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Ericli J. SL air, Founder of I H I IA IA f

Volume XLIV Number I

The Ifirir A IR ol TIIETA TAEI

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VOLUME XLIV NUMBER I Tketa I au Fraternity' Founded at the University of Minnesota October 1 5, /904 FOUNDERS E rich J. Schrader Isaac B. H anks W . Murray Lewis E lwin L. V inal ,— EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Jamison Vawter, Zeti ’1 6 ...... Gr^«d 307 Civil Engineering H all, University of Illinois, Urbana, III. A. D. H in c k le y , Theta ’2 7 ...... Grand Vice Repent . 90 Morningside Dr., New York 27, N. Y. Erich J. Schrader, Alpha’O S ...... GrandScribe Box 244, Reno, Nevada Paul Mercer, Omicron ’2 1 ...... Grand Treasurer 141S Grand Ave., Keokuk, Iowa J. M. Daniels, Nu Honorary ’2 2 Grand Marshal Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Nick Trbovich, Phi ’3 7 ...... Grand Inner Guard 4225 Ivy St., East Chicago, Ind. R o b e rt L. N o x o n , Sigma ’4 9...... Grand Outer Guard 3214 N. Priscilla Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. DELEGATE AT LARGE D. D. Curtis, Omicron Honorary ’19 . . . Past Grand Regent Clemson, S.C. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU P. L. M ercer, Omicron ’21 and J. W . H ow e, Omicron ’24 . . . . Editors Engineering Building, Iowa City, Iowa Letters for members of the Council should be addressed to the individual by name. ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS AND CLUBS Central Ohio — Chicago— A . T. Swanson, 99 Ash St., Park Forest, 111. Cleveland— James R. McKinney, 715 Union Bldg., Cleveland IS, Ohio Detroit—Charles Greening, 4661 Gray, Detroit 15, Mich. Intermountain — E. J. W atts, P. O. Box 403, Salt Lake City, Utah Kansas City— Robert W . Elliott, 4922 W . 78th PI., Prairie Villiage IS, Kans. Los Angeles—Ben E. Gumpertz, 5715 Sunnyslope, Van Nuys, Calif. National Capitol— Charles F. Myers, 106 N. George Mason Dr., Arlington, Va. Northwestern— Geo. T. Hanson, P. O. Box # 2 9 4 , Columbia Falls, Mont. ' Tw in C ity —Alex Kovalchuk, 1468 Furness St., St. Paul 6, Minn. Southwestern— Robert L. Houston, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Louisville Alum ni Club—c /o Theta Tau, 2022 S. First St., Louisville, Ky. Fort Wayne A lum ni Club— Robt. J. W inner, 1635 Broadway, Ft. Wayne 2, Ind. MEMBERS OF T H E PROFESSIONAL INTERFRATERNITY CONFERENCE ARCHITECTURE, Alphi Rho Chi. Alpha Zcta. CHEMISTRY, Alpha Chi Sigma. COMMERCE. Alpha Kappa Psi. Delia Sigma Pi. DENTISTRY, Della Sigma Della. Phi Lambda Kappa Psi Omega Xi Psi Phi. EDUCATION, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Della Kappa’ Phi Epsilon Kappa, Phi Sigma Pi. ENGINEERING, Thela Tm! Sigma Phi Delia. JOURNALISM, Sigma Della Phi. LAW, Gamma Eia Gamma, Delta Then Phi. Phi Alpha Della, Phi Bela Gamma. Sigma Delia Kappa. MEDICINE, Alpha Kappa Kappa Nu Sigma No. Phi Bela Pi, Phi Chi, Phi Delta Epsilon. Phi Lambda Kappa Phi Rho Sigma. Theia Kappa Psi. PHARMACY. Kappa Psi. Chapters

A l ph a , Founded October 1 5, 1904 - University of Minnesota (Chapter house) 324 W alnut St., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Beta , Established March 26, 1906 - Michigan College of Mining and Tech. (Chapter house) 1405 College Ave., Houghton, Michigan G amma , Established November 8, 1907 - - - Colorado School of Mines c /o Prof. George W . Lemaire, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, Colo. D elta , Established May 23, 1911 ----- Case Institute of Technology Theta Tau Box, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio Epsilon , Established May 4, 1911 - - ...... University of California Theta Tau Box, Hearst Mining Bldg., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, Calif. Z e ta , Established April 17, 1912 - ...... University of Kansas (Chapter house) 1602 Louisiana Street, Lawrence, Kansas T h eta , Established May 26, 1914 ------Columbia University c/o Prof. Howard Vreeland, Col. of Eng., Columbia University, New York City Iota , Established February I, 1916 ------Missouri School of Mines c /o Prof. J. B. Butler, Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Mo. Lambda , Established April 29, 1920 ------University of Utah c /o Preston Linford, College of Engineering, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City Mu, Established January 3, 1922 ...... University of Alabama P. O. Box 2043, University Alabama Xl1 Established January I ) , 1 9 2 ) ...... University of Wisconsin c /o Prof. H . A. Peterson, Dept, of Elec. Engr., Univ. of Wis., Madison, Wis. O micron , Established February 3, 192) - - - - State University of Iowa Theta Tau Box, Engineering Building, Iowa City, Iowa Pi, Established May 26, 1 9 2 ) University of Virginia c /o Prof. Lawrence Quarles, Col. of Engr., Univ. of Virginia, University, Va. R ho, Established February 16, 1924 - N. C. State College of Ag. and Eng. c/o Prof. T. C. Brown, M.E. Dept., N . C. State College, Raleigh, N. C. Sigma , Established November 29, 1924 ----- Ohio State University (Chapter House) 1946 Indianola Avenue, Columbus, Ohio T a u 1 Established December 12, 1 9 2 ) ...... - - Syracuse University Iheta Iau Fraternity, Col. of Eng., Bldg. 6, Syracuse U., Syracuse 10, N.Y. Upsilon , Established April 7, 1928 ------University of Arkansas (Chapter House) 612 Storrer St., Fayetteville, Arkansas Ph i , Established April 21, 1928 - - ...... Purdue University (Chapter house) 416 North Chauncey, West Lafayette, Indiana C h i , Established April 2 ), 1 9 ) 0 ...... University of Arizona Theta Tau Box1Engineering Bldg., University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Psi, Established May 7, 1 9 ) 2 ...... Montana School of Mines Theta Tau Fraternity, Care of Montana School of Mines, Butte, Montana O mega , Established March 26, 19)2 ----- S. Dakota School of Mines (Chapter house) 107 Kansas City St., Rapid City, S. Dak. Gamma Beta, Established March 16, 19) 5 - George Washington University Student Union Office Bldg., George Washington Univ., Washington, D. C. Delta Beta, Established May 20, 19)9 - - - - University of Louisville (Chapter house) 2022 S. First St., Louisville, Ky. EpsrLON B eta, Established May, 19, 19)1 ------Wayne University c/o Prof. Harold G. Donnelly, College of Engr., Wayne Univ., Detroit, Mich. Qoiden Anniuetia>u). Conoantian of Theta Tau Fraternity

D yckman H otel Minneapolis , Minnesota October 14 - October 16, 1954

OCTOBER 13 - WEDNESDAY *8:00 p.m. Pre-Convention Open House to Twin City Alumni OCTOBER 14 - THURSDAY *9:00 a.m. Opening session of Convention *1:30 p.m. BusinessSession OCTOBER 15 - FRIDAY •m. Business Session '.m. Business Session i.m. Initiation i.m. Banquet OCTOBER 16 - SATURDAY *9:00 a.m. Closing session of Convention Election of National Officers Installation of National Officers Indroduction of prominent Alumni Closing ceremony ■m. Luncheon - Executive Council and Alumni .m. Football game - Minnesota vs Illinois •m. Buffet style dinner

stricted to Theta Tau members only; all other events are open to wives and guests.

Goette to M ituteafioliA. O clalet 14-16 att

One of the interesting features of the Golden Anniversary ban­ quet will be the presentation of a "loyalty" candle, dedicated to our Alumni everywhere. This candle will be lighted at 7:00 p.m. on October 15 th at the banquet which will be held at the Dyckman Hotel, Minneapolis. Active chapters and Alumni Associations will also light their candles at their local Founders’ Day dinners. Theta Tau Alumni everywhere are urged to meet for dinner at that time and send a communication to the national convention banquet. Let’s make it Theta Tau night all over the world! Founders of Fheta 7 au

Ericln J . Shrader, Foun Jer = R ollN o. , Is "Mr. Theta Tau" THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Erich Julius Schrader was born in Board for many years and served as Bremen, Germany, on June 24, 1881. Chairman of the Nevada Delegation Five years later he came to this coun­ to the Western Conference of State try with his parents and grew up in Mining Boards in 1944. His profes­ the Twin Cities of Minnesota, attend­ sional activities include the prepara­ ing schools both in Minneapolis and St. tion of many technical articles for Paul. Later he entered the University publication. of Minnesota to study mining engi­ The founder of Theta Tau has work­ neering and during his student days ed continuously and diligently for the evolved the idea of an engineering good of the Fraternity for fifty years. fraternity based upon common pro­ In this time he not only conceived the fessional interests. His enthusiasm led idea of a professional brotherhood but to the founding of a local engineering wrote an excellent ritual as well as a fraternity which was destined to de­ constitution and bylaws. Although velop into a major professional fra­ these have been revised through the ternity. years— often at his suggestion— they Brother Schrader received his degree have remained essentially as he origin­ in mining enginering in 190S and ally wrote them. Despite his great in­ started work as an engineer helper, terest in these documents, Erich has assayer, chemist, etc. at the then stan­ always welcomed constructive sug­ dard salary of $75 per month. For gestions. seven years he held various positions From 1906 to 1911 he was National in the United States and Mexico, but Chairman and from 1911 to 1919 the was run out of Mexico in the fall of first Grand Regent. For the past 1911 because of the revolution there. thirty-five years he has devoted his His background of experience and time and energy to the duties of Grand ability found him well fitted for his Scribe, and when in 1948 the Biennial next position as General Manager of Convention created the position of the Rockland Mine in Nevada. He was Executive Secretary, Erich J. Schrader in charge of reopening it and equip­ was unanimously chosen to take over ping it with a cyanide plant. those duties in addition to the work From 1918 to 1921 he was General he does so ably as Grand Scribe. Manager of the Spanish Belt Mine in Brother Schrader is famous for his Tonopah, Nevada, and from 1922 to prodigious memory of Theta Taus. He 1928 did consulting work for the knows thousands of them by name and Hammon Engineering Company and his continued interest in the Fraternity the Tonopah Mining Company of includes each new group of pledges Nevada. The next year he served as and initiates. He sends out thousands General Superintendent of Gold Circle of letters each year without stenogra­ Consolidated in Midas, Nevada. In phic help, asking only that they be 1931 he opened offices as a consulting answered within a reasonable length mining engineer in Reno, Nevada, and of time. His long and active back­ still continues with that work. ground of experience and service to Brother Schrader was a member of the fraternity is second to none. Erich the Nevada State Mining Advisory Schrader is truly "Mr. Theta Tau.” THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Elwin L. V inal, Founder = R o l l N o . 2 A n Bxciting and Unusual Career

Founder E. L. Vinal was born April long out of school who loved the 2, 1886 in the historic old city of New wilderness. It was wild at that time Bedford, Mass. Later he prepared to with some spots known never to have attend M.I.T. but persuasions of rela­ previously been explored by white men. tives in Minneapolis coupled with About this period Brother Vinal has "Western Fever” found him a green Mining freshman at Minnesota in the You arc surrounded by wild life. I have fall of 1903. In his mid-sophomore n of one morning having year, he transferred to Colorado School zupancy of a spot on the of Mines at Golden. Three others, of beach by a little family of Kodiak bears before I could set whom Murray Lewis was one, joined up the plane tabl c. Believe me, that was a in the move. The change proved ad­ ence; but we occupied the vantageous except as to time because a gun in our gear, but of certain conflicts in courses and pre­ fortunately no onie was near enough to get requisite rules newly adopted by the it. Its use would have been suicide. T hat season, besides taking part in A t the end of his senior year Brother establishing a m lajor triangulation net- Vinal went out into the cruel world work and coveting over 500 sq. miles with some unfinished work (which of hydrography, he personally mapped would have required at least another 203 miles of shoreline with contiguous year) and no degree. The missing links topography, a record for the service were supplied later, at least as far as up to that time. Two years later Mt. was needed, through study and ex­ Katmai blew its head off, created the perience. His first job was assayer at Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, the Sedalia Mill of Shawmut Consoli­ buried much of the area with an in­ dated Copper Co. in Colorado. A few credible volume of volcanic material, months later the bottom dropped out mostly ash, filled some of the water­ of the copper market and the job fold­ ways and altered much of the shore ed up, just as he received a telegram line. It was necessary to rechart much from Washington, D. C. offering an appointment in the U.S. Coast & A t the close of the season, orders Geodetic Survey (which was Civil were waiting for Brother Vinal to go Service al: that time) . He had taken to the Philippines. Taking annual leave, the exam ; in school and he sailed to San Francisco to meet his forgottenall about it. Now it came as boyhood sweetheart who had come not only a surprise bi it a life saver. across country for the purpose. They A fter s;ame months in Washington were married in Berkeley (November and field work on theEascCoast from 1908) and returned to Seattle for a Cape Cod to Baltimore, he was ordered honeymoon and a job hunt before his to the Pacific Coast for service in leave was up. The Philippines didn’t Alaska. T hat year ( 1908) proved to look as attractive as the idea had ten be most interesting to a young man not months earlier. Seattle looked good to g THE GEAR OF T H ETA TAU

them—a beautiful young city, grow­ ing rapidly with development every­ A friend, another Mining Engineer, where, including a remaking of the operated a custom assay office in an adjoining building. He was frequently position for the following year. called out on examinations and, at A fter resigning from rhe C. & G.S., these times, Brother Vinal ran the of­ he joined the staff of the Seattle Elec­ fice for him. This enabled him to run, tric Co. as a civil engineer. The Seattle at any time he wished, the samples tak­ Electric was a Stone & Webster enter­ en on his own work— a very satisfac­ prise which owned the street railway tory arrangement. One foray kept him system. It was there he designed his in Alaska about nine months, mostly first bridge and laid out about 2 5 in Juneau, and included an examination miles of the streetcar lines. He de­ and report for eastern people on a signed the terminals at the exposition property which later became an im­ grounds (Alaska-Yukon-Pacific) and portant unit of the Alaska-Juneau various other things, among which Mine. was a successful safety device for the He had considerable work in con­ famous counter-balance system for nection with State of Washington enabling the big double-truck cars to coal properties prior to W orld W ar I. travel up and down the face of A fter the war, he was resident Engi­ Queen Anne Hill, traversing grades neer for Western Coke & Collieries in from 10 to 27 percent, a route which opening and developing a coal proper­ the automobiles of that day, and until ty east of Seattle. There were nine coal several years later, could not negotiate seams, of which they were opening in low gear. five. One of these carried an excellent In 1909, he established a home on coking coal. They built fifty-tw o coke Mercer Island in Lake Washington ovens and most of the outside struc­ W1Itich borders Seattle on the East, and tures, including an aerial tram with that has been "home plate” for him over 11,000 ft. of track cable, the ever since, although he spent quite a two terminals and four hill-top towers. number of years in interm ittent periods He resigned this job in 1920 to take in ocher sections as his business re­ over a sizable real estate development quired. in Bend, Oregon. Late in 1910 Brother Vinal resigned This was his personal project, taken from the Seattle Electric Co. and dived over with the help of some associates, into the maelstrom by hanging out and it called for a family move. The his shingle as a free lance Mining and Mercer Island home was rented (and Civil Engineer. From then until 1941, later sold) and residence taken up in he was on his own with the usual Bend where he found himself in the transitions from feast to famine and real estate business, spreading into back again. Assignments ranged into building and contracting, real es­ the various mining districts from cen­ tate brokerage, insurance, mortgages, tral California to Alaska and some in savings & loan, property manage­ Idaho and Montana. They covered ex­ ment, etc. He built homes, streets, aminations, geology, prospecting, ex­ and parks; and installed utilities on ploration, development, and operation, the properties. He was an officer and mostly in gold and silver w ith some active manager of three corporations, a member of two school boards, and wat ipply from the nearby moun- the W ater Board which developed and tair give it the finest water in the brought into the city a new spring-fed We without treatment and only THE GEAR OF THETA TAU chlorination for two months in the all too brief as Brother Schrader had spring when the snow is melting. The to return the same day and no adequate population of Bend tripled during this celebration was possible. period and he was beginning to cash In 1940 Brother Vinal returned to in on his labors. The project was partly Alaska. A fter a rather extensive ex­ financed in the East and in Seattle, as amination on the Cleveland Peninsula well as locally, and, as the 20’s passed not far from Ketchikan, the next so­ out in a welter of bank failures capped journ was at the famous Independence by the depression, so did he. Mine, the second largest gold producer Finding himself in the position of in Alaska (owned by Alaska-Pacific having to start over again. Brother Cons.) There he made a topographic Vinal and his family returned to home survey to superimpose the surface on port on Mercer Island where they the underground workings. He had settled on a wild undeveloped water­ designed a sorting plant for the mine front tract purchased before he left earlier in the season. In September ten years previously. In the face of construction was going on and equip­ other wreckage, this he had managed ment arriving over the snow. He stay­ to keep intact. ed to see it closed in and directed and From a tent pitched on the beach, helped with the installation up to with a bucket and the lake for a water about 70% of completion; the snow supply, he now has a well-developed at camp was then about eight place and a comfortable, fully-equip­ feet, although still light at the lower ped home w ith about 2800 sq. ft. of elevations at Matanuska and Anchor­ floor space. About 90% of the con­ age. He left for home, arriving two struction and landscaping has been days before Christmas. done with his own hands over the H e was invited to return in the years. He calls it a hobby. spring, but about that time his wife Gradually he was able to rebuild a stepped in. She pointed out that he mining practice and, in a few years, had been away from home about nine he opened a small consulting office. months or more of each of the pre­ It was part of a suite occupied by a ceding seven years, and urged him to lawyer where he could have secretarial get into something that would enable service to keep in touch while he was him to keep the home fires burning away on assignmnts. In the late 30’s and be seen on the door-step once in he had five mines under guidance in a while. That suited him, so he joined northern California west of Redding, the engineering staff of The Austin in three of which he was personally Co. as a design Civil Engineer. interested. In 1939 he was doing geo­ The company was very busy under logical work, mapping and prospecting its C ontract #4210 which covered on the old Vermont Mine in the French both engineering and construction of Gulch District. He was working along Naval Shore Establishments in the 13 th and ''baching” in a cabin built in Naval District. After Pearl Harbor, 1878 at the head of Slaughterhouse the work carried on with feverish in­ Gulch on the Deadwood Divide. That tensity, days, nights, and Sundays. For was where Erich Schrader visited him. some time, all windows were blacked It was a happy reunion, the first since out with light-tight plywood panels, college, in an appropriate setting, but always after dusk and even in day­ THE GEAR OF THETA TAU light for several weeks. They were Brother Vinal has been with Naval also air-tight, with no special means engineering for thirteen years now, of ventilation. The contract was over ten with the Navy itself. There is wound up in 1943 and the force was enough of the work in sight to keep largely disbanded. However, the Navy a lot of men busy for another ten itself was assembling a civilian en­ years, so it looks as if he were anchored gineering staff at the 13 th Naval Dis­ until the time comes to retire. Having tric t Headquarters in Seattle and nearly reached the goal twice, only to Brother Vinal was urged to join it. stub his toe and start again, it looks So October 1943 found him back as if the third time might be com- in government Civil Service which he had left thirty-five years before, only He is a charter member and one of this time in the Navy (Public Works- the organizers of the Engineers Club Design Division) as a Civil Engineer. in Seattle (about 1910) although he The 13 th District covers Washington, is not now a member. He joined the Oregon, Idaho and Montana with a Loyal Order of Moose while in Alaska scope of activities broad and varied and the B.P.O. Elks in Bend, Oregon. enough to tax the ingenuity and satis­ While there, he was one of the com­ fy the desires of almost any engineer. mittee which reorganized the Chamber It handles the engineering for all the of Commerce. He also organized the establishments in the District, although Deschutes County Realty Board and the larger ones have local staffs to was vice-president when he left there. serve the resident requirements and He is a member of the Mercer Island details. Community Club and, a few years ago, The list of establishments is long helped organize, and is a charter mem­ (several hundred). Brother Vinal per­ ber of, the Mercer Island Chamber of sonally has a hand in some phase of Commerce. He is an Episcopalian but practically all of them. He has re­ says he does not work very hard at it. cently had a number of projects in Brother Vinal considers his best connection with the new Naval Radio achievement is his family. He has a Station near Arlington, Wash., known "very wonderful” wife and four as Jim Creek, or "Big Jim” , the children— a son and three daughters. largest installation of its kind in the AU attended the University of Wash­ world. The transmitter building in ington. He has fourteen grand­ the canyon below is crammed with children. His daughters all live on equipment which Brother Vinal says Mercer Island and their husbands are would "make Buck Rogers’ mouth successful. Two are lawyers and the water”. Some of it has never been other an engineer. used anywhere. W ork was started on His son is a graduate Aeronautical this project in 1947. Although some Engineer, got his early flying training construction is still going on, the in the Navy, and has been with Pan- station was put in commission last American Airways for about twenty fall. As part of the ceremony, mes­ years. During the war, he pioneered sages were broadcast direct to and re­ the routes from South America across ceived from ships in the Mediterranean, Africa to Egypt and over to India. He the Artie, South America, Australia, flew one of the planes which took Okinawa, and South Africa. Roosevelt to Casablanca and back. He 12 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

