2.5 or better applica tions available in the arcadia office in drown hall must be ac companied by a short essay on what the applicant thinks would be a suitable future project for cyanide cyanide is an honorary organ ization whose chief function is to guide and assist freshmen from the time they come to lehigh un til they become sophomores in the past year cyanide set up an information booth during freshman week made a survey of study conditions in the dormi lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa jobs offers applicant ts dhem 4 3 19 3hem e e 20 9 32 8 7 24 42 35 65 phys and ep ... e 10 14 3 7 27 41 ah 28 17 58 viet e m 15 4 3 2 27 ii totals 136 74 325 inside • • . little man 6 editorials 6 sports angles 5 radio news 2 movies 8