or X.APPA .D.ILTA RHO

Ar:niAL Vn:w OF UNl\'ERSl'IT ot· CALIFOUNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFOnNIA

JUNE 1939

& THE QUILL AND SCROLL OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF KAPPA DELTA RHO FRATERNITY

Volume XXIX June, 1939 Number 4

CONTENTS

I' A Gil CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA ...... F1·ont covo1· FRATERNITIES AND THE PUBLIC, Geo1·ge Banta, b., Wabash '16 3 NAT DOUD SPEAKS AT NU'S FOURTH ANNUAL VENISON DINNER ...... 4 NEIL WILLARD PUTS "HONOR SUPER OMNIA" INTO PRAC- TICE ...... 4. GETTYSBURG'S "OLD DORM" ...... 5 CHAPTER NATAL ...... 6 ANOTHER YEAR PASSES WITH K. D. R ...... 7 'lETA ADOPTS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY PLAN ...... 8 ODD YEAR CONVE TION TO MEET AT McALPIN HOTEL JUNE ~4 ...... 8 RUSHING ...... 8 CHAPTER ETERNAL ...... 8 ALUMNI GOSSIP ...... 9 URBAN PFLUM AND CHARLES BARBE CO-AUTHORS OF K. D. R. SWEETHEART SONG ...... HJ A FEW RECENT SCHOLASTIC HONORS ...... 13 MISTER AND MISSUS ...... 13 r EWS FROM OTHER GREEKS ...... 14 CHAPTER NEWS ...... 16

Ente red as second class moller at the Burlington, Vermont, post office under the oct of March 3, 1879. The Quill and Scroll of Kappa Delta Rho IS published at 187 College Street, Burlington, Vermont, in January, April, June and November. Only life subscriptions ore available at ten dollars each in the United Stales and Canada

Fraternities and the Public

By George Bo nta, Jr., Wabash '16

AT RECENT meetings of the National In­ harm will ultimately be done to the sys- · terfraternity Conference, for men, and tern by public opinion. Unquestionably, the National P anhellenic Congress, for college authorities are calling on Greek­ women, there has been considerable letter organizations to prove their need agitation to have the fraternities set up for existence, or else-. Please notice some agency for the dissemination of that I said "their need for existence" information about fraternities to the and not "their right to exist"; because public. It is said that none but the un­ on that ground the question will be de­ complimentary activities ever get into termined. the public press and accordingly the Read the ritual of any fraternity­ public has entirely the wrong opinion they are much the same; you will find about what fraternities are and what no connection between it and the popu­ they are supposed to do. And so, a lar conception of such organizations. bureau of propaganda is proposed, thus How can you associate the Bond of Phi taking a leaf from the book of other or­ Delta Theta and the type of men who ganizations. would sign it in good faith with men Somehow I cannot think of fraterni­ who need constant visits from the ties in that way. I am old-fashioned police? enough to want to feel that fraternities The fraternities do not need any are no particular concern of the public. bureau of propaganda. What they do I dislike to see them mentioned in news­ need to do to change public opinion is papers and magazines, and I shudder to carry out what they profess to stand when they are erroneously depicted on for. the stage or the screen. But, as usual, the minority is the But it does not make any difference noisiest, and the situation is not so bad what I, or any other individual, may as the public is led to believe. No one think : fraternities are definitely asso­ on the outside knows of the hundreds ciated in the public mind with rah-rah of boys who are helped each year to get Joe College and everything that has to an education by the agency of a fra­ do with the frothy side of college life. ternity. No one hears of the personnel That reputation has been built up over work done by chapter officers and elders a period of years, and recent happen­ with the young men under their respon­ ings have done nothing to change it. sibility. Little is said of the alumni as­ Not long ago I saw a clipping from a sistance given each year to help boys newspaper in a college town which said get started in business and professional that the police had been called to a cer­ life. tain fraternity house, and that it was Once, when I was particularly dis­ the twentieth time within recent months couraged about the outlook, I received that the officers of the law had visited a letter from the late Doctor Shepard­ that hou e. son, to whom I had written a tale of the Since fraternities have long been on blues. H e said, " \Vh en a boy comes to the defensive, and their troubles seem to you, looks into your eyes, grasps your be multiplying, I wonder how much (Please tun~ to page 6) 3 Nat Doud Speaks at Nu's Fourth Annual Venison Dinner of the Nu Alumni Association and will receive all ubscriptions from N u Alumni at 111 Grant Street, Greenfield, Indiana. - K t:. P-

Neil Willard Puts "Honor Su ­ per Omnia" Into Practice " HoNOR SuPER OMNIA" had a prac­ tical application recently when to read of the splendid honorable act of N eil Willard, Beta '18 former National President of Kappa D elta Rho returned a wallet he found in the City Court of Buffalo. The wallet owned by Joseph

0. L. "NAT" Douo, Eta '22

ON APRIL 16 N u Chapter again met in a real K . D. R. venison fellowship din­ ner with 0 . L. " Nat" Doud, Eta ' 22, secretary-treasurer, Eta Building Cor­ poration and financial adviser as the principal speaker. Nat presented Eta's financing for the past ten years and the part the alumni played in the chapter's fin ances. This was the Fourth Annual EIL WILLARD, B eta '18 Veni on dinner. Fo n ne1· National President Dr. R. J. H a rtman, u '28 spoke on the need of retiring the present mort­ Finkel tein contained $250 and also gage before they could proceed with the some ve ry valuable papers was picked loan on their new remodeled home. up by Brother Willard and turned ove r As a result of the meeting ove r 50 to Louis Shocket, director of the J ewish percent of the old mortgaae was sub­ Community Center for delive ry to its scribed in cash or notes. With this owner. A reward of $50 was accepted fin e response a campaign is now in by Neil only on the condition that it progress to complete collection for the go to the Boys Club, an activity of the entire mortaage on the old hou e. Max Buffalo Rota ry Club, in which Neil is L . Keller, N u '3·1 is secretary-trea urer actively intere ted. 4 II Gettysburg's "Old Dorm

THE LUTHERAN THEOLOGI CAL SEMI­ Therefore President Krauth moved into NARY was established at Gettysburg in the west end of the second floor. H e 1826. The next year the seminary was assisted by one or more of the authorities discovered that many young younger members of the faculty. men who had registered as students in In those days the steward was an im­ the seminary lacked the proper train­ portant p ersonage. All the students ing for the study of theology. There­ boarded with him as did the president fore the Gettysburg Classical School and his family. The dining room ancl was founded to supply this training. kitchen were in the western part of the Two y-ea rs later the name of the school first floor. was changed to the Gettysburg Gymna­ "Old Dorm" has undergone many sium. changes since 1837. Internally the hall­ Then in 1832 the institution was ways that ran from end to end except granted a charter as " P ennsylvania on the fourth floor disappeared in 1889, College of Gettysburg." when the building was cut into three Appropriations by the state of $9,000 separate divisions. On the third floor, in 1834 and raising of $3,000 by friends just above the main entrance, was a of the college made possible the begin­ large room, which served as a chapel ning of a building program. In Sep­ until 1889 when Brua Chapel was built. tember of the following year the Board Opposite the chapel on the other side of Directors resolved to build a struc­ of the hall was the college library. ture costing not more than $12,000. Above the college library on the fourth An architect was selected who sub­ floor were the libraries · of the two mitted two plans, the one differing from literary societies. On the same floor the other only in proposing a larger were the society halls: Ph rena at the cupola and a change in certain division west end, and Phila at the east end. In walls within the building. The latter 1889 these large rooms, as well as the was to be of early southern style with large corner rooms on the first and sec­ four Doric columns, and to be con- ond floors were divided into small rooms tructed of white brick. for the students. Bids were submitted. All were high In order to visualize "Old Dorm" as and o the Board asked for bids on the it appeared at first, we must think of it b~ilding leaving the fourth floor and the without the present enclosed stairways east wing internally unfinished. In at either end. However, there were October, 1837 the building was ready originally end stairways on the outside for ser vice. at both ends. Also at each end of the In 1838 the Board decided to com­ second story was a doorway which plete the building, and it was occupied opened onto a small landing, from in e,·ery part by October of that year, which short stairways led down to the when the preparatory school was also ground on either side from the profes­ moYed into the building with a large sors' quarter . These were removed in tud ,. hall in the first floor. 1855. It. was felt that some responsible per­ During the Battle of Gett~' sburg , son hould live in the college building. General Lee made observations from 5 6 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL the cupola of "Old Dorm," which was Fraternities and the Public used as a hospital for both Union and Confederate wounded. (Conc/Juded {1·orn page 3) It was damaged slightly by cannon hand, and tells you what it means to shot. The floors were badly blood­ him, you can forget all about the dead­ stained. Some of the library books were beats, the loafers, and the boozers, for even stained with blood. The United you knqw that it is all worth while." States government paid $625 for the use of the building. In addition, the I reread that letter occasionally, and I college was authorized to keep the flag always derive considerable comfort flying from the cupola night and day. from it. The aforementioned changes of 1889 So, let us stop worrying about the were intended to provide better fire pro­ public, and worry rather about our own tection and to simplify problems of dis­ consciences. Let us be more nearly cipline. In 1906 bathroom facilities what we profess to be. And let us "let were introduced, and in 1913 the whole our light so shine that they may see our building was reconditioned, the parti­ good works." College authorities will tions being removed. In 1924 it un­ not question us, and the public will lose derwent extensive improvements. its interest, which now is only in that The latest addition was the Beachem which is sensational.-The Scroll of Memorial Portico on the north side in Phi Delta Theta. 1937, erected in memoriam of the late alumni secretary. -K ~ P- Now "Old Dorm" is used entirely as a dormitory for boys, accommodating Chapter Natal about one-fourth of the male students. To Mr. and Mrs. D. S. "Chick" Hatch, Any boy who goes through Gettys­ Beta '15, Emily Jane, born December burg without experiencing "Old Dorm 18, 1938 at Keston, Trivandrum, India. Life" (i.e. such things as: being sold radiators by upperclassmen, having A DAUGHTER, Julianna, was born to Mr. doors mysteriously fall off hinges, par­ and Mrs. Wayne Pile '33 of Somerset, ticipating in all night "bull sessions," Pennsylvania. and incidentally, studying) has missed a group of experiences he would prob­ DAN RoBINHOLD '27 had a baby boy ably hold the most affectionate of his born to him and lola. They used to be reminiscences. chaperones at K. D. R.

