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The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was founded at the University of Virginia on March I , 1868, by FREDERICK SOUTHGATE TAYLOR, LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL, JULIAN EDWARD' - · WOOD, JAMES BENJAMIN SCLA TER, JR., ROBERTSON HOWARD, and WILLIAM ALEXANDER, all members of the Chapter Eternal.

Volume L November, 1940 Number 2

Contents of the Issue

+ CuRRENT NEws INTEREST Johnston H eads Pledge Training ______13 Urges Endowment Fund Gifts ...... 20 Legion Head Appeals for Strong D e fense.. 3 Winner C aptivates Legion______5 + PERSONALITIES OF IIKA Typical C ivilian-Soldier...... 6 New S . & D . Staff M embers N a med ...... 14 Stands Watch in Siamese Powder Key.... 9 M eet the N ew D . P .'s.·-·-···------·······-····-··--···--·· 16 Eleven ITKA 's Elected to High Offices ...... 14 Willie N ash Becomes a Dea n ...... 19 A ITKA Leads Presbyterians ··-·····-·-··-······--· 15 N ew Scholastic M entor Chosen ...... 21 + FRATERNITY's REALM G a r Wood, Jr., S ets Speed R ecord ...... 22 New R egional Map of ITKA...... 2 + DEPARTMENTS An Announcement by the President...... 7 Alumni H ead C a lls Old Gra ds ... ·----·--···-·----·· 25 H art Appointed Executive for Year______7 Cupid S cores H eavily ...... ______27 S. & D. C elebrates Fiftieth Birthday ...... 10 Cha pter News, begins ______29 Urges R enewed Fraternalism.------·--········-- 13 Cha pter EternaL.... ·----·-·-····---··········-·-·-······--·· 45

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The Cover This Issue Next Issue Stirring and timely, this month's cover is American Legion National Commander ITKA's all over the country are going into the work of Lon Keller, AX, '29. Color plates Warner, AP, shows his stature by his the nation's armed defense forces. Many for it were obtained through his kindness. A patriotic discussion of national defense. are Army reserve oHicers. Some are sub­ specialist in painting covers fo r football pro­ Followers of the news can read between ject to Selective Service, some in the Na­ grams, he has a syndicated line used by 300 the lines of an account of a ITKA in a tional Guard or othe r branches. Among then• American colleges, does individual covers hot spot-Minister Gra nt, All, in Thailand. are several fraternity leaders. As completb (or Prince ton, Pe nnsylva nia, Fordham and J. Ha rold Johnston, A¥, thought his ideas an account of these men as possible will be N. Y. U., a nd provides covers for all Yankee too old-fashioned for our new pledge training p resented in the January issue. Readers Stadium and Polo Grounds prize fights and iob-that's why the Council chose him. are urged to write Assistant Editor Taylor, World Series games. Just now he is starting Cupid has scored against IIKA ranks in at once, telling of ITKA's in the armed on the 1941 line. Married, he has a year­ record volume. forces. Pictures of ITKA's in uniform are old son, "built like a fullback." His office is W e celebrate a golden anniversary-THE sought, too. 271 Madison Ave ., New York. Syracuse is SHIELD AND DIAMOND is turning the half­ The 1940 All-ITKA Football Team will be his alma mater. century mark. presented by Dillon Graham, AH. 1 REGIONS, DISTRICTS&.. CHAPTERS

I KAPPA ALPHA's administrative division of the nation, as established by the Chicago conven· P lion, is set out clearly by this map. Under the new arrangement, each of the five members of the Supreme Council must come from a different region- regions are distinguished by the shadings shown in the key. Council members, by regions, are: I (East). National Vice President S. Roy Smith. South Orange, N. J,; II (Kentucky-Midwest). National Secretary Leo A. Hoegh, Chariton, Ia.; III (Southeast), National Alumni Secretary Howard B. Arbuckle, Jr.. Charlotte, N. C.; IV (Tennessee-South), National President Roy D. Hickman, Birmingham, Ala.; V (West). National Treasurer L. Brooks Ragen, Portland, Ore. Heavy black lines divide the 18 districts. Stars denote the 80 undergraduate chapters. Nomination Blank IIKA DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD To be Made at 1941 Founders' Day Banquet of PI KAPPA ALPHA at Chicago, lll .. Feb. 28, 1941 (Mail to Arthur S. Bowes. Chairman of the Committee on Distinguished Achievement Award. 1104 South Wabash Ave .. Chicago, Ill.) Name of Nominee______Chapter ______Year Graduateu______Recoru______------·------

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2 LEGION HEAD APPEALS FOR STRONG DEFENSE

UR NATION to~ By Milo J. Warner, Ohio State Nevertheless, the American day moves in a New National Commander, Legion was successful to the extent spirit of prepara~ American Legion that it repeated its warnings down tion for na tiona! through the years. The National Guard was strengthened. The defense in answer When our members returned ROTC gave basic training to a great to the threat of from war in 1919 and 1920 we group of young Americans. The the totalitarian moved swiftly to have the nation CMTC acquainted young men with powers. We are adopt a course of action designed the spirit of training. A great chain concerned with the to minimize the sufferings in any of government hospitals was erected question of wheth~ future war. We were successful in to care for the war disabled. W e er young America having the N ational Defense Act worked ceaselessly to arouse a spirit of 1920 adopted as a complete blue­ must go all out in of true American citizenship in the total war, as it did print for national defense pr ep ara~ great polyglot population. We de ~ tion. Into it went all of the expe~ in .the W orld War. It is the hope manded, and in many instances got, of the American Legion that so rience that we, as citizen-soldiers in war, had gained. an improved system of education for strong a defense preparation mav our young boys and girls. On the be established that peace will pre~ humanitarian side we tried to mini~ vail in our land. mize the aftermath of war by em~ I speak as National Commander ployment programs, by a great of a civilian organization. There is volunteer program of child welfare, nothing in our basic structure to by persistently calling attention to bring the Legion into action as a those who were left without aid be­ military power. We have con­ cause of their soldier relatives who sistently and clearly declared to the paid the supreme sacrifice. contrary. All this, to the American Legion, Nevertheless, we do compose the is a part of the national defense largest group in American life hav ~ program that we have always advo~ ing actual experience in war. Since cated. W e have advocated it as a active duty in the front line of civilian organization. Always we battle is a thing that young men have moved through the duly con~ must always undergo, and since we stituted authorities of government are a group of men in the middle to have our principles on the ques­ years of life. it is not likely that tion of national defense adopted. many of us will face the enemy in At the present time we advocate front line duty, if ever our nation an Army in being, capable of fac­ finds it necessary to go to war. ing and removing any threat to our national independence. We ask for That statement is not to be con~ a N avy with sufficient power to give fused with our individual sentiments strength to our Hemisphere com~ Milo J, Warner, AP, '13, of Toledo, 0 .. and wishes in the matter. I am con~ mitments. W e want an air force fident that our wishes would be best elected National Commander of the American Legion in September, is a strong enough to give voice to our expressed in the thought that we, veteran Legion leader. Here he wears national strength in any contest. who know the familiar markings the uniform of Vernon McCune Post And we demand the naval bases. along the road to war, would much No. 132. (The caricature is from the Cleveland News.) the supply depots, the line of indus ~ prefer to resume that journey, rather trial endeavor and the economic pat~ than witness the tortuous path our The difficulty with our national tern sufficient to supply the last young men must follow in becoming defense mechanism is that the Na­ atom of support for our fighting acquainted with the (to them) un~ tional Defense Act of 1920 re~ forces. familiar landmarks on the road to mained a blueprint over too great a These are the items in the na ~ war. period of years. Our people moved tiona! defense program to which In discussing the adoption by our away from the war spirit imme~ the American Legion is committed. Government of a program of total diately following Armistice day. They are the essential items in the defense preparation I am moved to W e scrapped a great Navy. Our preparation of a national defense consider the part the civilian popu­ materiel purchases declined. Our strong enough to have meaning in lation must take to make such a Army and its civil components went the language of any dictator or any program wholly successful. I as~ back on a peace basis. Then, if grouping of dictators. They are sume the average person is familiar ever, there was realization that only the institutions that rouse the ad~ with the long ~term policies of the a nation at war is definitely con~ miration of every patriotic citizen. American Legion with respect to fined to the one supreme business In its broader aspect, however, national defense. of making war successfully. the question of national defense is 3 tered for compulsory military serv­ power on the continent of Europe. ice. On the one hand we represent where the Nazi force is dominant. the group that has known war, that They must be done because the has gone through post-war periods developments in Europe have re­ of adjustment and has come into the stricted the sea power of Great present stage in life. with many Britain and thus have provided a realizable assets for the good of the greater menace to our Hemisphere nation. commitments. They must be done On the other hand, this younger because of our long time friendly group of registrants represents a relations in the P acific, which now comparable sized group in present­ are endangered by the ambitious day young American manhood. will of Japan to uphold its end of They have come to manhood in a the tripartite axis. difficult period in our national life. The American Legion will be en­ Many of them will go into military gaged in these civilian endeavors as life in another horrible time in it has b een engaged in time of peace world history. Our problem is to since it was founded. Our ranks. so organize the civilian population cutting across a broad segment of for defense purposes that these American life. include a vast reser­ young men will have a minimum of voir of strength and leadership in sacrifice to make, either in their private, in industrial. in professional. military life, or in the period that and in public life. There is no com­ follows. munity too small. no metropolitan My memory goes back to the area too large, to feel the strength 1914-17 period. It was a period of the American Legion today. when our national defense program So, viewing national defense in was improvised. It was, moreover, the broadest possible manner, we improvised in the face of an im­ want to help in every legitimate way pending participation in war. The to strengthen the efforts of the 25 resultant delay in making our force per cent who will be our soldiers felt in the World W ar, though we and sailors in this emergency. And emerged victorious on the field of we intend to do our part itt mobiliz­ battle, was a costly thing. The re­ ing the 75 per cent among the Warner in 1917 as Battery D Cap­ sultant delay that came in re-ab­ civilians whose efforts must be uni­ tain and executive officer of the sorbing the military units back into fied to make national defense a 76th Field Artillery. headed for the civilian life was also an improvisa­ success. World War. tion. The delay there was just as It is not too soon to plan for the costly, just as devastating to the period that will follow this emer­ a far greater thing. The whole civilian morale. wide question of national defense gency. For Americans, military Without comparing our present CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 , brings into play the remark of the military and naval strength against military leader who visualizes a situation where, in the present the standard of what we shall need chaotic state of world affairs, "we and must have in the event we must are able to conclude that probably leave the path of peace in the will to support our form of government, 75 per cent of our national effort in a new war would be civilian and it must be agreed our planning has that only about 25 per cent, or even been improved over the system of less. might be embraced in the op­ planning in force in 191 7. erations and activities of soldiers We know that military and naval and sailors." planning today for total defense It is in that broader field of the means subordinating many individ­ question of national defense where ual privileges to the will of the peo­ I think the strength of the American ple as a whole. Legion now will play a most im­ We realize public opinion must portant part. More than a million be mobilized to accept those factors members in our organization speak in total defense and that a situation for the World War veterans. Al­ is involved where individual liber­ lied with us are our auxiliaJ:y, com­ ties can not be permitted to sub­ posed of our wives, mothers, and merge the national well-being. daughters, and the Sons of the Many adjustments must be made American Legion. With our fam­ before labor assumes its full role in ilies we represent a notable segment national defense preparation. Prices in American life. We are- the re­ and profits must bow to the demand mainder of that group of 24,000,000 for national defense. Industrial men of fighting age who were regis­ mobilization and commandeering tered in the summer of 1917. will make their unpleasant neces­ A comparable group of 16,600,- sities felt. Here Warner. a Sergeant of the First Ohio Cavalry, looked out for 000, the first to come into being as All of these things must be done bandits on the Mexican border early a group in peace time. is now regis- because of the changing balance of in 1917. 4 Warner Captivates Legion + CHOSEN to head the nation's was the turn of the West Coast to was made un animous, and the roll principal war veterans' organiza ~ have the office, and stepped aside call by states was not even com~ tion, the American Legion, at a last year in favor of Raymond J. pleted. critical period of history, when Kelly of Detroit. The Legion al~ There was a wild ovation for the every American heart and mind is ways has taken its internal politics new Commander. Men in their atune to national defense and the seriously, and elections of National 40's and SO's, who had been dough~ preservation of democracy, Milo Commanders are accompanied by boys, saibrs or Marines in the last Joseph Warner, AP, '13, has a huge the same give~and-take and cam~ war, paraded through the aisles and patriotic task confronting him for paigning that marks a presidential crowded around Warner on the the next year. convention of a political party. platform. He was almost pushed He probably will travel 100,000 There were 10 candidates as the into the press stand. State stand~ miles and deliver scores of speeches thousands of Legionnaires swept ards were waved above his head. in the course of the year, which be~ into Boston. Six withdrew as it Grinning. he waved a happy re ~ gan with an overwhelming victory became apparent that " Mike"­ sponse. As he stepped forward he in the Legion election at Boston, that' s what all his friends call W ar~ shook from nervous excitement. Sept. 26. ner-was the strong man. The Some one asked how he felt. "You A veteran of the Mexican border night before the election there were know damn well," he replied, with incident of 1916, he went to France caucuses and conferences in smoke~ a smile; "look at me." Then, in a in the World War as a Captain of filled hotel rooms until the wee, brief address, as the tumult and Artillery and was severely wounded sma' hours. When the roll was shouting died, he said: in action. He became one of the called, instead of a bitter struggle " I pledge that all the energy and early members of the Legion after there was a walkaway. Outstand~ whatever talents I may have will the war and has been a leader in ing factor in the change was the be used by me in vigorously pro­ it ever since. He is a successful switch of California's 76 votes from moting the policies of the Legion. lawyer at Toledo, 0., but is devot~ a favorite son candidate to Warner. We are today caught up in a mighty ing the year to the Legion at a salary Three other men actually were hurricane of events. We are un~ of $1 0,000. nominated. Each withdrew before der the stress and strain of great Policy of the Legion, as fixed by the first b-allot was completed; it and conflicting forces. It is our the national convention, which was quickly apparent that Warner mission, with our fellow citizens, to abandoned a 16~year neutrality was winner. It was a genuine land~ help keep our nation on the true stand, favors all possible aid to slide; state after state, with an course of its great destiny ahead. Great Britain, as an American de­ aggregate of more than 700 votes, That we shall do." fense measure, and prevention of constituting a majority of the 1,451 On the platform with Warner shipments of war materials from official delegates, had seconded for his rousing reception were his this country to the aggressor na~ Warner's nomination. The 1,451 wife, their 12 ~year~o ld daughter, tions. The convention approved delegates evidently liked the cam­ Carolyn, and a son, Donald W es­ the trade of 50 old American de~ paign slogan of Warner's support~ ley, 21, freshman at Dartmouth. strayers for British Atlantic naval ers-" For the love of Mike." Another son, Milo, Jr., 22, ~KE, bases. On motion of one of the defeated attends Kenyon College, Gambier, Warner's election marked the end candidates, the election promptly 0. Mrs. Warner told the press of an effort of more than three years in his behalf. He had been de­ Warner (above). waving, under Ohio cheerfully that she was resigned to feated for National Commander in standard, acknowledges the enthu­ being, like a " golf or baseball siastic greeting of the Boston con­ widow," a "Legion widow" for the 1937, stayed out of the following vention as the American Legion year's race, it was said, because it makes him its National Commander. year. 5 mittee ( 1938-39). He also has been a director of the American Legion Endowment Fund Corpora­ tion. Forty-nine years ago, on what was to become Armistice day- Nov. II , 1891 , he was born a t Lime City, 0 . A country doctor officiated. Li~e the average American boy, Mike was off to an unauspicious start. It was a ll he could do to hold his own with the rest of the gang in the little red rural school­ house. Life was rosier at high school. but cash was not plentiful and Papa Warner impressed in­ delibly on the son's mind that the The Warner family receives the surest way to obtain the good Legion's plaudits on the things of life was to work for them; convention stage. On the Com­ that perseverance, hard work and mander's left. his wife: to his right, loyalty to God and country were their daughter, Carolyn. and (in sweater). son. Donald. (Absent. Milo. Jr., D.KE. Kenyon College.) prime requisites for success. Mike's first enterprise was a ne_wspap:r route, on which he sup­ Typical Civilian-Soldier plied residents of the village with + " P HYSICALLY, Milo J. Warner is the !oledo papers. At night he Legion Head the personification of the soldier studied by the dim light of a kero­ COl\.,. 'rlNUED FRO M PAGE 4 sene lamp. Soon the father, who service is not finished until they turned civilian," said an Associated had operated a country store and have been re-absorbed into civilian Press dispatch from the American a windjamming coal vessel on the life. Though we may relax our Legion convention at Boston, de­ political thinking to accept military scribing the new National Com­ Great Lakes, retired and moved to controls during a period of emer­ mander. " His hair is graying, but Toledo. There young W arner fin­ gency. we must be prepared to aid he shows in no other way that it ished high school and decided to in readjusting our political thinking is nearly 20 years since he came become a lawyer, preparing himself to those principles on which our out of the World W ar. Legion financially by "jerking" sodas at a corner drug store. nation was founded, after the emer­ work has been one of his chief gency is passed. hobbies. He never has missed a The elder Warner died and the Our whole national defense pro­ national convention." widow moved to Columbus to make gram rests today, therefore. not To carry on the description, War­ a home for Mike at the university. alone on the ability to organize our ner stands but 5 feet, 7 inches tall, He enrolled in the six-year arts-law · defense strength so that it will be but he tips the beam at 165 pounds. course in 1910. Class dance pro­ respected by any individual ag­ At Ohio State University, where his motions constituted one of his ven­ gressor, or group of aggressors, but college-boy photograph in pre­ tures. At intervals he found time also to shape it in the warp and World War " choker" collar still to teach at Rock River Military woof of our national life so that adorns the lobby of Page Hall, he Academy. Dixon, Ill. In his senior there will remain the will to main­ was known familiarly as " Runt." year, 1913, he was elected class tain our own system of government Now friends all over the country president. In 1916 ·he obtained his in the management of that total de­ call him " Mike." There is a twin­ law degree. fense machine. In this, and in all kle in his blue eyes still- a twinkle '":f~ere was required military other endeavors for national de­ which once caused his law pro­ trammg on the campus, which War­ fense, I am confident the American fessors no little concern. ner took so seriously that it was a Legion will not fail. case.?f being "bitten by the military The American Legion has been bug. Next he became a National --IlK A-- almost the life work of Warner There was a civic and Legion G_uardsman, enlisting in Troop B, through the greater part of his adult reception for the Warners, return­ FirSt Ohio Cavalry. Although he y~ars. The law and his family are was admitted to the bar immediate­ ing to Toledo from the convention. his other deep interests. Oct. 19, Warner was guest of ly after earning an LI.B., the law honor at a dinner under auspices of A charter member of Vern on Mc­ had to wait-the First Ohio was the Legion and the Chamber of Cune Post No. 132 of the Legion sent to the Mexican border, where Commerce at Toledo's Commodore at Toledo in 1919, Warner soon the forays of Pancho Villa were Perry Hotel. Afterwards there was became its Adjutant, next its Com­ alarming the United States. By a Legion parade and a nationally m?n~er ( 1921 ) . In his steady rise then Warner w:as a Sergeant. broadcast speech by Warner. withm the organization he was, There were months of dreary successively, chairman of the Lucas - - IIKA-- service, riding over the sand dunes • THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND qrate- County Council, Commander of the of the Rio Grande valley, but life fully acknowledges the service of Ohio D epartment ( 1924) , National soon began to brighten for the Joseph S. Deutschle. aide to Commander E xecutive Committeeman from Warner, in furnishing much of the mate­ young Buc~eye , who became vitally Ohio, National Vice Commander rial about his chief. The accompanying mterested m an El Paso rancher's ( 1935-36) and Vice Chairman of biographical sketch is largely from daughter- Dorothy Casad Bennett. Deutschle's typewriter. the National Rehabilitation Com- CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 6 Hart Appointed Executive for Year; McFarland on Military Leave + NEw LETTERHEADS of Pi Kappa Alpha, taking note of a striking temporary change in the adminis­ trative personnel, say: Freeman H. Hart Acting Executive Secretary Capt. Robert M. McFarland, Jr . Executive Secretary On Military Leave Acting Executive Sec­ McFarland, AD. , '21 , a Captain retary Freeman H. Ha rt. I. '12. a t his in the Army's Quartermaster Re­ desk in the General serve, was called out for a year's Office in Atlanta. active duty, effective Oct. 20. In -Bv Pledge Everett his place, as Acting Executive Sec­ Prindle, AtJ.. retary, the Supreme Council drafted Dr. Hart, I , '12, who for some years has been National Historian Message from President Hickman and who completed a two-year + IN THE last issue of THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND. term as National President of IIKA my message emphasized the necessity of watch­ at the close of the Chicago conven­ ing all phases of chapter life- scholarship, finances tion, last Aug. 31. and the development of the individual; in short, set­ Thus McFarland has responded ting our house in order for the year to come. Your to the nation's defense need, as it chapter will face many new experiences that chap­ had been expected he would have ters have not faced previously. Therefore, it is most to sooner or later, but it was a essential that we prepare for emergencies. Already gratifying surprise move by which some of our chapters are faced with the fact that the the gap was filled at once for IIKA national emergency or the draft will cause a loss of by the services of another man membership, thus affecting the financial picture. Too steeped in the traditions of the much emphasis cannot be placed upon cooperating fraternity and well acquainted with with officers in their efforts. Your budget must be its administrative; workings. prepared to stand a loss of income. Hart, a distinguished historian of The national fraternity has faced some of these the South, took charge of the Gen­ emergencies, in that Executive Secretary Robert M . eral O ffice, O ct. 24. Early in the McFarland, Jr., has been called to the colors and our month, at a conference at Atlanta, past president, Freeman H. Hart, will act during National President Hickman, Mc­ Brother McFarland's leave of absence. Elsewhere Farland and National Alumni Sec­ in this edition you will read of this change. Your retary Arbuckle discussed the new Supreme Council was called upon to act_immediately arrangement, when it b e c a m e and we know that you will be glad ·of our success in known that McFarland's call was securing the services of such an outstanding leader coming. The Supreme Council act­ as Dr. Hart. ed by telegraph and, in sending The Council is also glad to announce the appoint­ official notification of his selection ment of J. Harold Johnston as National Pledge Train­ to Hart, Oct. 5, Hickman wrote: ing Chairman. This phase of our fraternity life, "Every one is extremely happy you properly developed, is one of the cornerstones of the are available, and I am confident fraternity. Brother Johnston, a past national officer, this will work out to the satisfaction is steeped in the traditions of our fraternity and will of every one." ably fill his office. William M. Thigpen, Jr., BK, Again let me call your attention to the importance '39, continues as Assistant Execu­ of your cooperating and the renewing of your faith tive Secretary, a post he has held in the principles of Pi Kappa Alpha. In this hour of since August. McFarland, whose national emergency, only those imbued with this military duty will be in Atlanta, faith and cooperation can hope to stand in the face only three blocks from the IIKA of so many changes.-RoY D . HICKMAN. General 0 ffice in the Commercial He has already given his time in the military service of the nation. Capt. Robert M. Mc­ having been in the Army two years Farland, Jr., At!.. '21, in the World War period, becoming Quartermaster Re­ a Second Lieutenant of Field Ar ~ serve (rear). now on leave as Executive tillery in F ranee. Secretary. Pictured In his teaching career, before with him at Camp going on the Hampden ~ S y dne y Blanding, Starke, Fla.. faculty, he was principal of the last summer are three Second Lieutenants of Shipman (Va. ) High School, foot~ the same service: ball coach and Latin teacher at from the left: Wil· Horner Military School, in North liam F. Gwynn. AM: Carolina; a master in the Noble Charles W. Woodall. AM, and Jack C. Pen­ and Greenough Prep School, Bo s~ land, AM. ton, and professor of history at Washington College. in Maryland. He has appeared as a public speak~ er on countless occasions, in many Exchange Building, will be avai l ~ Sydney, a small but mo~t notab~e places. History in his first love, able for emergency call from H art Virginia college. He resigned th1s and he is department historian of and plans to visit the office daily post to accept the fraternity's posi ~ the American Legion for Virginia between 4:30 and 6 p. m. to assist tion, but he plans to resume his and chairman of the History Com~ in an advisory capacity. H e was teaching career upon completion of mittee of the Masonic Grand Lodge. given a year's leave of absence by his service in the General Office. A new edition of his monumen~ the Supreme Council and his con~ Those who attended the recent tal History of Pi Kappa Alpha is in tract readjusted to provide for a national convention at Chicago will the making. The first edition ap~ fractional compensation for his part~ recall H art's calm, suave handling peared in 1934 and since then every time service. A mutually satisfac~ of the gavel throughout the many initiate has received a copy, there~ tory agreement on compensation complicated questions always bound by obtaining a source of new was made with H art. The upshot to arise at such gatherings. Those knowledge and interest in the £rater~ is that the aggregate office payroll in the inner councils of the £rater~ nity. Hart has published many will be somewhat reduced. nity know him as a man of fine other historical writings. He con ~ Shortly after taking over, Hart judgment and tact, sometimes slow tinues in the appointive office of wrote to THE SHIELD AN D DIA ~ of speech but always sound in con ~ N ational Historian. MONO: "My plans for handling the elusions, a IIKA of real devotion to Fortunate in having great energy. job are still in the stage of forma~ his order. He is adept at dealing he is a man of about 200 pounds, tion. Since I am pinch~hitting for with difficult situations. standing an inch over six feet. His Bob, I am hoping to carry out his O f Scotch descent, he is the first dwindling hair is reddish brown, program and methods as nearly as to relish a story on his people. Per~ his kindly eyes blue; he wears rim ­ possible the same as he would. If haps that is why he seems to like less glasses. Before becoming Na ~ I can find any way to simplify the his nickname-"Free." The South tiona] President he was N ational functioning of the national organi~ is also in his veins; his father was Vice President. H is middle initial zation, I will, of course, submit it one of Stonewall Jackson's men. stands for Hansford. to Bob for his consideration. There His wife, formerly Miss Jean McFarland, whose convention are numerous angles connected with Fraser, was born in the same room appearances and travels across the the administration of the fraternity. in Staunton, Va., where Woodrow continent as an inspecting officer We not only have to keep relations Wilson was born- Wilson, who, as have given him a wide acquaintance with the chapters in good order and a student at the University of Vir­ in the fraternity, said in a letter to as pleasant as possible, but keep a ginia, occupied the same quarters in the chapters and officers as he en~ supervisory contact with the va­ W est Range where IIKA was tered on his military leave: rious agencies of the fraternity, founded. " I appreciate and thank you for such as THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND, Hart was born in Lexington, Va., the assistance given me in our joint Chapter House Loan Commission, Oct. 6, 1889. 21 years after the endeavors for Pi Kappa Alpha, and etc. Also, alumni relationships must establishment of the fraternity and I bespeak for Dr. Hart and Brother be developed and encouraged." just two months before its rebirth Thigpen your active and whole~ Hart has leased an A tlanta house at H ampden~Sydney , which was to hearted co~operation . I am look ~ at 413 Clifton Road, N . E ., near become his alma mater. He also at~ ing forward to the time when I Candler Park and the D ecatur tended Washington and Lee, Har~ can assume my active contact with boundary. He and Mrs. Hart took vard and Columbia universities, you." with them to Atlanta their four acquiring two Master's degrees. He repeated also five goals for sons- Fraser, 16, who had been a the undergraduate chapters, which sophomore at Hampden ~ Sydney + A THUMBNAIL BIOGRAPHY of Free- were contained in his report to the College and a pledge of Iota chap~ man H. Hart as one of the "builders last convention and published in ter there, having been too young in modem Greekdom" was published, with his picture. on the first page of the THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND for for initiation in the last scholastic last issue of Banta's Greek Exchange. It September. Then he added a sixth year, and three smaller lads, Jim ~ called him one of the country's "out­ goal: "Adopt and follow a thor ~ mie, Mac and Dave. standing historians" and said his history ough pledge~training program." He Since 1925 H art had been pro­ of IIKA was an "outstanding achieve­ ment." Golf and collecting old books. it commented: " I would be happy to fessor of history at H am pden ~ added. are his hobbies. CONTINUED ON PAGE 24 8 Stands Watch in Powder Keg

+ THE EYES AND EARS of the By J, Blanford Taylor College, Birmingham, where he re­ United States Government in Assistant Editor ceived A.B., A .M . and LI.D. de­ one of the trouble soots of the grees, the latter an honorary, in world are the eyes and the ears of tion. He had the last audience 1935. He also holds an A.B. from Hugh Gladney Grant, Ail, '12, En­ granted any foreign representative H arvard and an A .M . from George voy Extraordinary and Minister by King Zog, this being on the day W ashington University. Plenipotentiary to Thailand (for­ preceding the Good Friday inva­ After three years with Birming­ merly Siam) . sion. ham and other Southern news­ In this 200,000 square miles of The importance of Thailand in papers, four years with the Bir­ territory-which has almost half its Far Eastern affairs is demonstrated mingham Board of Education and border adjacent to French Indo­ in several recent diplomatic moves. two years with the Federal Board China and nearly two-thirds of the In the middle of October, Grant for Vocational Education, Grant .remainder next to Burma, traversed was conferring with Thailand of­ taught journalism and political by the Burma Road, the lifeline of ficials, supposedly reiterating the science at Auburn for four years. China- Grant has represented the American policy of status quo fol ­ Then after six years as secretary to United States since his appoint­ lowing the halting of a shipment of United States Senator Hugo Black ment to the important diplomatic 10 American made airplanes to the (now a Jus lice of the Supreme post last April 3. Thai government. Court) he became a ffiliated with Grant became a divisional as­ the State D epartment. Japan was generally credited with sistant in the Department of State, H e is the author of several gov­ having a hand in totalitarian dis­ Dec. 13, 1933. He advanced rapid­ ernmental publications. Authorized plays about this tim e, w hich. to ly to become Minister to Albania by the Department of State, he some observers, in d i c a ted that in 1935, serving until the legation toured the Balkan countries in 1927, Japan had her long-range eye on at Tirana was closed Sept. 27, study ing political and economic seizing and consolidating French 1939, because of the Italian occupa- trends. H e is married. Indo-China, Thailand and the Dutch East Indies in preparation to conquest by A xis powers of British possessions in the Far East. The government of Thailand was recognized by the United States in July, 1939. The 14 ,464,489 in­ habitants adhere principally to Buddhism. Bangkok is the prin­ cipal and capital city and the loca­ tion of the American legation. It has 68 1,2 14 population. The Thai government is headed by a regency r uling for King Ananda Mahidol. who ascended the throne following the abdication in 1935 of little King Prajadhipok. Principal exports of the nation are rice, tin , rubber and teak. Born Sept. 2, 1888, in Birming­ ham, Ala., Grant attended Howard

Hugh G. Grant, Ali, '12. (right), Ameri· can Minister to Thailand (Siam). Siamese Buddha (left). typifying the philosophy of the land he works in. Above: The Royal Palace, Bangkok. 9 •

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HEN R OBERT ADGER SMYTHE, A , became the first W national secretary-trea su rer oi Pi Kappa Alpha by elec­ The Shiel tion at the Hampden-Sydney convention, D ec. 2 1, 1889, he quic kly fe lt the need ot some method by which he could com­ municate w ith the chapters and the alumni. " . .. Celebrate The council form of governmen t established a t tha t refoundmg convention differed markedly from the " mother chapter" fo rm w hich had been in use since the founding in 1868. Something which w ould weld th e chapters together and give them a feeling of na tional unity was Birthday j required if Pi Kappa Alpha was to take her rightful place in the fraternity w orld. time and the conventional design of the cover was changed every 10 Smythe believed that a bi-month­ H arold Johnston, A \]1, in 1924, K. years or so. One could not tell ly magazine would solve these twin D . Pulcipher, BH, in 1930, and from the appearance or contents problems. Daniel Johnson Brimm Richard G . Baumhoff, B.\. , in 1940. w hen a n ew editor assumed office. a nd Joseph Thompson M cAllister Smythe continued as business man­ During the first three decades T HE had had the same idea w hile un­ ager until 1924 w hen the office was SHIELD AN D DIAMON D was a thor­ dergraduates at Southwestern and abolished . oughly conservative periodical in Viq:j inia . respectively-the former So much for historical data. M y every respect. It was the projec­ in 1886, but his Index never got assignment fo r this fiftieth anni­ tion of Bobbie Smythe. beyond the manuscriot stage, and versary number of T HE SHIELD Chapter letters w ere the reason the la tter in 1889, w hen one issue AND DIAMOND is to trace the de­ fo r the magazine's existence. The of his Bulletin was published. velopments and changes in the chapter correspondents poured out Smy the, an alumnus with a job as magazine over th e half century their hopes and fears just as if they clerk in his father's cotton broker­ sin ce Smy the first grasped the edi­ were writing personal letters to inti­ age office, was in a position t0 fol­ torial pencil. mate friends. No deta il was left low through and The p ; l(rz ryrya One who reads th e volumes of out. The articles were largely Alpha Journal, financed enti rely by the fi rst 30 years is immediately essays on brotherhood and friend­ Smy the, saw the liHh t of day in impressed w ith their similarity , ship. Pleas for unity and the sup­ 1891 . The Grand ( N a t i o n a I) both in fo rma t and in contents. port of fra ternity projects were Council recognized the value of the The differences from year to year sprinkled through the pages. Now Journal and assumed financial re­ li e chiefl y in the number of pages and then there would be a story sponsibility for it the follow·nq and the glossiness of the paper. about an alumnus, usually w ritten year. changino the name to THE The size was 6x9 inches, and each in the flowery style of an obituary. SHIELD AND D IAMON D and desiq ­ page contain ed a single wide col­ And instead of obituary notices, na ting Smy the as editor and busi­ umn of type. Articles follbwed there were pages of memorial reso­ ness manager. each other in the order in which lutions down to the last whereases. H e continued as edi tor un til they had been set in type and no Obviously the need when Smy the 1909, when W alter G . Riddick. II. attempt was made to fill out or first published the Journal w as for succeeded him, to be followed by balance pa ges. D epartment head­ an intimate, e x change-of- n e ws­ ings were introduced from time to Charles W . Underwood, X, in 1911. a mong-brothers type of publication. P . Tulane Atkinson, I , in 191 3, By J. Harold Johnston, Rutgers Professional editing and newspaper H enry L. H a mmett, H , in 1920, J. Former Grand Editor psychology would have been out of 10 The SHIELD and DIAMOND

