Pi Kappa Alphas and the Wa1· IIKA Song Book HE PI KAPPA LPHA Fraternity is attempting to keep T a complete ro ter of all active and alumni members erv­ 50e ing in the armed forces of the United States. The 1940 Ed ition of the Pi Kappa Alpha Song Book is almost exhausted. To clo; e out the supply, the price has been cut in l THE half. Get one now. It may be a long F YOUR AME has not appeared in SHIELD A o DIA­ time before another edition is printed. J\COND , fill in the b lank below and mail it to Dr. Freeman H . I Now Available H art, Executive ecretary, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, 77 1 COMPLETE ORCHESTRATION FOR Spring Street, N. W., Atlrtnt:l, G:1. '11te ~Heam Qi4L o/; II KA Buy several and place them in the hands N a 111 e ______Chapter------of your favorite campus orchestras. Good dance music and good publicity for II KA. R ank ______Price, SOc . The History of Pi Kappa Alpha By Dr. Free man H. Hart Branch of Service ______------An at>sorbingly interesting story of the founding and growth of the Fraternity. Price, $1.50. P resent Location------______------· o Parliame ntary Law Manual. Comprehensive and instructive. Dest P ermane : ~ t ,\ddress Pr:cc , Sc. o IIKA Book Matches. For Dura rio n of vVa r : ------Attractive; nice souvenirs. Price, $ 2.90 per thousand, plus 40c tax. • Pi Kappa Alpha Stic kers. For windshield or suitcase. Price, Sc. Other Old Boy Address a ll orders, with remittance, to In Service : ______------CENERAL OFFICE Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity 771 SPRINC ST., ATLANTA, CA.

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K eep up m ora le of friends in service hy writing bahy calf a nd saddle leather. frequent leiters on fine crested paper. Order tod ay. 1ail post card for FREE COP Y 0 fficial Jeweler to PI KAPPA ALPHA L.G. B A L F 0 u R COMPANY ATTLE BORO * * * * * MASSACHUSETTS • NATIONAL OFFICERS' PAGE • To : All SMC's and Active Chapters To: All SMC's and other Chapter Officers From: National President Hickman From: Executive Secretary Hart Subject: Meeting War Problem s Subject: Final Reports The Supreme Council meeting May 9-14 in Richmo nd, Will you please note from the list below whether the Va., adopted certain sugge ti ons as a matter of policy for various fiual reports from your chapter have been se nt in. the duration and the mo nths to follow. lf you need blank reports or histori ca l paper, drop us a The feeling was unanimous that every chapter should ca rd and we wi ll se nd it to yo u without delay. make it its policy to keep ali ve, even if the cha pter shou ld The S. C. 8 report is particularl y important in that we be reduced to one member, believing that the traditions of need to know the status of yo ur hapter during the summer. the Fraternity can best live in a group that has n't completely The historica l sketch has es pecial appeal in this war year. abandoned its formation. o matter how small the group T hen too, the Constitution provides a fine for a delay on now, after the war that chapter ca n go forward with greater this sketch after June 15. We keep after this report until strength than the one tha t has ceased to operate. we get it in, so a delay wi ll not help in any ense. The fines It was the Council's further belief tha t hould a ll mem­ go to the Pi Kappa Alpha Endowmem Fund, but we would bers be called to the se rvice, or leave for any reason, the prefer the sketch to the fine. alumni in the immediate vicin ity should assi t by holding Financia l reports are of the utmo t importance during regular meetings a nd retain the charter. these uncertain days, o please bring them up-to-date. Also please do not forget the audit report which must be made Many of our chapters wi ll find it diEficu lt to operate to cover the 1942-43 session and se nt to the National Office without a house or rooms in a dormitory. H owever, we not later than August I. hould not forget that in the first 40 years of o ur Fraternity, REPORT: S. C. R eport 1o. 7, S. C. Report No. 8, His­ chapters had neither su ites of rooms nor houses but kept torical Sketch for 1942-43, and Financial Report, April alive the traditions through meetings held in different homes and May. of the alumni or members living in the vicinity. The e times are certainly not as d iEfi cult as those at the time of To: All SMC's and Active Chapters our Founders and early leaders. From: Executive Secretary Hart To make these suggestions more concrete and specific, Subject: Effect of War on IIKA they are listed: Most of yo u will be interes ted to know that the recent KEEP ALIVE BY questionnaire on the pre ent state of the chapters shows the I . Closer cooperation with the university and coll ege situation about as fo llows. As of May I , the 80 chapters of administration by becoming better acquainted with the Fraternity had an average of over 18 actives and about the officials. l 0 pledges per chapter. During the session the ch apters have lost over 20 active per chapter to the armed forces. You 2. Discuss with the college administration a ny plans have now initiated an average of nearly 17 men per chapter they have, or the armed forces have, for renting or during the present ses io n, which mea ns that Pi Kappa Alpha leasing house or rooms for duration. has broken the record of all previous years by around 200 3. I£ property (house or rooms) has been leased, make men. Two chapters have initiated over 50 men each. R ecent sure chapter has a contract with a co fJ )' filed in the letters indica te tha t one chapter still has over 70 actives and ational Office. over 20 pledges. 4. Make inventory of chapter pro perty (furniture, etc.) More than half the chapters have built up good reserve and file copy with National Office. If stored, state funds in the form of war bonds and savings accounts. The where; name and •address of custodian. National Office is keeping around · 10,000 worth of these 5. Cha pter to encourage co ntinuous rushing, preserv­ bonds in its safety deposit box in a n Atlanta bank for a ing the standards for membership. number of chapters. One chapter has a total of $3,000 and 6. Emphasize cholarship and the maintenance thereof. a nother :2,500. The que tio nnaire also shows that all but abou t 10 per 7. Chapters to encourage close r.elationship with alum­ ce nt of our chapters expect to have men returning next fall nus coun elors or elected alumni, in order to carry and plan to continue active even though most chapters have on activities. rented their houses or have had their dormitory rooms taken 8. See that all accounts receivable are collected , and over, and though they are reduced to two or three men . all accounts payable are paid by June 15, 1943, or before. To : All Active Chapters 9. See tha t all reports of every nature are made to From: Executive Secretary Hart a ti o nal Office by June 15, 1943, or before. Subject: Suspension of Gamma-Zeta Chapter 10. Discuss yo ur chapter problems with yo ur Na ti o nal Because of the continued failure tO coopera te with the Officers. They want to assist and they offer service. atio nal Office and District Pres ident in reporting and so on, and also because of a general lack of interest in per­ DO NOT DELAY DO IT TODAY petua ting the traditions of the Fraternity on the Wittenberg Your chapter wi ll survive in proportion to the .efforts ca mpus on the part of the present active members of the the chapter's o Efi cers and member put into it. The responsi­ chapter, the Supreme Council regrets tO announce to the bili ty is heavy-the reward is great. Brothers who fo llow will Fraternity at large that they have unan imously voted the bless you and your Fraternity wi ll ho nor yo u for having kept suspension of Gamma-Zeta chapter at ·w·ittenberg College, alive the chapter and the traditions of Pi Ka ppa Alpha. Springfield, 0. 1 The Shield and Diamond + flKA Business Enjoys Shield and Diamond OFFICIAL P BLICATION OF Co uncil Mee ts at Richmond ______4 , 5 EDITOR, ' H IELD A~l) DI A~ I ONO: PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY District President Named ------20 I am glad to receive T HE SH IELD AND J. BLA~FORD TAYLOR, AA Record Keeping Record ------37 DI A~ tO N D which I read and enjoy. EDITOR + flKA and the War E. C. GATHI 1 GS , AZ, rticle and photographs for TH E SHI ELl> Admiral Minter Dies ------12 Inside Looki ng Out ------16 Congress of the United State , AND DIA~IO N I J are cord iall y invited and Other War News __ 8, 9, 10, II , 13, 14, Washington, D. C. should be addressed to J. Bl anford Taylor. 15, 17, 18, 19 370 Hycli ffc Ave nue, St. Matthews 7, Ky. + flK A Spotlights --IlK A-- Changes of address and subscriptions Dr. Robert A. Hingson, J r. ___ .. _____ 10 shoul d be ent to F. H. Hart, Execuuve Meet With Firm Handclasp ecretar)', 77 1 pring Street, Atlanta, Ga. Fre..t Link _ ... ------27 EDITOR, SHI ELD AND D I A~IOND: Both old and new addresses should be A. Cyril Ca llister ------31 given. Li fe subscription . 10 for those Active Chapters In the cour e of being transferred 10 + \'arious po t I ha e not received so me of in itiated be fore Sept. I, 1927. Per yea r, 2. Alpha-Zeta Inspirati on ------29 Alumni rate, per year, I. rr Week at Ohio tate ---- ___ , ______33 the copies of THE WELD AND D I A~IOND. Office of Publi ca tion , Little Rock, rkansas Chapter News ___ , ____ 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 Just rece ntly 1 was the reci pi en t of a most welco me publi ca ti on in the ma il , yo ur March iss ue. Nex t to a letter from Volume Llll, No. I July, 1943 + flKA D epartments Letters ------2 home, it was tops .... Especiall y appealin f; Permanently Pinned ______4 0, 41 was news of my old chapter, Ga mm a­ Precious Package ------41 Epsil on. During the time that I have Directory ------47 , 48 been in the ervice, I have m e~ several brothers fro m various chapters. We meet PHOTO CREDITS: Page , U. . Treasury Depan­ with a firm handcl asp and a friendl ines + T I·IE Distingui hed Serv­ mcnt; Page 9, wp, Press Association ; bottom, Ogden Air Base Photo; Page 17, top left, Enid typica l o[ TIK A. ice Award of the Chicago alumni ch ap­ Field Photo; top right, Fort Sill Photo; Page 21, HORACE J . GUN , rE, ter, won by President J ohn Lloyd New­ top center a nd top right, Sooner Magazine; bottom 2d Lt. QMC, left and right, Army Air Forces Photos; Pages Camp Lee, Va. comb, of the University of Virginia, 24-25, Section of Fine Arts, Federal Wo rks Agency; Page 26, NBC Photo; Page 3 , top, Fort Brady wa pre ented to him April 2 at a Photo; bottom, Signal Corps Photo; Page 39, -- TI KA-- Fo under ' D ay ob ervance at Alpha bottom, College of William and Mary Alumni !v!agaziue; Page 46, top, Armored Force School Catches Up On News chapter house, Charlottesville. H e was Photo. Fnr M arch issue: Page 16, Ohio State Joumal; EDITOR, SHI ELD AN D DIA 10 D: unable to be at Chicago to receive the Page I 7, top, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Page 19, award there. L ehigh Alumni B1tlletin; Page 20, top left, \.Yash­ Spending a few days at home while on ington Press Photo Bureau ; top ri ght a nd bottom, leave, the first thing that ca ught my eye T he award wa presented to Dr. N ew­ Signa l Corps Photos; Page 25, Armored Force Photo; Page 31, top, Sooner Magazine; Page 37, when 1 wa lked in to the hou e wa the comb b y Dr. J o hn E. Pom fret, president bottom, Signal Corps Photo; Page 42, Fort Wood Anniversarv Iss ue of T HE SH IELD AND DIA ­ of the Coll ege of William and Mary, Photo; Page 44, top, Lu bbock Field Photo; bottom, MOND. It ,;.as good to ha\'e the opportunity U. S. Navy P lo oto. to ca tch up on the news. ' 1\/i ll iamsburg, Va. --TIK A-- After nine months at Ca mp Lee, Va., The Supreme Council was represent­ • THE Interfraternity Con­ I am now in Baltimore. ed at the a ffair by atio n al Secretary ference, in a call ed meeting June I I and I 2. voted unanimo usly to use ever y 1sT LT . .J OSEPH H. T RI NNER, 8 , Pulcipher and the N ational Office by Standard Oil Building, Executive ecretary H art. effort to keep all of the ch a pters alive. Raltimore, Mel. in so far as possible, (o r the duratio n , Dr. l vey F. Lewi , Zeta Psi, dean of -- TIKA -- according to Executive Secretary Free­ the University of Virginia, r epre ented rna n 1-l . H an, who re presented Pi • THE fraternity association the faculty and Presid ent Richard T. Kappa at the meeting. o[ the College of William a nd rar y Edwards represented the district. Other topics discussed were con tracts has voted to su pend " rushing" of new W il o n Lawrence Smith, A, of the for ho using and allied war matters. men for the duratio n of the war. Golden Cha pter, represented the older member of the chapter while dozens o f active and recent gradua tes were o n hand. (0-ru en PtoTUnEs ON PA GE 27) --11KA-- • P UBLI CATION chedule of co nservations orders were calling for Fzlltd Trustees Meet THE SHI ELD AND DIA I\·IOND wa changed reduction . by the Supreme Council , meeting re­ Sept. J wi ll be the deadline for the + ·IEETING of The Shield cently at Richmo nd, Va. O ctober issue. Active chapter members and Diamo nd E ndowment Fund was o r alumni having contributio ns sho uld This issue, of 48 pages, becomes issue held during the Supreme Council meet­ send them as soon as po ible to 1o. I of Volume 53, in tead of issue J. ing in Richmo nd. ttending were Blanford Taylor, Editor, 3708 H ycliffe, 'o. 6 of Volume 52 as origina ll y ch ed­ Chairman D . C. Powers, Z, of New York; St. 1fatthews 7, Ky. (The "7" facili ta tes uled. The next iss ue wi ll be the O c­ D r. W . D. H aden , A, Charlottesvi ll e, mail d eli very b y designating postal tober number and wi ll appear in Se p­ Va., and L. Brook R agen , BN , of Po rt­ zones and i included in the addre s at tember. After O ctober will be the land, O re. the reque t of po tal authorities.) J anuar y issue and foll owing that wi ll Chairman Powers repo n ed to the Contributions in the form of n ews­ be o ne in April, completing Vo lume 53. o uncil that the fund now consist of paper or magazine clippings are wel­ 60 per cent bo nds a nd 40 per ce nt . ctio n curtaili ng the number of is­ come as are specia ll y pre pared articles. to k and that certain stock have re­ sue fo ll owed recommendatio ns from Photo · sho uld be sent whenever pos­ cently been old to invest the proceed the chapters fo r a magazine o f more sible. An y material to be returned 111 government bo nds. pages. At the same time government sho uld be so marked.

TH£ SH I£T.D AND DIAMOND is publi hed four times a year at 114 East Second St., Little Rock, Ark., in july, October, january, and April by the Pi Kap,.a Alpha Fraternity. Entered as second cia matter, Oct. 14 , 1937, al the Postoffi ce al Lillie Rock, Ark., under Act of March 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing a t special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized June 16, 1918. + RECORD of Pi Kappa Al­ dau of trial after the torm shall have directly to us. We mu t rally to the pha establi shed in World War I , when spent itself. ca use- find our se rvi ce-do it. e,·ery chapter remained active despite Democra cy is builded on educati on . For so me time this matter has been predictions that some colleges would \Vith the co ll ege man large ly res ts, in serious co ntemplation by yo ur Su ­ and will more large ly res t each pass­ preme Council , when they had been close and some fraternities would fa ll mg. decade, the leadership which will more seri ously planning for these to pieces, is now at stake. mamtam th egreatness and pre-e mi ­ rim es. Now has co me the Lime for ac­ The Fraternity did not lose a single nence of America-its freedom, indi­ tion . Every chapter mu t receive the vidual opportunity and co ll ective closely knit support of every member, one of its 45 chapters in the first World altruism. the enthusiasm, hra.ins, ideas, energy, War. All remained active throughout The fraternity is the great social tune and money of each individual. the war. Eleven chapters had an active f01:ce within th e co ll ege. lts ideals, Definite ideas are earnestl y soli cited membership of only three men to start objects and results show its va lu e. It from yo u, and yo u are urged to imme­ diately get in touch with other old the 1918-19 session, which corresponds will he needed more than ever before i~ th ~ nex t seve ral years-the da ys of cha pter leaders and get yo ur ideas and to the 1943-44 session. Eighteen chap­ du·e dr stress for the co ll eges o[ America. pl ans ready when yo u might either ters had a average of only four men for all th at has been and is- to our ind ica te th em to yo ur Supreme Coun ­ and the average for the entire Fraternity colleges, their undergraduates, to its cil or put them into action, when in yo ur good judgment th ey shall re­ was only eight. Largest chapters were members, to yo u- it must be preserved. for all that it can and will be in the dound to the material benefit of your Penn State with 18 and Ohio State confusion to come, it must be &trength­ chapter and yo ur fr aternity. with 17. ened, enlarged and fortified. Now, Brother, most of us will find our sphere of service at home. The The following letter dated Sept. 15, This fall some colleges will do e, co ll ege boys have go ne to get ready 1917, on letterhead of "The Supreme many chapters suspend. It is even for the firing line, for hard hips, feared that some fraternities will fall danger and po sible death . The chap­ Council," was signed by five members to pieces. of that body, recalls problems of 1918-19. ter halls are almost empty and we have Pi Kappa Alpha mu t serve its mis­ to keep them open for the new men They were John R. Perez, Grand Prin­ sion. It shall not disintegrate. ot a we must pl ace there. This i our duty. ceps; Robert A. Smythe, Grand Treas­ chapter shall suspend, not a chapter It is the least we can do to memorialize urer; P. Tulane Atkinson, Grand Editor; house be closed. As an American, a those who wi ll not come back from college man , a fraternity man, a Pi th at fi ght. John U. Field, Grand Secretary, and Her­ Kappa Alpha, the ca ll of duty co mes Sha ll we fail? bert Shaffer, Grand Alumni Secretary. The letter was given to Executive Secretary Hart by Dr. J. Gray Mc­ .:to. p;, ~a,ppa, IJLpk:u C~eiU!: Allister, who attended part of the Su­ + Yo R SuPREM E CouNCIL, meeting recently in Richmond, preme Council session in Richmond. Va., endeavored to so shape the poli cies of the Fraternity that Pi Kappa Alpha This Fraternity leader, a member of will face the future with all of its strength. In all o f the council's deliberations, the Golden Chapter, who saw the there was ever prese nt the challenge that while we face uncerta inty, certainly our Fraternity survive the last war with fly­ future could be no more diEficult than that faced by our fo unders. Out of this ing colors, recently wrote to Dr. Hart thought, we gai ned strength and visio n to tackl e each pro bl em with the determi­ most appreciatively of both the splendid nation to make plans that would act as stabilizing factors throughout the months impression he received of the members to come. of the council and in gratitude for being \.Ye were ever conscious of the fact that the active chapters would find it a ll owed to sit in on the sessions. He difficult to operate without chapter hou es or rooms and that reduced incomes wrote: "And let me say that I was deep­ would certainly curtail activities. evenheless, it was the feeling that such steps ly impressed with the wisdom and at­ should be taken to mainta in the chapter a t every institution even though its tractiveness of these men and those so membership might consist of only one or two or even to the extent that the closely associated with them." alumni would hold meetings for the active chapters. A letter se tting forth many suggestions has been mailed to the chapters The letter follows: Dear Brother Alumnus: specifica ll y stating steps that should be taken which would assist in the con­ Argument is over. War is here. tinuation of the chapter, believing that a cha pter maintaining its identity will It must be won or free peoples, free surely have the advantage when the boy return to carry on at full strength. governments, free thoughts, free ac­ Learning how to li ve with less and within the income of the chapter, regardless tivities will not longer be; America, Great Britain, France will be second of the amount, must be the order of the d ay. Out of it, we believe, will come rate powers dominated by an entity strength to any ch apter or group that practices it! to which there is no law but might, no Emphasis has been pia eel on alumni assistance to the active chapters and appeal but force; it must be won or assistance that will be rendered by the National Office, urging the chapters and the homes of America will know the horrors of Belgium and Armenia, of alumni to place their problems before them, that together a procedure can be France and Palestine. worked out to maintain the chapters on the various ca mpuses. It is believed that To win, and we shall win, will call the chapters will survive in proportion to the efforts made by those that are left forth every ounce of every reso urce of in command. vVhil e the re ponsibility o f carrying on in uncertain times is heavy, men, brains, money, fields and mines in this western land. Every man for the reward is great. When history is again written, yo u who have contributed by himself or directed by authority, must helping and by watching will have the pra ise of those that carry o n after you . find that place which he can serve The future is uncertain but we ca n be staunch in our beli ef that by working best, achieve most for victory. together and facing fa cts, we ca n come through to a successful beginning again! While winning, the tempes ts and chaos of war must not ca use us to forget or to neglect the in titutions and ideals for which we are fighting. We must keep them in fu ll vigor to save us now and to succor us in the 3 COUNCIL IIEMBERS ATTEND DISTRICT CONVENTION + THE Council session was not a ll work as tho e attending the meeting and the wive present were •1Jests Monday at an "at home" at the ~ 0 re idence of Colonel and Mrs. LeRoy Hodge. vVives present were Irs. Roy D. Hickman, Mrs. andford R . Smith, Mrs. L. Brooks R agen and Mrs. J . Blanford Taylor. Omicron chapter gave a smoker T ues­ day at their clubrooms at which several members of the faculty of the Uni­ On the eve of the m eeting o f the Secretary LeRoy Hodges, Executive versity of Richmond were pre ent. S utJreme Council, a district con­ Secretary Freeman H. Hart, Na­ vention was h eld at which many tional Yice President Sandford R . Dr. J. Gray McAllister and W . L. problem s of the district were dis­ S mith, and S. G. Waller, A, Adju­ Lacy were luncheon gues ts of the Coun­ cussed . Following the convention a tant General of Yirginia. Front ci l on Wednesday. buffet sUpfJer was served at which row, from le ft : National Editor Richmond alumni arul National J, Blanford Taylor, Robert L. Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Brock, Jr., Officers attended. From left, back Brock, Jr., 0; Former Alumni Sec· row, are: Natioruzl Counsel John L. retary J oseph Sheehan, AN ; R. M. entertained Wednesday at their home. Packer, National Secretary K. D. Whittett, 0 ; S amuel W. McCart, Several Richmond alumni were present Pulcipher, National Treasurer L. AT ; Traveling Secretary Charles L. Brooks Roe:en , National President Freeman, Dexter Ste phen s, BA, at this affair. Roy D. Hickman, National Alumni and Carl B ean, I. Thursday afternoon the group en­ of Monticello and the U~ i vers i ty of Haden entertained at luncheon at trained for Charlottesville and were met Virginia. Monticello H otel. al the station by Lew H aden, A, and Thursday night, the party was enter­ Friday night Dr. Rowland Egger, BZ. Mrs. Haden and his sister, Mrs. Smith, tained at the Alpha chapter house. Fri­ and Mrs. Egger, were dinner guests of who drove the p:uty for an inspection day noon, Dr. W. D. H aden and Mrs. the council. St. Louis Alumni Suggest New National Headquarters t R EPRESENTATIVES of the The St. Louis alumni offered to liqui­ chapter, the spokesmen sa id, would ex­ St. Louis Alumni Chapter, one of the date the Beta-Lambda property and pect to use a part of the headquarters largest and most active groups in the apply the proceeds toward purchase of building until a proposed lodge on th!! nation, appeared by invitation before the headquarters property. The active property could be completed . the Supreme Council meeting in Rich­ mond to urge the location of N ati onal H eadquarters of Pi Kappa Alpha in that city. T he proposition was presented by former Alumni Secretary J oseph Shee­ han and Brothers Fred Conrath and Dexter tephens. After hearing the offer, ati onal Counsel .J ohn L. Packer pointed out that an amendment of the laws of the Fraternity by cllapter vote would be required to remove the headquarters from tl anta a the Georgia city is specified a ational H eadquarters. It al o was pointed out that no funds are pre ently available for the purchase of rational H eadquarters property. ft er making it clear that there was no objection on the p art of the Council to the t. Louis project, ational Presi­ dent R oy D. Hickman uggested that the alumni group ubmit their proposa l to the Endowment Fund Commission This is the S t. Louis property formed St. Louis advocates that which has been suggested as Na­ amendment of the law by chapter for a decision on the expenditure of tional H eaclquarters for the Frater· vote would be necessary to retrW'Ve endowment fund money. nity. The S upreme Council in· headquarters from Atlanta. 4 gu.pAeme e~ cllolck td M~ In Founders' Room

Initiation Record Set; Executive Secretary Reports All Chapters in Solvent Condition

more alert as to expansion, that Na­ tional Officers visit chapters more oft en and to improve the alumni counselor For the first time in the h istory of official r ecord book as Lt. Col. and district pres iden t system. H e re­ the Fraternity, the S uprente Coun­ K . D. Pulcipher, Na tional Secre­ ported that the chapters are particul arly cil m et in 31 West Range, Uni­ tary; L. Brook s Ragen , National proud of THE SHI ELD AND D tAMOND and versity of J'irginia, where the Treasurer, and Maj. Sanford R. said most chapters desire more informa­ Fraternity was f ounded 7 5 years S mith, National Jl ice President, ago. President Hickman signs the standing, look s on. tion abou t the Fraternity's operations.

+ THE largest number of Initiations on record, a more solvent o::ond ition on the part of the chapters and a better and closer working ar­ n mgement between the individual chap­ tP. rs and the national o EEi ce fea tured I'P.ports of Executive Secretary Freeman H. Hart and Traveli ng Secretary Charles' L. Freeman at the Supreme Council .,... ~e tin g in Richmond. Secretary H art r e p or t e d I ,200 initiated during the yea r and that a check as of April 15 showed an average of 18 men in each chapter with a com­ paratively few expected to return this fall. R eports of accounts payable and re­ ceivable show most chapters so lve nt. Secretary Freeman said finances were stressed at each chapter visit. Upon Secretary H art's recommendation, the Council adopted a motion that house and chapter accounting reports be simpli fi ed. The national offi ce will work out a plan for as nearl y a unifo rm system as possible. Executive Secretary Freeman H . McAllister, a golden chapter m em ­ Freeman sa id he had vi ited 51 chap­ Hart, standing, explains his an­ ber who recalled for the Council ters, some of them mor.e than one time. nual report to Maj. Roy D. Hick ­ som e of the Fraternity's problem s man, National Presiclen t, as the in W orld W ar I. At right is Na­ H art has visited 39. S uprem e Council m eets in Rich­ tional Alumni Secretary LeRoy Freeman urged the Council to be mond, Jla. At left i• Dr. /. Gray Hodges, newest council me mber. JOHN SHAW FOSTER, JUNIOR FOUNDER, DIES . Goss, who survive . O ther survivo rs in­ children. cl ude three daughters, Mrs. W . L. Funeral services were conducted a t H arsh, of Birmingham; Mrs. George Columbia Seminary Chapel by Dr. R. 0 . Speer and •Irs. Stark Sulliva n, bo th of Flinn. e; Dr. ]. M. Richards and Dr. Ander on, S. C.; a son, J ohn S. Foster, William Robinson. Burial was in Jr., W inston- alem, and eight grand- V\ inston-Sa lem.