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WITH ANOTHER commencement season ing down compared to other fraternities on us it may not be amiss for Kappa and others moving up. On the whole Delta Rho to look at itself and see what more of our members have been elected progress has been made. During the to National Honorary scholastic so­ year Tau Chapter at Carnegie Institute cieties this year. of Technology was forced to close its In extra-curricular and social ac­ house and reorganize due to circum­ tivities, most of our groups have en­ stances on that campus and other rea­ joyed a successful year. sons. To those alumni who have drifted The year as a whole may be classi­ away from their fraternity since leaving fied as one of progress. Sigma have school because of other interests, may remolded their chapter house and now we solicit a closer tie-up with your have a modern and larger house. Mu, chapter and your Fraternity. Every Lambda and Gamma have moved into chapter needs prospects of the right larger chapter homes, and Mu is pur­ type and alumni can be of real service chasing their new home, through the aid in recommending these boys. Those of their alumni association. alumni who are doing the most for their Zeta, has built a new sleeping dorm chapters seem to be enjoying this work and have refurnished their chapter even in these perilous times, and the room. Most all of the chapter houses actives always welcome alumni back to have been repaired and painted, during the chapter house and are glad to have the year, therein greatly improving suggestions of the right sort. their appearances and living conveni­ While no new chapters have been ences. In all these programs the guid­ added the Expansion Committee under ance of older interested alumni have Horace E. Shackelton, Beta '19 to­ played no small part in working with gether with the Executive Secretary the actives to improve their chapter's have investigated several locals and sev­ position. This alumni guidance by eral colleges and hope to increase our nearby alumni is very important and all chapter list soon with some new strong of our chapters are quite fortunate in chapters. Here is another opportunity this respect as practically every chapter for alumni to be of service to their Fra­ now has one or more interested and ternity by recommending possible fields active alumni adviser assisting the ac­ of expansion or sending information to tive chapter, thus enabling the chapters Executive Secretary. Fraternities like to continue from year to year with the other organizations move forward or changing personnel and leadership backwards and the future success of without any serious difficulties. The Kappa Delta Rho rests not only in the Executive Secretary wishes to commend hands of its officers but every alumnus. these alumni advisers for their service It's a great opportunity to tie to some­ to our Fraternity and assure them of thing more important than individual his cooperation. experience and in these days of increas­ Practically every chapter has im­ ing leisure, alumni, here's an oppor­ proved its position on its campus. The tunity to lend your support to your Fra­ scholastic record of the chapters has ternity and see the fun you have in had various tendencies with some slid- watching it grow and develop. 7 Zeta Adopts Executive Secretary Plan

ZETA CHAPTER at Penn State has hired ter, with full responsibility for a paid Executive Secretary to handle its administration. the business affairs of the Alumni Cor­ 9. Monthly r eports are to be made to poration, and act as official custodian of the Board President. the fraternity property. 10. Employment of the Executive Sec­ Suggested duties are as follows: retary may be terminated at any 1. See that all official actions of the time upon action of the board. Board are followed. 11. Form additional Kappa Delta Rho 2. Act as Properties Manager of the Alumni Clubs and participate in fraternity. those at hand. 3. Make a monthly visit to the chapter 12. Suggest or work on any scheme of house (oftener if required). r efinancing. 4. Build up a complete alumni file and 13. Whenever possible, place fraternity records. brothers in positions. 5. Publicize the fraternity and edit 14. H elp to build up the Zeta Loan any p apers or bulletins. 6. H elp the active chapter in any sug­ Fund to active members, which gested manner. was created for the purpose of 7. Audit the active chapter's books helping actiYes through school. each year. 15. Build up the fraternity library. 8. Assist the treasurer in preparation 16. H elp the actives by summer rush­ of a budget for the active chap- ing.

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Odd Year Convention to ~ Meet Rushing at McAlpin Hotel June 19 ALL ALUMNI knowing desirable men en­ THE ODD YEAR convention which is tering colleges where we have chapters primarily a meeting of the Board of are urged to write to the rushing chair­ Directors and Officers will be held June men, care of the chapter houses of the 19 at the McAlpin Hotel with a respective chapters giving as much in­ luncheon at 12.30 p .m. followed by a formation about the prospect as possi­ business meeting and all interested ble. alumni and actives are invited to attend. - K A r- -K A P-

Notice! Chapter Eternal THE AD DRESS for the Execnth·e Secre­ ' Vo RD HAS been r eceived from the D e­ tary after June 30 till September 1, will partment of Institutions and Agencies be Camp Otter, Dorset, Ontario, of Trenton, New J ersey, of the death of Canada. Arthur Grassmyer, Zeta '22. 8 Alumni Gossip

J. ELMER WALTZ, Nu '37, is instructing in chemistry at Indiana University and study­ Beta Alumni Chatter ing for his Ph.D. HERBERT ADA~rs, Beta '19, is now with the RoBERT H. WYATT, Nu '26, is executive sec­ Cndor Products Co., Inc., manufacturers of retary for the Indiana State Teachers As­ garters and suspenders at Buffalo, New sociation with offices at the Lincoln Hotel, York. Indianapolis. JAIIIES A . McCoNNELL '21, president of the 0. I. Fox, Nu '29, is divisional manager for Co-operative GLF Mills and general man­ Bell Telephone Co., Chicago. ager of the GLF Exchange, has been ap­ EDWIN DYER, M.D., Nu '27, is practicing pointed to the agricultural education coun­ medicine in Indianapolis with o•ffice at Hu­ cil of the New York State Board of Regents. Mansure Building. WrLLIA~I I. MYERS '14, head of the depart­ RoBERT SLONE, Theta '32, is teaching chem­ ment of agriculture economics, is the author istry in high school at Alexandria, Indiana. of the article "We Don't Want Pensions" in the recent issue of Count1·y Home. Bill was DoN HoY, Eta '34, is with the City National elected in January to represent the Cornell Bank of Chicago and lives at Lareson faculty on the Board of Trustees of Cornell Y.M. C. A. University. MAx KELLAR, Nu '34, is with the Eli Libbv WrLLIAnr C. HoucK '15 commissioner of the Pharmaceutical and Drugs Co. at G,reen"­ Hydro-Electric Power of Ontario is the field, Indiana. He is secretary for Nu youngest member of the Ontario Cabinet. Alumni Association. Bill resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario, but JoHN NEAL, Nu '26, is owner and publisher spends much of his time at his office on Uni­ of the L edge1· and Times of Murray, Ken­ versity A venue, Toronto. tucky. J. DoN Zr11nrEn~rAN '22 is junior partner in CLAUDE RicH, is field secretary for Indiana Phelps and Fenn Co., Stocks and Bond Co. University Alumni Association with offices at 39 Broadway, New York, New York. in the Memorial Union Building at Bloom­ TED TowNSEND '17 is business manager of ington. the Dairymen's League News and lives at HowARD R. Bu'l'I.ER, Kappa '25, is prosecut­ Waterville, New York. ing attorney at Elyria, Ohio. D. S. "CHICK" HATCH '15 has just been GEORGE P. RI CE, JR., Gamma '32, assistant in made Chairman of World's Rural Work public speaking at Cornell, writes on "Some Committee of Wo1)d's Alliance of Y. M. Implications of Plato for Modern Teachers" BERNARD MILLER '31 is in the physical edu- in the February issue of New Yo1·k State cation department of Indiana University, Education. He cites Plato: Phaedrus, Ion, while Len of the famous Ben-Len twins is Gorgias, and Symposium, with passages from the Republic and Laws, by Professor WILLARD GREGORY '36 is with the Hitchner Lane Cooper, English Language and Litera­ Biscuit Co. at W est Pittston, Pennsylvania. ture, as a basis for the paper. He is still single and manages to get back RoBER'r E. LovE, Beta '30, is assistant man­ to Beta House frequently. ager of the Surf Hotel, Hollywood, Florida. GEORGE ADAMS '23 is living in East Aurora DAviD WILLIA~rs, Iota '38, is teaching school and is selling grass seed. at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. BILL BARTH OLE~IEW '36 is working for Doc­ VJ'ILLIA~r RomNsoN, Rho '38, is with Arm­ tors degree in chemistry at Penn. State. strong Cork Co. at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. HowARD BLAIR '18 is with the North-western WrLLIA~r WAKEFIELD, Rho '30, is with Chase Mutual Life Insurance Co., Rochester, New National Bank, New York City, New York. York. PAUL PALMER, Xi '36, is with Firestone Co. HANK Bo·rCHFORD '29 is with duPont Co. at at Manchester, rew H ampshire. Buffalo, New York. 9 10 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL

MERT CARLETON '15 is in the insurance busi­ College and lives at the New York Hospital ness in Detroit, Michigan. in New York. DoN CHAFFEE '38 is an R. E. A. (Rural WESLEY C. PIETZ '27 works for the Raymond Electrification Administration) inspector at Concrete Pile Co. in the capacity of district present located at Towanda, P ennsylvania. manager and reside at Ea t End Pitt - DALE CurrER '35 is associated with G. E. Co., burgh, Pennsylvania. at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. DR. FruTz REA '31 is practicing at Marion, DICK DunNG '36 is assistant superintendent Ohio, with the WP A and also his own of operations at the Francis H. Leggett Co., private practice. makers of Premier Brand Food. FRED CARLSON '35 is branch house superin­ En D UFFlES '19 who now lives in W ashing­ tendent for Swift & Co., Inc. in Utica. ton, District of Columbia, is in engineer­ NELSON S. MAUl!ER '38 teaches agriculture ing work. and industrial arts at Roscoe High School HARRY GALRRAl'l'H '35 works in the Hotel in Roscoe, New York. White in New York City. LAWRENCE D. CLARK '31 is a physici t with GEORGE LAWRENCE '36 is in the office of the Eastman Kodak Co., i!l Rochester and Tailor Wine Co. in Brooklyn. so is only temporarily located there. AL LF.Hl\IANN '28 is a member of the Kear­ -K Ll P- ney-Lehmann Co., wholesalers of tobaccos and cigars. Eps ilon Alumni Doings JosEPH MIDDLETON '36 is steward at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston, New York. JOHN BARNETT '22 is teacher in Central MoNTY MILLER '36 is a research (organic) High School of South Bend and Franklin chemist for Merck and Co. in Rahway, New College field worker and resides at 531 Jersey. He resides at Westfield, New Jer­ orth Scott Street. sey. FRED CHAl\lliERS '23 is a miSSIOnary and CHARLES SEELDACH '19 is member of Seel­ teacher in J or hat School, J or hat, Assam, bach Co., furriers. He also has his Centur11 India. Orchestm of which his brother Walter '25 is RALPH IssELHARDT '35 is living at 1275 a member. Limestone Avenue, Springfield Ohio. Last BILL W EBSTER '19 has a large ice-plant in season he played football with the Cleveland East Aurora, ew York. Rams. GEoRGE W. CROWTHEll '37 is on leave from DR. R. H. KENT 'H! is teaching at Franklin College. Cornell to teach temporarily at the Delhi State Agriculture School. He resides at 14 -K Ll P- Woolerton Street, Delhi, New York...... ''I""'''' • ·--~- -~--- -.