is Capt. Richard W . Vinal and now scene was the tower bedroom occupied by Asst. Chief Pilot Technical of the Erich and myself in Mrs. Parr's boarding Latin-American Division of Pan house. It was shortly after this that Murray American W orld Airways. Brother Vinal writes, I am sure the early days of the Frater­ social frais had been started, neither in nity have long since been adequately cover­ very good repute locally at the lime, and ed by Erich Schrader far better than I were having hard sledding. Wc were so could. You see, Erich and I roomed to-

Murray Lewis and I had paired as fresh­ men. Ike Hanks was a friend of all of us. together a small group of good fellows, most of whom returned to school the fol- plans for starting a professional fraternity, one which would choose its members on

fraternal connections (or lack of them) which they might have at the time. Erich was the one who was the prime mover and chief planner. Even then, he had a special penchant for such things which, lhe original pins stolen from me, so haven't through the years, has grown, blossomed ownea one for many years.) I have oc­ and fruited to the everlasting benefit of casionally met one of the brothers, always the Fraternity and all connected with it. t the Ie memory of people, names and

shall I, initiate was Ralph Edgerton. The

/V turray L ewis, Founder = R o l l N o . 3 Became P resident o f Payne Organization

The following account of Founder company, Layne & Bowler, Inc. of W . M. Lewis’ business career is typical Memphis, Tennessee is a m anufactur­ of many graduates in engineering ing unit and produces the pumps, well specialties who follow their best op­ screens, casings, and other materials portunities and drift away from the and equipment for export. The other specific engineering field in which companies in the organization form they are educated. their market for distribution of their For the past thirty years, he has products and cooperate with the been associated w ith the Layne Organi­ United States Geological Survey and zation— a national and international numerous state bureaus in making group of companies who are specialists available technical data developed. in Ground Water Engineering and Brother Lewis’ activities have been production. They have a unique posi­ with Layne New York Co. who operate tion in this field in that the parent in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. to retire but is approaching that He has held all tides from sales engi­ neer to president in a span of thirty From the array of jobs he held in years, beginning in 1924. A t present the past, prior to his present and per­ he is beginning to slow down and take manent affiliation, each job provided a less active part. He is not ready yet a unique experience and contributed 14 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

something of permanent value— having acquired a family, he decided several were purely "experience jobs." to settle down in some business that His first job was on a survey crew would permit a permanent home. He in the Mesabi Rouge Iron section of had several jobs in the export field in Minnesota. N ext he spent the summer New York and finally joined the of 1903 in a placer mining camp in Layne Organization in 1924 when they Nome, Alaska. opened up their eastern territory. Brother Lewis worked in mines and Brother Lewis writes, mills in Colorado, Arizona, and I am very proud to be a member of Nevada during vacations and after graduation. Immediately after gradu­ ration—others must be credited for its ation he spent one year in Guanajuato, development into a prominent engineering Mexico on a silver project. fraternity. In 1911, due primarily to a re­ I always believed that its future lay in cession in the industry, he joined the though it began as a local mining engi­ Stone and Webster Engineering O r­ neering chapter at the University of Minnc- ganization and worked on construc­ tion projects for several years in representation in leading engineering schools Minnesota, Iowa, New England, and My heartiest congratulatons to Theta Canada. Then having married and

Isaac B. I- Ian!

Brother Isaac B. Hanks was grad­ distribution. In 191S he organized uated from the University of Minne­ I. B. Hanks and Associates, Business sota in 1907 and became Secrctary- Counselors. Treasurer of Northwest Milling Com­ From 1917 to 1918 Brother Hanks pany, Little Falls, Minnesota. From had a special assignment with the 1908 through 1913 he was engaged federal government as an "Expert in in the installation and operation of Business Administration” in connection retail lumber yards in N orth Dakota with the war effort. and Montana, later doing the same A t the present time he is engaged in kind of work in Manitoba, Saskatche­ the manufacture and distribution of wan, and Alberta, Canada. During lumber. He is a member of the social this period he also bought and sold fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, and lives grain. in Spokane, Washington. In 1914 he reorganized a flour Brother Hanks has writtten, milling operation in Alberta, Canada. Loaking back to the early days of our In November of that year Brother Fraternity, my outstanding impression is Hanks was retained by the federal government to make a survey and its members; the care with which, under the wise counsel of Uruther Schrader, each study the problems of the lumber in­ dustry concerning national supply and of the background and character of each man suggested as a possible prospective

.as the watchword. The

ully justified the faith, and Grand Kegents o/ Tketa Tau

Ericli J . Sliracier, F irst Cj rand Recent

the first Grand Regent of Theta Tau and remained at the helm until 1919 when the Fraternity was founded and when he began his long service as held the position by mutual agreement Grand Scribe. until the first National Convention Brother Schrader’s biography ap­ in 1911. A t this convention he was pears on page 5.

Oeorge W . Louderkack, Founder o f Epsilon, As one of the petitioning group, Louderback was chairman of the George W. Louderback was initiated faculty budget committee, member of as a charter member at the installation the Engineering Council, and chairman of Epsilon Chapter by Erich Schrader of the Department of Geological on May 4, 1911. A t that time Brother Sciences. In 1928 he served on a State LouderBack was Associate Professor of commission to determine the cause of Geology at the University of Califor­ the failure of St. Francis Dam, and nia. In 1914-16 he led a geological has served on a number of State and expedition which included four mem­ other consulting boards in connection bers of Epsilon. First they w ent into with problems in engineering geology. north China for the Standard Oil Co. He served again as dean of the College of New York, then into Szechuan pro­ of Letters and Science from 1930 vince for the Chinese government, and through 1939. He was elected Faculty finally to Cebu Island, Philippine Research Lecturer for 1939-40, and Islands, for Standard Oil. received an honorary LL.D. degree at In 1917 he became Professor of California in 1946. He became Pro­ Geology. During the first world war, fessor Emeritus in 1944. he was chairman of the committee on During world war II Brother Lou- geology and mineral resources of the derback was chairman of the Emergen­ State Council of Defense, 1917-19, cy Executive Committee at the Uni­ and in charge of the cooperative War versity of California and was chairman Mineral Investigation in California of the Kensington civilian defense (1918-19) for the U. S. Bureau of council. He served on the Advisory Mines, U. S. Geological Survey, and Administrative Board for Santa Bar­ State Council of Defense. He main­ bara College, 1944-52. tained several parties in the field He has written scientific publica­ manned by Theta Taus. In 1920 he ac­ tions on structural and stratigraphic cepted the deanship of the College of geology, mineralogy, faults and earth­ Letters and Science in order to re­ quakes, physical conditions and geo­ organize the rules and curriculum, and logical history of San Francisco Bay, when this was accomplished and oper­ and engineering geology. ating successfully, he resigned in Brother Louderback is a member of 1922. the following scientific and technical For a number of years Brother societies: Geol. Soc. of Am. (vice­ THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 17

president 1936; secretary, Cordilleran portant professional engineering fraternity, Section, 1906-11— chairman 1919- and during the following two years locals 22) ; Seismological Soc. of Am. (secre­ at fifteen institutions entered into cor­ respondence with our Fraternity with re­ tary 1906-10, president 1914 and gard to rhe possibility of obtaining char­ 1929-33, editor of bulletin 1935 to ters. The majority of these institutions date); A.I.M .M.E.; Am. Mineralogi- cal Soc.; Soc of Economic Gcol. (vice- viewpoint and worthy of having chapters president 1939); Am. Assoc, of Petrol. of Theta Tau. But the chapters hesitated to act because of the lack of a definite

Geologists; A. G. U.; Am. Geographi­ tional policy of expansion. The feeling cal Soc.; Calif, and Wash. Academies o f Sciences; and Am. Assoc, for the Advancement of Science. rite some other fraternity to cultivate Brother Louderback writes: d perhaps take the leadership a head at

authorized). Even at that lime Theta Tau was generally recognized as the most im- THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

During my tenure of office ( nine new chapters were installed: Lambda. interested fa­ Mu, Nu, Xi1 Omicron. Pi, Rho. Sigma, culty members led to a through and and Tau, at the first five of which I

was much discussion, to the benefit of all chapters, of the fundamental and honor society (sometimes called fraternity), or the social fraternity. The most extreme case that arose was that of a chapter The n a I

damage to our fraternity: choice of mem­ bers was practically confined to freshmen ing to talk over their experiences and problems. Convention attendance is a and the exclusion of those found to be excellent men in their later years because representatives and where fraternal spirit and devotion to the welfare of Theta Tau lift t

J . Sidney AA arine, Former brand Regent O ffers a Coc/a for Voting M e J. Sidney Marine was initiated at was absent from the next Convention Eta Chapter, Massachusetts Institute at Ohio State; consequently Sidney of Technology, in 1917. In June of Marine presided and was elected Grand that year he left to join the Air Ser­ Regent. vice, and served in France in W orld There followed a most interesting W ar I. period— field trips to various colleges; After the war he returned to MIT the reorganization of Theta Chapter and graduated in 1921. During those at Columbia, which had become de­ postwar years he was Regent of Eta funct during the war; the lifting of Chapter and delegate to the convention Eta’s charter at MTT; the installation at Case in Cleveland, where he first of Rho Chapter at N. C. State in met Brothers Schrader, Vawter, Hop­ 1924, with the help of Past Grand kins, and others of the Council. Regent Fred Coffman; the attendance On graduation. Brother Marine en­ in Washington, D. C., as Theta Tau’s tered the building stone sales business representative, at the formation of the in New York City. It was about a Professional Interfraternity Confer­ year later that the Convention at ence; and correspondence in all direc­ Kansas City elected him Grand Vice- tions. It was a fruitful and rewarding Regent. Grand Regent Louderback THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

At the next Convention at Iowa, local high school students. From this Richard Russell was elected to suc­ has grown a very satisfactory tutoring ceed Brother Marine as Grand Regent. business. Meanwhile his only child, a Thereafter Brother Marine’s affairs son, grew up, graduated from Yale, followed along lines of business and served as an officer in the Navy in

family activity. He moved to West- the Pacific, and gave him two little Chester County (N .Y .) and progressed granddaughters. (Brother Marine cites in general until hit by the depression this as an indirect accomplishment.) in 1932. In the attem pt to ride out During the Second World W ar he this storm, he engaged in tutoring helped on a Navy project in Florida— 20 THE GEAR OF THETA TAb

the writing of a training manual and a textbook on air bombing, an experi­ ence he found most interesting. He also did much substitute teaching at the Scarsdale, N.Y., High School. Brother Marine has written, 4. That they apply the golden rule always. J. That they cultivate an attitude of mind to live constantly in the expec­ tancy of good. brothers, but I would suggest the follow­ 6. And that they never lose sight of the ing thoughts for their consideration: value and power of things of the spirit. Greetings and best wishes to all.

Ricliarcl J . Russell Former GranfJR e3Cntl N ow W orld Travele Richard J. Russell, Eta '19, Grand author of several books. He served as Regent from 1928 to 1932, is now a member of the Executive Committee Dean of the Graduate School, Louisi­ of the Geological Society of America, ana State University. His Ph.D. degree 1950-1952; as president of the Associa­ was earned in structural geology in tion of American Geographers, 1948; 1926 at the University of California, as a civilian member of the Committee under George D. Louderback, Grand on Geophysics of the Research and Regent from 1920 to 1926. A fter serv­ Development Board of the U. S. De­ ing two years as Associate Professor of partment of Defense, 1948-1953; and Geology at Texas Technological Col­today is a member of the Earth Science lege, Brother Russell accepted an ap­ Panel of the National Science Founda­ pointment at L.S.U. in 1928, where he tion, and chairman-designate of the rose through the various academic Earth Science Division of the National ranks. He was Assistant Director of Research Council. the School of Geology while Brother Brother Russell has spent much H enry V. Howe, Eta ’19, was serving time abroad. In addition to attending as Dean of the College of Arts and international congresses in Paris, 1931; Science. He attained his present posi­ Moscow, 1937; Amsterdam, 1938; tion in 1949. London, 1948; and Algiers, 1952, he In the environment of Louisiana it made a detailed study of the Rhone was natural that Brother Russell Delta in 1938, of silts in Belgium in turned from the "hard-rock” of the 1948, and spent several months in Far West to problems of rivers and 1952 studying the coast of French coastal marshes. Today he is one of Morocco and the rivers of Asiatic the Directors of the International As­ Turkey. In 1948 he was made an sociation of Sedimentologists and one honorary member of the Belgium of five members of the International Society of Geology, Paleontology, and Commission on Coastal Sedimentation. Hydrology, and for some years pre­ He has published more than seventy- viously served as Associate Editor for five scientific articles, and is co­ N orth America of a German periodical, THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 21 the Geology o f Oceanic and Inland Contrasts tended to arise between Waters. He has held visiting faculty chapters in those days; house versus appointments at the universities of non-house, and mining versus engineer­ G hent and Istanbul. ing without mining and geological in­ For many years Brother Russell at­ terests; but there was little to stand in

tended Theta Tau Conventions, first the way of a real union at times of as a chapter delegate, then as Grand Conventions. The delegates were typi­ Marshal, Grand Regent, and as a cally outstanding men and several visitor. As Grand Marshal he designed days and nights of hard work cemented and issued the first five thousand many fine friendships. It was felt membership "shingles”, and designed desirable to formalize an effective pro­ the robes used by chapter officers. gram of chapter visitations and to 22 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

place particular emphasis on desirable Southern Graduate Schools and being chapter activities, to strengthen some General Chairman for the meetings of the less active groups, and even to of the Geological Society of America revoke a couple of charters where in New Orleans in 1955, have diverted local conditions rendered it unwise to Brother Russell from an active partici­ continue chapter organizations. Peti­ pation in Theta Tau activities in re­ tions were being received in large cent years, bu t they have not reduced numbers, but Conventions were very his loyalty or interest in the welfare conservative about approving them. of the Fraternity. He may be re­ The philosophy prevailed generally membered for a vigorous speech a that a smaller fraternity with excellent few years ago at a Chicago Conven­ chapters is more desirable than a larger tion in reaction to arguments on the organization with loose bonds and too membership clause which he felt were many weak links in the chain. Brother Communist inspired. Russell not only visited many of our Throughout the years Brother Rus­ active chapters, but also installed Up- sell has retained the nickname, "Dick,” silon and Chi. He reported on a num ­ whether in circles of University presi­ ber of petitioning groups after looking dents, various groups in Washington, them over on their home campuses. or among his faculty and student col­ Such pressures as having been presi­ leagues in Baton Rouge. dent of the Conference of Deans of

Fred Coff man, Grand Recent, ip31=35 Kn iflentoriam

Fred Coffman, the fifth Grand Regent of Theta Tau, served the Fra­ ternity consecutively from 1925 to 1937. He began this period of service in 192 5 when he had one term as Grand Outer Guard. At the end of the biennium he was elected Grand Vice- Rcgent and held that position from 1927 through 1931. In 1931 he was elected Grand Regent of the Frater­ nity and served two terms, 1931-1935, following which he remained on the Executive Council for another bien­ nium, terminating his service in 1937. Brother Coffman was born in Springville, U tah on March 24, 1894, and later attended the University of Utah for three years. There he joined the U-Tech Club which was later to become Lambda Chapter of Theta Tau. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

He dropped out of school for five of Utah track team, he developed an years to serve as an assistant con­ early interest in athletics which was struction engineer for the Utah-Idaho later transferred to football—in one Sugar Company. He still wanted his year he attended thirteen games. Rival­ engineering degree, however, and ing his interest in athletics was his therefore spent a year at Leland Stan­ interest in moving pictures— he often ford from which he was graduated in saw three films in one day. 1932 W ith Distinction. In fact, he His interest in fraternities, how­ was allowed to take his examinations ever, was not of the spectator variety, early so that he could sail for Alaska and he gave freely and unselfishly as Chief Draftsman for the Pioneer of his time to help in any Theta Tau Coal Dredging Co. He later associa­ project. He helped install the Rho, ted with a firm of consulting engi­ Sigma, and Gamma Beta Chapters of neers in Charlotte, N. C. and during Theta Tau, visited chapters as a nation­ the Depression years was a field engi­ al officer, and was a hard worker at neer for the W.P.A. in that state. national conventions for more than During the second W orld W ar he a decade. worked in the U. S. Enginer Corps on Brother Coffman met an untimely construction projects and after the death at the age of 57 when he was war went into private construction killed in a construction accident near N orfolk, Virginia, on April 5, 1951. Throughout his life Brother C off­ Although in his active career he held man had three great interests aside many titles, he always preferred to from his business efforts. They were sign his name above the designation sports, moving pictures, and frater­ "No. 32, Lambda Chapter of Theta nities. As a runner on the University T au.”

