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APRIL, 1945 EHCO BADGES -Tc -Tc • Order Your Badge from the Following List APRIL, 1945 EHCO BADGES -tc -tc • Order Your Badge from the Following List. PI KAPPA ALPHA 0 ·0 BADGE PRICE LIST No. 0 No. 2 No.3 Plain Bevel Border ... .............. $5 .25 $6.50 $ 9.00 Chased Border . .. 5.75 7.00 10.50 CROWN SET JEWELED BADGES No. 0 No. 2 No. 21h No. 3 Pea rl Bo rder ... ·················· $ 11.50 $ 16 .00 $ 19.50 $ 22.50 Pearl Ruby or Sapphire Points ... 13.25 17.50 22 .50 27.50 16.50 22 .00 25.00 30 .00 ~ : :; :: ~;;;::~~~~d p~!i~~s ::::::::::::: ::::: 38.50 52.75 62 .50 Bl.50 Pearl' and Ruby or Sapphire Alternating 16.50 21.00 25 .00 30.50 Pe a rl and Emerald Alternating ...... 18.00 24.00 30.00 35.00 Pearl a nd Diamond Alternating .......... 64.50 88.50 105.50 140.50 All Rub y or Sapphire ........................... 18 .00 23.00 30.00 32 .50 Ruby or Sapphire, Diamond Points .......... 44.00 59.00 73.00 91.50 Ruby or Sapphire and Diamond Alternating . 70.00 94.75 116.00 150.50 All Emerald ...................................... .. 22 .00 27 .50 37 .50 40.00 Emerald Diamond Points ................... 4B.OO 60.00 80.50 99.00 Emerald' and Diamond Alternating . 74.00 99 .25 123.50 158.00 Diamond Border, Ruby or Sapphire Points 91.25 126.25 151.50 204.50 Di a mond Border, Emerald Points ............ 94.50 129.50 154.00 207 .00 All Diamond ...... ..... 116.50 160 .00 191.50 258.50 SMC Key IOK Gold . ····················· ..... $8.50 Pledge Button .............................. .50 Official Recognition Button ... .75 A IIKA FAVORITE RING by EHCO GUARD PINS One Letter Two Letter Plain . ···································· .................. $2.25 $ 3.50 Whole Pearl ·························· ······ 6.00 10.00 (II lu stration twice actua I size ) ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO 20 % FEDERAL TAX 772 IOK Yellow Gold , Black Onyx ....... .................... $21.75 (Please give name of chapter or college when ordering .) Plus 20% Federal Tax WRITE FOR YOUR FREE COPY OF OUR 1945 BOOK OF TREASURES FINE FRATERNITY RINGS COAT OF ARMS JEWELRY AND NOVEL TIES Edw-ards~ Daldentan and CoDipany FARWELL BUILDING OFFICIAL JEWELERS TO PI KAPPA ALPHA DETROIT 26, MICHIGAN IIKA EDWARDS, HALDEMAN & CO. Name Farwe ll Building Street De troit 26, Michigan City ........ Se nd f ree copy of the BOOK O F T REASURES to Fraternity .... EDITOR , HI EI.IJ A D DIAMOND: The " O ctober" HIELD A D DI A~IOND ar­ AND rived tonight. It truly rings the bell. W hat ~HI~tll DIAM~ND a rema rkable tor our American men a1e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY writing from Bougainville to achen ! And what a gloriou chapter i Pi Kappa lpha's Founded at the University of Virginia, •farch 1, 1868, by Julian Edward comribution. Wood , Littleton Waller Tazewell, James Benjamin Sclater, Jr., Frederick I u pect 1 get ju t a bits ntimemal when Southgate Taylor, R obertson Howard, and William Alexander. T go through the page , and ee the names J . BLANFORD TAYLOR, EDITOR of so many of the fell ows whose friendship became a pc,·so nal thing with me while Office af Publication, 114 East Second Street, Little Rock, Ark. set ving as Traveling ecretary of the fra­ ternity. Changes of address and subscriptions should be sent to F. H . Hart, There is a confident note in your review Executive Secretary, 771 Spring Street, N. W., Atlanta, Ga. Both old and and in those of Free Hart which i indi a­ new addresses should be given. Life subscription $10 for tho e initiated Live of how well yo u who are admini tering before Sept. 1, 1927. Per year, $2. Alumni ra te, per year, $1. the affair of the fraternity are feeling it Articles and photogTaphs for THE SHIELD AND DtA MOND are cordially pulse. invited and should be addressed to ]. Blanford Taylor, 3708 H ycl iffe Vi~ Roby's " An wer to Lee asey" i m- Avenue, St. Ma tthews, 7, Ky. bolic of the vibrant spirit which young men returning from the blood conflict will re­ a sert, and ca t to the pattern of the )'ears VOLUME LIV, No. 4 APRIL, 1945 ahead. If yo u are adding scores, I would like to be just one of the men who believe that THE SHIELD AND DIAMO ND is published four times a year a t J1 4 East Second St., Little ne ither fraternities or fraternali m will be Rock, Ark., in July, October, January, and April by the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. relics of the war. As we move into a po·t­ Entered as second class matter, O ct. 14, 1937, at the Postoffice at Little Rock, Ark., under war period the cry w ill come for more fra­ Act of March 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in ternities with more fraternalism, and mon: Section Jl03, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized June 16, 191 8. service. I expect a ll fra ternities and not the least Pi Kappa lpha to exhibit courage and leader hip in thi era. CONTENTS CH AR LES L. FREE f AN, BA, pringfield, Ill. + IIKA Business --ITKA -- ED ITOR , m ELD AND DIAMO 'D: Natio n a l O fficer ' Page.