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VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER FOUR Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger, Epsilon '07 Psi U Personality of the Month The Diamond of Psi Upsilon OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY

Volume XXXIV June, 1948 Number 4

AN OPEN FORUM FOR THE FREE DISCUSSION OF FRATERNITY MATTERS

IN THIS ISSUE Page Psi U Personality of the Month 106

Names in the News 108

Psi U Lettermen 109

Alumni Notes Ill

The Chapters Speak 114

The Convention at the Tau�Some Observations 120

In Memoriam 129

The Executive Council and Alumni Association, Officers and Mem bers Cover III

Roll of Psi Upsilon Chapters and Alumni Presidents Cover IV

EDITOR Edward C. Peattie, Phi '06 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Albert J. Elias, Upsilon '46

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE DIAMOND Albert C. Jacobs, Phi '21, Chairman Herbert J. Flagg, Theta Theta '12 Oliver B. Merrill, Jr., Gamma '25 J. J. E. Hessey, Nu '13 Walter S. Robinson, Lambda '19 A. Northey Jones, Beta Beta '17 LeRoy J. Weed, Theta '01 (ex-officio) (ex-officio) Publication Office, 450 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wis. Executive and Editorial Offices Room 510, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N.Y. Life Subscription, $15; By Subscription, $1.00 per year; Single Copies, 50 cents

Published in November, January, March and June by the Psi UpsUori Fraternity. Entered as Second Class Matter January 8, 1936, at the Post Office at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Paragraph 4, Section 538, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized January 8, 1936 PSI U PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH Howard Christian Naffziger, Epsilon '07 By Stuabt O'Melveny, Epsilon '10

CHRISTIAN NAFFZIGER, development of brain surgery was made HOWARDB.S., M.S., M.D., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. his responsibility and the hospital became (Eng.) Hon., whose picture painted by Mr. under his guidance the first center of this Seymour Thomas for the American Col type west of the Atlantic seaboard. He lege of Surgeons is on the inside cover filled various positions on the faculty until page of this issue of The Diamond, was 1924 when he was made Clinical Profes born in Nevada City, California in 1884. sor of Surgery. In 1929 he became Profes Nevada City is situated amongst the pines sor of Surgery and Chairman, Department and dogwood on the western slope of the of Surgery, of the Medical School, and Sierra Nevadas. It is one of the most beau Surgeon in Chief of the Hospital. Doctor tiful of the old mining towns with a color Naffziger specializes in neurological sur ful history in the Gold Rush Days. By 1884 gery and when under his guidance a sepa the placer miners had come and gone but rate new department in this branch was Nevada City, by vhtue of being the county created in 1947, he became Professor of seat, was far from being a ghost town. Neurological Surgery and Chairman of that Amid these pleasant surroundings Howard department, which position he still oc Naffziger acquired his early education cupies. He is also consulting Surgeon for graduating from the Nevada City High the San Francisco Hospital, for the School in 1900. Langley Porter Clinic, and for the U. S. Naffziger did his undergraduate and Veterans Facihty, San Francisco. pre-medical work at the University of Doctor Naffziger's war record has been California situated in Berkeley. At that a brilliant one. During the First World time the general educational program of War he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the University was conducted at Berkeley the Medical Corps of the United States while the medical department and hospi Army and was with the American Expedi tal were located in San Francisco. It was tionary Forces. At the conclusion of that at Berkeley, therefore, that Howard joined war he accepted a commission as Colonel the Epsilon Chapter of the Psi Upsilon. in the Medical Reserve Corps, which com While he lived in the fraternity house and mission he held until 1928. During the took an active interest in the affairs of the Second World War he was a member of chapter, the seriousness with which he the . Surgical Committee of the National devoted himself to his medical training Research Council and Chairrnan of the necessitated his absence from most col Sub-Committee of this Council on Neuro lege activities. However, his kindhness, logical Surgery. He was consultant and innate wisdom, and good humor endeared special advisor for the Office of Scientific him to his fraternity brothers so that his Research and Development and was sent popularity was exceeded by no one. to England and Scotland in 1943, as well After leaving Berkeley, Doctor Naffziger as to the North African Theatre and Mid identified himself with the University of dle East to correlate research and as surgi California Hospital in San Francisco as cal advisor. After the war he was ap interne and assistant resident surgeon and pointed Chairman of the Educational Mis then went on to spend some time at Johns sion to Poland under the auspices of the Hopkins as assistant resident surgeon. He UNRRA, visiting London, Paris, Berlin, returned to the University of Calffornia and various Pohsh Universities and medi Hospital in 1913 and has been identified cal schools. with that institution ever since. When No biographical account of Doctor Doctor Naffziger joined the faculty the Naffziger would be complete without some 106 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 107 of the many honors which he has re American Journal of Surgery; Western ceived by reason of his prominence in his Journal of Surgery, Geriatrics; Journal of chosen field of neurological surgery. Neurological Surgery; and Journal of He is a founder member of the Ameri Neurological Sciences. can Board of Surgery and has acted as Membership in learned societies^ ad Chairman of the American Board of Neuro visory "positions on the staff of technical logical Surgery since its founding in 1939. journals, appointment to government com He is a Fellow of the American College of missions�all these are the laurels that Surgeons and a Regent since 1934 and was crown his career of study and practice. He President ui 1938 and 1939. He is a Fellow has reached that point of eminence which of the Royal College of Surgeons (hon.) of causes men to look to him for counsel, England. He is a member and past Presi but he does not yet think of resting on his dent of the San Francisco County Medical laurels. Society; the San Francisco County Neuro In addition to being a member of Psi logical Society; California Academy of Upsilon, he is also a member of Nu Sigma Medicine; the Society of Neurological Sur Nu and Alpha Omega Alpha. geons; and is still President of the Pacific The fact that Doctor Naffziger is one Coast Surgical Association. He is a mem of the most distinguished surgeons of his ber of the American Medical Association; time has in no way detracted from the American Surgical Association; American attractiveness of his personality. He is a Neurological Association; International very human person. He married Louise Surgical Association; International Neuro McNear, the daughter of an old and dis logical Association; Association of Re tinguished pioneer family and they have search in Nervous and Mental Diseases; three daughters and a home filled with Western Surgical Association; and Hon the good things of life. The exactions of orary Consultant to the Library of the his job have often caused the Doctor to Surgeon General. During the coming No seek rest and relaxation in inaccessible vember Doctor Naffziger will act as Chair places, so his golf has been supplemented man of an educational mission to the with big game hunting and fishing. High Philippines to visit the medical schools. up in the Sierras Doctor Naffziger has a Doctor Naffziger, in addition to his in summer home and nowhere is he so con as when he is the music terest in so many societies and associations, tented enjoying finds time to serve on the editorial and ad of the mountain breezes through the pines. call memories of his visory boards of the following medical pe Perhaps they up riodicals: Annals of Surgery; Surgery; youth before he scaled the heights.

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Theodore P. Gould, Pi '23 Dr. Charles Packard, Pi "07 Formerly vice-president of Scandinavian Is the Director of the Marine Biological Airlines System, has been appointed di Laboratoiy, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. rector of passenger sales for American Air Dr. Packard reported last May that the lines. He assumed his new position July 15. Atomic Energy Commission had made A veteran of sixteen years in the travel grants for research to be conducted by business. Brother Gould brings to his new several scientists during the summer at post a unique knowledge of overseas air the Marine Biological Laboratory on the transportation. He was a partner in the effects of isotopes on various forms of ma Flick (John W. Flick, Pi '24)-Gould Travel rine life. Bureau with offices in Syracuse and Albany for seven years before joining American W. NiverWynkoop, Psi'2l Airlines in 1940 as a sales representative Was elected president of the Syracuse at New York. his career During five-year (New York) Boys' Club. He has been con with that company he was system man tinuously associated with the Boys' Club of reservations and ticket offices and ager as a director since 1934, and has served as sales at and New York manager Syracuse chairman of the camp committee, secre He left American in 1945 to City. join tary and assistant treasurer. Scandinavian Airlines as vice-president. Brother Gould was born in Seneca Falls, Eric B. Lusby, Epsilon Phi '26 N.Y. He from Central graduated Syracuse At the Canadian Chemical Conference High School and Syracuse University. He held in Montreal in June, was elected is has a son and two married, daughters, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the and lives at 73 The N.Y. Intervale, Roslyn, Chemical Institute of Canada for the com ing year. Brother Lusby is with Imperial Oil Limited, Sarnia, Ontario. James M. Nicely, Omega '20 Has been elected a vice-president of the Fust National Bank of the City of New York. He had been a vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Company since 1929, and had served that bank in various capaci ties, including three years in France, from 1932 to 1935. On leave of absence in 1940 and 1'941, he was with the British Purchas ing Commission. Brother Nicely served on the Board of Governors of the Alumni Association of Psi Upsilon from 1937 to 1948, and was Treasurer of that Association from 1945 to 1947. He is a director of several large companies, including the Glenn L. Martin Company, H. L. Green Company, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Com pany, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company, and Teachers Insurance and Theodore P. Gould, Pi '23 Annuity Association.

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In reading the sport sections of the Derby, Xi Tau newspapers we have wondered if any of Dysart, Phi the players on the varsity teams were Psi Evans, Xi U's. After over the recent "The Fisher, culling Psi we here Grimley, Chapters Speak" reports, publish Holiday, Phi with a list of the letter men and partial Howell, Psi their If we chapters. have omitted any Kent, Psi varsity athlete Brothers, please help bring Leaf, Epsilon this list up-to-date.�Editor Lippincott, Delta Delta Maclnnes, Psi Maclnnis, Theta Theta Psi U's on Football Varsity Nery, Omega Abba, Theta Page, Upsilon Amack, Theta Theta Paulus, Eta Armstrong, Upsilon SkiUen, Epsilon BowUan, Upsilon Stone, Phi Callow, Theta Theta Titde, Phi Clements, Psi von Hake, Psi Crane, Epsilon Nu Chi Dawson, Psi U's on Varsity Basketball Dundas, Xi Eden, Upsilon Buschmann, Xi Enstice, Theta Conolly, Kappa Fucigna, Theta Cornelius, Eta Grimley, Psi Deane, Kappa D. Hilfinger, Psi Draudt, Pi R. Hilfinger, Psi Dundas, Xi Houston, Sigma Eden, Upsilon Kelley, Psi Enstice, Theta Krocha, Delta Harman, Tau Lightfoot, Theta Theta Kanka, Upsilon Luster, Theta Theta Meehan, Theta Melville, Zeta Murphy, Delta Delta Murphy, Theta Theta Bice, Theta O'Leary, Zeta Boberts, Theta Speer, Zeta Bobertson, Xi Stephenson, Delta Delta Zdanowicz, Kappa Ward, Zeta Warren, Psi Phi U's on Varsity Crew Westwood, Theta Zeta Calahan, Epsilon Jack Young, Theta Theta Stu Young, Zeta Graft, Tau Young, Sigma Heaney, Hirt, Tau King, Tau Psi U's on Varsity Boxing Smith, Theta Theta Richardson, Theta Theta Yost, Epsilon

Psi U's on Psi U's on Varsity Swimming Varsity Hockey Ash, Xi Bermingham, Kappa � Baer, Eta Bonzagni, Kappa Baker, Xi Haskell, Kappa Bardett, Iota Howe, Kappa Bradford, Iota Kelley, Psi Comes, Eta Kerivan, Zeta 109 110 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON

McKeldin, Psi Psi U's on Varsity Golf Pierce, Kappa Sanborn, Eta Dagget, Sigma Theta Theta Scates, Kappa Clark,

Psi U's on Psi U's on Varsity Track Varsity Fencing Allen, Theta Theta Barnes, Xi Xi Bockman, Omega Lovell, Xi Bronsdon, Theta Theta Powell, Xi Carley, Kappa Siek, Xi Dawson, Chi Vastola, Deardon, Tau Kaufman, Theta Theta Psi U's on Varsity Squash Eta Miller, Ringe, Zeta Tau Musser, Travis, Xi Thomson, Omega Vittirini, Tau Psi U's on Varsity Wrestling Psi U's on Varsity Lacrosse Larson, Zeta Fucigna, Theta Psi U's on Baseball McClusky, Pi Varsity Quinlan, Theta Bowllan, Upsilon Dawson, Chi Freeark, Psi U's on Varsity Skiing Omega Gray, Omega Bonney, Pi Lackey, Omega Robertson, Theta Malcolm, Xi Miller, Upsilon Psi U's on Varsity Soccer Phelan, Xi Bobertson, Xi Brittingham, Epsilon Sharp, Omega Haggerty, Iota Stitt, Omega Hopkins, Theta Wood, Upsilon Hough, Tau Kanka, Upsilon Psi U's on Tennis McLean, Psi Varsity Meservey, Psi Jemberg, Omega Woods, Upsilon Jones, Sigma Wright, Psi Hirshwald, Omega

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Alumni Please send us your news and that of your I 'si U friends for this department. More alumni. Notes are desired. Correspondents are needed to send us news regularly of their Chapter � is so that we If you are willing to undertake this work, let know, may keep you informed of deadlines.

