0 F D E L T A s G M A p I W estern State College of Colorado, Gunniso n, Colorado ADMINISTRATION FRATERNITY FOUNDED 1907 JANUARY 1968 The International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi l'rujessiona/ Commerce and Busi11ess 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 higher standard of commercial ethics and culture, and the civic and commercial welfare of the com­ munity. IN THE PROFESSIONAL SPOTLIGHT CAUGHT I THE PROFESSIO AL spot light are members of Delta Tau Chapter at Indiana State University during a recent tour of the Weston Paper and Manufac­ turing Company in Terre Haute, Indiana. January 1968 • Vol. LVll, No. 2 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Editor . CHARLES L. FARRAR From the Desk of The Grand President . 42 Editorial Advisory Board Rhode Island Dedicates New College of Bu siness Building .. 43 Dr. H. Nicholas Windeshausen 3908 Pounds Avenue Among the Chapters ... .... ... .. ... ... .. ... · · 45 Sacramento, California 95821 Through the Eyes of an Educator 69 Timothy D. Gover 2300 Richmond Avenue With the Alumni the World Over 70 Mattoon, Illinois 61938 Firman H. Hass The Small Investor in Today's Market .. .... .. ..... 75 15903 Rosemont Road Detroit, Michigan 48223 Della Sigma Pi Directory . .. .. ............ 77 Dr. James F. Kane College of Business Administration Columbia, South Carolina 29208 W. Harmon Wilson 5101 Madison Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45227 The views expressed in The DELTASIG, except those o.f the Grand Council, are those of the writer and are not necessanly those of Delta Sigma Pi. · Postmaster: Please send copies returned Our Cover under labels Form 3579 to Delta Sigma Taylor Hall, the administration building, at Western State C:ot.tege, Pi, 330 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Gunnison, Colorado, is the featured scene on the cover of th1s 1ssue Ohio 45056. of The DELTASIG. Western State College is the home of Zeta Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi. The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi is published four times annually in the months of November, January, March, DELTA SIGMA PI is a charter senior member of the Pro­ and May. Publication Office-Curtis Ree_d fessional Interfraternity Conference, organized in 1928. The Plaza, Menasha, Wisconsin 54952. Edi­ members of the Conference comprise: ARCHITECTURE, torial Office-330 South Campus Avenue, Alpha Rho Chi; CHEMISTRY, Alpha Chi Sigma; COM­ Oxford, Ohio 45056. MERCE, Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi ; DENTISTRY, Alpha Omega, Delta Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Xi Psi Phi; Subscription price: $5.00 per year. EDUCATIO , Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Epsilon Kappa; ENGI­ Second class postage paid at Menasha, NEERING, Theta Tau, Sigma Phi Delta; LAW, Gamma Eta Wisconsin 54952, and at additional mail­ Gamma, Delta Theta Phi, Sigma Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta, ing offices. Acceptance for mailing at Phi Beta Gamma, Phi Delta Phi; MEDICINE, Alpha Kappa special rate of postage provided for in Kappa, Theta Kappa Psi, Phi ~eta Pi, ~hi Chi, Phi Delta .Epsi­ the Act of February 28, 1925, embodied lon Phi Lambda Kappa, Pht Rho S1gma; MUSIC, Ph1 Mu in paragraph 4, Section 538, P. L. & R., Alpha Sinfonia; PHARMACY, Kappa Psi, Rho Pi Phi, Phi 1932 edition. Printed in U.S.A. Delta Chi; VETERINARY MEDICINE, Omega Tau Sigma. M. JoHN MARKO Bela Rho-Rutgers FROM THIS PAGE ju t a year ago, I stated that "our maintain a student's seriousness of purpose and encourage fraternity membership is indeed a lifetime privilege-a life­ intellectual development along with providing the opportuni­ time di tinction-a lifetime responsibility." ties for fraternal brotherhood. This a sociation can be likened to a work of art which is Interestingly enough, upon analysis, a shift to active alum­ appreciated and treasured throughout life. Though the work nus does not alter the preceding significantly except to ex­ be of great monetary value, it is rarely enjoyed for this rea­ change alumni status for undergraduate status. Unle s we son. Rather, it i held for its intrin ic beauty and a crafts­ also wish to note, and we should, that greater opportunities manship stamped with the hallmark of excellence. now appear for contributing to the development and im­ Just as a work of art appreciates in value with the passage provement of our chosen profession; that greater opportu­ of time, so too our member hip in Delta Sigma Pi can be­ nities now appear for furthering a higher standard of com­ come more meaningful over the years. It is the translation of mercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial wel­ an active undergraduate's