SHIELD & DIAMOND OF THE PI KAPPA ALPHA fRATERNITY
SEPTEMBER 1965
lN THIS ISSUE: e CASE OF THE VANISHING RUSHEE e PI KAPPA ALPHA IN WASHINGTON e OVER REGULATING RUSHING e BROTHEI Almost every college administration reports increasing pressure from stu dents to relax rules and reg~tlations on smoking, drinking, cars, visiting hours, and curfews, while the whole question of how far the college should act in loco parentis has been the subject of heated debate .... I have heard it argued that obedience to the letter and spirit of the honor code should be a matter of individual conscience only, not a matter of corporate responsibility. Presumably, if an individual does not agree with a rule or with the syslem, no one ought to enforce it on her. Any system that leaves it up to every individual to decide whether a rule is just or unjust is no system at all, but anarchy .... · It must be made clear that rules are made to protect yo ung people from hurt ing themselves, not simply to keep them from having fun. We must also rid ourselves of some of our worship and indulgence of youth and the false notion that fun is an end in itself rather than a by-product of doing hard things well, or we will transform ourselves into a society of adolescents . . . . The ''right to make one's own mistakes" is an absurd rallying cry. We all make mistakes un avoidably, but what is the use of studying the history of human society if each generation must repeat the errors of the past? .... Paradoxical though it may seem, true freedom comes through commitment commitment to people, to ideas, to causes greater than oneself. Freedom lies in being able to choose an area of engagement and intense interest; it cannot be found in aimless hedonism or irresponsible drift. The joys of freedom reside in using one's powers to the full in the service of some worthy enterprise that commands all one's depth of conviction and devotion. We are happiest when we are fully used, and it is the boredom and frustration of disengagement that makes us querulous and petty and mean. Excerpted from a commencement address by Dr. john A. Logan, ]r., President, Hollins College Reprinted from THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma M id·Winter, 1965 Pi Kappa Alpha's Preamble , And Its Second Century Shield &Diamond By CHARLES L. FREEMAN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY ational President of the Pi Kappa SEPTEMBER, 19615 VOLUME 76 NUMBER 1 Alpha Fraternity Our Virginia Centennial of the Founding in 1968 presents a tremen dous challenge. For 100 years we have lived under CONTENTS the ideals of "friendship on a former and more lasting basis" and "for the promotion of brotherly love and kind FEATURES feeling". These are the words our Founders wrote into the preamble of Case Of The Vanishing Rushee ______2 the Constitution on which Pi Kappa Portrait Of A PIKA In Washington______8 Alpha was established. What of the next 100 years-Cen Missouri Honors Allied Ch emical President______11 tennial II? The L egacy And Pi Kappa Alpha______I2 What can Pi Kappa Alpha do to promote friendship and kind feeling Brother Yeager, Genial Custodian Of A Private Fort Knox___ 14 not only within its own ranks, but Fra lerni ty M em b ersh i P------26 throughout the nation and the world? Last spring we took occasion to Over R egulating Rushing______28 write a personal letter to the presi Brotherhood Thmugh The Yean______34 dent of every college and university where Pi Kappa Alpha has a chapter. We called to his attention our com ing Centennial. We quoted the pre DEPARTMENTS amble to our Constitution and reaf firmed our desire to cultivate In The Bonds______25 " brotherly love a nd kind feeling" among our members, as undergradu Diamond Life Chapte1· ------25 ates who share the objectives of our Permanently Pinned ------38 universities. Precious Packages ------3 8 The response to this letter has been overwhelming. ot only in the sur Chapter Eternal ------3 9 prising number of responses but in Chapter Chatter ------} 9 the tone and sympathetic attitude to ward our IIKA ideals and in the general expres ion of encouragement to fraternitie in carrying out such objectives. Many of the responses CHAPTER NEWSLETTERS had high prai e for the calibre of our Arkansas 42, Arkansas State 41, Arkansas State Teachers 41 , Auburn 44, Chattanooga 43, chapter on their campuses. Cincin nati 40, Davidson 45, Eastern Illinois 41, Ferr is Slate 43, Georgia Tech 44, Ken tucky 46, Memphis Stale 42, Miam i 41, New Mexico 42, Omaha 40, Pennsylvania 42, Unanimou among the university Purdue 40, South Carolina 43, Southern Mississi ppi 40, Southwestern 45, Virginia 45, presidents was the feeling that, as William and Mary 44 President Ralph B. Draughon of Auburn expressed it, "the fraternity sys tem historically h as grown most significantly when it has identified The Fratern ity was founded at th e Un i Direct a II correspondence and changes itself with the purposes of higher versity of Virgin ia, March 1, 1868, by of address to : The Shield and Diamond Julian Edward Wood, Littleton Waller Magaz ine, 577 University, Memphis 12, education." Tazewell, James Ben jamin Sclater, Jr., Tennessee. Frederick Southgate Taylor, Robertson "In the fraternity", wrote President Howard, and Will iam Al exander. Draughon, "men acquire insights into The magazine is published each March , ROBERT D. LYNN , Editor June, September, and December. Copy the arts of human relations and sym deadlines are: January 15, April 15, June 15, and October 15. The Sh ield and Diamond is published by pathetic understanding.... We feel It is mailed without charge to all mem Democrat Printing and Litho Company, bers of the fraternity. Pl ease promptly 114 E. Second Street, Little Rock, Ark. that the co 11 e ge so cia 1 fraternity report changes of address-include both Second Class Postage pa id at Little Rock, old and new addresses. Arkansas. (con tinued on page 17) I The Case of THE VANISHING RUSHEE The Regrettable Results of Restrictive Rushing Regulations By ORVILLE H. READ Chairman, Board of Directors, Delta Upsilon Fraternity Who do you think is your toughest How very different now! Our ma that it's no longer good enough, or competitor in rush? The fraternity jor rushing ob tacles are no longer even halfway smart, to down-grade with the bigger, newer house down the other Greek letter houses. You the other fraternities in rush. the street The house with all the have two much tougher competitors. If the Betas knock the Sigma Chis, top athletes? The one that wins the The first is the great big, plush dorm and the Sigma Chis knock the DUs, scholar hip trophy every year? itory that offers all the physical com and the DUs knock the Betas, pretty Forget it! On nine campuses out forts of the Hilton hotels and looks soon the rushee gets the idea that of ten it isn't any other fraternity. mighty good to many a freshman. perhaps the critics were right .. . On most of these campuses, a large Alongside such dormitories, the av fraternities are no good. percentage of the men who would erage chapter house 1 o o k s pretty How much better if the rush story make good fraternity members never grubby. A man usually has to be wil is positive. The fraternity system is join any fraternity. ling to accept some personal discom good. There are many good fraterni So, if you are rushing against other fort today if he wants to be a frater ties on campus. Then, from there, fraternities, the way we did, a long nity member. tell the rushees why your chapter is generation ago, it's time to take a The second and even tougher and better-why it should appeal to him long, hard look. Maybe you're shoot more subtle competitor today is the more. Not that Beta is worse, but ing at the wrong target. Maybe you widely-circulated suggestion that fra that you are better. are aiming at your friends, when the ternities are no longer important bushes are full of enemies. Maybe it's that, in fact, fraternities may be harm The Television Parable time to make an up-to-date market fu l to the process of education. Many Let's take a look at an analogy in analysis. good fraternity prospects are coming the market place. Let's suppose that The rushing market today is far to college today with that indoctrina in your city there are several different different from 30 years ago. Back in tion. To sell them your fraternity, stores selling several different brands those days we had a great rushing you first must sell them the frater of color TV. You've heard a lot advantage-fraternities were living in nity system. about color TV, pro and con. You've nice warm caves ... and the indepen These are the rushing problems seen it at a neighbor's. You've about dents were still living in trees. we face today that weren't even decided to buy a set, even though you This allowed us to concentrate on contemplated in "the good old realize they're not perfect. So, you just one phase of rushing-sinking clays." But, though the problems stop in at the store selling Brand A, the shaft into any other fraternity in have changed completely in the and the first thing the salesman does which a rushee might be interested. last decade or so, rushing tech is to tell you why you don't want We knew that our prospect wanted niques still follow very much the Brand B. Their colors are muddy, desperately to join a fraternity-he same old patterns. We still con repair bills are high, pictures aren't had to in order to get in out of the centrate on rushing against each reliable. You go down the street to rain! All we had to do wa to knock other, and overlook the real com take a look at Brand B, and that the other fraternities out of the run petition. dealer tells you that Brand A is out ntng. It is high time that we all realize of date, their circuitry is poor, their 2 cabinets are shoddy, their tuning is the close personal fraternity life, com occurred to someone to question this too complex. pared to the cold, impersonal dorm, procedure, and after careful investi Your reaction quite likely will be you'll definitely want to join a fra gation it was learned that, more than that perhaps it isn't wise to buy a ternity. Now in AAA we think you one hundred years before, the King color TV set after all. So you go could be particularly h a p p y be had seen a wild flower that had back home to your old reliable black cause ... " And at BBB he gets this, sprung up in that unprotected spot, and-white set .. . and color TV has "Fraternities double the significance and had ordered a Ian tern placed lost a customer. Those salesmen mis of college life. At BBB we are par there each night for its protection. judged the market. They didn't real ticular proud of ..." This rushee We have our red lanterns, too. ize that first you had to be sold on is pretty apt to be sold on the fra Most restrictive rushing rules have color TV, and then to be sold on the ternity system. Some fraternity is go long ago outlived their usefulness benefits to be obtained from a par ing to get a good member. if, indeed, many of them were ever ticular brand. Fraternity Advantages really needed. It's time for your IFC to re-examine the rule book, to elim Suppose, instead Salesman A meets Fraternities do have great advan inate the red lanterns, and to get on you at the door and says. "Color TV tages. In general they have nothing with the real job. is wonderful. Once you've had it in to be defensive about-and nothing your home, you'll never be satisfied to attack each other on. They do IFC's Build Better Rush with black and white. Now let me have a strong, positive story to sell. Your IFC should urge all fraterni tell you some features of Brand A Socially, economically, scholastically ties to build r u s h i n g programs which make it the best on the mar (yes, scholastically too) they make around the advantages of the fra ket." Down the street, Salesman B sense. A positive approach in rush ternity system. We must stress in says, "Color TV doubles your watch ing will benefit the entire fraternity rushing the fact that fewer fraternity ing pleasure. Brand B has some spe system, and your chapter will share men are drop-outs from college. We cial features which we think will in the prosperity. must emphasize the leadership train particularly appeal to you." Start selling the fraternity system ing that fraternities offer, point out Soon you're really enthusiastic in your very first contacts with the the greater enjoyment of living with about color TV. Now it's just a ques rushee (and his parents). An old a compatible group of men of your tion of which set you select and enjoy. merchandising axiom is, "You can't own choice, and bear down on the Someone is going to sell a color TV knock the competitor without de positive values of our social pro set. grading your own product." Another grams, of our scholarship programs, Don't 'Un-sell' Fraternities is, "Sell Benefits." They both apply of our intramural programs, of our It's easy to translate this into fra equally to rushing. leadership training programs. ternity terms. If the rushee first visits All fraternities should work ,to There's another selling axiom the AAA house and they say, "Watch gether in this program. Through which applies equally to rushing, out for BBB. Their house is in bad their Intrafraternity Conferences "Make it easy for the customer to shape. They've lost all their good they should start attacking the rea l buy." It's time, in fact it's long past men this year and they're in real job. The real job isn't to make more time, for our IFCs to begin helping trouble with the Dean. Worse than rules which only complicate rushing fraternities to work together in the that, they have special assessments and discourage rushees. The real job common cause of promoting the fra for every party. It'll cost you a for isn't to act as a police force to make ternity system. Do we do this now tune." At the BBB house they say, sure that no fraternity violates the in our rushing programs? Let's go "Too bad about AAA. They used to many and awesome rushing rules that back to our parable of color TV and be pretty good, but you wouldn't already exist, and to mete out punish see how closely it parallels the rush want to get in with them now. Half ment for each infraction. The real program on many campuses. their pledges will quit the first job is to promote the fraternity sys This time, when you go out to shop month because they treat them like tem, to make it a stronger and better for a set you don't even get in the dogs. They're pretty shaky financial part of campus life, and to provide door. You are met at the threshold ly, too. And you should see their an environment that will make good by the dealer, who says, "If you are meals after rush week is over." prospects want to be fraternity mem interested in shopping for color TV, This rushee probably is going to bers. there are a few rules which you must wind up living in a dorm for four It is told that on the grounds of observe: years, figuring, "Just like I heard, Buckingham Palace a lighted red I. You must go first to the Cham fraternities are no good." The fra lantern had been placed at a certain ber of Commerce and register as ternity system has lost a good pros spot every night for more than one a prospective buyer. pect. hundred years. Each morning for 2. You must pay a registration fee Now suppose instead that rushee more than a century the lantern was for this shopping privilege. hears at AAA, "Fraternity life is won picked up, cleaned, and refilled, and 3. You must start your shopping derful. each night a guard carefully replaced on a fixed day at a fixed hour. "Once you know the advantages of it in that same location. It finally Then you must visit at least 3 THE CASE OF THE Lee Talley Delivers Atlanta VANISHING RUSHEE CONTINUED Address I am honored indeed to have the brotherhood and inscribed upon the original charter of this fraternity four dealers for a period of one opportunity of speaking to my dis those high ideals and principles upon hour each-no more, no less. tinguished fraternity Brothers on this which this fraternity has been built. You must ge t a receipt from occasion when we gather to pay trib Each of us owes them an undying him showing that you have ute to the founders of our fraternity. debt of gratitude. made this visit. I think it should also be a time 4. On no account may you go back when we repledge our loyalty and Our fraternity is something more to any dealer a second time or devotion to the fraternity and reded than a euphonious combination of buy a set' until you have visited icate ourselves to the principles for Greek letters. It is more than a sym them all. which it stands. bol around which young men gather 5. ow, in our town, you can't see Here present are men who repre to organize for themselves a gayer and any of these sets until next Feb sent the active membership of Pi more congenial social life. In taking ruary, and if any dealer even Kappa Alpha in this community, its oath, we have found ourselves ir lets you in his store before then, whose lives are daily being enriched revocably bound to the principles or discusses TV with you, he by the bonds of friendship and bro and ideals for which it stands. It has is barred from selling you a set, therhood which bind them in com proven to be-and should continue no matter how much you may mon purposes, common dedication, to be-one of the most uplifting in want it." and common devotion to this fra fluences in our lives. After hearing these, and other ternity which was founded more On this day which we have set aside rules, you'd be pretty apt to say, than ninety years ago. to honor the founders of the frater "The heck with it. I don't want color The presence of so many alumni nity, I am mindful of all that has TV that badly. It isn't worth the here this evening is confirmation of transpired since Brothers Taylor, trouble." the fact that they continue to keep Tazewell, Howard, Wood, Slater, But before you walked out of the green and bright the memory of their and Alexander founded its first chap dealer's life forever, you might ask fraternity ties in their college years ter in 1868. I am mindful of the him, "Why has the government made which did so much to enrich their proud record that has been made all these silly rules that make it so lives and mould their characters in since that time. I am mindful of the hard for you to sell TV sets, and for those college days. many great Brothers whose dedica me to buy one?" It is fitting indeed that we meet tion and devotion to it have been And the dealer would reply, "Oh, here on this day to pay a special rev such a source of inspiration to those the government didn't make all these erent tribute to those honored men of us who have come along with them rules. We did this to ourselves!!!" of more than ninety years ago at the and after them. Sounds silly, doesn't it? You can't University of Virginia who joined Certain it is that Pi Kappa ·Alpha imagine a group of merchants being their hands in the solemn bonds of was born of deep fraternal devotion. so foolish. But look ·again. How many of the rushing rules which have been built upon your campus over a period of years are just as restric RUSHING RECOMMENDATION tive? How many of those rules are Please inform the chapter of this prospect. I hope the chapter and tbe prospect keeping good rushees away from your will be mutually interested. house and the houses of your fellow N arne of Rushee ------Greeks? Rushee's address______City------How many rushing rules are actu Co II ege he w iII attend------ ally harming the fraternity system? How many red lanterns do you have PiKA relatives or close friends------ on your campus? General information (grades, honors, personality)------ Th ~ Case of !he Vanishing Rushee is the third in a. sen es of artides prepared for fraternity maga zmes by O pe r~ltl o n Challenge, a project established by the fift y-~ Ight member College Fraternity Edi tors AssociatiOn. He will be a: Freshman ______Soph ______Senior. ______in September, 1965 Permission to reprint the article or any portion thereof must. be obtained from the author and Signed ------Chapter ------from Operau on Chall enge. Committee members ~r; : Ralph F. Burns, A:!: 4 At least three-and possibly four-of There is a period in its early years in this vast army which makes up our the six founders saw military service, which the historian has aptly termed great fraternity that is the measure either as Virginia Military Institute "THE PERIOD OF STORM A D ment of the fraternity itself. cadets or in the Confederate Army STRESS." What is the explanation for all that during the closing years of the War This period could also symbolize has gone before? What is the ex Between the States. Then, turning the fiery crucible which tested the planation for the degree of eminence to peacetime occupations-all repre purpose and purified the ideals and which Pi Kappa Alpha has attained? sentatives of fine old families of the hardened the principles upon which What has been the secret of its suc ante-bellum south-they sought the the fraternity was founded. cess? limited fields of higher education in That period was not one that in I am convinced that this fraternity a country torn by conflict and faced spired hope and cheer. Of eleven is what it is today because it has, since by the overwhelming task of recon chapters that had beer.t founded, its inception, been built upon a Phi struction. seven were already extinct and four losophy of Excellence: Excellence in Not only do we see in our minds' were near collapse. the ideals for which it stands; Excel eye these determined and purposeful But there had come on the scene lence in its standards of quality; young men at the University of Vir such men as Theron Hall Rice, How Excellence in its character; and Ex ginia in 1868 but we see states and ard Bell Arbuckle, John Shaw Foster, cellence in the men who make it up. people-who a few years before had and Robert Adger Smythe. This fraternity has lived by a Philoso been unusually proud and assertive All four of these men had made phy of Excellence. of their political rights-now being momentous contributions to the fra It is up to you-and it is up to me treated as· conquered territory, dis ternity, but they also made signifi to see to it that it continues to live franchised, and humiliated. cant contributions to the spiritual by a Philosophy of Excellence. To Not only had the ravages of war and civic life of this very city in which achieve this degree of excellence it destroyed farm and plantation equip we are gathered today. Theron Rice has naturally been selective in the ment, but likewise, after four years, as pastor of Southern Presbyterian men who make it up. regular production had a 1m o s t Church here in Atlanta. Howard Perhaps the greatest example of ceased, t r a d e channels had been Bell Arbuckle taught for fifteen years what a few select men can do is that blocked or destroyed, and the mar at Agnes Scott College. John Shaw of the twelve men whom the Lord kets for southern products seemingly Foster was a Professor of Theology in Jesus himself selected to spread his non-existent. Decatur, Georgia. Robert Adger gospel throughout the world. That The political and economic break Smythe spent much of his business was nearly two thousand years ago, down promised to carry with it the life here in Atlanta. I shall never but today the effectiveness of these culture of the south as well. forget the impression Brother Smythe twelve select men can be seen in the The college men of the south in made upon me when I first met him when I was a raw young pledge of fact that there is hardly a city or 1 that period were for the most part a village or a hamlet in most of the heirs of the culture of their section. Beta Kappa Chapter at Emory Uni They must have felt-in this period versity. His warm personality, his countries of the civilized world where of uncertainty and humiliation-that dignity and charm, his regal bearing the cathedral or the temple or the it was a sacred obligation to preserve made me feel sure that I was stand church of Jesus Christ is not found the best of that heritage, and they ing in the presence of royalty itself. standing in princely dignity shaping found in a fraternity such as Pi The fraternity was founded upon the lives of men and holding high the Kappa Alpha a means by which this the solid rock of truth, and its charter light of hope for all mankind. could be accomplished. was hammered out upon the anvil of Since its inception, our fraternity has adhered to a Philosophy of Ex It was less than three years after integrity. cellence in the selection of its men. Appomattox that the founding group As the years have passed swiftly by, We must continue to adhere to the of six students met in the room of we have seen it draw its adherents in highest standards of Excellence in one of their number and organized ever growing numbers from the heart the selection of those with whom we the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. The of all America, from the cities and enter into the bonds of brotherhood. roar of guns had ceased, but the stress towns throughout our land, from the of war was still in the land. The north, the south, the east, and the Why is this Philosophy of Excel stress and the strains of reconstruc west. lence so essential to us today? tion were keeping raw the wounds of From its humble beginnings, there Why is it so essential? It is essen civil strife. is today a vast army of proud men tial because there is a counter force With a kind Providence directing who are bound in brotherhood and on the loose around us, and this its destinies, the fraternity in those dedicated and devoted to the same counter force is on the rampage right years experienced the vicissitudes and ideals and principles to which each now. It is a counter force which is hopes and fears such as have fallen of us is dedicated through our rever in deadly combat with the Philoso , to the lot of few such institutions or ence and allegiance to Pi Kappa phy of Excellence. It is the pale gray societies. Alpha. It is the quality of the men doctrine of averagism. Mediocrity is 5 tired. His hour glass-with which he LEE TALLEY'S ATLANTA ADDRESS • CONTINUED numbers our appointed hours on this earth-is sitting on the ground beside on the rampage. Mediocrity rides not only with distinguished alumni him. His sharp scythe-with which high. Brothers but with the fine young he cuts us down when our race is run In this culture of mediocrity, bril men who make up the active chapters -is lying across his lap. Below the liance is blended into the merging within our midst. old man St. Gaudens has depicted the mathematics of mediocrity, where it There is not an alumnus among us vast multitude of humanity-moving, serves only to shore up the shady and who doesn't owe a great debt to our hastening, hurrying, rushing past-all the shoddy. fraternity. These fine young Bro moving-moving ever onward in the Against this culture of mediocrity, thers in the active chapters not only same direction. The old man is qui the Philosophy of Excellence must need our support and encouragement etly and pensively gazing down upon exert its untiring and fiery effort, and but we owe it to them. They can this vast throng of humanity as it it can score tremendous victories and are doing their part to enhance flows in a never-ending stream below against the greatest odds. and advance the great heritage of him. The Philosophy of Excellence has the fraternity which those who are no The somber meaning which St. validity. It has power. And it can longer active have left to them. Gaudens intends for us to draw from have its effect on human behavior at But while they are now making his statue is not· that time flies-not almost any level of activity, because the most of their own golden years that time is on the run-not that time those who live by the pursuit of Ex in the active brotherhood of the fra will pass us by as we so often think cellence do so all of the time. ternity, we alumni have also had our of it. His sober lesson for us is that At important junctures and in the golden years in it, and we have had TIME STAYS- TIME REMAINS. most unexpected places you find or the rich blessings which flowed from IT IS WE WHO PASS-AND WE ganizations where the people in them our active association in it. We PASS THIS WAY BUT ONCE. have a special motivation that is little should continue ever grateful for To my younger Brothers who make understood. "That organization has them, and we should, to the best of up this active membership of our something," people will say. I can our ability, keep our hand upori the chapters, you are experiencing the tell you that that organization has shoulders of our younger active Bro golden years of your life and the something because its people have thers and give, to the extent of our golden years of your fraternity life. something. Call it an indominitable ability, of our time and of our means These will pass all too swiftly for you. compulsion to excel. Call it the Phi to assist' them in building our fra They will pass as a watch in the losophy of Excellence. By any name, ternity ever greater and greater. night, and when past they will seem it is the explanation for much of our And now, if I may, I should like as yesterday. history, and it is our major hope for to address a wcrd to the undergrad One of the most noble purposes of the future. uate Brothers who are here tonight, our fraternity is "the making of If I may, I should like to address and, if I may, I will draw you a word men," and, in turn, it is these men a word to those of us who are the picture of something I should like who make the fraternity. It. is no alumni Brothers of our great frater very much to impress upon you. better than the men who make it up. nity. There is a statue which was done What sort of an imprint will each If one reads the history of our fra by the famous sculptor St. Gaudens. of you, my younger Brothers, make ternity, one thing stands out, and This statute depicts TIME in a man upon your fraternity? Will it be a that is the great problem which the ner somewhat differently than that better fraternity when you leave it fraternity has experienced in keep to which we are accustomed. We as an active member than when you ing up with its alumni and keeping usually think of Old Father Time as found it? Will you enhance its stat alive and fresh their active energy being on the run. We see him with ure and its reputation for character and influence in the continued build his long white hair, his long beard, because of the kind of loyalty and ing of the fraternity. his flowing robes, his hour glass devotion you yourself make to it I know how difficult this must be, swinging in his hand, and his scythe because of the manner in which you