0 F D E L T A S I G M A p I Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin ROFESSIONAL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION FRATERNITY FOUNDED 1907 JANUARY 1960 The International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi Professional Commerce and Business Administration Fraternity Delta Sigma Pi was founded at New York Univer­ sity. School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, on November 7, 1907, by Alexander F. Makay, Alfred Moysello, Harold V. Jacobs and H. Albert Tienken. Delta Sigma Pi is a professional frater­ nity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social ac­ tivity and the association of students for their mu­ tual advancement by research and practice; to pro­ mote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce; and to further a high standard of commercial ethics and culture, and the civic and commercial welfare of the com­ munity. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ IN THE PROFESSIO NA L SPOTLI G HT UNDER OUR PROFESSIONAL SPOTLIGHT in this issue is the tour taken by the brothers of Delta Lambda Chapter at Ithaca College of the Corning Glass Works. Shown here are Fred Murphy, Jack House, Past President Nick Ippolito, and Bill David watching the glass blowing procedure. January 1960 • Vol. XLIX, No. 2 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Editor From the Desk of the Grand President 34 J.D. THOMSON A Word from The Central Office . 34 Associate Editor Nevada Installation Marks 36th State . 35 }ANE LEHMAN Who Pays the Steel Strike Invoice? . 38 Postmaster: Please send copies returned Delta Tau Installed at Indiana State . 41 under labels Form 3579 to Delta Sigma Pi, 330 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Our NAM Delegate Reports . 43 Ohio. Miami University Dedicates Business Building . 45 The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi is published four times annually in the With the Alumni the World Over . 47 months of November, January, March, and May Publication Office-Curtis Reed Among the Chapters . 49 Plaza, Menasha, Wisconsin. Editorial Office-330 South Campus Avenue, Ox­ Delta Sigma Pi Directory : . 70 ford, Ohio. Subscription price: $3 per year. Our Cover Second class postage paid at Menasha, Featured on our cover this issue is the Lane Library of Ripon Wisconsin, and at an additional mailing office. Acceptance for mailing at special College in Ripon, Wisconsin. We are proud to continue our rate of postage provided for in the Act of university series and are appreciative of the cooperation of February 28, 1925, embodied in para­ Mr. H. H. Bennett of Shostal, the photographer, and the graph 4, Section 538, P. L. & R., 1932 Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company for making these edition. Printed in U.S.A. prints available to us. DELTA SIGMA PI is a charter senior member of the Pro­ fessional Interfraternity Conference, organized in 1928. The members of the Conference comprise: ARCHITECTURE, Alpha Rho Chi. CHEMISTRY, Alpha Chi Sigma. COM­ MERCE, Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi . DENTISTRY, Alpha Omega, Delta Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Xi Psi Phi . EDUCATION, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Ep­ silon Kappa, Phi Sigma Pi. ENGINEERING, Theta Tau, Sigma Phi Delta. LAW, Gamma Eta Gamma, Delta Theta Phi, Sigma Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Beta Gam­ ma, Phi Delta Phi. MEDICINE, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Theta Kappa Psi, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi .Beta Pi ,. Phi Chi, Phi Delt~ Ep­ silon, Phi Lambda Kappa, Ph1 Rho S1gma. MUSIC, P~1 Mu Sinfonia. PHARMACY, Alpha Zeta Omega, Kappa Ps1, Rho Pi Phi, Phi Delta Chi. HoMER T. BREWER Kappa-Georgia State IN RECENT MONTHS the newspapers have been so full duce their goods economically, they out-sell the other man, of stories of business conduct varying from unethical to illegal they deliver a full dollar's worth for a dollar paid. They com­ to immoral to criminal-perhaps those stages are not in the pete fairly. proper order of seriousness-that many of the pundits have Look at the practices of businessmen you know, and see seen fit to sermonize that the good old American conscience is which of them are sound, and which are rotten. Analyze the disappearing. These moralizers declare that we are all rotten to consciences, the aims, the methods of your contemporaries, the core, that we have cast off our heritages of truthfulness and see which way you think they will go. Look into your own and of square dealing, and that we are all out to make "the heart, and find out now how you will conduct your business. fast buck." Don't let the prophets of doom fool you. We still have the moral precepts given us by our forebears. American business has