1979-80 Volume 100 No

^'V- OF THE hie 1^^1 »^»;\»*v t • Welcome to Heritage Hall! The entire Phi Psi staff is eager to greet all visitors to the Fraternity Headquarters, and we issue an especially cordial invitation to those Brothers and guests who will be attending the 1980 Grand Arch Council in Indianapolis, August 6-10. Please include a tour of Heritage Hall as part of your G.A.C. plans. The Headquarters team consists of, left to right; front row, Janet Hall, Membership Maintenance Clerk; Carol Klima, Administrative Assistant; Jane Chasteen, Receptionist/Typist; Ed Hale, Building Manager; Vickie Griner, Typist/Clerk; Barbara Hellyer, Bookkeeper; back row, Steve Fowler, Chapter Consultant; Lou Hoffman, Chapter Consultant and Gary Angstadt, Executive Director. THE OF PHI KAPFA PSI FRATERNITY Vol. 100/No. 1/February 1980 M ^hm W^mm The First Century 4 The first of a series by Kent Christopher Owen, Indiana Beta '58, takes a close look at the fourth oldest of fraternity magazines. The Shield. Fraternity Education Assimilation vs Tradition 8 A discussion of two approaches to Fraternity Education and a comparison of membership development concepts and programs, by Randy Donant, Cal Zeta '64. Six New Archons Selected for 1979-1981 Terms 11 Elections held during last fall's District Council meetings give undergraduates six of the ten voting memberships on the Council. Illinois Delta 12 The brotherhood at Illinois Delta recently celebrated their Seventy-fifth "Diamond" Anniversary at the University of Illinois in Champaign. The weekend was highlighted by return of alumni, appearances of Fraternity officers and university officials, as well as a gala banquet. Missouri Beta Remembered 27 The Phi Kappa Psi Greek Award of Merit commemorates the former presence of the Missouri Beta Chapter of Phi ABOUT OUR COVER Kappa Psi on the Westminster College Campus (1960- This issue celebrates the 100th an 1976) and is a tribute to the alumni of that chapter. niversary of the Shield. The cover photo was taken at Heritage Hall by DEPARTMENTS Carter Allen of Pictorial Publishers 13 Here & There 26 in Indianapolis. Luncheons 14 Chapter Eternal 28 Chapter News 25 Directory 33 Editor and Founders Day Schedule Business Manager THE SHIELD (USPS 494-300) was established in 1879. It is published four times each year, Gary B. Angstadt fall, winter, spring and summer, under the authority and direction of the Executive Council of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Produced and printed by Compolith Graphics and Maury Boyd and Associates. Gary B. Angstadt, 510 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 is Executive Director to whom all material, subscriptions, and changes of address for THE SHIELD should be sent. Subscription price is $2.00 per year; single copies, 50 cents. Life subscriptions available at $25.00. Second- Member: College Fraiernily Editors Association class postage paid at Indianapolis, Indiana, and additional mailing offices. Although another, much shorter Psis were winning everywhere, the classics: "But still, my dear Tom, it poem was also printed in the first efforts to furnish chapter halls in grand would be doing those an injury who we Shield, the editors made it clear that style, the jolly dinners and uplifting know are to be our future brothers, for they were not about to feature "com symposia, the missionary efforts of the it is not the knowledge so much but the positions of a merely literary popular elocutionist, Robert Burdette, training of the mind that is needed." character." Most of all they wanted to to spread the Phi Psi gospel, the anti- But most memorable of all the con run monthly letters from each of the fraternity movements at several in tributions were those of William G. chapters, so that "intercommunica stitutions, and, of course, the sublime Keady, Pennsylvania Alpha, whose tion" could bring about "that unity virtues of the fair ladies. "Old Boy's Recollections of Phi Kappa which is essential to our truest "Bro. McCollin will accompany Psi" provided a richly detailed, vivid, welfare." Seven chapters, mostly from Doug, mainly to take care of him and and marvelously amusing account of Pennsylvania, reported on their affairs as a fellow member of the Bar (to be) what it was really like to be present at in a variety of styles ranging from the debar him from a too intimate ac the creation: " . when I left college elevated and inspirational to the down quaintance with the Washington bars. to go out into 'the wide, wide world," right chaHy. Penn Iota admitted can But now my attention is diverted from Phi Kappa Psi was not left behind. It didly: "There is one thing which needs this barbarous theme .... " That, has followed me to this hour. In the attention, however, and which has not from a correspondent who signed him most trying hour of my life, I have unfrequently called