but I also deeply regret that it is so. upon his shoulder, hurrying and live. up to and exemplify the princi I, for one, moved to a foreign coun scurrying along. ples and ideals for which the frater try not long after graduation and But in this statue of St. Gaudens nity stands? lived there twenty years. While I Father Time isn't running. He isn't Remember that the inevitable and continued always mindful of my hurrying. He isn't hastening out of the immutable scales which weigh great debt to the fraternity during nowhere into nowhere. each and every one of us in the end that period, my ties and contact with In St. Gaudens' statue Father Time will weigh us heavy or light on how it were virtually severed. I am happy is quietly sitting down. His elbows much we give rather than on how indeed that I am back in one of the are upon his knee. His chin is sup much we take. centers of strength of our fraternity, ported in his hands. His face is worn These are the years in which you where one can have frequent contact and haggard. His eyes are hollow and can make-and these are the years in 6 which you must make-your greatest contribution to your frat ern i t y. These are the years when you will make your greatest imprint upon it. Remember-YOU PASS THIS W A Y BUT ONCE. So here, then, is your great chal lenge. Make the most of your op portunity. How will you handle the problems we face? How will you handle the challenges which we con front and the opportunities within your grasp? The real contest is between what you might do and what you will do between what might be and what will be. The contest will be among you. The world is your oyster, but Pi Miss A merica Vonda Kay Van Dyke beams as she is crowned honorary Dream Girl by j ack Kappa Alpha's part, I pray, will re N immo (center) and SMC Cha Tles R umsey of Epsilon-O mega Chapter, Ada, Oklahoma. main the pearl. T au (University of Michigan) Alumni velopment as will any made during his Associati on, Dr. W allace W ott of Adrian four-year undergraduate career. and Mr. J ames O 'Mara of J ackson, Presi New students hould consider the his dent and Secretary res pectfully. Beta T au torical ideali m in fraternities as well as Colony Established became a silent chapter in 1936 as a re the practica l arguments which they will sult of the depression, and these two men, hear. They should realize that even the At Adrian College along with all the other Beta Tau PiKA's mos t worthy ideals are difficult to attain, are very anxious to re-establish their and that many will fail in the attempt. chapter at the University of Michigan . There is a philosophy which states that In Michigan It is hoped that through our increasing man never reaches a state of real sati s On May I, 1965, two years to the day expansion in Mi chigan chapters this facti on, but rather is fulfilled in his ef after the establi hment of Psi Sigma Rho dream will become a reality. There are fort$ to reach that state. Perhaps there is local at Adrian College, Pi Kappa Alpha now three chapters and two coloni es in truth h ere, if we adapt the philosophy to was fortunate enough to establish this the state. the subject at hand. Even should a per local as a colony of the fraternity. Forty fect fraternali sm never be achieved, those three men were formally pledged during who seek it will be rewarded, if their ef the ceremony. Guest Editorial On forts are sincere. Adrian Coll ege is a Methodist institu Youth is a time for ideals. While yo ung tion founded before the Civil W ar. In Fraternities a m an must begin things, must build and fact, some Union soldiers are buried on by JOHN D. HOPKIN S, Omicron plan and learn. Soon enough will come the college grounds. R ecently, the college (An ed itorial appea ring the forced hardening of emotions, the has begun an expansion program in in the Collegian, Sept. 25, 1964) fatigue of spirit in minds depressed by which over two thirds of the existing Men come to Richmond recognizing it circumstance. buildings are Jess than three years old. as a liberal arts school, a university for The ideal of Ia ting fri endship is one Plans call for the demolition of all but the whole man. There is no over to whid1 thousa nds of America n men and one of the old buildings. The size of the emphas is on the technica l, no confine women have sworn themselves. Long be student bod y has nearly doubled in the ment to specialties; there i opportunity fore there was a Greek-letter society, last four years. for broadening of experience. One goes young people of thoughtful mind rea li zed With all these signs of growth and an beyond the environment of his develop the good in cl ose friendship, and sought administration committed to the fra mental yea rs to Jearn of m an the social to preserve it. ternity system, Pi Kappa Alpha is pleased being, the seeker after ideals. That sys tem begun in Virginia in 1779 to be able to es tablish a colony; the fifth In the minds of the founders of every has changed grea tly, and at times seems national on campus. Others are Alpha grea t national fraternity was a belief in unrelated to its father. Yet the principles Tau Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsil on, T au ce rtain ideals-a belief strong enough that are there, and are practiced by dedicated Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Chi. th e holders worked with dedica ti on to fraternity members throughout the na Present for the installati on were N a crea te organiza ti ons through which they tion. tional Alumni Secretary Donald Dickson, and their sons might attain that in which Those who are co nsidering fraternity District President Michael Clancy, Fi eld they believed. membership will see, if they carefully Secretary Richard Ogle, and undergrad T here begins in three days that four examine the chapters at Richmond, that uate me.mbers from Delta Beta (Bowling week period ca ll ed fraternity rush. This it is in the close associations, the common Green) and Epsilon Epsilon (Toledo) time i of great importance to the student experiences with ones of agreeable mind Chapters. hody, indeed to the whole school, for de and interes t, that fraternalism is nour In addition we were fortunate enough cisions made this month will as surely in ished. The matter deserves though tful to have present two officers of the Beta flu ence the direction of the student's de- consideration. 7 and returned to civilian life with high commendations for meritorious serv ice. In 1947, a mutual friend, know ing that Senator Sparkman was look ing for an Administrative Assistant, recommended Brother Horne as an ideal choice, if the Senator could get him. This was the beginning of his distinguished career in Government, as Senator Sparkman succeeded in persuading him to leave a bright fu ture in private industry to enter Gov ernment service. The association of 18 years with the Senator from Ala bama afforded John opportunities for public service which he pursued with great credit. The sterling traits which served him so well in his Government career were evident from his earliest begin nings- self-reliance, sound manage ment, and 100-percent effort toward Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court Byron White (left ) administered the oath of office to j ohn E. Horne as Chairnmn of the Federa l H ome Loan Bank Board as U.S. the objectives. He makes up his mind Senator john Sparkman (T-A, Alabama) and Linda Home observe. with care and wisdom, and then ap plies his whole strength to the job. His essential quality is "total devo tion," and this has brought John all PORTRAIT OF A PiKA the way-from farm boy to national leader. IN WASHINGTON John has found the ideals and prin ciples of PiKA highly compatible. John E. Horne, Chairman, Federal Home Perhaps it is more than symbolic that one of our early fathers - Founder Loan Bank Board William Alexander- was also in the Brother John E. Horne, Chairman come highly strategic in our national thrift industry and for over 65 years of the Federal Home Loan Bank economy. It finances over 40 percent was Secretary of the Equitable Life Board, is nominated for recognition of the home mortgages made in this Assurance Society. Thrift and good in these pages for his good works, country. It is supervised by the Board management have always been a way which enhance the name of PiKA of which John is Chairman. Those of life with John too. He has sup among the leaders of our Tation. who have invested their funds in this ported himself since boyhood, and Seldom is one man appointed by industry, or have financed the pur has willingly accepted responsibility three different Presidents to serve in chase of a home, have reason to be for other members of his family. high Executive commands. John glad President Johnson has put at its His all-out approach to getting the Horne is one of the few men who en helm as Chairman a guardian so com job done is illustrated in his early joy this distinction. In 1951, Presi petent as John Horne. And we of education. Near the little town of dent Truman appointed him Admin PiKA are proud that this Chairman, Clayton, in Barbour County, Ala istrator, Small Defense Plants Admin a man of so many achievements, is bama, where he was born in 1908, life istration. In 1961 , Pre&ident Ken one of us. was rugged and opportunities few. nedy asked him to head the Small John was pledged by the Gamma That District had a one-teacher grade Business Administration. And in Alpha chapter at the University of school, that had few books and rather 1965, John was drafted by President Alabama, where he graduated with vague standards for passing from Johnson to serve as Chairman, Fed honors in 19 33. He was SMC of his grade to grade. Progress was up to eral Home Loan Bank Board. chapter-but thereby hangs another each student. In this free-for-all, His present post is one of tremen tale. Upon graduation he continued John passed all seven grades in 2 dous re ponsibility, and bespeaks the on a history fellowship as he worked years. Later on, in high school, he confidence placed in him by those in toward his M.A. degree. In 1935, he persuaded the principal to let him the highest places. Thirty-nine mil accepted a· position as a southern rep "double up" and in characteristic lion Americans have entrusted their re entative fo"r the iacmillan Pub fashion he again finished the require funds to savings and loan associations li hing Company. ments in 2 years. So, at this point, he throughout the country. This is a During World War II, he served as had a total of 30 months formal edu 120 billion industry which has be- a commissioned officer in the Navy cation-about V3 the usual span. 8 near the "big city" of Birmingham, a well-organized rush committee to to resume teaching. Before long the take the field, come fall, against all School District ran out of money and competition for the top pledges on started paying teachers in script. This the campus. His purpose was, as al was not only poor tender, but went ways, a sound one-that is, not merely against John's sense of fiscal responsi to increase the number of members, bility. He determined to finish col which was admittedly low, but also lege and prepare for a better hfe. to improve the calibre of membership So, it was in 1931 at the age of 23 by rushing the best pledge material that John left home with a $1 bill in on the campus. his pocket and hitchhiked his way to The plan succe~ded beyond all ex Tuscaloosa and the University of pectations. Candidates were selected Alabama. He found work immedi with care, and exposed to the best ately, and managed so well that he traditions of PiKA. As a result, John was able to put himself, two sisters, pledged more members that year and a brother through college. His than any other hou e h ad pledged up john E. Horne (r-A, Alabama) Chairman, preeminence on the campus is wit to that time. Many of his rushees are Federal H ome L oan Bank Board. nessed not only by election to Phi today leading citizens in Alabama Beta Kappa, but also by being tapped and national life. For this and many His methods of self-support during for Omicron Delta Kappa, the fine other achievements on the campus, this period were also typical of his national honor society for all-around he was designated by PiKA an out native r-esourcefulness and self leadership; and by the two leading standing leader at that time. reliance. After grammar school he professional fraternities in his own John applies the same all-out ap "made crop" for 5 years on his fath Department of Education-Phi Delta proach to his career work. After 4 er's farm. He often accompanied his Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi. He also years as Senator Sparkman's Admin father who was a "lay preacher." This was elected by the student body, with istrative Assistant, his work had so is a calling sometimes followed by the out opposition, to be editor of the recommended him that President devout in certain rural communities college yearbook, the Coralla. Truman appointed him Administra not able to support the paid services Of the social fraternities, John's tor, Small Defense Plants Administra of an ordained preacher. As a "circuit choice of PiKA was a happy one, and tion. He was well qualified because rider" he travelled from Clayton to he has served unselfishly since his ini of his work on the Senate Banking Clio, and from Clio to Texasville, ti ation. During the year when he was and Currency Committee, which in which (as John sometimes says, in the SMC of his chapter, John set a new volved legislative problems in small idiom of the Horne Country) is about record. Observing that in the preced business, money and banking, and a "wagon's greasing" from Clayton_ ing year the chapter had shown poor housing fields. While attending high school in re ults in rushing, John decided that John served in this post until the Clio, he was a night telephone opera dear old PiKA was worthy of greater Ei enhower administration, and then tor. An anecdote from this era re things. So, taking advantage of the returned to Capitol Hill as Senator flects the qualities of trust and loyalty summer vacation, John put together Sparkman's aide. Cont'd Next Page for which he is well known. He was affectionately known as "Bugle," and j ohn E. H orne, daughter Susan, and Mrs. H orne. once when two gossips were having a spirited chat, one said to the other: "I think there's someone on this line." To which the other replied: "Oh, that's all right. It's only Bugle, and HE won't tell!" At age 18, he was teaching school, between courses at Troy State Teach er's College where he got his Certifi cate in 1928. Here he pieced out his finances by night-clerking in the local hoteL One of his duties was to open the restaurant in the early morning and cook breakfast for guests leaving or going to jobs between 6 and 8 AM. John explains that he kept this ex perience a secret from his wife for at least the first 10 years of their mar riage! He next moved on to Columbiana, 9 among many others. Incidentally, the CONTINUED PI KAPPA ALPHA IN WASHINGTON • Washington chapter of the latter be stowed on him the Capitol Capstone During the 8 years following, John his Government job), great prestige, Award for 1965. But above all, it is for his unselfish took on certain political tasks which and relatively little stress, compared enlarged his scope and stature. First, with duties as Chairman or even public service, with no thought of in 1954 he became Staff Director for Member of the Board. It is thus to personal gain, that we reserve for him the Democratic Senatorial Campaign. John's credit that, all during the sum a place of honor on our roll. For we Two year later, he was Assistant mer and fall of the election year· of are proud to acknowledge those who, Campaign Manager for the nomina 1964, he stuck steadfastly to his job like him, have made their names tion and election of Adlai Stevenson. as Member of the Board. President among the Nation's leaders, and who And in 1960, he became Executive Di Johnson, after his election, per add so conspicuously to the lustre of rector of the National Citizens' Com suaded him to head the Board. PiKA. mittee for Kennedy and Johnson. Such integrity has won him the After his inauguration, President name "Honest John," and beyond Kennedy appointed John Horne, Ad that the admiration of everyone. He ministrator, Small Business Admin has an easy, friendly manner, and an PiKA Leaders In istration, for which he was eminently engaging sense of humor that springs well prepared. SBA was the out from the soil. The many ties of friend N.I.C. by William Crosby ship he has made on Capitol Hill are growth of the earlier SDPA which Pi Kappa Alpha brothers are holding of enormous value in Executive as President Truman had asked him to leadership positions in the National In signments, such as the present one head 10 years before. In the interim, terfraternity Confeernce. In the frater with experience as Administrator, and in a sense, John is his own best nity system there are two basic categories John had recommended statutory "PR." of membership- undergraduates and changes to improve the Agency. Reviewing his career, it is no won alumni. In the N.I.C. there is a com These had been enacted. Thus, it was der that Brother Horne has enjoyed mittee for each of these two categories with great satisfaction that John re such acclaim and recognition from and both are chaired by Pi Kappa Alpha turned to this highly important high places. Yet he carries his honors members-the first by Robert D. Lynn, Agency of which he had been the modestly. Once, at the Senate hear who is also a member of the Executive architect and first Administrator. The ings on his appointment as Adminis Committee, and the latter by Executive challenge was great, for SBA was now trator SBA, he was asked if it were Director Earl Watkins. a full-fledged Agency serving almost not true that he belonged to Phi Beta It is not a strange set of circumstances 5 million business firms of the na Kappa. "Yes," John replied, "but I that they have been appointed to these tion, with orne 50 million employees. don't brag about it for fear of em positions. Both men have a wealth of They looked to the SBA for financial barrassing the members." experience in fraternity work. Brother assistance, Government contracts, and As the recipient of so many honors, Lynn served for fourteen years as Execu management consulting. They also which space prevents enumerating, it tive · Secretary and is one of the most re depended on the Small Business In is fitting that John should have spected men in the American college vestment Companies-regulated by served as Chairman of the PiKA Dis fraternity system. He is also serving as National Editor of Pi Kappa Alpha. His John's Agency-for long-term loans tinguished Achievement Award Selec administrative talents were recognized and equity financing. tion Committee, and· as Trustee of so that, after serving professionally for In this post, John served with un the PiKA Memorial Foundation, The Fraternity, he became President of paralleled success until 1963 when which he still is. He was also Chair The Hutchison School, an outstanding the President again drafted him-this man of our National Convention, independent college preparatory school time for a greater task, as Democratic held in Washington, D.C., in 1958. for girls in Memphis. Member of the Federal Home Land With all his public responsibilities, Earl '.Yatkins, currently in his twelfth Bank Board, an Agency which, in the John has lived a rich family and com year of professional work with Pi Kappa past 15 years, has grown to be a high munity life. He resides in Alexandria, Alpha, is imminently qualified to serve ly significant factor in our national Virginia, across the Potomac from as chairman of the Undergraduate Activ economy. In January 1965, he was ap Washington, with his devoted wife, . ities Committee. His ability to under pointed Chairman of this Board by the former Ruth Kleinman, his stand and work with college men has President Johnson. Dream Girl from campus days. They made him one of Pi Kappa Alpha's really out tanding leaders. He has an One situation, before he became have two lovely daughters, Linda and unusual ability to communicate with Chairman, that showed John's sense usan. John is active in civic and undergraduates. This will serve him well of duty, was the invitation to come to church affairs, serving as a vestryman as he advises the various Interfraternity San Franci co a President of the Fed in the Episcopal Church. He has Councils and undergraduate fraternity eral Home Loan Bank of that City. been a constructive participant in lea ders. To any ordinary public servant, it the PTA, American Legion, the Brother Lynn and Brother Watkins would have been an irresistible temp Alabama Historical Society, Elks, a are credits to Pi Kappa Alpha and are tation-a lifetime job, considerable tiona! Democratic Club, and the Uni recognized leaders in the fraternity affluence (about twice the income of versity of Alabama Alumni Society, world. 10 company and its products better BROWN LEADS ALLIED CHEMICAL known. A favorite project is the transformation of the Times Tower, TO BILLION IN SALES at Times Square in New York City, into the new Allied Chemical Tower, which the company has announced will be a "showcase for chemistry at the crossroads of the world" when it is completed this year. Allied will continue traditions at the Tower, known to most people for its dramatic moving news.sign and the New Year's Eve ball-lowering ceremony at mid night. Chester Brown has strengthened the interrelationship among the Al lied divisions, whose different fields of interest made them at one time quite autonomous in the conduct of their busines~. Speaking of the old Ches ter M. Brown, president, Allied Chemica l Company. days, Mr. Brown recently told a Fortune reporter, "Back then, you A few months ago the Missouri 1929, just nine years after Allied almost needed a passport if you want Society of New York presented its Chemical originated. He took his ed to visit another division." Cur annual Silver Mule Award to a dis first job that year with the company's rently the trend has reversed, and tinguished son of the "Show-me" General Chemical Division plant in the staffs of several divisions fre State, Chester Melville Brown, Alpha East St. Louis, Illinois. Here, Mr. quently work · together on develop Nu (Missouri U.), who for the past Brown learned the ins and outs of ments that require exchange of tech five years has been at the helm of sulfuric acid manufacture and plant nical knowledge and cooperative Allied Chemical Corporation's wide management-at the same times stor action. spread operations. As president and ing up some practical experience that Thoughtful and reserved by na chief executive officer, Mr. Brown he says turned out to be invaluable ture, Mr. Brown is soft-spoken, thor is not only guiding the big firm background for his present task of ough and to the point. Whether steadily on to record sales and profits, running the company. addressing a group of security ana but also bringing it closer to the It was in 1939 that Mr. Brown lysts or a meeting of soda ash sales spotlight of public recognition. came to General Chemical's New men, he can inspire his audience with Since 1920, when five chemical York City headquarters, where he no seeming effort. His dry humor concerns joined to form Allied Chem rose through a series of promotions invariably creeps in to enliven a dis ical, it has been one of the world's to become division president in 1955. cussion of business topics. largest producers of bas~c chemicals Two years later he was named a vice Brother and Mrs. Brown, the for for industry and agriculture. Cur president of Allied Chemical, and in mer Nelda Prather, have two sons rently, the company leads in U. S. 1958 simultaneously took on the and a daughter, and reside in Hill production of sulfuric acid, soda ash, presidency of National Aniline Divi side, New Jersey. ammonia, phthalic anhydride, and sion. He became president of Allied numerous other murky liquids and Chemical in 1959, and the designa Allied Chemical's Times· Square Towers are white powders-which cannot be seen tion "Chief Executive Officer" was a "Showcase for Chemistry" at the crossroads of the world in New York City. in end-products but are basic build added to his title in 1962. ing blocks for the wonders of modern Mr. Brown presides over nine man chemistry. ufacturing divisions, a Canadian sub In recent years, the company's all sidiary, and an international unit out drive in research and expansion that markets the company's products has created a wealth of up-graded in other parts of the world. Allied chemicals and opened the doors to has over 3,000 products and 35,000 more sophisticated products. Typi employees. The company recorded cal of these are its nylon yarns, plastic 1964 as its greatest year in terms of pipe, packaging films and fluorine sales and profits, with sales for the based resins. first time passing the billion-dollar Chester Brown, born and brought mark. up in Cape Girardeau, graduated Mr. Brown enthusiastically sup from the University of Missouri in ports programs that will make the The Legacy And Pi Kappa Alpha By RAY VORUS Administrative Assistant The second edition of Webster's closeness of intangibles such as poet This is not to say that the legacy ew International Dictionary gives Thomas Carlyle described many years should be given preferential treat the fraternity system this definition ago: "A mystic bond of brotherhood ment, although some chapters give of the legacy: Something coming from make all men one." the legacy a position of priority over an ancestor or predecessor. Pi Kappa Alpha is also an instru his classmates. These same chapters In other words, a legacy is a young ment of se ntiment. It is a close bro accept legacies as individuals and not man who has a Pi Kappa Alpha fa therhood of kindred spirits based as on object of undue pressure from ther, brother or grandfather. Loosely upon the family tradition of love and alumni. There is no rule that our defined, a legacy may also be a affection. chapters are required to take legacies nephew, cousin, uncle or brother-in It is true that the average rushee -to say otherwise would be foolish. law of a PiKA. bases his choice on the members cur But don't we owe it to the fathers of It must be admitted that the ques rently in the undergraduate chapter. these boys to see that they are shown tion of "legacies" is always a delicate This is natural enough and many of every courtesy in rush? Often, a chap matter, especially in those older chap our chapters use this as their number ter takes the legacy for granted, as ters where each year a larger percent one sales pitch during rush. However, suming he is "in the bag for PiKA", age of the rushees can count one or we are missing the boat if we fail to with the end result that he pledges more Pi Kappa Alphas in their fam emphas ize the numerous other ad another fraternity - one that has ily. With our younger chapters it of vantages to fraternity membership. rushed him as he deserves to be ten happens that the legacy is related The most important of these is "Once rushed, one that has treated him as to a member currently active in the a PIKE, always a PIKE." Chapters an important person in his own right. chapter. and rushees alike are extremely short The legacy problem should be Since some chapters have found it sighted if the fact is ignored that handled with good judgment and impossible to take all legacies known membership is a lifetime proposition fair play. No chapter will be expected to them, they have assumed the atti and not just for four years, only to be to accept a legacy if he fails to meet tude of " to pledge him or not to cast ·aside upon graduation. our standards. But, everything else pledge him" or other methods of mak The point is this: legacies fall more being equal, the legacy should be ing it more difficult for the son or naturally into the category of tradi given a break. When chapters pre brother to join. To many PiKA's way tion, of continuity which is so vital to of thinking, this attitude does much vent a legacy from membership, they the very existence of Pi Kappa Alpha. may be cutting their own throat by to help destroy the true meaning of ames like Powers, Macfarlane, H art, killing the support, financial · and Pi Kappa Alpha. McHaney, Graham, Smith, Wright otherwise, of an older brother. A We must remember that our fra and many others have helped to so ternity is not a public service institu legacy should be excluded only for lidify strong foundations of the fam the gravest of reasons-think twice tion nor is it a benevolent society. Pi ily tradition in Pi Kappa Alpha before "culling" a blood relative. Kappa Alpha was founded "for the through the years. Bound to the fra establishment of friendship on a ternity by heredity and spirit, a legacy In 1930, J. Pike Powers, Jr., an firmer and more las ting basis; .. ." is a better risk than the others be early leader of our fraternity and its It is, therefore, sociaL Social, not in cause of his close relationship with ninth chief executive, put into words the se nse of a social gathering, but a the fraternity. the thoughts of every Pi Kappa Alpha father whose son· is about to enter col Six in and one on his way.' Ellis Wright, Sr. (right) admires his Pi Kappa Alpha " Family" (l. to r.) rushee grandson Mike Thompson, son-in-law Frazier Thompson, sons, Ellis Wright, lege. Brother Powers said, "With two Jr., john Wright, and Charles G. Wright, and gmndson Charles A. Wright. Mike won't be son through college and gone out "wright" unless he joins Pi Kappa Alpha. into the world of business wearing the badge of Pi Kappa Alpha, and a young freshman son destined for in itiation, a real pride fills the heart of a PiKA father who soon expects to see all three of his sons wearing the pin of the dear old fraternity. "I am glad my sons wear this badge. · "What father is not glad when his son is honored, by being included in such a noble brotherhood?" 