Hi. H - Hopkins, Cjranc/ Regent, ip35=37 Was AlcmUr of RlomUUron C U H. H. Hopkins was initiated No. 25 Theta Tau and also helped found the in Beta Chapter as an alumnus of the local alumni group of Michigan Tech. Rhombohedron Club. He graduated He has been active in each through from Michigan Tech in 190S with the the years. He served as a chapter of­ degreees of B.S. and E.M. Due to the ficer in college, was Grand Scribe death of his father, he joined the fam­ from 1910 to 1919, was appointed ily firm in Chicago and has been with Acting Grand Vice-Regent during it ever since, handling wholesale the illness of Brother Hall and served building materials. He has served as as Grand Regent from 1935 to 1937. an officer with several business and He later assisted Grand Regent Glass credit associations. He was interested during his absence on war service. He in Y.M.C.A. work during the first participated in the installation of war and served on several industrial Zeta, Sigma, Gamma Beta, and the reactivation of Xi Chapter. "H op” was one of the founders of Brother Hopkins served on the the Chicago Alumni Association of Executive Committee of P.l.C. He 24 TH E GEAR O " TH ETA TAU

served on the Board of Managers of regional meetings were inaugurated Michigan Tech Alumni and as a and the Cope plan for rating chap­ Trustee of Michigan Tech Foundation ters was explored; mail questionnaires in raising funds for a new Union were used for chapter contacts; most Building. He is a member of the of the chapters were inspected; some Episcopalian Church, Masonic bodies, alumni associations were visited; and and service clubs. He married Irene P.l.C. participation was increased. Harper in 1911 and has one son and "H op” is general chairman of the three grandchildren. Golden Anniversary Committee. During his term as Grand Regent,

Jolin A t Daniels, G r a n d R egent, ip35= 37 Mas Served the Fraternity for 20 ^ears John Daniels is a Pennsylvania pro- 1897, educated at the Kiski Prepara- duct from beginning to end. He was tory School graduating in 1917, and at born at Blairsville Intersection, Pa., in the universities of Pennsylvania, Pitts- THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

burgh, and Duquesne, receiving his ant professor and in 1938 was made B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Chairman of Admissions. In turn, he second in 1922 and his Ph.D in Educa­ became acting Director of the Division tion from the latter in 1948. of Student Personnel and Welfare, and, Two years after graduation from in 1944, Acting Dean of Students. college he persuaded a Pennsylvania He has served on the National Board

girl to marry him and like most Ameri­ on College Entrance Examinations, as cans of that period they had a boy Secretary-Treasurer and President of and a girl to round out the family the Middle States Association of Col­ circle. lege Registrars and on several local Aside from work with the Pennsyl­ scholarship committees. vania Railroad during his college years. Brother Daniels began his Executive Brother Daniels has followed an aca­ Council service when he was elected demic career from the start. Beginning Grand O uter Guard in 1931. He held as an instructor in Civil Engineering successively the offices of Grand at Carnegie Tech he became an assist- Inner Guard, Grand Vice Regent, and 26 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

in 1937, Grand Regent. In 1946 he Omicron Delta Kappa; Alpha Phi resigned his position as Delegate at Omega; Masons, Coudcrsport Consis­ Large after fifteen years of service to tory, Syria Temple Shrine; the Edge- the Fraternity. However, in 1949 he wood Club, and serves on the Board was called upon to fill the unexpired of Trustees of the Kiskiminetas term of Brother George Carter as Springs School. Along w ith these avo­ Grand Marshal, and fulfilled the duties cations he finds time for sports and so well that he was elected to that books; and bridge is another pastime position by the 18th Biennial Con­ with which he is more than slightly vention and reelected in December of acquainted. 1952. Fortunately for the Fraternity, John Brother Daniels is active in his pro­ M. Daniels continues to bring his fession and in many other organiza­ ability and administrative experience tions. He is a member of the Am. Soc. to the record-keeping problems of for Engr. Education; Phi Kappa Phi; Theta Tau.

P a st C ra n d R ecen t Russell C . G l ass Keeps Active on A ia n y Fronts Russell G. Glass, Grand Regent He lives at 23401 Chardon Road, from 1939-1946 was one of the Euclid, Ohio, is married, and has founders and a charter member of three children— Janet (Mrs. A. W. Sigma Chapter, Ohio State Univer­ Bluem), Thomas (Lt. j.g. U.S.N.R.), sity. He graduated in Civil Engineer­ and Mary. He also has two grandsons. ing, Class of 1925. Brother Glass reports that his at­ He is now Vice President and Trea­ tendance at the Silver Anniversary surer of Moore & Glass, Inc., Cleve­ Convention at Minneapolis in 1929 land, Ohio, contractors and designers as a delegate of the Central Ohio of steel, timber, and concrete framing Alumni Association stimulated his in­ of buildings. He is a Registered Engi­ terest in the Fraternity. W hen he neer, State of Ohio; a member of the observed first hand the leaders in ac­ Cleveland E ngineering Society; Amer­ tion, including some of the men who ican Institute of Timber Construc­ are today giving their best to the tion; Kiwanis Club (Past President success of Theta Tau, he felt that of Euclid Club and Past Lt. Gover­ they deserved and should have the nor Ohio District, Kiwanis); Phi support of every member. Four years Sigma Kappa; Y.M.C.A. Board; Al later he became Grand O uter Guard Koran Shrine; Euclid Chamber of and in 1939 was elected Grand Re­ Commerce; Pine Ridge Country Club; gent, a position he considers to have Amercan Legion; and the East Shore brought to him the greatest honor he Methodist Church. He is also a Lt. has ever held. Cdr., U.S.N.R.; President of the During the six years previous to Euclid Board of Education; Past Presi­ his election as Grand Regent he had dent of the Professional Interfrater­ the finest of training under Schrader, nity Conference; and a member of the Hopkins, Vawter, Curtis, and Daniels. P.I.C. Executive Board. Under Grand Regent Hopkins he was THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 27

assigned the project of setting up experience he has written, "One little Regional meetings and attended one realizes the size and scope of Theta of the first held as representative of Tau until he has an opportunity to the Executive Council. make such a trip.” It was on this Some highlights of his term as journey that he presided at the Re­ Grand Regent were: gional meeting at Salt Lake City spon­ In 1940 he made a grand tour of sored by Lambda Chapter, and at­ the chapters and a good many Alumni tended an Inter Mountain Alumni Associations, This was without ques­ Association banquet where nearly two tion an education in itself and of the hundred Theta Tau's were in at­ greatest aid in administering the af­ tendance. Everywhere the welcome fairs of the Fraternity. About this mat was out and the appreciation of THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Iiis visit was more than gracious. Brother Glass says about the v.

was rc-elcctcd for another

Only a few of the chapters went in duty in October. From tl them, through N.R.O.T.C.. had thei:

I feel that my association with thi

Regent H. H. Hopkins

ber 194S and Hopkins, who had done an

RaIpI1 W . N usser, G rand Regent, I$>47=48 Is Active Kansas Citian Ralph W. Nusser was born in St. way Department’s Bridge Department Joseph, Missouri on June 6, 1905. a t Topeka, Kansas in 1929. The next After graduating from Central High year he moved to Kansas City and for School in Kansas City, he entered the two years was in the Kansas City Liberal Arts School at the University sales office of the Truscon Steel Co. of Kansas in September of 1922. A fter Then came the Great Depression, so three semesters, he finally decided to he turned to real estate sales and enroll in the Department of Civil property management with the A.P. Engineering of the School of Engi­ Nichols Investment Co. in Kansas neering. City, where he stayed for three years. He was pledged by Zeta Chapter Finally he joined the Sheffield Steel in the late spring of 1924 and his Corporation in August 1935. He initiation took place in March 1925. started in the Engineering Department, He served two consecutive terms of went into the Sales Department in office as Regent of the chapter and 1937, and has represented this com­ held other offices at various times. He pany in the Steel Joist Department was graduated in June 1928 w ith the since 1945. degree of B.S. in Civil Engineering. In 193 5 Brother Schrader wrote Brother Nusser started work as a Ralph Nusser and asked him to in­ draftsman in the Elevated Tank De­ quire about alumni interest in a Kan­ partm ent of the Chicago Bridge and sas City Convention in December Iron Works, Chicago, Illinois. A fter 193 5. W ith the help of many men one year he returned to his native he organized the alumni and they acted state, joining the Kansas State High­ as hosts to an excellent convention in THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 29

the Hotel Newbern. A t this conven­ A t the first convention after World tion he was elected to the office of W ar II he was elected Grand Regent Grand Outer Guard, and at succeed­ (Louisville, 1946) and served in this ing conventions was elected Grand capacity for two years, 1947 and 1948. Inner Guard (Chicago, 1937), Grand Some highlights of his term as Grand Vice-Regent (Chicago, 1939), and in Regent were: Omicron Chapter was December 1941 was reelected to the revived with six men and a Chapter office of Grand Vice-Regent. A t this Adviser, Xi Chapter was rechartered convention he submitted the first at Wisconsin after many years of in­ d raft of the Pledge Manual. After activity, and there was a great influx m uch consideration the manual was of returning G I’s at all the chapters, published, and is still being used. many of them being unusually large THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

during this period. Brother Nusser Brother Nusser is married and the carried on a two-year debate with father of a son, Robert, 20, a sopho­ Brother Doherty at Carnegie. This more at Baker University; and a mar­ period was the beginning of the end ried daughter, Barbara Nusser Hucke. of N u Chapter. He also debated the He is a mason and a Shriner, and also W hite Clause with members of Tau a Methodist. He is Past Master of Chapter off and on during the period Ivanhoe Masonic Lodge, # 4 4 6 AFAM and quieted the situation there. He of Missouri (1949). He is a member had the usual problems of "keys", of Cosmopolitan Club International, changes in the Ritual, recognizing new and a member of the Engineers Club branches of Engineering, etc. There of Kansas City, Missouri. He is the were two or three discipline problems, Church School Superintendent and one in his own chapter, but nothing Past President of the Board of Stewards very serious in that department. He of Linwood Methodist Church, Kansas also visited several chapters and alumni City, Mo. groups.

N orm an B. A mes, G rand Regent, ip48= 50 fs Charter Memher of Gamma Beta Norm an B. Ames began his formal tions Division. Promotion to Lieuten­ association with Theta Tau on March ant Colonel in March 1942 and Colonel 13, 193 J when he was initiated as a in December followed. While on duty charter member of Gamma Beta in W ashington he served as Director Chapter during installation ceremonies. of the Civilian Pilot Training Program Since then he has served the Fraternity at The George Washington University in various capacities including Chapter and during this time was initiated Adviser of Gamma Beta, Grand Outer into Omicron Delta Kappa in 1942. Guard, Grand Inner Guard, Grand In April 1945 he was ordered to Italy Vice-Regent, Grand Regent, and Dele- as Information and Education Officer gate-at-Large. for the Air Force in the Mediterranean He has served on the faculty of Theater and upon deactivation of The George Washington University Headquarters AAF/M TO he became with the following exceptions: Information and Education Officer 1. He completed requirements for for the Peninsular Base Section. He the Master of Science degree in Elec­ was relieved from this duty in Janu­ tric Engineering at MIT and received ary 1946, separated from the service, the degree in June 1935. and resumed his work at The George 2. From September 1940 to Sep­ Washington University February 1st. tember 1941 he served a year of ex­ 4. During the academic year 1951- tended active duty in the Air Corps. 52 he was on sabbatical leave for 3. He was recalled to active duty fifty-three weeks at the Swiss Federal in December 1941, after Pearl Harbor, Institute of Technology, Zurich, ful­ as a major with duty in Air Corps filling all requirements, except final Headquarters, Washington, as Assis­ approval of the dissertation, for the tant Executive and Executive, Opera­ degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

During the summer of 1946 Brother seventeen former graduates. He could Ames took an interest in local politics, not attend the December 15, 1953 particularly in the fight for Home initiation and hopes to be initiated by Rule in his home county, Montgomery the University of Maryland chapter (M aryland). Elected in November a in the near future. member of the Charter Board, he was Finally, by way of vital statistics, Chairman of the Board which wrote his oldest daughter is married and has the Charter, basic law and framework three children— two boys and a girl. of the present Council-Manager form It is his hope that one or both grand­ sons, Joseph Ames and Bruce Patrick In May 1947 he was elected Vice- Vivari, may be Theta Taus some day. Chairman of the W ashington Sec­ When his second and last daughter, a tion, American Institute of Electrical junior at G.W.U. marries he hopes to Engineers, becoming Chairman in June retire from active teaching and do upon the death of the incumbent some of the things he has never had Chairman. Another bit of unfinished time to do. business for Brother Ames is initiation Brother Ames was Grand Vice- into Tau Beta Pi. The Mississippi State Regent of Theta Tau from 1946-48 College chapter selected him among and Grand Regent, 1948-50. About THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

his term as Grand Regent he has President Doherty, I went to Carnegie for a pleasant conference with him and Dean Jones. There was, however, no in­ dication that the Institute's decree against the first meeting of the Executive Council constitutional restrictions on membership would be lifted. Considerable sympathy Convention, Brother George W. Carter, with the decree prevailed within the chapter newly elected Grand Marshal, announced that he must, with profound regret, resign his office because of conflicting personal uneventful. No serious problems of disci­ pline or finance arose. This is significant in Later Brother John M. Daniels, Nu Hon. view of the general overstrength of most '22, was appointed Grand Marsha], with chapters because of post-war congestion in the advice and approval of the Executive colleges and universities. Membership in- Council as provided by the Constitution and By-Laws, effective February 1949. AU from $61,000 to $71,600 in spite of heavy members of the Executive Council rendered outlays for regional conferences. Alumni willing and full cooperation with the activities were satisfactory. Particular men­ Grand Regent. It was a real privilege and tion should be made of Sigma Chapter honor to work with them. under the leadership of Brothers Jack Chapter advisers accepted appointments Dumbauld and Russ Glass. and responsibilities and gave generously of their time. Most of them were reap­ pointees; some replacements were necessary suits were had at Wayne University, De­ bcause of circumstances. High tribute is troit. A strong local there was investigated, due these brothers who year in and year eventually accepted, and installed in May out serve the Fraternity without glamour 19$I as Epsilon Beta Chapter by my suc­ and with scant praise. Generally, a chapter cessor, Grand Regent Don Curtis. is no better than its adviser. Chapter of- The final event of the Biennium was the Convention in Kansas City, arranged the usual "headaches" to the Grand Scribe. by Past Grand Regent Ralph Nusser and

good chapters, but unfortunately good mingled emotions of relief and regret that chapters do not always elect good officers I turned the gavel over to the new Grand Regent, Donald D. Curtis.

D. D. Curtis, G rand Regent, ip50=52 Completes Almost Thirty Vears o f Service to Theta Tau Donald D. Curtis was initiated as of others made a group he enjoyed Omicron’s second honorary member in working with. 1925 during his early faculty years at Only a few months after his initia­ the University of Iowa. A number of tion, a telegram from the Omicron the charter members were his intimate delegate at the Columbus Convention, friends from student days there only the Seventh Biennial, asked if Brother a few years before, so association with Curtis would consider editing the the Chapter was close from the be­ Gear. The result of that was three ginning. Ned Ashton, John Folwell, busy years, with reorganization o f the the two Schuleen boys, Ed Nielsen, magazine; getting out the Fourteenth Paul Mercer, Vern Muth, and dozens General Directory; contacts with THE GEAR OF THETA TAU }s

and receive the B.S. degree in Civil sity of Kansas. In 1922 he made a one Engineering in 1916. way trip to the University of Illinois. He served in W orld W ar I from Since that time he has taught Civil 1917 to 1919 as 1st Lt. and Captain, Engineering, becoming a full professor Corps of Engineers. His outfit was the in 1937. 31 5 th Engineers who were in France Jamison Vawter was initiated into and Germany for a year, participating Zeta Chapter in 1916, and his con­ in two battles, St. Mihiel and Meuse- tinued interest in the Fraternity is Argonne. Back in the United States, shown by his record of service. He was Brother Vawter returned to the rail­ elected Grand O uter Guard in 1921, road for one year as assistant engineer, and Grand Treasurer in 1923. The then spent 1920 to 1922 as assistant latter position he served faithfully for professor of Mechanics at the Univer­ twenty-seven years. The first twenty- 36 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU five of these were very active, but in his chief recreation to come from tak­ the last two years Brother Schrader ing part in politics, as he has been a took over the detailed work of the member of the Urbana City Council chapter accounts, since Brother Vaw- for a great many years, in charge of ter’s administrative duties at Illinois the street department, and a member had accumulated with the years. of the Board of Local Improvements. He has also been active in the Pro­ Professionally the Grand Regent is fessional Interfraternity Conference. a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi1 He served as their vice-president, as a Chi Epsilon, Tau N u Tau, and Scab­ member of the Executive Committee, bard and Blade. He also maintains his and held a two year term as president membership in the American Society during the early years of the organi- of Civil Engineers, American Railway Engineering Associaton, and Inter­ Besides his active teaching career national Association for Bridge and and his time given over to Theta Tau, Structural Engineering. He has served Jamison Vawter is a joint author of on committees of the A.R.E.A. for two books: Theory of Simple Struc­ over twenty years, b u t has now retired tures, w ith Thomas C. Shedd (Hon. from committee work. Kappa) and Elementary Theory anil During his term as Grand Regent Design of Flexural Members, with Brother Vawter made an extensive James G. Clark. Both of these books tour of the United States in which he are published by John Wiley and Sons. visited thirteen chapters of the Fra­ In 1922 he married Theresa O’Brien ternity. and they have two children: Jeanne We have at the helm a distinguished (Mrs. George H. Weatherbe) who now engineer with a long record of service lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Patricia both to the profession and the Frater­ whose home is in New York City. nity. He has done a fine job of bring­ Even his hobbies have grown more ing Theta Tau through the last bien­ strenuous, as outside duties forced him nium of its first half century. to give up fishing. He now considers

(Outstanding Delegate ’ Aw ard Afade Since ip4J "Deacon” Ames, then Grand Inner Guard, proposed to the Fifteenth Bienniel Convention (1941) that it select one of its participants as the "out­ standing delegate” of the Convention. The idea was presented by Barrett of Beta and quickly adopted. The delegate was to be chosen by secret ballot by his fellow delegates. The list of these convention leaders from 1941 is as follows:

Year Convention C ity O utstanding Delegate 1941 15 th St. Louis Max D. Crittenden, Epsilon 1946 16 th Louisville William Sparks, Chi 1948 17 th Chicago Don Blanchard, Gamma Beta 1950 18 th Kansas City Thomas E. Mutchler, Gamm 1952 19th Lafayette Peter Minderman1 Sigma 7 heta Ifau Conventions

The coming biennial convention will be the twentieth of these meetings, since the first was not held until 1911 and the first and second W orld Wars interrupted the series. Before 1911 a number of informal meetings were held by delegates from Alpha, Beta, and Gamma chapters, but these had no power to legislate. The formal Conventions were held as follows:

First 1911 - Minneapolis, Minn.

