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101 PI KAPPA ALPHA DIRECTORY General Offices of the Fraternity: 503 Commerical Exchange Bldg, Atlanta, Ga. Supreme Council National Presidmt...... Elbert P. Tuttle. Beta-Theta, 1413-16 First National Bank Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. National Vice Preside11t ...... Dr. Guy Van Buskirk, Alpha-Theta , 508 Wilshirt> Medical Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. Acti11g National Treasu.rer ...... R. M. McFarland, Jr., Alpha-Delta, 503 Commercial Exchange Bldg., Atlanta, qa. National Secreta1·y ...... ) . Harold Johnston, A/pha-Pst, 24 West 40t_h St., New Yo~k Ctty National Alumui Secretary ...... Joseph A. Sheehan, Alpha-Nu, 1609 Ohve St., St. Louts, Mo. Other National Officers H01wrary Life Preside11t ...... Robert A. Smythe, Lambda, 405 Commercial Exchange Bldg., Atlanta, _Ga. National Cha11cellor ...... Clarence 0. Tormoen, Beta-Ch1, 3528 East 4th St., Duluth, Mmn. N atio11al Editor ...... K. D. Pulcipher, Beta-Eta, 356 East Grand Bout., Detroit, Mich. Natio11al Historia11 ...... Prof. Freeman H. Hart, Iota, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Va. National Chaplain ...... ~ ...... Rev. Dr. Prentice A. Pugh, Chi, 1202 17th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. Acting A ssistant N ational Treasurer ...... E. D. Willingham, Psi, 503 Commercial Exchange Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Endowment Fund Trustees . Pi Kappa Alpha Endowmmt Fnud Robert A. Smythe Efficiency Trophy Committee F. M. Pratt, Alpha-Chi, Chairman; Lew Price, Theta; C. H. C. H. Olmstead, Beta-Theta, Chairman; Leo A. Hoegh, Ga mma­ Olmstead, Beta-Theta; Clarence 0. Tormoen, Beta-Chi, e:-,; officio; Nu; J . Grant I verson, Alpha-Tau. R. M. McFarland, Jr., Alpha-Delta, e.1: officio. Scholarship Honor Rqll Shield and Diamond Endowmeut Fund Winn ers of the Pi Kappa Alpha Schola·rship Cup, provided by the 1915 D. T. Oertel, Beta-Beta, Chairman ; J. Harold Johnston, Alpha­ Convention, for the Chapter with the best yearly average. Psi, Sec. ; Robert A. Smythe, La111bda ; Clarence 0. Tormoen, Session 1916-17-Aipha-Sigma Chapter-Average 90.39%. Beta-Chi, e.1: officio; R. M. McFarland, Jr., A lpha-Delta, ex of­ Session 1917-20-(No award during war period.) ficio , Treasurer. Session 1920-21-Beta-Nu Chapter- Average 83.30%. Session 1921-22-Beta-Nu Chapter-Average 87.00o/o. Standing Committees Session 1922-23-Gamma Chapter-Average 85.24% . (Address co1mmm·icatious to General 0 ffice) Session 1923-24-Beta-Mu Chapter-Average 88.33%. Nat·ioual Scholarship Committee Session 1924-25-Beta Chapter-Average 87.15%. Dean F. M. Massey, Sigma, Chairman; Harold E. Briggs, Beta­ Session 1925-26---Gamma-Epsilon Chapter-Average 87.10%. Chi; Dean B. A. Tolbert, Nu. Session 1926-27-Gamma-Epsilon Chapter- Average 86.25%. Alumnus Beta-Phi Cup Award Committee Session 1927-28-Aipha-Tau Chapter-Average 89.88%. John T. Avery, Alpha-Chi, Chairman; F . K. Glynn, A lpha-Ch·i. Session 1928-29-Gamma-Epsilon Chapter-Average 86.82%. Mac T. Robertson, A lpha-Delta and Upsilon. Session 1929-30-Gamma-Epsilon Chapter-Average 86.83o/o. Riculfi A thletic Cup Awa·rd Committee Session 1930-3 1-Alpha-Tau Chapter-Average 86.37%. Walter F. Coxe, Alpha-Delta, Chairman; Dillon Graham, Alpha­ Session 1931-32-Gamma-Epsilon Chapter-Average 88.92%. Eta; Lesley Goates, Alpha-Tau.. Session 1932-33-Beta-Pi Chapter-Average 92.87o/o. · Awards for Excellence Riculfi Athletic Award: Alumnus Beta-Phi Trophy: 1\fost rep resentative undergraduate. 1925-1926---Mu Chapter. 1926-1927-Psi. 1927-28-Beta-Chi. 1926-27-Howard Bell A~buck l e, Jr., Beta. 1927-28-S. H. 1928-29-Beta-Cht. 1929-30-Aipha-Rho. 1930-31-Alpha-Tau. Lynne, Gamma-Alpha. 1928-29-Lewis A. Smith, Gamma-Alpha. . 1931-32-Alpha-Tau. 1932-33-Beta. 1929-30-John E . Gregory, Beta-Psi. 1930-31-Wesley E. Fesler, Robert A. Smythe Trophy: For efficiency in chapter reports. A lpha-Rho. 1931 -32-John W. Ladd, Beta~Sigma . 1932-33- 1929-30-Beta-Sigma. 1930-31-Beta-Aipha. 1931-32-Beta- Rudolph Stokan, Gamma-Kappa. Alpha. 1932-33-Gamma-Larr.bda. DISTRICTS DISTRICT o. 1-New Hampshire, Ga ut111a-1lfu. District President : Everett M. Oxley, .-:l lpha-Omega, 5430 Main District President : Eric Eastwood, Gamma-1\lfu, Raddins St., St .. Kansas Ci ty, Mo. Lynn, Mass. DISTRICT No. !!-Louisiana, Eta, A /pha-Ga111111a; Mississippi, DISTRICT No. 2-Delaware; New Jersey, A lpha-Psi ; New .-:l lpha-1o ta, Ga.nmza- Theta, Gamma-/ ota. York, Alpha-Chi, Beta-Theta; P ennsylvania east of \Villiams­ District Pre• ident: David C. Longinotti, Alpha-! ota, Central port, Beta-Pi, Gwmma-Lmnbda. High School, Jackson, Miss. District President: S. Roy Smith, A lpha-Psi, 101 Fairview Ave., DISTRICT No. 12-Iowa, Alpha-Phi, Gamma-Nn; Minnesota, South Orange, N. J. Beta-Ch-i; Wisconsin. B eta-Xi. DISTRICT No. 3-Pennsylvania we ~ t of Williamsport, Beta­ District President: Leo A. Hoegh, Gamma-Mu, State Savings Alpha, Beta-Sig·ma, Gamma-Siguw ; West Virginia, Alpha­ Bank Bldg., Chariton, Ia. Theta. DISTRICT No. 13-Kansas, Alpha-Omega, B eta-Ga·iiuua; District President : John L. Packer, Beta-Alpha, 83 St. Nicholas Nebraska, Gamma-Beta. Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. District President: J. vVilbur vVolf, Ga111ma-Beta, 1200 Jackson DISTRICT No. 4-District of Columbia; Maryland; V irginia, St., Omaha, Neb. · A lpha, Gamma, I ota. Omicron, Pi. Di trict President: Wm. S. Lacy, Jr, Theta, I ota, The Daily DISTRICT No. 14-0klahoma, B eta-Omicron; Texas, Alpha­ P·rog1·ess, Charlottesville, Va. Om·icrou, Beta-Zeta, B eta-1v!u . DISTRICT No. 5-North Carolina. Beta, Tau, A lpha-A lpha , District President: T. M. Beaird, Beta-Om·icron, University of Alpha-Epsilon: South Carolina, Mzt, X1:. Oklahoma. Norman, Okla. District President: Arthur P . Harris, Jr., A lpha-A lpha, Box L , DISTRICT No. IS-Western Idaho; \•Vestern Montana; Oregon, Albemarle. N. C. Beta-Nu, Gamma.-Pi: Wa•hington, Beta-Beta, Gamma-Xi. DISTRICT No. 6---Florida, A lpha-Eta; Georgia, Psi, Alpha­ Di ~ tri ct Pre ident: Everett W. Fenton, A lpha-Sigma, 5464 Beach Delta, Beta-Kappa, A /pha- Mu. Drive, Seattle, Wash. District President : Charlton Keen, Alpha-Eta, A lpha-Delta , DISTRICT No. 16---Eastern Idaho; Eastern Montana, Gamma­ 401-2 Bona All en Bldg., Atlanta. Ga. Kappa; Utah, A lpha-Tau, Gamma-Epsilou; Wyoming. DISTRICT No. 7-Illinois, Beta-Eta, Gamma-Rho; Indian:::. District President: ]. Grant Iverson, A lpha-Tau, 401-2 Conti­ Beta-Phi; Michigan. Beta-Tau. nental Bank Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. District President : John C. Cooke . Beta-Phi, 32 \>Vest Randolph DISTRICT No. 17-Arizona, Gmmna-Delta; California, A lph a­ St. Chicago, Ill. Sigma: Gamma-Eta; Nevada. DISTRICT No. 8-Kentucky. Kappa , Omega, A lpha-La111bda: District President: V./. C. King, A lpha-Gautllta., 112 W. 9th St., Tennessee, Zeta, Theta, Sigll'la Los Angeles, Calif. District President: \iVm. G. Na h, A /pha-Laut bda. Box 403, DISTRICT N o. IS- Colorado, Bcta-Upsilou, Gamma-Gamma; Georgetown, Ky. New Mexico, Beta-Delta. DISTRICT No. 9-Aiabama, Delta, Upsilou, A lph a-Pi, Ga 111111a­ District President: Carl V . Rutledge, Gamtna-Gam uw , 870 Gas A lpha. and E lect ri c Bldg., Denver. Colo. District President : John J. Sparkman. Ga nlllta-.1/pha. 610 Ten- DISTRICT No. 19-0hio. A lpha-Xi. 1/ pha-Rhn. Tl rta-F.psilnu. nessee Valley Bank Rldg .. Huntsvill e, Ala. . Ga Ulllla-Z ela. Ga./111/ ta-Om icrnn. DISTRICT No. 10- Arkawas . .'1/ f> lta-Zl'ta: 1\[i ssouri: . 1/pha­ District President: Claude J. Parker, Beta-Epsilon, 309 Union Kappa, A lpha-Nu, Bcta-La111 bda. Bldg., Cleveland, 0.

102 The SHIELD & DIAMOND Official Publication of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was founded at the Univenity of Virginia on Werch I, 1868, by FREDERICK SOUTHGATE TAYLOR, LlmETON WALLER TAZEWELL, JULIAN EDWARD WOOD, JAWES BENJAWIN SCLATER, JR., ' ROBERTSON HOWARD end WILLIAW ALEXANDER. JUNE, 1934 Letters From • Loyal Theta Presbyterian College, Clinton, S. C. CONTENTS Editor, T HE SHIELD AND DIAMOND : t Pi Kappa Alpha Directory ...... 102 In connection with Founders' Day cele­ bration, my thoughts took a rhyming turn t Letters ...... 103 with the result of the Acrostic enclosed. t In phi phi kappa alpha. By the N atio11al Editor ...... 104 Perhaps it might arouse the poetic afflatus t Pittsburgh Wins II K A Chapter. By J. Ha~old Johnston .. .. 105 of some other brother more gifted than I. If the poem calls forth some more and t Sleepers Grow Into Wide-awake Chapter ...... 107 better efforts, it will supply a lack in our t Pittsburgh Has Long History. By Pa11l J. Whitaker ...... 108 II K A literature. t II K A Improves Scholarship. B·y Harold E. Briggs ...... 109 Yours in phi phi kappa alpha. t Founder Lauds II K A. By William A le:mnder ...... 111 D. ] . BRIMM, Theta. t Founder Sends Greetings ...... 112 Dear Old Pi Kappa Alpha t Alumni Drive Big Success. By Joseph A. Sheehan ...... 113 P-rincess of my life is she ; t Sixty Years Ago. By Robert M. Hughes ...... 115 . I love her oh ! so tenderly! t Dr. Arbuckle Honored ...... 117 K-eep chaplets green upon her brow, t II K A's Mark Founders' Day ...... " ...... 119 A-nd always sing her worthy praise ; P-riceless gems on her bestow, t Central Rush Plan Sought. By Alvin D. A yers .... : ...... 120 P-earls and rubi'es; diamond rays; t A Summer at Sea. By B. Graham, Ill ...... 121 A-maranthine gems to grace t News of the Alumni ...... 122 A-nd crown the beauty of her face. • Permanently Pinned ...... 123 L-ovely· she in high degree l t Bruno, II K A Mascot, Dead. By Earl H. Hardage ...... 124 P-assing all her sisters fair! H-eart of hearts she is to me, t The Fraternity Salesman Nuisance ...... 125 A-lone she stands, without compare. t Dollar-a-Month Club ...... 126 D. ]. B., Theta, '85. t II K A Scrap Book ...... 127 --IIK A -- U. S. Needs Arms for Peace. 129 t By C. 0 . Stephens ...... Central Rushing Bureau t She's Real Mother. By Robert D. Hartley ...... 129 1830 E. 3rd St., Tucson, Ariz. t Millsaps Basketball Captain Stars. By Dixo1~ Pyles ...... 130 Edito 1·, THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND : t Wherever You Go, Hunt' up Alumni. By John F. Jones .. . . 130 Why don't some of the brothers ever tell us about their friends who come out t News from the Chapters . . . : ...... 131 here to school ? We have a chapter here t The Chapter Eternal ...... 152 which any Pi Kap can recommend with­ out feeling ashamed. For awhile I thought that our situation here was different because Arizona has such a large number of out-of-state stu­ dents. But I find such is not the case. The situation apparently is common to all Volume XLIII Number 4 of our chapters, no matter where they may K. D. PULCIPHER, National Editor be located. 512 Race Street I can think of no better method of Philadelphia, Pa. strengthening our fraternity than by pledg­ ing a larger number of better men, and I Ric hard G. Baumhoff Walte r F. Coxe can think of no better method of doing St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1418 New Orleans Bank Bldg . this than by cooperative rushing-rushing St. Louis, Mo. New Orleans, La. which helps the chapters individually and our fraternty in general. Such a step would require widespread interest in the matter. This interest can Articles and Photographs for publica-tion in "The Shield and Diamond" be aroused only through THE SHIELD AND 11re cordially invited. DIA MOND and by the National Office. Subscription Price, $2 a year. Special Alumni rate, three years for What we need is a central, coordinated $4.00. l:ife Subscription, $10.00. rushing bureau where information on Changes of address should be sent to J . H. Johnston, National Secre­ tary. Pi Kappa Alpha, 512 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa ., or to 24 West rushes all over the country can be gathered, 40th Street, New York City. Continued on page 124

103 sponsible for a pos1ttve contribution to the primary functions of the col­ IN cp cp IC a leges and universities, and therefore By The Nation1l Editor under an obligation to encourage the most complete personal development + ALUMNI AD I SORY boards vidual chapters whenever and wher­ of its members, intellectual, physical and alumni boards of control ever opportunity arises. and social," the recent conference de­ have the official sanction of the Su­ Some fraternities boast of no clared: preme Council through recent formu­ dead chapters. II K A has several. "1. That the objectives and activities of lation of a policy to a sist active It has recently killed another. We the fraternity should be in entire accord chapters in trengthening themselves. do not believe in carrying deadwood. with the aims and purposes of the institution In certain instances, supervision of But our primary responsibility is to at which it has chapters. "2. That the primary loyalty and re­ an alumni body may be made man­ forestall the decadence of any chap­ sponsibility of a student in his relations datory. ter. vVe hope the Supreme Council with his institution are to the institution, This is a con tructive step. The will act fearlessly and as frequently and that the association of any group of direction of a group of ten to forty as may appear desirable in carrying students as a chapter of a fraternity in­ young men and the supervision of the out its new policy. volves the definite responsibility of the group for the conduct of the individual. finances of such a group sometimes "3. That the fraternity should promote require more experienced hands than • • • THE APPOINTMENT of a publicity conduct consistent with good morals and tho e of college age. Alumni super­ good taste. committee, under the capable chair­ VISIOn i the logical answer to the "4. That the fraternity should create an manship of William C. Banta, Jr., problems of any college chapter. atmosphere which will stimulate substan­ Beta-Theta, a professional publicist tial intellectu"al progress and superior The upreme Council has provided of New York, is a commendable intellectual achievement. for the appointment-by the chapter move. T he college fraternity system "5. That the fraternity should maintain -of a voluntary alumni board with sanitary, safe and wholesome physical ha suffered long enough from mis­ which the active chapter officers may conditions in the chapter house. information in the hands of the pub­ consult freely. Every college chap­ "6. That the fraternity should inculcate lic, from the jokesters, the alleged principles of sound business practice both ter hould acquire such an advisory humor magazines and from certain in chapter finances and in the business group because every chapter is faced academic elements. relations of its members." with problems on which mature ad­ Close cooperation of the National We do not conceive it to be the vice can be helpful. Interfraternity Conference with the primary function of the II K A pub­ In certain instances, the Supreme administrative authorities of the in­ licity committee to exploit indi­ Council may deem it necessary, for stitutions is the purpose of the Con­ viduals who may happen to belong the be t interest of the chapter, to ference, which plans to offer detailed to this organization. Its primary duty appoint an advisory board if the suggestions, after further study and is to disseminate information about chapter does not act. This board investigation, regarding practical the fraternity's accomplishments as will be named by the Council, will steps to make this cooperation effec­ an organization, as a moulder of outline its powers and activities and tive. Announcement of these steps manhood, as a group for fostering will require progres reports fre­ and their execution will be awaited higher educational and social stand­ quently. ards. with high interest. The new Supreme Council policy If people generally were familiar • • • further provide for appointment of ANn SPEA KING OF education, Dr. . with the ideals of the Pi Kappa a board of control to take over and Briggs makes a very potent sugges­ Alpha F raternity and with those of manage any chapter which, in the tion in his article · in this issue. He other fraternities as well, criticism Council's judgment, has become in­ suggests that a survey be made in an of these organizations would vanish. capable of conducting its affairs effort to ascertain from the chapters sati factorily. It is hoped that this • • • themselves just why they think they power will not need to be invoked THE ExECUTIVE CoMMITTEE of the succeeded or failed in their scholastic often. But it is also tq be hoped that National I nterfraternity Conference efforts last year. when such circumstances arise, the and of its Educational Advisory We favor such an investigation Supreme Council will act promptly Committee, all college deans of men, most heartily. W e think the Supreme and effectively. met recently to devise methods of Council should get it under way im­ Thi fraternity, like many others, closer · cooperation between frater­ mediately. Perhaps it is the function grew rapidly in the last twenty years. nities and educational institutions. of the permanent committee on schol­ In such a period of expansion, it The Conference believes that the arship. P erhaps it should be under­ was inevitable that some chapters fraternity should, in every sense of taken by the General Office. And failed to lay the solid groundwork the word, be a constructive force in having analyzed the standing of our that is necessary for the prosperity undergraduate life in entire accord chapters scholastically, it is impor­ and sound growth of a fraternity with the educational objectives of the tant that we do something about it ! chapter. We believe that II K A has institutions, and that with proper F urthermore, having done something fared better than the average Ameri­ leadership, and sympathetic guidance, to determine the causes of success or can college fraternity, but we are it can serve a more useful purpose failure, an effective plan should be blind if we do not recognize the than ever before. evolved to improve the· situation in nece ity of building up our indi- Stating that the fraternity is "re- every possible way.- K. D . P. 104 At the Gamma-Sigma installation banquet speakers' table were John S. Lloyd (l eft), T. W . Biddle, Darrell W . Whitaker, Elmer G . Klaber, Frank Troup, S.M.C. W illia m A. Meyer, District President John L. Packe r, National Secretary J . H. Johnston, Dean of Men Vincent W. Lanfear, B. G . Kr istoff, J . C . Carr, C a rl F. Distlehorst, Marc Darrin Pittsburgh Wins II K A Chapter

+ OMEGA DELTA became were in stall ed by District Pre ident given by the Pittsburgh al umnus Gamma-Sigma chapter of Pi Packer. chapter, Beta-Sigma, Gamma-Sigma l'appa A lpha at the University of :\ number of alumni were present, and Di trict P re iclent Packer. A Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon, for there ha been no installation in feature of the evening was the pres­ March 3, 1934. It became the sev­ this district ince 1921. One of the entation of a large silver cup by the enty- eventh chapter on the active pleasing ev idences of the cordial alumni of O mega Delta to the under­ roll and it takes its place with Alpha­ relations existing between the chap­ graduate who, within the pa t year, T heta, Beta-Alpha and Beta-Sigma ter in the district was the presenta­ had clone the most for the fraternity. in the thi rd district under the watch­ tion of a II K A bronze name plate Judgi ng by the applau e, W illiam A. ful eye of District President J ohn L. to Gamma-Sigma from the chapters. Meyer, the first S.M.C. of Gamma­ Packer. T he install ation banquet was held Sigma, wa ri ghtfully selected as the The charter was granted on March that evening in the University Club. recipient. 1, the sixty-sixth anniversary date of It was a double celebration, for it Two fa -:: ulty me:1 present were Il K A's founding and shortly before had been merged with the customary T heodore W. Biddle, the Assistant the tenth anniversary of the found­ F ounder · Day banquet of the Pitts­ Dean of /[en, who as President of ing of O mega Delta it elf. burgh alumni. There were 126 pres­ Omega Delta in 1928-29 and as an The initiation teams arrived on ent representing about a dozen chap­ alumnus ince then has shown out­ l\Iarch 2 and by lunch time of the ter . Beta- igma is a singing chap­ standing leadership ability, and Prof. foll owing day, twenty-seven under­ ter, o there was no lack of music. Carl F. Distelhorst, the faculty ad­ graduates and ten alumni had become A quartet from Gamma-Sigma il1- viser. Tribute should li kewise be brothers in the borrds of Pi Kappa trocl ucecl us to several of the local paid to Lincoln Cartledge, Beta-Pi, A lpha. The ceremonies were con­ ong and the inevitable chapter and the faculty adviser from 1925 to ducted in two rooms of the Gamma­ coll ege yell fo ll owed. 1930, who started the local off on the way it shoul d go. Sigma hou eat 156 Craig St. Beta- T he toastmaster was Prof. J. A welcome on behalf of the U ni­ igma brothers were pressed into Bailey E lli , Beta-Sigma, of Carnegie ver ity wa extended by Dean of ervice so that two full initiation Tech. Although his young daughter Men V incent W. Lanfear. T he teams were functioning. had just passed the crisis of a criti­ cal illness, he insisted on carrying out Dean, who had been in office only Following lunch at the chapter the re pon ibility assigned to him and two week , outlined some of his house, adjournment was taken to a he did it well. Gracious and clever, hopes for cooperation between the room hi gh in the tower of Pitts­ hi pertinent stories touched the right fraternities and his office. It was my burgh's famous Cathedral of Learn­ spot. Greeting and respon es were pleasure to spend an hour with Dean ing where the impressive installation Lanfear on atu rday morning and I ceremony wa held. The chapter • • • do not hesitate to forecast that the wa dul y organized with William A. By J. Harold Johnston fine attitude the admini tration has 1eyer as S.M.C. and its officers National Secretary hown toward fraternities in recent

105 year wi ll not only be continued but petition when it ay , ' T he hi tory of Thirty-seven Take Oath will be intensified . Dr. Lanfear, Omega Delta to date is proof that By Paul J. Whitaker, GcJmmcJ-SigmcJ when director of the evening course academic achievement, athletic prow­ + G M i - IGM chapter of at Pitt, frequently cild, " We teach e . and social prominence can all P i Kappa Alpha came into ex­ men, not cour e ." He told the ban­ exi t together in a fraternity." i tence on :March 3, 1934, when queteer that he recognized in frater­ l\Iy second impres ion is the intel­ thirty- even active member of nitie an oro-anized unit with whtch ligent and active desire on the part Omega Delta, local fraternity at the the admini tration could work out of the administration of the U niver- U niversity of P ittsburgh, were ini­ tho e true purpo e of a univer ity ity to cooperate fully with frater­ tiated and installed as new chapter. education which extend beyond the nitie . On orne campuses, frater­ T he ceremonies started Friday, cia room door. Pitt doe not grant mtte are tolerated and on others March 2, at three o'clock, with ini­ degree to tho e lacking financial m­ they are used to help olve various tiati ons being cOJ{d ucted by Wilson tegrity a evidenced by unpaid chap­ administrative problems, but P itts­ Ca key and E dward P owell , A lpha­ ter bill . burgh cooperate becau e it recog­ T heta. \i\ illiam H. Crown, Jr., and It wa my privilege to repre ent nize the contribution fraternities can Curti Patterson, Beta-Alpha, and J. the upreme ounci l and II K A a make in the educative process. T he Clifton Carr and \i\Ta llace H amilton, a whole at the banquet and I tned niver ity does not limit it elf to the Be t a-Sig ~~t a. to do j u tice to that re pon ibiltty. cia sroom and si mply "control" extra Early Saturday morning, J. H arold \\' ith the Founder ' Day aspect tn curriculum time to prevent excesses Johnston, ati onal Secretary, arrived, mind. I cribbed copiously from Dr. but rather it believe that a univer- and initiati on started again . At Hart" History of II]{ A and then, ity' educational f unction extends noon, all men had been initiated. with the baby chapter in min I, I tned beyond the cia room door and it is fter lunch, the installation cere­ to bring out the reciprocal relation- accordingly anxious to have f rater­ mony took place in Room 817, Cathe­ hip between chapter and the na­ nitie fulfil their fundamental pur­ dral of Learning, at 2 :30 o'clock. tional oro-anization a well a indi­ poses. John L. Packer, District Pre ident, Yiclual brother and the chapter . It i true that the Univer ity of presided, while ational Secretary n unday, Packer and I were P itt burrrh is a large metropoli tan in- Johnston represented the national or­ dinner gue t at the Beta- io-ma titution, drawing a majority of its ganizati on. T he granting of the hou e and later in the afternoon, we men from the city and environs. charter took place, after which elec­ vi itecl Gamma- igma. It was an ex­ Normally thi i a danger sign for ti on of offi cers was held, with \iVil­ ceedingly pleasant, but busy, week­ fraternities but the attitude of the liam . Meyer being named S.M.C. end. It wa a mo t atisfactory one administration cotmterbalance ii1 thi Saturday evening, at six o'clock, for John Packer had not onl y made in tance. If the chapters live up to the formal installation banquet was excellent arrangements but they were their opportunities, the value of the held 111 conjunction with Beta­ all intelliuently carried out. administration's efforts will be ap­ Sigma' Founder's Day banquet. I left Pitt burgh with two out­ parent, and will obviously continue. J. Bailet E llis, B eta-Sig1na, acted as tanding impre ion . The fir t was Omega Delta, as a local, demon­ tqastmaster. the excellence of the new chapter tt- trated it ability to function success­ Short talks by Benjamin K ristof, elf. The calibre of the new brother fully for ten years. A Gamma- B eta-Sigma, E lmer G. K laber, Gam­ i high but, a a local fraternity, they igm

106 Sleepers Grow Into Wide-awake Chapter

Home of II K A's Newest C ha pter, Gamma-Sigma

+ IN R OM in Zoology Hall, The following week, on May 26, pring in on the pre ent ite of the Cathe­ 192-t, the initiation banquet wa held Jeep and dral of Learning, five tudent , in the Ruskin apartment and Wayne \t\ ayne Theophilus, Graham etting, Theophilu wa installed as pre ident. To attempt the tudy the In titute Ru sell' Dixon, John V. Watkin , and T he fir t meetings were held in a needed profe ional leeper and ince J. F. \ i\1. Pear on, met on April 28, room at 4626 Forbes St.; the pledge , Omega Delta member were trong 1924, to plan a new ocial fraternity ho\\'ever, continued to hold their in cience cour e and well-acquainted at the U niver ity of Pitt burgh-a meetings in Zoology Hall. On March with the In titute lirector the fra­ fraternity which they hoped and felt 3, 1925, Lincoln Cartlege, a member ternity was invited to co-operate. would carry on at lea t ome of the of Phi Kappa lpha, and an in true­ T he fraternity agreed to upply a ideal which the other fraternities, tor in tl!e department of botany, wa hou e and twelve leeper for the then on the campu , had failed to do. elected faculty adviser of the frater­ return of 150 monthly. The only It wa the de ire of these men, nity. It wa through P rof. Cartlege re pon ibility the men had to a ume that thi fraternity hould inculcate that O m ga Delta became acquainted wa to go to bed five night a week within its members a love of hi gh \\'ith the good works of Pi Kappa at 11 P . i\L and ri e at 7 I., and scholar·hip a an achi evement, ju t lpha, and from that time on, O mega daily take a very brief mental te t. as di stinctive as athletic prowess or Delta has held Pi Kappa Alpha as It wa an excell ent opportunity and ocial prominence; that it should an ideal. proved to be ju t the impetu and teach its member to lead their own \Vhen the scholastic standing of financial ecurity needed to operate a li ves and make their own d cision ; the fraternities was announced, hou e. that it hould not in any way restrict O mega Delta stood first with an aver­ t once OmeO'a Delta ecu r-:- d r1 the in dividuality of its members; that aO'e of 85.66 per cent. building on Darragh t .. placed the it hould afford each member a place It wa at the close of thi chool perfect bed and tartecl a frater­ where he coul 1 go for advice and nity on a trong financial footing counsel and el i cu hi problems. t y ar that J. F. W. Pear on was in­ a well a made a valuabl contribu­ thi m eting the founder agreed vited to go with William B ebe on his famous rcturu Oceanographic tion to c~ence which was announced upon the name Omega Delta. Expedition to th aragos a ea and the world over. Po ibly becau e of T hey decided that it hould be the the Galapagos I lands. Mr. Pear on adequate sleep and good bed , the policy of the fraternity never to is now in complete charge of the chaptet· that year made notable tricle pl dge a man until he had completed biological exhibits at the Century of in campu activitie and mai ntained one year's \\'Ork in the univer ity, Progre s Exhibition. it cholastic record by winning the and in addition that he have a "B" scholar hip trophy for the econd average. The e ideals were incor­ In the pring of 1926, a the fra­ ucce sive year. Two of the men porated into a con titution which, to­ t rnity grew the members con idered were elected to Omicron Delta Kappa, gether with a petition to organize, the rental of a hou e, but were un­ \\'as submitted to the Committee on certain wh ther a hou e could be honorary activities fraternity, and Fraternities of the niver ity of carried, o they decided to wait until Omega Delta al o was repre entecl in Pitt burgh. T he committee approved fall. It wa during the ummer that practically every campu activity from the con titution and accepted the the Mellon In titute for Indu trial athletic to dramatic . petition on iay 20, 1924, tlm recog­ Re earch opened a fellow hip with Omega Delta continued to ftouri h ni zing Omega Delta as a local ocial the immons Bed Co. The tudy was and retain d its excellent chota tic fraternity. made to determine the effectivene s of standing without any sacrifice to num-

107 hers. members continued to as­ sume prominent offices in student ac­ tivitie , other fraternities on the cam­ pus realized Omega Delta's increas­ ing power, and as a result, the group wa invited to join Interfraternity C ouncil in the fall of 1927. ln eptember, 1927, the chapter mrrved into its second house, on Neville t., which proved to be much Pitt Stadium, mecca of football m ore adequate for its increasing fans for miles around Pittsburgh m ember hip. For two years there­ after, during which time Theodore V. Biddle, now assistant dean of men, erved a president, the frater­ Pittsburgh Has Long History nity had several opportunities to By PAUL J. WHITAKER, Gamma-Sigma affiliate with national fraternities. On + THE University of Pittsburgh sep arate occa ions, four Pitt nationals had its origin in the Pittsburgh cademy, which received its charter cupation. The curriculum was re­ :Invited Omega Delta to combine with vised and the requirements advanced. "'them and each offer in turn was re­ from the Pennsylvania Legislature on It was during this period before jected. Feb. 28, 1787. At that time, Pitts­ burgh was a village of less than one the twentieth century that the uni­ In 1929, the strong bond between thousand inhabitants, but the pioneer versity assumed greater proportions. the alumni and the active chapter was Scotch and Irish were rapidly pour­ T he school of engineering had al­ strengthened by the former's decision ready been established and courses to award, annually, a trophy to the ing in, and the place had an added in law were being taught. The Alle­ man who best represented the ideals importance because of the converg­ gheny Observatory was added to the of the f raternity. It was first ence of mountain roads and the two rivers, which made it the ·natural university group as was the school awarded to T heodore W . Biddle at of mines, whil e the medical college, the Founder' Day banquet and gateway to the whole Northwest pharmacy college, and dental college since then it has been regarded as T erritory. were added near the close of the cen­ the highe t honor awarded within the The Academy had only two pre­ tury. fraternity. decessors in higher education west The two years, 1927 to 1929, had of the Allegheny Mountains, and In 1907, approximately 48 acres been regarded as the best in the ince these were in Kentucky and were purchased in the Schenley dis­ Omega Delta history to that date. T ennessee, it had a wide and virgin trict, the present site of the univer­ The ·cholar hip trophy was won for f1eld. ity. T he name vvas changed from the third successive year and became T he Pittsburgh Academy naturally the Western U niversity of Pennsyl­ the permanent property of the fra­ flo urished and in 1819, the State vania to the University of Pittsburgh. ternity. Legislature granted forty acres of In 1910, the Mellon Institute of Omega Delta became a leader in land to the institution and reincor­ Industrial Research was established campu politics by 1931, when mem­ porated the Academy under the title by . W. and R. B. Mellon. . The bers were elected to offices in the of the W estern University of Penn­ school of economics (the name later College ssociation, Student Coun­ sylvania. Inasmuch as the title for changed to the school of business ad­ cil and Interfraternity Council. the land failed, the state then ap­ ministration) and the school of edu­ The chapter made an enviable rec­ propriated funds for a building which cation also were established in 1910. ord in intramural ports the follow­ was erected downtown at the corner The graduate school was organized ing year by placing fi rst in bowling of T hird Ave. and Cherry Way. in 1912, although graduate instruc­ and horse hoes and second in basket­ In 1845, the first building was tion had been given for a number ball and mushball. Success at bowl­ destroyed by fire and a new one was of years. ing was further enhanced by a vic­ erected on Duquesne Way, which In 1921, the University purchased tory over the interfraternity cham­ also burned in 1849. These disasters twenty-one more acres, bringing the pion of \Vest Virginia University. so d~ pl eted the resources of the uni­ total area of the University campus Near the close of this school year, versity that it was compelled to sus­ to eighty-one acres, with twenty­ t he chapter moved to its present loca­ pend instruction from 1849 to 1855, seven buildings. The new Mellon In­ tion which is as fine a home as any when a new building was erected on stitute building and the Cathedral of on the Pitt campus. the corner of Ross and Diamond Sts., Learning are now under construc­ Omega Delta's scholastic average and instruction resumed. tion. The Cathedral will eventually for the past three years has been W hen the university building on be the center for most undergraduate very high standing, in a group of Ross St. was sold to Allegheny work of the University while the fourteen fraterni ties, consecutively Co. in 1882, temporary quarters schools of medicine and dentistry will fifth, second, and second. In its eight on North Ave., Allegheny, were used be developed on the present hillside :years of existence it led all the fra­ until 1890, when new buildings on campus and on the Porter property ;ternities on the campus for five years. Observatory Hill .were ready for oc- where a group of ho pitals is planned.