forth sarcastic re self Nemo alias Nobody, is a fair sam always found a brother not far off—so marks from our friends and that is the ple of Phi Psi undergraduate prose circa that my love for and interest in the Fra glorious state of dirtiness which the 1880. Other letters of more than pass ternity was not allowed to die out, or front steps are wont to enjoy. They ing interest were filed from the Univer become a mere memory. The eternal surely belong to the army of the great sity of Goettingen where several Phi principles have stood the test of real unwashed." Psis had gone to benefit from German life." Almost two columns of the newspa high academic culture and from Tokyo Through the pages of The Shield the per-like broadsheet were devoted to an where Brother Tosui Imadate was chapters and alumni associations as obituary that expressively mourned a teaching and urging "... strive to well as brothers everywhere were gain young and promising brother. The enlighten the world with the influence ing a stronger, clearer, more coherent "Personalia et caetera" section- of this Fraternity, support the world sense of what the Fraternity had sometimes called by waggish outlan- upon the tripod of Phi Kappa Psi, and become. C. L. Van Cleve, later The ders the "Pennsylvania et caetera"— let there be the ripened fruit of 'Let all Shield's editor and the author of a contained a long list of items about mankind be brothers.' " history of the Fraternity, wrote to sup who was teaching or preaching or doc The early issues of The Shield were port the continuing effort of enlisting toring or studying or lawyering or notable for the personal letters that had subscriptions: "A fraternity which con working where. There were also a few been exchanged by the original mem sists of a score or more of isolated notes inserted as fillers that mentioned bers of the Fraternity. The appearance chapters with no other tie to bind them the fortunes of other fraternities, pay of these served to recapture something together than stated communications ing special attention to Delta Gamma of the enthusiasm and high sense of from the Grand Chapter is a farce, and and Kappa Alpha Theta, and observing purpose that had enlivened the found is in violent danger of collapsed from that Beta Theta Pi had recently ab ers; for instance, William Letterman spotted fever." Even the stately con sorbed another fraternity: "This per had cautioned Tom Campbell in 1854 ventions of the Grand Arch Council formance of 'swallowing' anything and about the unwisdom of using English were not enough to satisfy the eagerest everything appears to be one of Beta translations of the Greek and Latin of the true believers; so with the steady Theta's characterisdcs." On balance Brothers Smith and Kendall had man aged to put out a lively, newsy, and readable first issue that was both a credit to the Fraternity and a sign of better things to come. Throughout their tenure as editors, which lasted into the spring of 1882, the chemist and the mathematician campaigned for the revival of the southern chapters that had gone under during the War between the States. Mississippi Alpbans, South Carolina Alphans, Tennesseans and Virginians from all over the region wrote to The Shield to reaffirm their loyalty to the Fraternity and to support the editors' charge: "There is a great work before us: we must regain our old home." The chapter newsletters appeared in greater numbers from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Year, Maryland, the Dis trict of Columbia, and, before long, from Kansas, Mississippi, and Califor nia. The communiques reported the literary and oratorical honors that Phi February 1980 prompting of The Shields goodly num in distress, but several other frater Nonetheless, something approach ber of Phi Psis and their ladies gathered nities, namely Delta Tau Delta, Phi ing a consensus did emerge from the at Chautauqua, New York, the nation's Delta Theta, and Alpha Tau Omega, frequent exchanges within The Shield, most wholesome and edifying summer spoke out vigorously in defense of helped along considerably by the edi encampment. Amid the lake cruises, Ohio Alpha and exposed the Phi Gams tors. Phi Kappa Psi would be as prudent the picnic outings, the dances, the ban as malicious upstarts and the Betas as and conscientious in her choice of in quets, and the lectures and entertain envious malcontents. The Shield re stitutions at which to install chapters as ments the Fraternity enlarged its mained mostly above the battle, con she was in the selection of her mem dimensions of good fellowship and tent to reprint the sharp commentaries bers; that meant a deliberate, frankly gave new impetus to its growing promi of other fraternity magazines. It did, conservative policy of growth, one that nence on the American scene.

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