12 50 Golden Years At Beta Gamma This past spring I went on a senti in Boot Hill at Dodge City. The In by ROBERT H. REED, mental journey. Beta Gamma, Uni dians' traces were still visible on our Charter Member versity of Kansas, had reached its land. Our bedtime stories were not Former Editor, fiftieth birthday and the chapter felt about Peter Rabbit but about Bat The Country Gentleman that a Golden Founders' Day celebra Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Matt Dillon, tion was called for. As one of the Jesse James (a Missourian), and yes, executives, a magazine editor, oil founding members, I received a for John Brown, We knew of Carrie Na geologists who sought and found the mal invitation and along with it a tion, that doughty little woman who rainbow's end, bankers, ranking mili personal letter from one of the offi took her hatchet and smashed saloons tary officers. Perhaps a bum. I do not cers of the present chapter, which from one end of the state to the other~ know of a founding member who has said, in part: "The presence of our and also of Mary Elizabeth Lease, not fared well in a bitterly competi founders would help to make the called Mary Yellin', for her voice had tive world. celebration a success. I'm afraid that the range of a fire whistle. It was she So I would say to present day Pi newer members of the fraternity are who roamed through Kansas, urging Kappa Alphas that there is no handi all too inclined to think of founders farmers to "raise more hell and less cap in being a little green at the be as merely names on a plaque, rather corn." A United States Senator car ginning; the greater danger is in as than as brothers who still take an ac ried the well-earned nickname of suming that at graduation you possess tive interest in the affairs of Pi Kappa "Sockless Jerry". William Allen all of the knowledge available in your Alpha. It is my hope that your at White, the truly great country editor, chosen field. tendance will help re-awaken the once pointed out that the western rim spirit-held by the men who were re of Kansas was 4000 feet above sea Possibly other old Pi Kappa Alphas sponsible for the birth of this chap level and that the state sloped smooth have, as I have, fallen into the error ter, and make us more aware of the ly to 600 feet at the eastern rim, and of feeling, as the years go on, that fra fifty years of tradition behind Beta thus it could rightfully be called "the ternity life was just a phase of our Gamma." long hillside". He noted, too, that youth and that it is only natural for \Veil, who could reject such gra this topographical fact might explain the image to. dim. The fiftieth re ciousness? So, I set out in high spirits the occassional lack of balance of union made me realize that the to meet brothers that I had seen rare Kansas people. The motto of the friendships of my college days in Beta ly or not at all in the past half cen State of Kansas is AD ASTRA PER Gamma are the firmest of my entire tury. A dozen or more of my genera ASP ERA - TO THE STARS life. tion of Pi Kappa Alphas-those yens THROUGH DIFFICULTY. I hadn't seen Harry Jenkins in fifty just before World War !-showed up The founders of Beta Gamma were years, but the moment he greeted me for the Founders' Day festivities. Dis direct heirs to a colorful tradition. on Golden Founders' Day I reminded tar.ce and infirmities may have kept Kansas, was, in our youth, a state him that he was the sophomore who others at home. of small towns and large wheat fields. had convinced me that freshmen were I've always appreciated the words It was remote on the map and we were duty bound to provide upper class of that perceptive old prophet, Isaiah, al o remote from each othet within men with hamburgers and chocolate who realized that "old men dream and the state. Travel was difficult and malts on demand, and that he was the young men have visions". And for a most of us had never been far from fastest man with a paddle in ~he chap long weekend we dreamed our old our home towns before setting· off for ter. He replied only that a chastened dreams and listened to the newest college. We were gentled, I suppose, freshman becomes a better balanced members tell of their visions. It would but we had never been curried. We senior. be encyclopedic in length to review were, in simple fact, a rather green In the bull sessions, which were the past fifty years in the lives of the group of country boys when we ar frequent during the weekend celebra Beta Gamma founders. Instead let rived at the university, but we were tion, we found there has been a con me borrow the time-lapse technique hungry for what the university could tinuing line of communication be and set down, in capsule form, some give us. tween the earliest Beta Gammas. of the reflections I brought home Well, whatever became of us? Out Every man of our day was accounted from the reunion. of our founding group came, in time, for; we know where each one is and • • • a president of General Motors of what he is doing and what kinds of It must be remembered that the Mexico, a general manager of one of medicine he is taking. Some one of founders of Beta Gamma were prod the largest divisions of General Mo us had seen and talked to or had re ucts of the 19th Century, not the tors, a world-famed herptologist, one ceived a letter from another, and thus 20th. We were only one generation of the chief architects of the Colum we have remained a community. The behind the cattlemen who came up bia Broadcasting System, lawyers who bonds of Pi Kappa Alpha must be the Chisholm Trail from Texas. rose to high judgships, the finest stronger and more enduring than Some of our forebears, possibly, lie country doctor in America, insurance many of us realized. Continued Page 15 13 BROTHER YEAGER • • • Genial Custodian Of A Private Fort Knox to this 50 million a year business that tive and effective manufacturers' as employs close to 3,000 persons and sociations in the nation. deals in everything from high sch~ol Other well earned honors have debating club pins to custom-created come his way. In 1959 he was among trophies for presidents of the United twelve business and political leaders States. The Balfour product line, awarded the title of Honorary Ameri N ewsweek noted, comprises 50,000 can Farmer by the Future Farmers of different items, of which class rings, America. In 1960, he together with Mr. C. R. Yeager, president, L. G. Balfour both high school and university, ac Ex-President Harry S. Truman, re Com pany. count for well over half the dollar ceived the highest award of the Inter volume of sales. national Order of DeMolay. In 1963 Under an April28 dateline, Boston Growth by Balfour since World he was presented the Distinguished H erald feature writer John Carberg, War II has been exceptionally rapid, Alumni Award of the University of writing of Brother C. Robert "Bus" and a great deal of Brother Yeager's Kentucky, made a member of the Yeager, and the L. G. Balfour Com energy and talent necessarily has been Alumni Executive Committee the pany of Attleboro, Massachusetts devoted to problems of plant expan following year, and this year named which he heads, lauded Brother Yea sion and organizational efficiency. To a recipient of the University's Distin ger for his outstanding business suc his formidable tasks he brings a very guished Alumni Centennial Award. cess in the Commonwealth as well as personal touch that is highly unusual Since his graduation from the Uni his contributions to the state. The ar in a company of this size. Still proud versity of Kentucky Brother Yeager ticle revealed that the Balfour Com of his Southern heritage, he has at the has continued his interest and aqivi pany keeps more gold in its vaults same time adopted and been adopted ties in the American college fraternity than exists anywhere in the country by the New England community system. He was Chairman of the Na outside Fort Knox. Unlike the gov where the company was founded over tional Interfraternity Conference in ernment hoard, Balfour's gold is con a hal£ century ago and which is still 1953, has served a term as a Trustee stantly being converted into objects of the home of its main plants and of of the Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial beauty and utility. This private Fort fices . In point of fact, his efforts at Foundation, and is at present Vice Knox supports the world-wide busi boosting Attleboro and Massachu President of the National Interfra- ness of the world's largest and best setts have been tireless. Those efforts ternity Foundation. . known manufacturer of scholastic, attracted regional and national recog On the personal side, Brother Yea fraternal and business jewelry. nition when, in 1964, he was elected ger in 1936 married the former Brother Yeager-tall, commanding, president of the Associated Industries Frances Council of Durham, North outgoing-looks like the company of Massachusetts, one of the most ac- Carolina. Their daughter Betty Dur- president he is. His responsibilities Mrs. Thomas Edward Powell III, nee Betty as chief executive of Balfour com Mrs. C. Robert Yeager. Durham. Yeager. menced in 1950, but since 1933 he had been learning the fascinating jewelry business as a southern sales represen tative and manager. After the war, from which he emerged as a Colonel, he gave up residence in his beloved foster state of North Carolina and came to Attleboro, Massachusetts, to serve as assistant to Mr. Balfour. In 1950 he was named Executive Vice President of the company. It was (and is) a trefl\endous man agerial responsiblility. Those of us who know Balfour only as a fraternity jewelry supplier see only a small part of the vast, exciting enterprise that is based on solid gold and solid crafts man~hip. N ewsweek Magazine, in a June edition, paid a unique tribute 14 center, it was encouraging to note that in an age when waves of bitter ness and hate are sweeping across the country and through college cam puses the present-day ..Beta Gammas are blending with their ideals a gen erous portion of patience and com C. R obert Yeager, taken at Centennial Cele A native of the Blue Gmss R egion of Ken mon sense. bration of University of Kentucky Commu tuck)>, BTotheT YeageT is "at home" in the nity College at Ashland, April22, 1965, where winne1·'s cinle. * * * he gave principal address. (L. to R.)-Dr. A few years ago a fellow journalist Robert L. Goodpaster, Director of the Col from the University of Kansas came lege, Yeager, M H. R exford S. Blazer, and Dr. to my home to ask me a favor. At j ohn W . Oswa ld, University president. K.U. he was a member of a fraternity generally regarded as the finest on the ham graduated from the University of hill. His son was now enrolling in a orth Carolina and on June 19th distinguished college in the South. was married to Dr. Thomas Edward He h ad toJd his son that if he were Powell, III, of Burlington, North fortunate enough to be rushed and Carolina, who is engaged in advanced invited by several fraternities he medical research at Harvard Univer (1. to r.)-C. R. Yeager, R. A . Chadbourne should choose the one whose men he sity. land Seuator Edward M . Ken ned)' at a dinner respected and liked best, a sensible Busine.ss ·leaves Brother Yeager lit in Washington given by Mr. Yeager to discuss bit of parental advice. tle time for hobbies, but lots of busi affairs of the Commonwealth of Massachu T he father told me that his son had setts. ness ca'n be done on the golf course! written that Pi Kappa Alpha was his The Yeager home in Attleboro fronts choice by a wide margin. So, would I on the 9th tee of the local country write the chapter a letter of recom club and among the golf clubs to mendation .. ! did and the boy pledged· which he belongs is the Royal and Again, this past spring, on my an Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, nual visit to the Masters Golf Tourna Scotland. ment, in Augusta, Georgia, I visited From his student days, he has been an old friend in North Carolina and an enthusitstic suppor ter of his Ken during the cocktail hour I chatted tucky Wildcats, especially in their BrotheT Yeage1·, centa, is shown at the time with his son, a graduate of the state rivalry with the University of Tennes of the dedication of the Pi Kappa Alpha university and a member of another see. Brother Yeager also continues to Memoria l H earlqua1·te1"S in 1954 conferring fraternity. I told him of my plans to with Pi KajJpa Alpha PTesident j ohn Hip follow with keen interest the n ative pel (left ) and MemoTial Foundation Presi attend the fiftieth anniversary of my sport of his native state, and can ad dent Powell M cHa ney. chapter and he said, with great sin vise you on thoroughbred horses as cerity, "There isn't a more respected readily as on the thoroughbred jew and admired fraternity in our area elry his company produces. 50 Golden Years At than Pi Kappa Alpha". To business and community af Beta Gamma I must confess, then, that under the fairs alike, Brother Yeager appli es Continued from Page 13 graying as h there remains a live fire some homespun philosophies with re Borrowing from some writer, un of loyalty and pride in Pi Kappa markable effectiveness. In ths age of known to me, it is apt to say ~ h at a Alpha. automation it is unusual to find a fraternity can achieve maturity with * * * firm like Balfour where hand crafts out losing its youth. Each year it re The English poet, Rudyard Kip manship plays so vital a role in creat fresh es itself, a h ardy perennial where ling, once said to a gathering of ing the fini hed product. This em each generation leaves something of schoolboys , "The only revenge that phasis on the human factor has al value to the succeeding generation.. m aturity has upon youth is to preach ways been a prominent part of his The present Beta Gamma chapter is at it." So this is my sermon, with a creed. The Balfour Company's slo just what we expected it to be. The minimum of brimstone and a maxi gan, Jewelry's Finest Craftsmen, is men are poised and well informecl mum of heimweh and affection and indicative to Brother Yeager of the They have hopes and visions. but in belief that a fraternity gives more people who work for the Balfour their eyes seem fixed on definite tar to a brother than he is able to give Company as well as its products. In gets. T hey also h ave an unerring eye to it. speeches to employees and business for the lovely girl, as we discovered About the Author: Brother Reed served as a reporter for William A l gTou ps throughout the coun try he al at the form al dance. len White on the noted Emporia Gazette and later in the Literary Department of T he Kansas City ways says with pride that craftsman- To an old gentleman who has dur Star. In 1922 he joined the staff of The Country hip and people are the two things ing hi ~ li fe moved, in a political sense, Gentleman, in Philadelphia, where he was an associ ate editor and, for fifteen yea rs, editor-in-chie f. From that have made the Balfour Com remained from one degree to the left 1956 to 1960 he was the Un ited States Agricultural Attache to the Netherlands. He is retired and li ves pany. of center to bne degTee to the right of in Swarlhmore, Pennsylvania. 15 At the University of Washington short as the First World War forced it to close its doors. However, even with the house accommodations BETA BETA CELEBRATES taken over by the government, Beta Beta was kept alive by eleven men FIFTY YEARS IN PiKA in the S. A. L. C. who held meetings ANN IVER SARY by Dave Woods when and where they could. By this means, the chapter got away to a fast start when the discharges returned, and as a result, they found themselves On September 15, 1909, a group of on behalf of his chapter. The report moving into their new house at 1804 seven men met in the offices of Gen back to the California chapter was East Fiftieth Street. eral John D. Mcintyre to organize a strongly in favor of Theta Sigma. During the Twenties Beta Beta club which was to be named the Sag Finally, word came from the Su Chapter reigned supreme in the field amore Club. During the period from preme Council that the petition for of athletics and was well represented 1910 to 1913 the club met regularly an investigation had been granted. on campus in such activities as de in various places, held monthly ban The same delays occurred which are bate, politics, journalism and many quets and frequent dances. bound to occur when one wants any other fields. Representing the Fra The primary objective of this or thing as ardently as did the members ternity in the East-West football ganization was to form a cohesive fel of Theta Sigma. Eventually, word games in San Francisco were Brothers lowship of men and later to petition got back that Grand Historiographer Harold Patton and Gene Cook. The a good national fraternity. ' Early in J. Graham Sale was on his way to chapter stepped out socially, too, and 1913, a committee was appointed to Seattle. Preparations were made to established a traditional Pi Kap secure data on the different national entertain him for a week, but when Kabaret which continued for several fraternities which had no chapters he and Warren arrived from Cali decades. at Washington. Pi Kappa Alpha was fornia, it was announced that they the unanimous choice and negotia could stay but two days. Speedy Through the Depression and up tions were immediately begun with work was necessary, and Sale made to World War II, the Chapter faced the officers of the Supreme Council. plenty of it. .The first night saw him the problem of operating a small Through the help and encourage "pinched" for speeding by the chief house. Numerous efforts were made ment of Alpha Sigma Chapter, the of police in person; the second saw to promote rush, but most met with Sagamore Club re-organized into a him seated next to the Governor of little success. With the advent of local fraternity on March 2, _1913 . the State of Washington at a banquet. the War, the house membership hit For a name, the Greek initials of The report of the investigation an all-time low of 8 in 1940. With the old dub name, the Sagamores, back to the chapters of Pi Kappa little further success in pledging, the "th" and "s" were turned into Theta Alpha told of a local with high spirit chapter once again closed its doors Sigma. In September, Theta Sigma and a high sense of accomplishment. temporarily until after the War: began life as a local fraternity in a As a result, Theta Sigma was noti One of the outstanding heroes of leased clubhouse. fied by telegram on May 12, 1914, the War was Robert Pershing Wil Upon the recommendation of Paul that it had been granted a charter liams who was initiated at Beta Beta. McClelland, Kappa, a senior in the to bring the name of Pi Kappa Alpha He sank a J ap carrier and possibly University who had been apprised onto the campus of the University of as many as three German submarines by Secretary Atkinson of Theta Sig Washington. in the Atlantic Ocean. ma's inquiries, formal petition was Thus, on May 21, 1914, Beta Beta On May 21, 1946, a re-organization mailed to the Supreme Council in Chapter was installed by Paul H. meeting was held at which a plea was November of 1913. McClelland, Kappa, and Louis El drafted for the national's approval From the beginning, the new local kan, Psi. Those pledged and initi for reinstatement of the chapter. took her place among the organiza ated as founders included: Smith Approval was received, and on June tions of the campus, experiencing no Freeman Reavis, Harry Berton Haz 11, 1946, the first official meeting of difficulty in securing Greek and fac elton, Charles Archer Rickey, Herb Beta Beta following the war, was ulty recognition. The usual throes ert Earl Studebaker, Clifford Perry, held. With seven men, including of a local were undergone-rushing Carlo Alphonso Lee, Ernest Edward S.M.C. Bob Woock, the Chapter be sessions, the formation of house rules, McKeen, Warren Henry Hardy, gan its successful program to bring and the thousand-and-one worries Marc de L'Epine Darrin, Harry Wil the chapter back on campus .in full and difficulties incident to the start son, William Edward Parker, Frank strength. Part of the program in ing of a new chapter. Caleb Robinson, P e r c y Grenside cluded the acquisition of a new house During the Christmas holidays, Dabson. Ralph Elliot Gale, George at 4510 21st N. E. By the end of the Roy E. Warren of Alpha Sigma paid Sheridan Hopkins, and Frank Mel year, the membership had been raised the chapter a visit and made a thor vin Johnson. to 34. ough investigation of the situation The life of the new chapter was In May of 1947 the first annual 16 Dream Girl Dance was held at Beta Pi Kappa Alpha's Preamble other awards for objective statements Beta. Throughout the succeeding continued from page 1 of future aims will be made soon. years, such big time Hollywood stars Meanwhile, I invite all IIKA's to sub as Bing Crosby, Alan Ladd, Kay serves a vital role in bridging the gap mit their thoughts and their sugges Starr, and Desi Arnez paid the chap over 'man's inhumanity to man'". tions to the Centennial Commi sion, ter the honor of selecting the Dream This is the modern concept of Memorial Headquarters, Memphis. Girls. These occasions brought wide "brotherly love and kind feeling". publicity to Beta Beta Chapter. President Willis M. Tate of Southern The following year-1948-was a Methodist University pointed out big one in the chapter's history. It that " these principles must be firmly was in this year that Warin Gross rooted in the past, but they must be and Bill Luke headed a rush pro interpreted in such a way that they gram which brought in the largest are relevant to the contemporary pledge class of Beta Beta's history- sce ne." 48 . That was the second highest on His statement succinctly empha campus. But, more importantly, at sizes the challenge of Centennial II. least to the men now living at Beta "How remarkable it would be if, Beta, the Alpha Omicron Founda in connection with the Centennial tion, which was composed of alumni, anniversary of Pi Kappa Alpha", was founded and proceeded to pur adds President G. Homer Durham of chase a piece of property at 4502 20th Arizona State University, "its mem I.E. This organization searched for bers and chapters throughout the ways of financing the necessary reno country could be inspired to atti The Supreme Council has selected the na vation of the house on that new site. tudes, achievements, and the measure tionally famous Chase-Park Plaza Hotel, St. Finally, on April 17, 1953, construc of good will which will serve and Louis, Mo., 1966 National Convention head tion was begun on the new Beta Beta light the future even better than dur quarters. Chapter house. Another of Beta ing the past." Beta's goals had been accomplished. This Centennial objective needs a Today Beta-Beta has a fine chap pronouncement as sincere and as ter house and the members are plan dedicated as the fir t preamble of our ning and working toward building Founders. We have an obligation to Risjord Receives the best in Pi Kappa Alpha brother re-state the principles of Pi Kappa hood. Alpha in the idiom of the present and to establish a forward-looking goal Best Teacher Charter membe1·s and pledges of Beta-Beta for Centennial II. chapter at the University of Washington, Award at Wisconsin 1913-J.I. William Alexander, the Founder who designed our badge, always in The University of Wisconsin recently sisted that loyalty to Alma Mater presented to Professor Norman K. Ris jord of its History Department the Wil should never be impaired by loyalty liam H. Kiekhofer award of $1,000 for to fraternity. Indeed, fraternity excellence in teaching as the "best young loya lty should become a bond more teacher" in the University. Professor strongly uniting him with the institu Risjord (Gamma, William and Mary) tion which provided education and was Phi Betta Kappa and obtained his culture and leadership opportunities A.B. degree at the College of William and -a "commitment to the education of Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia, did a cultured, well-informed gentle graduate work in history at Johns Hop man", as President Charles F. Marsh kins University in Baltimore, Maryland, of Wofford College put it. and received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Supreme Council has author Doctor Risjord has taught summer ized an urgent invitation to all school classes at the Universities of Vir members, undergraduate and alum ginia and Butler (Indianapolis) and was ni, to contribute to a restatement of an Ass istant Professor of History at De Pi Kappa Alpha objectives for Cen Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana tennial II. The Council proposes to for four years before accepting an As establish an award for those state sis tant Profe so rship at the University of ments which best epitomize the edu Wisconsin last September. Doctor Risjord lectures in American cational, cultural, leadership, citizen History. His particular fi eld is the Age of ship and fraternal ideals of a new J efferso n and his book, The Old R epub century of service. licans pertaining to a dissident faction of Announcement of monetary and Continued Next Page 17 in June of 1966, and I then hope to neral Directors of Albuquerque and was RISJORD RECEIVES elected at a recent general membership Continued come back to the University of Flor ida for a higher degree. I also hope meeting. J efferson's party, will be published by Other new officers of the association Columbia University Press in July. that when I return I might again be are Paul Arnold, 1316 Lafayette NE, Doctor Risjord's father, Norman E. ab le to take some active part in the vice president; Doug Lang, 236 Madison Risjord, Leawood, Kansas, and an uncle, activities of Alpha Eta chapter. I only NE, secretary; and Earl Cook Jr., 1840 Roy Kubi ta, Middleton, Wisconsin are wish there were some way I could Kentucky E, treasurer. Board members PiKAs, Beta Xi (Wisconsin) and his only work for the national fraternity when brother, John C. Risjord, Merriam, Kan are Gene Franchini, 1724 Washington I return. NE; Russell Cere, 3400 Purdue NE; and as, is PiKA, Gamma (William and I would like to be able to tell all Mary) where Doctor Risjord was S.M.C. Vernon King, 312 Carlisle NE. Pike pledges everywhere what an The association meets monthly in the honor it is to be a m ember of our PiKA chapter house at 600 University frat ernity, and that they should al Blvd. NE. ways be ex trem ely proud of priv ilege of wearing the Shield and Diamond of Pi Kappa Alpha. I suppose it takes a person a good while to realize just Letter from how much his fraternity really does Epsilon Phi a Friend m ean, but I know I , for one, am very proud of being a Pike. I think one of Chapter Forms to a Friend the proudest moments of my life was EDITOR'S OTE: the day I received the C. W. Thomas House Corporation Our reader's will be interested in this letter award of Alpha Eta Chapter. It made written lD Dr. F. H. Hart by an alumnus of the A House Corporation was recently University of Florida chapter a few months before m e more than prou d to think I had Dr. Hart's death. formed by Epsilon Phi Chapter at The been selected for the award by m en Arkansas State Teachers College, Con of such high caliber as those of Alpha way, Arkansas, in order to furnish a new c/o Peace Corps Director Eta. American Embassy chapter room recently occupied by the I guess I have been reminiscing long La Paz, Bolivia, S.A. chapter. enough now though. I do hope this November 23, 1964 Officers of the new Corporation are letter finds you and yours in good as follows: R alph Behrens, Alumnus Dear Dr. Hart, health. Please let m e hear from you, Counselor and Professor of English, pres I know you may not rem ember m e, and I'm looking forward to seeing ident; Gene Chafin, former SMC of the ~utI will always rem ember you com you and talking with you again when chapter, vice-president; Dr. J ames Sylar, zng to see m e th e morning after I was I return in June of 1966. Director of Student Activities, secretary; e l ~c t e d SMC at Alpha Eta, and you In the bonds of ii>KA and Richard Stephens, another former wlll always have a big place in my SMC, treasurer. Other members of the heart for that visit. P.S. Corporation are Dr. Carl Forsberg, Dr. Estus C. Polk, Marvin Buffington; Bill I am in the Peace Corps in Bolivia If you see Mrs. Wildman please Terwilliger, Dennis Cantrell, and Dr. now and am working in a community give her my kindest regards. She is a John Sneed. d ~velopm e nt project in a little jungle wonderful person and I feel she has ~zllage named Rurrenabaque, which been an asset to Alpha Eta Chapter zs located on the banks of the R io and to Pi Kappa Alpha. Tulane University SMC Bill J\tfildren pre sents his pinmate a11d 1Pi Kappa Alpha Beni. It's a beautiful place though Dream Girl, Miss Betty Gargett, Delta Delta the climate is very warm and we havf' Delta . a lot of large insects here which we always have to be on watch for as many of them are poisonous. I rea lly do like the village and the people though and am looking forward to the next 19 months here. Albuquerque Alumni ~ ~ealized several days ago, that my ~bzlzt~ to get along with the people Elect Fitzgerald here zn South America is due in large part. to .my being a m ember of an or ga.nz zatz~n that teaches the values of President frzendshzp, and kind fee ling toward others. Values such as these are hard President-elect of the Beta Delta Alum to acquire, and I'm certain that I owe ni Asso~iation of the Pi Kappa Alpha my a~qu .isition of them to my mem Fraternity at theJ University of New bershzp zn Pi Kappa Alpha. Mexico is Edward J. Fitzgerald. He is I will finish my Peace Corps work associated with Fitzgerald and Son Fu- 18 1889 Convention - 75th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRAT'ION AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS T he "Rice Fa mily"- (1. to r .) front row: R ussell Smith, Theron I I :00-Church Service, College Church Smith, Mrs. Theron H . R ice, Jr., jay Smith, Mrs. Theron H . R ice, Dr. Sherrard Rice, Son of Theron Rice Sr .; ba ck row: Mr. an d Mrs. R ussell Smith, The R everend ] . Sh errard Rice, Miss Betsy Rice at Hampden-Sy dney celebration. I2:30-Unveiling of Junior Founders' Pictures by Family Conducted by District President Hugh Flannagan Cushing Hall, Room 50 I:30.,-Grand Luncheon, Winston Hall Master of Ceremonies, John R. Horton, National Secretary Remarks, Charles L. Freeman, National President Address, Dr. Freeman H. Hart, National Historian 3:30-Reception honoring Pi Kappa Alpha Presidents of Hampden-Sydney College Parents and Friends Lounge; Hostess, Mrs. P. Tu lane Atkinson (1. to r.)-l ota SMC joey Sm ith; A dger Smyth, nephew of R obert 75TH .ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE Adger Smythe; and Stokley Fulton, former Little All-A merica football player and current coach at H ampden-Sydney College. JOHN R. HORTON, National Secretary, Chairm an FREEMAN H. H ART, National Historian TAYLOR REVELEY, H ampden-Sydney President HOWARD B. ARBUCKLE, JR. HUGH FLANNAGAN, District President JULIUS P. SMITH, JR., Iota Chapter, S. M.C. (1. to r.)-W . E . Atkinson, · P. Tulane Atkinson, Jr., and j ohn Hunt note the m emorial plaque in the room where the 1889 convention was held. ( 1. to r.)