1V'8 IIKA Improves Scholarship

By Harold E. Briggs, Beta-Chi + THE PURPOSE of this article, Tops All Men's Average­ is, fi rst, to consider how II K A stands in relation to other fraternities Study Aids Still Needed in respect to scholarship; second, to consider the scholarship ratings of the the newer fraternities, those estab­ The record as it affects II K A various regional groups of the chap­ lished from 1876-1925, 32 have a plus scholarship is as follows: North ters of II K A; third, to consider the record, and only nine a minus record. Central chapters, -.27 average ; records of various individual chapters, Further, though our record shows Southern chapters, +.23 average; especially in comparison with the All­ steady improvement, it should not be Mid-Atlantic chapters, - 1. 1 average ; Men's Average; and, finally, to draw overlooked that for four of the five Pacific Coast chapters, +.6 average; certain conclusions which, it is hoped, years, our fraternity men made a Western chapters, +.5 average. Un­ may prove helpful to those who have record poorer than the All-Men's like the average fraternity, we have the scholarly interests of II K A at Average, and that today we stand at a good record in Tew England (one heart. only +.12. chapter), but no great improvement in the South. There is no "definite The basis of this study was sup­ It is not a record to be ashamed upturn" for us on the Pacific Coast, plied by ten statistical charts and of, but it is not one to be satisfied and there is "a serious retrogression" graphs issued by the National I nter­ with. Moreover, the All-Fraternity for us, as for other fraternities, in fraternity Conference Scholarship index has risen this past year from the orth Central regions. Committee ( 1932-33), and by the +.3100 to +.3175. II K A is con­ Scholarship Reports of II K A siderably below this. We are con­ Third, to consider the record of ( 1932-33) prepared under the direc­ siderably worse than the average in various individual chapters, both ac­ tion of Dean F. M. Massey, Chair­ scholarship. cording to Interfraternity Conference man of the Scholarship Committee. Nationally, the interfraternity situ­ report and according to the report of the Scholarship Committee of II K A. Before considering the facts of the ation is this : though fraternities are Dean Massey's report shows that the situation, I should like to explajn why improving in their scholarship, the following were the first ten chapters I include lists of, and remarks about, All-Men's Average has risen more within II K A.: 1. Beta-Pi; 2. Gam­ those chapters which have made poor rapidly in 79

109 order, as follows: Cincinnati, 11th Minnesota, and Iowa, five of the of the chapter among the fraternities. place of 15 ; Michigan, 44th place of Big Ten, made bad records. For example, New Hampshire has 13 46; Minnesota, 27th place of 31; econd, it is dangerous for the f ralernities and the II K A chapter Ohio, tenth place of 12; Ohio State, individual chapter to hold to this idea there had a scholarship rating of +1 40th place of 43; Alabama Polytech­ simply because it encourages the fra­ and was third among the 13. In some nic, 16th place of 20; Davidson, 9th ternity to put the blame upon the cases, the scholarship record was not place of 10 ; Duke 14th of 14; college and not to take the blame given by the Interfraternity Con­ Emory, 12th of 14; Georgia, 14th of upon its own shoulders. VI/ e all, in­ ference and these colleges are omitted. 18; Georgia Tech., 18th of 23; North dividually and collectively, like to NORTH CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC Carolina State; l Oth of 14; Ten­ duck out from under responsibility Adelbert . 14 1 3 Carnegie . 19 8 nes ee, 12th of 15 ; Tulane, 16th of and to say that "it was somebody Cincinnati. 15 1 II Lehigh .. 29 -1 8 111 nois .. 55 -1 20 N .Y.U .. . 22 -2 11 18; Washington and Lee, 17th of 20; else's fault." It is a danger to be Michigan .. 46 -3 44 Penn State 42 -1 6 Minnesota. 31 -3 27 Rutger s .. 16 -2 9 California, 41 t of 42; Arizona, lOth guarded against. N 'western. 18 +S 1 Syracuse.. 26 I 12 Ohio ..... 12 -2 10 West Va.. 20 -3 14 of 12; Colorado, 20th of 21; Denver It would probably be worthless for Ohio State 43 - 2 9th of 11; Iowa, 18th of 21 ; Kansas Purdue 33 2 i ~ Ca~~~;i~.IC42COAST 41 me to e..xpres my opinion concerning \~ isconsin. 39 -2 2 ~ Oregon . . 16 2 tate, 19th of 20. the rea ons why some chapters do Wittenberg 8 I Oregon SOUTHERN State . . . 30 3 I I The following chapter were rated well and others do ill. There may be So. Calif .. 17 I 11 A labama . . 30 2 I S \ Vash'ton.. 36 - 1 12 at Ia t place among the fraternitie at many different reasons in each case. A la. Poly. 20 - 1 16 Washington Birmingham- S tate ... 19 -1 11 their re pective chools: Birmingham- Perhap at bottom the trouble is outhern . 7 -4 7 Davidson .. 10 - 1 9 WESTERN outhern, Duke, Colorado Coll ege, economic. If a chapter is hard put Duke .... 14 -4 14 Arizona . . 12 -3 10 and New Iexico. It is neces ary to to it to meet expenses, it tends to Emory .. . 14 -I 12 A·rkansas.. 13 5 I F lorida .. 21 - 1 14 Colorado .. 21 -3 20 call attention to the very bad record take any man it can lay its hands on. Geor g ·a 18 I 14 Colorado Ga. T ech .. 23 -1 18 College . 6 - 1 5 made at Michigan, l\Iinne ota, Ohio In other cases, the wrong group is in Hampden- Denver .. II - 3 9 Sydney 7 2 2 I owa .. .. 2 1 -4 18 tate, David on, Emory, T ulane, the saddle at the individual houses, H oward 6 -3 3 I owa State 30 1 I 5 K entucky.. 17 2 5 I

110 Founder LaudsiiKA History

By William Alexander Only Living Founder

+ I HAVE JUST received a copy of the H istory of the Pi Kappa A lpha Fraternity and have read it from cover to cover. It may not be inappropriate for me to make a rec­ ord of my general impressions. The author, my good friend, Free­ man Hansford Hart, a member of the distinguished faculty of Hamp­ den-Sydney College, at the head of the Department of History, has per­ formed with the greatest diligence and care a heavy task, but it has been W illia m Alexander, only livi ng Founde r of Pi Ka ppa a labor of love, has been done with Alpha , at his desk in his New Yo rk C ity office high distinction, and ought to be re­ ceived by every member of the fra­ bearers who deserve to be honored, tion-and may very appropriately ternity with gratitude. and there are chapters also that have become an international organization My first glimpse of the book gave been eminently useful, notably that under favorable re trictions and con­ me a shock to see that undeserved at Hampden-Sydney, with which trol. prominence was given to me in its your historian is identified. As long as the fraternity was con­ pages, but I recognize the fact that From time to time the fraternity fined to the South, the patriotic pirit the excuse for this has been the fact has been confronted by · dark days, of its members was appropriate and that I have lived longer than any of diffic ult problems, and period of important. And it is profoundly in­ the other members of the organiza­ stress and strain. These experiences, teresting that the same spirit pre­ tion. There are many members who although trying, have had di tinct vailed during the Spanish-American have served, or are serving, the fra­ value, for they have developed the \1\ ar and the World War- a spirit of ternity more faithfully than has strength, courage and power of the comprehensive national character a been possible with me. organization. di tinguished from one of a sectional I still find it easy to get my hat It was well that in the beginning character. on my head, and I hope that my mod­ the organization was developed in In that connection I am reminded esty has not been shattered, and that the South and that its extension in to of a reception which was given hort­ I will continue to deserve commen­ the North and West was gradual and ly after the Spani h- merican War dation by doing what I can to serve unhurried. But the fraternity nec­ by the University Club of ew York my fellow men. essarily became a national organi za- to two generals-General Wil on, This H istory deserves the high who had been prominent in the Fed­ endorsement of every member of the • • • eral army during the Civil War, and fraternity. It is as interesting · and Your Last Chance! General Wheeler, who had been instructive a I knew it would prove equally prominent in the Confederate to be. The long-awaited History is now on ranks, and afterwards in the Spanish­ The book should be carefully read the press. The bargain pre-publication American War. At that time a di - in order that those who have done price offer of $1.50 expires on June 1, tinguished and very witty lawyer, most for the fraternity may be recog­ when the regular price of $2.00 be­ Judge Howland, was pre ident of nized and honored-the men who comes effective. Order today at the the club, and pre ided at this recep­ have borne the burden and heat of bargain price of tion, and his introduction was to the the day, and have done far more for following effect : the development of the fraternity $1.50 "Peace also hath her victories. You than could ever have been done by its Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity have all heard of the celebrated firm Founders. There are many standard- 502 Commercial Exchange Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. of Wheeler and Wilson." At that

Ill time the firm of W heeler and \Vii­ son were well known manufacturers Founder Sends Greetings of sewing machines! II K A should always take an ac­ tive interest in athletics-although 393 SEVENTH AVENUE.NEW YORK no stimulus from without is needed there. The chief aim should be to .&,pr1l 3d, lGM make character, reputation and schol­ To the Editor of arship the considerations of para­ THE SHIELD AND DIAI40ND: mount importance. On Founders• Day a llllltitude of telegraDB from In certain quarters, from time to different chapters of the Fraternity all over the United States time, fraternities have been criti­ •ere sent to my office in New York, I could not ~newer these cized and opposed. They may be messages on their arl'ival 'ae I happened to be on the Pacific Coast at that time, but with your permission I send to all assailed again, but worthy fraterni­ those who remembered me my appreciation of their friendly ties will rise superior to such attacks messages and my heartfelt gratitude,through the columna of if they continue to be conducted in THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND, The day after my arrival in Los Angeles I was called harmony with the colleges and uni­ for by Dr. Van Buskirk, who took me to the handsome building versities with which they are identi­ occupi ed by the Chapter identified with the University of southern fied. The steadfast aim of every California. !t was highly gratifying to meet the fine young men such organization must be, while of that chapter. stimulating loyalty to the fraternity, Later, in Phoenix, Arizona, I was taken in hand by the to strengthen the loyalty of every a on of the manager of the corporation with which I am identified, member to his Alma Mater. Mr. Edwin L. Grose, who, with his brother-in-law are members of the chapter of the Univel'sity of Arizona at TUceon. SUbsequently I The Founders of II K A were de­ visited the chapter house at Tuacon end had a very enjoyable seance voted children to their Alma Mater with the clever young men i dentified with that chapter, and their interest in the fraternity !here ere now so many chapters of the Fraternity in launched by them strengthened their the ULited States that when I visit a college town I am greeted by spirit of loyalty-I might say patriot­ membeJs of our fraternity. in every caae,or in nearly every caee. ism-towards the University of Vir- ginia. -IIKA-- Keen Given Honor Charlton Keen, Alpha-Eta, Alpha­ Delta, District President of o. 6, recently was elected governor of the ninth district of the Advertising Fed­ eration of America. Vice president of Groves-Keen, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., advertising agency, Keen has taken an active part in ad­ New D.P.'s Named Wins Honors-and Girl vertising club affairs in the South for Three new District Presidents Lloyd Loomis, Gamma-Eta, was several years. were named recently by the Supreme tapped Innocent (senior honorary He is professor of marketing at Council. of 13 men), last spring at Nebraska. the University System of Georgia W . C. King, Alpha-Gamma, suc­ He is a Major in the R.O.T.C., a evening school in Atlanta. ceeds Dr. Guy Van Buskirk, who member of Scabbard and Blade, and --IIKA-- was elected vice president of the chairman of the Interfraternity nagg Wins Legion Post Fraternity at the Troutdale Conven­ Council. Last spring Loomis was tion, as District President of No. 17. advertising manager of the Corn­ Paul E. Flagg, Beta-Gamma, presi­ He is with the Stauffer Chemical Co., husker, chairman of the Interfrater­ dent of the Kansas City alumni chap­ 112 West 9th St., Los Angeles, Calif. nity Council, chairman of the Junior­ ter, recently was named a member Senior Prom committee, member of of the American Legion boxing and Carl V. Rutledge, Gamma-Gamma, <::;o rn Cobs (pep society), associate wrestling committee there. Flagg is was appointed District President of editor of the Biz-Ad News, and pres­ commander of William T. Fitz­ No. 18, succeeding Charles E. Mit­ ident of the Blue Shirt political fac­ simons Post No. 8. He is a mem­ ton. Rutledge is state agent for the tion. He is also chapter S.M.C. ber of the City Plan Commission of North British and Mercantile Insur­ Kansas City. ance Co., Ltd., 870 Gas and Electric On April 23, Loomis passed the Bldg., Denver, Colo. cigars, announcing his engagement to -IIKA- John C. Cook, Beta-Phi, new Dis­ Miss Helen Menke of Crete, Our merchants are compelled to extend trict President of No. 7, follows Neb. Miss Menke is a member of credit to the active chapters in order that Donald E. Bean in office. Cook is Kappa Alpha Theta. Next fall, they may eat because the active chapters are paying for food that was eaten ten or Chicago representative of W . R. C. Loomis will be associated with the fifteen years ago.-Dean of Men Heckel, Smith Publishing Co., at 32 W est General Electric offices ·in Schenec­ Missouri. Randolph St. tady, N.Y.

112 Alumni Drive Big Success

+ THE PROGRAM for the By Joseph A. Sheehan Dear Sir : am orry to inform you, but our son Dean passed away Aug. 18, Alumni " ew Deal" of partici­ National Alumnus Secretary pation in Fraternity affair i well 1928. His Alumni hapter at Ames Iowa under way and the response from was notified at the time. THE HI~D AN~ PI ~APPA ALPHA FRATERNITY DIAMOND is still coming, Mr. Francis and individual members has been excel­ )c-. A :!!loon"'""' 8 #1 _.1 •fl•,.•~ .)n"•rassist in this work. 3. One Dollar is' sent to the Alumni Bills for the due , with an expla­ early every letter received in reply chapter designated, of which the donor had a most optimistic tone and many nation of their purpose, were sent to is a member. expressed surprise this plan was not all alumni. Upon payment, the cards were issued, with notice that they In other words, the Alumni Chap­ adopted before. would serve as receipts and identifi­ ters get the benefit of two-thirds of Here are some outstanding ex­ cations. Members were asked to this money. Let's use an example. pressions: sign the cards. The notice said : uppose, for instance, Alumnus "From the good accomplished at the last "It is the hope of your national offi­ Alpha- u, here in St. Louis, has 36 convention, I believe the Alumni sessions cers that payment of these dues signi­ members who pay dues each year are going to be the highlight of future for two years, the usual time between conventions." fies your active interest in the affairs "The receipt of bills for Alumni dues of Pi Kappa Alpha and that you will conventions. This would mean a as passed by the last convention has caused use every opportunity to promote total of $216 for the two years. the local Alumni to meet and formulate alumni activity." Of this amount, $72 goe to the plans for an active Alumnus Chapter here." Alumni who have not paid dues Fraternity, to help defray the ex­ "Enclosed find postal money order for penses of this office of Alumnus Sec­ dues, which I am glad to be able to pay. may communicate with Sheehan at Only wish I could help you get it in from 1609 Olive Street, St. Louis. retary; 72 would go into the all the Alumni." Transportation Fund to the credit of "Please accept the enclosed check for this chapter and would entitle them "I would like to say at this opportune Alumni dues, hoping the ideals of Pi Kappa to a delegate to the convention, with Alpha will go on forever." time, that you have my full co-operation. "Enclosed my check for Alumni dues. I am certainly glad to be able to do some­ round trip Pullman and railroad fare I am very much interested in the Alumni thing for my Fraternity and I am hoping paid by the Fraternity; and the activity in the Fraternity and hope to or­ that I will be in a position to be of greater other $72 goes directly to the Trea - ganize an Alumnus chapter here very service in the future. Good luck and may urer of the chapter, to cover the local you succeed as planned." shortly." expenses of the chapter and eliminate "I am very glad at this time to be able "I am enclosing money order for my to pay my Alumni dues, for which I en­ annual dues. It is indeed a pleasure to feel the nece sity of collecting due from close check." that we, the Alumni, are at last getting the members. "I am glad to see that the Alumni are into a closer contact with our Fraternity." A great deal ha been accomplished coming into their own, even if it is in the "Enclosed check for Alumni due . It i and a good start ha been made to­ a great thing you are doing and I hope it form of a levy. More power to you and wards our goal- active alumni par­ may your efforts to awaken the Alumni grows as rapidly as the Fraternity itself prove successful." has." ticipation in fraternity affair . There "I am heartily in favor of Alumni dues But of all the replies received, the is still a tremendou task before us. and think it is a great idea. I am a little one that charmed me most and You can help u to reach our objec­ pushed right now, but will send check touched me deeper than all the rest, tive, by ending that check for $3· soon." was the following, received from the to the National Alumnus Secretary. "Am with you 100% in this matter of Alumni dues and I am going after the mother of Dean Francis, deceased, Let's make our Alumni group a po­ Alumni here to fall in line." formerly of Alpha-Phi chapter. tent factor in II K A!

11} Mr. Pioneer is II K A The election of Burkhart a -Ir. Holmes Basket Star By P•ul A. SlouiJer, Kappa Pioneer is an admirable culmination By Geor1e A. Fuller, A/pha·Phl + UPHOLDING it enviable rec- to a fine college career. + THREE years ago "Herm" ord of participation in Tran­ George Blanton, Kappa, Lexing­ Holme , Alpha-Phi, '32, was sylvania Day by Pi Kappa lpha, ton, Ky., freshman, wa elected sec­ making his third letter as varsity \ ~e rnon Burkhart. Kappa, of kron, ond attendant to r 1r. Pioneer, an guard on the basketball team. This Ohio, wa elected Mr. Pioneer, the honor given to the outstanding mem­ year his brother, Torvald (Fat) highe t honor accorded any male stu­ ber of the Fre hman Clas . Blanton Holmes, '36, is more than doing jus­ dent on the campus. It is awarded i president of that class and of the tice to the record of "Herm." by popular vote of the tuclent body Crim on Club, honorary pep organi­ "Fat" played in every game this and in the last four years, Kappa zation. He also play 111 the band men have earned the honor three and orchestra. year. During the Iowa State-Iowa game he scored eight points against a time --ITKA-- Song Winners N art)ed powerful team. In the game with Goodnite Sweetheart of II K A, written by Harry Woodward, Pi, with Bud Workman as collaborator, was awarded first prize in the na­ tional song contest by chapter vote, according to announcement just made by the Supreme Council. The song is a dreamy waltz song and appeared on page 42 of the song­ book issue of the April SHIELD AND DIAMOND. On Our Pi Kappa Alpha Honey­ moon was awarded second prize. The words were written by Teed Vignolo, Gamma-Eta, and the music is by Emerson Button. It appeared on page 49 of the songbook issue. Southern California also grabbed off third prize in the contest when My Fraternity Lullaby won the next highest number of votes. It was To rvald Holmes, fast-scoring basket­ Vernon Burkhart, who upholds II K A written and composed by Beverly ball ace at Iowa Stat e, fi lls brot her's tradition by winning Transylvania's Quekemeyer, Gamma-Eta. The third sh oes highest honor prize winner appeared on page 45 The climax of the year's activities of the songbook. Oklahoma, Holmes was the only man is Transylvania Day, an annual cele­ --ITK A -- on his team who could make any headway, scoring in the first half all bration which has become a campus McNeal Wins Seven Letters of his team's field goal~. Again, in tradition. A pageant depicting the By Grove r Steele, A/p ha ~Ome va spirit which led to the founding of Outstanding among the seniors of Kan~ the Drake game, his clever floor work Transylvania is presented in May. sas State this year is Charles Dean Mc­ and consistent scoring made him the Burkhart will personify the spirit of Neal. He has been prominent in athletics, high-point man of the contest. "Mr. Pioneer" in that pageant. scholarship, debating and organization service. He has earned seven letters in Holmes brought a record from For the past four years Burkhart two major sports, football and track. high school that indicated his possi­ has been prominent in campus acti­ Though weighing but 140 pounds, he held bilities. At Gilbert, Iowa, he played vities. He played regular halfback down the end position on the football team baseball, as well as basketball, during position on the football team and was which placed second in the Big Six con~ ference. As a member of the track team his entire four years, captained the awarded three lett~rs. He is the for the past three years he has competed latter team two years and served as baritone soloist in the Glee Club. His in the ·middle distance races. class president in the junior and prominence as an actor was evidenced As a member of the debating team Mc­ senior years. In his freshman year last year when he played the part of Neal has debated with many teams of other Julius Caesar in the Stagecrafter pro­ colleges. He has served Alpha-Omega as at college he won numerals in foot­ duction of that play. His excellent S.M.C. for the past year in a very com­ ball, basketball and baseball, although mendable manner. Other organizations of he had never played football before. performance was acclaimed by critics which he is a member include Alpha Zeta, from all parts of the state. He also honorary agricultural organization; Gam­ In spite of the large amount of plays in the band and the orchestra ma Sigma Delta, honorary senior and time Holmes devotes to athletics, his and has the added distinction of be­ graduates agricultural organization ; Blue scholastic average places him among ing a member of both honorary fra­ Key, honorary senior organization; Pi the leaders of his class. The coach Kappa Delta, national debate organization ; ternities, Lampus and Book and "K" fraternity and the Agriculture Eco­ has no worries about the eligibility of Bones. nomics Oub. this guard.

114 Sixty Years Ago By Robert M. Hughes Gamma, William and Mary* • T THE Final of 1873 I was T he tudent body numbered onl y awarded the degree of A .B., hinc about fifty. But, though small tn illae la crimae. It is difficult to give quantity, it was high in quality. It an idea of conditions in W illiams­ contained several who had served in burg then. Everything betokened the Confederate Army. early all poverty and paralysis. the others were poor, and trying to orne of the houses on Wood­ make up for lost time. T here were pecker t. still showed holes made a few dissipated ones, and they had by cannon in the Battle of W illiams­ no trouble in quenching their thirst burg. T he idewalks and driveways in \i\Ti lli amsburg then. But as a class, v1:ere unpaved, the streets unlighted the spirit of the student was high. and the feeble li ghts from the few T he honor ystem prevailed to its houses scattered along the street only full extent. There were no student made darkness vi sible. The only councils or formal trials; but the stu­ "tapers to light the vale with hospit­ dent who did anything eli honorable Robert M. Hughes, Gamma, as a stud ent at William and Mary sixty able ray" were the lights from the wa either boycotted or, if the offense years a go numerous bar rooms which lined was a grave one, was told to leave T he second stories of \ i\T illi ams­ Duke of Gloucester St. The Mayor college. In a mall student body, the burg were not very high above the of the town was a negro by the system worked perfectly, for every­ ground (and there were very few name of Tucker. body knew everybody else. third stories) ; so when that ong The faculty then numbered five. O ur opportunities of amusement wa sung by a dozen or so young The college course was not based on were narrow, if measured by mod­ men at the top of their voices, you a curriculum. Those who were not ern standards. There were no facil­ can imagine how sweetly the lady working for a degree could take any ities for joy riding. The most com­ re ted in peace. When sung, not for of the departments they wished and mon type of vehicle seen on the sentimental motives but purposes of receive a diploma of graduation in street was the one-horse power cart humor, it was occasionally accom­ each separate department. The more drawn by a steer. A few of the panied by an improvised band. T his difficult departments (such as Greek, townsmen had buggies or spring consisted of a large goods box, with Latin and mathematics) covered a wagons, but they were all privately a few string stretched across and three-year course, called, respectively, owned. The only method of loco­ wel l resined. vVith a small rod, it junior, intermediate and senior. The motion avail able was Shank's mare. gave quite a variety of notes. A easier ones (such as the modern I t goes without saying that there tomato can with a hole punched in languages) covered a two-year were no movtes. But Williamsburg it and a string drawn through and course, called junior and senior. T he had a number of talented musicians lavishl y resined supplemented it. A A.B. degree. covered graduation in of both exes, and there were some few combs with thin paper tretched four of the departments and a pass students and townfolk with hi stri­ over them and blown upon, came in (or proficiency, as it was called) in onic geniu , and so we frequently handy in the chorus. T he girl u u­ all the intermediate cia s of the others. pull ed off private theatricals, and all y enjoyed it, and even the old man The A.M. was not a postgraduate especiall y minstrel shows, which did not interrupt us with bird shot. course, but the real graduating de­ were hard to beat. We also in­ The college itself was an Eveless gree. It required graduation in all dulged in serenades occasionall y, but E ldorado. We had no sweethearts the departments. T hus the A.I3. was they were not preponderantly musi­ to it by u in cia s or permit u to not a graduating degree. T here was cal. O ne ong was especiall y popu­ carry their books. But the gi rls of ai so a li ttle degree called the B.P., lar. Its fi r t t~o verses were: W illiamsburg were a bevy of beau­ or Bachelor of P hil osophy, whi ch re­ -i-1-e-n-c-e! S-i-1-e-n-c-e! ties, and there were just enough quired graduation in only two de­ Make no noise nor stir. students to go around, with a proper For within that latti ce there partments, and wa given as a sort additional proportion of stag . Those of consolation prize to tho e who had Sweetly rests my lady fair. S-i-1-e-n-c-e! S-i-1-e-n-c-e! gi rl s were experts as far as we green failed in their attempt at an A.I3. I Make no noise nor stir. country boys were concerned, and have known instances where it was Re t in peace, they made us have a mighty good refused when offered. No prelimi­ Re t in peace, time. Our main opportunities of nary examination or certificate was Lovely maiden, love of mine; bowing them attention were attend­ required, and the tudent could enter L-o-v-e-1-y m-a-i-d! ing the Friday night dances at the

any class for which he thought him­ *Extracts fr om an address by form er Supreme Asylum, and taking them to church Councilor Hughes at the College of William and self prepared. Mary. Sunday night. The girl and escort

115 both walked, de pite dark streers and There was a clump of trees in as vain as a peacock. I remember treacherous mudholes. These gave the back of the campus, which we one student whose outfit surpassed unexampled opportunities for spoon­ called the pt£gnawlwm. The pugna­ even mine. He was from Bertie ing, unless romance was knocked out cious students, with their seconds, Co., N., C. The most striking part by getting mired in a mudhole or went back there, stripped as far as of his supply was a home-made stumbling over the cows that" always convenient, and settled the matter hat made from the skin of a red fox. chose the paths for their slumbers. according to the Marquis of Queens­ He always had an ovation when he The citizens were as hospitable to bury rules. They were expected to went downtown, and yet I believe us as their narrow means permitted. shake hands afterwards, for the that if a girl of the present day They could not afford large enter­ classe were too small to have a lot could get that hat she would set the tainments, but small chocolate stews of fellows refusing to speak to each fashion. and taffy pullings to a small circle other. Personally I had no experi­ In 1870 there was everything to of friends were popular and intensely ence back there, though I had two test the patience, courage and en­ enjoyed. Occasionally we would close calls: one where I extended durance of the inhabitants of Wil­ reciprocate by getting up surprise or the invitation, and one where I re­ liamsburg. The outlook was almost tarvation parties. We would take ceived it. Both were settled· by the hopeless. The descendants of the our weethearts around to some seconds on honorable terms and old families, who had been raised in hou e where we were not expected, much to the satisfaction and relief the lap of luxury, had to do their and have a dance. But we always of the parties concerned. own work-and they did it ! They had a Final ball, with some simple Quite a feature of those early days neither concealed nor paraded their refre hments. It may sound incred­ was the way the boys dressed. Store poverty. With the thunders of ible, yet it is a fact that the girls clothes were unknown to the coun­ battle still sounding in their memory, would not dance round dances with try boys, so their college trousseaux and the graves of their dead heroes u . But the lancers and quadrilles followed no special fashions, but scattered around them, they repined, and cotillion were great fun all the were mainly the inventive product of but they did not give way to despair. same. home seamstresses, resulting in a re­ They bade the students welcome to The girls were pecially charming markable if not pleasing variety. their homes with all the heartiness for their simplicity in dress and lack :rvly rig was no exception. It was the of the olden times. And their re­ of affectation. They were usually composite result of a negro seam­ ward, though long in coming, has their own seamstresses, and were not stress who lived on the farm and an come at last. ashamed of it. The Sunday night impoverished neighbor who belonged In those days it was a liberal edu­ ervice were a special test of a girl's to our little church. cation to live in Williamsburg. Its popularity. The greens had no I can never forget the shirts they historic shrines are mute but elo­ "keep oti the gras " sign , and many constructed. They defy description. quent witnesses of its glories. a diaaonal path was worn across One of the students at the College In the play of Spartacus it is said them in the direction of a popular Hotel had something of a reputation that "there's something in the very girl' hou e. There was one espe­ as a sponge. One evening he came air of Thrace, breeds valor rank as cially that ran from the corner of to my room and asked me to lend grass." So in Willlamsburg there is the churchyard to the corner of the him a clean shirt, claiming a short­ something in the very air that breeds Tucker lot. I contributed to keep­ age in that line, and saying that he patriotism and refinement and stim­ wanted to call on one of the town ing down the grass in that path ulates the ambitious student to reach my elf. be ll es. I lent him one of the home out for higher things. Its glories product. It was a profitable kind­ will increase as the years roll by; its ny one who will study the his­ ness on my part. He never asked inhabitants are citizens of no mean tory of the college for the genera­ me to lend him anything else. city. They can be trusted to make tion ucceeding the Revolution will Before leaving home I had rebelled themselves worthy of it, to conduct be truck with the number of duels on taking one suit along which was themselves as nobly in prosperity as between the tudents. And they made somewhat on the style of a in adversity. were real duel , with pistols and cof­ Confederate cavalryman's uniform This college has always had a fee for two. It wa a time when (my teacher had served in the cav­ reputatiop for something more than the practice was common, not only alry) and which had caused a mild scholarship. It has always been its in Virginia, but in the country at sensation and almost broke up the ambition to turn out gentlemen as large. The college regulations were choir at one of the church services. well as scholars. I would rather see severe again t it. Several of our But I stuck it out until the begin­ a child of mine fail on every exam­ mo t prominent alumni were expelled ning of the second half-session, when ination and come away a gentleman, for it. But I am happy to say that my father, who at once realized my than see him take every college honor by 1870 thi serious remedy for in­ troubles when I explained them to and come away a snob. sult had gone out of fashion, and him, took me to Richmond and fitted During these eventful years I have we had returned to the old Anglo­ me out from head to foot with well­ watched my alma mater's vicissitudes Saxon method of fisticuffs, involv­ fitting store clothes. of fortune with mingled hope and ing no worse con equence than black And so, at the age of 15 0, I blos­ despair. I have seen her prostrate P.yes and bloody noses. somed out in Williamsburg society, Continued on page 151

116 Dr. Arbuckle Honored + HOMAGE IN BEHALF of the ter, told Dr. Arbuckle the gift could whole fraternity was paid a not be a material criterion "of the great leader at Davidson, N. C., the affection and respect in which you are night of last Dec. 7, when a symbol held throughout the whole world of of appreciation was presented to Pi Kappa Alpha men," but could be Howard Bell Arkuckle, Iota, who re­ "only tangible evidence of inner feel­ tired as Grand Councilor at the ings and regard which cannot be Troutdale convention last summer measured in material things." The after long and matchless service. letter continued : The convention voted to authorize "Your efforts in behalf of our brother­ the Supreme Council to present to hood dating from that historic convention Dr. Arbuckle a "suitable token of in your own dormitory room at Hampden­ Sydney in 1889 when you, with Rice and gratitude and affection." The ar­ Foster, had the vision which permitted Pi rangements for presentation were Kappa Alpha to live for greater service to made as a surprise to him. Members college men, have been continuous whether or not you held an official position. Your Dr. Howa rd Bell Arbuckle, of the Supreme Council were un­ retiring G rand Councilor able to attend, but delegated George reward for the time and effort expended cannot come from gifts but rather from the M. Ivey, A lpha-A lpha, former Dis­ knowledge that you have made a contribu­ personal life the idea ls which he publicly trict Princeps, of Charlotte, N. C., tion, deprecate it as you modestly do, to­ professed.' To those hosts of brothers in to present the gift. ward the friendliness and brotherhood of the bonds of phi phi kappa alpha who had A silver tray, pitcher and goblets man. Your influence can be gauged by the privilege of personal contact with you, the depth and sincerity of the friendships you are the embodiment of all that P i were selected. The tray bears this you have made in Pi Kappa Alpha during Kappa Alpha, in its truest sense, stands inscription : "Affectionately presented the past forty-five years. It is significant for. The action of the convention was an to Howard Bell Arbuckle by vote of that, upon your resignation, no successor articulation of this feeling. the 1933 convention as a token of was even considered and, in the discon­ "T o those of us on the Supreme Coun­ friendship and respect upon his re­ tinuance of the office you held with such cil, your retirement was particularly sad, distinction, the duties were divided among for while we know that your interest will tirement as Grand Councilor of the others. continue unabated and that you will always P i Kappa Alpha Fraternity." "Probably no finer statement can be be available for consultation and advice, A regular meeting and initiation of made of any man than 'he lived in his the almost daily contact through letters is Beta chapter, at Davidson College, now a thing of the past. We consider it an honor of di stinguished proportions to where Dr. Arbuckle is professor of Work Way to Europe be the instrumentalities through which the chemistry, was called and he was in­ By Willlom J. Docell, Alpha.fota desire of the convention is carried out.'' vited to conduct the initiation. + SAILING FROM Mobile, Ala., In addition to members of Beta Arriving, he wondered about the un­ last summer, on a working trip, chapter, the following undergradu­ usual gathering of alumni, but the Spurgeon Buckley and Shelby Rob­ ates were present : H. S. Odom, C. R. reason did not occur to him. After ert, both of Alpha-Iota, made a tour Johnson, W. S. Horne, T. T. Up­ S.M.C. Wehner carried out the of England. They worked their way shur, W . I. Tisdale and L. A. Mc­ routine session, Dr. Arbuckle took across, clearing the deck, tying down Call, Jr., of Mu, and H. L. Horton, the chair for the impressive cere­ hatches, chipping rust, and working Jr., of Alpha-Alpha. Alumni pres­ mony installing William Moore, '36, in the engine room. ent included A. V. Russell, Mu, Albe­ as a brother. Afterwards the S.M.C. Landing at Manchester, they re­ marle, N. C.; Dr. Robert H. Laf­ recognized I vey. mained three days seeing interesting ferty, Beta; Dr. Frank C. Smith, The chapter and district were places, then went to London by bus. Alpha-Alpha and Tau, and A. J. honored, I vey said, to be made the Naturally, they visited the Houses of Beall , Alpha-Epsilon, of Charlotte, in strumentality for honoring "one of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, and Dr. Edwin F. Shewmake, J r., the most beloved brothers." I vey Scotland Yard, Temple Gardens, Gamma, professor of English at then read a letter signed by all mem­ Blackfriars, the Tower of London, Davidson College. bers of the Supreme Council, pay­ the Bank of England, St. Paul's Dr. Arbuckle held the position of ing tribute to Dr. Arbuckle, also con­ Cathedral, the Old Curiosity Shop, Grand Councilor from 1913 to 1933. gratulatory telegrams from a num­ W estminster Abbey and Wesley's Upon his retirement the place was ber of officials of the fraternity. chapel. abolished. Previously he had held Thereupon the gift was brought in They also went to Oxford, the the earlier corresponding position of and handed to Dr. Arbuckle, whose home of the Duke of Marlborough, Councilor Princeps in 1892-94 and brief words of thanks were notice­ Stratford-on-Avon, and Warwick, in 1900-05. He retired in order to ably affected by emotion. He sai~ with its magnificent medieval castle. be relieved of official burdens, but his contacts with II K A's through They sailed from Liverpool and declaring he would always maintain the years had influenced his life more landed at Panama City. his interest in II K A. He is a chem­ than anything else, except for the in­ Preparing to go on a tour in Lon­ ist of note, an authority on sheep and fluence of his mother. don, they met a II K A who knew bees, and the highest example of the The Supreme Council, in its let- more about London than the guides. ideals of Pi Kappa Alpha.