Second 1913 - Houghton, Michigan

Third 1915 - Cleveland, Ohio

1919 - Cleveland, Ohio

Fifth 1921 - Lawrence, Kansas

Sixth 1923 - Iowa City, Iowa

Seventh 1925 - Columbus, Ohio

Eighth 1927 - Chicago, Illinois

9 - Minneapolis, Minn.

I - Fayetteville, Ark.

Eleventh 3 - Chicago, Illinois

Twelfth 5 - Kansas City, Mo.

Thirteenth 19 7 - Chicago, Illinois

Fourteenth 19 9 - Chicago, Illionis

Fifteenth - St. Louis, Mo.

Sixteenth 6 - Louisville, Ky.

Seventeenth 19 8 - Chicago, Illinois

Eighteenth 19 - Kansas City, Mo.

Nineteenth 19 - West Lafayette, Ind.

Twentieth 19 - Minneapolis, Minnesota GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION T L G rand Recent Says

bution, in many cases a notable one, and given unselfishly of their time. We owe them thanks. They constitute the Old Guard of Theta Tau. We also When I became a member, our list owe thanks to the many brothers who have given generously of their time to serve as chapter advisers. In most cases their only reward has been the satisfaction of a job well done, of chapters ended with Theta. I have seen the other chapters welcomed over the course of years. We can look for­ ward with confidence for a continued healthy growth during the next fifty years. To attain this we m ust have the continued support of our membership. The Old Guard, on whom we rely for advice and labor, must reduce their efforts w ith added years, and so we In this, the Anniversary issue of must turn to our younger membership Tbe Gear, you have messages from to carry on. W ith the excellent mater­ our Founders and the Past Grand Re­ ial we have available, and with each gents of our Fraternity. It is due to man making the effort of which he these men, together with the others is capable, the next fifty years should who have served as officers during be even better than the last. . the past fifty years, that Theta Tau To all I extend my greetings and has made its steady progress and at­ best wishes for the years to come. tained the position it now holds. While none can m atch the fifty years of In H Sc T, continuous service of Erich J. Schra­ Jamison Vawter der, they have all made their contri­ Grand Regent U e £ rick 7. SkraJer AwarJ

The idea of an interchapter ef­ cago in 1939 again revised the activity ficiency contest to stimulate good form. In fact, the committee on management and active participation Chapter Awards, McPherson of Chi, in campus activities was first pro­ chairman, submitted a two-page re­ posed at the Eleventh Biennial Con­ port and perpetrated eighteen pages vention in Chicago in 1933 by of discussion as recorded in the Con­ Richard Cope, the dynamic delegate vention minutes. Important high­ from Upsilon Chapter. As is usual in lights of their report were their use such cases, Brother Cope was appoint­ of the name, Erich J. Schrader Trophy ed chairman of a committee to bring Award, the first designation of the in a plan for consideration at the award by that name; the recommen­ next convention. During the next twodation that the Grand Inner Guard years this committee evolved an elab­ be official administrator; and speci­ orate outline of point awards for a fication that reports by the chapters long list of chapter activities and be required each year, two to be functions. counted for the bienninal award. This report was turned over to the The first award was made at the Publications Committee, of which banquet of this Convention, Pi having Smith of Theta was chairman, at the a small margin of points over the Tw elfth Biennial Convention at next competitors. The award was a Kansas City in 1935 and this com­ cup. mittee devoted 90 percent of irs re­ In the fifteenth Biennial Conven­ port to the matter of the contest. The tion at St. Louis in 1941, the Com­ report made several constructive criti­ mittee on Awards, Lawrence Barrett cisms, principal among which were (Beta) Chairman, made three specific the ideas of naming the contest after recommendations for changes and some prominent Theta Tau rather four general recommendations as to rather than calling it an "efficiency ways of increasing the value of the contest." and of adding rewards for contest to the chapters. The discus- "professional” activities on the part o f the chapters. suited in many clarifications and im­ A t the Thirteenth Biennial Con­ provements on such matters as; house vention in Chicago, 1937, Grand Re­ chapters as compared with non-house gent Hopkins implemented the con­ chapters; financial condition evalua­ test by appointing a committee on tion; period for which report was to Chapter awards with Edwards of Nu be made; and the nature of the award. as chairman. This committee recom­ It was decided that the latter should mended that the interchapter compe­ consist of a travelling bronze plaque, tition start w ith the school year 1938- about 24x30 inches, to become per­ 39 and that the following contests be manent posession of a three-time win­ for two-year periods. A form indi­ ner, and a small replica to be retained cating the values awarded for various by the award winner each period. In activities was provided by J. M. his report to the Convention Grand Daniels and revised by the Conven- Inner Guard Ames stated that compe­ tition returns from the chapters were The Fourteenth Convention in Chi­ not adaquate, fourteen having sub­ 40 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

mitted reports for 1939-40 and only Chicago meeting in May, 1943 re­ six of these for 1940-41. He mention­ gretfully suspended the contest for ed that of the chapters qualifying the duration of the war. w ith two annual reports Beta, The Committee of the Seventeenth Gamma, and Iota ranked uppermost. Biennial Convention at Chicago in A t the banquet Beta was given the 1948, consisting of Verner (Mu) award. A drawing of the proposed Chairman, Fitch (Gamma), and Nor­ plaque was circulated for the dele­ man Ames (Gamma Beta) made his­ gates to see and report on to their tory with the brevity of its report, chapters. A scroll carrying a likeness the small number of changes recom­ of Erich Schrader as a young man was mended, and the making of two prepared and presented to Beta Chap­ awards for the biennium, one for ter in lieu of the plaque. each year. For 1946-47 Mu was the A t the Sixteenth Biennial Conven­ winner and for 1947-48, Beta. tion at Louisville, in 1946, the Erich The Eighteenth Biennial Conven­ J. Schrader Award Committee, Ed­ tion committee announced Upsilon as wards (Beta) Chairman, Markwood the winner, with score 3430 com­ (P i), and Mercer (O m icron), judged pared with 3411 for Phi and 3387 for the chapter score sheets submitted for Beta, a close contest. the year 1941-42 and declared Beta Following this convention, an im­ Chapter the winner, the second time provement in the handling of the Beta had won. Grand Inner Guard contest details with the chapters was Mercer stated in his report to the made by having a one-city committee. Convention that, following his re­ The Grand Regent appointed Brothers vamping of the procedure in ac­ A. D. Hinckley (T hcta), E. E. Ellis cordance with the numerous helpful (M u), and I. M. Lewis (Pi). Their changes made by the Fifteenth Bi­ efficient handling of the work and ennial Convention, the competition their two-year experience resulted in ending August, 1942 was so fine that concrete suggestions for future con­ he was most enthusiastic over the high test forms, and the Convention adopt­ value of the contest. ed them. The 1950-52 award was won Due to war conditions and the by Sigma, w ith Phi, Beta, and Upsilon altered situation of a number of the following closely in that order. chapters, the Executive Council in its The bronze scroll originally de­ signed and approved had to be passed by because of wartime scarcity of materials. Subsequent work by Brother F. W. Edwards, Omicron, was re­ ported by Brother Glass at the Eighteenth Biennial Convention. This recommended a travelling plaque three-quarters the size of the pre­ viously considered design and per­ manent possession plaques about the size of the shingle. Later investigation indicated that the cost of the plaques would be almost prohibitive. Accord- THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

decision

of Erich Schrader. These will Schrader, iven at the Twentieth Biennial

ta'blishment of the contest. On the whole, the Erich J.

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P. L. Mercer, Omicron '21 and J. W. Howe, Omicron '24 Editor,

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VOLUME XLIV

T H E GEAR IS 46 YEARS OLD ' for the years of 1918 and 1919 during When Theta Tau had but three which all chapters were inactive. In chapters, the desirability of having 1920 he turned it over to Hoy Stevens ’22, and H. P. Churchill ’IS, of Delta a publication was realized and in 1908 the publication of "Hammer and Chapter. In Budde’s regime the sub­ Tongs” was begun by H. H. Hopkins, scription rate was $1.25 per year and an annual issue with a directory in then a member of Beta Chapter. the back was the regular thing. The "Hop” graduated that year but mem­ bers of Beta Chapter managed to get magazine in 1920 was thick— 284 out an issue a year through 1912. pages with additional pages of adver­ tising. It was still the orginal size. The magazine was renamed "The Brother Stevens broke the 1921 issue Gear” in 1909. Its size was smaller into a magazine and a directory of than it now is, the early issues being the same size. 5 W x7 /z" . The sixth issue of the young maga­ In 1922, Frank E. Mooney, Alpha zine was edited by Jack E. Haynes, Al­ ’23, and Albert W . Morse, Alpha ’2 5, pha ’08, who carried on through 1913 took over with Brother Morse suc­ and 1914. In those days it was cus­ ceeding as editor in 1923. A t this tomary to print a directory of the time The Gear was increased to its entire fraternity in the back of the present page size and an ambitious magazine. The Gear was sold on a schedule of quarterly issues was be­ subscription basis of $1.00 per year gun. Publication in the summer and was in good financial condition. proved difficult, however, so three In fact, it was decided in 1912 to try issues per year were printed until to bring out more than one issue per 1926 when Donald D. Curtis took over the editorship. In 1915 Henry M atchett, Alpha Brother Curtis, Omicron Honorary, ’15, took over the editorship, but re­ found that editing The Gear in ad­ linquished it the next year to Otto C. dition to his full-time job as pro­ Budde, Delta '12. Brother Budde pub­ fessor of mechanics made it possible lished the magazine until 1920, except to put out but two issues per year 44 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU and for three and a half years he pub­ management in the early years— and. lished regularly on that schedule. we blush to adr nit, one issue, that of Brother Curtis left Iowa in the fall Fall 1943, is not in our file of recent of 1929 but before leaving obtained years. Needless to say, anyone who a promise from his successor, J. W. can supply miss ing copies can do the Howe, to carry on the editorship. This fraternity a rea I service by donating individual, knowing nothing about them to the permanent file of Gear such matters, consented, providing his friend, Paul Mercer of Keokuk who JWH came from a family of printers, would share the responsibility. Paul agreed LIGHT’S DIAMOND JUBILEE and for the next twenty-five years this partnership continued to func­ Just twenty-five years older than tion. The appearance ofThe Gear was Theta Tau is Thomas Alva Edison’s changed in 1934 when the identical incandescent electric lamp. As engi­ somber red covers were dropped in neers it is appropriate that we join favor of a variety of more interesting the electrical industry in celebrating covers and the policy of adhering to this birthday too as a most im portant fraternity news rather than publishing milestone in our profession. technical articles was adopted. It was It was on October 21, 1879 that Mr. obviously impossible to get an article Edison announced the first practical which would interest any large pro­ incandescent electric lamp. The suc­ portion of a membership composed of cess of this new lighting medium and engineers in management, sales, design, its accompanying central station de­ exploration, and construction in any velopments led to extremely rapid of the fields of civil, mechanical, growth of the whole electrical power chemical, mining, electrical, indus- industry. Generation, transmission, distribution, motor applications, tary engineering, or geology. household appliances, to name a few The life subscription was adopted of the many facets of the electrical at the 1929 convention. This plan industry all became possible and im­ provided for sending the magazine to portant because the electric lamp all alumni initiated after 1930, and lighted the way. has had a tremendous effect upon the So on behalf of those of us who are subscription list. Because many alumni especially affiliated w ith this great forget to send in addresses, the en­ industry which claims so many engi­ dowment fund established in 1930 neers, we pause briefly in our own has grown much larger than was an­ Golden Anniversary Celebration to ticipated when the plan was adopted extend our congratulations and good and is still gradually enlarging, despite wishes to Light’s Diamond Jubilee. the great increase in costs experienced Under the banner "Light for Free­ in the present inflationary period. dom— Power for Progress” the in­ It is planned to have a file of Gears dustry ■will surely continue to lead on display at the Convention. Un­ the way to a better and more com­ fortunately, many issues are missing fortable tomorrow for all of us. because of the frequent change of PLM Letters To the Lditors you get it done, anyway, send us a picture and a rother Hambley. Power to THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 47

P. / . C Adopts Resolution on Atembership

A utonomy Resolution Be It Resolved:

W HEREAS professional fraternities 1. T hat the Professional Interfra­ are an integral part of the national ternity Conference advocates that fraternity system, and professional fra­ each member fraternity continue to have the privilege to adopt member­ ternities as such have furthered the standing of the respective professions ship qualifications applicable to all its which they represent in the profes­ chapters free from interference or re­ striction by any non-member indivi­ sional schools and the professions at dual, group or organization. large; and 2. That restrictions or regulations W HEREAS it is desirable and ne­ affecting the privilege and right of any cessary that the work of such fraterni­ fraternity to choose its own members ties be continued as in the past; and from among persons of good moral character and scholastic standing in W HEREAS such continuity depends any school, college or university in primarily upon the character of mem­ which it has a chapter is an unwar­ bership of the respective fraternities ranted and illegal interference with wherein their members are united the fundamental principle of free as- under the bonds of brotherly love and affection; and 3. T hat in accordance with such W HEREAS anything which tends principles the Professional Interfrater­ to abolish the fraternity ideal destoys nity Conference advocates fraternity the purpose of professional fraternities autonomy with respect to fraternity and is repugnant to the right of selec­ membership. tion inherent in the American way of The Committee further recommends life as guaranteed by the Constitution that the resolution be referred to the of the United States and the Bill of Publicity Committee for appropriate Rights:

Two Epsilon Beta Alumni Change Names Grand Scribe Erich Schrader has sent an official notice that two broth­ ers from Epsilon Beta Chapter have legally changed their names. The for­ mer Peter Samuel Davidovich, ’SI, is now Peter Samuel Davis; and Carl Eugene Olesko, ’SI, has changed his name to Carl Eugene Oleksiak. Jln Jlemortam

Tlic Growth of Theta T au=== (chapter H istories

T ke Beginning o f Tkela Tau a n d A lpka Chapter

It was in the fall of 1904 and the sophomores in the School of Mines, beginning of another school year at and together the four men founded the University of Minnesota, but for the Society of Hammer and Tongs. one student on that campus it was Little did any of them dream at that the beginning of a life’s work. The time, the proportions to which this student was Erich J. Schrader, a small society was destined to grow. senior in Mining Engineering, and for This group did not meet again in some time he had had the dream that a formal meeting until November 22, there be a professional fraternity for at which time they initiated their Engineers similar to those that al­ first new member, who was E. Ralph ready existed in the fields of Medicine, Edgcrton, also a sophomore in the Law, and Dentistry. He would sit and School of Mines. A fter this initiation, talk at some length about this with the remainder of the meeting was his roommate, Elwin L. Vinal, who spent in revising and amending the was a sophomore in Mining Engineer­ original constitution. In fact, the ing. Thus on October IS, 1904, these next few meetings dealt principally two engineering students met in their with additions to the constitution, the room with Isaac B. Hanks and Wil­ ritual, and laying the basic founda­ liam Murray Lewis, who were also tion of the Society. Erich Schrader