Gamma boys, WiUiam F. Ill (Bowdoin '66), and Bandall T. (Bowdoin '67), are living in Barn- has Frederic C. Eastman, '42, joined stead, N.H. where Bill is an underwriter with Beinhold Publishing Corporation as a sales the National Life Ins. Co. of Vermont. representative for the five American Chemical Every commencement at Bowdoin the class Society publications. Brother Eastman will celebrating its 50th becomes automatically a work from the Chicago branch office and will member of the "Old Guard"; and it is an cover the southwestern part of Chicago, south honor and privelege to arrive therein. Twenty- ern Indiana, northern Oklahoma, Kentucky, eight Kappa alumni are in the circle. Six out Missouri, and Kansas. of the nine members of the '98, Delegation He was formerly associated with Kendall became "of age" this year: Jack Dana, Alumni Mills, textile manufacturers. President of the Chapter, is a prominent lawyer in Portland; Fred Drake is a fire and man in his Zeta marine insurance Bath, entering father's firm fifty years ago, and now has one Cakl B. Spaeth, '29, is Dean of the School of his own sons to take over when he retires. of Law at Stanford University. His address is William Lawrence, emeritus professor of 607 Gerona Road, Stanford, California. English at Columbia, has been living in Port The engagement of Miss Elsie G. Randall land since his retirement, and is a trustee of of Watertown, Connecticut, to George H. the college, as is also Jack Dana. Milton Mor Werrenrath, '33, has been announced. rill has an antique shop. Brother Werrenrath is the son of Reinald Tom Pierce, a retired banker, lives in or is an Werrenrath, Delta '05, for many years a mem near Tucson, Ariz., and Stephen Young ber of the Executive Council of Psi Upsilon, attorney at 1 Federal St. Boston. now with and famed for his singing in opera, concert Theodore Lazell, '92, is living and radio. his brother-in-law W. P. Nealley, 44 Grove Brother George Werrenrath is on the St., Bangor, Maine. faculty of the Hill School, Pottstown, Penn Hon. Robert Hale, '10, of Portland will sylvania. During World War II he served in run again for Congress on the Republican the Army in North Africa and Europe. ticket from the First Congressional District in Maine. Hon. George D. Varney, '23, of South Kappa Berwick was one of the candidates for Gover Amos Mills, '36, is in the nautical supply nor of Maine in the June primary elections business in Gloucester, Mass, and lives at 22 (Bepublican). Phdlips Ave., Rockport. The Mills have three State Bepresentative George Weeks, '27, of South Portland was a candidate for the Be children, two boys and a girl. in Dave Walden, '38, is with the American publican nomination as County Attorney Friends Service Committee in Pasadena, Calif. - the June primaries. and Miss Doris M. His address there is Box 966, Pasadena 20. Edward F. Dana, '29, were married in Win Carr, '43, is with the Home Planning FuUerton of New York June. has been Department of the Worcester (Mass.) Savings Harold Btolon, '30, appointed Bank. assistant director of commercial research of Dela Holden Findlay's, '44, family is living in the United States Steel Corporation of with U. S. Steel since his Irvington-on-Hudson. The big news is ware. He has been daughter Pamela, born last September. graduation. and Mrs. Thayer Francis, '44, is working as a junior Dr. Jim Hepburn, '38, Hepburn are of a born in engineer in refrigeration and in the parents daughter, January. consulting is assistant dustrial air conditioning after finishing his Dr. Phil Whittlesey, '41, resident in medicine at the Evans Memorial course at the School of Engineering at Brown to Miss University. Hospital, Boston. His engagement a of the Bill Mudge, '44, and Marion and their two Justine Smith of Walpole graduate 112 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON

Massachusetts Memorial Hospital School of Mrs.) Edwin D. Elliot, '18, and Bobert F. Nursing was recently announced. Travis, '50, son of Brother (and Mrs.) Harold Toney Eaton, '42, is studying at Chicago G. Travis, '20. University. Address Psi U House, 5639 Uni William G. Guernsey, '31, son of Ben versity Avenue, Chicago 37, 111. jamin W. Guernsey, '04, was elected presi Bob Hill, '42, is vice consul of the United dent of the Wesleyan University Alumni States in Antwerp, Belgium. Association of Greater Boston at the annual Bob Skinner, '43, has moved from Bloom- meeting, at which Harold G. Travis, '20, field Hills, to 1680 Bates Street, Birmingham, acted as toastmaster. Mich. Stanley L. Thornton, '20, has been Jim Longley, '48, is taking a year and a elected an alumni trustee of Wesleyan Uni half management training course with the versity. Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company. He Iota hves at 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. On June 20 the Columbus Sunday Dis Psi patch Magazine pubHshed an article called "House Full of Memories." This house, called Oscar T. Barck, Jr., '23, professor of Sunny-Slope, is the home of Hart Stanbery, history at Syracuse University, is one of the '00. He is the brother of Henry Stanbery, two authors of the book entitled, "Since 1900, '96, and Philemon B. Stanbery, '98, both A History of the United States in Our Times," of Cincinnati. Brother Hart Stanbery is de the Macmillan published by Company. scribed as a pleasant, rather courtly, elderly Dr. B. on 9 John MacHarg, '00, February man, with a Van Dyke beard. He is chairman addressed members of the Oneida Historical of the board of directors of the Pomeroy Society in Utica on "Lincoln�The Man of the (Ohio) National Bank, of which both he and Ages." his father were formerly presidents. His grand Carl Carmer, '14, has a piece, tided "The father, Henry Stanbery, was U. S. Attorney Beal Wisdom" in "Words to Live By," a book General under Johnson. of contemporary writings which originally ap peared as weekly features in "This Week" magazine. Omega Dr. G. Elliott May, '21, and Mrs. May of Harvey Headland, '33, is a commander in Boston announced the birth of a son, Elliott the U.S. Navy. He left the University of Chi Oram, on February 17. Dr. May is chief of cago in 1931 for Annapolis, where he grad staff of the Department of Gynecology and uated in 1935. During the late war Brother Obstetrics at the Boston City Hospital, and Headland served in the Atlantic, commanding president of the staff of the Newton-Wellesley several destroyer escorts and DE divisions. He Hospital. wrote The Diamond in May that he was on Gardner A. Callanen, '29, is a member shore duty as Aide and Assistant Chief of of tile Oneida County Bar Association for Staff to Admiral Frank J. Lowry, Commander 1948. His law firm is Foley, Callanen and Mare Island�Vallejo Area, Naval Base, San Foley, vidth offices at 63-66 Martin Building, Francisco. Utica, N.Y. Pi A. Kirk White, '32, has formed a foreign freight-forwarding company known as Ken Frederick S. Benson, '26, has been ad nedy-White and Company, Baltimore, Mary vanced to manager of the Syracuse Claim land. Office of the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Allen K. Ohashi, '30, is a. business man Company. turned arial navigator. He is now Supervisor Dr. James Flanagan, '40, vdll reside in of Operation Analysis for American Overseas Norwich, N.Y., where he will be a practicing Airlines. physician. John B. Turner, '25, served as chairman of LeRoy M. Pharis, '07, is a business execu the Chenango County, N.Y., Boy Scout finance tive in public utilities and his address is c/o campaign last winter. Ebasco International Corporation, 2 Bector Street, New York City. Xi Dr. Howard D. Hadley, Jr., '40, is an instructor at Syracuse University. An engagement of triple Xi interest is that John W. Flick, '24, president of the Syra of Patricia of Brother cuse Elliot, daughter (and University Travel Study club, was in THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 113

Europe recentiy making a survey of ten Board of Governors of the Alumni Association countries in order to investigate tiiroughly of Psi Upsilon, and a former member of the hotel and food situations for American Executive Council, has resigned the presi tourists who expect to be traveling on the dency of National Artists and Concert Corpo continent next year. ration and is now with 20th Century Fox Morris S. Weeden, '41, has been appointed Films. director of the Financial Division of Bristol Telades is the name of a new television Laboratories, Inc. He was a captain in the show conceived and produced by Jim Cooke, U.S. Army and was stationed at Camp Lee, '43. The show is built around tiie old parlor Virginia, for two and a half years, joining game Charades, with a panel of "experts" Bristol Laboratories shortly after leaving the seated around a living room set trying to solve Army. the Telades being presented by three profes Joseph L. Hueber, '24, was recently sional actresses. Included is a "mystery elected president of the Christian Brothers' Telade," presented with visual props only, Academy Men's Club in Syracuse. While in which is for the "looking-in" audience to his senior year at Syracuse University, Brother solve. Prize for the best solution is a deluxe set Hueber was team manager under Coach of the World Book encyclopedia. The show Chick Meehan. He is also a past president of adapts the combined format of Information the Varsity Club. Please and Twenty Questions to the television Harry Barber, '25, trust officer since 1926 medium. Telades was presented over station of the Merchants National Bank and Trust WGN-TV three times. Company, has recently been elected vice- president and trust officer. Epsilon Phi Chi Emc B. Lusby, '26, has been elected chair man of the Board of Directors of the Chemical The engagement of Miss Virginia Schley Institute of Canada. of New York City to William W. McKeever, '39, of Philadelphia, was recently announced. Nu The wedding is planned for early fall. Epsilon Jesse A. Vail, '50, was married December Omicron 23, 1947, to Miss Rita Perkins of Evanston, III., He is the son of Samuel C. Vail, Rho Alfred H. Morton, '19, a member of the '16.

OMICRON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETS

The Board of Directors of the Omicron report as authorized by the President to in Alumni Association held their regular meeting vestigate the insurance on the Alumni property Wednesday evening. May 19, 1948. President �house furnishing, etc., and gave his recom Hal Cunningham called the meeting to order. mendations on the proper insurance policy. Secretary Aubrey Cookman read the minutes There was general discussion in regard to of the last meeting and also his suggestions on the following: Raising rent of Active Chapter; the proposed budget for 1948-49. President proposal to appoint a property improvement Cunningham reported on plans for the future committee; proposal to appoint a scholarship contract between actives and the Alumni As committee; proposal to expand Board of Di sociation. rectors to twelve instead of nine. Brother F. O. Brown, Chairman of the Fi Brothers Hatch, Kirk and Six traveled 150 nance Committee, Brother W. F. Alcock, miles to attend this Directors' meeting which Chairman of the Collection Committee, and certainly proves their keen interest in the wel Brother J. F. Cooke, Alumni Rushing Chair fare of the Omicron. man, reported. Brother Park Browm gave his THE CHAPTERS SPEAK

THETA Union College this time of year. The large turnout for this event insures future get-togethers between The most outstanding event of the recent these houses and others of Union College. months at the Theta was the initiation of With the weekend of May 7-9, marking ten new brothers. The 115th Annual Initiation tiie last and biggest of the Union Prom week was held at the Chapter House on Saturday, ends, for the school year '47-'48, the Theta, April 17, with many Alumni in attendance. in accordance with the traditions of the chap The Theta was fortunate in in very having ter, held an all Formal House Party Weekend. the Halls, D. W. Weed '03, and H. F. The weekend was one of much merriment and of Naumann '14, whose wit and story telling party, particularly for the brothers graduating their college days made the dinner and party in June. This was their last big get-together the initiation a most one. follovwng enjoyable of the year, their sendoff party from the new Theta are: Charles The brothers of the House, perhaps a little premature but the oc D. Abba, '51, Schenectady, N.Y., William B. casion warrented it. Wilham H. Baldwin, '51, Bloomfield, N.J., With the school year '47-'48, drawing to a Cleary, '51, Johnston, N.Y., Vincent P. Don close, the Theta can proudly say that the nelly, '51, Schenectady, N.Y., Lawrence J. House is well back in the style of pre-war Foley, '51, Albany, N.Y., Charles C. Leader, days, in all aspects of college and fraternity Jr., '51, Schenectady, N.Y., David W. Pahner, life and is striving now to better and '51, Lynbrook, N.Y., Bichard F. Phihp, '51, strengthen these relations for the future Oneida, N.Y., Robert C. Strand, '51, Bloom Theta brothers. field, N.J., and Bichard G. Young, '51, Rye, William W. Naumann, Jr. N.Y. Associate Editor The month of March was marked by two weekend for the brothers and their parties, DELTA New York dates, held at the Chapter House; further, by University Tuesday night dinners for the trustees. It is gratifying to observe the renewed Brothers' Wives and Members of the Faculty interest shown in the chapter by both the of Union College and their wives. Alumni and the active Brotiiers following tiie The house underwent a series of interior Annual Alumni Dinner. At this dinner the repairs during March and April, plumbing active chapter found it could stand a lot of the mainly, which necessitated the closing of the brushing up on its songs and singing; Lodge Boom for tiiat period. The repairs have remedy has been to omit one regular Monday been completed and the Lodge Room re night meeting a month and to hold an in opened, sporting a fresh look in the guise of formal meeting the following Friday night at new paint. which we rehearse Psi Upsilon songs. In the field of sports, we find the Theta We want to let the foUowing alumni know well represented on nearly all the spring that we appreciate the interest they have varsity teams. Brothers Enstice '46, Bice '46, shown in the house by dropping in on our and Meehan '50, hold down first string meetings and social functions: Brothers Mc positions on the baseball team while brothers Dowell, '18; Beynolds, '31; Kanwisher, '43; Fucigna, '48, and Quinlan, '50, are important Greenleaf, '43; Hjertberg, '44; Rickenback, assets to the attack strength of the Union '46; and Staudt, '47. We would like to have College lacrosse team. Brother Hopkins, '50, more of the alumni visit the house. holds dovioi an important position on the Due to the efforts of Vice-President Steve Soccer team, just recentiy given college recog Baur, our six Pledges are progressing very nition as a varsity sport, largely due to the rapidly. The Pledges are: John Barlow, John efforts of brother Hopkins. Previous to this Counes, Al Luhks, William Smart, Ray Woz- season, the team played local organizations nick, and John Krochta, a transfer student only. from Scranton who shows great possibilities To further interfraternity relations at Union, as a halfback on the N.Y.U. football team. the Theta organized a picnic-beer party Three weeks ago it was decided that a new between Chi Psi, Alpha Delta Phi, and Psi lavra was the only answer to the dust bowl Upsilon, for Saturday, May 1. The party we had for a front yard. The strained backs turned out to be a big success though many of and blistered hands of the Brothers sustained the weaker sex complained of the chill in the in this landscaping task is beginning to pay air, that is common at Thatcher State Park off in the form of a new green carpet.