11 7 I I K A Initiates Dean West, Flying Cadet Wins Rhodes Honors By Renwick J. Lewb, A/ph•· Theta F red W. West, Jr., Alpha-Sigma, By Belt S..lth, Gamm•O./ta • \VILSON PORTER SHORTRIDGE, received an appointment to Randolph + NEXT FALL, Oxford Univer- Dean of the College of Arts Field, Tex., as a flying cadet in Feb­ sity's campus will have one more and cience at \Vest Virginia Uni­ ruary. Recently he negotiated his first II K A strolling its shady lanes­ versity, who for many years has solo flight successfully. Samuel T. Adams, Gamma-Delta, been both a true friend and a bene­ In commenting on the rigid disci­ recipient of a Rhodes scholarship. factor of Alpha-Theta, was formally pline of the cadet corps, West says Adams, winner of the Western admitted to the brotherhood at the the life of a pledge is easy compared Division award, is not only a good spring initiation to that of a cadet. In addition to his student but a on Feb. 18. flying duties, West has taken over the man of all Before hi ap­ coaching of the flying cadet baseball "round" ability, pointment as team. leaving an envi­ Dean of the able record at West entered California from San A. B. School at Arizona. He en­ Mateo Junior College in 1931. After \V e t Virginia, his initiation, he served successfully tered the univer­ Dr. Shortridge as chairman of the rules committee, sity in 1929 and wa head of the began his college I.M.C. and S.M.C. His service to history depart­ the chapter was concluded as a dele­ career by win­ ment for years. gate to the national convention 1933. ning the fresh­ Born in Me- man honor Dean Shortridge d I d J 1 West participated actively in cam­ ora, n ., u y Samuel T. Adams award. Last fall 28, 1880, the son of \i illiam and pus affairs. He was a member of he was elected to Rhoda Roberts Shortridge, he re­ the baseball squad, coached the 145 Phi Beta Kappa, one of four to re­ ceived his A.B. degree from the Uni­ pound basketball team, and was a ceive the coveted key. mainstay on the f raternity athletic ver ity of Indiana in 1907. From An interest in journalism, which teams. He served on the student that time until 1911, when he was placed him on the staffs of the granted his master's degree by the rally committee and was member of Phi Phi, interfraternity honor society. Desert, college yearbook; Kitty Kat, University of ·wisconsin, he taught in monthly comic, and Wildcat, weekly the public schools of Elkhart, Ind. --IIKA-- ne\yspaper, gained him election to Pi From 1911 until 1917 he was on the Delta Epsilon, national honorary faculty of the orth High School, At Ames, Iowa, they are still talk­ journalistic society, of which he Minneapolis, leaving to go to the Uni­ ing occasionally of the fire which served as president during 1932-33. gutted the Chi Phi house last Thanks­ versity of Minnesota as assistant in Active in debating also, Adams led history. He was assistant professor gwmg. II K A's Alpha-Phi chapter the junior college forensic team of hi tory at the Univer ity of Loui - was next door. Tom Scott, Alpha­ through a successful season in 1929- ville, in Kentucky. during 1918-1919 Phi, saw the blaze and called the fire 30 and won the junior college oratory term . On receiving his Ph.D. from department. He and his mates saw award the same year. In the next the University of Minnesota in 1919, members of Chi Phi knock the glass three years, the varsity team found he was elevated to a professorship, a out of dormitory wi ndcws to leap to Adams a valuable asset. po ition which he filled until 1922, the ground. Scott called sleeping when he came to vVest Virginia as II K A's, who carried nine injured The posts of M.C. and S.C. were head of the department of history. Chi Phi's and two of their guests filled by him in his years with Among the books written by Dr. into the Alpha-Phi house for medi­ Gamma-Delta, but his greatest serv­ Shortridge are: "Transition of a cal attention. First aid was given ice to the chapter was that of an ener­ Typical American Frontier" and by the II K A's. getic and successful rusher. He has "Development of America." He has been instrumental in the pledging of --IIKA-- contributed also to historical journals. some of the best men in the chapter. No later than the second semester of Dr. Shortridge is a member of the Brother George Marsh met .next year, Gamma-Delta expects to American Historical Association, Brother George Marsh for the first see some rushee with that certain air American Association of University time at the St. Louis Founders' Day of English dress walk into the house Professors, Minnesofa Historical As­ banquet, although each had been a uttering the magic words, "Adams sociation, Missi sippi Valley Associa­ resident of the city for several years. sent me." tion, the Masonic Order, and Knights The one was George Bonner Marsh, of Pythias. Alpha-Omicron, '13, who for years --IIKA-- Alpha-Theta is justly proud of its was District Princeps of the Cali­ newest faculty member. To have Budgets for social affairs are being cut fornia district. The other was by chapters from twenty to fifty per cent, had Dr. Shortridge to all our social George Park Marsh, Beta-Gamma, yet the chapters are reporting just as much functions and around our chapter '14. G. Bonner is professor of Span­ satisfaction from their present programs hou e on innumerable occasions was ish at Washington University. G. for social outlet as they have before they indeed a pleasure, but to be with him Park is editor of the monthly paper di scovered there were other means of social now Brother to Brother in Pi Kappa relaxation than expensive dances.-Arthur of the Automobile Club of Missouri Priest, executive secretary, Phi Delta Alpha is truly a distinctive privilege. and director of the club's publicity. Theta.

118 Alumnus Alpha-G amma, Alpha-Delta a nd Beta-Ka ppa combined to ce le brate Founders' Day in Atla nta, G a., wi th Dean F. M. Masse y as guest of honor IIKA's Mark Founders' Day Vanderbilt Martin Souders, Beta-Gamma, director of and proved humorous and tactful. At Sigma chapter celebrated Founders' Day, athletics at Phillips Exeter Academy and intervals, he called on recent and older March 1, with a banquet and dance at the George Thomas, Beta-Sigma. The banquet leaders of the alumni and the active chap­ Hermitage Hotel. 0 . E . VanCleave, Rho, was informal and the after-dinner talks ter to take bows. Among those introduced Commissioner of Agriculture of Tennessee, were appropriate. was District President Cook of Chicago. was principal speaker and Thomas Holt, U. of Denver District President Oxley of Kansas City Sigma, presided as toastmaster. Sam Founders' Day was celebrated by Gamma­ sent regrets. Brown introduced the freshmen. Johnny Gamma chapter with a banquet in the The program was opened with a tribute Miller and his orchestra played for the chapter house on March 3. by National Alumnus Secretary Sheehan dance which was attended by several hun­ District President Rutledge spoke. It to the late Henry N. Eversole, Alpha-Nu, dred and which was generally acclaimed was his first official visit. to the chapter. and Olaf Steen, Beta-Lambda. on the campus as one of the best of the Dr. G. H. Lee, president of the Alumni The first speaker was Laurance M. year. chapter, outlined the hi story of the fra­ Hyde, Alpha-Ntt, commissioner of the Supreme Court of Missouri and a former U. of North Carolina ternity. Dr. Lee is the oldest Pi Kap in Colorado. District Princeps. H e was followed by Tau was host at a state-wide Founders' Sheehan, who explained the new alumni Day banquet at the Carolina Inn, Chapel About seventy-five, including alumni, were present. dues system and the movement to arouse Hill, N. C., March 2. greater alumni interest. Henry F. Cha­ Montana State College The Rev. Dr. ]. S. Foster, Theta, '89, deayne, Beta-Theta, a Cornell classmate pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Members of Pi Kappa Alpha in Boze­ of ational President Tuttle and secretary Winston-Salem, was speaker of the eve­ man celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of the General American Life Insurance ning. He traced the fraternity from its of the founding of the organization with a Co. of St. Louis, was the principal speaker. beginnings, stressing the large part broth­ banquet at their chapter home on March 1. "It is a fine reco rd the fraternity is erhood has played. Lou Howard, honorary faculty member, making today," he said; "the record of District President A. P. Harris presid­ presided. Speakers were: Henry W. Fox, reorganization at Troutdale; the record of ing, initiated discussion of a more active senior and past S.M.C., Fred B. Liquin, meeting the depression; of solving serious participation by graduates in the alumni senior and past Th.C., Kenneth M. Tir­ problems by suspending chapters that don't chapters. sell, seni or and past house manager; Prof. measure up ; the manner in which the bud­ A suggestion was made to hold a state­ J . A. Thaler, faculty member, and Orris get has been balanced." wide Founders' Day banquet annually. D. Hawks, S.M.C. Features of the meet­ Present were 25 members of Tau, five ing were a banquet and a smoker. Among Syracuse University of Beta, 15 of Alpha-Alpha, Brother the prominent alumni who attended were The annual Founders' Day banquet was George McKie, a professor of the Univer­ Dexter Moser, William Moser, Merton held March 17 in the Syracuse Hotel with sity of orth Carolina, and two graduate Place, George H offman, Rudolph Stokan, about fifty actives and alumni present. students of the university. and Edwin Becraft. The toastmaster was Henry Brelos, Alpha­ Chi, '07, the father of our newly elected St. Louis, Mo. El Paso, Texas president, Donald Brelos. The members The largest gathering of local members Gamma-Eta Alumnus chapter held its of Alpha Chi were more than happy to of II K A ever held in St. Louis, with the first meeting since the National conven­ reali ze that the traditions of a generation possible exception of the 1924 national tion in 1928-29, on Founders' Day. ago were being carried on by the sons of convention, was held at Osage Country Ben Howell, Beta-M1t, past president of our first members. The main speaker of Club at a Founders' Day banquet March 5. the local chapter, delivered an address on the evening was Brother McElwain, '15, Ninety-three Tuxedo-clad old grads, re­ "Local Fellowship, and What the Frater­ with short talks by Brother Whiteside, '18, cent alumni and undergraduates sat at the nity Means to Me." The remainder of S. Roy Smith and Dr. Place. It was the banquet boards and several more arrived the evening was devoted to discussion and finest banquet Alpha-Chi has had in many later. to reorganization. a year. Alumnus Alpha-Nu contributed its larg­ U. of New Hamsphire est attendance in years, while Beta-Lambda, Kansa s City Founders' Day was celebrated in a fitting from Washington University, was present Thirty-fi ve alumni from twelve different and proper way. Brothers and pledges in a body numbering 30 or more. Old time chapter attended the annual Founders' wore sprigs of lily of the valley during alums who had grown inactive in the fra­ Day dinner March 2, in the Steuben Club, the day and evening. ternity and several who never had at­ given by Alumnus Alpha-Delta. A banquet was held in the University tended a II K A affair in St. Louis were Anecdotes and interesting experiences of President's dining room. Among the welcomed. the fraternity in its early days in the guests were : C. Floyd Jackson, Gamma­ Preston S. Jenison, Beta-Lambda, came outhland were related by the Rev. J. Nu, dean of the college of liberal arts ; from Kan as City to serve as toastmaster, Continued on page 128

119 Named Grid Coach Central Rush Plan Sought ly Glover Steele, A/plta·O-,. LYNN WALDORF, Alpha- By Alvin D. Ayers, Gamma-Delta + Chi, has been selected to take + "IF WE HAD only known chapters are given information con­ over the position of head football sooner about those boys from cerning rushees who will register in coach at Kansas State college, filling up-state and about that football their school. Success of such sys­ the vacancy made by Bo McMillin's player from the coast, they never tems can be vouched for by the man appointment as head football coach would have pledged anything but Pi and chapters who have had to com­ at Indiana. Kappa Alpha." pete against them. W ou)d it not be Waldorf goes to Kansas State How many times has just such a advisable for Pi Kappa Alpha to con­ from Oklahoma A. & M., where for statement been made in your chap­ sider instituting a similar system in the past five years he has been head ter? Just about as often as a good the very near future? prospective rushee pledges some -ITKA- other house before you have given him a real rush ! Publicity Group Named And, the sad thing about it is that A standing Publicity Committee the above statement is very often for the fraternity has been appointed true. You, yourself, can probably by the Supreme Council in keeping think of at le.ast three or four men with a direction of the Troutdale who would have pledged II K A if convention. It is headed by Wil­ they had been properly rushed. liam C. Banta, Jr., Beta-Theta, an Why didn't you know about these experienced publicity man, 1 SO N as­ men sooner? vVhy didn't some one sau St., New York. contact them before they arrived at Other members are : W. Carroll school, or at least upon their arrival? Stephenson, Beta-Pi, Philadelphia ; Surely there is a Pi Kap living in George C. Dworshak, Beta-Chi, Buf­ their vicinity ! falo Cour·ier-Express; J. Blanford Your case very probably is like Taylor, Alpha-Lambda, city editor of that of every other chapter. During the Louisville H erald-Post; Wilson the summer, alumni and actives in B. Heller, A lpha-Nu, movie publicity other parts of the state do not recom­ man, Hollywood; Paul E. Flagg, Lynn Waldorf, new Kansas mend to the chapter men who will Beta-Gamma, Kansas City; Leslie State football mentor enter school there in the fall. Thus Goates, Alpha-Tau, Deseret News, the rushing committee is unable to Salt Lake City; Paul A. Potter, football coach and for the last two contact many men and unintention­ Alpha-Phi, Chicago Tribune, Chi­ years athletic director. Here he ally passes up other men of ability cago; and Richard G. Baumhoff, established the enviable record of who might otherwise have been Beta-Lambda, St. Louis Post-Dis­ thirty-four games won to ten lost pledged to Pi Kappa Alpha. patch, and Walter F . Coxe, Alpha­ and seven tied. In 1928, the year One of the reasons chapters never Delta, New Orleans, associate editors before going to Oklahoma A. & M., hear about many good men is that of THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND. K. Vvaldorf was line coach at Kansas they come from a distance and D. Pulcipher, Beta-Eta, National University, and for the three years II K A's in their district are too busy Editor of THE SHIELD AND DIA­ previously he was football and trac·k rushing men for their own chapter MOND, is a member of the committee, coach and director of athletics at the or do not take the time and trouble e:t · offi.cio. Oklahoma City university. to write about men who will en.ter Each undergraduate chapter was Graduating from Syracuse Uni­ your school. directed to elect a local publicity versity, N. Y., in the class of '25, he To do away with this weakness in representative, and Chairman Banta was initiated into Pi Kappa Alpha in our rushing requires the cooperation supplied the chapters with data on 1921, and was S.M.C. during his of every member, active or alumni. means of obtaining legitimate favor­ senior year as well as president of It requires two things! able public notice. Dignified, con­ the interfraternity council of that ( 1) That the chapter where the structive publicity will be sought, school. rushee is to enroll be notified. In­ primarily in newspapers, by the After conducting spring football formation concerning character, schol­ standing committee. practice at Kansas State, Waldorf arship, finances, activities, and con­ plans to join Mrs. Waldorf in Okla­ tacts should be included. --ITKA-- homa for the summer. Mrs. Wal­ (2) If possible, create a definite Alpha-Xi, at the University of dorf is a member of Delta Delta favorable impression of Pi Kappa Cincinnati, has converted its "bum­ Delta of Syracuse. Alpha in the mind of the rushee. ming room" in the basement of the --ilK A- We can strengthen our fraternity chapter house into an attractive Fraternity boys are in the malleable, by better unified and cooperative chapter meeting room. Last Christ­ plastic age. They need all the inspiration, rushing. Several fraternities have mas the group gave a party at which all the encouragement, that older men who created the office of National Rush can speak their language can give them.­ the members brought gifts for the Stuart MacLean, editor Rainbow of Delta Chairman whose duty it is to see that house. Tau Delta.

120 Lefore I could get the rudder traight A Summer at Sea again he "a four or five degrees to By B. Graham Il l, Mu the left, and then I would have to tart all over again. At the end of + 0 E MOR I G Ia t July, I hot sun hammering all day i n t much three day I found my elf back on stood on the docks in Mobile, fun, e pecially when you are in full deck, chipping paint. Ala., beside a freighter which had view of the bridge. Hammering The trip back eemed long and just come in from London. A beau­ make a big noi e and the minute hard, yet, I have/ a tendency to re­ tiful spectacle she presented. On her you top everybody knows it. How­ member only the plea ant part. I foremast she bore the flag of Ger­ ever, in three days my arm got eem to forget tho e cold, b!eak day many and on her aftermast the en­ adapted to the continuou motion, the off the coa t of ewfoundland; to sign of the Mobile Ocean Line. weather got cooler, and then I be­ fo rget the tonny weather when we I was dres ed in the garb of a gan to enjoy it. I finally got pro­ had to go on deck in pouring rain in moted to an electric hammer. Thi sailor-old dungarees, blue shirt, oil kin coats and high ea-boot to sailor cap on the back of my head make even more noi e, but all you fix the rigging on the ma t or cover have to do is pu h it every once in and a suitcase in my hand that might the hatche on deck. a while. This left my hands free have belonged to the Ancient Mari­ I u ed to loaf in the fo'ca tie. The for gesture , o I began acclaiming ner. With teeth chattering and knees "bull e sion " there are far superior quivering, I walked boldly up the all morning and after dinner I would to any ever heard in a college dormi­ gangway, found the mate and signed quote poetry. tory. Quite an intere ting group as­ up. I followed the way of all fie h and sembled in the fo'castle at night. That evening I asked a sailor, got easick. T hi s is a sore affli ~tion There were men from many nations "Admiral Farragut, what do deck on a passenger ship with sympathetic and from all cia es of society. There boys do?" He looked at me pityingly stewards to look after you, but on was " mit," an Indian, who had and said, "Nodding but voik." I a tramp steamer with a bunch of graduated from Auburn University found the other deck boy and asked men who are so salty they think it's and went to ea becau e he loved to the same question. "Just go around . a joke, and tell you to eat more soup, wander; there wa Hans, from a with a rope in your hand and look it is something awful. After three good family of Hamburg, Germany, like you are doin' something," he days of suffering I got well by some who went to ea for adventure; said. The next day we set sail for miraculous process, and wasn't both­ Henry Mathe on, a Swede, who went Pensacola, Fla. After supper I ered any more till the return trip, to sea for a living, and a man from watched the sunset, the most beau­ when I ate ten hot cakes fo r break­ a wealthy family of Tuscaloosa, Ala., tiful I have ever seen, and then slept fa t one stormy day. who had given his li fe to the sea on deck. For three weeks we sailed The trip took over twenty-one becau e of a di appointment in love. around the Gulf of Mexico, taking days. It is hard to conceive of the At these gatherings we talked of on cargo. I spent that time in a monotony in so long a time at sea. everything. Each man would relate very pleasant manner. I had about given up hope of ever omething he had overheard at the There is a square platform on the eeing land again when we entered wheel. Expert critics would imitate ship call ed the flying bridge, over the the E nglish Channel. We spent one the "Old Man" and the mates and pilot house, surrounded by brass beautiful afternoon in the harbor of then there would be a great burst rails. From here, one has an ex­ a small E nglish village having our of laughter. After carrying on thus cellent view of the whole ship. It engme repaired; then went on for a while the sailors would be­ was my cu tom to mount this plat­ through the Dover Strait into the come erious, even sentimental. form every morning with a can of orth Sea, to Germany. After a Then I would go out on deck brass polish and a rag. There I few weeks there discharging our where fathe on would tell me of his would sit all day in the breeze, in cargo we started back. younger days 111 Stockholm or the shade of the spotlight. When­ The third day out on the return von Dor ten of hi chool days in ever the mate appeared he always trip the deck boys were put on regu­ msterdam and how the li ttle kids found me vigorously shaking my lar watch at the wheel. This process used to take off their wooden shoes can of polish and applying it to the of steering a ship is not as easy as and throw them at each other. In rail. Thus passed three delightful it sounds. It is like ~teer in g a car the evening , after upper, we u ed weeks. Then we got ready to go on a muddy road when turning the to sit on deck watching the beauti­ across. We tested the lifeboats, put wheel has no definite effect upon di­ ful unset and playing .old phono­ lunch and fresh water in them, took rection. Four hours a day for three graph records which reminded one on supplies, lowered and made fast days I struggled to hold the ship on of home, and people, and thing . the booms, put heavy chains on our 262 degrees, but in vain ! Slowly Then when darkness had come on deck loads of lumber, took down all the compass would turn to 265 de­ we would lie there and watch the canvas over the decks, and-most grees, which meant she was going too tall mast sweeping back and forth important to me-put cosmoline on far to the right. I would give her across the heavens li ke a mighty arm all the brass. a turn to the left, the compass would pointing out the different constella­ The first day out I was given a creep towards 270-another turn, tions- then go to sleep with the new job--chipping paint. Now sit­ sometimes two-then the compass gentle rocking of the ship and the ting up on the bow of a ship in the would start slowly back to 262; but ound of waves washing her sides.

121 Kids Given X mas Party News of the Alumni By Don L. Hln•on, A /p6•·1'hl The chapter house of Alpha-Phi EL PASO, TEXAS is active in the Monroe County Health As­ at Ames, Iowa, was a bedlam of Alumnus Gamma-Eta soctahon. He is widely known for his feasting, hilarious joy, and happiness Bob Swain, Beta- "!1./u, wa elected presi­ work in the tuberculosis field. for about 75 children from the fourth dent, and Delmar Roberts, Gamma-Delta, Dr. David A. Haller, Iota, '08, is enjoy­ grade of three public schools the eve­ was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the ing a successful medical practice. ning of last Dec. 16. The party was El Paso alumni at the Founders' Day ban­ The Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni Club of preceded by a free show for the chil­ quet. Plans for expansion, both with re­ Rochester held a regular semi-annual get­ spect to activities and membership were together at luncheon Jan. 27, at the dren given by a theater. The chil­ proposed. It was decided to have quarterly Rochester Club, with Bob Consler, former dren, with their teachers, were taken meetings. The second meeting will wel­ District Princeps, presiding. · A local di­ to the theater and thence to the come the homecoming brothers and the rectory was published last year. II K A house in busses. graduate to the chapter. The third meet­ --IIKA-- The dinner of chicken and all the ing is for prospective pledges leaving for "trimmings" was the first and one of school, and the fourth will be devoted LO S ANGELES, CALIF. entirely to business. Alumnus Beta-Alpha the biggest parts of the evening. The Members affiliated with the Gamma-Eta The depression deserted Pi Kappa Al­ fellows sang fraternity songs and the Alumnus chapter at the present time are: pha in Southern California this past year. children sang Christmas carols during Georo-e Green, Ben R. Howell, Herndon Low dues, low-priced dinners at the the meal. J ohn on, W. D. Mayfield, Jr , Robert A. chapter house of Gamma-Eta, interesting Santa Claus arrived afterwards. wain, all of Beta-Mu; Dr. J . A. Hardy, programs of entertainment following the After the mad rush for the merry, Ca m111a: C. M. Irvin, Beta-Pi; Randolph dinners and a little publicity-these simple ·R. J one , Iota; C. H. Kirkland, A lpha­ factors have brought out the best attend­ rotund gentleman was over, each child ! ota : R. D. Lowman, D. Roberts, Ben ances in history. was given a toy of some kind from Robert . R. P . Youngberg, T. J . H ender­ AI Bunn, president, and Glenn Roberts, Santa's bag of joy. Apples and a ~ o n , Drew Outlaw, Harry Swain, Jr., all Paul Moody and a few others have been of Gamma-Delta; Marshall vVharton, Beta­ sack of candy also were given them. leaders in this marked rei uvenation. Delta; John Ritter, Beta-Pi; Hugh Dick­ Several members of Pi Beta Phi son. Alpha-Zeta. Fortunately Southern California Uni­ sorority contributed their services to yersity and the Gamma-Eta chapter house. --IIKA-- are located near the center of Los Angeles the party. and vicinity. The color and intimacy of · --IIKA-­ ROCHESTER, N. Y. the chapter house adds a touch to meet­ Joe~ Wins Scholastic Honor By OeMund, Alpha-Chi ings which were not obtainable in other By W. Ross Bryon, Gamma-Xi Here i news from the unofficial, un­ meeting spots. chartered, undetermined but good-natured Brian Bell, local head of the Associated Roy Motteler, I.M.C. of Gamma­ group of Rochester ( . Y.) Pi Kaps: Press and a former member of Mu, Pi Xi, has been elected to Phi Kappa Edgar H . Benedict, Beta-Pi, '28, is back and Beta chapters, famous locally as an Phi, national scholarship honorary. with the reorganized State Bank of Com­ after dinner speaker and toastmaster, was He has been outstanding in scholar­ merce in Brockport, l . Y. Paul Hanks, the guest of the alumni on January 18. He Alpha-Chi, '22, is attorney for the bank. gave the boys an hour's witty talk. Beth ship at Washington State and is a \Vilbur E. Bowersock, Beta-Gamma, '17, Bentley, Utah University Chi-Omega and candidate for graduation with high­ spends hi time drumming up business for fav orite of Alpha-Tau, sang several of est honors this June. the Rochester F olding Box Co., and the Pi Kap songs including her own fa­ Motteler has been active . in intra­ patenting inventi ons fo r the firm. mous composition. She is well-known on mural sports and when the last sea­ the air as Ruth Royal. Eddy ( Doctor, now) Hardenbrook, son finished was champion of intra~ Beta-Pi, '28, seems to be very busy ex­ The ladies have also been very active in perimenting on patients at the Genesee Southern California this year. The Wo­ mural wrestlers at 125 pounds. H o pita!. men's Club of Pi Kappa Alpha has been He has maintained a scholastic Donald Liddell, Alpha-Chi, '21, is still hold ing regular meetings throughout the average well above 92 per cent every showing neophyte Paderewskis how to school year. These have beel'l well at­ semester, and has been scholarship tickle the ivories at the Eastman School tended. On January 26 the younger alum­ chairman for Gamma-Xi for 1933- of Music. ni wives of the vVomen's Club sponsored a dance at the Gamma-Eta chapter house. 34. In this capacity he has been Murray R. Scott, A lpha-Rho, ' 18, re­ Music was by "The Californians" and over able to help several fellows through cently won a substantial promotion with a hundred couples attended. In charge the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., where s<:nous scholarship difficulties. were Mrs. Robert M. Crosby, chairman, he devotes hi s time to optical research. and Mrs. Robert Fisher, Mrs. William A. --IIK A -- Charl ie Wilson, Mu, '23, went South last Arnold and Mrs. Ewing Haas. At the winter to try to recover hi s health. He Feb. 3 meeting, Prof. W. E. Harley Philip Heil, Alpha-Xi, was elected has been suffering . from a back injury of Southern Califo rnia University was the as the most valuable man on the since he went with the St. Loui s Cardinals honored guest and speaker. This meet­ University of Cincinnati football in 1933. ing wa in charge of Mrs. Pearl (Wm. team of last autumn. Fellow letter Charles G. P eck, Beta-Theta, '22, is A.) Arnold. with the lli ance Mercantile Agency with men chose him at a banquet after Touchstone theatre in Old College Build­ the season, at which he was given office in the Terminal Bldg., and re­ ing on the U.S.C. campus was the place ~ides at 20-1 Dartmouth St. ( Secretary's of the regular April meeting of Alumnus an Omicron Delta Kappa trophy. note: I t wa a shock, after chasing old Beta-Alpha. Following dinner at the -IIKA- addres e of P eck for two years, to finall y chapter house attended by over a hundred find him located three fl oors above me in couples, all repaired to the theatre where I do not believe in high pressure me~hods the arne office building-especially when the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office of making boys study. They don't work. I am rental agent for the building.) force presented U11importa11t Murder, an We have been making too· many rules.­ Dr. J ohn ]. Lloyd, Phi and A lpha, '03, educational play. Norman K. Hackett, Theta Delta Chi.

122 Homecoming Beacon Wins Permanently Pinned By Buford Madera, Beta-Delta MISS ALTA EDITH CooPER, B. Mill, Beta-La·1n bda, operate a unique + LAST OCTOBER when the • assistant librarian of the Loui s­ automobile service station at Clayton, Mo. student council at the Univer­ ville Free Public Library, and J. Mill was attendant at the wedding. sity of New Mexico met and decided Thomas Gilbert, S igma, and Miss Jane Blanford Taylor, Alpha-Lambda, city that Homecoming decorations were Kroeckel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry too expen ive, and did damage to editor of the Louisville Herald-Post, A. Kroeckel of ashville, Tenn., were united in marriage Dec. 23 at the Church house roofs more than it benefited of the Advent in ashville. The cere­ mony was performed by the Rev. Prentice Pugh, National Chaplain of Pi Kappa Alpha. At home: 1212 18th Ave., S., Nashville. Mrs. Gilbert was graduated from Vanderbilt University last spring and is a member of Gamma Phi Beta. Gilbert is a senior in the Vanderbilt Medical School. Edwin C. Mueller, Beta-Lambda, and Miss Marguerite Vierheller, Gamma Phi Beta, May 2, at the Episcopal Church of St. Michael and St. George, St. Louis. The ceremony was followed by a reception J . Blanton Taylor and his bride, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and · the former Alta Edith Cooper Mrs. George P. Vierheller. Mr. Vierheller were married Oct. 31 at the parish is director of the noted St. Louis Zoo. Mueller's best man was his brother, Elmer house of Fourth Avenue Presby­ Vv. Mueller, Beta-Ldmbda. Both Mr. and terian Church, Louisville, by the Rev. Mrs. Mueller are graduates of Washington The Welcome Sign which won New Mexico Homecoming honors Dr .. Charles Whitfield Welch, Theta. University. He is an accountant. A limited gathering of friends at­ Frank M. Exley, Alpha-Delta, '24, and returning grads, Beta-Delta decided tended. Attendants were Mi s Fran­ Miss Evalyn Douglas Sprague, daughter that it didn't make any difference of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Oxnard ces Hopson and Allan M. Trout, Sprague, Dec. 30, at Savannah, Ga. Exley what the student council said, we Alpha-Lambda. is a civil engineer in Savannah. were going to decorate! After a short trip to Chicago, Cin­ Larry West Smith, Psi, '12, and Miss It has been the annual custom of cinnati and Dayton, 0., Mr. and Mrs. Elizabeth Burgett, daughter_ of Rev. and I1 K A to win the loving cup offered Mrs. Samuel E. Burgett, at Laurel, 0 ., to the best decorated house at Home­ Taylor made their home at 1333 last Aug. 5. At home: 3405 Cleveland Castlewood Ave., Louisville. Mrs. Court Apartments, Cincinnati. coming. But cup or no cup, Beta­ Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Ftancis Hollingsworth, Psi, Delta decided to decorate. W. M. Cooper of Trenton, Tenn., '26, and Miss Annie Lillian Leggett, Under the guiding hand of Bob was graduated from Peabody School, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meadow Thompson, a genius at electrical en­ Leggett of Laurel, Miss., at Laurel, last gineering, two large radio towers, 40 Trenton, in 1925. Taylor, son of Aug. 22. At home : New Orleans. H ol­ Maj. and Mrs. William W. Taylor . lingsworth is with the American Cotton ft. high and 100 ft. apart, were of Dayton, was graduated from Co-operative Association. Mrs. Holling - erected across the lawn. Between Georgetown College in 1926 and has worth, a graduate of Judson College, each tower were the words "Welcome been with the Dayton Daily N ews Marion, Ala., formerly was head of the Grads," which blinked the phrase by music department of a junior college at progressive red lights. On one tower and the Herald-Post since. He is Perkinson, Miss. Louisville correspondent for the Cin­ Rev. Alton Henley Gla ure, Psi, and was the word "Station" and on the cinnati Enquirer, New York Times Miss Jeaq Cleckler, daughter of Mr. and other "U M," which were lighted and other metropolitan papers. Mrs. 0. L. Cleckler, at Menlo, Ga., Oct. in the same manner. Flood lights of James J. De Boer, Alpha-Nu, '31, and 19. various colors were trained on the George Sergeant Sherrod, Bela, '33, and Miss Dorothy A. Hamilton, daughter of chapter house, showing it up like a Miss Margaret Sellers of Greensboro, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton of N . C., at Greensboro, Dec. 27. theater on Times Square. Richmond Heights, Mo., at St. Charles, C. R. Woodfill, Beta-Eta, '33, and Miss Every one who saw this feature Mo., Aug. 26, 1933. The marriage, kept Ruth Kinlock, Delta Delta Delta, at Oak secret at the time, was announced Dec. declared that it was the most beau­ Park, Ill. At home: St. Louis. 29 by Mrs. De Boer's parents. Her father tiful decoration ever seen at any Brother Rozelle, Gamma-La.mbda, and is treasurer of the St. Louis Union Trust Homecoming celebration. Miss Adelaide Clark, Sept. 9. Co. De Boer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Brother Snyder, Gamma-Lambda, and --IIKA-- Jacob J. De Boer of St. Louis, was gradu­ Miss Dorothy Wells, in the Christmas Joseph A. Sheehan, Alpha-Nu, ated from the engineering school of the holidays. ational Alumnus Secretary, was re­ University of Missouri. After announce­ Howard Turner, Alpha-Sigma, '32, and ment of the marriage the couple made elected this spring for a second three­ Miss Helen McCormick, Jan. 20. year term as a director of the Mis­ their home at East St. Louis, Ill., where Tommy Savage, Alpha.-Sigma., '32, and De Boer is employed by an industrial con­ Miss Sally Bennett of Chico, Calif., at souri Athletic Association of St. cern. Oroville, Calif., Dec. 12. Louis. He retired, after the cus­ Don Weddell, Beta-Lambda, ex-'29, and George Paul Cooke, Bela-Theta, '34, tomary term of a year, as secretary. Miss Adele C. Heydt of St Louis Co., and Miss Lydia Macy Schaefer, daughter Mo., at Delmar Baptist Church, St. Louis, The club has made an enviable rec­ of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav E. Schaefer, at ord of financial success during the Jan. 1. At home: Conway and Spciede H onolulu, T. H ., March 22. Roads, St. Louis Co. Weddell and William Continued on page 151 depression, and has a waiting list.