" Dr. FosteT has not only been an inspimtion to the g1·eat host of DR. JOHN SHAW FOSTER people in hi pastorales an d the students in his classrooms, but likewise to the thousan ds of Pi Kappa Alphas who know his se rvice to the Fmter­ + DR. JOI-tN SHAW Fo TER, nity and k now that his Life has been an embodiment of the highest ideals e. junior founder of the Fraternity and the Pi Kappa A lpha ch erishes. Those of us who knew him loved him profe sor emeritu of homileti c and with an abiding Love, and h is m emm·y will always be warm in our practi ca l theology at Columbia The­ hear/s."-EXECUTIV E SEC RETARY FREEMA N H. HART. ologica l Seminary, Deca tur, Ga., died "Dr. Foster was mu.ch m ore than a minister of the gosfJel. He was a 1ay 26 at hi home in Decatur after a radiant Christian fJTesence. Truly, he was a gentleman with the accent protraCLed illness. lying heavily upon the term gentle. His was not the ostentatious manner. Born 1o v. 17, 1870, in Mobile, Ala., There was in h is faith and philosophy the great depth of still waten. a so n of vVill iam Story and Margaret Conservative in his appmach to religious and social problems, he n ever­ Shaw Foster, he wa educa ted a t Barton theless possessed bmarl vision and the gentle sfJi1·it of tolemnce which Academy, Mobile; Southwestern Presby­ enabled him to Labor in hamw nious unity and coopemtion with other terian U ni ve rsity. then a t Clarksville, individuals and groups in the advancem ent of hu man welfare. His broad T enn., and H ampden-Sydney Coll ege, knowledge and eagen uss to se111e impelled him to a new ca1·eer of teach­ Vi rginia. ing after he had completed h is Long semice as a minister."-SA NTFORD l\ IARTI in an editorial in W inston-Salem jou-rnal. H e wa ordained to the mini try in 1894 and served pastorates at Se natobia, " Many friends of the Lat e Dr. john S. Fost er, who semed First Miss.; Franklin, T enn.; Petersburg, Va.; Church fa ithfully for 15 years, are interested in establishing a memorial Birmingham; Anderson, S. C., and at fund in his memo1·y. A committee from the B ench of Elders and the Winston-Salem, 1• C. In June, 1936, Board of Deacons will advise with john Foste1·, ]1'., to select a suitable he accepted the teaching position at fonn of memoria l. This will be some cause which was close to Dr. Foster's Columbia. heart." - Bu lletin of Fi-rst P1·esbyterian Church, Winston-Salem. During his yea rs of service with the Pr.esbyterian Church he was a member of the board of educa ti on at Petersburg. trustee of South wes tern, trustee of Barium prings Orphanage, member of the executive committee of home mis­ sions, member of the General Assem­ bly's work committee, chairman of the General Assembly's systemati c benefi ­ cence committee moderator of the Sy nod of North Caroli na and chairman of the home mission committee of the synod. As a junior founder, he was a leader of the Fraternity in one of its most critica l period . He played a prominent role in the H ampden-Sydney Conve n­ tion of 1889 along with the late Dr. Theron I-I . Rice, Dr. H oward Bell Ar­ buckl e, Sr., Robert . Smythe, and the McAll i ter brothers. H e was 1ati onal Chaplain from 1901 to 1903 and always howed a keen in­ teres t in the Fraternity. H e accepted an invitati on to peak at the Atlanta Junior Founder John S haw Foster, Executive Secretary Hart, Grigsby Founders' Day d inner Ia t March, but right, received his Golden Chapter Wotton, A and AM, and Honorary illne s prevented him from attending. certificat e in 1939 at Atlanta National President Robert Adger Founders' Day observance. Others Smythe, who received a 50-year H e was married in 1894 to Ii s Bessie in the picture are, I rom left: certificate at the 1ame time, 6 Alpha Entertains Js President John Lloyd Newcomb Received Distinguished Service Jward from Chicago Alumni Chapter

Dr. l vey F. Lewis, Z.Y, dean of the B elow at le ft is Lt. Col. K. D. University of Jlirginia, ubove, Pulciplter, Natiorwl Secretary, and examines the distinguish ed serv­ Executive Secretory Freerrwn H. I ice trophy presented to Presiclent Hart discussing n.ationcll office af­ John Lloyd Newcomb, r and A, of fairs as one of the m e mbers of the the University of Virginia, at active chapter at the Uni·versity of - ( Alpha clwpter house A pril 2. Dick Jli rginia listens. Edwarcls, fJr esident of District 4a ---- looks on. Several m embers of the active chapter gather around to h ear Wil­ At left is Dr. John E. Pomfret, BIT, son Lawren ce S mith, A, a rnernber helps himself at the buffet clirwer of the Golden Chapter, tell a " tall which followed the cerenwnies. one" of a half-century ago.

7 + JAPA NESE broadcasts indi­ "First, what are my weaknesses? "2. Search out current, past and cating that Doolittle fli ers which were " I. Lack of th oro u gh~ n ess and appli- future topics on aviation. forced down in J apan after the raid on ca tion. "3. Work hard on each day's lessons Tokio h ad been executed brought the "2. Lack of curiosity. -shoot for an 'A.' war a li ttle nearer Pi Kappa Alpha as "3. Softness in driving myse lf. one of the men previously reported a "1. Stay close to God-do His will "4. Lack of con tant diligence. priso ner of the J aps was Lt. William G. and commandments. H e is my fri end Farrow, Xi pledge. "5. Lack of se riousness of purpose­ and protector. Believe in Him-trust in sober thought. J-li s ways-not to my own confused mis­ President R oosevelt's sta tement, upon "6. Sca tter-brained dashing here and understanding of the universe. being informed of the hideous laughter there and not getting anything done­ of our aviators by J apanese wa r lords "5. Do not waste energy or time in spuf-()f:tlle-momen t stuff. in violation of all civi li zed military fruitless pursuits-learn to act from "7. Letting situations co nfuse the agreements, follow : hones t -fundamental motives-simplicity truth in my mind. in life leads to fullest li ving. Order my " It is with a feeling of deepe t horror "8. Lack of self confidence. li fe-in order there is achievement-in which I know wi ll be hared by all "9. Letting people influence my deci­ aimlessness there is r.etrogression. civilized peoples, that I have to an­ sions too much. I must weigh my deci­ "6. Fear nothing-be it insa nity. sick­ nounce t11e barbarous execution by the sions, then act. ness, failure-alwa ys be upright-look the J apanese government of some of the world in the eye . . members of the armed forces who fell " 10. Too much fri vo lity-not enough into J apanese hands as an incident of se rious thought. "7. Keep my mind always clean-al­ warfare. " II . Lack of clear cut, decisive think­ low no evil thoughts to des troy me. My ing. mind is my very own, to think and use "This recourse by our enemy to fri ght­ just as I do my arm. It was given to me "Second, what must I do to develop fulness is barbarous. The effort of the by the Creator to use as I see fit, but to myself? Japanese war lords thus to intimidate think wrong is to do wrong. us will utterly fail. It will make the " I. Stay in glowing health-take a "8 . . Concentrate! Choose the task to America n people more determined than good, fast one-hour workout each day. be done, and do it to the best of my energy and ability. "9. Fear not for the futur.e-build on each day as though the future for me JAPS EXECUTE is a certainty. If I die tomorrow, that is too bad, but I will have done today's work! "10. N ever be discouraged over any­ DO_OLifiLE MEN thing! Turn fai lure in to success.'' ever to blor out the shameless militarism of J apan." The occasion also recalled " My Future," a creed written by Lieutenant Farrow about the time he took up avia­ tion at the University of South Carolina. "My Future" appeared in David Law­ rence's column in the Chicago j ournal of Commerce Oct. 23, 1942, and later was incorporated in a Historical Series of tl1e Northwes tern National Life In­ surance Company. "My Future" follows: "The time has come to decide what rules I am going to set m yself for daily conduct. My aim is decided-! am going into some branch of aviation. I have only tO apply mys.elf daily toward this end to achieve it. "First, I must enumerate my weak­ nesses and seek to eli minate them. Then I must seek to develop the qualities I need for this type of work. It's going to he hard, but it's the only way. Work with a purpose is the only practical mea n of achi eving an end.

8 By ENSIGN NORMAN L. SMITH Alpha-Zeta • LT. THOMAS w. F URLO W, USMCR, is, I feel, the brother of whom we can be proudest. Perhaps I am prejudiced because h e happens to be my best fri end, but his exploits merit the widest publicity. T om pledged TIKA the night he ar­ ri ved in Fayetteville as a fre hman, thereby demonstrating that both he and the chapter knew a damn good thing when they saw it. vVhile at the un i­ versity Tom became a member of Theta T au, Scabbard and Blade, and the local section of A.I.E.E. After three years at Arkansa he re­ ceived an appointmen t to the U. S. Mili­ tary Academy at w ·est Point. H owever. his ideas regarding the English language proved to be at variance with those com­ monly accepted b y the faculty, and he was "found out" in J anuary, 194 1. AZ, record of Capt. Eddie Riek en­ T om returned to his home in Ogden, 1st Lt. Thomas W. Furlow, is shotvn fourth from left ns a bueker in World War 1. Front le ft, Ark., but not for long. In June, 1941, m e mber of the Marine Corps m e mbers of the unit are Lt. Frank he entered training as an aviation cadet flight unit of Capt. Joseph J. Foss, H. Presley, Lt. Oscar M. Bate, Jr., in the U. S. laval R eserve at New who shot clown 26 Jnp planes in Foss, Furlow, Cupt. Gregory K. Orlea ns. After preliminary fli ght in­ Guadalcanal fighting to tie the Loesch , and Lt. R. A. Haberman.. struction at ew Orleans he was se nt to Pensacola and thence to Corpu Christi, T ex. Upon receiving his wings and his vhich de­ He aiel: "Our experience with con­ ilie Georgia State Coll ege for· Women. mands the competent art of peciall y tinuou caudal analge ia h as been high­ They have a son, Dick on J ames Bing­ trained a nestheti t or urgeon and the ly sa ti factory. It i a I 00 per cent ef- son, who wa one year old i\Iay 28. 10 NatNf dJ.~ C~ SINKINGOF WASP + LT. (J. c.) RosE.RT DAN third explosion rocked the ship and P uLLEN, rH, navy fli er on the Wasp, started more fires. The ha ngar deck who survived the sinking of that car­ was an inferno. rier, is now stationed at Alameda, Calif. "All but 14 of our planes were on I n a description of the sinking, Lieu­ the landing deck when the explosion tenant Pullen said he and a fellow­ came. They were thrown into the air officer h ad just by the co ncussion and damaged. Some concluded a chess slid into the ocean as the carrier was game and had gone li sting. We pu hed others into the sea on deck for a sun in an attempt to fi ght the flames. bath when he heard "Soon the fire reached the ammun i­ someone yell "Tor­ tion rooms and when the I ,000-pound pedo!" bombs exploded, lights and power "I looked and failed . Then came the order to abandon saw two of them, ship. side by side, speed­ "The time of abandoning hip was ing tow a rd our 3: 15, because tha t wa the time m y The three PT-boat skippers on the ship. Then I start­ watch stopped as I dropped 55 feet into cover of "Life" magazine for the ed running for dear the water. May 10 issue, are f rom le ft : Lt. "Aftef I was picked up by a de­ Robert Searles, 23, rP, of Leonia, life to the portside. N. J.; Lt. Leonard Nikoloric, 23, I knew the tor­ stroyer, a torpedo ba ely missed us. As of Engletvoocl, N. ] ., and Lt. Robert pedoes couldn't we left the cene, we fired several tor­ S. Taylor, 24, of New York City. Dan P ullen miss because they pedoes into the Wasp in an attempt to were headed for our middle. sink h er. Late that night, after we had "When the first one hit, it was the crossed the horizon, we could still see loudest explosion you can imagine. the ship burning." P-T Skipper Home Everyone on deck was thrown into the Lieutenant Pullen arrived in Cali­ air at least five feet as the torpedo fornia with onl y one tattered uniform­ crashed through the ship. the one on his back. From there he From Solomons "The concussion shot gasoline from went to his home in Chattanooga for our plane fuel tanks all over the deck a visit with hi parents, Mr. and Mrs. + HoME on leave after four and as the second hit it started blazing. G. C. Pullen. A brother, Gordon Pullen, months in the Solomons area, Lt. Rob­ There was a scurry for life jackets. A is in the avy a t Pearl Harbor. ert Searles, rP, told for Life magazine the amazing wry of PT Squadron X, the first American torpedo boat squad­ ron to h ave actual combat duty. Tllis Flier Missing In North Africa rl uty was not guerrilla-type actions, sneaking by night on anchored ship­ ping, but real fights with warships. from the War Department. Formed in Panama, the squadron Captain Fitton, a reserve officer, was went to the Solomon in two sections, called to service in October, 1941, being four boats to a section, and arrived at first stationed at Camp Claiborne, La. Tulagi Oct. 12. The night after they H e was transferred to Pensacola, Fla., arrived, the first attack was made­ the day war was declared, and went over­ against a J ap force estimated at three seas with the first co ntingent J an. 26, cruisers, one battleship and eight de­ 1942. He took combat training in orth stroyers. The quadron got 22 hits, Ireland and was sent to North Africa in sa nk six J ap des troye rs, one cruiser and January, 1943. H e was promoted to one p atrol ship in four months of ac­ captain five days before he was reported tion. The cruiser was sunk by Lieu­ missing. tenant Searl es and his brother, J ack Captain l;itton graduated from the Searles. Law Department, Univer ity of Arkan­ The torpedo boat quadron was on sas, in 194 1. H e was a member of the hand at the battle of Guadalcanal and Student Council. time after time di tinguished them­ During Captain Fiuon's high school selves in action. earle received the Silver tar from Admiral H al ey for CAPT. GARVIN FITTON career in Harriso n he was outstanding in athletics and received an award as "conspicuous service." • CAPT. GARVIN FITTON, AZ, the best all-round boy during hi se nior Shortly after his return, Lieutenant 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Fitton year. He married Marth a Ann H amil­ Searles was featured on a coast-to-coast of Harrison, Ark., was reported miss ing ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J ohn radio program during which he related in action si nce March 10, in a message Hamilton of Piggott, Sept. 22, 1941. many of his experi ences. 11 Admiral Minter, Veteran Navy lledical Officer, Dies pita!, Pearl H arbor, from 1936 to 1938, Navy Expeditionary Medal, which he and served as the Commanding Officer, won as a member of the landing force Helped Evacuate Refugees Naval Hospital, San Di.ego, from 1938 ashore in H aiti, December, 1920, to From Turkish Danger Zone to 1940. On Aug. 5, 1940, he was as­ June, 1923. signed duty as the Senior Medical Of­ The funeral services were conducted During First World Wa r fi cer of the U. S. Naval Academy, which a t Fort. Myer (Va.) Chapel, on May 13 assignment he held until Feb. 2, 1942. followed by burial in Arlington Na­ Admiral Minter held the Vi ctory tional Cemetery, with full military • REAR ADMIRAL JAMES Medal for World vVar Service and the honors. 1\IIoRGA N MI NTER, X, Medical Corps, U.S.N., died May 11 at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Mel. Former National Officer Reassigned Born Aug. 23, 1882, in Monroe County, Georgia, he was gradua ted from nouncecl recently in War Department University of the South in 1903 with a orders. degree of doctor of medicine. His Ia t Lieutenant Banta joined the armed assignment was sen ior medical officer forces as a priva te last August. After at the U. S. N aval Academy, An­ napolis, Mel. completing basic training at Atlantic City, N. J ., h e served as a radioman at Admiral Minter was first appointed Sioux Falls Field, S. D. H e was grad­ a n assistant surgeon in the Medical ua ted from the Air Forces Administra­ Corps of the Navy in 1906, was pro­ tion School, Miami Beach, Fla., in moted to the rank of li eutenant in March and was promoted to lieutenant, 1909; to lieutenant commander in 1916; Air Corps. to commander in 1921, and to captain In civilian life Lieutenant Banta was on June 2, 1927. On Sept. 26, 1941, a public r.elations counsel with the the President approv.ecl his selecti on J ohn Price Jones Corpora tion, New to the rank of rear admiral. York. H e is a former member of the During his naval service Admiral Min­ Bergen County (N. J.) R epublican Com­ ter served at the Naval Station, Guam, mittee. M. I.; with the Marines in Nicaragua; Former Na tio nal Publici ty Chairman, at the Naval Station, Canacao, P. I.; he was president of the N ew York and from 1920 until 1923 was Sanitary alumni group and was a member of the Engineer of the R epublic of H aiti. H e executive committee of the N ational had duty on a number of ships of the LT. WILLIAM C. BANTA, JR. Interfraternity Conference. Navy, including the U. S. S. Buffalo, At Cornell, Banta was SMC of Beta­ U. S. S. MonteTey, U. S. S. Wilmington, + AssiGNMENT of Lt. Wil­ Theta and managing editor of the Daily U. S. S. Cincinnati, U. S. S. Des Moines, liam C. Banta, Jr., Be, '30, to duty at Sun in his se nior year. He was elected and the U. S. S. Wisconsin. headquarters, Army Air Forces, Wash­ to Sphinx H ead and Phi Beta Kappa. During World W ar I he was sta­ ington, with additional duties in the Theodore C. Banta, Be, '22, is his tioned aboard the cruise r Des Moines Office of the Chief of Staff, was an- brother. in the Mediterranean, eva c u a t i n g refu gees from Turkey. This included deli vering I talians to Itali an ports, English to Engli sh ports, etc., and the North Carolina Editor On Foreign Duty crowded ship was a busy place for a doctor with everything from epidemics + ENSIGN JoHN B uL LA AsH­ to births happening. CRAFT, T, who reported for duty last Twice Admiral Minter served in the September, h as been to a foreign port Asiatics, both in the Philippines and twice and still is at sea. After joining China. H e was aboard the ship on the Navy R eserve in August, he trained which Su n Yat Sen went from H ong at N ewport, R . I.; Boston and Norfolk. Kong to Canton to start his revolutio n. The medical officer found the famed H e was graduated from North Caro­ Chinese to be an extremely interes ting lina in 1931 at 20 after specializing in person. business law and accounting. The fol­ H e also served at the following naval lowing year h e accepted a position in stations: aval Training Station, Great Washington with Congressman W alter Lakes, Ill.; U. S. Submarine Base, ew Lambeth. London, Conn.; aval Training Sta­ tion, Hampton R oads, Va., and the In 1936, when his father died, he re­ Naval H ospital, San Diego, Calif. turned to his home in Monroe, N. C., Admiral Minter was the Medical Of­ a nd succeeded his father as editor of ficer in Command of the Naval Hos- ENSIGN J OHN B. ASHCRAFT The Nfom·oe EnquiTeT. 12 e~-'llp rut "Softt jo~J., ,, Doughboy Gets Ser viue Cros s

+ THRO UG H an unusual yo u did all there "was to be done. ow chain of circumstances Capt. J oe L. that I have admitted my hame, I feel Payne, rA, became a doughboy on much better. Guadalcanal instead of ge tting an ad­ "The doughboy life is a rugged one. mini trative job and he's glad of it, My outfit has been in acti on aga in t the Huntsville, Ala., officer recently the J apanese, and the outcome was suc­ wrote Congre man John Sparkman, r A. ce ful. During the action I found that And Captain Payne has a distin­ I was just as good a doughboy as I guished service medal to show that would have been an administrati ve of­ h e's a good infantryman, although he ficer, even though I'm no 'Sgt. York.' won't admit that he is. "I have run into se veral IIKA's here. The citation reads that during the Buddy Teague who left Gamma-A lpha J an. 10-1 3 p eriod, he led his company in 1938 is here. One of the captains " repeatedly in attacks on the enemy to in my regiment went to Florida and is aid the battalion in obtain ing its ob­ a IIKA. Another IIKA, from Iowa, is a j ective. On Jan. ll, Captain Payne di s­ captain in the field artillery. played both initiative and aggressive­ " o doubt yo u have read several ness of leading an attack on a key articles about jungle fighting and the p osition along the enemy's main sup­ J aps, o I will not try to tell what li ttle ply line. The ultimate occupation of I know, for most of the articles jive this position was accomplished with a with our experi ences. I particularly minimum loss of life. would like to back up the statement "During this action the company was that man for man, the America n soldier subjected to intense fire by the enemy. is superior to the J ap." At one point, Captain Payne halted his Son of Mr. and Mrs. orris Payne, troops and advanced alone on recon­ CAPT. JOE L. PAYNE Captain Payne was pre ident and twice naisance under heavy fire to high was treasurer of Gamma-A lpha. H e was ground infested with enemy in order "I wrote yo u to request that yo u help acti ve in ODK, Druids (won Druids that he could lead his troops success­ me get in the administrati ve branch. I cup for outstanding fres hman), J asons, full y in an attack on the enemy posi­ told myself that I was more fitted for Quadrangle, Philomathi c Literary So­ tions. His company accounted for six administration than for infantry work. ciety, Phi Eta Sigma, and Phi Delta Phi. enemy heavy machine guns and dis­ ow I reali ze the reason that I wanted Afte1· completing his studies in the po ed of I 03 of the enemy during this administration was because I thought School of Commerce, he studied law action." th at it would be an easier life. I appre­ until called into the service. H e was In a letter to Congressman Spark­ ciate your not repl ying to my reques t assistant to the treasurer at the U n i­ m an, Payne sa id he had just read "an as this story say the President does, for ver ity of Alabama for three year . amu ing story" in R eader's Digest. It follows in part: "Occasionall y one of FDR's inti­ mates, the breath of the draft board Pilot Missing As Plane Burns Near Haiti hot on his neck, comes to the President and says he wants to enlist in whatever W . B. L MAN, JR., All, of servi ce the President suggests, counting + 14·30 Placentia Ave., Coral Gables, Fla., o n FDR to fix him up in a so ft spot. was reported mis ing near H aiti May 7 For any such the Pre ident has a stock while fl ying a tran port plane to South a nswer: "Great! I'm glad yo u feel that meri ca. His plane was last seen in way. '"'e need crews to man our sub­ flames. marines!" The letter co ntinues: Graduated from the Army Flying "Ordinarily such an amusing story School in 1933, he was in the reserve would bring only a chuckle from a for two years. I n 1935 he went with se rvi ce man, but to me it brought a Eastern Airlines on the ew York­ chuckle and a feeling of shame fo r I . Miami line and later was captain on am reminded of the day I receive d my the New York-Atlanta run. orders to acti ve duty in the infantry. Since last Augu t, he had been as­ "I had applied through the uni­ igned to the Military Transport Divi- \·e rsity for admission in the air corps, sion fl ying between Miami and atal, but due to the fact that the university Brazil. didn't se nd our applications in (which fact I did not know) I was rapidly being His wife, Mrs. Mary Scott Inman, ensnared by the doughboy branch. lives in Coral Gables. W. B. INMAN, JR. 13 + A DESCRIPTION of North and Pine Bluff, Ark., for his commission Alpha-Kappa reports Nelson Ganun, Africa and a meeting with ITKA's in as a bomber pilot. '42, is in the Army Air Forces in Florida; that part of the world has been receiv.ed "H ere I am with earphones on and D. L. Trisch, '41, engineer for the from Lt. T)l.omas K. McKamy, AI!., of cheating on radio sil ence by listening U. S. Geological Survey, has been com­ the Signal Corps. to a rebroadcast of yesterday's baseball missioned ensign with Sea Bees; Robert "I have been in orth Africa since game between Cincinnati and Brook­ Ridley, '40, is with the engineering sec­ the latter part of 1942, having landed lyn," wrote Ensign Alfred W . "Buster" ti on of the Air Forces; Carl W.eis, '43, on the Mediterranean side of the conti­ Minish, AA. is at Yale U niversity in the Air Force nent. I hav.e visited the towns of Oran officer candidate school, and Douglas and Algiers and was surprised at the "Where I am onl y God and the Fleet Chr ise nse n, '43, received his commission modern mode of living found there. Postmaster at San Francisco know. from the Engineer O .C.S. at Fort Bel­ T h e stores have very little merchandise "I can 't tell you of our movements voir, Va. (the Germans took most everything of and operations, but am well and healthy H arwell Davis, r A, '39, of the depart­ value) but they are quite up-to-date in and sorry to say that there are still ment of pathology, Northwestern Uni­ their methods and the buildings are big some J ap s where they shouldn't be. Or versity, writes that Bill Dozier, r A, '39, and pleasing to the eye. is there any place on .earth or in the is an ensign in the N avy with New York "I met Brother J. B. Falks, A/1 , '40, sky that they should be?" City as his home port and J ames Farn­ who is a first lieutenant. H e told roe ham, r N, '42, is an ensign in the N aval . that Maj. R obert M. McFarland is also Lt. (j. g.) W illiam Fitzhugh, 0, '41 , R eserve and is stati oned a t San Diego. here along with many other IIKA's. is second engineer aboard a destroyed Ensign Farnham was recently married. "Description of aeri al attacks from commanded by L t. Com. Charles L. 'Somewhere in Africa' was given by Melson, 0, '26. Lt. F~a nk P. Hudson, A I!. , is stationed Maj. W alter B. Smith, A;;:, in a letter in the base ordnance offi ce at Moses WTitten May 21. Lake, ·w ash. "Arrived safely but it is not safe Capt. Charles D. Watson, BO, has here. been transferred from Fort Sill to Fort "The days are hot and the nights are Bragg, N. C. , as a member Field Ar­ cold-only last night did I get off the tiller y Branch of the Glider Command. ground to sleep . W e have been sleeping Lt. William Scott Cromwell, AN, is out in the open, the fi rst night with recording man y experiences but ob­ only one blanket and it was hovering jecting to the intense heat in the Hima­ around 40 degrees. laya mountain area. "T he water is chlorinated and the Lt. Frederick A. H eskett, Afl, is wi th wine is putrid. The Germans looted all the Air Forces at R andolph Field, T ex. North Africa taking the best and prac­ W arrant Officer Samuel T . Payne, tically all the food, ca ttle, horses, wines Jr., IT, is a ttached to the Third Marine and liquors. T he job was done so systematically that little, if anything, of Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point, N. C . . value was left. K. E. Sessler, Jr., is an Air Corps Cadet at W offord College, Spartan­ "Past two nights (May 20 and 21) burg, S. C. was a beau tiful full moon, starry sky. LT. GEORGE E. JONES Suddenly .enemy planes zoomed over Beta-Zeta men entering the service in our camp, bombs dropped, anti-a ircraft recen t weeks include SMC Landon Paul R aymond Gordon Chase, r M, received started and th e general alarm so unded. Snell, and Pledge AI H arkins, to C q. mp his commission as second lieutenant T h en all hell broke loose. W e were ·W olters, Tex.; former SMC J ack M. a nd his silver wings of an Army Air being bombed and our camp was in Graham, Army E ngineers; J ack A. Isa­ Forces pilot March 25 at Napier Field, the bracketed area. It was a beau tiful minger, air corps cadet, now at Okla­ Dothan, Ala. Son of Mrs. Charles W . sight-the thousa nds of tracers and the homa City, and Pledge Milton Thomas, Chase, of Seabrook, N. H ., Chase en­ big shells exploding. The continuous in O.C.S. at Fort Belvoir, Va. tered the armed service in March, 1942, ra t-a-tat of the smaller caliber anti­ Promotion of Frank B. MacKnight, 22, a nd was accepted for fl ying training aircraft. Last night there was a re­ r e, so n of Mrs. L. M. MacKnight, Co­ three months later. occurrence just at twilight." lumbiana, Ala., to the grade of first Thomas C. Van lieutenant, was announced at the in­ Col. I. A. Luke, Br, commanding of­ H yning, B/1 , Chi­ fantry replacement training center a t fi c€r at J efferso n Proving Ground, In­ cago, has been in Camp W olters, T ex. diana, has been transferred to W ashing­ th e A r my A ir ton after a brief assignment a t R eel Lieutenant MacKnight is second in Corp s s in ce J a n­ River Ordnance Depot, T exas. command of Co. "C," 57th Trajning uary, 1942, and is Battalion, and h as been stationed here George E. J ones, BZ, 4303 Buena now statio n e d a t for 10 months. H e received his commis- Vista, Dallas, graduate of a bomber D rew Field, T am­ sion May 25, 1942. · traini ng school of the Army Air Forces, VanHyning pa, Fla., with the Dr. N. W . Arthur George, r1:, Pitts­ is now probably "laying 'em down" 485 th B om b a rd­ burgh, Pa., entered the U .S.N.R. .Dental overseas as h e was awaiting orders sev­ ment Squadron. Injured in J anuar y, Corps, reporting for action duty April eral weeks ago at a southwest air sta­ he was confined to a hospital from 23, 1943, at Solomons, Mel., an Am­ tion. H e trained .at Majors Field, T ex., which he has but recently been released. phibious Training Base. 14 Henderson Field Kept ~lear of Japs By Machine Gunner . + WHE the Army relieved the Marine Corps on Guadalcanal in December, 1942, Capt. Sidney D. Wat­ son, A, was commander of a machine gun company which had held the J aps back from H enderson Field since the Marines took the situation in hand in August. The four-month p eriod was the longest tour of duty on record for the Marines, as they customaril y are reli eved within a much shorter time. Captain W atson returned to the United States in fanuar y of this year and now i assigned as an instructor at the Sa n Diego (Cali f.) Marine Corps base. With his wife and child, he is li ving at 45 1 Marine St., La J olla, Cali f. Born July 8, 1915, at Flint Hill, R appahannock County, Virginia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Watson, he was graduated from Lane High School, Charlottsv ille. After a yea r at Virginia Mi litary Institute, he entered the Uni· versity of Virginia and was initiated into Alpha chapter in 1933. H e re­ ceived his law degree frqm the Uni­ versity in 194·0 and began practice m Luray, Va. In 1940 he received a cornrmsswn in the Marine Corps R eserve and was called to active duty in February, 194 1. H e was trained at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Parris Island, S. C., and New River, N. C. In June, 1942, he went to Samoa and from there to Guadalcanal.