I;,* i *•5 > A * THE GEAR OF THETA TAU presided over these meetings and was called the Regent, while Isaac Hanks recorded the proceedings and was called the Scribe. It wasn’t until De­ cember 17, that the Society initiated another member, George F. Weiscl, again a sophomore Mining Engi­ neer. March 6, 1905, marked the entrance of the next initiate, Clinton B. Smith, a senior in Electrical Engi­ neering, and he was followed by Randolph J. McRae, James Cowin, and W alter H. Wheeler who became the tenth member of the Society on $ April 16, 1905, and the last initiate Pledge Button Coat of Arms during its first year. The first mass initiation was held Chapter of Hammer and Tongs. By on October 18, 1905, in recognition May 14, 1906, a badge had been de­ of the Society’s first anniversary, cided on, and for the first time it when four new members were initia­ was voted to have an initiation fee ted. Many of these early meetings were of $10.00, of which $4.00 would pay held in Ike Hanks’ home or in a rented for the badge and $6.00 would go second story room over a bookstore into the chapter treasury, and thus just north of the main Minnesota cam­ the office of treasurer was created. pus. On November 16, 1905, Isaac During the early years the Pledge Hanks was elected the new Regent of button was designed by the late Wm. the Society, and although it was pub­ A. Rose, Alpha ’06, and the Coat of licly represented by the Greek letters arms by A rthur Larkin, Alpha ’08, Theta Tau, it was still officially call­ and the present badge was designed ed, the Society of Hammer and Tongs by E. H. Snyder, Beta ’12. The en­ o f the University of Minnesota. larged Ritual was first reid at a meet­ It was on March 26, 1906, at the ing of the Southwestern Alumni home of Regent Hanks that the ini­ Association in Globe, Arizona, in tiation of Robert Downing and W. B. 1909, and approved by all members Andrews took place. This initiation present to be presented to the coming was unique in that Downing and An­ Convention. drews were not Minnesota men, but A t the end of his sophomore year, were from Michigan College of (accompanied by Elwin L. Vinal) Mining and Technology in Houghton, William Murray Lewis had transferred Michigan. In fact, they belonged to to the Colorado School of Mines at another society there called the Golden, Colorado, and his active Rhombohedron Club, and the pur­ participation in Hammer and Tongs pose of this initiation was to give these seemed to be curtailed at least temp­ two men the authority to go back to orarily. It was at Colorado Mines Michigan Tech and initiate all of the that he came across a group of engi­ members of the Rhombohedron Club neers called the Square Set Club, and into what would then become Beta on May, 31, 1907, the petition of the 52 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Square Set Club was accepted and $25.00 a month. Erich Schrader, this became Gamma Chapter of Ham- then living temporarily in St. Paul, was still very active, and in reality the On February 23, 24, and 25, 1911, guiding hand of the Fraternity. It was the first convention was held at the truly a Fraternity now and no longer old Y.M.C.A. on the Minnesota a small society, for as the months pass­ campus, and all three chapters met ed by new chapters were being added, in Minneapolis for the first time. It and names such as Delta, Epsilon, and was during this first convention that Zeta chapters were being discussed at it was decided to change the name Alpha’s meetings. By 1914, the ac­ from Society of Hammer and Tongs tive members and interested alumni to Theta Tau Fraternity, whose members could see the necessity of Greek letters Theta Tau had been used the chapter having its own house, publicly since 1905. Also during this and it was decided to sign house notes convention the first slate of national of $50.00 each, or as much as a per­ officers was elected, w ith Erich son could afford, strictly on a vol- Schrader being the Grand Regent. It was at this convention that Brother The Andrews Hotel in downtown Schrader presented the ritual which he Minneapolis was the site of the first had spent considerable time revising. Founders’ Day celebration of Alpha In the fall of 1911, Alpha Chapter Chapter, held on October 15, 1914 of Theta Tau took the first step to­ to commemorate the tenth aniversary ward having a chapter house by of the founding of the Fraternity. At renting several rooms of a house for that time it was resolved that such a gathering should be an anual event of all chapters, not only noting the founding date of the Fraternity, but also the installation date of each re­ spective chapter. To operate a chapter of a college fraternity in normal times is one thing, but Alpha Chapter soon found out in 1917 how world conditioiis and a war can show their effect in His— Tuptinig these well laid plans. Since everyone was in jeopardy of being called into m ilitary service sooii, the regent was empowered to appoint a committee of three to have complete charge of the chapter offices until things became more settled. The house that Alpha Chapter was renti ng at that t ime was retained through the summe r of 1917, but when the fall term sitarted and only four Oi r five men returned, they decided to give up their house and rent a few rooms THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

in a social fraternity house. How­ the house and interrupted its regular ever, smaller quarters were soon meeting on March 5, 1930, but the found and the nucleus of the chapter fire department quickly put out the moved to a house of their own at blaze with little damage being done. 1023 University Avenue SE. Finally in the fall of 1931, Alpha When normal times returned and membership once again began to 324 W alnut Street SE, just a block flourish, thoughts were again turned south of its previous location. The to the possibility of the chapter own­ house was IS years old at the time ing its own house. Something con­ and not particularly suited for a crete was done in the summer of fraternity house, but it was purchased 1922 when members of the Twin with an eye to the future. The house C ity Alumni Association under the was situated on a large corner lot in a leadership of Benjamin Walling ’09, desirable location, and it was hoped James Colvin ’14, and others, created that a new house might some day be the Theta Tau Association which built on this same site. A big factor would serve as the owner of the in Alpha’s being able to buy a house chapter house. They proposed that all at this time was the money and se­ future members sign a fifty dollar curities that were bequeathed the building note to be paid within five chapter by Tom Andrews ’26, upon years after graduation. Up until then his untimely death January 31, 1929 this had only been done on a voluntary in Rhodesia, South Africa. About the basis. This money would be held by time that the new house was pur­ the Association until such time as chased there was also the formation they were financially able to purchase of a Mothers and Wives Club of a house. Alpha members, and the very first These "Roaring Twenties” meant task was helping the boys with fur­ good years for Alpha Chapter, and nishings for their new house. in the fall of 1927 the chapter had Once again the unforscen retarded moved to a large house on Washington Alpha’s growth, this time in the form Avenue and Walnut Street. This of the Depression. School enrollment house had 14 men living in it regu­ dropped and so did the membership. larly, with a capacity of over 20; there were from 20 to 25 eating regu­ living at the house upon leaving lar meals there, and it was much school. A typical sign of the times closer to the engineering part of the was the meeting of October 18, 1937, campus. Alpha Chapter indeed seemed when they voted to raise the price of to be on its way and getting stronger. breakfast from 10c to 15c. The de­ Its spirits weren’t even dampened pression gave way to the war years by the flash fire that broke out at once again, and things went from bad THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Founders’ Day Banquet October IS, 1946—publicly burning the mortgage of Alpha’s first house at 324 Walnut Street SE. to worse. I t had been hoped that the regard to scheduling of meetings, ini- Army might take over the house as tiations, etc., according to when they a dormitory, and later because of were permitted time off. None of low membership and consequent loss these men lived in the house, and of of income they explored the possibility course, the serving of meals in the of renting the house to an outside house had been adandoned several organization. This was evidently years previously. All through these true of all chapters, since the Execu- trying war years, Fred Teske ’27, then live Council had directed that it serving on the University staff, was would be permissible to initiate men instrumental in holding the chapter under 18 years of age, and in the together, serving in the dual capacity event of a shortage of actives, honor- as chapter adviser and treasurer, aries could now hold office. Things looked up again after the By the fall of 1943, there was an war, and on October IS, 1946, the influx of Navy students, and many mortgage of the house was publicly new members came from their ranks. burned at the Founders’ Day Ban- This was an abnormal situation, for quet. This was the result of a con- special concessions had to be made in centrated drive to retire many of the

PROPOSED NEW HOUSE FOR ALPHA CHAPTER OF THETA TAU ATTHE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 57

through 1912. It published the first its beginnings. Among the other alum­ directory of Theta Tau members and ni present were C. J. Sheldon, R. W. was the first chapter to issue a regular Drier, Carl Knaebel, P. Paquette, W m. bulletin. It was the first chapter to Longacre, H. Hawn, and L. Tunne. have a regular house committee, the W ith the advent of the second first to establish a fund and a stock World W ar, Beta Chapter suspended company for the purpose of a chapter its activities on June I, 1943, not to house, and the first to own its own be opened again until May 6, 1945. house. The official Theta Tau song was On May 6, 1945, a special meeting of w ritten by Don C. Blackmar, Beta T l, the active members of Thcta Tau on and the present official pin was de­ the M.C.M.&T. campus was called. signed by E. H . Snider, Beta ’12. Beta Present were B. J. Ellerthorpe, R. A t­ was host to the second annual con­ kins, and B. Beckner. The subject vention in 1913. discussed was rhe reorganization of W ith the brief history given so far, the H & T's and the reopening of the rather large steps through the suc­ chapter house. Brother Duggan, Beta ceeding years will cover the high­ Chapter’s adviser, was consulted, and lights up to the present day. through his efforts the first regular On March 28, 1931, Beta Chapter meeting was held on July 9, 1945. The assembled to commemorate its twenty- membership being so limited, it was fifth anniversary. The guest of honor decided that only the posts of regent was H. H . Hopkins of Chicago, who and scribe could be filled. The months represented the Executive Council. His that followed were filled with much talk conveyed the greeting and message toil for the men of Beta Chapter in of the national officers. Prof. Fisher the reorganization. also gave a very inspiring speech, Since that time the chapter has once mainly a resume of the chapter from again, just as in the past, become a THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

leader in campus activities. Beta mem­ winter carnival trophy, which is now bers of Theta Tau have been active in in Beta’s permanent possession. every prominent organization on cam­ Beta is proud to have many of its pus, holding more than their share alumni close by, with the following of offices in these organizations. serving on the faculty of M.C.?vl.8cT.: Awards, symbolized by various trophies Dr. R. W. Drier, Dr. C. T . Eddy, J. which are displayed on the old fire­ M. Harrington, W. B. Gertz, H. place mantle, stand in mute testimony Hawn, W . A. Longacre, C. M. H arry, of the unselfish efforts of the members. and T. H. Barrett. This year Beta again won the annual The passing years have left Beta winter carnival for the third consequ- a rich heritage, with a tradition in tive time by compiling the most points, which all of its members can justly and in so doing won the much-coveted take pride.

Founder Adurray Lewis Fstablk Jied Gamma Chapter In the fall of 1907 a small group members were Paul Neer, F. F. Frick, of students at the Colorado School of J. B. Lowell, W. V. DeCamp and L. Mines organized the Square Set Club P. Clapp. Since W m. Murray Lewis, for the purpose of petitioning the one of the Founders of Theta Tau, was Society of Hammer & Tongs for a then attending the Colorado School charter. The late C. M. H urlburt was of Mines, he was authorized by Alpha the leader of this group. The charter and Beta Chapters to install the new

"Colorado Mines Peak" conquered by Theia Taus Harr and Miller THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 59

group and later he affiliated with the its recent feat of securing official ap­ new Gamma Chapter. proval for the naming of a previously The new chapter rented a small unnamed mountain crest, "Colorado house near the campus for meeting Mines Peak.” This project represented purposes. F. F. Frick was the first the work of Regent Neal J. Harr, un­ Regent and J. B. Lowell the first der the guidance of Gamma’s adviser. Scribe. Gamma was without a rival Dr. L. W. LeRoy, who had first sug­ until 1924 when a chapter of Sigma gested the naming of a peak for the Gamma Epsilon, a professional fra­ School of Mines. The members of Gam­ ternity in the mineral industry field, ma Chapter can take pride in this was established at Golden. achievement as evidence of the active Although third in age, Gamma is traditions of Theta Tau on the Colora­ second in size, having initiateed 815 do Mines campus. Gamma has had a members since its founding. During long and successful life, and a large its forty-seven years on the Mines percentage of the most prominent campus. Gamma Chapter has played alumni of Colorado Mines are members student of Gamma Chapter of Theta Tau. Perhaps the r iusual of these i:

Delta Kept Professional Standards Higl Delta Chapter was the outgrowth of a local mining society, Mu Sigma, which had been founded in 1909. In December of 1909, delegates from Mu Sigma and others met in Minneapolis to form a national mining fraternity called Sigma Kappa Alpha; but by 1911, Case was the only remaining chapter of that society. The chapter petitioned Theta Tau and was granted its charter on May 23, 1911. About 1915 Delta decided not to initiate members of social fraternities having chapters at Case, and was thus considered a social fraternity on the campus; the new chapter soon was maintaining a house and competing with the others for members and in intramurals. This situation was not to be tolerated long, however, and early in 1923 a reorganization occur­ red. A t the request of Dr. George D. Louderback, who was Grand Regent at that time, the men who wanted to continue as a social fraternity were The handful of remaining actives, suspended until graduation. deprived of their house by the new 60 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

local Tau Delta Tau, elected new and Case. During the war years a members from the upperclass levels. share-the-ride program was inaugurat­ In harmony with the national policy ed, and the brothers sold war savings of Theta Tau, the men were chosen stamps to the students. The ever- on the basis of character, personality, knotty problem of parking on the and engineering promise, without re­ campus was Delta’s responsibility for gard to social fraternity affiliations. several years. Currently the chapter Professor "Count” Van Horn, Delta cooperates with the Institute in furn­ honorary, an ardent supporter of ishing guides for prospective students campus activities, was appointed facul­ who visit the campus. ty adviser and helped immensely in In 1934 Count Van Horn died, and this troubled time. the following year an annual award In the succeeding years, the organi­ was established in his memory. The zation of Delta Chapter has changed award is given to an outstanding mem­ little. A few sophomores are now elect­ ber of each graduating class who is ed to secure greater continuity in selected jointly by the chapter, de­ chapter activities. Projects have been partm ent heads, and a faculty com­ many and varied. Banquets and meet­ mittee. It is commemorated by a ings of professional interest have been fitting plaque in Tomlinson Hall. held regularly; and Delta has con­ Today, Delta men are outstanding tributed in many areas to the school in all phases of college life. The alumni have enhanced, by their achievements, For example, in 1938 Delta revived the good name of their chapter, school, an old Case tradition, the all-school and fraternity. Delta Chapter is look­ dinner. Its purpose was to arouse spirit ing forward to continued growth and prior to the Thanksgiving Day game is seeking new areas in which to be of between W estern Reserve University service to their campus.

Epsilon Actually Fourth Oldest Chapter In February of 1911, a group of Countryman, a petition to Theta Tau nine University of California students was granted and Epsilon Chapter was met at the Theta Delta Chi house to chartered. The installation occurred bring about a closer union of geology in the Phi Gamma Delta house on May and mining students. After four meet­ 4, 1911, although the charter bears ings of this local, nameless society, the date May I, 1911. under the chairmanship of Ralph It is interesting historical fact that. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 61

according to Grand Scribe Schrader, D. Louderback; George B. Dillingham; although the charter was voted to George D. Smith, Jr.; Randolph R. Delta before Epsilon, the latter chapter Vail; Guy L. Goodwin; William L. was actually installed ahead of Delta. Moody; Chas. M. Heron; George M. Epsilon is therefore the fourth oldest Collins; Ernst E. Behr; and Ralph B. chapter of Theta Tau. High. Fifteen of the sixteen charter mem­ O f these charter members, who so bers were registered in the College of ably built the foundation for Epsilon, Mining, the other in Geology in many went on to professional success. N atural Sciences. Number one, and One of these, George D. Louderback, first regent, was Ralph Countryman, also maintained an active interest in the others were Frank S. Hudson; Theta Tau and participated in the Walter H. Schroeder; N. John Lund; duties of the Executive Council, be­ A. D. Wilcox; C. M. Staples; George coming Grand Vice Regent in 191J 62 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

and Grand Regent in 1917. He 11 George L. Klingaman served three terms in this office, the Richard J. Russell (later Grand Regent) only Grand Regent other than Erich Schrader to serve more than two! 12 H. R. Thornburgh Furthermore he has been continuously and consistently interested in Epsilon 13 M. G. Edwards and long acted, before the days of of­ Ray E. Byler ficial "appointments,” as faculty ad­ 14 O. G. McDonald viser. He is currently allowing Epsilon Chapter to use his lot for commercial 11 Charles C. Roripaugh parking and the revenue from this has Charles A. Anderson put the chapter on a firm financial footing. To him, more than to any James C. Kimble single person, does Epsilon owe its success, and indeed its very existence. Alfred Livingston, Jr. Many ocher great men have gone through Epsilon, building on in times 8 Francis W. Anderson E. C Simpson of plenty— retrenching, rebuilding, and holding fast in times of stress. The 9 Donald E. Koch strength of the chapter has been in the loyal interest of its members and alum­ 0 Roger F. Rhoades James B. Chamberlain ni and the responsibility of its officers. In such an organization the regent 1 C O. Fairbank bears the greatest burden and he, more Best O. Dawson. than any other member, is responsible 2 Edward A. Hassan, Jr. for success or failure during his tenure. R. E. Turner Epsilon has been fortunate in having 3 Georges Vorbe fine regents and it is a fitting tribute Jack P. Hays that their names be recorded here. 4 Cordell Durrell Robert Coats I Charles A. Lindsay 1912 Frank S. Hudson Cyril Fox 6 Alton E. McLaughlin 1913 N. L. Taliaferro Galen H. Sturgeon 1914 C. E. Waldner 7 Phillip D. Chubb John C. Feeley, Jr. James Joubcrt 1911 Roy S. Rhoades 8 Edward M. Wheeler Thomas H. Kirwan 9 Allen McClure

0 Grant W. Metzger 1917 Karl H. Schilling R. M. Sommer 1 Roy Turner 1918 John B. Stevens 1919 Glenn H. Alvey Wesley R. Carlton William F. Cox John S. Gary Ralph T. Salsbury Chester M. Gibson THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 63

1944 John J. R«d D. A. Anderson, Howell Williams, Ed C Sterling Pratt Wisser, and Sam Welles have helped 1946 Thomas C Landreth, Jr. to maintain the continuity of Epsilon. 1947 Frank M. Hansen Since its founding on May 4, 1911, John D. Kniveton Epsilon Chapter has initiated 765 1948 Garniss H. Curtis members into Theta Tau Fraternity. Harold L. Boyd, Jr. Included are men from Geology, from 1949 Thomas E. Gary, Jr. what was formerly called Mining but William S. Bartholomew is now known as Mineral Technology, 1910 Leo J. Herrera, Jr. and in later years from Paleontology. 1911 John B. Farr Consequently, Epsilon alumni have Marshall Maddock risen to prominence in the petroleum and mining industries and as geologists 1952 Richard C. Peterson and paleontologists. Many have be­ 1953 L. Wayne Abel come teachers and a few have strayed 1954 Rudy C. Epis into other professions or occupations. The faculty advisers, local repre­ The past of Epsilon has been worth­ sentatives of the Grand Regent, have while. The future looks even better. stood behind the chapter, counselling, Epsilon members are all pledged to a guiding and sometimes prodding, the greater effort that will bring closer officers. In a degree known only to the together in years to come the active, national officers and to a few of the alumni, and faculty members of Epsi­ members, brothers G. D. Louderback, lon Chapter.