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• WITH THIS ISSUE, THE SHIELD AN D DIAMOND becomes entitled to member hip in the Golden 1dDiarnond Chapter-it arrives at the half-century mark in its career as the national magazine of Pi I appa Alpha. The first issue- under the short-lived name of :s Fiftieth The Pi Kappa Alpha Journal-appeared in Decem­ ber, 1890. It consisted of 24 small pages and only 100 copies were printed. The current issue has twice as many pages, much larger in measurement, ~ecernber and the circulation will exceed 13 ,000 copies. Ten years ago the circulation was 5,500. THE SHIELD place. It was read, ipso facto. by AND DIAMO D of today is no more like Vol. I, No. 1, all who received it. In those days, of a half-century ago than the tense, lively world of Pi Kappa A lpha was small and 1940 is like the insouciant sphere of 1890- but the fraternity life was deep and uncom­ steadfast purpose of this magazine to serve the plicated. fraternity has not changed. Times, however, were changing. There was a gap of nearly two years in publica­ Instead of half a dozen chapters tion , from March, 1894, to January, 1896, due to holding meetings in dormitory lack of funds. This explains a lapse in the volume rooms when Smythe became editor numbering, for , if issuance had been steady then, in 1892, there were 10 times that the current issue would have been No. 2 of Vol. LI many chapters by the early 20's. (51) instead of Vol. L (50). The eighth succes­ All but a few chapters lived in their sive editor has just taken charge. An elaborate his­ own houses. Campus activities had tory of the magazine was printed in D ecember, 1930, increased in number and in tempo. on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary. Many general magazines were on About half of the cost of publication now is the market. Competition for a derived from th e income of the endowment fund set man's time was greater. The kind up by the 1926 convention. Into the principal of of magazine which had served IIKA this fund goes $10 for every member initiated, and so well for several decades began every alumnus who left coll ege before 1927 and who to lose its appeal. wishes to may pay the same; for the 10 a li fe sub­ The next period in THE SHIELD scription is assured. An additional fraction of the AND DIAMOND's history can well be publication cost is derived from advertisements. called the transitional period. In The balance comes from the fraternity's general writing about it, I lapse into the per­ funds, but the prospect is that eventually the endow­ sonal and the reminiscent for my ment fund from life subscriptions will be large term of office as Grand (National) enough to bear the entire expense. The number of Editor was the bridge between the issues annually was increased by the recent conven­ magazine as it had been and the tion from five to six-one every other month. one we know today. Some of the progress in style and content urged The blow-up came at the St. by K. D . Pulcipher, recently retired N ational Editor, Louis convention in 1924. The in his last convention report, and by J. Harold Supreme Council decided to name Johnston, his editorial predecessor, in the accom­ panying article, depend in part on more funds. COXTnJUED ON TEX'I.' PAGE 11 Shield and Diamond had to perform a real service in Try." We printed news about other educating its readers in things l1KA, fraternities and about colleges. We CONTJI\" UEO PRQ)I Pn: ECED l N"G P J\ GE the incoming editorial ta ff while in keeping them informed, in mak­ published articles about vocations the convention was still in session. ing them proud of their fraternity, and stories of life in foreign coun­ I had been a District Princeps in discussing controversial issues so tries. Above all , we tried to come (President) for several years anci that sound judgments could be out on the scheduled date. had served on THE SHIELD AND made, in spreading the gospel of a Criticisms of the new editorial DIAMOND staff. My activities at unified, national organization. and policy were more frequent than of both the 1920 and 1922 conventions we had to keep in mind the fact the new format. The narratives had brought me in touch with the that undergraduates, alumni, about members in foreign lands, the­ "elder statesmen" and my home was parents, prospective pledges. college stories about voyages to the far in the East. Truth compels me to deans and members of other frater­ corners of the earth, the omission of add that, having been out of col­ nities were forming their impres­ memorial resolutions and the drop­ lege but four years, I knew all the sions of IIKA nationally through ping of the word " brother" before­ answers, and I had been a persistent THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND . names were the special targets. A critic of the magazine. Designing a new format was the few alumni subscribers asked that + IN ANY EVENT, the Council asked easiest part of the task, for typo­ their names be taken off the list. me to be the editor and I agreed graphical experts could be consult­ but the undergraduates ate it up. to accept on two conditions, first ed. Selling the new style to the Once a year we circularized the­ that I be permitted to name the staff then business manager and getting chapters and asked what they liked - an unheard of procedure up to an increased budget was another and disliked in the magazine. We­ that point-and second, that I be story but the October, 19 __ , issue attended all possible district con­ given complete freedom within the came out in a slightly larger size, ventions and a~ked our questions framework of the budget and the with two columns of type to a page, in person. We never forgot in constitutional provision which fas­ double column heads with second those days that 90 per cent of the­ tened responsibility for the maga­ decks, many illustrations and a subscribers were undergraduates, zine upon the Council. It was an in­ modern type face. Great care was and we had gratifying · evidence­ teresting session, but I got what I taken with the make-up in order to from time to time that they were believed was imperative, if modern­ secure balanced and inviting pages. reading the magazine. ization was to be attempted. We made some compromises with + A NEW factor soon came into the- My editorial experience had been the conservative element but the picture. The adoption of the life­ confined to college publications. I predictions were dire and many subscription plan at the· Atlanta was in the advertising business and that the old guard would rise from convention in 1926 meant that year had some knowledge of general their wheel chairs and mow us by year the proportion of under­ magazines but I knew that my value down. They didn't and some of the graduate readers to alumni became­ to THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND finest letters of congratulations smaller and smaller. The editorial would stem from my relationships came from the real oldtimers. policy had to take this into account, and my background in chapter and + DESIGNING a new editorial con- for a magazine edited for alumni, national affairs. My colleagues on tent was far more difficult. W e with their diversity of interests, the staff would have to be the pub­ quickly saw that we could not wait could not be the same as one edited _ lication experts. for good stuff to come in. W e had exclusively for undergraduates. There were two young alumni at to go after it. We combed the We experimented during the first the convention who seemed to have chapter new and alumni directors few years of our editorship and tried what I personally lacked. Richard for story leads. We read the ma~a ­ to improve both the contents and G . Baumhoff, B .\. , whom I had got­ zines of all the other fraternities for the physical appearance until I was ten to know at the New York con­ ideas worth copying. We listed satisfied that we had reached our vention in 1922, was a reporter on matters of interest to fraternity men goal. But not Pulcipher. He was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. K. D . and then we tried to think of a thorn in my flesh. When I would Pulcipher, BH, after graduating in authors qualified to write on that complacently imply that the last is­ 1918 from the school of journalism subject. Sometimes it took us two sue was tops and couldn't be im ­ at Illinois, had been an Associated years to get a story and then, when proved, he'd rip it to pieces with Press editor and writer and was it came, it might be unusable, for constructive criticism. Actually, then editor of the western edition of we had decided that we would the two-column style of magazine the P ennsylvania Railroad's em­ never publish a story which didn't was all I had the ability to handle. ployes' newspaper, published in seem interesting to us. The more flexible three-column Chicago. Both agreed to serve We believed that the magazine, make-up he advocated was too and the_ thre ~ of us embarked upo~ like a newspaper, should take an complicated for me. When he a relationship which, to me, has editoria l stand on matters before finally agreed to do the page lay­ bee~ one of the most satisfying ex­ the fraternity so we added an outs, I agreed to lead the fight for pen ences of mv life. editorial section, where the editor the kind of SHIELD AND DIAMoi-m Our task in . the summer of 1924 sounded off. We didn't hesitate to the undergraduates know today. was to design both a new format crusade for the things we believed and a new editoria l policy. We And it was a fight. I expound­ should be done and we solicited ed our philosophy and outlined the believed that THE SHIELD AND DIA­ antagonistic letters for publication. MOND had to compete for a man's advantages of the new style but I The more discussion we could get, couldn't get the needed approval time with newspapers and general the better. When we came across magazines. H ence we had to make to proceed. As time went on- it an idea that had worked in a par­ was a six-month altercation- and it inviting to the eye and interestinH ticular chapter we published it in a to the brain. More than that, it the press date for the October, column headed " Good Things to COXTtN • t:D ON PAGE 24 12 Urges Renewed Fraternalism + SoMEHOW or other, fraternity By J. Harold Johnston, Rutgers tuted. Undoubtedly the committee men have been gradually losing New National Pledge Training Chairman first will define the objectives in de ~ sight of the great fundamental prin~ tail and study the pledge training ciples which brought the national fraternities originally drew their practices now in use by both our fraternities into existence during the breath of life and naturally a whole own chapters and by other £rater~ past century. A subtle difference series of complications has followed nities. Every active and alumnus in chapter life and attitudes is no~ the dilution process. member of IlK is not only invited, ticeable to careful observers. Chap~ The Chicago convention recog ~ but urged, to send suggestions or ters today tend to be more like clubs nized that a return to first principles his views on the subject to the Gen~ and glorified boarding houses than was needed if Pi Kappa Alpha was era! Office for forwarding to the like fellowships and brotherhoods. to fulfill her destiny. The delegates chairman. When all the needed Part of the shifting in attitudes believed that the desired end could data are at hand, the committee will and in practice is undoubtedly due be best achieved through education, endeavor to prepare an integrated to the change in educational phil~ and so a new office was created, and unified pledge training program osophy, which, fortunately. has tha! of National Pledge Training for the use of chapters. swept the colleges and universities. Chairman. Obviously the preparation of the Once upon a time, colleges had no I have accepted appointment to program is nothing more than a first concern about their students outside that office because I believe strong~ step in the process of educating the of the classroom. Education in ly in the objective outlined for it. incoming members in the funda­ tho~e days was for the mind, not I have asked the Supreme Council mental purposes and principles of for life as a whole. Fraternities to appoint four others to the com ~ fraternity. The will to follow the came into being to supply that lack, mittee, because the task requires the program and, more important, the but today colleges are equally con~ best ideas a representative group desire to follow it, must come from cerned with the development of per~ can produce. The selection of the the chapters themselves. The com­ sonality. Activities which, at one committee members has not been mittee, therefore, bespeaks the ac­ time, were conducted by the chap~ completed at this writing. tive cooperation of all the chapters ters on a campus are now, in large The procedure the committee will and of all the officers, to the end measure, under the direction of the follow will be determined by the that Pi Kappa Alpha may become in college. usually through the dean committee itself when it is consti~ fact what her very name implies. of men. This relatively new concern of college presidents and trustees in Johnston Heads Pledge Training the whole man does not in any sense make the fraternity obsolete. + THE OFFICE of N ational Pledge every national convention since ex­ In fact it makes the fraternity even Training Chairman, created by cept the recent one in Chicago. The more of a partner with the college the Chicago convention, has been Supreme Council appointed him to because administrators now want filled by the Supreme Council by the Shield and Diamond staff in the students to have that which. appointment of J. H arold Johnston, 1920 and made him a District Prin­ ideally. fraternities are supposed to A'l!, '20. Announcement of choice ceps in 1922. In 1924 he became Grand Editor, a position he held give. True, this concern makes ad~ of four members of his committee ministrations more critical of what remains to be made. until his election as Grand Secre ~ fraternities are offering, but that is tary at the Memphis convention in Johnston is qualified to see many 1930; he served as secretary for six a favorable sign, as it implies a sides of the pledge training picture. years. desire, and often a cooperative ef~ He is assistant to the pre ident of fort, to see fraternities improve. The Rutgers University, New Bruns­ While still a college senior he was asked by the Supreme Council difficulty has arisen because £rater ~ wick, N . J. , and he has been Grand nities have not kept pace with the Secretary and Grand Editor of to represent IIK at a meeting of the N a tional Interfraternity Con­ colleges. IIKA, author of our first pledge ference and he has continued as a There is another factor. Chap ~ manual and active in many frater­ ters, in the old days. held their nity affairs as both undergraduate delegate or alternate ever since. H e was a member of the E xecutive meetings in dormitory or other and alumnus. rooms. The members did not live Committee of the conference for H e became a member of Pi Kappa together in a chapter house. Frater ~ seven years and served one term as nity. to them, was a thing of the Alpha through Alpha-Psi chapter, secretary. spirit but today it is a matter of op­ Rutgers University. near the begin­ Johnston was a member of the erating and maintaining a house. ning of his freshman year, in 1916. committee which revised the ritual Budgets have to be balanced and By the time of his graduation he some years ago. He was co-author the race to own the best house on had held every chapter office, in­ of the booklet College Fraternities. the campus has brought higher and cluding SMC, house manager and published by the National Inter­ higher operating costs. The pressure steward. It was during his term as fraternity Conference, of which is to pledge men so that operating house manager that the alumni were more than 50.000 copies have been expenses can be met. In the old stimulated to the point of purchas­ printed and distributed to incom­ ing a new chapter house. days. the pressure was almost ex~ ing freshmen on most of the cam~ elusively the urge for fellowship. H e attended the 1920 convention puses of fraternity colleges. At All of this has meant a watering in New Orleans as an undergrad­ present he is alumnus adviser of the down of the principles from which uate delegate and he has attended Rugers Interfraternity Council. 13 Eleven IIKA's Elected to High Offices + THE congratulatory message of Absolam Willis Robertson, 0 , fairs Committee. In the primary a defeated candidate for the '07, of Lexington, Va., for his fifth election he roundly defeated former United States Senate to the winner term. H e is on the Ways and Governor William H . ( " Alfalfa - both IIKA's- bore out the prevail ~ M eans Committee. Bill" ) Murray and 15 other Demo~ ing spirit for unity in these days of Ezekiel Candler ( "Took") Gath~ cratic opponents. This will be his na tional emergency. That spirit of ings. r A and AZ, '29, of West Mem­ fifth term. phis, Ark., for his second term. He co~operative effort to achieve a Among other IIKA' s re~elected to common goal always has been and served on the Immigration and Nat~ important office are Jack W. Holt, uralization Committee and the continues to be engendered by col­ AZ, '27, Attorney-General of Ar~ lege fraternities, not only on the Claims Committee. He is the editor kansas, and Clarence W. Meadows, campus, but in daily life after col~ of a Washington news letter to II, '25 , Attorney-General of West lege days are past. Arkansas newspapers in which he Virginia. Both are Democrats. When the tabulation in Ken­ comments on pertinent questions of Meadows' plurality was about tucky's senatorial race had reached the day in the nation's capital. 125,000. such a point that the winner was John J. Sparkman, rA, '21, of definitely indica ted, Republican Huntsville, Ala., a ranking member On the Kentucky Republican Walter B. Smith, AE, pf Pineville, of the important Military Affairs ticket for a place as presidential sent his congratulations to the Committee. Unopposed, he was elector was Kenneth H. Tuggle, n Democratic incumbent, Albert B. given a third term. He is a former and AP , '26, who last year was his ( " Happy") Chandler, of Ver ~ District Princeps of IIKA. party's nominee for Attorney~Gen~ sailles, K and n. Will Rogers, EO, of Oklahoma era! of the commonwealth, his first " I trust we will have an era of City, Okla., Congre ss man -a t~ venture in politics. Inasmuch as unity and good~ will in America," Large for the state. In spite of the Kentucky did not go for Wendell the message concluded. With the handicap of bearing the name of L. Willkie, Tuggle was not elected mandate of the people of Kentucky the great humorist, he has achieved an elector. He has been practicing expressed at the polls, partisan lines stature of his own in Congress, law at Barbourville, Ky., having were la id aside in favor of a pro ~ being chairman of the Indian Af ~ been City Attorney four years. gram apportioning each a definite part of the task of keeping Ameri ca a place where Americans can dif­ NewS. & D. Staff Members Named fer in opinion, fight for their re­ spective opinions and then forg et 1926. On the campus he was in ~ the fight when a n " Ism" cloud ap­ terested in the various publications, pears on the horizon. serving as business manager and Chandler, who underwent an ap­ editor of the student newspaper, on pendectomy in the middle of the the yearbook staff. and on the staff campaign, made only one speech . of the alumni magazine. His margin of victory was 160,000 H e has been connected with the votes, or 5,000 more than P resi­ D ayton (Ohio) Daily N ews, the dent Roosevelt's in Kentucky. defunct Louisville Hera ld~ P ost, The Chandler has been in the Senate Enquirer of Cincinnati, and weekly about a year, having been appointed papers in the mountains of Eastern to a vacancy a fter he resigned as Kentucky. He also has been cor ~ Governor. H e has devoted much respondent for metropolitan news­ tim e to work with the important papers and news magazines. Senate Military Affairs Committee. With this issue a new position is Another IIKA to return to the created on the staff-that of P ro~ Sena te is Charles 0 . Andrews, AH, duction Mana ger. It is filled by D emocrat, of Orlando, Fla. H e C. Armitage H arper, AZ, '25 , who was elected, withou t opposition, to for the past four years has held the a second term. An advocate of a contract for prin:in8 the magazine stronger N avy, he is a member of through his firm a t Little Rock. H e the Senate's N aval Affairs C om­ J. Blanford Tayior. w ill take care of the mechanical de ~ mittee. tails of S HIELD AND DIAMOND pub~ Seven IIKA members of the n a~ + E FFECT IVE with the current is~ lication, superintend some of the tional H ouse of Representatives, all sue, J. Blanford T aylor, AA, be~ make~up, see that the time schedule D emocrats, were re~elected to two­ comes an Assistant Editor of THE is maintained. year terms. They are: S HIELD AND DIAMO! D. H arper is a graduate of the Uni~ William M eyers Colmer, AI, '14, A member of the news staff of versity of Arkansas with a B.A . of P ascagoula, Miss., for his sixth The Cour ier ~J ourna l , of Louisville, degree, got his A .M . from H arvard term. H e is a member of the power~ Ky. , T aylor has been a contributor in 1927. H e has been in business fu l H ouse Rules Committee. to THE SHI ELD AND DI AMON D for in Little Rock since that time. He Jerome Bayard Clark, B and T, 10 years. has been editor of several class '06, of F ayettevill e, N . C. , also a Born M arch 9, 1904, in L eit ch ~ publications, served as publicity member of th e Rules Committee, field, Ky., he received his A .B. director for the State Fair and many for his seventh term. degree from Georgetown College in political and civic campaigns. 14 A IIKA Leads Presbyterians + FoR THE fourth time in its hi s~ He was a trustee for Greenbrier ern Pre byterian for six years, tory, the Presbyterian Church College for Women, 1925 ~ 1930; founded and for 13 years was man­ (Southern) in the United States Hampden-Sydney College, 1933- aging editor of The Pre byterian has placed a IIKA at its head. 35, and Davis Stuart School ( syn­ Quarterly, founded and for three At the last meeting of the Gen ~ odical orphanage) , 1933-35. He is years managed The Presbyterian era! Assembly, held in May at a director of the Dallas Boy Scout and Reformed Review. He was, C hattanooga, Tenn., the Rev. Dr. Council, the Freeman Memorial for 25 years, pastor of Third Pres ~ Frank C hilton Brown, I , '09, pastor Clinic and the Texas Howard As­ byterian Church, New Orleans. of the First P resbyterian Church of sociation, a trustee for Austin Col­ Since 1926 he has been an hon ~ Dallas, Tex., was elected mod ~ lege, vice president of the Dallas orary vice president of the Amer ~ era tor. Pastors' Association and a member ican Bible Society. He is a BK. P receding him in the high office of O micron Delta Kappa. Among The other surviving General As­ were the late Dr. James Roberts sembly moderator, Dr. Wells, was H owerton, H, in 1907; Dr. John born in Hinds County, Miss., July Miller W ells, ® and I , 19 17, and 16, 1870. He was graduated from Dr. George Summey, B, in 1925. Southwestern in 1889 and Union In a corresponding office for the Theological Seminary in 1893, re­ Presbyterian Church in the U nited ceived his Ph.D. at Illinois Wes­ States of America, the northern leyan University in 1897, D .O .'s branch, Dr. Charles W hitfield from Davidson in 1906 and W ash~ ington and Lee in 1917, and an W elch, ®, pastor of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church of LI.D. from Southwestern in 1922. [ouisville, Ky., was elected at the O rdained in 1893, he has held 150th anniversary meeting of the pastorates in Buena Vista and assembly. His term expired last Staunton, Va., and Wilmington, year. N . C. After three years as presi­ Dr. Brown, born July 4, 1890, at dent of Union Theological Sem ~ Lewisburg, W. Va., received his inary, he assumed, in 1924, the A.B. degree at the age of 19 from pastorate of First Church of Sum­ Hampden~Sydney College. He won ter, S. C., where he has been since. his A .M . at the same institution and Long active in church affairs, he was awarded his D .O. in 1925. In has represented the denomination the meantime he had been granted at conferences in Edinburgh, Scot­ land; Belfast, Ireland, and Cardiff, his B.D . from Union Theological The Rev. Dr. Frank C. Brown. I. Seminary, Richmond, Va., in 1914 W ales, in addition to all parts of and was a student in United Free his published works is Lost, a the United States. Church College in Scotland in Human Soul. w hich appeared in Moderator Howerton, died at his 1914 ~ 15 . H e also traveled in the 1932. H e married M iss M ary home in Lexington, V a., in 1924. Holy Land in 1930 and attended Oden H ansford in 191 5. Of He had been a professor of philos~ the Trinity term at O xford Uni ~ medium height, he is slim , and dark ophy at W ashington and Lee Uni ~ versity, England, in 1935. in hair and complexion. versity for 18 years, after holding a After serving as principal of Po ~ Former Moderator S u m me y, pastorate in Charlotte, N .C.. for 10 tomac Academy at Romney, W . patriarch of the fraternity, having years. A charter member of Theta, Va., in 1909 ~ 11 , he was ordained been initiated seventy~one years he was Grand Chaplain of IIJ A into the ministry in 1914. His ago at D avidson (N. C.) College, in 1896, '98 and '99. clerical appointments have included : is now in his fourteenth year as a --ITKA-- Assistant pastor of H enry Drum ~ professor in Austin Theological • THE G eneral Council of the · mond M emorial Church, Glasgow, Seminary, Austin, Tex. Presbyterian Church (North ~ Scotland, 1914~15; pastor of First Born June 3, 1853, at Asheville, ern ) of the United States of A mer~ Church, Logan, W . Va., 191 5~ 20 , N . C., he received his A .B. degree ica, meeting recently in Louisville, and of Bream Memorial Church, in 1870 from D avidson after st ud y~ decided to select 118 chaplains to Charleston, W . Va., 1920 ~ 36 , be~ ing at the University of G eorgia. represent the denomination at mili­ fore going to the First Church, H e was granted an A.M. degree at tary posts. Dallas, the largest congregation of D avidson in 1872, finished at Union The Rev. Dr. Charles W . Welch, the sect, with 3,200 members. Theological Seminary in 1873, was ®, former moderator, said the church In 1916 he was moderator of the awarded his D .O . at Southwestern would also use its influence in neigh­ Kanawha Presbytery, in 1930 of in 1891 and a LI.D. in 1900 at borhoods near military posts to per~ the Synod of W est Virginia and in Davidson. suade townspeople to invite the 1938 of the D allas Presbytery. H e Ordained in 1873, he held pas­ soldiers into their homes. has been a member of the General torates at Bolivar, Tenn.; Coving­ " More than anything else," said Assembly Committee on Home ton. Ky.; Graham, N.C., and Ches­ Dr. W elch, " these men will miss Missions since 1939, the General ter, S. C., before becoming chan ~ their homes. They will be better Assembly board of trustees from cellor of Southwestern College in off spiritually and physically if sur~ 1928 to 1935 and the G eneral As ~ 1892, a position he held for 11 rounding communities open homes sembly Committee on Evangelism. years. He edited The Southwest~ and churches to them." 15 Meet the New D.P.'

By J, Blanford Taylor Lloyd, V erona , Pa., who resigne_d Assistant Editor due to pressure of business. H_1s district of four chapters takes m + F oLLOWING action of the Su- P ennsylvania west of Williams­ preme Council at the Chicago port, and W est Virginia east of the convention in nammg seven new Little Kanawha River. District Presidents and reappomt­ Edmonston. assistant manager of ing 10, Ralph F. Yaeger .. A Z , of the tax department of the G~If _Oil Cincinnati, was named President _for Corporation, 3601 Gulf Buddmg. District No. 3, thereby completmg Pittsburgh, has been active in the roster of these important of­ alumni a ffairs in Pittsburgh since fi cers. moving there in 1934. . The eight new D. P .'s come from Born at Aurora, Ind., 44 years almost as many walks of life. There ago, Edmonston a_ tte~ded _ Hugh:s are two lawyers, a tax expert, a High School in Cmcmnati and, m dentist, a paper company executive, 1914, matriculated in the college of an accountant, an assistant to a col­ engineering at the ~nivers!ty of lege dean, and a high school teach­ Cincinnati. He received his en­ er. Their average age IS 33. gineering degree in 1922. Heading District No. 1 is John Pledged by Alpha-Xi in 19_16, F. E. Hippel, BIT, a ttorney. of he left the university the followmg Philadelphia. He is a member of year to join the Army. He served the firm of Edmonds, Obermayer for two years with Battery E . !36th and Rebmann, with offices at 1418 Field Artillery. Packard Building. Edmonston was married in 1922 Hippel's district includes New to Miss Edith Arbuckle of Pough­ England, Delaware, N ew Jersey, keepsie, N . Y . They have a New York and Pennsylvania east daughter. Audrey, 16, arid a son, of Williamsport. There are seven Joseph R. , Jr., I3. They live at chapters in this area. H e succeeds 205 Elysian A ve., Pittsburgh. S. Roy Smith, South Orange, N . J., who was elected N ational Vice One of the youngest D . P .'s­ P resident at the convention. he was only 26 as of Oct. 10, but active in fraternity affairs- is Ralph Hippe! received his A .B. d e g r~e from the University of P ennsylvama F. Yaeger, A':., in charge of Distri~t in 1923 and his Bachelor of Laws No. 3. His territory includes Oh10 from the same university three years and W est Virginia west of the Lit- · later. tie Kanawha River, with five chapters. His campus activities included c·rew, scrub football. and politics. Born in Cincinnati, he enrolled H e was IMC of the chapter and in the University of Cincinnati, has served as presid ent of the Phila­ where he received his A .B. degree delphia Alumni C hapter. in 1936 and his B.E . the following year. · His public and civic interests are varied, as he is a member of the Since that time he served as play Philadelphia, P ennsylvania and leader of Cincinnati playgrounds American Bar Associations, the for two years, taught American U nion League of Philadelphia , history and coached football at Right Angle Club. Caveat Club, W alnut Hills High School. Cin­ Juris tic Society and Phi D elta Phi. cinnati ( 1937), and taught Amer­ ican history and served as advisor H e is 5 feet, I 0 inches tall. to the student publications a t With­ weighs 165, has black hair and row High School. C i n c i n n a t i dark complexion. H e is married (1938-1939) . He now is assistant and lives at 126 Crosshill Road, to the dean of the evening college Carroll P ark. H e is the father of of the University of Cincinnati, two girls, Barbara, 10, and Judith. 5. with offices at 6 McMicken Hall. Joseph R. Edmonston, A Z , of P ittsburgh, was placed in charge of While in school he was presiden t District N o. 2 to succeed John S. of Ulex, underclassmen's honorary activities society; sports columnist for the university N ews-R ecord. From top: John F. E. Hippe). District No. 1; Robert C. Hahnen. No. 12 ; and a member of the Cincinnatus Ralph F. Yaeger. No. 3; Dr. J. Her. Society , honorary activities and man Head, Jr .. No. 8. scholastic fraternity for graduating ~ig ht Leaders Named