Capt. R ocl Calhoun, Jr., All, center, went throug h the e ncounter with· is shown with two of h is flying out rneeting any en em y planes, re· officers about to take off on a turned with only two small flak bombing mission in the E uropean holes. The first " Eight Ball" was War Theater. In an attack on A nt· returned by Captain Calhoun to werp M ay 4, Capt. Clark Gable its base somewh ere in England was an observer in the Calhoun badly damaged, after the crew had plaue, "Eight Ball Secorul," w hich been ordered to bail out. Soldier, Sailor Students May Join Frats • SOLDI ER ST DE T ass igned following policy: to colleges may join fraLernitie if they " oldiers under the Army Specialized wi hand if they get an opportunity, the Training Program are not con idered as ' "'ar Department ha ruled. matriculated students in the colleges The Tavy Department has no objec­ which they attend, but it is assumed that tions to the college program enlistees they will enjoy the same social status joining established fraternities at the as that of the civilian students. Whether schools where they are assigned, if such or not a soldier joins a social fraternity activity does not interfere with their is a question to be decided by the indi· work, it wa announced. vidual and the local social fraternity CAPT. SIDNEY D. WATSON The War Department announced the chapter." 15 INSIDE LooKING OuT

What's the Army like---to a buck private~ Acitizen-soldier gives us the lowdown . . . MACON REED, JR.

+ UNTIL a few months ago, By PVT. MACON REED operate under fire the marvelous en­ I was a newspaperman in \1\Tashington. Iota gines of scientific battle. And I thought I knew all ther.e was to the war, but they live it as the grueling On an y day of minor annoya nces­ know about the war. The day of Pearl labor of Army-building and the com­ say the supper stew was burned or the Harbor, I was in the White House Press pelling sense of the Army's invincibility laundry late-a stranger present would R oom, when most of the early news crowds out of their minds the anxiety expect momentary mutiny in Company came. I covered the declarations of war, which must afflict all those who can only B. He would be startled, if not shocked, I watched political leaders, high Army read of defeats abroad and do nothing by the utter freedom of speech practiced and Navy officers come and go at the about them. in this Army. The favorite targets of White House and the Capitol. I have seen and felt the Army grow, barracks abuse, in order, are: the Army, On Feb. 4, I joined the new Army of meeting is secondary. Soldiers do not officers, the company cook, the British, the United States-as a private. It was go about mouthing their philosophy of the J aps, Hitler. then that I really began to learn some­ like a young bull in springtime. I have Yet if one knows the barracks psy­ thing about the war. seen stooping, skinny, coughing weak­ chology of reserving the most sulphurous In those black days of winter defeat, lings transformed into men, red-necked epithets for friends and civility for W ashington lay in a miasma of anxiety and tough, like my friend "Mangy" enemies, one can translate the abuse as and uncertainty. In contrast, I found Mangione, whose delight was to slip a meaning that the boys will di.e for the the Army a bracing tonic, as invigorating match under my shoe sole and light it. honor of the Army, follow their officers as cold night air. The sense of youth Five months ago he was a sickly shop anywhere, lend money to the cook, outdo and power in the Army, a feeling of cl erk. Just the other day he was themselves to vie with the Tommies in swift growth and certainty, was .electric. "shipped out," under secret orders, to the display of valor, tangle gladly with It was the most exhilarating thing in the snake his field telephone wires up to the Japs and hang Hitler with gusto. world to swing out across a drill field in heaven knows what battlefront. It is hard for one eight months in the the easy march step of the American The resolution that se nds men for­ Army to remember that there is intoler­ Army, feeling oneself part of a smooth­ ward under fire creates the songs and ance and snobbery in the world. When flowing, purposeful column of power. stories, but this Army is a school of you eat, sleep, shower, march, swear, One had then a true perception of the skills. The new Army will conquer more laugh, drink and dodge details just two irresistible force and purpose of Amer­ by virtue of the unromantic kind of feet to the left of J oe Doaks for a couple · ica's war drive. determination that drives men through of weeks, you cannot think of Joe as a As a three weeks' rookie, I yawned at the long and severe mental effort of Catholic, Protestant, J ew, German, some of the news which used to drive mastering the difficult technical side of Italian, Swede or anything else. Joe is us to distraction when I was working in radio, gunnery, motor maintenance and just Joe. the like. My friend Vin Franz, ex-bank Washington. In the Army the news With a few million fantastically messenger, cried out in dismay, "I didn't came to my barracks by radio as we diverse and incurably individualistic rolled out for 5:30 reveille. If there was join the Army to go to school!" He had men gath~r.ed together under one roof, an Allied setback anywhere, fri.end J ohn just been handed a heavy text on radio so to speak, respect for the wishes of Foreman, a grinning, devil-may-care engineering with the co'mmand to learn one's fellow man-which is to say Democ­ telephone-pole man from Virginia, it all, and quick. University graduates racy-is as sure as the victory of this would say: "Just another pl ace for us to sweated for months over that course. Army. Where I am, free speech and the take back." Then, preoccupied with You ca n imagine how brutal it was for equality and the dignity of man are no much more serious matters, he careened Franz, who never finished high school. mere fine words of an outworn era: through the barracks shouting, "What Yet Franz is ready for the troop trans­ they are big, hard, comforting, rock blankety-blank-blank stole my pillow port any day now, a highl y skilled tech­ mountains of fact. case?" It was inspection day and a lost nician in military communications. This pill ow case is serious. war will be won by a million unsung Soldiers don't go around mouthing any philosophy of "freedom" or "democ­ We of the ranks were too busy even Franzes with the guts and brains to racy." I'm sure I never h eard either in the desperate days of last winter to This article by Macon R eed, Jr., I, for­ word issue from a man in uniform. Yet worry. We were too conscious of the mer Washington, D . C., n ewspaperman, we live them and demonstrate them growing might of the thing we were was w1·itten for "This W eek" and ap­ dail y; we are preparing to fight for creating. peared in the Nov. 29 issue. Since that time he has been promoted to corporal them and win for them. Regardless of "setbacks," the loss of (technician) and is now in North Africa. If any man has lost his faith, let him "strategic points" and "vital lines," we Born Dec. 24, 1910, in Columbia, come and learn anew in the barracks of know that the enemy wi ll be defeated S. C., he was gmduated magna cum our United States Army. when he meets head-on the Army of the laude in 1932 from Hampden-Sydney. H e married Miss Jean Talbot, A;:;6, United States. The point or line of Copyright 1942 by the United Newspapers University of Wisconsin. Magazine Corporafio- 16 Aviation Cadet Robert K. Malmsten , rB, '25, a former Maj. Robert H. Van Volkenburgh , r, a 27-year-old student at E 'cole Libre d es S ciences Politiques, in West Pointer, is executive of the battery officers' Paris, France, pauses to think of his former frie nds, course at Fort Sill, Okla. In the regular army since scattered through occupied Europe. H e is taking his 1937 , and with service at many camps, his most vivid basic flying training at the Enid (Okla.) Army m e m o ry was the transfer last July /rom Iceland to Flying School. California.

Training Plane ~rash Fatal to Instructor

• LT. M E RRILL C. HINKSON, former student at the Universi ty of Ar­ AZ, of the Army Air Forces Basic Flying kansas. His wife, Mrs. Edna Hinkso n, School at Bainbridge, Ga., was killed formerly resided in Macon, Ga. The August 14 when h is plane crashed near cau se of the crash was not determin ed. the field during a routine training Lieutenant Hinkso n entered U. of A. fl ight. in September, 1937, and we nt into the Lieu tenan t Hinkso n, a fl ying instruc­ Fraternity in the spring of 1938. In the tor, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. summer, he secured several new pledges. H inkson of Little R ock, Ark., and a \'\l hile in the u niversity he studied Civil Engineering but he worked during the summer and one-half each of two years wi th U. S. Engineers returning to school on the econd se mesters of both years. H e joined the Air Corps on his birth­ day Sept. 25, 1941, and wa graduated from Luke Field, Ariz., April 24, 1942. H e wa transferred immediately to Macon, Ga., as instructor. H e was mar­ ried August 4 and his traged y happened August 14. Pi Kappa Alphas were honorary pall­ bearers and the Commanding Officer Arthur H. Loewen , rx, has been se nt th e body here for burial in R ose­ pro m o ted to the rank of captain at Camp Wolters, T ex., wh ere h e lawn Memorial Park. is connected with the Infantry Re­ This is the me sage from Command­ place m e nt Training Center. H e ing Officer, Col. R . E. L. Choate: f orrnerly was senior ins truc t o r "W e, who worked with Merrill appre­ in the chauffeur school. H e rvas ciate to an u nlimited degree that he gradu at ~Ml fro m Oklahoma A . and died in line of duty, in the service of M. with a B.S . degree in 1936 arul his country. It i hoped that this fact, received h is commission thro ugh the ROTC. A native of W ato nga, which gives us co urage and the will to Okla., h e liv es at Mineral Wells, carry on, wi ll at the sa me time bring T ex., with his wife, the former LT. MERRILL C. HINKSON comfort to you." Virginia Wood, and their daughter. 17 Realism Needed :b~ No eJ/~ to. At Peace·Table • NEED OF REALISI\

• CAPT. ]. w. SPECK, All, is a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Speck, of Frenchman's Bayou, Ark., have been informed by the W ar Department. Last previous word from the officer h ad been in March, 1942, when it wa reported he had e caped from Cor­ r egidor to the Island of Cebu. The 26-year-old anti-aircraft artill ery officer wa graduated from the electrica l engineering school at Georgia Tech and had taken p art in ROTC activities. H e wa call ed into the service and commiss ioned in the spring of 194 1. He went to the Philippines three months before the war started .

• LT. ROBERT c. SJLHAVY, AK, is a prisoner of the J apanese and interned in the Philippine Islands, his MYRON MILLER JOHNNIE WERREN mother, Mrs. Charles Si lhavy, has been informed by the W ar Department. • MYRO "Ml K" M ILLER, ner-up in the 127-pound cl ass 111 the B;:;, a national champion at 165 pounds, National Coll egiate thl etic ssociation Previou ly he was reported miss ing is the only freshman ever to win a let­ tournament this year. His record for after the fall of Corregidor. ter at the U niver ity of Wi consin and the yea r was four wins and two losses, Silhavy graduated from M. S. M. in one of two freshmen national cham­ one of the win being a T.I<..O. Born May, 194 1. He was se nt to Fort Belvo ir pions. A hard puncher, Mick had two at Blue Mounds, Wis., he is due for where he wa given additional training knockouts to his credit this year. He active duty thi ummer with the 1avy. and hi s commi ss ion in the R eserves. He also was one of the most promisi ng The \1\Tiscon in State Legi lature backs on the freshman football team. was then se nt to th~ Philippines in p as eel a joint resolu tion complimenting August, 1941. A native of R acine, he rece ntly left the university boxing tea m [or its record the university and is in a " tank-bu ter" H e was right on the front row when o£ 20 consecutive victories, the most im­ unit at Camp H ood, Tex. the fireworks started. Las t yea r he di s­ pressive performance of its kind in the tinguished himself by runn i ~g 100 ya rds Sl\IC J ohnnie vVerren, B;:;, was run- history of coll egiate boxing. 19 FIVE NEW DISTRICT PRESIDENTS NAMED ceeded W. W. Smith as president of + CALLS to the armed serv­ D istrict I o. ices have brought about several changes .Born May 7, 1912, at St. Louis, he at­ in .the lineup of district presidents. tended Central College, Fayette, Mo., One district has been divided-No. 3 and Washington University. He mar­ -and five new faces are among the r ied Miss .Betsy Stocker, rB, Washing­ ''official family" of the Fraternity. ton University, and they have two sons, In District 3, President R alph F. ·Robert, Jr., 3, and Richard Stocker, Yeager reported to the Army Air Force I Y2· They live at 7455 Florissant, Road, base at St. Petersburg, Fla., and Philip Normandy, Mo. R. H eil, A;:;, 528 Chamber of Com­ "Jn my opinion the bulk of the work merce .Bldg., Cincinnati, assumed the in District 10 will continue to be done presidency of the southern part of the by the alumnus counselors of the three divided district, known as 3a. Chapters chapters: Fred Conrath at .Beta-Lambda, at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio Joe Sheehan and Percy .Ballard at University and the one formerly a t Alpha-Nu, and newly-appointed B~n Wittenberg College made up the d is­ Cornwell at Alpha-Kappa," Close sa1d trict. in accepting the assignment. Chapters at Ohio State, Bowling Charles E. Mitton, rr, an insurance Green State and W estern Reserve were executive of Denver and a former dis­ placed in District 3b and Donald A. trict president, has succeeded Rex Reese Paine, BE, 153 11 Clifton .Blvd., Lake­ as pres ident of 13b. wood, 0., head of the Foreign Language Department of Lakewood High School, He is vice president of Finance Indus­ trial Bank and his insurance business •was named pres i­ dent. PHILIP R. HElL ( Heil, born July ber of the public speaking club for two 118, 1911, in Cin­ years. cinnati, is an insur­ Ile was steward of the local and was ance broker a nd pres ident when the group received the ' Jives at 414 West­ Pi Kappa Alpha charter. In 194 1 he ern Ave., Terrace was president of the Cleveland alumni Park, 0. After fin- club. His grandfather, .B. W. Slagle, ishing at Wood- was one of the founders of Phi Gamma !ward High in Cin- Delta. . e inn at i, he was l An authority on Latin-American rela­ graduated in 1934 Mitton r, from the Universi- tions, he is a member of Sigma Delta Pi, honorary Spanish society, National ty of Cincinnati with a .B.S. degree in Education Association, American Asso­ education. President o( his senior class, ciation of Spanish T eachers, and the he was voted the most valuable player Maso nic Order. on the football team in 1933 and was H e is the father of two boys, Allen, light heavyweight boxing champion at 16, and Geoffrey, 9, "who are certainly the university for three years. H e was two futur.e IIKA's." vice president of Alpha-Xi in 1933 and Robert M. Close, BA, St.' Louis busi­ THOMAS R. BENEDUM alumni counselor in 1942 and 1943. n ess man, president of the alumni club For 13 years he has managed the a t 1625 Broadway is the Finance Insur­ and secretary-treasurer . of the .Beta­ Cincinnati Rotary Club camp for handi­ ance Agency. Lambda House Corporation, has sue- capped children and is a member of Fond of hunting, fishing and hand­ the council of the Village of T errace ball, he is married and lives at 730 E. Park. H e has two daughters, Maril yn Almeda, Denver. Ayres, 3, and Susan Jane, I. Thomas R. Benedum, BO, attorney, H e is a member of ODK, Sigma has succeeded H erbert Scott as presi­ Sigma, Cincinnatus Club, and Cincin­ dent of District 14a. Scott was commis­ nati Life Underwriters. sioned a lieutenant in the Navy and Paine, born June 15, 1892, at Goshen, was assigned to duty at New Orleans. Ind., was graduated at W es t High, Born Nov. 14, 1905, in Spencerville, Cleveland, and received his .B.A. in 0 ., Benedum was graduated from high 191 5 from Adelbert College and his school at Morris, Okla., and received M.A. in 1916 from the graduate school his LL.B. from the University of Okla­ of W estern R eserve University. H e was homa in 1928. He is a member of the graduated cum laude and received the firm Williams and Benedum, City Na­ Pres ident's prize in German. tional Bank Bldg., Norman. In 1924-25 he was ThC of Beta­ At Western R eserve he won freshman numerals in football and track, was on Omicron and in 1926-30 was a member of the board of directors of Pi Kappa the so ph hop committee, in dramatic club p lays for three years, and a mem- Alpha Corporation of Oklahoma. DONALD A. PAINE CONm""UED ON NEXT PAGE 20 .f~R~' n SooNE~R ''(!)~'' e MAGAZINE

I Lt. (j. g.) John H. Bierce, BT, '33, of 1014 Burton, Grand Rapids, Capt. T ecl B eaird, BO, alumni sec­ Mich., is at Naval Training School, retary of the University of Okla­ Harvard University . After receiv· homa, who went into the service a ing his A.B. d egree, he married year ago, was the subject for this Miss Grace T. Applebach, of Grand cover of "Soo n e r Magazine." Rapids, and later rvas employed by Beaird is " riding the range" in the Michigan Consolidated Gas the Army Air Forces. Company. H e is the father of trvo children, Bruce Edward and Martha Lee.