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The Delta is looking forward to climaxing highlighted by a speech given by Brother its social functions for the school year by John B. Burleigh (Zeta '14), a member of the having a beach picnic with the Lambda at Executive Council. The entire evening's fes Brother Bickenback's estate in Connecticut tivities were most successful and with the following final exams. initiation of above Pledge Class we have at Bobert W. Mitchell last regained our pre-war numerical status. Associate Editor At the time of this writing the Spring house party is still a week off, but all arrange ments have been made under the able direc tion of Social Chairman Pete Prince and with the prospect of many returning alumni Brothers we are assured of a gala weekend. The sports scene finds Brothers Young and Houston out for Spring football, Joe Daggett on the varsity golf team, and Carlisle Jones assistant manager of the tennis team. Intra mural softball has just begun and we should complete the season close to the top. We are happy to announce the recent pledging of the following men: David E. Flavin, Concord, Mass., class of 1950, and James M. Hutchinson, Hartford, Conn.; Mar shall A. Staunton, Milwaukee, Wis. and Wil liam W. Wirtz, Chicago, 111., all in the class of 1951. The latest elections showed the following results: President, William A. Taylor; First Vice-President, John T. Sincell; Second Vice- President, William P. Dynan; Third Vice- President, Joseph A. Daggett and Secretary, Charles Le Boutelier. These men will take office next Fall and we are looking forward to a most successful year under their capable Stephen G. Murphy guidance. President of the Delta Delta Chapter Robert W. Waterman Associate Editor SIGMA Brown University GAMMA Amherst College The advent of Spring finds the Sigma en main the winter season, the house joying a most successful semester. The During chapter was in of severe weather. event of the term has been tiie initiation cere very busy spite at which Members in as mony and banquet held on April 22, participated varsity sports well as in intramural activities. In a hard time the following men were initiated: Class with we were of 1949: Thomas M. Moore, St. Louis, Mo., fought basketball rivalry Deke, to treat the to a of beer. The and Rowell A. M. Schleicher, Forest Hills, obliged boys keg for next looks N.Y., Class of 1951: James O. Alexander, outlook year better, however, and the Dekes are in an extra Kennett Square, Pa., George S. Baird, Jr., already laying Greenwich, Conn., Alan S. Calnan, Madera, keg. Bushnell of Calif,, Wilham P. Finneran, Worcester, Mass., Brother George Brighton, served as the win Harry Hake, III, Glendale, Ohio, Frederick Mich., president during ter Brother Kirk Munroe of H. Horlbeck, Jr., Charleston, S.C, E. Eugene term; Long- Mass. was elected to suc Jemail, Newport, R.I., James W. Marshall, meadow, recently ceed him. Brother Munroe is also a member Jr., Chicago, 111., George Parker, Janesville, of the Student Council, been re-elected Wis., Richard S. Parker, Springfield, Mass., having Edward T. Richards, Jr., Peace Dale, R.I., for his third term. The house two tea dances the James H. Stoehr, Jr., Terrace Park, Ohio, gave during which were attended members of Roger W. Strecker, Highland Park, 111. and season, by all the houses on Also a success Chades C. Wemyss, Groveton, N.H. The ban campus. very was ful cocktail for the faculty members quet, attended by a large alumni group, party 116 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON and their wives was given. The college prom on Saturday afternoon. May 8, and on that is on May 15, followed the next weekend by night, a large Block Party will be held, com the famous "Gammie" Prom, which will in plete with dancing, games, shows, and lots clude a formal dance with a buffet dinner at of fun. This affair is an annual one, run by the house, a cocktail party and Sunday picnics. the fraternities for the school, and all pro to a fund chosen the During coUege prom weekend the house will ceeds go by Pamphratria combine with Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi Council. This year's profits will be donated to in a lawn party. the new Student Social Affairs Building being We have just completed our spring rushing planned for the campus. attended the season, and were very fortunate to get an Brother Walt O'Leary recently other fine delegation. The following students Seven-Power Conference, held this year at the have been pledged: Alexander, P. F., Cleve Chi, and reported back that a good time was land Heights, Ohio; Bushman, T. D., Green had by all. Brother Joe Ambrose is rowing on wich, Conn.; Cleminshaw, C. H., Hudson, the Freshman Crew. Ohio; Cummings, W. B., Jr., New Rochelle, On April 28, elections were held for the N.Y.; Denison, B. D., Grand Bapids, Mich.; various officers who will carry on during the Gustafson, D. D., Highland Park, N.J.; remainder of this term and the first half of Hanaway, W. L., Short Hills, N.J.; Lerner, next year. Brother Dick Pott was elected A. S., Buffalo, N.Y.; McGratii, J. W., Free- President, with Norm Grulich being picked to port, N.Y.; Neale, B. E., Mt. Clemens, Mich.; hold down the office of Vice-President. Others Sexton, B. J., Madison, Wis.; Shaw, L. N., who took office were Phil Bruno, Walt Jr., New Rochelle, N.Y.; Snodgrass, R. W., O'Leary, Al Brower and Frank Brophy our Clean, N.Y.; Tooker, R. L., Riverhead, N.Y.; new Recording Secretary, Corresponding Sec Tyler, J., Plainfield, N.J.; WUliams, H. A., II, retary, Treasurer, and Social Chairman respec Conneaut, Ohio; Wyman, T. H., St. Louis, tively. Mo. The year being nearly over, there remains With the addition of the new delegation but one more big social event, an outing with and its many activities, the house looks for the Delta at the hpme of Brother Tom Bick ward to a successful spring season. enback in East Port Chester, Conn. Last year, Thatcher W. Rea, Jr. the Lambda took the place over for a day Associate Editor and' a wonderful time was had by all�so we are all looking forward to the Memorial Day weekend. LAMBDA Columbia University Richard M. Pott, Jr. Associate Editor As the present academic year draws to a close, we of the Lambda can look back upon an eventful season. The chapter grew from XI Wesleyan seven in number to eighteen, the quarters of University the fratemity have been improved, and the The Xi Chapter has been the busier this period has been a social success for all con past winter term than perhaps any other simi cerned. lar time in its history. WeU represented in all Brother Bill Makuta was recently voted to sports, the Xi also bent its efforts to raising be the outstanding member of the Junior its scholastic standing very considerably. The Class, and has been awarded the Junior Key, winter Prom broke the monotony of the seven- presented each year by the Alumni Associa odd feet of snow which winter gave Connecti tion of Psi UpsUon. Brother Bog Lopez has cut, and this article is being written in the been initiated into the Senior Society of shadow of the Spring House Parties, which Dumbells, an honorary engineering society at have just passed on, their success mostly due Columbia, and while on tiie subject of engi to Brother Binswanger, Social Chairman. neering. Brothers Al Brower and Glenn Randa Brother Dundas recentiy became the father took an active part as members of the com of a fine young candidate for the Class of '69, mittee which arranged the highly successful and that news overshadows the fact that he Engineers' Formal which took place May 1. added another stellar season of basketball to Brothers Ed Seelye and Frank Brophy are the his record, being high scorer for the year, and Lambda representatives on the Pamphratria all this after the excellent football performance Spring Carnival Committee, and we are all he turned in on Wesleyan's Undefeated and looking forward to a great weekend on May Untied Varsity. 7-8. There will be a fratemity Open-House Brothers Bames, LoveU, Siek, and Vastola on the 7th, a series of humorous field events were on the Varsity Fencing team�Brother THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 117

Barnes Captain and member of the Standing in which he regularly places, and the javelin Committee of the CoUege Church, SkuU and and shot. Brother Sanders is, with Brother and member of the Class Serpent, Day Com Stone, a discus man. mittee. Both Brothers Siek and Vastola are in Brother Dunn is Business Manager of the the Pre-Med and Club, the former also a OUa Podrida, with Clark and Jeffrey assisting member of the Wesleyan Glee Club, and he him: Brother Suttoii is Assistant Business has been accepted for Columbia Med. School, Manager of the Cardinal, assisted by Brothers which he wUl enter in the fall. Svikhart, McCallum, and Leete. Freshman Brothers Robertson and Bushmann joined Track also claims Brothers Velleu and Mc Brother Dundas in receiving Varsity Basket Callum, while the Wesleyan University Yacht baU letters, and Bobertson has been "Judge" Club finds 'Jib' Leete the new Secretary- in the outstanding hitting ranks of the Var Treasurer and member of the team Baseball Varsity sity team, having many weU-placed with Brother Norton. Also in the Club are hits to his credit. Brother Phelon is one of the Brothers Jones, Velleu, McCallum, Jeffrey, and Brother Malcolm is also Varsity pitchers Raines, and Derby. Brother Andrews is on the on the squad. College Body Vocational Guidance Comm., Radio Station WES is assisted being by Brother Byron on the Nominating Comm. for Brother as Finch, Advertising Manager, and Non College Body Officers, Brother Sanders Brother Mansfield, who has a on the program on the C.B. Assembly Committee, Brother Cardinal Network. Brotiier Baker claims he Meyer on the Cardinal Key, and also Chair is just a "disk but his and jockey" engineering man, with Brother Cawley, of the Xi's intra dramatic are not overlooked knowledge by mural sports. "Beau" Byron is Assistant to the Station. Freshman Brothers Young (in Bump Cawley, who is tiie Treasurer of the and are also to their turn publicity) Roy up Xi. The new Officers for the term tables in the station. Spring are: President, "Tex" Cotins; Vice-President, Brother Baker is the Chief Electrician of "Tex" Jordan; Secretary, "Tiny" Sanders; '92 Theater, and was also of the Manager J.V.P., Herb Phelon; S.V.P., "Biff" Bins Varsity Swimming Team. Brother Stone was wanger; Corr. Secy., "Jib" Leete. the of the team, scorer spark plug being high Other items of note on the Xi's this to add to his similar laurels of the history- year, writing semesters of this swift-closing school past two years! also found time to be 'Chip' year may have without here, Chairman of the Honor passed recording System Committee, but it should be evident that the Xi is and Social Chairman of the memorable March really pouring its fullest efforts into the Wesleyan Parties connected with the Prom. He CoUege Campus, for the credit of the House. One was for Seven, and is now tapped Mystical last notice might be Brother Purcell's mem on the Track team, in the Discus Varsity bership on the Senior Class Committee, and event. Brothers and Mc WeUing, Stevens, his recent Chairmanship of the successful 3rd Callum were on the Frosh Swim perforrners Annual Inter-Collegiate Newspaper Confer and turned in ming team, grand performances ence, member of the senate recently, the Pub as a credit to the House, while other Fresh lications Board, and the Special Constitution man Brothers, Clark, Jeffrey, Jones, and Roy, Committee of the C.B. The two Phi Beta were on the Freshman Squash team. Brothers Kappas, Brothers Halsted and Cotins, also Byron, Norton, and Skelley were on the JV reflect the intense work the Xi has been and Brothers and Squash team, Binswanger wrapped up in during the past year. Several Travis on the Varsity. Brother Travis was one members of the Varsity teams who secured of the Freshman top-notch performers! The letters were omitted from a recent Diamond, stayed . with their athletic endeavors and but time does not allow their inclusion here. Brother Jim 'King' PhiUips was elected Cap We close our report with a real and sincere tain of the Frosh Tennis team, supported by backing of the Diamond Club of Northwest Brothers Clark, Hillyer, Jeffrey, Jones, and ern, which the Xi has voted unanimously Kennedy. (over 60 men) to support for membership in Brother Bushmann is playing Number 1 on Psi Upsilon at the coming National Conven the Varsity Tennis Team, and Brother Skelley tion. The recent communication of the Psi is also performing with that team. With Upsilon Club of Chicago puts the case beyond Brother Stone on the Varsity Track team are doubt, let alone the fact that a Xi man Brother Sanders and Brother Leete. 'Jib' Leete organized the Club�Dick "Pup" Kent�Here's has not been defeated in the 35 pound weight to you, our jovial Friend! event in all the track meets to date this season, Frederick DeLand Leete, III and also competes in the 16 pound hammer. Associate Editor 118 THE DIAMOND F PSI UPSILON

Administration UPSILON of Rochester ated as a Master of Business University and Curtis Andrew Smith as a Doctor of Since last reporting, two new brothers have Medicine. About half of the Chapter wiU re been initiated within the "Halls of the Upes," ceive degrees at the June convocation; it is they are Harold Bumpus, Attleboro, Mass., expected, however, that a large portion of and Rolf Kursten, Rochester, both class of these men will return to work for higher 1951. degrees. The Alumni Association of Western New Brother Dan Brown, '16, has kindly askea York had another successful "Owl Night" at the entire membership to be his guest for a the chapter house late in April, thus con theatre party. After some spirited voting John tinuing a custom that meets with the hearty Loves Mary was finaUy picked as the play to approval of alumni and active chapter ahke. be reviewed. This particular get-together unofficially marked Brother Sommers reports that the quarterly the opening of a drive for funds to complete reports show the Chapter to be in a very soUd the refurbishing of the house in many impor financial condition, while President Robinson tant details. It is hoped that contributions wiU and House Chairman Swantz are pushing im be forthcoming in time to get the work started provements forward in the physical plant it over the summer vacation. self. On the sport's scene the house is fielding The Chapter had the pleasure of having an undefeated nine in the intramural league, Richard Kent, Xi '48; Fred Bauman, Omega whUe Dick Bowllan, Art Wood, and Al MiUer '12; and Edward Kemler, Omega '19, dine form our delegation to the U. of R. varsity. with us on April 26. As president of the As this is written the brothers are recover Diamond Club at Northwestern, Brother Kent ing from an evening of gastronomic deUght. gave a talk concerning the petition which that B." revived their con "Brother and Mrs. pre-war group intends to submit at the coming custom of herding the "boys" out for dinner vention. Brother Kemler and Brother Bauman, en masse. This year a party of about thirty representing the Diamond Committee of the descended upon the "Johnson House" in Chicago Psi Upsilon club, also spoke in favor Churchville and attempted to do justice to of that group. the fare set forth. Even the heartiest eaters Brothers Hirshwald, Jemberg (Tennis), among us were forced to admit defeat in Thomson and Bokman (Track) and" Stitt, the face of the servings set out, while one Sharp, Freeark, Lackey, and Gray (BasebaU) and all were inclined toward contentment for have all more than held their positions on the the rest of the evening. University Varsity teams. A littie over a month hence, the house will Ernest Cadman Colwell and Professor Mal be saying "good luck" to Brothers Glenn Bas- colm P. Sharp were dinner guests of the sett, Dick Bowllan, Frank Dowd, Jack Fas- Chapter on May 3. As president of the Uni sett, Danny Isaacson, Bob Lownie, Wally versity Dr. Colwell was able to answer many Howes, Henry Martin and Skip Page as the of the questions proposed by the members class of '46-'48 heads out into the big cold concerning administration and educational world. theory and policy of the governing body of That's the news until we get to the Phila the University. delphia convention. Brother Ray Freeark has received a trophy G. I. McKelvey as a result of his election as the most valuable Associate Editor player in the University. Brother William MuUins was recentiy voted as the most out OMEGA University of Chicago standing member of the Junior Class by the Chapter. The social calendar has been unusually full June 12 is the date that has been deter this quarter with the inclusion of a gambling mined for the Annual Inter-Fraternity Sing. in which were party poker chip fortunes lost Andrew MacLeish and John Bokman are at the turn of the wheel, a gay '90's party busily preparing the Omega for distribution complete with curUng black mustachios, and to the Alumni prior to this event. This Chap two exceUent date dinners. The ideas for ter fully expects to be the recipient of the these parties were formulated by Lloyd Fos- award given to the University athletic cham dick while Brothers Stitt and of the Clay pions each year at the song fest since the furnished the culinary department necessary house teams have been top-notch all year matter. long. James Randolph Compton has been gradu- "There has been great activity at the Omega THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 119 since the new television set was installed. '48, 1st vice president; Frederick Ross, '48, Brother Bay Freeark originated plans for pro 2nd vice president, and Richard Downing, curing this electronic marvel and was soon '48, 3rd vice president. The other officers are: joined by a substantial majority of the other John CauUcins, '49, rushing chairman; Rich members. The Psi Upsilon Mother's Club ard Borton, '49, recording secretary; Frank made the purchase possible by generously Selmser, '49, 1st corresponding secretary, and contributing the necessary funds. Bobert Irion, '50, 2nd corresponding secretary. James Hotchkiss Franklin N. Selmser Associate Editor Associate Editor