students; Phi Delta Kappa and T w ice president and present sec­ Sigma Sigma, upperclassmen's hon­ retary-treasurer of the Jacksonvill e orary society. Alumni Chapter, he was SMC of He was SMC of Alpha-Xi in Alpha-Eta in 1928 and IMC in 1934 and 1935, being elected within 1926. one year of his initiation. H e was Specializing in in surance prac­ rush chairman in 1935 and 1936, ti ce, Boggs has his own office in pledge advisor in 1937, Alumni As­ the Barnett Building. H e plays sociation director in 1937 and now handba ll fo r exercise but likes all he is vice president of the associa­ sports. H e is a member of the tion. Florida Yacht Club, Seminole Club His hobby is collecting pipes. and th e Bachelors' Club. H e is being recognized as an authority married to th e former Miss Elma on pipes and tobaccos. He likes Cranford of Jacksonville, who is to watch football-he played fresh­ active in Junior League a ffairs. man football- and basketball. He Five feet, 10 inches tall. he is an ardent baseball fan, as are weighs 155 pounds, has brown hair most Cincinnatians now, with the and fair complexion. H e lives a t Reds as world champions. He 1764 Greenwood Ave., Jackson­ likes golf. ville. At graduation he was made an For District N o. 8, com posed of honorary member of the Committee six chapters in Kentucky and Ten­ of 100, an organization acting in an nessee, Dr. John Herman Head, advisory capacity to the U . C. Jr., Z, Nashv ill e, has assumed duties Alumni Association. He also be­ of President. H e succeeds J. H a r­ longs to the U . C . Faculty Club. old Trinner of M emphis . Married, Yaeger lives at 3423 Dr. H ead, born in Springfield, Oakview Place, Cincinnati. He is T enn., Sept. 15, 1913, maintains a 5 feet, 11 inches tall, weighs 185, den tal office a t 1 112 Bennie Dillon has brown hair and light com­ Building, Nashv ill e. Oct. 17 he was plexion. Yaeger succeeded Kent married to Miss Edith V ivian H op­ H. Meyers of Cleveland. ton of Nashville. H e was ~ ra duate d from th e Uni­ Surrounded by members of the versity of T ennessee in 1936 with fraternity prominent in civic affairs, th e degree of D .D .S. A past vice and himself one of the most active, president of th e T ennessee State Frank Dean Boggs, AH, Jackson­ Dental Association , he is a mem­ ville, Fla., attorney, is the new ber of the board of the N ashvill e President of District No. 6. Junior Chamber of Commerce, a He is in charge of Florida and member of th e board of th e Vine Georgia, including six chapters. Street Christian Church and a mem­ Horace S. Smith, Jr., of Atlanta, ber of the M en's Club. was the former president. His hobbies include HOif, swim­ Eight civic posts, among the ming, and attending football games, more important in Jacksonville are the latter a natural one with T en­ held by IIKA' s. Boggs being secre­ nessee consistently having good tary for the third term of the Jack­ tea ms. sonville Bar Association. Three He is small in stature, being 5 years ago he was treasurer of that feet, 5 inches tall, and weighs 125 organization. He also is a member pounds. H e has brown ha ir. of the Legislative Committee of the Charles L. Freeman, BA, Belle­ Florida Bar A ssociation. ville, Ill., new P resident of District Born in Jacksonville, June 28, No. 10, a lready has announced a 1906, he attended the University of program for his district, that of Florida and Vanderbilt University, more inter-chapter activity. T o this receiving an LI.B. degree from the end Alpha-Kappa visited Beta­ former institution in 1928. On the Lambda, Oct. 4 and 5, while O ct. Florida ca mpus he was editor of the 19 Beta-La mbda visited Alpha- S eminole (yearbook) , editor and co:vT• ;rr..-ruEo ox N EXT P AGE business manager of Blue Gator From top: Charles L. Freeman, Dis­ (humorous publication) , a member trict No. 10; Joseph R. Edmonston, of Blue ·· Key and of Black and No. 2: Harvey T. Newell, Jr .. No. II; White Masque. Frank Dean Boggs, No. 6. District Presidents Bishop Tucker Sets Great Britain Sunday COXTIN UED FH O M Pn:ECEDIXG PAGE + WHEN and if the Protestant than the ecclesiastical trappings of Kappa. A number of alumni were Episcopal Church of the United the high office. He was the leader present at both gatherings. Sta tes chooses an Archbishop, the of a movement designating Sept. 29 Freeman, whose district includes present Presiding Bishop, the Rt. as Great Britain Sunday throughout Missouri, except Kansas City, was Rev. Henry St. George Tucker. A , the United States, in which 14 recently given the East St. Louis '95, probably will not be selected for prominent clergymen asked their area of Illinois. He succeeds Don tha t office, as he is nearing the followers to " identify ourselves in H. Jones of Columbia, Mo. 68~year retirement age for Presid~ sympathy and fellowship with the Born in St. Charles, Mo., Free~ ing Bishops. British people." man was awarded a four~year schol~ arship to Washington University. The recent fifty~third triennial At the Episcopal convention, in As an undergraduate he was secre~ general assembly at Kansas City response to a plea from the Rt. Rev. tary of the YMCA. a sports writer, decided to make the National Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishoo on the staff of the student magazine, Cathedral at Washington the seat of Canterbury, the American church and took part in Little Theater of the Presiding Bishop, a sort of increased its apropriations for productions. He was president of primatial see just as Canterbury is British missions. Many other im~ Omicron D elta Kappa, president of for England. With the Bishop of portant questions were settled or the student body, president of the W ashington, the Rt. Rev. James delayed. In the latter category Panhellenic Association, president E. Freeman, reaching retirement age was the proposed merger with the of Delta Sigma Rho and a member within the coming year, it appears Presbyterian Church. The conven~ of Phi Delta Phi. He served as entirely likely that the two positions tion did not act finally on the ques~ SMC in 1930 ~ 31. will be united soon. tion, but did recommend that mem~ He received his A .B.' from But Bishop Tucker probably will bers in communities not served by Washington in 1929 and his Mas ~ give more thought to ways of ob~ an Episcopal church should attend ter's six years later. taining more aid for Great Britain a Presbyterian church. Interested in amateur dramatics, he is a member of the executive 1933. He then did graduate work Six feet tall, weighing 160 council of St. Louis Directors' As ~ at Northwestern. pounds, black hair and fair com ~ sociation and is director of inter ~ plexion, he's a bachelor. His resi ~ mediate boys at Camp Chief Ouray He is life president of his class Gra upy, Colorado. and Clark Medalist in Journalism. dence is at 949 Morningside, Jack~ He edited his college newspaper son, where he follows hts hobbies After two and a half years for two years, took part in dra ~ of music, reading and Pi Kappa teaching in the St. Charles High matics, glee club work and played Alpha. School, he taught the same length in the band; was on the student Robert Courtney Hahnen, BX and of time a t Kemper Military School, executive board for three years, a BH, a native of Des Moines, Ia., Boonvi lle, Mo. H e conducted two member of the YMCA, and presi~ and an accountant in the Federal European tours for field work for dent for two years of the State Land Bank of St. Paul, succeeds Kemper. Now he is beginning his Methodist Young Peoples' Organ ~ Leo S. Hoegh, of Chariton, Ia., third year a t Belleville Township ization. new National Secretary, as Presi ~ High School, teaching economics His fraternity activities have been dent of District No. 12. There are and coaching dramatics. many, as he was ThC in 1930 ~3 1 , four chapters in the district, which He is a Mason, a Kiwanian, a SMC in 1931 ~33, president of the includes the states of Iowa, Minne~ member of the Junior Chamber of Jackson Alumni Chapter in 1934 sota and W isconsin. Commerce and an elder in the Pr es~ and 1940, associate editor of THE byterian Church. H e is not mar­ H e attended school at both SHIELD AND DIAMOND 1936~37, ried. Six feet tall, he weighs 160. Minnesota and Illinois where he alumnus counselor for Alpha~Iota and he has black hair and fair com~ took part in track and cross-country, plexion. 1935~38 , and chairman of the as well as being on the staff of Riculfi Award Committee 1936~37 . several campus publications. He Harvey Thornton Newell, Jr., He holds membership in four was secretary of Beta ~ Chi in 1926 AI , succeeds A . Brown Moore of honorary fraternities- 0 m i c r on and has been president of the build~ New Orleans, as President of Dis~ Delta Kappa (a former president) , ing association and trustee since trict No. 11 . The district includes Alpha Psi Omega, Sigma Upsilon 1933 for that chapter. Louisiana and Mississippi, e mbrac~ and Eta Sigma. He also belongs ing four chapters. His hobbies include tennis, table to the Chamber of Commerce and tennis and reading. He is a char~ Secretary and treasurer of the several trade associations. ter member of the St. Paul Toast~ Jackson P aper Co., of Jackson, Before entering the paper busi~ masters' Club and formerly took an Miss., N ewell is active in civic af~ ness, Newell taught school and di~ active part in affairs of the Min­ fairs. H e is a charter member of rected the band in Tylertown, neapolis Junior Association. He is theY M en's Club, a member of the Miss., for one year. a Sunday School director and a Rotary Club, Boy Scout Commis ~ "The chief result," he said in member of the hospitality commit~ sioner, member of the board of describing this interlude, "was lin ~ tee of the Parent ~ Teacher Associa ~ stewards of the M ethodist Church ing up several good men for Pi tion. and a former officer of the Mill~ Kappa Alpha and a light case of saps Alumni Association. Married to a Kappa Delta from tuberculosis, which laid me up for Northwestern, they have a son, Born in Camp Hill, Ala., April a couple of years. Now 0 . K., I Robert C ., Jr., 7 years old. The 3, 1912, he was awarded his B.S . have been back at full ~ time work Hahnens live at 2177 Randolph degree with honors at Millsaps in since 1939." Ave., St. Paul. 18 Willie Nash Becomes a Dean

By Allan M. Trout During his residence of 25 years Georgetown in Georgetown, Dr. Nash became + WILLIE NASH left Georgetown integrated with the church, civic College. That is the story so and political interests of the town. far as it concerns thousands who He was president of the George­ knew him for 25 years on the cam­ rown Rotary Club in 1933. pus. He became interested in politics Dr. William Gill Nash, AA, be­ in 1929 when his friend and frater­ came dean of Murray State Teach­ nity brother, A. B. ( " Happy" ) ers College, Murray, Ky., on Sept. Chandler, first ran for the State 1. But this story requires some de­ Senate. H e thereafter took what velopment because Dr. Nash away he deemed to be an ordinary citi­ from Georgetown is not the same zen's duty- an active interest in personality as Willie Nash at candidates, issues and campaigns. Georgetown. H e has traveled extensively in No one man within memory of all sections of this country, and in­ the living has ever been associated dulges in golf, tennis and swimming so intimately as Dr. Nash with the as recreation. H e is married to the senior Baptist college in Kentucky, former Martha Mcivor of H ender­ founded in 1829 on a pleasant knoll DR. WILLIAM G. NASH son. They have two children. overlooking historic Royal Spring + HERE'S a story representing an un- D r. Nash's philosophy of edu­ on the southwest, and sloping gent­ usual combination of IIKA's. It first cation is that while textbooks are ly to Elkhorn Creek on the north­ appeared in the Louisville Courier­ important as such, an education Journal, having been inspired by the east. assistant managing editor, Robert L. based solely on classroom work is To say that he had been on the Riggs, AA and AN. The author. Allan criminally inadequate. H e believes campus for a quarter of a century M. Trout of the Courier-Journal's state that better citizens are made of stu­ capitol bureau, like the subject, Dr. dents if they are encouraged to ad­ might suggest to a stranger the Nash. is a son of Alpha-Lambda. The figure of a weary old professor article was turned · in by J. Blanford just themselves to one another in moving back deeper and deeper Taylor, AA, new Assistant Editor of dormitories, campus activities and into the shadows of ivy-covered The Shield and Diamond. And lastly, athletics. Dr. Nash's new chief is a IIKA. Presi­ walls. Actually, D r. Nash is only dent James H. Richmond, Z. He believes a professor is of 41 years old. His face is not greatest value to a student when wrinkled, he still has a heavy best loved, perhaps for his con­ he sets him a daily example of in­ growth of blond hair, and his waist­ suming interest in Pi Kappa Alpha. tellectual honesty, tolerance and line is intact. For six years he was District Presi­ old-fashioned character. H e be­ Dr. Nash left his home in dent in charge of chapters at lieves five minutes of understand­ Pleasureville in 1915 to enter Georgetown, Transylvania, Uni­ ing talk between a professor and a G eorgetown College as a freshman. versity of Kentucky, University of student may be of more value to the He was 15 years old. He was Tennessee, Vanderbilt and South­ younger man than a semester of graduated with top honors four western. classroom instruction. years later, having made one of He visited those campuses fre­ As dean of the institution at the most brilliant scholastic records quently, thereby greatly enlarging Murray, Dr. N ash will be first as­ in annals of the school. his circle of friends in both States. sistant to Dr. James H . Richmond, H e became assistant to the head H e was treasurer of the fraternity's Z, president. He will not teach, of the Department of Physics, and national endowment fund for sev­ but rather will have general super­ succeeded to full head of the de­ eral years, and now is a trustee of vision of the whole education pro­ partment in 1925. fn 1935, he also the fund. gram. was made treasurer of the college, and held both positions at the time he retired to go to Murray. A II KA Was Bound to Win This Race M eantime, Dr. Nash took grad­ uate work in physics at University + THE CAMPAIGN for president of The two men shortly afterward of Chicago, University of Michi­ the Charles City ( Iowa} Junior participated in another race. But gan and W ashington University at Chamber of Commerce was like a this time there was a third con­ St. Louis. H e took his M aster's closed corporation as far as ITK 's testant, the stork. Mrs. Betty degree, and earned a doctorate in were concerned. P aul E. Garth­ Garthwaite and Mrs. Jean W illson physics, but never took it. Last waite·, rN, '32, and Elbert L. Will­ entered the maternitv ward of year he began advanced studies in son, B, '34, were the candidates. Cedar Valley Ho spit~l the same school administration at the Uni­ day, June 26. Before noon Paul versity of Kentucky and took his Before the election Garthwaite was passing cigars in honor of the Doctor of Philosophy degree in that made a rousing campaign speech­ birth of a son, Martin Miles. In subject last summer. for the election of Willson. Will­ the afternoon Elbert told friends His horizon always has been out son did likewise. asking the election about the birth of a daughter, Sarah and beyond the classroom. H e is of Garthwaite. Willson was elected. Jean. 19 Urges Endowment Fund Gifts + THE CONSTITUTION of Pi Kappa By Charles K. Dunn, Kentucky plishment that predominates on the Alpha prescribes that the board Chairman of the Trustees campus where the chapter is located. of trustees of the Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kappa Alpha Endowment Fund We must admit that the main­ Endowment Fund, appointed by our tenance of such standing is possible Supreme Council, shall undertake Then, we would like to provide only through the most careful selec­ the accomplishment of the objec­ recognition of outstanding accom­ tion of new members, an efficient tives for the Endowment Fund plishments of our undergraduate chapter organization resulting from which are set forth in the article members t h r o u g h scholarship full cooperation of every member constituting authority for the fund. awards granted under specific con­ of the chapter, and an alert, capable The objectives establish a high aim ditions and through proper regula­ and sympathetic national manage­ for endeavor and offer a challenge tion. This can be done successfully ment. The endowment fund can of accomplishment that can be met through careful planning and con­ be used to foster and perpetuate all only through cooperative effort on stant supervision to assure an equit­ phases of activity that tend to pro­ the part .of all interested members able distribution of awards. The mote harmonious and effective par­ of Pi Kappa Alpha. means to provide such scholarship ticipation in chapter and national awards are needed as a part of our Your devotion to and love of the We now offer to every member endowment fund. of Pi Kappa Alpha the medium ideals for which Pi Kappa Alpha through which he can contribute to­ The opportunity is available endures is the sole motive that will ward the accomplishment of these through student loans to assist inspire your interest in the endow­ objectives. Successful attainment worthy brother students in their ef­ ment fund to the extent that you of our objectives will strengthen forts to complete their formal edu­ will contribute in time, in effort or the basic structure of Pi Kappa Al­ cation. In this phase of our activ­ in money toward the success of the pha and will materially aid every ities we need a loan fund , plus fund. The ideals for which Pi chapter in its efforts to enhance its careful planning for its use and un­ Kappa Alpha endures are funda­ prestige through greater service ceasing supervision of its use to mental to the nature of every man from the national organization. obtain the maximum benefit. The who has in his heart a normal feel­ money for this purpose should be ing of love for his fellow-man and The foremost objective of the a part of the endowment fund. in particular for his brothers in fund is that of establishing for Pi There are still other ways of using Ka. The bond of brotherhood Kappa Alpha a permanent home of an endowment fund to create op­ draws each of us a little bit closer its own, which will serve as a fit­ portunities and offer advantages to to members of Pi Kappa Alpha than ting memorial to our Founders. members of our undergraduate do the day-to-day contacts with wherein we will house adequately chapters that should be of in­ other men whom we meet. our general office, provide a mu­ valuable assistance to them in ob­ seum for suitable preservation of If you have ever felt the real taining new members. The pri­ thrill of true brotherhood in P i the memorabilia of the fraternity, mary objective of each chapter maintain our archives in safety. Kappa Alpha and have sensed the should be to maintain a standing spirit that inspired our six Founders build up a library of publications of in scholarship, conduct and accom- which our members are the authors. to create our brotherhood, you will · and provide other essential facil­ + • • want to, and you will, contribute ities for the proper and efficient to this effort to keep alive the conduct of the fraternity's affairs. Alumnus Praises Friendship ideals and aim of Pi Kappa Aloha. " IN THIS world where we find Your contribution, be it small or This is an ambitious program and so much hating, cheating, lying, large, according to your capacity one that will require a substantial ruthless aggression and barbaric to contribute, will be a symbol of sum of money for financing. Care­ warfare, I contend that friendship fraternity and will · be the inspira­ ful consideration must be }liven to is not a thing to be tossed lightly tion for others to contribute. The the cost of the future operation and aside," said a dynamic message plan of contributions is a voluntary maintenance of the national head­ addressed to IIKA's in the Greater one. We ask all IIKA's to volunteer. quarters building. This anticipated Miami (Fla. ) area by Pharos R. The trustees of your fund can cost, naturally, will be a part of the Lester, rA, '27, president of the accomplish nothing without co­ fundamental plan of financing. Pi Miami Alumni Chapter. The oc­ operation. The greatest success Kappa Alpha will create, through casion for the letter was a drive to that can result from our efforts is to ownership of a national headquar­ get more members out to the weekly have every member of Pi Kappa ters building, the appearance of luncheons, held at 12 :30 p. m .. Alpha take part in the program to stability and permanency of organ­ Wednesdays, in Walgreen's mez­ build up a substantial endowment. ization. The experience of other zanine. Your trustees pledge to cooperate fraternities which have provided na­ --TIKA -- fully with each and every one who tional headquarters buildings for DAVID GILE, rM, '40, is with the is in teres ted in perpetuating our their general offices has been en­ Regular Army at Fort Williams, ideals of brotherhood. Won't tfOU tirely satisfactory and we believe Maine, serving under provisions of reciprocate that pledge of coopera­ that a permanent home for Pi the Thompson Act. While at the tion by making your contribution to Kappa Alpha will do much to en­ University of New Hampshire he the Pi Kappa Alpha Endowment hance its prestige to the ultimate was cadet Lieutenant-Colonel, Fund, NOW? benefit of all chapters and every CAC, in command of · the second Address the chairman at 405 Col­ member. battalion of the regiment. orado Building, Washington, D . C. 20 New Scholastic Mentor Chosen + MICHEL CARTER HuNTLEY, AI, secretaryship was established in of his junior year he enlisted in '20, chosen by the Supreme January, 1930, when Hun tley as~ Battery B. !40th Field Artillery. Council as National Educational sumed office. This unit wa composed largely of Advisor, comes to the guidance of Born in Lumberton, Miss., April Missi sippi college men. After a the fraternity with a wealth of ex~ 19, 1898, he received his A .B. from year overseas, in the W orld W a r, perience and bids fair to be of great Millsaps College in 1920, his A.M. he was discharged in June, 1919. assistance. from Emory University in 1925, and " Brother David M. Key, then In his capacity as executive direc~ now holds an LI.D. from Millsaps, President of Millsaps College. made tor of the Southern Association of conferred in 1939. H e played Colleges and Secondary Schools, it possible for me to return for my varsity baseball and class football. senior year," Huntley recalls. " Our ~ with offices at 924 Seventh St., but was more interested in creative Birmingham, Ala., he is constantly ing this year I coached the athletic writing, an interest which took him teams of the Millsaps Academy. in touch with a branch of college into newspaper work. work which gives him a broad con~ " For two years after graduation cept of educational problems and Entering Millsaps as a opho~ I continued as a full~time member their solution. more in the fall of 1915, a t the end of the staff of the academy. When Huntley is enthusiastic about his that institution was discontinued, I new duties, but has not, as yet, began newspaper activity which drawn a definite program. lasted about two years. From the He succeeds the Rev. Dr. Ulysses city editorship of the Jackson D aily Short Gordon, ®, ' II , who was re~ Clarion Ledger, I moved to the lieved of the dual task of Educa~ M emphis Commercial Appeal. tiona] Advisor and National Chap~ " In 1925 I took a Master's lain. Dr. Gordon retains the latter degree from Emory University, office. Atlanta, Ga., and then came to The association Huntley repre~ Birmingham that fall as a member sents is one of several regional ac~ of the faculty in the department of crediting agencies in the country, English at Birmingham-Southern covering II states, from Virginia College." to Texas. His work falls into sev~ Since that time he has done grad ~ era] classifications. He collects re ~ ua te work at Johns Hopkins, Co~ ports from 200 colleges, universities lumbia, University of Wisconsin and junior colleges in the member~ and University of Chicago. Stand~ ship. He also directs surveys of ing 5 feet, 8 inches, Huntley weighs institutions applying for member~ 155, has brown hair and dark com­ ship and those within the member­ plexion. He li kes " golf. fishing ship which find themselves in va~ and hunting, in order named" and rious difficulties. holds memberships in Omicron Carrying on ITKA's ceaseless stress Delta Kappa and the Rotary Club. Most of the academic year finds on scholastic achievement as the him visiting the institutions of high~ prime objective of college life, H e is a Phi Beta Kappa, a Democrat er learning. conferring with their Michel Carter Huntley. AI, '20. has and a Methodist. executive officers and advising been appointed National Educa­ He is married and lives in Bir~ tional Advisor. His own chapter them as to administrative and ed u ~ is the fraternity's current leader in mingham at the Seventh St. ad~ cational procedures. The executive scholarship. dress. Sound Advice on Making Good Chapters Offered by Hart + A GOOD credit rating will do rating," he declared. " Fraternities on its campus having the best rec ~ more than any other single can not do this on the basis of long ~ ord, seems to have proved effective, thing to establish and maintain due accounts, discounting accounts he continued. Some groups offer pleasant relations with townspeople and certainly defaulted accounts. additional cups for individual ef­ and others off the campus, Acting " Along with this problem of fort. Other chapters conduct study Executive Secretary Freeman H . credit is the frequent stigma of con ~ halls with upperclassmen in charge. H art, I, ' 12, said in a recent dis ~ duct in fraternity houses. Most of " In the manner of drinking," cussion of P anhellenic activities. us connected with the fraternity Hart continued, "one council favors Scholarship cups to encourage system know only too well that this the plan of putting all the fraterni~ better grades and an honor system stigma is unwarranted but that does ties on their honor, as it were, a nd plan for the elimination of intoxi ~ not solve the problem of unfavor ~ then barring from social functions cants from fraternity houses also able public opinion. It is unfo rtu~ such fraternities whose membership were touched on. nately too true that the fraternity fail to abide by the best interests of " In the matter of fraternity rela~ system bears the burden of the the fraternities as a whole. tions with townspeople and other unsavory reputation of one uncer ~ " En force men t difficulty usually outsiders. I would say rather feel~ tain house as against a dozen that lies in the attitude of the college ingly to the whole fraternity system preserve wholesome conduct." administration. If it is J ac ka~ that there is a crying need to estab~ A Panhellenic Council scholar~ daisical, the problem is made more )ish a nd preserve a good credit ship cup offered to the fraternity difficult." 21 up her music in favor of being Gar Wood Jr. Sets Speed Record mother to 40 boys. She became in~ Tinker Toy's northern butternut fluential in helping to form the pol~ + A WORLD RECORD for motor~ icies of the chapter in its early days boat speed in outboard amateur hull was designed as a displacement boat by the young Wood four years when it needed the advice of an Class A was made by red ~ headed older person. Gar Wood, Jr., rY, at the National ago under the eye of Nap Lisee, Outboard Championships at Lake designer of the Miss Americas. The One of the chief reasons she has Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass., Detroit Free Press described the liked her work so well is that she Sept. 15. inner works as "a conglomeration finds pleasure in young life and in of parts from the Wood plant and all the major sports- basketball, Wood, a student at the Uni~ football and baseball. versity of Tulsa and son and name ~ the junked Notre Dame." "The Mother Hoyt has established a sake of the famous motorboat build~ motor," this article continued, "is a er and racer, was timed at 44.709 375~horsepower Liberty, used in link between the alumni and the miles per hour, compared with the the Baby Gar VI and Baby Gar men living in the chapter house. previous record of 44.544 m. p. h. VII in Gold Cup competition nearly After the alums have been out of set by Clinton Ferguson of Waban, 15 years ago. The exhaust pipes college a few years the fellows they Mass. were dismantled and were replaced knew in the house are scattered, by stacks used on the Miller motor but it is she that they come back At the same meet Wood won to see. the Class C amateur event, only to which saw service on the Miss America VIII. The gasoline tanks Because of her numerous activ­ lose this championship to Ferguson, ities she has become well known in stirring final heats. Three weeks are from the Notre Dame. Except for the en try fee, only $1 00 has on the campus and in Iowa City. earlier, at the National Sweep~ Some of the groups in which she stakes Regatta at Red Bank, N . J ., been spent to date to fit out the craft. Wood said that his venture participates actively are Eastern August 24, Wood had set a world Star, D . A. R., Ladies' Aid Society, record of 54.184 m. p. h. He and was greeted without fervor by his father's staff of experts, and that Woman's Club and Missionary So~ Ferguson before that jointly held ciety. These interests on her part the record of 53.925 m. p. h., but at all the work had been done by Clark, Schram and himself." have gained respect for the chapter. Red Bank, Ferguson was second to Wherever Mother Hoyt is known Wood, who also won in Class A The choice of name for the boat she has served as a symbol of IIKA. there. Deftly steering his bouncing would seem obvious. little craft, Wood was hailed as Doing everything within her --ITK A-- power to help the chapter through the same kind of pilot as his in~ trepid dad. New House Mother its times of need; she has been more A week previously Wood had than just a house mother; she has entered his new hydroplane, the been a true mother to 200 young Tinker Toy, in the Gold Cup races men. All the fellows of Gamma ~ N u at some time have gone to her in Long Island Sound at North­ for help and advice, which she has port, N . Y . It started in two heats given willingly and sincerely. but failed to finish . As Wood turned back for the time being to Last August she attended the · his first love, outboard racing, he IIKA convention at Chicago. smilingly explained that the Tinker --ITK A - - Toy "needed a lot more tinkering." Star Salesman Promoted Tinker Toy was entered by its WILLIAM TAYLOR, JR., Y , '32, has 22-year-old builder in the Gold Cup been appointed district agent for races under the flag of the Detroit Alabama for the Merchant Calcu~ Yacht Club. It is a trim little boat lating Machine Company, of O ak~ of his own design, built in the Gar land, Cali£., and will have head~ Wood plant at Detroit, as an enter~ quarters at 411 N. Twenty~third ing wedge in the racing field which St., Birmingham. brought fame to the elder Wood. For the last five years, Taylor has been in the Washington of~ It used to be that when a ques ~ fices and has consistently been tioner asked " Junior" what he among the leading salesmen. He planned to do with speed boats he also was active in civic and Masonic would say diffidently, " It's up to affairs as well as those of the dad." After some hesitation, Wood, Washington Alumnus Chapter. Senior, recently told his son and He married the former Miss the latter's chum, Joseph Clark III, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt Katherine Gengnagel of Catons~ to go ahead. Wisely the father ville, Md. limited his help to paying the $150 T HIS is the tenth year that Mrs. They have a daughter, Joan, entry fee in the Gold Cup races Elizabeth Hoyt has been the house born last July. and making his shops available, thus mother at Gamma ~ Nu , University - -ITKA-- giving the son a chance to develop of Iowa. In the fall of 1930, when DR. WALLACE PROCTOR, A~ . '30, his own ingenuity. Joining the two the chapter was moving into a new for several years with the medical youths in the construction job was house, she assumed the position. division of the Arabian Standard Lawrence Schram; the three had Previously she had been a music Oil Company, has returned to the played basketball together at Al­ teacher, but she enjoyed her new United States from Bahrein Island gonac High School, near Detroit. field so much that she willingly gave Persian Gulf. ' 22 New Legion Head Typical Civilian-Soldier CONTC\'"UEO FROM PAGE 6 torniquet, staunching the flow of be sent back to the United States, They were married June 1, 1917. blood until W arner could be re~ going to Fort Sam Houston . Tex., Two days later Warner became a moved to a field dressing station. to recuperate. Discharged from the Second Lieutenant. Then he was There they despaired of his life, hcspital in March, 1919, he was as~ sent off to training school at Fort but finally moved him to Base Hos ~ signed to the Fourteenth Cavalry Leavenworth, Kan., and in 23 days pita! 34, where it was decided that for further duty, but retired from was promoted to a First Lieu~ the leg should be removed. Bull~ the regular military establishment tenancy. Five months thereafter dog tenacity stuck out all over the because of his disability. he was elevated to a Captaincy and young artillery officer. who fi nally H e immediately returned to To ~ sent to the Eighteenth Cavalry at prevailed on the surgeons that the ledo and began the practice of law Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. He had operation was unnecessary. Today with Doyle & Lewis. The American visions of being a great cavalry of~ he walks without a visible sign of Legion was just then beginning to ficer, but the Army decided dif~ disability. get its feet on the ground. A group, ferently and the Eighteenth was As he lay in the base hospital including W arner, organized Ver~ converted into the Seventy~Sixth 34, on Aug. 15, his eldest son, non McCune Post. H e was one Field Artillery, of the now famous Milo, Jr. , was born. It was several of its first Adjutants. In the early Third Division. months before W arner was able to days the post Adjutant was also Warner was assigned to Battery service officer and W arner took D and his commanding officer de~ both jobs to heart. The service cided to let the young Captain cut work was particularly trying then, his · eye teeth on the horse detail. for the laws and regulations were He was a calm and none too confi~ not readily available and most of dent Captain, and he wisely placed the d i s a b I e d men were total himself in the care of an old Regu ~ strangers to each other. This made lar Army Sergeant, "Spud" Mur ~ no difference to the struggling phy, for further training. Warner young attorney, who soon found soon became E xecutive Officer. himself starting claims and litiga ~ Fort Ethan Allen proved unsuitable tion through proper channels. for the training of Field Artillery Warner has been a member and and the regiment was moved to president of the nationally known Camp Shelby, Miss., for lightning Toledo Industrial P eace Board, training. Soon the regiment was w hich was created in 1935 to bring ordered to France; enroute Warner about the settlement of labor dis~ was made commanding officer of putes without strikes or lockouts. Battery B. The Board, on which he was one of Training in France was intensi~ the public's representatives, has en ~ fied because the enemy was threat~ joyed large success. ening on all sides. Just as the At one time Warner was presi~ scheduled session was completed, dent of the Toledo Bar Association. the Third Division, with the Seven ~ He is now a partner in Doyle & ty~Sixth, was ordered into the line. Lewis, Nicholas Building, one of The division stemmed the tide on the oldest and be st~k nown firms in its first engagement and drove the Ohio, specializing in insurance, rail~ enemy back on both the Cham ~ road and corporation law. William pagne~Marne and Aisne ~ Marne + " 'RUNT' WARNER was a vivacious N . King, P, '08 , of Cleveland, gen ~ sectors. and well-liked undergraduate at era! attorney of the New York Cen­ Ohio State," it is recalled by his class­ Capt. W arner commanded his mate, Elson A. Weller. AP. ' 13. lawyer tral Railroad. has pointed out that battery in action for only three at Massilon, 0 . The picture shows War· W arner is one of the lawyers on weeks. Near LeCharmel the morn­ ner (left) and Weller as carefree juniors whom he relies for trial work in 28 , 191 8, in 1912. Toledo. ing of July a lone German "Fun loving. Warner had a good time bomber appeared from a low hang ~ in college," Weiler continues. "He was Service in the nation's forces at ing cloud and dropped a hissing, a neat and active student, w ho easily a time of need is a tradition of W ar­ screaming bomb into one of the gun passed all his courses. In his third year ner's family. His father and grand ~ he was elected president of the Student S ev~ emplacements of Battery B. Council, a much coveted position, and father both were in the Union eral men were killed outright, others he was elected to Phi Delta Phi. hon­ Army in the Civil W ar and his died later of their wounds and W ar ~ orary legal fraternity. While he did not great-great ~ gr a ndfath er fou ght in ner was critically wounded. A particip::IIe in athletics. he was an ever­ the Revolutionary W ar. present and energetic fan at all college splinter of the bomb ripped through --ILK A -- sports. He was enthusiastic in all things the femoral artery of his left leg; military. While compulsory military JAcK VoN N EFF, A..., , of N ew another through the shin, and a training was not a popular course at Manila, P . I., is advertising man~ finger was badly mangled. Ohio Stale. after Warner had completed the two years required. he continued ager for the magazine Chamber of The finger had to be amputated voluntarily in the Cadet Corps during Commerce and is attending the and only the quick thinking of Lieut. the remainder of his college life a s a Royal University at Santo Tomas L. Sandiford, now a Boston commissioned instructor. He enrolled in at N ew M anila working on his C. Troop B at the Columbus barracks and dentist, saved the injured leg from spent practically every week·end 'rid­ Ph.D . The university was founded a similar fate. Sandiford applied a ing horse'." in 1587. 23 Hart, Executive policy of leaving each executive of~ Does he think the magazine can ficial, commission and committee coast along for another decade fol~ COYTO\'" UEO J:"'RQ"Z\[ PA GE learn that each chapter has adopted free to handle details of work with~ lowing the style he had evolved? all or some of these goals." out interference, at the same time Not at all. H e makes seven spe~ cific recommendations for continued McFarland's duty for the Army holding them accountable for re~ suits. improvement, two of which are is in the Atlanta Quartermaster especially interesting with respect Procurement Planning District Of ~ Under a plan adopted at Chi~ to my general thesis : H e recom~ fice , as assistant procurement plan~ cago, the E xecutive Secretary or Acting E xecutive Secretary no mends that the typography and ning officer. The Atlanta district layout, which, in my day, were the covers the Southeastern states. longer is required to carry on chap~ ter visitation across th e country, latest word, be modernized, and "The work," he related, " con~ but is left free to devote full time that the magazine be converted into sists principally of lining up manu~ a general magazine type in order to facturers to produce items required to the office. Instead, each mem~ ber of the Council is responsible attract more interested readers- a by the Quartermaster Corps in case step as far removed from the maga~ of national emergency. At present, for chapter visitation in his respec~ tive region. The Council members zine we took over in 1924 as the QMC procurement contracts are let North Pole is removed· from the on competitive bids only, but we also have begun to lay plans for appearance at as many Founders' South Pole. are in position to request produc ~ I submit that if the editors and tion. In addition to procurement Day gatherings next year as pos ~ sible. Supreme Council of the future fol~ planning, the Atlanta office con~ -- flKA -- low the spirit of progress Kay Pulci ~ ducts a Quartermaster Branch Ex~ pher exemplifies, the man who at~ tension School." Shield and Diamond tempts to write an article like this Like many reserve and active COXTI7\TUED FROM PAGE 12 for the one hundredth anniversary officers detailed to work in offices 1929, issue approached, a decision issue in 1990 will have a hard time rather than with troops, M cFarland had to be made, whereupon I wrote to make a story out of it. ordinarily does not wear his uni~ the Council a registered letter, with --ilK A -- form. H e had a snappy khaki out~ copy to each member, return receipt WinS a Missouri Valley Title fit and overseas cap in use, how ~ requested, announcing that unless + FoR A SECOND consecutive year, ever, at Camp Blanding, Starke, the Council forbade us to change Gamm a~ Upsilon has supplied Fla., on an encampment last s um ~ to the three ~co lumn style by noon on a specified date, the change the Missouri Valley Conference mer. There he encountered three with an athletic titleholder .in minor Second Lieutenants of the same re~ would be made. No word of of~ ficial prohibition was received and sports. Last year it was Baskett serve service who are ITKA's from Mosse, who captured the Valley the University of Georgia -Wil ~ the modernization program was complete. 150 ~yar d backstroke championship liam F . Gwynn, Charles W . Wood ~ in swimming, and this year it's Bob all and Jack C. Penland. The new format met with instant acclaim. Again it was some of the Patterson, holder of the M . V . M cFarland's wife, known wide~ older alumni who were first with tennis singles title as a result of ly among their acquaintances as t·heir praise. Pulcipher did a mas­ his upset win over George Counts M ary Palmer, has attended many terful job with page make ~ up . I of Oklahoma A . & M. last spring. ITK gatherings with him. Their was honestly out of my depth and Patterson , who is a star basket~ · home is Atlanta. I had the conviction, increasingly, ball player as well, climbed from the He has long been in the £rate r ~ that there was little more I could No. 2 spot on the Golden Hurricane nity's service, having started as an contribute to the magazine. The team to the top~ranking place at informal aid to Robert A. Smythe, transition period had come to an midseason. No. 3 on the team was Honorary Life President and former end and so, after I became National ITKA's Bill Gannaway. Grand Treasurer. For a time, in Secrettary in 1930, I declined re ~ It was Bob's first triumph over the reorganization f o 11 ow in g appointment and Pulcipher took the great Counts, and the conquest Smythe's retirement, he was Na ~ over as editor with the next volume. was rated as one of the year's big tiona! Treasurer and a member of My present readers know the sports upsets in the Valley. He has the Supreme Council. Thereafter new heights to which he raised THE campaigned in Oklahoma net meets he became E xecutive Secretary un~ SHI ELD AND DIAMOND during his for several years, and holds a num~ der contract. tenure from 1931 to 1940, and in her of titles as a result. Patterson A slim, quick, wiry chap, he is the hands of the third member of also took the Arkansas State open as much steeped in and devoted to the 1924 triumverate, Richard G. title two years ago. He defeated ITK as Hart. He is so familiar Baumhoff, steady and thoughtful Cliff W illiams, rx. in a dual match improvements may be hoped for. with O klahoma A. & M. this sea~ with the chapter roll and in ~ There is a moral to this story son. numerable details of fraternity mem~ which I would like to point out. Bob is a senior this year, and bership and a ffairs, that he prob ~ There should be no transition pe~ ably could call out whole lists in will play his last year on the Hurri~ riod in the future history of THE cane cage squad. He has gained his sleep. SHIELD AND DIAMOND . The growth all-conference honorable mention in The smooth and prompt action of and development of the magazine past seasons, and probably will re~ the Supreme Council in filling Me ~ should keep pace with the times, ceive high ranking again this year. Farland's place is indicative of the the purpose of the magazine and When he defends his title next methods being followed by the per~ the fraternity itself. This is why spring, his chief opposition may sonnel in an endeavor to improve Pulcipher's report to the recent con~ come from Gamma ~ Chi's Jack Pick­ the fraternity's business manage~ vention in Chicago is so gratifying ens, who will be a real threat for ment. The Council has adopted a to me. the crown in his sophomore year. 24 Alumni Head Calls Old Grads Dear Brothers: tives, I am convinced, should tend pri­ You will d~ me a great favor by con­ marily toward the enlargement of alu mni sidering this a personal communication, as interest generally. I am, therefore, setting it is intended, and not merely a form letter. the fo llowing objectives for every alumnus Alumni interest in and support of P i chapter: Kappa Alpha is essential if the idealism of 1. Securing the attendance of every our fra ternity is to be perpetuated and if alumnus to at least one fraternity function our fraternity is to maintain and further each year, preferably a Founders' Day its recos:~nized leadership in fraternity cir­ celebration. cles. W e have a glorious past, in w hi ch 2. W elcoming of, and interest in, re­ we can take just pride; a noble presen t. cent graduates. which is a source of great satisfaction, a nd 3. Building up for the D iamond Jubilee a promising future, which should be a Convention in 1943. challenge to each of us. It is not to be forgotten that the active Pi Kappa Alpha benefits by your in­ chapters are the fountain head of the terest and enthusiasm. Countless num­ fraternity and each alumnus chapter should bers are brought into the membership of augmen t the objectives listed above by our active chapters each year because of some other objective designed to help and the influence which you are exerting, assist, as circumstances permit, some ac­ knowingly or unknowingly, in your own tive chapter or chapters. communities. Your interest, w hich is con­ Requesting your cooperation in these sequently important to Pi Kappa A lpha, endeavors and assuring you that I a m can be kept alive and your enthusiasm always at your service, I am quickened by actual participation in frater­ nity activities. F ra tern ally yours, Activities of alumni chapters should H owARD B. ARBUCKLE, }R .• have definite objectives and these objec- National Alumni S ecretary.