-National H istorian F. H . H art, National President C. L. Freeman, Mrs. P. Tulane Atkinson, Dr. Taylor R eveley (Iota), President of HamjJden Sydney Co llege, and Iota SMC j oey Smith. Former National Editor K . D . Pul- Rice, Sr. and Rus sell M eA llister, son of one of PiKA 's oldes t members, ] . Gray McA llister, l ola alumnus. National Counsel Garth Grissom and SMC Fred Parret pose with Zeta Zeta charter members. CHARTER GRANTED SOUTHWESTERN STATE • • • The Pi Kappa Alpha Colony at prepared them w~ll for colony status Southwes tern State College, Weather in Pi Kappa Alpha on October 22, ford, Oklahoma, received it's charter 1963. There are 363 alumni mem as Zeta Zeta Chapter on March 14, bers of the local fraternity. Fred Par 1965. N ational Counsel Garth C. ret, first SMC of Zeta Zeta Chapter, Grissom, Denver, Colorado, presided accepted the charter and gavel on over the installation ceremonies as behalf of the Chapter. There are 57 representative of the Supreme Coun charter members. Initiating teams cil. This was an epochal event in the from the University of Oklahoma, life of the local fraternity which was Oklahoma State, and East Central founded October 11 , 1946, as Beta State chapters performed the indi T au Beta loca l fraternity by seven vidual ceremonies. Field Secretary young veterans of World War II. Mike Mulchay, Administrative As The cardinal principles of leader sistant William Crosby and District ship, brotherhood, and scholarship President Clark B. Wysong, Jr. were other national officers participating Officers look on happily as Supreme Counsel in the activities. mem bers p1·esents gavel to SMC Fred Parret. One of the most impressive events Othen are left to righ t: District Presiden t W ysong, Field Secretary Mike Mu. lchay, Ad was the initiation of Carl Hutto in ministrative ecretm·y William Crosby, and the Southwestern Memorial Hospital Fa culty Adviso1· Donald Hamm. where he was confined due to a spinal N ew Initiate, Carl Huetto, suffering from a mjury received in an automobile ac car accident, beams as he receives the Shield & Dia mond Badge from Administrative Sec cident. Brother Hutto is an energetic retary William Crosby as National Counsel member and deeply appreciated the Garth Grissom smiles approvingly. arrangements that allowed him to be a charter member. National officers The Chapter through the years has and an initiating· team arranged this held an annual Christmas party for for him. underprivileged children. It sup Zeta Zeta Chapter purchased it's ports other campus clean-ups and house in 1962. It accommodates 25 special goodwil }efforts. In 1963-64 men. The chapter also owns a two it contributed more than 20 per cent acre building site which is excellently of all blood donations made to Wea located and on which a house will be therford Community Hospital, con erected in the future. siderably exceeding any other group. Zeta Zeta Chapter Officers. 'zeta Zeta Chapter officers hold Pi Kappa Alpha banner in front of charter members. During the current school year, lished in 1901. The 1964 enrollment members of the Chapter hold offices was 3,300. President AI H arris, Dean as Senior Class vice president, Junior Louis Morris, Dean of Students W. C. class president, Sophomore class vice Burris, and Dean of Women R uby president, and Freshman class presi Drinkwater were among the many dent. Two members were named to college officers who extended a wel the 1965 edition of Who's Who come to Pi Kappa Alpha on the oc Among Students. casion of the installation of the Southwestern State College is lo Chapter. cated at Weatherford, Oklahoma, 75 In addition to Ze ta Zeta Chapter, miles west of Oklahoma City. It is Pi Kappa Alpha Chapters are: Beta fully accredited and offers curricula Omicron (Oklahoma), Gamma-Chi and Teacher Education. It was estab (Oklahoma State), Gamma-Upsilon in the Arts and Sciences, Pharmacy, (Tulsa), and (East Central State). Pi Kappa Alpha Officers and Initiating Team. Dear Brothers, major event, that of a brother giving his searching for the body, or the food pre This letter is written to remind us of badge to his dream girl. 1 t was this pared by girls on the campus for the the gift of life Dick W in der, a pledge, tradition that led to the death of Rich searchers as we looked and waited. has given to A lpha L ambda and to Pikes ard Winder. What seemed so small, so These Little things began to give everywhere for we have deemed him needless, but fun, became suddenly very meaning back to our lives; they seem ed worthy of our esteem in death evert as large. A frien d, a brother, was dead to say, now it's your chance to make in life. H e m et a tragic death by drown and everything came to a cold, dark stop. living more meaningful for ou1·selves and ing in February, 1965 . j ust as 'little' events may empty lives, for Dick . W hen an event happens that for so 'little' events fill lives. Little things We activated Dick's pledge class yester awhile causes the world to go out of focus like the phone calls of alumni who day and as we re-enacted the Ritual, the and life to have a void feeling, there wanted only to say, 'We're with you at ideals of our Fraternity again seemed comes a true appreciation of the 'little' this time of sorrow" or: like the visiting to echo the import of Dick's death-live things. of m en in Pi Kappa Alpha who cam e to the meaning of our Ritual, every day. A dunking in the Elkon Creek is usu help by being big brothers. Little things Yours in KA, ally a small part of life for men at GeO?·ge like the flowers, or the cards from chap Larry Yoder town. 1t is a result of a m uch mote ten all over the nation, or the help in Alpha-Lambda SMC 21 perhaps the most significant change University of Texas - in rush was the increased emphasis placed on the scholastic ability of each rushee. Before any boy could be passed for a bid, his potential chance F'ORMULA FO ~ R SUCCESS to make his grades were considered by William Gardner by the chapter. Each rushee's high school scholastic record, his ability to make his grades as indicated by his Beta-Mu chapter of the University spections revealed two important scores on his Scholastic Aptitude of Texas is a chapter that exhibits a fac ts. First, the fact that scholastic Test, and his previous college record, growing maturity in thinking about problems were not the only major if he had one, were considered. and acting upon its situation and problems that the chapter had was problems in a changing collegiate at revealed. The participation of the fra The results of rush were grati(ying. mosphere. It is a chapter that shows ternity in campus activities h:,ad By the first semester deadlin~, 35 a vigorous determination in attempt dropped. Instead of having the usual boys had pledged. This figure l'epre ing to solve those issues that would eigh t members of campus honoraries, sents eight fewer boys than the pre hinder its fu ture growth and develop the Pikes now had one. The method vious pledge class yet twenty-two of ment. And it is a chapter that reflects of selection of men in rush had not these men were eligible for initiation. an increasing pride in itself as a re proven sa tisfactory fo r of forty-three The fall pledge had the third highest sult of the changes in thought and ac men pledged in the fall of 1962, only grades on cam pus, five of the pl~dges tion that have resulted in the a ~comp eleven had made their grades and were named Freshman Council ad li shments of the pas t year. were able to be initiated. The latter visors for the following year, and not Beta-Mu of Pi Kappa Alpha has fact also raised doubts about the one single man depledged voluntarily long been recognized as one of the pledge training program. Secondly, it for reasons other than scholastic or leading fraternity chapters at the was determined that Beta-Mu hades financial. The spring pledge class of University of Texas. It had built a n. se ntially fallen to a common plague oJ Beta-Mu was also the largest one on almost legendary reputation in com Greek groups in an age of academic campus with a total of twenty-five position in the U niversity of T exas excellence on the college campus. It members. Si ng-Song Competition held in De had fa ileq to adjust its policies to al Coupled with the rush program was cem ber each year. During the mid low for agreement with the increasing the initiation of a new pledge train 195 0's and the early 1960's the chap importance of higher academic stan ing program under the leadership of ter had placed at least ·third in nine dards in the colleges and universities . Jim Wilson. Jim developed a pledge contests, and it had won the event of America·. program called the "Twenty Point six times within ten years. Twice it W ith these two ideas about their Pledge Program", which essentially had won first place for two years in a chapter problems in mind, the mem fe atured efforts to create an atmos row. It had been active in campus bers of Beta-M u in the fall of 1963 phere conducive to a pledge studying acti vities and politics, having as initiated a program for re-organizing properly, by forbidding pledge duties many as fo ur men in each of the two and re-vitalizing their chapter in or during the hours normally devoted to cam pus honorary groups, Cowboys, der, not only to rebuilt their chapter study, and had required attendance and Spurs, and it had seen its mem so that it could obtain its former posi for pledge study halls. The program bers hold numerous student assem tion, but to build an even greater one also encouraged participation in cam bly and campus publica tions offi ces. than in the pas t. The program began pus affairs by requiring each fresh H owever, in June of 1963, pa rt of with formal rush during the first week man pledge to become a member of the "legend" that the members of of September. The chapter faced two Freshman Council, the program Beta-Mu had basked in previously problems in selling itself to rushees. which attempts to inform freshmen was exposed as a myth. During that The fact that it was on scholastic pro about campus activities. The program month, the members learned that bati on gave it a bad reputation for a encouraged each pledge to partici they would be on scholas tic probation group of rushees who were more grade pate in at least one intramural sport. for the 1963-64 school year for fa iling conscious than any previous group Increasing emphasis was placed to maintain the 1. 25 grade point aver had been, and the fact that it could upon the national aspect of the fra age required by the U niversity of hold no social functions greatly hin ternity. Weekly quizzes were given Texas. Probation consisted of restric dered its position on a "social-status" which covered material from the tion from participation in any social conscious cam pus. Garnet and Gold Ple dge Guide. event for the entire fa ll semester and T he chapter counter-acted these Many of the results of this program the spring semester if the fraternity problems by promising the reorgani have been mentioned above including grade average was not a 1.25 fo r the zation necessary for strengthening the higher grades, interest in campus ac fa ll. fraternity and, by selling itself as a tivities, and a high percentage of The shock of this event caused fraternity on the merits of personal initiation. Perhaps the most signifi many members to inspect themselves satisfaction that a person could derive cant accomplishment was not re and their chapter, searching for the as a member, instead of selling itself corded, however, for it was an intan ca use of their problems. These in- as one large date machine. However, gible one. The pledge classes of fall 22 1963 and· spring 1964 were united contribution in tramural sports. He to draw each member into a greater more than the normal pledge class participated in football, basketball, participation in the running of the would be because they were pledges softball, and was the chapter's intra fraternity. By means of a committee when the greatest immediate pleasure mural manager for the fall semester. sys tem in whi'ch each member par that they could experience in the fra PiKA varsity .athletes at the Univer ticipates and helps to formulate the ternity was that of brotherhood in sity included Stanley Faulkner, PiKA fraternity policy and action in the stead of a number of social events All-American tackle, Gary Brown, area o~ his committee. Another im that detracted from the former as and James Brooks of the national portant improvement has been the pect of fraternity life. championship Texas Longhorn foot increasing strictness of Honors Coun The most impressive single im ball team and Joe Gideon of the base cil in enforcing housing and social provement in the chapter has been the ball team. regulations of the chapter. These two scholastic one. Several figures com Campus activities play an increas improvements combined have re piled by the University of Texas ing role in the chapter's activity. The sulted in an increasing awareness of, Interfraternity Council illustrate the fraternity has improved its position interest in, and respect for fraternity chapter's improvement. In the fall of on campus greatly since las.t fall. Sig problems and traditions. 1962 Beta-Mu stood twenty-sixth of nifica nt events have included the ap An article written in the June, thirty-two chapters in scholastic rank pointment o£ five members to be 1963, issue of Harper's Magazine dis ing with an average of 1.162 of a pos Freshman Council Committee advis cussing the academic awakening at sible 3.000. This average was ten posi ors. These advisors are in charge of the University of Texas was entitled tions below the all-fraternity average. Freshman Council committees which "Renaissance at the University of In the fall of 1963 the chapter stood they assist in orientation about cam Texas." 1963 was also a year of ren fifth of · thirty-two chapters with a pus activities. Two members of the aissance for Beta-Mu of Pi Kappa Al grade point average of 1.484. This powerful grievance committee are pha. It built on old traditions and average was 10 positions above the Pikes, and one of these two is co created new ones. In doing so it left a all-fraternity average. In one year the chairman of a subcommittee which is legacy of improvement for 1964; but fraternity had risen twenty-two posi helping plan a new men's dorm with that legacy called for improvement tions on the fall average. In 1962 fall university officials. However, two in 1965, for in learning from its mis pledge class had an average of 1.058 main events have highlighted campus takes Beta-Mu has found that one for twenty-third position, eight posi activities for this chapter. One was improvement deserves another. tions below the all-fraternity pledge the initiation of Jim Wlson into Cow average. In 1963 the fall pledge class boys last spring, and the other was average was 1.63 for third place, the election of Chuck Lindsey to the Student Assembly this fall. twelve places above the all fraternity Ever been to historic Williams average. After spring and fall aver But BetaMu did not build upon burg? See it in 1968, after the Cen ages had been completed Beta-Mu "undeveloped" ground alone in 1963. tennial Convention. ranked seventh of thirty-one chapters The chapter had won the fraternity with a 1.467 average, seven places division of SingSong in 1961 and above the all-fraternity average. 1962. There seemed to be no place Individually the fraternity mem for the fraternity to go but down. You've h eard about MonticP- Uo , bers had outstanding campus scho However the creation of a new, mixed fam ed Colonial home of Thomas lastic records. Two engineering stu division offered the opportunity to ] efferson? You'll see it in all its fas dents were named to Tau Beta Pi the defend the title with a sorority. The cina ting beauty if you bring your engineering scholastic honorary so Pikes and the TriDelta, winners of fam ily to the IIKA Virginia Centen ciety at Texas, and three of last year's two consecutive firsts also, combined nial in 1968. fall pledges along with two of the their voice:; in a muskal medley £rom 1964 fall pledges became members of "Camelot" tQ win the unprecedented Phi Eta Sigma, the freshman scholas third-straght, first place trophy for tic honorary society. each group. Another singing high The cliche about the strong mind light of the ye.ar for the Pikes and the Natural Bridge. The Shenandoah. and weak body of the scholar could Tri-Delta was their Christmas sere jamestown. The Blue Ridge Moun not be applied to Beta-Mu either. nade for Governor John Connally. tains. They're all in Virginia and Last year was perhaps the most suc The serenade was an enor,mous S\.IC your family can see them at the IIKA cessful year of intramural participa cess, and Governor Connally made Centennial in '68. tion in the chapter's history. Since an aprx;arance to thank the group for the 1940's the fraternity had not had remembering him. a representative in intramural play In contrast with its past experience offs. However in 1963-64 the Pikes at and action, Beta-Mu has not been Virginia B each? No finer any the University of Texas became content to res t on .its laurels in 1964. where for a marvelous family vaca runner-ups in hte fraternity softball Under the leadership of S.M.U. Ben tion. After the IIKA Centennial in division. Jim Windham was awarded Cadenhead the chapter has begun a 1968, plan your vacation for Virginia the fraternity trophy for outstanding re-vitalization program which hopes Beach. 23 Tulane Builds Competitive Chapter House by GEORGE B. O'H A VER JR. Eta cha pter h ouse at Tulane University is re ceiving a 150,000 re modeling. Vi iting PiKA's will have a surprise in competitive with other fraternities on the The H ouse Corporation of Eta Chap store when they visit New Orleans next T ul ane campus. Several other groups ter met on the evening of March 30, to Mardi Gras or spring vaca tion. Brothers had already announced plans for n ew or receive the archi teet's study and to de wh o have stayed at the Pike H ouse at renova ted housing, and Eta's competi termine what action should be taken. T ul ane will be especiall y surprised. T he ti ve ness has always been marginal in the Earl Watkins, executive director of Pi 62-year-o ld structure that has served Eta housing area. Kappa Alpha, made a special trip to N ew Chapter for so many yea rs is receiving a As a result of the meeting, a building O rleans to attend the meeting, at which $5 0,000 face-lifting this summer. Dave committee was formed to inves tigate the H ouse Corporation officials decided to Carnes, a member of the board of direc several avenues ava il able. It was headed renovate the house completely. Part of tors of Eta's H ouse Corporati on, says by J ames H . Cadzow, Jr., Class of 1949. the money was obtained from a local chapter members will not even recognize O ther Building Committee members in ba nk on a first mortgage basis. The re the old place when they return this fall. cl uded Dave Carnes, Bill Vaudry, H arry mainder of the $50,000 was borrowed A lot of people have put a lot of work Burglass, J ack Carinha, W alter W olf, from the PiKA Chapter House Loan into the renova ti on of the house. It all David R odrig ue, and Buddy R andolph. Fund. started in February, when interested As a preliminary step, Brother Vaudry T he approved plans ca ll for the first alumni met for lunch at Arnaud's R es inves tigated the University area in an fl oor to be conve rted into twelve double taurant to discuss possibilities for im effort to determine whether relocation rooms, th us sleeping 24 men in the house. proving facili ties at the Pike H ouse a t would be possible. No suitable real es T he present house will only accommo I 036 Broadway. The alumni mee ting was tate, however, was avail able. The Com da te nine. Built in bunks, desks and requested by Earl Stolz, Eta's SMC. Earl mittee then engag·ed the services of an lockers will make the house competitive pointed out at the meeting that the ac architect to make a feasibility study to with any Tulane dormitory. The lower ti ve chapter felt something must be done determine the cos t of reconstruction or fl oor will consist of a kitchen, dining immediately in order for PiKA to remain renovation. room and lounge. Folding doors, which ca n be removed for dances, will separate the rooms. Eta men "at work" on the first jJhase of chapter house construction (l. to r.)-Mike Moore, A major problem for Eta Chapter now H ugh Andrews, William T alley, Ron Higgins and Patrick Fo lk. seems to be furnishings for the house. T he acti ve chapter has pledged itself to retire the existing first mortgage. The H ouse Corporation has borrowed money to the limit of its potential. We hope the furnishings for the house will be contrib uted by interested alumni and active chapter members. Anyone interested in this project is urged to contact J ack Cad zow, 1220 Pine, New Orleans, La. Founded in 1878, Eta Chapter is one of PiKA's oldes t and proudest. With our newly renovated and competitive house, and with the concentrated efforts of our members, offi cers and alumni, Eta should co ntinue to produce men of the caliber tha t T ulane University and Pi Kappa Alpha can point to with pride. THE PI KAPPA ALPHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION The entrance to the Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial Foundation Building, 577 University Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee. What Is The Memorial Foundatton? The Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial Foundation was con The Foundation was chartered in 1948 by the state of ceived and established as the agency through which the Tennessee as a not for profit corporation. Today there are fraternity could most effectively implement its program of 3, 167 members of Pi Kappa Alpha who have contributed scholarship, leadership and citizenship. Its purposes are: twenty-five dollars or more to the Foundation and have To stimulate academic endeavor through chapter li thereby qualified for membership. braries a.nd tutorial programs. The national image, esprit de corps and fraternal pride To promote scholarship by providing graduate fellow of Pi Kappa Alpha, received their greatest impetus with the ships for resident counselors. dedication of its impressive Memorial Headquarters during To provide financial assistance to individuals and col the 1954 National Convention. Located at 577 University leges through loans and grants. Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee, the building, land and To perpetuate the memory of great fraternity deeds and furnishings are currently valued in excess of $350,000.00. It personalities. is one of only five fraternity headquarters in the nation To preserve and display valuable historical material. built exclusively for fraternity administration. To provide a memorial headquarters building honoring The general meeting room is available without charge to the Pi Kappa Alpha Gold Star members who died for civic and service organizations. More than 700 meetings have our country. been held in this room since 1954, 66 of them during 1964-65. To preserve the American way of life. There were 805 registered visitors during 1964-65. 24a What Was Done Last Year ? More than 69,000.00 in scholarships, loans, grants and 12 scholarships (with 12 schools rep resented) for a total awards have been made during the pas t ten years. Residen t of $5, 750.00. Counse lors are given fellowships to p romote scholarship and Three special scholarships totaling $900.00. leadership. Loans and grants are made annually to indi T h ree memorials for a $300.00 total. vidual and colleges. Awards are mad e to individuals in the T extbooks for chapter libraries for a total of $320.00. form of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi keys and to Phi Beta Kappa keys totaling $40.48. d1a pters in the form of Ii brary books. During I 964-65 the Loans to twelve members, (with I 1 schools represented) Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial Foundation awarded: for a $4,950.00 total. What New Programs Are Being Planned? With the approach of the fraternity's Centennial Con ther (who was ki lled in the Spanish-Am erican W ar) for vention in l 968, many new projects are under consideration d isplay in the Gold Star H all. as the Foundation's asse ts continue to grow. While there wi ll -commission an artist to paint his conception of the fra always be a need to increase the number and size of scholar ternity's fo unding on Su nday, March I, 1868. ships and award , it is the goal of the Foundation to u nder The Fou ndation has recently app roved the re-naming of take additional educa ti onal programs. A number of ideas the Memorial Headquarters museum. T he Freem an H. H art have been proposed and, with increased support, it is hoped Memorial Museum honors our late National Historian who the Foundati on may : joined the Chapter E ternal earlier this year. A portrait of -erect a Centennial Chapel and auditorium in Memphis, Brother H art was unveiled on August I, I 965. T ennes ee, to commemorate the first 100 years of Pi Also approved by the Foundation was a m emorial in honor Kappa Alpha. of the late Fred A. Anderson. A set of referen ce books will -produce a historica l and educa ti onal film depicting the be presented to that chapter each year that wins the Newell fra ternity' first century of brotherhood. Award (most overall improvemen t). Brother Anderson was -esta blish a perpetual scholarship to the University of a close friend of the late H arvey T. Newell who was killed Virginia fo r R oom 47 West R ange, insuring that only while serving as National President. Pi Kappa Alphas live in our Founding Room. A research grant has been awarded to a Pi Kappa Alpha - provide oil tinted photographs of all N ational Presi professor at Memphis Sta!e U niversity to compile a financial dent to hang in the Supreme Council Room. history of the fraternity. It is hoped that additional research - p r.ov ide a large oil painting of our first Gold Star bro- programs may be launched in various other fi elds of study. Memoria l Fo undation Pi Kappa A lpha OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION TRUSTEES 1948- John F. E. Rippel, President Charles M. Crump, Theta ( So u thwester~) W. R. Atkinson, Vice President Robert H . Wright, Alpha-Iota (Millsaps) Ea rl ' V 2-/b MEMORIAL FOUNDATION NET WORTH - 1930-1 965 (AND ITS PREDECESSOR, THE PI KAPPA ALP HA EN DOWMENT FUND ESTABLISHED IN 1930) THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS $250,000 240,000 230,000 220,000 210,000 200,000 190,000 180,000 170,000 160,000 150,000 140,000 130,000 120,000 110,000 100,000 90,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 0 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1951 How Can You Support The Foundation? The support of the Memorial Foundation should be the tion. Many more brothers are adding to their contribution concern of every Pi Kappa Alpha. Members of the fraternity by answering the annual Roll Call. and their relatives who contribute $25.00 or more are entitled Gifts may also be accepted from groups such as collegiate to full membership privileges in the Foundation. It is your chapters, alumni associations, house corporations, mothers' opportunity to invest in the educational development of or sweethearts' clubs, or similar groups. Special scholarships selected young men and worthwhile scholastic programs in or awards may be established by these groups within the keeping with our objectives. To encourage all brothers to Foundation. All group contributions will be given suitable take this opportunity, the Foundation has outlined the fol recognition. lowing membership achievement plan: Non-members are invited to contribute funds, and to date ·several gifts have come from this source. Parents, relatives, * A IIKA who cumulatively contributes $100.00 friends and businesses may include the Foundation in their becomes a member of the DIAMOND LIFE charitable giving. ., CHAPTER; Memorials are particularly suitable for the Foundation. Should an individual or group wish to perpetuate the mem * A IIKA who cumulatively contributes $500.00 ory of a deceased brother, it can be done by making a gift becomes a member of the JUNIOR GUARDIAN in his name. Acknowledgments of such memorials are sent CHAPTER; and to the family. * A IIKA who cumulatively contributes $1,000.00 Alternative ways of giving to the Foundation may be more becomes a member of the SENIOR GUARDIAN convenient to you. These include gifts of securities or other CHAPTER. property, annuity plans, life insurance, bequests, objects of art, gifts-in-kind and short-term trusts. Currently there are nine m embers of th e SENIOR The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that contributions GUARDIAN CHAPTER, 22 JUNIOR GUA RDI AN to the Foundation are deductible for tax purposes. For CHAPTER members and 65 1 members of the DIAMOND further information you or your attorney should correspond LIFE CHAPTER. 2,485 additional Pi Kappa Alphas have with the Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial Foundation, 577 Uni contributed $25.00 to become vo ting members of the Founda- versity Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee 38112. SENIOR GUARDIAN MEMBERS JUNIOR GUARDIAN MEMBERS Roll o. Roll No. I. •charles K. Payne I. •charles K. Payne 12. Joe C. Scott 2. Robert Taylor ootbaar 2. Dabney Hull Crump 13. T. Earl Watkins 3. Frank Dean Boggs 3. • Harvey T. Newell, Jr. 14. John Fred Earl Rippel 4. •Fred Alvin Anderson, Jr. 15. Donald W. Shaw 4. Dr. W. R . Atkinson 5. Clarence Robertson Yeager 16. Roy D . Hickman 5. Harold E. Rainville 6. Robert Taylor Nootbaar 17 . Charles Edgar Bear 6. • Harvey T. ewell, Jr. 7. Albert Miller Hillhouse 18 . Wilbur H. Van Dine 7. Wilbur H. Van Dine 8. Julius Jensen Fink 19. L.A. McCall, Jr. 8. Donald W. Shaw 9. Frank Dean Boggs 20. Charles M. Anderson, Jr. 9. Peter Michael Van Dine 10. Dr. W. R. Atkinson 2I.