LYNN RJGGS

• ONE OF TH E out tanding 1ew York stage productions of this season is "Oklahoma!" the Theatre Guild 's musica l play based on " Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs, BO. Riggs i a technical se rgeant writing script for the production of movies in the Si gnal Corps phase of the Army Air Forces. The production fo ll ows the general des ign of "Green Grow the Lilacs" pro­ duced in 193 1 al o by the Theatre 2d Lt. Marvin F. Oaks, Jr., BO, has Guild. For "Oklahoma!" showing at just received his silver wings at the the St. J ames Thea ter, Richard Rogers Army Air Forces School at Lub· 2d Lt. James W. Moyer, All, son wrote the music and Osca r H ammer­ bock, T ex. After primary training of Mr. and Mrs. Harley D. Moyer, stein 11 the lyrics. at S partan School, Tulasa, Okla., of Chattanooga, T e nn., has just ILe went to W aco, T ex., for his received his wings ctt Lubbock Wolcott Gibbs, writing in T he N ew basic course. H e is the son of Mr. Army Flying S clwol, Lubbock , Yorker magazine, sa id "Oklahoma!" is and Mrs. Marvin F. Oaks, 305 N. Tex., after preliminary training at "a good deal more than the customary Bryan, Okmulgee, Okla. Hick s and Goodfellow fields, T ex. musical rendering of a successful play, --II KA-- which is a matter of employing two or Killed in Plane Crash --IIK A-- three formidable stars, two or three • LT. GL E ROBERT LEEC H, C oNTD\'""UED FROM PnECEDING P AGE hundred appetizing legs, a good dose of A member of the county, state and BP, '28, fo rmer reporter fo r the R ocky Pullman-car humor, and a plot so American bar associations, he was chair­ Denv.er, was killed simpli fi ed or distorted that the original Mountain N ews, man of the committee of State Bar on March 27 when two Army planes col­ author could easily sit through it with­ " County Bar Organization and Legal lided near Gordon Dam, Flagstaff, Ari z. out being aware that he was p resent at Institutes." H e is past president of the his own handiwo rk. H e joined the Air Force last Septem­ Rotary Club and active in Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scout work. "After reading Rigg's drama (a very ber as a trainee instructor and was sta­ He is married and the father of fine and original one, by the way) I ti oned at Fort Sumner, . M. Mrs. Benjamin Thomas, 6. He lives at 710 can't see that the version at St. James L eech, the former Mary Bickford Clark, Classen, orman. has omitted anything of consequence." lives in Pueblo. 21 IIKA Bonds THRILL VENEZUELAN practical experience. In four years of college life. There is one thing that I high school, 27 subjects are required to sincerely hope to do if I have the means graduate. to do it. When I go back home and that is to establish a IIK.A chapter in "This, of course, was too much to ex­ Venezuela and make IIKA a real inter­ pect of a high school boy whose mind national fraternity. was not ye t prepared to absorb high principles of philosophy, physics, chem­ "W e now come to the social point. istry and other such subjects. When the This is something which I really find student was graduated, he either" knew difficult to discuss since I don't consider a lot or didn't know anything- most myself qualified to do it. However, I often the latter. shall tell you some of the different points in our social liv.es. "This system has been modified re­ ce ntly and more modern and scientific "Chaperones, for instance, are still in LOUIS BUENO methods are being used. use in my country. This is a custom which I now find almost silly, since I "College life is radicall y different here • A YEAR AND A HALF at a and in Venezuela. Speaking of extra­ think that girls should learn how to take university in the United States, coupled curricular activities for instance, frater­ care of themselves. with membership in a college fraternity, nity life , which was completely unknown "I should like to tell you a little bit has made such an impression on Louis to me when I first came here and which about myself and my exp eriences in Bueno, rT, that he wants to carry not I have found so important in the de­ IIKA. I arrived here in Tulsa a year only the democrati c customs of the uni­ velopment of the character of indi- and a half ago at about 5 o'clock in the ver ity but also the college fraternity morning and I sat in the station for two ideas back to his native Venezuela. hours without knowing what to do or Such were the ideas expressed by whom to call. I didn't know a single Bueno wh en he spoke at Founder' Day person in this town, so, I took a cab observance at Tulsa. and told the driver to take me to the "I have been asked to tell yo u about University of Tulsa. Well, sir, there my experiences here in the Un ited States I was contemplating the buildings of and to tell you how and why I became the university, ready to start a new life, a IIKA. I have also been asked to show a li[e completely unknown to me, but yo u some of the differences-social, po· I was ready. litical, and scholastic-which exist be­ "I was starting a course in engineering twee n my country, Venezu ela, and the that summer and I was asked if I was U.S. A. COAST OF VENEZUELA planning on joining a fraternity. I told "I fe el quite honored to be here and them I didn't know what that was. I viduals is not known university students to be able to address myself to yo u, but was rather skeptic about the whole let me tell yo u that I was asked to say there, hav.e always been interested in thing since I was completely ·ignorant this to night a nd therefore everything politics and other things which do not to what fraternities were. That same that I say here wi ll be stri ctly what concern student. They are excessively summer I had the privilege of getting comes from my heart, since I have not serious and very seldom they think of acquainted with some fellows whom to­ prepared anything. getting together and having school day I call brothers. I found out that shows, dance and fun . They are de­ "I shall first compare our fonn of these fellows were like me. They liked prived of that fraternal feeling which government with yours. I am proud to the same things I liked, they liked to do bipds together individuals with the tell yo u that there are not many differ­ sa me ideas about life, that i fellows who ences betw.een our governments. They have a lot of things in common. were founded on the same principles of liberty, equ ality a nd fraternity. Our "There is one thing which co ntributes liberator, Simon Boli va r, was a great to this 'seriousness factor' of the Vene­ admirer of George W ashington, yo ur zu elan college student a nd that is the liberator. Their great minds ran along partial lack of women in our unive rsities. parallel lines; therefore the heritage A few year ago, it was not con idered that they left us must be very similar. nice or proper for a girl to go to chool " ow school and college life in Vene­ and as ociate publicly with men ; there­ wela and the U ni ted States differ quite fore, very seldom yo u could see a girl a bit. In Venezuela, up to about three going to coll ege. y.ears ago, we were taught by a European "The ones that did was at their own sy tern of educati on which, in my con­ risk. Of course, this problem is being cept, is adverse to the tudent. By this greatly overcome now and every year system the student was taught too many you see more and more girls graduating things-too much theory and too little from high school and tepping into the CARACAS MUSEUM OF ART 22 the same things I liked to do. So we became good friends. They started me, ort of speaking, in the American way of living. They taught me many things I didn't know, they got me acquai nted, introduced me to a lot of girl , got jobs for me and o forth. "After being acquainted I wasn't o skeptical about the idea, so in the fall , when the regular semester tarted I de­ cided to take a chance and join the fraternity. That was the Iuckie t chance I have ev.er taken. I have made so many good friends\ I'll never be able to repay them their kindness to me. All these I owe to IIKA because had it not been for whom today are my brothers I would still be trying to know people and trying to make friends. "T~ conclude, there is one thing that I would like to mention from the bottom of my heart. In this short time that I have been here I hav.e been very happy, proud and honored to have lived under the privileges that the flag of the JEFFERSON MEMORIAL AT WASHINGTON U. S. A. has offered to me." --TIKA-- JEFFERSO N' S ANN IVERSARY On Liberty Ship SPECIAL INTEREST TO IIKA's + T HE Thomas J efferso n so n 's mental horizon, he visualized a Memorial, on Tidal Bas in, W ashington, broad system of public education which D. C., was dedica ted April 13, the 200 th wou ld give the new republic an en­ anniversary of the birth of the third li ghtened citize nry. Pre ident of the United States, the "The object of his early bill for author of the Declarati on of Independ­ establishing a general system of educa­ ence, the statute of Virginia for R e­ tion was to qualify the people to under­ ligious Freedom, and the father of the stand their rights, to maintain them and Univer ity of Virginia. Where Pi Kappa to exercise their part in se lf-governme nt Alpha wa founded 75 years ago. intelligently. President R oosevelt, in dedicating the liberal university, at the apex of "shrine to freedom," drew historic the whole sys tem, was an integral part panllels between J efferson' time and of the scheme. As legislator, surveyor, now, agreeing with the third President lawyer, architect, fin ancial angel, rector, that "men are capable of their own and truly 'father' of the Univer ity of government" and "no king, no tyrant, Virginia, Thomas J efferson labored un­ no dictator can govern as wise ly as the stintingly for the cherished child of his people can themselves. " old age-'a bantling of 40 years' birth ROBERT G. McCULLOUGH The invocation wa given by the Rt. and nursing.' The year 1825 saw the Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, A, who fulfillment of his cherished ambition • D ELIV ERI NG cargoes in­ prayed "our nation and all the nations when the Un iversity of Virginia of­ Stead of men is the job of R obert G. Mc­ in the world be guided in the path of fered its fir t cl ass the hopeful ideal of Cullough, BH, '3 1, who returned a few justice, of truth" that God grant '\ vis­ its founder, 'the illimitable freedom of weeks ago from a se ven-months voyage dom to our leaders and that the people the human mind to explore and to ex­ on a Liberty ship. be of good courage and faith." po e every subject susce ptible of its Before the successful conclusion of The ceremony was held under the contemplation'.'' the lorth African campaign and the Jonic columned memorial in which the Member of the Thomas J efferson Me­ opening of Mediterranean shipping heroic tatue of J effer on stands on a mori al Commiss ion, which spon ored Janes, McCullough sa id, "W e have been marqle base. the succes fu l observance, included delivering tuff to Egypt, the long way, enator Charle Andrews, AH. but there is a lot of satisfaction in The Alderman Library at the Uni­ knowing it is helping clean out North versity of Virginia featured an exhibit A member of the commission of the Africa. The next trip may be shorter." in the McGregor Room on J effer on as Library of Congress and the National Formerly with the Army Transport the "Father of the University of Vir­ Gallery of Art, which sponsored a spe­ Service as chief storekeeper, he now is gi nia." It was described a follow : cial exhibition and services was Pre i­ connected with the Maritime Service "Almost as soon as the dream of dent J ohn Lloyd ewcomb, r and A, Commission as purser. political freedom dawned upon J effer- of the Univer ity of Virginia. 2J Soldiers Guard U. S. Freedu • A LESSON in liberty and and freedom of assembly are illustrated. the deep feelings which are surnng the eternal will of free men to defend A member of the jury, Gifford Beal, America today to a more profound their rights has been paint;ed high on referred to the "constant interest in the realization of the meanings of life. Yet, the wall of the new War Department contrasts of the dark and powerful far from dealing with passing events as Building in Washington by Kindred groups at either end of the panel and such, it expresses the eternal ideal of McLeary, BM. the beautifully integrated int e rpr~tat i o n s the freedom of the human spirit which The mural, 50 feet wide and 12 feet of the freedoms." Over these groups, is the goal of every man, woman and high, "might have been painted to illu - symbolically presented, eagles and aero­ child capable of loving and appreciating. trat;e the words of President R oosevelt: planes suggested to Edward Bruce the liberty." · ... the freedom of the human spirit quotation from W.ebster: "God grants The mural, with its "resonant con­ shall go on'," said the jury when they liberty only to those who love it, and are trast between the powerful war-like end chose McLeary's design. always ready to guard and defend it." portions and the peaceful and happy At either end of the long panel are The jury agreed unanimously that pursuits of the central portion," was clust;ered soldiers and great defense McLeary, the gifted mural painter, ,executed on th e wall in lime casein on guns. Between these, and taking up "clearly has thought of war as a means plaster. Many an artist took advantage most of the panel, are interpretations of of defense not as a means of conquest. of the opportunity to which the progress the freedoms enjoyed by democracy. A sk illful and imagi native artist, he has of a work which the members of the Freedom of worship, freedom of sp.eech, shown himself to be spirituall y in accord jury described as "a distinguished solu­ freedom of the pursuit of life , liberty with the ideals to which his country is tion of a difficult problem." and happiness, freedom of the press, reawakening. His design richly expresses This was not the first anonymous

Alpha Epsilon; Aaron Amacher, IIKA; Utah State Holds Scholastic Record Bert Caseman, IIKA; Fred Tingey, IIKA; Darrell Ward, Sigma Chi; Marvin Lewi~. + ONCE AGAIN Pi Kappa Al­ Even though IIKA earned the highest Sigma Chi; Joseph McCowin, IIKA; pha fraternity at Utah State University scholastic standing, the other frater­ Lan.e Palmer, IIKA; Neil Frischknecht, has retained its hold on the highest nities set the pace with three-point aver­ Sigma Pi Epsilon, and Paul Thomas, interfraternity scholastic standing with ages. George Bullen, Sigma Chi; Wayne IIKA. an average of 80.7 per cent for fall quar­ Christensen, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Lew --IlK A-- ter, according to the reports r~leased Sadlier, Sigma Nu, and Eldon Drake, this week by Dean of Men Ira N. Hay­ Sigma Pi Epsilon were t.he "straight A" •!• HUGH LEACH, A, president of the Fifth ward. This is the sixth consecutive year men. District Federal R eserve Bank at Rich­ "the Pi Kaps" have maintained this high The ten other high men in order of mond, Va., selected chairmen for a suc­ standing. ranking were Harold De LaMare, Sigma cessful Second War Loan drive in April. 24 ~ In Kindred McLeary Mural Square Branch of the ew York City Post Office. McLeary was born in ' 1\Teimar, T ex., in 1901. H e studied architecture at the One of the free­ U niver ity of T exas. From J acques doms and the men Carlu, the French architect, h e received now fight i ng to his first stimulus toward mural painting. preserve that and For four months in 1926 he worked in oth er f reedoms are Joseph•Urban 's studio and ass i ted in two of the sections the execution of the Zi egfeld Theatre f rom the mural. ceiling in New York City. The next year he executed an elab­ orate breakfast room "in R oumanian Style" as h e describes it, for Dr. Max H andman in Austin, T ex. Previously, in 1926, he had assisted J acques Carlu in completing the murals in a hotel in competition which McLeary has won. completed a large mural scheme, which Boston. McLeary is instructor in archi­ In 1935 he executed a mural for the has won the acclaim of his fell ow artists, tecture at the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh Court House and in 1937 he for the public lobby of the Madison T echnology, Pittsburgh.

most effect on the world's history." Selfishness Out In Post War Plans Just as that spiritual struggle per­ fected Chri t's character, so must our + AMERICA's role as leader sacrifices that uch an order would in po twar reconstruction must be domi­ demand. own suffering trengthen our character, nated by unselfish motives, the Right "W e must seek for the world as a said the prelate. Rev. H enry St. George Tucker, A, Pre­ whole those things we seek for our elves, --ll KA-- siding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and not use religion for our own •:• AT A RECENT meeting of the T akoma, and Bishop of Virginia, said recently. spiritual satisfaction and our own spirit­ D. C., Citize ns' Association, Burt W . The gray-haired pr.elate said it is easy ual welfare," he declared. for us to talk now about an idealistic Bishop Tucker said that Christ's ex­ A DREWS, SR., A, pre ented war stamps as postwar world of brotherhood, but asked periences from Palm Sunday to Easter prizes to three men for their acti vities if Americans would be able to make the constituted "one battle that has had the in the orga nization. 25 • CLARENCE E. KEFAUVER, Alliance, Ohio, Physician Dean of Tulsa Music School JR .. AA, of 3344 fil itary Road North­ Initiated by Beta-Omicron Added to Gamma-V psilon west, \1\fashington, D. C., has been tapped by Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. • DR. RAY R E EL MOSELY , • ALBERT L KKEN , dean of of Alliance, 0., fa ther of Neal J oseph the sc hool of music at Tulsa University Kefauver, current Men's Panhell enic Mosely, BO, '43, has for tw e nt y-on e Council president, i now enlisted in the been initiated by year, h a b ee n 1aval R eserve, and upon graduati on th e Univer ity of initiated by and from Trinity College, Duke U niversity, Oklahoma chapter, named faculty ad­ will enter mili ta ry service. H e is a mem­ it was announced visor for Gamma­ ber of Omicron Delta Kappa, national rece ntl y by the Upsilon chapter. honorary leader hip fratern ity, and has chapter. been named to the clean's li st every year Born in Worth­ at chool. Dr. Mosely was ing, S. Dak., Dean graduated from the Lu kk e n t each es H e was in the band in 1939-40 and Dr. Mosely U niversity of Okla- vo ice and choral later was busines manager of the music homa School of Medicine in 1918 and wo rk a nd i s Na­ organization. Last year he ' acted as is a member of Phi Beta Pi medical tional Vice Presi­ Dean Lukken treasurer of Kappa Kappa Psi, band society. In addition to his son, h e has dent of Phi Mu fratern ity, and is now vice president of a daughter, Patricia J ea n, 14. Alpha, men's mu ic ociety. H e also is L11 at organization. With hobbies of woodworking, pho­ a member of the State Examining tography, fishi ng and gardening, Dr. Board, Civic Music Association, and the :Mosely recently made a Fraternity crest Presbyterian Church. and gave it to the ch apter. H e is a H e has three children, Bob, 18; Al­ Mason, Odd Fellow and a past patron bert 17, and Romayne, 12. He lives at of Amaranth. 1315 S. Florence, Tulsa. Gathings Raps W. M. C. Commissioner • R EP RESENTATI VE GATHI NGS, pots who are unfamiliar wi th the job AZ, (Dem., Ark.) in a newsletter recently they are attempting to p erform. It is asserted Fowler Harper, deputy war gross inefficiency, to say the least." manpower commissioner, had displayed Gathings sa id, "Doubtless Mr. H arper ''gross inefficiency." is no t fami liar with work done by share­ H e quoted H arper as stating, "We croppers in the South or he would have ca n se nd thousa nds of sharecroppers and realized that these people were already others from Arkansas and Tennessee to under contract and engaged in farming pick cotton in Arizona." opera tions for 1943. Never since the Gathings then commented : Civil War has the South faced as acute "The above statement is typical of a labor shortage in the production of its CLARENCE E. KEFAUVER tyrannical, dictatorial tacti cs by crack- crops as now exists." Chosen Outstanding Graduate

+ BA SKETT MossE, 25, rr, news writer 111 the 1BC Central Division News and Special Events Depart­ ment for the last 16 months, wa selected the outstanding man graduate of 1943 by the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism at ' orthwestern U ni versity. The election of Mo se for the honor wa announced by Dean Kenneth E. Olson at the school's annual banquet and gridiron show. The award was based on Mosse's scholastic record and profe ional achievement and was accompanied by the Cita­ tion of chievement certificate from Sigma Delta Chi, national journali stic ociety. H e has been granted a Master's degree. Mos e graduated from the U niversity of Tulsa in 1941. In addition to his numerous journalistic activities while in school, he was former editor and publisher of the Oklahoma Ga1·dener and has served as correspondent for the United Press and daily newspapers in St. Louis, Oklahoma City and his home city of Tulsa. BASKETT MOSSE 26 WINS ARMY-NAVY

Fred M . Link, BA, le ft, rece

+ THE Army-Navy "E" for Spangled Bann er, the color guard, of employees the record would have been efficiency in the production has been the 64th Signal Operati on Battalion, ordinary, at bes t. The company makes awarded to Fred M. Link, BA, and the was posted. Frederi ck T . Budelman, special communicati ons equ ipment, spe­ Link Radio Corporation, New York, vice pres ident and chi ef engineer, as cializing in police radios. on the tenth anniversary of the firm master of ceremonies, sa id the company Lt. Clement R. H oopes, U.S.N.R., which is the recognized leader in the had expanded its operati ons 10 time praised the low abse ntee record of only police radio field. in the last year with on ly three times one-half man a month. In 10 years the company has grown the manpower and only a moderate U e of Link equipment was probably from two to many hundred employees increase in tools and equipment. best expressed by Lt. Gen. Brehon with a present annual business in ex­ Maj. William S. Marks, J r., Army Somervell, commanding Services of Sup­ cess of $7,500,000. The company is now Signal Corps, said Link is one of the pl y, in a message to Link. It follows: I 00 per cent in war work. most farsighted and resourceful leaders "The suitability and performance of The award of the efficiency banner in the electronics fi eld and the Link equipmen t produced by Ameri ca n in­ was made March 24 at the Hotel New Company en joys an enviabl e reputation dustry which I have just seen on a Yorker and the ceremonies were broad­ with the armed services. H e prese nted 34,000-mile inspection trip through the cast by WOR. the ban ner to Link who explained that Caribbean, South America, North and After J osephine Houston sa ng Star without wholehearted cooperation from Central America, Africa, Palestine, Iran, I ndia, and Burma is a tribute to the genius of America n engineers and to the skill of the workmen who made it. Its adequacy everywhere was a ource of great sa tisfaction to me. You and everyone in your organi zation should be proud of yo ur co ntribution and im­ portant part you are play ing in helping: us to victory." Born and reared in York, Pa. , Link. was graduated in 1927 from Penn State and went to ew York shortly after­ ward where he ha been since that time. Fourteen years ago he married a· Goucher girl, Miss Mildred Coover, also of York. They have two children, J o­ anne, 8, and Daryl, 3. They live in ' 1\Testwood, . ]. "Whil e I h ave not had very mucl1. opportunity to kee p contact with frater­ nity activities since I left coll ege, I can say that my fraternity affiliation has proven quite worthwhile -in the or­ ganization of my present business," Link said. "I found fraternity broth ers all over the country in high offices who in turn helped me to ge t my organi za­ ti on underway ten years ago." H e also Just after presentation of the pe n­ Jr.; Lt. C l e m e nt R. Ho opes, is a member of T au Beta Pi and Eta nant. From left to right: Fred M . U. S. N . R., and Frederick T. Link, BA; Maj. W illiam S. Marks, Budelman, Jlice President. Kappa Nu. 27 • IT MIGHT be said that this By DAVE KROFf organization-that is where all of the editorial is for men only, for during the Delta-Beta actual contacts are made! next few weeks, the men on this campus Finally, it is suggested that the men are going to b.e faced with a serious doubt about the advantages of national interested in joining any fraternity problem. In a word, that problem is groups, especially when the student should seek advice from a trusted ad­ "fraternities." finds his college days far behind him. viser. It is only natural that the frater­ For the past 18 weeks, the freshmen H owever, it should be kept in mind that nity man will have his advice colored in particular, have been given all sorts as long as a student belongs to an un­ either by prejudice or pride in his own of advice dealing with study habits, dergraduate chapter, he is to get along group. This may or may hot be inten­ proper social manners, and in general, with the members of the local chapter tional, but it remains that the unde­ advice on how to ge t the most of thei r and is not particularly concerned with cided men may benefit most from a life in college. However, until now the the problems of the ·other chapters at consultation with an adviser, namely a subject of fraternities has been a clouded distant points in the nation. member of the faculty. issue as far as most yearlings are con­ By this, we simply mean that men In conclusion, fraternities do have cerned. should not join fraternities just because definite advantages. They develop char­ And ye t, within a very few _ weeks, they have national affiliations, or plan acter and are the beginning point in the these same men will be called upon to to have in the near future. The fact development of one's college career. sign the pledge card of their choice. remains that as long as that student is Fraternities develop the individual and Are these men ready to take that all­ enrolled in this University, he will hav.e teach to him the principles that strength­ important step that may give them com­ to "live" with the men in the local en character and prepare him for his plete satisfaction or extreme discontent part in later life. Dave Kroft is editor,-in-chief of the for the rest of their days in this Uni­ Nothing can make a freshman feel versity? "Bee Gee News," student publication of Bowling Green State University. more at home on the campus, help him There are a great many problems that This editorial appeared in the j an. 27 in difficult times, and encourage him arise when one is tryi ng to determine issue of that newspaper. Business man­ at the right moments, than four years in just which fraternity will be bes t for ager of the newspaper is Max Hanke, the right fraternity! him to join. In the first place, there is also of Delta-Beta. the problem of just which fraternity would be best to associate themselves with. This question can be answered only by the first year man himself. It Kirchmaier Takes New Insurance Job is up to him to choose the group that he will fit into best, and not to be misled • DR. CARL T. KIRCHMAIER, Guards, R ed Cross first aid instructor by the "smooth sales talk" of the AZ, has recently assumed duties as as­ and a draft board examiner. brothers. sistant medical director (in charge of He also is a member of the American The mere fact that the fr.eshman has claims) for the Aetna Life Insurance Medical Association, Lions Club, Asso­ been on the campus for 18 weeks should Company and the, affiliation has changed ciation of Life Insurance Medical Di­ make him fairly well acquainted with his residence from Nashville, Tenn., to rectors of America and of the medical the members of the various social groups. West H artford, Conn. section of American Life Convention. The freshman should always remember that he is not to judge any fraternity Born June 13, 1904, at Cincinnati, he Married, he is the father of a son, by its individual members for these was graduated from Hughes High School Thomas W., I 0. judgments may prove to be bad as well before entering the University if Cin­ as good. cinnati. He holds degrees of B.S., B.M. The next, and probably one of the and M.D. most important problems, is the finan­ At U.C. he was president of Alpha­ cial angle. Before he joins any frater­ Xi, a member of Fresh Painters, the col­ nity, the freshman should h ave a com­ lege dance orchestra, was photographer plete understanding of the financial for the year book, student council rep­ status of the group of his choice, for resentative and member of the executive at some time he may be called upon to committee of the medical college alumni direct that fraternity through a diffi­ association, president of Phi Chi and a cult crisis. member of Alpha Omega Alpha, hon­ If that group is in the "red," it would orary medical society. certainly seem advisable for the po­ Entering the prjvate practice of medi­ tential member to consider the fact cine in Cincinnati, he did part time well. The president or faculty advisor work as associate medical director and of any frat~rnity should be able to en­ later medical director of the old Co­ lighten the rushee on this matter. We lumbia Life Insurance Company of Cin­ are all fortunate to be attending a Uni­ cinnati. In 1940 he became medical versity where the actual costs of joining director of the Life and Casualty Insur­ a fraternity are not beyond the reach ance Company of Tennessee, a position of the average students financial status. he held until he went with Aetna. Then there is the problem of na­ In Tennessee he was a member of the tionalization. There is little or no Medical Corps of the T ennessee State DR. CA RL T. KIRCHMAIER 28 INSPIRATION, UNLIMITED! Advice and Influence ·:or Alpha -Zeta's Mother Payne Floods Arkansas Campus

MOTHER PAYNE

+ IN TI-llS, the Diamond By JAMES M. GARDNER Association at the Unive rsity of Ar­ Jubilee year of Pi Kappa Alpha, we of • Alpha-Zeta kansas. Alpha-Zeta chapter wish to pay tribute "Mom's" apartment is always a pop­ " Mom's" great-grandfather se rved in to our devoted house mother, Mrs. ular place. The men frequently bring the R evolutionary W'ar and was a per­ Mary L lorman-Payne. their dates to visit with her. A char­ so nal fri end of Lafayette. H er grand­ acteri stic cene in her living room is Mother Payne joined the ITKA's at father moved to Southeastern Arkansas that of a group of students eagerl y the University of Arkansas in 1928, and in 1850 and built beautiful Normandy listening to her character stories in she has been an unfailing source of Hall, a magnificent so uthern mansion. whi ch she is subtl y injecting a bit of strength and inspiration to our chap­ He was a planter and a prominent civic motherly advice, or homely philosophy. ter. She represents much of the best leader of El Dorado. During the W ar of the Old South. H er warm hearted Between the States h e was a lieutenant, Many a homesick lad, or student in generosity and southern hospitality are aide de camp to General Dockery, who difficulty has sougl~t her out there for known not only to our alumni, but also commanded the Confederate rmy in advice a nd encouragement, or for help to those who h ave been guests of o ur Southern Arkansa . in his lighter problems such as electing the proper gift for the passing " flame" chapter. Her loving words of advice Mother Payne's father, A. H. Nor­ or borrowing "two-bits" to tide him and inspiration extend beyond the man, was a planter and lawyer at H am­ over a momentary depre sion. H er mid­ confines of our chapter to those of the burg, Ark. It was here that Mother night "snacks" for the " tudents" a nd other fraternities and sororities on the Payne was born. She attended school Arkansas campus. the devotees of the " bull se sions" are at H amburg and later at a girl's school also an institution at the Alpha-Zeta Mother Payne is affectionately known in Americus, Ga. She al o spent a part H ouse. as " Mom." One of our sources of in­ of her girlhood days in N ew Orlea ns. U ndergnduates who norma II y prefer spiration is her colorful and reali stic H er father, as was customary among remaining in bed on Sunday mornings storie which are of such high ch aracter southern fam ilies, possessed a splendid find pleasure and inspiration in accom­ as to challenge the best in us. H er private library of the cl assics. Browsing panying " Mom" to church. charm and personality has won many in this library has left its impress on men to ITKA and made many friends on "Mom" for she spends much of her Mother Payn e's loving character and the campus. leisure in reading the masterpieces of disposition gives u s new hope as we literature. meet difficulties from clay to day. A colorful background steeped in the Dozens of problems come to "Mom" tradition of the Old South partly ex­ EDITOR, l·II ELD AND DIAMO D: daily and she always manages to decide Part of a letter from Ensign Norman L. plains her character and success. She just what is right. is a descendent of famous leaders in Smith, Jr., AZ. to the chapter follows: We wish that every chapter might American history. One was William H. "When writing to the alumni, give us news of Mother Payne. v.re alumni know be as fortunate as Alpha-Zeta in having Crawford, the distinguished Georgian that you ha ve so me terrific problems co n such a >voncl erful lady as house mother. who occupied such prominent posts of fronting yo u in tryi ng to opera te a frater­ She in pires us to see beauty and joy honor as ambassador to the court of nity during the war, but we know th at in each passing cl ay. .Tapoleon Bonaparte, Secretary of War, yo u ca n do it and that yo u wil l do it." and United States Senator. Moreover J. M . GARDNER, ThC, AZ, The members of Alpha-Zeta chapter Fa ye ttev ille, Ark. he was one of the four leading con­ have found in Margaret Mitchell' testants for the Presidency of the United In 1900 "Mom" married Douglas G. words a li ving image of Mother Payne. States in 1824. Payne, an alumnus of the ·university of "Alway gay and happy. she wants Arkansas. H e was a o iated with the every one about her to be happy or, at leas t, pl eased with themselves, To EDITOR's NoTE: Interest in this story Southern Pacific R ailroad for many this end , she always sees the best in and its author reached the halls of year . They reared five sons, the Congress in the form of a letter from everyone and remarks kindl y upon it. E. C. Gathings, AZ- H e said " Gardner youngest of whom i in the armed There has been no man so worthless was valedictorian of his class and was, forces, and is a IIKA. or so boring tha t she did not view him th e light of his poss ibilitie rather as well, one of the most outstanding Mother Payne is a member of the students to graduate from W ynne than his actualitie . (Ark.) High School. Pi Kappa Alpha Daughters of the American Colonies, "Beca use of these qualities that come should be proud to have him as a of the Daughters of the American R evo­ sin cerely and spontaneo usly from a member of our organization. . . . lution, and of the United Daughters of generou heart, everyone fl ocks about ll'fother Payne has faithfully seroed the Confederacy. She is also active in her, for who can resist the charm of Pi Kappa Alpha as a house mother one who discover in others admirable for Alpha-Zeta chapter for a number ca mpus activities hav ing served several qualities undrea med of even by them­ of yea-rs." terms as pres ident of the House Mothers se lves." 29 lllpka - ~au Q)~ Dean of Utah Medical School

By KENNETH SUNDWALL family. Four of the children have Alpha-Tau chosen their father's profession. T he eldest daughter is a certified medical Harvard l\-redical School in 1917. He technician, the second will receive an fil led a urgical interneship at the Bos­ M.D . degree from Washington Uni­ ton City Hospital and was r.esident sur­ versity, St. Louis, Mo., in March. The geon there for two years. eldest son, Cyril T. Callister, AT, is a third year medical student at Utah. A ft er returning to Utah, he began younger son, Dale T . Callister, also an practi ce and rapidly came to the front active member of Alpha-Tau, is a second in mecl:cJl circl es. In 1920 Dr. Callister y.ear pre-medical student. The fifth child became Salt Lake County physician and A. CYRIL CALLISTER is a daughter eleven years of age. later plastic surgeon for the Salt Lake County General Hospital and the A year ago, when the Board of Regents • ONE OF THE group of L. D . S. Hospital in Salt Lake City. of the Univ.ersity of Utah began looking young men who, on April 12, 1912, re­ for a dean capable of managing their ceived a charter placing their local at Dr. Callister is a fellow of the Amer­ new full four-year medic:il school a great the University of Utah on the rolls of ican College of Surgeons, a member of deal of intensive study was made. The Pi Kappa Alpha was A. Cyril Callister, the founder's group, American Board regents didn't have to look far, however, then a pre-medical student. H e also of Plastic Surgery, pa t president of the for they found the right man in their was a charter member of Phi Beta Pi, Sn.lt Lake County and the Utah State own front yard. Medica l Societies, a member of the State medical society on the Utah campus. In Campus life is nothing new to Dr. Board of Health, and State Chairman, 191 4 he received his Bachelor of Arts Callister as he has been visiting lecturer Procurement and Assignment Service of degree and went to Harvard for his ad­ for the Department of Hygiene since the War Manpower Commission. vanced medical work. 1924. And so, as Dr. Callister takes over ·while at H arvard he won the John 'With such a busy husband, the role the reins of a rapidly growing school, Harvard Fellowship and was elected to of raising a family of five children has another name is added to the already Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical been left largely to Mrs. Callister, and long list of alumni who are daily prov­ society. Dr. Callister graduated from the any parent might be proud of such a ing that it is no mistake to be a ITKA.