PI Syracuse University CHI Cornell University Dances, initiation and a host of social and The big news from the Chi is the initiation fraternity events have kept the Pi men more of 15 new brothers on March 20. They are, than busy since our last article was submitted as previously listed in The Diamond, those to The Diamond. pledged during the fall term, with the excep Unfortunately, the final day of our initia tion of Brother Lansaw, recently returned tion conflicted with the seven power confer after pledging in the fall of '46. From the ence held at the Chi chapter on April 23. We Class of '50; J. William Epler, Paul Lansaw, were, however, able to send four representa Alan Longley, Robert Munsick. From the tives, who returned to give the brothers an Class of '51: Walter Ashbaugh, Sidney Con indication of the standings of the seven chap ger, Art Doyle, John Ehret, BiU Field, Harold ters as well as some of the issues to be raised Finch, Paul Gerwin, Frederick Kaimer, Bill at the national convention this summer. The MarshaU, Bill PhiUips, and BoUin Teare. We Chi chapter, as host, did a really fine job and are also happy to announce the pledging of next year we hope to have more complete Frank Ellsworth Pitcher, Freeport, L.I. into representation at the conference. the freshman class, shortly after the beginning Thirteen new men were brought into the of the Spring term. Pi at the formal initiation ceremonies held Two of our members have recently received at the chapter house on April 23. Brother honors. Norm Dawson, graduated since Feb Eric WUl, Pi '46, acted as toastmaster at the ruary, has been given the annual senior initiation banquet and the guest speakers for award presented by the Cornell Daily Sun to the occasion were Brothers Davis C. Bur the "outstanding athlete of the year," based roughs, Pi '16, Edgar B. Ingraham, Pi '12, on "performance, sportsmaiiship, and team and Earle J. Machold, Pi '25. play." More widely known for his football The following men were initiated: WUliam ability, Norm was a winning dash man on Baldwin, John Burns, Raymond Corson, Ed the track team and a stand-out on the Big ward Crichton, Louis Richard Draudt, Wil Red nine. Also honored is "Spike Gerwin" liam Grauhch, Peter Guest, Graham Margot, who has been selected in a campus-wide elec Edward Meyer, Jerome Nowak, Paul Royar, tion as next year's sophomore president. Bichard Vorce, and Mercer White. The weekend of April 24 was a big one With the completion of the initiation cere for the Chi as they played host to the six monies, the pledge class now comprises seven other New York chapters at the annual con members. Five of these men, who have been ference which for the first time joined all pledged since the last issue of The Diamond, seven. The formal part of the conference con are: Alexander Brainard, John Bishop, Hil- sisted of an evening meeting at which general bert Finn, James Lowry, and Theodore Vree- policies and ideas were exchanged complete land. with a discussion of the activities of the The main social event of the season for respective chapters by their delegates. The brothers and pledges takes place on May 7, meeting was willingly followed by a small 8, and 0, when the Phi has its spring weekend. party which lasted for different lengths of A party and get-together on Friday night wiU time for the various members. precede the cocktail party and formal dance The interfraternity athletic program is draw to a close with a race run on Saturday. Sunday concludes the weekend ing tight being when the members and their dates have a for the All-Sports trophy, awarded to the buffet dinner and dance at the chapter house. house with the highest total of points for Elections were held in March with the the year. In basketball the Owls ended in following brothers elected for the spring term: a tie for third after losing a triple-overtime Paul Fulmer, '48, president; Bob Robinson, (Continued on page 124) 1948 CONVENTION HELD WITH THE TAU, U

THE CONVENTION AT THE By Albert'

WAS a great privilege to attend the ated from college in 1921, but who fortu ITOne Hundred and Sixth Annual Con nately has been privileged to be associated vention of Psi Upsilon held at the Tau with undergraduates in the intervenuig Chapter in Philadelphia on June 16, 17, years, I say with all sincerity, that I have 18, as a delegate of the Executive Coun never met a more attractive, a more rep cil. I recall that it was at the Tau, on resentative, a more intelligent group of May 6, 7, 8, 1920, that I, as the junior young college men than I did at this Con delegate from the Phi, attended my first vention. I wish to note that ten members Convention of the Fraternity, its Eighty- of the Executive Council of the Fraternity Seventh Annual Convention. It is interest were present. The four officers attended: ing to note that each of these Conventions President, LeRoy J. Weed, Theta '01; followed very closely on the termination Vice-President, Benjamin T. Burton, Chi of a World War in which our country had '21; Secretary, Edward T. Richards, Sigma participated and in which our Fratemity '27; and Treasurer, A. Northey Jones, Beta had played such an important part. The Beta '17. In addition, John R. Burleigh, problems confronting these two Conven Zeta '14, Harold L. Field, Upsilon '10, tions were very similar, involving as they Albert C. Jacobs, Phi '21, Robert I. Lag did the return to normal undergraduate gren, Xi '13, Walter S. Robinson, Lambda life after years of war activity. '19, and Henry N. Woolman, Tau '96, rep The Convention was from all points of resented the Executive Councd. The other view a most successful one. Delegates at members of the Council would have at tended from twenty-seven Chapters of the tended had pressing engagements not in Fratemity, circumstances beyond their terfered. I am certain that this is the best control making it impossible for the Zeta attendance on the part of the Executive Zeta to be represented. As one who gradu- Council except for Conventions that have 120 llVERSITy OF PENNSVLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA

TAU�SOME OBSERVATIONS

Jacobs, Phi '21

been held in New York City. It should also served to the delegates, life would have be noted that the Board of Governors of been nowhere nearly so happy. the Alumni Association was well repre The opening function of the Convention sented. Robert P. Hughes, Delta '20, Vice- was a smoker held at the Tau on the eve President; Charles H. Seaver, Psi '21, Sec ning of Wednesday, June 16. The Chapter retary; Maxwell L. Scott, Pi '28; and Wal was the gracious host to the delegates of ter S. Robinson, Lambda '19, were present. the several Chapters and the event proved The Convention managed in a very happy to be a great success. The brothers from way to combine seriousness with pleasure. coast to coast were thus afiforded an ex The delegates from our Chapters, in cellent opportunity to get acquainted be this country and Canada, began to gather fore the serious business of the Convention at the Chapter House, known as "The started. Castle," on Wednesday afternoon, June 16. The first business session of the Conven The Tau Chapter had been faced with a tion was called to order on Thursday real housing problem in view of the two morning, June 17, at the Philadelphia National Political Conventions that were Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, by C. Linn to follow immediately. Had it not been Seiler, Tau '08, Acting Chairman of the for the generous hospitality of the Uni Alumni Convention Committee. He ex versity of Pennsylvania through its Presi- tended to the Convention the greetings of . dent. Dr. George W. McClelland, and its the Tau Chapter, in the absence of Donald Board of Trustees, of which Brother Rob F. Torrey, Tau '14, Convention Commit ert T. McCracken, Tau '04, is chairman, in tee Chairman, who was ill, and who since, making available comfortable University to the deep regret of the entire Fratemity, dormitory space immediately adjacent to has passed away. This, it should be noted, the Tau "Castle" where meals could be was the scene of the 1920 Convention.

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The Fraternity is deeply indebted to ecutive Council, gave his usual clear and Brother H. K. Kurtz, Jr., Eta '14, of the comprehensive report on the financial Philadelphia Cricket Club, for the gracious situation of the Fraternity. It was during hospitality extended to us. this session that the petition of the Dia Brother LeRoy J. Weed, Theta '01, mond Club of Northwestern University for President of the Executive Council, took a Chapter of Psi Upsilon was presented the chair and welcomed the delegates. He by Brother Richard Kent, Xi '48, a mem appointed the customary committees nec ber and the organizer of the Diamond essary to carry forward the business of the Club. The petition was strongly supported Convention. Credentials of the several by Brother Dan H. Brown, Omega '16, delegates were presented. Brother Weed who told the Convention about the en was made the Permanent Chairman of the thusiastic endorsement the Club was re Convention. Brother Richards, the Secre ceiving from alumni in the Chicago area. tary of the Executive Council, was as At a later session of the Convention the signed the difficult task of Recorder for delegates voted unanimously to submit the Convention. the petition of the Diamond Club to the One of the most delightful occasions several Chapters. It was during the Thurs followed the opening session and was the day afternoon session that the delegates luncheon held at the Philadelphia Cricket began to give the oral Chapter reports. I Club. Following the singing of the dox was much impressed by the sincerity and ology, the Right Reverend William P. enthusiasm with which our Chapters are Remington, Tau '00, a Bishop of the Prot facing the problems of today, which are in estant Episcopal Church, whose visit to many ways quite similar to those in 1920. to note that the dele the Phi during my undergraduate days I I was very happy still recall with much pleasure, gave the gates were fully aware of the importance blessing. Brother Robert T. McCracken, of scholarship. I noticed, I am confident, Tau '04, Chairman of the Trustees of the an improvement throughout the Frater University of Pennsylvania and who had nity. attended all three Conventions held with Since Conventions always combine busi the Tau (1901, 1920, 1948), introduced ness with pleasure, the afternoon session Dr. George W. McClelland, President of was cut short so that the delegates could the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mc enjoy the Psi Upsilon of Philadelphia Clelland very graciously went all the way "Owlting." In passing it is interesting to out to Chestnut Hill to welcome officially note that in the Association there are some the delegates to the Convention. A Kappa three hundred and sixty graduate members Sigma '03, and an alumnus of the Univer of our Fraternity. Many attended the sity of Pennsylvania, he greeted the dele "Owltmg" at the Philadelphia Cricket Club gates informally and cordially and with a on that glorious June afternoon. It was full understanding of the significant part highlighted by a soft ball game between played by coUege fraternities in under the Tau brethren and the visiting dele graduate hfe. In connection with the na gates from our other Chapters, and was tional political picture it is interesting to won, as I recall, by the latter. The umpire, note that a few weeks later Brother Mc and an expert one, too, was none other Cracken announced the appointment of than Dr. Charles S. F. Lincoln, Kappa Harold E. Stassen as President of the Uni '91, who has attended more Conventions, versity of Pennsylvania. The appearance I believe, than any other member of our by Dr. McClelland was thus one of his last Fraternity. At the "Owlting" I saw Brother as President of his Alma Mater. J. Duncan E. Spaeth, Tau '88, one of the The Convention reconvened on Thurs foimders of the Tau, who was surrounded day afternoon and the President, LeRoy J. by many brothers "of the then and now." Weed, Theta '01, appointed the necessary Brother George B. Harris, Tau '88, another Standing Committees. Brother A. Northey foimder of the Chapter, came out to the Jones, Beta Beta '17, Treasurer of the Ex Cricket Club just to attend the "Owlting." THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 123

An informal dinner at the Philadelphia Brother A. Northey Jones, Beta Beta '17, Cricket Club followed the successful for his devoted and valuable service as "Owlting." After the dinner an informal the Treasurer of the Executive Council; party permitted the undergraduates and one to Brother Edward C. Peattie, Phi the alumni to become better acquainted. '06, for his splendid work as Editor of The Brother C. Linn Seiler, Tau '08, who played Diamond of Psi Upsfion; and one to Miss such a notable part in the success of the Nancy Ford for her excellent service in Convention, served as a Master of Cere running the office of the Executive Council monies, and introduced many prominent at 420 Lexington Avenue in New York Psi U's. Among them were Bishop 'Wil City. liam P. Remington, Tau '00, Horace H. One of the most important business "Duke" Patterson, Tau '93, J. Duncan E. items was the reelection of Brother LeRoy Spaeth, Tau '88, and A. Sidney Jenkins, J. Weed, Theta '01, Brother A. Northey Gamma '14. Brother Henry N. Woohnan, Jones, Beta Beta '17, and Brother Henry Tau '96, one of the most beloved of the N. Woolman, Tau '96, to the Executive Tau brethren, a Trustee of his Alma Ma Council. In addition. Brother Oliver B. ter, and an untiring worker in connection Merrill, Jr., Gamma '25, was elected to fill with the Convention, then introduced the the imexpired term of Brother Earle J. brothers to a moving picture-horse racing Machold, Pi '25, whose business interests game that was greatly enjoyed by all pres outside of New York City had made it ent. The evening was a tremendous suc necessary for him to resign. cess. At the close of the business session on Friday morning, June 18, found the Friday afternoon. Brother Robert P. brothers a little tardy in arriving for the Hughes, Delta '20, Vice-President of the ten o'clock session at the Cricket Club. Alumni Association and representing the However, once the session got under way Board of Governors, explained to the the undergraduates with a seriousness assembled delegates the various activities characteristic of them in the postwar era and functions carried on by the Alumni plunged into the important business before Association. the Convention. It was decided unanimous Immediately after the end of the busi ly to submit the petition of the Diamond ness session of the Convention, the Annual Club of Northwestern University for a Meeting of the Alumni Association was chapter of Psi Upsilon to the Several Chap held, with Brother Robert P. Hughes, ters for approval. The delegates voted to Delta '20, presiding. Brother Ellmore C. hold the 1949 Annual Convention of the Patterson, Jr., Omega '35, was duly elected Fraternity with the Zeta, in Hanover, New to the Board of Governors. Psi of Hampshire, in June of the coming year. The Upsilon Philadelphia arranged Pi Chapter extended its invitation to be for a tour of historic places in Philadelphia the host of the Convention in 1950, which and its environs which was enjoyed late will be the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Friday afternoon by many of the visiting founding of the Chapter. It is to be noted delegates. that the Pi has been the Convention host The Convention Banquet was held at in 1900 and in 1925, its silver and golden the Warwick Hotel on Friday evening, jubilees respectively. Member identifica June 18. For some unexplained reason tion cards, "sweetheart" pins, the official I was asked to serve as master of cere Fraternity tie, and the official listmg of monies, perhaps because until the after brothers who have been members of two noon session of the Convention I had been the member of the Executive Coun Chapters were seriously discussed. Con junior I this honor with siderable emphasis was placed on aca cil. accepted great trepi as I that the demic requirements, particularly in regard dation, recalling did, perhaps had to pledges. greatest Psi Upsilon Toastmaster Convention Several special resolutions were adopted served at the two previous at the Brother Chester N. on behalf of the Convention�one to Banquets Tau, 124 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON

Zeta from the Zeta, Thomas Farr, Jr., Tau '90, one of the charter '50, delegate members of the Tau. Brother LeRoy J. B. K. Rmge, Tau '23. at the was excel Weed, Theta '01, was called on to reply The singing Banquet to the "Carollers" who to the greetings of welcome extended to lent, due in part the Convention by President McClelland performed nobly. They sang a Convention and by Brother McCracken. The members Song that had been written for the oc excellent of of the Executive Council present at the casion. I recall the singing a Brother Roswell C. Peardon, Delta '16. Banquet were introduced. I called on number of the brothers of "the then and Brother Robert T. McCracken, Tau '04, "Psi U now" to rise and take a bow: Charles S. led the "Carollers" in singing F. Lincohi, Kappa '91; Morton M. Price, Lineage," which he himself had written. Robert Theta '99; Ray H. White, Upsilon '01; The only address was by Brother Donald B. Derby, Pi '18; Dan H. Brown, T. McCracken, Tau '04, who gave a bril dele Omega '16; Robert P. Hughes, Delta '20; liant and traditional farewell to the Charles H. Seaver, Psi '21; Peter A. gates. In his witty and able way he told at the GaBauer, Pi '25; Maxwell L. Scott, Pi '28; the group of earher Conventions A. Blair Knapp, Pi '26; Horace H. "Duke" Tau and also of the meaning of our Fra Patterson, Tau '93; John H. Minds, Tau ternity. '95; and the members of the famous With the traditional singing of "The Cornelius and Arndt families. Three of Shrine Song," the One Hundredth and Annual Convention of Psi our Chapter delegates' fathers were pres Sixth Upsilon ent: Spencer S. Shannon, Gamma '49, came to a successful end. As I left, I was delegate from the Gamma, Spencer S. firmly convinced that the Fraternity today Shannon, Tau '17; Philips Harman, Tau is in the hands of yormg members emi '50, delegate from the Tau, Henry Har nently qualffied to carry it forward to man, Xi '17; and Thomas B. K. Ruige, Jr., even greater glories.