THE ODD YEAR convention which is Zeta Alumni Notes rimaril a meeting of the Board of REED MILLER '38 is editor-publisher of The ERWIN I. HIGLEY '32teaches agriculture at Ab'ingtonian, weekly newspaper of Clarks Webster High School, W ebster, New York. Summit, Pennsylvania. PAuL C. HicKOK '32 is an accountant for the RonT. PAUL '36 is working for the J. Baker International Harvester Co., and resides at Co., makers of dolemite, at Billmeyer, Penn­ 72 Burlington Avenue, Buffalo, New York. sylvania. RICHARD A. RoGERS '27 is a bookkeeper for GEORGE W. EnY '34 recel'\tly passed his state the Sheffield Milk Co., and lives at 95 Over­ examination and is now a registered cer­ look Terrace, Gracmere, Staten Island, New tified public accountant in the state of Penn­ York. sylvania. George is still employed by Main JACK WALTER '33 is on the staff of the an­ and Company, Pittsburgh accounting firm. nuities and benefits committee and thrift RALPH EvANS '34 also has passed his bar plan administrative committee of the Stand­ examination for the State of Pennsylvania. ard Oil Company of New J ersey. He is re­ Ralph is employed as an attorney by the siding at Port Chester, New York. state in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. DR. CHARLES 0. WARREN, JR. '27 is an in­ BERNARD GIRTON ex-'37, is now employed in structor in physiology at the Cornell Medical State College, Pennsylvania. KAPPA DELTA RHo 11

JoHN MoELLER '38 . is employed as an ac­ teet. Chet Newell '!il4 represents Swift & countant by Touche, ~ i ven & Co., in New Co. Rod Bengstan '38 is on the educational York City. program. Ken Kunney '40 can be hear d HARRY HosFIELD '35, Zeta alumni president, talking on the pqblic address system. Merle reports his new address as 131 Academy Garing '3!' can be seen doing estimating Avenue, Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. work with a contractor. Jennings P ierce '!il4 has became the "Voice of the Cow­ EDWARD KITCHEN '33 was recently elected a Coliseum." member of the Penn State Alumni Council from his d ist r ict, as also was Guy Erb '19 AsA MENDEL '35 and Lyman F ink '31 are elected a member from his Northern New working with the General Electric in J ersey District. Schenectady, New York. -K A P- SEVERAL oF the foresters Nolan O'Neal '38, Gene Berkenkamp '37, and Harold Turner '38 are back on the campus studying for Eta Alumni News the J . F. Civil Service Exam.

WILLJAl\I EDENS '94 is second vice-president -K A P- for the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago and director of personnel. Mu Alumni Association RussELL P. SEDGWICK '33 is head of chancery THE Mu contact committee is as follows : department of Illinois Title Co. of Wauke­ L . S. Veenstra and H. T. Fletcher. gan, Illinois. TRu STEINKO '33 has left Detroit and is now CHUCK RAINFORD '99 is president of the wit h the advertising agency of Ketchum, Mercantile Mortgage Co., of Granite City, McLead and Grove, !iJOOO Koppers Building, Illinois. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. H. F . BROWN '30 is with Water Free Foods, Inc. in Chicago. MARTIE HoLBEN '34 is working for Fair­ banks-Morse Co. at Beloit, W isconsin. J. LoY BLAKELEY '99 is enjoying his in­ structing in First Year Navigation for the -K A P- New York Power Squadron, a unit of the U. S. Power Squ adron. Nu Alumni Activities DICK STRONG '31 is now connected with the F . J. Stokes Machine Co. in the Sales FRANK LINDSAY '!il 4 is Dean of Men at San Department, Chicago. Bernardino Vall ey J unior College, Cali­ OTTO GRESSENS '!il l has recently finished the fornia. big job of $365,000,000 financing for Com­ HARRY McPHERSON '!il7 is in real estate busi­ monwealth Edison Company. ness in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. DR . P . H . GREELEY '93 has been so success­ BERNARD MILLER '31 is in the physical edu­ ful in surgery as a general practitioner that cation department of Indiana University, he is now devoting full time to plastic sur­ while Len of the famous Ben-Len twins is gery. interne and resident physician at City Hos­ P . H . LEwis '39 continues his works on pital, Indianapolis. foreign patents with a firm which bea rs the DALE OwENS '!il8 is on Bell Technical Staff, best reputation in the United States in that New York City. unusual field of activity. E. F. BROCJCl\1AN ex-'37 is to receive his -K A P- commission from W est Point in June. WAYNE KIRKLI N '!il6 is chief chemist, Ex­ Lambda Alumni News perimental Station Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Delaware. THE SAN FRANCisco ALUl\INI AssoCIATION announces the change of their weekly V. V. BARNS '3!il is assistant district credit luncheon from Tuesday to W ednesday at the manager, Sears, Roebuck Co., Louisville, same p lace Pompei Grill, 161 Suiter Street, Kentucky. San Francisco. RALPH CHALFANT '!il6 is assistant manager SEVERAL oF Lambda's men are connected commerce department, Illinois Bell Tele­ with the San Francisco Exposition. Earl phone Co., 1590 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Ingrim '35 is the assistant landscape archi- Illinois. 12 THE QtTILL AND ScRoLL

FRANK DoLIAN '30, Research Chemistercial Urban PAum and Charles Barbe Solvents Co., Terre Haute, Indiana. CLARENCE FowERBAUGH '27 after receiving Co-authors of K. D. R. Sweet­ his Law degree from Western Reserve is heart Song practicing in Cleveland, Ohio. J AlliES P . ScHoOLEY '26 is research associate AFTER SEVERAL years of mystery in with Carnegie Institute of Washington and which many chapters claimed the lives in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. K. D. R. Sweetheart Song originating -K ll 1'- in their midst we now have the follow­ ing letter from Brother Pflum, Omicron Chicago Alumni Arrange '31, who with Brother Barbe, Omicron Movie Program for '30, are the real authors of a very pretty song which was rendered with June Meeting much gusto at the June Convention at AT THE JuNE meeting of the Chicago Ithaca. Alumni Association at the Stevens Hotel, the educational movie, "The THE COOPER STUDIO George Washington Trail," which shows 206 EAsT NEw YoRK STREET, many historic places in the East will INDIAN APOLIS, INDIAN A be presented through the courtesy of To Whom It 'Af.ay (Joncern: the C. & 0. Railroad. The officers are The Sweetheart Song, which has caused anxious to have a good attendance. so much controversy, has finally been iden­ There are many K. D. R. men in the tified. Chicago district and they are cordially The inactive Omicron Chapter at Butler may take the credit, since it was at this invited to attend this dinner meeting chapter that the song had its origin. and enjoy the program as well as the The Sweetheart Song was written by real fraternal fellowship. Urban V. Pflum, and arranged by Charles Barbe, in the year of 1930, at the suggestion -K ~ P- of a National Officer who was visiting the Chapter at that time. Chicago Alumni Association Various other chapters of Kappa Delta Rho received copies of the Sweetheart Song, Enjoys Dinner Dance after it was introduced at the State Dance given at the Marott Hotel in Indianapolis, THE DINNER DANCE of the Chicago and attended by Purdue, Franklin, Fndiana; Alumni Association on April 22 at the and Butler University Chapter members. Bismarck Hotel was a grand success. The author would be interested in receiv­ The committee composed of Ted Wiese, ing any comments or suggestions from any Pat Lewis, Frank Vernon and Ray Iden of the Kappa Delta Rho brothers, who have heard the Sweetheart Song. did a fine job in their arrangements with If any chapter should desire a copy, they an excellent dinner and floor show fol­ may write to URBAN V. PFLUlll, 206 East lowed by dancing and all present voted New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. this should be an annual affair. 0. L. "Nat" Doud, Eta '22 not only came all Editm·'s Note.-While I did not hear the the way from Louisville, K entucky, but rendition of this so ng at the Convention last June, I must state that I have heard this through his generosity two large double song sung at the Theta house as I know the rooms were furnished by him and were authors would like to have it sung and I used before and during the dance en­ heartily recommend it to all the Chapters abling all the brothers and their wives and I hope that on my future visits I will to get acquainted. Alumni from Eta, hear it. This is a fine song and all the Chapters should send for copies of it Kappa, and Nu Chapters attended and together with the music and then at our it is expected that more chapters will be next Convention in 1940 everyone present represented at the next affair. will be able to do it justice. KAPPA D ELTA RHo 13

HoNoR ScHOLASTIC SociETY MEN Left to 1·ight: Nelson Br:IJcmt, Beta '39; Rex Mo1·gan, Beta '39; Phil McCm·thy, Betct '39; lllcwvin Smith, Rho '39. li'Io1·gan ancl li'IcCa1·thy, elected to Phi B eta J{appct at C01·nell and Smith and B1·yct nt to Ta~t Beta P.i at Lafayette ctnd Cornell

A Few Recent Scholastic ALBERT E . CoNRADIS, Beta '23, to Miss Winifred Froiot in February 17, 1939. Honors Conny and Mrs. Conny reside at 7516 .Phi Beta Kappa Custer Road, Bethesda, Maryland. Stanley Sprague, Alpha '39. EDWIN B. N ocH, Zeta '32 to Miss Rex Morgan, Beta '39. Mary Frances Arnold on November 23, Philip McCarthy, Beta '39. 1938 at Pittsburgh. Harry Hosfield, John Cawley, Rho '39. Zeta '34 was best man. At home 7123 South L inden Avenue, Pittsburgh, Tau Beta Pi Pennsylvania. Nelson Bryant, Beta '39. RussELL SEDGWICK, E ta '33, to Miss Jack Gerster, Kappa '39. Marion Potter at River Forest, Illinois, Helmuth Engelman, Kappa '39. Presbyterian Church. At home VVau­ Marvin Smith, Rho '39. kegan, Illinois. Robert Stevens Darke, Eta '39. OTTO FREDERICK HuNZIKER, JR. '37, to Miss Mary Frances Alexander, who is Phi Kappa Phi a sister to vV. R. ALEXANDER '37. Philip McCarthy, Beta '39. EVAN R . STEVENS '37, to Miss Dorothy Weigner, and the couple is now residing Sigma Xi in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Jack Gertser, Kappa '39. BRucE H . WHITENIGHT '37, to Miss - K A P- Leah Reese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The couple is now residing in Blooms­ burg, Pennsylvania. Mister and Missus HAROLD SHANE '35, to Miss Marjorie GEROw M. VooRHis, Beta '33, to Miss Lotz. Harriet K . Baker of Milton, Massachu­ setts, April 15, 1939. At home at 506 CHARLES ANDERSON '32, to Miss Ruth Hollywood Avenue, Hohokus, New Bycraft March 26 in Berkeley. Jersey. (Please tum to 1Ja,qe 15) News From Other Greeks