••Mrs. Walter J. Williams II. Harold E. Rainville • Deceased 22. Peter Michael Van Dine ••Honorary IN Pittsburgh Alumni Enjoy Smorgasbord By EARL WATKINS The Gamma Sigma Alumni Associa Executive Director tion at the University of Pittsburgh is initiating an a nnu a l event, an early Are you one of those who has But, think of the good it can accom Smorgesbord dinner in Pitt's Commons shown his appreciation for the privi plish when added to the contribu Room. This year the event took place on lege of membership in Pi Kappa tions other alumni brothers· make. Friday, June 4 between 5:30 and 8:30. Alpha by answering the annual roll And it is the least you can do to ex Al umni escorted wives and dates to Web call? If so, Pi Kappa Alpha is grate press your appreciation of the price ster H all Boot and Saddle for a cocktail hour, then attended the Smorgesbord on ful for your continued loyalty and is less gift of brotherhood. the campus. The University activities a better organization because of you. Pi Kappa Alpha is only three years included a bus tour of the new expanded Unfortunately, four out of five away from its Centennial. During the campus plus an address by Chancellor alumni members have never once next three years it is most important Lawrence Litchfield. Afterward, the fes made a voluntary contribution. We that we get a generous response to tivities were conti nu ed at a reserved ask ourselves "Why do so many fail to the annual roll call if we are to fulfill room in the University Club. give? Is it because they do not realize Tentative plans are also being made the goals of the Centennial Commis that their Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial for a get-together during the Fall Home sion, the Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial Foundation is performing a worth coming at the Pitt-Notre Dame Game. while service to American youth?" Foundation Trustees and the Su ~ Plans include a lunch at the Student Today 51 brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha preme Council. Some of these goals Union, a ttend a nce at the game in a block reserved for IIKA, and then open can tell you that a Memorial Foun are: to build a suitable monument that will capture the spirit of the house at the Chapter H ouse which will dation loan made possible their be followed by dinner in the University struggles, heartbreaks and triumphs graduation from college. Our scholar Club. Anyone wishing r eserv a tions ships have helped many worthy stu of Pi Kappa Alpha's first one hun please write or call the Gamma Sigma dents, and have won for us the respect dred years; to increase our scholar Al umni Association Secretary: A. F. of many college administrators. Pi ship program; and to place a suitable Kadar, 200 Fifth Avenue, McKeesport, Kappa Alpha has always stressed memorial at the University of Vir Pennsylvania 15132, 678-6930. leadership, and as an incentive, Phi ginia, where our fraternity was Beta Kappa keys and similar recog founded. nition emblems are paid for with In other "In the Bonds" articles, I Omaha Jaycees monies received in the annual roll have written of Junior Founder call. Robert A. Smythe and ational His Honor Schr~pp Sometime around September lst torian Freeman H. Hart, who to Robert C. Schropp (6X, Omaha), Oma when the opening of school and the gether gave over 100 years of service ha district manager of the Northwestern autumn leaves bring back college as national officers before joining the Bell Telephone Company, was named memories, your postman will deliver Chapter Eternal. With the average winner of the Junior Chamber of Com your 1966 annual Roll Call message. college alumnus earning $5.00 an merce distinguished service award . . If you have become accustomed to hour, is it asking too much of ALL The award is presented each year to dropping this in the wastebasket, members of Pi Kappa Alpha to an an Omaha man between 21 and 36 for please reconsider. Ten dollars, or swer this year's roll call with the in his contribution to civic life. even five, once a year, is a sum so come from two hours of work? Once Mr. Schropp, 3603 South One Hun smail as to be inconsequential to you. a PiKA, always a PiKA. dredth Street, is participating in 14 civic and professional organizations. He is a director of the Tribe of Yessir, Ad-Sell, YMCA, Cancer Crusade, the Red Pau l W. Austin M.D., DLC No. 629 . Cross and the Mississippi Valley Associ DIAMOND ation. He is a memb.er of Kiwanis, the Presi dent's Club of the Chamber of Com LIFE CHAPTER merce and is former president of the Omaha University Alumni Association. 648-LUTHER GERALD LATHAM Paul D. Jankovic, Delta Psi Chapter, 649-WINSTON ATTEBERRY University of Maryland: In one semester, 650-INSLEE MAURICE JOHNSON the Delta Psi Chapter has skyrocketed 651-JOHN THATCHER ATKIN from last place (24th) to become the num 652-THOMAS EUGENE MILES ber one scholastic fraternity at the Uni 653-GEORGE TOLBERT LEWIS versity of Maryland. 25 FRATERNITY MEMBERSHIP The College Man's Smallest Expense for His Greatest Prepared by THE STEWART HOWE ALUM~! 1n a- '1/ n 'lJ ne z SERVICE as. a service to .the college frat.ermty L0 lltj PuUll B.vii fit system. R eprmted by permission. During the fraternity rushing season, Ratio of Expenditures By Types, To Total the scales heavily. Here are a few of some prospective members are discour College Costs ( 1952-53) ... these benefits: Private Public 1. The fraternity house, unlike the aged by their assumption that they can Institutions Institutions institutional dormitory, is a true "home not afford the added expense of frater Tuition Fees ...... 30.5 % 6.9% nity membership. Other College Fees .... 2.1 6.6 away from home." The resident feels that he shares ownership of the property, Rushing chairmen often foster this Books and Supplies ... 3.1 4.5 since he may invite and host his friends misconception by protesting too much. Room Rent ...... 8.7 9.1 Board ...... 18.0 24.0 there. He can "put up" his dad, or young They state negatively, in effect, "Our Snacks, Cigarettes, male friends, as overnight guests. He charges are not too high," instead of etc...... 4.8 6.7 feels more relaxed in the fraternity house constructively stressing that "Member Recrea tion ...... 6.8 9.2 than he would in a dormitory. He knows ship is a real bargain." Health ...... 2.1 2.4 Clothing ...... 8.9 11.6 that he "belongs," and he knows inti Just how much does fraternity mem Laundry ...... 2.1 . 3.1 mately all of the fellows who live "down bership add to the cost of a college edu Travel ...... 7.0 7.6 the hall." cation? When you read the answer to Fraternity Dues ...... 1.5 1.9 2. Fraternity life teaches the under this in the form of percentages, instead Grooming ...... 1.4 2.1 graduate many valuable things which he of dollars, you will agree that it is a Other and could not learn elsewhere on the campus. mistake for one to worry about investing Miscellaneous ...... 2.9 3.2 These lessons range from table manners *"'NOTE: Since 1952-53, most fraternities' in membership. and social poise to self-reliance and the dues have not increased, or have increased The U. S. Office of Education has only slightly, whereas almost every other art of living and working with others on made an extensive· study of expenditures type of expense has in creased significantly. a team. The young student will find his connected with higher education. This Tuition fees at most private institutions ambition stirred. He will strive to meas nation-wide survey revealed that, during have increased 20 % or more; at tax sup ure up to what he and his fellows con ported sc hools, an ave rage of 10%. the 1952-53 school year, fraternity under sider in evaluating the "successful alum Comparing what ·students "get for graduates' ·outlays for national and char nus." their money," there is no question that v 3. Membership in a frat ter fmternity dues amounted to 1.5% paying a fraternity bill is a bigger bar ernity will stiffen the under of their total school expenditures at gain than paying a dormitory bilL H ere graduate's resolve to stay· in private colleges and universities; and are some of the tangible differences: school until graduation. A 1.9% at tax supported institutions in The dormitory bill buys room and more recent study by the that year. The cost of fraternity dues board- and little else- for a specific U.S. Office of Education was next to the bottom of a graduated number of weeks. (Unlike the fraternity found that "fraternity and sorority mem tabulation of all typical school expenses. bill, it is usually payable a full term in bership was clearly associ Only the total outlay for haircuts cost advance.) The fraternity ... operated ated_ with "a persistence to less! less like an institution ... provides many graduate." Members of frat little luxuries, and much more freedom ernities and sororities had Few fraternity chapters charge more to use the facilities, regardless of the better p e rs is ten ce records for room and board than do the college hour or season. than non-members at the dormitories, despite the special econo The fraternity arranges more social same institutions. mies the educational institutions derive events and provides more athletic facili 4. Fraternity alumni, with rare excep from their mass operations and freedom ties, a t no extra cost. Often the ice box tions, testify that the fraternity helped from all taxes, and from their ability to is accessible for late evening snacks and them to develop more acquaintances, borrow money at very low interest cost for Sunday evening meals or during the a nd to form more lasting friendships, to finance dormitories. At many insti holiday periods, when the dormitory than they could have in another environ tutions the fraternity house bill is lower resident will find everything locked up. ment. After their college days, their than the amount paid by dormitory res At most institutions, a fraternity mem fraternity continues to be of social and idents. ber who enrolls for the summer session business value, for through it they gain can live .at his chapter for a nominal ready acceptance from fellow members Every fraternity rusher can present charge. When he travels to another and from alumni of other fraternities membership as a bargain investment campus where there is a chapter ·of his whom they meet constantly. that costs less than 2% of an average organization, he usually finds free hos 5. Membership in a college fraternity college education. Here are the U. S. pitality. often enables a young graduate to get an Office of Education's survey findings The intangible benefits enjoyed by easier start in a better job, because many that bear out this claim: the college fraternity undergraduate tip employers feel that the fraternity man 26 is better adjusted, better able to get along with people, and possessed of more will to succeed. On numerous occasions, young men get a helpful start in their careers due to meeting their employers, initially, through fraternity affair intro ductions. 6. A survey of the biographies of the chief executives of the nation's largest corporations, las t year, revealed that 75% of such executives who attended college where there were national fraternities are members of the Greek-letter societies. This revelation is of special significance when it is realized that fraternity mem bers constitute 20 % or less of the student - ~ enrollr.nents at those institutions and the Washington State University /u,1s a spacious library. fact that all fraternity alumni constitute less than one percent of the total U. S. population. Washington State Chapter Establishes McGuire President Outstanding Chapter Library by Guy W. Doan, rz The library is the largest and best equipped fraternity library at W a bing Of Duke Power Co. The Sidwell Collins Memorial Library Reprint from The Altar and Skull. ton State University. The subject rpat has become .a lasting tradition at Gamma ter is diver e and is designed to up This issue our featured alumnus is Xi Chapter. We are proJ.Id to devote a plement almost every field of interest. A Mr. W. B. McGuire, a man who has re section of the Shield and Diamond to }Jighlight of the library is a large selection cently become even closer to Beta chap this memorial. ter when his son John was initiated las t of reference books jncluding tw o 24- The library was es t ab l~sh ed in memory year. He is a prominent Charlotte busi vo lur,n e sets of the Encyclopedia Brittan of Sidwell Coll ins, a member of the chap nessman and a Davidson graduate of the lca, ,the Brittanica WorLd LaQguage Dic ter, who was killed in an automobile class of '30. tionary, and a 50-volume se.t of the accident in the early 1930's. Collins' f ~ Mr. McGuire, Duke Power Co. presi Harvard Classics. A large number of ther donated a revolving fund of $22,000 dent, was recently elected chairman of books on world, United States, and W ash to be used for the establishment of a the Virginia-Carolinas Atomic Power ington State history are proviaed, along chapter library in memory of his son. Commission, one of many executive po with a biographical collection on the The money is invested in stocks aQ d sitions he has held since his affiliation live of famous men-Washington, J eHer bonds with approximately $1,000 of with Duke. son , Jackson, Franklin, Churchill, F. D. immediate cash avail able for yearly ex In 1952, Mr. McGuire was named to Roosevelt, and ma ny more. Suj table for penditure. Besides this geQerous endow the Duke presidency, becoming the more lejsure time reading are noveJs by ment, Dr. Collins also donated a num youngest man to hold that position since many o£ tJ1 e world's gr€a t contemporary ber of books from his own per~onal li J. B. Duke himseJ£. who founded the authors- Hemingway, F.auH 28 back to our parable of color TV. This During a visit to one of our mid-west to me that some day some smart presiden t time when you go out to shop for a set, ern chapters, I was having an informal of some IFC would get the idea of car you don't even get in the door. You are meeting with the brothers and the chap ryi ng on an advertising campaign in met there by the dealer who says, 'If you ter advisor in the living room of the connection with the rush program. If are interested in shopping for color TV, beautiful new house which had been this ever happened and the campaign there are a few rules you must observe: built by the college. The discussion was were run on the same principles as some 1. You must go first to the Chamber of general in nature and finally some of of the rush programs, I can imagine what Commerce and register as a prospective the boys began to moan about the fac t the ads would sound like, fo r example, buyer. 2. You must pay a $10.00 registra _ that the college had just built these new (With sincere apologies to those whose tion fee for this shopping privilege. houses which accommodate 57 men. T he ads I am about to desecrate) they m ight 3. You must start your shopping on a members did not like the idea of the go as follows: fixed day at a fixed hour. Then you college putting independent m en in the "Let fra ternity put you in the HOT must visit at least four dealers for a rooms which were not occupied by bro seat." period of one hour. No more, no less, thers. One brother remarked, "How can ''I'm a fraternity man . .. Don't yo u you must get a receipt from him showing you fill a 57-man house when only 200 wish NO ONE ELSE was." that you have made this visit. 4. On no freshmen out of 650 sign ed up fo r rush?" "Fraternity brings out the PARTY in account may you go back to any dealer a My first ques tion to this brother was, people." second time until you have visited them " Is there any rule or obligation prohibit "Now it's fraternity fo r those who all. 5. Now, in our town, you can't see ing you from rushing any of the 45 0 men think WRONG." any of these sets until next February, who did not sign up for rush?" From the Absurd, ridiculous? Sure it is. H owever, and if any dealer even lets you in the blank look on his face, I could see that when yo u compare this absurd idea with store before then, or discusses TV with either he did not understand my ques some of the rules the IFCs are passing to you, he i ~ barred from selling you a set, ti on or he thought I was plumb crazy. regulate, or should I say over-regulate, no matter how much you may want it.' The thought of rushing anyo ne who had the rush programs, is it any more absurd After hearing these and other rules, not signed up for rush just never entered or ridiculous? you'd be pretty apt to say, 'I don't want his head. It is my considered opinion W e as secretaries must use all of our color TV that badly.' But before you that very few of the fraternity men at influence to educate our undergraduates walk out of the dealer's life forever, you this particular school ever thought of to this peril of over regulati on of rush . just might ask him, 'Why has the govern rushing a student who hadn't signed up We must point out how this practice is ment made all these silly rules that make for rush. Yet think of the potential mem choking off the very source of our ex it so hard for you to sell TV sets, and bership which was largely n eglected sim istence for, without the rushee, we die. for me to buy one?' And the dealer pl y because a rule said you had to sign would reply, 'Oh, the government didn't up for rush. So everyo ne fi gures if you make all these rules. W e did this our don't sign up, you are not interes ted. Missouri Analyzes selves!' " H ow many life insurance policies would This is a good analogy for there is no be so ld in the United States if the sales Summer Pledging doubt in my mind that the principles of men waited for their prospects to come salesmanship can be applied to fraternity in and sign up? One of the cardinal rush. Rushing is the time when the fra rules of that profession is "It takes I 0 Program ternity man tries his best to sell his fra calls to make one sale." I believe this by CHARLES J . H ARTMANN, JR .~ot ternity to the men he wants. The main can truthfully be applied to fraternity Assistant D irector, Student A ffairs concern of all fraternity m en should be rush. In that group of 450 untouchables for Men, University of M issouri there probably were men who would be to get as many prospects to go through Editor's Note: September is a hectic period fo r rush as possible. You do not accomplish fa r better fraternity men than many of students and the faculty at our colleges and uni the 200 which the fraternities were work versities. Fraternity rush ing during the first days this end by erecting all sorts of obstacl es of the coll ege year is also very hectic and " rushed ." ing hard to pledge. But it would take Many adm inistrators and many I FC's seek to avoid to discourage participation in the rush the problems by "delayed" rush . T his frequently program. someone to sell these men on the idea compounds the problem fo r the rushee, the fra that fraternity life is good and the fra ternity, and the college. T he U niversity of Illinois Alpha Chi Rho recently instituted a has taken a healthy " new look" and has instituted new chapter at a small state college. ternity experience would make co ll ege spring and summer rush. T he University of Mis sour i is experimenting with summer rush . . We During one of my visits to the campus, life much happier and more meaningful. appreciate the opportunity to present to our readers the Dean, in an apologetic sort of way, My point is this: With the sign-up sys this analysis by Mr. Hartman . told me that the past year at this insti tem, the fraternities were concentrating It is appropriate that we evaluate the tution had been a bad one for rushing. on 200 men ; but if there had been no summer pledging procedures as we com H e explained that the IFC had experi sign-up rule, the fraternity men would plete the first year of this new system mented with the idea of charging $1.00 not have known who was interes ted and of fraternity membership selection at the registration fee for all students who who was not. Therefore, they would U niversity of Missouri. wished to participate in rush. Now a have had the entire freshmen class of I. Adoption of the Sys tem dollar to all you affluent secretaries, no 650 men as potential prospects and mem In the fall of 1962, a proposal contain doubt, seems like a very small fee. It bers. Thus because of over regulation of ing some of the characteristics of the meant enough, however, to the students rush, yo u cut yo ur potential manpower IFC rush plan at the University of Illi at this small school to cut the number by over one third. Does this look like nois was first recommended to the Mis of men participating in rush to 30% . so und judgment? To me it is utterly souri IFC by representatives of the Office The Dean immediately informed me that ridiculous. of the Dean of Students and a number the IFC has already abandoned this no As I was preparing the material for •Reprint from FRATER N IT Y MONTH/ April , ble experiment. this discussion, the horrible thought came 1965 . 29 SUMMER PLEDGING • CONTINUED of undergraduate fraternity leaders. A met with satisfactory res ults at a mini KAPPA ALPHA committee of IFC representatives gath mum of expense are TKE, ~ 31 CAMPUS PRESSURES • CONTINUED the Ph.D. in the humanities grows longer and longer. The longer I teach, the more clear tor. One of the great merits of the Obsession With Grades ly I realize that the row of grades American college when I came into The pressure can be dreadful and which I put down in a notebook is it a good many years ago was that frightening. There is an insistent ob not telling me-or anybody else this pathway was wide open, easy, session with grades. It used to be that much about my young people. Be and available. C was a creditable grade, and, if you hind this row of figures lies a bewil It doesn't exist any more because were interested in going out an eve dering confusing of personal dilem the professors are ·too busy, and the ning or two with a boy, you could mas, interests, tensions, and desires, young people are too scared to ap· forget your assignment and make a all of which have some relevance to proach them. C or a B, as the dice of an exam fell. this business of education for which It used to be that in any family I believe this to have been a whole I happen in a small way to be re some attitude, this willingness to there was a division of responsibility sponsible. The grades are not a reli between the two parents. Mother sacrifice a little bit of excellence able indicator. usually did a great deal of the prac along one nar:row line for the sake tical managing of the home. Dad of a broader purpose. Role of R elaxation was called in to lay down the disci The worst result of this insistence If we look at the goals that most pline, to insist, "You get to your on excellence lies in a mood fairly of us pursue, they are in the end very books, Johnny!" The majority of our common on campuses that study is simple. Making a living. Being use youngsters now carry two parents on always an unpleasant chore. ful in some way. Having some indi their neck, both of whom have col Hard study might be fun if it were vidual quality of excellence all one's lege degrees. not for the incessant reckoning that own; whether it is a great excellence In the old days a boy was lured has to be made. Across every campus or a small one is not relevant. We into medicine by his doctor father. move hundreds of young people who, tend to overlook one of the most es Now both parents will expect him to in their attitude towards learning, sential goals: As age and tension in go into medicine. It has become are as stale as overtrained athletes, crease, there arises for all of us a harder for him to say, "No, I'd rather too tired, for lack of any remission, need to have the wherewithal and the be a teacher or a real-estate agent or to rise to the challenge of a new idea. capacity to escape, to get away. Not an engineer. I don't want to be a The other day I saw a bulletin of back into work for the pursuit of doctor." the Indiana department of health excellence, but into the relaxation Why Some Weep listing 50 different job options in the for mind and spirit out of which We are Eompounding the pressure area of health only. Students know maturity comes. And we are giving that we lay uptm our children, and .something of these riches,· and they our young people too little time for it is heartbreaking to watch it show. are bewildered. In the sophomore this relaxation. Young folks weep in my office be year, they find it hard to pick a Study is only one part-and .the cause they are disappointing not one "major," and they move from one older I get I think not necessarily person but two, both of whom they major to another on a whim, because the more important part- of this like. I am suggesting that the high there is this ample choice. process that goes on here for several hope and fears and ambitions of the Some time around March and years. A great deal of growing up nice American home may quite eas April every year, there occurs an has to be done, and our best grow ily be a serious drag on a young per affliction arising from a suspicion ing may occur during the unhurried son's ability to make his own choice, that a major chosen is not a very hours when we are not driven from to seek his own. path, to be, as far as happy one. Accompanying it is a task to task, the hours of free time is possible, his own man. trying sense of drift and desperation, and leisure when, quietly, things soak Another change comes from an in because those older students know in. sistence on what is called the "cult they should make up their mind on Why should we deny our young of excellence." Schools are raising a particular direction, but they do people the calm hours in which, their standards and colleges their en not like courses they .are taking, and above the tumult and the shouting, trance requirements, while industry they drift from one class to another they hear the still small voice within and the professions are demanding aimlessly. Some of them, unfortu themselves? more and more training and more ad nately, run away from the despair by -Alexander M. Buchan vanced degrees. We are setting up getting married-which is usually the constantly higher levels of this fright worst way for a student to escape. ening abstraction called excellence, Even among our graduate students, and we are increasing directly with we find a willingness to put off the this the guilt and the anguish of decision about choosing an area of many young people who, fine as they study or getting a dissertation clone. are, cannot meet the demand of spe They postpone the choice from year cialists in every branch of knowledge. to year, and the period of study for 32 SMCs from Howard College, Auburn A LABOR OF LOVE University and the University of Ala bama gave fine reports. Delta's 98 percent attendance- also was good enough to take honors that A Typical Weekend With night. A state-wide Dream Girl of PiKA was selected as a highlight of the evening. National President Charles She is Pam Lewis of Selma, Alabama, and a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority L. Freeman .. . at the University of Alabama. Other contestants, all Dream Girls, Friday, February 5, 1:30 P.M.-Spoke at a banquet in con were Carol Kay Ingram of Howard Col 11:30 P.M.-Arrival nection with the 75th anniversary of the lege, Audrey Ann Prude of Birmingham at orfolk, Virginia. junior founding. Southern; and Mary K?y?? Petro???? of Saturday, February 6, 10:00 A.M. 6:30 P .M.-Went to the home of J. Auburn. Visit to the graves of Founders Littleton Gray McAllister, the oldes t living mem A dance into lhe wee hours of the Waller Tazewell and Frederick South ber of Pi Kappa Alpha, to present him night followed the crowning of Miss gate Taylor. with a 75-year membership. Lewis and a short program emceed by Saturday, February 6, 1:30 P.M.-Pre 8:45 P.M.-Attended a meeting with Andrew Gainey, of the Southern music siding at colonization of new colony at Richmond alumni leaders and discussed faculty and national music director. Old Dominion College. general plans for the Virginia Centennial Arriving in Birmingham the afternoon 6:00 P:M.-A talk to the members of celebration. of the dinner, Freeman was escorted to Iota Chapter, H ampden-Sydney, Vir- Monday, February 8-12:00 oon- Birmingham-Southern, where he crowned ginia. Lunch at Alpha Chapter House and short Miss Prude as Dream Girl at the Delta Sunday, February 7, 11:00 A.M.-At talk to members at Charlottesville, Vir chapter house. tended church services at college church, ginia. M. E. Wiggins, president of the Birm Hampden-Sydney, Virginia (Sherrard ingham City Council, and Dr. Howard I :30 P. M.-Presided at the relocation Rice, son of junior founder Theron Rice, M. Phillips, a president of Birmingham of the plaque marking the room where was (he preacher). Southern and a PiKA, awarded Freeman Pi Kappa Alpha was founded. 12:30 P.M.-Attended a special cere a key to the city. mony in Room 50, Cushing Hall com 5:30 P.M.-Attended a special m eeting Freeman, Dr. Phillips and Gainey memorating the 75th anniversary of the of undergraduates and alumni at Delta were joined at the head table at the junior founding. Alpha Chapter, Washington, D. C. Founder's Day celebration by a host of distinguished guests. They included U. S. District Judge C. W . Allgood; U. S. District Court Clerk Freeman Addresses Alabama Founder's William E. Davis; Andrew H . Knight and Roy D. Hickman, past national pres Charles Freeman, national president, idents, both of Birmingham; John A. Day who addressed the more than 400 under- Caddell of the University of Alabama graduates, alumni and their ladies, said board of trustees; Dr. John A. Fincher, To the surprise of everyone except the he had never seen such enthusiasm. dean of Howard College; Foster Eth young men of Birmingham-So uthern Delta won recognition in two of three ericlge, J efferson County legislator; and College, Delta chapter walked away with areas that night: Bes t SMC prese ntation J ohn E. Horne, director of the Federal most honors when Alabama observed and best attendance. Home Loan Bank of W ashington, an PiKA's 97th anniversary. SMC Jimmy Wilson pulled no punches Alabamian and a· Pike. One of the biggest and best joint in telling the audience of Deltas' failures William T. Davis, president of the chapter parties ever held by the frater and decline in recent years but an Birmingham PiKA alumni association, nity overflowed the larges t dining room nounced that PiKA's fourth-oldest chap stamped a "well done" on the entire at Vestav ia Country Club on Feb. 26. ter was on the road back to prominence. event. (l. tor.) Alpha SMC Doug Gordon, Centennial Commission Secretary (l. tor.) National President C. L. Freeman, Alpha SMC Doug Gordon, K. D. PulcifJher, and Executive Director Earl Watkins examine the Unive1·sity of Virginia Dean B. F. D. Runk, and District President 1·elocated Founders R oom Marker at the University of Virginia. H ugh Flanagan visit outside the Pi Kappa Alpha birthplace. 