not succeeded by wasting money, by We still have the religious principles passed on to us from the bribing customers, by extorting pay for work not done, by centuries. And in Delta Sigma Pi we strengthen our determin­ using false or tricky advertising. Most American businessmen ation never to depart from those ideals of conduct which have make their buck the hard way-they work for it. They pro- made us strong and which will keep us strong. WELL ALONG is the new program of chapter visitation, signed to eliminate those problems that we have found to exist adopted at the beginning of this college year and put into in certain chapters. Special attention will also be given to the practice by Field Secretaries Don J. Hill and Charles L. Far­ development of aids and incentives that will boost the effi­ rar, and myself. Before the ink is completely dry on this issue ciency of those chapters that do not have any particular prob· of The DELTASIG we will have been on every campus where lems, but which are not operating at their greatest potential. Delta Sigma Pi now has a chapter and quite a few others. Never before have we had such a clear picture of the status of Time will tell whether or not this new concept of Central the individual segments of Delta Sigma Pi, nor have we had Office aid to chapters is going to produce the solid cohesive as great an opportunity and as much personnel to tackle our fraternity that we desire. At this point, however, we are sure shortcomings. At The Central Office we are eagerly looking of one thing and that is we now have a better knowledge of forward to the challenge that the second semester presents and the problems of individual chapters. expect a greater Delta Sigma Pi to emerge at the end of it.­ The second semester will find us engaged in activities de- JrM THOMSON 34 The January, 1960, ISSUE of 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Nevada Installation Marks Delta Sigma Pi's 36th State APRIL 11, 1959, was another mile­ Nevada, was described by William Hou­ Pi. Official words of welcome were then stone for Delta Sigma Pi as it added a wink, one of Delta Pi's faculty advisors. extended by District Director R. Nelson new chapter and a new state to its chap­ As usual, the highlight came with the Mitchell and the various delegations in ter roll with the installation of Delta Pi presentation of the charter by Burell C. attendance from other chapters. This con­ Chapter at the University of Nevada. Johnson, Western Regional Director. cluded the day's program. Delta Pi also is the seventh chapter of John F. Rhodes, Jr., president of Delta the rapidly growing Western Region of Pi Chapter, accepted the charter on be­ History of Delta Sigma Pi. half of the new chapter. John Rhodes The University of Nevada On hand for the ceremonies, which also presented Dr. Kathryn Duffy of The University of Nevada has reached were divided between the University of the faculty with a sister badge of Delta its present standing as an important, fully Nevada campus and the fabulous Holiday Sigma Pi in appreciation of the help she accredited, institution of higher learning Hotel in Reno, were Western Regional had so willingly given Beta Alpha Nu in through steady growth from a small pre­ Director Burell C. Johnson, Executive their quest for a charter of Delta Sigma paratory school of the pioneer west to a Director Jim Thomson, District Director R. Nelson Mitchell, and delegations from Rho Chapter at the University of Califor­ nia, Gamma Xi Chapter at the University of Santa Clara, Gamma Omicron Chapter at the University of San Francisco, and Delta Omicron Chapter at San Francisco State College, whose chapter had been installed on the previous week-end. An informal luncheon in the Shore Room of the Holiday Hotel preceded a tour of the University of Nevada campus and the inquisition held in the Fleisch­ mann Building there. Following the for­ mal ritualistic initiation on the campus, everyone returned to the Holiday Hotel for the Installation Banquet that evening. The Installation Banquet appropriately began with greetings being extended by Dean of Men Samuel M. Basta, who was introduced by Executive Director Jim Thomson who served as toastmaster. Dean Robert C. Weems, an alumnus of Beta Zeta Chapter at Louisiana State University, enlightened everyone when he told of the history of the College of Busi­ ness Administration. The Founding of SITUATED IN A NEW BUILDING is the School of Business at the University of Nevada Beta Alpha Nu, our petitioning group at where the Delta Pi Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi was installed last April. The DELTASIG of DELTA SIGMA PI 35 1956. Prior to that time the business pro­ gram formed a departmental level in the College of Arts and Sciences. The purpose of the College of Business Administration is twofold: 1.