Why Make Your Fraternity Ridicu­ friendship, in doing something for each lous? other, in doing something without any thought of return. There is nothing in ONE TYPE of news story which is always life, whether you become a banker or recurring is the fraternity initiation a broker or a butcher, that will be more story. It usually features some initiate valuable to you, that will bring you in a ridiculous position. From the more lasting satisfaction. Friendship newspaper's point of view it has human is one of the few things in life that lasts. interest. Other stories might be more The local fraternity has not been able indicative of the true Greek letter fra­ to consolidate that idea of friendship. ternity, but they haven't the punch of a The national fraternity system of the picture showing a young man dressed in country is the finest experiment in long woolen underwear and carrying an friendship that I know of in this coun­ umbrella. try." Almost all fraternities have forbid­ -K t,. P­ den that type of public display. But what the united chapter roll disap­ Deadbeat Purge proves of, individual chapters some­ times condone. PI KAPPA ALPHA is another fraternity The answer to the problem is not that believes it is better to expel dead­ necessarily stern measures to be taken beats than to have them continue to set against offending chapters. It is rather a bad example for the undergraduate a question of education. Each individ­ members. The fraternity is carrying ual group of men must be made to feel out a definite program of "pay or get in their hearts that it is wrong. out."- The Rattle of Theta Chi. Fraternity men must realize that part -K 6. P­ of their obligation to the fraternity is to conduct themselves as gentlemen. What Others Say That purpose must not be obscured by the rah-rah type of horseplay, or by "UNLESS COLLEGE fraternities pay more public initiations.- GEORGE CARLSON, attention to birth, breeding and be­ in The Rattle of Theta Chi. havior and less to front-page ballyhoo, campus claptrap, Hell Week absurdi­ -K t,. P- ties, silly superlatives, ad nauseam, they Why the National Fraternity ? will not long survive serious investiga­ tion."-The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi. "To DEFEND the fraternity idea, or to attempt to, is a little like trying to tell -K 6. P- you why friendship, why the family, You Can't Buy an Ideal why love of a woman, why love of coun­ try," Dr. Alvan E. Duerr told delegates W'HEN ONE ATTEMPTS to evaluate the to the National Undergraduate Inter­ merits of a fraternity, the first thing to fraternity Council and then he con­ do is to clear the mind of all dross tinued: "The fraternity stands for and thoughts bearing the bar sinister of means friendship. The fraternity is the the Almighty Dollar. The most im­ first lesson that you get in altruistic portant things in life will never be 14 KAPPA DELTA RHo 15 found under the heading of "dollars an ideal. A fraternity spirit is price­ and cents." less. You cannot "buy" something that Money is only a medium and a visible is already wi~hin you-you can only factor necessary to the conductance of live up to it !-JAMES FuNARo, Pennsyl­ earthly business, but it never should be vania Delta, in Theta News of Theta considered the end in view. You cannot Kappa Nu. pay for a place in heaven, nor a true -K ~ P- niche in the heart of a friend. You cannot buy your way into the love of You are Only One of 822 Thousand your parents-not any more than you How MANY college students are there can purchase your religion on the stock in United States? Exactly 822,891 market! Such things can be gained full-time (and not a couple of millions only through free-giving, and not as some rash speaker may have said) through purchasing power. You only students enrolled last fall at the 577 get out of the spiritual phases of life, approved educational institutions of the equal to the interest, faith and en­ United States. The figure is an all­ thusiasm invested. time record, representing a 6.6 percent So it is with a fraternity! The uni­ increase over 1937 registration figures. versal purpose of all fraternities is to The University of California (but form a brotherhood imbued with the this includes both the Berkeley and Los double intent of serving the ideals of Angeles branches) has the largest reg­ true fellowship and the building of good character. A prospect may differen­ istration of any institution this year: tiate between fraternities on a "bargain 24,089 full-time students. counter" basis if he wishes, and try to The next largest enrollment, at the estimate the possible gain to be derived University of Minnesota, drops to 15,- from one as compared with another; 184. Other "largest" schools, in order, but, to approach the whole matter from are: Columbia, 14,980; New York Uni­ the angle of whether he would get his versity, 14,257; Illinois, 13,872; Ohio "money's worth" from joining a fra­ State, 13,148; Michigan, 11,475; Wis­ ternity at all is equivalent to offering consin, 11,438; Washington, 10,393; to buy a cow on condition that it milk and Texas, 9,776. itself. -K A P- Recently, an article appeared in one of our confrere magazines headed Mister and Missus "What Do I Get · For My Money ?" (Concluded {1·om page 13) based on the possible value of a frater­ nity to a prospective, shall we say, cus­ MERLE GARING, Lambda '38, to Miss tomer. Eliminating the possibility of Verl Bishop, D elta Delta Delta, March ignorance of fraternity ideals on the 3, 1939. Besides William Stemen '35 part of the aspirant, what answer could who was best man, other K. D. R.'s be given? present were Glenn Bultman, Fred N et­ More to the point-is an answer tle, Ten Thompson, Gene Berkenkamp, necessary? No one pays for the privi­ Ralph Thursby, George Eve 1 and, lege of becoming a part of mankind and Charles Anderson, Bob Williams, Tom its associations; no one pays for the Williams, Bob Russell, Nolan O'Neal, power to be inspired; no one pays for Paul Pick, and Harold Turner.

-K A P- Chapter News

Beta Cornell University year, it is encouraging to know that it has kept in good financial condition, i.e. PLEDGES the house has operated at a profit. THIS SPRING the Beta Chapter has Even the dining-room has made a profit pledged three men. Pledge Robert Wal­ this year, a thing it did not do last year. lace Caldwell '40 from Chapel Hill, All will feel sorry to hear that Mr. North Carolina, is majoring in the and Mrs. Perkins who have worked for classics, and expects to follow in the the house for almost seventeen years footsteps of his father who is professor are leaving this summer. Mr. Perkins of Ancient History at the University of has been the janitor. and Mrs. Perkins North Carolina. Caldwell is a prospec­ the cook. They are returning to live in tive Phi Beta Kappa. Pledge John the old home in the South. "Jack" Rodney Weatherby '42, a native Being bothered by the need of the of Ithaca, was formerly very active in floor of the front porch for repainting, scouting and now plays in the Frosh and being impatient about waiting until R. 0. T. C. Band. Evehardt Elmer the whole house is painted next summer, VonReyn '41 from Burdett, New York, some of the men recently got ambitious is majoring in history. and painted the porch floor themselves. Pledge Jack Weatherby supplied a INITIATION blow torch and much of his time. Spring initiation is May 15. Sched­ Through many others also supplying uled to be initiated are the pledges their time, the old paint was burned off mentioned above and also two carried and the new brushed on. over from last fall and spring, George Vincent Kershaw '41 and Edward ACTIVITIES Joseph O'Keefe '42. Recently John "Bridge-champ" Cul­ A break in precedent this spring is linan '41 made the platform for the '86 that paddling will be entirely done Memorial Public Speaking Contest. away with. Hope is held that he may win the con­ ELECTION AND INSTALLATION test and its prize of $75. OF OFFICERS During the spring vacation Walter The following men were elected to W. Williams, Jr. '41 gave a successful office March 27 and installed April 3: lecture on "Dinosaurs" at the Spring­ Consul, Albert S. Marks; senior tribune, field Museum of Natural History, Paul A. Lutz; junior tribune, Ray­ Springfield, Massachusetts. His lec­ mond A. Hubbard; praetor, Philip En­ ture was illustrated by colored lantern gelder; propraetor, ''Valter W. Wil­ slides and actual dinosaur remains. To liams, Jr.; custodian, Charles N. no small extent, the large attendance at Clements; centurion, John F. Mapes; the lecture was due to public curiosity pontifex, Howard C. Spence; social about the rare dinosaur-egg fragments chairman, Otto Marquart. which he exhibited. HOUSE NEWS SUB-FROSH ENTERTAINED Considering the fact that the house One week-end of May each year is has not been filled quite to capacity this set aside by the university to entertain 16 KAPPA DELTA RHo 17

high school and prep school students The baseball team this year made not who are prospective Cornellians. This too good a start. It lost its first two year it was the week-end of May 5, 6, games 15-10, and 20-19. In a practice and 7. Sub-frosh were transported to game recently,'however, K. D. R. b e;;~ and from Ithaca by alumni, they were Beta Theta Pi 15-10. With much prac­ entertained by the university and its tice since that time, especially on the component colleges, and they were part of pitchers Keith "Pride of Brook­ housed and fed by the fraternities. This lyn" Sutton and Charles "Chuck" offered an excellent opportunity to con­ Clements, the baseball team now looks tact prospective pledges for next fall. forward to finishing the season with This year K. D. R. entertained fourteen some victories. Sub-frosh. H elping out, were the fol­ The tennis team consisting of Mor­ lowing alumni: Howard "Chief" Blair gan, Pinckney, Beattie, and Barlow '18, Mert Carlton '15, Herb Johnston won its first matches in the eliminations. ' 17, Willard Gregory '36, Bill Rogers Wrestling this season was attended '33, and Ed Duffies '19. Some were by short spurt of enthusiasm, but noth­ acting as chauffeurs for the Sub-frosh ing more. guests. While K. D. R.'s chances of winning the All Round Championship this year CAMPUS POLITICS are slight, K. D. R. does stand quite It has been the rule at Cornell that well in the interfraternity athletics. campus politics are dominated by a few Out of about sixty fraternities K. D. R. old fraternities. In order to get a bet­ stands about fifth highest. ter chance for its members in campus affairs, K. D. R. recently joined a SOCIAL newly formed coalition which was try­ The house has had one dance this ing to break the hegemony held by a spring, a "Vic(trola)" Dance on March few of the houses. The coalition has 11. The dance was an oddity in that been quite successful in the campus elec­ none of the chaperones showed up. tions. Ray Hubbard '41 of K. D . R. A tradition which is well-established was elected secretary-treasurer of the with the Beta Chapter of K. D. R. is Interfraternity Council. to observe Mother's Day. Thus on this Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, visiting SPORTS parents of the m ember~ are to receive For the second year in succession a the usual grand Mother's Day welcome K. D. R. man has won the M'ginn and feed. · trophy for novice cross-country. This Plans for Spring Day house party year, by having the highest number of are well under way. Horace H eidt is points in the three races of the contest, to play at the Navy Day Ball at the Howard Spence '40 earned the cup. Drill Hall on Friday night, May 19. Spence came in first in one of the races Saturday afternoon K. D. R. is to have and second in the other two. a "bicyde picnic." Bicycles are being K. D. R. shone on the night of March rented for all the members and their 18. A bunch of Sub-frosh were visiting dates. Saturday evening a closed cos­ for the week-end. At the Cornell-Dart­ tume dance will be held in the fraternity mouth track meet, the only interfrater­ house. nity race was that for the relay cham­ pionship. The K. D. R. team composed -K A P- of George Kershaw, Jack Mapes, Howard Spence, and Everett Sargent won first place. 18 THE Q u iLL AND ScROLL

N. Y. State College OPEN HOUSE Gamma For Teachers As part of a program to inaugurate K. D. R.'s new residence, Gamma held NEW HOUSE "open-house" for State College students A MOMENTo us occasion took place at and faculty on Friday, May 5, from 8 Gamma on Saturday, April 29. After until II o'clock. All visitors were many successful years at 117 South shown throughout the house and invited Lake Avenue, Albany, we all hauled to participate in dancing, ping-pong stakes and migrated to a new residence, and cards. Warm weather refreshments 366 Vl' estern Avenue. This new house were served all evening. has earned the praise of all those who have had the opportunity to inspect it. ATHLETICS One of its most outstanding features Once again, K. D. R. comes through is the ample space provided. There victorious in intramural sports! After are two large living rooms, a game winning the football trophy with a per­ room, a ping-pong room, a large dining­ fect record except for one tie, the room, kitchen, and bathroom, all on the Gamma basketball team easily captured first floor. The second and third floors the basketball trophy without the loss are used as study and sleeping quarters of a single game. Brothers Quattroc­ respectively. chi, Porcino, Murphy, Bosley, Sullivan, The house is set back somewhat Bull, Dickson, and Brophy combined to from the street with a driveway that form a powerful quintet that succumbed approaches both the front and the back to no one. doo r. A spacious lawn adds consider­ Outstanding in all the intramural ably to the already outstanding loca­ athletics was Brother Quattrocchi, '39. tion. At a recent Men's Athletic Association As we have not had sufficient time to banquet, he was overwhelmingly voted get completely settled, it is difficult to the outstanding player in the men's say just how much we can improve the sports division. Although Brother new K. D. R. residence. But I can Quattrocchi is unable to play varsity safely predict that, beginning next year, baseball this spring, he still retains his we will have one of the excellent group position as captain of the State nine. houses of N. Y. S. C. T. Congratulations, Frank! You're a swell athlete, a swell brother, and the best of FAREWELL PARTY good sports. " The King is dead. Long live the King!" But the King lived long enough CORRECTION for an appropriate farewell party. On Contrary to the statement we issued Saturday, April 29, the Gamma men in the last number of THE Q uiLL AND gathered at our old house, 117 South ScROLL, Brother Densmore '38 will not Lake Avenue, and, with every room as teach at Bay Shore, New York, during bare as a billiard ball, held a novel old­ the next school year. Instead, he will clothes party. One of the outstanding assume the position of English super­ features of this frolic was the showing visor at Milne High School, Albany. of recent and very excellent pictures of Milne, incidently, is the practice school the New York's World Fair. All the for seniors and graduate students of New York State College for T eachers. boys and girls had a swell time, if one can judge by pep and enthusiasm. D ancing, games, and refreshments were - K Ll P- all provided very effectively by the ar­ rangements committee. KAPPA DELTA RHo 19