·--------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Your kindness in mailing me the October War Memoria l F und________________________________________ __________________________________________ 4-5 number of T I·IE I·II ELD AND DIA~IO D is gen­ Founders' D ay Observed _______ ____________________________________________________________________ l 2 -15 uinely appreciated. I was sorry m y illnes preve nted me from promptly compl ying with your request [or an article; but I fear, + IIKA and the War at best, l could furnish nothing that would be of interest to our brothers who are so Once vVe Were Ten ·-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------28-29 absorbed in this bitter struggle. Uncle Tom, th e Engineer______ ___ _______________________________________________________________________ 3 I It is of interest to see how man JTKA 's They Meet in the Strangest Places____________________________________________________________________ 33 a re in leader hip and winning such laurels in this truggle. Other W ar N .ews·-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------23-43 I must congra tula te you on publishing such a fine magazine. The fraternity cer­ + IIKA Spotlights tainl y ha taken on wonderful li fe and vigor since the early days when we were merely Harold fa n sfi eld of Boe ing ·---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6-7 a Southern socie ty. 1,000 H o u r Under the Sea____________ __ ____________________ _____________________________________________ 8-9 RICH ARD ORME FUN , 9. Atlanta, Ga. B a ron of Box Tops---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 O-Il - - ITKA -- A n other ITKA in Congres ·------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 EDITOR, SHIELD A D DIAMO ND: + IIKA Departments I am attaching the ballot from the current issue of THE SHIELD A D DIA~IO N D in regard Gold Stars----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------24-25 to the cover. (Pictures of Chapter H ouses.) P erm a n e n tl y Pinned ·----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45 l a m a graduate of niversity of ·Missouri (1942) and hence an alumnu of the Alpha­ Directory ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 7-48 Nu Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. I received m y .f.A. in phy iology from the niversity of Toronto in lVfa y, 1944. From March until August of th is year I was on a war research CLIP AND MAIL TODAY~w~~~w~~~w~~~~-~~~w~----, project of the RD at Princeton Univer ity, PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY and in eptember, I begin the academic year at Washington quare oll ege of ew York 771 Spring Street, N . W. University as a teaching fellow and graduate Atlanta, Ga. student in the department of cherni try. Please change my a ddress to ____________________________________________________ _ DA1 B. LEYERLE, A ' New York City. --ITKA-- SO I will continue to receive my SHIELD AND DIAMOND promptly. PHOTO C REDITS: Pages 8-9-27, Boeing Photo ; Page 22 (bottom), The Penn Stater; ----------------------------- Chapter_________ ________ Pages 31-38-40-41-43, ·ignal orps Photos; Pages 37-39 (top), War Department Bureau of Public R e la tions. 1 • NATIONAL OFFICERS' PAGE • To: AU SMC's and Other Chapter Officers being operated in an efficient manner, solvent and ready to REPORTING se rve the active and alumni member . While ther.e is no objection to the S. C. 4 R eports which My work wi ll bring me to man y of the chapters for visits. are being se nt to the National Office by various chapters It is a real thrill to meet and learn to know so many of you please remember that the S. C. 4 Report is due only at the perso nall y. I come as a representative of our national broth­ beginning of the normal school year in September or October. erhood to strengthen the link between you and the National (Of course, S. C. 4 Reports should be se nt in on men who Office and all the other chapters. Please fe el free to call on return tO school at any time after the fall session begins but me if I can ever b.e of assistance. only on such men. ) The S. C. 5 Reports can be sent at any ROBERT D. LYN , Ass istant Executive Sec'y. time and hould be ent whenever men leave the chapter. T he National Office uses the S. C. 5 R eport to start THE --llK A - - SHI ELD AND DIAMOND moving to rece nt actives who have be­ To: All Members come alumni. • THE FIRST CHAPTER to be revived to an active Please do not forget that the S.
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