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E PHI kAAMA E LTA Dilliant Nosbirk Crimmbrrlitt 18711- 1943 NOVEMBER 1943 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA ? (Registered U. S. Patent Office) ,e 0 .\ MAGAZINE PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1879 BY THE FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA V, 6.. 00 NOVEMBER, 1943 No. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS A rip Reunion in the South Pacific 90 - War Story— Continued 91 ; Chamberlin Passes to Stars 115 erst Rounds Out Fifty Years 123 135 Snug Little Nook by the Fireside 140 Fi•-,res Qui Fuerunt Sed Nunc Ad Astra :du, (4 White Star Dust 146 Here, There and Everywhere 149 FE-•s As Press Sees Them 156 160 White Star Under Mars 177 Issue as the Editor Sees It In army lingo "ZC" is the cross- roads of the forces. I—Jered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. September 22. under the Act of March 3, 1879. of eptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act In Fillography than that. 0(' !er 3, 1917, authorized August 21, 1918. it's even more times a year, l'!inted by The Torch Press at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and issued seven the November, December, February. This New York hotspot is headquarters for sipping. supping. even numbers in each volume appearing in October, .Mach. April, May. Subscription price. $2.00 per year in advance; single copies, 30 cents. sleeping and top-notch comraderie. As an information exchange Life subscription. $25.00. Advertising rates on application. the hands of we run a close second to the Signal Corps (Nazi newshawks, please Matter intended for publication in THE PHI GAMMA DELTA should be in copy). You'd better count us in on your travel orders or we'll the Editor at least one month preceding month of publication. count you AWOL CECIL J. WILKINSON (Ohio Wesleyan '17) THE PHI GAMMA DELTA CLUB Editor and Manager 1001 15th St., N.W., Washington. D. C. 10b West 5btli Street Rust Building, N or 11.1 t A Fiji Reunion in the South Pacific -3 NOVEMBER. 1943 No. 2 4% THE PHI GAMMA DELTA * * * tr,3 Our War Story-Continued annibalian Warriors on Far-Flung Fronts Are Battling - Gallantly To Crown Banner With Victory's Laurel -WHEN COLLEGE SONGS AND COLLEGE LAYS . C. StandIng : Sergeant Gerald R. Thompson (Nebraska '41), Lieutenant Robert C. Sin,. By CECIL J. WILKINSON (Ohio Wesleyan '17) C J Jr. (Virginia '40), Lieutenant( j. p.) Richard A. Jensen (Wisconsin '33), Lieutenant Editor of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA E. Groenewegen (Occidental '28, Stanford '28), Lieutenant-Commander L. V. Clark 1)- . Tech. '34), Lieutenant-Commander Charles C. Heck (Syracuse '26), Lieutenal: (Georgia PDX the scroll of the Fijis who guns and two (j. g.) W. Park Catch pole (Syracuse '40), Lieutenant-Commander Theodore H. 1314:er 3-inch 6-pounders. (Massachusetts Tech.'25), Lieutenant-Colonel Franklin K. Reyher (DePauw '33), Lieutenaw have given their all for liberty is Born in Pelham, N. Y., on June 30, James E. Galbraith (Washington '33), medical corps. inscribed in golden letters the 1921, William Perley Thoman was Seated: Lieutenant Robert M. Bader (Williams '33), Lieutenant John H. Tildes. rue of one more "knight so bold" who initiated into Omega Chapter on De- tneds;.:. (Western Reserve '29),Lieutenant ( j. g.) Rudolph D. M. Jacob (Northwestern '39), S killed in action: cember 12, 1938. He was appointed a Hardman (Kansas '20), Commander Rea E. corps; Lieutenant-Commander Dwight H. Lieutenant Ashley (Colorado '18), medical corps; Lieutenant Paul L. LaFrance (Yale '25), Major William Perley Thoman cadet at the Coast Guard Academy in Craig Seasholes (Denison '22). olumbia '42), United States Coast September, 1939; was graduated in 111 All but Thompson, Reyher and Seasholes are in the navy. 7d Reserve, who was lost at sea in June, 1942, and commissioned an en- when the cutter Escanaba sank in sign in the reserve, being promoted to ST month this magazine carried an of the torn-toms. Seventeen di. ';orth Atlantic following a terrific a lieutenancy in May, 1943. His entire LA account of a great Fiji gathering chapters were represented. sion. service afloat had been aboard the in London, attended by 38 cannibals The two Fijis unable, because servers in a nearby boat said a Escanaba. from 21 chapters. Comes now to this cial duties, to attend the meetini_ cloud of smoke and flame billowed * * * Upward brochure of brotherhood a report, duly Captain James E. Boak (Dart: into the air and Little hope is held for th, cutter Radioman approved by the Public Relations Offi- '12), commander of the naval base. 4 sank, leaving the survival of or small bits Class Elmer Isaac cer at the Headquarters of A. P. 0. Colonel Brooke E. Allen (Da of wreck- Third rally of 17 Fijis in :ifloat. The ship sank McKesson (Hanover 502, of a of the 19 '33), commander of an army boi, active service on an important United •lickly it had no time '42), who was reported group. States advance base island "somewhere -rid out signals. The as missing in action when darn? in the A second meeting, its spirits maba distinguished the U. S. S. Monssen. a South Pacific." Tilt! The meeting, the idea of Major Hen- ened by Jupiter Pluvius (of Beta If earlier in the destroyer, was sunk last F: ry Craig Seasholes (Denison '22), is was held on July 27. New for effecting the November in the Battle pictured in the historic photograph present at that meeting who had !