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of Psi contest in the semi-finals. Our point total eluding aU alumni and other chapters- issue of the mounted considerably with a first place in Upsilon. The first WhippoorwiU indications mark it the intramural track meet and second money has been mailed and all as At the same time an in the swimming meet. Our hopes now ride being worth whUe. with the softball team which has shown a attempt is being made at obtaining new our in to reestab variety of styles of play and could come addresses of alumni order lish our rather outdated through, with a few breaks. filing system. John F. Coffin Since the last issue of The Diamond was Associate Editor published. Eta has added one more pledge in the person of Charles T. Fryberger, II, of and Brother Phil Paulus has ETA PhUadelphia, Pa., Lehigh University recently been pledged by Pi Tau Sigma, At this particular time Eta is in the midst honorary engineering society. of preparing for the annual spring houseparty The house has been active in intra-fraternity here at Lehigh. The house is a beehive of athletics this semester, and though the bas activity as brothers and pledges rush to get ketball, wrestiing, and bowling teams did not things in order for the arrival of the girls. fare so well, the voUeybaU team managed to The weekend promises to be a success and annex the championship which adds another a welcome respite from everyday college life. trophy to the chapter's growing coUection. Under the leadership of Norman Christie, With Brother Bob Sanborn managing Eta's the chapter has started a newspaper to be athletics, the baseball and swimming teams' known as the WhippoorwiU. The plan is to prospects look good for the remainder of the publish it twice a semester, its circulation in- school year. THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 125

House repairs are proceeding rapidly, and installed on the third floor. by next fall everything should be in better Graduation time in June wiU find eleven order than ever before. Two good "work Brothers saying farewell to the "Castle." This days" put the front lawn back in shape, and will be quite a loss to the Tau as these men general cleaning of the grounds has put the have been the most instramental in bringing exterior in excellent chapter's condition. the fratemity back to its prewar basis. It is Brother Donn Ainslie is on working plans with fond memories that we say goodby to to keep the house open this summer for the Brothers Walter Black, Louis de Moll, Paul benefit of those attending summer school. Kitchen, Frederick Lyter, Walton Nason, There is hope of keeping die dining room Thomas Bestin, George Bohrer, Joseph Pyle, open also with one or two other fraternities George Van Schwab, Carl Suedhoff and Ted eating here. Tussing. Brothers Day and Howard, president and Cary M. Maguire vice-president respectively should be com Associate Editor mended for the fine job they have done lead ing the chapter this semester. MU University of Minnesota John L. Zapf Associate Editor We are very pleased to report the initiation of nine top notch men who came through hell week-eud with colors. These are: TAU of flying Junior University Pennsylvania Voelz, Paul Haglin, Pudge Whitcomb, Tom June will find the Tau chapter host at the HaUoran, John Crowley, Kev Farley, Jim Lar 1948 National Psi Upsilon Convention to be sen, Charles Blumer, and Keith Stolen. Pudge held here in Philadelphia. Among those work Whitcomb was voted the outstanding pledge ing to make this convention live up to the very after considerable deliberation. It was really successful one held at the Theta Theta chapter a tough job! last summer are Brothers Paul Kitchen and Many of the brothers were active in spring Walter Black. One of the features of this sports. Out for football practice were: Capt. year's convention wiU be our annual Psi Warren Beason, Keith Stolen, Junior Voelz, Upsilon outing with the Eta chapter. This Nate Harlan, and Jack Sturdevant. Don outing has always been one of the most en (headgear) Holker was sidelined for a time joyable events of the year for the Tau and whUe recovering from a knee operation. On we all know it wiU be a great addition to the baseball team, Charlie Glass did an effec tile convention activities. tive job of pitching. Brother Ken Boyum was The Sports picture ... If preseason warm- one of the top men on the tennis team. Bob ups are any judge Psi Upsilon should have (Roundy) Harris finally packed away his skates one of the best softball teams in the intra after doing an outstanding job on the hockey

. was mural league . . This year, as usual, the team at forward. Brother Lex Caswell Tau is strong in Spring sports. Brothers Jim standout on the boxing team and Brother Bob Sinclaire, Warren Magruder, Morrow Smith, Comer burned up the cinders on the track Sam Dysart, and "Mouse" Henderson are team. swinging the sticks out on the lacrosse field. We are pleased to have had Brother Sandy Brother Leser is playing varsity tennis. Brother Tearse with us for the spring quarter. Sandy Heaney is still swishing those oars in crew, is from the Delta Delta Chapter. Also, Brother and Brothers Vittorini, Hepp, and Dearden Woody Kingman from the Gamma Chapter continue to pound the cinders. Other Tau dropped in during the spring term and had stalwarts are going out for spring football and a few brews with the Brothers, whUe he was soccer. on vacation from Amherst. for Jottings . . . This summer in order to raise Activities this spring included: spring on beerbaU money for redecorating the basement the mal at Bayport May 28, games a and Tau is renting the use of its rooms to Colum wdth the Dekes, White Dragon picnic, bia Broadcasting Co. during- the Bepublican the various interfratemity sports. Don Davis and Democratic conventions . . . Brothers j. Editor Charles Hough and Cary Maguire are mnning Associate again for the Student Council . . . One of the big highlights of the Spring social season was RHO of Wisconsin � University our annual picnic held this year at Brother As beautiful weather descends "Rick" CoUins's home .. . The latest improve spring upon of Wisconsin, social life be- ment to the house is the 'beautiful new carpet the University 126 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON comes an important feature of activities in well as a new policy of inviting faculty mem the Rho chapter. Focal point of this pleasant bers to speak occasionally on some aspect of diversion from studying will be the weekend world affairs. of May 21-23. Plans for that week-end include Epsilon has many outstanding representa a formal dinner dance on Friday, an outing tives in both intramural and intercollegiate at a lake resort on Saturday, and a more quiet sports this spring. We have high hopes for picnic on Sunday afternoon. Before that, how our intramural baseball team led by Kenneth ever, there are other activities of interest. Brittingham and sparked by Robert Mac- Right now the pier is being put into Lake Donough's hitting power. Although it is too Mendota with approaching parties with the early yet to predict tiie outcome of spring Thetas and Alpha Gams as an incentive. In football practice, Zack Jordan and Frank Ve- addition exchange parties with the Gamma vera are good prospective backs on next year's Phis and Pi Phis have been scheduled. team. Charles Callaghan vsdll row in many But the Rho has not confined itself only to important crew races this season. Edward social functions on the campus. Its participa Brittingham is right-fielder on the freshman tion in the interfraternity sports schedule is baseball team, and Kenneth Brittingham and keen and has developed great enthusiasm in Bichard Merritt are on the Rugby team. Sen the fellows and a few muscles also. Although ior crew manager Jim Yost, and Junior foot it is quite early in the season, it can be safely ball managers Harold Keenan and Peter predicted that the team representing Psi Up Renolds are also doing a good job. sUon in softball, tennis, and goH competition Brother James Schulyer was the recipient will be near the top of the list. of two scholastic awards this semester: Tau Every evening immediately after dinner Beta Pi, general engineering society, and Eta about sixteen of the boys gatiier around the Kappa Nu, electrical engineering honor so piano for song practice. Their goal is the ciety. Brother Schuyler, a graduating senior, approaching preliminaries of the all-campus plans to work somewhere on the West coast sing, in which they can place if all goes weU. pending his marriage in September to Leose Above them on the mantle as they sing is M. Brown from Glendora, California. the trophy recently won in conjunction with Lawrence Smith, son of the late Brother the Alpha Phis. Their skit in Humorology was Felix T. Smitii from San Francisco, an easily considered tiie most hilarious. And in nounced his engagement to Juliana Ferguson. another campus activity Brother Jim Duffy He has left school to take a job with the was elected to the Student Board. Bank of California in San Francisco. In a recent and very successful initiation Replacing President Richard Peagram, six men became new brothers of Psi Upsilon. whose good work will long be remembered, They are: James H. Duffy, Joseph P. Bennett, is Edward Rice, previous Vice-President. Rob Robert R. Glenn, Jr., Wesley S. Goode, Jr., ert Banning was elected Vice-President, and James H. Kress, and Robert M. Shehan. William Graven will take over the difficult Reuben Peterson job of house-manager from Myron Etienne. Associate Editor Pledges: Richard Merritt, Merced, Califor nia; Ashley Radcliffe, Stockton, California; Mackenzie Wasson, Hollywood, Calffornia; EPSILON of University California Frank Vevera, Berkeley, California. Peter Van Sicklen This has mourned the Chapter recently Associate Editor passing of Brother Ezra Decoto, '00, a charter member of the Epsilon. Brother Decoto grad uated with a law degree and, at the time of OMICRON University of Illinois his death, he held a position on the Superior Court of Alameda Co., California. We wUl "Thar's gold in them thar hUls." Certainly always remember him for his great devotion there is gold, quite possibly silver, copper, and and service to the Chapter through the same so dovm to dust. A good hard look at a gold- unflagging interest and wise counsel which veined mountain or hill will make it dramati he gave to his own profession. cally apparent that wealth is extracted only During the spring semester we have had with the expenditure of effort and planning. several fine parties highlighted by the faculty Mining for success whether it be for buried club dinner and the Mother's Club sponsored gold in the rugged mountains of Montana or in party as weU as many dances. We stUl have the voluminous hsts of rushees in a dean of our annual barn dance to look forward to as men's office has some interesting similarities. THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 127

Long before the University of Illinois tivities. Immediately following elections the the on flashed green light formal rush week new officers appointed the new committee this past fall, every fraternity on campus had chairmen. bundles of letters concerning potential David G. Dutton, Jr., class of '49, was pledges. The rushees never realized how pledged recently. Residing in Poughkeepsie, had been in many days spent preparation for N.Y., Dave lAay be called upon to provide a their initial introduction. We had a well Psi U to Vassar taxi service for the brothers outlined task in rushing men who were known along with his other extracurricular activities. to us by one means or another. What was sad, The Winter Houseparty featured the crea though, were the scores of men who were tion of a genuine Purple Cow in snow sculp rushed "cold," or vidth information of no ture which gained college-wide recognition, a value. Some of the "cold" rushees of not too house dance with the Theta Delts, excellent long ago are now active keynotes in our winter sports conditions, and a bevy of youth present chapter. What we had to do was ful beauties from all parts of the country. evolve a method for going through the hiUs Naturally, we are looking forward to the and mountains of "cold" rushees and spotting Spring Houseparty in May which will include the gold, if there was any. Formal rush week dances, ball games, picnics, "white" shoes, was an impossible vehicle, its size and tempo and multitudes of imported "queens." Decora was far too great for satisfactory results. tion of the house on the Carnival theme Our solution has been realized in the per should prove to be quite festive. fect performance of an intensely organized Winter sports showed a gala display of the rushing program that never relents, but con Delta Delta in practically all varsity sports. tinues from the first through to the last week Brothers Benson and Wyer were letter win of school. With only a half dozen or so ners on a successful hockey team which, rushees on any one evening, the hills are among other conquests, defeated Princeton divided into plus and minus groups. Today and tied Army. Brother Benson will be Co- we now have a considerable portion of the captain of next year's skaters. Brother Taylor present pledge class composed of one time hit the slopes consistently all winter while on "cold" rushees. By careful planning and co the ski team. However, it was really the fresh operation the Omicron has a superb pledge men who stole upperclass thunder in Psi U scene this class that but for our many extra hours of representation in the college sport effort would still be part of the hiU. winter: Brother Lippencott was Captain of Leonard Pope Weber the freshman swimming team; Brother Tom Associate Editor Kent was a top-notch artist of the undefeated freshman squash team; Brother Poole per formed like varsity caliber for the frosh DELTA DELTA Williams College hockey team; Brother Moody was instrumental in the success of the freshman wrestling squad. The Delta Delta is proud to announce the The picture for Spring sports looks equally election of the foUowing officers as of March, as scintillating with men on the baseball, ten 1948 to be in office untU March, 1949: Presi nis, track, and lacrosse teams. dent, Stephen G. Murphy; 1st Vice-President, In the sportlight of the month is the house Thomas R. Benson; 2nd Vice-President, Wm. swimming team who, ably-coached by B. Falconer, Jr.; Becording Secretary, John S. Brothers Ganyard, Lippencott, and Prescott, Prescott, Jr.; Corresponding Secretary, Fred achieved splash honors along with the Alpha erick A. Klipstein. Brother Wm. H. Diment Delts. Our main weapon in copping the title was appointed treasurer at the same time. was our sheer weight in numbers, a factor Brother Murphy was initiated in 1943 and which saw Delta Delts in practically every won numerals as a participant in football and event. The house ball club, under the com basketball whfle a freshman. He emerged petent auspices of coach-Brother Northrop, from the recent hostilities, into which he shows promise for more victories in the future. to fame of this at plunged following his frosh year, a 1st Lieu Chief claim aggregation, tenant in the Army Air Corps and returned this writing, is their eager anticipation of the a of lettered to WiUiams last fall as a first term sopho arrival of flashy collection jer more. Steve was made eligible for election seys, garnet and gold, which are expected to to our base- by the outgoing officers on the basis of his give additional incentive aspiring seniority. Since his return to the Delta Delta, ballers. he has been active on the basketball team Howard E. Green, Jr. and on various house athletic teams and ac Associate Editor 128 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON

THETA THETA EPSILON NU University of Washington Michigan State College basebaU team has foUowed Bushing is once again coming into the The Epsilon Nu spotlight of the Theta Theta. Summer rushing the winning ways of last fall's football eleven, to start the sea parties are aheady being planned. An exten with three straight victories son. Brother Davis a no-hit sive rushing program composed mainly of George pitched Seattle high school students has been carried game, 12-0, against Delta Chi in the opener. Brother Davis also has a one-hitter to his out throughout the year. These potential credit and to beat from here on rushees are entertained every Monday night. looks tough one more win to enter the Brothers, if we get a pledge class next year in. We need play Also in that is equal to the one we obtained this year offs of the Interfraternity League. Bud who starred in there will be no question in anyone's mind sports. Brother Crane, is out for about which is the top house on our campus. last year's Hawaii game, spring we for Dale "Bud" Richardson once again suc football practice and have high hopes cessfully defended his University of Washing him next fall. ton light weight boxing championship with The chapter takes great pleasure in an a knockout in twenty-eight seconds of the first nouncing the initiation of the following men round. For this achievement he received an on April 11: James Alexander, '51; John Bones, other minor W. Mac Mclnnis also joined the '51; Thomas Gramson, '50; George Davis, '51; ranks of Big W men when placed in. the Ronald Gilbert, '50; John GUman, '50; Northern Division swimming meet. He is a Michael KeUy, '49; Jay MacKelvie, '50; Edwin backstroke man. Newell Smith and Fred McPhee, '49, David Musson, '50. Graff were initiated into the Varsity Boat Club A few weeks ago the two most prominent recently. Stew Clark, a freshman, is a member singers of the Chapter, Brothers Tom Dunkin of Malamutes, the freshman golf squad and and Ted Mansfield went down to Percy Jones is manager of the varsity golf squad. Stan Hospital in Battle Creek to serenade the Kaufman, Doug Allen and Corky Bronsdon wounded veterans there. Brother Dunkin spe- are our representatives on the track squad. ciaUzes in Irish tunes while Brother Mansfield Mike Murphy, Carl Luster, Pat Lightfoot and is more of the Jolson type. Brother Mansfield Rustly Callow are all out for spring football. also distinguished himself by being elected to Larry Amack will be back in at halfback as the Union Board of the coUege. soon as his broken arm has mended. The Chapter is participating in the annual On the political side, Del McNutt, Asso Interfraternity sing for the first time in our ciated Men Student's representative on the history. The boys have been working especially Board of Control has been appointed chair hard under the able leadership of Brother man of the Publications Committee. George Jack Eckenrode and deserve fully any award Baker, co-chairman of the university bowling which we might receive. league has been elected to the Associated Brother Walter Gerstacker was married late Men Student's Board of Directors as well as last March, with brothers Dick Kvitek and being treasurer of Inter-Fraternity Council. Ken Borton making plans for weddings this Doug Allen was appointed to the Steering summer. Committee of the Organizations Assembly. With the coming of spring season and Brother Allen is also athletic director of the wonderful weather, we have had weekly pic Inter Fratemity Council. Brother Henry Whit nics, all fabulous affairs, and we are looking ney has been appointed chairman of the newly forward to more successful picnics and house organized Blood Bank Committee which is parties. sponsored by the Associated Men Students. Pledges: Bryant Gorton, Detroit, Mich.; In addition to this. Brother Whitney is now WiUard Gmschow, Detroit, Mich.; Emery a member of Scabbard and Blade, an ROTC Jacques, Lansing, Mich.; Thor Jorgenson, De honorary. troit, Mich.; Robert Kethunen, East Lansing, Brothers, it looks like smooth sailing from Mich.; Herbert Scott, Evanston, 111. here on in for the Theta Theta for we have Davto Jones now reached and even surpassed our pre-war Associate Editor standards. Lynn C. Cox Associate Editor IN MEMORIAM

Edwin A. Barrows, Sigma '91 a monument to his genius as a scientist and a teacher. Edwin A. former Barrows, Sigma '91, presi His research in covered a wide dent of the Electric physics Narragansett Lighting range, but one of his most important contri died after Company, April 18, 1948, aged 78, butions was the construction of the first elec a short fllness. tron miscroscope, which made it possible to A well-known in national electric figure particles so that six and a circles the photograph tiny utihty during 1920's, Brother Bar half million of them, side by side, would rows headed the Electric Narragansett Com measure one inch. from 1916 to after as pany 1927, serving Brother Burton was also famous for his and treasurer secretary of the concern from work with liquid helium, his research with 1904 to 1916. colloids to develop a treatment for cancer in Since connections with tiie severing utility collaboration with a fellow-scientist. Dr. A. C. he had been associated with Littie- company, Hendrick, and for his work on X-ray. field and investment brokers. He Company, His devotion to scientific research was rec also was active as a director of several insur ognized when he was awarded the O.B.E. ance and Prior to the hanking groups. entering in 1943 for outstanding service as a scientist. field, he served with the Rhode Island utihty Brother Burton's fame as a physicist and a Trast from 1891 to 1902 Hospital Company teacher led many students from the United and was a national bank examiner from 1902 States, from Europe and even from India, to to 1904. In 1926 he was named vice-chairman enroll at the University of Toronto. Some of of the National Electric Light Association. the outstanding physicists in the United States Brother Barrows was a track star during received their training under Dr. Burton. His his undergraduate days at Brovwi University. role in the war was no less important, when He was a director of the What Cheer Mutual under his direction the physics department Fire Insurance Company, the Hope Mutual explored new frontiers of science to make a Fire Insurance Company and the Beneficial In contribution to the war effort, and trained dustrial Loan Company, and was a member of Army, Air Force and Navy personnel as radar the Hope Club, the Agawam Hunt, and the technicians. Turks Head Club. Brother Burton graduated from the Univer He is survived by his second wife, a son, a sity of Toronto in 190L with the degree of sister and six grandchildren. His first wffe, B.A. He went to Cambridge University as an a daughter of the late U. S. Senator LeBaron exhibition scholar in 1904. In 1910 he re Colt, Beta '68, died in 1946. turned to Canada and received his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. One year later he was associate His talents Eli Franklin Burton, Nu '01 appointed professor. were quickly recognized and in 1924 he was Dr. Eh Franklin Burton, O.B.E., Nu '01, appointed a full professor. Eight years later died July 6, 1948, in Toronto, at the age of he was named as head of the physics depart 69. His briUiant contributions to scientific ment and appointed director of the McLennan knowledge and advancement had won world Physics Laboratory. renown for himself and international recog For most of his career. Brother Burton nition for the physics department of the Uni lived in Weston, Ontario, where he served versity of Toronto. on the school board and took an active part in work. He was a member Brother Burton was devoted to the prin church of Central where he served as an ciple that science must serve the people. He United Church, elder. He leaves a widow and two Franklin devoted himself with equal energy to creating children, a Canadian consciousness in the scientific Wicher Burton, Nu '30, and a daughter. field. He fought consistently for a program that would encourage Canadian scientists to Rev. John Franklin Carter, Beta '88 work in Canada instead of taking their talents across the border. The Bev. John Franklin Carter, Beta '88, Brother Burton retired from the University died in WiUiamstown, Massachusetts, on at the of 84. Brother of Toronto staff June 1, 1948, after 16 years March 30, 1948, age as head of the physics department. A new Carter was rector emeritus of St. John's Epis physics wing, known as the Burton Wing, is copal Church, Williamstown, and a former 129 130 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON school committeeman and selectman of the York, and lived for many years in BronxviUe, were in town. He was a friend to the Delta Delta New York. His recent winters spent summers at Wolf Lake Chapter and knew many of its active members Sarasota and his Big personaUy. in the Adirondacks. He was a member of the Dr. Carter attended Union Theological Cornell Club of New York. Seminary in New York City and in 1891 Brother Coffin leaves his wffe, a daughter, received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology de and two sons. Fielder J. Coffin, Jr., Chi '37, and Bruce P. gree from the Episcopal Theological School of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was or Coffin, Delta Delta '39, of Covington, Ken dained to the diaconate the foUowing year tucky. and to the priesthood in 1893. He served as an assistant at St. George's Harold Volks Cook, Pi '10 Church in New York and as rector of St. Mark's Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, be Harold Volks Cook, Pi '10, Justice of the Peace in New and former fore going to Williamstown in 1900. He was Tonawanda, York, assistant United States died on rector of St. John's until 1931, when he be attorney, April after a of ill health. came rector emeritus. He came out of retire 17, 1948, long period ment in 1943 to become interim rector while Brother Cook, who received his law degree the of Law the Rev. A. Grant Noble left to become a from University Buffalo School, chaplain in the Navy, and served untU Dr. opened a law office in Buffalo 36 years ago. as assistant Noble's return in 1946. Dr. Carter was active He served in 1922 and 1923 first U. S. under Colonel William Dono shortly before his death in a drive supporting attorney J. the Marshall plan. van. From 1924 to 1927 he was a U. S. com missioner in He was active in Dr. Carter was the father of Franklin Car Buffalo. Bepub ter, Jr., of Washington, D.C, writer and lican affairs of Tonawanda Township and was town in 1927. commentator, known under the name of Jay appointed attorney Franklin, Jr. After five years as town attorney, Brother Cook retired from public life for a time. In he endorsement for Beta '01 1937, however, accepted Philip Cheney, Justice of the Peace, a post which he held Phflip Cheney, Beta '01, a director of until his death. Cheney Brothers, widely known manufactur Brother Cook had served as counsel for the ers of silk textiles, died on January 21, 1948, First National Bank of Kenmore, president of aged 69. the Erie County Magistrate's Association and Brother Cheney was born in Manchester, vice-president of the Erie County Judges' and Connecticut, prepared for college at Pomfret Police Executives' Association. He was active School, and was graduated from Yale in 1901. in civic affairs and was a former president As a young man he was active in the Con of the Men's Bible Class of the Kenmore necticut National Guard, and during the first Methodist Church. World War he served overseas as a captain He was a Mason, and a member of the Erie in tiie Seventy-seventh Division. County Bar Association and the State Bar He leaves his wffe, a sister and a brother, Association. He is survived by his wife, two Clifford Dudley Cheney, Beta '98, chairman sons and four grandchildren. of the board of Cheney Brothers. ' Dr. Frederick Ellery Cruff, Kappa 1 6 Fielder Juilliard Coffin, Chi '08 Dr. Frederick Ellery Cruff, Kappa '16, Fielder JuilUard CofSn, Chi '08, died May former Army Air Force flight surgeon, died at 30, 1948, at his home in Sarasota, Florida, at his home in Norwell, Massachusetts, on Jan the age of 64. uary 18, 1948. Brother Coffin was formerly New York re He prepared for coUege at Phillips Exeter gional manager and a director of the Sun Oil Academy and as an undergraduate at Bow Company. He joined the Company twenty- doin was a member of his class squad, hockey nine years ago as district manager in New team and the Biology and Mandolin Clubs. York, after having been in investment bank He entered Harvard Medical School and re ing. In Aprfl, 1937 he was appointed director ceived his M.D. degree in 1920. In 1922 he of the foreign department of the Sun Oil married the former Helene Bennett, and car Company, serving until his retirement on ried on his medical practice in Hyde Park, December 1, 1940. Massachusetts, from 1925 untfl 1931, when Brother Coffin was bom in Geneseo, New he became physical examiner for the United THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 131