Clarksdale. Miss. Charter members are: H ugh B. Land­ absent ministers frequently and is a rum, Jr., AI; J. W. Crutcher, AI; Blanton fa vorite with many congregations in THE CLARKSDALE (M iss.) Alumni Chap­ D ye, AI; John W . C risler, AI; M arvin Greater M iami. One assignment lasted ter became the eighty-third organized Jacob, re; Charles Holladay, re; Claud four or five weeks at Tamiami Methodist alumni group of the fraternity last Aug. Williams, Pete Williams, Jr., T em ple. 15, with the granting of a charter by the re; re; Thomas D ye, ri; Allan Lane Dye, AI; Supreme Council. It is the only alumni T. E. Price , AH, played sub-par golf H. J. Murff, C. S. McGivaren, 1:; chapter in N orth M ississippi. T wenty­ re; for 14 holes during the early summer on Henry I. Copeland, ri; William Hard y the course at the M iami Biltmore, to be­ two men, fr om a num ber of different un­ Bizzell. AI; William Kimbrell, AI; William dergraduate chapters, sig ned its charter come champion of the Florida Y ear-'Round Garrott, 8; William King Self. II; W. A. Club. He was runner-up in the 1939 petition. Boone, AI; Martin Harthcock, re; H . B. There had been activity all the summer championship. Hoff, Jr., rr; John R. Adams, Jr. , f!; Carl among Cla rksdale alumni of the fraternity. Lipe, Q. Ken Nordstrom, n;::, is playing shortstop The petition was placed before the council --ITKA-- for the M iami Beach Flamingoes in the early in August a nd prompt action enabled East Coast League. The sports column the new chapter to seat its delegate at the of one of M iami's daily papers suggested convention in Chicago. Des Moines, Ia. THE NEW alumni chapter a t Des Moines, a ladies' night with a raffle, with the prize Clarksdale is a thriving little city of -you guessed it- Nordstrom. 12 ,000, located in the heart of the famed Ia., organized in February, has been meet­ Mississippi River country, 75 miles south ing for luncheon on the first Monday of Dr. Howard K. Edwards, AH , spent of Memphis. The principal industry of the each month at the Ki rkwood Hotel. At­ two months of the summer at Pensacola, region is cotton or its products. This sec­ tendance has averaged 15 men. in a course in fli ght surgery. He is a tion of the state has for many years grown -- Il K A-­ Lieutenant in the N aval Aviation Reserve more cotton than any other similar area in Miami, Fla. Corps. the world. ' The chapter has already had several WE 1 MIAMI are very proud of the One M iami radio commentator has called meetings, and regular monthly list of IIKA's who have visited us in the dubbed Cecil Brown, CBS broadcaster gatherings a re to be instituted. Aug. 15 past year, a nd especiall y of the number of from Rome, as a double in voice for H . D . the first meeting as a duly chartered officials of the fraternity amon9 them. Denni s, Br. " Dinty," as Dennis is known chapter was held at the Coahoma County Curtis Haggard, AH, has returned to handles a radio program for the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the principal busi­ M iami. a fter having spent a year as a Power & Light Co., taking the part of ness being to elect officers and a delegate student in Louisville Dental College. He "Service Sam." to the convention. Henry I. Copeland , was accompa nied by M rs. Haggard and The first annual H ealth Institute day rr. special agent for the P rudential Life thei r little daughter. of the Women's Auxiliary of the Dade Insurance Co. was made president by ac­ John Carrington Gramling , rn. and Mrs. County Medical Society heard a talk on climation, having been largely responsible Gramling have announced the birth of a cancer by D r. R. M . Fleming, All. for the cha pter's organization. Other of­ daughter. ficers : H . B. Hoff, H illhouse, vice presi­ Grant S tockdale, rn, and Miss Al ice dent; P enn Moss, Lula, secretary, and James S. Dowell , "f', has entered the Boyd Mag ruder. daughter of M r. and M rs. Hugh B. Landrum, Jr., Clarksdale, treas­ aviation school of Eastern A irlines in Walter D. Magruder, of Canton, 0 .. have ure r. N ew York, to receive special training pre­ been married. Both were former students Organization of the chapter, in addition paratory to working in the company's of the University of M iami, M iss Magruder to increasing alumni interest throughout the traffic department. being a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. section, is expected to strengthen the Richard D . Dodge, B. former Pres­ S tockdale was for fou r years a member fr aternity's position in Clarksdale con­ byterian minister, now engaged in utility of the Hurricane football team. and was siderably. accounting, has been filling pulpits for president of the local. Phi Alpha, now 25 Gamma-Omega chapter. He is with the Kansas Honors Alumni Achievement Award Southern V enetian Blind Co., Miami. As A RESULT of a poll of alumni mem­ James Brooks Koger, rn. was married bers of Beta-Ga=a and honorary selec­ + T HE Chicago Alumni Commit- at Bunker H ill , W . Va., to M iss Irene tions made by the chapter, a large group of tee is asking now for nomina­ Elizabeth Patton, daughter of Mr. and men was sele cted as outstanding alumn i of Mrs. J. R. Patton, of Bunker H ill. Mrs. tions for candidates for the Dis­ the chapter. They wi ll have their names, tinguished Achievement Award, to Koger, a graduate of Shepherd State pictures, and brief biographies placed in a Teachers' College, is a member of Phi special honor book. be made to an alumnus of the frater­ Chi. Koger is president of the Koger­ nity at the Founders' Day banquet Selected by the chapter because of their Everson Co., radio dealers. in Chicago, Feb. 28, 1941. This Officers of Alumnus Gamma-Gamma outstanding service to the fraternity, al­ for the year ending June, 1941. are: though not members of the chapter, are: award is given annually to that Pharos R. Lester, rA, president; L. Dr. W . W. Davis, 'l', and Everett O xley. alumnus of IIKA who has distin­ Fletcher Proctor, AH, vice president; Al­ .An. guished himself most conspicuously bert M. Franklin, rn. treasurer; Philip H . Dr. Davis, professor of history at the in the national scene. Any chap­ Alford. AII, recording secretary, and Wil­ University was selected because of his ter of the fraternity, either active liam C. Seybold, AH, corresponding secre­ outstanding service toward the establish­ tary. ment of Beta-Gamma in 1914, the service or alumnus, and any member of the Barco Bishop, AH, an authority on men's he has rendered the chapter since, and his fraternity is privileged to send in a clothing, has a beautiful new store in the work as National Historian of Pi Kappa nomination. air-conditioned Dupont Building. Alpha as well as an outstanding man in his profession. He has a son, Lane Davis. Past winners of the award have Coach Bill Harkness, z. and Assistant who is at the present a member of this been : Senator A. B. Chandler of Coach John McGuire, rn, both had their chapter. fingers crossed as the football season ap­ Kentucky (then Governor) , Lynn proached. They have turned out good O xley was selected for his service and 0. Waldorf·, coach of Northwestern teams at Miami Beach Senior H igh School valuable advice to the chapter. He has University; the Rt. Rev. Henry St. in the past. a daughter, Clara Lee, who attends the George Tucker, head of the Episco­ University at the present. His home is Henry H . Moore, BK, is so busy these pal Church; Dr. John C. Ruddock, days. he misses some mighty good IIKA Kansas City, Kans. luncheons. He is vice president of the In addition the chapter selected Charles medical researcher, and Dr. James Baker Insurance Agency. L. Seward ( 1895-1918 ) and Everett J. D . Hoskins, president of the Uni­ Judge T . J. Dowdell, 'l', past president Grecian ( 1895-1918) , its two World W ar versity of Tennessee. of Alumnus Gamma-Gamma and a IIKA dead, to appear in the book. Nominating blanks have been for over 40 years, is a tower of strength Charter members selected were: George sent to all active and alumni chap­ in the chapter and an inspira tion for mem­ Sam mons, geologist. Wichita; Robert W . bers who mig ht be prone to lag. H emphill, lawyer, Norton; Paul E. Flagg, ters by the General 0 ffice. The George Smith. e. and Mrs. Smith fl ew secretary, City Plan Commission and for­ committee feels, however, that this to Chicago for the convention in August. mer N ational Alumni Secretary of P i year it would be advisabl.e to get Smith is with Eastern A irlines. Kappa Alpha, Kansas City, Mo.; Robert more nominations from members of 0 . H . E aton, AH, has moved to Or­ H. Reed. editor, Country Gentlemen, Philadelphia, P a.; Grant S. Gwinner (de­ the fraternity at large. Therefore, lando, as manager of the G . M . A. C . a nominating blank appears on page office. ceased); Lance C. Hill, director, Midwest Biological Laboratories, Emporia. 2 of this issue of THE SHIELD AND Paul Wachendorfer, BH. who until re­ cently lived in Coral Gables, down the Byrd 0 . Powell, druggist, Columbus; DIAMOND . There may not be stree t from the IIKA house, has moved Levi E . Zimmerman, miller, White W ater; enough room on that blank to give with his family back to their former home Hollis F . Marsh, engineer at Anheuser­ fully the qualifications on which a in Illinois. Busch, St. Louis, Mo.; George P. Marsh. nomination is based. The reader editor, Automobile Club of Missouri, St. Sam P ickard, nr, of the Columbia Louis, Mo.; Vernon A. Moore, business. may feel free to accompany his nom- · Broadcasting System, is build ing a home Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Druery R. Thorn. ination with a letter, outlining fully in Coral Gables. medical director, Kansas City Municipal the activities and achievements of Alumnus Gamma-Gamma, comprised of Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. 97 men from 28 chapters, mee ts for lun­ an alumnus he nominates. cheon each W ed nesday at 12 :30 p. m. in Other outstanding alumni chosen were: Nominations should be sent as the air-conditioned Walgreen's, 200 East Charles "Stoney" Wall. outstanding ath­ promptly as possible to the chair­ Flagler S t. lete, Lubbock, T ex.; Harlan Thompson, motion picture producer, Paramount Stu­ man of the committee, Arthur S. -- n KA-- dios. Hollywood, Cali f.; Bryon "Tom" Bowes, A, 1104 South W abash St. Louis Collins, assistant to the publisher, Kansas Ave., Chicago, Ill. City Journal, Kansas City, Mo.; Samuel M EETING at the home of Joseph A. Shee­ P ickard, vice president, Columbia Broad­ --ITKA-- han, AN. in O ctober, the St. Louis Alumni casting Co.. N ew York City; Kelsie MERLE MI LLER, rN, formerly Chapter elected W alter W . Smith, B'l', Mathews, consulting engineer, (son Bill is with the Federal Surplus Com­ '35, as its thirty-third president, for a year's a member of Beta-Gamma), Kansas City, term. Other officers chose n: Robert G. Mo.; Homer P . Smith, director of personnel modities Corporation at W ashing­ Houghtlin, BA, vice president; Russell administration. Bell T elephone Laboratories, ton, has joined the staff of the Bryant, AN, secretary-treasurer. Jersey City, N. J. Philadelphia R ecord. Organized in 1920, the chapter has had a continuous existence. Elections were for Spencer A. Gard, lawyer and outstand­ six-month terms until 1932, annual there­ ing service to the chapter, Kansas City. Dayton F. Glenn, real estate and insur­ a fter. It has always been the policy never Mo.: H enry V ee Tucker, Firestone Co., ance, Kansas City, Mo.; Floyd L. Hooken­ to give a man more than one term as presi­ McPherson; Dr. E . H . Taylor, professor hull. editor, Circulation, Chicago, Ill.; dent-a policy waived only once, in 1936, of zoology at the University and outstand­ Major Ittai Luke, army officer (son Fred when Francis F. Kernan, BA, who had ing service to the chapter; Claude E. Chal­ is present member of the chapter), Ogden had a long service as secretary-treasurer, fant, lawyer, Hutchinson; Howard Rooney, Ordnance Depot, U tah; Webster H allett. was given a second term in the presidency. track star while at the University and lawyer, N evada, Mo.; R ichard Becker, lawyer, Coffeyville; Dale Vliet, lawyer. Of Smith's 32 predecessors, 15 were lawyer, T opeka; Homer M . E agles, chief engineer, tax department of the Standard Oklahoma City, O kla.; Major Lester A. alumni of Beta-Lambda (Washington Sprinkle, army officer, Camp Jackson, University, S t. Louis) , ni ne of Alpha-Nu Oil Co. of N ew Jersey, N ew York City; Columbia, S. C .; Charles W. Doornbos, (University of Missouri ), two of Alpha­ John D. Pottenger, athletic achievement vice president, Foster O il Co., Bartlesville, Kappa (Missouri School of Mines), and while a t the Universi ty; Leland Gradinger. Okla.; Francis I. Martin, business, Caracas, one each from the following chapters: Pi, insurance, Kansas City, Mo.; Lloyd P . V enezuela; James B. McKay, lawyer, El Alpha-Omega, Beta-Eta, Beta-Beta, Beta­ Youse, mine operator, Baxter Springs; Dorado; Clarence 0 . D immock, lawyer, O micron, and Alpha-O micron. Ellis D. Bever, lawyer, Wichita. New York City. 26 Cupid Scores Heavily Against IIKA

GEOR GE C. FRICKE L, }R., BO, and Miss F RANK T . A LEXANDER , JR.. At., and Miss Ga., where Martin is with his father, R. E. Eunice Rimmer, I , daughter of Wesley St., Greenville. Fricke! is fi eld A tlanta, Ga. Alexander is with a whole­ Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cornell , at San­ scout executive for Council No. 10, Boy sale drug firm in Atlanta. fora, Fla., Aug. 12. Scouts of America, and an honorary RALPH P RESTON ELDRED, z. and Miss member of Exchange and Lions clubs. ALB ERT L. C LARK, T, and Miss V irginia Ma rjorie Johnson, K6, daughter of Dr. Webb, At.TI, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. GR ANT STOCKDALE, rn. and Miss Alice and Mrs. L. W . Johnson of Scottsvill e, William Webb of Tuscumbia, Ala .. at Boyd Magruder, KKr, daughter of Mr. Ky., at Scottsville, in June. At home : Tuscumbia, June 5. At home : Columbia, and Mrs. Walter D . Magruder of Canton, Knoxville, T enn. S. C. Clark is an engineer with the 0 ., at Miami, Fla., June 7. At home : }AMES W ALTER MASON, ret>, and Miss Southern Sta te Supply Co. Coral Gables, Fla. N ell Celeste Adams, at Fayetteville, N . C .• WILLI AM W. CH ASE, JR., Ali, and Miss WILLIAM S. CLONTS, AH, and Miss June 7. At home: Laurinburg, N. C . Vivian Jose phine King, Kt.. daughter of Betty Simmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mason is a lawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. King of O rlando, Fred Simmons of St. Petersburg, Fla., at CH ARLES BETTS, AH, and Miss Eleanor Fla., at Lakeland, Fla., June I. At home : St. Petersburg, Aug. 19. At home : 7!8Yz Hickson, t.t.t., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orlando. Chase was captain of the Uni­ Twelfth St., St. P etersburg. R. G . H ickson of Sanford, Fla., a t San­ versity of Florida football team. He is H ERBERT MICHA ELIS, BK. and Miss ford , June 20. At home: 107 W est Sixth with the Sparks Theaters, Orlando. E leanor Moses, AXf!, daughter of Mr. St. Betts is em ployed by the Prudential LEWIS EDGE, Al\f, and Miss Carol yn and Mrs. Frank 0 . Moses of Great Bend, Life Insurance Co. Reid Pa ri s, xn. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Kans.. at Gainesville, Ga., May 23. JEROME HoLT BowE , Act> , and M iss H enry L. Paris of Brunswick, Ga ., at Michaelis is a representative of the Burr, Margaret Ula Purefoy of Little Rock, Ark., Athens, June 9. A t home: Columbus, Ga. Pa tterson and Auld Co. a t Furman, Ala., June II. At home: Little Mrs. Edge is a member of Phi Kappa Phi LEONARD CALDWELL, AH, and Miss Betty Rock. Bowen is trust officer of the U nion and Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary so­ V elentine Cashen, xn. daughter of Mr. and N ational Bank, Little Rock. cieties. Edge is in business with hi s father Mrs. Thomas Cashen of Miami, Fla., at D AVID A. R AMBO , AH, and Miss Kathryn in the Edge Realty a nd Insurance Co. Mulberry, Fla., July 25. At home: Islander M ixer, daughter of Mrs. Blanche Mixer of CH ARLES HowiE LITTLE, JR., B and T. Apartments, Columbia Ave., Davis Island, V aldosta, Ga .. at Orlando, Fla .. June 29. and M iss Margaret Louise Pleasants. T ampa. Fla. Caldwell is with the broker­ At home: Orlando. Mixe r is Florida rep­ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward age firm of W . W . Jones, Tampa. resentative of the credit union section of Pleasants, a t Charlotte, N . C ., Aug. 25. CLEMENT WRENN, JR .. AE, and Miss the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. At home: Chapel H ill. Annie Koonce Jenkins. daughter of Mr. WILMER H. S HAMHART , At., and Miss Bovo H ARR IS. AH, and Miss Lucy Grace and Mrs. Franklin M . Jenkins of Southern Martha Christine Howard, daughter of Cam pbell , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Pines, N . C.. at Durham, N. C., July 6. Mrs. Sewell Howard of Rockwood, T enn .. Campbell of St. Augustine and Jackson­ At home : Chapel Hill. N . C. Wrenn is a t Rockwood, Aug. I. At home: Atlanta, v ille, Fla.. at Clearwa ter, Fla., Jul y 19. a n accountant with Brown's Hosiery Mills, Ga. N ational Cha plain U. S. Gordon officiated. Inc. WILLIAM W . HIN NANT, JR ., AA, a nd At home: Gainesville, Fla. RoBERT LI NWOOD DAFFIN, AH, and Miss Miss Selma Frances Bucklew, At.TI. daugh­ C HARLES A. BEGGS , AH. and M iss Hazel Antonina Stoliaroff, daughter of Sergi ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E . Bucklew, at H insey, daughter of Mr. a nd Mrs. Albert Stoliaroff of Vladivostok, Russia, at Lancaster. S. C .. Aug. 2. At home : Dexter H insey of Sarasota. Fla., at Sara­ Peiping. China. Mrs. Daffin is a native Raleigh, N. C. H innant is with the At­ sota, in August. At home: T ampa. Beggs of Russia and though conversant with sev­ lantic Tobacco Co. is in the division eng inee r's office of the eral languages was educated in American WALT ER EARLY. At.. and Miss Virginia Seaboard Railway. schools. Daffin is a sergeant in the U . S. Densmore, TIBet>, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WILLI AM WARD CHASE, AH. and Miss Marines. stationed a t the U . S. Embassy Drederick Densmore of Macon, Ga.. at in P eiping. Josephine King , Kt. , daughter of Mr. and Macon. At home: Cha ttanooga, T enn. Mrs. Albert G. King, a t Lakeland, Fla., THOMAS J. CoNSTANTINE, AH. and Miss E arly is with the P ioneer Bank. Mary Jane Long. xn. daughter of Mr. and June I. At home: Brewster Apartments, SIM EON B. SMIT H, AH, and Miss Carolyn Lake Lucerne Drive, Orlando, Fla. Mrs. Mrs. Arthur R. Long of Birmingham, Ala., Cra ft . t.t.t., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. a t Birmingham, July 27. Chase is national inspector of her sorori"ty. Fred Cra ft of Bainbridge, Ga., at Madi­ Chase was captain of the University of BERT E. MITCHELL. AZ, and Miss Eleanor son. Fla., Ma rch 10. At home : Gaines­ Florida football team in 1935 and is listed Joyce Canary, xn. daughter of Mr. and ville, Fla. Smith is employed in the in Who's Who in American Colleges and Mrs. Hal Canary of Memphis, T enn., at Alchua County agricultu ral conservation Universities. Memphis, O ct. 7. At home: Little Rock, office, Gainesville. Ark. C HARLES M ETCA LF C RUMP, e. and M iss P AUL E. H AYGOOD . rA. and Miss Kath­ Diana T empl e Wallace, Xf!. daughter of M . C . JAMES, z. and Miss Myra Lucia erine S. Cross, Kt., daughter of Mr. a nd Robert Wisdom Wallace, at Memphis. Moore, 6~6 . daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Allyn Cross of Baton Rouge, La., at Tenn., in July. Crump practices law in Lyle S. Moore of Newport. Tenn., a t New­ Baton Rouge, O ct. 3. A t home : Baton Memphis. port. James is with his fa ther in the James Rouge. Haygood is with the Standard Hosiery Mill, Greenville. O il Co. Eo GR EBI G, BO, and Miss Maxine Brady at Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 8. Mr. and F ELI CE P ETR UCEL LI , z. and Miss Evelyn JosEPH L. VA NCE, A I, and Miss Luta Jones, AOTI, daughter of Dr. a nd Mrs. Mrs. Grebing were both emplo yed by the Boykin H erndon. 666, daughter of Mr. Phillips Petroleum Co. in Tulsa. James M . Jones of Lewisburg. T enn., at a nd Mrs. T . A . H erndon. Carrolton, Ga .. Lewisburg, Aug. 27. Mrs. P etrucelli is a t Carrolton, Sept. 18. Mrs. Vance is a JoE L. RoBI so . AH. and Miss Nobie president of the Lewisburg Cotillion Club. member of P hi Ka ppa Phi and Phi U psi­ Lee Cockrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Petrucelli is a student in the University of lon Omicron, honorary scholastic frater­ J. K. Cockrell. Plant City, Fla., at Plant T ennessee school of dentistry. nities. V ance is a chemist with the State City, Jul y 27. E owiN CH EEK Du CAN. z. and Miss Department of Agri culture. WILLIAM GuY TILLER, Ai\f, and Miss Gaynelle Combs, 6Z, da ughter of Mr. and RoY E . M ARTI . AM, and Miss Pat Y Sara Frances Lassiter, ct>M , daughter of Mrs. Alvin J. Combs of Bristol. Tenn., at Loomis, TIBet> , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Lassiter. at Athens, Ga. Dickson, T enn., May 3 1. At home : Dick­ Edward Loomis of Avon Park. Fla., at Mrs. Lassiter attended the University of son, T enn . D uncan is assistant county Avon Pa rk. May 25. At home: Columbus, Georgia, where she was a member of agent for Dickson County. Theta Sigma Phi , national journalism M ARION R ANDOLP H PANNELL, T. and sorority. Lassiter is on the sports staff of M iss Marjorie Ellen N earing, Art., daugh­ the Atlanta Journal. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald N earing of Marianna, Fla., at Marianna, May 25. At Permanently KEN ETH P. GooosoN, BZ, and Miss home: Birmingham, Ala. Pannell is a Ruth McCommas, daughter of Mr. and chemist with the T ennessee Coal and Iron Mrs. I. L. M cColister, at Dallas, Tex., Company. Pinned Sept. 28. At home : 4137 Druid Lane, 27 Dallas. Goodson is with the McCalister Ralph Ferguson Harvey, at Avondale, LABAN GREY LIVELY, AH, and Miss Doris Chevrolet Co. · Ala .. July 20. At home : 3900 Sixth Ave., Agnes Wolff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. }AMES C. HIGGINS , AH, and Miss Jean South, Avondale (Birmingham). Roy Wolff, at Tampa, Fla., July 27. Lively is a member of the law firm of Worth, Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John DR. LUTHER L. TERRY, A and H, and Bivens and Lively. Olin Laney, at Sanford, Fla. Miss Beryl Janet Reynolds, liBel>, daughter GILBERT P . CooK, JR., AI, and Miss of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Reynolds. at AuBREY WAYNE MILLER, All, and Miss Virginia Allene Wilson, ci>M, daughter of Elyria, 0., July 17. Dr. Terry will estab­ Mary Frances Garlington, ci>M, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson of Clarks­ lish a practice in Galveston, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garlington of Macon, dale, Miss., at Omaha, Neb., July 14. At Ga., at Macon, June 30. Miller is in busi­ WILLIAM C. HAM , 0, and Miss Eliza­ ness in Birmingham, Ala. home: Omaha. Cook is with the Coca­ beth Foege, daughter of Mrs. John Foege, SANFORD H. MoRROW, -1\.Z, and Miss Cola Bottling Co. Jr., at Richmond, Va., in October. WILLIAM N. THURMAN, AM, and Miss Nattie Lou Fergusdn, daughter of Mr. and Virginia Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. }ACK GREEN , AH, and Miss Nellye Mrs. Robert M. Ferguson of Hickory Franklin U . Hill, at Atlanta, in August. Woodham, ::!:K, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Valley, Tenn., at HiCkory-' Valley, June Thurman is with the Acacia Mutual Life James Edward Woodham of Campbellton, 29. Morrow is with the International Insurance Co. at Campbellton, June 20. At home: Talla­ Harvester Co. hassee, where Green is a lawyer. CHARLES R. BucKLEY, JR., AA, and Guv BucKINGHAM HARRELL, JR .. re. and Miss Eleanor Collins Small, daughter of CHARLES PACE, ::;, and Miss Marti)a Miss Edith Virginia Swayze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Small, at Edenton, Stubley, AAA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. James Swayze, at Yazoo City, N. C., May 11. At home: Fredericksburg. Glenn Stubley. at Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. Miss., Oct. 5. Harrell is with the en­ Va. 14. At home: Spartanburg, S. C. Pace gineering department of the U. S. Geo· logical Survey at Ocala, Fla. HAROLD F . KRAUSHAAR , AN, and Miss is Probate Judge. He belongs to Phi Lorena L. Gossel, at Maplewood, Mo., Delta Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa. ALLEN CREWS McSwEEN, M , and Miss Aug. 31. At home: 3032 Walton PL. Formerly he was a State Representative. Irene Dillard, A!E:A, daughter of Mr. and Maplewood. Kraushaar is employed by Mrs. L. B. Dillard, at Clinton, S. C .. Sept. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 9. McSween is in his final year at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. DR. SANDY BAXTER CARTER, JR.. BK, Permanently and Miss June Hansberger, at Atlanta, KENNETH W. H. }AMES, A:!:, '38, and June 14. At home: New Orleans, where Miss Loraine Madge Martin, of Oakland, Dr. Carter is serving his intemeship at Pinned Calif., Aug. 18. Charity Hospital. DR. RoBERT K. FISHER, Acl>, '40, and Miss EDWIN E . RAGAN, T, and Miss Carolyn RoBERT VAN CLEVE DAVIES, A'l', and Roberta Kann, of Fairfield, Ia., at Fair· Miss Harriet Willard, daughter of Mr. Stone Hendrick, KA, daughter of Mr. and field, June 15. and Mrs. Frederick W . Willard, at Sum­ Mrs. Henry Orrin Hendrick, at Brundridge, RoLLIE LIVINGSTON, Acl>, '41. and Miss mit, N. J., June 15. At home : 55 Moun­ Ala., July 7. Julie Hahn, at Bedford, Ia., June 30. tain Ave., Summit. LAWRENCE A. IDEN , Btl, and Miss Helen DR. }AMES NoLAND, Acl>, '40, and Miss HERBERT ZINK, A!E:, and Miss Gladys Harwood, KKr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Janice Fischer, at Davenport, Ia., Sept. 28. Jones at Dayton, 0 ., Sept. 1. Zink is ' a 0 . W . Lasater, at Albuquerque, N. M., June 5. lden is with the Breece Lumber WILLIAM PENLY, Acl>, and Miss Elaine metallurgist at the Bickford Machine and Sabin, at Wallerton, Ia., Oct. 6. Tool Co. and Supply Co. RoGER BARTO, rK. '41, ThC of his chap­ HENRY CATHEY, B. and Miss Barton M. C. }AMES, JR., Z, and Miss Myra Lucia Moore, AAA, daughter of Mr. and ter, and Miss Carrie Linden of Wilsall, Jackson at Charlotte, N . C., in November. Mont., last summer. Barto, whose home is Cathey is an assistant chemist with Na­ Mrs. Lyle S. Moore, at Newport, Ky., Sept. 19. in Thompson Falls, Mont., is continuing tional Aniline. attendance at Montana State College. At BARNEY SHERRILL, B, ::!: , and AA, and ULYSSES QuENTIN DAVIS, T, and Miss home: Cottage Courts, Bozeman, Mont. Elizabeth Riggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Carolyn Pierson. Sherrill is with ToM MuRPHY, rK, and Miss lnenscoe, his father in the mill business at Cor­ Isaac Larkins Riggs of Elkins, W. Va., at Stuart, Va., Aug. 10. At home: Elkins. KA, of Bozeman, Mont. At home: Cor­ nelius, N . C. vallis, Mont., where Murphy assists his · WALTER CROOK, and Miss Florence CLINTON McCALL LACY, K , and Miss re. father in operating a ranch. Helen Mary Pinch, Xfl, daughter of Mr. Riddick of Pensacola, Fla., at that city, July 13. At home: Pensacola. MAx STARK, rK, '42, and Miss Charlotte and Mrs. C. 0 . Pinch of Lakeland and McNary of St. Paul, Minn .. last summer. Avon Park, Fla .. in August. }ACK REGAR, AH, and Miss Constance At home: In a new residence near Boze­ Cureton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas man, Mont. Stark, whose family home is HowARD BAYLESS }AMES, AM, and Miss Cureton, at Tampa, Fla. Regar is with Emily Ficklen, daughter of ·Mrs. Burrell Stevensville, Mont., is a junior at Montana Lowry Agency of the Gulf Life Insurance Ficklen Brown of Washington, Ga., at State College. Mrs. Stark is dietitian at Co., Tampa. Anderson, S. C., March 18, 1939. the college's Student Union. GRANT STOCKDALE, AH, and Miss Alice GmoN ALBRIGHT, Bel>, and Miss Dorothy REx GRIMES, a pledge. ·of Gamma-Kappa, Boyd Magruder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. Griffiths at Indianapolis, July At and Miss Katherine Bellows, KA, of Boze­ 27. Walter Magruder of Canton, 0., at Miami, home: 417 West Mulberry St., Indian­ man, Mont., who was Gamma-Kappa's Fla., June 1. At home: 706 Coral Way, apolis. Albright is radio engineer with "Dream Girl" for 1940. At home: Helena. Coral Gables, Fla. Stockdale is with the the Delco-Remy division of General Mont. Grimes is proprietor of a filling Motors. Southern Venetian Blind Co. station. DR. DAVIS HENDERSON . rA, and Miss --IIKA-- RAY ScHENK, Bel>, and Miss Helen Nana Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Regina Kelly of Fairbanks, Ind., at Fair­ A. M. Davis of Lakelander, Fla., at New banks, Aug. 31. At home : 6822 North Prospective Pi's York, June At home: Williams .Ashland Ave., Chicago. Schenk is with 15. 728 St., New London, Conn. Dr. Henderson To }ACK SCHOONOVER, rD.. '38, twins, .the Universal Paper Co. Roy and Don, May is a dental interne in the U. S. Public 11. JoHN P. GIRRARD, Bel>, and Miss Caroline Health Service at the Coast Guard Acad­ To GEORGE MovE, AH, a daughter, Hesler, Xfl, at Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. emy, New London. Susan Linda, June 10. He is in the ath­ 5. Hesler is in the purchasing department letic department of Georgia Tech. .of Purdue University. NED C. BARBRE, AM, and Miss Dorothy To PHARos R. LESTER, rA, '27, a son, Winfred Stripling, daughter of Mr. and MAURICE E . OvERBECK , Bel>, and Miss Jack Ellison, Oct. 4. Lester, president ·of Mrs. Robert Pearce Stripling, at Macon, the Miami (Fla.) Alumni Chapter, is an Edna Peters at Salem, Ind., in August. Ga .. in October. Barbre is athletic direc­ Best man was Dean Overbeck. accountant with the Florida Power & Light tor of the Bibb Manufacturing Co. Co. VICTOR RoGERS, rA, and Miss Lenora RoBERT S. WILBANKS , JR., r A, and Miss To HARRY A. CoBDEN, A:!:, '28, a daugh­ Jean Taylor, Xfl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nell Fuller, daughter of Judge and Mrs. ter, Elena Marie, March 8. Cobden is Luther Calvin Taylor, at Amarillo, Tex .. Charles Fuller of Lafayette, Ala., at administrator of the Federa.l Housing A-d­ July 19. At home: Forest Drive, Tusca­ Tampa, Fla., July 20. ministration at Berkeley, Calif. loosa, Ala. Rogers is with the Gulf WILLIAM W. GIBBS, AH, and Mrs. Quin­ To LEo F. ANDRE, A:!:, a son, Gerald .States Paper Corp. lan Bowie, KKr, at Gainesville, Fla., July Philip, Aug. 13. Andre represents the OmA ALMYR PESNELL, All, and Miss 26. Gibbs is with the engineering depart­ Firemen's Fund Insurance Co. of San Mollyanna Harvey, daughter of Mrs. ment of the Navy at Jacksonville. Francisco. 28 UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTER NEWS District Number One