50 YEARS AGO of your pants," replied the ready Kobert A. last month, on May the 22d and 23d, the Smythe. Alpha Alpha Alpha Fraternity of the Uni 35 YEARS AGO versity of New Mexico became the Beta-Delta Open house at Alpha-Iota's home that Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha . Previously, J. afternoon gave the visiting brothers all the Gordon Hughes, a member of the Supreme opportunity they needed to meet Millsaps' Counc il inspected Tri-Aipha on April 25, most beautiful co-eds. And the co-eds didn't 1915. Beta-De lta Chapter has the honor of mind a bit-for a month they had begged being the first chapter of any national fra the hosts to let them do anything to meet ternity to enter the state. the delegates; many of them offered their Beta-Gamma Chapter at the University of machines to drive the visitors about, etc. Kansas writes: "Many of our parents and Time drifted by until the dance was in full grandparents in the Sunflower State have .:1 swing . Procla imed by all the youngsters horror of the bare word 'fraternity'. Some present to be the best dance of several sea of them are hardly open to conviction that sons in Jackson, the affair ended at exactly they can be mistaken. They have had the midnight and all the dancers hurried home idea for years that a fraternity was an un to study their Sunday school lessons. democratic organization for the sons of the The last seen of the delegates from Eta idle rich , and that the entrance requirements was at 4:00 a.m. Sunday when they backed consisted in the ability to dress in clothes out of the house hurling at all assembled tailored in the latest styles and great skill their 10 best reasons why New Orleans was at poker, while a seasoned taste in liquor the only place for the next district conven made the candidate a still more valuable tion . Gamma-Iota's representation could not asset. get away without coming by the house for "Fortunately, it may be truthfully said, one more visit-it seems that one of the this idea is gradually dying away.' ' fellows had lost his best old hat and that At the Third Annual Meeting and Banquet he needed it to protect his hair from dust of the Atlanta Alumni Association, the fol when he rode in particular types of auto lowing menu was served: mobiles. MENU Judge and Mrs . Wightman Hughes an BROTHERHOOD nounce the engagement and approach ing Consomme A La Barigoule Celery En Branch Garden Radishes Queen Olives marriage of their daughter, lina, to Mr. Grilled Filet of Bluefish Thomas M. Garrott, Jr., (Theta) of Sledge, THROUGH Montpelier Butter Pommes Serpentine Miss. , the wedding to take place June 17. Roa st Milk-Fed Chicken , Roth schild New Potatoes Supreme New Green Peas in Butter Miss Hughes attended Southwestern, and Salad En Season Roqu efort Dressi ng Fresh Strawbe ry Ice-Cream Petit Fours she is a member of Ch i Omega sorority. THE YEARS Ph ilad elph ia Cream Cheese Bar Le Due Mr. Garrott was graduated froR1 South Demi Tasse Cigars western and is a member of Pi Kappa Alpha 35 YEARS AGO fraternity.- Memphis (Tenn .) Commercial From the pages of At the Convention held by District No. 13 Appeal. at lawrence, Kansas, a resolution was intro Two more Ohio State University fraterni duced to show the appreciation of the bro ties have announced their intention of abol SHIELD & DIAMO·ND thers in this part of the country for the ishing " rough initiations." In doing so, -they fine Sh ie ld and Diamonds that have been put are dipslaying excellent judgment and it is magazme out this year. The convention went on rec to be hoped that still others will follow their By Ray Varus, Administrative Assistant ord "as favoring the new size of our Shield example. ' and Diamond, also, that ·we appreciate the Pi Kappa Alpha has voted to substitute an untiring effort put forth by the editors, "educational probation" period in place ot which , has placed our fraternity magazine the usual "hell week" program and will among the leaders, if not the best among impose intensive study upon their pledges in such publications." place of slapsticks. It is gratifying to note In an announcement that Dillon Graham this trend which concentrates attention upon had just been made sports editor of the the upper end of the spinal column rather Associated Press, it was pointed out that . . . than upon the lower. (Editorial in the Colum ... 1930 When the S.M.C. of Alpha Eta (Florida) ap bus Dispatch .) pointed Dillon Graham to write the chapter Ed itorially, the staff was pleased to receive news, he did so because that was the only this resolution from the District 9 conven man he figured he could unload it on . tion : "We the committee on resolutions Graham was "cussed" for the poor material recommend that the Convention express to he turned in for the magazine more than the Editor of The Shield and Diamond, our the usual chapter correspondent, owing 1·o most sincere approval and appreciation of the fact that he was a freshman . Now while the present form of The Shield and Diamond." th e fellows who did the most kicking are Then we were saddened by this report dumbfounded by the phenomenal success in from the District 2 convention: "Disap the journalistic world of the lowly frosh of proved of the appearance of The Shield and 1926, the writer is sitting back thumbing Diamond and fav0red a return to the former his suspenders and saying "I told you so." style, and disapproved of the treatment of (In 'Old Iota In The Gay Nineties', J. Gray photographs sent to this magazine." McAllister recalls an incident at a conven But the sun shone brightly again when tion in the 1890's.) I recall that in the course this resolution came along from the bro of the discussi on in one of the conventions of thers of Distr ict 13: "The convention went this period a brother asked whe re he should on record as favoring the new size of our wear his pin. "Anywhere but on the seat Shield and Diamond; also that we appreciate 34 the untiring efforts put forth by the editors. of it. We were very hungry for a table on which he studied, and the which has placed our magazine among the larger field. We were very restless warm fire around which we gathered, leaders, if not the best among such publi under our small chapter roll. cations." W e for it was cold. Arbuckle's bright A withered blossom between two rose felt that we had something that was face and Foster's stern, almost melan buds ... worth while and the very nature of choly countenance as we wrestled On March 1, Delta (Birmingham-Southern) the fraternity life demanded a larger over the problems. Things of this and Alpha-Pi (Howard College) chapters held scope for its adequate development. sort stand out. But I can also recall a joint banquet at the Thomas Jefferson Hotel to celebrate Founders' Day. The prin Finally, however, we put aside all with what forgetfulness of all the cipal speaker and guest of honor was Brother these things, and determined that, externals we bent together over the R. M. Mcfarland, Jr., assistant grand treas as far as in us lay, we would achieve problems which was before us; how urer, who came over from the "cracker our own career, and must eventually to reorganize the fraternity so as to metropolis." McFarland, with Brother Hick man, the Alumnus Nu president, also were extend our boundaries. give it in the future a scope and a dinner guests the following Sunday. When the writer went on to take field which we had long coveted for a postgraduate course at the Univer it, for its noble' princi pies and its sity of Virginia in the year 1889-90, powers for good. he found at Alpha, as a transfer from Well, we need not go into the de Pi Kappa Alpha Iota, that man who has already been tails, even if we could, as to how this mentioned as a factor in our trans principle and that principle was formation, J. T. McAllister. He par evolved, discussed, modified, and fi Tlten Ji.land NDw ticipated heartily in conferences con nally embodied in the Constitution, cerning the reorganization of the but I can say that no work was ever fraternity, and when I went on to more whole-heartedly done, ever by Theron H. Rice H ampden-Sydney during the Christ more earnestly cooperated in, ever R eprint from the April, 1918 Shield and Diamond. mas holidays of 1889 as a delegate more thoug htfully and carefully Pi Kappa Alpha had something from Alpha, to meet the delegates weighed, ever more joyfully and hap in it well worth giving to the college that were gathered there from Theta pily accomplished. world; it challenged us to enlarge our and Iota, he had conferred with me When we were done, we had to boundaries and to increase our mem about plans, and was in full accord make some sort of a report to the bership by entering other institu with the ideas and purposes that I fraternity at large, and I remember tions. carried with me to that gathering. the rather crude way in which that When we were able to found Iota, We come now to the story of the report was embodied and sent out. we at once looked out from her for gathering at Hampden-Sidney at Joe McAllister wrote a very beau still further chances of extension. which the Constitution was adopted. tiful hand, one of the most perfect Bob Moore and Shadia Engle were This little college town, while not hands I have ever known a man to two men that Iota brought into our very large on the map, is one of the write, though he was a lawyer. He ranks. They went to Northfield in most historic spots in the nation. Its proposed himself to write the whole the summer of 1888, and there met name is commemorative of two of thing out and hectograph it on an that strong and attractive character, the most remarkable figures in Eng old-fashion gum hectograph and send Walter M. Smith, who, going back land's struggle for constitutional lib these records out to those members to the South Carolina Military Acad erty. of the fraternity who were still active. emy at Charleston, S. C., established Colleges have character and per We accepted his offer willingly, and there our gallant and efficient chap sonality. The character and personal he did all of that hard work out of ter, Lambda. It was this chapter ity of Hampden-Sydney College were pure love for the fraternity. This which, as everybody knows, gave us doubtless influenced by the great was the first issue of any sort of pub Robert A. Smythe. names it commemorated, and the lication by the fraternity. Then it There was also in this period of our character and personality of the col was that Smythe undertook to estab history a very interesting situation. lege impressed themselves in turn lish and edit the journal at his own We found that if we did not enlarge upon successive student bodies, and expense, and we owe everything in our bounds we would, perhaps, be hence, on the men of Iota who were the way of our future success to that repeatedly faced by ovetures from hosts of this memorable gathering. publication. other and stronger fraternities to We may count ourselves fortunate One of the things that I feel almost merge with them. I suppose I am in holding our first council, with a hesi tation in mentioning-and yet telling no secrets that ought not to respect to the organization of prac I would hardly feel my duty done if I be divulged when I say that during tically a new fraternity under the I did not mention it-is the way that my residence at Clarksville we were shadow of great names and in the Smythe dedica ted himself and his invited to join at least three large light of great ideals. work to the fraternity . When the and important fraternities. We de I remember so well the scene. The convention was held, Smythe wa·s bated the matter very seriou sly plain, almost rude brick building in sick and went through a very serious among ourselves, and there were which we met, the upstairs room oc spell of illness, and, on recovering, 1 some strong things to be said in favor cupied by Arbuckle, and the simple Continued Next Page 35 PI KAPPA ALPHA THEN AND NOW • CONTINUED wrote me a very beautiful letter. I pense of quality. Reference was made am not ure that I have the letter above to the high standard of Theta. still, though I rather think I have. It .has always been characteristic of In this letter Smythe said practi our chapters to be very fastidious as cally that his life had been marvel to the men they initiated. This being ously spared, and, out of profound true, while we have multiplied chap gratitude for the new gift, he felt ters, their personnel has been selected under special obligation to dedicate under the control of the strongest that life to some noble and useful conservatism and the noblest ideals james Bmnch, Jr. is president of the Student Body at the University of New Mexico. work. No man ever went into the of character. ministry under a more solemn con The fraternity today amazes a man Very energetic in student activities, viction, or with a more distinct ideal who sat in that little room and brood Brother Branch was selected as one of of service, than the conviction and ed over the possibilitie when there the two undergraduates to serve on the were only three chapters in existence. Student Affairs Committee in 1962. This the ideal which carried Smythe into committee serves as an advi ory council his life- long service for our frat ernity. Not having attended the various con to the Director of Student Affairs and The thing that offered itself to ventions as some of you have, I can dea ls with matters relating to the welfare Smythe at that time was the fraterni feel, as perhaps many of you can not, o[ the students. ty's rege neration, and he took up this the tremendous contrast between Feeling a deeper devotion to his fellow work with all the ardor of youth, and then and now. The contrast is more man, in 1963 he unselfishly joined the that ardor, fed by the spirit of noble external and formal, however, than Peace Corps. H e spent a year in Brazil self-sacrifice and consecration, has essential; a Pi today, no matter where under Brazil III Unit. The foll owing year, he returned to the never grown cold in all these years of he is, feels at home; the fraternity, Univer ity of lew fexico to continue unprecedented service. though so much more extensive, is hi studies in the fields of biology and This spirit it is, which has given a the same old fraternity still. The English. touch to all hi work, that m en have fact is we have here the expansion Jim was selected to be chairman of reverenced, feeling it to be something of a germ. The acorn has become Creek W eek, 1964, a nd proved his capa quite distinct from the ordinary spir the oak. bilities in leadershipu. That Spring he it in which men do work even of an · It is really marvelous how life can wa elected to Student Council. Brother unselfish character. grow. In those early days the cynic Branch was appointed to the chairman I tru t that this sketch, imperfect might have said, "What can come of ship of the Committee on the University for this pa t school year. n extremely a it i , may give readers some con thi little gathering?" But if he looks important task, the purpose of the com ception of the forces which gave birth today he will see that to which such mittee was to present a n opportunity for to our new era. Those forces were life was bound to grow, by reason of th e students a nd faculty members to ex certain noble ideals and certain the essential vitality which throbbed press th ir va ri ous opinions, likes as well young men who had faith to work within it. a dislikes, about the University. It came for them. L et us remember this: that the at an appropriate time-during the Cali From that time on the story of the fraternity today is "in trust" with fornia student protes ts . The student fraternity i well known. At first we that which was then, and is now, a forums this committee held a ttracted many non-unive r ity people, and thus did not make rapid progress numeri sacred thing. L et us see to it that no erved as a source of public information ally, but, after a time, we did begin glamour for bigness, no ambition to on univer ity life. to grow, and when we began to grow be considered large and imposing, For his outstanding schola tic achieve our growth wa very rapid. shall rob us of our choicest glory, the ments, Brother Branch has received the W e all remember the trong and principles for which we stand. Interfraternity Council Scholar hip and very ardent debate that were held was a member of Chaaka (junior men's at the convention which finally abol honorary) . H e was also named to Who's ished the ectional line. We origi Who in American Colleges and Universi nated in the outh and prided our Branch Elected ti es, 1964-1965. This remarkable young man, busy as selve for a time on being an exclu- President Of he i , is till one of the most active mem ively Southern order. But it was ber of the Chapter. H e served as IMC finally determined, with misgivings of the fraternity in the Spring semester, on the part of orne, to extend the Student Body 1964, a nd as pledge trainer, Fa ll emester, ho pitality of the fraternity to col By R alph D. Hill, Bll 1964. Brother Branch played end on the lege from one end of the country to J ames Brand1, Jr., Beta-Delta, received champion intramural football team and the other. Today our chapter roll trong upport from the students in the a n be counted on to win the pole vault in Jude in titution almo t a far pring Elections at th e University of N ew ev nt each yea r for the fraternity. Mexico and has been elected Student Pi Kappa lpha is indeed fortunate to north a the Canadian line. Thi en Body Pre ident for the chool year, 1965- have uch an active and dynamic man as largem nt has not been at the ex- 1966. Brother Bra nch in its membership. 36 Zeta Eta Chapter Installed At Little Rock University By Ronnie Lensing, ZH On May 15, Little Rock University Rock University, however, for he has vigorous institution with high stan Colony of Pi Kappa Alpha became received the principal appointment dards and educational prowess, truly Zeta Eta Chapter. With the help of to the U .S. Naval Academy at An a source of men, the type of men of the Little Rock Alumni Association, na polis, and he is to enroll there in whom all of Pi Kappa Alpha is com especially former National Rush Di June. There have been two of our posed. rector John Browning and Little chapter members elected to Who's Little Rock Alumni Association Rock University Registrar Dr. Dud Who of American Colleges and Uni began preliminary plans for the es ley S. Beard, we are now the fourth versltles. Henry Keatts, former tablishment of a Pike Chapter at Pike chapter installed in Arkansas I.M.C., has been elected president of Little Rock University in 1962. After and the third national fraternity on the Inter-fraternity Council. Wes a two year period in which adminis the Little Rock University campus. Wimberley is assistant editor of the trative requirements were met, a The installation of the chapter was "Forum," the University newspaper, group of nineteen men was ready to presided over by Brother Guyton and Al White is editor of the "Tro form. Watkins, National Treasurer. He jan," the University yearbook, for the From this meager beginning the was assisted by Brothers John Brown second consecutive year. group has continued to grow and fur ing, Little Rock University President We have been afforded excellent ther the name of Pi Kappa Alpha in Dr. Carey V. Stabler, Dr. Dudley S. facilities for meetings, entertainment, all phases of student life. Community Beard, District President Joe Neely, and work sessions through the gener projects, campus activities, new tra C. Armitage Harper, William Crosby, osity of Dr. Dudley Beard, who has dition and of course brotherhood are administrative assistant to the Execu made available to us three rooms of but a few of the functions that have tive Director, and Mike Mulchay, his to serve as our chapter room. contributed to forming a competitive Field Secretary who prepared the col There is a snooker table, a television group and organization on campus. ony for the installation. Initiation set, and a stereo console for varied On February 25, 1965, the formal teams from Epsilon Phi (Arkansas entertainment. It is this kind of help inspection was held. With due appre State Teachers College) and Delta that has made it possible for us to hension and just reward, the Colony Theta (Arkansas State College) per become a part of Pi Kappa Alpha. members began work on the final formed the individual initiations. Zeta Eta pledges its best efforts to be phases of preparing to reach the es Since the establishment of the col a credit to the Fraternity and to Lit tablished goal-becoming members of ony at Little Rock University, we tle Rock University. Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. have been prominent in all fields of Little Rock Junior College had its The charter members of Zeta Eta the University-sponsored activities. beginning back in 1927. It moved are as follows: Paul Groce, Paul Hast We won first place in the first annual from Little Rock Central High where ings, Harold Henderson, Bill Howell, "Anulsing", a song contest among it originated to its present site, a Richard Howell, Rollo Ingram, campus organizations sponsored by wooded tract of land on Little Rock's Henry Keatts, Ken Oliver, Bob Rich Circle K club. We received the first west-side, in 1947. Ten years later, it ardson, John Rhodes, Freddie Ro place plaque from the City Beautiful began its four year program of classes. berts, Harold Roberts, Jerry Rose, Al Commission for community service It then was changed from its Junior White, Ralph Anderson, Richard projects. At the District 13 Conven College title to its present day Uni Harwell, Jim Watts, Wes Wimberly, tion we received the trophy for hav versity status. Ch;;trles Aldrich, Tom Kennedy, John ing the greatest number of represent With the four year program came Paquette, Jerry Yanker, Lerry Hul atives. an increasing number of students. sey. The chapter members have helped From 1955 to 1965 there was an in establish Pi Kappa Alpha on the Lit crease of over 1500 students. The in john Wheeler is an outstanding guard at tle Rock University campus by their stitution has met and has plans for Murray State College, Murray, Kentucky. in d i vidual accomplishments. The fullfilling the needs of all future president-elect of the student body is building problems. A group of build Jerry Rose, former S.M.C. and presi ings have just been completed and dent of Katalia, an honorary scholar plans for new construction are being ship-leadership fraternity, of which formulated. three of our members are initiates. The educational and cultural Rollo Ingram, sophomore men's sena values of Little Rock University are tor, was given the J. G. Francis well recognized. It's pride is in it's Award for the outstanding sopho facilities, faculty and high caliber of more man excelling in scholarship, students. It is this heritage with which leadership, and service to the school. Zeta Eta Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha This is Rollo's last semester at Little has been endowed. An enthusiastic, .KOBERT CHARLES FELTS, former Delta, March 6, 1965, now residing Bay Field Secretary, AZ (University of Cin town, Texas. ci nnati) to Donella Thompson, May 29, RICHARD VAN CLEAVE, N (Louisi Petwumentl~ 1965, Little Rock, Arkansas. ana Poly. Institute) to Martha Boozer, ROBERT W. FLESCH, Lt. USN, rT May 8, 1965, Springhill, Louisiana. PINNED (R ensselaer Poly. Institute) to Patricia EDMUND CHRISTIAN WEBER Ill, Ann Graves, Kappa Kappa Gamma, AZ (Univ. of Cincinnati) to Harolyn May 22, 1965, Carmel By the Sea, Cali Joyce Roberts, June 19, 1965, Maumee, fornia. Ohio. JAMES W. FOUCHE, JR., B (David son) to Judith Anne Berry, Kappa Delta, December 26, 1964, Richmond, Virginia. RAYMOND FRACCHIA, D.Z (Memphis State Univ.) to Mary Ritten. LARRY GIPSON, D.Z (Memphis State Univ.) to Mary Francis Griffith, Phi Mu. WILLIAM A. GOLDSMITH, re (Mississippi State Univ.) to LaVance Davis, Phi Mu, June 1, 1965, Starkville, Mississippi. AL HOLLINGSWORTH, D.Z (Mem phis State Univ.) to Barbara Brewer, To JAMES L. ASWEGAN, I'N (Univer Phi Mu. sity of Iowa) and Mrs. Aswegan, a daughter, J ane Elizabeth, May 21, 1965, DAVE KAISER, D.Z (Memphis State Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Univ.) to Venita Smith, Alpha Gamma To CHARLES E. CHROSNIAK, EZ Delta. (East Tennessee State Univ.) and Mrs. DONALD C. LITTLE, r-Ir (Louisiana Chrosniak, a son, Charles Edward, III Poly. Institute) to Martha Grace Brown, on May 10, 1965, Johnson City, Tennes William]. Crosby, Administrative Assistant, June 4, 1965, Bossier City, Louisiana. and the forme1· Marilyn Meador we1·e mar see. JERRY MAROON, D.Z (Memphis State ried May 29, 1965, in the First Methodist To ARTHUR E. GRIGGS, rH (Univ. Ch 1,trch, Memphis, T ennessee. Univ.) to H elen Moore, Pi Beta Phi. of Southern California) and Mrs. Griggs CO KY EVILLE, D.Z (Memphis State a daughter, Amy Cummins, January 8, WILLIAM J. CROSBY, AI (Mill aps) Ad Univ.) to Brenda Stiles, Phi Mu. ministrative. Assi tant, Pi Kappa Alpha Na 1965, Hopewell, Virginia. tional Fraternity, married to MaTilyn Jean DOUGLASS PERA, D.Z (Memphis State To NATHAN JAY HESS, B~ (Carnegie Meador, May 29, 1965 at 5:30 p.m. First Univ.) to Patsey Fletcher, Alpha Delta Tech) and Mrs. Hess, a son, John. Jay, Iethodist Church , Memphis, Tennessee. Pi. April 5, 1965. ITKA Groomsmen: Earl Watkins (TI) Mem G. CHARLES PHILLIPS, r-Ir (Louisi To LEE B. JOHNSON, AZ (University phis Tennessee; Charles Ricker, ( AI), Hous ana Poly. Institute) to Ellyn -Wede of Cincinnati) and Mrs. Johnson, a son, ton, Texas; and Jim Persons, ( AI), J ackson, meyer of Monroe, Louisiana, Alpha Phi, Mississippi. Lee Uber, March 9, 1965, Pittsburgh, February 6, 1965, now residing Houston, GIBSON AHLGREN, D.Z (Memphis Pennsylvania. State Univ.) to Georgia R ay, Alpha Phi. Texas. To JAMES A. MALONE, Faculty Ad JAMES A. PROPST, EZ (East Ten KEN BLALOCK, D.Z (Memphis State visor, r-Ir (Louisiana Poly. Institute) Univ.) to Sharon Elmore. nessee State Univ.) to Diane Shull, and Mrs. Malone, a daughter, Laura Alpha Omicron Pi, October 10, 1964, RICHARD LEE BLATT, BH (Univ. of Anne, March 6, 1965, Ruston, Louisiana. Ilinois) to Carol J enkinson, May 21, Johnson City, Tennessee. To KERMIT E. NEITZEL, BZ (Wis 1965, La Grange Park, Illinois. JAMES DeWITT SAVAGE, JR., 2nd consin) and Mrs. Neitzel, a son, James Lt., U.S. Army, former Field Secretary, MARTY BULLARD, D.Z (Memphis Edward Alexander, October 29, 1964, State Univ.) to Shirley Bennett, Phi EZ (East T ennessee State Univ.) to Santa Maria, California. Mu. Mary Eastham Carter, June 12, 1965, To JOEL E. SMITH, T'l¥ (Louisiana Warrenton, Virginia. JIMMY ROCKY BYRD, D.Z (Memphis Poly. Institute) ·and Mrs. Smith, a son, State Univ.) to Mary Elizabeth Brock, GORDON BICKFORD SHAW, e (Tu Kenneth Joel, March 2, 1965, Ruston, Phi Mu. lane) to Linda Paulette Shaw, May 29, Louisiana. LOGAN McKE CHEEK, Be (Cornell 1965, Seymour, Texas. (This is corect! To JAMES E. TESKE, AK (University Univ.) to Pamela Louise Wilcox, Pi Both of their las t names were Shawl) of Missouri at Rolla) and Mrs .. Teske, Beta Phi, April 10, 1965, Ossining, New JAMES W. TATE, r-Ir (Louisiana Poly. a daughter, Jill Ellen, May 20, 1964, York. Institute) to Ann Liddell Davis, Kappa .J anesville, Wisconsin. CHARLES P. CHRISTY, EZ (East Ten Delta, August 7, 1965, Alexandria, Loui- To JOHN PITT TOMLINSON, III, nessee State Univ.) to Mary Lou Cogh siana. BK (Emory University) and Mrs. Tom lin, August 22, 1964, Malone, ew York. R. W. "BILL" UPCHURCH, r-Ir (Loui linson (the former Sally W ade, daughter BOB DIE ELL, D.Z (Memphis State siana Poly. Institute) to Joan Deborah of Memorial Foundation Trustee and Univ.) to Judy Manspeaker, Phi Mu. Gist of Lofayette, Louisiana, Kappa Mrs. Tom Wade) , a son, John Pitt IV. 38 CHAPTER ET.ERNAL CHAPTER CHATTER LAWRENCE BElCH, Beta Zeta pledge (Southern Methodist Univer Delta Chi, Omaha University Pikes ready Beagle and a registered nation sity) April 30, 1965 was killed in an hold four of eight Student Council al champion of the American Kennel automobile accident near Dallas, positions: THO fP ETT, MENCH, Club ... Beta Chapter, Davidson Texas. SLAUGHTER, SHEPPARD, also College, has undertaken a complete CAPTAIN DARL R. BLOOM, CHARLIE SACTO is president of redecorating project at the house, in Beta Xi and Beta Alpha (Pennsyl- ' ODK and LARRY VILLNOW is cluding new carpet, new furniture, vania State Univ.) killed while pilot captain of the basketball team .. . and new stereo ... BOB BAR ARD, ing his jet plane in a mid:air colli JIM SELBY (A, Iowa State) won Gamma Kappa alumnus and advisor, sion over the South China Sea. first place in the Big Eight Gym Montana State College, is going to HOWELL SMITH CLARK, Al nastics and was selected by the Ameri India this summer as an agent for pha Kappa (University of Missouri can Federation of Gymnastics to rep AID, Agency for International De at Rolla)·, Ft. Worth, Texas. resent the United States in interna velopment and will be an advisor for WOODSON E. COLLIER, Alpha tional competition in England. the Indian Government in his spe Nu (University of Missouri), Janu Fifteen mentally retarded children cialty, chemistry. ary 8, 1965, Trenton, Missouri. were given a joy ride on the Pike 1931 ROBERT A. KEENE, an alumnus CLAUDE HORACE COMBS, fire engine, dinner and candies by and pas t SMC, Clas of 1931, of Beta Alpha (University of Virginia) the Gamma-Eta Chapter, University Beta, University of Washington, has April, 1965, following a lengthy ill of Southern California .. . JIM Mc been named as director of the Citi ness, Grundy, Virginia. KNIGHT, a sophomore Physics ma zen's Service Bureau for the city of A. GILMORE DuVALL, Beta Xi, jor, Theta Chapter, Southwestern at Seattle ... Eta Chapter, Tulane Uni April 20, 1965, after one year's ill Memphis, recently won a $50.00 prize versity, reports GEORGE BROWN ness, Chicago, Illinois. for a photograph in the Special Merit was _the only student and pledge in WILLIAM GRADDY FIELD, Division of the Kodak Nation a l Tulane School of Arts & Sciences to Kappa (Transylvania) and Omega Snapshot Contest ... DE NIS make a perfect 4.0 average for the (University of Kentucky) was killed SPIER S, ® of Mobile, Alabama, was fall semester ... Alpha Theta, Uni May I, 1965 in an automobile acci one of four Southwestern at Mem versity of West Virginia, ranked sixth dent. He was a brother of John U. phis men representing the college at scholastically among eighteen frater Field. the General Electric College Bowl. nities . .. SMC RAY LEDGETTER ALEXANDER ROWE GARES Gamma Kappa, Montana State, is of Delta Rho, Linfield College, is an CHE, Alpha Kappa (University of proud of its new mascot, MATTl'S outstanding diver on Linfield's front Missouri at Rolla) , St. Louis, Mis SAGEBRUSH SUE- a rough-and- running swim team. souri. ALBERT LEE HEAD, SR., Alpha if::l-tr~:K::m.:r{.:f:?1t~~=~=~t=w:::~::=i~:~f~W:::1:=1=~r~~=i~®~~~=~~~&~t~~~=m~t~:r~w~@f?l*m~~g~=~~~=~~=r~=~~~~~~~=~m~~~g~~~f~1~~~=~~t~{*~~=?:{r:.:..~~~~r.