123 Letters Bruno, II K A Mascot, Dead Continued from page 103 then disseminated to the proper chapters. + J AN. 6 SAW the passing into By Earl H. Hardage, Gamma-Eta Let us organize this central bureau at animal heaven of one of dog­ hundreds of letters and telegrams once I Every chapter needs our aid in dom's greatest figures, and we of rushing. poured in from dog lovers through­ ALVIN D. AYERS, Gamma-Delta. Gamma-Eta truly mourn his death. out the state in answer to police --II KA-- Gentle, kind, unassuming Bruno, broadcasts. Too Far Apart the chatper's massive St. Bernard SUMMIT, N.]. mascot, died after a week's illness Bruno was on the threshold of a Editor, THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND: and started his journey into that land screen career that would have in­ I received THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND creased his fame. United Artists where all good dogs go when they containing the songs and wish to express had contracted for his appearances in my appreciation of the way in which it leave the faithful service of their two film productions, The House of was done. I am sure that an up-to-date masters. song book is invaluable to every member. For three years Bruno wandered Rothschild and Les Miserables. I will admit, however, that I was becom­ leisurely up and down Fraternity and True to his ideals as man's best ing a bit skeptical about ever receiving any friend, never guilty of a breach in more magazines but can readily understand the lapse. that unwritten compact between dog HERBERT F. Cox, }R., Beta-Theta. and human, Bruno was Joyal to Pi --IIKA-- Kappa Alpha in all things touching Swell Songs the scheme of his life. In every ath­ 931 West Fifth Ave., Denver, Colo. letic contest of Gamma-Eta Bruno Editor, THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND: was both mascot and rooter. His I have just received the April Song loud barking whenever the II K .A Book issue of THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND. My congrats to every one of the staff and interfraternity championship basket­ everyone else who helped to put out this ball team scored was in sharp con­ swell new song book. trast to his glum silence when the S. A. McGLAUFLIN, Beta-Upsilon. opposition scored, no matter how Lyndon, Ky. spectacular the toss. Allow me to congratulate you and your Not only to II K .A's but to all who associates upon this unusually appropriate allow the traditions of Southern Cali­ manner of circulating our fraternity songs. Such procedure should result in a much fornia to remain fresh in their mem­ ories, Bruno live in the minds increased popularization and acquaintance Bruno II, Gamma-Eta's new mascot, will of these songs. I for one highly commend posed by Pledge Paul Herbert of the boys and girls of Twenty­ the idea. eighth St., as a loyal Trojan. In addition to my regular copy which Sorority rows, gathering enough So to "only a dog" we say, "Fare­ I have received, I am requesting an addi­ tional copy to give to one of my friends publicity to make him envied by every well and In Memoriam." who is a real musician. canine in dogdom. Few campus pub­ Gamma-Eta chapter has a new FRED w. TENTE, }R. lications were complete without an mascot, Bruno II, St. Bernard pup --IIKA-­ article on some incident of his event­ which the men hope may take the Inter-Chapter Dances ful daily life. Glimpses of his career Bethlehem, Pa. place that Bruno I held in the hearts Editor, THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND: have appeared in the Trident of of every Gamma-Eta. Delta De!~a Delta. The Journal of Inter-chapter dances tend to bring about Floppy ears, big feet and a puppy a more united feeling in II K A. Due to Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Greek disposition. Just as eager to play af the distance between chapters, it would be World, which termed him "the most two in the morning as he is .at noon, impossible to have a large assembly in publicized dog in Greekdom." some districts, but where four or five maybe more so. Already he has won The climax of his stay in the lime­ chapters would arrange for a dance to­ his place as a pledge, and is active light came when his disappearance gether, the occasion would rival an inter­ enough for anyone. fraternity ball. caused a state-wide search in May, The men who were fortunate enough to 1933. Through the aid of two Los --IIKA-- be able to attend the convention at Trout­ Angeles detectives, Bruno was found dale this summer can better appreciate, The 1920s brought four major upheavals perhaps, than the rest of the brothers, the in Filmore, Cal., and returned to his in undergraduate life : prohibition, movies, significance of our fraternity. Any such campus home. During the five-week radio, and the automobile. In that trou­ gatherings of chapter representatives make search for him and his abductors blous decade, the most trying in the history the men feel as integral parts of a great of student life, I believe no campus in­ organization which is one of the most fluence did more to assist the undergrad­ powerful college fraternities, rather than expense per man for such a dance would uate in keeping his balance than the fra­ as separate units of the II K A denomina­ certainly not be any greater than for any ternity.-H. E. Lobdell, dean of men, at tion. of the other college dances. Mass. Institute of Technology. It would be very simple to send a repre­ Too often at this time there is a tend­ sentative to neighboring chapters and dis­ ency for one chapter to consider itself Given a tutor of the proper personality, working in a receptive chapter with ade­ cuss the idea with them, get their opinion totally independent of the others. Only quate financial support, better scholarship about where to hold the dance and if pos­ with cooperative action do we achieve the is sure to result, and it may reasonably be sible make the final arrangements for the standards which every national fraternity expected that better cultural tone, better affair. should maintain. Every effort to bind moral tone, and better intellectual atti­ One chapter could act as host one time II K A even closer together is a good one. tudes will also be outcomes.-Prof. R. H. and a different one the next time. The GAMMA-LAMBDA. Jordan, Cornell University. ·

124 The Fraternity Salesman Nuisance + THE UISA CE of honest "Fraternity men are besieged from "Seemingly the standing of the and dishonest salesmen for all the opening of school in the fall until company has no bearing on the type kinds of articles and services who the end of the year by salesmen and of representative, for some of our visit the chapter houses of all frater­ promoters displaying their wares," finest publishing houses were criti­ nities has become so great that the said Mr. Yot:ng. "Clothing, shoes, cized because of the men who visited College Fraternity Secretaries' Asso­ trinkets, all take their toll each year. the chapters. Perhaps the greatest ciation has given it official recogni­ LiKewise, there are furniture repair swindle of all is in the purchase of tion. men, photographers and scores of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Mis­ Chapters of II K A are all too others who depend upon the money representation of service offered, pay­ familiar with this nuisance. Even of college men for their livelihood. ment plans and contracts seem to honest salesmen may become pests by "Of all the book and magazine occur in almost every case. Com­ the frequency of visits and persist­ publishers, I failed to find a single panies dealing in these books always ence of sales efforts. firm against which some chapter did employ long-time partial payment At a recent meeting in New York not lodge a complaint. Unquestion­ contracts. The usual scheme is to of the College Fraternity Secretaries' ably there are many reputable publi­ solicit the chapter for a gift of a set Association, of which II K A is a cation companies which deal with our of books. In turn, the chapter will member, Richard J. Young of Ox­ chapters. However, there seem to be have to buy a loose-leaf or supple­ ford, 0., secretary of Phi Kappa Tau, scores of firms offering special ser­ mentary service to keep the dictionary presented a paper on the subject. His vices, club arrangements and other or encyclopedia up to date. Chapters account of swindles and possible propositions which are never fulfilled. find the service they must buy more swindles may be taken as timely Perhaps some of these promises and costly than the books. warning by the chapters of II K A. contracts are by unscrupulous sales­ "Generally speaking, it is found He reached this conclusion: men, but it would seem there are that clothing representatives of na­ "I believe the College Fraternity certain firms which do not bear first­ tionally known firms are fair in their Secretaries' Association can eliminate class reputations for honest dealings. dealings. These men visit the chap­ the ·practice of unscrupulous selling On the whole, chapter replies indicate ters each year and as a rule must play in fraternity houses. Let us start an the vast majority of book and maga­ fair in order to have a continued educational campaign in our chapters. zine salesmen are unethical and dis­ business. If men will deal only with By letters to chapters, by articles in honest. Usually they are of the reputable firms, preferably those our magazines, we can· give publicity high-pressure type. Some even are which send a local representative, to the unfortunate experiences of swindlers. there will be little cause for com­ chapters. plaint. "Specifically, I would recommend Cousins Elect ed Phi Beta "Photographers call upon the chap­ that chapters permit no salesmen to Two cousins, both members of ters to take pictures of the house, display wares in fraternity houses. Beta-Lambda, were elected to both exterior and interior, and group pic­ If this seems too severe, then I believe Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi at tures. Various sales methods are we would do well to prepare a list Washington University last spring. used. Usually an entire set of the of approved firms whose dealings in They are Robert Little and Edgar pictures will be given the chapter for the past have been fair. Little, who live a few doors apart the scrapbook if a certain number of "In the case of book and magazine in East St. Louis, Ill. They received men order copies. Sometimes these publishers, chapters should order di­ A.B. degrees last June and prepared photographers claim central office rect from the company, rather than to enter the medical school this year. authorization as official photogra­ through agents. At the same time, two other Beta­ phers. Outside of this complaint it "Pseudo fraternities are directed Lambda men were taken in Sigma was not found that traveling photog­ by racketeers. By pointing out the Xi. They are Reinhard S. Wobus, raphers cause much trouble. unscrupulous character of these men chemistry instructor at the university and the worthlessness of their proj­ and secretary of Alumnus Alpha-Nu, "Furniture repair men seem to be ects, we will check effectively their and Robert Sydney Smith, one of extremely unscrupulous. activities. Beta-Lambda's famous "five Smith "Last but by no means the least "One thing most of these miscel­ brothers." Smith, previously a mem­ important of the schemes is that of laneous schemes will not bear is the ber of Phi Beta Kappa, was grad­ pseudo fraternities. We find that spotlight of investigation. We know uated from the medical school last Kappa Beta Phi and the clandestine T E are being sponsored by opera­ that the vast majority of firms now June. -ITKA- tives who now use the mails to reach dealing with members of our chapters Future II Sis t ers are employing questionable sales their victims. Only the most gullible James C. Henriques, Jr., Eta, a member of our undergraduates will be taken methods. Let us inform our chapters of Louisiana legislature, and prominent and put an end to fraternity house young New Orleans attorney, is the father in by the offers of these unscrupulous visitation by high-pressure, misrepre­ of a baby girl, Anne, born early in July. operatives. To check their activities, senting, fraudulent agents." Carl C. Friedrichs, Jr., Eta, is the proud however, we must make determined father of a daughter born to Mrs. Fried­ efforts to give wide publicity to the Mr. Young's report was based on richs on Sept. 7. Little Miss Friedrichs a survey among chapters of various has been given the name of Linda, from absolute worthlessness of these proj­ fraternities. a Norwegian ancestor. ects."

125 Boost Alumni Groups Active on Campus Prospective II' s and Sisters THE DISTRICT convention Gamma-Xi chapter has· been well "Arriving in Detroit by Stork Air Lines + early on the morning of February 16," of District No. 14 was held at represented in campus activities this said a news item and picture recently Dallas, Tex., March 2 and 3. It was year by S. M.C. Guy Miller. He sent out by New Arrivals Picture Syndi­ decided to form alumni chapters in has been elected to Crimson Circle, cate, "Donald Charles Pulcipher is shown all larger cities of the district not the highest honor here with his mother, a few hours later. already supplied and plans were dis­ which can be be­ Although this is his first visit to this city, he expressed great delight at the cussed for a district publication, as stowed on any many interesting sights and will make an part of a movement to knit alumni man at Wash­ extended stay here. Donald Charles stated and undergraduates more closely to­ ington State Col­ that he is in the pink of condition, weighs gether. lege. It is for seven pounds . . . . While in Detroit, he Hudson S. Miers, secretary of will make his headquarters at the home men of good of his parents, Jessie and K. D. Pulcipher Alumnus Theta, Dallas, was put in scholarship and (Beta-Eta) , 356 East Grand Bout." charge of di strict publicity. It was outstanding 1 n J . Wilbur Wolf, Gamma-Beta, and Dis­ arranged to hold a dinner the day of campus activi- trict President of No. 13, and Mrs. Wolf the annual Oklahoma-Texas football ties. announced the arrival of little Miss Judith game in Dallas. M i 11 e r was Wolf on April 21 at their home in Omaha, Nebr. District President T . M. Beaird Guy Miller chairman of the To William H . Farnham, Beta-Theta, toured the district in advance of the Dad's Day Com­ convention to arouse interest in it, '20, of the Cornell law faculty, and Mrs. mittee in 1933-one of the most Farnham, a son, William Mills Farnham and notice was given all II K A's in desired positions open to senior men. III. Texas and Oklahoma in various He also belongs to Scabbard and To Prof. Edgar A. J. Johnson, Beta­ ways. Om·icroll, '22, and Mrs. Johnson, a son, The first evening a formal recep­ Blade, the advanced R.O.T.C. or­ Edgar A. J , Johnson, Jr. tion and dance was given at the ganization, and Alpha Kappa Psi, 'To the Rev. Smythe H. Lindsay, Beta­ Baker Hotel by Alpha-Omicron and business administration honorary. Zeta, and Mrs. Lindsay; Feb. 18, at Dallas, Dallas alumni, with hundreds of Gamma-Xi will be handicapped by Tex., a son, Guion Mitchell Lindsay. The Rev. Mr. Lindsay is managing editor of members of the fraternity and guests the loss of Miller in intramural The Living Ch11rch, a publication of the in attendance. The next morning sports. He has played regularly on Episcopalian church, at Milwaukee. He there was a reception at the Alpha­ the basketball, volleyball, indoor and formerly was a newspaper man at El Paso, Omicron house, followed by a busi­ outdoor baseball teams, and led on Tex., and will be remembered by many as a member of the staff of the DAILY SHIELD ness meeting at the Baker Hotel. the track team. That night there was a largely at­ Continued on page 151 tended stag banquet at the hotel. E . Raymond Moss, A lpha-Eta, Dollar-a-Month Club former Grand Secretary, welcomed visitors and introduced President DOLLAR.A.MQNTH ~ Beaird as toastmaster. The Rev. Dr. CLUB CHECK ~ George Summey, Beta, former Grand 1 Do you tc.t tltc Mncfit ') ~ Chaplain, delivered the principal ad­ of your d1sbursc:mmts f f,9j_ dress, a stirring message of frater­ n..au~'-OPI'f' ,...... e..._., nal inspiration. Short talks were fYlay ,h ..tk-UJ

126 Fulling (Beta-Lambda) and Roy P . Max­ well. Scrap Mr. Fulling for the past four years has II K A Book been connected with the editorial depart­ ment of The P1·ess-S cimitar, and since the Sets Insurance Mark Purvis Named Best . inauguration of the National Recovery Act The Alfred A. Drew agency in Chi­ CHICAGO.-Beating out Willis Ward, of handled NRA activities in Memphs for cago produced $8,387,828 of new busi­ Michigan, by the slender margin of two that paper. He was with the Associated ness as compared with $8,104,400 in 1932. votes, Duane Purvis (Beta-Phi), Purdue's Press at Chicago and the Denver Post The number of lives insured was 1129 as mighty man of football and the javelin, before coming to Memphis. compared with 1041 in 1932. was named the outstanding Big Ten ath­ Mr. Fulling attended Washington Uni­ Bruce Parsons (Alpha-Phi), Chicago lete for 1933 by Conference coaches and versity at St. Loui s and the University representative, wrote $410,000 of paid sports writers. of Memphs Law SchooL-Memphis Press­ business in December, leading the M. B. L. Fifty-five votes were cast in the poll Scimitar. producers of the entire country, and ranked taken by the Associated Press and from --UK A-­ among the Mutual Benefit's nine "million­ start to finish it was a battle of ballots Famed Bruno Dies dollar producers" for the year. This between Purvis and "Michigan's one-man Known as the most famous fraternity achievement of Mr. Parsons was especially track team," Ward. In the final count, mascot in the United States, Bruno, giant striking because his production included no Purvis received 17 votes to Ward's 15. A St. Bernard, belonging to Pi Kappa Alpha annuity business. It was all "protection" total of 18 of the Big T en's outstand­ fraternity at the University of Southern insurance.-Chicago Daily N ews. ing athletic performers, representing every California (Gamma-Eta) is dead today. -IlK A-­ university in the conference, were in the His death was mourned up and down tabulation with one or more votes. the Trojan fraternity row, where he has Lincoln Scholer Speaks Among the other 13 candidates fo r the been a familiar sight fo r the past two and Dr. Louis A. Warren (Omega), of Ft. h~mor was M. Pacetti ( Beta-Xi), Wiscon­ a half years. Wayne, Ind., editor of Lincoln Lore, and sm. Good-natured and gentle, the big dog director of the Lincoln Historical Re­ Purvis, a product of Mattoon, Ill., is has been the subject of articles in several search Foundation, spoke on "Washing­ one of the finest athletes ever to represent national magazines during the past year ton's Contribution to Lincoln" at the an­ Purdue. In football, he was an iron man and a half. nual Washington-Lincoln dinner at the for the Boilermakers and their greatest Bruno was only three years old at the Central Woodward Christian Church. One scoring threat. During the 1933 season, time of hi s death. Because of his intelli­ of the most widely recognized Lincoln he played almost every minute except in gence a motion picture studio had con­ scholars in America, Dr. Warren devotes the Iowa game, when a painful arm in­ tracted to use him for an important role his entire time to writing and lecturing on jury kept him out for more than half the in two films, Les Miserables and The Lincoln and associated subjects.-Detroit contest. He played the latter part of the House of R othschild. Free Press. game, although his injured arm was use­ The dog · was also a basketball fan and --IIKA-­ less, and helped rally the Boilermakers in very partial toward the team of Pi Kappa Asks Dry Repeal that hard, upset battle. He was named on Alpha. In interfraternity matches, when In a startling reversal of his dry atti­ the all-stars team chosen for the Associ­ Pi Kappa Alpha would score, Bruno would tude of long standing, Governor I. C. ated Press by coaches as a near unanimous bark his approval. When the other side Blackwood (Nu) has asked the Legisla­ choice. scored he would sit in glum sil ence.- Los ture of South Carolina to repeal the state Purvis also won the Big Ten javelin Angeles Evening Herald and Express. throwing championship and then went on prohibition law and to submit its action --II KA-­ to the people for ratification. The Gov­ to win the National Collegiate title, miss­ To Pass on Land Titles ernor charged the state was becoming a ing a new record by inches. He is a junior haven for criminals because of its dry and has another year of competition.-The William H. Tandy (Alpha-Nu and Associated Press. Sigma) has been appointed Federal land laws.-Florida Times-U~tion. title examiner for Missouri. He will estab­ --IIKA-­ --IIKA-­ lish a training school for assistants and Gets Florida Post Gives Children Party land inspectors at Van Buren. Headquar­ ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.-William A. Wilt­ Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter at ters for ti tle work wi ll be at Roll a. T andy, be rger (Beta-Iota), from De Kalb, Ill., Iowa State college (Alpha-Phi) is spon­ a Columbia (Mo.) lawyer and his assist­ former Chief of P olice at Evanston, Ill., soring a Chri stmas party for fou rth grade ants, wi ll examine and pas dn the titles was introduced to City Councilmen and students of Beardshear, St. Cecelia's and of Ozark land being purchased by the Na­ administration officials as the new Director Lincoln schools. About 80 pupils will com­ tional Government for conservation pur­ of the Department of Public Safety here prise the group. poses.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. in charge of the police and fire divi sions. First the Pi Kappa house will be their --IIKA-­ -New Y01·k Herald-Tribune. hosts to a Christmas dinner during which pledges ·will offer songs and other enter­ Atlanta Alumni Officer --IIKA-- tainment. T here wi ll be two large Christ­ Horace S. Smith, Jr. (Beta-Kappa), one Nicolai, New Ed itor mas trees and following dinner two girls of the 12 H orace Smiths of Atlanta, was Gene Nicolai will edit the Daily from from the home economics department will born in Lafayette, Ga., on April Fool's Feb. 1 to June 12, 1934. tell Christmas stories. Day, 26 years ago, which explains a mul­ The announcement of Nicolai's election T hen Santa Claus will enter and give titude of sins. While at Emory Mr. as Daily editor came as the climax to the out presents-a number of the boys have Smith joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity semi-annual publications banquet at the brought things from home. and is now secretary of the Atlanta Alum­ W il sonian hotel. Following this the party will proceed ni chapter. He was active in student af­ Nicolai, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha downtown in busses to the Capitol theatre fa irs, being a charter member of the Emory fraternity, is a member of Sigma Delta for a free show.-! owa State St11dent . Players and also on the staff of The Chi, national journali sm professional. H e Emory Wheel, student publication. H e --U K A-- has worked on the Daily three years, ris­ graduated from Emory in 1930 and three ing from the position of copyreader to re­ Joins New Law Firm years ago married Miss Marjorie Cline. porter and from there to ass istant news Announcement was made today of the Mr. Smith is engaged in the insurance editor. opening of a new law firm, McDaniel, business and is rising fa st in his pro­ From the news editorship he climbed to Fulling & Maxwell , with offices at 1011 fession. For more than two years past the managing editor's chair.-University of Sterick Bldg. he has averaged better than one application W ashingt01t Daily. Members are C. E . McDaniel, Virgil H . pe r week with one of the old-line com-

127 panies. Mr. Smith is a member of Grace Methodist Church and is active in its af­ II K A's Mar.k Founders' Day fairs and Epworth League.-Atla11ta Sun­ Continued from page 119 day Atnerica11. vV. McDonald, Rho, '98, executive secre­ '21, secretary, and William Cromwell, --IIKA-­ tary of the Kansas City Presbytery of the Alpha-Nu, '33, treasurer. Stapp Wins Award Presbyterian Church. Chapters represented included Rho, Peyton Stapp (Alpha-Nu), Garden City, Major S. M. Montesinos, U. S. A., unit Alpha-Nu, Alpha-Kappa, Alpha-Chi, Al­ Mo., University of Wisconsin student, has instructor for the 354th Infantry, Kansas pha- Phi, Alpha- Omega, Beta- Gamma, been awarded a research fellowship at the City, Kas., told various humorous inci­ Beta-Delta, Beta-Eta, Beta-Omicron, Beta­ University of Iowa in recognition of out­ dents of his twenty-two career in the Phi and Gamma-Kappa. standing work. He holds a Master of regular army. He was a member of the Arts degree. In his research, Stapp will local that became Alpha-Chi chapter in U. of West Virginia specialize in economics.- Kaii-Sas City 1913. He was graduated from Syracuse Alpha-Theta held a most successful ban­ J 011mal-Post. University in 1910. quet. Brother J. R. Turner, president of --IlK A -- Everett M. Oxley, Alpha-Omega, '1 6, the university, gave a fine and most inspir­ ing talk. His words of wisdom inspired Kirkland Promoted president of District No. 10, stressed the duties of the alumni and urged increased every man present. Several other out- J. Alton Kirkland (Beta-Psi), well­ known advertising executi ve of Macon, has been appointed advertising manager of Sterchi's Atlanta store. Mr. Kirkland comes to Atlanta from Sterchi's Macon store, where he served as advertising man­ ager. In his new position Mr. Kirkland will handle all the advertising for the Atlanta store, and in addition will direct adver­ tising and promotion for Sterchi's Jack­ sonville and Athens stores. Before becoming connected with the At the Jackson Founders' Day Dinner, among others, were Pate Hutchens, Sterchi organization a little more than a ~amma-Theta (left); Oma R. Bates, Alpha-Gamma; Dean F. M. Massey, year ago, Mr. Kirkland was with the ad­ Sogma, guest of honor; Raymond McClinton, Alpha-Iota, and District President vertising department of The Maco11 Tele­ David C. Longinotti graph and the Macon Evening News. He started his newspaper work shortly before activity on the part of the 108 members standing alumni, including Dean Wilson he was graduated from Mercer University. of the fraternity living in the Kansas City P. Shortridge, also spoke. He is a member of the Macon Kiwanis area. S.M.C. Wilson R. Caskey spoke on Club and the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. The estufa, the unique chapter room of "What are we, the present College genera­ - Atlanta Journal. Beta-Delta chapter, was described by D. tion,. doing to make Pi Kappa Alpha E. Garrett, '30. Dale S. Vliet, '34, S.M.C. great?" --IIK A -- of Beta-Gamma, brought greetings from Journalisb Active Louisiana State the University of Kansas actives. Alpha-Gamma celebrated the sixty-fifth Karl B. Pauly (Alpha-Rho), political Paul E. Flagg, Beta-Gamma, '21, was Founders' Day at the Heidelberg Hotel on writer, Columbus (0.) State Journal, re-elected president. Other officers include March 1. Besides actives and pledges, a spoke before the Mercator Club in Col um­ Victor S. Weber, Alpha-Nu, '21, vice­ number of prominent alumni were in at­ bus a few days ago. president; G. Roeder Wild, Beta-Gamma, tendance. They were Brothers Tom Wade, Tom Collins (Bet'a-Gammo) , Sunday Jr.; John R. Perez, former Grand Prin­ editor of the Kansas City Journal-Post, ad­ ceps; Pat Hogan, former District Prin­ dressed the Theta Sigma Phi Sorority June 25 to July 21, were announced last ceps ; and Gordon Golson, one of the April 6 on "The Art of Conversation." month by William Ross Slaughter (Alpha­ founders of Alpha-Gamma. Les Goates (Alpha-Tau), sports editor, Nil), director of the institute and super­ Salt Lake City Deseret News, is spending visor of newspaper reporting in the Medill Prior to the banquet, a formal initiation a vacation in Utah. School of Journalism. was held, at which time Tom Wade III, Dillon Graham (Alpha-Eta). associated This summer session in journalism will St. Joseph ; Lew Ewing, Chatham ; Gatlin Press sports writer, covered the Cavalier offer courses by trained instructors on the Egan, and William Bates, Baton Rouge; Open Golf Tournament at Virginia Beach, regular staff of the Medill School. All Sanders Fowler, Shreveport; AI Hogan, Va., last week. university facilities, including housing in New Orleans ; Charles W. Guy, Mans­ field; Ried Rester, Bogalusa; W. C. Epper­ Brian Bell (M11), chief of the Los An­ supervised university dormitories, will be geles bureau of the Associated Press, was placed at the disposal of the visitors. son, Winnsboro, became members of the toastmaster at a baseball banquet at the Los This is believed to be the first time that fraternity. Angeles Biltmore, March 27, when 150 any university has offered specialized train­ The initiation was especially impressive major and minor league baseball players ing in the field of journalism to high due to the fact that Brothers Tom Wade, were guests of honor. The players were school juniors and seniors, as well as pros­ Jr., and Pat Hogan asssted in the initiation from the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh pective college journalism students. of their sons, Tom Wade III, and AI Pirates of the National league and the In addition to the professional training, Hogan, Jr. White Sox of the American league, and many interesting dive rsions have been Atlanta, Ga. the Los Angeles, Hollywood and Port­ planned for the summer students. Ap­ Dr. F. M. Massey, Sigma, dean of men land club of the Pacific Coast league. proximately 60 high school students are at the University of Tennessee and chair­ Will Roger and Fred Stone were the expected to attend. Registration will man of the scholarship committee, was standout performers in a long list of stage probably be limited to two juniors and principal speaker and guest of honor at and screen celebrities present.-Editor and two seniors from any one school. the Atlanta Founders' Day celebration. Publisher. Full tuition scholarships are being E lbert P . Tuttle, national president, pre­ --IlK A -­ offered to all the winners of the Medill sided at the banquet which was held at Press conference to be held in May. Half the Atlanta Athletic Club, on the evening Heeds Journalism Institute scholarships wi ll be granted to an addi­ of March 2. Plans for the first N a tiona! Institute for tional 40 high school boys and girls, se­ Horace W. Smith was chairman. He High School Journalists, to be held on lected by the faculty of his or her high was assisted by Candler Jones, Beta­ the Northwestern University campus from schooL- Northwestern A lumni News. Continued on page 151 128 U. S. Needs Arms for Peace She's Real Mother By Robert D. Hartley, Beta-Gamma By C. 0 . Stephens, Alpha-Gamma, Cadet Colonel Louisiana State R.O.T.C. + MRS. BELLE WILMOT, hou emother of Beta-Gamma, + ALL TRUE Americans love conflict between China and Japan. has been a steadfast friend and co­ their country. The multitude This warfare proves to the world worker of the chapter for twenty of citizens would take up arms that the League of Nations is not a years. In 1914 she became house­ against any foreign country threaten­ successful agency for world peace. mother of the new chapter. ing the safety and peace of the United The league utterly failed to settle the In all these years of service she States. difficulties between the two nations. has never failed to take the part of We, as a whole, are not interna­ We anxiously awaited the news­ a real mother in any troubles the tionalists, because we know that papers daily to learn whether we boys have had. When the least world peace cannot be guaranteed would be involved in the dispute. doubt concerning anything comes merely by friendly association and al­ The economic situation made this into any one of the fellow's minds, liances of all nations. There is no grave, because so many unemployed equality among individuals and there persons believe that war would put is no equality among nations. Until an end to the depression or at least the people of all nations reach stand­ give them temporary employment. ardization world peace will never be The rank of the United tates assured. This is an impossibility, among the Powers, its wealth and for­ and, therefore, every nation in the eign interests have increased it in­ world is constantly in danger of out­ ternational contacts and consequently side interference. have increased its opportunities for Most of us want peace. However, misunderstandings and conflicts in we differ among ourselves as to the foreign policies. It is a well-known ways. and means whereby peace may principle of international law that the be permanently preserved. tudents right of preservation is the foremost of history read of war throughout law of nations, as it is of individuals. preceding generations. We have seen A country that is unable to stop ag­ and heard enough of war and want gression from without or to suppress no more of it for ourselves or for rebellion from within fail s in its prin­ Mrs. Belle Wil mot succeeding generations. vV e all will cipal duty. he always goes to Mother Wilmot to admit that we want to create a sys­ The R.O.T.C. constitutes a very be put on the right track. She seems tem insuring peace, but since we are important part of the army training to know the little things to do for a certain that such a scheme is prac­ of our nation. Nearly all R.O.T.C. fellow when he is down on the world tically an impossibility, we must be units are at educational institutions. and everything looks like a big mis­ prepared. The army demands educated men. It take, for after a long heart-to-heart All other nations are prepared and needs men trained to grasp new ideas talk with Mother Wilmot, his so is the United States. However, quickly and accurately. R.O.T.C. troubles are forgotten. statistics show that our nation is the units at colleges and universities This invaluable trait of Mrs. Wil­ least prepared of the Powers. Our graduate men of this caliber. The mot has caused the boys of Beta­ country is the richest in the world R.O.T.C. trains a man to follow as Gamma for the past twenty years and there is no rea on why it should well as to lead. The students of to­ to list her at the top among their not be the strongest. To be prepared day have in their grasp the future very closest and dearest friends. we must be able to retaliate. Fear of welfare and security of our country. Mrs Wilmot is popular in the retaliation will keep other nations They will be at the head of our social circles of Lawrence, Kans. from attacking. armies in time of war, as they will She takes an active part in church National defense in the United be at the top of our business enter­ work and is ready for a good game State is based on the maintenance prises in time of peace. of auction or contract bridge. Read­ of a minimum force that will insure (EDITOR's NoTE: It should be un­ ing is one of her favorite pastimes. our safety in an emergency, until the derstood that the views expressed She has a hobby for collecting toy full strength of the nation can be herein are those of th e mtthor and dogs, and has · all hapes, sizes and developed. Under our system the de­ are not necessarily adopted by THE colors of canines, from big police velopment of full strength would take SHIELD AND DIAMOND.) dogs of heavy bronze to a small china a long time after the outbreak of --IIKA-- terrier with a Ay on his tail. Alto­ war. Our standing army is not nearly The biggest aid to a local undergradu­ gether she has over a hundred dogs. so strong as it should be. If a strong ate chapter are the alumni of that chap­ If one of the boys wishes to please power should declare war on us, our ter. If their interests and enthusiasm can her he brings another dog. standing army would not be strong be stimulated they will help more than Mother Wilmot has probably done enough to protect us until we could any other force the undergraduates to be more for Beta-Gamma than any gain full strength. absorbed in the atmosphere and objectives of the institution.-Edward T . T. Wil­ other one person, and the boys ap­ We have been interested in the liams, Alpha Delta Phi. preciate this to the fullest extent.

129 Millsaps Basketball Captain Stars By Dixon Pyles + HIDDEN I THE near ob- squad at the top of the heap in both scurity of a small secular in­ loops. stitution, the South possesses a gem Described by B. 0. VanHook, di­ of rare brilliance in the basketball rector of athletics and basketball world in the person of Clois Cald­ coach at Millsaps, as Millsaps' great­ well, Alpha-!ota, sensational for­ est forward, fans, sports-writers and ward and captain of the cage com­ coaches alike share this opinion, for bination of Millsaps Co11ege. last year he was unanimous choice on Outside of the narrow confines of both the Dixie and S.I.A.A. mythi­ the Dixie Conference, or the far cal all-star fives. flung boundaries of the S.I.A.A., No less sterling than his basket­ perhaps the largest in personnel of ball ability i!; his character. In a al1 the intercollegiate conferences, simple manner that is colorful in it­ but whose members are relatively self, he is the same unsuspecting small and unheard-of in the larger youth that four years ago gradu­ centers of the sports world, the praises ated from a little country high of this stocky forward, whose ability school in Hickory, Mi~s., and went to hit the goal has made his team a All-Star of Dixie, Clois Caldwell, sen­ to East Mississippi Junior College in leader of both loops for the past two sational forward at Millsaps, who has Decatur to blossom into one of the years, are seldom heard. won high praise from sports writers, best basketball players ever produced coaches and the public, is a member of Almost alone, Clois Caldwell Alpha-Iota by the state's secondary colleges. tacked the Purple and White ban­ The greatest regret of Coach Van ner of Millsaps College to the cham­ ence last season, and again this year Hook, the team, and the fans, is that pionship mast of the Dixie Confer- the major captain is keeping his Caldwell is graduating this June.

Wherever You Go, Recent graduates are apt to decry ternity men. Strange people, these a weakness of the alumni organiza­ alumni! Hunt Up Alumni! tion, but are unwilling to do anything Each year many mef! who would to remedy it. Some seem to expect make good II K A's enter college, yet By Dr. John F. Jonas, Beta-Lambda a special invitation to every meeting, nothing is heard of them until they berating the fact that they are + EACH YEAR from the chap- are wearing the badge of some other neglected, and yet, when contacted, fraternity. Many of these men are ters of Pi Kappa Alpha the always have some trite excuse, such known by our alumni, who fail to senior class sets forth, seeking new as "previous engagement," "the wife notify the chapter. An active alumni worlds to conquer, but all too many will not let me out," or some other group can be of great aid to under­ of them lose all connection with their moss-covered rounrlelay that has been graduate chapters, for by arousing fraternity. They seem to forget that worn threadbare by constant usage. interest of prospects in the frater­ when they became members they did To counteract the "wife-won't-let­ nity and notifying the chapter, many so not only for their four years of me-out" excuse, smart alumnus chap­ a good man can be pledged who college life, but for all time. ters have several mixed meetings would otherwise be lost. In cities Why this lack of interest in the each year, such as a bridge party or where there is an active as well as fraternity after graduation? Do men dance. Then the song changes to an alumnus chapter the older men feel that they have outgrown the "no place to leave the children," "I can be of great assistance in rush­ fraternity; that it has erved its pur­ wouldn't go to my wife's sorority ing, as a reluctant freshman will pose in life and that they can derive party so she won't come with me to sometimes listen to the arguments of no more benefit from contact with ours," "the wife is out of town," or an older man. those whom they have chosen to ac­ "women have no place at a frater­ What are we alumni going to do cept as brothers ? Or do they believe nity party," or other excuses all too about it ? Are we going to support themselves too busy to renew old ac­ familiar to an alumnus secretary. It this fraternity to which we have quaintances and make new ones? makes no difference what type meet­ sworn to be faithful and true? To If so, they are passing by an in­ ing or what time, some of the zealous you new men leaving the campus this valuable association, for no man is brothers can always find an excuse spring, hunt up the local alumni so big that he cannot learn from his for not attending. But some do not group wherever you go ! You will fellows, and in the alumnus chapter go to the trouble of fabricating an find men worthwhile knowing-active the recent graduate may meet men excuse, simply saying they are not in business, social, professional, poli­ not only in his own line of endeavor, interested and can't be bothered. Yet tical life. Cultivate your II K A but in other branches of the profes­ almost all of them wear their badges connections. They hold many oppor­ sions and business. and proudly state that they are fra- tunities for you !

130 NEWS FROM THE CHAPTERS INDEX TO CHAPTER NEWS

.\lpha, Virginia ...... • • .. . . 134 Alpha-Lambda, Georgetown ...... • ...... 139 Beta-Pi, Pennsylvania ...... 132 Beta, Davidson ...... 136 Alpha-Mu, Georgia ...... 136 Beta-Sigma, Carnegie T ech ...... • ...... I 32 Gamma, William and Mary ...... • . . .. 134 Alpha-Nu, Missouri ...... 140 Beta-Tau, Michigan ...... •....•...... 138 Delta, Birmingham Southern ...• ...... 140 Alpha-Xi, Cincinnati ...... 149 Beta-Upsilon Colorado ...... 149 Zeta, Tennessee ...... I 39 Alpha-Pi, Howard ...... 140 Beta-Phi, Purdue ...... 138 Eta, Tulane ...... 143 Alpha-Rho, Ohio State ...... ISO Beta-Chi, Minnesota ...... 143 Theta, Southwestern, P..-eshyterian ...... 138 Alpha-Sigma, California ...... 147 Beta-Psi, Me.rcer ...... 137 Iota, Hampden-Sydney ...... 133 Alpha-Tau, Utah ...... 14 6 Gamma-Alpha, Alabama ...... , ...... 14 0 Kappa, T r ansylvania ...... 138 Alpha-Phi, Iowa State ...... 143 Gamma-Beta, Nebraska ...... 144 M u, South Carolina Presbyterian ...... 136 Alpha-Chi, Syracuse ...... 13 2 Gamma-Gamma, Denver ...... • ...... 149 Xi, South Carolina ...... 135 Alpha-Psi, Rutgers ...... • ..... 13 2 Gamma-Delta, Arizona ...... 147 Omicron, Richmond ...... 134 Alpha-Omega, Kansas Aggies ...... 144 Gamma-Epsilon, Utah Aggies ...... 14 6 Pi, W ashington and Lee ...... 134 Beta-Alpha, Penn State ...... 133 Gamma-Zeta, Wittenberg ...... • ...... •... 150 Sigma, Vanderbilt ...... 139 Beta-Beta, Washington ...... •...... 145 Gamma-Eta, Southern California .... . •.... 148 Tau, North Carolina ...... 135 Beta-Gamma, Kansas ...... 144 Gamma-Theta, Miss. A. and M ...... 142 Upsilon , Alabama Polytechnic ...... 139 Beta· Delta, N ew Mexico ...... 149 Gamma-Iota, Mississippi ...... • .... 142 Omega, Kentucky ...... • ...... • ...... 138 Beta-Epsilon, Western Reserve ...... ISO Gamma-Kappa, Montana State ...... 147 Alpha-Alpha, Duke ...... 135 Beta-Zeta, Southern Methodist ...... No NF.WS Gamma-Lambda, Lehigh ...... 131 A lpha-Gamma, Louisiana State • ...... 142 Beta-Eta, Illinois ...... 13i Alpha-Delta, Georgia Tech ...... 137 Beta-T heta, Cornell ...... 13.Z Gamma·Mu, New Hampshire ...... 131 A lpha-Epsilon, North Carolina State . . No N£ws Beta-Kappa, Emory ...... 136 Gamma-Nu, Iowa ...... No ~E WS Alpha-Zeta, Arkansas ...... 141 Beta-Lambda, Washington Univers:t, ...... 141 Gamma-Xi, Washington State ...... 145 Alpha-Eta, Florida ...... 136 Beta·Mu, Texas ...... • ...... 145 Gamma-Omicron, Ohio ...... 149 Alpha-Theta, West Virginia ...... 133 Beta-Nu, Oregon Aggies ...... • ...... 146 Gamma-Pi, Oregon ...... 145 Alpha-Iota, Millsaps ...... 142 Beta-Xi, Wisconsin ...... • .. ..•...... 14 3 Gamma-Rho, Northwestern University...... 138 Alpha-Kappa, Missour i Mines ...... 141 Beta-Omicron, Oklahoma ...... • ...... 145 Gamma· igma, Pittsburgh ...... 133

DISTRICT No. 1 District President: Eric Eastwood, Gamma-Mu, 1 Raddins St., Lynn, Mass.