" No little cr.edit should be missed for Brothers Vader and Owen for their Pledgemaster Reaps Bountiful Harvest part in giving constant and close per­ sonal guidance in bringing this house + SEEING "practiced" what I had preached this as pledge t7l aster to the front. Their results should prove he had "preached" to pledges drove and was glad to se.e it take place. To an inspiration for future progress with home to Sgt. B. E. Sullivan, r,=:, '38, the come to a town not knowing a soul and among members and pledges, are quite fact that fraternity affiliation means as within a day's time being acquainted strong in athletic participation and cam­ much to man after coll ege as when he with 50 real fe llows meant something pus activities. is a student. to me as a: fraternity man and even more "Sully's" letter follows in part: as a service man. "Recently as a member of the North­ "The brothers saw to it that roy every west College Procurement Board of joint spare minute was taken up and I had Army-Navy-Marine Corps, I traveled a great time 'milling about' with Former many of the colleges in Washington President Harriso n, Burlingame, Tommy and Oregon. I was marooned in Eugene, Roblin, Cliff Giffin, and others of the Ore., with four days leave between our group. regular calls. "When the boys at our University "This Oregon chapter impressed me chapter found that I was on the campus as being one of the best all around hous.es I have visited, they have an un­ they were quick to have me to the house for lunch and finding that I usually strong accord and cooperation was going to have free time on my hands our Northwest chapters." immediately took to lining me up with "For the first time I saw a chapter activity. I must say that I was treated that wa 'goon-free' in other words their so royally that I felt like a king and ye t strength has Jed to the selection of men at the same time they made me feel with whom any brother might be proud just like 'one of the bunch.' to associate, clean cut men whose ap­ Maj. W. V. Pierce, AA, is on the "For the first time I saw the truth pearances are a credit to the chapter staff at Nichols General Hospital, borne out on the statement that frater­ and to our national. I am certain no Louisville, Ky. A recent patient ni ty affiliation means as much to a man other national at Oregon could boast was Lt. P. H. Nunnelley, Jr., AA, after college as when he is a student. thi . of the Je ffersonville Quartermas­ ter Depot, Je ffersonville, Ind. 30 Pu~o.nnel. c~pe'l,t ORGANIZES BUTLER BROS. AND TEACHES NIGHT CLASS

+ CALLED as clirector of per­ Fred W aring's stage shows was developed sonnel of Butler Brothers, of St. Louis, to se ll each ubject to the men in a way an organization which had never had a they could not forget. personnel manager, was A. Wellborne "W e built up a library of 250 slides Moise, BA. In the last nine months he graphicall y illustrating lecture points, has selected, trained, rated and so lved for we found that lectures accompanied compensation problems for the 900 em­ by sl ides were much more efEective than ployees on the payroll. talks alone. In addition to this, he teaches Motion "Demonstrations we found to be very and Time study at the W ashington valuable. Working models of devices University Evening School. found in the magazine FactoTy were re­ Of this course, Moise wrote in T ech- produced, and in every cl ass period prin­ 11ical Education N ews: "Because it was ciples were proved by an 'operator and A. WELLBORNE MOISE ari intensiv.e course, we had to evolve timer demonstration,' with the acce nt our own teaching system. \ 1\Te found on learning b y doing and seeing." ment Society, and Industrial R elation great initial enthusiasm among the stu­ Born Dec. 23, 1908, at St. Louis, Moise Club. dents but were confronted by the prob­ entered 'i1Vashington U niversity after he lem of keeping them alert throughout In the las t yea r he has made addresses had finished Tortheast High School and on work simplification before the In­ the 2 hour and 45 minute cl ass period. received his A.B. degree in 1933. H e dustri al Management ociety of Chi­ Simultaneously, to enable them to use won sophomore honors at W as hington cago, ational Office Managemen t As­ motion and time study immediately in in addition to finding time to win a sociation's n a t ion a I convention at defense industries, we had the problem varsity letter in track and serve as Atlanta, Chicago Bureau of Fi ling and of imparting 16 weeks of highl y con­ president of the Engineer's Council and Indexing, and several other organiza­ centrated practical information. C of Beta-Lambda. tions. "It did not take long to di cover that action with a capital A had to be the Gardening, hunting and fishing pro­ H e is married and is the father of keynote to maintain interest. As a vides recreation. Other interests include Iarilyn, 3If2, and Dick, si x month . H e res ult, omething of a cro between membership in ational Office Man­ lives at 444 lgonquin Place, W eb ter Olsen and J ohnson's H ellza poppin and agers Association, Indu trial Manage- Groves, Mo. IIKA Is Youngest Circuit Judge In Mississippi

• J ESSE HAROLD GRAHAM, Kennedy establi heel lpha-Iota chapter rr, of Meridian, iiss., was elected cir­ at Millsaps. Another member of the cuit judge of the T enth Judicial Distri t firm was Judge Graham' brotl1.er, H ardy Sept. 15 and at 33 became the youngest Moore Gral1am, rr. of the 17 circuit judges of the state. An active member of the state bar H e defe ated a man who had held the association, Judge Graham was vice judgeship for tluee terms. president of the junior bar association in Born Sept. 27, 1908, at Mississippi 1936 and pre ident the following year. City, Miss., he was educated at Meridian He was state bar commissioner in 1939 schools, being graduated from the high and 1940 and has served on several im­ choo1 there in 1926. He entered the portant committees. University of Mississippi that fall and wa graduated from the law school in H e is a member of the Iethodi t 19 31. Church, se rved on the Board of Stewards and i a Ia y leader. In 1932 he married While a pledge of the local, Gamma­ Ii s Edwi na Eli zabeth Forre ter, of Iota ch apter was in tailed . H e also was 1\ Ieridian. They have two sons, J e se a member of Phi Alpha Delta, legal H arold, Jr., 9, and Dudley Col lier, 7. society. From the time he was graduated he The new judicial duties will occupy practi ced law in Meridian with his most of his time as twelve terms of father, S. M. Graham, who with J. M. JESSE HA ROLD GRAHAM court requiring 42 weeks is cheduled. 31 •!• J. H AROLD .JOHNSTON, A'¥, former a­ •!• VIRGIL P. SANDERS , n, publisher of the IlK! PARADE tiona] Secretary and former N a tiona] Carrollton (Ky.) N ews-Democrat, is pub­ licity chairman for the state adminis­ •!• DE EEN .WATSON, BH, president of Editor, res igned his position as assistant to the president of Rutgers Unive rsity tration candidate (Democrat) in the the University of Illinois Al umni Asso­ Feb. I to become the director of the Kentucky gubernatorial race. KENNETH ciation, has won new distinction by his Middl e ex General H ospital, New H . TuGGLE, •n and AP, is a candidate work as state chairman of the R e­ Brunswick, N . for lieutenant governor on the Re­ publica n post-wa r policy association. J. J OHNSTON had been a member of the publican ticket. "Shall we wi n or lose the peace this Board of Trustees of the hospital for time? T he progress of science in trans­ so me years serving as chairman of the •!• CoNGRESSMAN A. WILLIS RoBERTSON , portation and commun icati on makes it Finance Committee and as chairman of 0 , '07, was initiated into the University folly fo r any nation to believe that it the Executive Commi ttee. When the of Richmond's chapter of Phi Beta can live alone. T here mu t be some va cancy occurred in the directorship, Kappa. mechanism set up that will facilitate the comm ittee s.eeking to fill the international cooperation and under­ vacancy asked permiss ion to present his •!• THE R EV. w. J. CUNNINGHAM, ri, sta nding," WATSON said. name, but he declined. Thereupon he new a)umnus counselor for that chap­ was "drafted" by the unanimous action ter, is pastor of the Oxford-University .;. LAWRENCE M. GouLD, BT, chief of of the Board of Trustees and he ac­ of Mississippi Methodist Church. He the Army Air Forces Arcti c Informa­ cepted. has established a fine record for work tion Center and fellow-explorer of the T he hospital was incorporated in 1884 among young people of the congrega­ Antarcti c with Admiral Richard E. and was the first institution of its kind tion. Byrd, called for cooperation between in Middlesex County. It has a modern the U nited States and Great Britain in •!• DicK BERNH EIM, ri, for two years SC, plant which cost somewhat over a mil­ post-war development of global air­ has been elected president of his cl ass lion dollars to build and equip. It lines. in the School of Liberal Arts at the operates a school of nursing, loca ted in University of Miss issippi. GouLD said that the great riva lry for a new building, erected at a cost of post-war airline supremacy will be be­ $250,000. tween the U nited States and Grea t •!• EDWARD 0. PooLE, I, represented the Department of State during the intern­ Britain and that in a knock-down, drag­ +!+ MRs. N ANC Y SIMCOX became sup.er­ out struggle, the U nited States probably visor of the Kentucky R evenue Depart­ ment of Axis diplomats at Homestead could win, but such a struggle would be men t's proving section May 1, succeed­ Hotel, Hot Springs, Va.; The Green­ suicidal, therefore, there must be co­ ing H arry G. Dickerson, AA, of brier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, operation. Georgetown, who resigned to take a Va., and at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, Planes with a 10,000-mile range and position with an oil refining compan y N.C. 300 miles an hour speed will shrink the 111 Ashland. globe, GouLD said, explaining that the •!• GLENN LoRANG, r:::, was announcer shortest distance to nearly anywhere for a special broadcast from KWSC +!+ OMINATED without opposition for when Sustenio Alas, Army fraternity, on earth is across the top of the world. the presidency of the Kentucky Educa­ initiated 100 men April 26 at Seattle, ti on Association was Dr. James H. Rich­ Wash. •!• LEGRANDE G REG OR Y, AT, All-IIKA mond, Z, president of Murray State and All-Conference end, of U tah, was T eachers College, and a former State •:0 DR. W. DANDRIDGE HADEN, A, r.etired the unanimous choice for the Chronicle superintendent of public instruction. trophy, awarded annuall y to the out­ Sept. 1 from the Charlottesville (Va.) City Council after 12 years services with standing all -round athlete. The trophy + PRESIDENT JoHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, A will be presented at the annual senior and r, of the University of Virginia, that body. He was mayor during six banquet. has been appointed by President Roose­ years of that time. H e was a three-year letter man in velt as a member of the Board of Visitors DR. HADEN is one of the trustees of foo tball, a member of the basketball of the United States Naval Academy at The Shield and Diamond Endowment squad, and winner of individual honors Annapolis. Fund, and is president of the First Na­ in intramural track. tional Bank of Charlottesville. •} NEw PRESIDENT of the Big Six Confer­ •!• OTIS "BooTs" SING LETA RY, AI, was ence is WILLIAM WATSON DAVIS, 'l', of He was elected to the Charlottesville elected president of the student body the University of Kansas and Grand Council in 1930, and was named by that at Millsa ps. JAM ES ' "'EBB, AI, also a Historian of Pi Kappa Alpha from 1924 body to be mayor between 1934 and ca ndidate, was eli minated in the first to 1931. He was elected at Kansas City 1938 and again in 1940 until 1942. primary. Political rallies preceded the in May to succeed H. H . KING of Kansas The Charlottesville Daily Progress elections. State. said, "DR. HADEN has played an im­ The Conference revised existing aca­ portant part in the development of the •!• G LENN DoBBS, JR., r T, All-IIKA and demic requirements to allow freshmen city and many of its institutions are All-A merica football backfield man, has who successfully had completed 14 hours monuments to his efforts while holding been invited to take p art in the College­ of semester work to engage in varsity an official position. Under his guid­ All-S tar Professional game in D ych e play and to permit i=ediate varsity ance and leadership the city's sinking Stadium, Evanston, late in August. who transfer to Big Six institutions with fund was put on a firm basis, and today Dobbs gives T ulsa its first representa­ 54 credit hours. ti on in this all-star game. the city's credit is regarded as second to none in the nation . . . . •!• H uGo BARBIAN, ThC of Beta-Sigma, + LESTER LAYNE DILLARD, I, received and RoBERT DIETRICH of the same chap­ "Much of the credit for the erection his commission May 14 as Ensign at the ter, were among seventeen Carnegie of the city's new half million dollar Northwestern U niversity Reserve Of­ T ech men elected recently to Tau high school building was due to DR. fi cers' School. Beta Pi. HADEN." 32 Alpha-Rho chatJter ( 1) ob­ serves Pi lJV eek with a " Trop­ ical l slcmd" formal (2) at the house and the grand cli.­ nutx of the burning II (3). P eggy Miracle, Clmck S ibley and Bob R eecl ( 4 ) watch the J>ie eating contest (5) . Cyn­ thia Gryner, t.r, (6) throws blueberry itllo face of S am /( rumm (7 ) , the winner. Time : 4¥2 minutes /or three pies.

l ,, ~ BUll 'Wrvt g~ ~ B~ FOR FRATERNITY AND COUNTRY

• THE FUNDAMENTAL prin­ By CHARLES K. DUNN List of contributors to Pi Kappa Al­ ciple underlying the organization of our Chairm an, Endowm ent Fund pha Endowment Fund as of February 14, Fraternity is the love of our fe llowman 1943: and service to him. This principle is Wives Club of Denver, Col.; Theta chap­ exemplified by the structure that pro­ wisely their future course. The Pi ter, Alpha-Iota chapter, Alpha-Sigma chap­ vides for social intercourse among our Kappa Alpha Endowment Fund affords ter, Beta-Sigma chapter, Delta-Alpha chap­ the medium through which it will be ter, Distri,ct Con'l.ention, D.istr~ct- 4; Charles E. members. Ackerman, Jr., AT; Wilbur c. Allcot, A-¥; possible for us to offer practical aid to Charles A. Allen, BIT; Fred A. Anderson, There is a feeling of genuine pride on the men who will choose to complete JL, ri; Howard B. Arbuckle, Jr., B; Ira B. the part of members as a result of the their scholastic work. Contributions to Baccus, rX; Charles P. Ballard, AN; R ich­ successful achievement by a member of the Endowment Fund may be designated ard G. Baumhoff, BA; Charles E. Bear, Pi Kappa Alpha. That feeling is jus­ 4> and T; James A. Bear, 4> and A; Guy A. for use as scholarship grants or as loans Barkey, O; Clifton P. Boutelle, B~- tified fully through the experience of to students who will be endeavoring to our ritual and the close association that Duncan Brackin, AI; Francis E. Brenner, rehabilitate themselves. A!1; R. Grant Brown, A~ ; James D. Burn­ is a part of chapter life. This is not a form of charity. It is a side, Jr., AN; Bo Calloway, AI; Dean Calloway, AI; Jean Calloway, AI; Gowan Today, there are many members of Pi practical means to a desirable end. Con­ Kappa Alpha in our armed forces, some Cecil, BZ; Lenox G. Cooper, T; Hampton tributions for such purposes may offer B. Crawford, A; Dabney H . Crump, Jr., e ; in far distant zones of actual warfare and relief now to some of our members Rupert Curry, AM; Duilio DiPiero, AA; some who have paid the supreme sacri­ l' rank R. Doane, Bll.; Welford Doss, AI; fice of service to our country with their from the high taxes that we shall all Charles K. Dunn, !1; Douglas Duran t, J r., lives. All of them are engaged in this be called upon to pay. Such contribu­ BIT; Jesse Farris, rA; Wayne W . Fisher, tions are a form of victory tax that will rN; Leland H. Gardiner, AX; George Glad· endeavor for the preservation of our ding, AN; Jack Glaze, AI; Duane B. Grant, liberties and our freedom of action that pay big dividends. The idea is recom­ AT. we have come to look upon as our nat­ mended to the thoughtful consideration Calvin G. Greear, I; Thomas L. Hanson, ural rights. ' The memory of those who of all who feel that they can support Ai'; Bob Haring, Jr., Be; Freeman H. have made the supreme sacrifice and such a plan. Hart, I; Arthur R. Hartwig, r:a;; Davis Haughton, AI; Jack B. H eywood, A:E:; Roy the efforts of all others will live ever We must not lose sight of the fact that D. Hickman, Bt.; John F. E. Hippe!, BIT; in our hearts. an album of War Savings Stamps con­ Leo A. Hoegh, rN; Bobby Holyfield, AI; Among those who are in the armed William F. Hooper, Jr., Ae; John E. Horne, tributed to the Endowment Fund will r A; Weldon U. Howell, BZ; Joseph M . services are many who hav.e interrupted serve a dual purpose. Contributions of Howorth, AI; Robert H. Jackson, AX; their scholastic training and their plans stamps are converted into War Savings J. Harold Johnston, Ai'; Alan E . Kahn, for the future. When peace returns to rrr; W. Douglas Kearney, re; Ray Keirn, Bonds to be held by the Trustees for Jr., B~ ; Jack King, AI; F. Henry Kohloss, T: our land, these in particular will be use of the Fund in years to come. The faced with a most difficult problem of Sidney J. Lanier, B; Conrad H . Larson, immediate .effect is to increase that rt.; James V. LeLaurin, H; Phillip M. readjustment. It will be necessary for reservoir of the Treasury Department Lighty, r:a;; Glenn F. Mason, !1; Shelby C. them to choose between undertaking the Mathis, AI; S. Stewart McAwley, r~; from which must flow the money to meet completion of their scholastic training Thomas A. McCord, AZ; Dan McCullen, nnder strangely changed conditions or the current costs of the war. The con­ AI; Robert M. McFarland, At.; Marion tribution of vVar Savings Stamps form McGough, AI; Ernest E. McKeen, BB; going immediately into the world of Carroll Mitchell, AI; Johnny Morrow, AI; business without the benefit of complete a secondary line of support in our ef­ George F. Muller, Ar; Phillip F. Mussel­ scholastic training. that has become such forts to give the heel to the axis. man, rt.; Walter Neil, AI; Walter N. Nel­ son, r:a;; Harvey T. Newell, Jr., AI. an essential requirement in the business Already more than 100 members have world of today. John F. Nooe, T; M. D . Nunnally, Jr., pledged through their contributions to O; Kenneth C. Olds, rrr; John Orphan, ro; By the time that these boys can resume support the Endowment Fund. Their John L. Packer, BA; Charles K. Payne, E; their scholastic work they will be older contributions consist of cash, War Sav­ Joe L. Payne, rA; F. J. Pollischeck, A4>; Carl D. Portz, rz; Edward H. Rich, AT; in years. They will be associated with a ings Stamps, pledges to make payments Emerson R . Rich, AT; Herbert J. Riffle, younger age group and the experience periodically, assignments of interest in BA; William J. Riley Ill, AA; Horace R . of war will be a disturbing factor to policies of life insurance, beneficiary in­ Robinson , Ar; Charlton Roby, AI; Charles E. Rogers, rA; 0 . Stuart Romick, Jr., AS; them. We need only draw on our mem­ terest in policies of life insurance and Wallace Russell, AI. ories of the days following the last war bequests in wills. These and other forms John A. Scott, B; John A. Scott, Jr., B; for a realization of the seemingly unr.eal of contributions and negotiable se­ William K. Self, IT; Loftis J. Sheffield, AT; situation that will exist for them. In Adrian L. Shuford, J r., Be and T; Robert curities are acceptable to your Trustees Silhavy, AK; Robert P. Simpson, rE; Paul that situation there will be real oppor­ as additions to the assets of the Endow­ G. Sinderson, AN; S. Roy Smith, Ai'; E. tunity for service. The service that can ment Fund. Send your contributions, in Justin Snyder, r:a;; Jefferson W . Speck, At.; be rendered them will be the principles Francis M. Stockton, rX; James H . Stramler, the amount and the form best suited to A~; William M . Thigpen, BK; Elbert P. of Pi Kappa Alpha at work. your own situation, to Charles K. Dunn, Tuttle, Be; Richard R. von Ezdorf, Jr., Our boys will need all the encourage­ 405 Colorado Building, Washington, BA; Jean F. Wine, B; Edgar A. Wolford, AP; Robert U. Woods, B; M. E. Zetter­ ment that we can give them to choose D. C. holm, BH. 34 President Rickman. Greets Miami Dream Girl

• MIAMI ALUM I CHAPTER and Gamma- Omega chapter gathered March 5 in patio dining room of The Garden in tribute to the founders of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. The brothers, with their wives and dream girls, were honored by the pres­ ence of Maj. R oy D. Hickman, National President, guest speaker. The dinner was opened by Richard D. Dodge, B, who delivered an inspiring invocation. Dodge is Parole Board O f­ ficial for this part of the State of Florida. Informality was the spirit of the eve­ ning, with those assembled appearing in sport clothes. However, Major Hickman and Lt. Henry Briggs, rn, U. S. Army, and Lt. ]. M. McClamroch, AH, U. S. Navy, adequately represented the armed forces and served as a reminder, though none was needed, of the many members National President Roy D. Hickman At left Foster E. Alter, ~AE, ancl now in the service. greet s Ganuna-Ornega's " Dre alJI. IMC Howard Hanson, of Gamma­ SMC Ira Van Bulloch, rn, made the Girl," Miss B etti Ann W esterclahl. Omega. first address, welcoming Brother Hick­ Epsilon, Dean of Men, University of Proctor, AH, President of Miami Alumni, man on behalf of his ch apter. H e was Miami, who held the crowd with an­ held forth as ma ter of ceremonies and fo ll owed by Foster Alter, Sigma Alpha other one of his excell ent talks. Fletcher did his usual _good job. Alpha-Zeta Wins High Political Offices for 8th Consecutive Year • ALPHA-ZETA has for the BY JAMES M. GARDNER Last September Dick Metcalf was elect­ eighth consecutive year won high po­ Alpha-Zeta • ed president of ABC, the official booster litical offices on the U niversity of Ar­ lication is the student paper at the organization on the campu . Dick was kansas campus. U. of A. also named social chairman. At the same Allied with the ew Deal Party, J ames M. Gardner was elected en­ time Bob Gosdin came forward as presi­ which IIK.A helped found eight years ator from the sophomore clas for 194·3- dent of the freshman class. J ames Trim­ ago in the basement of the chapter 44. H e is a studen t in pre-law from ble, a six-point man, was chosen pres i­ house, put in office the president of W ynne, Ark. dent of Phi Eta Sigma. Associated Students, which is the highest Besides taking these office IIKA was Omicron Delta Kappa elected as office on the campus, business manager assured two appointments on the socia l their pre ident, Louie Walter. Pledge of the Student Director, senator from committee and one a poi ntment on the Ed Dobbs was made pre ident of the the sophomore class and other minor Board of Publica tions for next year. Junior Interfraternity Con ul and presi­ offices. Of the presidents on the campus, ITKA dent of his pledge cl ass. From the Engi­ claim eight, and three vice presidents. neer School IIKA has president of the IIKA Pledge J oe Weiseger of Little American Institute of Electrical Engi­ R ock, easily won the race for president neers, who is Joe Weisiger; R alph of Associated Students for 1943-44. H e Dillon Graham Takes Charge Dougherty, president of the American was elected St. Pat in the Engineering of North Carolina AP Bureau Society of Mechanical Engi neers, and School for the current year. H e is a + DILLON GRAHAM, AH , fo r VITally Hun ton, president of both Theta member of the Engineer's Consul, cribe the last six yea rs feature port .editor Tau and the American Institu te of of Theta T au, and treasurer of the for the Associated Press, has been placed Chemical E ngineers. American Institution of Electrical Engi­ in charge of the Charlottsvi ll e, N . C., Holding down the e executive posi­ neers. He served as business manager bureau of the news gathering agency, tions was not sufficient for the many of the Arkansas Engineer, official pub­ it was announced recently. H e took capable men of IIKA that were left. lication of the College of Engineering, over his new duties June 21. Therefore Gene Leggett mov.ed forward and is a member of Blue Key. Graham, who heads a board of sports to become vice president of Theta Tau. Pushing to victory was equall y easy au thorities to choose the All-IIKA Foot­ The American Society of Civil Engineers for Gene Cloninger, who was .elected ball T eam each fall , became an AP elected L. 0 . Gregory as vice pre ident business manager of the Student Direc­ staffer in Atlanta in 1929, was trans­ for the current year. R obert Tarty was tory for 1943-44. Gene served as assistant ferred to the Washington Bureau fi ve not to be slighted in the least as he be­ business manager of the Arkansas years later and in 1937 was moved to came vice pre ident of the American T raveler for the current year. This pub- the feature staff in ew York. Society of Mechanical Engineers. 35 dlo.pi. J~ gtdl, ~ance ,(/~ (jJJ snake~

Indian boys and the family burro in front of adobe house (1). The anthor on the south rim of the Grand Canyon (2). Phantom (Dude ) Ranch and swim pool in Canyon bottom (3). Typical Navajo Indian village in Arizona reservation (4).