dream of lifetime a sociation into fare of the community; and that greater opportunities now the realities of tomorrow by the simple transition from active appear for fostering and enjoying fraternal ties. undergraduate participation to active alumni participation; We are placing more and more emphasis on the undisputed a change supported by un elfish efforts today and tomorrow view that only through purposeful and creditable activitie and in the year to come to strengthen the ties of fraternal promoted by strong alumni clubs can fullest alumni partici­ brotherhood through active association. pation be assured and satisfied. The most recent such tep Tbi i not sophomoric or maudlin sentimentality. It is is a new responsibility-Director of Alumni Activities- added not merely remini cing. It is the forming of new and renewal to the Grand Council for the express purpose of accelerating of old friendships and the extension of enduring values into encouragement of alumni participation and to intensify atten­ other life relationship which makes our membership in Delta tion to strengthening our alumni program. Sigma Pi a treasured experience for life. Emerson once said-"Nothing great was ever achieved Delta Sigma Pi membership i a lifetime journey not just without enthusiasm. " I am enthused about the great potential a de tination or a fleeting experience completed upon initia­ of our alumni program. I sincerely hope that every Deltasig. tion day or graduation. A wholly participating undergraduate alumnus and alumnus-to-be alike, is just as enthused to tap attempts to under tand our objectives so as to feel a personal this limitless reservoir. We already have a noteworthy and commitment to them, otherwi e principles become nothing ever advancing undergraduate program. Adding to it the full but mere word . He take advantage of opportunities to come realization of our alumni program potential, limited only h\ into contact with out tanding alumni and other bu inessmen the extent of interest and participation, can secure for each in hi elected profe ional interest and to associate with other and all Brothers a meaningful and treasured experience for ·tudent having goal and interests similar to his own. Our life. programs stre sing profes ional competence and achievement, 42 THE January, t968 , ISSUE of 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Rhode Island Dedicates New College of Business Building PREVIOUSLY SPREAD over three The business classrooms are on the different university buildings, the College second floor. The requirements of adver­ of Business Administration at the Univer­ tising and management demanded a more sity of Rhode Island at Kingston recently conventional arrangement of windows occupied its own building. The and seating. Those rooms which did not $1,450,000 building is named Ballentine require outside lighting were placed at Hall in honor of Dr. George A. Ballen­ the center of this floor. tine who had served as dean of the col­ The area necessary for the faculty of­ lege from 1946 until his retirement in fices was larger than either of the other August 1966. two floors, and when this third floor was The classrooms and faculty offices in placed atop the other two, the architect the new building did not lend themselves turned the resulting overhang to happy to a series of interconnected buildings. advantage by creating a distinctive man­ Stacking of the three areas one above the sard-tyle roof. Slanting the walls and THE MAIN ENTRANCE to Ballentine other provided the key to the intricate Hall, the new College of Business Adminis· traffic problem and gave the building its tration building at the University of Rhode Island, is shown here. distinctive appearance. The large lecture rooms and seminar rooms were grouped on the ground floor. facing them with shingles of Vermont With a built in climate provided by air­ slate created an intriguing blend of line conditioning, these rooms require no win­ and texture. dows. They can accommodate as many as A conference room occupies the south­ 79 students in each amphitheater which east corner of the top floor. After the places the instructor no farther than 15 strong colors used in the reception area, or 20 feet from any student in the room. the midnight blue upholstery of the The computer room with its own temper­ chairs and the beige walls combined wi th ature and humidity controls, can be vir­ teak paneling and tables offer an unusual tually sealed off for the protection of the contrast. Around the offices of the de­ complicated electronic equipment housed partment chairmen and their secretaries are arranged suites of offices for faculty there. members each with its own conference The large entrance hall and lobby on and waiting room.