~~~~~h~]~~J~~~m~@ ~t~~*-K~·m~;~~~~:i~~~~~:: Pi (Howard College) May 6, 1965, Goodawter, Alabama. I,... Some day you're planning to go to Rome, Paris, Greece, the Orient ALLEN GREGG MILLER, Al fJ.l -but in 1968 IIKA's and their families will want to go to Virginia! pha Kappa (University of Missouri The IIKA Virginia Centennial wi ll be fun. It's for the whole at Rolla) , St. Louis, Missouri. I family. You, yo ur wife, your children-even your mother-in-law will EDWIN PHELPS MURRAY, Al tt pha Kappa (University of Misouri at Rolla) , North Las Vegas, Nevada. THOMAS ORLANDO ROB t.l.l.:~ ~~:l~fl~f~:i~~~{~~~E~~~~:~l~~~~:;~:~~~~~;~~~;::i' £~ I ERTSON, Upsilon (Auburn), No vember 1, 1964, Washington, D.C. ~;, A vacation-oriented program for JIKA's for the wives and for the ~ JOHN H . STEPHENS, Beta Mu I children wi ll make your 1968 vacation one to remember always. ~ (University of Texas) , May 1, 1965, ru Tentatively set for the last week of August, 1968. I Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. DR. FRANK J. VOKOUN, Beta r.~.-~.1 Make a vacation note now-for 1968. I ·'',, ~~ Epsilon, April 9·, 1965, Lakewood, Ohio, buried at Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery. ~ 39 CHAPTER NIEWSliE1r1rJEru ca mpus, with PiKA as the leading group. campus. The girls eat a few meals in the Southern Mississippi Brother J ay Wright is in the running for hou e during the week, adding a feminine tudent Body president. Brothers Burnett, touch and harm to the house. Wins Basketball Leid , and Wei enberger a re seeking the of Rush went well this spring, and thirty one fices of en ior Class Treasurer, Junior Cia men were pledged. With the fall pledges Championship Presid ent, and Sophomore Class Treasurer, now being taken, our new house will be respectively. Along with these men, numer fi ll ed to capacity next fa ll. Plans are well on their way to ous other brothers are seeking seats on ward making the annual Pike Roman Party On February 14, five new members were tudent ouncil and the Student College initiated into the bonds. They are: Joe th e highlight of spring quarter. Every effort Tribunals. is being put forth to make this year's fes tivi Alan Baxter, Daniel Thomas Herron, Robert After the initia tions of ten sc holastically ti es the biggest and best in Delta Mu's his Eric Casey, Robert Sylvester Barrett, and high men in J anuary, and the remaining five tory. Ru h Chairman Bill Taylor is going Steven Dennis Scruggs. Along with these recently, the Chapter went into an experi all out to make the event one of the major new members, Beta Phi welcomes its new mental IFC spring rush. A total of twenty rush projects of the yea r. Pl ans for the party officers for 1965, Steve Lynch, SMC; Bi ll four outstanding men were pledged, to give in clude everything from Roman costumes lontgomery, IMC; Dennis Drag, ThC; and AI ph a XI one of the la rgest spring classes and flaming torches to roast venison and Ben Richwine, SC. ever at U.C. horse-drawn chariots. This should be a Steven D. Scmggs memorable weekend for members and rush In the spring quarter Alpha XI looks for Bel>, Purdue University ees alike. ward to the Annual Mother's Day Sing, the igma Sigma Carnival Competition, the The Pike basketball team measured up to Pledge Trip to Memphis, and the famous a ll ex pectations and finished the season un Pike weekend party. We anticipate a co n defea ted in the fraternity league. tinuing yea r of success having fun , accom At the trad itional Drea m G irl Dance, Miss p lishing worthwhile ta ks a nd promoting heil a Shotts, Kappa Delta, was crowned the good relations with the University, other 1965- I 966 Dream Girl. The H arvey T . New Greeks, and the public. ell Honor Award was presented to Don Ren Thomas E. Hess, ega r for his outstanding work in the chapter. A-Z, University of Cincinnati The recipient of the Honor Pledge Award was _Charles Bax ter, and Bennett Jennings received the Tom Alexander Pledge Scholar ship Award. 1ewly elected officers in the chapter in clude Pat heehan, SMC; Larry Patterson, Purdue Pikes Help l ifC ; Ronnie Pea rl , Th.C; David Keyser, SC , and orrie mylie, MC. Tornado Victims Bennett A . j ennings, T he brothers and pledges of Beta ~-M, Southern Miss issippi Phi followed in the wake of this spring's tornadoes and helped the residents of R us siaville cl ea n up their town . The destruc tion was terrific, but everyone went right to Cincinnati Competes work and a lot was accomplish ed. Organized and directed by Dave Walters, the Pikes took For Intramural on several project at once, including the cl ea ring of trees and branches, and the level Miss Leslie Piatak, Phi Mu, is D1·eam Girl of Honors ing of houses partiall y destroyed by the the Pu rdue University chapter. . . As winter quarter opened at the storm. Although the work was hard, the n1ver 1t y of inci nnati , the spirit remain ed res ults were worth it. at~ high ! ve l. A~l the Brothers a re acti ve ly The spring's socia l functions were headed domg their share 111 campu activiries, Intra by the annual Drea m Girl Formal. The murals, and hapter activi ti es. dance was expanded to a weekend affair, B this time the Pikes had rolled up vi c with the formal dance Friday night, an in Pikes Hold Top tory after victory in football , while in vo ll ey formal dance Sa turday night, and a picnic ball we lo t only two game , one wa to the unday. At the dance Friday, we crowned O·maha P·ositions ni er~it _h amp. For the econd straight our 1965 Dream Girl, Miss Les lie Piatak, Pi Kappa Alpha member hold ~a r P1K IS ni ve rsity swi mming ham- Phi Mu. Lesli e i pinned to brother Dennis piOn . fter se tting several record a total of Drag. the majority of the student body office for the twelfth time in the last fourteen years. 9 1 point was enough to put lpl~a XI in a Beta Phi's fir t cl as of little sisters was or- Brother Doug Slaughter wa elected presi close e~~ nd place in ni versi ty Intramural ga nized th i pring. Officially known as ompeuuon. In handball and basketball we dent of tudent Council, coming from vice isters of the hi eld and Dia mond, the girls were w II represented in the finals. PiKA pres ident last year. He succeeds Brother were chosen after an informa l rush . Several took econd place in wres tling. Rich Tompsett in this highest of student o_f the girl chose PiKA over o ffer to join positions. Jim Sandoz was elected treasurer A new politica l part has been formed on sumlar programs with other fra ternities on of the body. 40 Omicron Delta Kappa, senior men's lead proved successful as we ranked third in ership honorary, tapped members late in Arkansas State overall average among fraternities. This May. Brothers chosen for this honor were: marked a gain of nine places over the previ Rich Tompsett, current SMC, and past Strives For New ous semester's standing. president of Student Council; Larry Kreh Well represented in various pos1t10ns on biel, NAJA All -American baseball pitcher; Frontiers campus Pike brothers have served on the Ramey Hoenshell, current IMC; and Mike following committees: T.F.C. Public R ela Sweet, current SC. Delta Theta, Arkansas State Col lege, State College, Arkansas is making a tions, Social Standards, Greek W eek, mem The Tomahawk, Omaha University year ber-at-large, representative to the student steadfast comeback after being hard hit by book, chose for recognition ten seniors who graduation. We are striving for new fron government, and U.S.G. Cultural Affairs. were outstanding in some phase of campus tiers in our rush program, financial pro In addition to these, SMC Jim Stipp and life. Pikes receiving honors included Fred Manny Topakas hold membership in Ome gram, and unity within our chapter. Elsasser, for his work in oratory, and Chuck ga, highest campus honorary for fraternity Saxton, for campus leadership . Delta Theta pledged 26 men all of which men. Pi Kappa Alpha is also represented by are among the top on campus. Our fall rush brothers in almost every professional fra At the All -Sports banquet, two P iKA's program was designed to give our chapter a were honored as outstanding university ath ternity on campus. well rounded and diversified representation Lest we sound too scholarly we maintain letes of the year-Larry Vill now was honored among different departments on campus. for basketball and Larry Krehbiel for base an active interest in athletics as the presence This proved a good way to locate the top of our pool indicates. In the fi eld of varsity ball. boys with the top grades from the different Brothers have received honors in other sports Pike has members on the football, departments on campus. track, golf, and swimming teams. fields as well this spring. Rich Tompsett Our financial program needed a revamp Our greatest strength, both pa t and pres was elected president of the Intercollegiate ing. We have adopted a list of do and don'ts ent, rests in the intramural program. Four College Board, wh ich consists of delegates that strengthen our operations considerably. time winner of the President's Cup, this from eleven colleges and universities. Gregg year's victories include first place honors in Loso was elected president of University Delta Theta has made an all out attempt to revise and rebuild all phases of the fra football, tennis, boxing, horseshoes, riflery, Players, succeeding Brother John Pouiliatis. billiards, and track. We took second place in And Mike Baylor was elected vice-president ternity and local chapter. ' "'e have cleaned wrestling and extemporaneous speaking. of the Newman Club. curtains, made a new flag, painted a new sign, arranged and cleaned all storage lock These victories have placed us in top con Delta Chi wishes to welcome Brother ers, revised our alumni files, cleaned and tention for a fifth win which would retire Hardy Davis to Omaha. Brother Davis is added to our trophy case, and painted a Pi the cup for Pi Kappa Alpha. We all con an alumnus of Tulane University, and came Kappa Alpha Shield on our glass door. The gratulate John Coen, our intramural chair to Omaha to assume the vice-presidency of pledge class built a 13 foot office desk for man, for his untiring effort and drive. a local insurance company. the chapter. Pikes began the social year in joint spon Larry Forman The Pi Kappa Alpha entrant in the Miss sorship with Phi Epsilon Pi of an all cam D.X, Omaha University Arkansas State College contest, Phylis R uth pus mixer. This was fo llowed with a bid erford won first place. Brother T om Wat acceptance party with Alpha Chi Omega and kins' sister Jan Watkins, pin mate of Tommy Delta Zeta as our guests. Halloween, Christ Spencer, was selected runner-up. mas, Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's Day t..e, Arkansas State found the Pikes having parties. A swimming Epsilon-Phi Wins party with Delta Delta Delta and a second place in Greek Week Olympic Day closed out Intramural Trophy the social year for Pike. Gamma-Omega Pikes Gamma Omega extends its sympathy to The Epsilon Phi Chapter has been the famil y of the late Dr. Freeman H . H art. active on this campus for three years and Pikes ever yw here will feel the loss of his intramurals is one of its strong points. The Climb Scholarship presence. chapter has won the sweepstakes award for Vincent Maury the third straight year by taking five of eight Ladder rn, University of Miami fi·rst place events. On May 7, 1965 Gamma Omega New Officers have been elected for the chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha celebrated its coming year. Ross Honea, a senior from Lit 25th anniversary of its 1940 founding. At Eastern Illinois Crowns tle Rock, Arkansas, heads the list as presi that time we were the first national fra dent. The other new officers are John Mur ternity represented at the University of Carol Stone ray as Vice President, Mike H argis as Secre Miami. As a local we had been known as In a ceremony on the evening of tary, and Danny Smith as Treasurer. Phi Alpha and we still have two trophies Saturday, May 28th, the men of Zeta-Gamma T en new members were inducted into the presented under that name in 1929. crowned Miss Carol Stone Dream Girl of chapter. They are Bobby Baker, Dickie From the time of our founding we have Boils, Larry Coffey, Chip Harris, Joe Lippe, Pi Kappa Alpha. Miss Stone, the daughter remained among the top houses on campus. of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stone of Bell eville, Don Owens, Richard Stephens, Hank Wil Our present house, built early in 1950, re banks, Earl Wilson, and Danny Wood. Illinois, is a member of the Delta Zeta mains one of the most attractive on frater Sorority. She was escorted by Brother Robert George Jones received all-conference recog nity row and is the only house with a swim E. Griffin. nition as the Pikes placed seven on the base ming pool. A freshman student at Eastern Illinois ball team which finished third in the con Presently we have a total membership of University, Miss Stone captured the fancy of ference. twenty-eight brothers. Initiating six men the men of Zeta Gamma by illustrating in The annual Pi Kappa Alpha Dream Girl first emester, Pi Kappa Alpha will shortly both word and deed the values which the Formal presented the new dream girl for induct six more. Due to the University's IIKA Dream Girl is chosen to represent. the following year. She is Susan Diesel, a new policy of deferred rush under a hun Fifty couples attended her crowning . The sophomore from Little Rock. dred men were eligible for pledging. This evening began with a formal dinner and Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority was the first accounts for the small number of initiates. dance; there was a theatre party, and a fes winner of the Pike Follies. This event will A new program will be patterned in con tivity in the private dining room of the local be an annual affair. junction with this policy beginning next H oliday Inn. Larry Burleson year. George Haynes E4>, Arkansas State Teachers College Our increased emphasis on academics zr, Eastern Illinois 41 son, Secretary, Omicron Delta Kappa, Na CHAPTER NEWSLETTERS • CONTINUED tional Honorary Leadership Fraternity. Tom was also elected to Board of Directors Shelby County Young Democrats. Newly elected members of ODK are Harry Har· Penn Holds Fine Arkansas Chooses grove, Lee Davidson, Michael Hughes, and David A. Collins, Asst. Dean of Students. Pledge "Bumper" Dunn received the award Founder's D·ay Kathleen Barden for the most valuable Freshman Baseball player. Pledge Todd McNabb led the Beta Pi chapter at the University Arkansas Pikes offici a II y wel Freshman team in hitting. of Pennsylvania enjoyed a very full and ex comed the spring season with the annual citing spring 1965 semester. Highlights of Dream Girl Formal at Fayetteville's Holiday The Fall pledge class of fifty two pledges the term included what was indisputably one Inn on May 8. The highlight of the evening received the award f~r the highest scholastic of the chapter's finet Founder's Day program was the selection of Miss Kathleen Barden average of all pledge classes on campus. ever, a very successful Dream Girl ball, and to reign as Alpha Zeta's Dream Girl. Kath· Dream Girl Ball was held May 7, 1965 at the initiation of a fine group of men from leen, presently reigning National Dream the Hunt and Polo Club. Miss Toni Chiozza, the class of '68. Girl, is a green-eyed beauty from Little Rock. Phi Mu, was selected as Dream Girl for 1965. George Kuykendall received the award for On March 5, 1965, Beta Pi celebrated Pi On May 3, Alpha Zeta held election and the outstanding senior. Kappa Alpha's Founder's Day in a manner installation of new officers. Brother David unequaled in its recent history. The high· Fitton from Harrison was chosen SMC, and Delta Zeta Chapter presented the out· light of the evening was the hilarious talk Little Rock's Don Cassil was elected IMC. standing foqtball player award to Bob Fina of Philadelphia T.V. personality R ex Mor Brother Tommy Musick of Little Rock was more. SMG Tom Watson presented the gan. Another great moment was the speech chosen head cheerleader for next year, and award at the Spring Football Banquet. by K. D. Pulcipher, secretary of the IIKA Brother John Marino from Camden was Michael W. Hughes Centennial Commission, in which this great elected to the Student Senate. t.Z, Memphis State Univ. gentleman of Pi Kappa Alpha outlined the One of the hottest topics of conversation plans for the celebration to be held in on the University of Arkansas's campus is Rich mond, Va. in 1968. The presentation of the annual summer rush program instituted awards was presided over by Beta Pi's first by the Inter-Fraternity Council. Under this New Mexico Pikes citizen, past National President John F. E. program, boys can pledge any time from Hippe!. Award winners tincluded: Out June 15 to August I. Rush Chairman, Paul Have Golden Year standing seniors-Jeff Sacco and Bill Trader; Rogers and a special committee are hard at Outstanding alumnus-Joe Livezey; Scholar work planning early summer rush parties. This has truly been a Golden Year for Pi ship-senior Bob .Kennerknecht, junior Larry It should be an interesting and profitable Kappa Alpha at the University of New Mex H averty, and sophomore orm Ladov; Out summer for Pi Kappa Alpha in Arkansas. ico in more ways than one. Celebrating its standing athlete-Bill Brow"n. jack E. Meadows fifteenth anniversary, Beta-Delta Chapter is At the Dream Girl ball held on April 30 AZ, Arkansas probably the strongest it has ever been and at the famed Hawaiian Cottage, beautiful challenges the other Chapters throughout 1964 Dream Girl Marilyn Kurz was succeeded the nation in this respect. by the equally beautiful Roberta Krupnick, Organization appears to be the keyword in escorted by her fiance, Arnie Krumholz. Memphis State this Chapter's success. Again Pikes won first .:1 place in the Men's Division for Homecoming Among the ex'cellent men who were initi decorations-for the past 6 years Beta:Delta ated into the bonds this year are Brian Grow Pledges First In has won either first place or sweepstakes. Barber of Syracuse, .Y. ; Frederick Chase Last year the University of New Mexico Batchelder of Werham, Mass.; Charles Davis Scholarship cheerleaders recognized the Pikes' enthusi Belcher, III, of Wilmington, Del.; John An astic school spirit, and this year they decided thony Boccabella of Washington, D.C.; Mi Delta Zeta chapter will be well to offer a huge 4\12 foot trophy to the organi chael Joseph Chiarolanza of Philadelphia, represented in campus activities this fall by zation with the greatest support of school Pa.; Robert Michael Delaney of Garden having both the IFC President-Phil Brooks, athletics; of course our Brothers walked off 1 City, .Y.; Cecil Richard Harrison of Lafay and the Student Government Association with the trophy. President-John Houseal. ette, Cal.; Joseph Allen Klein of Valley Pi Kappa Alpha has one of the best intra The first annual PiKA talent show was Stream, N.Y.; John Basil Kollias of Lans mural programs to be found anywhere, win downe, Pa.; J oseph Anthony Persichetti of held May 5, 1965 at White Station Audi ning the Riculfi Award in 1962 and 1964. Philadelphia, Pa.; Bruce Lee Sanft of Potts torium. Brother Tommy Burk and the Under the leadership of intramural chair town, Pa.; Robert Ellis Selsam of ew York Counts provided the intermission entertain men Nick Schaefer and Fred Hultberg, Beta N.Y. ; Ronald Henry Skubecz of Linden: ment. Under the direction of Charles Now Delta proved to be the dominating force; N.J.; Alfred R . Stokes, Jr. of Barrington, lin, the talent show was a huge success. with heavy support from the administration R .I.; William Daniel Thompson of Boston, Miss Memphis, Judy Cobb, presented the of U.N.M., intramurals saw forty-two or Mass.; and Richard 'Stephen Zitomer of East winners with trophies. The winners were: ganizations vying for President Popejoy's Rockaway, .Y. First place-J ean Meadows, Alpha Gamma Trophy. The Trophy was presented to Beta Delta; Second place- Warner Moore Jr., In the spring 1965 elections, Frank Furey Delta for the second straight year. With Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Third place-Dorothy such heavy competition, Pikes still managed was elected President. Other officials chosen Ramspacker, Sigma Kappa. by the chapter are Richard H . Close, Vice to win half of the team trophies, and a The newly elected officers for the Fall President; Stephen Cooper, Secretary; and number of the individual sports. Wins in Amhony J . Stagliano, Treasurer. semester include Tom Watson SMC, David cluded football-perhaps the most sought· Kennedy IMC, James Curlin SC, Albert after trophy, relay track, weightlifting, flick Beta Pi chapter is looking forward to an Santi ThC. Jerry Good and Bobby Tolleson erball, wrestling, gymnastics, bowling, co-ree other year of progress and leadership at the were elected members at large. swimming, and volleyball-for the past 5y2 U. of P. May we wish every other chapter of Elected to va rious clubs on campus were: years, Pi Kappa Alpha has won eleven Pi Kappa Alpha the very best for the com Ramon Fracchia, Vice President, Account straight vo II ey b a II and co-ree volleyball ing school year. ing Club; Lee Davidso n, President, Phi Al championships. David L. W eiss pha . Theta, honorary His tor y Fraternity; For the most support and activity in BIT, Pennsylvania Dav1d Farmer, Vice President and Tom Wat- Greek Week, Pi Kappa Alpha won the Greek 42 Week Participation trophy this year. Brother not move up or down. With the help of Cannon directed the skit with Bill Webb Jim Offut was also named as the Outstand two fin e Field Secretaries, Mike Malchay and starring in the role of ero. ing Greek Man at the Greek Week Banquet. Richard Ogle, we analyzed our problems and Congratulations go to Craig Smith, who Brother Offut was President of the Inter came up with what we felt would be a was elected President of the Chattanooga fraternity Council for thi past school year. working program. Eliminating our elves Junior Chamber of {::om m erce. Brother Once again for the bes t booth at Fiesta, from all activities except pledging, intra Smith is the third Pike to hold this position Pikes won the Midway Sweepstakes. The mural oftball , and our spring formal seemed in the past four years. "Bucking Barrel", which challenged anyone to accomplish what we wanted. It gave us 'With sc hool out for the summer, rush en to stay on for ten seconds, and the "Calf more time for stud ies and awakened us to ters the minds of U.C. Pikes. Charlie Smith catch" for the girls continually drew much our d ifficulty. has organized a sound program which should attention and laughter from large audiences. The next problem we attacked was that capture a fine pledge cl ass in the fall. The three biggest activities at the Univer of pledging. In a coll ege the size of Ferris Bonne1· R. Cohen sity-Homecoming, Fiesta, and Greek Week State (5600 students) it is rather ironic that ~E, University of Chattanooga -saw, as in the past, Pikes as chairmen. Bob with six social and three professional fra Epstein was Chairman of Homecoming; his ternities, only 12% of the campus is Greek. brother, Mark Epstein, did an excell en t job This is very low .and the reason is most Graves Heads Student as Greek W eek Chairman; and Ken Gattas likely clue to the fact that the social fraterni was responsible for one of the best Fiestas ties wa it for prospecti ve pledges to come this University has had. and see them. After discussing our problems Body At South Carolina with other chapters at the District 16 Con With support from the fraternity, Jim Brother Jim Graves received the vention spon ored by the Epsilon Xi chap Branch was elected Student Body President highest h o n or o n campus when he was ter on March 12- 14, 1965 , we returned home for the school yea r of 1965-66. H e will have elec ted President of the University of South with many new suggestions. The big change a big task as representative of the more than Carolina Student Body. Brother Graves, a was that we went after p rospec ts instead of eleven thousand students, but he can expect recent transfer from Davidson College, waiting for them. v\le ended up with twenty much help from his fraternity brothers. showed hi initiative and determination by five pledges which was the largest cl ass on Found ~ r ' s D ay, commemorating Beta defeating a strong "machine" on campus. campus for the Spring T erm of 1965. W e Delta's Fifteenth Year, was an enormous suc were very proud for we had accomplished Spring emes ter 1965 saw Xi chapter excel cess with National President Charles Free what we felt was the impossible. in all departments and, through hard work man and Vi ce -Presid e nt R. H . "Bunny" and perseverance, es tablish itself as UM After our District 16 Convention the Clark, and Past President Roy Hickman, a BER 0 1E on the U.S.C. campus. brotherhood which was most evident seemed Beta-Delta alumnus, in attendance. Bob The Brothers and Pledges of Xi continued to instill in our minds and hearts the real Barber was presented an award as the Out to lead the student body by holding the fol standing P ledge, 1964. meaning of fraternity. Colony, Ferris State lowing important positions : Pres. of With the accomplishments of Beta-Delta j ohn T . Dove Y.M.C.A., V.-Pres. of Kappa Sigma Kappa Chapter this past school year, one can only (e lect), Commodore of Sailing Club, Chair look forward to this Chapter's future with man of Student Faculty R elations Commit the greatest optimism. tee, Chairman of Activities Committee, and R alph D . Hill Pikes Capture Top Chairman of Men's Judicial Council. PiKA B~ , New M exico continued to be well represented in numer ous honorary Greek letter fraternities. Offi~e At Chatta. After elec tions, final plans were approved on the redecoration of the lounge. New Ferris State Works Brother Tom Kline was elected furniture and ca rpeting was added making Presid ent of the University of Chattanooga the PiKA house the most attractive of Caro student body by an overwhelming margi n on For Charter lina's quadrangle. May 7th. Brother Kline, a senior from Port Community Service Day was observed as In May of 1964, Ferris State Col Che ter, ew York, has served his fraternity Brothers and Pledges, entertained over fifty lege in Big Rapids, Michigan, lost its last in the positions of ThC, IMC, and SC and orphans from a local children's home at the local on the campus to the men of Pi Kappa has been a prominent campus figure, hold U.S.C. indoor pool. Alpha Fraternity. ing membership in Blue Key and Circle K Xi Chapter also distinguished itself by After more than forty years as a local honorary societies. All the brothers of Delta having the largest social calendar of any or (S igma Alpha Delta) on Ferris's campus it Epsilon share in Brother Kline's victory. ganiza tion on campus. Most of the credit was a joy, to become a colony and hopefully On March 26 and 27th, our chapter sent goes to the hard work of Social Chairman a chapter. For several months previous to twelve representatives to the District 12 con ·woody Evans and Treasurer Gene Miller. our colonization, the late Mr. Stephen C. vention held at Sigma Chapter at Vander The final socia l event of the yea r was the Bocskey gave his efforts toward one objec bilt. Brothers attending were SMC Carl annual Dream Girl Ball. Crowned Dream tive-colonization with PiKA. Kempf, ThC John J ackson, T om Kline, Bon Girl was Miss Pam Tovey the rei gning Miss Old ways had to be changed and new ones ner Cohen, Tom Medland, John Sadler, Charleston, Miss South Carolina Peach instituted. It was a hard task to accomplish Larry Stewart, David Kring, All an McC lel-. Queen, and a favorite in the coming Miss but through the eforts of National Alumni \an, and alumni J ack Steiner. Brother H enry South Carolina Contest. Secretary Donald Dickson and District Pres Cullom presided over this inspiring meeting. Fred Davis and Henry Sanders received ident Michael R . Clancy, Jr., we put our The District IFC convention was also held the Armstrong Outstanding Senior Award selves on the right road. that weekend at Vanderbilt. Brother Dick while Ed Bond and Jim Detwil er received All the remaining fraternities on the cam Mansfield was Delta Epsilon's representative. the Bill Farrow Outstanding Pledge Award. pus gave us their goodwill and extended to During the semester a successful pancake Larry Weldon, new SMC, received the gavel us any help which they might be able to supper was held in May. Alumni Brothers from retiring president Sterling Laney. Wel give. To them we owe a great deal. The Bob Kirk and Bob Brandon provided the don pledged that he would devote all his en school was also helpful in its sugges tions food while members of the chapter se rved as ergies to continue Xi's leadership on the and to it we give our thanks. chefs . Due to hard work by the alumni, fine ..C . campus. New offi ce rs include: Tracy The two main tasks which faced us were organization by Brother Charlie Smith and Bay li s, IMC; John Dotterer, ThC; Gene those of sc holarship and pledging. We in good participation by all , a hand orn e profit Williams, SC; Gene Miller, Social Chairman; stituted a study program not only for the was made. and Wayne Synder, MC. brothers but fo r the pledges also. At first On March 19th the Pikes earned second jim Detwiler it did not seem to work and our grades did place in the annual Blue Key Follies. J erry ;?;, Univ. of South Carolina 43 selfless devotion to all chapter activ,ities was CHAPTER NEWSLETTERS • CONTINUED meritorious and each man deserves a special and individual "well done." Joel F. Nevins served for three semesters as scholarship of Alpha Delta have brought their chapter chairman and is solely responsible for the Auburn Observes from eighteenth to second place in the over class's unique academic accomplishments. a ll IFC standings. This was done by placing evins embarks on a career of future aca Seventy Years Of near the top sc holasticall y and by earning dmeic pursuit, beginning postgraduate work other valuable points in several campus ac in September at Georgetown Dental school. Brotherhood tivities. The softball team won its league Thomas Connor, though he never held a championship with a perfect 6-0 record, and fraternity office, served as special advisor to . "Seventy years of brotherhood the Pike track team made a fine showing SMC John R. Boberg. His outlook on fra was the theme of Upsilon's highly successful with Dave "Kirk" Colley winning first place ternity politics, derived from his major in alumni conven tion May 15, 16 at Auburn in the broad jump. The brother& picked up government, contriouted greatly to the un University. additiona l points in the R ed Cross blood usua l administration of the first semester More than fifty alumni brothers and their drive and by helping pas t SMC Art More 1964. A fine all around athlete, Connor will head to win the title of Ugliest Man on familie enjoyed the hospitality of Upsilon' be practicing his forte, basketball, with the undergraduates while renewing acqua int Campus. Corps of Engineers squad at Da Nang air In the annual chariot race during Greek ances with former cla mates. Four