Pledges Perform Missions Sig111a, of the architectural department, stimulation of chapter loyalty among By Keith I. Tw itchell, Gamma·Mu gave informal talks. S.M.C. Norbert pledges and members alike. Diotte supplemented the program with a Pledges : Vl/eikko Jokinen, ewport, NEW HAMPSHIRE.-For the fi rst short talk, while the boys luxuriated in the H.; Leonard Andrien Cote, Deering, N. time in its history Gamma-Mu has elected assimilation of unaccustomed tenderloin H .; Gilbert Crosby, Alton, N. H.; Wil­ to place the chapter's destinies entirely in and French fries. lard C. Wells, P ortsmouth, N. H.; Dar­ the hands of sophomores. Franklin Tvedt Much enthusiasm attended the annual win B. Whitehouse, Goffstown, N. H .; W right, a transfer student from the Uni­ pledges' mission night, held each year about Richard S. Kidder, New London, N. H. ; versity of Vermont and a native of Charles­ the middle of April. As a test of eligibility Grover Orrell P owers, Center Sandwich, town, N. H., is S.M.C. Other officers: for membership every pledge is at this N. H.; Roger Albert Seamans, Newport, Paul Caros, I.M.C.; Charles I. Rowell, time required to perform some mission N. H. ; Avard Chipman Long, Plymouth, Th.C., and Ronald Pariseau, house man­ just difficult enough to demand real initia­ . H.; Leo A. Bergeron, Nashua, N . H.; ager. tive for successful accomplishment. One Morgan Andrew Stickney, Plymouth, N. The Founders' Day dinner, at the Uni­ man traveled to Boston to acquire the H.; Ronald McGivney, Berlin, N. H .; versity Commons March 1, was an event signature of two II K A' s most prominent Edmund Swidzinski, Lynn, Mass.; Louis which will long remain in the memory of athletes, Wesley Fesler, now coaching bas­ Wilcox, Center Sandwich, N. H . ; Thomas local Pi Kaps. T hree men who have ketball and football at Harvard University, Vl' illiam Evans, Newmarket, N. H . ; Daniel achieved high places in their respective and Charles Whiteside, crew mentor at James Brady, Newmarket, N. H . spheres spoke to the forty members. Mar­ the same place. Another carried a copy of Initiates: Franklin Tvedt Wright, '36, tin Souders, Beta-Gamma, director of ath­ the new History of Pi Kappa Alpha, auto­ Charle town, N.H.; Lewis Alton Cheever, letics at P hillips Exeter Academy; P rof. graphed by the entire chapter, to Henry '36, Charlestown, N. H . ; Paul Caros, '36, Floyd Jackson, dean of the college of lib­ Rodman Dillon, a charter member of Iota, ashua, N. H. ; Robert Willis McAllister, eral arts at the University of New Hamp­ residing in Mamaroneck, N. Y. Events of '36, Pittsfield, N. H .; Ronald Pariseau, '36, shire, and Prof. George Thomas, Beta- this sort have had a beneficial effect on the Newport, N. H.

DISTRICT No. 2 District President: S. Roy Smith, Alpha-Psi, 101 Fairview Ave., South Orange, N. J.

Four Fencers on the Job the students of Lehigh. The annual house received numerals for participation in By J. Morson Thomes, Gamma-Lambda party and junior prom was held with music freshman basketball. Pledge Phillips, a LEHIGH.-Gamma-Lambda elected and by Ozzie elson. promi ing wrestler, upheld II K A's popu­ installed on April II the following officers H oward B. Freed recently was elected larity by winning the interfraternity wres­ for the year: S.M.C., Karl P. Thomas; president of the Lehigh chapter of Eta tling championship in the 126-pound class. I .M.C., Henry C. Pfaff; Th.C., John M. Sigma Phi, honorary classical fraternity. Pi Kappa Alpha placed third in the tour­ Male. Pi Kappa Alpha is well represented on nament. Pledge Klei n is out for varsity April 7 Gamma-Lambda's first annual Lehigh's var ity fencing tea m with four football. Pledge Ramsey is a pitcher on spring dance was held at H otel Bethle­ members-Milliken, Deil y, Zimmerman and the freshman baseball team. Firling, J . hem, with about eighty-five couples present. Collins, the latter two being manager and M. Thomas and Pledge White are aspiring Lehigh University on April 20 held its captain, respectively. for a istant managerships of freshman la­ second annual open house. On the week­ Firling as assistant manager and Pledge crosse, baseball and track, respectively. end of May 5 the fair sex were guests of Ramsey as a member of the squad have Initiates: C. Winslow Firling, Ridge-

131 wood, N. J.; Henry C. Pfaff, East Or­ falo, James Lilly of Bradford, Pa., and cis Heenan, '34, Cap and Skull, Student ange, N. ]. ; J, Morgan Thomas, Taylor, Frederic J, Sautter of Pines Lake, N: J, Council; Richard Baker, '36, Scarlet Key; Pa. Pledges: Walter Weight of Hawaii, John H. Mackenzie, '34, Scabbard and Smith, Marshall, H. H. Ford, Martin Robert Brunton of Buffalo and Robert Blade, Philosophian, Tau Kappa Alpha; and Deily will be graduated this June. Bergquist of Jamestown, N. Y. Joseph P. Dunn, Tau Kappa Alpha. In January John S. Brown was re­ John H . Mackenzie is editor-in-chief of Gam m a -Lambda Alumni News elected S.M.C., Frederick Wilson was the At~thologist . William H. Axelby is Raymond Shankweiler has completed his elected I.M.C., George Norman Th.C., business manager of the Scarlet Letter. graduate work with a degree of Master of Francis Hoyos S.C. Richard Baker is sophomore baseball man­ Science in Electrical Engineering. He is ager. Art Frederickson is outfield coach a member of Eta Kappa Nu, honorary --IIKA - - of freshman baseball. electrical engineering fraternity. R.O.T.C. officers: John H. Mackenzie, Hold Initiation Dance Second Lieutenant; Frank Ferry, First During the Christmas holidays the en­ By Charles D. Willits, Beta-Pi gagement of G. E. R. Smith and Miss Sergeant. Edna Strohson of Lynbrook, L. I., was PENNSYLVANIA.- The annual for­ The recent edition of the II K A Song announced. mal initiation dance was held April 7 at Book is an aid in preparation for the inter­ --IIKA-- the chapter house, one ·of the brilliant fraternity singing contest to be held soon. social events of the year. The new men, Burke, who is alternating with Heenan All's Well on Lake Cayuga initiated March 17 and formally presented as acting captain of the varsity baseball at the dance, were Melvern R. Evans, Lan­ squad, is enjoying a fine season and starred By Frederic J. SauHer, Beta· Theta caster, Pa.; Carl Haner III, Philadel­ in the recent 4-0 victory over Princeton CORNELL-The annual Founders' Day phia, and Leonard H. Dhein, Pottsville, with his great stickwofk and fielding. banquet was held in the dining room of Pa. During the week-end of April 14-15 a the Beta-Theta house March I. The Fred Stuerwald, '33, of Newark, N. Y., number of boys who intend matriculating speakers, Dr. W. B. Carver and Prof. seized this occasion to visit the chapter. at Rutgers in September were entertained Olaf Brauner, were introduced by John S. Election of officers for the second term at the house. The Saturday afternoon pro­ Brown, S.M.C. The chapter's guests at was held March 26. William H. Harrell gram included a varsity lacrosse game and the banquet were Mrs. Olaf Brauner, Mr. retained his position as S.M.C. and John baseball. A smoker was held in the eve­ and Mrs. Joseph Slights and Prof. E. J. C. Seward that of I.M.C. Charles Willits ning. The reception was a preliminary to Johnson. was elected Th.C. upon the resignation of the prep school week-end, April 27-28, Beta-Theta has been honored by having J . L. Hydrick. when many of next year's freshmen class three members elected to honorary schol­ Beta-Pi is happy to acknowledge the were entertained on the campus. astic societies. Gustave Dammin, '34, was winning of the scholarship cup for the "Peaches" Heenan, '34, during his four chosen for Skulls, an honorary medical scholastic year 1932-33 and feels justly years at Rutgers has earned eight varsity society; H. W. Tobey, '35, for Tau Beta proud of the attainment. letters in football, basketball and baseball. Pi, national engineering fraternity, and, He captained his freshman football squad Atmos, another honorary society of en­ --IIKA-­ and was again captain of the football team gineers, elected G. C. Norman, '35. Rutgers P r ogresses for half the g>ames played during his We have been well represented in extra­ senior year. He also captained the basket­ By Herbert B. Granh olm, Alpha-Psi curricular activities this year. John S. ball quintet this year. Besides being a Brown, '35, won his varsity letter in foot­ RUTGERS.-The Pi Kap intramural good athlete, "Peaches" has been a con­ ball and William Carver, '35, star and basketball quintet swept through all op­ sistently good student and a real Pi Kap. high scorer on this year's hockey team, position to capture for the second consecu­ The house has two men, Heenan and won his varsity letter. Adelbert Mills, tive year the Rutgers championship. The Albert C. Beissert, on the Student Council, '36, was elected to the news board of the swimming team, bolstered by the addition composed of ten seniors. Cornell Daily Sun. Dammin was elected of Pledge Bob MacPherson, who starred president of Totem, an interfraternity or­ at prep in Massachusetts before coming to --IIKA-­ ganization, and Carver and Norman were Rutgers, started its season with a victory elected as junior representatives to Totem. over the strong Chi Phi team to the tune Dat a F r om Syracuse H . D. Barrows, '36, was selected by the of 41-17. SYRACUSE.-New officers of Alpha­ Student Council as junior cheerleader. Pledges : Robert Maltbie, '37, Westfield, Chi: S.M. C., Donald Brelos; I.M.C., ]. Phillip Graben, '37, competed for the posi­ N. J .; Robert MacPherson, '36, Westboro, Curtis Palmer; Th.C., Douglass Bartow; tions of chimes master and dramatic club Mass.; Jerry Fusco, '37, Newark, N. J.; S.C., George Tetherly; M.C., LeRoy electrician. Alfred Bender, '37, is entered Richard Chartrand, '37, Dunellan, N. ]. Greene; house manager, Bernard Luce. in the business competition of the Sibley Initiates: Frank Ferry, '35, Dover, N. ]. ; Pledges: Edward Morse, Ordell, N. J.; I ottrnal, an engineering publication. James Joseph E . Morris, . '37, Trenton, N. J.; Irving Anderson, Morton, N. Y.; William Lilly, '37, is competing for the position of Norman Park, '36, Dunellan, N. ]. Lucey, Cortland, N.Y.; Francis Lonergan, football manager. Honorary societies : Albert C. Beissert. Homer, N. Y.; Albert Armitage, Homer, Initiates: Alfred Bender of Cleveland, '34, Student Council, vice president of In­ N. Y. ; Burton Cash, Bloomfield, N. J.; Phillip Graben and Harold Hess of Buf- terfraternity Council, Philosophian; Fran- Allan van Sanford, Syracuse.

DISTRICT No. 3 District President: John L. Pa~ke r , Beta-Alpha, 83 St. Nicholas Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Goes Lollyp op and comic characters were drawn. To Alpha, took part in the installation of By Jack E. McKee, Beta-Sigma add to the atmosphere, those attending Gamma-Sigma March 2. The next day, CARNEGIE.-The annual kid party were dressed in kid clothes. Lollypops a formal installation banquet was com­ was held in the chapter house March 16. and ice cream cones were served as re­ bined with the Founders' Day dinner, at­ After one whole week of decorating and freshments. tended by both chapters. In order to get cleaning the chapter house, the brothers Within two miles of each other now the two chapters better acquainted, a joint and pledges managed to gather up enough stand two active chapters of Pi Kappa smoker was held April 7, at the Beta­ energy at the dance to appreciate their Alpha, Gamma-Sigma at the University Sigma house. efforts. The walls of the first floor rooms of Pittsburgh and Beta-Sigma at Carnegie Pi Kappa Alpha was well represented were covered with a heavy paper, upon Tech. Members of Beta-Sigma, along on the Carnegie varsity and freshman which pictures of babies, strange animals with some from Alpha-Theta and Beta- basketball teams. John Ewalt, center, and

132 Joseph Macalka, forward, played regularly lJuquesnc::. "Lefty" has put in three years' for the freshman baseball team, while for the varsity, while P ledge Harold service with the Mountaineer Mittmen Bernhardt is out for the soccer team's Jaques was substitute forward. On the with a most successful record, having twice spring practice. Spring football practice plebe team we were represented by Charles been runner-up in the conference cham­ is occupying the time of Fry and Stran­ Fitzwilson, center, P ledge Leslie Shomo, pionships and losing only four other bouts dine. McKinney is assistant lacrosse man­ forward, and Pledge Robert F itzwil son, during his career. ager, Berg is assistant tennis manager and guard. The call for track candidates was Howder and Herb Stewart are out for Scott is assistant baseball manager. answered by Captain Roger Burke, Henry varsity baseball. Howder is pitching while The chapter participated in the interfra­ Walter, ]. Clifton Carr, Richard Denni­ Stewart holds down the third sack posi­ ternity ball April 13. son, P ledge Allen Bell and Pledge Charles tion at which he starred last year. Stew­ During the Christmas vacation a dance Zeigler. On the tennis team were E. art and Pledges Fred Kyle and Robert was held by the actives and alumni of Bradford Hollingsworth, Donald Krey, Kyle reported for spring football practice. Philadelphia and vicinity. This has be­ Henry Sugar Lehne, Richard Dennison Stewart was star at center last season and come an annual occurrence. and Pledge Harold Jaques. was voted most popular pl ayer, while Bob Officers: S.M.C., A. Homer Manwar­ Eight II K A's were elected to promi­ Kyle starred as halfback on the freshman ing, II; I.M.C., Curtis ]. Patterson ; Th.C., ent campus positions during the past year. team. Included were four class presidents, a vice Harold Kalb; S.C., William McKinney; R.O.T.C. officers include Wilson R. president and two treasurers. We are pre­ M.C., Arthur Fry, Jr.; M.S., W. M. Caskey, Captain, infantry ; William Hop­ pa ring for next year's elections. Scott, Jr. per, Sergeant, infantry; John Easly, Ser­ --IIKA-­ --IIKA-- geant, infantry, and Herbert Stewart, Ser­ geant, infantry. Newest Chapter Reports Win Four Championships Honoraries : Scabbard and Blade, Wil­ By Paul J. Whitaker, Gamma·Si9ma By Renwick J. Lewis, Alpha· Theta son R. Caskey, John Easly, Herbert Stew­ PITTSBURGH.-At an election held art; Chi Sigma Delta, William H. Smith, April 9, H en ry H. George was made WEST VIRGINIA.-Alpha-Theta has president; Blair Hill, James J. Geary; S.M.C.; Paul R. Keiser, I.M.C.; Paul J . gained the distinction of winning four journaliers, Blair Hill, Herman Lemas­ V/ hitaker, Th.C., and John B. Roman, championships in intramural athletics and ters, William H . Smith; Kappa Kappa house manager. The S.M.C. appointed has been leading all other fraternities on Psi, Edwin Camp, Wilson Shortridge; La John Best, M.C.; H. Ottis Trumpfheller, the campus by a safe margin of eighty-five Fertulia, John Easly. S.C., and Edward C. Teats, M.S. points for the all -year trophy. Under the A formal dance was held May 18 at Gamma-Sigma placed fourth in the first leadership of Will iam Howder, Alpha­ Hotel Morgan, the first spring formal in annual interfraternity indoor track meet. Theta has become champion in basketball, tw0 years. Six II K A's were named on the Spring speedball, volleyball and faul throwing. It Festival Committee of thirty-six. is the first time in the history of the uni­ Alpha-Theta Alumni News George W. Strong has been made a versity that a fraternity has won four Victor Monteith, who received his mas­ First Lieutenant of Pitt Rifles, highest championships. ter's in electrical engineering last semester, rank for sophomore. Founders' Day banquet was held March has secured a position at the Evertsville Eight men are taking an active part in 1 at Hotel Margan, Morgantown. S.M.C. (W. Va.) mines and has been working for H ello Again, the annual Cap and Gown Caskey presided and Dr. John Roscoe Tur­ radio station WMMN since graduation. verformance. Charles F oreman is once ner, president of West Virginia University, Kensy Dillion, '33, has secured a posi­ more director of the make-up staff. one of our most distinguished alumni, made tion as hi story teacher and basketball coach H. Ellsworth Miller, manager of the a stirring talk on "What Alpha-Theta can at Mount Pleasant High School. university orchestra, completed the musi­ do to better Pi Kappa Alpha." Other --IIKA-- cal season with the home concert April 12. alumni present were A. H. Forman, dean The entire trumpet section is composed of the engineering coll ege; W. P . Short­ Growth of II K A Described of II KA's. ridge, dean of the college of arts and By W. McKendree Scott, Jr., Beta-Alpha Charles F oreman, production manager sciences; J. F . Holt, Victor Monteith, PE N STATE.-The annual Founders' and scenic artist of Pitt Player.s, received Carol Swindler, Andrew Wiley, Dr. E . Day banquet was held at the chapter house, compliments for the way in which he pro­ Paul and Joseph Pew. local alumni being guests of honor. S.M.C. duced his third major play of the year, Initiates: Dean Wilson P . Shortridge, Manwaring acted as toastmaster and The Torch Bearers. John David Gatrell, Martinsburg, W. Va. ; Dengler gave a short talk, summarizing Lawrence Norman Chamberlin, '36, of Robert Nutter, Shinnston, W. Va.; Rich­ the history of Pi Kappa Alpha and em­ Dormont, P a. , was initiated April 7. ard Tonry, Martinsburg, W . Va.; Earle phasizing its rate of growth. Gamma-Sigma Alumni News Leadbeater, Morgantown, W . Va., and Pledges : Robert Henzi, '36; Robert Russell Lee Biddle of New York City Harry Yoe, Martinsburg, W. Va. Johnson, '35. was initiated as an alumnus member April Officers : S.M.C., Wilson R. Caskey, Harold Kalb was initiated into Pi Delta 7. Dr. Biddle is assistant professor of Martinsburg, W . Va.; I.M.C., Renwick J. Epsilon, honorary journalism fraternity, biology at the City Coll ege of New York. Lewis, Greenwich, Conn.; S.C., William due to his success on the business staff Mr. and Mrs. J . Ralph Ditty recently Howder, Elizabeth, Pa. of La Vie. He is the third member of announced the engagement of their daugh­ Wearing the colors for the last time, Beta-Alpha to receive this honor. ter, Miss Ruby Myers, to Theodore Wil­ Hamilton went to the finals in the eastern A. H. Manwaring expected to play first liam Biddle, '29. Biddle is assistant to intercoll egiate boxing conference, only to or second singles on the varsity tennis the dean of men at the University of lose a close decision to Fred Moore of team this spring. Salisbury is a candidate Pittsburgh.

DISTRICT No. 4 District President: Wm. S. Lacy, Jr., Theta, Iota, Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. Eight Men Pledged at Iota kegee, Ala.; Oscar L. Shewmake, Wil­ Kappa in October, making with Cosby By Claiborne S. Jones, lola liamsburg, Va.; Fred V. Reed, Hampden­ three members of the national honorary HAMPDEN-SYDNEY.-At the end of Sydney, Va.; Asa D . Watkins, Hampden­ fraternity from this chapter. McCurdy a two-week rushing period, Iota pledged : Sydney; Jacob W. Williamson, Harrison­ was elected president of the seni or class Landon C. Bell, Columbus, 0 .; John Coul­ burg, Va. and Panhellen ic Council and served as bourn, Waverly, Va.; Ward Harshbarger, McCurdy, S.M.C., and Armstrong, manager of varsity football. Armstrong St. Albans, W. Va.; A. Pat Mitchell, Tus- I.M.C., were tapped by Omicron Delta held office a managing editor of the stu-

133 dent newspaper, president of Tau Kappa Steve Tegu, boxing. Tegu made an ex­ tives and pledges numbered twenty-three. Alpha, national forensic fraternity, presi­ cellent showing in boxing this year and A successfu l rushing season was held, with dent of Debate council, secretary-treasurer was awarded a varsity letter. Davidson six men pledged : Elliott Blox om, Hamp­ of Student council and assistant in the pitched the first baseball game of the sea­ ton, Va.; Robert Dew, Kilmarnock, Va.; departments of English and biology. son against the T renton Athletic Ciub, a W . Traynham Houston, Alexandria, Va.; Poole is president of the jongleurs, sec­ close game, ending in victory fo r V irginia. William Van Buran, W ashington, D. C.; ond oldest college dramatic cl ub in Amer­ V isitors: E dward Douglass, Carl W atts Clayton Will is, Eastern Shore, Va.; Clyde ica. Whitehouse, S.C., is editor of the and Walter Clem, all A lpha, '31. Shelton, Norfolk, Va. Hampden-Sydney magazine. Mackey is Initiates: E. Bloxom, B. E . Rhodes and - -IlK A -- debate manager and assistant in the de­ W. ]. Rhodes, twin brothers of Suffolk, partments of psychology and biology. New Spirit Felt at Richmond Va., and C. E. Shelton. Chambliss is a junior member of the stu­ By Woolri dge Tuck, Omicron Spring, as usual, called Gamma's ath­ dent council. Positions on the Kaleido­ R ICHMOND.-Founders' Day was cele­ letes out for varsity sports. Willard Owen, scope (college yearbook) staff are held by brated in the usual fashion at the Frank­ letterman in tennis, is again starring in Alexander, Bowen, Patchell and Suther­ lin Terrace the night of March 1. From the singles, besides playing a fine game in land. On the staff of the student news­ this time on the-re has been a revived the doubles with Captain F ink C. K. Spar­ paper, in addition to Armstrong, are Franz, spirit in the chapter, climaxed in the dis­ row and G. W. Bishop, lettermen, are run­ Jones, Kellam and Clore. T he magazine tric t convention May 4 and 5. ning the half mile again, along with B. E. staff contains the names of Baldwin, Clore, New officers: W ill iam Ham, S.M.C.; Rhodes, a promi sing sophomore. Sutherland and Jones. H arry Roberts, I.M.C.; Harold Good- T he chapter was strengthened by the re- Social life within the chapter has been confined to several small informal house dances. Initiates: H. C. Reed, ]. A. Thweath, W. W. Iackey. --II KA-- .Alpha Banquets Prexy By Milton Loodbutor, Alpha IRGir !A.-Alpha entertained April 6 during the Easter dances, at a banquet in honor of John Lloyd ewcomb, Gamma and Alpha, president of the University of Virginia. The dinner was held in the rose room of the Monticello Hotel, Charlottes­ ville. Fifty-two places were laid, fo r ac­ tive members of the chapter, their visitors for the dances, members of the faculty and alumni. President r ewcomb delivered a brief but highly entertaining speech. There followed an informal reception at the chap­ ter hou e. For the Easter dances, April 4-7, Smith Ballew's orchestra furnished the music. Twelve girls were entertained by members Members of Omicron with the schola rsh ip cup which they won last year of Alpha during the week, which was a festive one. with parties and entertain­ man, T h.C.; Stewart \Noodson, S.C.; turn of E. S. Barclay after an extensive ments of many kinds provided for every Moses N unnall y, M.C., and W oolridge tour through Europe and the southern hour. T uck, M.S. states. On his return he was elected vice After a lapse of over two years intra­ Omicron was well repre>ented in ath­ president of the I nterfraternity Council, a mural sport have been revived at the uni­ letics and class elections. H arry Roberts singular honor for a sophomore. versity. During the winter season Alpha is senior vice pres ident ; Younger Saunders The chapter is publishing a news bul- · aggregated a total of nine points in the senator-at-large from the sophomore letin to be sent to all of the alumni and interfraternity competition, a number of class. We are especially well represented the chapters in the di strict. the brothers making excellent showings in in freshman activities, with three men on - -II K A -- the swimming meets. The baseball season the football team including the captain; opened April 12 with Alpha's prospects fo r three on the basketball team, three in track a championship bright. Father and Son Go 0. D. K. and two in baseball. In addition, there By V . Cossel Adomson, Pi There has been much agitation recently is one on the varsity boxing team and W ASHINGTON AND LEE.- P i has for chan"'es in the interfraternity rushing one on the freshman boxing team. had a ve ry good year, both in scholastic agreement. The council proposed that the Alumnus Alpha chapter has been re­ attainments and in athl etics. rushing of fir t-year men be deferred until organized and is rendering valuable as­ J oe H enry Sawyers has completed his the pring term. Thi proposition was re­ sistance to the active chapter. last successful year in athletics. He was jected by one vote so another meeting was John Monroe Reynolds of Richmond has a formidable opponent on Southern Con­ called to discuss other plans. The system been p l ed~ed . Charles Bahen, Michael fe rence gridirons, and was chosen on the employed at present is unsatisfactory to a 'vVe t and Younger Saunders have recently number of fraternitie . second All -Southern Conference team, in been initiated; the fi rst two are from addition to being selected all-state half­ District President Lacy visited the chap­ Richmond, the latter from South Hill, Va. back and receiving a certificate from the ter April 11 and spoke on many important All -American Board of F ootball. H e and interesting subjects. - -IIKA-- captained this year's basketball team, Freshman candidates : Andrew Lowndes, whi ch won the Southern Conference cham­ swimming; Spencer Gill, football, swim­ Gamma Prospers llgain pionship for the first time in the history ming; John Ferguson, basketball; Frank By George W . Bis hop, Jr., Gamma of 'vVashington and Lee. H e also was Elliott and William Bray, boxing. WILLIAM AND MARY.-The second high-point man of the tournament, with Varsity candidate : Victor Davidson, seme ter found Gamma in the best condi­ thirty-eight points. H e is holder of the ba eball; Jack Jackson, track; Pledge ti on it f1as enjoyed in several years. Ac- state record fo r the 100 -yard dash, mak-

134 ing him an outstanding three-letter man. Lee wrestling team, was dethroned in Omicron Delta Kappa has initiated two He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, 1934. He is president of the 1934 Final of our alumni, Col. Le Roy Hodges and leadership fraternity, and has been ap­ Ball and was tapped by Omicron Delta Littleton J. Boxley, '09, along with pointed freshman backfield coach for the Kappa. Pritchard and H odges' son. Omicron Delta coming season. Le Roy Hodges, Jr., son of Le Roy Kappa was founded at Washington and Charles C. Smith is captain-elect of H odge-s, '06, took third place in the Lee University. This is the first time in the basketball team. It was through his Southern Conference wrestling tournament its hi tory that father and son have been efforts, in conjunction with Sawyers, that in the 175-pound divi sion. He is presi­ tapped at the same service. Other mem­ the team forged ahead to defeat Univer­ dent of the senior class and will lead the bers of Pi in Omicron Delta Kappa are sity of Maryland, North Carolina State senior ball at Finals. Richard T. Edwards, president, and Joe and Duke. James A. Black made Phi Beta Kappa Henry Sawyers. William Grove finished his fourth year Initiates: Charles R. Watt, Plainfield, as a letter man in football and was one of and is a member of Sigma Upsilon, Eng­ li sh fraternity. N. Y.; George F. Gilleland, Daytona the mainstays of the line. Beach, Fla.; Edwin J. Prescott, Big Stone William Schule came to the front at J ohn F. Shroder, a star golfer, is ex­ Gap, Va.; Alexander H. W ray, Jr., Bur­ the Southern Conference track meet at pected to take a leading part in the Con­ lington, Vt. ; V. Cassel Adamson, Garden Chapel Hill, when Everett of Virginia ference golf tournament. He is manager City, N. Y.; Arthur W. Sinclair, Manas­ nosed him out to tie the world's record for of the track team and secretary-treasurer sas, Va. ; William A. Young, Huntsville, of the "13" Club. the low hurdles. In the State meet, Schule Ala.; Fredric P eters Boxley, Orange, Va.; tied for first in the high-jump and placed Charles S. Wassum, Jr., has been elected Jesse D. Douglass, Harlan, Ky.; Charles well i11 the hurdle events. business manager of the Troubadors, dra­ E. Dyer, Pulaski, Va.; William H. Cool, Charles A. Pritchard, 165-pound Southern matic organization. Gregory S. Maury Shaker Heights. Conference champion of wrestling in 1933 has been elected alternate manager of Pledges: James M. H oge, Marion, Va.; and co-captain of the Washington and wrestling. James S. Moody, Plant City, Fla. DISTRIGT No. 5 District President: Arthur P. Harris, Jr., Alpha-Alpha, Box 565, Albemarle, N. C.

Breaks Leg in Night Race the tape in about sixty-three seconds, well A Succinct Report By Robert K. MaHhews, Alpha-A/ph in front of Phipps. Storm now manages By Frank H. G ibbes, Jr., Xi to travel skilfully about on a pair of DUKE-This year, the university ad­ SOUTH CAROLINA.-Xi reports, sta­ crutches, dragging a cast, affectionately ministration tried a new system of de­ tistically: named "Tombstone." ferred rushing. As a consequence, com­ Athletics-William Humphlett, varsity petition for pledges was the keenest the --IIKA-- boxing, winner of Gittman Medal for most chapter has ever had to contend with. scientific boxer, and captain-elect for 1934; Pledges: Russell Campbell Carden, '37, S.M.C. Graduates Early Wesley M. Walker, playing varsity ten­ Chattanooga, Tenn.; Brooks Jones, '35, By A . F. Thompson, Tau ni s and assured of a letter; Ray Stokes, Mayfield, Ky.; Brooks McElrath, '37, May­ ORTH CAROLINA.-Eugene Bar­ freshman football. Chapter entered intra­ field, Ky.; John Gaylord Simonds, '37, wick, '36, Jacksonville, Fla., and Pledge mural basketball team, which played six York Harbor, Me. Don Jackson, '35, Sanford, Fla., are games. Initiates: Clyde Melville Clapp, '36, football lettermen and Jackson holds a Scholarship-Xi tied with Phi Epsilon Baltimore; Richard Wellington Cross, '37, letter for track. In the Southern Con­ Pi for fir st place among all fraternities Upper Darby, Pa.; Thomas Eagley Pur­ ference indoor track meet Jackson placed last semester. cell, '37, Jamestown, N. Y. first in the pole vault. Barwick is also Publications-William B. King, editor­ Officers: Bayard Storm, S.M.C.; Theo­ bidding strong this year for a track letter, in-chief, Ga·m.ecock, weekly newspaper, first dore Pimper, I.M.C.; William Ruthford, his specialty being the shot put. semester; Frank H. Gibbes, Jr., editor­ S.C.; Luther Winstead, Th.C. Other members of Tau making bids for in-chief, Gamet and Black, yearbook; Bob Members of the chapter have taken their athletic honors are Dave Spiers, Norfolk, Humphlett, Wesley Walker, Fred Crown, usual interest in all activities of the cam­ Va., a substitute pitcher, and Pledge on yearbook staff. pus, especially in track. In the intramural Richard Bullock, likewise a sophomore, Religious-Chandler E. Mayes, Y. M. C. track meet, ou r team took first place. Hiatt heavy hitter trying for a place on the A. Cabinet. Mossburg was as istant manager of bas­ varsity. Art-Randolph Johnson, Charles Crow­ ketball and Theodore Pimper assistant Robert Woerner, Phi Beta Kappa and son, Bob Humphlett, members of Beaux manager of tennis. outstanding publications man of Tau, was Arts Club. Bayard Storm, who advanced to the graduated at the close of the winter quar­ Music-Randolph Johnson, band and finals in the Southern Conference golf ter, leaving his post as S.M.C. to be Gamecock Orchestra; Charles Crowson, tournament last year, suffered an accident filled by George Little, '34. R. D. Mac­ Gamecock Orchestra; Robert Humphlett, which probably kept him from being No. 1 Millan, Th.C., also a leader in publica­ Glee Club. man on the varsity team this spring. An ti ons, has dropped out of college because Social-All members in German Club, argument over the 440-yard dash arose the of illness. all uppercla men in Cotillion Club. night of March 5. Storm and Phipps con­ For the first time in the hi story of the Officers-Randolph Johnson, secretary­ tended they could run the distance in less Carolina Magazine, oldest college literary treasurer of Panhellenic Council; Thomas than 74 seconds. The contestants, dressed publication in the United States, a short Whiteside, secretary-treasurer of Law in street clothes, and nearly the whole story contest is being conducted. Editor Federation. chapter adjourned to the field, at 10.30 Don Shoemaker, '34, is offering a loving Honorary-Frank H. Gibbes, Jr., Omi­ P. M. The race started; all went well for cup to the hi gh school student submitting cron Delta Kappa. the first lap, with Storm leading Phipps the best short story. , Chapter office r : S.M.C., Randolph John­ by about twenty feet. On the last lap, Seniors leaving Tau this June are: son; I.M.C., Charles Crowson; Th.C., however, Storm failed to appear from the George R. Little, E li zabeth City, N. C.; Wesley \ iVa lker; .C., Thomas Whiteside. darkness when Phipps hove into sight, E. R. Lineweaver, Harrisonburg, Va.; Initiates: Fred S. Crown, Mobile, Ala. ; running a mighty race. Upon investiga­ Karl Sprinkle, Chapel Hill, N. C.; Don John . Dunbar, Jr., Columbia, S. C.; ti on Storm was found, doubled up on the Shoemaker, Middletown, 0., and R. D. Robert A. Humphlett Columbia, S. C.; ground, with a broken leg. He had run MacMillan, Red Springs, N. C. Walker George Keller, Union, S. C. into a football bench, preparing to start Stamps entered medical school and will Pledges: Edward Dawson, Chester, a spurt that would have carried him to be here another year. S. C.; Ray Stokes, Timmonsville, S. C.

135 Bolick to Lead Football C.; Fred Oxley, Clinton, S. C. ; Allan recetved letters for services in !)asketball while Pledge Quick, Maurice Peabody and By W. S. Horne, Mu McSween, Clinton, S. C. ; Sam Daniel, Ken Knorr received freshman numerals. PRESBYTERIAN.-Mu has had a lrmo, S. C. Commandant Wysor, Mu, of the R. 0. Beta is well represented in spring sports. number of men on the athletic teams and T . C., will remain at Presbyterian Col­ Harris, Morgan, Mackorell and Moore are on the staffs of campus publications, be­ lege for another year. on the varsity nine, with Knorr and sides having its share of men in honorary Pledges Quick and McOain trying out fraternities. --IlK A -- for the freshman squad. Dickson, Hill and Harry Bolick has been elected captain Lafferty and Pledges D. Johnson and Pea­ of the 1934 football team. Others who Sell Old House; Prosper By Horace Smallridge, Beta body are on the freshman track team. made letters in football are: Yearout, Tis­ Hamrick is out for the varsity golf team DAVIDSON.-With Dr. H . B. Ar­ dale, H orne, Denny and Pledge Correll, again. Quarterman and Higbe. Bolick was cap­ buckle, former Gr,and Councilor, presid­ Honorary societies: Buck Kirkland, tain of the boxing team this year. ing, Beta initiated : John K. Abernathy, Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership); Wal­ On the basketball squad were Adams, Winter Haven, Fla. ; Clyde B. Austin, ter Ogburn, Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish). Levi and Quarterman, with Viser as man­ Greenville, Tenn. ; George Bailes, Ander­ Chapter officers: Blanton Little, S.M.C.; son, S. C. ; Walter Dickson, Anderson, ager. Yearout and Winget are track men. Charles Harris, I.M.C.; Horace Small­ S. C.; Lawrence Hill, Statesville, N. C.; Bolick and H orne are on the baseball ridge, Th.C.; Henry Hodgkin, S.C.; Bill squad. Levi is on the tennis team. Kenneth Knorr, Staunton, Va. ; Robert Archer, M.C. Lafferty, Jr., Charlotte, N. C. ; William From the freshmen, Oxley and McSween Pledge: ]. B. Sherrill, Cornelius, N. C. made football numerals, Daniel was on the Snow, High Point, N. C.; Marshall basketball squad, and McSween is on the Yount, Hickory, N. C. Beta Alumni News track team. With the sale of the house in town Scotty Akers is connected with the In the R. 0. T . C. Mu has the cadet owned by the chapter, Beta is again finan­ Adams Transfer Co., Gastonia, N. C. Lieutenant-Colonel this year-Lynn-and cially on its feet. Our own house was Jack Wagner and Buck Mills are coach­ two Captains-Viser and McTeer. repainted on the inside during Christmas ing and teaching at the Statesville (N. C.) Odom has been elected editor of the Col­ holidays and the living room has been High School. leg ian, literary magazine. completely refurnished. Zeb Long is studying law at the Uni­ Initiates: T. R. Barringer, Florence, S. Capt. Charlie Harris and Jim Morgan versity of North Carolina.