- c of 133 men from a of the Solomons. shown above. attended the first gathering were Ma' ,loed ship in the Elmer was a native of After attending in a body an U. S. 0. Goodrich M. Sullivan (Minnesot:. Atlantic. She dis- Toledo, 0., where he was show in one of the spacious open-air Major Chan F. Coulter (Iowa ,1 718 tons and her born in 1916. In June. theaters amid the swaying palm trees, Captain Paul H. Cronenwett (Wt speed was 13.5 1941, he entered training Li the cannibals proceeded to one of the Reserve '31) and Captain Ralph 1,1 '• She carried two at a naval school in In- officers' clubs for an informal beating Thompson (Colgate '41). THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 93 apolis. After a course of 16 weeks, arm and leg, bailed out and was cap- reported to Boston and crossed the tured. He was given hospital treatment KILLED IN ACTION antic twice. Early in 1942 he was for several months. ered to the West coast and assigned Last June a Berlin short-wave radio arathJrnarn Ckriatapkrr trharbIsarrigua White the Matisse'''. station carried Tom's voice, saying that (Northwestern '41) (Idaho '42) His mother, Mrs. Martha McKesson he wished his parents to know that he Toledo. has received a letter from was interned in Germany and was be- Cirharit William tartinatt Ankn Erstrr Pratt mer's commanding officer saying that ing treated well. (Rutgers '39) ( Denison '41 did not see her son during or after Toni's mother writes that he would e battle but that he felt morally cer- be delighted to hear from the Fijis. He Charlra Name filajor Eithan) Timitut n that he died at his post "without may be addressed as follows: (Richmond '39) v thought for his own safety but with First Lieut. Thomas S. Marchant, thought uppermost in his mind of Eirilarb Vattif.uti 3Fultatt American P. 0. W. 1056, Postage mg his best, along with his many Stalag Luft 3, Free (Georgia Tech. '39) (\\ isconsin '37) ve shipmates to deal a fatal blow to Germany despicable enemy — an enemy G. 1922 Via New York City William Catlin fox*, Jr. William Nranda who uld destroy his home, * * * (Pennsylvania '42) (British Columbia '43) his family, his dom and his country which he loved Captured at Sidi Boil Sid in the Nrsbrrick WAIT Walsh Iihkursalrr well." North African campaign on February Carl Jura * * * (Knox '37) (Sewanee '38) 17, 1943, Captain Robert P. Milligan Name by name, the roster of the Fijis (Iowa '32) is now a prisoner of war Patti 3otms. r. Robert Nrank VanEnrrn o have fallen into the hands of the in a German camp in Poland. (Washington '42) (Missouri '43) my grows. The capture of four more Bob was commanding officer of an lwart sons of Delta has been now an- Iowa National Guard company in his Startleg Allen Douglas. r. 3alm lli1lipaearl unced. home town of Jefferson, Ia., with the (Washington and Lee '39) (Pennsylvania State '43) In point of length of imprisonment, rank of second lieutenant, when he senior among these is Lieutenant went into federalized service in Jan- Eugene Earle Amirk. 31r. Erir *milts Bitmars omas S. Marchant (Cornell '37). uary, 1941, at Camp Claiborne, La. He (William Jewell '41) (British Columbia '37) fli was a regular was commissioned a vigator and ter- first lieutenant at Fort tifteittart William (6rimmer Preoton Earl Eirkarbann ct.rial navigator on Benning in September, a Backing the Attack 41 (Maine '40) (Berkeley '43) ving Fortress named 1941, and made a cap- ankee LMOST a quarter of a tain in January, 1942, Robert frnru Vitim Williamfrrle boman Doodl e," ose million dollars worth of assumed com- (Washir2) Lee .4 (Columbia '42) crew, including A when he cm, was shown in United States IVar Bonds are mand of Company I. owned by the Fraternity of Phi MISSING IN ACTION e motion picture, 168th Infantry. He Mission Accom- Gamma Delta. took this outfit to Eng- Trustee President Tom K. Rarlow Etitytic 3Johtumit tanit ffreberiLli Nice •hed." The crew land and then led it reports (Brown '37) (Union '37) been raiding Smith (Missouri '04) into the North African that as of October 1 the Fiji emy country fre- invasion.