months base beginning in September. Week, the Pike version of a Greek chariot of hard work for the entire chapter, led b y Gerard H enry Plageman, IV, proved to be S IC Bill Parker, paid off in a very pleasant took third place in its race despite turning a sentimental choice in our "most likely to and reward ing weekend for all. over and dumping "Snarf'' Bishop on the ground twice. Greek Week was brought to a succeed" poll. His wide variety of interests Brothers from as far away as Florida, In is reflected in the numerous jobs he has held diana, Conn cticut, and Kentucky accepted grand cl ose with Miss Joan Wynne, spon sored by Alpha Delta, being selected first during the past few months. Plageman our in vitation . Present were such notable plans to continue his pursuit of business ad brothers as R oy Hickman, past national r unnerup in the Greek Goddess contest. Several individual members of the chap ministration as soon as the softball season president, R ay Voris, national representa ends. John R . Boberg had a unique record tive, James H aygood, A l abama Junior ter have received honors and awards along wnh helping the chapter in its climb to the as SMC, one that the chapter fervently hopes Chamber of Commerce Man of the Yea r and will never be duplicated. Boberg starts his ' John Overton, tru tee of Auburn Unive~sity. top . Brothers Robert Lord and Douglas Chandler were elected to the student coun postgraduate career in September at the Highlights of the convention included the cil as Sophomore class representatives. Ed College's Marshall-Wythe School of Law. A-Day football game, the convention ban Cobleigh received the Most Outstanding Another future barrister is Mel Peagram ,q uet, and final convention luncheon Sunday Junior in Air Force R.O.T.C. medal and Booker, who the chapter will remember for afternoon. The convention d ate was planned Bob Ferrell was award ed the Professor of Air his cogent contributions to after hours dis to coincid e with the annual Auburn intra Science and the flight drill medals. Joe cussions on the problems we face as future quad game to allow the alumni to see a Cochra n was awarded a fellowship by Geor leaders of the world. Sober and cynical, preview of nex t yea r's football team. The gia T ee hto a ttend graduate school in the Booker was always articulate on the place afternoon proved ve ry exciting, with the fall; and Art Morehead was elected the Out women should occupy in a man's life. Carl ga me ending in a tie. standing Brother I 964-65 for his leadership R. Weber, now an artillery lieutenant with That evening, fo ll ow ing a smoker at the in bringing Alpha Delta to the top. Brothers two years, ten months, seventeen days and lodge, all gathered at the · H eart of Auburn Joe fundy and Eel Cobleigh were inducted nine hours to go in his hitch, was, with H otel for the banquet. The gues t speaker into Tau Beta Pi national engineering hon Booker, our other great debater. W ell in was Brother Torrance " Bo" Russell, former orary society, and Ed, along with Dave Col formed and even tempered, he is especially Auburn All -American and professional foot ley, was inducted into Pi Tau Sigma na remembered for his indisputable argument ball playe r. T hen a ll went back to the ti onal Mechanical Engineer's honorary so on the merits of a college education when loclg.e for an evening· of socializing and re ciety. confronted by the glib argu_ments of Tommy, newmg fraternal ties. The convention was The real dark spot in the chapter's year that most successful delicatessen entrepre concluded Sunday with a final luncheon fol came when Dr. Freeman Hart passed away. neur. lowing churc h services. To carry the sympathies of the chapter to Jan Mozeleski, our tight-fisted treasurer, is Preparations for this convention began Mrs. H art, Brothers Artie Cl ephane, Robert now an ensign in the U.S. Navy. His com over a yea r ago as a result of a new vigorous Lord, and Hugh Turner attended the fu bination graduation-birthday bash last June alumni relations program on the part of neral. This was a sad moment both for the 8, though a brilliant success, cast some doubt Upsil on chapter. Director of Alumni R ela chapter and the fraternity as a whole. as to his hones ty in his handling of frater nity funds. The senior class's great lovers tions, John Schell , began laying the ground Six men were initiated into the bonds work for a seventieth annive rsary convention spring quarter. They are Lynn Blake, Steve proved to be \Vade Cheatham and Arthur .by contacting various key alumni. Henderson . Their adroit approaches to the Hall , Greg Haller, Jon Holbrook, Dave T , Auburn University Moreton, and Mike Young. fair sex endeared them to hundreds of girls Lewis Brewer, Jr. thought unapproachable by the majority of At:., Georgia T ech us. David Clark Aiken, the "old man" of our senior group, will be at Washington Georgia Tech Earns and Lee n ex t semester studying law. Thoma Kerr Yerkes overcame the tremen IFC Honors William And Mary dous physical handicap imposed by a near fatal accident, returned to school and con _ On Friday night, May 21, 1965, Seniors Are Leaders tributed mightily to PiKA's third straight I1 ss J ane Whitehead was crowned Dream capturing of the Intramural Sports Cham Girl of 1965 by the members of Alpha . . Gamma chapter at the College of pionship. For such spirit and fortitude, Tom Delta chapter, Georgia T ec h. Jane was Wi1~1am and Mary wishes to take this oppor has gained the respect of all who know him. rresented with ~ dream girl pin by our year tumty to say "adieu" to our graduated sen Jay Anthony, one of the multitude to earn round dream g1rl, Mom Wright, at the an ior brothers, to welcome our new brothers a degree in Sociology, plans to use his degree nual Bla k and White Formal. and to congratulate our newly elected offi ~ to help him handle the various types he will Through the efforts of broth e r and cers. encounter as an Infantry Lieutenant. David pledges a like the Georgia T ech Pike have . The graduated seniors, as a cl ass, can be Francis Thomas is now a lieutenant in the become one of the leading fraternities on terme dthe " unsung heroes" of Gamma Artillery. To these gentlemen, who have campus. In only two quarters the members chapter. For three and one half years, their left an indelible mark on Gamma chapter, 44 we wish the best of good luck always. Each one will be missed. Virginia Earns We would like to greet our newest broth ers: Ron Boykin, Phil Thomas, Wimpy Community Service Powers, Dave Appler, Brian Chandler, Jack Tucker, Dick Tomlinson, Bob Johnston, Award Rusty Vincent, and Jim Boberg. W e hope that their associa tion with Pi Kappa Alpha This year has been a prosperous will be as profitable for them and the fra one for the Alpha Chapter. Rush began in ternity as that known by our departing October and ended on December 6th when sen iors. Finally we wish to the new officers twenty-s ix men pledged. This pledge cl ass SMC Bill Lott, IMC Pete Nance, ThC Bill is considered by many fraternity men to be Binns and the rest of the new administration the best on the grounds. This is evid ent by -all of the best. The potential is there for it's attitude and loyalty both to the Univer a repeat of the outstanding administration sity and to the fraternity. For example, the and leadership of outgoing SMC Dave Kern. first-year basketball team, which was unde IMiss Marilyn Cowan, Epsilon Chi Dream This is my fin al article to the Shield and feated until the last game with the Univer Girl, Pittsburg, Kansas. Diamond after a tenure of three years of un sity of orth Carolina, was composed of printed articles. I wish to extend, as part of seven PiKA pledges; fo ur of the starting fi ve my literary license, my own personal best were PiKA's. Also, the entire pledge class feel that we can once again take a leading wihes to all at Gamma chapter. Until I see as it's project excavated the side and front position in the national organization as well all of you again- ya rds and planted grass and shrubs. as here at the University of Virginia. William Browder John R. Boberg The Chapter as a whole has been active A, University of Virginia r, College of William & Mary in both fraternity and school activities. In intramural athleti.cs we placed sixth out of thirty-one frat erniti es. We reached the Alpha-Omicron Keeps semifin als in basketball. Also, the house Davidson Bui Ids was awarded the IFC Community Service Scholarship Trophy Award for the Chi I d r e n 's R ehabilitation The m e n of A lph a-Omicron Strong Scholarship Center for it's contribution to the children's brought home the trophy for winning the ca rnival. vo ll eyball tournament held at this ye.ar's With the coming of spring, Beta District 23 Convention. Our team had to renewed its community ties. The brother The new offi cers for the coming yea r are: come from behind to defeat the IIKA Col hood invited a group of children from a lo SMC Jim Chaffin , IMC Kent McNeil , ThC ony at Southwest T exas State College in the cal orphanage to Davidson's lake campus Dave Bouchard, SC Ed Wood, and Historian final game. for a picnic and party. Our invitation was Dud Vest. On April 4 of this year, nineteen new men accepted by a busload of energetic boys and Several men in the house have extended were initiated into the bonds. Our new girls whose will to play outdid that of the their leadership qualities to offi ces outside brothers are: Ronnie Adrian, Ed Biggers, most notoriously playful brothers. After en the fraternity. Joe Whitaker was e l ected Barry Browne, Sam Browne, Le Crane, Ron tertainment, a feast of hotdogs, and more Treas urer of the Commerce School, Bob nie H ale, Charles Jordan, Leighton Kell y, play, the bus was reloaded with tired , happy Waldruff was elected to the Student Coun Billy Lockett, John Marshall, Gary Matthias, children and college students. cil , Dave Bouchard was elected Treasurer of Lowell Moomaw, R ichard Pinger, Lynn In continuation of another annual event, the Engineering School, and Jim Chaffin Pizzitola, John Swannack, James Templer, Beta held a Parents Day on May 1, at which was offered vice-chairman of counselors. David Wallace, Mark Watkins, and Fred members developed friendships with the T om Paine and D ave B ouchard will be W hitecotton. parents of their brothers and pledges. On co unse lors next year as well as three of the Last semester was highlighted by our keep the same afternoon, we held a reception for pledges: Mike Smith, Charlie Davis, and ing the scholarship trophy for the third the faculty which Jured many guests to the Harry Maier. Past SMC Doug Gordon dis straight semester, a ve ry uccessfu1 home house. tinguished the house and school by setting coming on April 24, and our Dream Girl In campus life Beta was also successful. In the state indoor high jump record and also Formal on May 8. Miss Carol Cockrell, the fi erce rivalry for the scholarship cup, Delta Delta Delta, was named Dream Girl was elec ted to O.D.K. Scott V.Tine, past SC, we cl aimed second place, a substantial rise for the 65-66 school year. was selected to Phi Beta Kappa and to the over ou rstanding in previous years. Fur We are all looking forward to another thermore, with the advent of spring brothers R aven Society, a distinguished honorary or successful yea r under the leadership of our flexed new muscles and found themselves in ga niza tion at the University. new SMC Hugh Leffler. Brother Leffler has contention for the ~.:hampionship in tennis, Alpha Chapter has come a long way in previously served the chapter as SC and IMC. volleyball , and softball. Only the closest of the past four yea rs, and having acquired David T utt contests forced us to settle for seconds though such a fine pledge class this past year, we AO, Southwestern University we were easily the best overall in spring competition. We also fared well in yearly campus elec tions. John Gresham was elected Vice-Presi Official j ewelers to Pi Kappa. Alpha dent of the student body, while Alva White head and Bob Finlayson earned positions on the Honor Court. Arnie Snider was elected L. G. Balfour Company editor of the yearbook while Brit Snider was Attleboro, Massachusetts elected editor of the Wildcat Handbook, a publication which is sent to all incoming freshmen as an introduction to Davidson Burr, Patterson & Auld Co. student life. Tom Brown succeeded gradu 2301 Sixteenth Street ating brother Jim Overton as treasurer of Detroit, Michigan, 482 16 the IFC. Edward Winslow B, Davidson College 45 CHAPTER NEWSLETTERS • CONTINU ED Kentucky Has Thirty Graduate Students Omega Chapte r had another highly successful year on the University of Kentucky campu in 1964-1965. We initia ted thirty of thirty-three pledges into the bonds, and have thirty brothers in Graduate chool, for the highes t total of fraternity men enrolled. In campus honoraries we have William Wiley in Lance , the Junior Mens' Honorary; M a nfre d L e dford an I Cary mith in Keys, the Sophomore Mens' Honorary; John Higgins in T au Beta Pi, the Civil Engineering Honorary; and Eugene Barnes, who was recently initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. Brother Barnes also has re ceived a Fel lowship in Chemistry to Duke niversity. Omega won first place in the fraternity clivi ion of the Homecoming House Decora tion ontes t last fall , and were repre ented Kentucky chapter D1·eam Girl, Miss Billie Petersen, cer1ter, and her attendants, Miss judy on the Wildcat Football Eleven by brothers Lambert, left, and Miss Patsy Young. Larry eiple, one of the nations outstanding punters, ta ckl e Sam Ball , who ranks among las t April. Our reigning Dream Girl of ational Editor Robert Lynn was the guest the outh's best, and All-America halfbac k, 1965, is Mi Bi ll ie Petersen, a member of peaker. Representative of Omega also par Rodger Bird. They wi ll play a large part in Kappa Delta orority, who is pinned to ti cipated with the other chapters in Ken the football fortunes of the Wi ldcat squad Den ni s Lehman. Members of the Court were tucky in the co lon ization and install ation of this fal l, rated to be the best since the Miss Judy Lambert, and Patsy Young, Kappa Zeta-Epsilon Chapter at Western Kentucky " Bear" Brya nt-coached Bowl teams of the D Ita. Billie was crowned by the retiring State Col lege. arly SO's. On the Swimming team we were Dream Girl, 1iss Libb y Haze lrigg, Chi The past yea r again saw Omega Chapter repres nted by Miles Kinkead, and on the Omega. Mrs. Edith Jett, our housemother, in the top fraternities scholasticall y, thus Tenni tea m by T om Causpohl. Jim Crock was honored as Omega's Permanent Dream preserving our record of never having been arell was aga in outstanding on the Varsity Girl in recognition of h r faithful service to on academic probation in recent years. With Deba te T eam, and in fraternity intramura ls " her boys" for the past eight years. a new chool yea r here, the men of Omega was awarded best a th Jete for PiKA for his Our lumnus ounse lor, J ohn U. Field , a re read y to show the kind of spirit that wi ll tennis play. teve Potts will be a cheerleader was honored by the chapter in recognition keep us on top at UK during 1965- 1966. for the Big Blue this fall. of his sixty yea rs of service to Pi· Kappa The officers for this emester are: David Our socia l activities were highlighted by Alpha. This wa s fea tured in the Ma rch is lexander, SMC; Wi lliam Wiley, I MC; P hil! our many fin e house parties, and the Week sue of THE HIELD A D DIAMO D . Harig, SC ; and Danny Beckman, T hC. end Party, Winter Wonderland, Cabi n Party, Founders' Day was observed jointly with ]ames Howard and the annual Dream G irl Formal, held the brothers of Kappa, and Alpha- Lambda. 0, Univ. of Kentucky President's Parley! Presidents discuss frater nity life p1·io1' to the University Relations Luncheon of the District Twenty Convention at Kan sas State Un.ive1·sity. There were over 200 alumni and ttnde1·gra duates in attend ance. Left to right-IFC President T. B . Farabi (Beta Theta Pi), K .S.U. Pres ident ]ames A. McCain, TIKA President Charles L. Free man, District P1·esident Richard Bills, and A-0 MC john D . Markel. DIRECTORY NATIONAL OFFICERS------ 4. William H . Fla nnagan, A, Miller School, Va. D UKE NIVERSITY-AA 5. Charles Basham , t:.I Box 4775, Duke Station, Duiham , . G. suPREME COU CJL 1316 Huntington Ave., Huntington, W.Va. EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE-EM •. NATIONAL PRESIDENT-Charles L. Freeman, BA 6. R oy A. Porter, Jr., AH 407 E. Fifth St., Greenville, 1 . C. 1319 E. Washington St., Bloomington, Ill. Box 3039, Raleigh, N . C. EAST CENTRAL TATE COLLEGE....::Ef! 1ATIONAL VtCE PRESIDENT-R. H . Clark, AT 7. William P. Donelan, Jr., M Station I, Box 227, Ada, Okla. 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Cullom, t:.E College Box 38, Lakeland, Fla. MEMORIAL HEADQUARTERS Valley Tire Supply Co., 334 Cedar Ave. FLORIDA STHE UNIVERS ITY-L':.A 577 University Blvd ., Memphis, Tenn . 3811 2 South Pittsburg, Tenn. I 02 S. Woodward Ave., Tallahassee, Fla. 13. J oseph P. eeley, Z FLORIDA, UNIVERSITY OF-AH ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR-Earl Watkins, n Box 13947, University Sta., Gainesville, Fla. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-William J. Crosby, AI 1208 Yorkshire, Memphis, Tenn. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Walter Jahn, fH 14. john H enrY. Ewing, f! GANNO COLLEGE-ET Administrative Assistant-Walter Jahn, Box 37 1, Greensburg, Ky. Box 52, Gannon College, Erie, Pa. H 15. james A. Tjoflat, AP GENERAL MOTORS IN ST ITUTE-ZA ALUMNI DIRECTOR-Ray Vorus, t:.Z 6405 Coffey, Apt. 1, Cincinnati, 0 ., 45230 715 East St., Flint, Mich. CHAPTER FINANCIAL ADVISOR-Gerald Holter, e 16. Michael R. Clancy, Jr., t:.B GEORGE WA I·II NGTO UNIVERSITY-L':.A FtELD SECRETARY-Larry T. Lincoln, BH 253 1 Clague Rd., W estl a ke, Ohio 1916 H St. , N.W., Washington, D. C. FtELD SECRETARY-James Mueller, Bt:. 17. Virgil R . McBroom, GEORGETOWN COLLEGE-AA FIELD SECRETARY-Lance Perkins, EP 123 West Walnut Street, Watseka, Illinois 455 E. Main St. , Georgetown, Ky. FIELD SECRETARY-Pat H alloran, L':.X 18. No chapters in District. GEORGIA I NSTIT UTE OF TECHNOLOGY-At:. ATIO AL EDITOR 19. Gary A. Sallquist , t:.X 2 11 Tenth St., N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 9442 Brownley Dr., Omaha, Neb. GEORG IA STATE COLLEGE-EN Robert D. Lynn, M 20. Richard N. Bills, Br 33 Gilmer S't., S.E., Atla nta, Ga. 1740 Ridgeway Road, P . 0 . Box 17489, 7227 j efferson St. , Kansas City, Mo., 64114 GEORG IA, UNIVERSITY OF-AM Memphis, Tennessee 21. Cla rk B. Wysong, Jr., BO University Station, Box 2223, Athens, Ga. H AM PD EN-SY DNEY COLLEGE-I OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS P. 0 . Box 12126, Oklahoma City, Okla. 22. Lewis Pittman, t:.Z College Box 37, Hampden-Sydney, Va. NATIONA,L CHAPLAI N-Or. Robt. L. McLeod, Jr., B 328 E. Kings Highway, Shreveport, La. HIGH POI NT COLLEGE-L':.fl Evergreen Presbyterian Church 23. Wallace E. Lowry, AO, E ll College Box 71 , H igh Point, . C. 613 University, Memphis 12, Tenn. Sam Houston State Teachers College H oUSTON, UNIVERS ITY OF-EH NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ADVISOR Huntsville, T exas 2620 Riverside Dr., Houston, Texas William R . Nester, A:=: 24. j ames L. Melsa, 3159 Calle Cereza H OWARD COLLEGE-A fi Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Route 4, Box 702, Tucson, Arizona College Box 1006, Birmingha m , Ala. NATI ONAL M US I C DIRECTOR- 25. Charles H . Waynick, BX I DAHO STATE COLLEGE-EP Andrew Gainey, AI and rr 2 Bras ie Way, Littleton, Colo. 653 South 4th, Pocatello, Idaho 11 236 Greensboro Rd., Birmingham 4, Ala. 26. H eber S. Whiting IL L! OIS, U IV ERSITY OF-BH DIRECTOR OF N IVERSITY RELATIONS- 142 W. 2nd 1orth, Logan, Utah 102 E. Chalmers St. , Champaign, Ill. Keith Mellencamp, B::! 27. Robert B. j ohnson , t:. P & rn INDIANA UNIVERSITY-£':.;:: 4417 N. Maryland Ave., Milwa ukee, Wisconsin 2125 McDonald Lane, McMinnville, Ore. 814 E. 3rd St. , Bloomington, Indiana NATIO AL PLEDG E TRA I N ING DIRECTOR- 28. Raymond P. Bradford, 7915 Pacific Blvd ., I OWA STATE UNIVERS ITY-A 1868-ALPHA, University of Virginia 1916-BETA-ZETA, Southern Methodist University 1949-DELTA-LAMBDA, Florida State University 1869-BETA, Davidson College 1917-BETA-ETA, University of Illinois 1949-DELTA-MU, University of Southern Mississippi 1871-GAMMA, College of William and Mary 1917-BETA-THETA, Cornell University 1950-DELTA-NU, Wayne University 1871-DELTA, Birmingham-Southern College 1917- BETA-IOTA, Beloit College (1964) 1950- DELTA·Xf , Indiana University 1873-EPSILON, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1880) 1919-BETA-KAPPA, Emory University 1950- DELTA-OMICRON, Drake University 1874-ZETA, University of Tennessee 1919-BETA-LAMBDA, Washington University (1961) 1950- DELTA-PI, San Jose State College 1878-ETA, Tulane University 1920-BETA·MU, University of Texas 1950- DELTA-RHO, Linfield College 1878-THETA, Southwestern at Memphis 1920-BETA-NU, Oregon State University 1950-DELTA-SIGMA, Bradley University 1885-IOTA, Hampden-Sydney College 1920-BETA-XI, University of Wisconsin (1961) 1951-DELTA-TAU, Arizona State University 1887-KAPPA, Transylvania College 1920-BETA-OMICRON, University of Oklahoma 1951-DELTA-U PSI LON, Stetson University 1889-LAMBDA, So. Carolina Military Acad . (1890) 1920-BETA-PI, University of Pennsylvania 1951-DELTA-PHI, Colorado School of Mines (1963) 1890-MU, Presbyterian College of So. Carolina 1921 - BETA-RHO, Colorado College (1933) 1952-DELTA-CHI, University of Omaha 1891-NU, Wofford College 1922-BETA-SIGMA, Carnegie Institute of Tech. 1952-DELTA-PSI, University of Maryland 1891-XI, University of South Carolina 1922- BETA-TAU, University of Michigan (1936) 1953-DELTA-OMEGA, High Point College 1891-0MICRON, University of Richmond 1922-BETA-UPSI LON, University of Colorado 1953-EPSI LON-ALPHA, Trinity College 1892-PI, Washington and Lee University 1922-BETA-PHI, Purdue University 1953-EPSI LON-BETA, Valparaiso University 1892-RHO, Cumberland University (1908) 1922-BETA-CHI, University of Minnesota (1936) 1953-EPSILON-GAMMA, Texas Tech . College 1893-SIGMA, Vanderbilt University 1923-BETA-PSI, Mercer University (1941) 1955-EPSI LON-DELTA, North Texas State Universit~ 1895-TAU, University of North Carolina 1924-BETA·OMEGA, Lombard College (1930) 1955-EPSI LON-E PSI LON, University of Toledo 1895-UPSI LON, Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1924-GAMMA-ALPHA, University of Alabama 1955- EPSILON-ZETA, East Tennessee State University 1896-PHI, Roanoke College (1909) 1924-GAMMA-BETA, University of Nebraska (1941) 1956-EPSILON-ETA, University of Houston 1898-CHI, University of the South (1910) 1925-GAMMA-GAMMA, University of Denver 1956-EPSILON-THETA, Colorado State University 1900-PSI, North Georgia Agr. College (1933) 1925-GAMMA-OELTA, University of Arizona 1958-EPSILON-IOTA, Southeast Mo. State College 1901-0MEGA, University of Kentucky 1925-GAMMA-EPSILON, Utah State University 1958-EPSI LON-KAPPA, Lamar State College of Tech . 1901-ALPHA-ALPHA, Duke University 1926-GAMMA-ZETA, Wittenberg College 1958- EPSILON-LAMBDA, Murray State College 1902-ALPHA·BETA, Centenary College (1951) 1926- GAMMA·ETA, University of So. California 1958-EPSI LON-MU, East Carolina College 1902-ALPHA-GAMMA, Louisiana State University 1927-GAMMA-THETA, Mississippi State University 1960-EPSILON-NU, Georgia State College 1904-ALPHA-DELTA, Georgia School of Technology 1927-GAMMA-IOTA, University of Mississippi 1960-EPSILON-XI, Case Institute of Technology 1904-ALPHA-EPSILON, No. Carolina State College 1928-GAMMA-KAPPA, Montana State University 1960-EPSILON-OMICRON, Stephen F. Austin St. Col. 1904-ALPHA-ZETA, University of Arkansas 1929-GAMMA· LAMBOA, Lehigh University 1961-EPSILON-PI, Sam Houston State College 1904-ALPHA-ETA, University of Florida 1929-GAMMA-MU, University of New Hampshire 1961-EPSILON-RHO, Idaho State College 1904-ALPHA-THETA, West Virginia University 1929-GAMMA-NU, University of Iowa 1961-EPSILON-SIGMA, Univ. of Tennessee, Martin 1905-ALPHA-IOTA, Millsaps College 1929-GAMMA-XI, Washington State University 1962-EPSILON-TAU, Eastern New Mexico University 1905- ALPHA·KAPPA, University of Missouri at Rolla 1930-GAMMA-OMICRON, Ohio University 1962-EPSI LON-UPS I LON, Gannon College 1906-ALPHA-LAMBDA, Georgetown College 1931-GAMMA-PI, University of Oregon 1963-EPSILON-PHI, Arkansas State Teachers College 1908-ALPHA-MU, University of Georgia 1932-GAMMA-RHO, Northwestern University 1963-EPSILON-CHI, Kansas State College of Pittsburg 1909-ALPHA-NU, University of Missouri 1934-GAMMA-SIGMA, University of Pittsburgh 1963-EPSI LON-PSI, Western Michigan University 1910-ALPHA-XI, University of Cincinnati 1935-GAMMA-TAU, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1963- EPSI LON -OMEGA, East Central State College 1910-ALPHA-OMICRON, Southwestern University 1936-GAMMA-UPSILON, University of Tulsa 1963-ZETA-ALPHA, General Motors Institute 1911-ALPHA-PI, Howard College 1939-Gamma-Ph i, Wake Forest College 1963-ZETA-BETA, Delta State College 1912-ALPHA·RHO, Ohio State University 1939-GAMMA-CHI, Oklahoma State University 1964-ZETA-GAMMA, Eastern Illinois University 1912-ALPHA-SIGMA, University of California 1940-GAMMA-PSI, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute 1964-ZETA-DELTA, Parsons College 1912-ALPHA-TAU, University of Utah 1940-GAMMA-OMEGA, University of Miami 1965- ZETA-EPSI LON, Western Kentucky State College 1912-ALPHA-UPSI LON, New York University (1932) 1941-DELTA-ALPHA, George Washington University 1965-ZETA:ZETA, Southwestern State College 1913-ALPHA-PHI, Iowa State University 1942-DELTA-BETA, Bowling Green State University 1965- ZETA-ETA, Little Rock University 1913-ALPHA-CHI, Syracuse University 1947-DELTA-GAMMA, Miami University 1913-ALPHA-PSI, Rutgers University (1959) 1947-0ELTA-DELTA, Florida Southern College 1913-ALPHA-OMEGA, Kansas State University 1947-DELTA-EPSI LON, University of Chattanooga COLONIES : 1913-BETA-ALPHA, Pennsylvania State University 1947-DELTA-ZETA, Memphis State University Ferris State College- Big Rapids, Michigan 1914-BETA-BETA, University of Washington 1948-DELTA-ETA, University of Delaware Southwest Texa s State College- San Marcos, Texas 1914-BETA-GAMMA, University of Kansas 1948-DELTA-THETA, Arkansas State College Un iversity of Idaho- Moscow, Idaho 1915-BETA-DELTA, University of New Mexico 1948-0ELTA-IOTA, Marshall University Old Dominion College- Norfolk, Virginia 1915-BETA·EPSILON, Western Reserve Univ. (1959) 1948-0ELTA-KAPPA, San Diego State College Adrian College-Adrian, Michigan I CURRENT S M Cs ALPHA-ETA-Michael Theodore Neal GAMMA-ETA- Richard A. Burt DELTA-TAU- David Lee Stauffer ALPHA-THETA- Joseph W. Brand GAMMA-THETA-Melvin Payne DELTA-UPSI LON - Gienn Garvin ALPHA-IOTA- Glen Graves GAMMA-IOTA-Cecil Charles Brown, Jr. DELTA-CHI-Rich Tompsett ALPHA-KAPPA- Anthony E. Kirn GAMMA-KAPPA-Paul Fuglestad DELTA-PSI - Char les Anthony Randle ALPHA-LAMBDA-Larry Yoder GAMMA-LAMBDA- Richard B. Lewis DELTA-OMEGA-Bob Harris ALPHA-MU - Tom Haygood GAMMA-MU- Michael Hartson EPSI LON-APHA- Chr istopher McCurdy ALPHA-NU-James L. King GAMMA-NU - Gien E. Clark EPSILON-BETA-Paul F. Kahle ALPHA-Xi - Joseph Burnett GAMMA-Xi - Edward Howard Stock EPSILON-GAMMA-Larry Ross Craig ALPHA-OMICRON- Hugh Gordon Leffler GAMMA-OMICRON - Pat Shannon EPSILON-DELTA- Ernest Kuehne ALPHA-PI - George Graves GAMMA-PI - Don R. Simonson EPSI LON-E PSI LON - John Long ALPHA-RHO- David Sweeney GAMMA-RHO- James W. Grebe EPSI LON-ZETA-.Joseph Daniel Mahoney ALPHA-SIGMA- Ken Moulton GAMMA-SIGMA-Alden D. Pelug EPSILON -ETA- Leslie W. Bohn ALPHA-TAU - Wallace T. Boyack GAMMA· TAU - Frederick G. Boyce EPSILON-THETA- David D. Howe ALPHA-James Chaffin, Jr. ALPHA-PHI - Arvon Glaser GAMMA-UPSILON - Bill Mildren EPSILON-IOTA- Dan McGehee BETA-James B. Martin ALPHA-CHI - Tony Fel icetti GAMMA-PHI - Ronald E. Shillinglaw EPSILON -KAPPA- Robert Oyer GAMMA- William A. Loti ALPHA-OMEGA-Frank M. Beaver GAMMA-CHI - Mike Dixon EPSILON-LAMBDA- Mike Cherry DELTA-Jim Wilson BETA-ALPHA-George Sargent Sibley GAMMA-PSI - Terry Cheatham EPSI LON -MU- Steve Westfall ZETA - Dick Pearson BETA-BETA- Lynn Nothdurft GAMMA-OMEGA- James G. Stipp EPSILON-NU- Russ ell B. Gladding, Jr. ETA- Earl A. Stoltz, Jr. BETA-GAMMA- Gregory F. Sipe DELTA-ALPHA- Proctor D. Robi son EPSILON-XI-Richard K. Mason THETA - Martin Frederic Wehling BETA-DELTA- Ken Gallas DELTA-BETA- Fred J. Griffiths EPSILON-OMICRON- Gary Evers IOTA- W. W. Townes, V BETA-ZETA- Danny R. Dixon DELTA-GAMMA-Gary M. Sedam EPSILON-PI - Dallas W. Garrett KAPPA-Edward Eckenhoff BETA-ETA- John S. Almon DELTA-DELTA- Den nis Ferguson EPSILON -RHO- Dante Cantrill MU-Walter B. Todd, Jr. BETA-THETA - Bill Frayer DELTA-EPSILON-Carl J. Kempf, Jr. EPSI LON -SIGMA- Oanny Truett NU - John Land BETA-KAPPA - Thoma s L. Wieher DELTA-ZETA- Tom Watson EPSILON · TAU-Doug A. Ea sley Xi - Larry Weldon BETA-MU- James M. Windham DELTA-ETA- Robert Wharton Tr ibit EPSILON -UPSILON - David F. Dieteman OMICRON-Harry Greene lea BETA-NU- Brian J. Traynor DELTA-THETA- Brian Mullen EPSILON -PHI - Ross Honea PI - Charles Buck Mayer BETA-OMICRON - Adrian Sabater DELTA-IOTA- Harry Truman Chafin EPSILON-CHI - Stephen H. Ehart SIGMA- R. James Mabry BETA-PI - Francis J. Furey DELTA-KAPPA- Ron Long (Suspended) EPSILON-PSI - Robert A. Kotz TAU - Thomas A. Harris BETA-SIGMA- Leroy P. Gunner DELTA-LAMBDA- Ray W. Hayes EPSILON-OM EGA - Charles E. Moore UPS I LON-Willi am M. Parker, II I BETA-UPSILON - Vernon C. Bry, Jr. DELTA-MU - Patrick Allyn Sheehan ZETA-ALPHA- Roger B. Fox OMEGA- David Alexander BETA-PHI - Stephen Lynch OELTA-NU- John E. Kotwick ZETA-BETA- Jeff Williamson ALPHA-ALPHA- Harry M. Murray, Jr. GAMMA-ALPHA- Joe B. Hall OELTA-OMICRON- W. Lewis Hancock, Jr. ZETA-GAMMA- Donald B. Maddox ALPHA-GAMMA- Steven H. Beadles GAMMA-GAMMA- Thomas C. Singer II DELTA-XI - R. Jerry Conklin ZETA-DELTA- Cra ig Sp icer ALPHA-DELTA-Roy E. Landers, Jr. GAMMA-DELTA- Steph en E. Lyders DELTA-PI - David S. Mettler ZETA-EPSILON - Jim Col eman ALPHA-EPSILON- James H. Riddle, Jr. GAMMA-EPSILON- David N. Ol sen DELTA-RHO- Dennis Clark Nelson ZETA-ZETA- Fred Parrett ALPHA-ZETA- David E. Fitton GAMMA-ZETA- Richard E. Franta DELTA-SIGMA- Robert H. Bloom ZETA-ETA- Ken Oliver at the Chase-Par·k Plaza ntion Headquarters Hotel issouri has been selected as the site of the pa Alpha Convention-the 98th Anniversary Convention, 41 years ago. St. Louis alumni and under graduate members extend an invitation to Pi Kappa Alpha members, their families and their friends to "Come to St. Louis." Make Your Plans Now to Attend The National Leadership School August 25, 26, 27, 1966 At the University of Missouri at Rolla The National Convention August 28, 29, 30, 1966 Fred Conra th, Beta -Lambda A. W. Moise, Beta-Lambda St. Louis, Missouri Co-Chairman Co-Chairman