Zela Settled in Chapter House After Afany Afoves The Tunnel and Shaft Society was was granted, and on April 17, 1912, founded at the University of Kansas the charter members of Zeta Chapter on October 27, 1911, for the purpose of Theta Tau, Ross I. Parker; Oliver of petitioning Theta Tau for a chap- L. Andrews; Herbert L. Wilson; Rich­ ter at K. U. In March 1912, the charter ard B. Ward; Henry H. Campion; Al 64 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

H . Manglcsdorf; Charles M. Coats; In 1927 the first Red Dog party Fred E. Johnston; Edwin A. Van was held at the house. T hat was also H outen; and Herbert A. Rice, were the year the first Theta Tau-Triangle- initiated by brothers Erich J. Schrader, Kappa Eta Kappa banquet was held. H . H. Hopkins, and Benj. B. Walling. In 1928 the first large stag party for From the time the Tunnel and the men was held "out north of Shaft Society was founded until Sep­ town” ! The last of that year also saw tember 1915, active meetings were the first large debt of about $700. held all over the hill. For the most However, by March of 1929 the debt part they were held in the Beta house. had been paid off and the house was Phi Delt house, Phi Psi house, and the about $900 to the good. Keltz house. A fter every meeting the The years 1932-33 saw the Theta men adjourned to Lee’s College Inn Tau parties changed to the Country for a feed on one of the members. At Club and become very formal affairs. that time a meal was only 25 cents at Also in 1933 Theta Tau won the in­ the Inn. tramural wrestling trophy. In January In 1915 Theta Tau men were in­ of 1934, E. J. Schrader paid a visit to strumental in founding a Professional the chapter. To encourage pledging Interfraternity Council on the K. U. that year, $2 5 was discounted on the campus. The same year the first house first house bill to new men. was opened at 1225 Oread. Evening In 1936 the chapter started o ff the meals at the house were 2 5 cents. The fall semester with a large picnic. For Thcta Tau House was open to any and fifteen years or so prior to that it had all engineering society meetings. been the custom to end each year with The house was lost during the sum­ a feast, picnic, or dinner in honor of mer of 1918 and meetings were held the graduating seniors. In December in the triangle room in Marvin Hall. of 1936 the Zeta delegates had a short In 1919 the first alumni news letter trip to the Theta Tau convention, held was sent out. In November of that at Kansas City. In 1937 the chapter year R. E. Ferguson, ’20, was awarded moved to 1245 Louisiana and an annex the DSC and the Croix de Guerre. was rented at 1140 Louisiana. In 1938 September of 1920 found Zeta at the minutes mention that boards were 1336 Vermont. In December of that done away with for the pledges. year the Theta Tau National Con­ The continuity of the chapter was vention was held at. Lawrence. Two broken by the war, but shortly after years later the chapter moved across the war, the Zeta House Corporation the street and acquired the first Theta purchased the present chapter house Tau house mother. Mother Ferris. Most at 1602 Louisiana. In 1946, Ralph of the parties and dances were held at Nusser, Zeta alumnus who had served Ecke Hall. on the Executive Council for some In 1925 arrangements were finally time, was elected Grand Regent. made to purchase the old Phi Delt Again in 1950, Zeta Chapter and house at 1409 Tennessee. That year the Kansas City Alumni Association there was recorded the first mention were hosts to the fraternity when the of pledges getting swats for not doing 18th Biennial Convention was held in pledge duties. In 1926 Mother Strouer Kansas City. It was at this conven­ took over from Mother Ferris. tion that Jamison Vawter, Zeta ’16, THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

terminated his 27-year term as Grand for this chapter. Two trophies were Treasurer. added to the house's collection, one in In the fall of 1951, Zeta Chapter intramural basketball and the other was served for a short while by Mother for homecoming house decorations. The Cole and is now being served by active members of Zeta have been Mother Dimond. leaders and participants in many engi­ The addition of a game room in the neering activities, societies, publishing basement and a parking lot behind the of the K. U. engineering magazine, and house was made in 1952. The out­ expositions. standing chapter event of that year Now with nearly 600 Zeta men, the was the observance of Zeta's 40th chapter can look back on many years anniversary. House improvements were of progress and is looking forward to an outstanding project in 195 3-54 even greater progress in the future.

Eta EstaUisfied at M . I. T. Eta Chapter was founded at the many of whom have since achieved Massachusetts Institute of Technology great prominence. One of the Grand on May 23, 1912 and existed until Regents of Theta Tau, Sidney Marine, the depression year of 1930. In its ac­ was a member of Eta. tive period Eta initiated 301 members,

Theta s Beginning ShrouJecf in M ystery Theta Chapter welcomes this op­ 52. Therein lies a rather strange story, portunity to tell of her early history. for the original roll book, started in This year marks not only the SOth 1914, was lost sometime during the Anniversary of Theta Tau, but also first W orld W ar and was never re­ Theta Chapter’s 40th, and, as is well covered. And so, the following early known, the Bicentennial of Columbia. history comes largely from information The roll book of Theta Chapter obtained by the chapter from Erich ends with No. 5 59. However, the Schrader in 1935. first page of the book indicates No. A Theta Tau charter was granted to THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

the Senior Mining Society in 1914 W ith the entry of the United States when Columbia’s Engineering School into W orld W ar I, the chapter began was tihe School of Mines. This society to disintegrate as the members volun­ was originally an honorary one, and teered for service. Chapter functions membership was considered to be quite were suspended and the records given an accomplishment. In 1914, the over to the scribe. A fter the war, society became more liberalized as a Erich Schrader attempted to recover result of student demand, and any the records from stray bits of infor­ mining student was eligible for mem­ mation he had received, but found bership. Under the leadership of Er­ that the last scribe, Bert Smith, ’17, nest Klepetko, Beta ’11, a past regent had died. AU attem pts to locate Smith’s of his chapter who was attending family failed. In 1920, the chapter was graduate school at Columbia, a group revived with the initiation of five petitioned Theta Tau for a charter. members by a group from Eta. As a result, the Senior Mining Society It was a rough beginning, but Theta became Theta of Theta Tau when has progressed continually from those fifteen members were initiated on Mav early days to now number almost six 26th, 1914. hundred brothers.

Iota Alen H ead /Missouri Alines Alumni Association for 13 (Consecutive JAears

Although Iota Chapter was granted dore C. Gerber; and Harold T. Herivel, a charter on February S, 1916, in­ a sophomore. stallation of the ten charter members Since that time Iota has continued did not take place until December 30, to grow until there are now more than 1918. 700 members. The following men arc charter mem­ Among the many accomplishments bers of Iota Chapter: James L. Head; of the Iota alumni, one of the most Gunnard E. Johnson; Louis W. Ehlers; outstanding is their long record of Robert S. Burg; Fred Grotts; Carl G. service to the Misouri School of Mines Stifel; James A. Worley, Jr.; Frank H. Alumni Association. Since 1941 the Gei'b; James J. Dowd; and Wm. H. Association has been served in con­ McCartney. E. Ross Householder, Del­ secutive order by presidents who are ta, Roll No. SO, also became affiliated members of Iota of Theta Tau, with with Iota Chapter at that time. The these men being listed in order of first faculty adviser was Robert John Anderson, Delta ’14, who was later Carl G. Stifel, ’16, president, Carl to serve on the Executive Council as G. Stifel Realty Co., St. Louis, Grand Inner and Grand Outer Guard. Mo. A t the next installation nine men Fred C. Schneeberger, ’25, vice- were added to the group, seniors Col­ president, Picker X-Ray Corp. well A. Pierce, Bernard W . Adams, of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo. and Louis A. Turnbull; juniors John Karl F. Hasselmann, ’25, president, G. Reilly, H arry A. Ambler, Martin Salt Dome Drilling Corp., Hous­ F. Bowles, Joseph Barton, and Theo­ ton, Tex. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 67

James L. "Babe” Head, resident neers, St. Louis, Mo. mining engineer, Anaconda Cop­ For nearly a decade Joe B. Butler, per Mining Co., New York, N.Y. Iota Honorary, has served faithfully H arry S. Pence, ’23, engineer, Sver­ as Faculty Adviser to Iota Chapter. drup & Parcel, Consulting Engi­

K appa Established in Jpl6 Kappa Chapter was established on Illinois and existed for 23 years. Ir March 25, 1916 . t the University of this period it initiated 45 5 members.

Lambda the Product of Epsilon Brother 's Enthin In 1908, a group of engineering Formal establishment of Lambda students at the University of Utah Chapter took place on April 29, 1920 formed the U-Tech Club, its objects at 8:00 p.m. at the home of Brother and ideals being to enlarge upon and Douglas C. Barnes. The installing of­ amplify technical and scientific know­ ficers were George D. Louderback ledge. In order to foster good fellow­ (Epsilon), Grand Regent, and Erich ship among the student members, it J. Schrader (Alpha), Grand Scribe, was also a semi-social organization. assisted by Acting Grand Marshal A. Theta Tau Fraternity was estab­ Werner Lawson (Epsilon) and Grand * lished at Utah largely through the Inner Guard B. N. Kilbourn (Gam­ efforts of H ubert L. Pascoe, originally m a). A t this time 25 men became of Salt Lake City, who had gone to charter members. the University of California to study The following evening another engineering. While at Berkeley he be­ meeting was held at the home of came a member of Epsilon Chapter of Brother Barnes for the initiation of Theta Tau. In 1920, he represented 29 alumni members of the U-Tech that chapter as delegate to the national Club by the Grand Officers present. convention. Brother Pascoe stopped in AU the active members were present Salt Lake enroute to the convention, plus the following visitors: A. J. May, and while there he met some members Jr. (Gamma) and Paul Hilsdade of the U-Tech Club. Discussions fol­ (Gamma). The following chapter of­ lowed concerning both organizations, ficers were confirmed: G. Reynold and in very short order, the U-Techs W atkins as regent, Howard H . Haynes prepared, signed, and delivered a as vice-regent, and C. M. Anderson as petition to Brother Pascoe, requesting scribe. membership in Theta Tau. The following afternoon another According to reports. Brother Pascoe special meeting was held for the pur­ made a very convincing argument in pose of initiating three honorary mem­ favor of the petition, and without bers and one more alumni member further ado, the convention voted to into Lambda Chapter. grant the U-Tech Club a charter. Thus Since its establishment, Lambda in the space of a few weeks, the U- Chapter has initiated 667 members, Tech Club became Lambda Chapter many of whom have remained at the of Theta Tau. University of Utah on the engineering 68 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

faculty. Lambda Chapter is proud of are only a few of the things Lambda the many outstanding alumni who Chapter is doing. have become successful in the engi­ During the 50th anniversary year neering profession. Likewise the chap­ of Theta Tau, and the years to come. ter i} proud of the many projects and Lambda Chapter is looking forward to activities in which its members have a great future of achievement in fur­ taken part. The Theta Tau Library, thering the ideals of the engineering with an outstanding collection of profession at the University of Utah. engineering literature and texts; the Lambda takes this opportunity to annual award to the graduating senior salute all the chapters of Theta Tau engineer who has the best record of and the original founders and to wish scholarship and service to engineering; the Fraternity success in the next SO and the award for Engineer's Week, years.

Aiu Honors darter AiemIers In 1914 a group of student engineers W. O. Stephens, R. E. Thompson, R. on the campus of the Univeirsity of J. Van de Graaff, C. A. Weston, and Alabam; i organized a club cal lied the J. H. W ingard, felt the need of a "Engineers’ Club”. This club existed strong fraternal organization and fos­ until November 15 , 1919, at which tered this feeling, but took no definite time it affiliated w ith the Almerican steps until the beginning of the scho­ Association of Engirieers. lastic year of 1921 when they or­ Since the A.A.E. took in all engi- ganized a club, called the "Castle neering students indiscriminately, the Club”, w ith the view of affiliating fraterna I spirit of the organlization, with a national fraternity. Later in to a deg ree, disappe; ired. the same year, this group was accepted Twelve men, C. F. Booth, J. w. into Theta Tau as Mu Chapter. Cotlin, F. L. Davis, R. E. Mallette, S. Needless to say, Mu Chapter sin­ D. Moxley, C. C. Shoots, F. C. Smith, cerely appreciates the efforts of these THE GEAR OF THETA TAU charter members. On Saturday, April 631 members have been initiated into 10, 1954, the 50th Anniversary ban­ Thcta Tau. Mu Chapter has always quet was held and these twelve men been active in campus activities and is were invited as honored guests. Since held in high regard throughout the they are now strung out all over the campus. This, needless to »ay, is nation, it was considered fortunate typical of chapters of Theta Tau. that three could attend the banquet. A t the present time the officers are They were S. D. Moxley, the main as follows; Regent, Robert Piper; Vice- speaker; W . O. Stephens, and R. E. Regent, William DeLoach; Scribe, Mallette. Gerald Mahone; Treasurer, Robert Also at the banquet was Brother Kulp; Marshal, Ned Shows; Corres­ C. B. Cameron of Beta Chapter who ponding Secretary, Don Jordan. The took a great hand in helping Mu Chap­ faculty adviser is Brother J. M. Fair- ter get started. Since the founding of Mu Chapter,

N u Chapter at Carnegie Tech Nu Chapter was founded on Janu­ qualifications, Theta Tau reluctantly ary I, 1922 at the Carnegie Institute withdrew the charter. During its 28 of Technology and existed until 194S years at Carnegie Tech, N u initiated when its charter was suspended. D ur­ 516 men. One of these, John M. ing the next biennium, because of the Daniels, became Grand Regent of institution’s insistence upon modifi­ Theta Tau and is presently serving cation of the chapter's membership as Grand Marshal.

Al’ in the Running After Second Start Xi Chapter of Theta Tau at Wis­ Past Grand Regent; H. H. Hopkins, consin was founded January 13, 1923, Chicago, Past Grand Regent; John and became inactive in 1929. Seven­ Duntley, Vice-Regent of Alpha Chap­ teen years later on October 29, 1946, ter, University of Minnesota; W. C. a group of enterprising engineering Turnbull, Regent of Beta Chapter, students striving to promote a greater Michigan Tech; and Richard N. Biggs, interest in the profession, organized of Phi Chapter, Purdue. as Gamma Mu Epsilon. The following Those initiated were John N. Pike, year, on March 22, Theta Tau re­ Milwaukee; Norm an J. Stickney, West turned to the campus when Gamma Allis; William A. Hambley, Jr., Mil­ Mu Epsilon was granted its request to waukee; William H. Coursen, Madison; reactivate the Wisconsin chapter. Roland D. Block, Milwaukee; W alter Presiding at the initiation ritual Borchers, Detroit; Harold J. Endow, were Brothers Ralph Nusser, Kansas Madison; Burford R. Everett, Madi­ City, Grand Regent of Theta Tau; son; James B. Geshay, Racine; Keith Jamison Vawter, University of Illinois, E. Gilbert, Madison; Edward H. Jag- Grand Treasurer; John M. Daniels, men, West Allis; David A. Mickelson, Carnegie Tech, Delegate-at-large and Milwaukee; Alex R. Mitka, Kenosha; 70 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Robert O. Schendelholz, H artford; ulty, indicated their interest in the Alfred B. Scott, Jr., Rockford, Illinois; new chapter. Norm an C. Sethne, Kenosha; and The Grand Regent next called a Joseph R. Vinetti, Milwaukee. formal meeting of Xi Chapter and Following the initiation the group officers were elected as follows: Re­ adjourned to the Crystal Room for a gent, Buford R. Everett; Vice-Regent, banquet. Grand Regent Nusser and the Harold J. Endow; Scribe, David A. Council members delivered brief ad­ Mickelson; Treasurer, William H. dresses. Grand Treasurer Vawter pre­ Courson; and Corresponding Secre­ sented the new chapter with the brass tary, John N. Pike. The following candle sticks which were used at the morning the new officers received Sixteenth Convention. Brothers Frank final instructions and the new chap­ Bowman, Xi ’25, and Gerald Rohlich, ter assumed its place as one of the N u Honorary, of the Wisconsin fac­ twenty-four in the Fraternity.

O m i Emerged Stronger After Merger An excellent background of the founding of Omicron Chapter is con­ in these ceremonies were E. H. Comstock, Alpha; Paul Lawrence, Alpha; Frank tained in a letter from Brother P. L. Hoenigman, Epsilon; and L. A. Grettum, Mercer, Omicron ’21, part of which Alpha. The initiation was held in the is reproduced below: chapter house located at 120 N. Dubuque

three of us who were classmates of 1921— Gordon Lunt, Robert Dethlefsl and my- back made the principal speech, all those present responded with short but enthu-

organizations, but felt that a professional Thus, Omicron became the twelfth fraternity in the field of engineering would proud member of the Theta Tau fam­ ily on February J, 1923. O n that date, 19 charter members were initiated: John Holbrook, ’24; Louis Baggs, ’22; that a professional fraternity would be a Vern Price, ’22; Ronald Owen, ’22; fine asset to the college and to us as Verner Muth, ’22; James Phillips, ’22; Fred Freese, ’24; Donald Hains, ’23; John Moran, ’23, Russell Hastings, Theta Sigma Delta." ’23; Thomas Herrick, ’23; Clarence Sloan, '24; Lloyd Anderson, ’24; Law­ petition Theta Tau for affiliation. As I rence Fry, ’25; George Ashton, ’23; remained on the campus as a graduate student the next year, I continued my ac­ Kenneth Weir, ’24; Clifford Von tivities with Theta Sigma Delta and visited Hoene, ’24; Russell Crawford, ’24; Alpha Chapter in Minneapols for the two­ and Mark Hess, ’25. The first regent fold purpose of learning more about Thcta of Omicron Chapter was Brother Hol­ Tau, and of convincing them of our merit brook, and the first scribe was Brother as applicants for a chapter. Our petition was duly accepted and Fry. Omicron Chapter was installed in Iowa In May, 1923, Paul L. Mercer, who City on February 3, 1923. by Grand Re­ had played an important part in secur- THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 71 ing a local chapter of Theta Tau, was Later, the fraternity was housed on initiated into Omicron. Brother Mercer Iowa Avenue and on Market Street, is presently the Grand Treasurer of finally acquiring the old Beta house Theta Tau, and is also editor of The on North Dubuque. During the war Gear of Theta Tau, together with and pre-war period, financial problems Brother J. W. Howe, Omicron ’24. and low male enrollments in cdllege Contemporarily w ith Theta Sigma took a heavy toll of fraternity houses, Delta, a local radio fraternity (Chi and Omicron was among the casual­ Delta Sigma) headed by Brother Howe, ties. The house was finally sold in was searching for affiliation with a 1947, although its active use by the highly regarded national organization. fraternity ceased some years previous The high quality of the members of to this. Chi Delta Sigma made them potential During the war, the local chapter Theta Tau material. These two fac­ was inactive, but due mainly to the tors led to a merger and on May 20, efforts of Brother Gene Hogan and a 1926, the members and alumni of Chi few classmates who had returned to Delta Sigma were initiated into Omi­ school after the war, Omicron Chap­ cron Chapter. ter was again revived. Since that time, In the earlier days, Omicron had a activity has increased steadily. At chapter house; in fact, it lived in five present, Omicron is the strongest and different houses up to the time of most active student engineering group W orld W ar II. Early members may on campus. The local chapter now has remember the house location on 36 active members under the leader­ Dubuque street, just north of the ship of Regent Marvin Calvert, and Methodist Church. It was at this place boasts 440 alumni, including many that Omicron was host to the National prominent S.U.I. graduates. If the en­ Convention. This occasion was prob­ thusiasm and attitude of the present ably etched indelibly into the memories members is a reliable indication, the of the delegates due to the inclement Golden Anniversary of Theta Tau weather at that time— it was 23 de­ also marks the Golden Era of Omicron. grees below zero! 72 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