DISTRICT No. 6 District President: Charlton Keen, Alpha-Eta, Alpha-Delta, 401-2 Bona Allen Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Fire Destroys Clothing fer from Psi, have moved into the house. diamond ball, swimming and other sports. By Guy Tiller, A/pba-Mu A small fire caused a large loss in Pledge Ben Moore was elected to Eta clothing, but the house was only slightly Sigma Psi, freshman.-sophomore honorary GEORGIA.-Alpha-Mu is well repre­ damaged. It is being repaired. leadership fraternity. sented in spring athletics. Cy Grant, all­ Alpha-Mu entertained with an informal One of a series of house dances was Southern halfback; house dance March 30 and a house party given April 7. Jordan Ennis, Er­ April 20-21. Beta-Kappa will have most of its mem­ ' ' nest Nichols, Harold Paul Greene has been elected to the bers returning next year. Andrews, G e r a I d Y. M. C. A. Cabinet. Guy Tiller has After a hard fight the chapter won the C a r t e r and Paul been named sports editor of the Athens annual horseshoe tournament by defeating Green are candidates T imes, a new daily paper. Chi Phi in a close match. In the annual for varsity baseball. Paul W. Chapman, Alpha-Nu, is the new football game with our rival, Sigma Nu, W oodrow Greene is dean of agriculture and president of the we won, 6 to 0. varsity baseball man­ Y. M. C. A. advisory board. He is a Initiates : Raymond Pettis Arnold, Deca­ ager. popular figure in the administration. tur, Ga.; Sandy Baxter Carter, Toccoa, Claude Mulling is Billy Moore defeated H orace McEver Ga. ; Charles McDonald Harris, Jr., Eton, playing regular out­ for the 119-pound intramural boxing cham­ Ga. ; John Pearce Matthews, Smyrna, Ga. ; field for the frosh. pionship. Tom Abney lost a close decision Walter Wilson, Rye, N. H . ; Robert Glover Everett Wright · is in the 159-pound finals. II K A finished freshman manager. Wyatt, Rome, Ga. second in the intramural bowling league. Walter Oakes, John --IlK A -- Cy Grant, who was selected on the all­ West and Buster time Georgia football team, was also se­ Owens are on the Say! That's a Lot of Girls lected on the all-time university nine. He Bulldog cinder team. By Jimmy Adkins, Alpha-Eta plays third base. Sam Pendland is a FLORIDA.-Alpha-Eta scored an en­ candidate for the -IlK A- joyable success as spring house party host first - year t r a c k Emory .R.ctive in Sports to forty-five feminine guests the week-end squad. Grigsby W ot­ of April 5-8. The annual "kid party" ten won his "G" in By Robert G. Wyatt, Beta-Kappa stood out, as it has in the past, as the '"""'"""'""' ___,. _ __ ..,.._""' swimming. EMORY-During the past two months highlight of the spring holiday season on Cy Grant, 3rd base- Officers: Wyatt Beta-Kappa has been active on the cam­ the Florida campus. A new touch was man on the all-time Bullock, S.M. C.; pus. in athletics Beta-Kappa went to added with a formal dinner dance Friday Georgia nine P~ o ct o r Campbell, the finals of the interfraternity basketball uight. Arrangements for the affair were I.M.C.; H earn Fic­ tournament and lost by a small score. in the hands of Charles Andrews and his quette, Th.C.; Harold Andrews, S.C.; Those playing in most of the games were social committee. Ins lee ] ohnson, house manager; Tom Ab­ Harris, Stephens, Jones, Sammons, and Terry Patterson, George Rollins, Earle ney, M.C. Pledge John King. Harris made a numer­ Lupfer, William Akerman, George Moye Abney, Owens and Wright were initiated al for his good work on the freshman and Sidney Smith have received appoint­ April 8. Pledges: Billy Moore, El Paso, squad. ments as officers in the R.O.T.C. unit. Tex.; Frank Strain, Calhoun, Ga. ; Bob A number of the boys are playing base­ Patterson, Lupfer and Rollins are mem­ Kimbrell, Phil Campbell and William ball and it seems we are ·going to make a bers of Sabers, honorary military organiza­ Chandler, all of Athens, Ga. good showing in this tournament. Much tion. Claude Mulling and T om Storey, trans- interest is being shown in golf, tennis, Shelton Baxter and Frank Fee were

136 pledged to Colonels, a social fraternity in Winter Haven, Fla.; Simon A. Smith, Dr. Massey Talks at Tech the law college, and Patterson, McMullen Madison, Fla.; John A. Snively, Winter By Julian E. Watters, A/pha·De/ta and Fee made Phi Delta Phi, scholastic Haven, Fla.; Edward Squire, Eustis, Fla. GEORGIA TECH. - The annual law fraternity. --II KA-- Founders' Day banquet was held March 2 Billy Chase, mainstay in the Gator back­ y oicks ! Here Are Quoits at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The high field, has been prominent in intercollegiate By James M . Th urman , Bela·Psi light of the program was a speech by Dean swimming meets and has been elected to MERCER-Spring brought out the Massey, national scholarship chairman. He the Athletic Council for the coming year. horseshoes at Beta-Psi and much interest made a very interesting talk on irater­ Bernard Schirard, a member of the varsity has been shown in the tournament to select mtles. Alpha-Delta, P si and Beta-Kappa baseball team, has shown up well in early the chapter champion. The chapter chapters were well represented by both season games with timely hitting and sound planned to challenge other fraternities. alumni and actives. fielding. Don Hunter and James Thurman of At­ Alpha-Delta had an informal dance at Three II K A's were voted varsity foot­ lanta were initiated during the winter Peachtree Gardens . April 13. ball letters: Billy Chase, sophomore triple quarter and the chapter has two fine new Neill and Pledge Ahern have been li sted threat halfback; George Moye, veteran pledges in Gerald McQuaig and James first-string end, and Emory Bryan, first­ among those eligible for Phi Eta Sigma, Whitten. Another initiate is Harry E. honorary freshman fraternity. This is one string guard. A freshman football numeral Marshall. was awarded Charles Root. of the highest honors that a freshman can In the election of officers Hilary H. attain. John Lavin, one of Florida's most out­ Keiser was unanimously re-elected S.M.C. standing debaters, was chosen for the two­ Pledges: 0 . T. Johnson; M. R. Mc­ Other officers: Willie Smith, I.M.C.; John Clure, '37, Atlanta; W. B. Scarbrough, man team which toured the East. On the Callaway, Th.C.; Harry Marshall, S.C.; trip he lost only one debate, won five, and '37, Jacksonville, Ala.; H . S. Bloodworth, James Thurman, M.S.; Don Hunter, M.C. '37; H. A. Senior, '37; C. H. Ris, '37; participated in his fifty-sixth intercollegiate The chapter attained a high rank scho­ debate. L. R. Ahern, '37; F. C. Owens, '37; C. M. lastically during the past term. James Grotz, '36. Officers: Terry Patterson, S.M.C.; Wil­ Thurman was elected to Phi Eta Sigma, liam Akerman, I.M.C.; Larry Mimms, national honor society for freshmen, and Initiates: J . C. Betty, '37, football man­ S.C.; Burwell Howard, Th.C.; Ben Hin­ several boys made the Dean's List. ager, Wilmington, Del.; C. A. Ortenblad, son, M.C.; Risdon Boykin, house manager; Willie Smith was elected vice president '37, New York; S. K. Neill, '37, Forest, Jimmy Adkins, M.S. of the Mercer Panhell enic Council for the Miss. ; Ramon Sanders, '36, Atlanta; Ray­ Initiates : George J. Avent, Jackson­ spring quarter. mond Shepley, '37, West Palm Beach, ville, Fla.; Norman K . Brown, Orlando, II K A is well represented in athletic Fla.; J. M. Townsend, '37, Pine Level, Fla.; John E. Courier, Sanford, Fla. ; Jack actiVIties. Willie Smith is captain of the Ala. M. Green, Tallahassee, F la.; William J. golf team and Ernie Zinkowsky is a Varsity candidates: Charles Grotz, Jones, Fort Pierce, Fla.; Arthur W . Jor­ promising candidate. Thurman is out for track; Julian Watters, track; Pledge dan, Jr., Clearwater, Fla.; Gregory Mc­ freshman tennis and McQuaig, Brown, Owens, football. Donald, Chattahoochee, Fla.; J . Tweed Smith, Callaway, Zinkowsky and Shi are F our members of the Supreme Council McMullen, Clearwater, Fla.; Simpson members of various class baseball teams were luncheon guests of the chapter Penny, Orlando, Fla.; Sidney I. Smith, in the race for the school championship. Dec. 2.

DISTRICT No. 7 District President: John C. Cook, 32 West Randolph St., Chicago, Ill.

Illinois Joins Tu-Mas Society the brothers proceeded to cut the costs fracture of the arm during one of the first By Woller Skonning, Beta.fla of transportation by driving around the picked-team scrimmages. Franks received ILLINOIS.-Beta-Eta has three present campus to pick up their dates at the soror­ numerals last fall in football. and former university class presidents liv­ ities. Several alumni were present. Theodore Fredricks, Huntley, Ill., fin­ ing in the house-a record here. Stanley Young recently was elected to i bed a successful season in wrestling S.M.C. Howard Hartman, who was the Illinois Union board by student vote. after taking several trips to Big Ten com­ junior president last year, is on the Pan­ Duncan Ross, also a candidate, was de­ petitions. hellenic Ball Com­ feated by a close margin. Beta-Eta has Initiates: Charles Kerchner, Chicago; mittee. P ledge Wil­ had a representative in the Union si nce its Lowell Ozment and Arthur Franks, Har­ liam Lierman was founding in 1909. risburg, Ill.; Robert Cavitt, Woodland, elected freshman Beta-Eta recently was voted into Tu­ Ill. ; Fred Young, Mattoon, Ill.; Heber president in the Mas, honorary organization of the twenty Lauer, Joliet, Ill. fir st s em e s t e r . best fraternities on the campus, formed Beta-Eta Alumni News Charles K. Leeper before Beta-Eta was established. Since E. E. Stephens, '33, is working for is junior president Tu-Mas was founded it had not accepted Procter & Gamble in Mattoon, Ill. now. a new fraternity until this year, when Chi Harold W. Oerman, '28, is an electrical 0 t h e r officers : P si was dropped. Fifteen fraternities filed engineer with the Public Service Co. of D e an Hey, '34, petitions to J OII1 . Beta-Eta was voted in Northern Illinois, at 72 West Adams St., Dixon, Ill., I.M.C.; by a large majority. Chicago. His home is at 807 South Euclid William Hoffman, March 16 the Panhellenic Ball Com­ Ave., Oak Park. '34, C h i c ago, mittee held its annual formal dinner at the Orey W. Oerman, '30, is a designer and William Lierm an, presi- Th C Th d Beta-Eta house. dent of lll ini freshmen · ·; eo ore draftsman for the John Deere Plow Works, Fredricks, '34, Malcom Todd, Lawrencevill e, Ill., S.M. Moline, Ill. Oerman is married and lives Huntley, Ill., S.C.; \Valter Skonning, '36, C. in '33, who is continuing his medical in Moline at 2105 12th St. Chicago, M.S. work at Northwestern at Chicago, has Deneen A. Watson, '24, is an attorney The annual hobo ball, at the house Dec. been initiated into Alpha Kappa honorary in the law offices of Sabath, Perlman, 16, was all it was expected to be-a huge medical fraternity. He says there are Goodman and Rein at 10 South La Salle success from start to fini sh. Under the 160 II K A's who belong to it. St., Chicago. Watson formerly was con­ direction of Call Nelson, social chairman, Working out with Coach Zuppke in nected with the Secretary of State's office it was the climax of the social season. spring football this year were Arthur in Springfield, until Oct. 1. Fredricks started the evening off right by Franks, Lowell Ozment and Pledge Wil­ William E. Schroeder, '26, is a sales­ securing his well known Huntley bus, and liam Henry. Henry suffered a severe inan for the Vacuum Oil Co., at 59 E.

137 an Buren St., Chicago. He has a son, Purvis and Carter Shine effectively in their various capacities and W . E . Schroeder III, nearly a year old, By Luter S. G ibbs, llela· PM deserve credit for their work and the grand and lives at 31 6 Fisher Ave., Rockford, P U RDUE.-With the opening of the fraternity spirit they have instilled in the Ill. outdoor track season, Duane Purvis has members. --IlK A - ­ agajn donned his togs and has been prac­ Gamma-Rho has participated in the vari­ tici ng with the javelin in an effort to win ous interfraternity activities on the cam­ National Editor Speaks additional honors for himself and the pus, although not as successful as possible By Richard C. Bri!Ss. llet.1· Tau Boil ermaker track team. Purvis has made in intramural athletic competition. The MICHIGA .-Founder s' Day was cele­ a remarkable showing in both football and chapter practiced hard for the interfrater­ brated March 1 at the chapter house with track. At the national intercollegiate track nity sing in the latter part of April. a banquet honoring ini tiates. National and fi eld meet at Chicago last summer, The chief accomplishment of Gamma­ Editor Pulcipher was the speaker of the Purvis threw the javelin within three­ Rho has been in attaining the highest eveni ng, revealing some new and interest­ quarters of an inch of the intercollegiate scholastic rating of all social fraternities ing facts concerning the founding of Pi record of 217 feet. In the Big Ten con­ for three consecutve semesters. John Ladd, Kappa Alpha, with special reference to the fe rence meet, he broke the javelin record transfer from Carnegie Tech., was accepted personal and human side of the men who by hurling his spear over 208 feet. He in­ by Beta Gamma Sigma, commerce hon­ started the fraternity. tends to enter the javelin event in the orary. John C. Cook, new District President, 1936 Olympics. Green, who has served the chapter for visited the chapter April 4-5. Sam Carter has distinguished himself three years, was graduated in February but Orville Aronson was recently elected as a record-breaking swimmer. Carter has been kind enough to remain with the S.M.C. with Davi d Calkins Schmidt serv­ was high-poi nt man in all the Purdue dual chapter until June, always willing to help ing as I.M.C. meets, broke the tank record at Indiana in problems. Nowack, Hildebrand and This spring marks the end of Ed Lemen's in the fi fty-yard dash by splashing over Mockler will leave this year to enroll in career as a trackman at Michigan. He the course in two-tenths of a second less the medical school. was in rare form at the conference indoor than the time set by Rollinger of North­ Van Gorder had complete charge of our meet, and hoped to duplicate his perform­ western. He was elected captain of the spring formal at the W ilmette Golf Club ance at the Drake Relays and at the con­ Boilermaker s wim~ing tea m for the past May 12 fe rence outdoor meet. For three years he season and has been the river swim cham­ Armstrong was honored by the school has been a consistent point winner in the pion fo r three years, holding the record quarter and half-mile events. of music in being asked to give a junior fo r 1930-32. recital. Arthur Fisher has a brill iant career --IIK A - ­ ahead of him as a golfer. Though but a Green, Nowack, Van Gorder and P resta freshman, he has won several tournaments Lead in Scholarship are serving their various classes as mem­ and has turned in several low cards this By Louis W. Nowack, Gamma-Rho bers of the commission, the governing body. season. NORT H WESTERN.-During the past vValis is serving on a number of commit­ John H. Johnson was taken into Druids, year, ten members were initiated here, of tees of the Interfraternity Council. senior honorary society. whom two were alumni. Officers installed H il debrand is social chairman for the I nitiates: Herbert Baker, Grand Rapids, at the beginning of the last semester: S.M. P urple Claw, honorary athletic society; Mich.; Bennet T hayer, Youngstown, 0 . ; C., H enry L. W alis; I.M.C., E ugene Hilde­ co-captain elect of the fencing team, hav­ Arthur M. Fisher, Rockford, Ill.; Peter brand ; Th.C., Rober Shabino; S.C., Robert ing won two letters in fencing ; a good Bowles, Longmeadow, Mass. Armstrong. T he new officer s have acted student, and captain of the chess team.

DISTRICT No. 8 District President: Wm. G . Nash, Alpha-Lambda, Box 403, Georgetown, Ky. Observe Founders' Day Ini tiates : Theophilus J . Emison, Alamo, Bazil Baker to Lances, sophomore and By Chorle• A . Ledsi nser, Jr., Thew Tenn.; Charl es A. Borton, Memphis; junior honorary fraternities, respectively. SOUTHWESTER .-Theta and Alum­ Lucien M. Garnett, Memphis. --IIKA-- nus Beta chapter celebrated Founders' Day --IlK A -- with a banquet at H otel P eabody, Mem­ Burkhart is Mr. Pioneer phis, 1arch 3. Foll owing the banquet the Belated Holiday News By Poul S. Stouffer, Kappa chapter entertained with a dance attended By John Le Stourseon, Omega T RANSYL V ANIA.-Kappa is closing by about 200 members of other fraternities KE ' T UCKY. - A Christmas dinner one of its most successful years at T ran­ and sororities. dance was held at the Wellington Arms sylvania, with honors in every field of ac­ pring football practice is under way. Hotel. tivity on the campus. Theta has everal men striving for the T he annual Founders' Day dinner was One of the outstanding achievements of varsity-Ben Bogy and P ledges Lumpkin, he ld March 1 with Kappa and Alpha­ the year was the election of Vernon Burk­ Benton, Davi and Grey. Lambda chapters. Several local alumni hart as "Mr. Pioneer," the highest honor The intramural track meet is in progress. gave interesting talks. Dean of Men awarded any senior. Kappa also claims We finished fo urth in the basketball tour­ Jones of the University of Kentucky also the president of the junior class in S.M.C. nament. spoke. It was one of the most successful Bobitt and the president and vice president Charle Ledsinger has been elected cap­ dinners ever held by the three chapters. of the freshman class in George Blanton tain of the varsity tenrus team. P ledges : Charl es Green, Paris ; William and Frank J ones, respectively. Charl es Crump was elected a member Greenwell , Morganfi eld ; Samuel Stern­ Initiates: George Blanton; Lexington, of the Carnival Court of the April Fool berg, Beattyvill e; Kemper Glass, Lexing­ Ky. ; Frank J ones, North Middletown; Carnival, a position desi red by all. Led­ ton; Edward Gibson, Memphis; William H oyle Carlock, Etowah, Tenn. ; Bill Will­ singer, Bogy and P ledge Lumpkin were Dunavent, Millington, T enn.; William son, Athens, Tenn. ; Jack Cox, Russell; active in making the carnival a success .. Kell og, Lexington. Joe H eaton, Lexington ; Harold Runyan, u ual, Theta stands high scholasti­ Initiates: Jack T homason, Georgetown ; F lemingsburg; Harry Gray, Covington, cally at outhwestern. When the rank­ Kemper Glass, Lexington ; Harry Kreamer, T hese new activities· make a total of six­ ings we re published for the fi rst semester Lexington ; Dorris Ruark, U niontown ; teen in the chapter. Theta wa third among the fraternities, Ben Black, Campbell ville; Jack Greenwell, Pledges : George Dawson, Savannah, with the following on the honor roll: Bob Morganfield ; Norris McMillan, Milling­ Ga., and Bob Fitzpatrick, Columbus, Ind. Walker, Charles Barton and Pledges Ben­ ton, Tenn. Regular football varsity men: Bill Will­ ton and Johnston. Sidney Kel ly was pledged to Keys and son, H oyle Carlock and Vernon Burkhart,

13 8 the first two were also regular varsity al o members. oel Riley was made a ashville; E. ]. Butler and P . G. Hy­ basketball players. , member of the Ace Club, a sophomore man, Memphis. March 23 Kappa gave a spring formal honorary, and is its sergeant-at-arms. --ITKA-- dance in the old gymnasium. The ceiling Matthews and Pledge Baskette were was decorated with garnet and gold and elected to the Blue Pencil Club, an honor­ Gillespie Stands Out was set off by lighting effects which cast ary literary society. Claude M. King was By Robert L. Driver, Zeta a beautiful reflection on the floor. awarded a scholarship to do graduate TENNESSEE.-A. L. Gillespie is the -ITKA­ work in psychology. most outstanding student on the campus. Initiates: Sam Brown, Dallas, Tex.; He is president of Zeta, president of the IIlumni Meeting at Sigma James Davis, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; James University Men's Glee Club, president of By Earl E. Wilkinson, Si9ma Chambliss, ashville; George Brengelman, the senior class, wearer of the Senior VA DERBILT.-A smoker at the chap­ rash ville; Au t Matthews, Barnesville, Toga, an honor bestowed upon the most ter hou e Feb. 19 for the fathers of the Ga.; Glenard Riley, Ridgely, Tenn.; oel outstanding junior in tllte year previous to graduation. He is also a member of two honorary fraternities and a member of the Interfraternity Council. The editorship of the Voltmteer, the annual, was offered him, but he had to refuse for lack of time. He is known on the campus as "Pete" and has won the admiration and friend hip of the entire student body. --ITKA-- Pledge is Football Chief By J. R. White, A/pha·Lam&Ja GEORGETOWN. - Alpha-Lambda is closing one of the most successful years in its history, with bright hopes for the Lettermen of Sigma are (left to right) : Pardue, Phelps, Woodruff, Jeter and Brown future. Losing only five actives by gradu­ ation this spring, a large number are ex­ town boys was attended by about fifteen Riley, Ridgely, Tenn.; William Morgan, pected back this fall. fathers and was considered a big success. ashville; David Hinkle, Nashville; John Pledge Edward Day, fullback, was At the house March 26 at an alumni smoker Meiser, Effingham, Ill. elected by the lettermen to head the Tigers plans were made for immediate reorgan­ W. W. Garland was pledged April 9. on the gridiron in the fall. Under Day's ization of the Nashville alumni chapter, Other pledge : George Hill, Milton Thom­ leadership the Tigers are expecting a suc­ with monthly dinners at the house. The ason, Jesse Baskette and Edmund Benz, cessful season. He is acclaimed one of the first of these dinners was held April 16. best backs in the state. Keller Green will Sigma's lettermen: Sam Brown, Jack be varsity manager for the Tigers this Jeter, Carlyle Phelps, Nathan Woodruff, fall. Stuart Way and Tom Jefferies were Howard Pardue and Harvey Sherer. varsity basketball lettermen. Brown was star tackle on the football The chapter entertained with a dinner team and will be back again in the fall. and theater party on Friday, April 13. Jeter, a letterman - for three years, is Chaperones were Miss Ann Poindexter, catcher on the baseball team. Phelps is Prof. W. G. Nash, Prof. and Mrs. R. T. a dash and relay man of great possibilities Hinton. Several such parties have been on the track team. Woodruff is captain held this year and have proved very suc­ of the tennis team. Pardue earned his cessful. letter as manager of basketball and Sherer Initiated into Pi Kappa Delta, national earned his on the Vanderbilt wrestling fo rensic fraternity, were Richard Reeley team, having won all of his matches of and J. R. White. White was one of three the season. representatives of the college in debate at Sam Moorer is student director of the the national convention held during the Commodore Band. first week of April. Initiates: Stanley Burton Minish, Car­ Tom Cooper was elected S.M.C. to suc­ rollton, Ky.; J. R. White, Marion, Ky.; ceed John 'N. Frazier, Jr., who was grad­ Neville Howard Sumner, Princeton, Ind.; uated at the end of the second term. Hollis Summers, Madisonville, Ky.; Kel­ Glenard, Riley and Phelps were elected ler Green, Mt. Sterling, Ky. Commodore band leaders: David Hin~le, drum to membership in the Owl Club, an honor­ major, and Sam Moorer, director of the Pledges : Edgar Duke Penn, George­ ary organization. Pardue and Jeter are Vanderbilt band town, Ky.; Robert Fuller, Owasso, Mich.

DISTRICT No. 9 District President: John J. Sparkman, Gamma-Alpha, 610 Tennessee Valley Bank Bldg., Huntsville, Ala.

Pledge 18 at Auburn Alpheus Millet Davis, '37, Lakeland, Fla.; Torrance Russell, '37, Birmingham; Ralph By Jobo Leroy Hall, Upsilon Collins Fenton, '36, Lakeland; Peter Sargant, '37, Lakeland, Ga.; Chris Sheri­ ALABAMA POLY.- Upsilon enter­ Hamilton, '37, Birmingham, Ala.; Jack dan, '37, Macon; Robert Wright, '37, tained March 10 with a tea dance for mem­ Hunter, '35, Kingsport, Tenn.; George Birmingham. bers and pledges, a banquet and an eve­ King, '36, West Point, Ga.; Milton Kirby, Initiates: Glenn Plumlee, '37, Birming­ ning dance. Numerous out-of-town girls '37, Birmingham; Charl es Lawrence, '37, ham; Joseph Vincent, '36, Birmingham; and members attended. Birmingham; Vestor Lokey, '37, Dothan, Thomas Chalmers, '37, Birmingham; John Pledges: Fred Black, '36, Macon, Ga.; Ala.; Everette McAllister, '37, Birming­ Logan, '37, Lakeland, Fla.; Thomas Mc­ Emmett E que Casson, '35, Macon; Har­ ham ; Sam McC.roskey, '37, Birmingham; Gehee, '37, Union Springs, Ala.; Ben low M. Chapman, '37, St. Albans, N. Y.; Joseph Mitchell, '37, Alexander City, Ala.; Smith, '37, Birmingham; Seaborn Lowe,

139 '37, Lafayette, Ala.; John Riddle, '37, Officers for the coming year are: Frank the Boston Nationals in an exhibition Huntsville, Ala. Hicks, S.M.C. ; Frank Slaughter, I.M.C.; game. Honor societies: Bruce Franklin, Tau A. M. Reid, Th.C.; Harold Carter, S.C. The annual Founders' Day dinner was Beta Pi and Scabbard and Blade; George -IIKA- held March 1 at the Thomas Jefferson Quinney, Omicron Delta Kappa. Hotel, Birmingham. Gamma-Alpha's re­ Varsity candidates: Harlow Chapman, Alabama Loses a Leader port contained honors taken and a good polo and rifle team; Fred Black, center; By John F. Brillon, G•mm•·Aiph• financial statement, besides the regular ac­ ALABAMA.-Paul E. Haygood, one of Sam McCroskey, guard; Everette Mc­ tivities. -IIKA­ Allister, guard; Thomas McGehee, tackle ; the most outstanding men on the campus, George Strange, end ; Robert Wright, end ; completes a brilliant college career this Delta Wins Three Cups Joseph Mitchell, halfback; William Fen­ May with a degree in commerce. Besides BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN.- This ton, third base ; Warren McMahan, second being house manager and an active worker year Delta has been outstanding in ath­ base. • in Gamma-Alpha, letics, winning three out of four available John Overton is president of the senior he is a member of cups, of which one was for the champion­ class and Fred Black is historian of the 0 . D. K., Blue Key ship game in football for last year between junior class. William Sharpe, William and Quadrangle. the SAE and II K A. It was played off Bowers and H orace Shepard are captains He is president of this year, II K A winning by a large mar­ of artillery in the R.O.T .C. Delta Sigma Pi, gin, thanks to the efforts of Shine Brad­ c o m m e r c e fra­ ford and Hubert Windham. --IIK A -­ ternity. The only cup lost was the basketball Alpha-Pi Has Good Year Haygood has cup. Windham and Bradford were both By Tom Gerner, A/pb·Pi been a member of ineligible and the pledges just couldn't seem HOWARD.-The annual Founders' Day the Honor Council to get going. banquet and dance was held March 1 for the past two The II K A's took the baseball champion­ on the Terrace Garden of the Thomas years. Aside from ship, only KA and SAE giving any trouble. Jefferson H otel in Birmingham. The prin­ t h e s e numerous The championship game between II K A cipal speaker was the National Chaplain, honors he has taken Paul E. Haygood and SAE was played off with a two-out­ Dr. Prentice Pugh. time to become a of-three game series. The first game was Alpha-Pi is enj oying its best year since tennis player of note, being II K A's rep­ close but the last game was almost a track 1928. resentative in the intramural matches. meet, 16-3. Shine Bradford raised his bat­ Initiates: Earl Mackey, vV. J. Isaacs, An impressive initiation was held on ting average by hitting a home run with Frank Slaughter, T om Forrester, and Bill Feb. 10 for six pledges: Robert Webb, two on base. His blow came when the H eard, of Birmingham, and Harold Carter, Uniontown, Ala.; Lee Carroll, Beverly score was 10-3 and wasn't exactly needed, Selma, Ala. Hills, Cal.; Wilford Godbold, Honolulu, but it gave Shine something to talk about The pledging of Prof. Howard Crane, T. H . ; Fairly Chandler, Bessemer, Ala.; for the rest of the year. associate professor of biology, was a happy Gerard Murray, Bessemer; Maurice The interfraternity tennis tournament occasion. Other new pledges are Stanley Raines, Fyffe, Ala. will see Miller and Pledge Stiefilmeyer Duff, J ohnnie Hyche and Robert Kinsey Pledge Jimmy W-alker, star forward of \vith a good chance to win. of Birmingham. Alabama's championship basketball team, Guthrie Smith is running for the high­ H onors : T om Garner, vice president of has been selected forward on the all­ est major honor that one can get at Birm­ the Student Body ; Harold Carter, presi­ conference team. Walker was high scorer ingham-Southern College, president of the dent, freshman class ; E. T . W aldron, in a tournament recently in Atlanta. student body. Guthrie is known by every­ president, Panhellenic Council ; vValter Pledges Bill Harper and Walter Robert­ body on the campus. He has most of Harper, Chi Alpha Sigma (honorary son have been active in intramural sports. the faculty behind him and also most of chemical), Tom Forrester, Alvin Outland, John Horne, Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa the students. He is also running for the Tom Garner, Kappa Phi Kappa (honor­ Delta Pi, O.D.K., has been elected editor Senior Senate. ary educational) , Roy Fayet, captain of of the Corolla yearbook. He was unop­ Chappell is running for Junior Senate. the football team. posed for the office. Two pledges, Tee! and Beard, are run­ Varsity letter men : F ootball-Captain Lee Rogers, varsity football quarter­ ning for the Athletic Board. Roy Faye t and Frank Slaughter ; basket­ back, is the ace pitcher or. the Alabama Iintiations: Findlay, McCulla and Smith. ball-Bill H eard; baseball-Roy Fay et and baseball team. He pitches from the port Pledges: Lamar Miller, Jim Wallis and E. T . Waldron. side. Lee recently we-nt the route against Cleveland (London) Bridges.

DISTRICT No. 10 District President: Everett M. Oxley, Alpha-Omega, 5430 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Praises Mother Blake sity of Iowa. At present he is graduate Kaye, freshman from St. Louis. This By Orton Rumd, A/ph•·Hu assistant in economics, working on his spring in a freshman-varsity meet he broke MISSOURI.-The year 1933-34 can be Ph.D. Bayer is Cadet Major of the R.O. 51 seconds in the 440. Early to bed, late chalked up as another successful one in T .C. to rise, and lots of milk are evidently his Alpha-Nu's twenty-live years at Missouri, A year wouldn't end perfectly unless an rules for training, because if he can't be although members and pledges have not orchestra of Alpha-Nu men went to found in bed he can be found in the been as numerous as formerly. The chap­ Europe . . This year we have Wilburn Dav­ kitchen drinking milk-either surrepti­ ter has been well represented in activities. idson and his II K A's leaving New York tiously or openly. Within the house things have gone June 9 on the S. S. Caledonia, Glasgow Most of the men are given an opportu­ smoothly. Much credit for this is due our bound. nity to play on the chapter's ball team. Ex­ housemother, Mrs. Martha C. Blake-a In intramural sports, Alpha-Nu has been tensive practice has been carried out on a true mother to Alpha-Nu men for twelve an outstanding threat. A good showing neighbor's vacant lot. The generous years. was made in both basketball and volley­ neighbor was rooting with the team in its W ith the close of this year we will feel ball. In golf, baseball and track, we ex­ fir st game. the loss of two strong members, Glenn pect to be up with the best. Herndon Another man we are proud of : Sam Bayer and Payton Stapp. Last fall Stapp Hale and Glenn Bayer play the college Justice of Mars Hill, N. C. Well over was elected president of the Student Sen­ golf course regularly around par, and often six feet tall, and fighting in the middle­ ate. He has been given a fellowship for below it. . weight division, he has been a regular further study in economics at the Univer- In track our outstanding star is Francis member of this year's boxing team. This

140 spring he was crowned middleweight Student Life. Others on the staff are \.Vil ­ ward ; R. C. Weigel, forward ; P . C. Mc­ champion of the university. liam Dee, news editor, and Jack Brashear, Donald, guard ; W. 0. eel, guard; 0. On the university polo team a star from men's sports editor. Jerre Manning and K. H olman, reserve. Alpha-Nu has been Ernest Jones. This Brashear are associate editors of the year­ We were represented in varsity ba ket­ summer Jones will go to Chicago and play book, Hatchet, while Brashear is on the ball by two lettermen, H . ]. Pfeifer, with the polo team in the intercollegiate art staff of the humor magazine, Dirge, guard, and R. C. Lange, fo rward. Lange, national meet. He di splayed superb horse­ and was chairman of the junior prom. a freshman, enjoyed the thrill of making manship this spring when he won points Initiates: August Arthur Hauser, '36, the first shot he took in collegiate basket­ for the chapter in the intramural horse St. Loui s; Glenn Loren Moll er, '37, St. ball, while Pfeifer was high point man of show. Loui s ; James Johnstone Ritterskamp, '36, the season for the team. Pledges: Sam Justice, '35, Mars Hill, T rack men: A. R. T owse, javelin throw ; N. C.; Albert Clayton, '37, Sedalia, Mo.; R. C. Lange, hi gh jump ; W . 0 . Neel, Gene Miller, '37, Columbia, Mo.; Francis high jump and pole vault; 0 . K. H olman, Kaye, '37, St. Louis; Woodrow Wilson, javelin and discus throw. T owse set sev­ '38, Alton Ill.; Harold Roberts, '38, Al­ eral meet records thi s year. Lange is ton, Ill. jumping well, having taken several . firsts Initiates: Wilburn Davidson, '37, Ken­ and seconds in various meets. nett, Mo.; William Fuchs, '36, St. Louis. Election of officers for the Miner, school Honorary societies: Ralph Elsner, Chi paper, placed fi ve Pi Kaps in important Epsilon; Ernest Jones, Scabbard and positions: W . A. H owe, managing editor ; Blade; Wilburn Davidson, Phi Eta Sigma. G. L. De Roy, sports editor ; H . K. H oyt, Class officers: Wilburn Davidson, treas­ business manager ; 0 . K. H olman, asso­ urer of the arts and science freshman cl ass. ciate editor ; R. P . Murray, assistant busi­ Visitors : Everett M. Oxley, District ness manager. President; Joseph A. Sheehan, N a tiona! St. Patrick's Day was celebrated royally, Alumnus Secretary, and others. as usual. Alpha-Kappa gave a dance March 16 and on the two succeeding nights - - ITKA-- a masked ball and a formal dance were Beta-Lambda's wonmng speedball team-front held. According to custom, the boys Has Many Campus Leaders (left to right) : Leon Matthey, Frederick moved from the house and their "dates" By Loren F. Blaney, Beta·Lambda Doepke, William Valentine, William Dee. Middle: Oren Early, James Miller, Wilbur moved in for the three-day period. Miss W ASHINGTON.-EIIiott Koenig, S.M. ~' anda Green of Macon, Mo., was elected C., one of Washington University's most Hanton, Arthur Hauser. Rear: Jack Fendya, Hunter Look, Hugh Smith and Joseph Manlow house queen to represent Pi Kappa Alpha prominent middle law students, won first as a maid to the St. Pat's queen. Several place in the selections for the Missouri alumni returned for the festivities. St. Louis ; Edward William H odgson, '38, Valley oratorical contest, his oration be­ Officers: C. E. Kew, S.M.C. ; W . A. E. St. Louis; Donald Wimberl y, '38, ing on the Securities Act. He has been H owe, I.M.C. ; G. L. De Roy, Th.C.; Marion, Ill. elected president of Pralma, senior men's P owell Gordon, S.C.; H . K. H oyt, house Officers : Elliott Koenig, S.M.C.; Wil­ honorary society. manager ; R. P. Murray, assistant house In intramural sports, Beta-Lambda is liam Rosenbaum, I.M.C. ; Earl McCloud, Th.C. ; Wilbur Hanton, house manager ; manager. leading among twenty fraternities and --ITK A -­ other organizations. We took an early James Ritterskamp, S. C.; Loren F . Blaney, start by winning speedball, the maj or M.S.; Cedric Evans, M.C. Pledge Leads Cage Team event. Baseball, tennis, golf and horse­ R. 0 . T. C. officers: Maj. Loren F . ARKANSAS. - Pledge Taft Moody, shoes are now engaging our efforts. Blaney, Capt. Bernard T . H ensgen, F irst Jesup, Ark., junior in the college of edu­ In varsity basketball, we boast of Capt. Lieutenant H arry G. Lihou, Second Lieu­ cation, University of Arkansas, is captain­ Glenn Moller, guard, a recent initiate. tenants William Valentine and F rederick Moller also has right end cinched in foot­ Doepke. elect of the Razorback basketball team. F or two years he has ranked thi rd in ball, with Donald Wimberly taking care --ITKA-- scoring in the Southwest Conference. H e of the fullback position. Glenn Armistead will probably be a guard in next year's Wins Basketball Title led A rkansas' scoring this year with 218 line-up. poi nts in 22 games, scored 90 fie ld goals By Herman J. Pfeifer, A/pha·Kappa and 38 free throws. Moody hoots with William Rosenbaum, re-elected captain MISSOURI MINES. -Alpha - Kappa either hand. H e is 6 feet 1 inch tall. Next of the swimming team, is president of took the lead in intramural sports by cap­ year is hi s last on the team. Moody played Scarab; John Boozalis is the retiring turing the basketball title for the second prep basketball on the loan-Hendrix president and Joseph Marlow and Jack Academy team. H e works his way Fendya are members of the same society. successive year. After a round robin of ten through school taking tickets in a theatre. Loren F. Blaney is president of Tau Pi games two teams were tied for first with Epsilon, pre-medical honorary. James eight victories, but the Pi Kaps won in H e is a cool basketball player, deceptive Ritterskamp is president of Beta Gamma the playoff. Members of our team were: on off ense, most dependable defensive pl ayer on the team, and a good team leader. Sigma, commerce honorary, and a member W. A. H owe, center; A. R. T owse, for- of Artus, a similar society of economics. Arkansas tied fo r third place in the South­ The student branch of the American So­ west Conference. If our Greek tradition means anything ciety of Mechanical Engineers has elected Moody's brother, an all -state man at at all, the fraternity ought to give us an Harold Welch president and he is pledged Magnolia A. & M., will enter the univer­ appreciation of things of beauty, intellec­ to Sigma Xi. Welch, Cedric Evans and si ty in the fall and will be eligible fo r tual stimulus, and a tolerance that will Waldo Smith are members of Tau Beta varsity play. make for ease in living so that we can Pi, honorary engineering fraternity. Smith Pledges: Roy Milum, Jr., Harrison, share in the right sort of intell igent com­ is freshman class adviser, treasurer of Ark. ; Guy Lehn, Fayetteville; Bill P en­ panionship.-George Starr Lasher, Theta Student Council, member of the Board of rose, Hunter, Ark. Chi. Student Finances and of the Y. M. C. A. Alpha-Zeta's basketball team, headed by Cabinet. Earl McCloud and Harvey Smith Fraternity houses are contributing sub­ H olt, Tarpley and Allmon, won the intra­ are members of O.D.K. James Miller was stantially to the cultural training and right mural championshi p. elected to Lock and Chain, sophomore living of the undergraduate and rendering The chapter maintained its high scho­ men's honorary. Soulard Johnson has just a service to the college greater than does lastic rating fo r the past semester, mem­ retired from a successful year's work as any one factor.-Norman Hackett, graduate bers living in the house making a higher editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, secretary Theta Delta Chi. grade average than those living outside.

