The Diamond of Psi Upsilon Jan 1952
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THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON JANUARY, 1952 VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER TWO The Home of the Epsilon Chapter, chosen to be the scene of Psi Upsilon's 1952 Convention (See page 38) The Diamond of Psi Upsilon OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY Volume XXXVIII January, 1952 Number 2 AN OPEN FORUM FOR THE FREE DISCUSSION OF FRATERNITY MATTERS IN THIS ISSUE Page Annual Convention to Mark Epsilon's 50th Anniversary 38 Psi U Personality of the Month 39 New York Founders' Day Dinner 40 Robert A. Lovett, Beta '18, Appointed Secretary of Defense 42 Psi U's in the CrviL War 45 Glimpses of the Elegant Eighties 52 The Chapters Speak 57 In Memoriam 66 The Executive Council and Alumni Association, Officers and Mem bers Cover III Roll of Chapters and Alumni Presidents Cover IV EDITOR Edward C. Peattie, Phi '06 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Peter A. GaBaueb, Pi '25 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE DIAMOND J. J. E. Hessey, Nu '13, Chairman A. Northey Jones, Beta Beta '17 Walter S. Robinson, Lambda '19 (ex-officio) S. Spencer Scorr, Phi '14 Oliver B. Merrill, Jr., Gamma '25 LeRoy J. Weed, Theta '01 (ex-officio) ARCHIVIST Henry C. Trundle, Xi '21 Publication Office, 450 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wis. Executive and Editorial Offices Room 510, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N.Y. Life Subscription, $15; By Subscription, $1.00 per year; Single Copies, 50 cents Published in November, January, March and June by the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Entered as Second Class Matter January 8, 1936, at the Post Office at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Paragraph 4, Section 538, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized January 8, 1936. Printed in U.S.A. ANNUAL CONVENTION TO MARK EPSILON'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY feel also that this the thud time in the history of our Saturday, June 28. We as it will FORFraternity, Brethren from the four cor time is especially appropriate the Brothers additional travel ners of the United States and Canada will give visiting the of the Eastern col meet on the Pacific Coast for the Annual time, after closing cover the distances involved. Convention. The Epsilon Chapter, this year leges, to have been made to house the its 50th anniversary, as well as Plans celebrating and on Pacific and visitors, both fifty years of Psi Upsilon the delegates graduate in one of the slopes, has been honored as host for the undergraduate, University's for Bowles Hall. A full 119th yearly gathering of our Order. dormitories men, of business and social Some thirty-seven years ago, at the time program meetings with little of the, 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition, which gatherings is being planned, time we assure The Con was held in San Francisco, the Epsilon en lagging, you. tertained the Eastern delegates, carefully vention Committee, however, in keeping them from the wild Indians who with the summertime theme of travel and shielding for roamed the Western landscape scalping sightseeing, is concentrating its plans annual on a boat all in sight! But the West has grown since the outing private trip those days�and Psi Upsilon has grown! around San Francisco Bay, the customary baseball we trust Dr. Lin Today we are an international order and game (which and a barbecue. We the Far-West representation in our Frater coln will referee!) the of nity has come to play an increasing part, eagerly anticipate pleasure showing our the of the as demonstrated by the excellent Conven guests astounding growth area since we last tion on the Theta Theta at Seattle San Francisco Bay put by the in 1947. had the opportunity of entertaining Fully realizing the importance of our Fraternity. of the for the 119th annual get-together, as well as the re Full details plans markable hospitahty shown by other enter Convention, together with the final pro of the and an taining Chapters in recent years, an ener gram tbi-ee-day meeting activities of the getic committee composed of both North up-to-date story of the vdll be found in ern and Southern California alumni and undergraduate Chapter, the active Brothers of the Epsilon Chapter is the March issue of The Diamond. In all laying plans for the three-day reunion. interim, the Epsilon wishes to extend to from Maine to British Columbia Inasmuch as the University of California Brothers, a most follows a later academic schedule than the and from New York to Cahfornia, from majority of Eastern and Mid-Western col hearty invitation to be present June cele leges where Psi Upsilon Chapters are 26 through June 28, and help us to a of Psi on the domiciled, we