Delta Colgate University team, and Brother Dick Reid is playing well on the varsity tennis team, having H AVING J US T completed undoubtedly just returned from a week's tour of the one of the best years D elta Chapter has South. In lacrosse D elta is well repre­ ever enjoyed, the Colgate brothers are sented by four men- Phil Vogel, Al now turning their attention to fin al Vedder, Ed Dickson, and Bill Conn. examinations which will happily be over Brothers Phil Vogel and Al Vedder are by M ay 27. With summer in view D elta certain of being selected co-captains of can proudly look back upon success in the popula r sport. every fi eld of endeavor, for she has Intramurally speaking, Delta has reached the top scholastically, athletic­ more than showed her worth in spring ally, socially, and politically. sports. The tennis team has been un­ This spring has culminated with a defeated so far, and the softball squad flurry of honors and rewards that have has won three and lost one game so far, gone to almost every D elta member. which places it at the top of the league. The recent results of the annual elec­ The H amilton firemen were defeated in tions to the heads of the campus pub­ a challenge encounter and now the Beta lications have established Kappa D elta Theta Pis in Syracuse have challenged Rho at the top of the heap journalis­ the team to a tussle. tically on the Colgate campus. Brother The senior honorary society on the George Fisk, who spent the fall semes­ Colgate campus, Konosioni, which each ter of this year studying in ·w ashington, spring selects for membership those District of Columbia, returned this juniors who have been outstanding spring to head off all rivals and win the extra-curricula rly, have chosen Al Ved­ editorship of the Salmagundi, Colgate's der, recently elected vice-president of yearbook. Brother Bud Donahue has the students' associ ation, George Fisk, been selected as editor of the Banter, Bud Donahue, and Don Collins from Colgate's humor magazine, and for D elta Chapter. At the end of the further proof of his writing ability he spring sports season Brothers Phil has been chosen contributing editor of Vogel and Clyde Mulhern will also be the 1'rlaroon, student newspaper, and eligible for membership, making a total feature editor of the Salmagundi. of six representatives from Kappa Brother Phil Vogel is now the new co­ D elta Rho. This is a very large num­ sports editor of the Maroon. With soph­ ber and a great honor for only about more Joe La Forte and freshman Dick twenty-fi ve are chosen from the whole Gedney working on each of the three campus. publications, D elta is sure to remain on Junior Prom held early in May was the top the next year, too. a fitting climax to D elta's social whirl. In athletics D elta has also proved The famous Rhode I slanders, who were her supremacy. The highest basketball engaged for their third year, supplied honor was conferred on Brother Don the rhythm at the house, supplemented Collins r ecently when he was elected by the same fi ve piece j am band that captain of that same sport. For two thrilled party-goers at Winter Carnival. years now Don has been the mainstay More than fifty couples participated at of the team. On the baseball nine J oe the chapter house. Brother Bob Ritter, P assabet, star sophomore hurler, is do­ social chairman, and Brother Moose ing wonders against such teams as Cor­ Sweeney, chairman-elect, were respon­ nell, Princeton, and Syracuse. Brother sible for the huge success of Prom. Clyde Mulhern, captain of cross-coun­ K. D . R. was the center of attraction on try, is running the mile for the track the camp us, as huge fl oodlights played 20 THE QuiLL AND ScaoLL on the English manor house during the Lauroesch, Lake Worth, Florida; Larry evening festivities. Barr, Boonton, New Jersey; Howard Sprow, Margate, New Jersey; Nicholas OFFICERS May e r, Wollaston, Massachusetts; Just before Easter recess new chap­ Harvey Miller, Livonia, New York; ter officers were elected for the year Robert McDonough, Denver, Colorado; 1939-40. They are: Consul, George Porter Plumstead, Hillside, New Jer­ Fisk; senior tribune, Al Vedder; junior sey; Herbert Thompson, Caldwell, New tribune, Joe La Forte; secretary, Clyde Jersey; Howard Van Etten, Highland Mulhern; propraetor, Joe La Forte; Mills, New York; Robert Vlachos, pontifex, William McClelland; cen­ Maplewood, N ew Jersey. turion, Avery Millard ; social chairman, Howard Sweeney; rushing chairman, -K ~ P- Edward Dickson; treasurer, Donald Collins. Zeta Penn. State College On the Saturday preceding the col­ AT THE regular Zeta Chapter. meeting, lege commencement exercises Delta will March 27, William F. Beuck, Oil City, play host at an afternoon reception for Pennsylvania, was elected consul. Dr. F. C. Ewart, retiring head of the Brother Beuck succeeds Donald Wright D epartment of Romantic Languages at as president of the house. Brother Colgate and the founder of Delta Chap­ Beuck, a student in the School of Min­ ter of K. D. R . One of Delta's most eral Industries, has already distin­ loyal supporters always, Doctor Ewa~t guished himself by his excellent man­ was the recipient of the yearbook dedi­ agement of Zeta's social functions dur­ cation this year. ing the past two seasons. The offices PLEDGES of senior tribune and junior tribune are To reinforce her belief in campus now filled by George Sperling and supremacy, Delta pledged tw enty-o~e Robert Wharton, respectively. freshmen during rushing week. Hail­ Probably the biggest item of news, ing from as far west as Colorado, the at least as far as the Zeta actives are greenlidders present a formidable arra.y concerned, is that our house average of talent, as there is not one man who 1s has increased somewhat. We are no not active in some extra-curricular ac­ longer so dangerously close .to the bot­ tivity. :rhe freshman delegation are tom of the list of fraternity averages as represented on all the publications; in we have been in the past three or four football, baseball, basketball, golf, and years. We are still in the lower half of lacrosse; and in several of the freshman the list, but feel sure that the improve­ societies. The new pledges are: Clif­ ment we showed last semester will offer ford Ball, Merion, Pennsylvania; an incentive to try to attain a higher Joseph Brewer, Plymouth, Massachu­ ranking in the list with each coming setts; Joseph Campbell, North Tarry­ semester. We feel that this is of vital importance with respect to our rushing town, New York; Stanley Chapman, season next fall. Ridgefi eld Park, New Jersey; Donald Zeta is proud to announce the initia­ Colburn, Rochester, New York; Wil­ tion of Walter C. James, Oil City, liam Chernichowski, Dunellen, New Pennsylvania, which took place April Jersey; Elmer H einlein, Buffalo ; 16. '"'alter is a freshman in the music Richard C. Gedney, Buffalo; Russell school and is a very enthusiastic worker. Ide, Bergen, New York; Fred Keese, He is a member of Bill Bottorf's Band, Greenport, New York; Charles Conn, which is widely known and the best on Kenmore, New York; William the campus. D espite the fact that KAPPA DELTA RHo 21

Brother James is a very active lad, he had the highest average in the pledge class the first semester. It is the policy of the house to award a beautiful key to the man with the highest average in the pledge class. Improvements within the house have been numerous this year. The two greatest changes have been the remodel­ ing of our chapter room and the addition of another sleeping room. We are especially proud of the new chapter room with its walls of knotty pine and built-in benches. The brothers, along with the help of numerous Zeta alumni, financed this undertaking. The addi­ tion of the sleeping room eliminates congested sleeping facilities that pre­ vailed in previous years. Along with the improvements we would like to mention an illuminated K. D. R. sign ZETA GRADUATES above the entrance to the house which Fi1·st row, left to right: William B euck, was a gift of our president's father, Jake Morrison, William Bmmlett. Second Mr. Beuck. 1·ow: Donald Whitenight, L eRoy Gm·dAte1', Charles Hugus. Third 1·ow: William Pfahl, Zeta's participation in extra-curricu­ Mathuts Whitenight, .T oseph Hunsinger. lar activities gained recognition this Fou1·th 1·ow: Donald Gonno1·, James season in several fields. Brother Drake lllctthers, Eugene Whiteni,qht. Fifth row: has been extremely successful in la­ D ee B. Watson, Donald W1·ight crosse in that he has played full time in every game. We believe that this is night, Gene Whitenight, Henry Minor, quite an achievement on his part, espe­ Dee '~Ta tson, and William Bramlett. cially since this is . only Hoit's junior Everyone is now looking forward to year. We are well pleased to know that spring house party, which takes place Jim Leerberg is working hard on the June 10 and 11 this year. Arrange­ freshman lacrosse team. We are equally ments have been made to dance with the as proud of Eddie Landen, who has Pi Kappa Alpha's. Our new social been imbuing his fervor and enthusiasm chairman, Don MacMillan, has not as into the crowds at athletic events all yet chosen a band, but we have good faith in his ability to choose a good one. year as cheerleader. Brother Russell was awarded his numerals for having -K ~ P- been elected alternate swimming man­ ager. Eta University of Illinois Zeta is unpleasantly reminded of the RUSHING fact that she is soon to lose twelve ETA HAS done extensive rushing work seniors. Those who will never again this spring and we will continue to do enter the house as undergraduates after so during the coming summer. vVe are June, 1989 are Jake Morrison, Donald trying to get as many rushees lined up Wright, Donald Connor, Charles right now as we possibly can. During Hugus, James Mathers, Donald White­ the spring vacation, fifty rushees were night, Joe Hunsinger, Mathias White- signed for next fall's rush week. 22 THE Q urLL AND ScROLL