30 minutes later, after a terrific <;:lap of + ANOTHER park ranger, a By RALPH W. WlllTE thunder and a gust of wind, carrying professor from a New York University, Alpha-Phi dusty drops of rain, that grotesque and I se t out early on a summer morn­ figures could be se.en crawling from the ing for that country little heard of in were so steep our car could hardly climb underground ceremonial chamber where the East, but well known in the V\Tes t­ in low gear. H ere many of the Indians they had been for the last nine days, H opi Land. Our purpose was to wit­ wear only loin cloths, live in mud huts, going through a ritual unknown to ness the age old Hopi Snake Dance. practi ce agriculture with uncanny suc­ white man. ' "'e drove along the south rim of the cess, and speak little or no English. Grand Canyon for 26 mile . The mighty The Snake and Antelope cer.emonies, Nearly stuck in the sa nd, we slowly Colorado River was 5,000 feet belov• us, commonly known as the Snake Dance, crawled our way to the village of Oriabi, still cutting into the hard rock at the are for the sole purpose of bringing on the second mesa, thought to be the rate of a fraction of an inch a year. We rain. The Indians do not worship or oldest continuously inhabited village on moved on to a little Arizona se ttlement make their prayers directly to the snakes, the Ameri ca n continent. From Oriabi ca ll ed Cameron, where we stocked up but the snakes are merely messengers we soon found our way to Chimopovy, on gasoline, putting an extra supply in to carry the prayers to the rain gods arriving there about 5 o'clock in the cans and filling our canteens with water. and to the great plumed water serpent, afternoon. From C a m e r o n we drove north all of whom live in the underworld. If through the Painted Desert, which we We were a bit apprehensive about our the snakes are well treated by being found quite hilly and marked by moun­ late arriva l since no one knows just danced over, sprinkled with sacred meal, tain ridges of grey, blue and pink, when th.es snake dances will begin. washed and bathed, the Hopi reasons though it appears as a fl at plai n from But we were lucky because it was just the snake will carry the messages down in the earth to the rain gods. Desert View on the canyon rim. Leav­ + R ALPH VI/. WHITE, A , was for sev- ing the highway 10 miles north of eral summers a ranger of the Na­ Snake Priests go out in pairs to the Cameron, we picked our way over sa ndy tional Park Service at Grand Canyon four directions, to collect from over the National Park, Arizona, and in other roads, that sometimes dwindled into parts of the country for the National desert the required number of snakes, mere trails, to Tuba City, our las t white Forest Service. usually from 60 to 80, a goodly portion settlement. " T here is an unceasing thrill in the of which are rattlesnakes. The snakes On the other side of Tuba City we ever-changing panchromatic spectacle are taken into the Kiva, or ceremonial of Grand Canyon, which causes more forded the well -k nown Moenkopi yYash than 300,000 to gaze in awe every year," chamber, where secret rites are con­ that ometimes hold up traffic to Hopi he says. "My activities there were ducted, about which ther.e is little au­ Land for several days after a rain storm. varied, I have covered the south rim by thentic information. After these secret car and horseback, flown over the Can­ We still had 75 miles of sa ndy trip to yon by plane, and have walked across underground ceremonials, as a grand cover before reaching the little Hopi the Canyon. This hike covered 18 miles finale, the snakes are brought into the village of Chimopovy (S he-mo-po-vee), and took 12!/2 hours; I passed thmugh open where the final dance is performed. a name spelled 21 different ways, often six of the seven vegetative zones of this continent. This is the only part of the nine-day to the di stress of tourists hoping to find " ! had three different assignments at ritual that may be seen by the white it by fo llowing road maps. the Canyon. My first was at the south man. After pa ing the Indian village of entrance checking station, where cars are 1·egistered in and out and the en­ It was this stage in the process of Moenkopi, we traveled 38 miles across trance fee collected. The second was at events that we watched from the top of the avajo country to the third mesa, the ranger station at the public camp one of the adobe huts forming a closed a fl at-topped plateau, one of three in grounds, where the number of campers court. The strange procession of Indians and trailers is counted and headquar­ the Hopi country, upon which i built ters maintained for general informa­ came marching in, in costume and paint, the pueblo dwelling grouped under the tion. My final assignment was rim led by the older men of the tribe, with name of H otevilla. patrol, among duties of which were to the younger bucks following and, finally, prevent tourists from climbing over the ' "'e saw only two perso ns in thi 38 wall, throwing stones or committing small boys, 4 or 5 years old. mile of travel- Navajo boys with herds other infractions of regulations. This The first group w.ere of the Antelope of sheep and goats. work never got a chance to become clan. They marched to the tune of small We reached monotonous because we never dealt Hotevilla by climbing the with the same people or problems disc- haped rattles, one in each hand, trail up to the mesa, parts of which twice in exactly the same manner." and after circling the court three times 36 (ormed a straight line in front of a grass hut at one end of the court. Here, while carrying on a constant chant, they await­ ed the arrival of the Snake clan, who in turn climbed from their Kiva and marched into the court in the same man­ ner as the Antelope cl an. They marched to the clapping of a split turtle shell strapped to the left leg of each dancer. These two clans formed a circle to chant, dance and go through the va ri ous maneuvers. Finally the snake men di­ vided into groups of three, two in front, one with his left arm around the other and followed by the third man. The first man, as h e march ed by the grass hut, was handed a snake by one of the Antelope Priests. By this time it was sprinkling and a storm could L>e seen approaching from the distance-enough to make one be­ lieve in miracles! A tense ness fell over the entire crowd, which included about 200 whites, and several women could be heard to utter muffled cries. When the first Indian, a boy of 5 years, put his rattlesnake in his mouth, it swung around and struck John D. Thompson, Everett Prindle, Ralston Woods, and Pleas Smith him on the cheek, the fangs drawing relax in the record room at Alpha-Delta. The photo was made by Prindle. drops of blood as he danced on un­ flinchingly. It is the duty of the second man to keep the snake from coiling around the dancer's neck, but after circling the Record Keeping Record court several times, the snake is put on the ground to wriggle toward the crowd • ALPHA·PHI CHAP TE R has terest is evidenced by numerous letters as Indian maidens sprinkle it with established what is believed to be a to the editor. sacred meal. The third member now record within the Fraternity of com­ performs by keeping the snake in the The eight members listed as "address piling a list of 329 members of the bounds of court with the aid of a stick unknown" and their number on the chapter with only eight being cl assed with two long feathers attached to the chapter roll are Andrew K. Humphries, as "address unknown." end. 66; George V. Bortner, 100; Malcolm E. After each snake has been so treated The list was printed rece ntly in the Harding, 133; Charl es H. Diggs, 139; it is picked up by the third man, newsy mimeographed chapter pub­ Edgar W . Junker, 142; Francis J. Lenz, 167; Thomas G. Scott, 208, and Clifford wrapped around his body and arms and lication, The Ram of Alpha-Phi, which R . McKee, 258. carried until each group of three has is circulated to all alumni. Alumni in- completed the ceremonies. Imagine, if Alpha-1 appa chapter, which circulates you can, 60 to 80 snakes-rattlesnakes, the four-page printed publication, Alpha gopher snakes, blue racers, king snakes, Kappa Kapers, is requesting addresses of some 6 feet long, being carried around their "missing" men. The 58 memb.ers as if they were fish worms. of the total number on the chapter roll, After this part of the ritual is com­ whose name are needed are: pleted the Antelope clan forms an eight­ W. C. Adams, W. H. Baxter, F. G . Beck­ foot circle of meal, crossing it three ner, A. P . Berry, W. J. Carr, E. H . Cathcart, times like a pie cut into six pieces, to P . Bl azovi , R . S. Burg, V. H . Doeling, J. F. represent the six cardinal directions of Donald on, K. A. Elli on, J. R . Fielder, H . A. Gifford, W . 1£. Gilbert, S. W. Grace, the Hopis, namely, north, east, west, R. W. Griffin, R. L. H arris, R . G. Hazel­ south, up and down. tine, H . A. H erder, H . K. H oyt, P . H. At a given signal all the snakes are Karges, A. J. Kerr, R. T. Kendrick, H . C. Ki be, W. E. Knight, B. N. Lay, H . E. thrown into the circle as a writhing Lillings ton. P . R . Love, J. R . McClosky, mass, covered with more sacred meal and W. A. McTighe, R . Miller, F. G. Moses, while part of the men continue the W. 0 . eel, R . E. Newberry, H . 0 . Norville, ·w . F. Oberbeck, R . G. Ormsby, H . S. Owen, dance, eight of the priests gather up all A. G . Pudewa, B. Samples, D. C. Schmid, the snakes in their arms and run from H . D . Sherman, H . E. Smith, P . W . Smith, the court to the four directions of the P. E. Sm ith, H . 0 . Steinmetz, J. E. Stevens, dese rt, scattering the snakes as they go, J. V. Su ndstrom, B. Ten Broek, B. Thomas, J. D . T homa , F. J. Underwood, F. T . to carry their messages to the under­ Walker, G. Warren, J. B. Weaver, C. E. world dieties. RALPH W. WHITE Wilhite, and A. C. Williams. 37 cr.eatures are crossed with turkeys down here.) Some one had possessed fore­ sight and had included a dozen mosquito bars for the beds. This should rate a medal, by the way. A bare light bulb was strung in through the window, buckets of water were drawn from a hydrant, a near-by brush patch was designated as the head. A lock-cabinet was found in the supply truck and first aid kits secured therein. A work table was made out of an old packing crate and a bottle of alcohol set out for pro­ fessional display purposes. Most important, and concurrent witll the above cited activities, tlle supply corner was se t up. Luckily, we had a second-class mate who was a successful druggist before Pearl Harbor. He was dubbed "supply corps man," and told to turn to. That he did, and using pack­ Just back from a spin in a motor snow sled are, from left: Capt. James T. ing crates stacked with openings in Pronger, transportation officer of Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; ward, he rigged up a s upp~y depart­ Jack Bursey, snow equipment expert who accompanied Admiral Byrd on his last two A ntarctic expeditions, and Capt. Lloyd D. Jones, A, station ment. Bottles went in upper cases, elec­ veterinarian. Captain Jones is now at Camp J? an Dorn, Centerville, Miss., tric hot plates, pitchers and buckets with a quartermaster unit. The picture was made during maneuvers at below. Fort Brady . H ammer and nails borrowed from workmen, and boards snatched from a pile in the doorway were employed to fasten case to case and make a flimsy Fitter-Outers stile over which one climbed near the ceiling to gain entrance to tlle resulting By LT. COM. M.P. S. SPEARMAN, (MC) USNR cubby-hole cave. The supply man, eagle­ Gamma-Gamma, Beta-Upsilon and Beta-Mu eyed, could lie on his bed and cock a glance ceilingward, easily catching any • PIONEERING is fun, if you the trucks unloaded in jig time. Just as intruder into his domain. So w.ell did keep handy a bountiful sense of humor. the last mattress got indoors, down came he do his job that later inventor y Medical pioneering is particularly in­ a "gully-washer"-two inches of dew all showed not one item missing or un­ teresting, if the lack of .everything ex­ at once. accounted for. And that, pioneers, or not, every Navy man will agree is a cept mineral oil and aspirin doesn 't Night drew on, and clouds of mosqui­ make you feel too handicapped. matter of significance. toes zoomed in for the attack. (These The big sign, " Keep Out," at the top Three medical officers and 10 hospital of the stile turned all back from tlle sup­ corpsmen swung aboard a Navy truck ply cave excepting its proud keeper. one summer day in Corpus Christi, and So, pass ing through tlle hands of one left the main station for duty at a new man. only, materials were not scattered auxiliary base 50 miles away, deep in to the four winds. the heart of Texas. It was hot and Shovels and brooms were borrowed steamy-a three-i nch rain providing the and debris was shoved out of the way moisture. The little town of Kingsville, of the beds. T en of these were se t up hard by the new base, lies close to the and covered with the mosquito bars. A Texas citrus fruit belt, is not too blessed patllway through the paint buckets and with breezes, excepting during the hur­ sawdust was bull-dozed to the door, and ricane time. Down a rough road the a sign "Prophylactic" with an arrow caravan of perso nnel and a supply truck thereon set up. Some one broke out a rolled, stopping at the b ack door of the pair of "guns," some argyrol and oint­ new dispensary late in the day. Orders ment and set it up on a crate. We were were that fli ght operations would begin about ready for business. two days hence. That meant that med­ Te xt day came the sun, running the ical service must be available at the same thermometer crazy, and hot steam from time. tlle ground, and black flies. A call the night before to the main base brought T wo rooms were more or less finished supplies of tannic acid and blood plasma in tl1e entire dispensary. H asty ap­ outfits. By now six first aid kits were praisal showed no screens, no plumbing, ready for service. With tlle arrival in and workmen with their characteristic Capt. G. T. Anton, Af! and BB, is with a coast artillery anti-aircraft midmorning of an ambulance we wer.e mess everywhere. Choosing one room unit in the Hawaiian Departm ent. able to inform the skipper of the field for beds and supply and tlle other for A fter serving at Fort Winfield Scott, Calif., he was transferred in tllat the Medical Department was func­ sick call, the old "china-hand" chief got A ugust, 1940, to Hawaii. tioning and ready for anything. Two or 38 TUCSON--- Where Summer Sunshine Spends the Winter

