Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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' Dreface HIS has been a big year, a big year for some 2700 students and for all Lehigh University. This year has seen the inauguration of a new president, a youthful leader and a proven administrator, symbolic, we feel, of a new and greater Lehigh. It has seen the return of hundreds of pre-war students, all former servicemen — some returning alone, some returning with wives, but all returning with a matured philosophy and a purposeful determination. This year has seen the expansion of the faculty with new men, and scholastic achievement with the highest averages and the lowest cut records in University history. This same year has witnessed the reactivation of all the fraternities, many of which had been closed since 1943, but which were once again to become the backbone of Lehigh social life. Similarly the clubs and societies, traditional since Asa Packer and Richard Harding Davis, were reorganized. This year has seen the construction of many new, odd looking struc- tures: Army barracks at Steel Field and Quonset huts on the campus. Last fall ground was broken for a new dormitory to be the third of a proposed quadrangle. Everywhere there was something new; innovation and progress were the keynote. This, then, was the year that we of the 1947 staff have tried to epitomize. In attempting to fulfill the obligation inherent in the title of our book, we have endeavored to compile and present a panoramic review of the students, the faculty, and Lehigh University. We have tried to pre- sent a volume worthy of a big year and a truly great university. VII

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