Along with rushing, two new men offs. Contesting against stiff competi­ have been pledged. They are: Chuck tion throughout the season, the team Stevens '40, Chicago, Illinois, and Bob was a power to be reckoned with and L ee '40, Chicago, Illinois. We are sure lost only one game. In the semi-finals these two fine men will uphold the tradi­ Iota was defeated in a three-game series tions of Eta; and we are glad to wel­ bv close scores. come them into our chapter. • When intrafraternity softball rivalry got under way, Iota was at a marked OFFICERS disadvantage. Our pitcher, Bill "Turk" Eta held elections for new officers Toland '39, had suffered a leg injury in April 16. The politicians held sway for gym and was "condemned" to crutches a night and after the votes were tabu­ for nearly a month. D espite this loss, lated, the following officers were se­ we hope to make a favorable showing lected: Chet Campbell '40, consul ; L ei£ under the inspiration of Manager Olsen '40, senior tribune; Grover Charles "Chick" Catherman '40. The Haines '40, junior tribune ; George team makes an impressive appearance Scheppach '40, quaestor; John Shipman in the new orange and blue fraternity '41, praetor; Chuck Russell '41, pro­ sweat j erseys. praetor; Ralph Haag '42, pontifex; and In the near future track and fi eld will Ellsworth Shaw '4 1, custodian. Under assume the "spot-light" position, and the guidance of these new officers, we K. D. R. is already making preparations are looking forward to a great year. to enter a number of men. Ernie Muel­ SOCIAL ler '39, will lead the house entrants We are now planning our annual into the fray. spring formal. Matt Mathews and his ACTIVITIES popular campus orchestra will provide The house is proud of its honor in one the music. A P arisian Cafe scene will of Bucknell's major sports- baseball. be used as the decoration. "Turk" Toland is again manager of the ACTIVITIES diamond men and is said to know more The leaders are now being selected about baseball than any other man on for the various campus activities. Eta the campus. Pledge Brother Vic again ranks high by placing two men Shvedoff '42, is one of the assistants. in important positions. L ei£ Olsen '40 "Chick" Catherman is a reserve out­ is the new first vice-president of the fielder and is recognized for his hitting Illinois Union and George Avery '40 ability. H e has seen action in several won the coveted position of captain of games. 1 Pershing Rifles. Six members of Iota will appear with ALUMNI the Bucknell B and when it presents its AI Whitlock '33 visited the chapter annual spring concert on May 13. They house and everyone was glad to see him. are Bob Minium, alto; Clau"de Maines, Other alumni visitors were: Max \iV es­ trombone ; Charles Catherman and Jim ton, F red H arrison, and D ale Sutton. Helt '41, baritones; Bill Kresge '41, saxophone; and Jack King '42, clarinet. -K ~ P- Athletic sweaters and letters were re­ cently awarded by the University to Iota Bucknell University Ernie Mueller, track manager for two INTRAMURALS years; "Turk" Toland, baseball man­ THE CLOSE of the volleyball season ager for two years, .and "Chick" Cath­ found Iota Chapter in the league play- erman, player-manager of soccer. KAPPA D E LTA RHo 23

PERSONALS only one. Ernie Mueller, a chemical Brother Howard B. Ortner, Execu­ engineering student, plans to study for tive Secretary, visited the house on his Master's degree in chemistry here April 26 at which time he congratulated next year. "Turk" Toland, an English Iota for its progress during the year. major, has been very active in journal­ Eugene " J ake" T edesco '40, was ap­ ism at Bucknell and h opes to obtain a pointed senior representative on the In­ journalism position in the fi eld of trafraternitv Council while Claude sports. " H erkie" Maines '41, was selected as sophomore representative. SOCIAL Bob Minium, who graduates next The climax of Iota's social season, F ebruary, will accompany the Univer­ Spring House P arty, will occur May 5 sity Glee Club to the World's F air at and 6. The various committees have the end of May when it will present a completed the det ails that are involved concert. with the successful promotion of this Iota Chapter was host to fi ve Model event. The house is to be decorated in L eague representatives during the ses­ the inside with orange and blue crepe sions on Bucknell's campus, April 13- streamers and ivy will lend an added 14 . Three students from U rsinus and effect. The outside porch will be en­ two from Brooklyn College were enter­ closed by a "blanket" of mountain t ained by the house. laurel. Jack Gallager '41, social chair­ For three years of service in the man, has secured Tommy Donlon, of Bucknell B and, "Chick" Catherman vVilkes-Barre, as music maestro for will be awarded a key. Brother Minium both evenings. Arrangements for a is also a holder of this award. Saturday night banquet at a nearby hotel have been completed. At the sug­ SCHOLASTIC gestion of the rushing chairman, J ames The results of the first semester's D. H elt, invitations have been sent to scholastic work among the Bucknell prospective pledges. frats were recently made known, and An open house, which was held on Iota ranked third. Only a fraction April 7, met with a great deal of suc­ separated the averages of the first three cess by all who attended. A Wurlitzer g roups. N ati

Peterson is a professor of economics at putting forth an effort to make this oc­ Bucknell. casion an outstanding event for our Brother Charles Sanders '13, of alumni, as well as the active chapter. Jamaica, Long Island, N ew York, was Melvin 0. Smith '34, has been in a recent visitor at the house. charge of the alumni, who contacts, The engagement of Brother Charles Bernard Hoffman '4 1, consul and Schaef '38, to Miss Winifred Cranmer, Donald Newland '39, propraetor. who also graduated from Bucknell last ATHLETICS year, was recently announced. Kappa's participation in the intra­ ATTENTION ALUMNI!!!! mural activities looks very promising in Mark the tenth1 day of June on your softball as well as horse shoe pitching. calendar with red ink! Iota's ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM will be held on that date. Last year's was one of the most success­ ful in the history of Iota. Help us to make this year's SYMPOSIUM even bet­ ter! Come back-one and all-meet old college pals, see the improvements in the house, and a grand time is guaran­ teed to all. Remember the date! June 10! -K A P-

Kappa Ohio State University ON APRIL 24, the Kappa Chapter ini­ tiated four members. Prof. R. H. Roundtree, department of economics, and Gordon E. Eldridge, testing engi­ neer, both as honorary members. The two pledges that were initiated into ac­ tive membership were Edward L. Lar­ JAY INGRA~r, Kappa '41 son, and Wayne Kukuk, both of Mac­ 0. S . U. Outfi elder Donald, Ohio. Our outstanding varsity baseball PLEDGING player is Jay Ingram whose batting Our pledge chapter now consists of average as well as his ability in the nine members, the two newly added outfield has gained him a berth on ones are Francis K. Bowers, agriculture 0. S. U. nine. w·e are all looking for I , Leesville, Ohio, and Theodore C. great things from Brother Ingram. Stewart, engineering, Salem, Ohio. -K A P- ACTIVITIES University of California We are looking for~vard to having a Lambda 100 percent attendance for Mother's ELECTION Day here at the house on May 14 . HERE AT Cal the spring semester ends Our founders banquet is to be held the first part of May, so we are just on May 20 and 21, at the Fort Hayes about a month ahead of most of the Hotel in downtown Columbus. The chapters. At the last house meeting Founders' Day Committee has been of the semester a fine set of officers was KAPPA DELTA RHo 25 chosen to carry on next fall. They are replacing an equally capable bunch of retiring officers. Bob Williams succeeds Rod Brubaker as consul; Art Adams takes the place of Bob McPhillamey as senior tribune; L es Ley succeeds D an Hunt as junior tribune; D ave Hunt continues as quaes­ tor ; Frank Tuttle grabs the pen from Carl Russell as p raetor; Rod Brubaker takes over the responsibility of advisor from Paul Pick; Carl Carlsen assumes the duties of custodian from Bill Cameron; Dave Divanovich fills in Bob Williams' old spot as propraetor; Dan Hunt ousts Ken Kuney from the posi­ tion of pontifex; D ave Ayers t akes over centurion, vacat ed by L es L ey; and Alumni H eath, Bud Hughes and Garing step in as senators in place of H eath, Rowland and Bruce.

WATER-THROWING Final exams are liable to be a little L Al\IBDA'S TRADITIONAL wA'l'ER THROWING dull, so we of Lambda . have a lovely tradition which is calculated to ease the Our Annual Spring Formal was held strain. B eginning the first day of finals at the Orinda Country Club on March it is the custom to throw water on the 17. The date was a " natural" for the members and pledges coming in from St. P atrick's D ay theme. Maurice finals. Rules allow throwing only from Anger's music made the affair a real the second floor and only from 11 :30 success. H e made a special arrange­ to 12:15 and 4:30 to 6:15. It creates ment of the K. D . R. Sweetheart Song a much-needed diversion from cram­ for our exclusive benefit, and it was ming, and is very successful in generat­ great. Having the entire club and grounds to ourselves wasn't hard to ing house spirit. Naturally the object take either. is to souse the person before he can get On March 31 the pledges treated the into the house-not afterward. members to a Crazyhouse Dance. With such a theme the pledges' imaginations SOCIAL ran riot on decorations. Vi1hat with Our social calendar became so everyone coming in costume the whole crowded as fin als neared that we had to thing was nuttier than somewhat. Try combine some of the functions in order it sometime if you want a little origi­ to get them all in. Our Mother's Club nality. gave us a party March 3 which featured At this point our social f unctions games, dancing and all the refreshments ganged up on us, so we threw three of we could eat. Any chapter that has no them together for one big blow on April Mother's Club is missing a cinch bet, 13. This gathering began with having considering all the things the mothers rushees to dinner in the evening. They do for us. were asked to remain for the smoker to 26 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL follow. The alumni began arriving and it was at the Palace Hotel in the Cali­ the smoker got under way with songsJ fornia and English RoomsJ as usualJ in jokes and other entertainment befitting San Francisco. The Founders' Day ad­ a good smoker. The semi-annual Birth­ dress was given by Earl HeathJ who is day Party was incorporated by the sim­ a charter member of Lambda Chapter. ple expedient of having the boys with Newly elected officers were installed as birtl1days buy the beer. One party for part of the traditional procedure. J en­ a Rush DinnerJ Birthday Party and nings Pierce gave an inspired speech on Alumni Smoker ! brotherhood in the fraternity and busi­ The last function of the school year ness world. Cyril Haworth was pres­ was our Eighteenth Annual Founders' sented the scholarship cup for the school Day Banquet. The "Founders' Day" year 1937-1938 for having the highest is in keeping with the movement for grade average in the house. The rest Founders' Day celebrations in our na­ of the program consisted of entertain­ tional organization. Our banquet is ment in the form of speeches} songs by always the last Saturday of the spring the house quartette} a reading by Les semester} this time on April 29. Since LeyJ and piano selections by Pledge that is also the last possible date we Bruce Graham. It was ah occasion well could hold a Founders' Day celebration suited to the requirements of Found­ the two have been combined. This year ers' Day.