+ TucsoN, Aluz., home of Gamma-Delta chapter, is in the land where the summer sunshine spends the winter. This picturesque city is one of the oldest, romantic spots in the South­ west. In the last several years, Gamma­ Delta has pledged men from South Africa, Maine and Australia. This world-wide attraction to the University of Arizona is the result of climate. In earl y winter the thennometer registers 80 degrees outdoors. Ther.e is virtually no humidity, so the heat is pleasant. Gamma-Delta presents a cosmopolitan . air and one group of men in the chap­ ter several years ago represented twelve states and two foreign countries. Ruins of old Fort Lowell n ear Because of the climate, outdoor sports Tucson (top) and O ld Main Hall, veteran University of Arizona build­ are popular and the chapter sponsors in g, first to be built on the campus. outdoor affairs the year round. three cuts and abrasions, all minor, gave monkey-like, were scrambling over the the fullest that which you have. (3) us a chance to perform this day. fence. It wasn't just the time nor the Thou shalt exercise diligence in grab­ Next morning, July 4, the station was place to laugh very loudly, but a grin bing a "china-hand" chief to accompany commissioned, and for the first time we did escape us. Two sailors, said to b.e you. (4) Thou shalt keep lively thy heard planes coming into our new post. nuts with the heat, decided to go aloft sense of humor. Cleaning and arranging, sorting sup­ for a spin in the T exas blue sky, and '\.Yell, since all the fancy equipment plies moving in to us via truck daily­ chose the skipper's plane for their has come aboard, screens have shut out so we kept busy. A phone appeared, shennanigans. A yellow peril took off, the bugs, paint is on the walls, and the and none too soon-for shortly after its spotted the escaping miscr.eants, and indoor head is in commission, it is plain installation came our first crash call. the Marines finally caught them. So that our days of pioneering are over. The writer and a pair of corpsmen ended our first crash alann. But we P resident John Stewart B ryan, who swung out with the Packard ambulance have had to watch the skipper's blood pressure ever si nce. was succeeded recently as president for the run to the main landing field. of the College of William and Sure enough, there lay a completely Pioneering graduall y passed, as more Mary by Dr. John Edwin Pomfret, rooms were finished in the dispensary BIT, receives an honorary degree of smashed plane just off the runway. doctor of laws from R ector James Dodging out into the traffic, leading the and more supplies and equipment kept Gordon Bohannon, r and A. fire truck, we came to a stop near the coming. More doctors and more wreck. One aviator, mad as a wet hen corpsmen reported for duty as stood beside the plane, cussing beauti­ the days and weeks passed. And fully. (He was a squadron skipper, by now .us '49ers recall the good old the way.) days and wag our heads telling "Anyone hurt?" we called on the run. newcomers about our difficult "Hell, no!" he bellowed. times back there. "Where are the fliers of the plane?" A few maxims for those about we asked. to pioneer might be of service. "There, by ______)" and he Let us say (l ) Thou shalt keep pointed both hands and head toward the a constant eye on thy supplies. station boundary fence, several hundred (2) Thou might make use of thy yards away, over a gully. Two men, head and ingenuity, utilizi ng to Delta-Alpha Tea Lt. Billy Gray Honors Mrs. Luke Reported Missing and Mrs. Gilbreth In Latin Americas By BRYANT LINE + 2D LT. W 1 L L 1 AM R . Delta-Alpha (BILLY) GRA Y, I , '21, army fl yer, has been missing in action since April 6 in the • D ELTA -A LPH A CHAPTE R Latin Amer ica area, the W ar Depart­ house was the secene of a tea given ment noti fied his parents, Mr. and Mrs. •fay 2 in honor of Mrs. Nina C. Luke, ]. E. Gray, of 3218 Seminar y Ave., Rich­ wife of Col. I . A. Luke, Br, and pa inter mond, Va. of the large portrait of Founder Rob­ Lieutenant Gray is a graduate of ertson H oward which is temporarily Thomas J efferson High School, where hanging in the chapter house. he was both a foo tball and track star. The tea was sponsored by the W ash­ H e went from there to H ampden­ ington Alumni Chapter which had pro­ Sydney, but left in J anuar y, 1942, before vided the funds for the materi als which Pfc. Jimmy Balcer, rT, AZ and graduating, to enli t in the Army Air Mrs. Luke graciously transformed into rx, b and leacler at th e Army Air Corps. an almost life-sized portrait of Founder Forces trainin g center at S t. Peters­ H e was sent first to Santa Ana, Cali f. , bu rg, Fla., got a thrill wh e n Jl" er­ lvr ground work, then to Fort Stockton H oward. Al so a guest of honor was on ica Lalce , on a bond sellin g tour, Mrs. ]. L. Gilbreth, daughter of Foun­ piclc ed him o ut of a crowd back­ a nd Pecos, T ex., for basic tra ining. H is der H oward who cooperated with Mrs. stage. H e is a cou sin o f K en ny work in advanced tra in ing for fi ghter I.uke in many ways throughout the B ak er and lwd worked on the planes was done at Luke Field, Ariz. Paramount lot with Jl" eron ica, but H e received his wings Feb. 6, 1943, artistic enterprise. d idn't think sh e would recognize Original plans were to have had the him in unif orm. and left in March for foreign service. portrait unveiled along with those of Lieutenant Gray is the first member Founders Frederick Sou thgate T aylor + THE March issue of the o f Io ta chapter to be reported m issing and Julian Edward W ood at the open­ monthly supplement to Who's Wh o in or to lose his life in this war. W hile at ing of the Diamond Jubilee celebration America includes the name of Executive Hampden-Sydney, he was a football play­ which was scheduled in Richmo nd this Secretary Freeman H . H art. er and a member o f the track team. year . Conditions resulting from the war Bill y was a member of the fraternity's --Il K A - - brought about a postponemen t of this intramural basketball, softball and convention ; therefore, the alumni chap­ J OHN EGAN CRAw FO RD , Ar , d ied earl y volleyball teams. H e won his letter in ter sought to further honor the artist in May at his home in Ruston, La. football, however. with a tea. Among the man y guests in attendance at this afternoon social were Lt. Col. K. D . Pulcipher, W ayne E. Chambers, president of the alumni chapter; Samuel Rev. H . E. Finger, J r., AI. pastor of First VI/. fcCart, district president, and R ich­ Methodi t Church, Coldwater, Miss. Jack ard A. Abercrombie, alumnus and fo r­ Kin g, AI. was an usher. Former SMC at mer SMC o f Delta-Al pha. Also presen t Alpha-Iota, Murry was alumnus co unselor fo r Gamma-Iota whi le completing his were Mrs. Pulcipher, 1\llrs. Chambers, co urse in medicine at Ole Miss . He has en­ Mrs. Abercrombie, and Mrs. Charles K. roll ed in the Jefferson Medical Co llege at Dunn, wife of the former counselor of Phi ladelphia wh ere he is co ntinuing his Delta-Alpha who is now serving in the medica l co urse. Far East. LT. J . LELAN D GoU RLE Y, BO. and Miss Bi ll ijo Simpson, KKr . April II , 1943, at --TI KA - - Norman, Okla. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ll oyd Simpson, Mr . Gourley studied at • SUBERT T URBY FILL, BO, Christi an College, Misso uri, and niver ity director of the Canal Zone Junior Col­ of Oklahoma before enrolling in a dress lege Players, chose the "Pen thouse" designing co urse at St. Louis. Lieutenant method of presenting "The Bishop 's Go urley served at Fort Sill , Ok la.; Camp Roberts, Calif.; Fort Custer, Mi ch., and Candlesticks," current production b y Ca mp Phillip , Kan. He is special services the players. offi cer fo r the 94th Division. j oHN 0 . McK1 'STRY , rN and n. and Miss - - TI KA-- Beu y Avent, xn. Jan. 30, 1943, at the • LT. (J. G.) EDWA RD s. Church of the Good Sh epherd, Lex ington, PARKS, All, '40, has been decorated for K)'., where McKinstry is engaged in the practi ce of law in Citizens Bank Building. distinguished service in submarine duty. MRS. CHARLES M. MURRY, JR. At home: 75 Hampton Ct. , Lexington, Ky. L. Q, --TIKA-- ENSIGN WILLI AM BRUC KART, and ~H A R L ES M._ i\f RR ~ ' · JR., AI. of Ripley, liss Je sie Fra ncis, At:.!!., June 4, 1942. At • NAT HA NIEL C. DouGHTY, i\! 1 ., and M• s Don Dulaney, xn, Uni ­ home: 6 Patter St., Brunsw ick, Me. JR., BIT, '4 1, has been selected as an in­ versity of Mississ ippi, of Rulev ille, Mi ss., LT. ll YR0:-.1 J. P RUG H, A..Y, '38, and Miss March_ 9, 1943, in First Methodist Church, Eugenie Dilts, t:.t:.tl, Dec. 12, 1942. At structor a t Mercerberg Acad emy, Pa. Rulev il le. T he ceremony was sa id by th e home: Bosto n, Mass. 40 ACTIVE CHAPTER REPORTS BOWLING GREEN 1 n spite of the uncertainty of the future, Delta-Beta chapter is making extensive plans for the future. An office and two basement recreation rooms are additions to the house. A large share of the work was done by the pledges, as Courtesy Night found them painting, hanging ceiling board, driving nails and carrying out a general house cleaning program. A wartime measure featured Delta-Beta's Miss Ma rness Lester Annabelle Applegate has been elect­ annual spring formal with the chapter com­ bining resources with a loca l fraternity in LOUISIANA POLY ed Dream Girl of Alpha-Zeta chap­ dance preparations and talent for carrying Gamma-Psi held its fourth annual for­ ter to reign over nll socials for the out a " ite Club" theme at a Student mal May 8, limited by wartime conditions. coming yenr. Miss Applegate is n Union party. member of Pi Betn Phi sorority, Invitations were sent to the members of Initiated April 28 and their pledge of­ other fraternitie as well as alumni and Boots and Spur, Mixed Chorus, fices were: Andrew Sirak, president; Paul friends. nnd YWCA. She is n junior nt the Hockenadel, vice president; Otto Schoeppler, University of Arknnsas. secretary; Allen Bender, Jim Cryan, Bill For the first time the usual banquet Newkirk, John Collier, Ralph Schrimpf, before the dance was eliminated . As has and Gene Jordon. :been the ruling Ear all dances on the cam­ pus, no decorations were used. Corsages of Permanently Pinned IMC Robert Berardi was recently taken white ca rnations were given to dates and LT. H uG H G. MADDOX , T, son of Mr. and into the army. Elected to replace him was garnet carnations were worn as bouton­ Dave Kroft. With Kroft's election pre­ Mrs. H. T. Maddox, of Douglas, Ga., and nieres by the actives. senting a vacancy in his old corresponding Miss Mildred Herring, daughter of Mr. secretary's office, Dow Mitchell was ap­ At the time of the prese ntation of the and Mrs. R obert Lee Herring, of Geneva, pointed to fill that office. Dream Girl, all actives and pledges and their dates formed a line of two columns Ala., Oct. 24, 1942, at Geneva. At home: IIKA's directed the festivities of the Ohio Camp Blanding, Fla. in the center of the dance floor. Before College Newspaper Association when it con­ the presentation, tokens of our esteem were RoBERT A. EcK, AK, '43, and Miss Dor­ vened at Bowling Green State University given to Dr. H . E. Ruff, faculty sponsor; April 30 and May I. Business manager of othy Frier, of St. Louis, Mo., in February Coach Eddie McLane, faculty advisor; the Bee Gee News, Max Hanke, served as at Fort ' .Yorth, Tex. Eck, a member of the Mrs. Gordon Smith, chapter mother, and business manager of the association and to the dream girl and sweetheart of the Blue Key and Tau Beta Pi honor societies, editor of the News; Dave Kroft was vice preceding year. All past Dream Girls, Mrs. is now a metallurgist at Consolidated Air­ president. Leading the committee discus­ G. ,V, Levert, Mrs. W. C. Cookston, and uaft Corporation. sions were Gene Jordon, News sports editor, Miss Shumpert Barnes, were present. and Robert Speck. LT. JosEPH M. CA NN ON, JR. , AZ , '34-'36, The climax o£ the dance was the intro· and Miss Dorothy Coots, of Jemple, Tex., Social Chairman Paul Myron took over ducing of Miss Marness Lester as Gamma­ on Feb. 13, 1943, at the Episcopalian the reins for the Delta-Beta's spring ac­ Psi's Dream Girl for 1943. The IIICA Spe­ Church, Temple, Tex. At home: 904 E. tivities. A stag party was given May 4 and cial followed , a medley of H oney Moon, a picnic with dates May 15. Adams Ave., Temple, Tex. IfKA GiTI, and The Dream Girl of 1/KA. Dramatic productions have found Phil The dining hall banquet room was the T. L. BAXTER, AK, and Miss Betty Lou Miles, Dayton, serving as stage manager scene for the intermission party. Orange t;locb. At home: 1012 Woodbury, Road, and Lee Meisle, Fremont, 0 ., has partici­ sherbert punch, prepared by the Mothers New Kensington, Pa. pated in debate, speed1 contests, radio Club , was served with cake, sandwiches and broadcasts and all stage productions. He cookies. The icing design for the cake WILBUR R occHIO, BT. and Miss Shirley played the male lead for the campus pro­ was the garnet letters of IIKA on a gold Porter, t;t;t;, Sept. 12, 1942. At home: duction of "We Stoop to Conquer." background. Faculty Club, Boulder, Col. June graduates included Brothers IMC All the SMC's of past years were present THE 1943 edition of SmaTlweed an­ Joe Clague, Max Hanke, Bill Kurrish, and introduced . They were Cavitt Cooks­ 'ton, Harold Gilbert, and Henry Monaghan. nounced the marriage of Alpha-Omegas Eugene Eckel, Wayne Collier, and Nathan Keel.-fames Sullivan. Alumni pre ent included George W. Levert, Bernard Weller and Miss Alice Wallace, Benjamin McLure, Ralph Kirkland, and Robert Corns and Miss Gloria Rau, and --IIK A-- G. T. hinpoch. Orin Dale Whistler and Miss Lois Johnson. Special guests were Mr. and Mrs. D. S. ROB ERT LYON PARKER , JR ., H, SOn Of Mr. Precious Packages •Cook, llfr. and Mrs. ' "'· S. '.Yymond, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Les ter, and Mrs. L. J . Fox. and Mrs. Robert L. Parker, of Birmingham, To BENN ION SPENCER, rE, and Mrs. Spen­ cer, AX!'l, a daughter, ov. 27 , 1942. J!aculty members included President and Ala., and Miss Barbara Catherine Martin, Mrs. Cottingham, Dean and Mrs. Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall D. To. LT. B. RusH CowHERD III, A, and Mi ss Caroline Choo·an, dean of women; Martin, of New Orleans, May 3 at Carroll­ Mrs. Cowherd, a son, Benjamin Rush Cow­ Miss Gussie Ayres, Miss Mildred Walker. ton Avenue Presbyterian Church, New herd IV, Jan. 29, 1943, at Scott Field, Ill. and Miss Annie Tucker. Orleans. Dr. Arden Howell, alumnus ew initiates are Bill Cowan, Edward counselor of Eta was best man, and Leon­ To DR. W. ARTHUR GEORGE, r~. and Mrs. Stephans, Earl Smith, Don Fisher, Walter ard King, John Hill and Mi chael Bagot, all George, Pittsburgh, Pa., a son, W . A. (Bill) Edwards, Horace Williams, and Harry of Eta, were groomsmen. George, J r., Dec. 23, l!H 2. Welch.-T. G. Harkey. GEORGE WASHINGTON expansion of good-fell owship into the far corners of the earth to weld the world into CoNFRO• TJNG brothers a t the Washington, a more near\ y perfect economic and social D. C., observance of the founding of Pi Kappa Alpha 75 years ago was the pre­ organization was another expressed hope. dominant ques ti on before all fraternities The banquet wa concluded with the during this time of war: survival. singing of some of the favorite TIKA songs. The underlying theme of all the talks lt seemed like old times a t the Delta­ given was the pressing need for do er co­ Alpha chapter house ~ray 29 when the operati on between the active chapters, ligh ts were turned on tn t!1e garden, the alumni chapters and National Offices. radio was turned on upslatrs a nd all the The celebration in the wa rtime capitol former members of the chapter li ving 01 was a scene of simple eloquence as approxi­ sta tioned hereabouts ga thered for a party mately 97 of the brothers gathered Feb. 28 arranged by Pvt. Fred Stevenson, former at the Hotel H arrington for breakfast. social chairman and present ThC. The Brother William R ogers, ex-congressman affair was a combination of a ho mecoming from Oklahoma, served as toastmaster. party for the former brothers, a Victory Rall y for the present students whose pa rt)' In speeches by Lt. Col. K. D. Pulcipher, won the recent student elections, and a National Secretary; Samuel McCart, district regular Saturday night affair for those president, and Samuel Dowd y, president of living in the chapter ho use. Delta-Alpha chapter, the cry went out for A cup to the member of the chapter tak­ closer coopera tion. Colonel Pulcipher pre­ ing part in the most ca mpus activities se nted congratulations, on behalf of the during the yea r went to Jim Rausch. T he ·ational Counsel, to the Delta-Alpha chap­ Pierson-Willia ms presented by L t. Eugene ter for their achievements in the past year Crowe, of 1 he Army Air Corps, SMC Wil­ and brought forth the fact that every sup­ liam E. Carver, J r., the most outstanding port is being given and will continue to be pledge of las t year. given to the chapters thro ughout the co un ­ try d uring the present crisis. Charter members of Delta-Alpha who were present also included Alvin Parrish, MAJ. CHARLES K. DUNN Dowd y gave a report on the activi ties and Paul J. Foley, Lt. (s. g.) J ohn Maloney, status of the Delta- lpha chapter. He d is­ Lt. Q. g.) Ellison Neal and Pvt. Fred Steven­ J oseph Neiswonger. One of the three new closed that six-sevenths of the actives were son. Members of the local a ttending were initiates, J ohn C. i\ lcG innis, is scheduled now in the service of their country but gave George H . Ro bison, Jr., Cris Cagle, Capt. for the Army Air Corps, and MC Burton assurance that the cha pter would wea ther Fred Belen, Harold Minor, and Timothy K. Lincoln is headed for the Army accord ­ the storm. S\\·etl. Alumni mingling in the crowd were ing to the la test report from his dra ft T he alumni were urged to lend no t onl y Lt. Col. K. D. Pulcipher, Maj. John Hub­ board. This will leave the chapter at it> moral support, but physical and construc­ ba rd, Samuel W. McCart, Maj. Charles lowest ebb ince the sta rt of the war. ti ve aid to their chapters by •lcCa rt. Ad­ Ca mpbell , Ensign B. W. Line, and Capt. Custom of selecting a Dream Girl each vice and guidance would be gratefully ac­ William G. Davis. Those now married year lives on at Delta-Alpha. Although th e cepted by a ll active chapters and would were accompanied by their wives. R epre­ affa ir could not be held at one of the present a splendid opportunity for the senting two of the cha rter members who downtown hotels this yea r, the dining room brothers to become fully acquainted. are now serving overseas were Mrs. Anne and lantern-lit garden made a beautiful An nouncement was made of the loss of Cole, wife of Lt. (s. g.) Clark Cole, first setting for the semi -formal radio dance Maj. Charles K. Dunn as advisor to the SMC of Delta-Alpha, and Mrs. Inga R . early in May. H ook, wife of Lt. (s. g.) Lester ]. Hook. Delta-Alpha chapter. In appreciation for At intermission, the brothers gathered his long itHerest and helpful ad vice, the Officers elected for the summer were around the piano and sang The Dream chapter presented him with a gift. Imme­ William E . Craver, J r., SMC; Richard Girl of ll KA . On the second refrain, diately following this presenta ti on, a plaque Speaker, I MC; Fred Stevenson, ThC; and which was hummed, the final line was the was awarded to Richard Abercrombie who Frank Ed McA near, h istorian . Officers signal for the opening of the curtains was voted the outstanding member of the replaced were Sam Dowdy, SMC; Craver, which concealed a la rge photograph of th!! chapter for the past year. His name is to IMC; McAnear, ThC; and Jim R a usch, Dream Girl framed within the diamond be engraved on the third metal pla te there­ historian. Plans for bi -monthly meetings center of a large badge. T he lights were on, following that of Fred Stevenson who d uring the summer were made. snapped off, and a spotlight was thrown won the plaque during the first two years on the picture. T he brothers sang the of its existence. Stevenson is now a mem­ Sometime within the nex t two months chorus again, and the lights came on, at nearl y half of the present number of ac­ ber of the armed forces and is stationed which time Sam Dowdy called Miss Peggy tives in Delta-A lpha are expected to enter at Camp Lee, Va. J a mes, t..Z . and presented to her a small the armed forces. Signed as Marine R e­ loving cup engraved " Dream Girl of TIKA. R ev. Henry T. St. George T ucker was serves are R obert Sulli van, Jim Ra usch, 1913." the concluding speaker and gave his view Jim Graham, R obert J ackson, and Sam on a post-war world based upon spiritual Dowdy. The Army Medical Corps is claim­ Executive Secretary Freeman H. H art, facts and uni versal understanding. The ing former SMC Edward i\f cGarry and Samuel W . McCart, president of District 4b, and Wayne E. Chambers, presi dent of the \'l' ashington Alumni Chapter, were guests of Delta-Alpha a t its initiation ceremon y May 15. The initiation, which was presided over by SMC Sam Dowdy, made brothers of J ohn C. McGinnis, Wil­ li am B. Calomeris and Dale M. Davis. Following the ceremony refreshments were served by Mrs. Crocker, the house mother. Delta-Alpha now has a voice in the administration of the Student Council of George Washington University. As a result r f the recent student elections, William E. Crave r, Jr., was chosen activities director which makes him chairman of the ac­ tivities council placed over the 90 organiza­ tions on the campus. Another cup adorns the trophy room as At left are S amuel Do·wdy, presi­ Anclrews, A.; Ex-Congressman Wit­ a result of the hard-hitting, hard-pitching dent of Delw-Alpha, and Way ne limn Rogers, of Oklahoma; Harry softball tea m's success this year. After a E. Chambers, president of the C. Cook, BE, ancl Samuel W. Mc­ series of games producing keen inlet ­ Washington Alumni Chapter. At Cart, AT. Rogers was toastmaster fraternity competition, Delta-Alpha was de­ right are, from left: Burt Williams at the breakfast. clared the softball champions of 1942-4!1 . 42 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY Iota chapter continues to have the most successful year in its long and colorful existence. Under the most capable leader­ ship of its SMC Jim Peden, and with the fine cooperation of the chapter as a whole, Iota led the ca mpus in the number of men pledged. It was through the efforts of Brothers Fox, Pugh, Chitwood, Jeffreys and others that we pledged the following 21 freshmen : Edward Ara.pian, Washington, D. C.; James Arbuckle, Maxwelton, W. Va.; George Beam, Staunton, Va.; Eddie Campbell, Charlottesville, Va.; Glenn Campbell, Staunton, Va .; Alonzo Chisholm, Richmond, Va.; Claibourne Craddock, L ynchburg, Va.; Junius Crowgey, W ytheville, Va.; Bill Fitz­ gerald, Clarksville, Va .; ed Flanagan , Richmond, Va.; Jeff H awley, ·w ynnewood , Pa.; Bill Houtz, Rutledge, Pa.; J ohn Kell y, Richlands, Va .; Reigh Peck, Danville, Va.; Kent Pobst, Grundy, Va. ; Bill y Rouse, New­ port News, Va.; Wall ace Rowe, Achilles, Va .; Ronald Shiflett, Richmond, Va.; J. C. Turlington, Hilton Village. Va.; George Cooper, Richmond, Va.; Douglas La yman, Staunton, Va. The following upperclassmen were also pledged : Andy Tuck, Clarksvill e, Va., and \>\'alter Tunstall, Blackstone, Va . Of this pledge class Arapian, Beam, Fitz­ gerald, Flanagan, Hawley, Pobst, Rowe, Turlington and Tuck have been initiated. On March 13 the fraternity journeyed to Lynchburg for a party at the Oakwood Country Club. This affair proved such a great success that another one was held April 10. The chapter has lost a great many of Miss Martha Dunson, of LaGrange, Ga., carrying roses is the 1943 Dream its members to the armed services. Com­ Girl of Alpha-Mu chapter. S he was formally presented in March at the bellick, T haxton, Galusha, Arapian, Pobst, last formal of the winter season, h elcl (lt the Georgian Hotel at Ath ens. Holland, Thomas, Arbuckle, Eddie Camp­ War stamps were the price of admission to the ballroom. From left, are: bell, Glenn Campbell, and Kelly were in Miss Rosemary Wynn, C.u~, of Glenwood, Ga.; SMC Johnny Youmans, the Enlisted R eserve Corps and they were Miss Dunson, an.d George Hulme. Miss Dunson was croumecl precedi.ng called on March 16. The Air Corps R eserve the lead-out by Miss Wynn aml Youman s as the orchestra played " The called James and Profitt. "Scrub" ewbill Dream Girl of IIKA." is now a Naval Cadet sta tioned at the U ni­ versity of Virginia and Pledge Chisholm is in the Marines at Parris Island, S. C. MISSOURI MINES Alpha-Kappa held its annual formal spring dance at the house on April 3. T he TRAVELING SECRETA RY CHARLES L. FREE ­ On March 22 the chapter elected the Va rsity orches tra was featured . MAN visited the chapter April 8- 10. H e following officers: Les li e Paugh, SMC; congratulated the chapter on its excellent Officers: Willis H. Clark, SMC; Robert All an Fox, IMC; Lewis Brandon , SC; Wil­ L. Ehrlich, Jr., IMC; Louis A. Hartcorn, liam Eskridge, ThC; Andy Tuck, MS, and condition despite the troubled times of today. ThC; Robert W. H arlow, house manager; Alvis Jeffreys, MC. H erman F. Schalk, SC, and Arthur J. Bush , Former SMC Peden was notified to re­ Initiated April 9 were Robert Murray, pledgemaster. port to the Midshipman School at Co­ William Rutledge, St. Louis; J ohn D. King, Eleven actives and pledges have either lumbia University-Lewis E. H . Brandon. University City, and Robert H amelmann, been ca lled in the draft or have volun­ Alton, Ill. teered in some branch of the armed forces since the beginning of this year.-T eddy R . PENNSYLVANIA ThC Louis H artco rn beca me a member of T heta Tau, a professional engineering TVolfarth. Pete Fedi, Clyde Newman, and Tom society. This society se lects its members Tabor have returned to the University of from those students who excel in per­ Pennsy lvania to take graduate work after WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY sonality, grades and acti vities. leaves of absence. AR~ I Y R ESERVES were call ed up at \>\' as h­ ington Uni versity ]\1[arch 15. Beta-Lambda Don Titlow, ass isted by the rest of the Summertime forest fire control in the Ozarks has become primaril y a problem in lost J ohn Bowden, R obert Evans, Ottmar cast of the Freshman Mask and Wig Show, G rebe, J ohn Kern, and Arthur Forsyth . gave an excell ent performance March 19. getting manpower. Alpha-Kappa, in co n­ junction with the State Fores try Service, About the sa me time Pl edge H arold Wink­ About eighteen fell ows from the house took ler was drafted. Donald Brueggeman re­ their dates to the performance, and re­ has donated its services to the fire fight­ cently left for meteorology training. ing program. turned to the house for an informal dance After the Army Reserves left new of­ after the show. Last month the cup for the annual ficers were elected . They are: SMC, Arthur Pledges: Ted Mann, Ed Gniewk, Bill Bridge Tournament was won by Alpha­ Sartorius; JMC, Todd Forsyth; ThC, Oliver Dryer, and Ed Smojinski. Kappa. T he champions, Louis Hartcorn Wilke, and C, Carl Hermann. and Robert H arlow, went th rough the en­ The Mother's Club held a Sil ver TeJ on Bill Young, president of Beta Pi has tire tournament without los ing a ga me. !fay 4. T he Mothers recently purchased worked up a spring spurt of enthusiasm new linoleum for the kitchen and the boys for lacrosse. Bill Morrow, H arry Mills, T rack ca ndidates: Arthur J . Bush , Alfred had work day the preceding Saturday in George "Lynch" Garibaldi, and Larry Zuk S. ltterman, and Pledge Glennon J. Walsh. order to have the linoleum down before are going out for the team.-George E. Both Bush and ltterman are lettermen of th e tea. The tea was well attended by O'Connor. previous seasons. both active and alumni mothers. T he spring term ended May 22. The chap ter will remain active through the summer as it d id last year. Rushing plans are well under way. Gradua tes: Robert 1• Saveland, A.B. Sophomore honors: George L. Trigg; G. R obert Van H outen. New Initia tes: H en ry W arren Kunce, '46, Ki rkwood; Richa rd R aymond Cohen , '46, St. Louis. Pledges: Gordon · N ielson, '47; Robert O'Neil, '47 ; Kurt Krieger, '47 ; Willia m R eed, '47 .- R obert . Savelanc;l .

1\USSISSIPPI STATE T I·IE ARM Y speciali zed training progra m has come to Mississ ippi Sta te Coll ege for the dura tion and the proverbial college boy is Three prominent members of Iota E. Madison Chitwood, president­ practically gone. Since the fi r t of this chapter include, from left: IMC elect of the Student Council. Fox year a Army Officer Cand ida te School, Allen Fox, SMC Leslie P_ugh, ancl also is editor of the school annual. Army Pre-flight, and Army R ad io School have taken over i\•lain Dormitory, Mont­ gomery Hall. the Business Educa tion Build· F. Smith, sergeant, coast artillery; Eugene somewhat of a handicap witho ut a house. ing, the Cafeteria, the T extile Building, T . R oberts, sergeant, coast a rtillery; Frank A meeting place has been provided by and sections of other build ings on the vVa tt Gwin, sergeant, infantry; Ira B. Me· Dean Lukken, our faculty sponsor. Alumni campus. Cullen, sergeant, infantry.- ]immie B . have been very helpful a t rush parties. Allred. Stag partie with both the acti ves and the Most of the regular college students are alumni rushing has proven very effecti ve. in the E. R . C. or some other reserve, and when these are called, on or near the end SOUTHWESTERN A barn dance was given June 12. T he of this semes ter, Sta te College is to have annual spring dance was given in the J ack Harris, Curtis Nelson and David U ni versity g)'lll and was quite successful. an Army Engineering School. T his will J oll y, all of Memphi , have been initiated put Sta te College on a 100% wartime basis. by Theta chapter. Eight of the men sta rt­ Many acti ve mem bers left in July for ITKA alumni in the pre-flight school are ing the college year have been called to the the services. To the Marines went SMC Jack Wash, K; Art Webber, A ~ ; Chuck armed services. Lloyd Richa rds, \ .Yayne Pitcock, J a mes Stein, A~ ; Elmer Rundy (P), A ~ ; J ames Shebesta, a nd J ack Murphy. T he Navy W illia m Kendall has been elected SMC; Rock, AA; J ohn Smith, Ae. call ed lMC Floyd Gates, T hC Gene Small, Howard Hurt, IMC, and Curtis elson, Ridgley Bond, and Don W yman . R eggie Gamma-Theta chapter held the annual T hC. Sgaw is leaving for Wes t Point in July. " Valentine Dance" in the college cafeteria Taylor Collins went to the Army and on Feb. 13. Mrs . D. L. Doll y, Sr., has given the chapter a service fl ag with 25 stars on it. Dewey Erickson to the Navy. T he ITKA dance upheld the tradition of being the biggest and most enjoyed frater­ Social affairs include a party for former nity dance of the year. T he dance began SMC W arner Hodges, who was gradua ted EMORY a t 8 p. m. and lasted till midnight. T he May 25, one a t the home of Mrs. J . H . Beta-Kappa chapter continued its glory program for the evening consisted of four T rinner a nd another at Mrs. Jolly's home. on the sporting fi eld winning two ca mpus no-breaks, a IIKA Jeadout and a visitors championships, wrestling and softball. Jeadout. Music for the evening was fur­ Charles Kleisch , AN, is a n air cadet at nished by Cha rley Banks, and his So uthern­ Southwestern and has visited the chapter. Although the Army, Navy and Marines aires. Other visitors are Ensign J ohn lies and have taken a heavy toll , the cha pter has Seaman Will Bowdon, both of T heta.­ been in the top ranks a t Emory. Members · The ITK A's and their da te were enter­ William Kendall. leaving for the armed forces are: Joe Me· tained at an intermiss ion party in the Grill. Lell and, George Eby, Obie Lawson, Don Chaperons for the evening were Maj. TULANE Spicer, Bill Robinson, J ohn Thurman , a nd Mrs. J . R . Buntyn, Cap t. and Mrs. Frank Bowers, R obert Rutherford, and J . B. Small, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Briger, and Eta chapter has ·25 men re turning to Bill Hogan . •lr. H. L. Cole. school in July, assuring ano ther successful year. T he chapter had a Mother's Day func· Pledges: George Wade, '4 6, Glen Allen. Li on with R ev. E. G. Ma ttingly as speaker. ew offi cers are: William C. Owen, A combina tion weiner roast and treasu re Initiates: Edwin Pra tt, '46, Greenville; SMC; John A. Fitzgerald, IMC; Peter M . T homas Kirk, '46, Benentonia; J ack Fran · hunt, and a num ber of house dances have Ferguson, SC; Arthur W . Foss, MC, and been given. ces, '46, Amory; Jimmie B. All red , '45 , J ohn G. Hill, Jr., MS. Crys tal Springs; William C. Pt: rry, '46, New officers arc: Bill H olt, president; Tchula; J oe F. Sanderson, '46, H azelhurst; J ay Fanz was elected president of the J ohn T hurman, vice president; Quillia n J ames Cade, '46, Lexington; Homer Me­ commerce student body. Alan R obinson Ha m by, treasurer; Frank Pa rrigan, secre­ • amera, '45, Stoneville; J ohn Stoll, '45, and Kenny Miller were named pres ident tary, and W alter Rushin, MS . Green wood; Sam H aley, '44, Hickory; a nd vice president, respectively, of the Hubert Pray, '46, McComb. sophomore cl ass. Spicer was on the swimming tea m. Mem­ bers of the Glee Club included Spice1, Honorary societies: Joe F. Sanderson, Owen was chosen editor of j ambalaya, the T ulane yearbook. T odd R eboul was Olin Freeman, Charlie Carpenter, and Roy Colonel Club, Phi E ta Sigma; Walter Bour­ Hubbard. On the Interfraternity Council land, Colonel Club, Phi E ta Sigma; George elected president of Taffrail Club, a nd install ed as ba ttali on sub-commander of are Holt and Lawson . Deba ting forum W ade (P), Colonel Club; Billey McKinney, were J . Thurman and H olt.- W alter R ushin. Kappa Mu Epsilon; Frank Dismukes, Kappa the aval ROTC. Leonard King and Mu Epsilon. George McCaskey were named to Kappa Delta Phi. Class officers: J ack Frances, secretary, ARKANSAS freshman cl ass; ·walter Bourland, pres ident, T he socials of Alpha-Ze ta have been very sophomore cl ass; Frank York, vice presi­ TULSA outstanding on the Uni ve r ity of Arka nsas dent, senior cl ass. Ga mma-Upsilon opened the summer campu . With a dinner d ance in Ma rch ROTC offi cers: Frank York, lieutenant, session by pledging eight men with four and a spring formal in April, IT KA has coast artillery; Clarence R . Hughes, lieu­ more as prospects. T hose pledged were topped the social life. The d inner da nce tenant, coast artillery; Willia m R . Kil­ Tommy Arrington, Don W entworth, Ma u­ was high-lighted by the presence of the patric, lieutenant, infantry; Dan W . Davis, rice Beck, Brady Steil , Pa ul W a tkins, Bill outstanding students on the campus. The lieutenant, coast a rtillery; Bernard Albert Lively, Bill Madden, and Jim Gassoway. chapter house was decorated with flowers J ordan, lieutenant, coast a rtillery; Edmund T he chapter ha fo und r ushi ng under of the garnet and gold. Music was furnished 14 hy the V club. The formal was staged April 2, in the ballroom of the Student Union. The high spot of the evening was the announcement of the new Dream Girl, Miss Annabelle Applegate, IIBcf>. Picnics and hayrides are being planned for the closing weeks of college. Recent intramurals added another win for IIKA. Dick Roberts won the feather­ weight championship in boxing. Advancing to the semi-finals were \ Va ll ace Sm ith, Alex Curtis, and Charles Williams. James Trim­ ble won second place in the 137-lb. weight division of the wrestling. IIKA won second in the ping-pong tourney Ia t month. IIKA had among thei r engineers, St. Pat, the highest honorary title in the Col­ lege of Engineering. He is Joe Weisiger, who is also business manager of the A1·· kansas Engineer, the official publication, and a member of the Engineers Consul. As Knights of St. Pat were five other IIKA's. There were L. 0. Gregory, Gene Leggett, Wally Hunton, R obert Tarty, and Ralph Dougherty. Alpha-Zeta made the highest grade point of all social fraternities last semester and won the interfraternity plaque for out· standing scholarsh ip. On the All-Southwes t Conference basket­ ball team, IIKA claimed one on the first team. H e is Clayton \'\lynne, who was chosen hy both the Associated Press and the nited Press. ' '\lynne was co-captain of the Arkansas R azorbacks the past year. Seven IIKA's were initiated las t month in the ABC club, the official booster cam­ pus organization. Initiated were Richard Roberts, Alex Curtis, Merril Osborn, George tevenson, Wallace Smith, Jack Carrol, and William Bordalum. This initiation brought up IIKA's number of members to 13. The other six in ABC are Dick Metca lf, James A. P ence, Sam Ratcliffe, William tovall , Gamma-Delta closed a successful ices at the end of the college year. M. D. Johnso n, and H erschel Wells. year with all financial obligations Top row, left to right: Robert Mc­ At the chapter meeting March 22 , four paid and a surplus remaining for Nally, J. Measel and John Brax­ initiates were elected to the executive gov­ next year. One of the outstanding ton. Center row: Richard Olbert, erning board of Montice ll o Association, social events was a "Oil Boom Dick Aldrich, B. B. Baker, Joe the association to build and maintain a Town" costurne dance. A swillt­ Rabb, Roy H enderson and Jack new fraternity hou e for the chapter. Elect­ ming party at R eid's Ranch, a Midkiff. Front row: William Hall, ed were: L. 0 . Gregory, Gene Leggett, Bill citrus farm, was successful. Eleven W. R. Roney, Lottie Anclerson and Stovall , and Jame Gardner. The board rnentbers we11t to the armed serv- T. E. Piereo. consists of four initiates and four alumni. The alumni are: Bunn Bell , W . S. Gregson, Vance Scurlock, and Henry Warton. ome humorous incidents of his long stay On May 8 the chapter gave a stag party Initiated: Gene Leggett, Dick Metcalf, here. tor the new pledges at the Faye tteville Fred Reinmiller, George Armstrong, L. 0 . R alph Dougherty, voted outstanding me­ Citv Park. Gregory, Julian H arris, Jack Holt, Charles chanica l engineer of his class. New office r are: Bob Smith, president; Lane, Tilton Phillip, James Trimble, J. B. Robert Tardy, B.S. in M.E., a member Bill Stovall , vice presidl'!nt; Sonny Gardner, Johnson, R . L. Smith, H erschel Wells, Wil­ of Theta Tau. treasurer and house manager; ]. D. O'Hara, liam Muncy, Gene Cloninger, Ed Dobbs, Dick Metcalf, B.S. in business administra­ secretary; M. D. Johnson , historian; George Lewis Feltz, James Gardner, Robert Gosdin, tion, Scabbard and Blade, Pershing Rifles , Stevenson , corresponding secretary; Joe Otis Parham, William Stovall, M. D. John­ president of Arkansas Boosters Clu b, Pub- Martin, alumni secretary: Wally Smith, so n, Joe Martin, ]. D. O'H ara, Wallace 1i ca tions Board, Social Chairman, R azor­ chall enger: Di ck R oberts, pledge mas ter. Hunton, Sam Ratcliffe, Charles Williams, back Directory Business Manager, Inter­ Bob Smith has been elected president Robert Tarty, Robert Brown, Bi ll y Plaster, fraternity Council , Commerce Guild, of the Interfraternity Council. James Pence, Louie Walter, Bill H olt, El­ Pres ident of IIKA, Who's \<\' ho in American Summer rushing has begun under the bert Hiller, Cary Ashley, Wallace Martin, Coll eges and Universities. d irection of Sonny Gardner, Bill Stovall , Buddy Dickson, T . R. Wilson, Jack Carrol, Louie Walter, B.S. in business adminis­ and J . D. O 'H ara. Hugh Curnutt, Floyd Jackson, William tration, president of Junior Class, Un i­ Manning, Wallace Moore, Merrill Osborne, versity Theater, Scabbard and Bl ade, Alpha NEW HAMPSHIRE Richard Robert , Mack Sawyer, ·w all ace Kappa Psi, Commerce Guild, ODK presi ­ Eleven pl edges moved into the Garnma- Smith, George Stevenson, William Borde­ dent, Guild Ticker Staff, R azorback Direc­ 1u house when ervice men took over Jon, Jack Jackson, and J ack Carroll. tory Editor, and Who's Who in American dormitories and a rea l brotherhood was Visitors: J ack Williams, re; Traveling Coll eges and Universities. formed. But not for long as all actives Secretary Charles Freeman, BA; Lester Tardy and Legget are leaving soon to ivere ca lled into the service at the end of Knoch , AZ- take jobs in the engi neering department of the term. Highlight for May was a banquet in the Doug-las Aircraft Company of Long Vi c dances were week-end affairs, ar­ honor of gradua ting members. Dr. Austen Beach, Calif. ranged by Jim Tennant. Cadet Bill Wid­ Venable, fa culty advisor, as toastmas ter, ln the intramural track meet our out-. ger, stationed at Massachu etts Institute introduced the following members: standing star wa Bill Bordelon. Bill placed of Technology, made mos t of them. Lawrence Gregory, outstanding civil both in the low hurdles and the 100- ami Chaperones for the spring formal were engineer of his class, who after the bJnquet 220-yard clashes. Dick Roberts and Bob 'Major and l\[rs. Gage and Mr. and Mrs. was presented with a SMC key. H e is a Gosdin both in the dashes and the relay. Thomas. member of Theta Tau, professional engi­ Gosdin is a former star of Little Rock Gamma-Mu was entered in the ping­ neering fraternity. (Ark.) High School. Bordelon, R oberts, pong tourney, but was eliminated. Gene Legget, B.S. in C.E., who brought Gosdin, and Wallace Smith won second in Frank Michel was pledged during the a lighter side to the meeting by telling of th:: relay. spring term.-Kenneth H askell. 45 War Over in '44 IN A YMPOSIU~ I in The Daily Californian for Jan. 14, J ack Block, [A~] . '44, gave a reply to the question "When Do You Think the War Will Terminate?'' Bl ock is chair· man of the War Transportation Board. His answer follows: " I am going into the Army soon , and I wi ll be back by the fa ll of 1945. The European war wi ll be over in 1944. I base my predict ions on the fact tha t I think Japane e material i ~ inferior. When America gets a chance to Eight things out man to man and machine to machine, I'll lay my ch ips on Ameri ca every time."