Gamma-Tau Scholarship Wins had its share of campus offices. SMC IIKA' s Shine for Syracuse By Ward Kline, Gamma-Tau Geoffrey Dolman was elected to Friars, senior honorary, last spring; as captain of By Richard Rigo, Alpha-Chi RE SSE LAER- llKA received a scholar­ the lacrosse team, president of Kite and SYRACU SE-New York sports writers wili ship award for greatest improvement dur­ Key, and other a ff iliations. probably name two Alpha-C hi grid stars ing the first term of last year. This is the N at Doughty was elected editor of the in their list of the year's outstanding grid­ second time that this a nnual award has iron performers. They are "Bunky" Mor­ been won by llKA in the last three years. Freshman H andbook and won a place in the Mask and Wig show chorus. Bill ris and Leo Canala , who startled football Two sophomores. Dave Malcomson and Ma rbaker was elected president of the fans with brilliant performances in the Ed Haller, received membership in the Intra fr aternity Council. N. Y. U . and Columbia games. B. 0 . R ., honorary society for men out­ Scholasticall y, the chapter is equally suc­ Morris was outstanding in his excell ent standing in athletics in their freshman year. broken fi eld running against " the violets" Both Malcomson and Haller played foot­ cessful. N at Doughty is a member of Pi Gamma Mu and Kappa Phi Kappa, na­ a nd for his long game-winning field goal ball and baseball last year. H a ller was on against a previously undefeated Columbia the varsity this fall. tional honoraries. Jim Cryer is a P i Gamma Mu member as well on the roll of team . Many alumni returned to the chapter Beta Gamma Sigma, commerce honorary. When Lynn W aldorf's excellent North­ house in O ctober for the week-end of the The last seven years have meant much. western team invaded the Syracuse strong­ Union-Rensselaer football game. Friday, hold and defeated them. he paid hi gh October 25, a n informal dance was held Bill Cairns is in Sigma T au and T au Beta Pi. enginee ring groups. tribute to these llKA stars. The famou s. in the house, a nd on Saturday, following coach and form er Syracu e All-American the footba ll game, a buffet supper was Beta-P i has cl imbed. It is typical of IIKA achie vement. named Morris as one of the "best punters served at the house for a!umni and friends. I have ever seen." The present chapter officers are: --ITK A-- SMC. Edward Specht; IMC, Charl es H is visit to the Alpha-Chi chapter Carman; SC, Henry Webb; ThC, Elliott Members Decorate House house was one of the highlights of the week-end. Thomas; House manager, Arthur Johnson; By John A . Estelle, Beta-Theta MC, M alcolm Speirs. The excellent appearance of the house The new pledges are: CoR ELL- A newly-painted exterior on was mentioned by all who a ttended the the chapter house awaited the 21 return­ alumni get-together. SMC Nixon de­ C harles H orsfall , O ssining; Dave Lewis, ing brothers when they arrived for the fall serves special credit for hi s work in con­ Deposit; Frank Hicks, Kenmore; Nick semester. This was due to the industry juncti on wi th chapter house improvements. Casciano, Hartford, Conn.; Bruce Latham. of D ick Heldt who spent several weeks --TIKA -- Elmwood, Conn.; Bill Marcon, Canaan. before in painting and repairing it. H is Conn.; Bob Shaw, St. Alba ns; Bob Dris­ ambition soon stimula ted the others and Chapter Boasts 21 Men coll, Manchester, Conn.; and Gus Beckos, the next few days were spent in redecorat­ Albany. By William K. Widger, Jr .. Gamma-Mu ing the studies. N EW H AMPSHIRE- The house opened for --ITKA-- Rushing was more successful this year the year with 13 members, seven pledges, Rutgers Holds Early Election than last. The first three days of pledging and one graduate student returning. Of found Beta-Theta with five new men: these, 14 are li ving at th e house. By W. S. Lowry. Alpha-Psi T om Durkin, N ew York City; Norman Daniel Hurley has returned to the Uni­ R uTGERs-Ele ction of officers was held Wolfe, Tonawanda; Lester Brew and versity after an absence of two years. at the beginning of the year. This was Winston Reid, Auburn; and Jack Jones, During this time Daniel was working as a caused by the loss of officers during the Youngstown. seaman. summer and the inability of those remaining Beta-Theta is represe nted on the staff Robert Alexander did not return to the to devote necessary time to their duties. of the Cornel/ Annual by Harvey Schock, University. H e entered the N aval R. 0 . Officers: SMC, Thomas M cKinney; photographic editor, and Bob Haring, T . C. at Northwestern University. Dur­ IMC, James Gutzwiller; ThC , William photographic board. W in Allen is art ing the sum mer he took a trai ning cruise Buckley; SC, Joseph Fedor; MS. Chris­ editor of the Widow, campus humor mag­ to Cuba. topher Goll; MC, John P ilecki. azine. Bob Flack and H arry Otto have Pledge Leslie Kem p did not return to Alpha-P si was well represented on the earned places on the editorial board of the the University. gridiron by Nick Dennis, qua rterback; Cornell Engineer. Harry is also manag­ Robert Twombly, '40, returned as a Ray Foster, halfback; Tom Combiths, half­ ing varsity polo. The varsity band has graduate student. back; and AI Sha ffl e, end. Ray Herbert SMC Kerm Whiteman, Bob Flack, Bob Haring , and Frank Fitzgerald in its ranks. Much cleaning and pa inting was done a nd Jerry Hunter held backfield positions around the house during the summer. on the ISO and freshman teams, respective­ Bill Morewood won his freshman numerals in 150-lb. crew. Much of the work was done by Rufus Bl y, ly. who lived in the house during the summer. Pledges: Robert Wright and Jerry The house has a mascot, Pika, a cat Hunter, Ridgefield Park; Robert Byram. whi ch Lester Rollins brought to the chap­ Jersey City; Lloyd Howett, Pla infield; and • • • te r on his return to the University. Will iam Lockwood, Orange. As to Pictures and News --ITKA -- --ITKA-- + THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND ac- knowledges with thanks many in­ Lehigh Pledge Total Increases Beta-Pi's Rise Well Merited teresting photographs submitted by the By Stephen Hart. Gamma-Lambda By Nat Doughty, Beta-Pi undergraduate chapters which, for va­ LEH IGH- This fa ll marked an increase P E NSY LVAN IA - Beta-P i's progress dur­ rious reasons, could not be published in in the number of pledges for Gamma­ ing the last seven years has been remark­ this issue. As far as possible, they will Lambda. On September 21 a banquet was able. Dating from the bottom of its de­ be used later. Correspondents a re urged held in honor of the 11 freshmen , all of pression in 1933, when the chapter had to continue the supply. whom a re taking the engineering course · three active members, the rise during this In spite of confusion attending a a t Lehigh. Attending the banquet were period has resulted from hard work. change in publication schedule and un­ P itcher and H armon of the faculty. The After the chapter house was remodeled avoidable delay in issuing new instruc­ rushing season was held a success by a ll , in 1933, the chapter started on an re­ tions to correspondents, all but seven but the chapter plans to continue rushi ng organization campaign and today boasts chapters are represented in this news throughout the year. 31 active members and four pledges. The department. In the future the deadline T he pledges are: John W . Motter, chapter house has a capacity crowd of 16. on submission of chapter news reports Towson, Md.; Stephen C. W oodruff, During the era of climb, the chapter has will be observed rigidly. W estfi eld, N. J.; Robert J. Wiedenman, 29 H arrisburg; Jose ph F . Bonin, Scranton; chapter house by painting th e rooms and, day night in the C rystal Ballroom of the Alan F . Jones, Phi ladelphia; Norman C. in general. making Gamma-Lambda a Hotel Bethle hem. beautiful. as well as a comfortable, house Applegate, Jr.. Riegelsville; George E . IIKA is represented in many university in which to live. Willing coopera tion Funk, Hollidaysburg; Richard C. Gott­ activities and societies. SM C Felch is made this task possible, and all agree schall , Scranton; Ralph R. Lau, Harris­ president of P i Tau Sigma, honorary that the effort was well worth while. burg; James C. Reischer, Chester; and mechanical engineering fraternity; vice George F. H ewitt, P ledge captain , H arri s­ Lieut. J. F . Schwartz, rA, has accepted president of Alpha Phi O mega, honorary burg. a posi tion as instructor in the Department scouting fraternity; vice president of To date pledge duties have been exe­ of Military Science and T actics. Lieut. the Army Ordnance Association; and cuted with a great deal of cooperation, Schwartz was one of the original founders secretary of the Industrial Engineering and it is expected that the chapter will of Ga mma-Lambda. There are now four Society. Engle is a member of M ustard be enhanced in many ways this year. Each IIKA's in the faculty. and Cheese, dramatic society; also the pledge is planning to participa te in a Army Ordnance Association, and the In­ university activity, thereby maintair:ing For the second successive year IIKA dustrial E ngineering Society. Annett is IIKA's interest in this extra-curricular won the intramural singing trophy. One a member of the Glee Club, the band, and field. Under the competent guidance of more victory will make the trophy a the Symphony Orchestra. Jones is a the co-pledge masters, A . Harrison Bren­ permanent IIKA possession. member of the Alpha Phi Omega society, nan and Stephen H art, the pledges are the Army Ordnance Association, and the rapidly becoming acquainted with IIKA Lehigh will dance to the rhythm of Industrial Engineering Society. Fry and and the university. Benny Goodman's new band at fa ll house- . Mostyn are both members of the Industrial Prior to rushing the actives spent a parties on O ctober 25. Once again IIKA Engineering Society, and Muhlhausen is good deal of time in the renovation of the and AICII will hold a joint dance on Sa tur- in Alpha Phi Omega.

District Number Two

Improve Scholastic Standing the formal pledge oath. Of these, 14 were Receives Award new men pledged this year. T he new men PITTSBURGH-At the opening of the are: W a rren W . Moxley, Robert E . college year four new officers were in­ Fitz. Kenneth L. Payne, Howard L. A twell, ducted--SMC , D. J. Bailey; IMC, Thomas William F . Aull, Jr., William F. Emmons, Stephenson; ThC, Dave Stotler, and SC, R. Alan Adamy, Bruce G. M ason, H oward Ca rl Anderson. W . Irwin, R . W illiam T reharne, Charles The rushing chairman for the year was M. Orris. John 0 . Pittenger, J. R obert Frank Mateer. Through hi s and the Lehr, and W . Donald Moffat. chapter's efforts 18 men were pledged. P enn Sta te celebrated its annual home­ The pledge group, at its first meeting, coming on Oct. 12. Approxima tely 40 chose Dan Mash as president and Richard IIKA's returned to the Beta-Alpha chapter Fair, vice president. The chapter held a house to enjoy meeting old classmates and dance for the pledges Nov. 3. brothers. • Gamma-Sig ma has usua ll y been an un­ Among those present were: Edward A . derdog in scholarship on the P itt ca mpus. Seiz. L. G. Schryver, C. H . Graves, Frank H owever, last semester, as a result of the A. M cCormack, John F . Hill, Eugene L. efforts of T . W . Biddle, faculty adviser, Spitler, Chief Myers, Edwin F . Stewart, and Mateer, scholarship chairman, the Jr., Joe F . Decker. Frank "Butch" Vlossak, chapter stood second among the 13 frater­ W ayne Bortz. C. J. Donaghy, John S. Kenne th Anderson. B~. ' 40, Captain nities. Lloyd, Joseph R . Edmonston, David H enise. Several positions of importance are held of B Company. Carnegie Tech R. 0. L. Dunlap, Wayne W . Weaver. Wil­ T. C.. is given sabre for the best T . by members in university activities. Mateer liam Wilgus, and William Fitzpatrick. is production manager of this year's Cap drilled company of six by an officer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. An- and Gown show, Gene T edick is presi­ --ITKA-- dent of the College Association, and D . J. . ders~n now is employed at a West Bailey is a junior member of the Student­ Coast airplane factory. Faculty Association. Alpha-Theta Golfer Goes Wild The chapter is working for a closer union James Nichol. Mt. Lebanon; Robert Pogue. By Alan Openshaw. Alpha-Theta between the fraternities and the school T ra fford ; H arry Reese, M erchantville, N . administration, and has adopted a policy WEST V IRGINIA-George H opkins, A8. J.; Robert Sleesman. Turtle C reek; George '40, fulfilled the predictions made for him of inviting members of the administration T ankosich, D uq uesne; Ralph W erking, and other fra ternity men to the chapter as one of the state's . most outstanding Anderson. Ind.; H olden Wilson, Aspinwall; gr:;lfers. Graduated during the past sum­ house for luncheon. Some of the members George Williamson, Allison Park; Crayton of the adminis tration who have visited mer, he immedia tely obtained a position Wood, Wheelin g, W . V a.; Edward Crow, with the N ational Carbon Co. Staying the chapter so far are: Dr. J. G . Bowman, Delm ar Damrau, and Ed Sherry, all of Chancellor of the University ; Provost F itz­ away from the links all summer. he went Pittsburgh; Karl Ferrell, W ashington; and to Sandusky , 0 ., to compete in a tourna­ gerald, Dr. Lanfear, dean of men, and E dward Binder, Barnesboro. Miss Amos. dean of women. ment for employees of the Carbon Co. Officers : SMC, Donald H avlish; IMC, Shooting a magnificent par 72 on a -- TI KA-- Joseph H enry ; ThC, B. Roy Ertell ; SC, strange course, "Red" easil y copped the Robert Mills; and house manager, Richard tourney. Beta-Sigma Rushing Clicks W eber. The fo llowing week-end he went to the By Robert Mills. Beta·Sigma The social season is well on its way. W est Virginia Alumni Association tourna­ The chapter has had several radio dances ment and shot a sparkling 71, only to C AR NEGIE T ECH - Beta-Sigma cha pter since rushing in addition to a gala hay ended a successful rushing season with the lose in the finals. H e received a trophy, ride. On O ctober 26 the house was the however, for the best aggregate score. pledging of 24 men. Robert Deans was scene of a gigantic H allowe'en party. the rushing chairman, assisted by Don Continuing hi s fine play. he entered the Marlin. S ummer rushing was largely re­ --ITK A-- H arrison County tournament a t the Clarks­ sponsible fur the fin e showing. Beta-Alpha Has Fine Start burg Country C lub and after a play-off Pledges: Robert Andews, Beaver; Ed­ among three men beat his nearest com­ ward Bailey, \¥ilkinsburg; James Dougher­ By Alvin E. Maurer. Beta-Alpha petitor by five strokes to win that meet. ty, Pittsburgh; Walter Ford. P hiladelphia; P ENNSYLVAN IA STATE- The fall rushing H e has layed his clubs aside for the Tom Gregarious. T arentum; Cha rl es Himm­ season th is year ended in more than usual winter but expects to enter some of the ler, Trafford; Ge0rge Lees, Bellevue; Derek success for Beta-Alpha . as the chapter best amateur tourneys in the spring and M artin , Rockland, Mass.; Sterling McLear:, house is fi lled for the first time in many keep IIKA alive on the golf courses in Somers, Conn.; Lloyd Meyer. Beaver: years. On September 30, 21 men signed this area. 30 District Number Three

"Bumming Room" Is Popular P i Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, and man and William Fox, both of Youngs­ By Dick Klepinqer. Alpha-Xi Alpha Tau Omega, neighbor fraternities town; Martin Frank, Virgil Wolff, Don collaborated on a hayride and a dinner Stout, Marshall Smith, Bill Davidson, and CINCINNATI-The men of Alpha-Xi re­ dance. LeMoin Cavin, all of Mansfield; David turned to school in September and were Exchange dinners with these fraternities N ieding, Vermillion; James Johnson, P o­ greeted with a completely redecorated land; Bernard Caskin and Bill Rose. both "bumming room." With knotty pine walls are also in full swing to bring the three groups into closer harmony. of Marietta; Francis Brown, Bellaire; and a new ceiling. the room is quite an Wyatt Chadwell. Duncan Falls; Frank addition to the house. Another innovation has been exchange Roth, Cleveland, and Fred Rauch, Cin­ With social functions scheduled for dinners and bridge tournaments with cinnati. every week-end and the activity men re­ sororities. This helps greatly in rushing and helps to solve the date problem. Marshall Smith was on the freshman turning to their various posts, the IIKA's football team, and Bill Rose, a senior, is are in for a busy season. With the rushing Many men in the chapter bring their No. 1 man on the varsity tennis team season not quite over at this writing. the dates to the chapter house for dinner on and sports editor of the school newspaper. following have been pledged: the evening of a social function. This is an asset in that it brings more persons to J-Club, honorary organization for out­ Robert M cVitie. William Pullem, and standing junior men, recently took two Ralph Wehking, Norwood; Ma rion Flem­ the chapter house and serves as an adver­ tising medium for IIKA. IIKA's into their midst- Robert Welsh. ing, Manchester; }in R ikkles, H amilton; IMC, and Dean Chatlain, business man­ Charles Stein, Cleveland ; William Wish­ Winston Pfancuff is general manager of ager of the Ohioan. Fred Rauch, back, meyer, Robert Gallagher, Robert Doran, the Sundial. and "Whitey" Herrell , guard, made good Larry Bolling, Lester Boerstler, Bud Boerst­ Homer Warriner and Robert Fackler will on the undefeated football team. Eli ler, Donald Gebhart, Howard Geers, and again defend their title in university golf Floasin, a senior unable to assume his reg­ Robert Dhonau, all of C incinnati. doubles. ular berth because of injuries, was line --UK A-­ Alumni support this year has been great­ coach of the freshman football team. ly appreciated. The chapter is now back IIKA just missed the league championship Cooperation Chapter Keynote on its feet due to the splendid help af­ in touch football by one game. Theta Chi By Robert Fackler, Alpha-Rho forded it by graduate members during woo out in the final game, 6-0. OHIO STATE-The keynote of the chap­ rush week. Dad's Day was held several weeks ago; ter this year is cooperation. Evidence of --TIKA-- a football game in the afternoon, a banquet, its value was seen in the pledging of 26 Gamma-Omicron Rehabilitates bowling, a show, a late smoker, and church men through the efforts of alumni, under­ By Harvey St. Clair, Gamma-Omicron the next day were among the features. graduate actives, and pledges. Open houses and rush parties have been OHI O U NIVER SITY - Gamma-Omicron held every week-end as well. A few of The new pledges have establi shed them­ came back this year to a completely re­ selves in various campus activities. Ken­ the themes of open houses have been furnished house. New wallpaper, drapes, "Apple Polisher's Ball," "Pot Luck Par­ neth Weir and Robert Prye show great carpets, furniture . repainted woodwork, a promise on the fr eshm an football squad. ty," "Club Casino," and "Catacomb's new spinnet piano, new desks, chairs and Party." Don ·Ink is chief artist for the Sundial, dressers for all the study rooms were campus humor magazine. He also deco­ included. Most of the work was done with Officers: SMC. James Isaacs; IMC. rated the chapter room with novel murals. the help of an interior decorator. A new Robert Welsh; ThC, Robert Banner, and SC, Bill Kruspe. The pledge football and horseshoe teams addition to the trophy mantel was the have yet to be defeated in intramural com­ '39- '40 Ohio U. All-Intramural trophy, a Initiates : Dick Hildreth, Mansfield, and petition. beautiful piece 40 inches high by 18 Wallace Croxford , Bay Village. inches wide. Bowling. basketball. volley­ --TIKA -- P ride of the active and pledge groups ball (both pledge and active), and soft­ are two unofficial pledges. They are P i ball championships were won in order to Beta-Epsilon and Kappa, Irish Setters. which were given get this, the most coveted trophy of the No news report received. Alpha-Rho by Jim Bradner, alumnus. university. --TIKA-- Social functions of the quarter include Twenty-five actives returned and went a football victory dance (win or lose) at to work immediately on rushees. The Gamma-Zeta the house after every game. pledge class now consists of Paul Fry- No news report received. District Number Four

Iota Opens Social Season Pledges: Howard Carlisle Bean, Nor­ Robert A . Hite, Honolulu , Hawaii; Wil­ liam P . P eak, Louisville. Ky. ; Ja mes C. G. By T. A. Combellick, Iota folk; Edward Henry Turpin, New York; Lewis Plunkett. Lynchburg; Johnson Mc­ Stanfield , Paris, Ill.; George C. Stulting, H A1MPDE -SYDNEY- This year's social Ree, Richmond; William Jennings Allen, Huntington, West Va.; Frederick M. V alz. activities were inaugurated Nov. 3 when South Boston; John William James, Lynch­ Jr. , Jacksonville, Fla., and John Wehncke, the chapter entertained the pledges with a burg; Walter Dunnington Shields, Farm­ Upper Montclair, N. J. party held at Longwood Country Club. ville; Allan Lee Fox, Danville; Edward M. Officers: SMC. Robert C . Hobson; The dates were from Farmville State Chitwood, Wytheville; Henry F . Thaxton, IMC, P aul E. Gordon, Jr.; ThC and house T eachers College. Lynchburg; Kenneth C. Schuster, Fords, manager, William P. Ames; SC, Eastham SMC Ted Offterdinger and P . T. Crad­ N . J.; William B. Gray, Richmond; Leslie W. Dudley; historian, Louis R. Coulling, dock were bid by ODK. honorary frater­ L. Pugh, Ly nchburg; Roscoe E. Werder, Jr. Executive committee : Bob Walker and nity. Jimm y Peden was elected president Ridgefield , N. J.; James P. Harnsberger. Tyke Bryan. of the sophomore class. Tom Miller and Richmond: Glenn R. Toothman, Hepzibah, P i, winner of last year's intramural foot­ Forrest Jesse were elected to the vigilance W . V a.; William B. Lee. Richmond. ball crown, returned to the gridiron with court. - - TIK A-- bright expectations for another victorious Iota was well represented on the gridiron Pi Chapter Pledges Eleven campaign. With the all -intramural stars this fall by varsity candidates: Forrest By Louis R. Coullinq, Jr .. Pi Signaigo, Gourdon, and Hobson leading Jesse, Tom Miller, Ted Offterdinger, WASHINGTON AND LEE- The chapter a versatile attack behind a veteran line Walter Spry, Gleri Toothman. Freshmen closed one of its most successful rush deep in replacements and with many candidates: Roscoe Werder, Leslie Pugh, weeks with the pledging of II fre shmen promising prospects among the pledge Billy Gray, Billy Lee, Ken Schuster. Ed­ representing nine states and the T erritory class, this year's team should prove even ward Chittwood; and managers: P . T. of Hawaii. more invincible than last year's powerful Craddock, Billy Trinkle, Carlisle Bean, The pledges are: Arthur Al bury, Jack­ outfit. The Signaigo to Hobson or Gaur­ Ed Turpin. sonville, Fla.; Clarence E . Ballenger, Jr. , don combina tion that was last season's Initiates: Thomas A. Combeliick. Balti­ Spartanburg, S. C. ; John M. Benting, Jr., intramural sensation will again be the more, Md., and Thomas Miller, Milton, Summerville, Mass.; Bill B. Bryan, Paris, sparkplug of Pi's flashy offensive. Fore­ Pa. Ky. ; Frank H . Ffanagan, Jr., Radford; man and Walker command the forward 31 wall. while Joe Hellen, one of the deadliest two social functions as the highLghts of a perfect day by taking third prize for blockers in intramural football. completes the season. A Sunday evening swimming fl oats and with the entertainment of some the perfect picture at blocking back. party was held at a nearby lake, and a 30 alumni at the house. Representing P i on the varsity football dance was given a t the Virginia Boat Numerous members were reci pients of team is Tyke Bryan, a fiery-thatched star Club, located on the bank of the James college honors. Hornsby and Sullivan were from Paris, Ky .• who is in the number one River. After the annual Pledge banquet, a ppointed aides to the president of the guard slot. at which Guy A. Borkey, Ohio, D is trict college. R ives, Watson, and Sullivan are P resident. gave a short ta lk. both pledges The hard-hitting Paul William will carry members of the Honor Council. SMC and members attended the Virginia State Hornsby is also president of the Inter­ off the laurels for P i in the varsity golf Fair. competition this year. fraternity Council. Pledges Howard and Ea rl Fox is president of the senior class Crawford hold positions as sport's and art In the school elections Pi Kappa Alpha and William F itzhugh is representative to editors of school publications. respectively. led the political fie ld with the election of the Athletic Council. William Fitzhuqh Goldsmith and Sullivan were chosen cheer H enry Rodieger as vice president of the and Joe Mack have regular berth s on the leaders. Pledge King brought the first student body; T yke Bryan as secretary of football team. the Athleti c Association, and Bob H obson intramural cup of the year to IIKA by as president of the dance board. The During the summer Ed Brooks rowed winning the tennis tournament. political presti ge of the chapter was also at th e Virginia Boat Club. H e is also a Cha pter spirit and alumni enthusiasm are shown by the class elections in w hi ch Bob member of the University crew. running high and Gamma is pointing to H oward was elected president of the inter­ Pledges: Lawrence M . Cash, H . Cur­ one of its most successful years. tis Holloman. Layton M . lves, Jr., Wil­ mediate law class; Paul Gourdon, president --ITKA-- of the fr eshman law class; Lester D illard. liam H . Lockey, Jr., B. Judson M cClana­ secretary-treasurer of the freshman law han. William A. Macllwaine. Thomas J. Mother Chapter Pledges 18 class; Bob ·Walker, secretary-treasurer of McSorley, and F . DuVal Shepherd, Jr .. the se nior academic class. and Joseph Lee. a ll of Richmond; and 0 . Edwyn Luttrell. By John Wilmer, Alpha historian of the sophomore class. Jr., Baltimore, Md. VI RG I IA- The chapter completed rush­ Initiated into honor societies this fall Initiate: William Hughes, Richmond. ing on O ctober 20. Eighteen men now wear the IT of Pi Kappa Alpha. The were : Joseph H ell en. P i Alpha Nu; --ITKA -- W all er Dudley and W arren Stuart, White pledges: Willi am Lewis, W alter Davis, Friars; Leo Signaigo and Paul Gourdon, Gamma Chapter Pledges Five T ed Hobe. Jack W eldon, Torn O 'Reilly, Bill Old, Fred Senkowsky. John Robert­ Cotilli on Club. and AI Wolfe. 13th Club. By Lawrence D. Goldsmith, Gamma --IlK A-- son. Bob T atum, Marshall Fishwick, Jesse Social Affairs Help Rushing WILLIAM AND M ARY - Gamma started Hudson, Frank Null, Bill Carter, W ister off the year with the pledging of fi ve, H eald , Paul H arvey, Bob Hoover, Scott By Linwood Peters, Omicron a fter a gala rush party. All then entered Rawlings, and John Mott. RI CHM OND-Rushing season was success­ into the preparations for an alumni recep­ The chapter held its annual open-house fully carried out at Omicron this year with tion on H omecoming Day. We completed cocktail party on Nov. 9. District Number Five