141 DISTRICT No. 11 Distrid President: David C. Longinotti, Alpha-Iota, Central High School, Jackson, Miss. Hold Big Annual Dance A. G. Weems was elected editor-in-chief of the Mississippi-Louisiana Mathematical By A. G. Weems, Gamma-Theta of the Reflecto·r, college weekly, for 1934- Association. MISSISSIPPI STATE.- Over five 35. Weems is a junior in the business Fred A. Anderson, Jr., practicing law at hundred friends of Gamma-Theta were administration school and has been a mem- Gloster, Miss., was a recent visitor. ber of the paper staff since his first week entertained by the annual St. Valentine's day dance, one of the best social functions m college. th;~:~~ '6~~e~:.s ~::~ ~:r;~;~~?o:i~~ on the campus this year. --II K A -- Jackson, Miss. Galloway Shines Here Clarence Pritchard, who is attending the By William J. Decell, Alpha-Iota University of Tennessee medical school in Memphis, was a visitor at Easter. MILLSAPS.-Charles Galloway is one of the most popular men on the Millsaps George A. Garrett is doing work toward campus. Initiated into the fraternity in his Ph.D. in mathematics at Rice Institute Feb., 1933, he has proven a worthy and is an instructor in mathematics there. member. He ranks high in scholarship Emmons Turner, Jr., is connected with and wears the pin of Pi Kappa Delta, Reed Bros. Wholesale Co., Tupelo, Miss. national forensic fraternity. E. P. Jones, Jr., has returned from Mothers of pledges and active members Washington, D. C., to practice law in Jack­ were to be honored by Alpha-Iota at the son, Miss. annual celebration May 12 and 13, with a Simon L. Fortenberry is with the Fed­ reception and buffet supper and mass at­ eral Department of Justice in St. Paul, tendance at church services. Minn. F. G. Marble, S.M.C., leader of Mississippi Officers: Raymond McClinton, S.M. C. ; Thomas Pegram, Jr., is private secretary State band {left) and A. G. Weems, weekly Thomas Ross, I.M.C.; Read Dunn, Th.C. to United States Senator Stephens of Pledges : Paul Ramsey, Portersfield; editor Mississippi at Washington, D. C. James Ferguson, Hermanville; Gordon Mississippi State's huge cafeteria af­ Reeves, McComb. -IIKA­ Members of the chapter recently re­ forded ample space. The orchestra stand Batters Up in Louisiana was attractively decorated with garnet and turned from a baseball tour of the south­ By Kenneth C. BonReld, Jr., Alpha-Gamma old gold and shaded lights of the same eastern states on which they visited Alpha­ Eta at the University of Florida. colors played across the dancers from the LOUISIANA. - Alpha-Gamma opened Richard Kinnard, of Jackson, due to walls. The dance was one of the most the interfraternity baseball tournament excellent work in astronomy and chem­ with a win over Phi Iota Alpha. Last picturesque affairs of the season. The istry, has received a scholarship in astron­ year we reached the semifinals, but exami­ valentine motif was used. omy from the · University of Chicago. He nations prevented completion of the series. will continue his work there next year. This year, with practically the same team, we looked forward to success. Tennis, --IIKA-- swimming, track and field remain on the interfraternity schedule and we are to To Manage Yearbook participate in each. By Hugh M. Boddley, Gamma-Iota Officers: Turner B. Morgan, S.M. C.; MISSISSIPPI.-Gamma-Iota is assured W. C. Epperson, I.M.C. and house man­ of its share of campus honors for the com­ ager; Allen H. Smith, Th.C.; R. Reid ing year. In a recent election John E. Rester, S.C.; Kenneth C. Banfield, Jr., Aldridge was made business manager of M.S.; Jewel Lane Bates, Jr., M.C. the Mississippian, official student publica­ tion, without opposition. He replaces a Honoraries: Lane Fuller and T. B. chapter mate, Hardy M. Graham, who held Morgan, Phi Delta Phi, legal; Pledge· Joe the position this year. T. Cawthon, Gamma Eta Gamma, legal; March 1 Gamma-Iota held its annual also a key for services as chief justice of Founders' banquet, followed by initiation the Honor Court; E. N. Smith, Alpha Chi of Sidney Campbell, Crawford Neill, Reedy Sigma, chemical. Ellis, J. L. Ross, Stribling Watkins, L. T. Delta Sigma Phi, commerce fraternity, Kennedy, Jr., and Scott Black. has elected three of our men as officers : Pledge Malcolm Baxter was elected to Ivy C. Jordan, president; Bates, vice presi­ the Cardinal Club, honorary sophomore or­ dent, and Allen H. Smith secretary-treas­ Joe Guyon {left) and Curran L. Spottswood, ganization. urer. Jordan and Bates have been made Gamma-Theta lettermen in the ring Officers: F. L. Spight, Jr., S.M.C.; Lyle president and vice president, respectively, Bates, I.M.C.; Pete Mitchell, Th.C.; Hugh of the Commerce Club. Representatives of every class s'ince the Cowsert, S.C.; Edward Mabry, M.C.; Doc McCormick, E. M. Causey, Jr., and Hugh Baddley, M.S.; B. 0. McCarley, organization of the chapter in 1927 took Pledge Joe Hampton recently visited Eta. alumnus secretary. part in the Pi Kappa Alpha Leadout. Pledge Wilfred Simmons has returned to Pledge: John Stone of Newton, Miss. college after a month's illness. E. N. Smith Visitors from all sections of the state and Charles Guy attended the South­ were in attendance. Gamma-Iota Alumni News western Relays at Lafayette. W. M. Fox Curran L. Spottswood has won two let­ Gerald Chatham, '31, County Attorney and Doc McCormick visited Alpha-Iota ters in varsity boxing at Mississippi State of De Soto Co., has been appoined to during the Easter holidays. Alpha-Gamma and has proven himself one of the tough­ a vacancy on the board of trustees of the enjoyed a visit from Raymond T. Nelson, est contenders for the lightweight class in University of Mississippi by Gov. Conner. '32, now connected with an oil concern in the Southeastern Conference. J oe Guyton He is the youngest person ever named on Houston, Tex. did his first boxing this year in the welter­ the board. Donovan Burkhalter, Gibsland, La., and weight class. He outclassed all opposi­ T. A. Bickerstaff, professor of mathe­ Zack P. Hilliard, Orange, Tex., are tion and won a letter in this major sport. matics, was elected, March 28, as president pledges.

142 Looking for Better Days many drastic reverse in finances, the chap­ in the form of a horned toad. The toad By Red Willlemson, £~ ter has shown such steady improvement ha been hospitably welcomed. TULANE.-Down in New Orleans, the in recent months that the interest of the Brother McNeil doesn't seem the same world's most interesting city, Tulane Uni­ members has been revived tremendously. since he returned from a tour as a mem­ versity is looking forward to another suc­ They have shown such co-operation, even ber of the univer ity debating team. Pos- cessful football team, and Eta has suc­ in the darkest moments, that the fraternity ibly he saw too much of ew York and ceeded in arousing some of the old time should feel proud of their eff orts. Chicago. enthusiasm and is looking into the future The chapter has received a gift from A spring dance in the earl y part of with surpri ing optimism. After surviving Brother Duval, who is now in California, May ha been propo ed.

DISTRICT No. 12 District President: Leo A . Hoegh, Gamma-Nu, State Savings Bank Bldg., Chariton, Iowa

Report New Successes District Presid ent H oegh was our gue· t Roland L. Lillie was elected co-captain. By Thomas C. Murphy, Beta-Xi :.rarch 22 and 23 and made everal valu- E lmer Paul on and Lillie repre ented Iowa WISCO).ISIN.-Beta-Xi has been quite tate in the 165- and 135-pound cia es, active during 1933-34, with several out­ re pectively, during their ucce ful tour standing phases of campus activities. Mario of ea tern coll ege . Luther Hatch wa Pacetti carried the name of II K A across enior wre tling manager. the Wi con in g ridiron this fall. Baseball, Thomas G. cott proved one of the long a favorite var ity port of Beta-Xi, main tay of the Cyclone track team dur­ is finding a veteran in K enneth Nordstrom, ing the indoor and outdoor eason. hortstop and baseman, who said he would The basketball team wa greatly strength­ hit well over .300 this year. ened by the playing of T orvald H olme , Clinton Studholme leads the var ity golf a ophomore. H e continued hi s good work team through the Big Ten competition. as third baseman on the ba eball team. The rest of the team is wondering how Pledges Vigars, Humphries and Urqu­ they will get down into Clint's bracket, hart received numeral award in basket­ well down in the 70's. Allen Studholme, ball. Pledge \Vayne Gut hall promi e to Clint's brother, is right behind him on the be good material for next year's polo team. fairway. captained by Don Hinman. Pledge Roger :tviuch of the succe s of H aresfoot dra­ The Three Studholme brothers, all II K A Booth was freshman basketball manager. matic organization thi year is due to Jean actives at W isconsin; Clinton (left}. Joe and Pledge Erickson, Frame and \ elch are Allen T horel, the dance ma ter, who did an ex­ on the freshman track squad. ceptional job with the chorus. T he 1934 Initiate : William Shiffermiller and able suggestions to the chapter and the production, Dictated, Not R ed, met acclaim Robert Jenkins. hou e manager. wherever it played. Beta-Xi i now in the hands of the Beta-Xi was host to forty alumni March --IIK A-- younger generation. All en tudholme suc­ 3 in ob ervation of Founders' Day. Five ceeded hi s brother as S.M.C., Paul Jannke Arrange House Lease charter members were present, the most is I.M.C., Thomas Murphy .C. and Paul we have had together in many years. Af­ By Eskil E. Olson, Beta-Chi Johnson is Th.C., the only officers re­ ter the banquet we went to a corking MI NNESOT A.-The chapter hou e ha elected. basketball game after w!lich we returned been leased under a very favorable plan, V•/e won the division championship in to the chapter house to test some of the whereby the chapter retain the use of the basketball this year, being undefeated in new teer. 'VII e were pleased and proud of second Aoo r clubrooms at all time and that circuit. The first time we played the the support that the alumni gave the active on 1onday even ings the whole hou e is fi1ia l game in football a heavy snow slowed chapter in making the banquet a success. at the chapter's di spo al. It is a set-up up ou r backfield and a 'tie resulted. In At the beginning of the year the chap­ which ve ry few groups on the campu can the playoff, near-zero weather and the ter was in a very depleted condition be­ compete with and as one of the dean put weight of the opposition was too much cause of graduations. I ow, with the it, "You fe ll ows have a fr aternity and not and a lone touchdown spell ed defeat. a rooming house now!" --IIK A-- The annual Founder ' Day dinner was held in the Colonial room of the Hotel Good Grades Win Prize N ico ll et in Minneapolis. The gathering was a real reunion of old acquaintances. By R. A . Valine, Alpha- Phi Two informal smoker were held dur­ IOvV A ST ATE.-Alpha-Phi is mi ghty ing the past quarter which were uccess­ proud of Roy Murphy of Burlington, Ia. ful not only in getting new men but at o The interest he has taken in this chapter in building up alumni attendance. The has meant a great deal to us. vVe are now dance of the year i to be held at the indebted to him for encouraging schola tic end of the spring quarter. standing by hi s award of ne month' The chapter received a cup for the best house !~ ill to the pledge recording the decorated booth at the Freshman \o\' eek highest average. Pledge Ca rl Erick on Carnival. proved without a doubt to be Alpha-Phi's Beta- hi wa well represented in ath­ outstanding scholar this yea r. leti cs. Pledges Kaiser and Foster are Two Beta -Xi lettermen are Kenneth Nordstrom ~Iu r phy recently was elected secretary­ promiSing candidates for the football (left) and Mario Pacetti treasurer of the Iowa State Beef Pro­ squad. Pledge Rich was a miler on the 1111tlat1 on of even men and a good pledge ducers' Association. track quad with Friedheim and Pledge clas we are in a favorable situation. Donald L. Hinman, civi l engineering v\"iggen and Ritter manager . Initiates: Paul Jannke, Ardel Johnson, tudent, up et tradition when he was named Elmer "Bull" Apmann, varsity guard 0 car Hussa, Jo eph tudholme, Kenneth ··Chief Axe Gri nder" at the indu trial for the Ia t three yea rs, was appointed ::\Tordstrom, Harold Heiman and Clarence science annual Axe Grinders' ball. a i tant wrestling and fre hman football Alt. At the close of the wre tling eason coach.

143 In intramural sports for the spring Officers : Joe F riedheim, S.M.C.; Qar­ Foster, Leonard Day, Robert Ritter, Walda quarter the chapter was represented by ence Reierson, I.M.C.; W illiam Walsh, Solstad, W illiam Rich, Karl Bavolak, good team in tennis and diamond ball. Th.C., and Eslci l Olson, S.C. Marvin W angstad, Robert Olson, Charles Reierson was chairman of the reception P ledge : F red Wiggen, Gray Hender­ Hokanson, Melvin Schadewald, Lloyd committee of the junior ball. son, Sidney Becker, George Kaiser, Ray Wessling and Edward Mulcahy.

DISTRICT No. 13 District President: J. Wil bur Wolf, Gamma-Beta, 1200 Jackson St., Omaha, Neb.

Nebr aska F r osh Star Laurence Humphrey and Lloyd Loomis, The chapter held the annual Mother's By Paul B. O lsson, Gamma-Beta cabbard and Blade. Day banquet May 6, in conjuncti on with Visitor: Bresham Holtzschue, Beta­ EBRA KA.-This year's pledge class the university P arents' Day celebration. Omicroll. of eighteen incl udes most of the prominent Beta-Gamma had as guests April 21 Pledge Le ter McDonald is generally fre hmen athletes of the university. Five many rushees and alumni as well as visit­ conceded to be a three letter man next of the frosh first string lineup, Pledges ing track teams from other schools, here year. H is height and ranginess serve in Ambs, F i s c he r , fo r the famous Kansas Relays. good stead in football, basketball, and C h a s e , Flasnick, Robert W allace, an economics major, track. Football coach Bibl e regards Mc­ Rapp; Chapman '34, was honored by election to Phi Beta Donald as a "find" and e..xpects Mac to and McDonald re­ Kappa. develop into a great end. As a center, ceived numerals in Beta-Gamma has bee n well represented in ba ketball, Mac is incomparable and is foo tba ll. Pledges on the university debate team this year by lated to hold that position from the start Chapman, Baker, Robert P erry, Gordon Sloan and Morris of next season. T rack coach Schulte con­ Rupp, McDonald Hildreth. tantly looking for track material, regards and Watkins rep­ Robert Oyler was awarded a letter in McDonald as a "natural" both in high resented IT K A in basketball and J ohn Warren a numeral in jumping and in pole vaulting. track and Pledges freshman football. Warren was one of Flasnick and Jack­ --IT KA - ­ the outstanding freshman players. son won cups in Entertain Frequently Initiates: Claude W . Robinson, Liberal, boxing. By A rthu r Lippitt, Bela-Gamma Kan.; Vernon N. Swinson, Pratt, Kan. ; Pledges : Joseph K NSAS.- Initiation services were held James A. Mandigo, Kansas City, Mo. ; March 4, followed by the Founders' Day A m b s , Omaha; Robert B. Oyler, Lawrence, Kan. ; Arthur banquet, which attracted a large number H o w a r d Baker, H. Lippitt, Meadville, Mo.; Stanford G r a n d Island ; of the alumni. S.M.C. Dale Vliet acted E . Thomas, St. Joseph, Mo. ; Henry Kenneth Chapman as toastmaster. T he feature speech \vas V. Tucker, Jr., Liberal, Kan.; Merle L. and Dean Chase, given by Maj. S. W . Montesinos, U. S. Welsh, St. Joseph, Mo. \Vymore ; Richard A., who is stationed in Kansas City, Mo. Fischer, Valentine; Every one was greatly interested in his - -IT KA -­ Franci E. Hanna, stories of the army. Kansas Aggies Win Honors Richard Becker, '27, gave a talk on rush­ Brownlee; Gavin By Grove r Steele, Alpha-Ome!la ing and helped to outline a plan fo r next Humphrey, L i n ­ KANSAS STATE.-Alpha-Omega held c o I n ; Joseph A. rush week. Reports were made fo r the Beta-Gamma H ouse Association by Paul its annual Founders' Day banquet at the Pavelka, C r e t e ; chapter house March 10. It held the Forrest Milham, F lagg and Spencer Gard, president and treasurer, res pectively. an nual spring formal party April 20. Lincoln; Jack Ras­ Varsity letter men : Charles Dean Mc­ musson, B r a d y ; The Easter party, March 24, proved a great success. In addition to members, Neal, football and track ; Kermit Pearson Robert Siump, Gamma- Donald Flasnick, there were a number of rushees and alumni and Richard Ham­ Beta wrestler Paul Rapp, Ed- ilton, b o x i n g ; ward Jackson and present, as we ll as guests from other fraternities. Several brothers from Alpha- G r o v e r Steele, James Tichy, all of Omaha; William Rupp swimming. and Lester McDonald, Grand Island ; Omega attended. ' James Edwards, amuel Adams, Big Springs; William E. as a candidate for Watkins, Wilber. Iot a Men Win Honors next year's foot­ The annual Founders' Day banquet was 1'he highest freshmen, the highest ball team, is prac­ held April 22. fany actives and alumni sophomore, and the highest junior tici ng dail y under were pre ent. in scholarship at Hampden-Sydney the direction of the Initiates: Francis E. H anna, Donald last year were II K A's. John Irvine new Kansas State Flasnick, Paul Rapp, Forrest Milham. Armstrong, the sophomore of Iota head f o o t b a 11 With the help of our freshmen athletes coach, Lynn Wal­ Gamma-Beta won three championships in who was at the top of his classes, dorf, A lpha - Chi. intramural sports : basketball, class B, vol­ had won the freshmen award the year Edwards saw serv- Charl es Dea n McN ea l, Kansas State letterman leyball and free throw. T o wi n the Jack before, and the junior, Peter Guer­ ice last year and Best trophy in intramurals, Gamma-Beta rant Cosby, who was highest in his should be a regular on the team next fall. ha yet to win baseball and track. class, had won a like distinction for I ni tiates: Skeets Olive, Leavenworth ; R. 0 . T . C. officers : Lloyd Loomis, Robert Dill, Winchester. both of his previous years. Both Major; Pierce Raubach, First Lieutenant ; Honorary societies : Charles Dean Mc­ Laurence Humphrey, Second Lieutenant ; have been bid to Omicron Delta Neal, Blu e Key, Gamma Sigma Delta, Gavin Humphrey, Second Lieutenant. Kappa, national honorary leadership Alpha Zeta, Pi Kappa Delta ; Francis H onorary societies: Frank Jackson f raternity, which proves that all of Brenner, Sigma Tau, Scabbard and Blade; Fi cher, pres ident, student council ; Rich­ their time was not spent in poring Howard H udigurg, Steel Ring, Phi Lamb­ ard Fi cher, student council ; Lloyd Loomis, da Upsilon ; Richard H amil ton, Sigma Innocent Society and Interfraternity over textbooks. Claiborne Stribling T au; Charles Maore, Scabbard and Blade. Council; Albert Schwaderer, P hi Lambda Jones led the freshmen in scholar­ R.O.T.C. officers: H oward H udiburg, Upsilon; Randolph Soker, P hi Delta Phi ; ship. Francis Brenner and Charles Moore.

144 DISTRICT No. 14 District President: T. M. Beaird, Beta-Omicron, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.

Bell Heads Texas Men Tex.; Jack Evans, '36, Livingston, Tex. ; pine. Here are the chapter's twenty-seven By Thomas M . Barnes, Beta-Mu John Coffee Harris, Jr., '37, Houston, assorted cups and awards for athletic TEXAS.-John Junior Bell has done it Tex.; Horace Shumate, '36, El Paso, Tex. achievements during the last several years. again! By a landslide vote of 2710 to 542, Initiates: Enos Edward Gary, '35, and But it is not of this home alone of which he was elected president of the Students' Lawrence Morris Gary, '36, San Antonio; II K A is proud. Rather is it the men who Association of the University of Texas. John Maxwell Preston, '36, Childress, have worked to make their fraternity bet­ This is the most decisive victory in this Tex.; Donald Lee Mayes, '36, Denison, ter known by their activity. Possibly chief race in the history of the university. Tex.; W. C. Hurst, Jr., '35, Longview, among these is Joseph Benton, '21. Joe, or Bell seems to annex honors easily as Tex.; James Newton Mullan, '35, Dallas, Giuseppe Bentonelli as he is known abroad, can be seen from the following list of his A. J, Smith and William Glenn Yar­ has been singing with the Italian Opera chief ones : Phi .Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma borough both made the honor roll in law Company of Milan, and broadcasting for Alpha, intercollegiate debate, intersociety school, while H. T. Etheridge, Jr., was the Royal Dutch broadcasting system at debate, Forsenic Council, president of In­ placed on the honor roll in the business Rotterdam, Holland. He returns to his terfraternity Council, president of Athen­ administration school and was elected to country early in May, and the boys are aeum, Newman, and Thespian Clubs; Cow­ Sigma Iota Epsilon, honorary business eagerly awaiting his long-deferred visit boys, Ranger staff and Delta Sigma Rho. fraternity, Enos Gary also made the here. Bower Crider proved valuable as Bell's business honor roll. Among the men in school now who are campaign manager. Crider was recently The chapter is planning its well-known outstanding are Ben Poyner, LeRoy Robi­ elected foreman of the Cowboys, pep or­ annual house party, after final exams in son, and Delmar Steinbach, who fought in ganization. June. the football wars for O.U. The Oklahoma Pi Kappa Alpha walked off with first Officers: John J. Stuart, Dallas, S.M.C.; innovation of football "scanties" worked prize for the most unique float in the Thomas Vaught, Arlington, Tex., I.M.C.; no hardship on these three, for they all Roundup parade at homecoming. The float W. L. Ferguson, Cuero, Tex., S.C.; proved to be hard running, vicious tackling consisted of a huge papier-mache cowboy Thomas G. Saunders re-elected Th.C. backs. which yodled, spoke, smoked and even --IlK A-­ In basketball we listed Harold LeCrone, breathed. Thanks to Saunders Freels and captain and center, his brother, Wayne, a his slave-driving tactics the float was com­ Oklahoma Takes Stock guard, and Ervyl Bross, all-Big Six for­ pleted in time for the parade. By John A. Johason, Beta-Omicron ward. Three more II K A's are on the Delmar Groos, student of architecture, OKLAHOMA.-One of the most beau­ baseball team. painted a beautiful crest over three feet tiful fraternity houses on the University of Others prominent in campus activities high for our dining room. It is done in Oklahoma campus is Beta-Omicron's are Dudley Culp, Interfraternity Council oils and set back into the wall with garnet spacious home. The largest house on Fra­ president ; Bob Vahlberg, Toga, Delta Beta and gold draperies. ternity Row, the chapter's pride is of simple Chi and Sigma Tau, and Joe A. Stamper, The boys are now rounding third base but stately architecture. politician, who recently organized the new in intramural baseball-they are in the The interior is graced by a long, roomy party that controls campus politics. semifinals. living room with beamed ceiling, and an in­ Beta-Omicron will close a successful Pledges: 0 . B. McCarver, '37, Ballinger, teresting den or trophy room of natural year with a dinner dance on May 19.

DISTRICT No. 15 District President: Everett W. Fenton, Alpha-Sigma, 5464 Beach Drive, Seattle, Wash. Beta-Beta Pledges Six Carol Beamer has won an outfield post penter has been made a member of Delta By Jack E. Keene, Beta-Beta on the frosh baseball team. Phi Delta, artists' group. Louis Correll UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Cadet Major Frank Farley is regimen­ was chosen for Scabbard and Blade·. -Beta-Beta's extensive rushing campaign tal adjutant of the R.O.T.C. and Ned The wrestling team at Washington State resulted in the pledging of six men since Nicholson is a Second Lieutenant. had four Pi Kaps on the first string: Roy the first of the year: Fleming Byers, Initiates: Dick Dewey, Dan Winter, Motteler, 125 pounds; Norris Perry, 135 Goldendale; Curtis Dawley, Sequim; Don­ George Foley, Gerald Brott, Ned Nichol­ pounds; Jack Folsom, 145 pounds, and ald Nelson, Seattle; Ned Nicholson, son and Tedd Marvin. Victor Carpenter, 155 pounds. Bremerton ; Ronald Richardson, Golden­ Spring quarter officers : Bob Smith, Pledge Hal Jones, regular quarterback dale, and Rex Sears, Kent. S.M.C.; Carl Dahlberg, I.M.C.; Bob on the freshman football team, has earned Leading in campus activities is Gene Dahl, S.C. ; Otis Wickersham, Th.C.; his numeral in boxing, having already won Nicolai, editor-in-chief of the University Lewis Dahl, M.C.; Jack Keene, M.S. three bouts out of three starts. of Washington Daily and a member of --IIKA-- S.M.C. Jones is still holding down the Sigma Delta Chi. Harold Mansfield, ex­ centerfield position on the baseball team. editor of the Daily, was recently awarded Four Pi Kaps Wrestle Karl Bissell has advanced to the No. 1 the "Leather Medal" by Colt,mtt.s, monthly By Ro11 Bryan, Gamma·Xi position on the tennis team. Frank Hooper humor magazine, for his achievements in WASHINGTON STATE. - Officers: had a fine season in frosh basketball. He that capacity. Del Jones, S.M.C.; Roy Motteler, I.M.C.; won his numeral at guard. Bob D.ahl occupies a seat in the light­ Norris Perry, Th.C.; Louis Correll, house Initiates: Clement Engel, Gary Siver­ weight crew. He was recently elected manager ; Guy Miller, M.C. ; Ross Bryan, son, Marvin Siverson, Hedger Priest, president of the Purple Shi'eld, under­ M.S.; Don McLeod, S.C.; Gary Siverson, Reginald Miller, Ralph Colley, Raymond classmen's scholastic honorary. Lewis rushing chairman ; John Dunlap, social . Colley. Dahl has been initiated into Pi Mu Chi, chairman. medical honorary. Bill Hooper has been elected by the -IIKA- Pledge Bill Briggs is fighting for a National Collegiate Players. Roy Motte­ spot in the backfield of Jimmy Phelan's ler was elected to Phi Kappa Phi for out­ Mikulak Turns Referee varsity football squad, now in its spring standing scholarship. Don Pile was tapped By Clayton Wentz, Jr., Gamma-Pi practice session. Harry Hanson is a mem­ by Sigma Tau, engineering honorary, for OREGON.-Gamma-Pi's colorful win­ ber of the varsity golf squad and Pledge his activity and scholarship. Victor Car- ter formal was held at the chapter house

145 Feb. 23. The 5ettit1g was a Harlem night Var ity candidate: Clayton \'Ventz, Jr., Marsh Dunkin, S.M.C. last year, re­ club idea, with darkies painted on the half-mile, track. cently left college to become a member wall , hidden lights and appropriate mu ic. Freshman candidates : Kermit Paulson, of the Olympic Club track team in San Our spring sport dance was held May 5 pole vault. track; Milan Boniface, mile, F rancisco. He was the premier high at the chapter house, and was particularly track; William an Nuys, left field in hurdler in the orthwest last year. impre ive becau e of the decorated back baseball. Alden Welder has been awarded a var- la wn and hrubs. George Pepelnjak is holding down his ity letter in water polo. He is a! o a The annual Founders' Day banquet was positi on as right half-back in spring foot­ member of the O regon State Hell Divers, held !lfarch 4 at the chapter house. ba ll practice. consisting of men having senior Red Cro s Gamma-Pi' intramural athletic teams life saving certificates. ~ew chapter officers : .M.C., Robert L. are upholding II K A honor in golf, tennis Harry Clinton, S.C., was elected to and baseball, the latter team being one of Zurcher: I.M.C., George Pepelnjak; S.C., Neil Davidson; Th.C., Lloyd Faust ; M.C., Kappa Kappa Alpha, national honorary the leading contenders for the interfra­ in art. ternity crown. Bruno Cuppoletti ; 1.S., Clayton W entz, J ohn Wei gerber, Hugh Marquis, Wil­ :\Iike 1Iikulak is refereeing wrestling Jr. --ITKA-- liam H off and Pledge Will iam Kee took matches both in Portland and Eugene, and part in the annual hor e show on the says this sport offers almost as many Welder is a Hell Diver campus, April 6. thrills a hi old love, football. By Dent B. Rood, Belo-Nu Pledae : George ~Iarx, '37, pring- OREG01 STATE. - The annual Clifford C. Jenkins has received an ap­ field: Edwin Raudsep, '36, P ortland; Ker­ Founders' Day dinner was held March 3 pointment as assi tant county agent in mit Paul on. '37, P ortland ; Ro Congle­ at the chapter hou e. tewart J ohnson, Baker Co., Ore. H e maj ored in Agri­ ton. '37. Prineville ; William Van Nuy , Beta-.Vu. '20, gave an intere ting talk. culture and is making good. '37, :\lilan Boniface, '37, Frank Arrel, '36, Henry Young, Omega : Arthur Raynor, Visitors: John Spittle, GatiWltJ-P.i; and Donald Owen, '36, all of Eugene, Ore. .· II f>ha-Z eta , and J ohn pittle, Ga.11una-Pi, Hugh All en, Beta-Beta ; Dr. Burton A . Initiate: ~ea l Davidson, '35, Eugene. were among those present. Meyers, A lpha-0 11z ega.