P i important Factor in Virginia s Success Formula About 1920 a group of leading en­ gineering Open House” Pi has been gineering students at the University able to extend its promotion of the of Virginia formed a local organiza­ school by exhibiting text books and tion named "Epsilon Society”. The men equipment used by the engineering in this society were chosen for out­ student to high school visitors. standing leadership in the Engineering W hen Pi was first organized, the School as well as for scholastic abilities, meetings were held in the YMCA it being stressed that the two should building at the University. During the play equal parts in their election to next few years the meeting place was this society. This organization began changed to the Mechanical Laboratory a search for a national engineering and a room on the West Lawn was fraternity to which it could petition used as headquarters. In 1934 Pi was for a charter. In about 1921 Theta able to obtain a house which it rented Tau was petitioned. A fter much cor­ and operated very successfully until respondence, in the spring of 1923, W orld W ar II caused its shutdown. In Epsilon Society was notified it would 1945 Pi began again to search for a be acceptable. Thus Pi of Theta Tau house, but due to the crowded con­ began on May 26, 1923, with L. C. dition of Charlottesville at that time, Harman, the president of the Epsilon no place could be found. Now that Society, as charter member No. I. The conditions have settled, Pi is again other charter members were: Lyler B. considering a house and made more Kiener; Edmund A. Smith; Edgar W. definite plans on May 21 when it held Dare; H arry L. W hite, Jr.; Elmer M. the fiftieth anniversary banquet which Knight; William T. Straley; Francis was attended by many alumni. W. Taylor; Thomas S. Martin; Mait­ In the spring elections of 1924 Pi land A. Wilson; T. Henry Murphy, Chapter began sponsoring candidates Jr.; Rueben R. Kawls; Thomas H. for the officers of the Engineering Henderson; Marcellus B. M cDavitt; School. In recent years Pi has been Earl H. Via (deceased Sept. 25, 193 5 ); very fortunate, having put in 21 of­ William R. Dorsey, Jr.; Theodoric B. ficers of the past 22 elected. Edwards; Robert G. Pitz; H arry K. In the year 1926 Pi began two act- Vought, Jr.; Paul L. Weir; Neuton J. tivities which have continued to the Painter; and William W. Parkinson. present. First was the sponsorship of The original aims of Pi Chapter, in professional talks. The first of these addition to those of Theta Tau nation­ found on record was given by Mr. Der- ally, were to raise the Engineering zulactus on "The Measurement of School both scholastically and numeri­ Steam Flow”. In recent years the sub­ cally as there were only 200 students jects of the talks have shifted to such in the department at that time. To topics as "The Engineer’s Place in accomplish this end, Pi sent members Industry” by Dr. Joseph Vaughn and to various high schools throughout the "The Engineer and C ontract Law” by state each year and advertised in maga­ Prof. H ardy Dillard of the University zines with letters from professors tell­ of Virginia Law School. ing of rhe school and engineering in The other function first found on general. With the formation of "En­ record in 1926 was the sponsorship of a THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

formal dance held at Memorial Gym­ come the highly successful, semi­ nasium. In 1929 Trigon, a local annual Engineer’s Ball. The last one society, joined Pi in the sponsorship was held on April 30, the date of En­ of a dance. This dance has now be- gineering Open House.

R.ho Comes ot Ase A professional engineering frater­ eluded as a faculty member, the pre­ nity, Alpha Sigma Epsilon, was or­ sent Chancellor Emeritus, Col. J. W. ganized at the N orth Coralina State Harrelson. College in 1917. A few years later the Rho Chapter has been in continuous late Judson D. Albright, Rho ’21, existence since 1924, with an average started his correspondence with Erich membership of thirty actives. It did, J. Schrader and the local group de­ however, drop to twelve in 1932 when cided to petition Theta Tau. The peti­ college enrollments lagged due to the tion was discussed at the 1921 Con­ depression. The chapter was able to sur­ vention of Theta Tau and granted at vive intact through the Second World the Convention in 1923. Thus the W ar, and by 1946 had grown so large Golden Anniversary year of Theta w ith the influx of returning brothers, Tau is Rho’s 21st year. Rho Roll # 1 th a t it was necessary to hold a "get- went to Winfield S. Norris, '24, now acquainted” party. Its initiates now a prominent petroleum engineer in number just over 500. Texas. He had gone to the 1923 The chapter has been active in many Convention as a guest and was initiated campus projects, among which pro­ as the first charter member of the bably the most im portant is partici­ new chapter. Rho was formally install­ pation in the annual Engineering Fair. ed on February 16, 1924, with a Throughout its history, Rho chapter membership of twenty-six which in­ has maintained an outstanding group 74 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

on the campus of North' Carolina engineei State College which is one of the large States.

I erserverance Purchased Sigma Chapter Plot As the national Fraternity moves On April 10, 1924, the club pe­ onward to its fiftieth anniversary. titioned the executive council of Theta Sigma Chapter takes pleasure in re­ Tau to accept them as a chapter of the viewing thirty years of existence as a Fraternity; this request was granted and on November 29, 1924, a group It was in the fall of 1921 that a led by Acting Grand Regent Jamison group of engineering students at the Vawter, installed the new chapter. Ohio State University applied to the From the very beginning of the administration for recognition as "The chapter, it was the hope of the mem­ Engineers’ Club.” This group wished b ers to be able to purchase a chapter to promote"... a professional en­ house someday. To accomplish this the gineering club wherein, through the members set up a house note system bonds formed by social contact, they in the spring of 192 5; -under this could broaden their technical training, system each member signed a seventy- widen their outlook, and advance in five dollar note at the time he was their chosen profession”. Such recog­ initiated. This note was then payable nition was granted and in the year to two faculty members within five which followed the members spent years of graduation. This system was most of their time drawing up a con­ continued until the fall of 1929 when stitution and formulating policies for an Ohio corporation, Sigma of Theta the club’s operation. In the fall of 1922 the members re­ the note system. cognized the need for a house if the In the fall of 1925 the chapter objectives of the club were to be moved from its original location to a carried out. Therefore the club investi­ house at 2 59 E. Lane Avenue which it gated the possibility of obtaining a continued to occupy until the spring house, and in 1923 they were able to of 1927. A t the beginning of the fall lease a house at 181 E. 12th Avenue of 1927 the chapter moved again, this from another fraternity at Ohio State. time to 70 E. 18th Avenue where it THE GEAR OE THETA TAU 75

remained for three years. The next financed by a combination of the move, to 1965 Indianola Avenue, money which had accumulated from proved to be quite permanent since the house notes and a heavy mortgage. the chapter remained there until it Mainly through the efforts of Sigma was forced to close the house, because alumni, an alumni club was formed in of the war, in April of 1944. Columbus soon after the installation The chapter was able to remain ac­ of the chapter. This club operated for tive during the war although at times a few years and then aplied for a char­ active meeting would be attended by ter as the Central Alumni Association; only two brothers. This situation con­ the charter was granted to them on tinued after the war and it was mainly December 22, 1928. through the efforts of a group of From the attainments of the chap­ Columbus alumni that the chapter was ter and its alumni it seems that they renovated. The rebuilding was so suc­ have gone far toward fulfilling the cessful that in the fall of 1948 the purpose of the old "Engineers’ Club” chapter felt it was strong enough to as set forth in its petition to Theta rent a house at 47 E. 16th Avenue. Tau— "The purpose of the Engineers' The lease on this house was maintained Club is to encourage and promote a until the summer of 1951 when a high professional attitude toward long-sought goal was realized— the ’Engineering’— to make leaders in the purchase of a chapter house. This engineering profession.” house, at 1946 Indianola Avenue, was

tau Once Alpha of National Fratemitv Tau Chapter of Theta Tau was for­ Sidney Marine, who officiated. Since merly the Alpha Chapter of Tau Delta then, the membership of Tau Chapter Sigma. Tau Delta Sigma was founded has grown to 5 81 members and at the in 1905 as a local professional engi­ present time there are 37 active mem- neering fraternity with the object in view of becoming nationl after suit­ In 1927, the chapter began to spon­ able expansion. This intention was sor some of the activities of the College carried out by the giving of charters of Applied Science. The annual Engi­ to two locals at Brown and Lehigh neering Dinner was the first activity Universities. Partially because of undertaken. Following this, the Engi­ W orld W ar I and partially because neer’s Ball and the Engineer’s Picnic these chapters did not keep in touch came under the auspices of Tau Chap­ with the parent chapter, their organi­ zations died out. Still with the desire in 1941, the first atempts were to unite with a national professional made by Tau Chapter to obtain a organization whose purpose is to fos­ chapter house. Because of lack of ter fellowship and strong personal funds and the start of World War bonds among its alumni, Tau Chapter II, this project was abandoned. Fre­ of Theta Tau was established. quently the attem pts have been re­ The chapter was formally installed newed, but they have met with little at Syracuse University on December success. A combination of University 12, 1925, by Grand Vice-Regent J. regulations and the large number of 76 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU brothers whose homes are in the Syra­ dorfer Foundries in Syracuse. Brother cuse area are the reasons for this lack H all is Chief Engineer at Consoli­ of progress. A t present, the chapter dated Vultee Aircraft Corp., San is starting a long-range plan with the Diego. Brother Merry is Asst. Plant object of buying a house. Engineer at the Du Pont Chambers Many alumni of Tau Chapter have Works in Deepwater, N. J. Brother gone on to (distinguish themselves in Woese is a partner in the consulting the field of engineering. Among the firm of Robson and Woese in Syracuse. most outstanding are former Dean He is also a charter member of Tau Louis G. Mitchell; Kenneth A. Digney, Chapter. These are only a few of the ’31; Theodore P. Hall, '27; Harold G. outstanding brothers, for there are Merry, ’28; and Carl F. Woese, ’25. many others who have done well in Dean Mitchell was former dean of their chosen field. the College of Applied Science at Syra­ With the hope that it may, in the cuse University and a charter member future, be a better chapter and con­ of the local chapter. He retired in tinue to grow still larger and stronger, June 1950. Brother Digney is Presi­ Tau Chapter sends best wishes to dent and General Manager of Ober- Theta Tau on its SOth Anniversary.

Up,.Ian Ha, Fin, Exan.pl,, Ta Li„ Up Ta The Delta Psi Fraternity was or­ as well as fostering an interest in stu­ ganized at the University of Arkansas dent activities. The club existed until during the winter term of the school the fall of 1920, merely as a leading year 1918-19. It was then known as body in the activities of the Engineer­ the Engineers’ Club. It was organized ing College. A t this time, however, for the purpose of promoting the in­ the members, realizing the need of a terests of the College of Engineering, greater feeling of brotherhood and THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 77 fraternalism in the Club, reorganized back in school, but these, with the aid it on a different basis and revised the of the alumni, selected the most constitution with the idea of eventu­ worthy men in the junior and senior ally petitioning for membership in a classes and began the new year in good nationl engineering fraternity. shape. During the fall term, various W ith this change of policy and with letters of recommendation were pro- the advent of brotherly relations, the curred and were sent to support the Club became a staunch fraternal or­ petition. A t the convention of Theta ganization. Membership was limited to Tau, however, the petition was held juniors and seniors enrolled in regular over for further information. Realiz­ courses in engineering, and was based ing the deficiencies of the first petition, upon scholarship, practicality, person­ it was then decided to get up a new ality, and prominence in student ac­ and more complete petition and sub­ tivities. A t this time it was voted that mit it to the Executive Council for members should retain membership in consideration. Prior to this, the name the Club as alumni upon graduation. of the club was changed to the Delta A fter a sucessful year it was thought Psi Fraternity, since such a name was that the Club had attained a standing more in keeping with the character which would warrant petitioning a and policy of the organization. national body for membership and, on During the fall of 1926, the mem­ March 31, 1921, a petition was sent bers of Delta Psi local engineering to the Executive Council of Theta Tau fraternity revived interest in petition­ ing Theta Tau for a chapter at the The beginning of the school year of University of Arkansas. Correspon- 1921-22 found only a small number o f the active members of the Club two members of the national frater- 78 THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

Huckaby, Dick Ray, John W. Richardson, Albert B. Hubbard, and Fred E. Coker. The following men were initiated as active members: R. Max Brooks, Carl J. Natho, Jim R. Stephens, Lloyd H. Pond, H ugh R. H art, Harold C. Leimer, S. Camp, and Robert A. Bowman. The initiation was well carried out to the last detail. Two of the founders, Professors W. B. Stelzner and W. R. Spencer, contributed steadily to the growth of Upsilon Chapter. In April of 1950, when Brother Clark Hungerford, nity, Dr. R. J. Russell from Texas president of the Frisco Railroad, was Tech at Lubbock, Texas, and Profes­ initiated as an honorary member, sor C. V. Mann of Rolla, Missouri, these two founders were also honored. were continued for over a year and a The chapter’s Founders’ Day celebra­ half. Nevertheless, the men were re­ tion, later in that same year, was es­ warded for their efforts in December pecially devoted to honoring these of 1927 and were granted a charter founders and former advisers of Up- to operate as Upsilon Chapter of Theta silon. Each was presented w ith a solid Tau. gold ring bearing the crest of Theta The first opportunity for the in­ Tau. stallation of the chapter was during Professor Stelzner began his career the Easter holidays and, consequently, at the University in 1909 and was the date was set for April 7, 1928. head of the Electrical Engineering De­ The installing team was composed of partment from 1936 until 1951. He Dr. R. J. Russell of Texas Tech, the was very active in committee work newly-elected Grand Regent; Pro­ and served for a number of years as fessor Donald D. Curtis from Iowa chairman of the Student Organization University, the Grand Marshal; Pro­ Committee. During that period, Tau fessor C. V. Mann from Missouri Beta Pi, honorary engineering fra­ School of Mines; and L. J. Burg from ternity, was installed, in addition to the chapter at Rolla, Missouri. The six social fraternities, three sororities, initiation was held at the Mountain three debating societies, and the Inn Hotel in Fayetteville, beginning American Institute of Electrical En­ about two p.m., and the following men gineers. In addition to this work, Pro­ were initiated as charter members of fessor Stelzner helped publish the Upsilon Chapter: Gerald D. Stough, first issue of the Arkansas Engineer in R. H . Clark, Porter J. Byrd, Theo. 1912 and helped gain its admittance Tony Spitzberg, Theodore E. Peter, E. to the Engineering College Magazine Pelham McGehee, Charles H . Mc- Association. He was also responsible Raven, Eugene B. Stokes, Professor for starting Engineers’ Day on the W. B. Stelzner, Professor W. R. Spen­ campus in 1911. Professor Stelzner cer, Henry W. Schneider, Thomas L. received B.E.E. and E.E. degrees at THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 79

the University of Arkansas, and his Water and Sewage Conference in 1930 M.S. at Ohio State University. until 1931, he was Chairman of the Execu­ tive Committee, being also Chairman of Likewise, credit should be given to the Conference in 1947. He was in reality Professor W. R. Spencer, who served on the faculty until 1950, the last four years as Head of the Civil Engi­ of the water supply and sewage disposal neering Department. Brother Spencer High-minded, public-spirited, willing to was actively engaged in research, pri­ serve, with a pleasing personality, he was marily within the scope of road mater­ able to give very much . . . capable, ials and cements obtained from native friendly, and helpful, he was an excellent soil. He wrote two extensive booklets entitled "Road Materials in Arkansas” and "Portland Cement Materials in Brother Spencer received his B.A. Arkansas”, both the culmination of from the University of Indiana, and years of careful experimentation. He received his B.S.C.E. degree from Rose also engaged in consulting engineering. Polytechnic Institute. Perhaps the one who knows him best, Since the retirement of Professors former Head of the Chemistry De­ Stelzner and Spencer, Upsilon Chapter partm ent of the University, Dr. H ar­ has remained actively engaged in many rison Hale, has written: activities. One of the highlights of this past year was the visit of Grand Few persons rendered greater service to Regent Jamison Vawter on February the community than he. Long service on the City Board of Education, of which he 8, 1954. was chairman, left its mark on a growing Through the knowledge of the dili­ educational system. For about the same gent efforts of the early petitioning members, as well as the fine records Central Presbyterian Church and Chair­ of the two main founders, the mem­ man of the Finance Committee as well as bers and alumni of Upsilon of Theta demanded time and ability. Tau have reason to be proud, and should cherish this rich legacy.