LAMBDA's INITIATION AND FouNDER's DAY BANQUET KAPPA DELTA RHCJ 27

INTRAMURAL SPORTS work at home on his thesis, final re­ The intramural track meet caught us quirement for a Master's degree in with only six entrees, but we managed August; McPhillamey is going to law to come out of it in the upper half of school and Rus;;ell will take a whirl at the forty-two fraternities on the cam­ this thing called job hunting. pus. Another brother, Carl Carlsen, will Tough luck followed us into the rest not be with us if he is successful in his of the sports, and we bogged down in examination this summer for entrance everything at once. We dropped our into Coast Guard Academy. quarter-final tilts in softball and ping­ WITH OUR ALUMNI pong and lost the semi-finals in basket­ ball, all within a period of less than Jenn~ngs Pierce '23 who handles the two weeks. Most of our teams will be regular agricultural programs over practically intact next season though, NBC, is now also the "Voice" of the so maybe we will cash in on some of livestock and 4H Club shows on Treas­ those championships then. ure Island. Don Simpson '36 won a free call in SPRING RUSHING the lottery of the Pacific Telephone and The ground floor is already being Telegraph exhibit at the Exposition on laid to obtain a healthy group of Treasure Island, and he talked $10 pledges for next semester. Competition worth to alumnus Lyman "Tiny" Fink, being what it is on this campus we have '37 in Schenectady. instituted a tentative system of spring Asa Meudel '36 is still doing alright and summer rushing. During the week­ for himself at the General Electric end of the Cal-W'ashington crew race School in Schenectady, where he is in we had several rushees around the good standing with his boarding house house. The week-end of the traditional club, the Mohawk Nudes. Cal-Stanford track meet the Interfra­ Al Simpson '34 is associate architect ternity Council played host to high in charge of the Bakersfield Office of school and senior class presidents from Franklin & Kump, the Fresno firm in all over northern California. All fra­ which Ernie Kump '32 is a partner. ternities in the council entertained their Merritt Rowland '26 is in charge of share of the guests, and we got ours. the Los Angeles office of Mund, :rvic­ Add to that seven independent pros­ Laurin & Co. pects and eight men from S. D. U., a Charles Anderson '34 and Miss Ruth local fraternity on the Fresno State Bycraft were married Sunday, March campus, and it is obvious we had a full 26, at the St. Mark's Episcopal Church week-end and a full house. in Berkeley. After a short honeymoon It is hard to tell now what luck we they settled down in San Francisco, will have this fall in pledging, but we where Charlie works for an import­ have yet to go below ten pledges in our export firm. new house. Next semester should be Fred Nettel '38 is in the employ of no exception. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. at San Rafael. GRADUATION Glenn Bultman '35 will be taking the Diplomas will take from the roll of bar exam soon. He has been studying active Brothers Rod Brubaker, Cyril in Hastings School of Law. Haworth, Bob McPhillamey, Paul Pick, Nolan O'Neal '38, Gene Berken­ and Carl Russell. Of these Brothers kamp '37, and Harold Turner '39, are Brubaker and Pick may be back for back on the campus, having taken further study next fall; Haworth will courses to prepare themselves for the 28 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL

Junior Foresters' Civil Service Exam After the ball game the Mu Chapter given the last of April. Alumni Association held its annual business meeting during which officers EXPANSION for the ·coming year were elected. For the last couple of months Sigma Brother Keith Hackett was elected Delta Upsilon, a local fraternity on the president; vice-president, B r o t h e r campus of Fresno State College, has George Ahn ; financial adviser, Brother been investigating Kappa D elta Rho By Coates; secretary, Brother Fritz with a view to petitioning for national Radford; and treasurer, B r o t h e r membership in our organization. Eight George Quellett. of their gang were up here April 21-~3 Following the meeting ther e was a to look over Lambda Chapter. Evi­ stag banquet which was attended by dently what they saw pleased them, be­ some thirty-five actives and alumni. cause they ar e now doing what they After the banquet Brother Earl Fields can to hurry a petition to the national. was awarded the " Truman Steinko They are one of the strongest fraterni­ Trophy Award." Brother Harry ties on that campus, and with our na­ Cheseborough and Brother Don Crozat tional prestige probably would be the were the after dinner speakers. Brother strongest. They have Lambda Chap­ Harry was caught more or less unpre­ ter's recommendation, and the ma­ pared and promised to give a rambling chinery is beginning to move. It may speech. Rambling it was but in his not be very long before we have an ramblings I am sure he struck the Upsilon Chapter to keep us company proper cord in everyone present. here in California ! Brother Harry we thank you one and -K!:. P- all. The banquet unofficially ended the Mu University of Michigan celebrations and one of Mu's most pleasant week-ends. ViTe sincerely hope FOUNDER'S DAY that the "Alums" do not wait until next MAY 6 wAs the date of Mu's Founder's spring until we again gather around the Day celebration which proved to be one of the greatest ever. Festivities were festive board. put under way on Saturday evening, GOOD BYES lVIav 6 with a dinner dance. There was Over the horizon of K. D. R.'s field a ,()' ~· eat turn out of "Alums" making the of friendship h angs a forboding dark dance tops of the year. Sunday morn­ cloud. A cloud that threatens to break ing the grand celebration was continued the strong ties of comradship and lead­ with a breakfast and a softball game on ership of our departing seniors. This Ann Arbor's famous "Island." The June will leave deep felt vacancies. ball game proved to be a bigger riot this Brother Earl Fields, two years consul year than ever before in history. and house-manager. H e won the Tru­ Brother Don Crozat held the "Alums" man Steinke Award two successive to a three hit game, the final score be­ in()' ten to one in favor of the actives. years for his service to the house and B;other James George officiated during Kappa D elta Rho. Brother Earl was the game and, as a token of apprecia­ truely a leader of his house and his tion for his efforts, was heaved into the absence will be deeply felt by all. " Lighty Huron River ." However Brother Bob- Huey, Brother Bob Innes, Brother George shared his dunking Brother D avid Smith, and Brother with Pledge Bob Yokum and Brother Claire Paulson are the other "World T ed Linabury. Beaters" who are departing. I need- KAPPA DELTA RHo 29 lessly say that they will continue to be RUSHING a source of pride to Kappa Delta Rho. With Nu Chapter embarking upon an ext ensive remodeling program this year, ALUMNI ACTIVITY rushing has beeome a matter of prime Since the last issue of THE QuiL"L importance. Nu Chapter's rush staff, AND ScROLL Mu's alumni have been do­ under the leadership of Brother Robert ing a real job of catching the world by McDonald, rush captain, has already the proverbial tail. Brother Truman pledged four men. 'rhey are: Karl Steinko left his position with Nash Kel­ Overbeck '41; Harry Aslin '42; Bill vinator in Detroit to take up a position Litgard '42; and Howard Weinert '42. with Ketchum and McCloud in Pitts­ Nu looks forward to a prosperous rush burgh. Brother Tru in a recent let.ter week and a large pledge class next fall. expressed his enjoyment in his new JOb and the balmy Pittsburgh atmosphere. SPORTS Brother Bob Varnum was recently James Neighbours, intramural man­ made general district supervisor of the ager of Nu Chapter, has started the laro-est district of the Michigan Bell softball season off in fine style by win­ Telephone"' Company. ning two out of the first three games played this season. Pledge Lee Teaney ACTIVE ACTIVES is showing fine promise of becoming a Among the actives who are out doing varsity pitcher on the baseball team things in the name of K. D. R. are next year here at Indiana. Pledge Brother Harry Benford who was re­ Dean Foster has survived the first cut cently made secretary and treasurer of in spring track and hopes to win his the Michigan Quarter Deck Society. numerals in that sport. Brothers David Smith and Don Van Hoek were invited to Michigan's Honor SOCIAL EVENTS Convocation. Pledge Gordon Hood is Nu Chapter's Fourth Annual Venison a sophomore tryout on the Interfrater­ Banquet was held on April 16. A fine nity Council. turnout of alumni and friends made the -K ~ P- banquet a huge success. Immediately following the banquet, group pictures Nu Indiana University were taken; and a joint meeting of the alumni and active chapter was held. HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS Brother "Nat" Doud, alumnus of Eta SINCE THE beginning of this year, the Chapter, spoke on the subject of a fellows here at Nu have been looking strong alumni association. forward to moving into a new remodeled home next fall. The anxiously awaited ACTIVITIES house remodeling program will get un­ Brother Joe Jewett was initiated into der way June 1. The third floor will Phi Chi, medical fraternity, on April 1. be completely remodeled and will make Brother Jim Jewett was pledged to the house a full three stories high. The that organization shortly after that main floor will extend fifteen feet be­ date. yond its present space thus making Brother Louis Conn has been initi­ room for a larger lounge, dining hall, ated into Phi Eta Sigma, freshman and a completely new guest room. T~e scholastic organization. front of the house will be modeled m Brother Edward Swets and Pledge the Greek revival style, and will thus Lee Teaney have been initiated into present an entirely different appearance to the fellows when they come back Skull and Crescent, honorary sopho­ next fall. more organization. 30 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL

The list of officers is as follows: the co-eds found a box containing favors , Consul, Vinton Booher; senior tribune, and confetti left over from former Jim Jewett; junior tribune, Earl Ban­ dances. We are still cleaning confetti nister; praetor, Richard Outh; quaes­ fr:om under the rugs and in the corners. tor, Robert McDonald; propraetor, Ed­ In cooperation with the "College ward Swets; custodian, Eugene Poto; Holiday Spring Dance," Xi held an­ centurion, Sheldon Sanderson; ponti­ other "Vic" dance. On Friday, April fex, Louis Conn; interfraternity dele­ 28, Van Alexander played for the gate, James Neigh hours. formal "Blue and Gray Swing" and on -K 6. P- the next night each fraternity held a "Vic" dance called chasers. The Xi Colby College K. D. R. chaser was the best attended of all and the house was full all evening. AFTER HAVING been snowed in a couple Plans are now underway for our of times Xi were treated to breakfast formal dance to be held May 26. The in bed. An event that had never taken 1 house will be decorated with lilacs and place before and probably never will tulips, providing our neighbors' gardens again. By noon the snow had melted are in bloom by that time. We are ex­ sufficiently so that we could get out and pecting many of our alumni back and take in a movie. are looking forward to a most successful ATHLETICS evening. Brothers Hughes is chairman w· e are now in the middle of our base­ of the event assisted by Brothers Beal ball season with Brother Beal and and Gousse. Pledge Slattery maintaining the honors ODDS AND ENDS for Xi. Both men are very active­ Brother Ed Lemoine '38 was a recent Beal as a catcher and Slattery as one visitor and spent a few days at the of the best pitchers we have had in re­ house. Brother Doug Wheeler '31 is cent years. employed here in Waterville and is a Brother Bunting is back in the swing frequent visitor and we all enjoy listen­ again. He's up with the birdies these ing to his stories and ideas. Brother mornings to get in his nine holes before Ortner visited us early in May and gave breakfast. Jim hopes to get his var­ us the news of K. D. R. Brother sity letter in golf and to date has made "Tubby" Lemoine sent us a complete a good start by winning two out of three set of dishes for the dining room and a matches. new fraternity banner for the front of Our softball team is playing a double the house. Members of Xi express their schedule by playing in the town league deep appreciation for these gifts. as well as the interfraternity league. To date we have been successful in the MAYFLOWER HILL town league but not so successful in the Things seem to be humming right other. Brother Stinchfield does the along on our New Colby Campus Proj­ pitching and Captain Rossignol leads ect on Mayflower Hill. The chapel has the hitters. been completed and three other build­ SOCIAL ings will be finished this summer. Each Xi Chapter had the most successful fraternity is to have a $45,000 house "Vic" party ever recorded recently. It built by the college and these will be was a last minute affair under the direc­ constructed· in the near future. Various tion of Brother Hughes. Brothers Beal drives have been made throughout the and Thayer cut classes and decorated world to raise money for the new cam­ the house. The fun began when one of pus and to date they have been very KAPPA DELTA RHo 31 successful. 'iVe have just acquired a with the Bucknell baseball team, which new pledge, Everett Mitchell '42 who incidentally lost to Gettysburg I 0-9. is very active and a good student. With We like to have brothers of other June approaching we will soon finish chapters drop ,in on us, for the more another year and it is with deep regret they do this, the more we feel we're that we will not see Brothers Stinchfield really brothers to them. and Rossignol back next year. "Stinky" ATHLETICS plans to enter a career as a teacher and Bob Cook has already started mak­ "Rossie" is going to medical school. ing points toward his letter as high Bother of these brothers have been un­ jumper on the track team. usually active in Colby and Xi and their K. D. R. came in fourth in the annual absence will be felt by all. interfraternity track meet, particularly -K ~ P- aided by Cles Ramer, who took first in the high jump; Bob Fahrer, who ran Gettysburg College Pi second in the quarter-mile; and Dave VISITORS Rehmeyer, who gained points in the BROTI-IER ORTNER paid us a welcome pole vault. visit on April 28, giving his usual en­ Interfraternity mushball, softball, couragement, boosting, and compliment. speedball, indoor baseball, or what­ Brothers MacMillan, Hauser, and have-you, is well underway again. Bramlett of Zeta were here for the Sam Shoemaker won his letter for week-end of March 25. Did they have swimming, and our latest pledge, Jim a good time? Ask them. Ryder, his numerals for the same sport. The same week-end Brother Beal SOCIAL from Colby stopped in just before he The last few week-ends of school are played against Gettysburg. certainly filled with dances: The Ivy Brother Spencer of Epsilon was our Ball and Pan-Hellenic dances of April guest during the Eta Sigma Phi con­ 22-23 featured Mitchell Ayres and his vention here on the week-end of April orchestra; the Eta Sigma Phi Dance 29. was held on April 29; then the sororities The latest of our visitors was Brother held their dances the next Friday, May Toland of Iota who was here May 6 5; now the girls will follow up with the