Xi Program Brings Results W illiam Allen is a veteran member of dan, W inton; John Pecora. War;aw; How­ the University cross-country and track ard Vick, T arboro; and Torn Lytle, Ashe­ By Daniel L. Gibbes, Jr .. Xi teams. ville. SouTH C ARO LI NA- Xi chapter's 1940 James H . Mills is now in the U . S. T au had two regul ars on the great year was opened by one of the most suc­ Naval Reserve, and George Little, W il­ U . N . C. eleven. They were: Bob Whit­ cessful rushing seasons in history. During liam Farrow, and Gordon Dixon are in the ten, fine defensive guard, and John the two weeks' program the chapter gave U . S. Air Corps. Pecora, triple-threat halfback. Craven several smokers at the fr aternity rooms. --ITKA -- Turner and Tom Lytle showed well on a drop-in at Billy Douglas's home. lake Tau Pledges from North Carolina the yearling sq uad. Turner was all-state party. wiener roast. hay ride and marsh­ By Bill Davey. Tau for two years as a member of the Raleigh mallow roast, and two very enj oyable boat High School eleven. rides on beautiful Lake Murray. N oRTH C ARO L! A- T au chapter had one of its most successful rushing seasons this The chapter house was repainted and Xi pledged seven outstanding men. new interior furnishings were purchased. They are: Sam Beacham, Spartanburg; year. Every man in th e pledge class is from North Carolina. The pledges are : John Riel was elected ThC to succeed Robert L. Kirven, St. Cha rles; Ray Mob­ J. L. Rogers. ley, Darlington; Benjamin F. M yers, H a­ Coit Troutman, Charlotte; Bill Cox, good; William T aylor and Cha rl es Wat­ Drexel; Craven Turner and Clifton Moore A big week-end party was held on the son, Columbia; and Robert Putnam, both of Raleigh; Brant W aters. Roseboro; date of the Tulane game. Many alumni Laurens. Ray Masten, Winston-Salem; Ray Good­ returned. A special edition of T au Trends man and John Pope. both of Williamston; was published by editot Bill Davey for Pledges of last year a re: Ca rl Mc­ Charles Patch, Southern P ines; John Jor- the occasion. Elveen, G. C. Kirby, and William Doug­ las, Columbia; R. G. Scarborough, Jr., Sumter; and Marion Milam, Laurens. Rushing Time at North Carolina U. Xi cha pter holds more th an its share of coveted honors this year. Among the most outstanding are presid ent of Senior Class and president of the Germ an Club. James B. Ga lloway; secretary of K. E. K., honor service fraternity, co-chairman of Uni­ versity Honor Council, associa te editor of Garnet and Black, and editor of Y 's Bird. Dan Gibbes, Jr.; associate editor of Garnet and Black and euphradian representative on the S tudent Council. Cla rke McCants, Jr.; secretary of the Interfraternity Coun­ cil. Robert Schwinn; and Billy Allen, assistant treasurer of the German Club. James Ga ll oway is a member of Omicron D elta Kappa. Members of Kappa Sigma Kappa service fraternity are: William Al­ len, Dan Gibbes, Jr., William Mayes, R. Group of Tau chap· G. Scarborough, Jr., Frank Page Smith. ter's members and and James Galloway. rushees this autumn. 32 Beta Pledges Fourteen Men Mu Opens Campus Rushing The cha pter was also well represented By Carlton Parsons, Beta By John T. Palme r, Mu with managers. Fabe Clements, business ma nager of the annual and manager of the DA VIDSO - Beta ended a successful rush P RESBYTERIA - Mu chapter initiated the tennis team; Wendell Winn, assistant ten­ 1940 rushing season here with the first season September 21 by pledging 14 fine nis manager; Reginald Gowan. freshman rushing social of the year. This was a men. varsity footba ll manager; H enry Baker. great success and was followed by another Pledges: Meade Tollison. Jr., Perry Ga.; sophomore varsity football manager; and successful social I 0 days later. SMC Howard Edward Cole, Barium Springs; Bill Andrews, junior varsity footba ll man­ Ferguson was very active in securing a Horace Pearsall. Jr.. Andrew Ha rris fin e bunch o f prospective pledges. ager. Symmes, a nd Clyde Spurgeon Stroup, The chapter is looking forward to the Alpha-Epsilon holds a distinction this Wilmington; Francis M adison Gilman. pledge dances, which are to feature the year which few fraternities on a ny campus Asheville; Charles Butler Brochman. High music of Charlie Randall and hi s band. enjoy. Rollins Sevier was made fr eshman Point; Harold Maxwell. Jr., and C yrus Many alumni plan to return for week­ basketball coach for the coming year. Walker Hodges, Jr .. N ew Bern; Columbus ends. He earned quite a reputation for himself Carylisle Moorhead. Jr. , Blacksberg , S. C. ; Moye and Flanders were first string as a remarkable basketball player last year, Rosser Lee C lark, Jr., Greensboro; Francis tackles on the varsity. Pledges Collier and this year, along with his regula r school Small Hill, Jr., Grenada . Miss.; Enoch and Bell were also on the squad. Dent work. wi ll teach the fl edglings. Bledsoe Stevenson, Columbia, Tenn. was manager of the varsity team. a nd --TIKA -- Initiates: David Spenc e r, Barium Pledge Alexander managed the freshmen. Springs, mainstay of the spirited Davidson F erguson is president of the senior class. Duke Finances Best In Years football eleven; Gene Shannon, Barium and D ent is president of the sophomore By Robert Lineberger, Alpha-Alpha Springs, also an outstanding performer on class. Craig is corresponding secretary of DuKE- Alpha-Alpha began this school the Wildcat team; and S ydney Sample, Chi Beta Phi, honorary scientific leader­ year with the best standing in finances and Statesville. ship fraternity; Somerville is Chaplain of number of members that it has had in many Beta's football team has been prac­ Delta Chi Alpha, honorary Christian lead­ ership fraternity; and secretary of the years. The first definite step forward was t icing long and dili gently. and is looking the acquisition of a card room. This room Ministerial Club; W ysor is vice president forward to a successful season of inter­ is almost as large as the chapter room. ira terni ty sport. of the Interna tional Rela tions Club; and Moye is secretary-treasurer of the Biock and as beautifull y decora ted. N ew leath er­ Both the actives and pledges have en­ cushioned bridge chairs, bridge tables. a P C lub. joyed several parties since rush week. Initiates: William P . Dent, St. Mat­ couch, bookcases, and a window seat make a nd from all indications 1940-41 promises thews; W alter Larson, Mobile. Ala.; a nd the new room a favorite spot for IIKA's to be a most outstanding social season. William W. V incent. Laurens. to gather for bridge games and di scussions. --TIKA-- - - UK A-­ In intramurals, Alpha-Alpha has al­ Alpha-Epsilon Initiates Four ready shown itself a leader on the campus. Gamma-Phi Has 20 Actives The touch football team is leading its By Walt Flanigan, Alpha-Epsilon division by a safe margin . Two bowling By Fred G. Haywood, Gamma-Phi N ORTH CA RO LI NA- Alpha-Epsilon start­ teams are leading in each of their divisions WAKE FoREST- Gamma-Phi chapter ed the year with the initia tion of four by wide margins. Alpha-A lpha followed opened the fall season with 20 members pledges. They are : Bill Ivey and Ed the Duke football team with intense inter­ a nd pledges returning to the house. Plans Parnell. Charlotte; Pat M organ, Shaw­ est. Bob Barnett, varsi ty ce nter. is a ITKA lor rushing were completely worked out boro; and Lawrence Holding, Raleigh. pledge. Ca rl D ean and Luther Dempsey, the first week of school. Pledges: D ic k Calloway. H enderson; also pledges. played with the varsity at Gamma-Phi is well represented in lead­ John Culp, W alter Hooke, Rex Gribble, blocking back and end. Twenty-five mem­ e rs of the student bod y this year. Cha rl es Reginald Gowan. W alter Gayle, and bers visited the Zeta cha pter at T ennessee M ayberry, varsity football and All-ITK A Dobby Kumpe, all of Cha rlotte; Rousse for the Duke-T ennessee game. back, holds the vice presidency of the Shields, Scotland N eck. Pi Ka ppa Alpha entered a float in the student body; George W atkins, varsity The chapter returned this year to a reno­ Duke-Georgia T ech homecoming parade. basketball player and debater, is president va ted house. A complete plastering. paint­ and put up a very original decoration. of the junior class; and D . E. W ard. vice in g, and papering job was topped off with During the week-end Alpha-A lpha held president of last year's fr eshman class is a newly-painted exterior. A new heating open house, gave a fraternity banquet and Student Council representa tive for the unit was installed and an additional hot dance, and a picnic after the game. sophomore class. water unit added. The lawns a t the front Alpha-Alpha is following a new policy Four of last year's pledges were initiated and side of the house are to be returfed this year to establish better contacts with on O ct. 5. Those taking the initiation and restocked with shrubs. alumni. The cha pter is giving a n informal were: Bill Watkins. O xford; Payne The chapter was well represented on alumni banquet each month. All the near­ D ale, Kinston; Fred H aywood. Raleigh; the gridiron this year. Jack Huckabee, by alumni are invited and the regular and Bob Moore, Dublin , Ga. Hobart Ferree and Chick Doak held posi­ chapter meeting is held a t the banquet. We believe that this plan will prove to be Gamma-Phi plans to take a very active tions in the backfield. Robe rt Doak played successful and a great help to our chapter. part in fntramural sports this year and is on the line. a iming at the much coveted intramural The freshma n footba ll team had two H arvey B. Clarke, Palo Alto, Calif., is sports trophy. Robert D ixon was ap­ IIKA pledges. John Culp. outstanding 240- the only man initiated this year. Alpha­ pointed captain of the fraternity football pound linesman, and D ick Callowa y, Alpha is looking forwa rd to its best rush team, a nd F rank H ester was appointed versatile back field man. make enviable week next semester, and to one of the best manager. reputations for themselves. years this chapter has ever seen. District Number Six

Alumni Aid Rushing Cause Ralston Woods, Savannah; John Jones and Alpha -Eta Pledges 29 Freshmen By Thornton Savage. Alpha-Delta Charles Reckard, both of Huntington. W. By Grady McAllister. Jr .. Alpha-Eta V a.; Lester Barkl ey . Charleston, W . V a. ; G EORGIA T EC H- The Alpha-Delta chap­ Bill Lamont, N ashville. T enn.; and Frank F LORIDA - Alpha-Eta pledged 29 men ter had a very successful rush week, fur­ N elson, Washington. D. C. during the official rush season. They were: thered by the effort on the part of alumni Barney Alford, P ensacola ; De V ere Burr in providing eligible men on their sugges­ Edward S. P arks, outstanding senior, and Bob E aton, both of T all ahassee; Bob tion lists. Ninete en were pledged. was named Commander of the Georgia Brubaker. Bob Everingham, and Bertram They were: Weldon Branch, James T ech naval reserve R. 0 . T . C. unit. Allen, all of Clearwater; Walter Crews. LaH a tte. Charles P arks. Kurt Strass, and Frank P . Hudson was elected president Dick Fletcher, H artsel H enline, Conway Erskine Fraser, all of Atlanta; Robert of the Student C ouncil. Kittredge, Valdeen Thomas, and William Branner, Richmond; Ray Ervin, Santiago, Murphy , all of Orlando. Cuba; Harold Montague, Goldsboro, N . C.; The chapter held a novel girl -break Richard Morris, Salisbury. Md.; E verett dance party for the pledges and the girls Bob Groover, H arry Hutson. Jimmy Prindle, Douglastown, N . Y .; P leas Smith, w ho aided in their pledging during rush Marr. Sam Marshall, and Alfred Stevens. D alton; Charles Thomas. Allendale, S. C.; week. all of Jacksonvill e; Edward Higgins, W al- 33 ter Turner, and Frank Woodruff, all of sophomore full back. and Morgan Cooper, Boggs, the new District President. The Sanford ; William Hunter, Ft. M yers; Joe and Bailes represent th e fraternity on the chapter had a smoker at which the alumni H ampton, M iami; William Kennedy, Mt. junior team. were well represented. Dora; William Leatherwood. Gainesville; Beta-Kappa is indeed fortunate in hav­ In sports, Beta-Psi has shown an in­ H. A. Meshell , T ampa; Billy Seavy and ing the chapter so well represented in the creasing dominance. The past year, in Dick Lee. both of Bradenton; Worth professional and graduate schools. Sev­ addition to winning the coveted basketball Harris, La Crosse; and Paul H awkins, eral transfers have served to increase this cup. the chapter also took the intramural Eustis. number. They are : Alger Oliver, A I softball cup. Four Beta-Psi players made Pledge officers: P reside nt. Dick May. and Bill Ainsworth, Alpha-Iota; Bob the All Star te am, Dizadyk and Culp and Fletcher; vice president, Arthur Hunter; Young, Omega; and Jim Anderson, Beta. pledges Yon and Karsney. The chapte r secretary, De V ere Burr; and treasurer, Emmett Robinson is to serve this year looks forward to taking all cups this year. Bob Everingham. as president of the Interfraternity Council. In interscholastic football, Beta-Psi has a This is the third presidency for the chapter high representa tion. Wagner and Diza­ Chapter officers: SMC, W i II i am dyk along with pledges Stager, N ee, Thomasello; IMC, Robb Hasencamp; SC, in five terms. L. C. Burch is a member of the Student Activities Council. Oates Karsney, Dowd, Yon, and H olt carry the Cha rles Brady; MC, Joseph Moore, Jr. ; colors for the school. social chairman, J. R. Crenshaw, Jr.; and is secretary of the senior class. steward, Dan C. Labry. The entire chapter is looking forward During the first week, Will iam E . Culp, Jr .. Arnold, Pa., was initiated. Initiates: Miller Phi ll ips. J. R. Cren- to the building of Beta-Ka ppa's new home shaw, Sam Turner. John McClellan, Bes­ on Emory's fra ternity row and the con­ Officers : SMC, Robert W agner; IM C, ley Capes, Grady McAllister, James P . tinuance of an already successful social Jolly Dizadyk; ThC, Joe E . Rickenbacker; Bennet, and Jess C. R ickman. and rushing season. The highlight of the SC. William E . C ulp, Jr. year's social calendar for the entire cam­ L'Apache pledges: Miller Phillips, The chapter grieves the loss of Brother pus will be Beta-Kappa's Fifteenth Annual Cha rles Kephart, and Cha rles Brady. T annas. Arnold, Pa. He was in the na­ Breakfast German on Thanksgiving mom- tional educa tional fraternity, president of Blue Key: William Goza. in g. the Varsity "M" C lub, and a member of P irate pledges: Bill Champlin, Dave --ITKA-- the varsity football team. H e was injured W alker, Mac Christie, and J. R. Crenshaw. during the past summer while working in --ITK A-- Alumni Aid In Rushing a mill and was not able to return to IIKA Rated Best Sophomore Back By William E. Culp, Jr .• Beta-Psi school. --ITKA-- By Geary Griffith, Alpha-Mu MERCER-With the aid of the alumni. G EORGIA- Pledge Frank Sinkwich created the chapter held a rush season which lasted New Chapter Gets Fine Start quite a sensation on the gridiron, be in g 10 days. During this period the chapter MI AM I- The chapter held an open house hailed the most highly publicized sopho­ gave a smoker for the rushees. The climax H allowe'en Party on Nov. 2. All guests more in the country. Against South Caro­ of the rush season was a barbecue and were required to mask. Many novel ef­ lina he averaged 14.9 yards. He was dance the last day of rush season at the fects resulted. A four-piece orchestra was named the best freshman back in the coun­ Winship Estate. Fifty guests were present engaged for the evening and contests of try last year. including alumni. actives, pledges and all sorts added to the general fun making. rushees. Four were pledged. These were: Alpha-Mu pledged 17 men. They are : E ugene Morgan, Cordele; Bill Lawrence, Two university professors and their Ross Crane, John Christo, Richard Moore, Miami, Fla.; Lynwood Paul. W adley; and wives were patrons of the party and com­ Roy Caton, Sam Cain, James Couey, Mar­ Eldridge Duncan, Atlanta. mented hig hl y upon the very well planned vin W iggins, Julian Payton, Bill Lipscomb, and well received fun ction. Wilson Robbins, Paul Bolling, W arren During the last year the alumni of Schumann. Jam ie Hatcher, John Cox, C. D. Macon have shown great interest in Beta­ The chapter pledged 23 men. Each is Rogers, Thomas Hughes. James Storey. and Psi chapter. They signified their interest outstanding in at least one activity. Johnny Yeomans. by getting the enthusiasm of the boys a nd The year's cup winning activities were in building up th e chapter. A dance was held during rush week, started off with a bang with the acquisi­ honoring the pledges. The music was During the month of O ctober, the chap­ tion of the cup in the annual Quarter• unique, being relayed by a microphone ter was honored by the presence of Dean back's Club parade. system throughout the house. A radio played records upstairs and produced the music th rough three radios in the three Miami Alumni Chapter Faces the Lens· living rooms. Approximately 35 rushees and pledges attended, while 17 actives pre­ sided. After the Mississippi-Georgia football game, Alpha-Mu celebrated with a buffet supper, inviting all alumni in the district to attend and having as its guests of honor, those alum ni attending the game. The crowd was th e largest seen in the U ni­ versity for many a year. On October 29 the chapter held a steak fry for the pledges. The whole chapter met a t the fraternity house with dates and rode to the designated spot in a huge truck. Songs and pranks cl imaxed a great even­ ing. --ITK A-- R. C. Tweed Lea ds Rush Week By Harlon P. Sisk, Beta-Ka ppa EMORY- Beta-Kappa completed a suc­ cessful rush week under the guidance of R . C . T weed, rush chairman. The pledges Proud of ITKA's newest undergraduate chapter. Gamma-Omega, at the Uni­ are: Jack Broadwater, Daytona Beach, versity of Miami, w hich it sponsored fr om e a rly days a s Phi Alpha local. the Fla.; H oward M cGoogi n, Jacksonvill e. Miami Alumni Chapter now is concentra ting on the " baby's" success. Meet Fla.; Willon Wilson. Miami, Fla.; Lee the a lumni. Seated , from left: Robert Forrest. B~; John W. Rodgers. Ali; Compton, Augusta; Ralph Kirby, Ports­ T. J. Dowdell. Jr .. Al-I; W . Raleigh Pe tteway, AH: T. J. Dowdell. Sr.. T: Frank mouth, V a.; and Delos White, Charles Wynne. AM: AI Killian. T . First standing row, from left: William Harrison, Yarn, and Caughey Culpepper, all of B1: : W. A. Ya rnall. rP: Dr. H. Fra nk Davis, A ; Pharos R. Lester, r A: William Atlanta. Richa rdson, Ll ; Phil Alford. All: George Smith, 8 : Barco Bishop, AH. Second The chapter is well represented in cam­ standing row, from left: H. D. Dennis, Br; Curtis Kingsbury. AA: William C. pus intramural football. Pledge Wilson Seybold, AH. Back row, from left: Paul Wachendorfer. BH; L. Fletcher is a freshman tackle, Pledge Yarn is the Proctor, AH: James S. Dow dell. T : Otto E. Fischer, AK : C. H. W . Read. AH. 34 District Number Seven

New Rush System Helpful to IIKA member of Sachem, junior activity hon­ After a victory over the Delta Sigma Pi By Edward Smaltz, Beta -Eta orary; Pan-Xenia, foreign trade honorary; by a 12-0 score, Gamma-Rho was rated by P lateau and D rum. crack field artillery Northwestern sports writers as a definite ILLI NOis-The university returned to the battery. Norman F itch is a pledge of Phi contender, along with the strong Tau preferential system of rushing this year Mu Alpha, honorary music society. Delts, to capture the League IV crown. whi ch proved very advantageous to Beta­ Beta-Eta's athletes include Kenneth Herb Silvers was the outstanding player Eta. The I 8 pledges are: Robert P avey, fo r the Garnet and Gold eleven. Lawrenceville; James Rustic, O ak Park; Cheeley and Ike Niedzelski, varsity foot­ Clifford Buys and Howard Wintz, Decatur; ball. center and tackle, respectively. --TIKA -- James Cooper, P aris; Robert Thieman, Pledges Rustic and P etchel are on the Peoria; William Mumford, Kewanee; first stri ng freshman football squad. Rob­ Pledges Win Pie Eating Contest Harry Casey, St. Louis, Mo.; R ussell ert Richmond, varsity basketball , and Wright, Denver, Col.; Bert Olson, Louis Robe rt W eise, golf team. By Dale Brema man. Beta-Phi P inderski, A rthur Kerchner, James Munger, The main event on the social calendar P uRDUE- The annual pie eating contest Will iam Koepke, Sig Petchel, Gene Hepler, for O ctober was the very successful pledge between P i Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Al­ Bert Dudman, and Kenneth Hottinger, all dance , arrangements for which were made pha was won by the IIKA pledges. The of Chicago. by Bob Stebbins, social chairman. Don trophy, a copper pie pan, is now in the Beta-Eta emerged on top financiall y of Britton was chairman of the well -a ttended Beta-Phi chapter house. all other fraternities a t Illinois, a campus a lum ni dinner the nig ht of the homecoming Bill Sharples, senior science student. had on which there are more social fraternities game with N otre Dame, O ctober 26. The the romantic lead in What a Life, produced than on any other in the U nited States. Mothers Club entertained the chapter at by the Purdue workshop. House manager Robert Zettler's efforts of a picnic on Sunday, O ctober 8, which proved a huge success and was very effec­ H ank Amt was recently made manager the last year resulted in the chapter's com­ of the Purdue choi r. Hugh Pogue had a ing out far ahead. tive in bringin g the families of all the boys together. part in the Union show during the fall Initiates: Jay N ewsam, Peoria; Glyn period. The advanced corps of the R. 0 . T . C. Thomas, Chicago; Ike Niedzelski and Ken­ A pledge dance was held O ct. 12 in neth Cheeley, Foley, Minn. find s Beta-Eta well represented by Ed­ ward Smaltz, cavalry; Richard Knowles, honor of the new class. Bill Martin's Among others in campus activities are: fi eld artillery; and Jack Oliver, in fantry. orchestra furnished the music. Jay N ewsam and Donald Britton, Gym­ Bill Ellsworth recently entered th e U. S. kana managers; Robe rt Jobson, fencing Officers this semester are: SMC. Ed­ ward Smaltz; IMC, Dwight Walton; ThC, Army Air Corps. W ayne Hoase is located squad; Jack Oliver, editorial sta ff of the at Panama with the U. S. Navy. D aily lllini; P ierrots, national men's hon­ Ralph Chase; SC, Norman Fitch. orary dramatic fra ternity; fencing squad; --TIKA -­ Pledges: John Morrison, H erb De- Scimitar, na tional fencin g honora ry; and Bruyn, Harvey T ownshend, Art T wente, theatre guild. Pledge Cooper is in dra­ Northwestern Counts 67 Bill Fleming. Charles Marton, Bill Ullom, ma tic; Pledge Pinderski is in freshm an N oRT HWESTERN-W hen the fa ll pledge George Tipsword, Tong H artley, a nd Rus­ politics and on the staff of the D ail y season ended, Gamma-Rho counted 37 new se ll Clark. lllini. Richard Knowles, YMCA cabinet; faces. With these and 28 actives and two Initiates: Jay W. H undley, Robert E . saber man of varsity fencing; Burr-Patt or three carryovers, the chapter has about Lee, David K. Hedden, A. Everett Jones, and Auld Co. campus representa tive; 67 men. Edgar S . Smith, and Kenneth E. Sharps. District Number Eight

Three Lettermen Back at Omega the country home of Dabney Crump; the P ledges: Clelus Austin, Charles Barlow. next evening we were entertained at the Emmet Boylan, Mayo Britt, Winifred By Torn Harris, Omega country estate of Alumnus Bob Wright. Foster, Reeves Fulton, Elwood Kortz, KENT UCKY - Returning thi s year are T he rushing season closed with a candle­ Lucian Lee, Charles McCarty, Dorman three lettermen, Bil ly H edges. tennis; Paul lig ht supper at the home of Alumnus Har­ McFarland , Austin Minch, D ick Mitchell, Haskell , track; Letelle Ste phenson, swim­ old Trinner. Theta pledged only three Robert Moore. ming. These boys will all see action in men- James Lincoln, Fleet Edwards, and Armor Moreland, Sol Potter, Tom Ram­ the U niversity's athletic program for the Basil White. T he chapter will probably sey, Holly Sheffi eld , Raymond Smalley, year. pledge at least three more shortly. Tom Summers, Ha rry Sutton, Billy Thomp­ Phi Beta Kappa H arry Zimmerman, who Active members include : SMC, William son, E ric Thyren, Fletcher Porter, Troy graduated last year in industrial chemistry, Miller; IMC. Bob Robinson; SC. W arner Hubbard, Paul Combs, and Norman W itt­ is enroll ed at M . I. T ., havin g been award­ H odges; T hC. Ryce Russum; pledgemaster, kamp. ed a fe ll owship. John Illes, and William Spangler. --TIKA-- O fficers: SMC. Bob Brown; IMC. -- TI KA-- Zeta Has Best Rush Season W illiam Palmer; ThC, Jack H icky; and MC, Willard O verstreet. JIKA Dominates Grid Squad By Walter L. Rose, Zeta T he success of the card stunts for this By Wilbur Owen. Alpha-La mbda T E ESSEE-ln spite of the fact that semester at the football games was at­ GEORGETOWN- This chapter had its last year's graduation exercises cost Zeta tributed to the hard work of Bobby R ice. share of men in football togs during the some of her most valuable men, a most He is a member of SuKy, the campus pep past season. Nine pledges were reg ulars successful rush week campaign was waged cl ub, and is a first year law student. on the freshman squad and two were on by this year's returning men. Through Last year, O mega was third in scholar­ the varsity. the timely cooperation of the alumni and the ever-continuous work of the under­ shi p and third in intramurals out of the 18 James Rocke, playing hi s third year as fraternities on the campus. At present. graduates, 24 select pledges were added to a blocking back, was elected treasurer of Zeta chapter. we have 22 pledges and are looking for­ the senior class. ward to a very successful year. Initiates: Marmaduke Gresham Bayne, --Il K A-- Wilbur O wen is editor of T he George­ III. Norfolk, V a.; Douglas M. Boles, Flint, fenian and assistant editor of the Belle of Mich.; H enry Burem. Rogersville; Sumter Hold Five Rush Parties the Blue. H e is also a member of the Ferguson, Jr., Knoxville; William H amlet By Warren Hodges. Theta campus dramatic society. and V ernon Ingram, Jr., both of Memphis. SouTHWESTERN-T heta opened its year Jim Davis is president of the sophomore Zeta was host to brothers from Alpha­ with a series of five rush parties, the first cl ass, managing editor of T he George­ Alpha who were down for the Duke game. being a spaghetti supper at the country tonian, and editor of the Belle of the Blue, Zeta always considers it an honor to act estate of Alum nus "Skeet" Will iams; the campus yearbook. as host for visiting brothers but on this second a smoker at the lodge; the third a Initiates: James Davis, James Rocke, occasion the chapter felt that, besides badminton and general outdoors party at and Wilbur O wen. being an honor, it was a distinct pleasure 35 to have as their guests these Alpha-Alpha Kappa Looks For Big Year Sigma Gets 17 Pledges bro thers. By Lewis Stiles. Kappa By Richard J, Donaldson, Sigma Zeta began the yea r's social functions TRA NSY LVAN IA- Kappa looks fo rward to V AND ERB ILT- S ig ma had a most success­ w ith a semi-formal dance he'd in honor of a most prom is in g year with a chapter of fu l rush week, pledging 17 men. the new pledges. It was followed by the 17 active members and two pledges. Actives and pledges were entertained annual fall outing in which some 50 mem­ Rush sea on opened with the enterta in­ wi th a steak fry on O ct. 5 by C hester Holt. bers and their dates participated. Last me nt of 34 rushees at a stea k fr y . The year Zeta had the distinction of once again rushees were enterta ined at a banquet at A tea dance was given in honor of the leading the campus in social activities. th e Canary Cottage followed by a v isit pledge and Kentucky visitors on the Zeta hopes once aga in to cop the coveted to Alpha-Lambda cha pter at Georgetown. a fte rnoon of O ct. 12. honor of being outstanding among all Kappa opened its intramural season by Members of the chapter have been .others, socially . defeating the Coll ege of the Bi ble team prominent in sports and other campus ac­ Officers: SMC, T ed Kell y ; IMC. Frank 13 to 2. H aving won several trophies in tivities. SMC E mile Petrone a nd R . R. Holmes; SC, W alter Rose; MC, Starke recent years, Coach M ilton urges the T ipton played on the varsitv football team. Cline; and MS, W alter Rose. John Bu rch­ Kappa cha pter to keep up the record. Jay S. Adams, Jr., was elected president field was recently elected ThC and Jimmy SMC Stopp was recently elected presi­ of th e V anderbilt chapter of the American McDonald replaced T om Barnett as house dent of the senior cl ass. Society of C iv il Engineers. H arold E. manager. E ll iston and Lockeridge represent JIKA Johnson again holds the position of as­ on the gridiron. W ith construction in the hands of sis tant director of the university band. Actives: SMC, George S topp; IMC. Sigma has ni ne men in the band. Starke Cline. work is being done in the Douglas McCabe; ThC, Glenn Routt; SC. attic of the house converting the otherwise Lester McAllister; MS, Lewis Stiles; MC. P ledges: Will iam Appley: Miami, Fla.; 1.1nused space into a secret initiation and D onald Bonta ; Ray Bell. Charles Faries . Curry Barry, Joseph Boland, Milton .chapte r meeting room. Cline worked th e James E walt, M . C. N ewland, Hugh Brockett, William Cook, Murrey Freeman. idea to its practi cal fru ition unassisted. Young , Paul Eldridge, Milton E ll iston. Horace Luton, Jr .. Robert N elson P igg. SMC T ed Kell y was elected president Bi ll y Grimes, Willis Milton, and Ben Huff­ Jr., Sidney Smith , Edmund Turnley, and .o f the N ahheeyayli Governing Board. man. W alter Will iam, Jr., all of N ashvill e; 'This board selects th e orchestras for the Initiate : W i 11 i a m Lockeridge , Mt. Robert Cousin s. Gasden, Ala.; Ira Hunt, biggest social functions. P resid ent of the Sterling. Jr., F t. Knox, Ky.; Ernest Meek, Cleve­ 'board is one of the biggest honors that P ledges: Wi n s ton Bell a nd John land, M iss.; Jose ph Reavis, Lawrenceburg; .can be bestowed on an undergradu ::J te . Heaberlin . and Fred T erry, Ithaca. N . Y . District Number Nine

.A1cibama Gains 21 Pledges President Hickman Visits Delta R ushing netted fi ve new men : John O wen By Wilfred Sands, Delta and Bill Smith , both of Bessemer; V irgil By Joe Payne. Gamma-Alpha N ewton and Cha rl es W are, both of Clan­ A LABA MA- Gamma-Alpha started the BIRMING HAM- So uTHERN- N ational Presi­ ton, and Rex Windham, Luverne. -season with one of the most successful dent Roy D. H ickman together with Dr. .rush weeks in years, led again by " Bully " J. Allen T ower and Dr. D avid Key, both Rex Windham. one of the 'new pledge Fowler as rush chairman. A total of 21 of the faculty, attending the first initia­ class. has attained much publicity through­ new men were pledged. tion of the year. out the state for his fine tenor voice. T he rushing program was closed with Initia tes : Frank Stone, Atmore; Ed The year's firs t formal was held at the the formal pledgi ng ceremony . which in Phelps, Birm ingham; Cecil Giddons, Alex­ Pickwick C lub on Nov. 14. turn was fo llowed by a house dance given ander C ity, and Herbert M il ton, Bessemer. by the actives in honor of the pledges. The student body is looking forward to The chapter is ga mmg recognition The chapter started the year with 10 the compl etion of th e new gymnasium, a -a mong other fr aternitie s on the campus actives. After initia tion the total stood $100,000 structure w hich w ill be dedicated t hrough its group singing. in whi ch it is at 14, the largest in some time. in February. joined by neig hboring chapters, and for its backyard games. The yard has been -adequately 'lighted and facilities insta ll ed for volley ball , badminton, pi ng-pong, Chance Meeting of IIKA Leaders and horse shoes. This arrangement has proved especia l'l y popular with sorority :Pledges during pledge-swapping activities.