Phi W a s H a s, to L- asl CLonvention The founding and organizing of standards and principles believed in by Torque Fraternity, May 16, 1921, on the founders. It was this initial con­ the Purdue University campus was the stitution which was later found to first of many steps resulting finally have much in common with that of in the formation of Phi Chapter. Theta Tau. Twenty-eight Electrical Engineering During the first year many changes students joined together for the pur­ were effected: officers were elected, pose of gaining fellowship, strengthen­ a residence home rented, help hired, ing the bonds of those in the engineer­ and the constitution revised. (Consti­ ing profession, and improving student tution revision embodied opening scholarship. Very little time passed be­ membership to all engineering stu­ fore a constitution was drawn up dents.) In 1927, when Torque had which explicitly outlined the high shown it was an organization of high THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

standards and ethics, a petition was ternities were closed. By February, made to Theta Tau for the estab­ 1946, Phi was back on its feet and lishment of a chapter on Purdue’s operating normally. The majority of campus. This petition was granted and the chapter was formally installed mature outlook gave the house a April 21, 1928, as Phi Chapter of steadying influence during readjust- Theta Tau Fraternity. The years 1928 to 1942 were suc­ In the spring of 1950, a new oc­ cessful for Phi. In that period Theta casion was added to the "Annual Tau, as a member of the Purdue fra­ Events Calendar.” Phi and the Purdue ternity system, made an outstanding chapter of Triangle began the Engi­ name for itself by having men who neers’ Ball. A t this spring dance the were top in scholarship, athletics, and two fraternities vie for the right to campus organizations. The house mem­ possess a trophy for the following year bership remained rather stationary by inventing, designing, and con­ during these years at a point of com­ structing a device known as a Rube fortable capacity. This large group Goldberg Machine. These machines of men afforded opportunity to make are laughingly defined as . . . "a com­ many house improvements. plicated machine to achieve a simple I t was during this time of pros­ perity that World War II struck the country and in its wake many Phi Again in 1950, with the entrance brothers were called to service. From of the United States into the Korean October of 1942 to February of 1946, conflict, Phi brothers once more left the number of members was at a mini­ the house to serve their country and mum. True to the custom of the or­ Phi was back in a spot. Fortunately, ganization, the chapter continued to the situation did not last long and re­ function. Two other fraternal groups, cently these same men have been re­ who normally maintained large houses, turning to complete their degrees. A t moved in with Phi chapter for the sake the present time the house is about of economy for all parties involved. two-thirds full with an extensive rush This permitted Phi to continue active program planned for future years. on the campus while many other fra­ Through the course of the twenty- six years of Phi's history, there have been up’s and down’s with periods of trial and prosperity. In spite of the difficulties the members have manged to come out on top, thanks to the firm foundation given by their foun­ ders. Phi now boasts a chapter house; a regular publication, The Link, and even a chapter mascot, a St. Bernard named Jezebel. Those who attended the last national Convention in 1952 are con­ vinced of the fine spirit of Phi Chap­ ter whose members were excellent hosts to the 19th Biennial Convention. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU SI Chi Knoclins at Silver Anniver sary Door Chi Chapter of Theta Tau was We are proud to state that these men founded on April 23, 1930, at the have done well in their chosen pro­ University of Arizona. A t this time fessions. Brother Richard J. Russell was Grand Brothers Goar, Denny, and Hopper Regent of Theta Tau and presided at are w ith General Electric Corp. the installation. Others present for Brother McCash is with the Reclama­ the installation were: Bruce B. Ellis, tion Service. Brother Erickson is with Alpha ’08, acting Grand Vice-Regent; the Bureau of Public Roads and Harold A. Jimerson, Zeta ’26, acting Brother Laine is with the U.S. Geo­ Grand Scribe; Fred A. Enke, Alpha logical Survey in Tennessee. Brother ’21, acting Grand Treasurer; E. S. McBride is a rancher in California and Borgquist, Gamma ’11, acting Grand Brother Mangum is manager of an Marshal; E. D. Gardner, Gamma ’06, electric power company in Mesa, Ari­ acting Grand Inner-guard; and T. J. zona. Brother Butler is Dean Emeritus Long, Zeta '29, acting Grand Outer- of the College of Engineering and has guard. remained active in the College. Brother Pi Delta Tau, a local engineering Minton was in Washington during fraternity, had petitioned Theta Tau W orld W ar II and at last report was and a charter was granted. Although assistant to the director of the Batelle Louis Fiscel’s name does not appear on Memorial Institute. the charter of Chi Chapter, his efforts No list of the pioneer men of Chi as head of Pi Delta Tau were of great Chapter would be complete without importance in the founding of the the names of Brothers E. S. Borgquist and Harold E. Jimerson. Both of these The charter members of Chi Chapter men aided greatly in the establish­ are: Roy M. Goar; Fred F. Denny; ment of the chapter. Brother Borg­ Jack H . Hopper; Charles J. McCash; quist, Head of the Civil Engineering Jacob Erickson, Jr.; Leo L. Laine; D. Department at Arizona, has been of Carson Minton, Jr.; Otto K. Mangum; great help to Chi ever since its Rex L. McBride; William E. Tremaine founding. Brother Jimerson was an (deceased); and Gurdon M. Butler. enthusiastic supporter of Theta Tau THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

and probably took the most active four hundred seventy pledges have part in establishing Ohi Chapter, and been initiated to membership. In 195 5 his efforts in this behalf will long be Chi Chapter of Theta Tau will cele­ remembered. He was captured by the brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Japanese at Bataan and died a prisoner. its founding. Since the founding of Chi Chapter,

PsiLstaU ky GranJ ScriL SckraJrr The history of Psi Chapter dates McLeese, Past Regent of Lambda, back to 1931 when the local Alpha initiated twenty charter members and Theta chapter at the Montana School eight active members into Theta Tau of Mines saw the advantages of a Fraternity. bond with a national fraternity. Upon John Conrow, Regent; Ralph Seide- examining the national fraternities, nian, Scribe; and Charles Trueworthy, Alpha Theta decided to petition Theta Treasurer, were chosen as the first of­ Tau. The correspondence was then ficers of Psi Chapter. These men were begun which took well over a year very instrumental in laying a firm before a letter of recognition was re­ foundation for the future of Psi. ceived from the Grand Scribe, Erich From this small band of twenty- J. Schrader. eight members, Psi Chapter now Arrangements were completed and claims a total membership of 340. O f on May 7, 1932, Psi Chapter was in­ these, thirty-one are active members stalled as the twentieth active chapter. on the campus of the Montana School E. J. Schrader, Grand Scribe and T. C. of Mines at the present time. Adams, with the assistance of G. B.

(Dmeija Gre i First Fraternity on Gea m p u s Omega Chapter of Theta Tau was fluence also increased favorably, so estblishcd on the South Dakota School that soon it had the whole-hearted of Mines campus on March 26, 1932. support of the president and faculty, The prior organization, which led and the good will of the student body. eventually to affiliation with Theta Although organized as a social fra­ Tau, was the local fraternity of Phi ternity, Phi Alpha Lambda had been Alpha Lambda. The Phi Alpha Lambda interested in development along en­ fraternity was organized at South gineering lines. Consequently, the Dakota Mines in 1920, with the dis­ members, realizing the advantages of tinction of being the first fraternal affiliation w ith a national professional organization at the school. Being the engineering organization, petitioned first fraternity, it naturally had to face Theta Tau Fraternity for a charter. a great deal of opposition during its The granting of this chartr in 1932 early existence on the campus. Most established Omega Chapter of Theta of this opposition could be traced to Tau at South Dakota Mines, with the ignorance of the aims and purposes of petitioning members of Phi Alpha a fraternity. However, as the fra­ Lambda as the charter members. ternity grew in size and spirit, its in- Some of those charter members now THE GEAR OF THETA TAU located in Rapid City are Francis Es- Since its beginning in 1932, Omega trup, Gerald Munson, and John Lam- Chapter has become an im portant or­ pert. On the South Dakota Mines ganization on the Mines campus. faculty are charter members, Profes­ Omega Chapter has its own house sors Dake, Bump, Rowe, and Kar which has accomodations for 21 n . The success of the chapter has bers. Omega Chapter is proud of its been due to a great extent to the con- house and its activities on the South tinued interest of these men and others Dakota Mines campus and is looking of the alumni body. forward to a bigger and better future.

G am n i Beta the Realization ol A m es’ Ambition For some time prior to 1927 the need for closer fellowship among the men enrolled in the several branches of engineering at the George Washington University was very apparent. On April 28, 1927, a meeting was held at which the professional engineering fraternity, Phi Theta Xi, was organ­ ized. With the strong backing and en­ couragement of both the school in general and the engineering faculty in particular, this fraternity flourished. The calibre of its men was such that, soon after its founding, both the real and imaginary barriers between the several branches of engineering stu­ dents were battered down. It was due to these unification efforts of this small handful of men that an activity known as the Engineer’s Banquet was born on the George Washington cam­ fondest dreams, that of being a pus, and it is to their credit that this founder of a chapter of Theta Tau. activity is still celebrated every year. This great man, to whom the num­ In 1934, feeling the need for an even ber one badge of Gamma Beta Chap­ stronger fraternity, and at the sug­ ter was issued, had just begun his gestion of "Deacon” Ames, these men career of service to the Fraternity. In petitioned the Executive Council of 1937 he was Grand O uter Guard, was Theta Tau for a charter. This petition elected Grand Vice-Regent in 1946, contained letters of recommendation and in 1948 was chosen Grand Regent. from such eminent people as Univer­ The im portant thing is that in each of sity President Marvin, Engineering these positions he discharged his duties Dean Lapham, and again, Norman Bruce Ames. On March 16, 1935, Gamma Beta Chapter was fortunate Professor Ames realized one of his in that only three of its members were THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

killed during the war years, 1941 efforts Gamma Beta has compiled a through 1945. Many of the men had fine record in all fields of scholastic illustrious military careers, but the and social achievement, both on the chapter is perhaps proudest of Colonel campus, and in the field of engineer­ ing. Gamma Beta, up to the present Among many outstanding men, time, has initiated 319 men, six of Norman Bruce Ames has established whom are honorary members. Through a record of service for Gamma Beta the years, credit must go, not only to Chapter that will never be surpassed. the actives who have passed through Gamma Beta extends heartfelt thanks the chapter, but also to the fine array and sincere appreciation of all that he of faculty advisers who have served in has done for the chapter. the past and present. Through their

D elta Bela Dominates SpeecJ School The Alpha Pi Fraternity was or­ and outstanding performance in ger- ganized on March 16, 1926, less than eral school activities. W ith these ob­ a year after the founding of the Speed jects in mind, the selection of the Scientific School as a department of several students who would individu­ the University of Louisville. Its co­ ally meet these requirements and col­ founders, the late Dean Brigman and lectively form a homogeneous and Professor Wylie B. W endt, intended harmonious group was undertaken. this fraternity to be of a professional The details of organization were then nature, with membership limited quickly but throughly worked out and strictly to engineers and composed as the first business meeting was held nearly as possible of a group consisting a few weeks later. The late Dean of students with high scholastic Brigman was the fraternity’s first fac­ standings and records of leadership ulty adviser, and was succeeded by Prof. W endt who led the group with great enthusiasm, even helping to form an alumni chapter w ith regular monthly meetings. In the late 1930’s, this local group began corresponding with our Grand Scribe. Much was due to the efforts of Jean M. Roberts, Pi ’26, and George H. Harding, Sigma ’26, both on the faculty of the University of Louis­ ville at that time, who had interested the local group in Theta Tau. A peti­ tion was finally submitted, and the installation of Delta Beta Chapter was conducted on May 20, 1939. A t this installation Grand Regent Daniels, Grand Vice-Regent Glass, and Grand Marshal Curtis were present THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 85 and acted in their official capacities. able t remain very active during the A t a preliminary meeting Grand Outer war, its chief problem being the large Guard Ames was appointed to act as turnover in membership. Delta Beta Grand Scribe; G. H. Harding, Sigma has consistently had its members serv­ '26, as Grand Inner Guard; and J. M. ing as officers in the Student Council Roberts, Pi '26, as Grand O uter Guard. of Speed School, as well as having A special meeting of Delta Beta Chap­ members on the AU University Coun­ ter was then held by the Grand O f­ cil. The chapter has encouraged ficers for the purpose of initiating the scholarship among its members and fifteen charter members of the chapter has encouraged professional activities and Professor W. B. W endt as an with guest speakers on engineering honorary member. The initiation subjects. dinner was highlighted by an address Delta Beta owns its own house, by Grand Regent Daniels in which he which serves as a meeting place, since pointed out the advantages of member­ most of the members live at home in ship in Theta Tau. Louisville. In this Golden Anniversary Since its installation, Delta Beta has year, the event of which the chapter flourished. Due to an accelerated pro­ is proudest, was the burning of the gram at Speed School, the chapter was mortgage on this house.

Infant Epsilon Beta H a s Ewenty=Six 3''ears o f History Although Epsilon Beta is the in­ fant of Theta Tau, it is not as young as it appears to be. Before becoming affiliated with Theta Tau, Epsilon Beta was known as Epsilon Sigma Fra­ ternity at Wayne University. Its his­ tory began with the old Wayne Uni­ versity Engineering Society. Some of the students of this society realized they were lacking the brotherhood present in a fraternity, and decided to form a fraternity which would be able Looking for a national professional to fill most of the social as well as engineering fraternity, Epsilon Sigma professional needs of engineers. Thus, found in Theta Tau the ideals and in 1928, seventeen members of the desires for which it was searching. In society formed Epsilon Sigma Fra- the fall of 1950, Epsilon Sigma pe­ titioned to Theta Tau Fraternity and As the years passed, Epsilon Sigma was installed on May 19, 1951, as became one of the significant organi­ Epsilon Beta Chapter. zations in the Engineering College. In Since its installation into Theta 1950 its members realized they were Tau, Epsilon Beta feels that it has ac­ lacking another important aspect of complished a great deal toward the suc­ fraternity life— that o f having broth­ cess of producing well-rounded engi­ ers w ith similar goals throughout the neers at Wayne University, both pro­ country. fessionally and socially. THE GEAR OF THETA TAU

There is also active alumni group the fellowship among Theta Taus after n the Detroit a which perpetuates graduation.

A l umni Associatian (Astories Twin City Alumi Association Has Been Bi$ Help to Alpha Chapter The Twin City Alumni Association Jcvne ’10, Corresponding Secretary, founded February 3, 1912. The All of the founders except Benjamin first officers were ~ Benjamin ‘ ------B. Wall­ B. Walling are still living, and all are ing, President (a t that time Grand alumni of Alpha Chapl Treasurer of Theta Tau); Julian P. zation was exceedingly active in its Farnam, ’11, Vice-President; George early years and letters in the files of A. DuToit ’10, Treasurer; J. E. Brother Schrader show as many as six Haynes ’08, Secretary; and George W. technical dinner meetings a year. World War I had a devastating effect, and after that the association limped along for some years until 1926 when there was a complete reorganization and James Colvin was elected Presi­ dent, with Chester Marshall, a past scribe of Alpha, as Secretary. The as­ sociation has worked closely w ith Al­ pha Chapter and its influence has done much for the undergraduate members. It holds two dinner meetings each year and for many, many years its Foun­ ders’ Day banquet in October has been an outstanding occasion for the reunion of its members. It is proper W alter H. Wheeler ’06, for his presence every year when at home and his

The LA.A- Has Played an Influential Role in the IVest by E. J. W atts, Secretary A. Gillis, H. G. Hall, Wm. G. Hay- The Intermountain Alumni Associ- ward, W m. H. Kelsey, R. B. Ketchum, ation has been a source of good fellow- R. F. Penman, Heber S. Nelson, and E. ship among the engineers of the W est H. Snyder, were present. They provided ever since its founding on June S, the needed spark of enthusiasm and 1920. Thirteen charter members, H. L. the inspiration for leadership. As a Baldwin, Thomas P. Billings, H. W . result of their outstanding efforts the Clark, R. W. Davis, J. P. Erickson, R. Association became nationally recog- THE GEAR OF THETA TAU 87 nized for its organized contact with which was noteworthy because of an all Theta Taus in the area, for its indescribable spirit which realistically interest in the activities of Lambda bound its members together and gave Chapter, and for its accurate reporting great satisfaction in the application of th ; activities of almost every mem­ of H and T concepts. So much, too, ber. None of the members can forget for those events that are but pleasant the meticulous care with which Brother memories of bygone days. The really C. Milton Anderson kept the records im portant consideration right now is of finance and of the newborn and the history that will be written of the potential members of H and T , col­ future decades when Theta Tau will lected the annual dues, etc. be 75 or 100 years old. The roster includes many outstand­ In recent years, many of the present ing men of science and engineering members have felt that the Inter- who have made the principles of Theta mountain Alumn i Association was Tau work in practice as well as theory. gradually slipping below its former There was the lovable and fatherly, enviable position. Some may wish to late Dean Ketchum and jolly, good- blame it on the officers alone. The natured W indy Dick Lyman; George tru th probably is that there is ; i general McLeese was the University "rough­ deterioration of the "priceless ingre­ neck” of the twenties; Max Kennard dient” which char acterized the group and Robert C. Mayer his counterparts in the past. Let u; > hope that this de- in the thirties and forties. Many recall cline is temporary. We can only re- the time Ed Snyder treated the whole assure ourselves with the group to oysters on the half-shell and knowledge that if the existent:e of the a duck dinner at the Alta Club. U.S.A. is to be con:tinued, then so must Among the accomplishments of the the develpomcnt of personal integrity I.A.A. was the decision to use their and faith in God be promoted with accumulated funds to start the Theta increased vigor. Such a climate of T au Book Collection in the University activity would be beneficial to the Library. W ith unceasing vigor H. T. well-being of Theta Tau and it may Plumb, Al Sorenson, T. C. Adams, and well be that from this atmosphere will others drove to establish Utah’s first come the inspiration from which this engineering license law in 193 5. D ur­ Alumni Association may reach even ing the lean years of 1932 to 1940 greater distinctions. Certainly the cur­ when jobs were scarce and short-lived, rent dilemma, like many other engi­ Ed Snyder did his best to help Theta neering problems, will be solved by a Taus survive the depression by giving fresh and as yet untried approach that them jobs and personal counsel. It has will be aided by the proper mores of been the privilege of the I.A.A. to have the enjoyment of being with In closing, the officers of the I.A.A. Erich Schrader, not only at meetings, salute the national officers and the but in private sessions when his sound many unsung, faithful members of counsel and business connections have Theta Tau who have made it a living helped many a Theta Tau to surmount symbol of high standards and real his difficulties. brotherhood among the nation’s engi- So much for the past history of the Intermountain Alumni Association, 7 o /f // Life Sufscrifers

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A lpha —Prof. Miles S. Kersten, C.E. Dept., University of Minnesota, Minne- * apolis, Minn.

f r , — Prof. L. F. Duggan, Michigan Tech., Houghton, Mich.

G ’iftiMA— Prof. Geo. W. LeMairc, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, Colo.

Df.lta —Prof. L. J. Reardon, C. E. Dept., Case Inst, of Tech., Cleveland, Ohio.

Epsilon — Dr. Samuel P. Welles, 982 Santa Barbara Rd., Berkeley, Calif. Z e ta — Prof. T. F. McMahon, 6 Westwood Dr., Lawrence, Kan.

T heta —Prof. Howard Vreeland, Drafting Dept., Columbia U., New York 27, N . Y.

Iota —Prof. J. B. Butler, C. E. Dept., Mo. School of Mines, Rolla, Mo.

L ambda — Mr. Preston Linford, C. E. Bldg., U. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Mu— Prof. J. M. Faircloth, C. E. Dept., Univ. of Alabama, University, Ala.

Xi— Prof. H. A. Peterson, Dept: of Elec. Engr., Univ. of Wis., Madison, Wis.

O micron — Prof. Ned Ashton, C. E. Dept., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

P'— Prof. Lawrence Quarles, E. E. Dept., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

R ho — Prof. T. C. Brown, M. E. Dept., No. Car. State College, Raleigh, N. C.

Sigma—Prof. Edmund D. Ayres, 259J Berwyn Rd., Columbus 21, Ohio

T au —Prof. Gerald Walsh, Dept, of Engr. Drafting, Bldg. # 5 , Syracuse Uni­ versity, Syracuse 10, N.Y.

U psilon —Mr. J. R. Bissctt, C. E. Dept., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.

Phi— Prof. H arry L. Solberg, M. E. Dept., Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. C m — Mr. Philip D. Newlin, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

Psi— Prof. Koehler Stout, Montana School of Mines, Butte, Montana

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