"THE 0Ln DonM" Gettysbm·g College MEliiDERS OF RHo CHAPTER Fon 1939 Back 1·ow, left to ·ri,qht: .J. D. Smith, Kohl, Ra!JSO?', and McGlaughlin. Second row: H. Smith, TV. E. Snyder, Knobloch, K ennedy, Jon es, and Heal. Thi?·d 1·ow : Be·rlau, English, Richtm.y1·e, 111. L. Smith, Howard, and .f. A . Snyde·r. Ji'·ront 1·ow: Kind, Hodges, Wolfe, McDonough, Zochowski, Gilm.ou?·, and Ryback. Miss ing ctre Hctge?·man, Hube, Rush, Kays, Cawley and Thon. KAPPA DELTA RHo 33

Girls' Dorm Dance on May 12; last burg, and he will be installed in his come the fraternity dances on May 19 church, Salem's Lutheran of Killinger, and 20. Dick Moul will furnish the on May 28. swing and waltz time for the K. D. R.'s ' -K A P-- in the chapter house at both the formal and informal dances. Rho Lafayette College On Sub-Freshman Day, May Q, the ELECTIONS K. D. R.'s entertained quite a few prob­ THESE ARE our house officers for 1939- able next year freshmen boys and girls. 1940: Consul, Craig Kennedy; senior They know now the K. D. R.'s are on tribune, Douglas Jones; junior tribune, the campus. David Heal; praetor, Timothy Tam­ Mothers' Day, May 13 and 14, we blyn; quaestor, David Heal; proprae­ would show to our own and all other tor, Robert Howard; centurion, Mames mothers the kind of loving attention McGlaughlin; pontifex, Fred Broad­ that is justly theirs. foot; social chairman, Henry Hager­ HONORS man; rushing chairmen, James Mc­ John Geiser was rewarded for his Glaughlin and Craig Kennedy; rushing faithful choir work at the annual ban­ committee, sophomore, Timothy Tam­ quet on May 1 at which he received a blyn; juniors, Bill Prettyman; seniors, key. James McGlaughlin, John Raysor, Foster Flegeal and Bob Fahrer re­ Douglas Jones; scholarship chairman, ceived their formal initiation into the John Snyder; intramural chairman, Skeptical Chemists' Society on April John Snyder; junior interfraternity 17. council member, David Heal; assistant Herb Stroup was recently elected to commissars, Henry Hagerman and head the Student Christian Association John Snyder. of Gettysburg College. SOCIAL Stan Whitson was lately initiated The Rho men really turned out in into the Eta Sigma Phi National hon­ full brigade the week-end of May 12. orary Classical Fraternity. Friday night Will Osborne and his or­ ELECTION chestra furnished music for the annual Brother Cook was elected to succeed Spring Interfraternity Dance held in Broth.er Whitson as propraetor on May the Eddyside ballroom. Our house 2, at which time Brother Fahrer was dance on Saturday night was the spark­ also elected to be junior representative ling conclusion to the week-end's official to the Interfraternity Council. social functions. ' Ve had a big represen- BEST WISHES To our graduates: John D. Alexander and John D. Geiser, we expect big things of you two, and covet for you success in life which you can attain, we are confident. ALUMNI Brother Horace Peeling '29, has a seven pound, six ounce son, John Horace, born on April 27. Congratula­ tions! Reverend Brother Robert S. Nagle PARDEE HALL is to be ordained on May 17 in Harris- Lafcty ette College 34 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL

Lafayette. Living in Easton, he is ac­ tive in both community and college affairs. On campus Cawley served this year as concert master of the Little Sym­ phony and student leader of the choir. A member of the Student Chemical So­ ciety,' he was awarded the chemistry prize, which gives him a year's member­ ship in the American Chemical Society. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. SouTH CoLLEGE John L. Hay, Rho '39 of New York Lafctyette Co llege City, was elected five-year treasurer of his graduating class at Lafayette. He tation at the Friday night dance, but was chosen by a vote of the senior class attendance nearly hit the 100 percent last month. mark at our own house dance. At the same time Craig Kennedy '41 INTRAMURALS of Orange, New Jersey, was named Our intramural teams this spring met vice-president of next year's junior with notable success. The bowling team class. reached the playoffs, but lost in the last frame to the Delta Tau Delts by thir­ PLEDGING teen pins. This match was among the Surpassing even our own expecta­ quarter-finals. Our pinmen lost only tions, pledging this year was a real suc­ one league game, that to Theta Xi, who cess. 'Vithin the last two months we took the campus championship. have added five new men to our group, In hard ball we got off to a bad start, giving us a year's total of sixteen due mainly to Mel Wolfe's ailing pitch­ pledges. ing arm. Our record thus far ·shows Our newest group of pledges in­ two wins in four starts. cludes: Fred Broadfoot and William Our softball team fared much better. Prettyman, both '41 and of Ridgewood, '~1 e lost a close first game, but came New Jersey; Wright Witmer '41, of through to win our next three encount­ New York City; Nick Zacharopolis '42, ers without much difficulty. We should of Ridgewood, New Jersey; and make the playoffs, if our team clicks as Thomas Howard '41, of Easton, Penn­ it has been. sylvania. Under Bill Ryback, intramural man­ ager for this year, all of our teams have INITIATION hung up more victories than losses. W'e Three of our pledge group joined the are looking forward to an equally suc­ ranks of brothers on April 3. They cessful season next year under the lead­ are: Henry Hagerman '41, of Red ership of John Snyder. Bank, New Jersey; William Prettyman FEATURES '41, of Ridgewood, New Jersey; and John D . Cawley, Rho '39, has been Fred Broadfoot '41, of Ridgewood, New named salutatorian of his cla s at Jersey.

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KAPPA DELTA RHO FRATERNITY Founded at Middlebury College in the spring of 1905; by *Geo rge E. Kimball, Gino A. R;atti.' Chester M . . Walch, Irving T. Coates, John Beecher, Thomas H . Bartley, *BenJamm E. Farr, *Pierce W. Darrow, Gideon R. Norton, and Roy D. Wood. *Deceased. EXECUTIVE OFFICES 109 Irving Place, Ithaca, New York

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS P1·esident, LEo T. WoLFORD, 1711 Home Life Building, Louisville, Kentucky Vice-P1·esident, JoHN 0. BoYD, 415 Lexington Avenue, New York City T1·eas'!wm·, ORRIN G. Juno, 1 Wall Street, New York City Assistant T1·easu!"6!", WALTER E. BURNHAM, Morristown School, Morristown, New Jersey Directors: LAvERNE S. SEVERANCE, 6~~0 N. Delaware Avenue, Portland, Oregon G. LA VERNE CARR, Red H ook, New York WrLLIAllr H. SANDLAS, ~0 E. Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland JoHN L . BLAKELEY, 85-10 34th Avenue, J ackson H eights, New York REv. HAROLD F. LEMOINE, 1 E. ~ 9th Street, New York City

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY HowARD B. ORTNER, 109 Irving Place, Ithaca, New York

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION THE Q uiLl, AN D ScROLL of Kappa D elta Rho, published quarterly in the months of November, January, April and June. Editor, H. B. Ortner, 109 Irving Place, Ithaca. New York. CHAPTERS AND PROPRAETORS BETA-Cornell University, WALTER W ILLIAMS, 306 Highland Road, Ithaca, New York BETA-Cornell University, PHILIP ENGELDER, 306 Highland Road, Ithaca, New York GAMMA- New York State College for Teachers, H ERJJERT 0KSALA, 366 W estern Avenue, Albany, New York DELTA-Colgate University, JosEPH LA FouTE, Hamilton, New York EPSILON-Franklin College, GILllER"r MILLER, Franklin, Indiana ZETA- P enn State College, GEORGE HuMEs, State College, Pennsylvania ETA-University of Illinois, CHAR.LF.S F . R usSELL, 1110 South Second Street, Champaign, llinois THETA-Purdue University, RonER1' TIBBETTS, Indiana IOTA-Bucknell University, H. W. KING, Lewisburg, P ennsylvania KAPPA- Ohio State University, DoNALD W . WEAVER, 98 14th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio LAMBDA- University of California, RoBERT G. WILLIAMS, ~5 10 LeConte, Berkeley, Cali- fornia MU-University of Michigan, HARRY BENFORD, 73~ Forest Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan NU-Indiana University, RoBERT SwE-rs, Chapter House, Bloomington, Indiana XI.:...... Colby College, RrcHA RD THAYER, Chapter House, Waterville, Maine PI-Gettysburg College, STANLEY WHITSON, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania RHO-Lafayette Co llege, Roman HowARD, Chapter House, Easton, Pennsylvania SIGMA-Oregon State, RoBERT T uLLY, Chapter House, 140 N. ~3 rd Street, Corvallis, Oregon 35 36 TnE Q u n,L ANU ScnoLr,

ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONS NEW YORK CITY ALUMNI-Secretary and Treasurer, DAviD TuCKER, 507 Fifth Ave­ nue, New York City. Permanent address-JAMES A. 0EsT, 116 Kimball Avenue, Yon­ kers, New York. Tel. F airbanks 4-34~~

CHICAGO ALUMNI-Secreta1·y, THEODORE B. WrESE, 3637 North Clark Street, Chicago

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNI- S ecretm·y, MERLE W. GARING, 697 Wesley Avenue, San Francisco, California

LOS ANGELES ALUMNI- Sec1·etary, MoNROE T. SMARTT, 1400 Morningside Drive, Burbank, California

DETROIT ALUMNI-Secreta1·y, G. V. EDMONSON, 14376 Rutherford, Detroit, Michigan

BUFFALO ALUMNI- Secretary, BRuct: FILBY, 7~9 Pierce Avenue, Niagara Falls, New York

LUNCHEON NOTICES San Francisco Alumni luncheon every W ednesday at the Pompei Grill, 161 Sutter Street, Downtown, San Francisco, California. Time 1 ~ noon.

Regular meetings of the Chicago K appa Delta Rho Alumni Association are held the third Thursday of each month in the Recreation Room of the Stevens Hotel. Time 6.30 p.m. All Alumni in and around Chicago should register with Secretary Wiese.

Buffalo Alumni holds dinner and meeting on the first Thursday of every month. Time 6.30 p.m. Bruce Filby, Secretary.

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