--II KA -- Alpha-Pi Leads Campus Greeks By Claude McCurry. Alpha -Pi H owARD CoLLEGE- Alpha-P i leads the -campus in the number of pledges. as it has done for the past four years. T he fo' low­ ing were pledged : Elwood Burks, Hayes C om e rf o rd, Edward H arris. Wilton V aughn, Edward Becker. 0 . H . M itchell. Stanley H and, James Thom as. Clarence Daniels, John Patterson. H ug h McC lusky, H arry Dover, Robert Ga lloway, Robert McNutt, and Robert T homason. Initia tes : Robert Steele, Dewey Lackv. 'Roy S immons, Lon M iller, and Albert Harwell. T he outsta nding social event of the year to da te has been a hay ride to Red Moun­ t ain. A series of parties for the sororities is also under way. T he house was completely remodeled over the summer. Three TIKA members of Congress w ere in Birmingham at the time of Speaker SMC O gle is presid ent of the student Bankhead's fune ral. From the left: District President A. H. Knight, All; Senator 'body, and Bi ll y Riddle is doing a fine job Albert B. Chandler. K and fl: National President Roy D. Hickman. B!l.; Senator .on the school p aper. The Crim son. Charles 0 . Andrews. AI-L and Representative John J. Sparkman. r A . .36 Upsilon Rush Helps Chapter Upsilon leads the campus in B. M. 0 . Tau Beta Pi, Scabbard and Blade. and By Joseph C. Gandy. Upsilon C .'s. claiming three of the 12 membe rs in lieut.-col. in the R. 0 . T. C. ODK, national leadership fraternity. They ALABAMA PoLY-Upsilon ended a very Newell is business manager of the are: R. T . Young. Frank Wilson, and Glomereta. member of T au Kappa Alpha. successful rush season under the leadership Kirk Newell. of rush captain Gandy. and A.S.M.E., and Omicron Delta Kappa. Twenty-four men were pledged. They R . T . Young is president of the intra­ Rotenberry is a member of Blue Key, are: Jack Berry, Bessemer; Luther Brown. fraternity council. Omic ron Delta Kappa, Scabbard and Blade, captai n in the R. 0 . Andalusia; Bobby Cater, Everette Daly. Scabbard and Blade, I st lieutenant in the T . C., president of the A .S.C.E .. and IMC Homer Reid, Frank Morris, Billy South. R. 0. T . C .. and SMC of the chapter. of the chapter. and Gene McEachin, all of Birmingham; Frank Wilson is president of Delta John A . Q uenePe is a mem~er of Phi Mac Crenshaw. Bob Sterling. and Edward Sigma P i, honorary professional and busi­ Psi and a lieut.-col. in the R. 0 . T . C. Wilson, all of Greenville; B. M . Rains. ness administration fraternity; advertising manager of The Plainsman. member of Eddins and Lloyd are first and second Albertville; Charles Ramey, Akron; J. C. lieutenants, respectively, in the R. 0 . T. C. Sanders, Scotsborro; Lansi ng Smith and Scabbard and Blade, varsity track man­ Guy Spearman. both of Pensacola. Fla.; ager, 1st lieutenant in the R. 0 . T . C., Gandy is junior cheer leader. a member Jim Stahnke. Reedsburg. Wis.; R . C. Star.­ Omicron Delta Kappa, and ThC of the of Squires. and assistant advertisi ng man­ field, West P oint. Ga.; Bill Penn, Houston. chapter. ager of The Plainsman. Tex.; Francis McC ulloch. Huntsville; and Carl yle McCulloch is a member of McCulloch and Ashmore received their Cyril Porter. Fairfield. Spades. local honor society; president of C./I. A. p ::o ~ li ce nses. District Number Ten

D. P. Praises Alpha-Kappa Joe Spafford is working for the Bethle­ Alpha-Nu completed a most successful hem Steel Co. in Pennsylvania. rush season this year, pledging 26 men. By Robert Eck, Alpha-Kappa R ussell Gund is working for the Gen­ They are: Elmo Wayland,_ James Tandy MISSOURI M rNES - District P resident eral E lectric Co. Miles, and Lawrence Gribble , all of Co­ C harles L. Freeman visited the chapter. A lbert L. Kidwell is taking graduate lumbia; Otto Stephen Schmidt, Alfred Sept. 27, 28, and 29. Freeman stated that work at Washington University, St. Louis. Lochmoell er, Albert Harry Thoma , H enry the - chapter was in excellent condition. Elmer Peters recently resigned his radio John Kuna, Jr., Russell William Setzekorn, Freeman suggested that the three chapters position because of ill health. George Kromen, Jose ph Sheehan, Jr., Wil­ of District 10 should give a dance. Such Alpha-Kappa was host to Beta-Lambda liam Evans, Raymond Kieffer, Paul Steffen a dance will probably be held at Columbia on the week-end of Oct. 19 , with a football Finot, Clarence Dicus, Jr., Milford Hough­ where plenty of dates are to be had. A game and a dance. On the same week-end ton. and Morrow Rodman. all of St. Louis; dance in which all three chapters are well many parents visited the chapter. Forty William Kern and Alan Holtz, both of represented is bound to stimulate a much guests were present for Sunday dinner. Kirkwood; Robert Bassman. Larry Brunk. closer relationship between the men of our --TIKA-- and C . 0 . Hanes. all of Jefferson City; district. Anthony Rizzo, Kansas City; Woodrow The chapter house has been redecorated Alpha-Nu Leads Activities Burgess. Sullivan; Robert Buck. East St. this fall. New furniture was purchased By Craig Claiborne, Alpha-Nu Louis; Wayne Davis, N agodoches, Tex.; for the library, the inside wall s repa inted. and Edwin Scruggs, Harrisonville. and a new recording machine installed. MrssouRr-Alpha-Nu boasts once more outstanding leaders in campus organiza­ On the roll this year are three transfers: Mothers of the chapter recently formed tions, most prominent among th ese being Raymond Craig Claiborne. re; Fred Hen­ a mother's club. Their first pa rty was ThC Fred Rexford. Serving in the ca­ kala , rM. and James Bishop. AK. so successful that they purchased a mantle pacity of president of Panhell eni c council. --Tl'KA -- clock. Fred is also a member of Blue Key. Q . E. Pledge Dance Great Success The chapter is working out one of the B. H.. senior honorary organization, a nd best intramural football teams it has ever Alpha Delta Sigma. national advertising By John Bow den, Beta -Lambda had. Last year the team lost in the finals. fraternity. He is a Brigade Adjutant WASH! GTON- The chapter's annual Bob Eck, Bob Silhavy, and Jack Fleischli Cadet Ma jor in R. 0. T . C. Pledge dance was held Oct. 25, at Green­ are the members of the squad. Clarence Dicus. president of last year's briar Country Club. The dance was a Initiates: James Glover. Jr.. Jack Ed­ sophomore council. was elected secretary of great success, perhaps one of the finest ward Fleischli, St. Louis; and James Leslie Blue Key; vice president of Tiger Claws. dances that has ever been given by the Kissack. Canton, Ill. Glover is a member campus pep organization; president of the Beta-Lambda chapter. It was sponsored of the varsity football squad and Fleischli YMC A . and senator in the College of by Dr. Quentin M. Gaines. Kirkwood. Mo. is a member of the varsity tennis squad. Arts a nd Science. He is a mem ber of Beta-Lambda pledged seven men. They P ledges: William Hellwege, Wayne Alpha Phi Omega. eagle scout fraternity. are: H aig Apoian. Ray Bloemker. John Gollub. Oliver Smith , and Joseph Bush. and the Read H all Policy Board. Koehler, Art Sartorius. Tom T aber, Oliver St. Louis; Robert Ehrlich and J. D. Jen­ IMC Bob Haverfield is vice president Wilkie, and A . D . Daily. kins, Kansas City; Melvin Trudeau and of Alpha Delta Sigma a nd promotion com­ D istrict P resident Charles L. Freema n Hartly Bosworth. Mass.; Darwin Bingham missioner of the 1941 journalism show. has attended many chapter meetings this and Jack Sizer, O ak Park, Chicago; Louis Phil Gottschalk. pledge master, is presi­ fall and ha helped the chapter pla n its H artcorn, New York; Willis Clark. Fort dent of Alpha Kappa Psi. activities for the future. H e gave some Worth, T ex.; Robert Harlow, Oklahoma Thad H adden is representative in the concrete advice towards the problems of City, Okla.; Robert O ldham, Centralia, Ill. Pa nhellenic council. He is a candidate for rushing. Following the suggestions of Robert P. R idley is working for the Knight Owl. the campus popularity king . Freeman. the chapter has initiated th e Texas Co., Petroleum, T ex. Ha rry Scherzer is president and dance visitation program. Roy M. Underwood is working for the chairman of the Engineering Club. On O ct. 5, Alpha-Kappa visited Beta­ V anadium Steel and Alloy Co. in Penn­ Arthur Baebler is a member of the Lambda for a short get-together in the sylvania. sophomore council. and Jerry Morgan is a fternoon and a buffet supper that evening. Powell A . Dennie is working for the vice president of Alpha Kappa Psi. Beta-Lambda made a visit to the Alpha­ Shell Oil Co. in Petroleum. Kan. Darwin Flanigan. chief of the Columbia Kappa chapter on the twenty-fifth , staying George Mitsch is working for a United Press Bureau, is secretary of Sigma over until Sunday afternoon. A dance was metalurgical concern in Pennsylvania. Delta Chi, professional journalism frater­ given at Rolla School of Mines that Satur­ James Carr is taking gradua te work at nity, and on the advisory board of Showme, day night. Most of the members of both Stanford University. the campus humor publication. chapters attended this dance. District Number Eleven

Hold Second Gulf Party 25. A large number of rushees. actives. a moonlight boat ride to Ship Island; swimming; sailing; and fishing on Gulf­ By Bill Gurney, Gamma-Iota and alumni from District II were present. Griffin Alford. ThC, and T ed Morris, port's East Beach; a dance at the Hotel Mr ssrsSIPPI- The second annual house Markham roof garden, and a banquet at party for rushees was held at Gulfport SC, had charge of all arrangements for the on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, August 23- party. H ighlights of the week-end were the Edgewater Gulf Hotel. 37 Rush week on the campus resulted in Pledges: Jack A bendreth, C. Barret, Gamma-Psi Occupies House William Brunner, Revill Rogers, Dick the pledging of 24 men. ITKA ranked By Benjamin F. McLure. Gamma-Psi third in the number pledged. Wormhoudt, William Boyd, W. Johnson, Palme r Rawleigh. H a rold Smitherman, Pledges: Clinton Bourland, Aberdeen; R. LoUISIANA P oLYTEC HNIC INsTIT UT E­ B. M . Stone, Purvis; Erst Long. Price Roll ins, and C . W. White. Gamma-Psi began its first full year as a chapter of ITKA by renting a house for the Johnson, and Dave Bennett, all of Ripley; N ew p~edg es will be hunted all year in­ Ad Orkin, Jack Burnham, Gill Gulledge, stead of depending on those pledged dur­ first time in three years. and Walter Scott, all of Jackson; Dave ing rush week. Initiates: Henry Monaghan and Milton L. Williams, N ew Orleans. H arris. Duncan; Marion M orse and Gor­ Officers: SMC, George Muller; IMC, don Williams, Poplarville; W alter D read­ Walter Dorroh; SC. Charlie Lemann; MS. Pledges: Billy Roades, '42, Vivian; en, Lambert; Douglas Jennings and Bill Robert Jemison; ThC, Albert Braur; house Billy Trimble, '40, Monroe. Sims, Kosciusko; Joel H owell. D urant; manager, Bob Murray; historian, Thad H onorary organizations: Cavitt Cooks­ James Dixon, Shelby; H omer Casteel. H owell. ton was elected president of the Inter­ Canton; Ben Bowie, Vicksburg; Wendell fraternity Council, the Open Forum, and Cra ft , T ylertown; James Lewis, Satartia; - -lTKA-- was appointed to the Freshman Rules James Johnston, Shubuta; and Clinton Committee. Pete Levert was recently Wood, M emphis, Tenn. Eta Pledges Fifteen Men elected to the· T ech Theatre Players. Initiates: O lin Mauldin, Ripley, and By Herbert L. Smith. Jr .. Eta Gamma-Psi sponsored a script dance Jack Williams, Gulfport. T u LANE-At the close of rush week, on Sept. 21 to assist in the program of Gamma-Iota's social season opened with Eta chapter was one of the leaders on the freshm an orientation, and a dance at the a party at the chapter house. Pledges and campus with 15 new and five old pledges. American Legion H ome for. rushees and their dates were special guests, while the The new pledges are: their dates. active members served as stags. The Seven men were lost at the end of the chapter will sponsor entertainment every William Ceci l O wen, Jr., Clewiston, year. either by graduation or by transfer. two weeks for the entire school year. Fla.; George Burgess. Lawrence Zeringer, Simon H odge transferred to Tulane. Clyde Jay Fanz, John Caraway. Ernest M ill er, Brooke transferred to the University of ITKA has its share of campus honors Peter Jerguson, Rola nd Smith, Thomas this year with Charles T raylor, Biloxi, T exas. Noel Learned received an ap­ Wicker, and Stanley Asbury, all of N ew pointment to Annapolis, and entered the serving as president of the student body. Orleans. Marvin Williams. Lexington, is president July class. of the Law S chool; T ed Morris, Gulfport, Robert Rhoades, Cleveland, 0 .; Wil­ Officers: SMC, Cavill Cookston; IMC, is business manager of the campus humor liam Provensal. Slidell, La.; Daniel Pa t­ H aynes H arkey; SC, Pete Levert; ThC, magazine The R ebel; Jimmie V anDevender, terson, Murfreesboro, T enn.; John Gre­ H arbert Marshall ; pledge master, Albert Jackson, is business manager of the " M " million, Alexandria, La.; and Travis Bay­ Buckley; and house manager, James Mid­ Book; Griffin Alford , Gulfport, is assist­ kin, Hattiesburg , M iss. dleton. ant to the Dean of the School of Com­ Old pledges: Curtis Fitzgerald, Daniel --TIK A-- merce: and Bill Gurney, Ripley, is assist­ V erges, Roswall Kimball , William M agin­ ant editor of the weekly Mississippian. nis, and Allen Lill, all of New Orleans. Millsaps Gains 20 Pledges Gamma-Iota began th e year with 28 The outstanding event of rush week was By Lawrence Waring. Alpha-Iota active members, 24 pledges, and several a breakfast given for the N ational Presi­ active alumni on the campus. The chapter dent, Roy Hickman. Other functions in­ Mt LLSAPs- Alpha-Iota pled g~ d 20 men. ranked fourth among 17 fraternities in cluded two dances, a picnic, a Freudfest. Pledges were: John Blakesley, Ross Grady. scholarship for 1939-40. and a banquet at one of N ew O rleans' Charles Burnha m, Jack King, Romulus --lTKA-- famcus French restaurants. P ittman, Dan M cCullen, Thomas Dent, William Wright, and Dorsey Ball, all of A tea dance was held in the chapter Roy Hickman Visits L. S. U. Jackson, Miss.; John White and Charles house after football games. Mangin, both of Biloxi; Johnie Morrow, By Bob Jemison. Alpha-Gamma The Tulane yearbook, The Jambalaya, Forest; Duncan Brackin, Starkville; Bobby LoUISIANA STATE-Alpha-Gamm a mem­ had two ITK A men on its staff this year. Holyfield, Poplarvill e; Buddy Wafford bers were greatly honored to have N ational William Wallace is the associate editor, and Maury Ross, Drew; Eugene Boykin, P resident Roy H ickman visit them for and Robert Parker is the assistant editor. Catchings; Carol Mitchell, Plantersville; · several days. A banquet was 9iven at the Two new build ings now adorn the James H older, West Point; James W ebb, H otel H eidleberg in Baton Rouge and Tulane campus. One is a new student Brandon. then a special meeting was held at the center. It houses the offices of the various At the first pledge meeting, the pledges chapter house. Brother H ickman first ad­ school publications, ballrooms, recreation elected Bobby Holy fi eld, president; Wil­ dressed the pledges and then the active rooms, and a soda fountain. The second liam Wright, v ice president; and Charles chapter. Also present was th e alumni is a new li brary. Burnham, treasurer. advisory board composed of brothers Bar­ nett. Steele and Fuller, all prominent men In the cl ass elections Pi Kappa Alpha in Baton Rouge business circles. placed two men in top, positions. Willie New Orleans Meeting Branch was elected president of the junior The chapter is proud of its record in class, while the freshmen elected Buddy the L. S. U . band whi ch is noted nationall y Wafford for their president. for its size and unusual stunts. This year there are two actives and two pledges in Fall tap day, O ct. 23, saw many ITKA 's important posi tions in the band. They ta pped into the various honora ries. Omi­ are: Thad H owell and Sam Woods, and cron Delta Ka ppa, Millsaps highest hon­ pledges Palmer Rawleigh and Bill Brunner. orary, tapped Kenneth Holyfield. AED. Pledge Rawleigh recently started a new pre-medical fra ternity, tapped Hugh Bos­ 11 -piece dance orchestra. It is predicted well ; Eta Sigma Phi, La tin, inducted Ken­ that the band will be very popular and neth Holyfield; and Eta Sigma, scholar­ successful on the campus. ship, honored Graham M cFarland, D avis Donald, and Charleton Roby. L. C. Kirkland is No. 2 man on the L. S. U . tennis team this year and Bill The Millsaps E conomic Club was found­ Brunner is on the varsity track team. ed the first of the year by those ma joring in economics. They elected Charleton Bob Creamer is a li eutenant in th e en­ gineer's corps of the R. 0 . T. C. Roby, president, and Louis Wilson, treas­ urer. Actives, pledges and their dates are llKA had the largest group at con­ doing their part in cheering on the school At the first meeting of Ramblers', club clave of Southern Federation of Col­ for geolog y students, the group elected football team by mee ting at the chapter lege Students and Publication Repre­ house be fore each game and a ttendin g in Louis Navarro as its vice president. a group. Brothers of other schools are sentatives last spring. From the left: The actives of the chapter entertained also welcomed at these mee tings. Brothers J. R. Jones, B: John Beard. re: Kirk the pledges with a picnic at the Cedars from Louisiana T ech and Mississippi have Newell. Jr .. 'Y': Frank P. Hudson, r.o.: of Lebanon Club. The entertainment in­ visited the house during thei r respective Charles Traylor. ri. and Warren Tay­ cluded dancing, singing around a campfire, games. lor, r.o.. and various stunts. 38 Pledge 30 at Mississippi State ton, Larry Edwards. Charles Estes, Jake man, Union; P. B. Hinman, Greenwood; By Kenneth W. Young, Gamma-Theta Falgout, Norman Henry. George Hoffman, John Rupert Lovelace, Indianola; Bill MrssrssrPPI STATE-Gamma-Theta began Myron Jones, B. A. Jordan, William Kil­ Lyerly, Laurel. and Richard Haralson, the 1940-41 session by pledging more men patrick, Lee Gibbs Kirk, Boyce McWhirter, Duncan. than any other social fraternity on tl!e Arch Pearson, Kern P ratt, Sales Shelton, Gamma-Theta laid the foundation for campus. Following a social week consist­ Tommy Slack, Crofton Sloan, Dick Small­ recapture of the athletic trophy awarded ing of smokers. house parties, a dance on wood, B. W . Smith, John Taylor, Bobby annually by the Interfraternity Council by the Choctaw Lake pavilion and a banquet Thompson, Billy Wilder, O scar Hardy, winning the freshman cake race, the first in neighboring Columbus, the chapter C. R. Hughes, and S. J. McDuffie. athletic event of the year, preceding the pl edged the following men : C. B. Anders. New initiates: E. C. Bourland , Amory; Mississippi State-Howard football game. Sonny Barnhill, C . H . Blanton, Billy Boone, Cary Brickell. W. S. Cox, and Billy Nov. 7, Gamma-T heta held a house D an Davis, H omer Denham. Gerald Den- Steinriede, all of Yazoo City; J. C. Free- party, with dancing. District Number Twelve

Alpha-Phi Rushing Clicks Noland, Robert Fisher, Rollie Livingston, as shortstop for the St. Paul Saints of the By Eldon W. De WalL Alpha-Phi L. R. Potter, George Clark. and John American As ociation. Thompson, Alpha-Phi; John Evans and IowA STATE-Rush week at Iowa State Jx k Whorley. Gamma-Nu. SMC Neumann will be on the swimming was one of the most successful Alpha-Phi --IlK A-- team this year, and Pledge Bob Alwin on ever had. Twenty-two men were pledged the basketball team. Seventeen actives returned. Wisconsin Enjoys Homecoming Walderman Neilsen, AN, is doing a swell Many improvements were made in the By Art Zierk a nd Bob NePrud, Beta-Xi job as house counselor, assisted by Wen­ chapter house during the summer. They WrscoNSIN- Beta-Xi's homecoming par­ dell Wilkin and Clair Flanagan. included sanding and refinishing of floors ty. Nov. 2. was one of the best in a long on the first floor. painting of exterior wood­ se ries. While the group of returning N ew pledges: Leo Magrini, Chicago: work, and buying several new drapes and Bob Alwin, Madison; Roland Dierienzo. alumni was not the largest that has at­ Madison; Bob Van Sickle, Whitehall; Art mattresses. tended th;s annual event, almost every class Pledges: Robert McCauley, Fort Dodge; Zierk, Racine; Harry Cook, W atertown; was represented. The men started things John Werrin, Blue Mounds. Don Sonius, Spencer; Roy Johnson, Spen­ off with a "huddle" at the chapter house cer; Elmer Charles Kline, Vinton; Wil­ following the ~arne , while their wives --IlK A-- liam Parkert. O maha, N eb.; Melvin N elson, gathered at the home of Brother and Mrs. Peterson: Warren Backlund, O maha, Neb.; Carlson for cocktails. Brother Nash mixed Iowa Expects Banner Year Robert E vans, Grinnell ; Donald Vreeland, another batch of his famous orange ice By Howard Hines. Gamma-Nu Sac City; Robert Firoved, Monmouth, punch a t the house. There was a stag Ill.; James Stamy, W ebster City; Charles IowA-With rush week a complete suc­ banquet, with SMC Robert Neumann as cess. Gamma-Nu now has 14 pledges and Kupka, Grundy Center; Robert Snyder, toastmaster. After a short business meet­ looks forward to one of its biggest years. Dall as Center. ing. there was a dance at the house, with Robert Magness. T akoma P ark, Md.; music by the orchestra of Duane Long­ Pledges: Lawrence Amick, Sac City; Robert M illigan, Kings, Ill.; Alexander aker, B!E:. Paul · R. Benson. St. Louis, Mo.; Clark MacKinnon. Montclair, N. J. ; Marvin The touch football team achieved a tie Briscoe, Schenectady, N . Y .; Charles Winders, Cedar Rapids; Royal Morse. for the division championship and was to Drake and Ray Garnant, Cedar Rapids; Rockwell City; James R ichard Doherty. enter the all-universi ty playoffs. Star of Ralph DeSha, Deerfield, Ill. ; John J. Donnell son; Joseph Gallieto, Amsterdam. Farrell, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Irwin Floyd and the team was Pledge Leo Magrini. Lawrence Guthart. Charles City; Dwight N . Y .; Carlton Smith, H olden, Mass.; P aul With Neitzel and Curtis bowling well Duncan, Chicago; Gayle Person, Runnels; Fry, Indianola; Robert Meardon, New over 200, the bowling team is on its way York City; James Nelson, Anita; Royal Rex H adden, A twood. Ill. ; Dougald Hink­ toward a cup for the mantel. son, Clymer, N. Y .: Harold Gilbert. Larra­ Pemberton, Jr., Keokuk; and Wayne Bob Neprud rejuvena ted the chapter Peters. Storm Lake. bee; Jack H ilton, California; and William paper, The Beta Xian, this autumn. T ietz, Eldora. Carl Giglio and Clay Gibbs are back in Jim Kaufman, Iowa City, was in charge Visitors: Guy Martin, Lawrence Greene, college after an absence of two years. of all rushing. Alumni assisting during H arold Heap, Dean Gunderson, James Jolin Gerlach is back following a season rush week were: Prof. H erbert Martin, Alpha; Dr. H albert Leet. Kappa and Omega; William Bartley. Jack Worley, William Jones, George Steep, and Leo Best Veishea Float Wins Prize Hoeg h. national secretary, all of Gamma­ Nu; Bill Dozier and H ap Davis, Gamma­ Alpha. Officers: SMC. James Farnham, Loup City, N eb.; IMC, Howard Irvine, Traer; ThC. David Stone, H awarden; historian, Ralph Haffner; steward, C . Arnold Carl­ son; publicity chairman, Howard H ines; social chairman, B. Franklin Carter, Jr.; a thletic director, Wayne Peters; scholar­ ship proctor and pledgemaster, Winston Lowe; and editor of the university news bulletin, Alumnus Counselor, William H . tiWl Ill Itt HIUt 1 Bartley. Having an average of 2.153 for the year 1939-40, Gamma-Nu ranked eighth among 17 social fraternities on the Iowa campus in scholarship. Before the opening of fall rushing. the upper two stories of the chapter house were redecorated, and carpeting for the study rooms was purchased. Plans for the first semester include redecoration of Alpha-Phi. Iowa State, won first prize in the nineteenth annual Veishea Celebra­ the dormitories and the chapter room. tion for the best float, on the basis of neatness, originality and relevance to the Athletic candidates: Pledge Wayne college. Some 35,000 persons witnessed the celebration, a good-will gesture to Peters, varsity golf; Pledge Clark Briscoe, neighboring states and to many high school students. The theme of the float was varsity baseball ; Pledge Paul Benson. "Time Out for Veishea," with the idea portrayed in the form of a mantel clock. varsity swimming; Arnold Carlson, varstty 39 track; Howard Irvine, varsity basketball; landers; James Kaufm an and Irwin Floyd, romance languages. O ther graduate stu­ Pledge Ra'ph DeSha, freshman track. University choru ; H owa rd H ines. debate; dents include Loren H ickerson, '40; R ich­ Other acttvities: David Stone. radio B. Franklin Carter and Loren H ickerson, ard Gray, '40, and Will iam Dozier, rA, ~ta ti on WSUI: Pledge Royal Pemberton. Daily. Iowan ta ff. un iver ity band; Ralph Ha ffn er, Hawkeye George Steep, Jr. , '27 . re turned to the '38. john Evans is in the college of law, staff; Louis Jurgenson, University high- cn mpus to work toward a Ph.D. degree in and John H utch. in medicine. District Number Thirteen

Kansas State Chapter Strong Kansas Holds Open House Initiates: Robert Green, Pratt, and Robert Ebersole, H utchinson. By Duane Urbom. Alpha-Omega By John Baldwin, Be ta-Gamma Pledges: Bill Atwell. Kansas C ity; KA NSAS STATE- Alpha-O mega cha pter KANSAs-Beta-Gamma held its homecom­ Jerry Blakemore, Stanley Pa tten, and Rob­ started the semester with 22 actives. Eight ing celebration N ov. 9, the day of the ert Symons. all of Liberal; Kenneth Brown pledges were taken in during rush week Kansas-Oklahoma game. Many alumni. and Albert Stover. both of St. Jose ph, Mo.; and in the week ensuing. parents, and other friends of the cha pter Albert H ylton, Kansas C ity, Mo.; La N ew pledges are : Bob Reed, James visited the chapter. This was the first Dena McCormick, Leon; Dana Tompkins, C owie, D ean W ell s, Carl P itts, Adrian open house held since the chapte r under­ Lawrence; A rthur W ahl, Saxman; Maurice Moody. Sanford M otes, Bob Christman, went repairs duri ng the summer. Wickendahl, Hutchinson; and Fleming and Allen . W ebb. W ilson, P ri nce ton, Mo. The chapter held its informal fall party Officers: SMC. John Baldwin; IMC, Mrs. R obert F . Murphy, Abilene, has on Nov. 15 , with Clayton H arbur's or­ been retained as house mother this year Robert Ryor; ThC, Robert Hamilton; SC, chestra furnishing the music. The dance R ichard H empstid; rush captain, T . P . to replace Mrs. Barbee O verfield, who re­ had a surrealisti c motif and the decorative signed last year. Hunter; alumni secretary. W alter N eedels; panels and miscellaneous oddities helped historian, Cha rl es McVey ; scholarship, Scarab members: Lawrence Bowdish, to carry out the effect. Members' cos­ Frederick Luke; intramural mana \j er, Jack Bob Read, Ed Chambers, Fred Hughey, tumes were all pre-approved by the social E ngel; social cha irman, Robert Ebersole; and Nolan McKenzie. committee to assure their conforming with party chairman. Robert Green; and song John Will iams was initiated by Pax. the party theme. F ifty couples a ttended. leader, Robert Berridge. Nolan McKenzie is a member of Scab­ Beta-Gamma may have three men on Pledge officers: P resident, La Dean bard and Blade. th e fi ve-men University R. 0 . T . C. rifle McCormick; v ice president, Jerry Blake­ Jack Ransom is a member of Blue Key team. They are: Bob P rice, Fred Luke, more; secretary, Dana Tompkins; sergeant­ and Sigma T au. and Pledge Art W ahl. All are veterans. at-arm . Bill Atwell. P rice was high point man among the con­ T wo rush banquets were held during the Keith Cook. Bill y Schultz, and Bob tingent representi ng the university at Fort summer. O n A ug. 23, 65 alumni. actives. Snyder are W ampus Ca ts. Leavenworth during the past sum mer 's and rushees attended a rush banquet at the Gene Snyder brought fame and glory maneuve rs. H otel Allis in W ichita. On Sept. 10 to the chapter this year as a sophomore about the same number met at the Indian blocking back. P ledges Bob Christm ann T . P . Hunter. valuable substitute of last H ill s Country C lub near Kansas C ity. and Adrian Mood y also saw action. year's varsity basketball squad, may fill During the summer W alt N eedels and Officers: SMC, Nolan McKenzie; IMC. one of the regular spots this year. Bill Bob E be rsole completed the C .A.A. course. Keith Witt; ThC, Jack Ransom; SC, Ar­ Mathews graduated from freshman basket­ --H KA--. thur Day; MS. Lawrence Bowdish ; MC, ball and may make the varsity squad. Ed Chambers; and rush captain, Duane Pledge Bill A twell will go out for the Gamma-Beta Urbom. freshman team. No news report received. District Number Fourteen

Gamma-Chi Holds Indian Dance land, 0 .; Buddy G ilchrist a nd John An­ Caldwell is running fo r president of the derson. Fort Smith, Ark.; John Shideler, student body. Forsman is a candidate fo r By Ken Ryan. Gamma-Chi Stillwater; H erbert D ailey, Muskogee; a Student Cabinet post from the Engi ne OK LAHOMA A. & M.-Gamma-Chi was Kirby W arner, E ni d; Jim Donnell y , Bur­ School. host to over 450 fraternity men and their bank: and Lonnie Jones. Bartlesville. Bridges is the newly-elected member of dates at its annual old Indian pow-wow --HKA -­ the Inte rfraternity Counci l, joining SMC dance in Fiscus hall on N ovember 16. Beta-Qmicron Group Totals 28 W heeler, as our representa ti on in that The hall was decorated in the original body. By Jack Milbourn, Beta -Omicron Oklahoma Indian style. Indian blankets. T he chapter enterfained at info rmal head dresses, moccasins, and other char­ OKLAHOMA- Beta-O micron opened the desserts fo r Gamma Phi Alpha, Kappa acteristics of the Indian habitat added the school year with 28 pledges. They are: Kappa T au, Chi Omega, P i Beta Phi. color to the walls and corners of the hall. Ed Davenport, George Jennings, Bill Zer ­ Kappa Alpha Theta, and D elta Delta boni, N ed O 'Rei ll y , M ill ard Woolsey, Bob D elta. One of the hig hlights of these en­ The music was furnished by Jimm ie Jones. H erman Schneider, Emery Swanson. Baker and his orchestra. Baker was a tertainme nts was Joe Bentonell i singing for and Jon Schockey, a ll of Oklahoma C ity; the P i Phi pledges. member of Gamma-U psilon, U niversity of Joe Downey, Mat Kirwan and Bill Maltbv. T ulsa. H e a ttended the U niversity of a ll of BartlesviJle; H arry Moreland, Ed Beta-O micron opened its social season A rkansas, where he started the orchestra, Hudson, Max Fischer, Ro\j er H ill. Bill with a formal dance at the University Club but he brought it to the campus th is fall. H ickman, Bill Chi lds, a nd Ed Clark, all on September 27. Members and pledges of Gamma-C hi en­ of N orman; Marion H insley and Clayton A new recreation room was built in the tertained their dates at a picnic at S till ­ basement during the summer. This room wa ter's Yost Lake resort on September Campbell. both of E l Reno; N elson N ew­ man, A toka; Jeff Moon. Tulsa: M ike has knotty-pine wall s, a spaci ous wood 20. Golf, swimming, and boating were fireplace, a nd is furnished throughout with the sporting entertainment. Kintz, Y ukon; H arry F reeman, Shawnee ; Dudley Acton, Beaver; Marshall Dayton. modernistic leather-upholstered furniture. Officers: SMC, Ernest Johnson; IMC. Casper. Wyo.; and H arry P ick, S imcoe, N ewcome rs to the chapter are Fenel and Dean lrby; SC, M yron D ixon; ThC, Ont., Canada. Forsman. F enel is working on his doctor's Frank Atwood; historian, H urley Lane. Officers: SMC . Bob W heeler; IMC. degree in history and is from the Beta Pledges: john G ier and A. F . Eidson. Jack M ilbourn; SC. Bob Cauthon; T hC. Delta chapter. Forsman, a junior in the Oklahoma C ity; Jack P ickens, Jimmie Fred H arber; historian. Jim Pearson; and School of Engineering, is from Gamma Vlahos, Jack Benton, and T ommy R yan, MC, Hugh T yson. Upsilon. all of Tulsa; Bi ll Boone, Ponca C ity; Hugh T yson was initiated Septe mber 23. W ith a large pledge class and the very Vernon Nell, Wichita, Kan.; Robert E dde Pledge F ischer, All-State hi gh school beautiful additions to the house, Beta­ il nd Warren Ashwell , O kmulgee; Buddy player fr om N orman, is making a good Omicron is looking forward to a great Knox, Sand Springs; H oward Carr, Cleve- showing at center on the freshm an squad. year, its twentieth on this campus. 40 The chapter was reorganized at the sec­ ond meeting, and Vic Sohle was named SMC for 1940-4 1. at Oklahoma A. & M. College are mem­ bers of Kappa Alpha. Younger brothers of men who are already in ITKA also came into the pledge fold. Pledge Claude Doughman is Jerry Doughman's brother; Pledge Walter Vincent is Ernie Vincent's brother, and Pledge Jeff Donalson is Jack Donalson's younger brother. L. V . Dennis is building a cabin on Grand R iver Lake. and has invited the chapter to the site for a housewarming when it is completed. SMC Sam Brown was elected president New Student Union Building at University of Arkansas. On left. Bill Gregg, of the Interfraternity Council for the school 1939-40 SMC, talks the situation over with Bunn Bell, AZ, Student Union Manager. year. Other members are: Gordon Wright, Jr., and Gar Wood, Jr. SMC Announces Policy Several new house rules were enacted Members of the band include Duane and a discussion of chapter financial con­ Burger, cornet; Pledge Andy Cla rk, trom­ By Garvin Fitton, Alpha-Zeta ditions followed. bone; Pledge Ralph Baston, sousaphone; Ed Gowans. oboe; Pledge Joe Linde, Jr., U NIVERSITY OF ARKA NSAs-Along with Fraternity football started on October 1. the new rushing system established by the clarinet. In the orchestra a re Pledge The ITKA team appears to have a fine Linde, string bass; Ed Gowans, oboe; Interfraternity Council, Alpha-Zeta pledged chance of victory. 17 new men at the beginning of the school Burger, trumpet; Pledge Clark, trombone, year. The chapter held its first social func­ and Pledge Baston, tuba. tion on Ladies Day, the day of the first P i Kappa Alpha claims three of the Officers: SMC, Roger Mast; IMC, home game. Jack Shanklin; house manager, Bill Gregg; four in the men's quartet. They are Em­ ThC. Bill Sawyer; SC, Bill Christeston. The annual Bowery P arty was held on mett Pratt, Rodman Jones, and Pledge November 16 and was well attended. Ridgely Bond. P resident-elect Stan Price is with the naval reserves. --IIKA-- P i Kappa Alpha constructed a beautiful float for the Oklahoma A. & M. game Summer rushing was conducted by Wirt Beta-Mu here November 23. Several members Thompson and Stan Price on a trip over from Gamma-Chi visited the chapter. the entire state checking with rushees, No news report received. Don McLeod is on the Student Council members and alumni of IIKA. This system social and publicity committees. was used instead of a su=er rush party. --IIKA~ The financial system of the chapter has The Saturday Evening Post rates Lee been changed to the pro rata system. If IIKA Leads All at" Tulsa Gentry, who was game captain against a man does not pay his bill on time, the Texas A. & M . College, Oct. 5, as a amount owed is pro rated out among all By Harry Heath, Gamma-Upsilon "small college" All-America choice. the other members of the chapter, thus TuLSA-Pi Kappa Alpha led all frater­ making the entire chapter a creditor of the nities on the campus in number pledged. Tulsa Editors one who Jails to pay. New pledges are: Richard Buzard, Bill Chapter policies as announced by SMC Dunlap, Bill Fraley, F. C . H ensle y, Ralph Roger Mast are: Baston, John Chambers, Herndon David, To foster, mainly and first, a higher Ward Givan, Don Phillips, Claude Dough­ grade average. man, Dick Shea, Rex Ross, Richard Rhine, Bob Reddin, Frank Gaddy, Lloyd To expedite collection of accounts Richards, Walter Vincent, Joe Linde, Jr., payable to chapter. and Bill O wen, all of Tulsa; Bob Smock To continue with year round rushing, and Chuck McGinley, Meadville, Pa.; with rushees every week. Ridgely Bond, McAlester, and Jack Rice, To continue and foster further the St. Louis, Mo. fellowship brought about by daily sing­ Holdovers from last semester, five of ing. whom are eligible for initia tion early this To enroll Pi Kaps in all important semester, are: Wally Borgeson, Chicago, functions of extra-curricular type in Ill.; Vernon N ewell and Roy Stuart, school. Shawnee; Tim Macy, Jim Blazer, Andy --IIKA-- Clark, Jeff Donalson, and Bill King, all of Tulsa. S.M. U. Chapter Pledges 15 Men Roland Stanfield is pledge judge, and Harry Heath (left) and Baskett Mosse By Gene Griswold, Beta-Zeta the chapter's new social chairman is are, respectively, editor and assistant So u THERN METHODIST-Beta-Zeta chap­ Charles White. editor of the Tulsa " Collegian" for ter equaled the average number of pledges Pledge Ralph Baston's brother, Lloyd. 1940-41. The weekly has all-Amer­ listed by all fraternities as IS men took the is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, on ican status. Heath is IMC of Gamma­ ITKA pledge pin during rush week. the campus, while Stanfield's three brothers Upsilon. District Number Fifteen