are planning the Convention brate half-centuiy Upsilon for the days, Thursday, June 26, through Pacific Coast! The I 1 0th Convention in the I 19th Year of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity will be held with the Epsilon Chapter, Berkeley, California, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 26, 27 and 28, 1952. This Convention will nnark the semi-centennial of the Epsilon and of Psi Upsilon on the Pacific Coast. Plan now to attend! �38- PSI U PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH Edward C. Reifenstein, Jr., M.D., Pi '30 By John K. Menzies, Pi '41 a member of a real Psi U family, as Dr. Fuller Albright at the Massachusetts , well as AS because of his high personal General Hospital in Boston. this month's Psi U qualifications, Personal From Boston and Harvard, our Person is a ity fitting selection for that honor. ality of the Month then went to New York Brother Edward C. Reifenstein, Jr., ti '30, City where he was associated with the is the Director of the new Institute for Medical Research of the Oklahoma Medi cal Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, and is the brother of two other Pi Chapter doctors, Brother George H. Reifenstein, M.D., Pi '32, and Brother Robert W. Rei fenstein, M.D., Pi '43. This institute, which Ed now heads, is a private enterprise sponsored by Okla homa citizenry and heavily endowed. Its staff of more than fifty devotes its full time to medical research at the clinical level with the problems of aging as its main theme. Through its affiliation with the Oklahoma School of Medicine, Brother Reifenstein also holds the appointment as Professor of Research Medicine and chair man of research at the school. Born in Syracuse, New York on the seventh of December, 1908, he attended local schools and graduated from North High School. From there he went on to his Liberal Arts education at get Syracuse Dr. Edward C. Reifenstein, Jr., Pi '30 University where he joined the Pi Chapter. At Syracuse, in his undergraduate days he Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Re found time to be editor of the Onondagan search of the Memorial Hospital Center, as yearbook, work on the Daily Orange staff, a research consultant in endocrinology and as well as to become a member of Phi in charge of the metabolic division. It was Kappa Phi and Pi Delta Epsilon societies. during this same period that he worked In 1934 he graduated from the University's also as clinical research consultant for College of Medicine. In medical school, Ed Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison, Ltd., was president of the local chapter of Alpha pharmaceutical manufacturers. Then in Kappa Kappa, national medical fraternity, 1949-50, he served the latter firm as their and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and Executive Director of the medical and re Sigma Xi. search division. It is to be noted that In his early professional career he was Brother Reifenstein is also the author of associated with his father, Edward C. numerous scientific articles and papers. Reifenstein, Sr., M.D., in Syracuse, New Brother George H. Reifenstein, Pi '32, York, specializing in medicine and psy and Brother Robert W. Reifenstein, Pi '43, chiatry. It was during this same period who have joined their brother in the medi that Brother Ed also was associated with cal field, are active in Syracuse, New Syracuse University's Hospital of the Good York and Boston, Massachusetts, respec Shepherd and New York State's Syracuse tively. Our Psi U personality now resides Psychopathic Hospital. From 1940 to in Oklahoma City with his wife, the for 1946, he held a research fellowship at mer Esther C. Tilden and two children, Harvard Medical School and worked under Edward C, III, 14 and Susan T., 11. �39- NEW YORK FOUNDERS' DAY DINNER prior to the holding of the graduates, including Chapter Heads, foot WEEKSAnnual Founders' Day Dinner at the ball ail-Americans, etc. Some of the Ex University Club, New York City, Novem ecutive Council left the speakers' table and ber 28, your Editor had the opportunity joined their delegations at the Chapter to observe the operation known as the tables. Birth of a Banquet. The chief surgeon was Doc Morton skilfully and wittily acted Alfred H. Morton, ("Doc" Morton, that is), as toastmaster. The invocation was pro and the scene of the operation was an 84- nounced by the Rev. John Ellis Large, inch table against the wall of the Psi U D.D., Beta Beta '28, Rector of the Church headquarters. Room 510, Graybar Build of the Heavenly Rest, New York City. ing. Robert P. Hughes, Delta '20, President At an ordinary operation the surgeon of the Alumni Association of Psi Upsilon, calls out to his assistant: "Scalpel�clamps conveyed the welcome of the Association �suture." Here the assistant surgeon was to the assemblage, and LeRoy J. Weed, Peter A.