- - nKA -- Formula for Freedom " I T IS MY unwavering convicti on that the Baplist message, wh ich is another wa y of sayi ng the Virgin, 1 ew Testament m es~ age , is the all -snEEicient antidote for potsonous ev ils of our world. Our people need to know and practice the glorious truth of Christ if we are to be made free pirituall y, politicall y or an y other way."- Paul G. Laurence Curry, n, le ft, production guest of Maj. Gen. S teph en G. PT orncr, AJ\, in comment on teaching Bap· manager of the R e production De­ H enry, commanding officer of the tist doctrine in the Sunday Schools, Western partment of the Armored Force school. From left are Curry, Lt. R ecorder, Feb. 4, 1943. School, Fort Knox, Ky., explained John }. Egan, General H enry and the work of the plant to Dr. H. L. Dr. Donuvan. General Henry rww --nKA-- Donovan, president of the Uni­ commands the 20th Armored versity of K entucky, right, who was Division. Courses Offered Service Men ILLINI in the service may be too busy to think about doing school work in their strike to immediate draft, but also make spare time, but if they care to do a liLLi e those responsible for strikes or slowdowns studying- on the side, they can- and get DKA Scrapbook in the producti on of war material liable University credit for it. This is the new to a maximum fine of $2,000 and two years' announcement of the vVar Institute, told imprisonment.- The Associated Press. the Alumni News several days ago by Prof. Explains Wooden Guns Robert B. Browne, [B H), d irector of Uni· THE CA PIT AL of the United States-wooden --llKA-- versi ty extension. guns a nd all- has one of the finest anti· If yo u want detailed information on the aircraft defenses in the world, Rep. J ohn J . Inflation vs. Wage Pact subject, write the A lumni News or Director Sparkma n, [rAj. (D., Ala.) told the ho use O NLY if guiding hands in governmental Browne, Illini H all , Champaign. today. · ranks permit prices to run away and plunge The plan has been approved by the Uni· Sparkman, a member of the House Mili­ the country into inflation will the famous versity's War Committee of which Dean tary Affairs Committee and a reserve anti­ " Little Steel-15 per cent wage increase" A. ]. J-l arno (Law), is chairman.- 1//inois aircraft artillery officer, explained to his formula be broken, Dean Wayne Morse, Al11nmi N ews. coll eagues jnst how the wooden battery public member of the National W ar Labor manued by a dummy gun crew came to be Board, said recently at Knoxville, Tenn. atop the new Ho use Office Building. 'The 15 per cent formula will have to He said the capital's anti-aircraft defense continue," he emphasized, " and it won't system sw itched last year from use of change unless conditions today change. If .50-ca li ber mach ine guns to the heavier and government offi cials fail in thei r jobs and more effi cient Bofors gun. le t prices run away, then the formula wi ll " Because the range of the Bofors was be broken. But a 22 per cent rise in living greater, we d id no t need so man y of them," costs, which has been claimed, is no jus­ he sa id. ".Furthermore, some of the roof tification for breaking it, because standards supports which formerly mounted .50- of living are not handicapped to the point caliber machine guns weren't heavy enough where war production is hurt. to handle the Bofors. " "Let me predict that conditions today However, he sa id, the a rmy fe lt it would are ideal compared to what they'll be a not be good strategy to do away entirely year from now," he continued. " We'll be with an y of the gun emplacements after competing to make sacrifices instead of the people- including congressmen- got complaining at sacrifices. u ed to seei ng them. "The Little Steel formula will continue T herefore, he explained , wooden guns as the controlling fa ctor, and labor won 't were substituted.-United P•·ess, Feb. 24. suffer, because the formula permits adjust· ments to be made in individual cases. --llKA-- " I a m fi rmly convinced that the board has made an excellent record of proving W ouJd Draft Strikers that Democracy can work," he declared. Three leading high sclwol football Swwr co ngressional acti on to discourage " It has given labor and management a coaches in Birmingham are fiKA's. s1rikes and industrial slowdowns by making voting voice, and it's a great credit to the They are, from le ft: Malcolm participants immediately eligible for mili­ board members that they can r ise above Laney, rA, Woocllawn High; Buddy tary ervice was advocated by Representa­ partisanship and actually vote against their De Yatn[Jert, !!., 'Ensley High, and tive Colmer, [AT) , Democra t, of Mis issippi. constituents despite much pressure. The Ernest T eal, !!., West E rul High. "There is need for some action imme­ real credit of the success of the board goes Laney's tearn has won the cham­ diately because of the number of strikes to the labor a nd industry representatives pionship /or the last / our years and slowdowns that have occurred in recent for their statesmanship and unyielding de· and T ecrl's tea11t has b een runner­ months," he said, "and I am for a showdown termination to carry out President Roose­ up for the last two years. D e­ on this iss ue right away." velt's orders of stabilizing relations between Yampert's teams consistently make Colmer has introduced a measure which labor and management."-Douc BEAN, The a creditable showing. would not only subject those engaged in a Knoxville j ournal, Feb. 18, 1942. 46 AI.PHA, 1 . Univeuity of Virginia. University. GAMMA-GAMMA, 13b. University of Denver . Va. IIKA House. 513 Rugby Road. Ra lph M. Denver. Col. IIKA House. 2001 S. York St . Scott. AC. L. P . Haden . National Bank and William Jolly. AC. C. E. Mitton , 1625 Broad­ Trust Company. Charlottesville. Va. way. Denver. Col. BETA, Sa, Davidson College, Dav idson, N . C. GAMMA-DELTA, 15. University of Arizona . Tus­ IIKA Lodge on Campus . Archibald A. Farrar. can, Ariz. IIKA House, William C. H all, AC, Box 232. AC. E . F. Shewmake, Davidson . N. C. UNDERGRADUATE Gene C. Reid. Box 1513. GAMMA, 1 , William and Mary College . Wil­ GAMMA-EPSILON, l o . Utah State Agricultural liamsburg. Va. IIKA House . William M. Har­ Co' lege . Logan. Utah. IIKA House . 290 N. rison, Jr., 221 Richmond Rd. AC. Dr. ) . E. 2d. East. Russell T . j ohnson. AC. Harold M. Pate. William and Mary College. CHAPTERS Peterson . 571 Boulevard. Logan. Utah. DELTA, 9. Birmingham-Southern College, Bir­ GAMMA-ETA, 17 . University of Southern Cali­ mingham , Ala. IIKA Room on Campus. Bir­ fornia . Los An gelo.. Calif. IIK A House . 2121 mingham-Southern College, Rex H. Windham. S. Figueroa. John W . Williams. AC. Dr. Guy AC. Ben Englebert. Birmingham-Southern Col. COAST TO COAST V an Buskirk. 220 Security Bldg. ZETA, 8 . University of T ennessee. Knoxville, GAMMA-T HETA, !Ia. Mississippi State College. Tenn. IIKA House . 1305 W . Clinch Ave .. State College . Miss. llKA House. College William H. Reeder. AC. Frank Fulton, Fulton Drive. Lee Gibbs Kirk. AC. Maj. J. R. Buntyn. Sylphon Company, Knoxville. T enn. The number following chaprer name is tht State College. Miss. ETA, lib. Tulane University, New O rleans, La. district in which locatl.'d. Where P. 0. Box u GAMMA-IOTA. II a University of Mi.sissiooi. IIKA House . 1470 Joseph St .. William C. Owen. given use that for mail. First name given is of University. Miss. IIKA Lodge. Douglas Jen­ AC. Dr. Arden Howell . 1430 Tula ne Ave. SMC. A C indicates alumnus counsdor. nings. Box 312. AC. Rev. W . ) . Cunningham. THETA, Ita. Southwestern University, Memphis. Oxford, Miss. T enn. TIKA Cha pter Room . William W . Ken­ ALPHA-TAU, 16 . University of Utah. Salt Lake GAMMA-KAPPA, 18 . Montana State College . da ll . AC , J. M . Buck. Plough. Inc .. Box 262. City. Utah. IIKA House. 51 N . Wolcott Ave .. Bozeman . Mont. IIR A House. 502 S. Grand . IOTA, 1 , Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden­ Eugene Overfelt. AC. Floyd U. Goates. 1253 David W . Lane. AC . Merril G . Burlingame. Sydney, Va. II KA Lodge on Campus. Leslie L. E. 1th St. 812 s. Eighth. Pugh. AC, P . Tulane Atkinson , Ha mpden­ ALPHA-PHI, 12 . Iowa State College, Ames, Ia . GAMMA-LAMBDA. I . Lehigh University. Bethle­ Sydney College. llK A House. 211 2 Lincoln Way, John H. hem. Pa. IIKA House. 306 Wyandotte . St .. ltAPPA, 8 . Transy lvania Cpllege, Lexington, Ky. Staley. Jr. AC. Deane Gunderson, 127 Oak Frank Hewitt. IIKA Room on Campus. Lester McAllister. Lawn , Waterloo, Ia. GAMMA-MU, I . University of New Hampshire. MU, 5b. Presbyterian College. Clinton. S. C . Durham. N. H. III\A House. 10 Strafforci Ave .. IIKA Room on Campus. Frank E. Inman. AC, ALPHA-CHI, I . Syracuse University. Syracuse. Frank Cra m. AC. Geo. R. Thomas. 19 Ba gdad Robert D. Lynn. 372 S. Broad. Clinton. S. C. N . Y. IIKA House. 720 Comstock Ave .. Henry Lane. Durham . N. H. XI, Sb. University of South Carolina. Columbia. E. Gronbach. AC. L. W . Ellis , 331 Kensing­ GAMMA-NU, 12. University o f Iowa. Iowa City. S. C. IIKA Room on Campus. S. T . Roach. ton Rd .. Syracuse. N. Y. Iowa. IIKA House. 716 N . Dubuque St .. OMICRON, 1 . University of Richmond. Rich­ ALPHA-PSI, I , Rutgers University. New Bruns­ Harry B. Carlson. mond. Va. llKA Room on Campus, )ames B. wick. N . J. IIKA House, 126 College Ave .. GAMMA-XI. 18. Washington State College. Adams, Box 198. AC. M . D. Nunnally, )r .. James F . Connerman. AC. Alan E. James. Pullma n . Wash. IIK A House. 601 California 900 E. Broad St. Rutgers Univ . St .. Willia m P . Patton. AC. A. C . Carpenter. PI, · 1 , Washington and Lee University, Lexing­ AlPHA-OMEGA, 13a. Kansas State College. 605 High St .. Pullman, Wash. ton. Va. IIKA House. 106 N . Main St .. Thomp­ Manhattan. Kan. IIKA House. 33 1 N . 17th St .. GAMMA-OMICRON, 3 . Ohio University. Athens. son C. Bowen , Jr. AC. Clayton E. Williams. George W. Allen. AC. Merton Otto. Kansas 0 . IIKA House. 18 N . College St .. Virgil B. W . & L. Univ. State College. W olff. AC. Prof. Carl Hanson. SIGMA, 8. Vanderbilt University , Nashville . GAMMA-PI, 18 . University of Oregon. Eugene. T enn. TIK A House. 2412 Kirkland Place. Ed­ BETA-ALPHA, 2 . Pennsylvania State College , State College, Pa . IIKA House. Charles H . Ore. TIKA House. 1136 Alder St .. Donald G. mund W. Turnley, Jr. Bozarth. AC. Don Owen. Eugene. Ore. TAU, Sa. University of North Carolina , Chapel Lockwood, Box 579. AC. Stanley N. Rose­ berry. Pero Dairy Prod. Co. GAMMA - RHO, 7. Northwestern University, H ill . N. C. IIKA House, Robert H . Bell. Evanston . Ill. IIKA House . 560 Lincoln St .. UPSILON. 9. Al abama Polytechnic Institute. Au­ BETA-BETA, 18. University of W ash ington . F red Pohlman. AC. C. L. Hitchcock. 5653 burn. Ala. TIKA House. John Bl ake. Box 170. Seattle . Wash . IIKA H ouse . 1801 E 50th St .. Kenmore Ave. , Chicago. AC, Dr. C. R. Saunders. S. C . Brunner. AC. R. AI Osborne, 1112 White Bldg. GAMMA-SIGMA, 2. University of Pittsburgh. OMEGA, 8 . University o f Kentucky. Lexington. Pittsburgh. Pa. TIKA House. 158 Bellefield St .. Ky. IIKA House. 216 E. High St .. George E. BETA-GAMMA, 13b. University o f Kansas. Law­ Albert V . Steinkirchner. AC. Ralph Appel. Barker. rence . Kan. IIKA House. 1109 Tennessee St .. 1912 Bo wer Hill Rd .. P ittsburgh . ( 16) Pa. ALPHA-ALPHA. Sa . Duke University. Durham. La Dean McCormick. AC. Robert B. Oyler. GAMMA-TAU, I . Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti­ N . C. IIKA Dormitory . Benjamin L. Smith. Jr. Lawrence. Ka n. tute. Troy. N. Y. TIKA House , 2256 Burdett AC. Henry Bruinsma. Duke University. BETA-DELTA, 15 , 'Cini vers ity of New Mexico. Ave .. Al an M. Voorhees. ALPHA-GAMMA, lib. Louisiana State University. Albuquerque, N . M . IIKA House, 600 N . GAMMA-UPSILON, 11a. University of Tuba. IIKA House. 3236 Louisiana Ter .. Baton Rouge. University, Mickey L. Miller. AC. Frank H. Tulsa. Okla. 1107 S. Florence Place. Lloyd W . La .. William Johnson. AC. Dr. Carle G. Libby. Jonas. 908 N . Gira rd Ave .. Albuquerque. N . Richa rds. AC. L. V . Dennis, 2907 East 5th 516 Arlington Ave .. Baton Rouge . La . . Mexico. St .. Tulsa. ALPHA-DELTA, 6a. Georgia School ol Tech­ BllTA-EPSILON, 3. Western Reserve University. GAMMA-PHI. Sa . Wake Forest College. Wake nology. Atlanta , Ga. IIKA House , 671 Spring Cleveland . 0 . IIKA House. 2069 Abington Rd .. Forest, N . C. Furman Biggs. St .. N . W .. Charles H. Parks. AC. Horace S. Thurman J. Pea body. AC, Richard E. Smith, GAMMA-CHI, 11a. Oklahoma Agricultural 6 Smith. )r .. 810 Rhodes Haverty Bl dg. 1215 Leader Bldg .. Cleveland. 0. ALPHA-EPSILON, Sa. North Carolina State Col­ Mechanical College. Stillwater. Okla. 240 lege A. & E.. Raleigh. N . C. 11KA House. BETA-ZETA, lib. Southern Methodist University. Knoblock St .. Richard Buzard. AC. Prof. R. Robert B. Cochran. Jr .. Box 5627, State Col­ Da ll as. Tex. IIKA House . 3112 McFarlin E. Ba il ey. Okla. Agricultural & Mechanical Col­ lege Station. Bl vd .. George N. Howson. lege. Stillwater. Okla. ALPHA-ZETA, 11a. University of Arkansas. BETA-ETA, 7. University of lllinois. Champaign. GAMMA-PSI, lib. Louisiana Polytechnic lnsti· Fayettev ille . Ark. IIKA House . 118 Arkansas Il l. II KA House. 303 E. Armory Ave .. S. E. tute. Ruston. La. Tech Station. )ames L. Ave .. Lawrence Gregory. AC. Bunn Bell . Uni­ Hepler. AC. Rev. A. R. Cartledge, 305 W . Huitt. AC. Dr. H . E. Ruff. 601 W . Ga. Ave. versity of Arkansas. Fayetteville . Ark. H ill St. GAMMA-OMEGA, 6b. University of Miami . ALPHA-ETA, 6b. University o f Florida . Gaines­ BETA-THETA, I. Cornell University , Ithaca. N . Coral Gables. Fla. 731 University Concourse ville. Fla. IIKA House. Valdeen Thomas. Y. IIKA House. 17 South Ave .. Peter A. Don Fink. Box 622. AC. L. F . Proctor, Gulf AC. Dr. U. S. Gordon . First Presbyteria n Baum. AC. Rev. E. T . H orn. Il l Oak Ave. Oil Corp .. Miami. Fla. Church . BETA-KAPPA, 6a. Emory University, Atlanta . DELTA-ALPHA, 1. George W ash ington Uni­ ALPHA-THETA, 2 , West Virginia University. Ga. IIKA House. Emory University . Ga .. versity. W ashington . D. C. 2450 Massachusetto Morgantown. W . Va. 115 Spruce St .. T om Earl W . Wilson. AC . Howard M . Phillips . Ave.. N. W .. William Craver. AC. Capt. Greweling. AC, R. I. Burchinal. 35 Wilson Ave. 1 2 ~ 0 Emory Dr. \Villiam G . Davis. Jr .. 2450 Massachusetts ALPHA-IOTA, lla. Millsaps College. Jackson . Ave .. Washington. D. C. Miss. II KA House. 424 Marshall St.. James BETA-LAMBDA, 10 . W ashington University. St. Louis. Mo. IIKA House. 6 117 McPherson Ave. DELTA-BETA, 3. Bowling Green State University. Webb. AC . Luther B. Smith. 103 Lexington Arthur Sartorius. AC, Fred P . Conrath, 3952 Bowling Green . 0. 130 S. Prospect. Philip Ave .. Jackson . Miss. Miles. AC. W . A. Zaugg. 11 6 Troupe Ave. ALPHA-KAPPA, 10 . Missouri School o f Mines . Sullivan. Rolla . Mo. IIKA House . 9th and Bishop St .. BETA-Mil. l~b . Univers ity of Texas, Austin. Tex. Don LePere. AC. B. J. Cornwell , 23 17 Long­ IIKA House. 171 2 Rio Grande St .. Charles fell ow. St. Louis County. Mo. Binney II. AC. Judd Williams, ~ 2 1 5 Ma nitou ALPHA-LAMBDA. 8 . Georgetown College . Way . Madison . Wis. Georgetown . Ky. IIKA House . 455 E. Main St., BETA-XI, 12. University of Wisconsin. Madison . Edward S. Rhodes. AC. Prof. Carl R. Fields. Wis. TI KA House, 661 Mendota Court, John Werren. AC. Kenneth C. Corlett. 17 S. Pair­ DKA Directory ALPHA-MU, 6a, Univers ity of Georgia , Athens . Ga. II KA House. 398 S. Milledge Ave .. George child. W . Hulme. AC. Dean Paul Chapman. Uni­ BETA-OMICRON, 11 a. University of Oklahoma . SUPREME COUNCIL versi ty o f Georgia. Athens. Ga. Norm an . Okla. II KA House. 578 Boulevard. ALPHA-NU, 10 . University of Missouri , Colum­ Lewis H . Bond . Jr. AC. Thomas R. Benedum . National President- Major Roy D . H ickman ,• Btl. bia . Mo. IIKA House. 920 Providence Rd .. City National Bank Building. Norman, Okla. Al abama Engraving Co .. Birmingha m, Ala. William M . Kern. AC. Joseph A . Sheehan . BETA-PI, I . Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Phila­ National Vice President-Maj. S. Roy Smith,• delphia. Pa. II KA House. 3900 Locust St .. 1609 O live St .. St. Louis, Mo. A'~. 6 1 N . Mountain Ave .. Montclair . N . ) . ALPHA-XI, 3, University of Cincinnati, Cin­ Don Nelson. cinnati , 0 . IIKA House, 2437 Clifton Ave .. BETA-SIGMA, 2. Carnegie Institute of Tech­ National Treasurer- L. Brooks Ra gen. BN. 12737 Richard L. Hoffman. AC, Phil R. Heil. N . W . nology. Pittsburgh . Pa. IIK A House. 5010 S. W . Iron Mountain Bl v d .. Portland, Oregon. Nat'! Life Ins. Co .. 528-31 Chamber of Com­ Morewood Pl.. Robert A. Little. AC. John Na tional Secretary- Lt. Col. K. D. Pulcipher. • BH. merce Bldg .. Cincinnati. 0 . Fox . 178 Seminole . Pittsburgh . Pa. 1 3 1~ Massa chusetts Ave .. Washington. D. C. ALPHA-PI, 9. Howard College , Birmingham, Ala. BETA-UPSILON, 13b . Univers ity of Colorado. IIKA House. 7933 2nd Ave .. So .. Birmingham. Boulder. Col. IIKA House, 1919 S. Broadway, National Alumni Secretary-Col. Leroy Hodges, 6. Ala .. William H. Powell. AC . Dr. )ames K. Harry Wright. AC. Sam Black. ) r .. 1527 S. II . 3505 Seminary Ave .. Richmond , Va. Greer, 8101 2nd Ave .. So .. Bi rmingham. Al a. Lin coln. Englewood. Col. ALPHA-RHO, 3 , Ohio State University. Colum­ BETA-PHI, 7. Purdue University. West La fayette, bus. 0. IIKA House , 1943 Waldeck Ave .. Ind. liRA House. 119 Andrew Place. William A. OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS John S. Stevens. AC. Virgil L. Furry. 11 5 Fleming. AC. George Kenzler, 102 W . Wood Honorary Life President- Robert A. Smythe. A. Midland Ave. St .. W. La fayette. Ind. 110 Commercial Exchange Bldg .. Atlanta. Ga. ALPHA-SIGMA, 17 . University of California . GAMMA-ALPHA, 9. University of Alabama. Uni­ Berkeley. Calif. II KA House. 2321 Piedmont versity. Ala. IIKA House . P . 0 . Box 1213. Honorary National Chaplain-Or. George Sum­ Ave .. Jack Block. Thomas E. Rast. AC. Dr. J. P . Montgomery. mey. B. 3002 DeSoto St .. New Orleans, La. .IIKA· INITIATES! NOW-YOU CAN WEAR A IIKA BADGE

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