Arizona Chapter Changes Address turning were: Jack Rogers, Carl Tim­ a t the football game. Invitations were mons, N eil Doutrich, B. B. Baker, and issued for all alumni in the state to meet By George Barley, Gamma-Delta AI Johnson. at the house and renew old friendships. A RIZONA- Gamma-Delta moved to a new The chapter pledged Stan Kisseberth, Plans to begin study table for pledges location that promises to be a suitable Ed Ba tes, D ick Connell, Ed Shanan, and are being discussed. After the first grade place to carry on the work of the chapter Bill T erry. for the new year. list is published all pledges will be asked Returning to the chapter for the new Carl Timmons and B. B. Baker were to remain in the house every evening from school year were: Fred Hoehler, William initiated on Oct. 20. seven to ten. It is felt that it is to the Page, Lewis Bell, Jack Ehrhart. George The exterior of the house was decorated interest of the pledges themselves and the Barley, and Bob Reid. Old pledges re- for homecoming. The chapter had a float chapter to see that the plan is successful. 41 Social Life Heavy for IIKA's J. 0 . Watson, Tucumcari; Armand Members of the New Mexico band this year will include Charles Elsworth, George By Pa ul Dunn, Jr., Beta-Upsilon Beauchamp. Howard Moore, Steve Steven­ son, Bob Dial, and Bob Reding , Alamo­ Hammond, Bud Mabry, and Frank Hash. CoLORADO- The social calendar for the gordo; James Noble, Las Vegas; Edwin Beta-Delta placed three men on Sopho­ yea r has been replete with exchange din­ Herrington, Carlsbad; R. N . L. McGuire, more Vigilante, campus honorary. They ners. tea dances, and radio dances. The Stamford, Conn.; Graham V. Wright, were: Arnold Loken, last year's freshman annual ITKA barn dance was held on Nov. Philadelphia, Pa. ; and Jack Abendscham, president; Mickey Miller, and George 4. The chapter gave a faculty tea on Oct. Santa Fe. 20 at which the members of the faculty Crow. Pledge officers: Mickey Fabrizio, presi­ --llKA-- were honored guests. dent; John Conwell, vice president; Bob The chapter has its share of B.M.O.C.'s. Reding . secretary; Armand Beauchamp, Glenn Hedgecock is president of the treasurer; Edwin Herrington, sergeant-at­ Gamma-Gamma sophomore class; Stanley Dodson, presi­ arms. No news report received. dent of the senior class and vice president of the student body. Officers: SMC, Bob Bryant; IMC. Jim District Number Sixteen Cowden; SC, Glenn Hedgecock; Louis Beck, senior house manager; Paul Gardner, junior house manager and pledge master. Utah State Gridders Active Initiates : Forrest Nord, Logan; Ernest D. Larson, P rovo. Beta-Upsilon pledges 20 men during the By Harold W . Simpson. Gamma-Epsilon week. New alumn i advisor is Prof. Moyle Q. UTAH STATE-V a rsity football men were Rice, of the college, who succeeds Robert Harold 'and Max Punches, Glenn Hedge­ W a rren O 'Gara, guard; Bill Whitesides, Harri son. Harrison accepted a United cock, Art Schauermann, and Ed Rost end; and Dave Clark, center. O 'Gara was States Army appointment. He married played relief roles on the varsity football chosen "All-Big Seven" guard by the Miss Catherine Wright, xn. before going squad. Scott Day is showing promise United Press last year, whil e Whitesides. on active duty. for two years, has been "All-ITKA" end. on the team. --llKA-- Initiates: Don Bell, Denver; Don Irby. Pledges: Lane Palmer, Snowville; N ed La Junta; Gordon Garland, Fort Collins. Pope, Provo; Harold B. Hulme, Paris, Alpha-Tau --llKA - - Idaho. No news report received. IIKA Named Student President Utah State Trains Reserve Officers By Frank F. Hash, Beta-Delta NEw M EXICo-Beta-Delta chapter open­ ed its fall activities with the start of rush week on September 6. Dances and din­ ners filled most of the week which was closed with the preference dinner at the Hilton Hotel. Beta-Delta's Cyrus Perkins took over the office of student body president this fall. This position is the highest student office on the University of New Mexico campus. Bill Russell , sports editor of both the university paper and the yearbook, was elected by the student council to the posi­ tion of student representative on the Pub­ lications Board. Other Beta-Delta repre­ se ntatives on publications this year are: Frank Hash, special editor on the Lobo; James Noble, Lobo reporter; and John Conwell , business staff of the Lobo. Four men, Avery Monfort, Bob Wat­ kins, Arnold Loken, and Jack Morrissey, represent Beta-Delta on the 1940 Lobo football squad. All four are holding down first string positions. Varsity center, Twelve out of about 50 Utah State members of the R. 0. T. C. who will receive Mickey Miller, will be lost from the team Army Reserve Corps or active Coast Artillery commissions next June will be this fall because of injuries. Monfort is members of Gamma-Epsilon. From the left: John Welch, Warren O'Gara, N ew Mexico's candidate for a spot on William H. Thomas, Bert Hoggan, Harold W. Simpson, Grant Holman, Pledge this years All-American team. Harold Hulme, Bliss Mehr. William W. Whitesides, Charles Brown, Grover Bill Raymond is head cheer leader of Carter, Don Horsley. the university this year. Mickey Fab­ rizio is a candidate for cheer leader. Charles Elsworth was elected SC at the District Number Seventeen first regular meeting of the chapter this fall. Cyrus P erkins was named pledge Effort Brings New Pledges Lusk, Jack Williams, Darrel Anderson. master for the year; John Martin, chapter By Joe Roome, Gamma-Eta Gordon Lowe, Bill Jones, Bob Stevens, historian; and Le Moyne Stiles, social Archer Chamlee, Bill Hunter, Earle Peter­ chairman. SouTHERN CALIFORN IA- This fall 's rush­ ing program was the most successful in son, Bob Cashey, Maurice Hell ner, and Initiates: Richard Sweetland, Los years, due primarily to the tireless effort Walt McNeil, all of Los Angeles; Bob Angeles, Calif.; Russell Young and Dean of ex-SMC George Moody, rushing chair­ and Bill Neilson, Glendale; Charles Girvin, Young, San Bernardino, Cali f.; Lenhart man DeWitt Hart, Harold Hoover, and Long Beach; Robert Clark, Lindlay, 0 .; Sailer, Glendale, Calif.; Robert Mac­ Ximeno Tejada. Joe Martin, Sioux City, Ia. Neely, Chicago, Ill.; Lee Harmon, Ama­ The basement in our new house a fford­ Initiates: Norman N eblett, Beverly rillo, Tex.; Matthew Brown, San Diego, ed the locale for several good rush parties, Hills; Linus Brown, Los Angeles; Robert Calif.; and Mickey Miller, Albuquerque. while others were staged at the Ice Follies, Crouch, Pasadena. Pledges: Mickey Fabrizio, Washington, and several at local theaters. Honorary Societies: D eWi tt Hart, D. C.; John Conwell, Chicago, Ill.; Vin­ Our new home was a decided asset in Harry Campbell, Knights; Ray Sanford, cent Brunelli, Don McNama, Frank Cop­ rushing as it is by far the largest and most Squires, secretary of Alpha Phi Omega, len, Tom Plunkett, Ted Diekmand, P eter luxurious fraternity house on the campus. sophomore Council; SMC Jack Tobin, McCanna, Edward Cooney, Clark Hanna, New pledges: Bob Rockwell and Jerry president of Blue Key, Sigma Sigma; Har­ George Crow, Bill Raymond, George V aio, Strayer, San Diego; Marvin Elliott, Fres­ old Hoover, president of Alpha Phi and Stan Gallup, all of Albuquerque. no; Ace Rogers, Phoenix, Ariz.; Tom Omega, Blue Key, treasurer of College of 12 Alpha-Tau in various seasonal pursuits- Top, Dan McArthur and Don Smith on skis (left); members in front of Park Building (center); McArthur. Max Allred and Smith. ready to ski. Center, intramural sports trophy exhibited by James Cannon (right) to Prosecuting Attorney Pratt Kesler. AT. Below. basking in sunshine (left); a full chapter car (center); John Coleman, Cannon. and Ray Johnson (1. to r.) inspect a lighted crest given by Mothers' Club.

Commerce; Ximeno Tejada, Blue Key, Visitors: Shelly Halley, Br; Worth Capt. Allan Hancock has presented the Sigma Sigma, senior council; H erb Brown, Guke, rE. university with a new building on the Phi Beta Kappa. campus to supplement his botanical re­ Plans have been made for several fall search. The building, one of the most Varsity candidates: Dick Pettigrew. dances with the Hallowe'en dance and modern university edifices in the country, track; Walt Brown, all-league center. Initia tion dance the most prominent. will be officially opened in the near future. playing stellar ball for the freshman. A new R. 0 . T . C. course has been --D KA-- Class officers: Bill Jones, president of offered at Southern California with a limit­ Alpha-Sigma freshman class. ed enrollment of eighty students. No news report received.

District Number Eighteen

Gamma-Pi Nets 16 Pledges campus. At an expenditure of about $1.- ing backfield men in the conference. Three 200 a new and larger dining room was pledges participated in freshman ball. By Bill Ralston, Gamma-Pi built on the side of the house. Old dining L. Brooks Ragen, Portland, newly-elected OREGON- Gamma-Pi men returned to room quarters were converted into a re­ national treasurer, was a visitor at the college with a spirit that netted 12 official decorated chapter room and lounge. N ew house during rush week. He gave a brief and four unofficial pledges during the fall rugs and furniture were placed in the room. welcome to a group of rushees visiting rush week. The four unofficial men were The living room was more adequately fur­ that evening. deferred because of late arrival for the nished with the addition of two new lamps. rushing period. a record table, new leather davenport, and Gamma-Pi initiated four men at the open­ New pledges: Jim Harrison, Allan Kas­ wall hangings. Curtains for the new din­ ing of school. They were: Gerald Saint meyer, John Brooks, Calvin Bjornsgaard, ing room were provided by the Portland and Kenneth Lawrence, Coquille; Ray and Ross Withers, all of Portland; Detliff Mothers Club. Wells, Eugene; and Tommy Roblin, P itts­ Eismond, Grants Pass; Wallace Heider Other improvements were the changing burgh, Calif. and David Casey, both of Sheridan; Rob­ and addition of bathroom facilities and the ert Noble, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Robert The annual barn dance was held at the installation of individual electric fixtures chapter house on O ctober 19. Each year Wiley, Palo Alto, Calif.; Charles Me­ for study tables. W ayne, Honolulu, H awaii ; Victor Brown, the same theme is carried out but new and Bakersfield, Calif. The chapter was well represented on ·JJovel ideas in decoration are added to make Gamma-P i now has one of the best fur­ the gridiron. Tommy Roblin received con­ the occasion a memorable one. This year nished and largest living quarters on the siderable publicity as one of the outstand- several stalls were built, containing farm 43 animals. "\Nalls were covered with paint­ the fireside held O ctober 19. Both Demo­ Pledges: Paul Stoller, Bill Osborne. ings typical of a barn. Wagon wheels, crats and Republicans received liberal George Doumit, Bob Clemens, Jim Vedder, lanterns, harness, hay. pumpkins, and other advertisements. Bob Shick, Don Greggs, Warren Ashburn, farm gadgets gave a rural atmosphere to Pledges are: Tom Cra ig , Dick Brown, Pace Paletta, Ford Sexton, and Bill Ewing. the dance. John Peabody, Bill Wilson, Ray Mason. Pledges Stoller and Clemens are Inter­ --IlK A-­ and V ern Anderson. Active Lee Laxdall coll egiate Knights. O sborne and Greggs heads a pledging campaign now under way. are fresh basketball managers. Sexton and Beta-Beta Boys Join Service Paletta were members of the grid squad. WASHINGTON- America's first line of --IlK A-- Ashburn played freshman ball. defense may not be the Beta-Beta chapter, Schola rship Up Five Points but there are plenty of the Beta-Beta boys Honoraries: Bert Carlson, Scabbard in the line. By Art Hartwig, Gamma ·Xi and Blade; Art Hartwig, Interfraternity Bob Williams enlisted in the N avy Air WASHINGTON STATE- The chapter raised Council. Phi Mu Alpha, Tau Beta Pi, and Corps in May. Soon after arriving at the its scholarship average five points last Phi Kappa Phi; Joe Giambroni, A .S.V.M. Pensacola training school, he was joined semester. --IIKA-- by AI Hanson, ex-SMC. A third potential Jaydee Dodson's imitation of a "Cali­ pilot, Gene Hougardy, is preparing to fornia bear" during the recent homecoming Gamma-Kappa Pledges 17 leave for Randolph Field, the U . S. Army celebration drew many laughs. W earing Air School. shorts only and exposing his hairy chest, By Joe W. Eisenma n , Gamma -Kappa For the N ational Guard mobilization, Dodson's act really was a success. H e MoNTANA STATE-We had a successful Ken White and Lou Fenton donned Kahki was followed by Pledge Stoller reclining rush week pledging the following men : and left, i.n September, for camp at Fort on a stretcher-as indica tion of what would Dean Bartling, T win Bridges; Clarence Lewis. Naval reservists include Stan Trim­ happen to the California bear when Wash­ Rich, Benzine; Ralph McSioy, Craig; ble. Bill Strong, and Dean Downing. The ington State finished with it. Louis Marantette, Columbia Falls; Jimmy latter has received orders to be prepared Gamma-Xi employed a porter this year Schultz, Chester; Buell Burch, Great Falls; to leave for active duty on 24-hour notice. to give the pledges more time for study. Robert Liquin, Bozeman; Johnny Miller. Charles Brashear is in West Point prep The general result has been favorable. Stevensville; Richard Heater, D ick Hux­ school. Ceylon Peterson ranks as First­ Officers: SMC, Art Ha rtwig; IMC, ford, and Marvin Markison, Thompson Lieut. in the advanced R. 0 . T . C. at Kirk Athow; SC, Clifford Pfa ffl e; MC, Joe Falls; Jim Roach, Chester; Raleigh Ahern, U . of W . Giambroni; MS. Jaydee Dodson; house Bozeman; George Allquist and Roland Social Chairman Bob Umphrey planned manager, Jim Erwin; and rush captain, Dardis, Sidney; Donald Gumprecht and the presidential campaign theme used for Tom Keene. Lee Dobbler, H elena.

deeply conscious of the true meaning of Comments on the Fraternity's Democracy phi phi kappa alpha and the greater chal­ T o THE EDITOR: IIKA's should never allow the smooth lenge ahead is for every chapter to in­ talk of any person, the apparent need of a tensify the devotion of its membership The seventy-second anniversary conven­ to this, our motto. tion of Pi Kappa Alpha, at Chicago, defi­ so-called emergency, nor the demands of nitely establi shed democratic principles as any interest to wrest these cherished gains JoE E. RI CKENBACKER, the cornerstone of our great fraternity and from them. Those of us who today wear • Mercer. its march of progress. This meeting was the Shield and Diamond have a trust to --IlK A-­ a proving ground. keep-we must safeguard these principles Beg Pardon! that have been handed down to us. The founders of our fraternity set out AN EDITORIAL change in an article ideals and principles to guide us who have In Chicago, the undergraduates and the embraced the bonds of this order. These alumni alike rallied to the call of democ­ in THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND for principles have been the basis upon which racy. At that convention many plans were September by Mrs. K D. P ulcipher, the fraternity has been built. Today, presented for consideration, each affecting about women's activities at the Chi~ IIKA stands on a high plane. Down the some particular phase of fraternity life. cago convention, made the author years. the various chapters and the ever­ The action taken by the convention on changing Supreme Council have clung those plans gave an answer that no one appear responsible for an error . tenaciously to the teachings of these im­ could mistake- IIKA's will not tolerate which was not her fault. Radio mortals. Chicago marked the triumph of any one tampering with thei r democratic Station W GN is not in the Mer~ those principles and a rededication of the institutions. There were those who ad­ chandise Mart, as the article was fraternity to them. vocated proposals which, while offered in all sincerity, would have set the dangerous made to say. In this world, which is turned so topsy­ --IlK A-- turvy by the march of totalitarianism, it is precedent of dictatorial government in some indeed fitting for Pi Kappa Alpha's to respects. The delegates refused to sur­ five Men Expelled render any rights to the control of any boast that theirs is a democratic organiza­ THE FOLLOWING. members have tion- an organization that is the personi­ group or any person. The convention fication of democracy. All measures that insisted that certain safeguards for the been expelled from the fraternity come before a chapter must be passed by protection of these democratic principles for failure to pay debts due· their the majority of members, officers are elect­ be written into the laws, although the in­ respective chapters, the General sertion of these safeguards appeared un­ ed by secret ballot, the various chapter O ffice announces : Howard R. undertakings are the product of the whole necessary. working together as a unit. Our national There were some present a t Chicago Davis, A; Randall M . Brooke, A~; organi zation is equally as well founded who feared that the undergraduate repre­ Dudley E . Deleray, A~ ; Guy T. along democratic lines. We have the sentatives in particular would not rise to Savage, A~; Richard O liver, BZ. safeguards of recall, referendum and initia­ meet the challenge. The .closing session --IlK A-- tive-the most advanced of democratic in­ proved the doubters wrong. It is with stitutions. A careful study of the laws and satisfaction that IIKA's can view the work TaU Beta Pi Announces the constitution of the fraternity will re­ of the Chicago convention. The conven­ Initiations veal that the government of our fraternity tion responded 100 per cent to the occa­ is as purely democratic as our national sion. It turned thumbs down on anything THE ExECUTIVE CouNCIL of Tau government in every degree and even more offered that varied by word, tone or act Beta P i has announced the initia ~ democratic is certain phases. from what is considered the American, the tion of seven members of P i Kappa Every national fraternity cannot make democratic, the IIKA way. Alpha fraternity. They are: G. H . that claim. An investigation into the gov­ Today, Pi Kappa Alpha is all the Baker, '40, and J. T . Montgomery, ernment of other fraternities will reveal stronger because of the test. A new spirit that many of them are more nearly auto­ is prevalent in the fraternity. Every '41, M ississippi Alpha; J. M . B ee~ cratic than democratic and some few of chapter, from Alpha to Gamma-Omega , son, '41, Alabama Beta; J. R. ImmeL them approach dictatorship when it comes should realize that the governing body of '40, Colorado Beta; C. T. G . to th e relationship of the national and the the fra ternity rededicated itself to the Looney, '32, Iowa Beta; H. J. N ich~ local chapters. I have heard many Greek­ democratic principles that every Ame rican letter men express envy and amazement cherishes. This year, thank God, IIKA's olas, '41 , Missouri Beta, and G . S. at the democracy of Pi Kappa Alpha. are, more than ever since the founding, Thagard, '41, Alabama Alpha. 44 enacted in the last 22 years had the bene­ Chapter Eternal fit of his work; he sometimes caught errors which would have made laws unconstitu­ James H. Hail, Beta-Gamma medical inspector for the New Orleans tional, and often made changes to give . SEcoND LI EUTENANT JAMEs H . HAIL, Br. Board of Health and for many years presi­ measures greater effectiveness. He avoid­ 37, was among the 12 Army men who lost dent of the Lighthouse for the Blind. He ed partisan interest, but helped both Demo­ their lives when two twin-motored Douglas also was a member of the State Board of cratic and Republican legislators. Health. bombing planes coll ided a nd fell about Burial was in O ak Ridge Cemetery, 2.500 feet into a thickly popula ted resi­ H e was associated with several other Springfield, site of Lincoln's tomb. Sur­ dential section, just inside the New York lodges and societies including the Druids, viving are Billman's wife, mother, and City limits, June 17. J. 0 . U. A. M ., Deutches Haus, Knights of brother, Dale Billman, BH, '19, an East Burial was a t Lawrence, Kan., his family P y thias, Germania Lodge of Masons. St. Louis newspaper reporter. Knights T emplar, and Shrine. Active in home. Pallbearers, all undergraduate or --IIKA-- alumni members of the Universi ty of Kan­ Presbyterian circles, he was a deacon in sas chapter, were Howard Dunbar, Kenneth two N ew Orleans churches. N. S. Lachicotte, Alpha-Epsilon A brother, E . F erdinand Koelle, e. cus­ Shook, Gordon Ramsier, Stan Thomas, and N ATHAN SAMPSON LACHICOTTE, AE, ' 14, John Baldwin. After the opening of the toms collector, preceded him to the Chap­ ter Eternal. Both were active in the life insurance agent and former secretary college year Col. K. F . Baldwin, professor of the Sanford (N . C.) Chamber of Com­ of milita ry science and tactics a t the uni­ conventions of IIKA held in New O rleans in 1909, 1920 and 1936. merce, died at a hospital in Sanford some versity, held a brief service in memory of months ago from complications resul ting Hail. Dr. Koelle is survived by his widow, from an emergency appendicitis operation. Surviving are the Lieutenant's parents, the former M iss Marie H enderson; a He was 48 years old. F ormerl y he resided Mr. and Mrs. William C . Ha il , and his daughter, Mrs. Carlo P . Cabibi; and a at P awley's Island, S. C., and recently at wife, the former Miss Louise Owens, AXO, sister, Mrs. O scar Schrieber. Burial was Florence, S. C. in Greenwood Cemetery, N ew Orleans. to whom he was married last June 4. She In the tobacco season late in 1939 he was the daughter of Ma jor and Mrs. Ray - - IT KA-­ was sales supervisor of the Sanford market. L. O wens, of Hamilton Field, San Fran­ A. Morgan Brian, Eta Educated at Wofford College and North cisco. Mrs. Ha il a ttended the universi ty Carolina State College, he served in the with her husband. A . MoRGAN BRIAN, H. '27, died Sept. 30 N avy during the World W ar and after­ Hail was commissioned as a reserve of­ a t· N ew O rleans, his home, where he was wards was one of the organizers of the ficer on graduati ng from the university. connected with his fa ther, Alexis Brian, American Legion in South Carolina. in the law firm of Brian and Brian. Death He served a t first in the Coast Artillery H e is survived by his wife, a daughter, and was then transferred to the Air Corps. followed an illness of several weeks. He was 37 years old. and a stepson, all residing at Sanford; a He was rushing capta in for Beta-Gamma sister and a brother. Funeral services were in the summer of 1936, when the chapter A native of N ew Orleans, he received held a t Sanford and Pawley's Island. pledged 23 men. his law degree from Loyola University a fter a ttending Tulane and Louisiana State --IIKA-- There were no survivors of the bomber universi ties. accident, which was one of the worst in Robert L. Forman, Beta-Pi the his tory of Mitchel F ield, Army flying H e became associated with his father station. The collision occurred while four in law practice immedia tely following his ROBERT L. FoRMAN, BII, 18-year-old sophomore at the University of Pennsyl­ planes were fl ying in V -formation practice graduation from Loyola. H e also was connected w ith the oil firm of Carter, vania, was found murdered Sept. 25 in his only a few minutes after taking off. Dur­ father's automobile, near Rochester, N . Y . ing a change of formation, one ship at­ Perrin and Brian. tempted to cross over another and their H e was active in alumni affairs of his Forman, whose home was in P ittsford, a wings locked together. E ach plane crashed chapter and in N ew Orleans fraternity suburb of Rochester, was in the habit of into a residential front yard, one of them circles. picking up hitch-hikers. The sheriff re­ smashing and setting fire to two houses. H e was a ff ilia ted with several carnival ported that he apparently was shot at least Press dispatches said that the w recked craft organizations, the Commercia l Law League five times, from the right-hand front seat "quickly became funeral pyres of fl aming of America, and the Young M en's Busi­ of the car, where two .32-caliber cartridges molten metal. " There was a tremendous ness Club. were found. The body was in the rear seat of the car, which was parked on a noise as the crash occurred and the neigh­ H e also is survived by his widow, the borhood seemed to rock. O ne ship was bridle path. There was no trace of a former Miss E velyn M ill er; two sons, weapon. Forman's suit coat was torn and in fl ames as it fell. Wreckage was sca t­ Morgan, Jr., and Thibaut; a brother, D on­ tered over a wide area and firemen ex­ two upper front teeth were missing. In ald; and two sisters, Mrs. J. D . Corry his pocket there was a wallet containing tinguished several blazes. Bodies of the and M rs. Carl C . Fredrichs. Burial was victims were severely burned and mangled. in Metairie Cemetery, N ew O rleans. $5.53. At short intervals after the crash there He had spent the summer working in were explosions sounding like small bombs. - - IIK A - - his father's pickle cannery and had planned Mayor F iorello H . LaGuardia, World W ar R. B. Liedel. Beta-Eta to return to the University of P ennsylvania Army bomber, arriving within a few min­ R ussELL B. LI EDEL, BH, '17, died of a short time after the date of his death. utes, was quoted as saying, "This is one --IIKA-- of the inevitable accidents of tra ining." leukemia April 26, in an Alton (Ill.) hos­ pital. a fter an illness of several weeks. A --IT KA-- lawyer, he was A ssistant State's Attorney Heads Illinois Law Alumni of Madison County, adjoi ni ng S t. Louis. Dr. J, M. Koelle, Theta H e was 45 years old. His wife and a D ENEEN A. WATSON, BH, '27, D R. Jo HN M ARC US KoELLE. e. '01. long daughter survive. Burial was at Alton. Chicago, senior member of the prominent as a N ew Orleans physician and Liedel. who atte nded Knox College, Gales­ n ew lv~f ormed firm of W atson, active in civic and fra ternal affairs, died burg, Ill., before entering the U niversity of H ealy and A rrington, has been O ctober 1 in his home a t N ew Orleans Illinois, belonged to Phi Alpha Delta (law) . elected president of the law col ~ a fter a lingering illness. H e was 63 --ITK A-- years old. H e retired from practi ce in lege alumni of the U niversity of 1933 because of ill health. DeWitt Billman, Beta-Eta Illinois. Born in N ew Orleans, the son of the DEWITT BILLMAN, BH, '12, executive W atson is a director of the gen­ Rev. F . 0. Koell e and Mrs. Koelle, he a t­ secretary of the Illinois Legislative Refer­ tended Chamberlain Hunt Military Acad­ ence Bureau, died a t a S t. Louis hospital eral alumni association and one of emy, Southwestern, and Tulane Universi ty. Aug. 5 of an internal hemorrhage follow­ the most active Illini in the Chicago He entered the practice of medicine upon ing a lung operation. H e was 50 years area. graduation from Tulane. old , a resident of Spri ngfield , office of the H e is legal counsel for Hugh From 1905 to 1914 he was actively con­ bureau. nected w ith the Bethany H ome for the Following gradua tion from the U ni­ W . C ross, speaker of the Illinois Aged, an institution founded by his mother versi ty of Ill inois law school he practiced House of Representatives, and is in 1894, and he was a vice president of law at East S t. Louis, Ill., until appointed chairman of the Illinois State Bar the institution a t the time of his death. as a bill dra fter in the bureau in 1918. Association's committee on ta x a ~ For several years he was first assistant Seven years la ter he became executive ernors. M any of the laws of the state secretary. He served under th ree Gov- tion. 45 AKRON, 0. MIAMI, FLA. Bob Evans. Dime Savings Bank. Wm. C. Seybold, Seybold Bldg. Luncheons. Wed. 12:30 p. m .. Walgreen's, 200 E. Flagler. ALBUQUERQUE,N.M. Alumni MILWAUKEE, WIS. Deacon Arledge, 211 North 2nd St. E. D. Johnson, Loomis Sayles 6 Co .. 411 E. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Chapters Mason St. Meetings every other month. A. 0. Mooneyham. Mooneyham's Drtig Store. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. ATHENS, GA. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Donald Templeton, 253 E. 4th St .. St. Paul. W . Lee Bradbury. Sou. Mutual Bldg. Bankhead Warren, Strachan Shipping Co .. Bar­ MONROE, N. C. ATLANTA, GA. nett Bldg. Lunch. last Tuesday. Univ. Club. Frank Redfern. Travis Johnson. 10 Pryor St. Bldg. Luncheon. KANSAS CITY, MO. MUSKOGEE, OKLA. Friday, 12:30, Davison-Faxon Co. Tearoom Leland Gradinger. Dierks Bldg. Luncheons. James D. Booth, Jr .. 414 Manhattan Bldg. BATON ROUGE, LA. Thursday •noon, English Grill, Hotel Phillips. NASHVILLE, TENN. J. M. Barnett. 711 La. Nat'( Bank Bldg. KNOXVILLE, TENN. Dr. J. Herman Head. Bennie Dillon Bldg. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 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Dr. J. Allen T ower, Birmingham Southern ALPHA-TAU, 16. University of Utah . Salt Lake of Okla .. Norman. College. City. Utah. llKA House . 51 N . Wolcott Ave .. BETA-PI, I . University of Pennsylvania , Phila­ ZETA, 8 , University of Tennessee. Kn oxville. Robert R. McKay. AC. Floyd U. Goates. 340 delphia. Pa . llKA House, 3900 Locust St .. Tenn. llKA House, 1305 W. Clinch Ave .. University St. Geoffrey Dolm an. Fred A. Kelly Ill. AC. Thos. A. Magill , Univ. ALPHA-PHI, 12 . Iowa State College. Ames, BETA-STGMA , 2. Carne~ie ln•titute of T echnol­ of Tennessee. Iowa. llKA House. 2117. Lincoln W "Y· Ed­ oay. P ittsburgh. Pa. llKA Ho"'"· 5010 M or~­ ETA, II. Tulane University. New Orleans, La. ward Vogt. AC. Guy Martin. 501 6th Ave .. wood Pl. . D. G. Havlish . AC. Bartlett F . llKA House. 1470 joseph St .. james V . Le­ S. W .. Independence. Iowa. Corley. 624 Pennridge Rd. Laurin. ALPHA-CHI, I. Syracuse University, Syracuse . BF.TA -IIPSif.ON, 13. Universitv of Colorado . THETA, 8 . 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