States Department of Commerce and Avia Presbyterian Medical Center. For forty-five from 1930 tion. He served until 1940 as years he was a demonstrator in anatomy at flight surgeon for the National Guard 101st Columbia's CoUege of Physicians and Sur Observation Squadron. geons. Brother Cruff was a member of the Massa Brother Darrach graduated from Yale in chusetts Medical Society, tiie Association of 1897 and from the College of Physicians and Military Surgeons, the Masonic bodies, and Surgeons in 1901. He served his interneship was past commander of the Hyde Park Ameri at Presbyterian Hospital. In 1913 he joined can Legion Post. Surviving him are his wife the staff of Presbyterian Hospital where he and a daughter. acted also as associate attending surgeon and visiting surgeon. He was a member of the administrative board of School of Walter Lewis Conwell, Tau '98 Columbia Nursing in 1928-29 and president of the Walter Lewis Conwell, Tau '98, president Sloane Hospital for Women and the Vander of the Safety Car Heating and Lighting Com bilt Clinic from 1919 to 1928. pany, makers of raflway passenger car equip In the first World War, Brother Darrach ment, died at his home in Montclair, New was surgical director of Base Hospital No. 2, Jersey, on May 27, 1948. He was 71 years old. United States Army and directed General Starting vsdth the Tennis Construction Com Hospital No. 1 with the British Expeditionary pany, railway contractors, in 1898, Brother Force. Remaining with the Army of Occupa Conwell advanced to the post of chief engi tion until 1919, he was discharged with the neer. In 1901 he became associated with tlie rank of colonel. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing During the second World War he was Company as a salesman. In 1911 he was civilian consultant in surgery to the Surgeon named president of the Transportation Utili General of the Army, serving from 1943 to ties Company, and four years later assistant 1946. He was also chief consultant to the to the president of the Safety Car Heating Veterans' Administration in the New York and Lighting Company, of which he became Area from 1945 to 1946. At his death he was president in 1919. director of education and research at the He was also president of the Pintsch Com Veterans' Hospital, Kingsbridge -Road, the pressing Corporation, chairman of the board Bronx. Brother Darrach was of the So of the Vapor Heating Corporation, and a di president rector of Carrier Corporation, Seatrain Lines, ciety of Clinical Surgery from 1929 to 1931 and the Wilcolator Company. and of the Association of American Medical from 1929 to 1930. He was a mem Brother Conwell headed a group of bankers, Colleges brokers and industrialists who organized the ber of many medical societies and of the construction of the present thirty-five story Society of Colonial Wars, Authors' Club of buflding of the Downtown Athletic Club of London, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Al Wolf's and the New York, which was completed in 1930. He pha, Sigma Xi, Head, Century New York. was elected the club's president in the same Association, are his a a son year, and had remained a member since then. Surviving widow, daughter, and three He was also a member of the Cloud, Boiling grandchildren. Rock, Chicago (of Chicago), Montclair Goff and New York Railroad Clubs, and of the Ezra Williann Decoto, Epsilon '00 American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Surviving is his widow. Ezra WiUiam Decoto, Epsflon '00, Alameda County Superior Judge, died April 6, 1948, 72. He was a member of a Cali Dr. William Darrach, Beta '97 aged pioneer fornia family and was the man who started Dr. William Darrach, Beta '97, dean emeri the public service career of Governor Warren tus of Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, died of California, Republican nominee for Vice- May 24, 1948, at the Greenwich (Connecticut) President of the United States. Hospital, after a brief illness. He was 72 For many years after his graduation he years old. served as Graduate Manager of Athletics of After serving as dean from 1919 to 1930, the Associated Students of the University of Brother Darrach continued until his death his Calffornia. association with Columbia as Professor of From 1915 to 1925 Brother Decoto served of Alameda In Clinical Surgery and as consulting surgeon as District Attorney County. to Presbyterian Hospital of the Columbia- January, 1925, he was appointed by the Gov- 132 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON ernor to the Cahfomia State Bailroad Com with that organization when it was converted witii mission. He resigned as president of the Com into the 120th light field artfllery, fighting mission in 1930 to enter private law practice. it through France. Governor Warren appointed him to the Su He was considered to be a brilUant artiUery- perior Court in 1943. man, and the 120th Field Artfllery made an outstanding name for itself in World War I. While that war was still on, he wrote a Arnold Zeta '08 report George Easton, on the use of artfllery in the Argonne. The George A. Easton, Zeta '08, died early in paper was suppressed, and this was said to May, aged 60. have been largely because it criticized regu lar men for the misuse of their Brother Easton, a real estate operator, Army guns. helped to develop Manhasset, Long Island, Brother Fish rose to command the Thirty- in General where he made his home. He was a member second Division 1936, when Major of the Dartmouth Club, Order of the Cin Guy N. Wilson, its commanding general, died cinnati, American Legion, Kiwanis Club, En during maneuvers in Michigan. After two gineers' Country Club, and the Paumonok years as acting commander. General Fish was Club. made Major General of the Division in 1938. He closed his military lffe with his separation from the service in 1945, and returned to the General Andrews Major Irving Fish, practice of law. He retired from active prac � Rho '03 tice two years ago, shortly after he had been awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptional Major General Irving Andrews Fish, Rho service as a member of the Army's depend '03, died Aprfl 22, 1948, of a heart attack at ency and separation boards. the of 66. He was a Mflwaukee age attorney. General Fish was bom in Racine. He was Brother Fish, who was one of the few from the University of Wisconsin National Guard officers to reach the rank graduated high Law School in 1904, and his first practice was of General, started his career Major military at Madison. as a cadet at the of Wisconsin. His University He was an exceUent horseman and a crack service included the Mexican border campaign shot with rifle, and in 1916, aiid the first and second World Wars. shotgun pistol. He was a member of the Milwaukee Club, In the first World War he commanded Wis the Milwaukee Club, the American, consin's famous Red Arrow Di Country Thirty-second Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bar Associations, vision. the Club, the Wisconsin In World War II, Brother Fish trained the Saturday Lawyers' Historical Society and Phi Delta Phi Frater Wisconsin and Michigan civilian soldiers of nity. His wife and a son survive. the Thirty-second Division, but when it was ready to go to New Guinea and other South Pacific areas, he was kept at home. He was Albert Ross Gee, Eta '93 heartbroken that he could not go into the line Albert Ross Gee, Eta '93, died on March 7, with his men, but he threw himself into other 1948, at his home in Little Rhode assignments. Assigned to Fort Lewis, Wash Compton, Island, at the of 78. He had been in fail ington, he was in charge of the interior de age health for some time. fense of Washington and Oregon. In 1943 he ing Brother Gee had been in the employ of the was sent to the War Department in Washing Parks Company of FaU Biver, Massachusetts, ton, D.C, where he helped to set up regula for the 25 years. He is survived by his tions for the payment of dependencies to fam past one two and his ilies of servicemen and for the of wife, sister, grandchildren, assignment Alden W. Eta '28. officers to duties. son, Gee, Brother Fish was one of the few officers who had served in four branches of the Army. Rev. Frederic Samuel Goodrich, After he drew attention to himself as an out Xi '90 standing cadet at the University of Wisconsin, he accepted a National Guard commission in Frederic Samuel Goodrich, Xi '90, Professor- 1903 as a first lieutenant of infantry, and rose emeritus and Chaplain of Albion College, through the grades to major. When World Michigan, died on April 18, 1948, after a War I broke out, he raised a battalion of the short fllness, at the age of 82. After graduat signal corps and was promoted to lieutenant ing from Wesleyan University in 1890 with colonel. He was transferred to the first Wis high honors, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, consin Cavahy as executive officer and was he spent the foUowing year as a student in THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 133

and and served as tutor Germany Greece, in Brother Hodgdon was a Navy veteran, hav Greek at 1891-92. In 1892 was Wesleyan, he ing served in tiie Pacific area during World of Greek appointed professor Language and War II. He was employed as production su Literature at Albion, serving untfl 1903, when pervisor at the F. CasteUi Kitchen Machinery he transferred to the Department of the Eng and Equipment Company. hsh Bible, and retired from this position in He is survived by his mother, his wife and 1935. two brothers. As professor, his relations with his students were close and remarkably confidential, and William Warner Beta '01 he was sometimes referred to as "Mr. Chips Hoppin, of Albion." As chaplain, he maintained inti WiUiam Warner Hoppin, Beta '01, died mate relations with the college almost to the May 27, 1948, of pneumonia. His age was 69. time of his death. He was an ordained minis Brother Hoppin had been a Magistrate in ter in the Methodist Church, and after his New York City since 1940 when he was ap retirement from teaching he regularly supplied pointed to that ofiice by the late Mayor Fi- a group of local churches as pastor. As a orello H. La Guardia. He was reappointed in writer he gained wide renovvTi, and in 1942 1945. The appointment was to end next De conducted a lecture series in Mexico which cember 31, because of statutory age limit. was published in Spanish. Brother Hoppin was graduated from Groton Wide travel in Palestine gave him a wealth School in 1897 and from Yale in 1901. He was of information about this interesting country, a member of Scroll and Keys. He also was and by means of illustrated lectures this was graduated from New York Law School and conveyed to hundreds of cities and towns in began the practice of law in New York City the Midwestern States. in 1906. Throughout his 43 years of active service at During the first World War he served as Albion he maintained close relations with all counsel to the Alien Property Custodian, as local, civil and political organizations, but a member of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's always his college work was his chief interest. Committee of Defense and as a Government In appreciation of this, even before his death, draft appeal agent. After the United States en $240,000 had been contributed by Albion tered hostihties, he enlisted in the Army, alumni toward the construction of a coUege from which he was discharged as a captain chapel to be known as "The Goodrich Memo of Field Artillery in the Officers' Reserve rial Chapel." Corps. Michigan University in 1898 conferred on From 1921 to 1925 Brother Hoppin was an him an M.A. degree; Defiance College, a D.D. assistant United States attorney general in in 1909; Albion College, a Litt.D. in 1935. charge of customs litigation. Subsequently he resumed private practice and when he was Ernest E. Gorsline, '01 appointed magistrate he was a member of the Upsilon law firm of Herrick, Hoppin and Thirne. Ernest E. Gorsline, Upsilon '01, died in Active in Bepublican politics. Brother Rochester, N.Y., on July 30, 1948, at the age Hoppin was a former leader of the Fifteenth of 72. Assembly District, in Manhattan, the "Silk Brother Gorsline was an instractor at the Stocking" District. He was chairman of the University of Illinois, Wells CoUege and Ped- campaign of Senator James W. Wadsworth, die Institute before entering a business career Jr., for re-election in 1926 and was vice chair in 1915. He was treasurer and general man man of the Bepublican lawyers' committee to ager of Scrantoma Book Store, Rochester, at support the Hoover-Curtis ticket in 1928. his retirement in 1940. He was president of Brother Hoppin was a member of the board the Rochester Better Business Bureau for ten of managers of the Hospital for Special Sur years. gery, secretary of the New York Association An alumnus of the University of Rochester, for the Bhnd, and had been a member of the he received his degree of Doctor of Phi board of visitors of the Central Islip State losophy from Johns Hopkins University. He Hospital. served in the Spanish-American War. He was senior warden of the Church of the Heavenly Rest and had led its fund-raising Francis Jr., campaign in 1946. He was president and George Hodgdon, founder of the First Avenue Association, a Tau '33 director of the Florence Crittenden League, George Francis Hodgdon, Jr., Tau '33, died a former president of the St. Nicholas Society, Reserve March 31, 1948, at his home in Philadelphia. and a member of the Field ArtiUery 134 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON

Association and Holland Lodge Masons. His brary on transportation, thirty thousand cam clubs included the Union, Yale, National Re era negatives from his camera, taken the publican, Downtown and Piping Rock. world over, and many replicas of early rail Surviving are his widow, two sons, one of roading. whom is William W. Hoppin, Jr., Beta '28, The Baltimore and Ohio Centennial, held and a daughter. outside of Baltimore in 1927, was the first of these, and was called the Fair of the Iron Horse. It was followed the Bochester Beta 'I I by Joseph Home, Centennial in 1934 and the Parade of Years Joseph Home, Beta '11, president of Joseph pageant in Cleveland in the summer of 1936. Home and Company, department store in He was associated with the late Edward O. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since February 1, Ahrens, Omega '06, President of tiie Ahrens 1946, died on April 2, 1948, at the age of 58. Publishing Company, as Editor of Travel Brother Home was bom in Pittsburgh and America from 1945-48. made his lifelong home there. Prior to his Among his principal books were The Mod election as president of Joseph Home and ern Railroad in 1911; The Railroad Problem Company, he had been vice-president, secre in 1917; The Story of the Baltimore and Ohio tary and director of that firm. He also was a Railroad, 1929; Pathway of Empire, 1935; director of the Union National Bank in Pitts Men and Iron and Daniel Willard Rides the burgh. Line, 1938; Transport for War, 1943; Rail road for Tomorrow, 1945, and Men of Erie, Edward Hungerford, Pi '99 1946. In an article pubhshed in the June, 1939, Edward Hungerford, Pi '99, died on July issue of The Diamond, Peter A. GaBauer, 29, 1948, at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital, Pi '25, gave a detailed and intimate account New York City, after an illness of seven of Brother Hungerford's career. In it he called weeks. His age was 72. attention to the fact that Brother Hungerford, Brother Hungerford, who was the author of always a most loyal and interested member many books and articles on transportation of Psi Upsilon, served as an Associate Editor and director of pageants depicting its many of The Diamond from 1928 to 1938, and phases, including "Railroads on Parade" at stated tiiat the first article in the revived the New York World's Fair, started his career Diamond of November, 1920, was an article as an architect. He then turned to newspaper by Brother Hungerford entitled "Psi Upsflon work, which led to his interest in stories about Today." railroads. His most recent pageant was In Brother GaBauer's article he quoted " "Wheels A Rollin' and his most recent book Lucius Beebe, who, also in 1939, wrote of was the history of the Wells Fargo Company, Brother Hungerford in the New York Herald published last May. Tribune as follows: "Today Ed is an ample on career Before he started his in the pro and friendly figure ... he has kept his hair, duction of pageants, it was estimated that his disposition and his appetite. The last of Brother Hungerford had covered 242,000 these is, in fact, a noteworthy institution, and miles�the equivalent of 75 per cent of the to scores of waiter captains and maitres railway mileage of the period�in connection d'hotel from New York to San Francisco he is with his writings on this subject. known as a gourmet of distinction." As a young man. Brother Hungerford was Another interest of this many-sided man on the staff of The Rochester Herald, The was less known outside of antiquarian circles. New York Herald Tribune and The New In September, 1946, Charles Messer Stowe in York Sun. He gained his first experience in his column, "The Quester" in the New York the raihoad field as press agent for the Brook Sun, mentioned that Brother Hungerford was lyn Bapid Transit Company. Later, he was the author of a little booklet printed by the advertising manager for the Wells Fargo Gallery Press, entitled The Genessee Country. Company Express and, for two years, director Really a collector's piece, according to Mr. of publications at the University of Bochester, Stowe, this was printed in Baskerville type before entering upon the career of producer of and fllustrated by Norman Kent. raflroad was pageants. He at one time As Brother Hungerford was the recipient, in sistant Vice-President of the New York Cen 1936, of an honorary LL.D. degree from St. tral lines, and continued to occupy a large Lawrence University, which he prized greatly, office in the New York Central Buflding, again to quote Brother GaBauer, "not only where he worked surrounded by a vast li because of the honor involved but the fact THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 135 that tiie College is in the center of his North summer institutes. Active in the New York Country, which he has always loved so much." Methodist Conference, he was a member of Brother Hungerford was a member of the the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in 1931 Players Club. He is survived by his daughter, and the Methodist General Conference in Mrs. Adriemie H. Devereaux, with whom he 1932. Among his written works in this general resided. field are: "The Music and Hymnody of the Methodist Hymnal," "A Year of Hymn Carl Fowler Price, Xi '02 Stories," "Who's Who in American Method ism," "Curiosities of the Hymnal," "More Carl Fowler Price, Xi '02, died on April Hymn Stories," "One Hundred and One 12, 1948. His age was 66. Methodist Stories," and "101 Hymn Stories." Until two years ago Brother Price was an This interest in hymns extended to other insurance broker. He will be best remembered, songs as well. Besides the Wesleyan Song however, as a composer of hymn tunes, for Book he edited "Songs of Life," "The In his interest in hymnology, for his services to tercollegiate Song Book," and "Sing, Brothers to and . Wesleyan University, the Methodist . . Sing." The last named is the best collec Church, and for his writings. tion extant of the vast musical treasures written conferred on In 1932 Wesleyan University for singing by Masons. He was a Past Master him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. of Equality Lodge 940, F. and A. M., and In 1939, after 21 consecutive years of service was Swordbearer of tiie order's Grand Lodge as a member of the Alumni Council, he re of the State of New York. ceived the unique honor of being elected a Another of his interests was East Hampton, Hfe member, a distinction previously reserved Connecticut, the community where he an for only former Chairmen and Secretaries of nuaUy spent his summers, after having first As as Brother the organization. early 1904, gone there "as a callow youth" in 1899. His Price interested himself in promoting some book, Yankee Township, is, in the words of sort of magazine for the alumni of his ahna the Hartford Times, "The proud and at times in Wes mater. This resulted, in 1916, The intriguing story of East Hampton . . . set leyan Alumnus, which always claimed its forth by a loving hand, under the guidance sponsor as Associate Editor. of a scholarly mind and a heart which has While manager of the Glee Club, in 1901, long been in tune with the pulse of its locale." he sponsored and was editor of the first He contributed frequently and at length to the edition of the Wesleyan Song Book, and was East Hampton News. He participated in a editor-in-chief of the six subsequent editions. Tercentenary celebration by writing a history The music for some of Wesleyan's best-loved of the local Congregational Church and de songs was his, notably, "Now that the days livering an address to familiarize the "rising are mellow," for which he also wrote the generation . . . with the cultural treasures of words, and "Let purple pennant's royal hue." the town." Brother Price wrote "Wesleyan's First Cen Brother Price's first wife died in 1906 in tury," to mark tiie Centennial Celebration in the first year of their marriage. In 1913 he 1931, and "The Mystical Seven," the history married again. The second Mrs. Price died in of that Senior Society, on the occasion of its 1919, leaving one son, Sherman Price, Xi '37, centenary in 1937. He served for a short time, who survives.�Condensed from the obituary as Acting Alumni Secretary, and was Chair article by Ross Vance Lewton, Wesleyan '49, man of the Council Committee on Publicity. published in the May, 1948, issue of The As a composer of hymn tunes and an au Wesleyan Alumnus. thority on Hymns, hymnologists and their his tory. Brother Price composed over 200 hymn Theodore Richards, Xi '88 tunes which are in use today. His written works include the histories of hymns, Theodore Richards, Xi '88, died March 28, churches and Methodism. He helped found 1948, on the eve of his 81st birthday. the Hymn Society of America in New York Brother Bichards was bom in Montclair, March 1867. He for col and edited the society's papers. He gave a N.J., 29, prepared He at series of radio talks on hymns and their origins, lege at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn. tended Columbia Law School in 1889; re was the editor of seven hymnals, and gave his M.A. in and was courses in hymnology at Union Seminary in ceived degree '92, given of L.H.D. at our 40th New York and at Drew Seminary in New the honorary degree Jersey. He spoke throughout the country as a reunion in 1928. as a teacher at lecturer and at educational conferences and He went to Hawaii in 1889 136 THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON the Kamehameha School and for five years races in Hawaii to get an education. Hawauan from 1891 was its principal�serving also as students, through scholarships, were sent to athletic coach and music instructor, these China, Japan and elsewhere. latter activities showing interests which he had Just a year ago, upon the eve of his eight in college. As in athletics he was a member ieth birthday a large tea party representing of the footbaU team in his college days and all races on the island honored hun, and on also was a member of the College Glee Club, that occasion a speaker said�"Christianity " the Club spoken of later as the '88 Glee would become the universal rehgion if all Club" which upon a number of occasions Christians hved like Doctor Richards." sang some of their old songs at the College According to a letter from Joe Beach '99 Glee Club Concerts during Commencement just received "one of his last acts was jointly week. with Mrs. Richards to set up a trust fund In 1900 he became Field Secretary of the for the West China Union and two other Hawauan Board of Missions, thus estabUshing Universities, one in China and one in an association with rehgious education which Africa." was to continue throughout his life. He served What a wonderful record of a useful life as Treasurer of the Board from 1900 to 1925 devoted to the benefit of humanity and espe and later became Chairman of the Board's cially the youth of Hawaii and the betterment Finance Committee. of the inter-racial relations on the island. After organizing the Sunday School Union He had been married to Mary C. Atherton, he became prominent in many Y.M.C.A. ac a member of an outstanding family in Houo- tivities, organizing the Boy's Camp at Kaneohe lulu in June, 1897 and together they have and in 1902 starting the Boy's Brigade and worked for the good of the Hawauans. the athletic field in the Kauhuwela district. He is survived by his widow, two sons, He was active also in the establishment of the Herbert M., Xi '26, and Atherton Richards, Kauhuwela Mission which accomphshed out Xi '15, two daughters, and several grandchil standing results in serving the youth of that dren. His brother, Joseph Addison Richards, community. Xi '83, died a number of years ago. With others he organized the Honolulu Bible School in 1904 and served as Training Donald Fuller Torrey, Tau '14 the superintendent for 25 .years. On Palm Sunday, March 21, 1948, just a week before Donald F. Torrey, Tau '14, died on Jime Brother Richards' death, the school in its first 23, 1948, at his home in Alden Park Manor, Founders' Day celebration paid glowing trib Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. ute to him as its organizer. Brother Torrey, who was vice-president of He was a member of the first Board of Di the Currie and Campbell Coal Company, was rectors of the Honolulu Theological Seminary chairman of the Committee for the Psi Upsflon and founded Kokokahi, an inter-racial Chris Convention held with the Tau Chapter on tian enterprise on Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, as a June 16, 17 and 18, 1948. In the midst of center for conferences and as a music school. the preparations for the Convention he was He organized competitive choruses in the taken ill, and underwent two major opera Churches of Hawaii and compiled and edited tions. He was a member of the Board of the Hawaiian hymn books. He was first presi Trustees of the Psi Upsilon of Phfladelphia, dent of the Anti-saloon league of Hawaii and and was chairman of its Tau Alumni Commit from 1903 to 1920 served as publisher and tee. associate editor of The Friend. He also pub Bom ia Montclair, New Jersey, Brother hshed the Hawaiian Board Periodical. Torrey was graduated from the University of He served as first Treasurer of the Mid- Pennsylvania in 1914 and served as an Army Pacific Institute in Honolulu and was Secre ofiBcer in the first World War. He was a mem tary of the committee which planned the mis ber of the Penn Athletic Club and the Phfla sion memorial group of buildings. He was a delphia Bacquet Club. Surviving are his Trustee of the Hawaiian Board of Missions� widow and two sons. The University of Hawaii and on the Advisory Board of tiie Y.M.C.A. of Honolulu. The Theodore and Mary Atherton Bichards Fund was started in 1945 by several young Because of lack of space, it is necessary to Honoluluans who had been aided by them in hold over a number of important obituary gaining their education and for many decades articles. These will appear in an early issue.� they had aided hundreds of students of all Editor THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

OFFICERS

President Vice President LeRoy j. Weed," Theta '01 Benjamin T. Burton,' Chi '21 72 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N.Y. 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y. Secretary Treasurer Edward T. Richards,' Sigma '27 A. Northey Jones,= Beta Beta '17 1109 Hospital Trast Bldg., Providence, R.I. 2 WaU Street, New York 5, N.Y.

MEMBERS John B. Burleigh,' Zeta '14 R.D. 2, Bedford Center, Manchester, N.H. Russell S. Callow,* Theta Theta '16 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Harold L. Field,' Upsilon '10 818 Powers Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. Robert G. Fuller,' Mu '23 2 WaU St., New York 5, N.Y. Albert C. Jacobs,* Phi '21 Columbia University, New York 27, N.Y. Robert I. Laggren,^' Xi '13 Wilburne, Middletown, Conn. Oliver B. Gamma '25 . Merrill, Jr.,' ^. .48 Wall St., New York 5, N.Y. R. K. Northey,' Nu'12 14 Duncan Street, Toronto, Canada Walter S. Robinson,' Lambda '19 14 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y. Samuel L. Rosenberry,* Rho '23 15 Broad Street, New York 5, N.Y. Henry N. Woolman,= Tau '96 132 St. Georges Road, Ardmore, Pa. PAST PRESIDENTS (Ex-Officio LIFE MEMBERS) Earl D. Babst, Iota '93 120 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y. Edward L. Stevens, Chi '9.9 43 Church St., Greenwich, Conn. Scott Turner, Phi '02 2824 Graybar Buflding, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N.Y,

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF PSI UPSILON Board of Governors

OFFICERS President Vice President J. J. E. Hessey,' Nu '13 Robert P. Hughes,' Delta '20 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. 1 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y. Secretary Treasurer Charles H. Seaver,' Psi '21 Robert H. Craft,' Tau '29 40 Wall St., New York, N.Y. 140 Broadway, New York 7, N.Y. MEMBERS

Guy D. Bowden,' Epsilon Phi '34 . c/o Aluminum Import Co., 620 Fifth Ave., New York 20, N.Y. Jerome W. Brush, Jr.,' Delta Delta '39 530 Park Ave., New York 21, N.Y. Russell S. Callow,' Theta Theta '16 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Walter T. Collins,' Iota '03 Suite 1700, 52 WaU St., New York 5, N.Y. John E. Foster,' Zeta '23 285 Madison Ave., New York 17, N.Y. Alfred K. FmcKE,' Xi '24 70 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y. Robert C. Fuller,' Mu '2S 2 Wall St., New York 5, N.Y. Oliver B. Merrill, Jr.,' Gamma '25 48 WaU St., New York 5, N.Y. Alfred H. Morton,' Omicron '19 444 W. 56th St., New York 19, N.Y. Ellmore C. Patterson, Jr.,' Omega '35 23 WaU St., New York 5, N.Y. Walter S. Robinson,' Lambda '19 14 Wall St., New York 5, N.Y. Maxwell L. Scott,' Pi '28 270 Madison Ave., New York 16, N.Y. C. Hunt Weber,' Eta '14 50 Church St., New York 7, N.Y. Frank A. Willard,' Phi '18 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y.

* ^ ^ Term expires Conv. of 1049. Term expires conv. of 1950. Term expires Conv. of 1951. �'Term expires Conv. of 1952. ^ Term expires Conv. of 1953. ROLL OF CHAPTERS AND ALUMNI PRESIDENTS

THETA�9� Union College� 1833 Psi Upsilon House, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. G. MarceUus Clowe, '11, 613 Union St., Schenectady, N. Y. DELTA-A-New York UNivEmTY-1837 115 W. 183rd St., New York, N.Y. Robert P. Hughes, '20, 1 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y. BETA�B�(Yale University) Inactive�1839 SIGMA-S-Brown Univebsity-1840 4 Manning St., Providence, R.I. Edward T. Richards, '27, Secretary, 1109 Hospital Trast Building, Providence, R. I. GAMMA�r�Amherst College�1841 South Pleasant St., Amherst, Mass. Frederick S. Fales, '96, Premium Point, New RocheUe, N. Y. ZETA�Z�Dartmouth College�1842 Hanover, N.II. Prof. Donald Bartlett '24, Secretary and Treasurer, Box 174, Hanover, N.H. LAMBDA�A�Columbia University� 1842 704 Hartley Hall, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Bichard M. Ross, '20, Dean Witter & Co., 14 WaU St., New York, N. Y. KAPPA-K�Bowdoin College-1843 250 Maine St., Brunswick, Me. John F. Dana, '98, 57 Exchange Street, Portland, Me. PSI� �*��Hamilton College� 1843 College St., Clinton, N.Y. Edward W. Stanley, '27, Clinton, N. Y. XI�S�Wesleyan University�1843 Hi^h and College Sts., Middletown, Conn. Frank B. Cawley, '14, Avon Old Farms School, Avon, Conn. UPSILON�T�University of Rochester� 1858 Rochester, N.Y. Nicholas E. Brown, '28, 3 South Fitzhugh St., Rochester 4, N.Y. IOTA�I�Kenyon College�1860 Gambier, Ohio Walter T. CoUins, '03, 52 WaU St., New York, N.Y. PHI�*�University of Michigan� 1865 1000 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich. Donald A. Finkbeiner, '17, Box 557 M.O., Toledo 1, Ohio. OMEGA�fi�University of Chicago� 1869 5639 University Ave., Chicago, III J. C. Pratt, '28, 7334 South Shore Dr., Chicago 49, 111. PI�n�Syracuse University�1875 101 College Pi, Syracuse, N.Y. Donald B. Derby, '18, 205 Rugby Rd., Syracuse 6, N.Y. CHI�X�Cornell University�1876 Forest Park Lane, Ithaca, N.Y. Benjamin T. Burton, '21, Secretary and Treasurer, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y. BETA BETA-B B-Trinity College-1880 81 Vernon St., Hartford, Conn. Albert M. Dexter, Jr., Mountain Road, Farmington, Conn. ETA-H-Lehigh University-1884 920 Brodhead Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. CadwaUader Evans, Jr., '01, c/o Hudson Coal Co., Scranton, Pa. TAU-T-University of Pennsylvania-1891 300 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, Pa. C. Linn Sefler, Tau '08, 1529 Walnut St., Phfladelphia 2, Pa. MU�M�University of Minnesota� 1891 1617 University Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, Minn. Thomas G. Heinrich, '37, 108 Washington Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. RHO-P� University of Wisconsin�1896 222 Lake Lawn PL, Madison, Wis. Frederick S. Brandenburg, '09, Democrat Printing Co., Madison, Wis. EPSILON-E-University of California-1902 JSI5 Highland PL, Berkeley 4, Calif. E. O. Erickson, '23, Rm. 1023, 300 Montgomery St., San Francisco," Calif. OMICRON�0�University of Illinois-1910 313 Armory Ave., Champaign, III. H. E. Cunningham '40, Wessman & Cunningham, 145 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, 111. DELTA DELTA-A A-Williams College-1913 Williamstown, Mass. Jerome W. Brush, Jr., '39, 530 Park Ave., New York 21, N.Y. THETA THETA-e O-University of Washington-1916. ..1818 E. 47th St., Seattle, Wash. Frank 1. White, '18, 2608 Shoreland Dr., Seattle 44, Wash. NU�N�University of Toronto�1920 .65 St. George St., Toronto, Canada E. F. Maclntyre, '34, c/o Psi Upsilon Fraternity, 65 St. George St., Toronto, Out., Canada EPSILON PHI�E ^--McGiLL University�1928 342.9 Peel St., Montreal Canada George D. GoodfeUow, '36, 207 Lockhart Ave., Montreal 16, P.Q., Canada ZETA ZETA-Z Z-University of British Columbia-1935 c/o Alumni President Douglas Telford, '28, 408 Birks Bldg., Vancouver, B.C., Canada EPSILON NU-E N-Michigan State College�1943 810 W. Grand River Ave., East Lansing, Mich. S. L. Christensen, '00, 810 W. Grand River Ave., East Lansing, Mich.