DISTRICT No. 16 District Presi dent: J. Grant Iverson, Alpha- Tau, 401-2 Continental Bank Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah

II' s M anage All Athletics lege. nder the tutelage of Harrison, T his year Gamma-Epsil on boasts a sub­ By Gordon Dai nes, Gamma·Epsilon \\"all ace oren on ha been groomed in stantial contribution to the Aggie football UTAH TATE.-Holli Grange, one of the art of editino- and the chapter is con­ squad. Herman Nelson, quarterback; Gamma-Epsil on' graduati ng enior , is fident of replacing our pre ent editor with Carl Simmons, all-IT K A tackle; Joe drum maj or of the Utah tate Military another capabl e IT K .-L Whitesides, halfback ; Ted Lockyer, full ­ Bane!. A tudent of accounting, his home An outstanding student will be lost to back; Rudy Van Kampen, halfback ; Junior is in P rice, Utah. the chapter when H oward P ond gradu­ Mabey, guard, and Lyle T ripp, end, all Pledge Dick McDermid, a scholarship ates with the class of '34. P ond has been played exceptional football. All even tudent from Logan High chool, i presi­ ac tive in student affair and in chapter made letters and were usually on the start­ dent of the fre hman clas . functi on. H e was oph omore president ing lineup. Simmons is probably the best All athletic Manager at Utah tate and the next year served on the executive hope for an all-American berth that Utah thi year are members of Gamma-Epsilon committee of the student body, also serv­ State has had for years. chapter. They are: Lowell \Voods, foot­ ing as I. M.C. of the chapter. Then he Viro-il Jones, senior in the school of ball; Ross Plant. track and wre tling; was chapter S.M.C. fo r two terms. In commerce, is secretary-treasurer of the Ro Ty on, tenni ; Ralph Gutke, ba ket­ senior class. addition to these activities, he ha taken ball and wimming. Members of the chapter in the national Woodrow 'vVil son, ace free-style wim­ an active part in coll ege dramatics, the fi eld in whi ch he is maj oriny. As recog­ honorary business fraternity, Alpha Kappa mer on the Utah tate team, wa elected P si, are J ones, treasurer ; H erman K en­ ni tion of his prominence on the campus, Captain of next year's sq uad. nedy, Ross T y on, Ross Plant, Glenn Ken­ Two IT K .\'s edited the coll ege paper, he was one of the ix men chosen from ner. Members of Scabbard and Blade, are Stude11t Life, ve ry capably. Conrad Har­ the seni or class to become a member of Lowell G. Woods, captain; Ralph Gutke, ri on, editor, wa complimented by new - .-\lpha Sigma • u, national seni or honor \Voodrow \il/ il &o n and Ro s Plant. paper men and the president of ou r col- <:Jeiety. -- ITK A -- Utah Men Win Honors By Ralph Lann er, Alpha- Tau T H.-Foll owing tradition, Alpha­ Tau again has ome of the outstanding men on the campus. Succe s has been enjoyed this year in student publication , with Pi Kappa Alpha contributing S.M.C. heffi eld as editor of the univer ity news­ paper ; Willi am Winder, editor of the year­ book, and Ray Fisher, business manager of the newspaper. Winder makes the fifth successive yearbook editor coming from the chapter. Sheffield has been elected to Phi Kappa P hi, national ho!1orary scholastic frater­ Gamma-Eps il on letter and numeral men-front {left to right) : Nelson, Lockyer, Harrison, nity, and chosen as one of three senior Mabey, Whitesides, Gutke, all football ; Tyson, tennis. Back row: Sla nt , track; Hanse n, Alder, men 111 the Beehive Club, honorary. rifle team; Simmons, football, track; Paull, Wilson, swimmin g ; Ken nedy, Davis, tenn is ; Cle gg, De Lece Tanner, Ralph Irvine, Winder swimming ; Adams, basketball and rthur Lund were taken in Skull and

146 .Bones, honorary junior organization. Tan­ Funk, Dee Parkinson, Jack Wilson, Steve Out for spring football were Jack ner was made president. Hansen, William Richards, Dan Eastman, Bownes and Pledges Hall Campbell, Guy Pledge Dan Eastman is president of the Rex Hansen, Mark Kirkham. McBane and Carl Meyer. freshman class and was one of the two --IIKA-- Track men are Nick Bielenberg, jave­ freshmen members chosen on the annual lin; Pledges Mike Mattovich, javelin, dis­ Envy Strikes a Chapter Junior Promenade Committee. Pledge cus; Charles Heidel and Verne Hender­ By Emost B. Thorkolson, Gamma-Kappa William Richards is a member of the fresh­ shott, high jump. MONTANA STATE.-Gamma-Kappa's man debating team. Pledge. Wayne Rich­ Initiates: Jack Bownes and Charles An­ all-'round honor student and social lumin­ ards played the leading role in the varsity derson, both from Anaconda, Mont. ary this year is Fred Liquin, recent initiate drama. Pledge Westphal was selected for Pledges: Clifford· Nelson, '37, Billings; of Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi, presi­ the football athletic scholarship award, Verne Hendershott, '37, Roundup; Win­ dent of the student branch of the A.I.E.E., having received seventeen hours of · "A" ston Smalley, '37, Roundup ; Doyle Smith, and active arranger of teas and fireside '37, Livingston. credit and eighteen hours of "B" credit parties fa( the chapter. in the fall and spring quarters. Honoraries : Guy McBane, '37, Deer Henry Fox, past S.M.C., left college in Pi Kappa Alpha placed two men on the December for Los Angeles, where he sailed Lodge, Phi Eta Sigma. varsity basketball team, Kramer being for :Panama. The green-eyed monster Gamma-Kappa Alumni News chosen captain for next year. Pledge raised its head when he sent a card de­ Five engineers from Gamma-Kappa are Miller won his freshman numeral in foot­ sc ribing the lovely swimming, etc., while working on the Fort Peck dam project ball as well as having played on the we had twenty-below weather. Henry near Glasgow, Mont. They are William baskettall team. went on to Havana, where he bought the and Carl Wall, Ambrose Shea, Edwin }3e­ Initiates: Robert Richards, Ralph Tan­ chapter a box of cigars; then to New York craft and Earl Hansen. ner, Leonard Ralphs, H oward Summer­ for Christmas dinner with his mother. Jack Erkkila is teaching at Pineridge, hays, Jack Christopherson. Harvey How­ licholas Bielenberg, Henry Fox and Mont., and Charles Skinner at Hinsdale, arths, William Winder, William Cowley, John Symonds were swimming mates on Mont. Rex Skidmore, Arthur Lund, Paul Bueh­ ner. the varsity team this year, Bielenberg and Robert Gjullin, who has been working on Pledges: Harold Miller, Blaine Riley, Fox making their letters. Fox won the mosquito control near Seattle, is looking Monte Carpenter, Clarence Murray, Owen 220 at the Rocky Mountain Conference for bigge~ game in Montana-grasshoppers. Reese, Karl Forsberg, Brent Palmer, swimming meet. The intramural meet His brother Claude Gjullin, is also doing \'Vayne Richards, Herald Carlson, Marcus was won with ease. insect control work in Portland, Ore.

DISTRICT No. 17 District President: W. C. King, Alpha-Gamma, 112 West 9th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Mother Camper Honored made an excellent showing before being paigns at the last moment. Having an­ By Locy L. McColloch, Alpha-Sigma eliminated in the semi-finals of the inter­ nexed the volleyball championship from CALIFORNIA.-On Feb. 15, .Robert J. fraternity tournament. The basketball Sigma Chi, the stalwart upholders of the Gorman, Jack von Neff and Arthur Mul­ squad showed promise by beating Phi athletic honor of the house next turned to born were taken into the chapter. After Kappa Tau in the first game. indoor baseball and then to swimming. On this ceremony a degree of honor was pre­ --IlK A-­ the volleyball aggregation were Johnson, sented to Mother Camper. It was con­ Athletes Reign Here Crismon and Cramer, spikers, and Kimball, Biggs, Barley and .Wyatt, set-up men. ferred upon her by the national conven­ By Bert Smith, Gamma-D<~:lta In track,· Pledges Ralph Reagor and Bob tion of 1933, for her distinguished service ARIZONA.-March 1, sixty-sixth an­ Ayres, hurdlers, represent the house. J ohn record of twenty-one years with the chap- . niversary of the founding of the fraternity, Biggs is the outstanding dash man on the ter. Fallowing the I,Jresentation a dinner saw an impressive initiatory ceremony and was held in honor of Mother Camper and banquet · for eleven new members : John frosh cinder squad. George Johnson holds the light-heavy­ the initiates. Biggs, Clarke Hall, Myron Hall, Bob Mor­ weight wrestling championship of the uni­ Pledges : Albert Mathews, Lodi, Cal., rison, Edwin Gardner, Keith Burr, Claude versity and Pledge Frank Kelton is king and Fred Chase Keeney, '35, Santa Bar­ Guice, George Mars ten, John Fletcher, of the lightweights, both titles gained in bara, Cal. Bill Wyatt and Ed Robbins. the annual tournament. David P. More, '36, has been initiated Toastmaster Dave Bigg~, house presi­ in Hammer and Coffin and has received dent, called on Bill Kimball, who summed Prospects for next year look brighter a junior appointment on the Pelican, cam­ up the history of the local chapter, and than ever before, with eighteen men re­ pus humor magazine. Alumnus Bob Greene, who told of national turning to li ve in the house, which has a Russell Yeager, frosh numeral man, is progress. John Biggs spoke in behalf of capacity of twenty-four. trying for a position on the varsity tennis the initiates. Entertainment consisted of Marston is holding down No. 3 position team. several numbers by a Mexican orchestra on the strong varsity polo four. John R. McGill, varsity yell leader, has and vocal selections by Charlie Farrell, Biggs and Pledges Ralph Reager and btcen elected permanent secretary of the first tenor in the university quartet. Jimmy Nichols played on the frosh basket­ class of '34. McGill received his second The chapter is in its usual position of ball squad. Injury strode through the circle "C" as a member of the 145 pound strong contender for the intramural ban­ Arizona gym, however, and touched Hal basketball squad. ner and may come out victorious this year, \'V arnock and Pledge· George H aines on Alpha-Sigma's touch football squad after heartbreaking defeats in former cam- the shoulders, ordering them off the fl oor

147 The Gamma-Eta White Shirts line up like this-front (left to right): Graham, Wattlett, Spicer, Cold ran, Wieland, Colt, Phares, Hardage, Green, Kortlander, Fimple, Moore, Clark, Faught, Ha lverson and Bix ler. Bad row: Jennings, Tejada, White, Kammon, Moir, Hoyt, Stroup, Pace, McMunn, Eubanks, Butcher, Cary, Scott, C ramer, Kel ly, Sm idt, Richordson, Herbert, Van Stynwick, McCartney, Smith, Artley

for the remainder of the season. v arnock, ball team. Gracin, also on the fresh track r ece ~ s was the golden sands and open veteran center on the varsity quintet and team, was a consistent high jumper of water of the bay and surf. Sixteen mo t valuable player on the quad, suf­ over six feet. Belko earned a numeral in Il K A's spent the week at Balboa with fered a broken bone in his foot in the first fro h footba ll. Members of the varsity a number of Sigma Nu's as guests. Bob part of the eason and took to crutches. track team are Frank Jennings and James H oyt and John Cold ran came down dur­ Haynes, easily the outstanding player on 11cMunn. ing the week in their chartered 62-foot the fro h quad, wa laid up with a twisted }arne Fimple, ace varsity pole vaulter, sailboat, on a trip to San Diego and knee. He will show on the var ity with took second place against San Francisco Mexico. the other three Pi Kap representatives in lJniver ity in the fir st meet of the season. The annual II K A yacht cruise to Cata­ a year or two. One more man, and we Initiation of eleven pledges was held lina Island, aboard the 110-foot S. S. Con­ can invite ru bees in to "meet the basket­ March 2, followed by the Founders' Day tender was held April 27-28, under "Cap" ball team." Capt. George John on, hardy banquet at the Knickerb ocker H otel in Pha r e ~ , '34. Sixteen couples were ac­ main tay of the varsity, deserved praise Holl ywood. ! ational V ice President Van commodated. for his steady, consi tent game at running Buskirk and District President W. C. P ledges: James McMun, '36; Frank guard. Johnson, playing his last year, King gave short talks. A formal dance Jennings, '37 ; Jack White, '37 ; Jack Stair, figured m every game. iollowed the dinner, attended by 120 '36; Paul H erbert, '35 ; Paul P ace, '36. couple , both alumni and actives. Initiates: Spencer Richardson, '35, Los --IIKA-­ A rushing dance was held in the chap­ Angeles; Ross vVattlett, '37, Long Beach, Trojans Win Cage Trophy ter house iarch 20 and another dance Cal. ; Ralph Smidt, '35; Robert Hoyt, '36, By Philip E. Graham, Gamma-Eta April 6. The annual spring formal din­ China ; Thomas Kell y, '35, Santa Monica, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.- Gam­ ner dance, at the Virginia Country Oub, Cal. ; Leonard Cary, '35, El Centro, Cal.; ma-Eta ha had one of its most success­ proved to te one of the outstanding events Ralph Spicer, '35, England; Cecil Smith, ful years in all activities, under leadership of the year. '3 5, Los Angeles; Joe Tejada, '36, Los of Earl H. Hardage, S.M. C.; William The great attraction during the spring Angeles; Donald Moir, '37, Los Angeles. Wieland, I.M.C.; B. W. Bixler, Th.C.; Parkman Moore, S.C.; Phil Graham, M. . ; Ralph Butcher, M.C. ; Social Chair­ men Wallace Halverson and Phil Graham; Pledgemaster James Clark and Publicity Chairman Richard Eubanks. In interfraternity basketball the II K A team composed of Cecil Smith, Max Belko, Jerry Gracin, James Fimple, James Clark, Ralph Butcher and Leonard Cary, came through undefeated to win the champion­ ship cup. It won the final game from Phi Kappa Sigma, 18 to 12. In interfraternity volleyball, our team had not been beaten in its division and was only disqualified by loss to the Kappa Sigmas in the final game. The II K A chapter was favored to win the all-univer­ sity plaque in athletics. Outstanding men pledged this year were Max Belko and Jerry Gracin, both mem­ Interfraternity basketball champs at Southern Cal are these II K A's: Front (left to right) : bers of the first string freshman basket- Wattlett, Butcher, Clark, Fimple, Mgr. Earl Hardage, Bad, Herbert, Phares, Faught, Kelly 148 DISTRICT No. 18 District President: Carl V. Rutledge, Gamma-Gamma, 870 Gas & Electric Bldg., Denver, Colo.

Basketeers Excel Here orary business fraternity. Schmidt has fraternity received many gifts. The dedi­ By Robert T. Campbell, Beta-Upsilon been initiated. cation was consummated with the formal UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO.­ Ivan Draper was pledged to Delta Sigma initiation of six men in the new chapter With the close of the basketball season our Chi, professional journalism fraternity. room the last night. Walter Smith is circulation and sales team had lost one game, which placed us --IIKA-- second in the university basketball tourna­ manager on the Colorado Dodo. ment. V e r n o n Jack Learned, Horace Armentrout, No Bushel for This Light Drain and Gene Grady Welter, Robert Campbell and By Ruford Maders, Beta-Delta Heisler were the Pledge Tudor Finch are on the editorial EW MEXICO.-Beta-Delta can boast stars of the season. staff of the Colorado Engineer. Learned that it is rep resented in every activity at Grady Welter of is the Oil Can Editor. the Uni versity of New Mexico. The Roswell, N. M., Robert Sonnekson has been a freshman chapter lately has been second in intra­ former runner-up athletic mana.ger all year and will receive mural athletics. Last fall Biggs and Fer­ for the New his numerals at the close of the baseball rell ably defeated all comers to win the season. Mexico State ten­ intramural golf crown for II K A. nis championship, Will iam Webber of Denver has returned In basketball, Jack Biggs starred. Jack made the varsity to college after an absence of three quar­ stands about five inches below any team tennis team here ters. mate. But with fast fl oor work he was and shows promise Members to be graduated in June : Mar­ consistently in all plays. He was chosen of making a splen­ tin Schmidt, Clark Stivers, Urban Lodge, by coaches on the second squad of the did record this sea- Jack Learned and Robert Clements. All-Southwestern Intercollegiate Border son. The chapter scholastic average was Conference team. raised to fourth place out of twenty fra­ Vernon D r a i n, ternities on the campus, last quarter. In honorary organizations, Beta-Delta all-conference foot­ has placed out tanding men. S.M.C. How­ ball t a c k I e , is --IIKA-- ard Kirk and House Manager Harold coaching the var­ Dedicate New House Logan are members of Khatali, senior sity tackles during By William H . Ball, Gamma-Gamma honorary organization. Addo Barrows spring practice in DE VER.-Gamma-Gamma is proud of and Guy Rogers were pledged Sigma Tau, assistance to Coach the appointment of its alumnus, Carl Rut­ honorary engineering society. He is a let­ Saunders. ledge, as District President. He has been ter man in track. Glenn Archer of active in our affairs and we are sure he Pledges : Bernie Walls, Landis Bebe­ G ra dy Welter, varsity Denver was pledged will make good at his new task. meye.r, E lmer Bowman, of Albuquerque; tennis playe r at at the beginning of The dedication of Gamma-Gamma's new Lawrence Iden, Dallas, Tex., and Allen Colorado this quarter. house was a three-day affair. Receptions Moore, E l Paso, Tex. 'William Van de Mark, Martin Schmidt, were held for alumni, faculty, parents and The chapter has succeeded in putting a Edi on Cramer and Walter Smith were other fraternities and sororities. Over 500 very difficult year behind, no doubt due recently pledged to Delta Sigma Pi, hon- guests were hown through the house. The to the cooperation of every member.

DISTRICT No. 19 District President: Claude J. Parker, Beta-Epsilon, 309 Union Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio

Ranks Third in Scholarship New offi cers : S.M.C., Fritz Lueders; Win Two League Pennants By Clarence Betz, Alpha-Xi Th.C., Ralph P oll ard ; I.M.C. ; Eric By Paul Galster, Gamma-Omicron CI NCI NNATI.-The annual Founders' chulze; M.C., William Restemeyer; S.C., OHIO UNIVERSITY-The Phi Kap Day banquet was held March 3 at the Robert Butler; M.S., Clarence Betz; house intramural pledge basketball team com­ hou e. Since formal initiation was on manager, George Levengood. pleted a successful season by winning the March I, this was also the initiation din­ Initiates: Lawrence Trame, '37 ; Carl championship of their respective league ner. A is customary, a ring was awarded Schott, '38; Ralph Yeager, '36; William but was defeated by Beta T heta Pi's active the outstanding pledge, this time to Larry Henderson, '36; Maurice Wilson, '37; Wil­ team for the championship of the univer­ Trame. li am Restemeyer, '38, all of Cincinnati. sity. At the end of the first semester, Alpha­ Pledges: Jack Seyffer, '38; Hugo H on­ The actives' voll eyball team won the Xi ranked third in scholarship among the schopp, '38; Albert Haberer, '36; Samuel championship of its league but was de­ chapters on the campus. The average was Gilliland, '36; Gordon Waltz, '38, all of feated in competition for the championship 3.334 out of a possible 5.5. With the aid cf the university. of extra credit given for hobby, Jack Cincinnati . An informal dance was held April 6, Seyff er earned a 5.6, to top the entire Honorary societies : Phi Eta Sigma, Henry Corradini, Fred Lahmers and F red coll ege of commerce and engineering. Jack Seyffer, W illiam Restemeyer; Ulex, Bli ckle formed a trio, singing fraternity Seyffer and William Restemeyer, recent Larry Trame, George Levengood. songs and harmonizing beautifully. initiates into Phi Eta Sigma, had the honor Varsity candidates: Larry Trame, guard, Murlin Stockton was elected state presi­ of being in the fir st pledge group of the basketball; Albert Haberer, outfield, base­ dent of ·wesley Foundation, Methodist stu­ Cincinnati chapter. Albert Fink and ball. O arence Betz are charter members of this dent's organizati on. H e is a member of Class offi cers: Philip H eil , senior presi­ chapter, which was installed early this the Men's Glee Club, the University Choir, year. dent; Larry T rame, sophomore treasurer. Blue Key and Phi Tau Theta, Methodist Alpha-Xi is defending the cup it won in School act1v1t1es: Woodrow Hunter, men's honorary fraternity. the interfraternity sing last year. Several president, and Maurice Wilson, Mummers Albert Lechner is a member of Blue of the new II K A songs are being con­ (dramatics); Robert Butler, Cincinnati Key, vice pres ident of Alpha Delta Sigma, sidered, including Good Night, Sweetheart Bearcat; William Restemeyer, Gordon and Ohio University Orchestra president. of II K A and My Fraternity Lullaby. Waltz and Oarence Betz, Men's Glee Club. Dudley W ells is serving on the Social

149 :\ctivitie Arlvi ory Board and is a mem­ Alum Runs for Governor president of the Ohio State Bar Associa­ ber of the Athe~~a yearbook staff, Ohioar1 By Louis A. Boxlcitncr, Seta-Epsilon tion. He i president of the Forty and staff. the band and Kappa Kappa P i, WESTERN RESERVE.-Beta-Epsil on E ight. Claude J. Parker and L. Mitchell honorary band fraternity. i · making rapid stride in various fields of Cohen are on Elden' campaign committee. Jack Cardasis is a newly elected mem­ endeavor on the Western Reserve campus. Initiates: John Bolton, Howard Hinig, ber of Blue Key. Our general scholarship ranks among the Bernhardt Dittig. Gamma-Omicron Alumni News Arthur Bryan, Cleveland, former .M.C., vi ited u in April after a three-month tour of the Atlantic eaboard m the em­ ploy of Pictorial R eview. Jnhn Smalley, former Th.C., of Grafton, \\". \ "a. , who wa obliged to leave college last year becau e of appendicitis, ha re­ covered and expects to return next Sep­ tember. Robert Mi lone, U richsville, 0 ., who transferred to Massachu etts Institute of Technology last year, vi ited the chapter during the spring rece s. --IlK A-- Win Singing Contest By Robert Derry , Alpha-Rho OHIO T A TE.-Merlin Willey was a member of the mile relay team which won the Big Ten championship in the winter meet. This pring he i expected to show up well in the dashe as well a the relay. Robert Hughs, a member of the var­ Th is is the way the Beta -Epsilon house looked 'most all winter while the lake breezes blew a si ty rifle team, won regular gale \I a world's cham­ pionship in th e hi.,.hest on the campus and many men are Eight New Men Pledged final s in a field of busy in extra-curricular activities. By John G. Weaver, Gamma-Zeta tf twenty. J . Lyman Bryan i exchange editor of WITTENBERG.-Since the beginning Alpha-Rho won the Red Cat. comic magazine, and assistant of the second semester, Gamma-Zeta has . the interfraternity technical director for the U ni ve rsity pledged eight men, bringing the number of sino- in the winter Players. Loui s Boxleitner is photography pledges to sixteen. The new eight: Scott Robert Pullin, sopho· fe tival and is in Pheils, Toledo ; Gaylord Gourley, Youngs­ more class president editor of both the R ed Cat and the annual, trammg for t h e al o i bu iness manager of the University town ; Herbert Pfister, Kenton ; Mack Cole, pring ing. The glee club is under the Players. vValter Stoff el is one of the Xenia ; James H all, V\Theeling, W. Va.; direction of "Gene" Glennon. business managers of the Players. Walter Donald McCullough, P oland ; Wade Initiate : Jack Grant, Columbus; David Poesse and Boxleitner are members of the V\' ichael and Frank Gordon, both of Owen. ] r .. Columbus; Donald McGillav­ Phi Society, undergraduate scholastic hon­ Springfi eld, 0 . William Fisher, Spring­ ray. East Liverpool, 0 .; Eugene Glennan, fie ld, was pledged late in the first semester. orary society. Stoffel, Fred Moeckle and Xewark, 0.; Le ter Cook, Grafton, 0. Paul H opkins are active in musical or­ Initiation of six men in March brought R.O.T.C. officers: Merlin Willey, Sec­ gani zati ons. the number of acti ves and pledges to thirty­ ond Lieutenant, infantry ; Robert Pullin, one. Bernhardt Dittig won hi s freshman econd Lieutenant, infantry. Gamma-Zeta has been well represented numerals in footba ll ; H oward Hinig and Officers: Robert D. Rush, S.M.C.; on coll egiate athletic teams this year. In H oward McVean we re athletic managers. Eugene Glen nan. I.M.C.; Merlin vVi lley, addition to the six men on the football Th.C. : Hugh Laughlin, S.C.; Ray Seil­ James Gi lli e is on the football squad and quad (four on the varsity first team), ~LC.; is treasurer of the Reserve Y. M. C. A. hamer. Robert Derry, M.S. Dale Mill er and Robert Hamilton held Br ok All oway is trea urer of the opho­ R. ~I. Farrell and H opkins are members down the forward positions on the varsity more clas . of both the P oli tics and Classical Clubs. basketball team, which had a fairly suc­ H norary societies: Merli n Willey, Lester Zinkham is feature writer of the cessful season. Philip Hopkins, Edwin Beta :\lpha Psi; Hugh Laughlin, Robert Red Cat. Jones. James Roger , Phi Mu Alpha. Benedict and Lowman Ohmart were on the The annual Founders' Day banquet was Pledge : vVilbur J ones, Young town, 0 .; swimming squad, H opkin earning his let­ held March 1, at the All erton H otel. Robert Hugh , Youngstown, 0 . ter. The pledge intramural basketball team There ·was a large attendance. Reorgani ­ Mi ll er and Pledges Ralph All oway and won the fre hman ba ketball champion­ zation of the local alumni chapter was an­ vVi lliam Clauss are members of the varsity hip. nounced at the banquet, and Kent Mye rs, baseba ll team. Hamilton is a member and prominent Cleveland attorney, was elected Alpha-Rho Alumni News student coach of the tennis team. Pledge alumni president. \Ve ley Fesler visited the chapter dur­ Gourl ey, ineli gible this year because of the in hi pring vacation. He related that J ohn A. Elden, ' 12, guest of honor at the rule barring freshmen from varsity com­ he ''a very pleased with hi s job, in which banquet, i conducting a vigorous cam­ petition, is also a tennis star. Donal he has been re-engaged as as istant foot­ paign for the governorship of Ohio. He Greider and Pledges McCullough, Hall, ball coach and head ba ketball coach at i ·eeking the Republican nomination. Pfister and Frank Mulligan are out for Harvard. E lden has had an interesting career and pring football practice. AI K reb i a draftsman at the Pharris i prominent in the Ameri can Legion. H e The Founders' Day banquet was held Tire & Rubber Co., ~ewa rk , 0. was commander of the Legion in Ohio and in the chapter house March 3, with about

150 forty actives, pledges and alumni present. ternity, while Benedict was initiated into Gamma-Zet a Al umni N ews Paul Clapp, Pro ecuting Attorney of Beta Beta Beta, nati onal honorary bi ologi­ Harold Lentz, Detroit; Da,•id Kin ler, 1Iiami Co., was the principal speaker, cal fraternity. Grafton, vV. Va., and Leo LaFontaine, whi le Harold Painter spoke for the active As a candidate on the fusion ticket for Tiffin, are completing thei r second year in chapter, Conrad fo r the mtttates and president of the Interfraternity Council, Pledge R ichard Yost for the neophytes. Pifer was declared elected by the faculty Hamma Divinity School, on the Witten­ Paul Bree acted as toa tmaster for the when no oppos ing candidates appeared. bercr campu . Paul Bres ler, Ti les, 0 ., sixth consecutive year. 'vVitter wa elected to Blue Key, honor­ and Allen Mehnert, \Vest Englewood, ary activities fraternity. Officers: S.M.C., Philip Hopkins ; N. J., are completing their fir t year in Initiate : A rthur J oseph Meder, Cleve­ I.M.C., John Haber ; Th.C., A rthur the ame in titution. land ; J ohn H enry Haber, West Engle­ l'vieder; C., Max Conrad; hou e manager wood, N. ]. ; Edwin Loui s Benedict, Alumni who are teaching include Doug- and stewa rd, Edwin Benedict. \ "11ooster, 0. ; Donald Greider, Tippecanoe las mith, at Bethel Township High Ohmart was elected to Kappa Phi City, 0 .; John Garrard \<\Ieaver, Colum­ chool, Curti Bradstreet, at Alpha, 0 ., Kappa, national honorary educational fra- biana, 0.; Max Donald Conrad, Toledo, 0 . and Coli n Lanning, in Cleveland.

Permanently Pinned Cont inued f rom page 123 idney Neal Harris, Theta, son of Rev. and M r . R. S .. Harris of Carrol ton, Miss., and Miss Virginia Lee H orton of Grenada, Miss., daughter of RoJ·ert Horton of Can­ ton, 1Iiss., last autumn. Harri , a stu­ dent of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, \ 'a. , and former student at Southwestern and Arkansas coll eges, did mission work in Richmond last ummer. Mrs. Harris is a graduate of Grenada Co ll ege and the Assembly T rai ning School, Richmond . Aiter three years All:ert H . Smith an­ nounced his marriage to Miss Al ma H ub­ bard, of Lexington, Neb. 'Fhey were married in Kansas and are now residing in Lexino·ton where mith is an attorney- at-law. __ II K A-- Atlanta Alumni Elect T he tlanta alumni chapter chose Gamma-Nu at Iowa holds an annua l Christ mas party at the C hapte r house. Front row (left to right)-Schneiberge r, Jue n, Twe nst rup, Horning , Trowbridge. Seco nd row-Day, Detwiler, new officers at an evening meeting Rogge nsack, Mother Hoyt, Booto n, Murray, Da lton. Th ird row-Eva ns, Lieh, Fink, H el ming, March 30. T hey are : R . R. Glover, Prof. Ma rtin, Bobby, Hoove r, Erg e nbright, Rudd , Wiley, Te rtipses, Kirke by, McClaren, Loe. Beta-Pi, own er of t he Glover Lino­ Fourth row-Drew, Kahl , Abraham, Whitco mb, Bentley, Eggers, Ba ill ey, J e nki ns leum and Tile Co., president; D r. Joe. Sixty Years Ago II K A's Mark Founders Day Eberhart, AI pita-D elta, a dentist, vice Continued f rom pa ge 128 Contin ued fro m pa ge 116 president ; Horace S. Smith, Jr., Kappa, and J . W. Smith, Alpha-Delta. Beta-Kappa, an agent of the Penn in the dust, and, thank God, I have Alumni from Macon, A thens, Griffin, ~ti u t u a l L ife I n urance Co., secretary­ li ved to see her rise again "to li fe Rome, Cartersvi ll e, and other nearby cities joined in the Atlanta celebration. treasurer ; Rev. D r. R ichard O n ne everlasting and glory immortal,'' with Theta, the bloom of perpetual youth upon Jackson, Miss. F li nn, pastor of North Ave­ Jackson, ·Ii s., alumni chapter spon- nue P resbyterian Church, chaplai n. her cheek and the urge of continual ored a Founder ' Day celebration on The chapter was entertained wi th triumph in her breast. To her I owe March 3 in which the whole district par­ !eight-of-hand tricks by George S. whatever success I have attained, ticipated, Gamma-Theta sending eighteen Peck, A lplr a-Mu, retiring president. men, Gamma-Iota five, and Alpha­ and here I lay my honors as a thank Gamma three. D ean F. M. Massey, Sig­ --II KA-- offering upon her shrine. In the ma, was the speaker at the evening ban­ Prospective II's and Sisters formative period of my youth she quet and Dr. C. P. Colmery, Theta, was Co ntinued from page 126 a guest of honor. guided my step aright and pointed AN D D rA~ro ' D publi shed at the convention During the afternoon a reception, held there in 1928. out to me the path of honor and on the roof garden of the Robert E. Lee To J ohn R . Gleason, Ga.mma-Mu, '32, duty. I love every brick of her fire- Hotel, was attended by about 500 students, faculty members and local Greek letter and :Mr . Gleason, at D ubli n, r. H ., March wept walls, every foot of her an­ 27 , a son, J ohn Ripley Gleason, Jr. representatives at which time Dean Mas­ cient campus; and my hi ahest ambi­ sey was introduced to them. This was To Sam B. Armstrong, A lpha-Nu, and fo ll owed by a banquet by acout seventy­ Mrs. Armstrong, a daughter, Anne, J an. 2. tion i to have my name long linked five II K A' s, at which Garner Lester was They reside at 1018 Art H ill P lace, St. with her in the years to come. toastmaster. --II K A-- Louis. Armstrong, on the editorial staff And when I wrap the drapery of of the St. Louis Post-D·ispatch, spent sev­ The day of conflict between college and eral weeks shortly after the birth of his my couch around me and lie down fraternity has passed completely. The day dauo·hter in reporting an involved insur­ to eternal re t, he will share with of co-operation l:etween coll ege and fra­ kntily i, almu>l ho:: rc.-:\lvau E. ])ucrr, ance suit prosecuted by P owell B. Mc­ my lo\'ed ones my last thou ·ht::; and Haney, Alpha-Nu, an Assistant Attorney­ former chairman, Interfraternity Confer­ General of lVIi ssouri. my parting benediction. ence.

1 5 I one of the other injured youths, Stone Church, Lewisburg, W. Va., The Chapter Eternal era hed into the back of a furniture where for many year he was a Robert Nordberg truck which had halted at a boule­ much-loved preacher and pastor. He Alpha-Psi vard. Olaf Steen was thrown wa alway. a good preacher, posse - Robert •ordberg, Alpha-Psi, ex­ again t the dashboard, suffering a ing that rare gift of being both in­ '3-t, of Jersey City, N. J, was k;lled kull fracture. The driver said he tere ting and uplifting. During hi late in ovember when hi automo­ had mi judged the eli tance to the pastorate in Lewi burg he took pe­ bile kidded on wet pavement and truck. teen's parents reside at Or­ cial intere t in the Lewi burg Semi­ truck girder of the ewark turn­ tonville, finn. nary fo·r girl and he completely re­ pike bridge of the Pas aic River. He J. E. Hoover organized this old school and per­ wa enrolled until Ia t June in the suaded his father-in-law, Dr. John Beta-D~tlta hu ine administration course at 1 rown, to become principal. When Jame Earl e Hoover,. Beta-Delta, Rutgers. He was editor of the Dr. Brown's health failed, ·B rother ' 17, a consulting petroleum geologist Alpha-Psi N ews and a mainstay of Telford felt constrained to take the champion II K A ba ketball team. of Tulsa. Ok., died at Tulsa Jan. 26. He wa a member of the merican charge and Greenbrier Presbytery in­ A a freshman he won numerals in sisted upon hi s accepting the presi­ A ociation of Petroleum Geologists football and ba eball. Last summer dency of the school. For many years and active in II K A alumni affairs he was awarded a harpshooter's he labored most unselfishly for the in Tul a and in the Masonic lodge. medal at Platt burg ( . Y.) in an building up of this school. The tirviving are Mr . Hoover and two advanced R. 0. T. C. cour e. Hi student-body was more than doubled daughters, Misses Mary Helen and parents, a brother and two sister in numbers. He gathered about him Frances Hoover. urvive. The funeral was held at a faculty of as fine teachers as were his home Dec. 2. Robert Lee Telford, D. D. ever known in West Virginia. He W. A. Gocke Iota restored the main building that was Beta-Phi By Dr. Howord Bell Arbuckle, Former Grond Councilor destroyed by fire and secured funds \ illiam '\mbro e Gocke, Beta­ In the fall of 1885 R. L. Telford for erecting Carnegie Hall. No col­ Phi, '24, died at the Mayo Ho pita!, came to Hampden-Sydney College, lege president ever won such devo­ Rochester, Minn., !£arch 20. He Virginia. We were classmates and tion and confidence from a student­ had been in the ho pita! for everal fraternity brothers a we both be­ body as did Dr. Telford during the month , uffering from a pinal came members of Iota. Thus I was years he directed the destiny of trouble. He is urvived by hi wife. intimately associated with him dur­ Lewisburg Seminary. The funeral wa at hi home in Fort ing the e college years and I was one When he took up his work in \Vayne, Ind., March 24. Gocke was of that large number of students who, Lewisburg public utilities were un­ graduated from Purdue with the de­ by his unselfish life and unbounded known in Greenbrier Valley. Before gree of Bachelor of Science in Chem­ ympathy, were made better and he left, Lewisburg was connected ical Engineering. ·tronger men. He was in his first with the C. and 0. R. R. by a trolley R. C. Purcell year recognized as a leader on the line, and electric lights and a modern Alpha-Kappa campus, representing his class on the water supply were given to the people Robert Crofts Purcell, A lpha­ tudent Council , becoming such an of this community in spite of the Kappa, '12, died of diabetes in a hos­ active leader in his Literary Society almost insurmountable difficulties. pi tal at t. Louis, Jan. 19. The that he wa chosen as a member of Lewisburg is indebted to Dr. Telford funeral was in St. Louis, his home. the debating team. Before he left for these outstanding benefits. H e wa forty-five year old and for college he was the most popular and Dr. Telford accepted a call to the u ~ eful member of the student-body. fourteen year wa connected with F irst Presbyterian Church of Rich­ I never knew a student who was a the helly Printing Co., of which he mond, Ky., where for over twenty friend and confidential adviser of so was ecretary. si ter, Mr . E. F . years he ministered to the people of many of hi fellow students. Collin of Crown Point, Ind., sur­ this fine Kentucky city. Here, as in o eager was he to take up his vive . Lewisburg, he developed into a com­ profession, the Gospel ministry, that Olaf Steen munity leader, where he wa loved B~tta-LambJa he went to Union Seminary before and revered by people of all denomi­ Olaf teen, B eta-Lambda, was hi graduation in coll ege and there, nation . killed early on Feb. 3 in an auto­ al o, he soon became an outstanding ·when the Master call ed Robert mobile accident in St. Louis. He was leader and on his graduation was con­ twenty-three year old, a senior in the sidered the best preacher in his class. Lee Telford into His presence, I academic department of Wa hington In his la t year in College it was veril y beli eve He call ed one who most University, and had planned to enter my weet privilege to introduce him perfectly exemplified in hi s life those the medical chool next autumn. to Mi s . .-\nna Boone Brown of Mal­ trait of Christian Love which Paul, Among four youth injured in the den , \\'. Va., whom he married in in hi s great 13th chapter of Corin­ arne accident were hi brother, Ed­ ctober of the year he graduated in thian , gave as the distingui hing ward teen, not a member of the the Seminary. She became hi in­ marks of the perfect Christian: long- fraternity, and Joseph Bozalin, B eta­ piration and help-meet through all offeri ng, kindness, generosity, hu­ Lambda. They were cut and brui eel . the fruitful year that have pa se I mility, courtesy. unselfishness, self­ The party wa returning from a ince then. control, forgetfulness, sincerity and dance when their edan, driven by Hi fir t call wa from the Old great heartedness.

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